Nanny State Tells The World to Nanny Up - We Suggest Australians Nut Up

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Summary

I. Introduction
- Elon Musk and X/Twitter refusing to take down photos/videos of knife attacks in Sydney despite Australian court order
- Discussion of censorship, propaganda, and historical context

II. Terrorist attack in Australia
- 16-year-old charged with terrorism for attacking religious facility
- The Australian government wants attacks downplayed and materials removed from internet worldwide
- Criticism of double standards in how different religiously-motivated attacks are treated by media and governments

III. Connecting Australia situation to rapper killed in Nashville
- Chris King, former roommate of Justin Bieber, killed in Nashville
- 19-year-old shooter had prior murder arrest as a juvenile
- Concerns about youth being used by gangs for violent crime
- Broader discussion of societal issues and unwillingness to acknowledge facts

IV. Gender equality in the workplace
- Statistics on low percentage of women in certain jobs like plumbing despite equal pay
- Criticism of excessive focus on getting women into military combat roles 
- Questions about fairness of modified standards and special accommodations

V. Information overload and media sensationalism
- Technology has erased regional differences and exposed people to information overload
- Media drumbeat of sensationalized threats (child abductions, shark attacks, etc.) despite actual low probability
- Importance of tuning out irrelevant information and focusing on bettering one's own situation

VI. Conclusion
- Anecdote about changing demographics of workers at local gas station
- Concerns about younger generations' work ethic and economic productivity
- Speculation that reduced labor supply will drive up costs further

In summary, the discussion touched on issues of censorship, terrorism, crime, gender in the workplace, information overload, and generational economic trends - making broad connections between current events in an attempt to identify concerning societal patterns. The overall tone was critical of perceived inconsistencies and double standards in social and political attitudes.

Unedited Transcript

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You might not be aware, but Elon Musk is at war with Australia. Really? Yes, he declared war and they launched ballistic missiles from SpaceX. And they've taken off Sydney

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the Prime Minister of Australia has lashed out at ex and Elon Musk for refusing to take down photos of the knife attacks that took place in Sydney. recently. Yes, I heard about those. So, in Australia, everybody who's on the interwebs and gets on x. They're blocking those photos, those videos and everything. But Australia's Federal Court has ruled in a hastily called hearing that, yeah, the photos and the videos had to be taken down worldwide. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah. My, my response to that would be You and what army? Thank you very much. No, go away. I found it amazing. I'm going to try to see if I can find it. They basically the audacity of Elon Musk to show these photos. And he's not it's just it's his company. But the point is, there's no media lashing out saying the audacity of the Australian government to impose its will on the world. Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty comical. And these are the it is important to, you know, of all the interesting changes at X slash Twitter or whatever.

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This is one of the things in the prior

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prior ownership, you know, as a public company, they prior executives would have kowtow to the sort of thing.

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And they did, continually, you know, one little country gets mad, and they take things down for the whole world, because whatever. And I do remember, I don't know if this is the case anymore, but I do remember they had, like, regional blocking. So every now and then people would share screenshots around that, you know, look, this tweet is blocked in Germany, because it, you know, made somebody they're mad or had a certain kind of piracy on it. That was only was illegal in that country. So they block it on a country by country basis. I tell Australia, okay, fine, we'll block it. But just in Australia, and then when you complain that it's elsewhere, it's like, and so well, the ruling is so lame. Literally any country can control the entire Internet. And I found it interesting that Australia's E Safety Commission.

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Yeah, so they just it's just sounds childish, honestly. And so we're is in Where are parents monitoring what their children are doing? Just real simple. I mean, we're there. This is because of children is their argument? Well, I, I suspect, if it's a nationwide blog, that guests Australians have become overly pacified, and are unable to handle things, I guess the thing is, how, how do they allow people to go into the military? Well, there's all kinds of very interesting controversies with their military lately as well. People can't handle the things that people have done at war. It's like, well, yes, well, yeah. But I mean, okay, so not all warfare is handing out gummy bears to the children on the side of the road. You know, sometimes people do nasty things. And that's just the reality of, well, censorship and propaganda have been around since the days of founding of our nation. Let's get blunt and real about it.

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Benjamin Franklin was a propagandist with his, his writings, so, so too, are all of those who wrote the Federalist Papers and the anti Federalist Papers. What do you think those things were? They were propaganda? Absolutely. I was reminded. Let's see earlier, yesterday or so something about, you know, the Tea Party and, you know, the revolt over taxes and everything. And I saw how the Tea Party hijacked by Glenn Beck I'm talking about the Boston Tea Party. Oh, sorry, not the

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post financial collapse grift by the now that we have that word to use? Yes. Some popular it's it was nothing. It was something for a short while and then it just very quickly just became a grift by certain political entities that we now know, not Glenn Beck, but others that anyway, aside the point the Tea Party thing reminded me or I was reminded of the Tea Party because of the Boston Tea Party. That is

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because there was a funny tweet I saw from one of the big Libertarian Party X

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accounts okay about basically crying that global gas prices are going up over the Ukraine conflicts and I was like I was like oh, oh yes. Oh no will revolt over some mild taxes and that's kind of the bedrock of you know, libertarianism which is you know if the government basically and no more taxes meanwhile tax for freedom is not worth it these days apparently according to libertarian

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it's just so funny how how these little these groups flip flop on their ideals and their and their principles and stuff and the biggest flip flop and Republicans and Democrats the two parties the two main parties have just completely flip flopped that neither one of them stand for the the origins of what they used to stand for now it's just it's political convenience and other party bad under most circumstances especially on the national politics level was locals a little different yeah locals on a national level. It's it's comical. It's i I honestly don't even know why people pay attention to stuff other than that. It's the greatest show on earth. Basically, apparently, one of the things going back to Australia, I'll just kind of loop this together. The there's a 16 year old boy who has been charged with terrorist terrorism, because he went to a some type of a religious facility, and he stabbed a few people killed one. And while father Isaac royal, I guess it is of the Assyrian. He's an Assyrian Bishop, I some church. Anyway, it was being live streamed and he stabbed people and got him outside, whatever. So they're saying that he was motivated by the other stabbings and so this is why Elon has to not do what they want him to. They want him to stop everything while they're stopping it because it's a it's a Islamist attack against Christians, and they don't want anybody to get mad about him. And that's the reality of it. Let's just put plain as it is, you know, this is what countries all around the world, including the United States have done since 911. When there is a religiously motivated attack against nonbelievers. What do they do? If it's if it's Christian or any other religious group, Christian Jewish whatever against another then they're terrible. They're the worst these people are terrible terrorists lock them up drawn courtroom the public is allowed to get riled up and go crazy. If it's anybody if it if it's the obvious, if it's Islamic, motivated against any of the other groups, then we're supposed to sweep it under the rug ignore it act like it didn't happen, and kowtow to it. And it's in its it's total BS, it does not achieve anything useful, because it creates a double standard. And these people feel like they have the ability to do this or the right to do this. Now, you know, everybody can always without the oh, well, it's not all it's not this. We all know that da like there's what, a billion and a half 2 billion people that subscribes to one various sects of Islamic faith, obviously, if all then the whole world would be on fire for about, what about three years, and then it'd be over.

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So So that's that, you know, we always have to make all these PC statements to excuse away things. But instead just, you know, it's just it's a whole situation is continually is nonsense, that we have to be super sensitive to these people, which, in my mind, instead of just calling it out for what it is everybody acts sensitive about, effectively proving their point that you are afraid of them and they were right to do it because they're gonna get what they want. It's just dumb. Like the whole thing apps, it makes absolutely no sense. And, you know, oh, censorship on these things. They did the same thing when there was that, um, that attack at the Gera Deli

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Restaurant or your cafe or someplace in Australia, this is probably five or six years ago now that I think about

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I can't remember exactly there was some interesting stuff that came out of it. But anyway, I think it was like they had to send him I think it's I think they had to send in like special forces or something. Super, super SWAT special forces or something I can't read there's there's something unique about that incident. They had to send some people

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say eliminate this person. But they did the same thing back then they got all hot and bothered that people had pictures and video and we're sharing identities and we're calling it an Islamic terrorist attack instead, it's just a terrorist attack. And it's like, like, if it's if it's racially motivated in the US and it's it's white against any other race, then it's going to immediately be called a a racist, a terrorist attack, right? Yeah. Well, in today's anywhere in the world, really, right. Well in the United States in today's world, it they're now

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classifying those who are South American, Mexican, Puerto Rican Haitian, if their the melanin in their skin is, is more white, they're white. It's just less but yeah, what I'm saying is yes, yeah, less. I'm sorry. Yeah. My point is that is a fact. Oh, it is. Yeah, the number of January six people that I've seen that, you know, they classify as, as, you know, racist. It's like, I'm sorry, guys, this guy looks very much Hispanic. It's like calling those Alinsky Hitler and Nazi Oh, yeah, he's a Jew, folks, by the way, the President of Ukraine. Well, anyway, the point is, is we just have all these weird double standards that don't make any sense. And, you know, it's, I don't know, I mean, I guess it comes down to,

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ultimately in people's lizard brains, who's actually more afraid of who, you know,

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I guess they're not afraid of, of the things that we've talked about that they're willing to out there, rabidly persecute, but deep down in their brain, they are worried that, you know, more people could do something that, I guess, on some level was effective, even though it's disgusting. Well, if you're new to our podcast, the Paul Truesdale podcast to Paul's in a pod, one of the things that we do is, we provide a lot of context and everything is about business. No if ands or buts about it. What Paul and I have done over the years, another podcast we have which we have moved into our private sector for clients only. It's called connecting dots. And that's really what we're doing here today is we're always in the process of connecting dots. Now I'm going to connect Australia with Nashville, believe it or not, I'm going to connect Australia Nashville. And I'm going to connect hip hop and rap with all of this.

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Now I promised before our little disclaimer that I was going to link Australia with Nashville, and this morning when I got up I was reading reading and came across a couple of very interesting articles. He said word of mouth. And here's the way it goes. There's a rapper by name of Chris King. I don't know if you've heard of him. He's a very popular. He used to be a roommate, another fella. Justin Bieber. When Justin and he lived. They were roommates didn't know that. And yeah, well, rapper Chris King was killed. He's 32. And let me give you just a little bit of the setup. It was a peaceful setting. Everything was copacetic he and his other two homies were minding their own business in an alley reminds me of Better Call Saul where they're rolling. Okay, yeah, you got that. For those of you who have not seen a television show, Better Call Saul, please do it Breaking Bad and better call. So lots of business. One of these days, I promise you we will we will watch all 62 episodes of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. You can watch it with us. I've watched him now I think two times or three times each. And we'll go through and break down the business components of each segment. Okay, I promise you will do that. But he was shot and killed. One of his homies survived. What was interesting about it, you know, they weren't doing anything wrong. It was just it was it was all cool. Now they identified one of the shooters a teenager, okay. And the teenager I looked him up and they keep calling him a teenager and how he is he was recently released or he should be charged as a teenager. He's 19 Okay, so I kind of like 18 You're an adult, but because teen teen 19 You're still a teenager. Okay. Interesting has applied

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This this this is this guy something else.

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So apparently the claim is by the National Police Department is that it was robbery robbery the went bad guy having experience in that industry a long, long, long time ago and anyone with any common sense. Most people that do robberies don't just like go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang kill you. I mean, there's usually a reason. Yeah, just use a recent reason somebody didn't pay for their, their, their meth Coke or whatever, that's usually the case. So what happened is,

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this 19 year old, two years ago, was assisting another family member in the murder of a 50 year old. And they shot and killed Josh Evans in Nashville. And they rolled him up in garbage bags, took them to the river and set them down. Okay? So he he doesn't sound premeditated at all. No. And so just write crime of passion, I'm sure.

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But this is all family, everything involving this thing. It's all family. Okay. Now, if we go back to Justin Bieber's buddy been being killed, the kid has been found guilty. But he's been released. And he's got one of those ankle monitors on so they were able to catch him pretty easy because of that. Okay, get Roscoe is Rosco is right there. They have to Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, they have to get a, you know, all the SWAT team and every you know all the toys together and have to go and get this kid. I did a little research on the family as best I could pulling up the various connections, which is not too difficult even these days. No. Because when the news actually reports names, and you begin to kind of get an idea of the race and sex. And some of these organizations, they still publish

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booking photos and that sort of stuff. So I spent about 40 minutes digging around on this crap. This whole family's like, we called them the gallon family down in Tampa from back in the in the 80s and 70s. It's just, they're just like a local problem. And they're all kind of in and out of various illicit industries, depending on what makes money. Yeah. And apparently, kids Mo is, he's good at murder. Yeah. That's the thing. It's really scary as you there's, you know, some documentaries and stuff, especially about some of the LA gangs in the 90s because of various laws in different places about children and being able to be detained and things like that. And they would kind of link it back to what we're talking about earlier. Kind of like some of these things you read about with about these Islamist terrorist groups in the Middle East, in particular, these children, you know, they brainwash them, kidnap them, whatever, train them to do certain things. And in the case of like, some of these gangs, now, there's been a few high profile instances of raising children for, you know, hits on people or being drug mules and stuff like that. That's, that's a lot more common, because, you know, in some states, at least, it used to be the case, I don't know if it is anymore, you know, violent crimes by children you couldn't charge for, or sentence for certain time and all these various things. What is it? I think in Florida, it was like, even if you committed a capital crime, and you are under 18, they had to let you out at 18 at 1.0. The laws in the past were just there, they're mind boggling. The point is that, you know, these things existed as a way to kind of understand children doing these things, even if they're guilty of them, they probably didn't know, or have a full grasp on understanding of what they're doing. Typically, in every time a law enforcement officer has to drop a kid in a shoot, don't shoot. Oh, yeah, that's right. You're, you're automatically guilty until proven innocent, and you're done. It's just a terrible situation for everybody. But point is, is that these loopholes, let's call them were then being used by its calm, a little bit more sophisticated gangs to do things back in the day. It's crazy. But I mean, that's expected like holes exist, people find them for any legal or illegal situation. Well, my point to linking Australia with with Nashville is to simply say, what is the cause and effect of these people? And I really do mean this. I have completely changed medical practitioners that I use because of COVID. I have eliminated 75 to 80% of people who are not clients, but what I would in the past tense called friends over COVID Sure, okay. It was mutual in many cases, because I love this idea where they the big word they whoever they are, they say Science, Science, everything's about science.

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It's and all of these woke.

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What's the name? They give us a female's name for all the not Sally. But anyway, all the the silly sasses out there that just they can't accept reality. And in reality is just the let the facts lead you to a conclusion. Facts. Yeah, well, it's just something I've been harping on and drum beating on. I mean, you have to accept that people are different. But what are some of the links between the guy who committed the murder in Australia and the guy who committed a murder in Nashville and everybody else start? Look, if it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck quacks like a duck, there's a damn good possibility. It's a duck, and ducks exist all across the world. My point being is that if you're honest about things, you start really connecting the dots and I just, you're not going to solve any problem by eliminating bad pictures and bad video on the internet. No, absolutely not. All it does is just sweep the problem under the rug and make fewer people aware that there is a problem in the first place, which is the Australian Government's Mo. Well, is Would would you say? Because you're very familiar, though. You say Australia has turned into a real nanny state? Oh, yeah, definitely. Just like England. Honestly, Australia is worsening on these days. I mean, some people may disagree with that. But the rapid turn, in the past, I would say 20 years, compared to you know, the Australia of like 30 years ago is not the Australia today. And I think a lot of it has to do with there's just like the United States there's a it's not a huge country is a country of

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tons of baby boomers.

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Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of retirees with a lot of money. And politicians that and they vote, politicians that keep getting elected are let's call it liberal, but at the same time conservative. And it's honestly it just seems like Australia is very much afraid of preserving the status quo. Just when I just wrote that down status quo at the same time. It's, it's, it's, you know, it's part of the let's call it the you know, it's part of the old British Empire. So it's a Commonwealth state. So there's a lot of legacy laws and weird stuff that apply. They're very it's very similar to Canada. Honestly. Just the the, the way you call it before it's it's a nanny state.

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It's in you know, terrible I mean, because Australia has to have this like really wacky

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out battle freedom type thing. Yeah, I mean, very much a like mini United States with regard to their kind of just wacky personalities that were allowed to terrain and, and crazy thing, I mean, it is a crazy place, we'll go back to the movies, Crocodile Dundee, and all those kinds of things that just it just fostered that wild west rugged, make your own way, as you know, those people are still there. I mean, they don't go away. But the government is predominantly, you know, a couple, the country is predominantly a couple of big cities. And, you know, big cities breed, what they breed, they breed.

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It's called conservative liberalism, right? That's a good word that you want to preserve. You want to preserve what you have, and keep everybody safe at the same time. You know, everybody's free, and everybody's the same and equal and social policies and all these various things. So it's just it's kind of a it's a toxic brew with when you compare it to their history, let's say

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you know, same thing with Canada. I mean, Canada is the wild west to I mean, it used to be well, all kinds of crazy stuff. You know, what is it in the 70s the military had to go in and take over what is it the back or something because all the cops quit anarchy in the streets like everybody with a grudge was killing people they had grudges with what was that movie was obviously had a lot of influence there at the time. And so there's just all kinds of crazy stuff Herge wasn't it called? I mean, basically, it was basically a reality of the purge, which is a few crazy things happen. But mostly people just kind of stick to their own go, Oh, crap. It's might be bad. But still, you know, they,

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you know, what, is it a Canada. I mean, the reason they had to move their capital, though, was Ottawa now is because the French kept burning it down. Like, go look on Wikipedia and go look at how many times the French capital capital building in particular is burned to the ground. It's funny, it happened a lot. It's like, it's five or six times. So anyway, the point is, is just, you know, these places, I guess it's just a combination of like, consolidation. I blame all I blame almost all of this on technology. It's just it's made it way easier for people to have this kind of homogenous

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culture and a

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See raced a lot of the differences around the world between people. And now everybody is basically some weird form of American New York holiday. It's just gross. Well, I was gonna mention and tie this in to 1973. I remember watching this on television very vividly. So a couple years ago was the 50th anniversary of the Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King tennis match. Okay. And Bobby Riggs was a phenomenal tennis player just dominated at Wimbledon many times. He just had great backgrounds in the 30s. Sure, so there's, like 20 or more years, maybe 20 years age difference between them. I think she was 34. And he was 54. And women's tennis was beginning to come Come on, and you know, things were building. But yeah, Bobby was, he made some outrageous comments, even for back in the day where the only place a woman should be is in the bedroom or in the kitchen. And, you know, he just couldn't help himself. But he did it for promotion purposes. He was he was just seizing on the Archie Bunker. Is it making money? He was grifting. That's all he was. So if you get a chance, go to YouTube and just look at how everything if you you just got to look at it. Because you remember some of these hit prize heavyweight Championships where they come in with their entourage. crowns and all that stuff. That's every fight now. Okay. Yes. Well, here's the thing. Go back and watch this one, especially title fights now. Yeah. So I remember a mom with my mom and dad, were watching this thing. My mother saying, oh, for the love of God, because here comes Billie Jean King. Seat us she's sitting on a, like a throne, being carried by the scantily clad, well built young men who have you know, the rails like the Egyptians on her shoulders and are carrying her around. Right. Okay. Yeah. Well, then Bobby comes in. And same thing with all the women, right? It is just, but it's technology, right? I mean, this is like ABC. Wow, it's a big thing. Blah, blah, blah. My, remember my dad saying, hey, it's great theater. It is just it's it's they found a way to make some money on television. But battle of the sexes is what it came out to. From there, everything developed into not everything but you know, women's rights, yada yadi it was just a perpetual in the rear out now. Bobby came close to beating her in the first set. It was six, four, and then she wants 6363. Okay, so she won. But she lost four sets. You know, I mean, she won, but a 34 year old woman, PETA 34 year old guy. Yeah. Okay. I bring all that up. Because everybody is always talking. Everybody's equal. Everybody equal pay equal job and everything else. Okay, I thought I would look up a couple of things. I just had to look it up. I just had to look this up. It was just something I wanted to do. So

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there are a grand total of 531,406 people who are working as plumbers, or steamfitters in the United States. Okay, like that.

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Sounds about right, based on the population. And I guarantee you the 406 has changed a little bit since I said that Sure. Of that. 98.3% are men 1.74% are women. Now, if you look at the average wage, well, the reality is, is especially for plumbers.

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Nobody wants to get covered in poo. But that's an unfortunate reality of that job is.

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You know, well, here's the thing. For the women who are doing the job of the 1.74% of the plumbers, that are women, guess what they make? I don't know, the exact same average salary as the men. Bingo. Oh, yeah. I mean, the reality is, if you want equality in the workplace can become a plumber. But the reality is, is most of these just for simple math, right? Think about the kind of woman that is going to work as a plumber? Are they going to take sick days? Are they going to do the things that typically impact the Lawson wage or loss and tenure that causes the loss and the wage difference or wage gap? No, of course not.

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You know, it's just I mean, it's it's a good example because it very much shows you what how equal the playing field really is. If you put in the same tenure and effort and education and job skills, just so one of the things if you're listening to us for the first time and you're all upset in your underwear is in a bind. You don't get it we're not racist, sexist, we're

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We're not pro this or Pro that we just follow the facts. And based upon facts, we do forecasting. That's how we manage money. That's how we manage the business, everything business, the businesses. And so when you start adding everything together, we have a world that is getting ready to go on turbo fire. But we'll see what happens. We definitely know that the Russians are they're looking to have some real issues now that the United States House and Senate have finally gotten off their keister and doing something when it comes to supporting Ukraine. There are so many Republicans that we know who all they ever say is that US is supporting NATO lock stock and barrel and that we've been bailing out the Ukraine, which is we're not going to get into that. We've talked about that extensively. I'll let you Paul pick up on that in just a minute. But one of the things I did in tying all this together, I wanted to find out well, how many women are in combat positions in the US Marine Corps? And there's 179. Yeah, so there's 231 Women who are serving in combat positions, if the two are officers, yeah, 52 Are officers 179 are enlisted. That's just a crazy ratio that would not exist among the male population. But also, keep in mind that over the past, I don't know, 1015 years, there has been a huge PR push to try and get women into these roles. I mean, tons and tons and tons of marketing and opportunities had been created to try and well, they ended up succeeding to try and equal the playing field, as far as equality with regard to this. And I would say that's just honestly pathetic, because I mean, the amount of money and effort that's gone into try and recruiting women into these roles is just but but but it has succeeded. And I'm gonna give you the facts on this a waste of time on us. Now the military is the number of people who are in the Marine Corps is down 2.7%. And this is a 20 to 23 numbers. So we're down in our course, all the branches are having, you know, they are struggling. But when it comes to women, it's now 17.5% of all active duty Marines are a woman. And in the reserves, it's 21.6% of all reserves are women up from 21.4. Now, here's what is important, all of these women, less than 100 have successfully been able to go into what are called Field combat positions. So of that 179 that are enlisted can't, they're not in field combat 92 Women are operating in actual combat positions. But the overwhelming are in

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administrative, non combat positions, total of 23 officers. But the point being, the point being is we have a lot of ladies who are in the military, and being paid the same as a man, because they don't discriminate on wages that are not on the frontlines. They have the opportunity. Well, I I'm not being negative without Okay, so this whole, this whole argument is just dumb, because they they focus on Oh, we have to get women to do combat jobs. It's like, there's a multitude of reasons why that's a bad idea. I'll not go into them right now. It doesn't make it's not worth it's not worth the time. But this is the same kind of dumb logic that people have. You think about it. Everybody in the military knows, it takes all kinds in all jobs are important. You know, you may be mad that oh, you know, most of a certain group of people are in logistics or whatever. Logistics is more important in the field combat roles. The supporting role in the military is just as important as the people who are carrying a rifle. Yeah, every pilot is definitely going to tell you that those guys those mechanics are critical. Everybody's going to say that. Like it doesn't matter what you're doing. If you are a Marine Corps, basic rifleman, right. Basic enlisted, nobody, where's your ammunition coming from? Where is your food coming from? Where's your water coming from? Who who's who's telling you where to go what to do at any point in time, you're not doing any of that. You're just being told what to do. So it's, in my mind, mind, it's extremely dumb to get worked up about specific over representation in certain roles, because it's really obvious when you think about it. We don't need to explain, but my point is certain people would be better geared towards certain roles. But my point being is that the Biden administration is putting so much effort to get women in combat positions. It started cost is insane, and it started under Obama honestly, like his administration went crazy on this stuff and and I've

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talk to a bunch of people who have been in the military and the, you know, they create special courses for them. And they, you know, reduce the strenuousness of certain tests and things and they create, you know, they great on a scale and all these things and even with all of that nonsense, still substantially lower. So it's just it's dumb because it's like, oh, we're all equal, but also you get a special tests like how, but that doesn't make any sense. And then at the same time, it's just such a waste. This is a good example of a no, this is these are the types of nonsensical things we get to engage in. We have the excesses of our government, and economy and everything that we have. But once things tighten up, all these superfluous nonsense arguments will go away real quick, because nobody's gonna have the resources or time to deal with your anybody talking about equality and all that in any any

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social fairness stuff, the aftermath of the recession. 2008, nine, no, that stuff went to the wayside really quick. And once everything got back, oh, boy, and now we're worried about stuff that doesn't matter. Well, one of the things just kind of tie this to the national political scene, you know, people are always wondering how in the hell is Trump able to maintain the grip that he has on his supporters is cult of personality. When you look at these kinds of things, we'll no wonder Biden, for example, you know, saying that men who identify as women cannot be discriminated against in women's sports. Now, go, let's go all the way back to what I said in Australia. You know, you can't discriminate on free speech. Okay. But Australia can and they want to impose their will on the world. You have Billy G King and Bobby Riggs who brought to the attention. There's a difference between men and women, but whatever, they they had fun with it. And from there, then you just expand everything. We I just to the, for the life of me, I don't know how, and this is a really good one, a lady by the name of Angel Reese. She is now playing in the W NBA Women's National Basketball Association, which I gotta be honest, if you're going to be fair across the board, why don't they let men play in the Women's National Basketball Association? You know, what's coming? Just make one mono organization no matter? Oh, wait, that would just revert back to the way it used to be where the women didn't have any representation. And yeah, well, she, she went to LSU. She's now with the WNBA, Chicago Sky. And she put a pretty substantial statement on x, and, quote, protect young women in sports. three exclamation points. Now, she's not necessarily being anti trans. That's a big thing. But under under Title, was it nine? Yeah, of the tax, federal code. You know, Biden went nuts. And the thing I guess my point is, every single day, if you have a business, here's a business idea. Maybe we should do this. We should every single day, modify the current do and don't do book for society. And when other words, you get up, what can you say? Or do today that you couldn't do yesterday? I mean, it's gotten so complicated over this, it goes back to the thing I've complained about is the excesses of modern society have created all kinds of amazing stuff. But this is the problem we have with worker efficiency and all these things. But why does AI need to exist? Because people are distracted? Why are they distracted? Because they have to worry about what how are they enforcing title nine? Oh, what can I say about this or that? So I mean, you know, it goes back to an old joke. I remember hearing kind of what the libertarian crowd back 15 years ago about how you know, every day is every, every day a person commits a certain number of crimes, they have no idea that they're even crimes, whether they're violations of weird federal code, because you stepped in a swamp was, you know, regulated, or you, you know, drove too fast under the, I don't know, the full moon on the second Thursday on a February or something like there's just all kinds of nonsense and you know, the cognitive load that trying to remember and follow all these these rules and taboos and how what can you say and who's going to get offended by what is at a point gets overwhelming to people. And that's why you have the populist kind of movements among, you know, Americans that continues to roll I mean, you know, it's why Trump as the substantial

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Following he has it's, it's it's a, it's a it's definitely a motivator. And the general sentiment is also why why Biden is more populous than any Democrat in recent memory. Same reason, while he is doing these crazy things that a lot of people disagree with his rhetoric and his tone is very, is very populist. And, you know, people wonder why that is, it's pretty clear, it's because people are just the cognitive load of dealing with all these things. There's just too much well, in life. And again, I, I blame the vast majority of this on technology, everybody thinks that everybody has to be the same everywhere, they are all across the world, we all deserve the same things no matter what.

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And at the same time, we also have to know everything, like this thing that you've talked about in Nashville, I don't care.

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Why do I even know about this? It does not matter to me, you know, what does is? You know, I follow sir, I mean, as an as a normal as a normal citizen 90% of the stuff that comes to my mind, from any news or any the stuff has zero effect on me. And if it if it has an effect on me, Can I do anything about it? Most of it is a big fat, no, it doesn't matter. You know, a good example, I follow a lot of this stuff, because it's important in our business. And it's important geopolitically and how all these dominoes or puzzle pieces fit into place. But you know, in in, in Russia, you know, everybody wants to talk about global warming. Is anybody talking about the fact that Russia is flooding like crazy, have hundreds of 1000s of homes and destroyed all across? Basically, because let's call it graft, corruption, and bad infrastructure, the nexus of those problems, has caused, you know, basically 100 year floods to blood, entire towns.

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What they call a dam is what yeah, that's another thing. But But But seriously, like the human toll is, at the same or more devastating than Katrina, United States. Nobody's talking about it. And basically, nobody's not here. And you know, I think a lot of people are just like, basically, you know, FM errs, but it's an interesting thing. It was talking about it. China is dealing with the same thing. Massive overflows on rivers, I have a whole bunch of stuff to read to see where it's at and what's going on. But there's they're having the same issue. Lots of lots of it. Lots of us, winter snow melting around the same time. Meanwhile, what is it? Here it is middle end of April, and we just had a nice cold spell day yesterday for no reason. That's beautiful. What so you know, last few days, you know, the cycles are moving in different places, the world are getting different kinds of weather. And Sahara used to be a very lush area at one time. Oh, yeah. So anyway, the point is, is there's there's tons of things that, you know, you know, about they're interesting, you can talk about that have more ramification than some of the stuff and I but again, from for the average, everyday, normal person, most of the stuff, all it does is make people more afraid. I mean, I remember seeing a study about this

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child kidnapping and all this stuff. And back, let's say in the 60s and 70s, you know, back when nobody had any ability to communicate. And you know, if you have wrote off with your friends as a kid and never came home, you know, nobody would really know what happened to you. Unless, once they found you, right? Well, child kidnapping was a lot more prevalent back then than it is now. Why? Because everybody's connected everybody has phones. But what does we have everybody's everything such a nanny state now, you know, everybody cuddles their kids, Nobody's allowed to go do anything whatever, despite the fact that you can pull up their phone and look on a map and see exactly where they're at can use you know, the fine miles if you have Apple devices, and I'm sure there's equivalent equal seeds for for Android stuff. You know, you you have instant communication globally. Like statistically Well, this stuff is way down because how can you even get away with it? But instead people people's fear of this the the prevalence see of this in society, or at least their perception of it is extremely high they think it's rampant and crazy and you know, everybody's out to kidnap their children or whatever. Meanwhile, it's it's less likely than ever, you know, it's a good example of you know, people fear shark attacks. It's like okay, and they live in Iowa. What is it you I think you're more likely to get struck by lightning and get get bit by shark but yet, you know, everybody goes in the ocean is like, no, no, they're they're twitching a little bit because they think that you know, Shark might come along and get on it's like, just pay attention. Like, is it is it

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is a thing that happens? Yes. How many millions of people go to the beach every year? How many billions of people go to go to eight? How many billions of people go to a beach somewhere? Mountain people, like, you have to put things into perspective. And the media in particular, constantly harasses people's minds, who don't have the information, or the mental capability or awareness, to put things in perspective. And so because people can't do it, we should lock down everybody from having information like Australia. Well, but the point, but what I was trying to wrap around, you know, with Australia, that's dumb, because the media are the terrorist organization, when you when you really think about it, I mean, who creates more terror in people's minds, you know, an actual terrorist attack, or whatever yours or it will drum beat the drum. But But, but it's not just, you know, a terror attack, like, like happened there where somebody got mad at a priest and a bishop or somebody in a church. Yeah, that's the thing that happened, probably, you know, in the grand scheme of things, a fairly isolated incident, it's probably worth reporting on because it is an anomalous thing. But instead, what do they do they they report on the drumbeat of No, all kinds of other normal crime that happens continually when you have enough people in a society. And now everybody thinks that they're going to get, you know, shark attacked, or kids are gonna get kidnapped, and all these other various things, and whatever. It's just, it's the corrupt nature of journalists goes back to the Woodward and Bernstein, everybody's got to try to take everything and turn it into the next. Watergate, the language, the flamboyance, the emotional, the, again, the drum beating it just it is what they're trying to keep attention. Because in with technology, because everybody can access basically anything they want all the time, you have this gamesmanship among the media on who can get attention on their stories, and have so much time in a day. So everything has to be reported, extremely flamboyant, over the top, sensational nature, to the point that it scares people. I mean, you talk to normal people, like I said before, they think if you go to the beach, you know, there's probably a 10% chance they're gonna get eaten by a shark.

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You know, they think if you go into the woods, and go on a hike, you're gonna get mauled by bears, despite the fact they don't realize like in Florida

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the bears are more afraid of you down here. Like those little black bears don't they're there they're effectively like like a scared dog. Now, at the same time, don't go put your arms open and try to hug now Well, that's obvious but but you know, you know what I mean? Like you're really yes obviously. Well, I mean, it should be obvious some of our some of our tourists and go to Yellowstone that yeah, mauled. Oh, well, Oh, yeah. Let's go hang out with with the brown bears up. Yeah. Okay. Good job. Yeah. Somebody by the way. There's a report there was Lady in from Tokyo, literally Tokyo. The Buffalo stories are hilarious. She got eaten by God air took her off. And yes, well, people go and they see the stampedes of buffalo or the pack or whatever that whatever the pack term for Buffalo is. And they they go in, you know, we got all these buffalo here. Oh, this looks cool. Take a picture with them. It's a herd, but I can't vote it is it's like they have bad eyesight or something. Oh, yeah. And they get spooked. And you get too close to him, and they have a panic attack. And then they all just stampede in one direction. And people get trampled all the time from that stuff. But anyway, the point is, is, you know, you have to put things into perspective. You know, do any of these individual incidents mean anything? No, they don't. If there's a lot of them, then it starts to matter. What's the response? Blah, blah, blah. But, you know, turn this crap off at the end of the day. That's, that's my suggestion. I mean, now, it's important to stay informed about your local area, but getting a drumbeat of, of, you know, terror media, from

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cities around the country that you have no idea about that don't mean anything, especially internationally. In what is it?

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How many people have never traveled internationally but are worried about you know, oh, this thing happened in Copenhagen.

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Who cares? Yeah, it's just there are so many things out there that are completely totally unequivocally be honest lusion of every reasonable doubt meaningless. People just can't seem to just ignore it. I mean, okay, that's fine. And just keep on going to get emotionally involved in at night and I talk about this all the time, especially to prospective clients. Do not drain yourself emotionally on things that are not affecting you. It's just because whatever all this stuff affects you and and you know, as we've talked about, a lot, I mean, your your energy is much better placed in bettering yourself and your own situation than it is to worry about things that are completely outside of your own control. Okay, so I'm gonna do something real quick over

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gonna wrap up in just a minute son I'm gonna do a quick heartbreak I'm gonna do a something I saw this morning I need to get gas I went to Circle K and I got gas and I pulled in and I think I was the only SUV or car of any type all the pumps are filled quite literally every pump had a truck, big truck, big truck your size and I think 90% were pulling trailers. Sure. Okay.

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Everybody's getting ready for the workday yeah and normally ladies and gentlemen boys and girls one and all I don't get in rush hour traffic I just always schedule myself in such a way I never do it but today I went in it was basically a little bit before eight or something like that I got in I got gas by the way my god we have to go to BJ sun I dropped I dropped almost $70 and gas on my my vehicle I began so it's definitely gone up. Well, that's that's that's the libertarian component. Right. Not a complaint as an observation, though, but I gotta go. I gotta drive to bait BJs. But that's the libertarian complaint that I brought up earlier as well. Yeah. But

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we ought to talk about gas and oil prices. Let's do that. Because there is there are a few things to talk about. We'll do that next week. We were I apologize to our regular listeners, we were going to do a thing called the Red Book and I was going to order it I didn't get around to doing it. We're gonna do a red book and tell you all the things we're going to do. But here's here's what I observed. Now, this is a what I'm going to do with Paul now is a real legitimate we do this all day long day in and day out. Let me tell you what my observations were one, I don't normally get gas, with lots of people, etcetera, etcetera. Every time in a pass in Marin County, Ocala is just booming. I mean, it is absolutely booming, the type of people that would get gas at that time, the day historically would be Hispanic, shorter guys speaking Spanish, okay, it'd be like being able to Rainbow and I'm being honest, it's just the way it is. Today was totally different. The day they were men between your age in my age, all of them cluding, the worker bee guys, and I was listening to some of their conversations. And it was amazingly high bro up being mean or anything. But these were a whole bunch of white guys were having sophisticated conversations. And they were their construction guys. Okay, okay, you hit a construction wave of I did. And ladders and every everything. Some of these guys look fairly clean. Others aren't just filthy dirty. But it's just a whole bunch of white guys between 30 and 60 going to work is this was interesting. Now, it's not a racial thing or anything like that. It was the language and their vehicles were I was impressed. Every vehicle is like 90 $100,000 The point is the guy who delivered our fencing yesterday with the other young fella, how he was Hispanic, okay, probably bilingual very,

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no doubt, spoke very good English. But I loved his look on his face, his arms crossed, looking at the guy like he's wanting to kill them, right? So the guy driving the forklift, little younger, whatever. And you brought up the conversation and you can say what was said, but you can't hire young people don't want to work today. Okay. Yeah. So I spent a lot of time on construction sites recently. And looking at things, the number of people who are on construction sites, they're not kids know, they're, again, Hispanic, overwhelmingly doing the framing the block work. excetera. Okay. They're not young. No. So where are all the young people working? They're not. But no, I mean, this is this is a very serious cultural trend that you have going on right now. Where, in general doesn't there's no demographic uniqueness. It's it's universal. It's a universal problem, that people who are I guess, younger than millennials, young millennials are younger, they are, they want their cushy office job, want to be a Tiktok influencer, want to do a get rich quick scheme. They are doing things that I guess, theory are somehow economically productive, but they're not out doing anything useful or seriously, you know, visibly productive. It's all just,

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I don't know, it's, it's very, it's an odd turn of events. And

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I made a comment to that guy that, you know, people aren't willing to do anything and he said something about how you know, it's just just gonna get worse. It's, it's not gonna get any better. Like, yeah, well, for those of us who actually, you know, have some skills, understand how to how to do how to do these various things.

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It just creates more opportunity for us because the cost of our labor is just going to keep skyrocketing and keep skyrocketing. He was like, yep,

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That's one way of looking at it, because that's what's going to happen. And it's true though, like, people think that the cost of housing is bad now it's going to go nowhere but get worse because no population is still growing and there's even fewer people that are willing to work and we're going to resit realities, do construction is hard work. We're gonna wrap this up. And I want to simply say that I brought that up at the very end to round it all the way back to the very beginning of today's discussion about Australia. You gotta let people grow up. You gotta let people be responsible and responsible government does have Okay, we're gonna wrap it up. We got people coming in the office today and it's gonna be a very busy day. My name is Paul Truesdale. Join me is the better part of me. It's all the younger Paul the younger Paul the elder. This has been to Paul's in a podcast to Paul's in a podcast. This has been the Paul Truesdale podcast to Paul's in a pod with that Murat here. Take care later.

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