Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Kaliner (12-27-24--Hour 2)

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[00:00:28] Going back to one of my pet peeves in life is that the government subsidizes a lot of things that the free market should deal with. I mean, when I first saw incentives, I thought they were a pretty good idea. The more I studied them, the more I realized it's an insider good old boy game. And companies would get incentives to come to a given community and compete against family companies that have been there for dozens, if not longer times. And I just realized, what a waste. You don't need it.

[00:00:56] If you're doing something great and you make it better, you don't need those subsidies. And I was kind of surprised at oilprice.com. I was looking at the companies that get the most U.S. subsidies. This is not, I don't want to belabor this one. By the way, if you want to get in on the conversation here at Newstalk 1110 993 WBT, it's 704-570-1110. You're welcome to be a part of it. If it's a topic that you find interesting here as we get to the end of the year.

[00:01:21] The last Friday of the year, I guess, was what one host said earlier today. I didn't even think of it in terms of that. I was like, it's not the last anything, but I guess it is the last Friday of the year. 99% of the year is done.

[00:01:33] And, you know, we've got until next Wednesday, I guess, next Wednesday being the first day of the year, Tuesday, New Year's Eve. And, you know, to me, I'm at the point in life where I never was a big New Year's fan. To me, it's another day. It's like, you know, Y2K.

[00:01:48] I remember that, that New Year's, not because of anything substantial, but two reasons. It was because one, all the fear of the end of the world stuff, because of the way computer chips counted and added and couldn't roll over or whatever.

[00:02:02] That was much ado about nothing turned out to be. And I really wasn't overly worried. If you had an Apple, you weren't.

[00:02:09] But the second thing was that it wasn't technically the first year of the new millennia. Remember, the 1900s was the 20th century, and the last year of the 20th century was the year 2000.

[00:02:21] The first year of the new century, new millennia, was January 1st, 2001, but nobody really cared.

[00:02:27] It was like, again, the convincing that nobody really cared about actual truth, that was an epiphany for me.

[00:02:35] I mean, I knew it back in the 90s. You saw the way that Bill Clinton, it depends on what your definition of the word is, is, and the way in which the media just kind of didn't care.

[00:02:44] They cared much later on when it was someone that wasn't a Democrat.

[00:02:47] But when I looked at that, I was like, people don't really care about the truth.

[00:02:52] But they're much more inclined to believe in Bigfoot or UFO alien abductions or that the moon landing was faked or the Earth is flat than they were to believe, hey, the first day of the new century was January 1st, 2001.

[00:03:06] But alas, I digress.

[00:03:10] So companies receiving subsidies is one of those things that it's good to be aware of.

[00:03:15] I don't know that much will change, but if you think of the company that had some of the worst news this past year, one of the companies, you could probably think of a number of them, but let's think of one of the worst.

[00:03:26] The most damaging news, I don't know, that had doors fly off their aircraft, that had engines that didn't work, that had all sorts of issues, that would be Boeing.

[00:03:37] Boeing is the number one recipient of state incentives and $15.5 billion.

[00:03:46] They got $3 billion in state incentives, but state and federal, $15.5 billion in subsidy value government giving them.

[00:03:55] So again, did those subsidies make them a better company?

[00:03:59] I don't know.

[00:04:00] I don't think so.

[00:04:00] I mean, Boeing competes with Grumman and Lockheed Martin and these others, but those are government contracts.

[00:04:05] That's different than bidding a subsidy.

[00:04:07] It's different when they're building aircraft for the military, but the private sector side of things, I didn't help them.

[00:04:12] The next closest was about half of that, and that's Intel.

[00:04:14] And I would think, is Intel really the leading company with chips these days?

[00:04:19] Not nearly what they were.

[00:04:20] Ford?

[00:04:20] Is Ford leading?

[00:04:21] I mean, think about Ford.

[00:04:22] Ford got $7.7 billion.

[00:04:26] Love Ford.

[00:04:27] Love Ford.

[00:04:28] And by the way, Walt, if you call back, please, I'll move you to the front line.

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[00:04:36] Apologies as that one just came through.

[00:04:38] So Ford, GM almost got the same amount of money as Ford.

[00:04:41] Micron, Amazon.

[00:04:43] Do you really think Amazon needs subsidies?

[00:04:45] Probably built the most robust way of sending stuff to you instantly, if anyone.

[00:04:51] Texas Instruments, Volkswagens.

[00:04:54] Volkswagen, not even an American.

[00:04:56] Tesla got, you know, and I've always been critical of Tesla taking money.

[00:04:59] Walt Disney got $2.6 billion in subsidies.

[00:05:03] Newcor got $2.6 billion in subsidies.

[00:05:06] Do we really need those things?

[00:05:08] Excuse me, the subsidies, not the companies.

[00:05:10] The companies are pretty remarkable.

[00:05:12] It's going to be interesting to see if Disney can pivot to actually not being so political.

[00:05:17] So they get subsidies, tech and media company gets $2.6 billion.

[00:05:22] They continue to promote a DEI agenda in almost all of their forms of entertainment.

[00:05:27] We'll see if that comes out.

[00:05:28] But again, is that really the role of government?

[00:05:31] Are any of those?

[00:05:32] People would say oil companies received much.

[00:05:34] I wish, I mean, deep sea exploration to find oil.

[00:05:37] That's, but a lot of what they get also is they get a lot of subsidies for renewables.

[00:05:41] Which also, I said the other day, and I stand by it.

[00:05:45] If government would have gotten out of the renewable industries, renewable energy industries, we would be much further along.

[00:05:51] Because anything that government gets into, there is never an incentive with government incentives to be better.

[00:05:58] The goal of incentives from a company standpoint is to get more incentives, isn't it?

[00:06:03] It's not to not need the incentives.

[00:06:05] If you have a company and all of a sudden government says, I'll give you a billion dollars, and you're thinking to yourself, hey, how can I get a billion next year?

[00:06:12] How can I get a billion the year after that?

[00:06:14] The goal would become, how can I stretch this endeavor out in such a way that I can continue to reap the rewards of those government subsidies?

[00:06:25] From a government standpoint, you know, these do-gooders in government that say, hey, look, we're helping out.

[00:06:29] We're helping change the world.

[00:06:30] We're going to subsidize windmills, and we're going to subsidize solar battery.

[00:06:34] We're going to subsidize, and it's going to be great, and it's going to be a brave new world.

[00:06:38] It doesn't work out that way.

[00:06:40] It never works out that way.

[00:06:42] The subsidies become an addiction for companies.

[00:06:47] They become focused on that.

[00:06:48] So if I can take a one-year project and draw it out to three years and get subsidies each year, that's the goal.

[00:06:55] So I still believe solar panels and windmills and anything else that the government subsidizes, even EVs.

[00:07:03] I think EVs would be getting 400 miles to a charge, and the batteries would be a half the size if government wasn't involved in it.

[00:07:10] And I can give you a vivid example of that, and people who've listened to me for a long time, and I don't mean to belabor this, but eye surgeries.

[00:07:18] If you look at how far we've come in eye surgery, it is Star Trek.

[00:07:23] It is a Star Trek world because what you can do now with eyes and lenses and correctives with lasers and all this other tech, it isn't subsidized.

[00:07:32] And so it's become better, faster, better, better, better, better.

[00:07:36] I mean, you've got people with 20-20 vision that are 80 years old now.

[00:07:41] You're curing blindness in a record way.

[00:07:44] You're getting technology that's building a way to bypass even the eye to create digital vision.

[00:07:51] This is because of innovation in tech.

[00:07:53] It's not because of subsidies.

[00:07:54] If we were doing subsidies for eye care, we would be wearing monocles right now because the subsidy doesn't advance the cause.

[00:08:04] It slows it down.

[00:08:06] It does it all the time.

[00:08:07] It's an amazing thing.

[00:08:09] The lesson to me hasn't been learned.

[00:08:12] But alas, that's just me.

[00:08:13] That's just the way I look at things.

[00:08:15] What the hell do I know?

[00:08:18] Well, I feel pretty confident about this one.

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[00:09:21] Since we intrigued our traffic guy, who likes his dog, by the way.

[00:09:26] I think most of you do.

[00:09:27] We are.

[00:09:28] You know, it's always the interesting thing, the dog versus cat thing.

[00:09:32] I'm not convinced.

[00:09:34] You know, the ultimate ethical debate is if something happened to you, which one of those two animals would be one would care less?

[00:09:40] I still would say the cats would.

[00:09:42] I think the cat, you know, as long as someone changed the litter and fed it, you die, the cat would probably just chill.

[00:09:50] Yo, what's up?

[00:09:51] As long as I get some attention, I'm good.

[00:09:53] The dog, you know, you have dogs that will mourn.

[00:09:56] They literally will mourn for their owners.

[00:09:57] I don't know.

[00:09:58] That's probably not a survival of the species thing, but it's true.

[00:10:01] And which animal would be more likely to eat you if you died?

[00:10:06] I still think it's cats.

[00:10:08] I think cats are just like, you know what?

[00:10:11] Ah, this looks like food.

[00:10:13] Looks like food to me.

[00:10:14] It's not moving.

[00:10:15] As long as it's not, you know.

[00:10:17] Of course, cats are picky enough.

[00:10:18] If you're dead long enough, they won't, obviously.

[00:10:20] But I think it's the cat.

[00:10:21] But this story, since we intrigued our traffic guy on our high-tech biotech robo-dogs, we'll run with that one right now.

[00:10:28] And it's not going to become strange to you.

[00:10:33] But if you were to think of all the animals that share space with us and live lifestyles in many ways similar to us, there isn't another animal out there like the dog.

[00:10:46] I mean, you know, your cockroaches and mice, they kind of live, they don't habitat with you.

[00:10:50] They don't like you want them around.

[00:10:51] So when you're studying, if you were to try to increase the lifespan of a given animal, what animal would it be?

[00:10:57] It's not going to be mice, it's not going to be rabbits, it's not going to be squirrels.

[00:11:00] It's going to be the dog.

[00:11:02] Those canines, man.

[00:11:04] Those crafty canines that have found a way over the past 35,000, 65,000 years to say, you know, these humans are going places.

[00:11:10] We're going to tag along.

[00:11:12] Good for us.

[00:11:13] You know, other than the animal shelters.

[00:11:16] By the way, go adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter.

[00:11:18] It's a beautiful thing.

[00:11:19] But generally speaking, survival of the species, hanging out with humans has worked out pretty well for dogs and cats.

[00:11:25] Dogs more so.

[00:11:27] So that being said, you know, this is a story from over at The Guardian.

[00:11:32] And it is, not for nothing are dogs called man's best friend.

[00:11:35] They are good for their owner's mental and physical health.

[00:11:38] A little advice for you youngins out there, for you single folks.

[00:11:42] Many studies have shown that if you are looking for a date and you're not swiping left and swiping right, you might want to get a dog because studies show that people with a dog look more attractive to prospective mates.

[00:11:56] So it may be a time to grab one of those canine companions could make you more attractive.

[00:12:00] So what would it be like, and I'm going to say something, if dogs could live forever?

[00:12:05] Or what if that secret could help their owners live longer and healthier lives?

[00:12:10] Uh-huh, you'd be looking at your dog a little different, wouldn't you?

[00:12:13] A number of companies are now finding common ground between the two goals.

[00:12:18] Early next year, a company called Loyal, great name for a dog-related company in it, Loyal, a U.S. biotech startup is confident that it will bring L-O-Y-O-O-2, Loy-O-O-2,

[00:12:30] a daily beef-flavored pill to market that could give dogs a minimum of one year of healthy life extra.

[00:12:39] An extra year of health to make a dog at least extended.

[00:12:44] Now think about that, for a 20-year span, it would be 5%, but a lot of dogs may make it around 10% to 15%.

[00:12:48] So you're talking about 10%, 7%, 10%.

[00:12:51] The San Francisco-based firm has raised $125 million in funding from companies who have held back from investing in human longevity projects

[00:13:00] because of the decades those trials take.

[00:13:02] A dog trail much shorter, you don't have as much FDA, not as much government regulation.

[00:13:09] Fascinating that your canine friends can cut through the red tape.

[00:13:12] They don't have to gnaw through it either.

[00:13:14] So the San Francisco-based firm, Selena Haloya, founder and chief executive of Loyal, which is part of Cellular Longevity,

[00:13:21] a biotech firm researching the science of longevity, believes their work will benefit humans.

[00:13:26] Finding out how to prevent canine age-related decline is a really strong proxy for doing the same with humans

[00:13:31] because, well, dogs, similar.

[00:13:33] They age, get age-related diseases like we do.

[00:13:37] They share our environments.

[00:13:38] They have habits like we do.

[00:13:40] Lab mice don't.

[00:13:42] The pill aims to blunt and reverse metabolic changes associated with aging.

[00:13:46] It reduces frailty by curbing age-related increases in insulin.

[00:13:50] We're not making immortal dogs, Halua says.

[00:13:54] The way the drug extends lifespan, we hypothesize, is by extending health and thus shortening the rate of aging.

[00:14:00] The same goal, another company, not just this company, the next company.

[00:14:03] In another laboratory 900 miles across America, there's a team of academic researchers feverishly testing the impact of rampamycin.

[00:14:12] Now, rampamycin is not in this story, but it's an interesting thing because I love reading useless scientific papers and stuff.

[00:14:19] It was discovered on Easter Island, if I'm not mistaken.

[00:14:22] It was discovered some time ago, I think back in the 50s.

[00:14:24] But they're now finding that this rampamycin is very useful in age-related human stuff.

[00:14:32] And so they're going to apply it to dogs.

[00:14:33] And I just remember the story from a while back about when it was discovered,

[00:14:38] and now we're finding this one place on the planet it was discovered, and now we're using it.

[00:14:42] It's a cheap, it's easily produced drug that also commonly used as an immunosuppressant for humans after organ transplants.

[00:14:48] It has repeatedly been shown to increase lifespan and delay or even reverse many age-related disorders in mice.

[00:14:55] While the drug has not been approved for longevity in humans, many gerontologists nevertheless see it as the best hope we have for pharmacologically slowing down the aging process.

[00:15:04] The Dog Aging Project, first large-scale longitudinal study of large animals in a natural environment,

[00:15:13] suggests that low doses of rampamycin could increase dogs' lifespan, improving heart, cognitive functions by regulating cell growth and metabolism.

[00:15:22] Imagine if it, now, I happen to be, you know, of the sci-fi things, be wary of things that look too good to be true.

[00:15:29] You start breeding dogs and all of a sudden they get smarter than you are.

[00:15:33] Our study is light years ahead of anything that's been done on humans and can be done on humans.

[00:15:38] Daniel Promise-Glo says, a biogerontologist at the University of Washington and co-director,

[00:15:43] what we're doing is the equivalent of a 40-year-long study on humans testing the ability of a drug to increase human lifespans.

[00:15:51] When the project finally reports in four to five years' time,

[00:15:54] they hope to be able to prove that rampamycin has the power to give dogs an extra three years of healthy life.

[00:16:01] Three. And then you can cross that over to humans and do the same thing.

[00:16:04] It would be rather remarkable.

[00:16:06] The goal of science now needs to be to agree on the parameters,

[00:16:09] and then the work could yield very exciting results for everybody involved.

[00:16:13] Imagine that.

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[00:16:45] It was agreeing with my comment about cats and dogs.

[00:16:48] And I had heard this is anecdotal.

[00:16:51] I've had similar anecdotes from friends talking about someone who worked in a coroner's office,

[00:16:56] and they said, absolutely.

[00:16:57] Every time someone passed away and they had to go discover the body,

[00:17:00] the cats had started eating the owner.

[00:17:02] And the homes with dogs, all the dogs were either lying with their owners.

[00:17:06] Several had starved death,

[00:17:07] and the exception of some that tore through windows and doors to go alert people to what was going on.

[00:17:12] Yeah. Hey, cats are primitive critters.

[00:17:14] They'll eat.

[00:17:14] But, hey, they just kill for fun.

[00:17:17] How many of you have cats and you've seen them, like,

[00:17:19] kill the neighborhood birds and just leave them at your doorstep like,

[00:17:21] yo, look what I did.

[00:17:23] Here's a bird.

[00:17:24] See? I'm a supreme hunter.

[00:17:26] Feed me now.

[00:17:27] They won't eat the bird.

[00:17:28] They just kill for fun.

[00:17:30] They're just massively evolved killing machines.

[00:17:33] It sounds like I'm not a fan of cats.

[00:17:35] I admire them.

[00:17:36] I love seeing them in the wild.

[00:17:38] Not feral cats, but actual wild cats.

[00:17:41] Panthers, cougars, pumas, cootis.

[00:17:42] Not cootis, but all sorts of critters out there.

[00:17:46] And it, ocelots, leopards.

[00:17:49] Yeah.

[00:17:49] So it amazes me that people think these things are not what they are.

[00:17:55] They're just looking at you, figuring crap out all the time.

[00:17:59] So, and as far as the dogs extending life and stuff, I think that's remarkable.

[00:18:04] I remember I had a dog, unfortunately, years ago, wonderful, amazing border collie mix

[00:18:08] that ended up getting cancer and going to NC State, you know, a university that was on

[00:18:12] the cutting edge of veterinary science and treating the dogs, spent an obscene amount

[00:18:16] of money, shouldn't have done that.

[00:18:17] But it was remarkable that the cancer my dog had, this is, this is kind of a twist of fate

[00:18:25] thing.

[00:18:25] The cancer my dog had, it was a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma type years ago, was about 85% fatal

[00:18:33] at that time.

[00:18:34] They were using all sorts of techniques and everything to extend his life.

[00:18:37] They did a good job of that, but ultimately they couldn't cure it at that point in time.

[00:18:40] But the researchers, the research they were involved in not only led to breakthroughs

[00:18:48] and now that particular cancer in dogs is almost 90 plus percent curable in dogs.

[00:18:53] But furthermore, it, that technological advancement led to humans.

[00:18:58] And my mother was able to, who ended up with the same kind of cancer my dog had and was cured

[00:19:03] of that cancer.

[00:19:04] That's not what killed her, but it was remarkable that she became cancer-free and some of that

[00:19:09] traced back to the kind of scientific inquiry in dogs on that type of cancer.

[00:19:16] So I, I, I love the evolution of, of, of medical study.

[00:19:22] If the government could help get out of the way in, in some regards, I think in many opportunities

[00:19:29] to, to cure and make things better, we get, it gets, things get in the way.

[00:19:34] And, and that is an unfortunate reality there.

[00:19:37] Now, uh, if you want to get in on the conversation, feel free to do so.

[00:19:40] 704-570-1110, 570-1110.

[00:19:43] And I need to, well, get people, there's people that text in and then there's, then there's

[00:19:49] the call screen say, Hey Chad, you got a call.

[00:19:51] So, uh, you're welcome to be a part of the show today.

[00:19:53] I do want to get to one.

[00:19:54] So one of the other subjects as we get to the top of the hour is that we, we kind of,

[00:19:59] we live in a greening world, the, the, the kind of measurement of what the human impact

[00:20:07] is versus just the way the planet is aging and the way it, the way it works.

[00:20:13] That's, that's a difficult needle to thread for scientists.

[00:20:16] There are, there are legitimately, legitimately brilliant scientists out there that are going

[00:20:21] through this field of inquiry and are not distracted by the narrative of Greta Thunberg,

[00:20:26] who's telling them that all of it is due to humans.

[00:20:29] We actually have more Arctic sea ice cover now at this point than we did in 2012.

[00:20:34] You'd have to say, well, if it's linear, why would that be the case?

[00:20:36] We've had times when Antarctic sea ice extent grows and extends and you'd have to say, well,

[00:20:41] if it's linear, why, how can that be?

[00:20:42] If it's linear, then it should always be less, less, less.

[00:20:45] There shouldn't be these anomalous couple of years where it goes back to amazing.

[00:20:50] That being said, if the goal is to understand there are some realities, we are in a greening

[00:20:55] world.

[00:20:56] What is that?

[00:20:57] What, what part of that is due to the oscillations of the planet, the sun and all the other things

[00:21:01] that have kept us a living, breathing biological miracle for millions of years?

[00:21:07] And what of it is?

[00:21:08] Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:21:09] I fired up the SUV and drove down the road.

[00:21:12] And one group has said, there's only one way this could be.

[00:21:16] And it negates anything that would disagree with that.

[00:21:19] Now they want to tell you that all of this climate change stuff is killing people.

[00:21:24] It's killing, it's, it's, it's, it's making islands disappear.

[00:21:27] They haven't.

[00:21:28] It's making storms more powerful.

[00:21:30] It's not, it's making them more frequent.

[00:21:32] Well, we actually had fewer storms this year.

[00:21:33] Just happened to be two horrific news related ones.

[00:21:36] They're not more powerful, by the way.

[00:21:37] The ones that hit were not more powerful.

[00:21:40] So what is every, and whenever there's a wildfire, it's always caused by that.

[00:21:44] It's never that, oh, someone didn't have proper forestry management or someone threw a match

[00:21:49] out, but it's always humans made it worse.

[00:21:53] But if you look at some, some facts out there, what kills a lot of people that we don't talk

[00:21:58] about is that the cold, cold weather kills people.

[00:22:02] And, and, and if you, and Gizmodo has a great article over there on their site, even as the

[00:22:07] climate warms, the cold is becoming a deadlier threat to Americans.

[00:22:10] New research this month shows that cold related deaths have significantly increased in the U.S.

[00:22:15] over the past two decades.

[00:22:17] You would go, why?

[00:22:18] Why would more people be dying in a, in a greening world?

[00:22:22] Researchers at Harvard Medical School conducted the study, which aimed to better count the deaths

[00:22:26] caused by cold temperatures.

[00:22:28] They found that the country's cold related mortality rate has more than doubled since the late 1990s.

[00:22:33] With deaths, especially increasing in recent years, important risk factors for the rise in deaths

[00:22:38] likely include extreme weather events, ah, tied to climate change.

[00:22:42] So now you, you hear that in that narrative right there that climate change made people die of cold.

[00:22:50] You thought otherwise.

[00:22:52] Extreme weather events, homelessness and social isolation, researchers say.

[00:22:56] Now I would say, let's take climate change out of it for a minute, but absolutely homelessness.

[00:23:01] And, and yet there's tons of infrastructure to help folks with that.

[00:23:04] And it's not working.

[00:23:05] These government programs.

[00:23:06] So if these government programs are so successful, why is homelessness, why are people that are homeless dying of cold?

[00:23:13] Social isolation.

[00:23:14] We've seen that with the advent with technology increasing.

[00:23:17] The more technology you would think it makes the social fabric better, but actually people are more isolated than ever before.

[00:23:23] So social isolation, loneliness.

[00:23:25] We know that social isolation increases the likelihood of dementia.

[00:23:30] We also know that hearing loss contributes to dementia.

[00:23:32] So the, the way in which you hurt humans more is you isolate them more.

[00:23:37] Extreme temperatures on either end of the thermometer can be life-threatening.

[00:23:41] While recent research has shown that heat-related deaths have risen in recent decades, cold weather tends to be deadlier in general.

[00:23:48] A 2021 study found that the cold was responsible for about three-fourths of extreme temperature deaths worldwide.

[00:23:54] That's an estimated 1.7 million deaths overall that year due to cold.

[00:24:00] Three-quarters.

[00:24:02] Now you're in a warming world, but three-quarters of the people who died in weather-related issues froze to, well, died with respect to the cold.

[00:24:10] Some being frozen to death.

[00:24:11] The Harvard researchers note that cold-related deaths in the U.S. have been studied only minimally.

[00:24:16] Why?

[00:24:16] We've spent billions studying warm weather, haven't we?

[00:24:19] We've spent billions and billions producing windmills and solar and doing everything in the world related to climate, but you're not looking at the humans that are dying due to cold weather.

[00:24:30] To address the knowledge gap, researchers at Harvard analyzed death certificate data collected by the CDC, focusing specifically on deaths where cold was recorded.

[00:24:40] Between 99 and 2022, there were over 40,000 cold-related deaths in the U.S.

[00:24:46] 40,000.

[00:24:47] And adjusting for age, they found that the mortality rate had risen from less than half of a cold-related death per 100,000 to almost a full person per thousand in 2022.

[00:24:59] That's astounding.

[00:25:00] But we don't spend a lot of time looking at that, do we?

[00:25:04] Because it doesn't fit a narrative that, wait a minute, more people are dying of cold, but then you say, well, it's climate change.

[00:25:08] Climate change is causing it.

[00:25:09] That's causing the people to die of cold.

[00:25:12] Remember, we weren't supposed to have snow now, and all the southern ski resorts were supposed to have been bankrupt by now.

[00:25:17] But alas, that narrative didn't work out as well.

[00:25:21] Greta told us in 2018 that we had five years before it was over.

[00:25:24] And here we are seven years later.

[00:25:27] Steve, you've been holding.

[00:25:28] Welcome to the program.

[00:25:30] Whatever you're ready to talk about.

[00:25:31] What's on your brain today?

[00:25:33] Hey, how are you today?

[00:25:36] Fantastic.

[00:25:37] Good.

[00:25:38] I got a couple of questions.

[00:25:40] Three of them deal with the same topic.

[00:25:43] I'll hit those with you real quick, if that's okay with you.

[00:25:47] Go try it.

[00:25:49] I'll try to help.

[00:25:51] Three, it's like an interview.

[00:25:52] Go ahead.

[00:25:54] Well, they all deal with the same topic, which is taxes.

[00:25:58] But you mentioned earlier, if I got this right, that illegals that have gotten a four-year degree, that I think you said Trump was considering giving them a green card.

[00:26:12] No, no, no.

[00:26:12] Not illegals.

[00:26:13] Whoa, whoa.

[00:26:13] Not illegals.

[00:26:14] People that were here legally earning a degree, he wanted to give those people the opportunity to work here as well.

[00:26:19] They weren't illegally here.

[00:26:21] They weren't here legally is what he's referring to.

[00:26:23] Oh, okay.

[00:26:24] That strikes that question.

[00:26:27] The second one is, let me flip my page here.

[00:26:33] We've heard all this back and forth about deporting the illegals and the Democrats.

[00:26:37] It's going to cost us so many billions we can't afford to do it.

[00:26:41] But I just simply reject that claim because if we get them out of here, then we save tens of billions of dollars providing for them.

[00:26:55] So I don't see why – I see where that could be an absolute positive benefit to the country and us taxpayers to get them out.

[00:27:04] And so I wanted your thoughts on that.

[00:27:07] And the other one is you talked about subsidies for like Ford and other companies like that.

[00:27:13] And what really aggravates me about that is I owned my company for 39 years and I never got one dime from the government to help me keep my business growing or profiting or afloat if it was in a down time.

[00:27:28] I never got a dime from them.

[00:27:30] Why in the world should we give our tax dollars away to companies that are in business for themselves like I was?

[00:27:38] They need to figure it out on their own, not with our money bailing them out.

[00:27:43] So that's my second one.

[00:27:45] And the third one, wherever I put it – no, you took care of the first one.

[00:27:54] I'm impressed that you took all those notes, man.

[00:27:56] I appreciate the call.

[00:28:00] Steve?

[00:28:01] So, Steve, I'll get to your questions.

[00:28:03] I don't know what happened there, but nonetheless.

[00:28:05] So the first question we dealt with, Trump was referring to people who were here legally achieving a degree and that maybe achieving that degree in America, they could give back in some way by being a part of the workforce.

[00:28:15] The deporting versus staying – I mean George Wilt wrote a column about this back in the 90s about the logistics of moving just at the time.

[00:28:20] I think it was just three or four or five million folks.

[00:28:24] And the logistics of that are ginormous, whether you fly them or take them by bus or where do you take them to.

[00:28:29] But the countries that from whence they came have to assume some responsibility for them as well.

[00:28:33] Trump talks about this when he talks about Venezuela and other Central South American countries that he's dealing with.

[00:28:40] I do think it's important to move that.

[00:28:44] I mean we've got to – there's got to be a distance in because it has to stop it.

[00:28:46] If people know they're going to be removed if they come here, it will slow down and it will help protect the border.

[00:28:52] So it has to be done.

[00:28:53] And he is correct.

[00:28:54] There is an upside to – you're not having to subsidize hotel rooms.

[00:28:59] You're not having to subsidize insurance and SNAP programs and nutritional aid, all these.

[00:29:04] So yes, there's a net savings.

[00:29:06] He's correct on that one.

[00:29:07] And the third one about incentives, he's right.

[00:29:09] And it is not applied equally to all.

[00:29:11] It is kind of a rigged system.

[00:29:13] And at the local level, when you see these incentives doled out under grants, used to – a local government would say, hey, we'll give you X amount of money if you bring in X amount of jobs.

[00:29:23] And they realize that's illegal.

[00:29:25] And so what they did, they can't call it a rebate.

[00:29:27] So they started calling them grants.

[00:29:29] And they aren't applied equally.

[00:29:30] And it is a significant problem, whether it's the local or at the national level.

[00:29:35] Why government ever got involved in picking winners and losers just isn't the role of government.

[00:29:39] But I appreciate the call, Steve.

[00:29:41] Thank you.

[00:29:42] So with us now, Bill, welcome to the broadcast.

[00:29:44] How the heck are you this afternoon?

[00:29:47] It's fine.

[00:29:48] This is from Phil and Mark from Wilmington.

[00:29:50] Good to hear your voice on the radio again.

[00:29:52] Well, thank you, Bill.

[00:29:55] Bill?

[00:29:56] Oh, Bill had something about climate change.

[00:29:58] I think, Bill, if you got disconnected, please call it.

[00:30:00] I think it was on the road.

[00:30:02] And someone, maybe Starlink got him.

[00:30:04] I'm kidding.

[00:30:04] Elon's on our side.

[00:30:05] So, Bill, if you happen to still be listening, and thank you for listening from Wilmington, one of my –

[00:30:13] former wonderful time on radio places.

[00:30:17] So I appreciate that.

[00:30:18] So, Bill, if they get back in, just kick him back in there.

[00:30:20] And to the other point, the caller that did stay around.

[00:30:24] So, Steve, you know, it is daunting to think of how would – think about the population of North Carolina.

[00:30:30] If you wanted to take the entire population, just over 10, between 10 and 11 million, and deport them to other countries around the world, the logistics behind it.

[00:30:40] Just imagine taking every man, woman, and child from Charlotte and trying to move them.

[00:30:44] And that's just a smattering of the number of people that we're talking about.

[00:30:48] So, then take the geography of North Carolina and expand it to the full size of the continental U.S., and you realize how daunting that is.

[00:30:57] Now, I think Tom Holman's the right guy for the job.

[00:30:59] I mean, he's clearly, you know, absolutely – he is focused in a way that we see rarely with government appointees.

[00:31:06] He knows his mission. He wants to do it. The border control wants to be valued.

[00:31:10] They want – they got into the border control, border patrol, made that decision for their career path, and imagine now they finally have people that are going to support what they're doing in the mission and what they originally got in it for.

[00:31:22] It's not going to be easy. It's going to take way longer than four years.

[00:31:26] But the number one thing that Tom Holman is saying, and it is a disincentive for people to try to get across that border.

[00:31:32] If you know that there are going to be consequences for coming across, people will stop or at least slow down, or it will diminish a great deal.

[00:31:41] So, that's number one. Number two is securing the border and having more processing centers.

[00:31:46] Number three is finding out who is here illegally, and that's going to be a daunting, ginormous task.

[00:31:52] And then they're going to start with the criminal. It's going to be easier to start with the criminal element.

[00:31:57] The ones that are in our system that we can find, track down, get those out immediately, and work backwards from there.

[00:32:03] But there's – it's just hard to fathom 10, 11 million-plus immigrants across the country and how to get them back to their country of origin.

[00:32:15] And that's huge. There's just no easy way to do that, and it would take – it's going to take a decade or more.

[00:32:22] All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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