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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Guest Host Danielle Interviews Filmmaker and Journalist Mike Cernovich
"Delighted to welcome our guest today, Mike cernovich. He's a filmmaker, journalist, commentator on a wide range of topics. He produced the documentary called hoax. Everything they told you is a lie. Mike's one of my favorite Twitter followers to make sure to find him on Twitter or you can also subscribe to his substack. Mike, thanks for joining us. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Yeah, so Mike, I wanted to get your reaction to some of the recent kind of rumblings going on with Trump's arrest and also just how do you feel like a lot of the presidential hopefuls and other people responded to the news. Yeah, the Trump arrest was mishandled by everyone, especially I think desantis, which was unfortunate because I expected him to have better political instincts. The big mistake people are making right now is they're seeing it as Trump's arrest. Whereas most of the country doesn't see it as Trump's arrest. They see it as a way to attack all of Trump supporters. As a way to apply it on equal system of law. For example, I bring up your dad's case a lot. A lot of people don't even know about your dad's kids because he handled it with such grace and moved on with his life, but it still actually probably makes me angrier than it makes him, which is wait a minute. After dinesh for helping a friend's campaign and then Rosie O'Donnell says that she deliberately set illegal campaign contributions and brags about it and then nobody goes after Rosie O'Donnell. So is dinesh, did he commit a crime for giving a friend $10,000? Because nobody understood this stuff at the time. Nobody knew you couldn't do. It's silly. Nobody had any idea even. And then to have the full resources of the law brought on him and then of course the FBI file says he was an anti Obama filmmaker and you think, oh, okay, well that was obvious what would happen there. And then meanwhile, you have Rosie O'Donnell saying, oh yeah, I deliberately send too much money. Hoping that they don't send it back. Okay, so she's an admitted admitted campaign contribution fraud. Admit it. And of course, nothing happens to her.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Exposes the IRS As a Rip-Off Operation
"Recently, the GOP led House of Representatives repealed a congressional provision allocating almost $80 billion to the IRS to over ten years, hire a whole bunch of new agents and the House Republicans said, listen, you don't need the money. You're going to just use this money to badger harass and rip off the taxpayer. And I want to focus on a particular case that seems to show the IRS doing exactly that. I know about the case only because it wound its way up to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court basically weighed in and slapped down the IRS for imposing really a ridiculously excessive penalty on a guy for not reporting his foreign bank accounts. Now, here's what let's go into the story a little bit because the guy, his name is alexandru, bittner. He was born in communist Romania. He moved to the United States when he was a young guy. But then when the Soviet Union collapsed, he moved back to Romania from 1990 to 2011, so he lived in post Soviet in the post Soviet bloc for about 20 years. Now he was a really successful guy. He had a bunch of businesses, and he opened up a whole bunch of foreign bank accounts. Then later he moves back to the United States and he discovers that he is required as someone who has these foreign bank accounts simply the file a report. With the IRS noting that he has these bank accounts. He says I didn't even know I was supposed to do that, but he hired an attorney and the attorney said, I'll prepare the documents for you. And so he filed them. Now the IRS basically said that this guy did not file these timely reports. For 5 years, 2007 to 2011. Again, reports that you didn't know he needed to file. And so the IRS decides to fine him. Now, the correct amount to find him because apparently there were 5 years and he didn't file a report for 5 years, is $10,000 per year. So the amount that they could find. And remember, when you don't know there's a law, it doesn't excuse you from having to follow the law. You still have to do it. And so the IRS should have probably fine this guy $50,000, which was a small fraction of the total amount of money in those accounts. He could easily have paid it. But the IRS decided not to do that. They decided that for each account that he didn't file a report, it's a separate violation. And it needs to have a $10,000 fine attached not to each report, not each annual report, but to each particular account and because this guy had a whole bunch of accounts, it turns out that the IRS stuck him with a penalty, let me look for the actual number here. It was a penalty of $2.72 million.
AP News Radio
Supreme Court student loan case: The arguments explained
"The Supreme Court will hear challenges to a plan that could reduce or wipe away student loan debt for millions of borrowers. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on President Biden's federal student debt forgiveness plan, the debt relief was announced last August but put on hold by federal judges, a ruling could impact millions of college borrowers. Many have already applied, hoping to receive up to $10,000 in federal debt relief, and an additional $10,000 for pell grant recipients. The court will hear challenges from 6 Republican led states and two students, including Myra Brown, who was deemed ineligible because her loans are commercially held. The justices will likely ask whether the states and borrowers can show that they're harmed by the plan and whether it was enacted properly under the heroes act passed after 9 11 to allow the secretary of education to modify the terms of federal student loans in connection with a national emergency. Jennifer King, Washington
AP News Radio
Funeral home finds woman breathing hours after declared dead
"A nursing home in Long Island, New York pronounces a woman dead, then she starts breathing at the funeral home and this has happened at other facilities. Officials say an 82 year old woman was pronounced dead at water's edge rehab and nursing center in port Jefferson, but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she'd been taken. She was sent to the hospital, authorities are investigating. This happened Saturday, days after the Glen oaks Alzheimer's care center in Iowa was fined $10,000 over a similar incident where a 66 year old woman was put in a body bag and taken to a crematory, but workers there found her breathing, she was returned to hospice care where she died January 5th. Julie Walker, New York
AP News Radio
Shooter stood over California mom holding baby, killed both
"Authorities in central California are searching for the suspects and a brazen shooting that left 6 people dead, including a ten month old baby. There's a $10,000 reward being offered for information leading to arrests after 6 people were killed early Monday in the agricultural community of goshen California. We have two suspects. At a news conference yesterday to Larry county sheriff Mike boudreaux says a teenage mother holding her infant was fleeing the violence when The Killers caught up with her outside the home. The shooters stood over the top of the 16 year old mother and fired rounds. Into her head. The other four victims ranged from 19 to 72 years old, including a grandmother who was shot as she slept. This family was a target. Audio courtesy kfsn, boudreaux walked back earlier comments that the attack was likely a cartel hit, but says law enforcement is familiar with the home and investigators are looking into whether the slayings were drug or gang related. I'm Jennifer King
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy
"We're gonna toss it to will with some bankruptcy. Oh, sorry, Wendy, with some bankruptcy news. Wendy, who is at this time who's filing for bankruptcy protection? How dare you, sir? I thought winter solstice was yesterday. Anyways, I'm actually kind of not excited about this story, but excited about it because we're finally getting closer to Bitcoin, minor capitulation, which means the bottom is going to start showing itself. I'm a big believer of $10,000 Bitcoin, but not financial. Anyways, core scientific files for bankruptcy at southern district of Texas bankruptcy court. They are one of the largest Bitcoin miners by computing power and operating over a 143,000 mining rigs and host another a 100,000. They currently have approximately 1000 to 5000 creditors, yikes. The company's stock is down 98% this year. Estimated liabilities are between 1 billion to 10 billion, according to the filing, but I believe as we discussed that yesterday when you file for bankruptcy, that's like the only checkbox you can click or select, I guess, which is kind of ridiculous. Anyway, so they apparently they reached a deal with some of their lenders to restructure the debt in a prepackaged bankruptcy. I'm not sure if that would be a chapter 11 or not. Not illegal adviser. I actually wanna toss this over to Jen because she put her hand up and I want to, yeah, I want to hear Jen's take on it. Yeah, so chapter 11 allows the company to keep operating while trying to restructure the debt. And so this morning I went and just did a quick Google of some notable companies that have gone through chapter 11 and are still surviving. GM marvel and converse have all gone through chapter 11 bankruptcy. So maybe there is some hope at the end of the tunnel here for core. So I mean, I'm going to kick it off to will to get the ins and outs of this, but they're going to continue operating. They say they are still cash flow positive and they're just going to be restructuring to try and figure out how they're going to pay back some of these debts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jennifer Van Laar Reveals RNC's Wasteful Spending
"Of my favorite emails I've received in some time. Charlie, I'm enjoying you going through the RNC expenditures, but I shouldn't really say enjoying it's making me so angry. I'm one of those donors that gave $20 here and there because I thought it would make a difference. $100,000 on hair and makeup, by the way, Charlie, I could tell you don't spend a $100,000 on hair and makeup. I'll take it. And you're right. I don't. I can tell. Okay, fine, I have a face for radio. I totally appreciate it. And you know what? I don't spend that on hair and makeup. I think it's insane, actually, to spend. I don't know, not exactly a fan of that. So joining us now is the person who broke the story, Jennifer van laar, exclusive analysis of RNC spending since 2017. Jennifer, welcome to the program. Thank you. I did also did not spend a $100,000 on hair and makeup and that is why I am on the phone today. That's okay. I would fire everybody if they were spending $10,000 on hair and makeup. For me or for anybody else, I think it's totally insane. So Jennifer, I'm just going to allow you to walk us through this piece, I think some of this is super substantive and important. Some of it, I think, can be taken by people for their own political purposes. Some of this is just absolutely outrageous. You did the research. It's all public disclosure, walk us through the piece. Right, so you're right. It's all public information on the FEC website. I downloaded all of their expenditures since 2017. And analyzed that there were multiple things that were misclassified, so it took quite a bit of time to try to get a handle on what was being spent. So for example, you might not be aware because it's kind of a girl thing, but there's the place called Lululemon. Oh, I know about Lyrica. No, no, no. They have great, I think they call them ABC pants. I'll be very honest. They're terrific, even though they're a bunch of communists. That product is exceptional. Yes, luxury yoga pants. And they're over a $100 each. So there was $5000 spent at Lululemon in the third quarter of 2022. So right now, that was classified as office expenses.
The Officer Tatum Show
Who Is Paul Whelan, And Why Is He Still in Russia?
"I want to finish this conversation about Paul Whelan. Just a couple facts. I'm gonna cap this if you just now watching. If you didn't know, the controversy between Paul Whelan and that girl, I mean, I don't want to make fun of it because Brittany grinder do look like a man and she sound like a man, but she is a girl. She may be one of those situations where she was born with both or whatever. That's irrelevant. So let me talk about this, you know, there's the controversy of whether or not our country should have gotten a marine back over Brittany grinder, who's a basketball player. And a funny thing, yeah, she plays for a team in Phoenix, called Phoenix mercury. And I've been living in things south 18. I ain't even know they had a women's basketball team. I didn't even know Brittany grinder live here. Women's basketball is such a joke. Not the women, but the basketball organization. But anyway, just so just so we're up to speed, Donald Trump was in office. He did not get way back. Joe Biden is in office now, he didn't get waiting back. Waylon's family is very upset because they believe that the swap was unjust. And I could see why they believed that. Waylon argues that the flash drive was supposed to be holiday photos from another person that gave it to him. I don't know why he had $80,000 in his pocket. Simultaneously, while swiping, swapping a USB driver somebody, however, his claim is that he was set up in a sting as if the Russian citizen that he knew was I guess a part of the stain or something of that nature or they tried to set him up and framing and they gave him a flash drive then they busted him. But if you ask me, you know, that seems way too juicy to be true. And I think that I would love to see information. However, it was all done behind closed doors. All of the court, everything was done behind closed doors and there's no evidence or information to give anybody any relevant evidence to defend him. But he was in a Marine Corps from 2003 to 2008, much of his time was as an administrative clerk in Iraq. The end of his career, he got dishonorably discharged for larceny and other lesser offenses after being found to have tried to steal $10,000 from the military.
AP News Radio
Supreme Court takes case on immigration scam case
"The Supreme Court says it will hear a free speech case involving a scam that falsely promoted adult adoptions as a path to U.S. citizenship. I Norman hall. The case the high court agreed to hear involves the operator of a Sacramento California nonprofit called Americans helping America Chamber of Commerce. The government said that between 2012 and 2016, the operator Hansen persuaded at least 471 people to join his adult adoption program, even though he knew the adoptions he was promoting would not lead to citizenship. People paid between $550 and $10,000 to participate. Was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but now argues the law used to convict him was so broad that it violates his free speech rights. Hi Norman hall
The Dan Bongino Show
Carol Roth: IRS Should Not Be Monitoring $600 PayPal, Venmo Payments
"And we're seeing that the reporting now on this of the IRS warning people hey you got to report what you just talked about this $600 payments that you're receiving through Venmo PayPal what have you And you're talking about how it was snuck into the American rescue plan What business does that have in the American rescue plan which was supposed to be COVID oriented What business does it have in there It has no business And it's exactly what they do time and time again right They call something the fluffy puppy Bill and it is not about fluffy puppies It's about something completely nefarious but if you don't like it then you don't like puppies I mean this is what they do all the time And people were so focused on getting that stimulus money not understanding like myself and so many other people had warned that hey that $1000 check that you get is going to end up costing you 6 8 $10,000 per year on a go forward basis and they're doing all these other things like these reporting requirements It's a distraction game And people are so distracted by the things that aren't important at all That the things that basically affect the economic foundation of this country which once it's lost completely is never going to be able to be restored People just aren't tuned into So you get these things like lowering this reporting requirement And then they have the nerve to go and do a media tour and say no no we did that because of billionaires because you know Lisa there are so many shady multi millionaires and billionaires out there sending $600 a year by Venmo
AP News Radio
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments on Biden's student loan plan, closing in on a resolution
"The Supreme Court will rule on President Biden's student loan cancellation plan. It means the debt forgiveness program is on hold. For now, with a final answer by early summer, about two months before the newly extended pause on loan repayments is set to expire. The plan promises $10,000 in federal student debt forgiveness to people with incomes of less than $125,000. Pell grant recipients, who typically need more financial aid, are eligible for an additional $10,000 in relief. A federal judge in Texas struck down the plan, the case before the Supreme Court is a lawsuit filed by 6 states. Missouri's attorney general says the Biden plan would saddle Americans who didn't take out loans are already paid theirs off with even more economic
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Biden Nuclear Official Charged With Stealing Woman's Luggage
"This is the guy in charge of the nukes. I mean, he's a big uppity up over at the Department of Energy. And his name is Sam brenton. And he and the, what's the Large Marge over at HHS? Wait, wait. Doctor Rachel Levine. Doctor Levine. She's a bigger. Two peas it upon. That's a big pond. That's a sturdy fellow over there. Anyway, they're both men pretending to be women. Yes. And Sam britton apparently is in hot water. You know, he took a leave of absence of September and nobody, nobody bothered to ask any questions. The media said absolutely nothing about this. Nothing at all. I mean, this was a high profile dude. They were doing stories about this guy and Large Marge like incessantly. Yeah. It was like a day in the life single day. I mean, I was to be honest, I am surprised that these two guys were not picked to be swimsuit models for Sports Illustrated. Fair enough. Just say it. Women of the year. Anyway, now we know what happened to Sam brenton. He is facing up to 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. You'd already did grace baker. What in the world did he do? He stole a woman's luggage. Wait a minute. He's got to be getting paid pretty well, right? Got to. Got to. Would you steal woman's luggage? So the suitcase odor alerted place. This all happened at the Minneapolis St. Paul airport. And officers reviewed video surveillance. Everything they got cameras everywhere in the airport. And they saw Sam brinton taking this woman's luggage. He removed the tag that identified the owners, so this is all intentional. And walked out of the airport. It was
AP News Radio
6 countries spent $750K at Trump's D.C. hotel, records show
"Newly released documents show big foreign government spending at the Trump hotel in Washington I Norman hall The Trump hotel in Washington took in more than $750,000 from 6 foreign governments at sensitive bombs in their U.S. relations with gas spending as much as $10,000 per room a night That's according to documents from the Trump company's former accountants released Monday by a democratic led congressional committee The hotel got $259,724 on a visit by Malaysian prime minister while the U.S. was investigating his role in a money laundering scandal The Saudi spent at least $164,929 after its invasion of Qatar the Trump organization said it didn't benefit from the spending and didn't profit from the presidency
Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
Bucees Mascot
"Jay, have you heard of Bucky's? It's a fuel station. Oh, yes. Yes, I have. It's the new thing in Florida, yeah. So they're in Tennessee as well. They're moving up. I think they're kind of like the armadillo. They're finally making their own out of floor. Yeah. So these things are massive. For those of you that haven't seen one, it is bigger than any truck stop. I've ever seen. The number of gas pumps, I mean, you're in the probably close to a hundred pumps. That's insane. I mean, it's crazy, right? They're big, like, full on restaurant. Freshly made deli their stores inside. Like you can buy camping gear. It's bigger than some of the bigger little Walgreens, bigger than smaller than a Walmart or a target, but these places are huge. Which I have to wonder with the electric vehicle mandates being out there. And these places being so petroleum dependent for business, what's their long-term vision. But I digress. So pull up and pull up in a Google tab right now. And this is what I want you to type in. Okay. Bucky's mascot. It's be UC EES. Bucky's mascot. Okay? And you should see a picture of the little guy there in the results. Yeah, he's a beaver, right? Bucky the beaver, yeah. I see it. So we stopped for fuel at one of these last week. And I decided that in addition to beer name or mascot name, or apparently, is a gift. Because I came up with a name for this mascot. I couldn't find the name of the mascot in any of their literature. I looked online, I did this very search. Okay? I think you should be called Justin. Justin Bieber, there you go. I love it, man. Justin Bieber. All right, folks, you heard it here first. Just reach out to us. Bucky's, you're welcome. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, you could have him dance it. He could be a movies. For sure. Yeah, absolutely, man. You could absolutely. He just broke ground, man, I think. I think he just broke ground. I really do. But maybe you should be his agent, you know? Yeah, since we got all these beaver, if you need an agent, Justin. Just hit us up over on parts counter guru dot com. There's a comments down. Oh man, I love it so much. I just love it. We are just full of absolute the best information in one could offer. I mean, we've got it all. Okay, so anyway, onto onto expensive cars. We've talked about the Cadillac lyric. It is Cadillac's flagship at this point. Of their entry into the EV market. It's an awesome looking vehicle turns heads like crazy. My dad is actually really, my dad loves cadillacs and he likes the car. We've talked about it. But Cadillac didn't stop there. They are wanting to obviously compete with the rolls royces. And a customizable luxury vehicle that will be there will be no two alike they say. They will all be hand built, they are 3D printing as many as a 115 different components on this vehicle. They are also doing some interesting aluminum casting for the wheels are going to have 23 inch wheels on these things. Here's the thing that got my attention mainly though. Yester hand built luxury vehicle and it'll be a low volume vehicle as well. 300,000 dollars. All right. So this is interesting. And I do like the enthusiasm that Mary Barra and team are showing on, hey, let's try some new things. My gut reaction to this is with no offense to your dad because the Cadillac does make a good product. And then resale values tend to do well over the years. But $300,000 for an automobile made by General Motors. So let me put this in perspective. Okay? This is space, by the way, that they haven't been in yet. Right. So let's say you're going to buy a watch. Okay? And you have $10,000 to spend on a watch. You know what? Let's make it 15. Let's make this interesting, okay? Okay. Okay. You got 15 K to spend on a watch, okay? Do you buy a Rolex? Or do you buy the latest fancy watch from timex that has all the Rolex like features and then some? For 12 5. Point will take in if I've got 15 to spend. You're going to get a Rolex. I'm going to get a rollout. Or an omega, or right? Right. Why is that? Timex has been around. They make decent watches. They don't make a decent yet $15,000 watch. No. That I know of. They make fishing at us out there, Mike, correct me. Right. But if I'm going to spend that kind of money on a watch, I'm buying more than the components in the watch, right? Right. Right. Okay. I think there's a couple of things that you get from this. For example, loss of value over time. Rolls Royce versus a Cadillac, loss of value. I don't think you're going to have near as much in depreciation with that roles or worse as you will with the Cadillac. Likewise, with a timex over a Rolex. It just doesn't happen. If
The Trader Cobb Crypto Podcast
"$10,000" Discussed on The Trader Cobb Crypto Podcast
"The first high, which was 64,000 just shy of 65. That was a 20 times multiple. And again, the period of time. From November 18 to April 21, so you're talking, what? A year, a year and a bit, a year in, I can't work it out as fast enough, just doing a podcast, but you can hear what I'm saying. It's a very short space of time for you to make life-changing money. So here's crypto debt absolutely not. The markets are a little bit sideways. Yep, that's a given. There are trades available, but the opportunity ahead of us, if we are to say the cyclic city come back the same sort of model that we've seen building up into a halving event and also being able to know that I'll be able to actually understand that it's these price points when we fall hard. That's where we make the most money because we buy in at the right times. Dollar cost average or whatever you want to do. But if we do see the market gets strong again and I believe that we will, not financial advice, then buying at those or knowing, having an idea about where these loads could be, it's a very, very valuable thing indeed. So anyway, back to the markets, let's talk about Bitcoin and what it did yesterday. Well, yesterday it closed down 1.1%. Nothing really going on again. It's down .2% so far today at $19,287, a very, very messy daily, a very, very messy four hour. The site can be said for Ethereum down 1.5% yesterday, down .4% today, a messy messy four hour messy messy daily, $1305 for XRP. A bit of a trend there starting to come in on XRP, not a strong enough trend on any of the time frames for me to trade yet. But it was down a little bit more yesterday, 3% currently down .6 of a percent on XRP at 46 cents. Dot as well down yesterday, 1.55% down .3 to $6 13. Doge is up .3 of a percent after closing yesterday down .4. We're sitting at 6 cents on the nose. Binance down by .9% yesterday it's down .2 of a percent today, $272, 47. Another ugly looking chart. Cardano sold off 2.7% yesterday down another .8% today at 36 cents. And again, not really too much in the way of good simplicity, even if I squirrel down to my 30 minute chart, a very, very slow start to today for pretty much all of our top ten across the board. On the Solana next, which definitely had a down day yesterday, it sold off 3.43% sitting back on that support that is currently around about 20 or 30 knots. Sorry, $30 is at 29 98 right now, down half a percent today on avax, again, a messy chart on Solana, down 2% yesterday, down 1.27% today to be the biggest decliner in our top ten at $15 66. And finally, Tron. The biggest up today up .66% at 6.2 cents, it was down .7 of a percent. Yesterday so across the board again, it's very, very messy, not a great deal of action at this moment in time.
AP News Radio
Convicted "fake heiress" Anna Sorokin released from immigration custody
"Convicted fake heiress and his Oregon who Netflix is inventing Anna is based on was released from ice detention Friday and is now fighting extradition She had to post $10,000 bond remain under house arrest and refrain from posting on social media The 31 year old who duped New York's rich and famous by claiming to be German heiress Anna delvey had been held by immigration authorities since March of last year who claims she overstayed her Visa and wants to send her back to Germany So it had already served three years in prison for grand larceny and theft which prosecutors say include lying to banks and luxury hotels along with stealing $275,000
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
How Biden Offered Millions of Americans 'Forgiveness' for Their Debt
"The Biden administration with great fanfare announced its college debt forgiveness program. And the program applies to people who have loans that they're unable to pay back, you have to be making less than a $125,000 a year now to qualify for this debt forgiveness. And it's normally a debt forgiveness of $10,000 in student loan debt, but if you are a pell grant recipient, you can typically get another $10,000 in debt forgiven. Now, this is a bad idea. On three levels. First of all, it's expensive. It costs the federal government, at least according to the congressional budget office, about $400 billion over the next three decades. This is money we don't have the country's deeply in debt. So this is a ridiculous thing to do from the government's point of view. It's also bad for the actual person who supposedly being benefited. Now obviously they're being helped in the sense they don't have to pay. But they're being heard in the sense that they're getting a message from the government and in fact from society generally. In responsibility, you can take loans and you're not going to have to pay them. It's kind of like telling people who come over to the country illegally, you can come over illegally, but we're going to make you citizens anyway. So this is an encouragement and inducement to irresponsible behavior. And by the way, many of these people who have taken this step. Some of them, of course, have been conned into it. Conned into it, by the way, by very cunning universities that basically say, hey, listen, it's no problem. Don't worry about it. Pay later. So university is a very complicit in this debt scheme. But of course, a lot of people went into became majors in women's studies and black studies and sociology and education. And they essentially made basket weaving. They majored in things where they should have known if they didn't know that this is not going to be easy for you to take on this kind of data and pay it back. And yet they did it.
The Trish Regan Show
The White House's Excessive, Unprecedented and Reckless Spending Plan
"Right, starting here on this conservative group that is suing the Biden administration over this student loan forgiveness plan because $400 billion, that's the latest billion with a B that's the latest estimate from the congressional budget office, the CBO, and taxpayers are going to have to shoulder that burden. Now the administration will say, no, no, no, we can work it out. We're actually going to have debt reduction in the future, but frankly, in terms of the here and now, the money's going to come from somewhere, right? And this is what has people so concerned. Look, the power of the purse is a pretty important power. And there's a reason why we have checks and balances. There's a reason why. Our government was set up the way it is set up, and it was to avoid, having one person decide the economic fate of everybody else. In this case, however, you have one person the president of the United States and his education department deciding that they're going to forget and forget in some cases $20,000 in student loans. In other cases, $10,000. How do they have the ability to do that? Well, they're trying to use some emergency clauses. Emergency clauses, even though if you listen to the president, this whole pandemic is supposed to be over, right? But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. It can't be over if you need to issue more money, which is what he's trying to do. Well, I do anticipate that this will be met with an enormous amount of resistance both politically and of course legally because people don't like the idea of having to pay for the educations of people that are obligated to pay for it themselves,
AP News Radio
How to get a student loan refund if you paid during pandemic
"People eligible for student loan forgiveness can get a refund if they kept making payments during the pandemic The refunds are not available for private student loans only eligible federal student loans including Perkins and family education loans with payments made since March 13th of 2020 You can call the federal student aid office at one 804 three three three two four three or check the student aid dot gov website and look for mind loan servicers on your dashboard Borrowers should then contact their loan servicer directly by phone not text or email Lately callers report the wait times have been shorter For some the refund will be automatic if payments put your loan balance below the maximum relief of $10,000 for all borrowers in $20,000 for pell grant recipients If you owe more than that you can still apply to get $10,000 of debt erased and what if you paid off your student loan completely during the pandemic you can still request a refund prior to applying for debt relief according to the Department of Education When you ask for the refund the amount that you pay during the payment freeze will be added back to your student loan balance It's eligible for debt relief after you apply for forgiveness assuming you made below $125,000 Applications
Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"$10,000" Discussed on Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"They also don't have any bonus games on the craft table. So there's a straight felt, but it's weird because most of the empty properties have either the fire bet or the all tall small. Sunday morning I went down there craft tables on open up till ten, but some of the other games were open if I played a little three card poker from four card poker. And that they were all $5 a hand, which was great. Again, I'm not used to seeing those kinds of limits in my casino. Overall the next casino, I would say the hotel was also very nice. And yeah, I recommend that area go by there. They have pretty decent table limits. The dealers are friendly. It's a nice small casino, but they have everything you need. Great show and keep it up. Thanks. Yeah, good. Thanks, Nick. Yeah, I really like it when carnival games have those lower limits. Yeah. Because in so many cases, you know, a $5 minimum doesn't mean that's how much you're gonna be putting out for the hand, right? So many of these carnival games have multiple ways of putting out 25 $30 or something. Can you imagine if it's a quarter? Yeah, right. Yeah. You're really putting out quite a bit of money. So yeah, yeah, it's good news about MGM sprint. You know, one thing I've noticed and I do like about the Midwest and some of these smaller casinos I visited so far, they have lower limits and you know I've always played quarters or $50, but I when I get on these tables with tin, I kind of like it because then ten times odds. Sure. You start with ten, and then you just progress up, you go to 20, 40, 50, and then you just keep bumping your odds up. Yeah. I like that because it forces me to start lower forces you to start lower. And then because you can't do it on your own. Well, if it's a $50 table, I always want full odds. I know, yeah. In a way, I kind of like it. It's fun and it's different. And everyone can play. So nobody's other people aren't worried about it. That's the right thing. You know, they only have two tables, and if they made one a quarter, you know, and one ten, well, the tens one's full, people can't play. So they make them both ten and then give you high odds. I'm okay with that. Yeah. That's good. Well, kind of a short episode today. I wanted to get back into our schedule of every two weeks and trying to get back into that mode. So nice to take advantage of having you here, doctor Mike. Yeah. Back in the how's the weather back in Caledonia? Well, today it's like 65 and kind of sunny and here it's what 95 and hotter than hell. Yeah, we're going through a heat wave. Like a lot of the country. So stay cool. That's going to do it for this episode. We want to thank some people for some recurring donations. Jeremy at the color up YouTube channel, James, and Kurt. Thanks to all three for the recurring donations.
Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"$10,000" Discussed on Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"Hi, Mark and doctor Mike. This is Kyle from Salt Lake City calling back again. I apologize if you've already covered this in a previous episode, but I have a quick question for you both about dice setting routines or rituals playing crafts and your thoughts on them. I asked because I recently playing a mohegan sun in Connecticut and one shooter is rather unique routine was to set the dice to the three V formation and then physically took a step back from the table to a long look at the table like you're almost finding up a golf putt. Wipe his shooting hand on his chest and then finally went back and through. So this seemed to take forever and the dealers in the box engine really give him any issues about it. So I'm not sure if you use a regular and tips well or whatever, but personally the most annoying routine for me is the people who upon receiving the dice do repetitive mini rolls against the wall right beneath them until they see a number they like, then they go ahead and shoot for real. But I just want to get your thoughts on these rituals whether you like them, hate them or you do them yourself even. So thank you again for your work and doctor Mike. I'm glad to hear you move equation. Okay. Take care. Thanks, Kyle. Yeah, we've actually talked about this quite a bit on the show in past episodes. We don't mind routines. Certainly. Well, you gotta line your shot up, Mark. I mean, that's just crazy if you don't. The thing that bothers me are the routines that take a long time, especially the routines where they're long periods where they're not really doing anything. Right. Like standing back and lining, you know, looking down the table for a long time. I don't mind, you know, kind of going through the rituals. He's talking about, yeah, people who kind of slap the dice back.
Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"$10,000" Discussed on Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"Him for 500 and he was concerned about, you know, how can I play Finn right all right? 500. Yeah. And I said, well, just bet 6 and 8. That's all he did all night. That 6 and 8. Except past line when he rolled obviously. He would collect them a couple of times before he pressed. He ended up winning for the number. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Just 6 and 8. So I'm so glad that worked out for me, especially I was very happy after we talked him into play. I know he was ready to walk away. No, I can't handle that. Oh, come on. So I decided I was going to be very aggressive on my role. No, rhyme or reason to it. But you know, I immediately started pressing. Right. People he'd had a good role before. And I think we were both up a little bit at that point. And so it was like, you know, we're up a little. Let's go for it. And so you know, I started making numbers. Numbers. Numbers, numbers. And this was great and I'm pressing and everything and we're watching the all tall small. I wasn't on it. Jim was not a I was, yeah. And eventually I made the tall. I think you made the 12. Great, of course. And you made the 12. And so you're very happy, right? And it wasn't much longer after that that I made the market was the next role. Or was it the very next day? That was the very right. Don't you remember? That's right, because you were able to re bet everything. I was able to re bed everything. And then I was able to clear everything off. I was able to reset them all. That's right. That's right. So that worked out great. Well, meanwhile, I'm pressing. I started with a $50 for, and I started pressing right away. So then I went to a hundred, 200, 400, 800, 1600, you're a little bit behind me, because one behind you, because the first time went right to a hundred, I just collected. Yeah. Right. Because I was thinking, well, you know, I just got up with this all tall, small. I'm not going to go crazy. So I was one behind you. So when you had a hundred I had 50 when you had 200, I had a hundred. I'm one roll behind you. So it's at 1600, it hits again. Yes. The max at Harris is 2500. You go to 2500. And then I go to 1600 because I'm one behind you. So it's like, oh my gosh, this is fantastic, right? And you know, I'm already up for the night. I've got the max bet out there. This is going to be great. Oh, and our other numbers were all pumped up too.
Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"$10,000" Discussed on Gambling Podcast: You Can Bet on That
"Hi, everybody. Welcome to you can bet on that a podcast for the recreational gambler. My name is Mark Duvall and sitting across from me as doctor Mike. Hello, Mike. Welcome back to Southern California. Yeah, here for the weekend. Good. What you've been doing since you got here? Well, taking care of my parents didn't go into casinos. Oh, there you go. Good. That's what I've been doing. And of course you and I went out to Harris Southern California to consecutive nights while you were here. And we'll talk about that. But get us started. So I mean, your trip is going okay. It's feeling okay. I'm feeling so so. Okay, yeah. But yeah, it's so far so good. My dad and I and my mother and my brother went out Thursday to barona. Okay, good, yeah. So that was fun. I played crabs for a few hours, like maybe two, and then I watched my dad mostly play slots. The rest of the time, he had a good time. He didn't win, but he had a good time. He liked it. And crafts went good. I kind of like the crafts there. You know, you know, in the ten times odds. Okay, good. We in the past, we haven't really enjoyed ourselves. They're mostly because of the crew. True. Right. But you had a good crew. We had a good crew, yeah. Very nice, very good. There are a few funny things that happened. Okay. When I got up to the table, it was me in about three or four other people. And the roles were actually pretty good. I was up a little bit, and then they started to go down a little, and people left, and so it was just me at the table, and then I had a mega roll and shot way up, you know, and was real happy about that. And then this guy comes up to the table, who obviously was a regular. Okay, they recognize they recognized him. And he said, you know, lock this spot up for me. I'm going to the cashier. So they locked the spot up for me. He went to cashier. He came back. I was on my second role. And he was going to buy it and he had $10,000 to $5000 strapped bundles. Oh, okay, that he probably got from the cash flow. He got from the cashier. I was rolling and the pit, she took the money and it was just to come out roll.
Talking Tech
"$10,000" Discussed on Talking Tech
"Talking tech is supported by ionic shoes, innovation and technology touches every aspect of our lives, even in ways we may not think about. Like shoes, one brand that really has innovative tech figured out is ionic. Stay tuned after the show to find out about their special offer for our listeners. Hey there listeners, it's Brett Molina. Welcome back to talking tech. Just when you thought taking up video games as a hobby was expensive, along comes Gucci. Which is partnering with Microsoft on a limited edition version of the Xbox Series X Gucci will offer a version of this adorned with the fashion house's unique designs on its website, starting November 17th. Only 100 of the consoles will be available. You can read more details on this in a story that I wrote for tech USA Today dot com. Here's the catch. Unlike the standard Xbox Series X, which is roughly 300 to $400, this Gucci branded console is going to sell for an eye popping $10,000. So what is it exactly $10,000 gets you? According to the listing that's available on Gucci's website. The console features a laser cut monogram of the letters GG, which represents both the initials of the founder, as well as shorthand for good game, which is commonly used in video games. If you ever play a video game online or on PC or on a console, you might see someone throw up GG in the chat. It's just a very quick way of saying good game. You know, especially on a console where it's not as easy to chat and you're just trying to get a quick message out there while you're playing. That's why people type gg. Along with the console, you get custom Gucci branded Xbox controllers, a Gucci hard case for carrying a console with Xbox and good game printed on it in bright green letters. You also get a subscription to Xbox's game pass unlimited, which is the Netflix style service that Microsoft has available for its console and as well as PC, where users can stream dozens of free games. So it's really great. You have a lot of different games to pick from. Even newer games as well. A lot of the newer games that are available day and date are available on this platform as well. So it's a really good deal. Typically it runs around $15 a month. So for what you get for game pass, it's really good. So you get all that in one package for $10,000. Now, there's good reason that Xbox and Gucci are doing this. I don't know if there's a good reason to offer a $10,000 Xbox. But the reason they're doing it is both of these brands are celebrating anniversaries this year. Xbox is turning 20 this month. The first Xbox launch in 2001 Gucci meanwhile has been around a lot longer. They are celebrating its 100th anniversary. On Monday, Microsoft hosted this special stream where they honor the 20th anniversary of the Xbox, lots of news out of that. We'll talk a little bit more about that tomorrow. In particular, the biggest announcement from involving halo infinite, if you want to read more about that, read more about what happened during the Microsoft event or redo at anything related to video games. Be sure to hit up tech USA Today dot com. Listeners, let's hear from you. Do you have any comments, questions or show ideas? Any tech problems you want us to try to address. And if you're a fan of the Xbox, do you have any fun memories you want to share? Maybe I'll throw a couple out there during next episode. Let me know on Twitter. I'm at Bret melina 23. Please don't forget to subscribe and.
Mind Pump
"$10,000" Discussed on Mind Pump
"I always look at like if you can make a small investment and it takes a forward in your business. It was worth every single penny. And i think the you know we set out to do that. We set out to create a platform. And it's been it's been really fun to every minute it's a blast and in this is true. I mean this was mine pump at already grown. All of us are doing this. Full-time everything going great. And we were traveling to gyms and flying gyms and drying driving to gyms far away just to talk to trainers and help them for free. I'd none of this was. We didn't charge anything. We did it for free ultimately because the more good fitness professionals that are out there. The healthier people get and it's the goal. That's the goal. And i know that it'll pay us back In other ways. But i won't good trainers that are out there. There's not there's there are good trainers out there. But there's not enough like what we we officially have a an announced it to our audience and drove to the url. Doug what's the url for us. So people can opt in my mind. Pump nci dot com so mine pump. Nci dot com. And it's the sign up right on that page you can say it's the only i mean we we put our name on it so and we have. We've never done anything like this For a reason. So if you're coach or.
Mind Pump
"$10,000" Discussed on Mind Pump
"Oh my god that was worth every penny. I'm so glad i did that. Which that is. What makes this partnership so beautiful as you've put so much work into that being your business that us aligning together now can provide tremendous value. I think i think we've all had the core belief over our time together. That really good coaches have three things dialed in their educated. They know how to apply their education. And the nauta monetize right. If you can do all three things you're gonna impact you can have income and ultimately that's what being a really accessible coaches about thing like when we put this product together like the monetization stuff is stuff that teach all the time except to get to me to work with me at a high level. It's expensive it's twenty five thousand dollars. It's not even available to work with us and so when we actually sat down and we discussed how can we deliver a high amount of value but not be the twenty five k. Guru or you know the program we can. We give an access point to literally everybody. That was our goal. We wanted to reach the average trainer. Yup we. I wanted to reach the because i was the tram. All of us at one point started that way. And i want to reach the average person who has a passion for helping people. And it's not gonna happen. Were you know ten thousand fifteen twenty thousand dollars. It's just not going to happen. Not saying there's value in that but our goal was to reach. You know especially when we know that. A lot of the people listening i got. I don't know how many people that we've turned onto the a personal trainer. And you're making zero dollars so trying to get that person to commit to a twenty five thousand dollar commitment. Even if i know i could provide twenty. Five thousand dollars. Worth of value is hugely. You've invested in mentorship right and when you first got in invested mentorship and the mentorship you invest in today is probably significantly more expensive. I remember when i first started. I hired a guru that we talked about off the air and.
Slate's Political Gabfest
"$10,000" Discussed on Slate's Political Gabfest
"That is our show for today. The gap is produced by jocelyn. Frank researchers. bridget dunlap bridget. Especially this week. So many good insights about this abortion kids bridget. Thank you for that. Gabriel roth is editorial director of audio. June thomas as producer alicia montgomery is the executive. Pretty seriously podcast. Follow us on twitter. And that's like beth tweet chatter to us there for emily basilan and john dickerson back so nights having all gang back together. I'm david klotz. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next week. Hello slate plus. How are you. All three of us are sending a child off to college or have sent off to college this year. I i sent to but a new set a new child off to college so my second kid also went off to college and started classes this week. Emily second kid also just started classes yesterday. Probably john has a child is going to college so one of you. I don't know who it was proposed that we talk about what they really need to know. I want to hear jobs take on that. I think it was me. And i want to know the answer. I feel like you have. You'll you'll has been the most thoughtful about this. I don't know that. I've been thoughtful. I've definitely been the one thinking about it. The most in part. Because i don't know if you all experienced it this way i mean it's obviously a huge chapter is closing its massive transition moment and i always felt much like i feel this way about life itself is like there's going to be time to sort of do a final assessment before the child or the children go off to school and all the stuff you lead slide and the lessons you didn't teach chen. The kind of shirt tails untucked are all going to get tucked in. It's all going to be sorted nice and neat and tidy before this moment comes the moment when basically they will now spend more days You know not in your company then in your company and it was basically the reverse of that before. I mean unless they move back home in that has its own dynamic so but so yeah a lot of weight on the scale here. But i don't know what i would say because i guess what i would say. Mostly is that basically. You're getting a chance to rewrite the instructions of your life and to think about it in that context more to overweight that portion of it. that's not academic. Which is like you're learning and teaching yourself how to have friendships and how to accept failure and how to deal with adapting and how to actually take risks what it means like people say take risks you know. What would you do if you if you didn't have to worry about the consequences and all these stupid things that get put on motivational posters. But you're actually teaching yourself what that means for you. I don't know to recognize that authariel intent would have been useful for me. I don't know maybe my son has that all in his head but recognize that i think is one place i've started when i've been trying to think about this i. It's funny i make thinking about. This actually made me send a text to my son. Who just started college yesterday where. I tried to convey one point because they did. I did realize something here. But i can still offer some advice. I guess the two things. The two things that i think about one which which which. I wish i'd known at the time one was that everyone is as confused out of water as you are so remembering that and remembering that that your feelings of alienation homesickness and and chaos and confusion are being shared by everyone. So don't don't sort of walk around feeling like you're the only person like this. We are all like this. We were all like this this moment. That's number one. And the other is that i really wish i known gathered fans. That was just eight teaser. To hear the rest of our plus conversation go to slate dot com slash gabfest plus to become a slate plus member today..
Slate's Political Gabfest
"$10,000" Discussed on Slate's Political Gabfest
"Is really interesting emily. What is your chatter. I am fascinated by article in the upshot in the new york times by jed kelco called the downtown decade. And it's about where people moved in the two thousand ten's looking at the census and what the data shows is that the fastest growing neighborhoods were suburbs on the edges of metropolitan areas but also people moved back into downtown and central districts at a pretty high rate and so you see kind of bouncing back in the data of people moving into dense urban neighborhoods so the graph in the piece shows that there are more people living in those dense neighborhoods twenty twenty than there were back in nineteen ninety and certainly more than in two thousand ten where there was this big dip as someone who roots for cities and i think because i grew up in philadelphia time or the city just seemed to be like potentially on its last legs. I have a kind of perpetual insecurity about this. I was excited to see this. I realize it's complicated people moving in making neighborhoods more expensive can push other people out. But i generally pleased. Whenever i see data suggests that people are willing to live in denser places because of all the vitality that that brings with it so anyway i was just really interested in all the numbers in this piece. I chatter two quick things to read one. I stumbled at politics and prose unin novel titled the very nice box. Oddly it has to authors lower blackett and eve like men. I'd have no idea how they work together. It really doesn't feel like this to so unusual now so unusual. Yeah it's really unusual very distinctive voice and it's is a absolutely delightful little novel about a woman who works at a company that very much like key she's designing. She's designing box the very nice box and about her encounter with a male co worker about male privilege. It's about what life in a working a company is like it's it's about it's about grief and loss. It's wonderful charming book. i i was just. It's been such a treat to read it of these past few days. The very nice box. It's called and then totally different direction. There's an article in the west. You may have seen in your twitter timeline. If you're a twitter person the of us has an article called the girl in the picture. And it's about the death of girl named andrea bowman and the case that swirled around her. She's a girl who disappeared in michigan thirty years ago and what happened to her is shocking and unsettling in its explored with great intensity by nile. Capello so recommend that as well listeners. Listeners you sent us one. Maybe maybe there are so many good listener chatters sent to get vest. But i feel that. Carl richter's chatter today. Maybe the most designed perfectly for john. Emily of any chatter that there's ever been so let's hear what karl richter's listener. Chatter is high gab. Festers karl richter checking in from texarkana. Usa on the arkansas side. At the moment. I like many people have been grieving. The recent loss of singer songwriter. Nancy griffith looking around online for some of her performances and came across a compilation on youtube of all of her performances on david letterman shows over the span of almost twenty years starting back in the late nineteen eighties. It's a really enjoyable look at the home brett of her remarkable career. It's a great way to review what she did. Or get an introduction to and i've been recommending it to everyone the videos not only sue hot but it sounds good and it's well worth ninety minutes of your time loved this so botch i mean surprise. No one that. Nancy griffith is like the soundtrack to i think my junior year in college. And she's so charming back in nineteen eighty eight when she first shows up and david letterman is completely smitten with her and then basically just has her back every time she has a new album or even like a. You know a vhs recording of a concert ya. I really enjoyed the other voices. Other rooms was a Big and important cd and the for a period of my life and her rendition of john. Nine speed the sound of loneliness is a really beautiful one. Not every cover of an artist you like pays tribute to the artist to the way that one does too prone. It's great.
Slate's Political Gabfest
"$10,000" Discussed on Slate's Political Gabfest
"Life after age forty or fifty and that's come from i the systems of exceptional primary care and then the secondary care that can address both preventing cardiac disease preventing cancer and then also dealing with it as time goes on and so you know in surgery is a great example. There's a core of about fifty operations that are as valuable to your life is being vaccinated. Those include Caesarean sections for women who have serious complications in childbirth to Cataracts late in life. Which about you know. Ten percent of medicare patients will have a cataract operation in a given year that Incredibly employee improved their life right. So there is a mix of those things and that's where the power of saying. Where should these equivalent of should the cdc our public health. Our population health outlook guide. How much of that surgery and our efforts I'll give you one other example. We have had a massive increase in spending on back pain now. We spend more money on back operations than any other category of operation. I did and we have had zero effect in reducing back disability in the united states disability from back pain is worse than ever so. What's the disconnect. No one is no one is asking. Are we getting the outcomes we need and are we prioritizing what we need to do that to fricken failure if this mindset needs to change from medical mindset of rescue to one of a resilience is there are there any grooves being created by the response to cova nineteen can be used us the learning the com- from this emergency situation to grab gains and improved. Things is that. Is there any way that can be done. I'm looking for a note of optimism here. Huge opportunity huge opportunity right. You know there's been this huge injection of dollars in order to roll out everything that we're doing and you know we already saw l. Saw start to happen you know. For example i talked to a team in california. That had hundreds of people hired It's called the public health institute. They hired hundreds and hundreds of people to be the contact. Racers to track down the f- get in contact with everybody. Family members around Around making sure when you test positive for cove that you have the appropriate response they describe to me teams that were over ninety percent bilingual or multi-lingual and then all of those people over the summer you know testing went down. They started to be let go. Let's fire them. Let's get rid of him. Oh but now. We have another outbreak again. We're we need those people back that opportunity to build so the building that infrastructure so that you have those contact points and they are then deployed to wear the greatest needs are that infrastructure needs to be built and maintained. We actually under the american rescue plan. Have the dollars in cities and states to do this. Cities and states can choose to use those dollars to build this capability and sustain it and have it apply to covert when they're outbreaks. But hey you know we have four million people are infected with hepatitis and we happen to have vaccines and treatments. That could eliminate hepatitis. As i write about. So you can redeploy that capability to keep solving problems at very low cost compared to waiting for the billions of dollars we spend per year on the hepatitis. Liver transplants will go on article. In the new yorker is costa ricans. Live longer than us. What's the secret it's so good. Check it out a tool. Thanks for coming by awesome to be here thank you. The political gap has to supported by wise smart new way to move money internationally. Imagine a world that borders world where your nationality would never limit you. Were you could speak any language travel to any place and spend an any currency with ease at wise. They love the sound of that world and they're building the money part. Wise is the world's most international account. Let you hold and convert dozens of currencies all in one place and you always get the real exchange rate. No markups like the banks sometimes give you so wherever you go or wherever you need your money to go. You're ready. that means that whether you're sending money. Australia hopping on a plane to poland or getting paid from france. Wise is all you need. Why is your passport to borderless. Money designed by international people for international people join over ten million people and businesses and try wise for free had wise dot com slash gabfest. Let's go to cocktail chatter if you're having a costa rican cocktail of some sort from some very delicious helpful cocktail. What will you be chattering about. Johnson you're just back from some vacations you probably have like piled up cocktail chatters. I do although we'll have to. You'll have to listen to them in future weeks because there was some news yesterday on the story we talked about before and that i worked on for sixty minutes about a lodge mclain. You may remember that. He was the twenty-three-year-old massage therapist who stopped on the street by the police. He wasn't doing anything we know that he wasn't doing anything. Because there's footage of it and in which he's manhandled by the police in which he pleads for to be let go and and basically treat a lodge one hundred and forty pounds and looks like a matchstick they treated him like it was a linebacker for the broncos after a chokehold and the administration of ketamine for someone One and a half times his weight he went into cardiac arrest he died six days later And when they basically did declared him to be brain dead no one was charged and part of the reason. No one was charged. Was something called excited. Delirium was put into the melone jr of things Possibly contributed to his death. Which allowed the da to say that nobody should be charged. Well now the attorney general for the state of colorado has a grand. Jury indicted three officers in two paramedics. And so we will see now. Thirty five counts. I think it was We will now see whether we'll get some clarity hopefully into this issue but it has much bigger ramifications because excited delirium which is kind of according to medical experts. Phony diagnosis is used as opposed. Talk way to cover up excessive force so anyway. There was that important development in that case..
Slate's Political Gabfest
"$10,000" Discussed on Slate's Political Gabfest
"You and tell you here is your appointment for your co vaccination. You know that's the way it works. They're here we we have to. You have to log on know. Press refresh a million times even now to go. Get a cova test or a vaccination. People don't know how to do that if you decided you wanted to do so. It will one of the things that's striking to me in. This piece is the idea that costa rica is not just an outlier compared to the united states. But it's an outlier compared to the world. It's not as though what costa rica's doing is also being done by tons and tons of other countries that are not the united states. So why is it that only one country in the world has figured this out. You would have thought that other places would would get to it even if we here in the. Us haven't gotten to it. There are in fact a few outliers. Thailand lanka are examples. They aren't quite at this. Extraordinary level of life expectancy. But the interesting thing is that many single payer countries have committed to making sure there's hospitalization committed to make sure this primary care but the have not braided together. The idea that public health is part of it you know. Most countries in the world have followed the model that we follow of you. Keep a separate cd from your healthcare delivery system. Right we have a separate medicare from our cdc in costa rica. They combine them together. It would be the equivalent of the cdc will set the priorities for the medicare delivery system. The insurance system and make sure it covers the core components and measure every year whether we're actually saving lives and improving people's suffering. It's not the standard approach that we've taken because many places around the world have bled public health dry. We all want to make sure that the you know the immediate need emergency care the operation Cover me. I'm going to save your life tomorrow. But you know the that ordinary everyday stuff of primary care and public health really is the highest value. The we could create once you explain the idea of the cdc you taking over a priority setting for doctors and insurers understand why we don't have this the united states right because it would it would change all of the power dynamics and it would both threaten private industry also the power of physicians. Which you know would seem to take a backseat in costa rica. To some degree they're working with the public health workers but they're not completely making all the important decisions by themselves. I mean is. Is that part of why we don't have this and does that seem like kind of insurmountable barrier. I don't think it's insurmountable barrier i. I don't know that it's entirely why we don't have yes. There's the power dynamics and how money plays out and all of those kinds of things but the reality is you know. We are in the midst of a massive experiment where we've doubled. Life expectancy in the last century. Right we've gone from the united states in one thousand nine hundred had an average lifespan of of surviving in your mid forties. We now if you can get the right care and serve the right community. We can all on average live into on average into our eighties. nowhere in the world has perfected it. I mean i describe lots of things that aren't going well costa rica. they're still waiting lists for their secondary and specialty care and things like that. I think we're in this innovative phase of learning how to support a society that has eighty you know climbing up to one hundred year. Life expectancy and enabling across your entire lifespan. All of the things you need when you're a child when you're in your working years when you're in your retired years and when you are going to spend ten twenty years dealing with well actually probably half of your life dealing with some chronic illness and needing incorporate on what to do. So is there resistance. Yes because the system we built in one thousand nine hundred eighty s was about. Let me rescue you. I'm gonna give you your make. Sure you have your penicillin. I'm gonna make sure you have your emergency appendectomy. We have a system built on rescue now building that system to manage a lifespan that we need to be by your side for eighty ninety one hundred years. That's incredible thing and i don't. It's simply the power of money It it's a lot of. It is our collective power of imagination and our demand that we should all deserve this just to just to dig on that lifespan question for a second at over this past century. Don't you think there's a problem which is that. We fundamentally misunderstand. Where lifespan came from that. Actually these that we're living longer not because of the surgical interventions that you might be doing you know in someone's life when they have a cancer which is great and they will extend their life but because of all these public health measures but americans fundamentally don't understand that it's the public health measures cleaner water. The vaccinations the improvement in maternal health and an infant mortality. That have made it. That actually are are already a product of public health but we attribute it somehow to physicians. Well so i don't think it's quite the either or you're painting here so and do either. The public health components have been absolutely critical for child. Survival that has been crucial. It's vaccines it's you know. We're in danger in the current sort of vaccine Resistance and battle to undo the childhood vaccination system that has enabled us to get through. measles diphtheria polio smallpox. All of those kinds of things if we put that at risk boy. The foundation of our system wouldn't work then there's adding years to your.
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"Most recently this article is costa ricans. Live longer than us. What's the secret. It was in last week's new yorker. It was my cocktail chatter last week. And now i'm glad to say we have the author or to go on day here to talk to us about a tool is a national treasure. He's a surgeon. A writer the author of essential books including the checklist manifesto which is my favorite and being more dole. He's also worked on remaking the american healthcare system and he was just nominated by president biden to be assistant administrator of usa. Id for the bureau of global health to lead global health development for the us which is great so to a welcome to the gabfest. The here i want you to begin with the astonishing just the basic facts about costa rican lifespans. What are they an. Tell us very briefly how they got that way. Yeah so. Costa rica became fascinating to me because a generation ago they had a life expectancy thirteen years less than the united states. They have an income that has been around one sixth of our national income per person and over time through a commitment to public health and primary care they have achieved a life expectancy that came to match the united states in the nineteen nineties and has been exceeding the united states for more than a decade at this point. Their life expectancy is approaching eighty-one years while we're at We peaked at seventy nine years and have declined since then since two thousand fifteen And they continue to have this on the basis of the commitment to primary care and public health. Which i'd be happy unpack a little bit. Yes could you tell us a little bit about how this work. Well so the key part about it. Is this commitment to braiding together. Your primary care and public health in a way that assures that everybody in the past before they can even afford universal coverage for hospital care. They committed to the idea that everybody would have a primary care. Clinician and that clinician would be equipped with a team who could visit every person in their community at least once a year for a home. Visit to make sure that nobody fell through the cracks for their most important individual health needs and public health needs. And so that might mean that you know if maternal and child mortality where the top priority. Well they'd be making sure that pregnant women were all identified. And we're all in prenatal care. They weren't do know they'd make the home visit in identify someone falling through the cracks. They'd identify middle aged. Men were hadn't had a blood pressure check and a blood sugar check for years. They would make sure that. There were weren't frail elderly who were neglected and malnourished and the result of that has been just the steady improvement by making sure that the core investments went to the most important causes of death and suffering for you know the population and the individual. It's a really such a simple thing. You'd think our health care system would do this. But that is not how our healthcare system or actually most around the world work. So the braiding together that you're describing. Is that the and help me with the pronunciation is that the is the system because i was remembering during a period of kobe hesitant. Some urban communities the community health workers that existed. There were the kind of bridging mechanism between the public health message to get vaccinations and the recalcitrant communities that were you know untrusting of vaccines and that they were this great bridge. Is that a an analog. That is in pockets of the states. Because one of the things you argue in the pieces you could do this in certain states and communities and i'm wondering if there is an existing as rickety as it may be an existing system in the states where you'd have this braiding together where you could try to reach the outcomes that you write about yet. We have a fraction of the public health infrastructure. That costa rica has but the infrastructure we have includes often nonprofits and folks outside the public health system. Who are doing community. Health work by community health work remain people who actually go door to door in the community. I stood up with the state of massachusetts a vaccine Vaccination operation with a organization founded called cic health and it it was big to filling gaps. Massachusetts has an exceptional public health system compared to the us. But we don't have enough community health workers to remotely reach out in the way that that we would need to find people who are missing vaccination make sure they understand it. You know reach out in multiple languages do all that kind of stuff and so we ended up fielding a whole army of folks and we would visit ten thousand knock on ten thousand doors per week and get vaccination out the door. Partners in health is another nonprofit that would be sent out to make sure that contact tracing happened. We don't have that systematized it. We have public health officials but not not nearly the capacity to make sure that they can connect door to door. It sounds incredibly expensive. When you say oh wanna have enough to go. You know one for every four thousand people and everybody in their neighborhood knows who they're person is and yet that's system of knowing who that person is and making sure they're connected into your primary care. Clinician can be done in a country with one six of the income we have and as a result have lower cost care better results more prevention and when covert rolls around. They already know how to either. Text you or call.
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"Is that you would think would be impossible if the lesson from vietnam. We're learned in the way you just described it. But it's an a lesson from decades ago and we have to relearn lessons right. And i think the this sort of specter especially in the first few days of american route and humiliation was hard to swallow even rate. Like you could be upset by that. Even if you didn't have a position on afghanistan in particular it just seemed like really like someone is dropping from an airplane in there is no control over the tarmac and like it just. That was so this really distressing that you could have a whole set of emotional and rational reactions to that. Were divorced from these larger geopolitical policy questions. And it's also totally possible that the exit was botched and that the exit was necessary. Those two things can be possible the way it's been debated it's kind of been that you know it's gotten binary and unfortunate in the way it's politically been debated but it's I think you're exactly exactly right. And back to your point david. The people who supported the withdrawal from afghanistan including all the members of the public basically are are not embracing the consequences of what leaving actually means which is going to be messy. The biden ministration may have totally misunderstood the quickness with which the taliban was going to route the afghan army and move across the countryside. And that you know maybe one of their various failures in addition to communicating and being caught flat-footed. But a lot of this is the consequence of of leaving. I mean a lot of the message and a lot of what we're all wrestling with is the consequence of a position. Lots of people held and that they they including donald trump and including even president obama. It's just that biden hit. He had the courage he bit the bullet. I mean you know he the people who were saying he's there's blood on his and the investigations of the bombing will continue in the for the thirteen service members and the one hundred fifty plus afghans. Who died it is. They've made a sacrifice. And in this moment of defeat that is unimaginable. I can't i can't even know their families would feel i didn't. I've never been in the military. I didn't i didn't lose any relative or friend but but like remembering that the that the blood blood is on every president's hands like your your job. Is that blood on your hands and won't be on president biden's hands is the blood of those american service members who would die. Had we stayed in and the the tax money that would be wasted had we stayed in. And that's what we have to remember because it's just it's it's hard in the kind of the moment of tragedy to to remember that vic the idea that the presidency means the blood is always on your hands is i mean that's essentially what my book is about. I mean this is what a hard presidential decision looks like. It's not between like thing that goes swimmingly and i think that doesn't it's always between something that goes wrong is ugly and whether it's blood on your hands and then the question is just as it as much as it could have been or is it less. I mean this is. This is and should be studied at the heart of the kinds of decisions presidents. Have to make and that they often don't make because you're always going to have a lot on your hands and that's the part that really needs to be stared at and that i'm worried isn't going to be because this is a template for the way we look and think about big hard complicated decisions in presidencies for a long time and biden had watched president obama. Not make this decision and disagreed with that call at the time and now he has the power to do it. I really basic remark. Which is i've realized at myself in the past week that i understood in complete way that we were actually having a war in afghanistan right the words withdrawal. The words leaving. They're not the same as like. Oh this is a war and people were dying and ten thousand afghans a year were dying and the notion that you could sort of ignore it because it was really far away and you know if you didn't have family in the military it just seems sort of abstract like that all got ripped away and it is really terrible to watch a military defeat and to watch a war and in this way but it reminded me of the cost of continuing the war and i became more and more skeptical of the claim that there was some like low grade way to stick around because we were not a peacekeeping force. Also don't forget. Emily like one thing we have to remember is just because ten thousand afghans are dine year now doesn't mean they're not gonna keep dying under the taliban it's not as though as leaving and the war ending means that it is piece for the afghan people because they they will continue to suffer but that afghanistan can return to where it probably should be in the american mindset which is pretty small country that is not strategically important to us that is poor and landlocked and it's basically as far away from us as any country can be. It doesn't have any critical resources that we need. It's not on any trade route that we particularly care about. It has no deep cultural or religious or economic ties. The united states it is not important to the united states. Geopolitically it was important for a moment because it was the haven for people who attack the united states in two thousand and one for that brief moment it was important. But it's important to being important for that won't be it won't be. It's our ability to fight from distances. We've hardened defences our greatest dangers in terms of terrorism from from islamists or internal insofar as their islamic terrorism is a problem at tends to be much more focused on europe. Doesn't the united states. There's no evidence that there's a lot of training of operatives who are going to be trained in afghanistan snuck into the united states and the way they're that did happen in this brief period in the ninety s. I do not by the idea that oh now that. We've we've let the taliban take it over as hotbed of people who are going to be a threat to the united states. I'm not saying there won't be people who are a threat to other people in the region or they won't do terrible things. I'm just saying i don't feel like the united states is threatened by afghanistan and the way al qaeda did briefly threaten us and twenty years ago and one of the things we have to get right both thinking about this now and i was also thinking about what our commitment should should've been prior to the withdrawal is that american resources are not finite and that's both public support money presidential administration attention to the whole range of threats that they that country faces to the extent. You think things into afghanistan. you're not thinking them into other things that are greater threats and that our cyber for one would be now. You've got to be able to do multiple things at once but the benefit from extended engagement and in afghanistan when you could apply those energies to other bigger challenges. Seems to be our hard case to make. Can i make one final thought which the notion that afghanistan one of the things that also died in this defeat was the notion that any war could be kind of quote unquote good war. Which somehow sometimes what afghanistan was referred to. When i wrote my piece on james mattis he introduced me to the quote from sherman. That's at every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster and that was very much in my mind is i was thinking about this departure. Relative to the super glib ways in which afghanistan was once talked about contributed in part to the disaster that took place in In iraq and that more broad point is that you turns out. The united states can't just work its will despite the size of its extraordinary armaments which we thought we'd learned after vietnam but we've now learned at least twice in afghanistan and iraq. Every now and then you read an article that makes you totally reassess. Your priors that up ends your worldview for me..
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"Just described of snooping on people that part of one of the ways. They've tried to avoid Dance between the raindrops. In the way this was written is that it's only the abortion provider. It doesn't it doesn't go after people walking in and goes after the abortion provider in the ten. It's not just the provider anyone who's a quote better so you're right. It's not the patient the patient and they did. But if you're if if you're if you gave your friend one hundred bucks to help them fund that abortion or you think you are in a better. I'm not saying practical. Effect may not be what you described david. But i'm just saying in the way it was written it. It seemed to concede the merits. And just try to kind of create something that would effectively allow abortion to be outlawed without then being susceptible to judicial review. Let me ask a final question to you. Emily on roberts. It seemed in the sense that they were that. The justices were saying essentially. This is not only wrong on the merits. But it's it's an abomination in terms of the court. And what did you do. And its role. Roberts's is very concerned with the court and its role in american citing that it not be completely downgraded into just another political arm where they arguing to him on that front and do you think that that will matter in terms of the way he responds in the in the future in terms of whatever happens with respect either to this law or future abortion decisions. Well yeah i mean. He was on their side right. He's in dissent with them. It just that it doesn't matter anymore because they're five other conservative votes that he doesn't control. I do think it's of concern to him and that this You know intense period of activity by this so-called shadow. Docket must be keeping him awake at night because it just doesn't it's not how our normal legal processes work and it makes the court seem like very arbitrary. You know in terms of john your point about how the law doesn't allow people seeking abortions to be sued. I think what's really crucial about that. Is this kind of long term strategy of abortion opponents in court. There've been so many efforts to ban abortion in this complete way that activists really like and these more 'incrementalist ways that lawyers tend to like and one of the important principles that abortion opponents have developed is that it's important not to demonize people seeking abortions that you want to be seen as protecting women who are seeking abortions not as attacking them directly. And so you see that. Principle enshrined in this law. And i think that's the kind of underlying aspect and someone who's watched developed for a long time like it is really interesting to me to see this particular statutes succeed. I mean a few years ago a different supreme court no way would this slobby going to affect the way it is but you know you throw enough spaghetti at the wall and then you get the people who want to do something like this and here we are. I think we can't let this pass. We're in the context in the shadow of the kobe. Vaccination debate like many of the same people who are celebrating this intervention this kind of nosiness and interference and other people's life and the decision-making are making with their body in another context are saying any interference any demand that i put a vaccine in my body is is a violation of my personal freedom. At the highest order a paradox. It doesn't resolve itself. Yes and we have a supreme court that has been reluctant to give cities and states and governments full power to try to stop the pandemic from spreading right. I mean that's another thing that's been happening partly on the shadow docket before we move onto the next topic john. I'm just interested in your take on the politics of this. The this is passed by a texas state legislature. This law is not popular in texas. Even these proposals to fully ban abortion which which text slough actively does wildly unpopular nationwide yet. They are also in place. We'll be in the place in majority of states if the supreme court and allows it how to reconcile the political unpopularity with their political success is their way in which which liberals or democrats can anticipate any political gain from this. They so far haven't realized so. Yeah so it's really two parts of this. There are interesting in texas. The polling shows i think that a bare majority supports the fetal. Heartbeat bill but quickly on that there is also only thirteen percent of texans say abortion should never be allowed so how to reconcile those two the question then now becomes as this gets covered whether the facts of the case which is this is effectively a ban on abortion starts to be in the public consciousness and starts to change those that mindset whether people recognize the disconnect between being in support of a fetal heartbeat bill but also wanting to allow abortion in some instance. So the question is how does this change in texas but then to your point which is much more important. Which is how is this. Going to affect the twenty twenty. Two races polling shows. That democrats are more activated by the question of abortion now conservatives have cared and been on a long many years march to change the court and make it more conservative and they have been more eye on the ball with respect to that and politics than than democrats and it'll be fascinating to see how that plays out and also what we always see in these debates is while somebody may say they want to allow abortion rights. Are they gonna get activated by so while you may have more democrats saying that. They want to keep abortion rights. Are they gonna go to the polls and do all the things that would be necessary to change this and finally the it really is going to matter on the presidential level. And we've talked about it a million times but the way in which basically whether you're going to vote for or against certain kind of judge becomes the only issue in a presidential campaign and you could argue the signature moment in the last presidential campaign was It was the night that scully died. When the donald trump wing of the party and the and the establishment wing of the party. We're joined when mitch and donald trump basically said the same thing which is block. Any obama nominee. And wait till we get in and that will be totally consuming the next presidential race. I would imagine as well. This question of the court. Slate plus members you get bonus segments on the gab. Fest this week's bonus segment we're talking talk about. What should children going off to college this year. No we all. Three of us are sending child off to college this month. And we're gonna talk about what they meant. Necessarily they should know but what children in general going.