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the planets puppet-masters on my shirt

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you have a plan it's clearly maybe

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something there beyond the realm of man

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all right higher side chatters we know

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making it in this world is like swimming

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against a river current determined to

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sweep us away into obscurity but for the

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elite class it's a lush grotto of

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mingling and networking and of course a

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well-built Dam to keep you downstream

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unfortunately the system just wasn't set

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up for us especially when you play

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things by the book and why should you

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when the richest among us have tilted

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every aspect of the Big Machine in their

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favor and insulated themselves against

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the sullied masses every step of the way

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from offering the elite liens a

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completely different education system

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than the obedient worker maker plan the

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rest of us are on two tax loops and

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advantages that only affect the top

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rungs of the ladder privileged positions

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and seats of high pain but arbitrary

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board seats and even simple things like

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better deals on interest rates insurance

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and the rest of it if you thought things

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were fair then you must have eaten the

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carrot they've dangled over the

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treadmill to the middle because our

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invite to the cocktail party at the end

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of the world is forever lost in the mail

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well these are the themes of the latest

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book by today's guest Donald Jeffries

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entitled survival of the richest how the

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corruption of the marketplace and the

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disparity of wealth created the greatest

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conspiracy of all and if you're

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unfamiliar with Donald's work he's also

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the author of a popular novel called the

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unreal zand also wrote a great

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conspiratorial tome called hidden

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history an expose on modern crimes

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conspiracies and cover-ups in American

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politics his blog is called keeping it

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unreal and he's been a frequent guest

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host of coast-to-coast am as well a true

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wealth gap warrior advocate of economic

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equality and chronicler of many

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conspiracies along the way Donald my man

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welcome to the higher side how the hell

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are you all right thanks for having me

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Greg you got it thanks for being here I

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think you wrote a great book if anyone

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is in denial about the entire system

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being skewed for the nefarious view they

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won't be when they're done with survival

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of the richest because you make a pretty

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clear case that even from the time

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you're born you just don't have the same

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opportunities no matter how

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hard you work but you have to be pretty

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dense to still be drinking the fair

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chance for all kool-aid because the

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elite tilting the scales in their favor

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is like the main paradigm of history

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right exactly I mean you know this

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battle has been going on for most of

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human history and I think that's why in

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America we really ought to pay attention

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to this even more so than the rest of

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the world because we brag a lot and we

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certainly from our sounding we talked

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about building with Tom ships and the

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call to meritocracy because we broke

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away from the King of England and the

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queen of a go although unfortunately and

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over two hundred years later here we see

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too many Americans still worshiping

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these royal parasites which still exist

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the ultimate one percenters we have

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absolutely no reason for being do

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absolutely nothing to earn this

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unbelievable wealth don't have to do

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anything but just kind of exist and walk

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along and maybe deign to meet the

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peasants here there and acknowledge

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their presence that's it and you know we

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fought a war for independence from that

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and we wanted to have meritocracy and

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for a long time - much better degree

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than we see now in the last 30 years

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especially in the post warrior you know

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I'm a baby boomer I was born in 56 so I

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grew up it's not just saying the good

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old days but it was the best time

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economically for America maybe the only

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time it's been really strong and a lot

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of that was due to the post-war era with

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the defense contractors and the military

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industrial complex bad things but they

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did have an offshoot of building a

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tremendously strong economy and so for a

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long time any job that anyone had paid

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at least enough for someone to at the

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very least rent their own apartment

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there was no such thing as like not

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being able to live on your own if you

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work and jobs were much easier to get so

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that's part of the focus of this book

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because again the class war has been

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waged to varying degrees for a long time

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it's still being waged all over the

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world I think the latest statistic is

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the world's richest eight individuals or

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eight families have more wealth from the

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bottom half of the world so I mean

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people just ought to think of that and

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take that in course and I believe that

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we've talked about I believe Bill Gates

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and Warren Buffett alone they determined

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a few years back had more wealth than

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40% of America it's to individuals so is

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that what we want in America and maybe

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too many people do want that but I think

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that's clear

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the giant elephant in the room and

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that's why I wanted to write this book

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mm mm hmm

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yes it's an ever increasing squeeze that

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seems to be getting worse though it's a

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long tradition for the top to be screw

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in the bottom but when you look at

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things today where do you really see the

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line between the reality of our economic

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situation and like the narrative that

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regular folks are sold well I think what

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most of us consume in terms of we're

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consuming news we're consuming

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entertainment the culture the structure

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as it is what's left of the

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establishment these incredibly corrupt

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establishment that we have and I've

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written about in other books but when we

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consume this everyone that's

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disseminating that reality that

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information whether it's the politicians

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the celebrities the corporate leaders

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they are all one percenters to varying

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degrees of another even your local

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newscaster is probably making definitely

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making six figures so they're in the 1%

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I think one percent starts at 250,000 or

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something like that but at the very

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least they're in the top 20 percent so

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their problems are not the problems of

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the bottom half of this country that one

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of my main talking points it's been all

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over the media

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half of all workers in America those

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that are lucky enough to have jobs 50%

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the bottom 50% may less than $27,000 a

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year half the country that's not enough

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to live today and anywhere in this

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country to live on your own independent

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anywhere mmm I mean maybe places in

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Mississippi and Arkansas you might be

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able to eke out a small apartment and

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probably a crime-ridden neighborhood I

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don't know but certainly most places in

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the country can't so that's half the

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country and the reason why I talk too

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much about immigration is because with

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every wave of immigration that comes in

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it's almost all coming legally or

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illegally from the poorest parts even

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poorer parts of the world then our

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poorest parts so when you have people

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coming from Mexico that are coming from

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desperate circumstances they're entering

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at the very bottom of that bottom 50% so

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what's happening

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we're producing more and more

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desperately poor people so it's

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broadening that 50% so if we don't do

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anything about immigration in another

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decade or two that may go up to 75%

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we're 75 percent of the countries making

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ridiculous weights where they can't live

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on their own anywhere no one talks about

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that about the impact of bringing more

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and more poor people there's lots of

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issues like that but that's just one

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example but the public that's consuming

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this the rest of it I'm doing okay

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there's a 20% that are doing okay I'm

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not gonna starve any time or bill

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homeless but when I'm consuming that I'm

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aware that I'm looking at they're

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producing that for people like me or

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people who are doing better than me that

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bottom 50% I guess they watch it like

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they used to watch the lifestyles of the

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rich and famous television showing dream

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about something better but it's not

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their reality and that's the gist of

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what I'm trying to say is that what's

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being produced for us and went to the

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world and to our own citizens is not a

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reality for half the country at least

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because they are living in you know I

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think one out of I think 20% of the

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households in America have no one

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working in them I mean this it's just

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we're not a first world economy anymore

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those kind of statistics mm-hmm yeah I

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mean I got no problem with people being

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successful but it's just the alteration

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of the game the tilting of the scales

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the kind of like closing the ladder off

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to the bottom rungs that really chaps my

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ass especially when you're still sold

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the bill of goods it's still like I'll

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just work hard you're eventually gonna

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get there that's why I always have said

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the midlife crisis is when you've spent

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half your life you can't get it back and

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you're like [\h__\h] I'm not going anywhere

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I'm never gonna get up there to the top

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right exactly you're right people are

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sold that bill of goods and while we've

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always had these kind of myths you know

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when I was a little boy everyone was

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told anybody any ball there certainly

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still not a girl this croats be

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president but any boy can grow up to be

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president it stays but you know you look

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into the backgrounds of all the

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presidents United States you see that

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none of them came from poverty even the

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ones they claim they did Abraham

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Lincoln's father was the largest

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landowner his County Harry Truman was a

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delegate to the Democratic National

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Convention a teenager you

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get to be a delegate at that age without

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having some kind of connection so nobody

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really comes from poverty to go to that

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point so it was a myth then the horatio

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alger stories of rags to riches that

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were very popular in the late 1800s

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Early 1900s were largely mythical but

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they were still a possibility people

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like Thomas Edison Henry Ford didn't

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come from great circumstances and they

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were able to obviously achieve great

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things but it's very hard for a Thomas

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Edison a Henry Ford type now to come

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along because you need capital you need

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money to do virtually anything and

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that's another focus of the book is how

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by having money to begin with that way a

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Donald Trump for instance can be perhaps

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his ignorant as he sounds we don't know

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if he really is but he can be that way

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but by virtue of being born a

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multi-millionaire he can become a

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billionaire now if he had been born the

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son of a construction worker an

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alcoholic construction worker or living

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with a single mother it would matter

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there's no way in the world he could

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ever afford to buy the casinos it made

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him his fortune but because he had that

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capital on that and I'm just you know

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not meaning to pick on just him but

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that's what you found I looked in the

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backgrounds of so many celebrities from

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all backgrounds and I actually wrote a

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chapter on it it was a couple of

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chapters were cut out of the book for a

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size requirements but our readers can go

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to my blog and find that chapter on

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relations on celebrities and I went to

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the backgrounds of actors musicians

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corporate leaders and showed that

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virtually all of them and I mean all of

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them came from at least upper-middle

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class very stable backgrounds most of

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them though came from the 1% to some

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degree or no they were already rich in

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other words so again rags to riches

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stories their mythical because weight is

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structure in America today if you're

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born wealthy

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it's almost impossibly not to die

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wealthy and to leave wealth for your

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children if you're born poor unless

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you're an athlete perhaps maybe an

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entertainer and to some degree

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especially in the black community

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possibly you may be able to become

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wealthy but it's a very small chain

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it's but so the rest of us if you're

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born poor you're going to stay for

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mm-hmm

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and you mentioned Trump another thing

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that comes up in the book a lot is just

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the general theme of failing up that the

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kind of mistakes these people at the top

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are allowed to make and keep their jobs

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or just get a new job is insane compared

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to you RI and these small little things

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that get people fired from their only

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source of income you go from that to

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nothing yet these people I mean even if

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you get fired you're probably going to

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get a couple of MIL just for that it is

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crazy

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yeah I mean you have the golden

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umbrellas which could be 4050 I think

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I've seen as high as a hundred million

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where they give these to lots of times

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most of the time they give them to CEOs

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who have run the company in the ground

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have lost the company money we've done a

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bad job by anyone's standards they pay

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them to go away now all of us would love

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to fail like that most of us on our

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regular jobs if we screw up and violate

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some petty policy where if you live in

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an at-will state I live in an at-will or

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a right-to-work state one of the biggest

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jokes of all right to work means right

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to fire you for no reason they can

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literally they don't like your look one

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day and fire you they don't have to have

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a reason and the vast majority workers

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when they get fired or laid off they may

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get a very modest severance package that

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they're laid off very modest but if

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they're fired or and many times they're

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laid off their would be lucky to get a

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couple weeks pay again that's the vast

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majority that's how the system works of

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course unemployment for people like that

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is an entirely different situation than

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an executive that is already probably

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has at least six figures saved up

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whereas the average American I haven't

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seen the latest statistic but I think

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the last time I looked it was I think

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about 77 percent of Americans that

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didn't have $500 in savings or something

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like that something unbelievable that's

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the reality most people so just imagine

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someone in that 70 percent group gets

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fired one day and so you're devastated

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if you own your home it's got to be

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foreclosed on because in this job market

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you're not going to find a job I don't

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care you know Donald Trump touting the

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same statistics that he very accurately

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called out for their phone Enis

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1990s when they changed the stats to

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make the economic picture look rosier

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all the time they no longer count the

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real unemployment rate now they report

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to the public only those people who are

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presently receiving unemployment

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benefits and Trump pointed that out one

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of the many great things he said during

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his campaign now he's bragging about the

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same phony statistics saying that

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unemployment is going down which is

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ridiculous anybody who's faced that job

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market in the last few years

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understands exactly how hard it is for

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the average person to get a job the

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ropes you have to go through and the

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competition where you may have 200

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people for applying what is really a low

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paid job with no future at all to it but

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even those jobs are hard to get but if

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you're in the top 20% especially the top

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1% if you get laid off you're going to

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get a good severance package so you're

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not going to feel that same stress the

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same pressure to instantly have to go

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get a job instead you can kind of and

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you already have because you've made

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more to begin with again money begets

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money you already have probably a good

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deal of savings so every advantage is

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built there I talk about that constantly

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in the book work you know with money

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this holds fresh inment you need money

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to make money well it's just like the

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rich get richer and the poor get for

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some of those old chestnuts are very

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very accurate yeah they really are and

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so my idea for structuring this show is

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to go through the advantages

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chronologically in an upper-crust errs

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life versus the rest of us but we got to

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talk and and pretty much covered the

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first stage which is that these

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advantages start before you're even born

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as much of this wealth is

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multi-generational and as you said

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you've got to have money to make money

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because the system is set up for large

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sums of wealth to generate more wealth

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all on its own so once you're in the

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club it's pretty hard to actually lose

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and everyone's starting place is never

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gonna be absolutely equal but this is

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really on a different level

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exactly anybody that will sit there and

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try to tell me that a child born in

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desperate circumstances in Appalachia or

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in the wrong parts of Chicago in a

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trailer park in Arkansas there's almost

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certainly going to be alcoholism and/or

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drug abuse in that house

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almost guaranteed and again why is that

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because poverty begets that they want to

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try to drown the reality of their awful

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set of circumstances so of course you

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drink I mean the poor have been doing

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that forever the poor white trash may be

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doing meth and the blacks may be doing

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crack or whatever you're doing that to

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try to drown doubt how dismal your

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circumstances are looking at all that

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rundown neighborhoods a crime around you

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that you're born into that so even if

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you somehow are lucky enough and in most

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of those times the dad if he's even

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known who it is isn't in the life you're

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gonna be lucky to have any kind of male

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role model around that's usually not

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going to be a good male role model might

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be the uncle that just got out of prison

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or something and there's certainly not

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gonna be support so if you're in that

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circumstances and why you look at

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entertainers and stuff let's say well I

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want to be an actor or something well

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you're not going to be able to uh those

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families can't afford acting lessons or

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tennis lessons or golf lessons or piano

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lessons anything like that that nurture

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children and can make it easier really

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the only way you can reach out for that

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golden ring that you know the

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one-in-a-million chance that you might

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be able to make it in one of these

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worlds that lots of people want to make

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it into show business

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our sports or whatever but if you look

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at that same child if that same child is

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born to a bank president as Bill Gates

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was his father was the president Planned

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Parenthood he was born to some very

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special middle class not a middle class

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I grew up in a lower middle class and it

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wasn't like that

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president of Planned Parenthood his

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father was one of his grandfather's was

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a bank president his mother sat on the

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boards of directors and banks and big

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companies back in the 1950s and mothers

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were baking cookies but that's sold to

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us that someone like Bill Gates you know

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he can become the world's richest man he

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was just a middle-class person like you

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know he wasn't because how you define

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middle-class I was reading this morning

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that Republicans are now trying to sell

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it that $450,000 a years in middle class

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well okay if $450,000 a year is the

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middle class then what is a household

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that makes $60,000 a year that's a world

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of difference it's not maybe as big as

545
00:20:26,220 --> 00:20:23,350
between sixty thousand and forty billion

546
00:20:28,169 --> 00:20:26,230
but it might as well be for all intents

547
00:20:29,130 --> 00:20:28,179
and purposes so but no one talks about

548
00:20:31,860 --> 00:20:29,140
that

549
00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:31,870
and instead obviously anyone born in

550
00:20:36,210 --> 00:20:33,550
those kinds of middle-class households

551
00:20:38,220 --> 00:20:36,220
where success has already been

552
00:20:41,370 --> 00:20:38,230
established and I talk in the book about

553
00:20:43,470 --> 00:20:41,380
how lots of these sons and daughters of

554
00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:43,480
the one-percenters can even get into

555
00:20:46,830 --> 00:20:45,430
colleges most like we see athletes get

556
00:20:48,510 --> 00:20:46,840
into institutions that they're not

557
00:20:50,550 --> 00:20:48,520
academically qualified for but they get

558
00:20:52,590 --> 00:20:50,560
into sports well you have the people

559
00:20:54,540 --> 00:20:52,600
like the george w bush's but does anyone

560
00:20:57,150 --> 00:20:54,550
really think that he qualified

561
00:20:59,610 --> 00:20:57,160
academically to be in yale no but he had

562
00:21:01,710 --> 00:20:59,620
that Bush tradition his father was

563
00:21:03,150 --> 00:21:01,720
politician already and his grandfather

564
00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:03,160
had been a long time United States

565
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:05,350
Senator so and most of these families I

566
00:21:09,450 --> 00:21:07,450
trace a lot of them back the bushes and

567
00:21:11,820 --> 00:21:09,460
lots and lots of these people go back to

568
00:21:13,980 --> 00:21:11,830
the Mayflower that's where we tend to

569
00:21:15,870 --> 00:21:13,990
look at okay where our elite originally

570
00:21:17,010 --> 00:21:15,880
came into the country well you look at

571
00:21:19,290 --> 00:21:17,020
these families that are out there

572
00:21:21,270 --> 00:21:19,300
whether it's show business or the

573
00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:21,280
corporate world and you'll find a whole

574
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:23,560
lot of them our descendants of the

575
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:25,930
Mayflower hmm that's really interesting

576
00:21:30,210 --> 00:21:28,090
I know they're largely related to each

577
00:21:32,250 --> 00:21:30,220
other or at least networked through all

578
00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:32,260
these secret fraternities but to go back

579
00:21:36,780 --> 00:21:33,910
to the Mayflower is really interesting

580
00:21:38,310 --> 00:21:36,790
too and it is and I believe most of

581
00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:38,320
those examples are in they deleted

582
00:21:41,820 --> 00:21:39,910
chapter on relations which people can

583
00:21:43,410 --> 00:21:41,830
find up my blog but you just wouldn't

584
00:21:45,270 --> 00:21:43,420
believe it I mean it's astounding it

585
00:21:47,850 --> 00:21:45,280
surprised even me because I expected to

586
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:47,860
find especially lots of the actresses

587
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:49,930
the attractive actresses I thought well

588
00:21:53,070 --> 00:21:51,610
you know they were just casting couch

589
00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:53,080
and obviously that's how they achieved

590
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:54,370
their fame that it's something to do

591
00:21:58,770 --> 00:21:56,770
with it but even most of them came from

592
00:22:01,260 --> 00:21:58,780
wealthy backgrounds so it's astonishing

593
00:22:03,510 --> 00:22:01,270
and it kind of disillusioned you and you

594
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:03,520
really because you think wow is there

595
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:06,010
any hope for people but it's so rare to

596
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:07,930
see somebody break through that and

597
00:22:12,150 --> 00:22:09,610
obviously they're exceptions here there

598
00:22:14,190 --> 00:22:12,160
and when they do happen like we've all

599
00:22:16,380 --> 00:22:14,200
heard lots about Jim Carrey you know a

600
00:22:17,940 --> 00:22:16,390
very talented guy how he was living in a

601
00:22:18,990 --> 00:22:17,950
car with his family they were homeless I

602
00:22:20,910 --> 00:22:19,000
think when he was a teenager or

603
00:22:23,010 --> 00:22:20,920
something so you have people like that

604
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:23,020
in the old days you had people like Joan

605
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:25,090
Crawford and the Barbara Stanwyck that

606
00:22:28,770 --> 00:22:26,290
were great actresses they came from

607
00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:28,780
desperate poverty but even most the ones

608
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:30,790
back then I gave lots of examples came

609
00:22:34,230 --> 00:22:33,010
from great wealth even back then so even

610
00:22:36,690 --> 00:22:34,240
the early days in Hollywood and

611
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:36,700
obviously anybody I haven't found a

612
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:38,650
single executive somebody that's a

613
00:22:42,510 --> 00:22:40,690
high-profile CEO if you look in their

614
00:22:42,870 --> 00:22:42,520
backgrounds I mean just the fact to go

615
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:42,880
to

616
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:44,530
Harvard or Yale one of these colleges

617
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:46,930
you have to have wealth to begin with I

618
00:22:51,270 --> 00:22:49,090
mean even if you win a partial

619
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:51,280
scholarship or something tuition fees

620
00:22:56,790 --> 00:22:53,850
are so incredibly out of the reach of

621
00:22:59,520 --> 00:22:56,800
even middle class families again you

622
00:23:01,920 --> 00:22:59,530
have to be wealthy to even go there and

623
00:23:03,870 --> 00:23:01,930
if you can put an Ivy League school on

624
00:23:04,980 --> 00:23:03,880
your resume that makes all the

625
00:23:06,570 --> 00:23:04,990
difference in the world that's why

626
00:23:09,690 --> 00:23:06,580
another stand I quote in the book is it

627
00:23:11,190 --> 00:23:09,700
something like I think it's 3% of the

628
00:23:13,950 --> 00:23:11,200
students have order considered the top

629
00:23:16,260 --> 00:23:13,960
146 colleges generally and those are the

630
00:23:18,810 --> 00:23:16,270
colleges that make the difference again

631
00:23:20,580 --> 00:23:18,820
college degrees are not all equal you

632
00:23:23,370 --> 00:23:20,590
get a degree from Harvard or Yale or

633
00:23:25,650 --> 00:23:23,380
something that's worth you a hundred

634
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:25,660
times what any degree is worth from your

635
00:23:30,750 --> 00:23:27,450
State University

636
00:23:33,510 --> 00:23:30,760
so those schools are elite and only 3%

637
00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:33,520
of the students come from the bottom

638
00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:36,400
quarter income wise to those colleges

639
00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:38,950
and you can bet that almost all that 3%

640
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:41,680
are athletes that are playing for their

641
00:23:44,070 --> 00:23:42,730
sports teams that aren't even

642
00:23:46,710 --> 00:23:44,080
academically qualified they're being

643
00:23:48,540 --> 00:23:46,720
used exactly so people keep that in mind

644
00:23:50,910 --> 00:23:48,550
or they wonder about the upward mobility

645
00:23:52,620 --> 00:23:50,920
it's just I have the statistics all

646
00:23:54,870 --> 00:23:52,630
throughout the book and they kind of run

647
00:23:56,910 --> 00:23:54,880
together in my mind sometimes but they

648
00:23:59,160 --> 00:23:56,920
all tell the same story that the good

649
00:24:00,690 --> 00:23:59,170
colleges are for people who already have

650
00:24:03,750 --> 00:24:00,700
money almost all the time

651
00:24:07,340 --> 00:24:03,760
mm-hmm and it is weird because that

652
00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:07,350
athlete aspect is kind of like a modern

653
00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:10,510
Coliseum gladiator situation of just put

654
00:24:14,970 --> 00:24:12,910
them in the middle and they're making so

655
00:24:16,530 --> 00:24:14,980
much money off sports it's just like we

656
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:16,540
don't really care about these people let

657
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:18,010
them fight each other you know quote

658
00:24:21,930 --> 00:24:20,050
unquote you can't be too violent these

659
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:21,940
days but you're just basically throwing

660
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:23,890
them in there to exhaust themselves why

661
00:24:28,290 --> 00:24:25,930
you make so much money off their backs

662
00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:28,300
and throw them a few shekels for their

663
00:24:31,530 --> 00:24:30,100
trouble not even in college of course

664
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:31,540
you don't get anything for playing there

665
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:33,090
even though you're generating millions

666
00:24:35,670 --> 00:24:35,530
right exactly and that's exactly what it

667
00:24:37,470 --> 00:24:35,680
is

668
00:24:39,030 --> 00:24:37,480
now lots of us would like to be

669
00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:39,040
exploited like they're being exploited

670
00:24:42,390 --> 00:24:40,630
because you know they're getting lots of

671
00:24:44,490 --> 00:24:42,400
beautiful women throwing themselves at

672
00:24:46,950 --> 00:24:44,500
and they're getting perks lots of stuff

673
00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:46,960
under the table cars and gifts which

674
00:24:50,190 --> 00:24:48,580
once in a while they get caught the

675
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:50,200
alumni and that's all another different

676
00:24:54,890 --> 00:24:52,690
story the NCAA and with it you know it's

677
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:54,900
corrupt to the core there we

678
00:24:59,270 --> 00:24:56,970
know that but you're right I think if we

679
00:25:01,180 --> 00:24:59,280
tried to reform that I think the most

680
00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:01,190
sensible way would be to just stop

681
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:03,510
claiming that most of these athletes are

682
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:06,210
students and just hire them and pay them

683
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:08,970
some salary like minor-league football

684
00:25:11,750 --> 00:25:10,290
or basketball players that's what the

685
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:11,760
solution should be and maybe the

686
00:25:15,590 --> 00:25:13,650
university can sponsor the teams or

687
00:25:17,380 --> 00:25:15,600
something but it's just like everything

688
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:17,390
else in America no one wants to really

689
00:25:22,070 --> 00:25:20,490
admit the extent of the corruption and

690
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:22,080
so we kind of turned the other way and

691
00:25:26,180 --> 00:25:23,610
play this game and we had this situation

692
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:26,190
that we had mm-hm mm-hm

693
00:25:30,890 --> 00:25:28,530
and with sports on the pro level at

694
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:30,900
least stop using taxpayer money to pay

695
00:25:35,270 --> 00:25:33,450
for these rich guys stupid stadiums and

696
00:25:37,250 --> 00:25:35,280
then have the citizens get charged

697
00:25:39,260 --> 00:25:37,260
ticket prices on top of that and get

698
00:25:41,450 --> 00:25:39,270
gouged at every corner it's a mess but

699
00:25:43,850 --> 00:25:41,460
you know the book is just so full of

700
00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:43,860
these ridiculous sums of money being

701
00:25:48,260 --> 00:25:46,680
thrown around for pretty much nothing at

702
00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:48,270
the elite level and many of the small

703
00:25:52,790 --> 00:25:50,910
scams and schemes along the way but on

704
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:52,800
the subject of schools you talk about

705
00:25:57,170 --> 00:25:55,170
this perk where someone who is the

706
00:25:59,780 --> 00:25:57,180
president of a major university might

707
00:26:02,420 --> 00:25:59,790
buy a multi-million dollar home and take

708
00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:02,430
out a loan from the university at extra

709
00:26:06,890 --> 00:26:05,130
low or sometimes no interest because oh

710
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:06,900
well you got to live close to where you

711
00:26:11,390 --> 00:26:09,090
work well no [\h__\h] everybody has to live

712
00:26:13,490 --> 00:26:11,400
close to where they work for it but you

713
00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:13,500
know even the advantage on the loan

714
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:15,510
terms is just another thing that is not

715
00:26:19,460 --> 00:26:17,490
open to most of us we just get the

716
00:26:22,820 --> 00:26:19,470
crippling debt that you can never escape

717
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:22,830
from the college system yeah I'm sure

718
00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:25,650
the average college student that has a

719
00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:27,510
student loan debt which I think the

720
00:26:31,790 --> 00:26:29,790
average student loan debt is $32,000

721
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:31,800
last time I looked it was which is a

722
00:26:36,020 --> 00:26:33,690
huge amount I mean that's like a car

723
00:26:37,730 --> 00:26:36,030
payment for a pretty good car more

724
00:26:39,410 --> 00:26:37,740
expensive than most of us would drive to

725
00:26:41,690 --> 00:26:39,420
be carrying around like that and

726
00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:41,700
something needs to be done cuz student

727
00:26:45,650 --> 00:26:43,320
loan debt is now the biggest debt that

728
00:26:47,450 --> 00:26:45,660
we have it's superseded credit card debt

729
00:26:48,850 --> 00:26:47,460
even considering how much credit card

730
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:48,860
debt that is that's saying something

731
00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:51,210
unlike every other kind of debt if you

732
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:53,310
declare bankruptcy which is another perk

733
00:26:56,450 --> 00:26:54,810
of the rich that's why I Donald Trump

734
00:26:58,940 --> 00:26:56,460
can declare it seven times or something

735
00:27:01,850 --> 00:26:58,950
and brag about it because it's a tool

736
00:27:03,350 --> 00:27:01,860
for the wealthy for the 1% when they

737
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:03,360
declare bankruptcy they do it as a

738
00:27:08,450 --> 00:27:06,090
business and it actually works for them

739
00:27:10,250 --> 00:27:08,460
it actually makes them more money

740
00:27:12,350 --> 00:27:10,260
not a negative mark again them but an

741
00:27:13,790 --> 00:27:12,360
individual that declares chapter 7

742
00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:13,800
bankruptcy or whatever it is and

743
00:27:18,050 --> 00:27:15,510
ironically under again the great liberal

744
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:18,060
Obama presidency he actually stiffened

745
00:27:22,010 --> 00:27:19,650
that up to make it harder for average

746
00:27:24,590 --> 00:27:22,020
people to declare bankruptcy again in

747
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:24,600
our twisted perspective of the 1% they

748
00:27:28,790 --> 00:27:26,370
actually sold this bill of goods to you

749
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:28,800
know this people are exploiting or

750
00:27:33,620 --> 00:27:31,890
taking advantage of bankruptcy and not

751
00:27:35,570 --> 00:27:33,630
the one-percenters of course they were

752
00:27:37,970 --> 00:27:35,580
still nothing but the average riffraff

753
00:27:39,890 --> 00:27:37,980
who's you have to be in desperate

754
00:27:42,170 --> 00:27:39,900
circumstances to declare bankruptcy and

755
00:27:43,820 --> 00:27:42,180
there used to be some advantages to it

756
00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:43,830
was the only recourse people had at some

757
00:27:48,980 --> 00:27:46,320
point but there was a huge disadvantage

758
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:48,990
where it killed your credit for about a

759
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:51,450
decade or about tenure so you couldn't

760
00:27:54,830 --> 00:27:53,010
get any other kind of luns because that

761
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:54,840
stood out like a huge black mark

762
00:28:00,320 --> 00:27:58,050
bankruptcy Wow when the 1% does it it

763
00:28:02,630 --> 00:28:00,330
actually works their advantage but when

764
00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:02,640
the average person does it it destroys

765
00:28:05,630 --> 00:28:03,150
their Eliza

766
00:28:08,570 --> 00:28:05,640
that's just one example of how one

767
00:28:10,820 --> 00:28:08,580
particular law works one way for the

768
00:28:13,610 --> 00:28:10,830
very wealthy and works in an entirely

769
00:28:16,340 --> 00:28:13,620
different way for the rest of us oh yeah

770
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:16,350
I've seen expose zhan credit-card

771
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:19,050
companies that talk about the predatory

772
00:28:23,330 --> 00:28:21,570
practices and the fact that now things

773
00:28:27,820 --> 00:28:23,340
have kind of switched to where they

774
00:28:30,380 --> 00:28:27,830
actually have really low credit score

775
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:30,390
people that they go for like they've got

776
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:33,930
a category and they target them because

777
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:36,450
they can make more off the shitty

778
00:28:41,780 --> 00:28:38,970
interest rate for one and then the late

779
00:28:44,270 --> 00:28:41,790
fees and that all boils over so this

780
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:44,280
idea of someone filing bankruptcy it's

781
00:28:48,350 --> 00:28:46,410
like oh well let's get them quick

782
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:48,360
because they can't file bankruptcy again

783
00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:51,210
for another X amount of years or months

784
00:28:55,430 --> 00:28:53,790
so in this window we're gonna hit them

785
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:55,440
with those late fees after late fees

786
00:28:58,790 --> 00:28:56,610
because we already know they can't

787
00:29:01,760 --> 00:28:58,800
manage money and it's like what are you

788
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:01,770
doing oh yeah that's some of the most

789
00:29:06,260 --> 00:29:04,530
despicable people in our society that

790
00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:06,270
prey on people that have nowhere else to

791
00:29:10,310 --> 00:29:08,310
go and you'll find in all parts of the

792
00:29:11,990 --> 00:29:10,320
country they have like car dealerships

793
00:29:14,270 --> 00:29:12,000
that specialize and you watch their

794
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:14,280
commercials sometimes they'll get a

795
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:16,170
black football player or somebody but

796
00:29:19,790 --> 00:29:18,450
they're geared constantly everybody in

797
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:19,800
the commercial is usually black and

798
00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:21,810
they're trying to gear

799
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:23,940
towards the very poor blacks who have

800
00:29:28,430 --> 00:29:26,970
awful credit and they know they have

801
00:29:30,230 --> 00:29:28,440
nowhere else to go to buy a car and

802
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:30,240
they'll even in many cases I wrote about

803
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:32,310
this work they'll actually put a device

804
00:29:37,730 --> 00:29:34,410
in the car where if you're one day late

805
00:29:39,980 --> 00:29:37,740
in payment I don't give you any grace

806
00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:39,990
period unlike most of us get the car

807
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:42,750
won't start and of course the interest

808
00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:43,890
rates they'll be paying I mean you'll be

809
00:29:47,810 --> 00:29:45,840
paying for like four cars or so I mean

810
00:29:51,860 --> 00:29:47,820
you may be paying thirty percentage or

811
00:29:54,110 --> 00:29:51,870
start with it's outrageous but the vast

812
00:29:55,970 --> 00:29:54,120
majority of people that I've talked it

813
00:29:57,710 --> 00:29:55,980
will say well you know they got

814
00:29:59,000 --> 00:29:57,720
themselves in that position it should

815
00:30:01,370 --> 00:29:59,010
have paid their bills and there's no

816
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:01,380
sense to being okay well some kind of

817
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:03,210
crisis came up that can happen anybody

818
00:30:07,070 --> 00:30:05,130
and yeah maybe sometimes it is the

819
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:07,080
result of doing drugs be responsible

820
00:30:12,290 --> 00:30:10,170
surely but still they're really hurting

821
00:30:13,870 --> 00:30:12,300
only themselves and that's I think the

822
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:13,880
question that we have to ask about

823
00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:16,770
everything whether it's homelessness or

824
00:30:21,530 --> 00:30:19,110
any other thing what do we do about poor

825
00:30:24,710 --> 00:30:21,540
people do we consign them to just dying

826
00:30:26,510 --> 00:30:24,720
in the streets do we want to euthanize

827
00:30:28,190 --> 00:30:26,520
them we want to get rid of them as so

828
00:30:30,350 --> 00:30:28,200
many eugenicist wanted I've written a

829
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:30,360
lot about that in the past work so many

830
00:30:34,250 --> 00:30:31,770
of the including almost all the leading

831
00:30:36,740 --> 00:30:34,260
liberals they're you Genesis they only

832
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:36,750
want the good stock to go on so they

833
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:38,250
would like to get rid of this human

834
00:30:42,830 --> 00:30:40,890
refuse how they think of it they want to

835
00:30:44,650 --> 00:30:42,840
get rid of all these unsightly poor

836
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:44,660
people that are everywhere but

837
00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:46,710
fortunately they haven't done that yet

838
00:30:50,690 --> 00:30:48,750
but you have to figure out some way

839
00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:50,700
people have to live and I think that's

840
00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:53,580
why we're gonna come to a critical mass

841
00:30:59,110 --> 00:30:56,910
here soon with AI or the technology here

842
00:31:01,970 --> 00:30:59,120
in the fact we already have far too many

843
00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:01,980
job applicants in this country for the

844
00:31:07,460 --> 00:31:04,230
amount of jobs that are there and if

845
00:31:09,530 --> 00:31:07,470
millions of jobs go automated that

846
00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:09,540
obviously takes it makes it even fewer

847
00:31:14,510 --> 00:31:11,550
jobs and if you continue to bring more

848
00:31:16,190 --> 00:31:14,520
immigrants in who are poor driving down

849
00:31:19,670 --> 00:31:16,200
wages in the process you're gonna have

850
00:31:22,010 --> 00:31:19,680
even more people seeking fewer jobs it's

851
00:31:24,050 --> 00:31:22,020
a disaster waiting to happen no one's

852
00:31:26,990 --> 00:31:24,060
looking at an answer to that there have

853
00:31:28,370 --> 00:31:27,000
been trial basis around the world in

854
00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:28,380
certain parts about a universal basic

855
00:31:32,150 --> 00:31:30,900
income kind of thing I think you have to

856
00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:32,160
go with something like that because

857
00:31:35,299 --> 00:31:34,260
they're simply not going to be enough

858
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:35,309
work

859
00:31:38,450 --> 00:31:36,809
unless you're gonna do something like

860
00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:38,460
what I would advocate which would my

861
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:40,049
hero Huey lawn you know I devoted a

862
00:31:43,730 --> 00:31:42,510
chapter on the book at a Huey Long and I

863
00:31:45,470 --> 00:31:43,740
think I'm trying to single-handedly

864
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:45,480
restore his reputation and to me he's

865
00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:46,770
one of the greatest Americans that ever

866
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:49,049
lived and I think if he was around today

867
00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:50,850
it comes back in the 1930s he was

868
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:53,340
advocating a 30 maybe 20 hour workweek

869
00:31:58,130 --> 00:31:56,370
this was before his pressure finally got

870
00:32:00,500 --> 00:31:58,140
us a 40-hour workweek and got his

871
00:32:02,779 --> 00:32:00,510
overtime and all the benefits that we

872
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:02,789
take for granted pensions and things

873
00:32:06,770 --> 00:32:04,530
like that that workers did not used to

874
00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:06,780
have before pressure from Huey Long

875
00:32:10,580 --> 00:32:08,520
finally got Roosevelt and the

876
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:10,590
establishment Democrats to pass an act

877
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:13,130
in 1938 that granted the kind of

878
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:15,330
protections to workers that we never had

879
00:32:17,779 --> 00:32:16,770
before and you can see people chipping

880
00:32:19,820 --> 00:32:17,789
away at that now especially the

881
00:32:21,890 --> 00:32:19,830
Republicans would like to eliminate them

882
00:32:23,529 --> 00:32:21,900
but a few e long was around today I

883
00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:23,539
think he would look at the situation

884
00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:25,950
logically and realize okay the amount of

885
00:32:30,230 --> 00:32:28,110
workers the technological improvements

886
00:32:31,970 --> 00:32:30,240
that have been made productivity we can

887
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:31,980
have now as opposed to the past we

888
00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:33,840
should be probably having a 10 hour work

889
00:32:38,419 --> 00:32:36,030
week honestly by this point if you had

890
00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:38,429
something like a 10 hour workweek you

891
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:40,049
would have enough jobs to go around for

892
00:32:43,610 --> 00:32:41,610
people but you'd have to pay people

893
00:32:46,850 --> 00:32:43,620
enough to live for those 10 hours and

894
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:46,860
that's where Apple can pay out or 633

895
00:32:51,230 --> 00:32:48,570
thousand dollars a year to attend five

896
00:32:52,850 --> 00:32:51,240
meetings McDonald's can pay I think

897
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:52,860
there's Andrew McKenna some 80 some

898
00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:53,610
year-old guy

899
00:32:56,990 --> 00:32:55,470
80 million dollars or whatever it was to

900
00:32:59,990 --> 00:32:57,000
sit on their board of directors and you

901
00:33:02,299 --> 00:33:00,000
know what is he doing at that age they

902
00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:02,309
can do that companies are fine doing

903
00:33:06,409 --> 00:33:05,159
that they can pay Carly Fiorina HP can

904
00:33:08,630 --> 00:33:06,419
pay her 40 million dollar building

905
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:08,640
umbrella to go away after she runs their

906
00:33:12,980 --> 00:33:10,530
company into the ground they don't mind

907
00:33:14,750 --> 00:33:12,990
doing that but they really are get erect

908
00:33:15,740 --> 00:33:14,760
if you want to pay the average worker

909
00:33:17,270 --> 00:33:15,750
wait a minute you know I'm gonna pay

910
00:33:19,549 --> 00:33:17,280
just for working ten hours a week well

911
00:33:21,289 --> 00:33:19,559
you had to bite the bullet back in the

912
00:33:23,330 --> 00:33:21,299
late 30s and go for the 40-hour work

913
00:33:26,870 --> 00:33:23,340
week if people like my grandfather

914
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:26,880
worked 12 hours a day 365 days a year

915
00:33:30,409 --> 00:33:28,710
the reality was back then for a lot of

916
00:33:32,210 --> 00:33:30,419
working-class people you worked a

917
00:33:34,669 --> 00:33:32,220
12-hour day there was no such thing as

918
00:33:36,110 --> 00:33:34,679
overtime there was no such thing as sick

919
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:36,120
leave he'd worked up till two weeks

920
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:38,490
before he died of cancer he had to work

921
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:40,320
deathly ill because he had to feed his

922
00:33:42,529 --> 00:33:42,210
family there were no benefits for people

923
00:33:45,049 --> 00:33:42,539
like that

924
00:33:47,180 --> 00:33:45,059
and that was a reality of working-class

925
00:33:48,950 --> 00:33:47,190
back that I hope we never go back to

926
00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:48,960
that but unfortunately a lot of people

927
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:50,910
with light to go back then and they're

928
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:54,090
not even considering the fact that there

929
00:34:00,170 --> 00:33:57,210
are fewer jobs more job applicants in

930
00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:00,180
the only solution to me is you have a

931
00:34:05,270 --> 00:34:02,190
much shorter work week like that and you

932
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:05,280
allow with the QE loan called all people

933
00:34:10,730 --> 00:34:07,730
to enjoy the blessings of prosperity

934
00:34:12,980 --> 00:34:10,740
mm-hmm and learning about Huey Long was

935
00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:12,990
great I definitely have a Huey Long

936
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:15,510
section here but you know you mentioned

937
00:34:19,550 --> 00:34:17,610
earlier that people cope with drugs

938
00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:19,560
because they know they're screwed and

939
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:21,030
they can't change the system it's really

940
00:34:25,850 --> 00:34:23,130
not an option for them and that's the

941
00:34:28,910 --> 00:34:25,860
thing I'm sure a lot of people know how

942
00:34:30,590 --> 00:34:28,920
bad the system is but I mean is there

943
00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:30,600
something we can do on a personal level

944
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:32,580
because we can't change it from the top

945
00:34:36,770 --> 00:34:34,290
down I mean of course there's things

946
00:34:38,270 --> 00:34:36,780
like nobody's stopping us from keeping

947
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:38,280
everything in the family and working

948
00:34:42,710 --> 00:34:39,930
together the way the Rockefellers and

949
00:34:45,170 --> 00:34:42,720
Rothschilds do average families do not

950
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:45,180
do that we're all kind of off doing our

951
00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:47,550
own mediocre job I mean that's one thing

952
00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:50,250
but is there a pivot we can make to

953
00:34:54,980 --> 00:34:52,710
where some of these disadvantages become

954
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:54,990
advantages like start a corporation or

955
00:34:59,570 --> 00:34:57,410
something I don't know you know I think

956
00:35:01,490 --> 00:34:59,580
obviously I love Huey Long and my other

957
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:01,500
heroes are John F Kennedy and Robert F

958
00:35:05,420 --> 00:35:03,510
Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy made one of

959
00:35:07,790 --> 00:35:05,430
the greatest speeches I think ever in

960
00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:07,800
South Africa the tiny ripples of Hope

961
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:09,900
speech he talked about any time a man

962
00:35:14,870 --> 00:35:12,330
stands up against injustice he sends

963
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:14,880
forth a tiny ripple of hope and all

964
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:16,710
those tiny ripples of Hope gathering

965
00:35:21,710 --> 00:35:19,290
together can form a tidal wave and

966
00:35:23,150 --> 00:35:21,720
overcome any kind of oppression so and

967
00:35:24,530 --> 00:35:23,160
that's all we can really do that's what

968
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:24,540
I try to do in my life and they're

969
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:26,970
definitely tiny ripples but I try to

970
00:35:31,730 --> 00:35:28,770
send for a tiny ripples of hope and I

971
00:35:34,310 --> 00:35:31,740
think if enough of us did that if we try

972
00:35:36,890 --> 00:35:34,320
to be principled than not dishonest not

973
00:35:38,690 --> 00:35:36,900
corrupt and try to open with people like

974
00:35:40,790 --> 00:35:38,700
you were doing which shows like this you

975
00:35:43,130 --> 00:35:40,800
try to wake people up to the corruption

976
00:35:45,290 --> 00:35:43,140
around them I mean I wrote this book as

977
00:35:47,180 --> 00:35:45,300
a standalone issue but it's really

978
00:35:49,940 --> 00:35:47,190
because I think it's the most important

979
00:35:51,230 --> 00:35:49,950
issue that we face but it's really very

980
00:35:52,850 --> 00:35:51,240
much connected to what I wrote about

981
00:35:54,590 --> 00:35:52,860
hidden history what I'll be writing in

982
00:35:56,390 --> 00:35:54,600
the books coming out next year that

983
00:35:58,850 --> 00:35:56,400
there's a rigged system

984
00:36:00,860 --> 00:35:58,860
there's systemic corruption this is the

985
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:00,870
most obvious to me the most obvious

986
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:01,609
giant

987
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:03,410
walking around the room is this

988
00:36:07,479 --> 00:36:04,910
disparity of wealth and the fact that

989
00:36:09,069 --> 00:36:07,489
it's natural that the people that have

990
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:09,079
money because it takes money to get

991
00:36:14,140 --> 00:36:12,049
power so money begets power so obviously

992
00:36:16,029 --> 00:36:14,150
once you have that power you're going to

993
00:36:18,489 --> 00:36:16,039
wield that power for people that have

994
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:18,499
money I mean affluence means influence

995
00:36:23,979 --> 00:36:21,410
quotes in the book about how impossible

996
00:36:25,690 --> 00:36:23,989
it is to get your local school board

997
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:25,700
superintendent to talk to the average

998
00:36:30,069 --> 00:36:27,249
says let alone your local congressional

999
00:36:31,180 --> 00:36:30,079
representative but if you were a head of

1000
00:36:33,339 --> 00:36:31,190
a huge corporation

1001
00:36:34,569 --> 00:36:33,349
I guarantee you you'll be able to go out

1002
00:36:36,430 --> 00:36:34,579
and have lunch with your local

1003
00:36:38,769 --> 00:36:36,440
congressional representative because you

1004
00:36:41,049 --> 00:36:38,779
have affluence so by virtue of your

1005
00:36:43,839 --> 00:36:41,059
affluence you have influence so we don't

1006
00:36:45,609 --> 00:36:43,849
have that affluence but if we come

1007
00:36:47,499 --> 00:36:45,619
together as you noted the power in

1008
00:36:49,390 --> 00:36:47,509
numbers and we see that especially in

1009
00:36:51,099 --> 00:36:49,400
some immigrant families especially Asian

1010
00:36:53,019 --> 00:36:51,109
immigrant families they will work

1011
00:36:55,180 --> 00:36:53,029
together and pool their resources that's

1012
00:36:58,059 --> 00:36:55,190
why so many can come here and owned

1013
00:36:59,140 --> 00:36:58,069
businesses that Americans could because

1014
00:37:01,359 --> 00:36:59,150
they're willing to work together

1015
00:37:03,249 --> 00:37:01,369
unfortunately Americans and that's

1016
00:37:05,380 --> 00:37:03,259
another subject entirely but the way our

1017
00:37:07,569 --> 00:37:05,390
culture is we become fractured and

1018
00:37:10,539 --> 00:37:07,579
there's so much dysfunction and feuding

1019
00:37:12,279 --> 00:37:10,549
an American the average American group

1020
00:37:14,470 --> 00:37:12,289
of siblings starting a business together

1021
00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:14,480
which you know be lucky if there wasn't

1022
00:37:17,470 --> 00:37:15,160
a murder

1023
00:37:19,150 --> 00:37:17,480
we're very short period of time they

1024
00:37:20,319 --> 00:37:19,160
just and I don't know why that is I

1025
00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:20,329
think it has a lot to do with the

1026
00:37:23,140 --> 00:37:21,710
culture and maybe people think and

1027
00:37:25,630 --> 00:37:23,150
that's supposed to be the way it is but

1028
00:37:26,739 --> 00:37:25,640
it isn't that way all around the world

1029
00:37:28,839 --> 00:37:26,749
same thing with the treatment of the

1030
00:37:31,150 --> 00:37:28,849
elderly we treat our elderly horribly in

1031
00:37:32,650 --> 00:37:31,160
America but it's not that way all over

1032
00:37:34,029 --> 00:37:32,660
the world again if you go in the Asian

1033
00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:34,039
world it really anywhere the Middle

1034
00:37:39,220 --> 00:37:37,099
Eastern elders are revered elders are

1035
00:37:40,569 --> 00:37:39,230
not revered here in America they're not

1036
00:37:45,069 --> 00:37:40,579
respected at all they're treated

1037
00:37:47,319 --> 00:37:45,079
horribly right agreed and you know tiny

1038
00:37:49,420 --> 00:37:47,329
ripples a hope that's a nice sentiment

1039
00:37:50,890 --> 00:37:49,430
but from someone who was assassinated by

1040
00:37:54,099 --> 00:37:50,900
the Machine so it's like really

1041
00:37:56,170 --> 00:37:54,109
difficult to say I mean that we have a

1042
00:37:58,180 --> 00:37:56,180
shot but I did want to ask you more

1043
00:37:59,589 --> 00:37:58,190
about Huey Long maybe that even ties in

1044
00:38:01,599 --> 00:37:59,599
a little bit when we get to the end of

1045
00:38:03,910 --> 00:38:01,609
his story you know you mentioned a few

1046
00:38:06,009 --> 00:38:03,920
of the things that he did that people

1047
00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:06,019
should be grateful for he's a name I'm

1048
00:38:09,460 --> 00:38:07,910
sure not many people know but tell us a

1049
00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:09,470
little bit more about him you say he's

1050
00:38:13,779 --> 00:38:11,960
your all-time political hero I guess I

1051
00:38:15,230 --> 00:38:13,789
should probably stop and ponder why my

1052
00:38:17,570 --> 00:38:15,240
three political heroes

1053
00:38:18,410 --> 00:38:17,580
all assassinated Huey Long John F

1054
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:18,420
Kennedy Robert

1055
00:38:22,010 --> 00:38:20,430
but again that's indicative of how

1056
00:38:24,740 --> 00:38:22,020
corrupt things are because you along

1057
00:38:26,270 --> 00:38:24,750
with assassinated in 1935 so we can see

1058
00:38:28,790 --> 00:38:26,280
obviously this corruption has been

1059
00:38:30,620 --> 00:38:28,800
around for a long time but he was very

1060
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:30,630
important because nothing was the first

1061
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:33,090
one to really focus and he had a catch

1062
00:38:37,010 --> 00:38:35,490
he was a very colorful politician he

1063
00:38:38,330 --> 00:38:37,020
would have done great on television and

1064
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:38,340
YouTube he would have in a star

1065
00:38:41,990 --> 00:38:40,170
I urge anyone to go out and look at his

1066
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:42,000
speeches they're still wonderful today

1067
00:38:47,060 --> 00:38:44,210
he was captivating think of like a

1068
00:38:48,859 --> 00:38:47,070
Donald Trump at his best but incredibly

1069
00:38:51,109 --> 00:38:48,869
articulate incredibly smart he could

1070
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:51,119
encapsulate that little guy against the

1071
00:38:56,630 --> 00:38:54,690
machine in everything he said but when

1072
00:38:59,660 --> 00:38:56,640
he took over as a Louisiana Governor

1073
00:39:01,730 --> 00:38:59,670
Louisiana was a huge swamp he paved the

1074
00:39:02,810 --> 00:39:01,740
entire state he did what we need to have

1075
00:39:04,940 --> 00:39:02,820
done in this country or an

1076
00:39:06,859 --> 00:39:04,950
infrastructure its third-world status it

1077
00:39:08,540 --> 00:39:06,869
hasn't basically touched for 50 plus

1078
00:39:10,790 --> 00:39:08,550
years while we've been going in all

1079
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:10,800
these absurd wars and wasting money on

1080
00:39:15,590 --> 00:39:13,110
graft and corruption and again these

1081
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:15,600
meaningless wars we've let the country

1082
00:39:20,570 --> 00:39:17,970
atrophy into third-world status Huey

1083
00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:20,580
Long face that with Louisiana Macca's

1084
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:22,830
was a giant swamp so he did what needed

1085
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:25,530
to be done he build roads and bridges he

1086
00:39:29,150 --> 00:39:27,210
paved the entire state he built

1087
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:29,160
universities he built free health

1088
00:39:33,710 --> 00:39:31,650
clinics all across the state it was a

1089
00:39:36,290 --> 00:39:33,720
man ahead of his time he invented the

1090
00:39:38,060 --> 00:39:36,300
concept of adult education he invented

1091
00:39:40,099 --> 00:39:38,070
the concept of free textbooks for

1092
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:40,109
children he invented the concept of

1093
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:42,650
medical and especially mental healthcare

1094
00:39:48,950 --> 00:39:45,930
for prisoners and he took lots of the

1095
00:39:50,150 --> 00:39:48,960
prisoners out of those prisons and put

1096
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:50,160
them in new mental health care

1097
00:39:54,349 --> 00:39:52,710
facilities luckily I've been able to

1098
00:39:55,849 --> 00:39:54,359
strike up a relationship with his great

1099
00:39:57,380 --> 00:39:55,859
granddaughter who's still fighting a

1100
00:39:59,720 --> 00:39:57,390
good fight and keeping his legacy alive

1101
00:40:01,990 --> 00:39:59,730
and I got lots of stats from their

1102
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:02,000
website they're just in finite terms

1103
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:04,770
unlike any other kind of so-called

1104
00:40:09,230 --> 00:40:07,650
liberal people in Louisiana I could look

1105
00:40:11,060 --> 00:40:09,240
at what Huey Long didn't say hey this

1106
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:11,070
saved us and I have the exact numbers in

1107
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:13,890
the book but it was a significant amount

1108
00:40:20,150 --> 00:40:17,250
every year that the average citizen in

1109
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:20,160
in Louisiana saved and utilities cost in

1110
00:40:24,890 --> 00:40:23,130
lower taxes ironically he was doing all

1111
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:24,900
the spending although even though he was

1112
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:27,930
spending all this money Louisiana had

1113
00:40:31,510 --> 00:40:28,550
the third

1114
00:40:33,220 --> 00:40:31,520
lowest-cost of all the states in the

1115
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:33,230
Union because again he was eliminating

1116
00:40:36,820 --> 00:40:35,510
waste he was going after Standard Oil in

1117
00:40:39,250 --> 00:40:36,830
the rock I thought he was making them

1118
00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:39,260
pay money which is why he was despised

1119
00:40:43,090 --> 00:40:41,510
but for the average guy 80% of the

1120
00:40:45,790 --> 00:40:43,100
people in the state had their property

1121
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:45,800
taxes eliminated he basically eliminated

1122
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:47,810
foreclosures on properties he did

1123
00:40:52,810 --> 00:40:50,210
everything that we expect a do-gooder

1124
00:40:55,270 --> 00:40:52,820
type of liberal to do and we haven't

1125
00:40:58,600 --> 00:40:55,280
really seen his like ever before or

1126
00:41:01,060 --> 00:40:58,610
since just look up the numbers in my

1127
00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:01,070
book and see what this guy did

1128
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:03,280
and just imagine he was talking about

1129
00:41:06,940 --> 00:41:06,050
literally a month after on this floor of

1130
00:41:08,470 --> 00:41:06,950
the Senate it's still in the

1131
00:41:10,540 --> 00:41:08,480
Congressional Record so people can go

1132
00:41:12,460 --> 00:41:10,550
look and see he did all but accused the

1133
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:12,470
Roosevelt administration of plotting to

1134
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:13,730
kill him but he certainly talked about

1135
00:41:17,770 --> 00:41:16,010
powerful forces plotting to assassinate

1136
00:41:19,930 --> 00:41:17,780
him and then lo and behold he was

1137
00:41:21,190 --> 00:41:19,940
assassinated a month later right after

1138
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:21,200
he announced that he was going to run

1139
00:41:26,620 --> 00:41:24,530
for president 1936 now just imagine what

1140
00:41:28,810 --> 00:41:26,630
he could have done for the country and

1141
00:41:30,940 --> 00:41:28,820
he was a genuine anti-war guy unlike

1142
00:41:33,550 --> 00:41:30,950
roosevelt most of the democrats and all

1143
00:41:35,250 --> 00:41:33,560
the republicans so i don't think we

1144
00:41:37,359 --> 00:41:35,260
would have been involved in world war ii

1145
00:41:39,670 --> 00:41:37,369
certainly against World War one I think

1146
00:41:41,470 --> 00:41:39,680
that the world would have been entirely

1147
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:41,480
different we can't even imagine what the

1148
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:42,770
world would have been like and if what

1149
00:41:48,099 --> 00:41:45,770
he did for Louisiana happened all across

1150
00:41:49,420 --> 00:41:48,109
the America I can't imagine what a share

1151
00:41:51,090 --> 00:41:49,430
the wealth movement would have been like

1152
00:41:52,780 --> 00:41:51,100
because he was talking about

1153
00:41:54,430 --> 00:41:52,790
confiscating the wealth and the wealth

1154
00:41:55,660 --> 00:41:54,440
not just the income and that's the

1155
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:55,670
difference between somebody like Huey

1156
00:41:58,690 --> 00:41:57,290
Long and your average liberal the

1157
00:42:01,210 --> 00:41:58,700
average liberal just wants to raise

1158
00:42:03,250 --> 00:42:01,220
taxes on the wealthy but they have all

1159
00:42:06,430 --> 00:42:03,260
their loopholes and so they still end up

1160
00:42:08,290 --> 00:42:06,440
paying nothing but also raise taxes

1161
00:42:10,930 --> 00:42:08,300
significant the so-called middle class

1162
00:42:13,510 --> 00:42:10,940
which goes down way too low and so what

1163
00:42:16,150 --> 00:42:13,520
you do is you have a drain of money from

1164
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:16,160
that middle class and maybe a little bit

1165
00:42:20,650 --> 00:42:18,530
trickles down to those just below them

1166
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:20,660
but nothing really ever changes where

1167
00:42:24,010 --> 00:42:22,490
what we need to do is go after what Huey

1168
00:42:27,490 --> 00:42:24,020
Long talked about he actually wanted to

1169
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:27,500
exempt the first million dollars of

1170
00:42:31,450 --> 00:42:30,170
income from taxation under his share of

1171
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:31,460
the wealth when people don't talk about

1172
00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:33,530
that which would be like 12 million

1173
00:42:38,290 --> 00:42:36,470
dollars today so you know who he was

1174
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:38,300
going after he understood where the

1175
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:39,770
wealth was even in those days the

1176
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:41,570
Rockefeller Foundation's and things like

1177
00:42:45,130 --> 00:42:42,410
that were just getting

1178
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:45,140
start we can't imagine today how much

1179
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:47,210
money isn't the Bill Gates Foundation or

1180
00:42:50,980 --> 00:42:48,650
the foundations of people like that

1181
00:42:52,660 --> 00:42:50,990
that's where the hidden wealth is not to

1182
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:52,670
mention the Rothschilds these shadowy

1183
00:42:56,770 --> 00:42:54,890
figures that are everywhere we can't

1184
00:42:59,710 --> 00:42:56,780
even really get a grasp on how much

1185
00:43:02,050 --> 00:42:59,720
wealth it's there but Huey Long knew the

1186
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:02,060
wealth was at the top and that's all he

1187
00:43:06,220 --> 00:43:03,290
was taught he wasn't talking about

1188
00:43:07,630 --> 00:43:06,230
anybody average person they would

1189
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:07,640
benefit from it he certainly wasn't

1190
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:09,410
talking about taking what they had is I

1191
00:43:13,180 --> 00:43:11,210
hear from so many people when I talk

1192
00:43:14,530 --> 00:43:13,190
about this oh yeah you just I worked

1193
00:43:16,810 --> 00:43:14,540
hard for mine well you don't have

1194
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:16,820
anything no nobody's gonna take your

1195
00:43:22,930 --> 00:43:19,490
money but everybody has that impression

1196
00:43:24,940 --> 00:43:22,940
and Huey Long wanted no one to have more

1197
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:24,950
than I think he was gonna cap fortunes

1198
00:43:29,050 --> 00:43:27,050
at something like 10 million or whatever

1199
00:43:30,910 --> 00:43:29,060
was a change very would be like 40

1200
00:43:33,310 --> 00:43:30,920
million today does anybody really need

1201
00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:33,320
more than 40 million and he thought that

1202
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:35,270
everybody should have a place to live at

1203
00:43:39,670 --> 00:43:37,370
that time I think his idea was that

1204
00:43:41,620 --> 00:43:39,680
everybody could have a shelter a car

1205
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:41,630
which was essential and I think a radio

1206
00:43:47,350 --> 00:43:44,530
which is a newest so would have been

1207
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:47,360
completely practical obviously would

1208
00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:49,490
been may be complicated but he was able

1209
00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:51,710
to do that in Louisiana so I think

1210
00:43:55,180 --> 00:43:54,110
that's what we need and I understand I'm

1211
00:43:57,130 --> 00:43:55,190
probably a voice crying in the

1212
00:43:58,780 --> 00:43:57,140
wilderness on that because I'm sure I'd

1213
00:44:00,670 --> 00:43:58,790
be attacked so much by the write on that

1214
00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:00,680
but I don't see any other way around it

1215
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:01,910
unless you just want to have this

1216
00:44:05,050 --> 00:44:03,650
disparity of wealth which is just

1217
00:44:07,090 --> 00:44:05,060
growing and growing and eventually he's

1218
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:07,100
gonna make us total third world country

1219
00:44:12,700 --> 00:44:10,610
right I mean green paper these numbers

1220
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:12,710
on the screen this is one form of

1221
00:44:17,290 --> 00:44:15,530
currency but you don't need more than 40

1222
00:44:20,860 --> 00:44:17,300
million I mean when people are dying

1223
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:20,870
because they're in poverty you should be

1224
00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:23,570
able to see well okay you know I'll make

1225
00:44:28,690 --> 00:44:26,240
my sacrifices at 40 million I mean

1226
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:28,700
that's reasonable to me and like I said

1227
00:44:32,110 --> 00:44:30,050
I don't have any problem with people

1228
00:44:33,610 --> 00:44:32,120
being successful but it's when you alter

1229
00:44:37,150 --> 00:44:33,620
the game it's when you tilt the scales

1230
00:44:38,830 --> 00:44:37,160
it's when you assassinate the people

1231
00:44:41,290 --> 00:44:38,840
that are fighting for our side like look

1232
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:41,300
battle it out in the arena of ideas if

1233
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:42,650
you can fool us with trickle-down

1234
00:44:47,110 --> 00:44:45,170
economics are bad but when you're

1235
00:44:50,050 --> 00:44:47,120
killing the people that are on our side

1236
00:44:52,270 --> 00:44:50,060
now this is messed up and you have a

1237
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:52,280
chapter in the book called prophets

1238
00:44:56,049 --> 00:44:54,290
before progress which is probably my

1239
00:44:58,989 --> 00:44:56,059
favorite because it does touch

1240
00:45:01,359 --> 00:44:58,999
on this stuff the active suppressing of

1241
00:45:02,890 --> 00:45:01,369
alternative fuels or technologies that

1242
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:02,900
could make the world better and that

1243
00:45:07,479 --> 00:45:04,729
kind of thing pisses me off more than

1244
00:45:09,579 --> 00:45:07,489
pretty much all other things so tell us

1245
00:45:11,349 --> 00:45:09,589
a little bit about this chapter yeah

1246
00:45:12,759 --> 00:45:11,359
well I mean I talked in there about

1247
00:45:14,769 --> 00:45:12,769
Stanley Meyer you know the guy that

1248
00:45:17,259 --> 00:45:14,779
invented the car that ran on water

1249
00:45:19,059 --> 00:45:17,269
whatever itself and I've tried to track

1250
00:45:20,890 --> 00:45:19,069
his brother down okay I think his twin

1251
00:45:22,989 --> 00:45:20,900
brothers still alive but I mean I think

1252
00:45:25,059 --> 00:45:22,999
the YouTube video is still out there and

1253
00:45:26,529 --> 00:45:25,069
this made local news he had a local news

1254
00:45:28,329 --> 00:45:26,539
report that used to be on a YouTube

1255
00:45:29,949 --> 00:45:28,339
video if it's still there and they

1256
00:45:31,989 --> 00:45:29,959
showed how I mean it looked like a dune

1257
00:45:33,489 --> 00:45:31,999
buggy or something but it was obviously

1258
00:45:35,499 --> 00:45:33,499
just a working model he didn't have

1259
00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:35,509
enough money I guess to actually put it

1260
00:45:39,849 --> 00:45:37,609
into a real car that we were used to

1261
00:45:41,799 --> 00:45:39,859
seeing but it's supposedly ran I think

1262
00:45:44,529 --> 00:45:41,809
across the country on one or two gallons

1263
00:45:45,729 --> 00:45:44,539
worth of water nothing else and then ran

1264
00:45:49,390 --> 00:45:45,739
back on one or two gallons worth of

1265
00:45:51,819 --> 00:45:49,400
water he was I believe meeting in a

1266
00:45:54,370 --> 00:45:51,829
restaurant with some potential investors

1267
00:45:56,049 --> 00:45:54,380
and one of these as I write so much

1268
00:45:58,359 --> 00:45:56,059
about industry and all everything else

1269
00:46:01,299 --> 00:45:58,369
these unnatural deaths which are

1270
00:46:02,739 --> 00:46:01,309
everywhere and they just happen like

1271
00:46:04,929 --> 00:46:02,749
they're scripted but I mean he literally

1272
00:46:07,509 --> 00:46:04,939
subtly felt ill and went outside and

1273
00:46:09,339 --> 00:46:07,519
just basically died they don't really

1274
00:46:12,789 --> 00:46:09,349
know if it was food poisoning or what

1275
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:12,799
but very strangely his plans apparently

1276
00:46:15,130 --> 00:46:13,910
I don't know if they disappeared or

1277
00:46:16,809 --> 00:46:15,140
whatever his twin brother who was

1278
00:46:18,699 --> 00:46:16,819
working with him wasn't able to keep up

1279
00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:18,709
with it but there are lots of things

1280
00:46:22,329 --> 00:46:20,329
like that and were there other inventors

1281
00:46:23,919 --> 00:46:22,339
that have existed that have invented

1282
00:46:25,630 --> 00:46:23,929
things like this but look at it from the

1283
00:46:27,729 --> 00:46:25,640
point of view like I've said for a long

1284
00:46:29,890 --> 00:46:27,739
time if someone came up and we I think

1285
00:46:31,929 --> 00:46:29,900
we know at this point that cancer is

1286
00:46:33,519 --> 00:46:31,939
largely contrived that they could easily

1287
00:46:35,439 --> 00:46:33,529
get rid of it because it's man-made

1288
00:46:37,269 --> 00:46:35,449
and the book that's coming out next year

1289
00:46:39,939 --> 00:46:37,279
about earlier conspiracies I go into

1290
00:46:42,249 --> 00:46:39,949
this a little bit more about how cancer

1291
00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:42,259
wasn't even on the radar around 1900

1292
00:46:47,499 --> 00:46:44,529
didn't exist and they've actually

1293
00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:47,509
studied the remains of hundreds and

1294
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:49,910
hundreds of mummies from antiquity and

1295
00:46:54,549 --> 00:46:51,890
they basically found there was no

1296
00:46:57,069 --> 00:46:54,559
evidence of cancer anywhere so obviously

1297
00:46:59,140 --> 00:46:57,079
this is a modern thing how it was

1298
00:47:02,049 --> 00:46:59,150
created what exactly we don't know but

1299
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:02,059
if someone let's just say someone came

1300
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:03,890
up with a magic pill a vaccine or

1301
00:47:08,150 --> 00:47:06,170
whatever that actually worked and you

1302
00:47:10,430 --> 00:47:08,160
took it and no

1303
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:10,440
well what would that do to this medical

1304
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:12,450
industrial complex and the people that

1305
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:15,090
make the money they make often the

1306
00:47:22,250 --> 00:47:18,570
doctor is the big pharma the insurance

1307
00:47:24,350 --> 00:47:22,260
companies hospital administrators just

1308
00:47:27,380 --> 00:47:24,360
imagine the kind of money they would

1309
00:47:28,940 --> 00:47:27,390
stand velu so of course you could almost

1310
00:47:30,590 --> 00:47:28,950
see how they couldn't let that happen

1311
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:30,600
and the same thing would be for

1312
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:32,910
inventors if the oil comes I go for the

1313
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:35,250
stats there and how much money the big

1314
00:47:39,890 --> 00:47:38,250
oil companies make it's astonishing the

1315
00:47:41,930 --> 00:47:39,900
kind of profits they make and it has

1316
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:41,940
nothing to do with being a genius if

1317
00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:43,770
you're selling something that the world

1318
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:46,230
is dependent on you know you don't have

1319
00:47:51,590 --> 00:47:49,410
to be a great used car salesman to sell

1320
00:47:53,110 --> 00:47:51,600
people they have to go and buy a gas so

1321
00:47:56,420 --> 00:47:53,120
you're right it's gonna be impossible

1322
00:47:58,760 --> 00:47:56,430
for you to fail at that and the world is

1323
00:48:01,220 --> 00:47:58,770
dependent on it because you made it that

1324
00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:01,230
way you killed off all the competition

1325
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:03,390
like it's not literally the one source

1326
00:48:07,970 --> 00:48:06,090
of fuel or the one source of energy that

1327
00:48:10,370 --> 00:48:07,980
we have I mean people don't understand

1328
00:48:12,860 --> 00:48:10,380
that there are way more empowering and

1329
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:12,870
cheaper technologies medicines energy

1330
00:48:17,060 --> 00:48:14,970
systems all suppressed over the years

1331
00:48:18,350 --> 00:48:17,070
and some people see flying saucers in

1332
00:48:21,140 --> 00:48:18,360
the sky and you can't help but wonder

1333
00:48:23,060 --> 00:48:21,150
how far that suppressed technology theme

1334
00:48:25,940 --> 00:48:23,070
goes I mean they're never gonna tell us

1335
00:48:28,130 --> 00:48:25,950
so all you can do is speculate right but

1336
00:48:29,810 --> 00:48:28,140
if any kind of alternative energy fool

1337
00:48:31,070 --> 00:48:29,820
there's a guy named John Newman that I

1338
00:48:32,780 --> 00:48:31,080
wrote about the book I've actually tried

1339
00:48:34,070 --> 00:48:32,790
to contact them at his representative

1340
00:48:36,140 --> 00:48:34,080
got back to me and I never got to talk

1341
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:36,150
to him now but I'd note about John

1342
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:38,130
Newman since the 80s and he develop some

1343
00:48:43,550 --> 00:48:40,470
kind of device and he exhibited it in

1344
00:48:44,930 --> 00:48:43,560
arenas the FDA supposedly why the FDA

1345
00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:44,940
wasn't sure I don't know but they have

1346
00:48:48,860 --> 00:48:47,100
jurisdiction over this they supposedly

1347
00:48:50,900 --> 00:48:48,870
looked at and the patent people

1348
00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:50,910
supposedly looked at his invention and

1349
00:48:54,740 --> 00:48:52,710
they couldn't find any examples of

1350
00:48:56,060 --> 00:48:54,750
trickery but they just said it's

1351
00:48:57,860 --> 00:48:56,070
scientifically impossible because

1352
00:48:59,750 --> 00:48:57,870
basically what it is he claimed he could

1353
00:49:01,700 --> 00:48:59,760
put a small device under the hood of

1354
00:49:03,740 --> 00:49:01,710
your car and your car would run forever

1355
00:49:05,870 --> 00:49:03,750
hmm and it would cost a couple hundred

1356
00:49:08,180 --> 00:49:05,880
bucks and he said he could take a bigger

1357
00:49:09,770 --> 00:49:08,190
device put it in your house might cost

1358
00:49:12,550 --> 00:49:09,780
five hundred dollars and you'd have all

1359
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:12,560
the electricity wanted forever - so

1360
00:49:17,150 --> 00:49:15,090
obviously something like that what would

1361
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:17,160
that do in his case he's even been I

1362
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:18,570
don't know how he's still alive but he

1363
00:49:22,070 --> 00:49:20,610
is but he hasn't been able to patent his

1364
00:49:23,570 --> 00:49:22,080
device obviously

1365
00:49:25,220 --> 00:49:23,580
the oil companies look what they would

1366
00:49:27,470 --> 00:49:25,230
stand to lose on something like that and

1367
00:49:29,930 --> 00:49:27,480
we go back to Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla

1368
00:49:31,190 --> 00:49:29,940
wanted free energy for all and what

1369
00:49:32,660 --> 00:49:31,200
happened is records there's still

1370
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:32,670
television shows trying to find out

1371
00:49:36,110 --> 00:49:34,410
where his reg and no one apparently has

1372
00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:36,120
taken up his work and then what I guess

1373
00:49:40,670 --> 00:49:38,910
he died in the 30s 40 so you're talking

1374
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:40,680
about 80 years or something since he

1375
00:49:44,210 --> 00:49:43,050
died even though he's very famous I mean

1376
00:49:45,770 --> 00:49:44,220
people talk about him all the time

1377
00:49:49,100 --> 00:49:45,780
somebody should be looking at his

1378
00:49:50,780 --> 00:49:49,110
research but Newman's if something like

1379
00:49:52,340 --> 00:49:50,790
that would not only affect the gas

1380
00:49:55,220 --> 00:49:52,350
companies look at what money they would

1381
00:49:57,710 --> 00:49:55,230
lose but the utility companies so you're

1382
00:50:00,080 --> 00:49:57,720
free energy for all free power for all

1383
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:00,090
that doesn't fit into the America

1384
00:50:05,690 --> 00:50:03,330
America has become something way beyond

1385
00:50:07,910 --> 00:50:05,700
free enterprise we are into crony

1386
00:50:10,790 --> 00:50:07,920
capitalism and we're into a man

1387
00:50:12,890 --> 00:50:10,800
territory greed is good whatever's good

1388
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:12,900
if it makes money it's good and so

1389
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:14,490
people just kind of roll their eyes

1390
00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:15,690
first of all they don't believe that

1391
00:50:19,430 --> 00:50:18,030
such things can exist I mean I guess

1392
00:50:21,710 --> 00:50:19,440
they think that all the great inventions

1393
00:50:24,530 --> 00:50:21,720
stopped you know they're only 1900s but

1394
00:50:27,350 --> 00:50:24,540
these things have been tested and they

1395
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:27,360
should at least be permitted but we see

1396
00:50:31,460 --> 00:50:29,130
even something as simple as the electric

1397
00:50:32,690 --> 00:50:31,470
car I mean I Drive a hybrid and I just

1398
00:50:35,540 --> 00:50:32,700
like getting that much better gas

1399
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:35,550
mileage it's nice but just an electric

1400
00:50:39,290 --> 00:50:37,650
car something like that it's been priced

1401
00:50:41,090 --> 00:50:39,300
so that again it's out of the reach of

1402
00:50:43,790 --> 00:50:41,100
most people who would like to maybe do

1403
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:43,800
that but it's not financially feasible

1404
00:50:47,690 --> 00:50:45,930
yet because whether it's they're keeping

1405
00:50:49,430 --> 00:50:47,700
it that higher or not enough people can

1406
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:49,440
afford it yet but even something and

1407
00:50:53,150 --> 00:50:51,810
that's an advance but it's not it's not

1408
00:50:56,090 --> 00:50:53,160
the kind of what you're talking about

1409
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:56,100
and the few examples I gave are a real

1410
00:50:59,270 --> 00:50:57,810
alternative energy but you know you go

1411
00:51:00,740 --> 00:50:59,280
back and look at something like Jimmy

1412
00:51:02,180 --> 00:51:00,750
Carter speeches during his

1413
00:51:03,980 --> 00:51:02,190
administration when he was talking about

1414
00:51:07,730 --> 00:51:03,990
solar power we need to conserve energy

1415
00:51:09,230 --> 00:51:07,740
we haven't moved one iota since the 70s

1416
00:51:10,910 --> 00:51:09,240
they're talking about 40 years we

1417
00:51:13,490 --> 00:51:10,920
haven't progressed at all I mean there's

1418
00:51:15,860 --> 00:51:13,500
a little effort I guess it's solar power

1419
00:51:17,780 --> 00:51:15,870
here there but nothing really special

1420
00:51:19,490 --> 00:51:17,790
and we're still going after the fossil

1421
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:19,500
fuels and certainly with Republicans in

1422
00:51:22,250 --> 00:51:20,850
there I don't think there's a dimes

1423
00:51:24,830 --> 00:51:22,260
worth a difference between the parties

1424
00:51:27,260 --> 00:51:24,840
but on an issue like this you see their

1425
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:27,270
dependence on fossil fuels is just the

1426
00:51:31,730 --> 00:51:30,090
Trump types are just over the top and

1427
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:31,740
their support of it yeah we need it

1428
00:51:35,660 --> 00:51:33,330
drill for oil we need to do that that's

1429
00:51:37,609 --> 00:51:35,670
much as Reagan did in the 80s

1430
00:51:39,380 --> 00:51:37,619
after Carter Reagan just went right back

1431
00:51:41,539 --> 00:51:39,390
to the old way of doing it and that's

1432
00:51:43,819 --> 00:51:41,549
the most profitable I understand it you

1433
00:51:44,990 --> 00:51:43,829
know there they've got businesses to

1434
00:51:47,210 --> 00:51:45,000
think about because that's all they're

1435
00:51:49,750 --> 00:51:47,220
thinking about so it's all about profit

1436
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:49,760
and thus the title of that chapter

1437
00:51:55,730 --> 00:51:52,410
profits always come first these people

1438
00:51:57,589 --> 00:51:55,740
mm-hmm man I really do love that chapter

1439
00:51:59,630 --> 00:51:57,599
like you said you covered Tesla you also

1440
00:52:02,510 --> 00:51:59,640
talk about Wilhelm Reich and that

1441
00:52:04,579 --> 00:52:02,520
Stanley Meyer example is probably my

1442
00:52:07,069 --> 00:52:04,589
favorite the guy built that water

1443
00:52:10,069 --> 00:52:07,079
powered car and then he was in a Cracker

1444
00:52:12,530 --> 00:52:10,079
Barrel in 1998 with his brother and

1445
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:12,540
meeting with two Belgian investors he

1446
00:52:16,789 --> 00:52:14,970
grabs his neck runs out to the parking

1447
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:16,799
lot and his brothers like what's going

1448
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:18,690
on man and his last words are they

1449
00:52:22,819 --> 00:52:20,970
poisoned me and then of course the cause

1450
00:52:24,950 --> 00:52:22,829
of death shows that it was something

1451
00:52:26,569 --> 00:52:24,960
else called a brain aneurysm maybe

1452
00:52:29,750 --> 00:52:26,579
that's caused by a chemical who knows

1453
00:52:31,309 --> 00:52:29,760
but you know he then calls the investors

1454
00:52:33,890 --> 00:52:31,319
and says hey my brother died that day

1455
00:52:36,559 --> 00:52:33,900
and they're like stone cold about it no

1456
00:52:39,010 --> 00:52:36,569
condolences just radio silence and it's

1457
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:39,020
like of course you pose as an investor

1458
00:52:43,819 --> 00:52:41,970
you're in that industry so you're like

1459
00:52:45,470 --> 00:52:43,829
oh I'm fascinated by this you meet the

1460
00:52:46,789 --> 00:52:45,480
guy you kill them and you're like all

1461
00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:46,799
right now we can go back to making money

1462
00:52:51,740 --> 00:52:50,250
yeah it's hard not to be paranoid and

1463
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:51,750
you're right about people ask me that

1464
00:52:55,250 --> 00:52:52,890
all the time because it basically can

1465
00:52:56,839 --> 00:52:55,260
read hidden history I mean stories like

1466
00:52:58,940 --> 00:52:56,849
that or at the book because when you get

1467
00:53:01,280 --> 00:52:58,950
in the more overt political world these

1468
00:53:02,870 --> 00:53:01,290
unnatural deaths these body counts are

1469
00:53:04,609 --> 00:53:02,880
everywhere people falling out of high

1470
00:53:07,309 --> 00:53:04,619
buildings and you know being found on

1471
00:53:09,829 --> 00:53:07,319
train tracks and just a general public

1472
00:53:12,230 --> 00:53:09,839
don't die that way but people connected

1473
00:53:13,849 --> 00:53:12,240
to these events tend to be found dead in

1474
00:53:16,460 --> 00:53:13,859
the woods you know to tend to die of

1475
00:53:19,069 --> 00:53:16,470
natural causes at 35 I mean crazy stuff

1476
00:53:20,870 --> 00:53:19,079
like that but everybody knows kind of

1477
00:53:23,780 --> 00:53:20,880
with a wink and a nod yeah that's what

1478
00:53:26,059 --> 00:53:23,790
happened but nobody really acknowledges

1479
00:53:27,559 --> 00:53:26,069
it and so something like this clearly if

1480
00:53:29,270 --> 00:53:27,569
you wrote a movie script like that

1481
00:53:31,579 --> 00:53:29,280
everybody would know what happened to

1482
00:53:33,140 --> 00:53:31,589
Stanley Meyer mm-hmm hey we know okay

1483
00:53:35,569 --> 00:53:33,150
well yeah he threatened some really

1484
00:53:38,150 --> 00:53:35,579
powerful interests somebody silenced him

1485
00:53:39,620 --> 00:53:38,160
where his work and again I tried to find

1486
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:39,630
his twin brother I would love to say we

1487
00:53:43,819 --> 00:53:41,970
know what happened were you just kind of

1488
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:43,829
such a silent partner you didn't really

1489
00:53:48,890 --> 00:53:46,410
know what was behind all this or was it

1490
00:53:50,509 --> 00:53:48,900
just him no one else knew

1491
00:53:52,819 --> 00:53:50,519
because and that's what is mystifying

1492
00:53:55,309 --> 00:53:52,829
with a lot of these things is that Tesla

1493
00:53:57,499 --> 00:53:55,319
we know is a tremendously isolated

1494
00:53:59,089 --> 00:53:57,509
figure I mean this guy was really such

1495
00:54:01,190 --> 00:53:59,099
an eccentric personality he was

1496
00:54:02,870 --> 00:54:01,200
quintessential mad scientist although I

1497
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:02,880
think he was really working for the

1498
00:54:07,549 --> 00:54:05,130
common good but he had that kind of you

1499
00:54:09,289 --> 00:54:07,559
know he was completely isolated so he

1500
00:54:11,569 --> 00:54:09,299
wasn't really sharing his research with

1501
00:54:13,009 --> 00:54:11,579
anybody but still he should have papers

1502
00:54:14,809 --> 00:54:13,019
there and somebody should be especially

1503
00:54:17,660 --> 00:54:14,819
as many fans as he has but other than

1504
00:54:19,430 --> 00:54:17,670
naming the Tesla car I haven't seen

1505
00:54:21,380 --> 00:54:19,440
anybody you know I'd like to follow up

1506
00:54:24,140 --> 00:54:21,390
on that free energy not so much the

1507
00:54:25,819 --> 00:54:24,150
death ray but you know the free energy

1508
00:54:27,289 --> 00:54:25,829
and same things Wilhelm Reich I mean

1509
00:54:29,809 --> 00:54:27,299
Wilhelm Reich was a less publicized

1510
00:54:31,789 --> 00:54:29,819
figure but certainly his Oregon

1511
00:54:34,339 --> 00:54:31,799
accumulator was just and you know his

1512
00:54:36,019 --> 00:54:34,349
theories are fascinating I mean they're

1513
00:54:37,370 --> 00:54:36,029
out there and people just kind of roll

1514
00:54:39,019 --> 00:54:37,380
their eyes at it but you know they have

1515
00:54:40,970 --> 00:54:39,029
something like that a box where you can

1516
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:40,980
cure people of diseases well that were

1517
00:54:48,559 --> 00:54:45,210
the energy from orgasms or whatever it

1518
00:54:50,660 --> 00:54:48,569
sounds far out but apparently and the

1519
00:54:52,849 --> 00:54:50,670
fact that he was thrown into prison he

1520
00:54:54,650 --> 00:54:52,859
died and again all his papers were

1521
00:54:56,930 --> 00:54:54,660
confiscated but why were his papers

1522
00:54:59,359 --> 00:54:56,940
confiscated it's craziness let's be able

1523
00:55:02,210 --> 00:54:59,369
to look at him so these are the kind of

1524
00:55:03,799 --> 00:55:02,220
things that they just shut down all of

1525
00:55:05,210 --> 00:55:03,809
these people you go back to a guy named

1526
00:55:06,380 --> 00:55:05,220
John Keeley I don't believe I mentioned

1527
00:55:08,150 --> 00:55:06,390
him in the book but he was you know

1528
00:55:10,910 --> 00:55:08,160
supposedly invented a perpetual motion

1529
00:55:12,799 --> 00:55:10,920
machine back in the 1800s so you've had

1530
00:55:15,739 --> 00:55:12,809
these types of people throughout history

1531
00:55:18,259 --> 00:55:15,749
but something always happens with him

1532
00:55:19,549 --> 00:55:18,269
they usually die strangely so I said Joe

1533
00:55:22,279 --> 00:55:19,559
Newman stands up and he's still alive

1534
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:22,289
but or they're ignored as in his case

1535
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:25,170
but people tend to go this stayed round

1536
00:55:29,509 --> 00:55:27,450
I mean I grew up again in the 60s and

1537
00:55:31,339 --> 00:55:29,519
70s and I thought man I want to drive

1538
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:31,349
one of those cool little flying bubble

1539
00:55:36,470 --> 00:55:34,410
cars the Jetsons have you know that but

1540
00:55:39,289 --> 00:55:36,480
if you look at the predictions that were

1541
00:55:40,849 --> 00:55:39,299
made they had these world Fair's they

1542
00:55:42,769 --> 00:55:40,859
used to have every so often and the

1543
00:55:44,930 --> 00:55:42,779
world's tomorrow at Disney World and

1544
00:55:47,599 --> 00:55:44,940
they envisioned the world you know in

1545
00:55:49,999 --> 00:55:47,609
the year 2000 that was so far in advance

1546
00:55:51,589 --> 00:55:50,009
to what we have in the year 2018 it's

1547
00:55:53,539 --> 00:55:51,599
not even funny we really haven't

1548
00:55:56,210 --> 00:55:53,549
progressed we're driving the same kinds

1549
00:55:58,489 --> 00:55:56,220
of cars all the airplanes are that old

1550
00:56:01,400 --> 00:55:58,499
the train tracks haven't been upgraded

1551
00:56:03,290 --> 00:56:01,410
the means of transportation are almost

1552
00:56:05,420 --> 00:56:03,300
identical I mean it

1553
00:56:07,940 --> 00:56:05,430
you know I envision not only flying jets

1554
00:56:10,430 --> 00:56:07,950
and bubble cars but maybe teleportation

1555
00:56:12,770 --> 00:56:10,440
pods like we saw it start I mean things

1556
00:56:13,940 --> 00:56:12,780
like that that would really that's what

1557
00:56:16,910 --> 00:56:13,950
you think of when you think of

1558
00:56:18,470 --> 00:56:16,920
futuristic and technology but it just

1559
00:56:20,420 --> 00:56:18,480
hasn't happened that whether it's been

1560
00:56:22,190 --> 00:56:20,430
supported by that but just looking at

1561
00:56:23,660 --> 00:56:22,200
the alternative energy thing and we know

1562
00:56:26,660 --> 00:56:23,670
what happened to people like Stanley

1563
00:56:28,460 --> 00:56:26,670
Meyer and Joe Newman we can only imagine

1564
00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:28,470
how many people that might be building

1565
00:56:32,090 --> 00:56:29,910
things like that might have built

1566
00:56:33,460 --> 00:56:32,100
teleportation pads she built something

1567
00:56:37,010 --> 00:56:33,470
like that what would that do to the

1568
00:56:39,110 --> 00:56:37,020
flight industry the trainer's so again I

1569
00:56:41,300 --> 00:56:39,120
think that's what they look at first its

1570
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:41,310
first and foremost it's a dollar figure

1571
00:56:45,770 --> 00:56:42,690
wait a minute that's gonna impact

1572
00:56:47,330 --> 00:56:45,780
that'll affect the economy so I really

1573
00:56:48,740 --> 00:56:47,340
think they suppress it and whether we go

1574
00:56:50,690 --> 00:56:48,750
to the lengths of actually killing these

1575
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:50,700
people well I mean they die that way so

1576
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:53,450
people can draw their own conclusions

1577
00:56:58,700 --> 00:56:56,610
yeah man cheers to all that and another

1578
00:57:01,040 --> 00:56:58,710
big wake-up call for me doing this show

1579
00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:01,050
and previous episodes was learning that

1580
00:57:04,970 --> 00:57:02,910
prohibition didn't really have anything

1581
00:57:06,350 --> 00:57:04,980
to do with alcohol consumption they

1582
00:57:09,050 --> 00:57:06,360
don't care if we drink ourselves to

1583
00:57:11,270 --> 00:57:09,060
death but most farmers at that time had

1584
00:57:13,580 --> 00:57:11,280
stills and all their tractors and early

1585
00:57:15,650 --> 00:57:13,590
cars could run on alcohol well we can't

1586
00:57:18,470 --> 00:57:15,660
have that and now they give it to us in

1587
00:57:20,180 --> 00:57:18,480
like ethanol and they kind of say guys

1588
00:57:23,180 --> 00:57:20,190
we're trying but it's like you're not

1589
00:57:25,550 --> 00:57:23,190
trying that was here 100 years ago yeah

1590
00:57:28,220 --> 00:57:25,560
the first electric car was about that

1591
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:28,230
time too so and again I spoke about

1592
00:57:34,460 --> 00:57:31,410
people like the Rockefellers that had a

1593
00:57:37,370 --> 00:57:34,470
monopoly on Standard Oil this new

1594
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:37,380
invention automobiles everybody was

1595
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:39,030
going to be driving one they saw that

1596
00:57:43,340 --> 00:57:41,250
and people like Henry Ford cut the

1597
00:57:44,990 --> 00:57:43,350
prices on him famously and gave us

1598
00:57:46,790 --> 00:57:45,000
workers a pay raise I want to be able

1599
00:57:49,850 --> 00:57:46,800
afford my product so everybody could buy

1600
00:57:51,140 --> 00:57:49,860
a Model T well they were concerned the

1601
00:57:52,850 --> 00:57:51,150
standard on people like that we're

1602
00:57:55,460 --> 00:57:52,860
finding hey wait a minute you talk about

1603
00:57:58,400 --> 00:57:55,470
seeing dollar signs man all these people

1604
00:57:59,570 --> 00:57:58,410
have to run on our product just imagine

1605
00:58:01,340 --> 00:57:59,580
what kind of money we're gonna make so

1606
00:58:03,740 --> 00:58:01,350
of course they're gonna go with that

1607
00:58:06,220 --> 00:58:03,750
rather than the farmers and their stills

1608
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:06,230
or electricity which again is harder to

1609
00:58:10,150 --> 00:58:08,370
something like electricity unless you

1610
00:58:12,260 --> 00:58:10,160
can come up with some kind of a utility

1611
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:12,270
monopoly which I'm sure they would I

1612
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:13,650
think the only way you'll ever see

1613
00:58:16,730 --> 00:58:15,450
electric cars everywhere they're gonna

1614
00:58:18,830 --> 00:58:16,740
come up with some kind of my

1615
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:18,840
nah ballistic thing where they can

1616
00:58:23,450 --> 00:58:21,930
profit from charging sinners or they'll

1617
00:58:24,890 --> 00:58:23,460
come up some kind of way where they can

1618
00:58:26,510 --> 00:58:24,900
kinda at least make up some of the

1619
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:26,520
profits they lose and the gas auto

1620
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:29,610
companies mm-hmm amen

1621
00:58:33,230 --> 00:58:32,130
well Donald that pretty much brings us

1622
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:33,240
to the end of the line

1623
00:58:37,850 --> 00:58:35,570
I think I'm depressed enough for one day

1624
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:37,860
you are obviously super knowledgeable

1625
00:58:42,770 --> 00:58:40,410
really great talking to you it's nice to

1626
00:58:45,290 --> 00:58:42,780
have a fairness advocate out there I

1627
00:58:47,420 --> 00:58:45,300
don't think people realize just how much

1628
00:58:49,700 --> 00:58:47,430
money is really in the mix versus what

1629
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:49,710
trickles down to us so great job laying

1630
00:58:53,090 --> 00:58:51,570
it all out there anything else in the

1631
00:58:54,470 --> 00:58:53,100
works or projects you want to tell

1632
00:58:56,150 --> 00:58:54,480
people about before we call it in you

1633
00:58:58,550 --> 00:58:56,160
mentioned a book coming out next year

1634
00:59:00,500 --> 00:58:58,560
yeah next spring and I have basically

1635
00:59:02,510 --> 00:59:00,510
hidden history to some reason they

1636
00:59:04,190 --> 00:59:02,520
didn't want that title so the official

1637
00:59:08,359 --> 00:59:04,200
title is crimes and cover-ups in

1638
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:08,369
American politics 1776 1963 I'll have

1639
00:59:13,100 --> 00:59:10,050
lots of controversial stuff to say about

1640
00:59:14,660 --> 00:59:13,110
Abraham Lincoln and FDR and Woodrow

1641
00:59:16,190 --> 00:59:14,670
Wilson and things like that so I'll

1642
00:59:17,690 --> 00:59:16,200
catch a lot of flack from that because

1643
00:59:19,370 --> 00:59:17,700
it is controversial but I think people

1644
00:59:21,620 --> 00:59:19,380
will find it real interesting and I also

1645
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:21,630
have a book hopefully coming out next

1646
00:59:26,150 --> 00:59:23,970
fall with another publisher it's called

1647
00:59:27,770 --> 00:59:26,160
a bully aa cracy which is going to be

1648
00:59:29,690 --> 00:59:27,780
about bullying in the social hierarchy

1649
00:59:31,430 --> 00:59:29,700
in schools it's kind of a different

1650
00:59:33,650 --> 00:59:31,440
subject but it's very controversial in

1651
00:59:35,359 --> 00:59:33,660
and of itself sorry I'm writing all the

1652
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:35,369
time so hopefully you'll see more books

1653
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:38,130
down the road right on very cool

1654
00:59:42,859 --> 00:59:41,010
well again big thanks for the book and

1655
00:59:44,570 --> 00:59:42,869
for being here important work keep

1656
00:59:47,810 --> 00:59:44,580
fighting the good fight and good luck on

1657
00:59:49,940 --> 00:59:47,820
restoring and authentic left thanks for

1658
00:59:52,700 --> 00:59:49,950
having me great you got a man take care

1659
00:59:54,980 --> 00:59:52,710
and there we have it guys Donald

1660
00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:54,990
Jeffries droppin knowledge on just how

1661
00:59:59,480 --> 00:59:57,930
tilted the scales really are you know I

1662
01:00:01,550 --> 00:59:59,490
struggled with this one a little bit

1663
01:00:04,130 --> 01:00:01,560
feeling like we might be preaching to

1664
01:00:07,310 --> 01:00:04,140
the choir because we know the system is

1665
01:00:09,740 --> 01:00:07,320
unfair but really it's good to go over

1666
01:00:13,130 --> 01:00:09,750
these things again reinforce what we

1667
01:00:15,500 --> 01:00:13,140
know re-examine the details and like I

1668
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:15,510
say a lot give us the data to make

1669
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:17,609
better arguments when we're dealing with

1670
01:00:21,890 --> 01:00:19,530
one of those kool-aid drinkers we all

1671
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:21,900
know them we all have kool-aid drinkers

1672
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:25,410
that we love system proper uppers that

1673
01:00:30,410 --> 01:00:27,210
are in our friends and family circles

1674
01:00:32,569 --> 01:00:30,420
and it's nice to shore up those are

1675
01:00:34,730 --> 01:00:32,579
mints for when we might have a little

1676
01:00:36,950 --> 01:00:34,740
bit of a conflict with some of them and

1677
01:00:38,569 --> 01:00:36,960
a lot like Gordon was saying last week

1678
01:00:41,359 --> 01:00:38,579
you don't have to hit them with

1679
01:00:43,609 --> 01:00:41,369
everything at once you can just kind of

1680
01:00:45,620 --> 01:00:43,619
sócrates them into coming to these

1681
01:00:47,569 --> 01:00:45,630
conclusions themselves by asking the

1682
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:47,579
right questions making the right points

1683
01:00:52,460 --> 01:00:50,250
do you really think the traditional path

1684
01:00:55,910 --> 01:00:52,470
offers the same opportunity for everyone

1685
01:00:58,730 --> 01:00:55,920
is just working hard enough to get you

1686
01:01:00,890 --> 01:00:58,740
where you want to be and it's surprising

1687
01:01:03,140 --> 01:01:00,900
how long we can go sometimes without a

1688
01:01:05,900 --> 01:01:03,150
deep personal reflection on these things

1689
01:01:08,539 --> 01:01:05,910
I'm guilty of it so I think those are

1690
01:01:10,190 --> 01:01:08,549
the parts that are most useful then we

1691
01:01:12,020 --> 01:01:10,200
talked about Huey Long I thought that

1692
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:12,030
was great because history books usually

1693
01:01:16,700 --> 01:01:14,010
leave out the people who at least tried

1694
01:01:18,410 --> 01:01:16,710
to be champions of the everyman and then

1695
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:18,420
add in the fact that he was killed for

1696
01:01:23,990 --> 01:01:20,730
it and it's even more reason to pay

1697
01:01:28,609 --> 01:01:24,000
homage to his legacy in fact I found a

1698
01:01:30,850 --> 01:01:28,619
recording of that Huey Long song and I'm

1699
01:01:40,730 --> 01:01:30,860
gonna throw it in right here

1700
01:01:40,740 --> 01:01:50,849
[Music]

1701
01:01:59,109 --> 01:01:54,720
every man looking for you can't be a

1702
01:02:19,539 --> 01:01:59,119
millionaire but nothing belonging to

1703
01:02:22,089 --> 01:02:19,549
others there's enough for always just

1704
01:02:23,890 --> 01:02:22,099
get a kick out of really old timey stuff

1705
01:02:26,380 --> 01:02:23,900
like that and when I listen to the

1706
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:26,390
lyrics I could understand how it might

1707
01:02:32,319 --> 01:02:28,450
trigger someone into thinking breadline

1708
01:02:34,210 --> 01:02:32,329
socialism Universal poverty but we just

1709
01:02:37,630 --> 01:02:34,220
spent two hours talking about how much

1710
01:02:40,569 --> 01:02:37,640
access is at the top billions and

1711
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:40,579
trillions so nobody's talking about

1712
01:02:45,279 --> 01:02:43,130
universal poverty here and you know of

1713
01:02:47,079 --> 01:02:45,289
course I love talking about suppressed

1714
01:02:48,910 --> 01:02:47,089
technology so I thought we had some good

1715
01:02:52,029 --> 01:02:48,920
content there that wasn't just the same

1716
01:02:54,519 --> 01:02:52,039
top three bullet points and lastly I

1717
01:02:56,799 --> 01:02:54,529
really enjoyed getting into Don's head a

1718
01:03:00,190 --> 01:02:56,809
bit about his politics and his feelings

1719
01:03:02,980 --> 01:03:00,200
about what a more traditional or genuine

1720
01:03:05,140 --> 01:03:02,990
left position looks like I'm not saying

1721
01:03:07,450 --> 01:03:05,150
I agree with every element I just like

1722
01:03:11,109 --> 01:03:07,460
to listen and reflect and see where the

1723
01:03:13,630 --> 01:03:11,119
common ground is we always have in us

1724
01:03:17,190 --> 01:03:13,640
the way we were raised so something

1725
01:03:19,870 --> 01:03:17,200
about liberalism is in my DNA somewhere

1726
01:03:21,460 --> 01:03:19,880
not the way it's expressed today but I

1727
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:21,470
would hope that there would be something

1728
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:24,410
else there of value because I don't want

1729
01:03:27,849 --> 01:03:26,210
people to hear me say that and then look

1730
01:03:31,390 --> 01:03:27,859
at the liberal philosophy today and

1731
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:31,400
consider them equal because I do not so

1732
01:03:35,319 --> 01:03:33,170
I typically stay away from political

1733
01:03:36,970 --> 01:03:35,329
labels because they just mean so many

1734
01:03:39,849 --> 01:03:36,980
different things to so many different

1735
01:03:41,349 --> 01:03:39,859
people and they do change over time so I

1736
01:03:43,870 --> 01:03:41,359
guess the question I was thinking about

1737
01:03:45,519 --> 01:03:43,880
when getting familiar with Don's work

1738
01:03:48,250 --> 01:03:45,529
and knowing that I'm about to interview

1739
01:03:51,220 --> 01:03:48,260
him was just that I picked up on this

1740
01:03:53,500 --> 01:03:51,230
thread of what was the left really or

1741
01:03:55,510 --> 01:03:53,510
what could it be without all the

1742
01:03:58,630 --> 01:03:55,520
co-option and without equating

1743
01:04:01,420 --> 01:03:58,640
to socialism obviously I'm not in favor

1744
01:04:04,660 --> 01:04:01,430
of a welfare state or weakening people's

1745
01:04:06,730 --> 01:04:04,670
drive with handouts but some people do

1746
01:04:09,370 --> 01:04:06,740
get chewed up and spit out by the system

1747
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:09,380
at no fault of their own I think I've

1748
01:04:14,460 --> 01:04:12,410
said this before too but for myself it's

1749
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:14,470
best to have a conservative philosophy

1750
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:17,210
nobody's gonna help me I gotta pull

1751
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:19,730
myself up by the bootstraps I gotta be

1752
01:04:26,590 --> 01:04:23,690
the best guy I can be I have to limit my

1753
01:04:29,130 --> 01:04:26,600
partying a little bit you know I'm quite

1754
01:04:31,870 --> 01:04:29,140
hard on myself sometimes quite stern and

1755
01:04:34,210 --> 01:04:31,880
for me that's motivating it's very

1756
01:04:36,490 --> 01:04:34,220
helpful but I think there's a difference

1757
01:04:38,410 --> 01:04:36,500
between what we instill in ourselves as

1758
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:38,420
individuals and a philosophy that's

1759
01:04:44,290 --> 01:04:41,330
gonna work better for a society overall

1760
01:04:46,510 --> 01:04:44,300
and I'm not making any conclusions I'm

1761
01:04:49,090 --> 01:04:46,520
not saying I'm sure I'm just talking

1762
01:04:51,100 --> 01:04:49,100
about ideas and this is just how I feel

1763
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:51,110
about it so I thought there were some

1764
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:52,730
interesting things to pull out and

1765
01:04:58,660 --> 01:04:55,370
examine when it comes to what a non

1766
01:05:01,420 --> 01:04:58,670
socialist non globalist non co-opted

1767
01:05:03,460 --> 01:05:01,430
left might look like we know it doesn't

1768
01:05:04,990 --> 01:05:03,470
look like that today that's obvious but

1769
01:05:08,950 --> 01:05:05,000
is there something there at the

1770
01:05:11,710 --> 01:05:08,960
beginning that has value today made me

1771
01:05:13,530 --> 01:05:11,720
feel like there might be more than most

1772
01:05:16,330 --> 01:05:13,540
days do that's all I'm saying

1773
01:05:18,420 --> 01:05:16,340
personally I don't put immigration very

1774
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:18,430
high on my priority list either

1775
01:05:23,890 --> 01:05:21,410
obviously there is a line and Europe is

1776
01:05:26,890 --> 01:05:23,900
dealing with their own thing but as far

1777
01:05:29,230 --> 01:05:26,900
as America goes I live near the border I

1778
01:05:32,050 --> 01:05:29,240
don't see a huge flood of violent

1779
01:05:33,820 --> 01:05:32,060
criminals crossing the border nobody's

1780
01:05:37,060 --> 01:05:33,830
breaking into my house no one's breaking

1781
01:05:39,010 --> 01:05:37,070
into my car in Missouri people broke

1782
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:39,020
into my car and stole my stereo like six

1783
01:05:44,050 --> 01:05:41,330
times and this is just one man's

1784
01:05:46,300 --> 01:05:44,060
experience I don't care what the TV says

1785
01:05:49,090 --> 01:05:46,310
I don't care what the media tells me I

1786
01:05:50,910 --> 01:05:49,100
should be up in arms about my experience

1787
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:50,920
just doesn't look anything like that

1788
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:54,290
we obviously have issues overall with

1789
01:05:58,630 --> 01:05:56,210
immigration there's some stuff there

1790
01:06:01,690 --> 01:05:58,640
that could be improved but there are so

1791
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:01,700
so so many higher priorities in my mind

1792
01:06:06,820 --> 01:06:04,130
it's like your house is burning down and

1793
01:06:09,430 --> 01:06:06,830
you're mad because you found some ants

1794
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:09,440
in the kitchen you know what I mean

1795
01:06:13,030 --> 01:06:12,170
let's reel back the waste that Don was

1796
01:06:15,460 --> 01:06:13,040
talking about

1797
01:06:17,430 --> 01:06:15,470
let's redistribute some of the war

1798
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:17,440
machine military-industrial complex

1799
01:06:23,140 --> 01:06:20,570
budget to more positive things let's

1800
01:06:25,810 --> 01:06:23,150
rebuild the infrastructure let's take

1801
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:25,820
these corporations to task for polluting

1802
01:06:31,330 --> 01:06:28,250
the planet reignite some of these

1803
01:06:34,420 --> 01:06:31,340
suppressed technologies refocus our food

1804
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:34,430
on being a more local level operation

1805
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:38,090
and get clean goddamn water in our

1806
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:40,970
houses for Christ's sake these are the

1807
01:06:46,900 --> 01:06:43,250
things that I care about so much more

1808
01:06:49,810 --> 01:06:46,910
than immigration I know it's a hot topic

1809
01:06:51,610 --> 01:06:49,820
right now but I think that a lot of it

1810
01:06:54,310 --> 01:06:51,620
is media hyperbole and if you look

1811
01:06:57,550 --> 01:06:54,320
around in your own life I don't think

1812
01:07:00,730 --> 01:06:57,560
you're gonna see the immigration crisis

1813
01:07:03,340 --> 01:07:00,740
that the media tells you is there we

1814
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:03,350
have a homelessness crisis and those

1815
01:07:07,870 --> 01:07:05,170
things have a little bit of bleed over

1816
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:07,880
but I would ask what has affected your

1817
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:09,890
life more the fact that harmful

1818
01:07:14,710 --> 01:07:11,930
chemicals are pumped into your water

1819
01:07:17,710 --> 01:07:14,720
supply or a Mexican family trying to

1820
01:07:21,070 --> 01:07:17,720
find some relief in America I don't want

1821
01:07:23,950 --> 01:07:21,080
to frame it as an either/or choice but

1822
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:23,960
it's just not my go to issue and again

1823
01:07:28,570 --> 01:07:26,930
what do I know there are a lot of issues

1824
01:07:32,580 --> 01:07:28,580
that you don't see firsthand but are

1825
01:07:35,170 --> 01:07:32,590
still issues I'm not trying to be unfair

1826
01:07:37,990 --> 01:07:35,180
but all in all I found a lot of Dawn's

1827
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:38,000
ideas and the Huey Long style leftist to

1828
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:40,610
just be interesting again but with

1829
01:07:45,250 --> 01:07:42,530
parties are just so far off from their

1830
01:07:46,810 --> 01:07:45,260
initial philosophies conservatives want

1831
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:46,820
to talk about a free market that is an

1832
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:49,850
absolute joke the Conservatives that are

1833
01:07:54,790 --> 01:07:51,770
actually in decision-making positions

1834
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:54,800
are fighting on behalf of monopolies for

1835
01:08:00,100 --> 01:07:57,770
the most part so again with the left

1836
01:08:02,500 --> 01:08:00,110
I don't want higher taxes I don't want

1837
01:08:05,350 --> 01:08:02,510
to increase a welfare state I don't want

1838
01:08:07,420 --> 01:08:05,360
more censorship but I do want sensible

1839
01:08:10,060 --> 01:08:07,430
regulations I do want to try to work

1840
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:10,070
towards everyone having a fairer chance

1841
01:08:14,860 --> 01:08:13,010
I'm sure if we strip down a lot of

1842
01:08:17,860 --> 01:08:14,870
political positions and philosophies to

1843
01:08:20,140 --> 01:08:17,870
their core or their origins we'd

1844
01:08:21,939 --> 01:08:20,150
probably be able to endorse a lot of

1845
01:08:23,919 --> 01:08:21,949
left or right things

1846
01:08:25,899 --> 01:08:23,929
it's just that we are so far off from

1847
01:08:27,939 --> 01:08:25,909
that core everything has been spun out

1848
01:08:30,759 --> 01:08:27,949
of control to benefit the capstone cabal

1849
01:08:34,779 --> 01:08:30,769
they are masters at the Trojan horse at

1850
01:08:37,749 --> 01:08:34,789
the baton switch and of using a people's

1851
01:08:39,519 --> 01:08:37,759
philosophies against them hopefully you

1852
01:08:41,469 --> 01:08:39,529
guys see what I'm saying and also see

1853
01:08:43,989 --> 01:08:41,479
the value and what Don was trying to

1854
01:08:46,509 --> 01:08:43,999
articulate even if you're on the right

1855
01:08:47,709 --> 01:08:46,519
we don't get anywhere by being harsh and

1856
01:08:50,319 --> 01:08:47,719
uncompromising

1857
01:08:52,239 --> 01:08:50,329
I myself have found several right of the

1858
01:08:55,299 --> 01:08:52,249
aisle voices that I really do agree with

1859
01:08:56,620 --> 01:08:55,309
and really appreciate maybe if you're

1860
01:08:59,109 --> 01:08:56,630
more right-leaning you could at least

1861
01:09:01,149 --> 01:08:59,119
see some value in a Huey Long left

1862
01:09:03,939 --> 01:09:01,159
position even if you don't adopt it I

1863
01:09:06,879 --> 01:09:03,949
want to pull back that polarization and

1864
01:09:08,829 --> 01:09:06,889
find the common ground but if you did

1865
01:09:10,930 --> 01:09:08,839
enjoy the first hour with mr. Jeffries

1866
01:09:13,269 --> 01:09:10,940
our second hour continued along a lot of

1867
01:09:14,859 --> 01:09:13,279
these same tracks and we got into some

1868
01:09:15,729 --> 01:09:14,869
of the content from his hidden history

1869
01:09:18,039 --> 01:09:15,739
book as well

1870
01:09:20,049 --> 01:09:18,049
we talked about how the robber barons

1871
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:20,059
did it better obviously that's a little

1872
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:22,130
tongue-in-cheek but the point is that

1873
01:09:29,289 --> 01:09:26,170
the elite of past generations past eras

1874
01:09:31,390 --> 01:09:29,299
realized that if you choke us out too

1875
01:09:33,339 --> 01:09:31,400
much you break the system and now you're

1876
01:09:36,519 --> 01:09:33,349
just on top of rubble and that's no good

1877
01:09:38,469 --> 01:09:36,529
because the screws are tightening but we

1878
01:09:41,379 --> 01:09:38,479
also talked about what was truly behind

1879
01:09:43,689 --> 01:09:41,389
the Reagan assassination attempt and we

1880
01:09:46,689 --> 01:09:43,699
got an analysis of the JFK research

1881
01:09:49,839 --> 01:09:46,699
community's reaction to current politics

1882
01:09:53,529 --> 01:09:49,849
I really thought that was eye-opening

1883
01:09:55,359 --> 01:09:53,539
because we get twisted up in being

1884
01:09:58,660 --> 01:09:55,369
manipulated by the media and we forget

1885
01:10:01,209 --> 01:09:58,670
some of our own ideas because there was

1886
01:10:03,759 --> 01:10:01,219
a lot of Trump analysis there and I

1887
01:10:06,219 --> 01:10:03,769
thought it was really even-handed and if

1888
01:10:08,890 --> 01:10:06,229
you frame the current dynamic as the

1889
01:10:11,020 --> 01:10:08,900
deep state verse Trump which is

1890
01:10:12,910 --> 01:10:11,030
obviously not exactly right but that's

1891
01:10:15,219 --> 01:10:12,920
what the media is going with in the

1892
01:10:18,219 --> 01:10:15,229
mainstream narrative he is fighting the

1893
01:10:20,529 --> 01:10:18,229
deep state draining the swamp Gordon had

1894
01:10:22,330 --> 01:10:20,539
a good line in his newsletter that the

1895
01:10:25,330 --> 01:10:22,340
swamp isn't being drained it's being

1896
01:10:27,129 --> 01:10:25,340
landscaped I like that but just for the

1897
01:10:29,589 --> 01:10:27,139
sake of argument if these are the two

1898
01:10:31,989 --> 01:10:29,599
sides you can have people who really

1899
01:10:33,879 --> 01:10:31,999
really hate Trump and they're kind of

1900
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:33,889
putting themselves on the side of team

1901
01:10:37,500 --> 01:10:34,690
deep state

1902
01:10:40,890 --> 01:10:37,510
but they've been a JFK assassination

1903
01:10:43,140 --> 01:10:40,900
researcher for years like I find that

1904
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:43,150
interesting we also talked about the

1905
01:10:46,860 --> 01:10:45,370
top-down pressure put on the masses to

1906
01:10:50,370 --> 01:10:46,870
live with lower standards and the

1907
01:10:52,410 --> 01:10:50,380
increases in that agenda and again

1908
01:10:54,689 --> 01:10:52,420
trying to bring back a true left as

1909
01:10:57,270 --> 01:10:54,699
opposed to a warped version that we have

1910
01:10:59,580 --> 01:10:57,280
today in American politics so a good

1911
01:11:02,250 --> 01:10:59,590
time with a knowledgeable authentic guy

1912
01:11:04,229 --> 01:11:02,260
I really liked his book he's trying to

1913
01:11:06,510 --> 01:11:04,239
restore some sanity to an insane world

1914
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:06,520
and that's something we can all try to

1915
01:11:12,060 --> 01:11:09,130
do right so I've done my part

1916
01:11:14,150 --> 01:11:12,070
your move insulated elite system rigors

1917
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:14,160
and next stoppers of us little guys

1918
01:11:31,820 --> 01:11:26,890
you're [\h__\h] some crazy garbage called

1919
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:31,830
the blood on the exploited working class

1920
01:11:51,150 --> 01:11:43,550
now we're calling and the world screams

1921
01:11:55,580 --> 01:11:51,160
save me THC they destroyed the bonds of

1922
01:12:00,360 --> 01:11:55,590
friendship and respect between the only

1923
01:12:02,390 --> 01:12:00,370
people left could even look them in the

1924
01:12:07,620 --> 01:12:02,400
eye

1925
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:07,630
now they laugh and make a fortune of the

1926
01:12:16,700 --> 01:12:11,770
same ones that they tortured and a world

1927
01:12:20,090 --> 01:12:16,710
screams save me THC

1928
01:12:26,220 --> 01:12:20,100
let's love Jesus

1929
01:12:44,950 --> 01:12:34,750
Jesus far away now we are the only one

1930
01:12:51,399 --> 01:12:44,960
who can tell me if it's true and our

1931
01:12:56,070 --> 01:12:51,409
chance to they built a little Empire out

1932
01:13:01,490 --> 01:12:56,080
of some crazy garbage called the blood

1933
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:01,500
of the exploited working class

1934
01:13:09,420 --> 01:13:06,610
but they've overcome her shyness now

1935
01:13:14,990 --> 01:13:09,430
we're calling them your highness