Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Kaliner (12-27-24--Hour 3)

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[00:00:28] Chad Adams sitting in for Pete Kaliner here, Hour 3 on Friday. I'll be with you next week as well, hoping Pete's enjoying his time off. Newstalker 1110-993-WBT. Bill, who was listening from, I believe, Wilmington, thank you for calling back in. Hope you're doing well and welcome to the show.

[00:00:43] Yeah, I'm doing great. And it's Phil, not Bill.

[00:00:47] Oh, Phil. I'm sorry. Hello, Phil.

[00:00:49] That's fine. You had commented on climate change and I wanted to pass on one of the best guys I've seen at Amherst.

[00:00:58] What's the most important thing about climate change and how it is.

[00:00:59] Excellent. And he's a member of the National Bank of America.

[00:01:00] He's a member of the National Bank of America. We're talking about climate change.

[00:01:00] His name is Sean Hackett, H-A-C-K-E-T-T. He is basically an investment guy who advises multinational corporations, large farm groups, that sort of thing, on what to expect with the coming climate.

[00:01:19] His number one, two, and three factors that impact climate are number one, sunspot activity.

[00:01:28] Number two, planetary gravitational influences.

[00:01:33] And number three, volcanoes.

[00:01:37] He's been, and it's incredible how accurate he is.

[00:01:41] He's predicted the, like last year or two, about how coffee prices would be going up due to dry conditions in Africa.

[00:01:52] Also, coffee prices impacted by weather.

[00:01:58] And the fourth thing he did say that you might could argue has a human influence would be the cutting down of rainforests because they produce rain and impacts crops, that sort of thing.

[00:02:15] So he was asked how human activity had impacted climate.

[00:02:24] And he said his studies, which go back centuries, back to like, you know, 1,200, 1,100.

[00:02:32] I mean, he goes back centuries.

[00:02:35] He wouldn't say that human activity did not impact climate.

[00:02:40] But he said, based on his studies, it is not measurable.

[00:02:45] So if someone brings him evidence that it is, he would consider it.

[00:02:49] But it kind of blows out of the water a lot of the people who say that human activity is our main problem with climate change.

[00:02:59] Well, I think, you know, it's amazing the number of companies that do, they have to look ahead.

[00:03:04] You hit something on the head, which is an economic argument.

[00:03:07] The companies, the more companies can look ahead down the road, 30, 60, 90, 180 days, and anticipate things,

[00:03:14] especially those that rely on weather conditions for shipping or growing or anything like that.

[00:03:19] But they do rely on people like Sean.

[00:03:22] They do rely on people like Joe Bastardi, who's the founder of WeatherBell Analytics.

[00:03:26] These guys do.

[00:03:28] Joe is a historical guy.

[00:03:30] He looks at historical data over the past, since we've started accumulating data, and looks at patterns.

[00:03:35] And the patterns are predictive of what will happen next.

[00:03:38] And he can do that three, six months down.

[00:03:40] Not always 100%, but pretty good.

[00:03:42] And I think you're spot on.

[00:03:43] He would say the same thing.

[00:03:45] It's hard to pinpoint that.

[00:03:46] But doesn't it make it – I think it's like any other conspiracy.

[00:03:51] It's easy to say this is what's going on.

[00:03:54] It's easy to say, well, that's it.

[00:03:56] We caused it all.

[00:03:57] Whenever there's a problem, it's not that it's complex.

[00:03:59] It's not that a volcano in Indonesia could have affected the weather here.

[00:04:04] It's that, you know what, we did it.

[00:04:06] We're driving too many SUVs.

[00:04:07] We burned too much oil.

[00:04:08] Therefore, all of these weather things are caused by you.

[00:04:12] So, Phil –

[00:04:14] Go ahead.

[00:04:14] One last comment is he said that based on the sunspot activity, which is abnormally low right now, and given the planetary alignments, this has not been seen since the 1930s and will extend through the end of this decade.

[00:04:34] And it could produce similar problems like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

[00:04:41] Yep.

[00:04:41] And I've seen a lot – you're right, the sunspot activity is quite low.

[00:04:44] And they call it the maunder minimum, A-M-A-U-N-D-E-R, I think.

[00:04:48] It's a documented cyclical thing with sunspots, and it is pretty low right now.

[00:04:53] So, man, Phil, I appreciate you listening.

[00:04:55] I appreciate you calling in.

[00:04:57] And thanks for being a part of a previous radio audience.

[00:04:59] So, I thank you for that, okay?

[00:05:02] So, thank you, Phil.

[00:05:04] And I – those are the kind of points.

[00:05:07] And what I liked about what Phil said, he didn't call anybody names.

[00:05:11] He wasn't angry about what he was sharing with you.

[00:05:13] I'm not angry about it.

[00:05:14] I think that discussion and debate is one of the strengths of humankind.

[00:05:20] You know, when you've got an alpha male in a wolf pack and it goes on the hunt, the other wolves don't have the ability to say, hey, look, Fred, that elk over here, it's the one we really should be going on because the one you're chasing, two of our guys are going to get killed when they try to take him down.

[00:05:34] That is it.

[00:05:36] And that's the problem with a narrative like that.

[00:05:39] And when Fauci – and I think the branch Covidians, the people that stood up and said, you know, the mask work, when Fauci became the point man, the odd little alpha dog on the COVID stuff, when he said, I represent science, that was the moment.

[00:05:56] You should have known this guy doesn't represent science because nobody says that.

[00:06:00] He doesn't represent science.

[00:06:01] He represented a perspective that was debatable at best.

[00:06:06] It was debatable.

[00:06:07] A lot of what he said wasn't supported by science.

[00:06:09] And that's the problem with that perspective.

[00:06:13] And I think bringing debate and bringing more scientific inquiry into these things is germane and useful.

[00:06:21] And I think we get lulled into thinking when we move to the coast or the mountains or whatever, we think, oh, it's always been this way.

[00:06:28] We go to the coast, it's always been this way, a hurricane every now and then.

[00:06:31] But when it happens to you, your immediate thing is, that's never happened to me before.

[00:06:34] This must be the worst ever.

[00:06:35] How did anyone ever experience this before me?

[00:06:38] Therefore, oh, climate change caused it.

[00:06:40] Absolutely.

[00:06:41] That's why the beaches are being eroded and why my house got destroyed, because of climate change.

[00:06:45] Never mind that the beaches have been moving for millions of years and they're going to continue.

[00:06:49] I mean, you would be astounded at how much you, the taxpayers, are spending to import sand from miles offshore and replenish your beaches here.

[00:06:57] You're doing it.

[00:06:58] And the mountains we appreciate and we have to spend money to take care of them.

[00:07:02] But the beaches, those beaches are on the move, on the march.

[00:07:06] But they generate a lot of tourist money for North Carolina.

[00:07:08] So we have to save them, protect them, and keep them from moving, even though we're building on sand.

[00:07:13] Yes, sand, that sand.

[00:07:15] So that being said, again, thank you so much for the phone call.

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[00:08:21] Thank you, Blaine, for listening.

[00:08:23] Thank you, Blaine, for sticking around.

[00:08:24] And thank you for joining us today.

[00:08:26] What's on your brain?

[00:08:28] I was calling about, you were saying something about the tough logistics of deporting people

[00:08:33] back to their countries of origin, all the people.

[00:08:36] Yes.

[00:08:37] I don't see what the problem is with that.

[00:08:41] I mean, you can solve that by asking them all one question.

[00:08:44] Where did you come in at?

[00:08:46] Then you deport them to where they came in at.

[00:08:49] But it's not our responsibility to get them back to their country of origin.

[00:08:53] They made it to the border.

[00:08:54] They know how to get back from the border to their home.

[00:08:57] That's up to them.

[00:08:59] Okay.

[00:08:59] Now, let's take that from that perspective, which I don't think is a bad one.

[00:09:03] Okay?

[00:09:04] I'm not disagreeing with you that that's a splendid idea.

[00:09:07] Get them.

[00:09:07] Just dump them on the Mexican or Canadian border, wherever their point of entry was.

[00:09:11] Take them back there.

[00:09:12] My perspective was, just imagine.

[00:09:14] I remember in the 90s when Will wrote his column.

[00:09:17] And I don't always agree with George Will.

[00:09:18] I've known him for a long time.

[00:09:20] But his point was, you would line up buses from basically the border almost to the Canadian

[00:09:26] border through California just to get 4 million people on buses alone.

[00:09:31] We're talking about 10, 11 million people, the entire population of North Carolina.

[00:09:35] I just said logistically, even if you were taking them to five different points on the

[00:09:40] southern border, getting them there is the logistical problem.

[00:09:43] First, you have to find them, then you have to gather them up, and then you have to arrange

[00:09:47] transportation for them.

[00:09:49] I didn't say it was impossible, but let's not pretend it's easy.

[00:09:53] I'm on your side.

[00:09:54] I think the fact that we've let that many in is a travesty that's almost treasonous.

[00:10:00] You let an invading army put that many people on your soil, you don't win those wars.

[00:10:05] You just don't.

[00:10:06] And so this is one of those things we have to do it, but let's not pretend that on day

[00:10:10] one, Trump could deport 11 million people.

[00:10:12] You know, there's got, it's going to be a difficult task.

[00:10:15] It's going to take a lot of agencies.

[00:10:17] And not only that, you're going to have to fight some people and some cities and some of

[00:10:21] the sanctuary BS that's out there that's going to push back and not help.

[00:10:25] They're going to hinder and just hope to run the clock out.

[00:10:28] So I agree with you.

[00:10:29] It needs to be done.

[00:10:30] Yours shortens it.

[00:10:31] We don't have to fly them all the way back to Venezuela or Ecuador, you know, or, or get

[00:10:35] trend to agua down back to El Salvador or something.

[00:10:38] You just have to get them to where they came in and make sure they don't come back.

[00:10:41] So yeah, got to do, but I man, Blaine, I appreciate you listening and you're right.

[00:10:46] So that's a, that's one cost saving right there.

[00:10:49] Okay.

[00:10:50] Okay.

[00:10:50] You have a good one.

[00:10:51] You too.

[00:10:52] Appreciate the call.

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[00:11:32] Uh, that deportation thing, I, it is, it is no doubt there is, I think people were made,

[00:11:39] excuse me.

[00:11:40] I know people are in, have become increasingly angered by the tone deafness, deafness of the

[00:11:49] political left.

[00:11:50] I mean, Obama actually deported illegals.

[00:11:52] Uh, Clinton did, right?

[00:11:53] Republicans and Democrats alike have always had some degree of agreement that you need

[00:11:59] to have a legal status.

[00:12:00] It was, it was during this woke transition to where Democrats, some who have now become

[00:12:07] their mainstream started saying, you can't call them illegal.

[00:12:10] No human is illegal.

[00:12:11] And then you had a bunch of Democrats trying to compare, compare this to the Christian faith.

[00:12:16] You know, Jesus wouldn't have turned them away.

[00:12:18] Well, Jesus wasn't running the Roman empire, nor did he make comments about that.

[00:12:23] It was, it was, you know, they were actually in an occupied land.

[00:12:28] Jesus was, the Roman army had invaded.

[00:12:30] They were the occupiers of that land.

[00:12:32] This has nothing to do with that.

[00:12:33] And it's not about being heartless.

[00:12:35] It is about the fact that a country has a responsibility to its citizens, to look after

[00:12:40] them, to care for them, to protect them.

[00:12:42] That is our obligation as a country.

[00:12:44] Now, what you can do to help your fellow man do that, do it with your heart, do it with all

[00:12:49] you can.

[00:12:50] But let's not pretend that you can just absorb another culture and not have an impact yours

[00:12:57] from an illegal standpoint.

[00:13:00] And the fact that Democrats started embracing they're not illegal is absurd.

[00:13:06] What that essentially tells you is that if they're not illegal, then we're not Americans.

[00:13:12] Meaning that if no human being is illegally in another country, why wouldn't you just have

[00:13:17] all of them come over?

[00:13:18] Just dissolve the border between all nations.

[00:13:21] How do you, how do you take care of that?

[00:13:23] How do you manage that?

[00:13:25] How, especially the irony here is that Democrats want to keep tags and tabs and tags on everybody.

[00:13:30] They want, they want to go after everybody.

[00:13:32] You've got to pay yours.

[00:13:33] You got to pay yours as the rich.

[00:13:34] You now got to go after them.

[00:13:35] So you want to soak one group of people, but you don't even know who the other group is.

[00:13:40] Would you open it up to the cartels?

[00:13:42] Let them just come across the border.

[00:13:44] No, of course not.

[00:13:46] And who knows?

[00:13:47] It may be, we may be at that clear and present danger Tom Clancy way of looking at things

[00:13:50] where the military goes out and takes out these cartels.

[00:13:54] They're as powerful as many countries.

[00:13:56] They have the money.

[00:13:57] They have a standing army.

[00:13:58] They have arms.

[00:14:00] They could invade.

[00:14:01] And in some places on the southern border, they kind of have operational control inside

[00:14:05] our borders.

[00:14:06] It's hard to believe the borders are that big.

[00:14:08] Imagine the entire length of North Carolina, then double it, maybe triple it.

[00:14:13] And then you get closer to how big that border is.

[00:14:16] That's a massive border.

[00:14:18] Drive for hours and hours.

[00:14:20] That's, you know, it's not some tiny space.

[00:14:22] It's ginormous.

[00:14:24] And so if you have a country, then those people that are in that country have responsibility

[00:14:30] and the governance, the governing of it requires you protect them.

[00:14:35] And that means from enemies.

[00:14:36] And if I don't know who you are, the assumption is if you come into my country, if I were to

[00:14:41] say there's a battalion of 7 million coming across our border, we don't know anything about

[00:14:46] them.

[00:14:47] We don't know if they mean us ill will.

[00:14:49] And they have crossed all at once.

[00:14:51] If 7 million people just came right across at once and invaded every state and sent, you

[00:14:57] know, 400,000 or 500,000 people into every state, you would think that was an army.

[00:15:03] That looks like an army.

[00:15:04] It acts like an army.

[00:15:04] And just because it's spread out over a few years instead of all at once, the distinction

[00:15:10] is not a distinction with a difference.

[00:15:12] It's still the impact of those people doing what they can to live, thrive, and survive

[00:15:17] within our system that does confer upon them benefits, whether it be public education or

[00:15:22] welfare services or hotels in cities like New York.

[00:15:26] There's a cost.

[00:15:27] Not to mention the legal system because it's not that these are all great players here.

[00:15:30] It doesn't have to be a large percentage.

[00:15:33] I mean, people, I had Democrats say, well, there's other people that got raped and killed.

[00:15:36] It's not the migrants any more than anyone else.

[00:15:37] Well, the fact that one happened, if those are illegal, they weren't supposed to be here.

[00:15:41] We have enough crime without that influx of additional crime.

[00:15:46] But it is a new year coming up.

[00:15:49] It's just surprising that Democrats gave up that.

[00:15:53] Even Roy Cooper and Josh Stein do not want to talk about that.

[00:15:57] They don't want to talk about Sinaloa.

[00:15:59] They barely can talk about fentanyl being a southern border problem because their party

[00:16:02] owns this crisis.

[00:16:04] And they have precious little to say about it.

[00:16:06] They could be normal people and say this is a problem.

[00:16:10] They could challenge their own party and say, we've got to fix this.

[00:16:12] It's hurting our people.

[00:16:13] But even they and Democrats in North Carolina, at some point, they're going to be connected

[00:16:18] nationally.

[00:16:18] It's going to hurt them.

[00:16:19] It's going to just crush them because we in North Carolina got to stand up to the Democrats

[00:16:23] that are against this kind of stuff.

[00:16:25] All right.

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[00:16:55] Sam, welcome to the program and thank you for holding through the break.

[00:17:00] Yeah.

[00:17:01] OK, first of all, talking about logistics or rounding them up.

[00:17:04] Well, let's go to the simple ones.

[00:17:06] First, there's a problem with the criminals that have been caught.

[00:17:09] OK, you've already got them.

[00:17:11] You don't got to go look for them.

[00:17:12] At least I hope you don't got to look for them.

[00:17:14] When you put somebody in jail, they usually stay there for at least long enough for the

[00:17:18] paperwork to dry.

[00:17:19] So, OK, you've already got them.

[00:17:20] That cost has already been taken care of.

[00:17:23] OK, as for the cost of getting rid of them.

[00:17:27] OK, now how much does it cost to incarcerate one of these guys, people for, say, even six

[00:17:32] months?

[00:17:33] Let's say it's $70,000.

[00:17:35] You're going to tell us that's $35,000.

[00:17:37] You're telling me we can't get these big people back, just one individual back to their

[00:17:42] country for less than $35,000?

[00:17:45] I'll take that job.

[00:17:46] I'll take them one at a time.

[00:17:48] No problem.

[00:17:50] For $35,000 a pop, you'd get a whole lot of people willing to take them back.

[00:17:55] Well, you've got, you know, just in the federal system alone, you've got about 33, if you add

[00:18:00] them up, 30, 100, maybe a little over 100 and some thousand in the federal system.

[00:18:05] The ones that are in jail, whether they're in the county jail, the state jail, or the

[00:18:09] federal prison, all of those are easy.

[00:18:11] Although you don't want to necessarily turn over Joaquin Guzman back to the Sinaloa cartel.

[00:18:17] I mean, you don't.

[00:18:18] There are certain people that are imminent threats to the U.S., no matter how illegal they

[00:18:23] are.

[00:18:23] The fact that we got them here through extradition or whatever.

[00:18:26] But you're right.

[00:18:27] The ones that are...

[00:18:28] No, not the ones we brought here by extradition.

[00:18:30] Ones we caught, came across our border illegally and committed a crime in our country on our

[00:18:35] turf.

[00:18:36] Yes.

[00:18:37] Those are easy to get.

[00:18:38] Now those, yes, we can get them.

[00:18:40] But that is a small percentage.

[00:18:43] That's going to take a year or two right there.

[00:18:44] Well, I don't know.

[00:18:46] Homan.

[00:18:47] Homan.

[00:18:48] Tom Homan has asserted that he can get those out pretty quickly.

[00:18:51] He said those he can expedite.

[00:18:53] And those, like you said, they're already waiting.

[00:18:55] They're essentially in a holding cell somewhere.

[00:18:58] They can be deported pretty.

[00:18:59] It's the ones that we don't know about.

[00:19:02] You know, that the Biden administration assigned a court date to and just turned them loose.

[00:19:06] Catch and release kind of program that they had.

[00:19:08] And that's where...

[00:19:10] And then once they realize they're being, you know, they're going, people are going after

[00:19:14] them, they're going to be even more difficult to catch.

[00:19:16] And it's a matter of how do you...

[00:19:18] I mean, they will.

[00:19:19] They'll prioritize it.

[00:19:20] But if they're being a productive member of our society and obeying the laws, leave them

[00:19:26] alone.

[00:19:27] Give them a freaking green card.

[00:19:28] Give them citizenship.

[00:19:29] Give them whatever.

[00:19:30] Let them pay taxes.

[00:19:31] Increase our tax base.

[00:19:33] So do you want to encourage that?

[00:19:36] Would you want to encourage several hundred thousand more to come across if the only law

[00:19:40] they break is coming here illegally?

[00:19:45] Well, I'm saying the ones that are already here.

[00:19:49] Okay.

[00:19:49] I just didn't want to...

[00:19:50] I thought you were trying to create an incentive for more to come.

[00:19:53] You're trying to say the ones...

[00:19:54] There will be.

[00:19:55] Look, you've got the dreamers, you know, the DACA folks.

[00:20:01] There's going to be...

[00:20:02] There has to be some reform on our immigration laws.

[00:20:05] There's just no other way around that.

[00:20:07] We have an illegal problem.

[00:20:09] We have a criminal problem.

[00:20:11] And we have a DACA dreamer problem.

[00:20:13] So you're right.

[00:20:14] There are various stages of where people are along that spectrum.

[00:20:18] I don't know where they draw the line.

[00:20:20] And that's where the law has to be clarified.

[00:20:22] And I think you would agree with that regardless of...

[00:20:24] Huh?

[00:20:25] This country needs people willing to work.

[00:20:28] Trust me.

[00:20:28] The company I work for...

[00:20:29] It does?

[00:20:30] If we could, we'd take hundreds of them in the same day if they're willing to work.

[00:20:36] I think that you're going to see...

[00:20:39] The discussion has to be had.

[00:20:40] It can't be ignored, though.

[00:20:42] And I think one of the things we did was we just ignored it for the past four years.

[00:20:46] And I don't think either party can choose to ignore it anymore.

[00:20:49] But Sam, I appreciate that.

[00:20:51] And you're right.

[00:20:52] I mean, we have a worker issue.

[00:20:53] And we aren't replacing Americans.

[00:20:56] And so there has to be an immigration thing.

[00:20:58] If we're not having kids, we won't exist in 120 years.

[00:21:01] So I appreciate the call, Sam.

[00:21:03] Thank you.

[00:21:04] Now from Sam over to Stan.

[00:21:07] And Stan, you're wanting to talk about the HIPAA laws, I believe.

[00:21:11] Yes, correct.

[00:21:12] So I've worked for some portion of my life indirectly with the health care system.

[00:21:17] And after watching it for some time, I've come to a conclusion.

[00:21:19] I want to see if you agree with my conclusion.

[00:21:21] People think that HIPAA laws are to protect my information from people like you.

[00:21:27] You know what I mean?

[00:21:28] But what I've come to realize is that if I can't know yours and you can't know mine,

[00:21:33] then we don't have any idea how well the system is functioning.

[00:21:37] So I've come to a conclusion that it's to protect them from us

[00:21:41] because we can't know how Obamacare is doing and Medicare and Medicaid

[00:21:45] and how insurance is effectively working

[00:21:47] if we can't know the records of people who are getting treated through the system.

[00:21:51] Now that's fascinating.

[00:21:53] I hadn't heard that perspective before.

[00:21:55] I would say that, you know, you're talking about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

[00:22:00] It's a HIPAA.

[00:22:01] It's a nice acronym we have.

[00:22:02] It's been around since the 90s.

[00:22:03] So that's the you don't share information.

[00:22:06] Now I would be concerned or not me personally.

[00:22:10] Well, yeah, I would be.

[00:22:10] It is that you have this information and it's shared with companies so they can forbid,

[00:22:14] they cannot insure you.

[00:22:17] It's a way for insure.

[00:22:17] That's what part of it is, is so that the insurance companies don't say,

[00:22:20] well, you've got a genetic predisposition for this,

[00:22:23] so you're going to be covered for everything but that.

[00:22:26] And also when you see, you know, ancestry.

[00:22:29] It's created for something good, but it has, see,

[00:22:32] that understanding is that the free market pays for most of health care.

[00:22:36] If I paid for my own or I had our own private insurance company,

[00:22:40] I could negotiate a private agreement with them.

[00:22:42] But once you let the government take over providing a majority of health care,

[00:22:45] all of a sudden your insurance company knows your health care records,

[00:22:48] the government does, people who do Medicaid do, Medicare does.

[00:22:51] But the best of us can't.

[00:22:54] So we can't make a judgment on how well public health care is actually working.

[00:22:58] And Stan, you're making the case.

[00:22:59] You're making the case for more of a privatization and government getting out of the way.

[00:23:04] You're right.

[00:23:05] We don't know how well things are working.

[00:23:07] We have, it's very difficult to get statistics on this stuff.

[00:23:10] That's why it's so kludgy because people confuse health insurance with health care.

[00:23:15] They're not the same.

[00:23:15] Health insurance masks the actual cost of health care.

[00:23:18] Americans have no idea what they're paying for.

[00:23:20] Or hospitals can't even tell you.

[00:23:22] That was one of Dale Falwell's arguments.

[00:23:23] The hospital couldn't even tell them how much a knee replacement costs

[00:23:26] and wouldn't aggregate things out.

[00:23:28] So it's hard to fix something when you don't know what the facts are.

[00:23:33] And HIPAA's designed to prevent us from knowing that.

[00:23:35] It is.

[00:23:36] I can't say that you got a wrong point there, Stan.

[00:23:39] I appreciate you calling, okay?

[00:23:40] I appreciate you.

[00:23:41] Take care now.

[00:23:42] And that's, again, there's a lot of astute observations out there.

[00:23:45] I even think Sam's point about the illegal situation,

[00:23:48] what he's saying, many of you may be screaming at your radios or your devices right now saying,

[00:23:54] you know, Sam's out of his mind.

[00:23:55] But Sam's making a point that many companies were making.

[00:23:58] If you dumped all 11 million, there would be companies that would be crippled by that.

[00:24:01] And they're supposed to have, you know,

[00:24:03] they're supposed to have certifications that these people are working for them legally.

[00:24:07] I can't remember what E1, this is a big issue.

[00:24:09] It has been for years.

[00:24:11] I wish I could remember the paperwork right this second.

[00:24:13] But that's one of the significant problems with this is that they can come here and work.

[00:24:19] They can come here and get into the trades.

[00:24:21] They can.

[00:24:22] And the country rewards many of these that are once they cross here and they are illegally here,

[00:24:28] but at the same time, they're abiding by many others.

[00:24:31] Now, I've had, I happen to know many in the trades.

[00:24:33] And what they'll do is they'll create a roofing company or a construction company

[00:24:37] and create an LLC because somehow they figured out a way to do that.

[00:24:40] And they have to have a legit person here legally.

[00:24:43] And then they'll fold up shop and create the same company with the new LLCs

[00:24:47] to protect any of the work that was done.

[00:24:49] So there is a lot that this is a complicated issue.

[00:24:53] It's not easy, but you have to have immigration laws or you don't have a country.

[00:24:59] Phone lines still lit up.

[00:25:00] I've got plenty to talk about, but you guys come first.

[00:25:02] You know why?

[00:25:02] Because that's what I said when I started the show.

[00:25:04] It's always not everyone.

[00:25:05] So, Stan, appreciate it.

[00:25:07] Tommy, welcome to the show.

[00:25:08] How are you today?

[00:25:10] Well, at Butler, Pennsylvania, when Trump got shot in the ear,

[00:25:14] it's reported that he said that he heard a bullet whiz by first.

[00:25:19] So if a bullet is whizzing by, it is subsonic.

[00:25:25] What Mr. Crooks was shooting at him with was AR-15.

[00:25:31] It goes about three times the speed of sound.

[00:25:33] And it doesn't whiz.

[00:25:35] You can't hear it coming.

[00:25:36] When it goes by, it pops like a firecracker went by.

[00:25:40] And I know that from my Vietnam vet.

[00:25:42] So it breaks the sound barrier.

[00:25:45] And you hear a little sonic boom all down the trail of that bullet.

[00:25:49] So you could hear it when the cameras were running watching Trump.

[00:25:55] You hear a pop, pop.

[00:25:56] And Trump grabs his ear and he ducks.

[00:25:59] And that pop, pop was a sonic boom of those bullets going by from Mr. Crook's rifle.

[00:26:04] But Mr. Trump said he heard a bullet whiz by.

[00:26:08] So the supersonic bullets don't whiz, they pop.

[00:26:12] If it whiz, it was subsonic.

[00:26:14] And that means there was another shooter.

[00:26:16] I'm not trying to get into a deep debate here.

[00:26:19] But we do know there were multiple shots because another individual was killed right in line with Trump's head, so to speak, behind Trump from that angle that the shooter was shooting from.

[00:26:29] I'm not debating whether it was a second shooter with you.

[00:26:31] I'm just saying.

[00:26:32] And do you know what the grain on the bullets he was using?

[00:26:35] Was he using the 4-gram, 5-gram?

[00:26:37] Do you know if it was 77 grain or 55 grain?

[00:26:40] Because some of them travel at about 3,200 feet.

[00:26:42] Some are 2,700 feet, as I recall.

[00:26:45] But that's it.

[00:26:46] It would all be supersonic.

[00:26:48] And I've heard an interview of the two fellows that survived being shot.

[00:26:53] One, the younger one, had his ribs broken, which was probably very likely a supersonic shot.

[00:27:00] The other older gentleman was walking with a cane, and he still had the bullet in him.

[00:27:06] He said it was close to his colon, and it was very uncomfortable.

[00:27:10] I'd sure like to see that bullet when it comes out.

[00:27:13] I bet you it's subsonic.

[00:27:16] Well, it would be interesting.

[00:27:17] Again, there are a number of people that think like you.

[00:27:20] I am not one of those, but I'm not going to debate you on it because you have a reason, thought about the different types of ammunition used.

[00:27:26] And I wasn't aware that there was the other individual with a bullet in them.

[00:27:29] But it'll be – you know what?

[00:27:31] More truth.

[00:27:31] I guarantee you, hey, if Trump is interested in exposing what's going on in Area 51 and whether or not we have alien spacecraft, I'll guarantee you he wants to know more about what happened when he almost got killed.

[00:27:41] Well, they already had a picture of the bullet.

[00:27:44] They had a picture of it.

[00:27:45] Did you happen to see that?

[00:27:47] I have not.

[00:27:48] I have not.

[00:27:48] The one that killed the gentleman.

[00:27:50] They had a picture of the bullet on the camera, and it would have been subsonic.

[00:27:54] I bet you.

[00:27:56] Okay.

[00:27:56] Well, I appreciate you sharing that.

[00:27:58] Now the audience has heard your version of that one, so I appreciate it.

[00:28:01] Okay?

[00:28:03] And thank you, Tommy.

[00:28:04] And thank you for calling.

[00:28:05] Thank you for listening.

[00:28:06] And, Billy, welcome to the show.

[00:28:07] How are you?

[00:28:08] Good.

[00:28:09] How are you doing today?

[00:28:11] I am wonderful.

[00:28:12] How are you?

[00:28:13] Good.

[00:28:14] Hey, I just want to make a comment.

[00:28:16] You know, when it comes to health insurance, health insurance, not health insurance, but insurance in general, it used to be, you know, you're spreading your risk.

[00:28:23] People at higher risk are charged a greater amount.

[00:28:27] You know, if you live on the coast, of course, your insurance can be a little more than somebody who, you know, lives in Charlotte.

[00:28:32] However, when it comes to health insurance, insurance companies are not allowed to do that.

[00:28:37] Because if they do that, they're discriminatory or racist or whatever.

[00:28:43] So, I mean, I just, you know, I'm not a big proponent of insurance companies.

[00:28:48] They need to make a profit.

[00:28:49] I understand that.

[00:28:51] However, you know, if you have a certain condition, to me, if you're a smoker, you should be charged considerably more.

[00:28:58] But, you know, eventually, smoking is going to be an illness or drug addiction is going to be an illness, something you can't prevent.

[00:29:07] It's genetic.

[00:29:08] So, there you go.

[00:29:09] You can't do that.

[00:29:10] If you're a woman, they're charged more if they're childbearing.

[00:29:15] However, we'll get to a point where we can't do that either.

[00:29:17] So, it's almost like the educational system when it comes to the racial divide.

[00:29:24] Instead of elevating the children who are not performing well to a higher level, we have to bring the ones at a higher level down to make everybody the same.

[00:29:39] Which, society, we're just going nuts.

[00:29:43] We're going nuts.

[00:29:43] I mean, you know, things have to be looked at in a basic way and done properly.

[00:29:50] But it's not done that way across the board, whether it's insurance, education.

[00:29:54] It's just insane to me.

[00:29:57] Well, Billy, you made two.

[00:30:00] I want to go live in the woods.

[00:30:01] Well, don't do that.

[00:30:03] It's dangerous out there.

[00:30:04] Nature's out to get you, by the way.

[00:30:05] It's out to kill you.

[00:30:06] The universe is out to get you.

[00:30:08] Make no mistake, it is.

[00:30:09] You learn that every day when you make a mistake and run into a wall or a door or trip or fall or something.

[00:30:13] But let's go to the two points you made, which I think are very valid.

[00:30:16] One, that, you know, when we see teachers, I would make the equation to unions.

[00:30:21] A lot of unions reward a base level of work.

[00:30:25] And so you don't reward people that are exceptional at work.

[00:30:28] You have to reward everybody gets the same pay raise regardless of how good they are at the work.

[00:30:33] And the teachers' unions work the same way.

[00:30:35] So that's a disincentive to success.

[00:30:37] And we see that in education.

[00:30:39] The second one, you talk about health care.

[00:30:41] You know, we're really funny about health care.

[00:30:43] The emotional side of health care forbids us from having good economic discussions.

[00:30:48] And you're right.

[00:30:49] Because if I were to say, if you're really overweight, should your health insurance be more?

[00:30:53] And you would probably say yes.

[00:30:55] I think a lot of people would say yes.

[00:30:57] If you're a smoker, it should be more.

[00:30:58] What if you have a genetic predisposition?

[00:31:01] That's where it starts getting tricky.

[00:31:02] Or if you do a genetic profile and you find out you're going to have something, then you'd say, well, I don't want to – you can't insure that.

[00:31:10] So it is a – insurance should be about risk.

[00:31:15] In health insurance, it's not.

[00:31:17] And in many ways, government tries to not allow risk to be part of health insurance.

[00:31:24] But even in your car, if you wreck your car or have a bunch of speeding tickets, your insurance goes through the roof for your car.

[00:31:29] Right.

[00:31:30] Well, it is –

[00:31:32] To a limit.

[00:31:32] And see, that's another issue.

[00:31:34] People are talking about the cost of homeowner's insurance has gone up.

[00:31:38] It's crazy how much it's gone up.

[00:31:41] Now, everything else has gone up in price.

[00:31:43] I was a general contractor.

[00:31:44] So, of course, then the cost to rebuild your house after an event is going to be greater.

[00:31:48] So your premiums could be greater.

[00:31:50] But what drives me crazy is how many of these insurance companies, whether it's health care or property casualty, during a time like this will show escalating profit.

[00:32:03] I mean, are you stupid?

[00:32:05] I mean, are you really that stupid?

[00:32:07] I mean, your premium should go up with the actual cost.

[00:32:11] But if you start showing excess profit, you know, you're just a moron is what you are.

[00:32:20] You're right.

[00:32:21] But, I mean, our hospital cartels are tens of billions in profits and putting it offshore, as Dale Falwell pointed out.

[00:32:28] And no one seems to get that upset.

[00:32:30] All right.

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