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"So as you can imagine. There was a lot of issues. Can you give an example of something. Where like is there an individual example. We can give. Just how complex is yes so for example like the shell of the hot tub the actual thing that you sit on it basically starts as a flat acrylic sheet in kentucky and this flat sheet then gets driven a truck to nevada in nevada. A second sheet of a different type of plastic is added so now you have the acrylic and a different type of plastic that are bind bonded together and then from nevada that all gets driven to their facility in utah at this company's facility in utah a different chemical urethane which which comes from their fact a factory. Georgia is an added to this. So now you have the acrylic another plastic in your thing and then all of that gets basically using pressure and heat that gets basically turned into the shape of the hot tub in these giant industrial presses. And so that's just one basic example of how this is a fully. us supply chain for this one component. The of the hot tub but it takes. That's just three steps and one of those steps takes multiple steps for that to get there so if you remember in february of twenty twenty one there were these winter. Storms at basically came out of nowhere and shut down a massive chunk of the country's oil and chemical production in texas in parts of louisiana the entire state for the first time in whether history under that winter storm warning we also had portions in west texas that were under a blizzard warning. We reported early this morning. Seven degrees in parts of dallas and other parts of the state. Now i don't think people realize at the time but it took months for the country's chemical production to fully recover. They basically clearly decided to press the burden. See buttons into stop production immediately to turn production back on in these giant chemical. Plants isn't easy and he basically to inspect essentially every inch the plans to ensure that there's not going to be an industrial accident. And what that meant. Is that if you were a user of chemicals that were produced and then these things go everywhere. Right go into mattresses go into Tabletops any product you have. It's probably produced by some chemicals. Probably made somewhere around texas in meant that that these companies were stopped that without the products. They need it. If this hot tub company had known somehow that the pandemic was coming if they had a hot tub time. Machine for instance. What do you think they would have done differently to prepare. I think they probably would have or had had invested more in having larger inventories of the raw materials because that is another part of this whole story for the last thirty years manufacturers in the us and around the world how focused on becoming lean manufacturers have focused on reducing the quantity of materials that they store their plants and in good times that works out really well because instead of of having a million dollars worth of spare parts in your warehouse. You're able to take that million dollars and invest it in a machine or by another company but during the current buyers and endemic people have realized that there are real dangers to focusing so much on reducing inventories. It's not just materials that have been a problem. It's labor also how much how much of a role has labor shortage played in this for several years. The so-called manufacturing labor shortage has been a problem but in now seems like. It's the worst that has been really ever. Why is that. Why is it so hard to hire right now. I think in some ways it's it's it's a bit of a mystery to people you. Everyone has different opinions. Some people say oh. It's because of the extra unemployment benefits but i have another theory. Though in certain parts of the country manufacturing wages are no longer a giant premium. Compared to other entry level type jobs i kinda profiled several companies in west michigan. They have furniture manufacturers. They have car part manufacturers and insert towns west michigan. Wendy's is offering forty dollars per hour starting jobs but so is the factory that makes furniture and so in that kind of environments. Why would someone come to your factory which may not be air conditioned which might mean to start at five. Am and so. I think in some ways. Also question of compensation manufacturers no are increasingly no longer paying excess wages compared to other industries in the economy. Could that change. As a result of this whole situation could change in the long term it might but what some manufacturers have told me though is that they are competing globally that if you raise wages too much you'll basically become non-competitive with your products right because if i'm buying office furniture i don't i don't only have companies west michigan. I have companies in atlanta georgia. I have companies making it. In china i companies making it in south america and compare that to a restaurant. You know if. I'm looking for dinner in west michigan. I'm not going to be driving to chicago to get dinner or let's talk about what happens in the future. What happens next. How do you see this resolving or will this ever resolve. Yeah i mean. It's funny because i speak to manufacturers. I think a lot of people are really surprised that here. We are in september of twenty twenty one right. Eighteen months into this and things haven't really been resolved. You'll it makes sense okay. In the first three months the for six months okay this this is a global pandemic. it makes sense. It's going to be some hiccups but eighteen months. That isn't a hiccup that that that feels like. It's a more fundamental reckoning. It's possible to imagine the pandemic subsiding and people wanting to get back out in the world to travel into have experiences in being sick of doing home improvement projects and sick of sitting in their hot tub in their backyard. If that happens. Because there'd be a whole new disaster that results from that demand shift on. What would that disaster look like. I think that is the fear and that is part of the reason why we are still in this position. Each month sin is that there's been a hesitancy from some manufacturers to fully invest in new operations you know. Why would you invest in the second factory if the new demands made evaporate in three months austin hovered. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you austin. Hovered is a reporter for the wall street journal. That's the show. What next is produced by davis. Land lena schwartz. Mary wilson danielle hewitt and carmel. Dell shop special. Thanks to ethan brooks. Who helped out this week. We're led by alison benedict and alicia. Montgomery i'm seth stevenson filling in for mary harris while she's on vacation thanks for listening. We'll catch you back here tomorrow..
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Politics is a podcast for real conversations. That help us understand politics democracy and the news while still treating each other like thoughtful human beings hosts. Sarah beth are both kentucky moms and lawyers who smart meet spiritual political analysis blends hard facts with important social cultural undercurrents. So you don't miss the big picture. Join the conversation. By following pantsuit politics. Wherever you listen when the airlines do jerk us around a recourse is limited and that is the fault of deregulation because deregulation exempted the airlines from state level oversight so if an airline is bilking you out of a refund. You can't go to your state attorney general and expect help from the consumer protection office. The only sheriff in town is the federal department of transportation and that agency has not distinguished itself. The department transportation not been effective at all. We basically had to transportation secretaries on the second one under obama and then the only one under trump who did very little or consumer advocates would say they did nothing for protecting consumer rights in air travel You know it is. The is the only sheriff The the industry was given an exemption by congress from any sort of state regulation or oversight Dot is the only body that That that governs this So so one example of frontier airlines changed its refund policy in the pandemic and there are a huge number of of complaints and then the attorney general of the state of colorado where frontiers based Said we have never gotten more complaints about a single company than we did about frontier and there wasn't a thing we could do about it because airlines have this exemption from the federal government. I want to talk about some of the things that could make flying better. I'm going to start with the lowest hanging fruit. I can think of. Which is maybe the planes should stop serving booze. Is that that. Much of a moneymaker maker for them. Could they stop serving alcohol on the planes. I don't think it's much of a moneymaker at all when you factor in the cost of injuries disruptions You know if airplane asked to divert to an airport unexpectedly because a passenger has to be arrested that can be a ten thousand dollar event And know the passengers not paying for it. The airline is So we've seen a couple of airlines that through the pandemic or not serving alcohol American and south in particular And i think that you know that may stick. We've also seen sort of college. Campus tight behavior Where people realize that the airlines not going to serve alcohol so they get plastered before they get on the airplane. So alcohol's clearly a problem. I'm not sure the airline alone can legislate the problem here. About ten years ago there were a lot of complaints about how planes would leave passengers stranded on the tarmac for our big kept hearing. They'd be departing shortly but these passengers ended up stranded on a dark plane for nearly five hours. No food no air conditioning nightmare flight passengers are stuck on airport tarmac for hours. Now the government is limiting. It was a bunch of high profile cases of this and it prompted congress to pass the air passengers bill of rights which was enacted in twenty eleven You'd think that's due for an update right. Yeah very much. So and by the way tarmac delays is a great example of the sheriff. Actually doing his or her job Ray hood was the secretary of transportation. was a republican in the obama administration and he just got really pissed off. That people were getting stranded for ten hours at a time sitting on an airplane with no services. Now you know because of airline screw ups and so he said no more and they put through a rule with really heavy penalties If airlines did that and lo and behold airlines figured out a way to fix the problem and that's typically you know what happens. It didn't then raise ticket. Prices at didn't disrupt traveled in. You know wasn't the end of the world. They just figured out a better way to manage it so that that has happened. I do think there you know there are some key areas Some of which we talked about where it is time for More passenger rights I think the the consumer has really been left behind here and there are some simple things that that government could do without imposing a whole lot of new regulation but Do some things to to level the playing field. What are some things. I can do if i decide that like improving. Air travel is my number one priority. What are some things. I could do to make the world a better place. I do think there's value in filing complaints with the department of transportation It's it's a fairly easy thing to do. You can do it from their website. They'll take complaints over the phone. However whatever's is your preferred communications method in a couple of things happen. The the dot does forward complaints to a particular air to the airline involved and it does ask for response so complaints that go to the dot in theory. Do get more attention and we certainly seen some airlines be more responsive and You know it's helpful for journalists and others to to track which airlines are doing well and provide some some peer pressure. I do an annual scorecard of airline performance And that's that's one of the factors we look at So i think that that can have a benefit. I also think social media is is a powerful tool for airline passengers Certainly seen this with with videos of late and things like that but Airlines you know can be more responsive on social media. They do have social media desks And it can be a good way to get a response from an airline When you know reading a letter making a phone call gets you nowhere. Scott mccartney thank you so much for talking. Sure good to be with you. Mary scott mccartney is reporter for the wall street journal where he writes the middle seat column. And that's the show. What next is produced by the best in the business. Elena schwartz davis land daniel hewitt and carmel shad alison benedict and unleash montgomery rarely tape us to our chairs and when they do we deserve it. I'm mary wilson filling in for mary harris. Thanks for listening..
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"Supermajority <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Silence> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> <Music> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> in both the <Silence> assembly and the senate. <Speech_Male> I guess the <Speech_Male> argument <Speech_Female> among folks <SpeakerChange> who are against <Speech_Female> newsom. But maybe <Speech_Female> a little wary <Speech_Female> of larry elder <Speech_Female> could <Speech_Female> be. <Speech_Female> How much harm could <Speech_Female> he do. It's just <Speech_Female> it's just a <SpeakerChange> year. <Silence> What would you say to <Speech_Male> that <Speech_Male> while i would say. We've <Speech_Male> seen over the past <Speech_Male> year. The <Speech_Male> amount that <Speech_Male> a governor can do just <Speech_Male> with executive <Speech_Male> power. 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"The states next. Us senator if he's the governor so what's your strategy for the next month. You got forty six candidates forty seven if you count the governor himself. You've got crazy ballot. How do you even begin to cover it. you know. i think. I've put for the next month really. The top thing is getting information about how to vote. I think that is absolutely paramount It's important for us in a normal election year but certainly in a year like this when there is so much confusion about how this ballot works. I mean you know we were getting calls from people saying they wrote in gavin newsom as the second choice or they're doing all types of things with their ballot that is not actually per the rules. So i think the real my real focus at least for the next month will just be trying to get out information about how to navigate. This recall process which might seem simple. It's two questions but it's a really novel ballot for a lot of california voters and a really unique election guy marzorati. Thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure guy. Marzorati is reporter and a producer for kiki. Dee's california politics and government desk. And that's the show. What next is produced by schwartz. Carmel shad davis land. Mary wilson and daniel hewitt we get a little help each and every day from allison benedict unleashing montgomery and mary harris. You can go. Track me down on twitter at mary's desk or i will catch you back on his feet tomorrow..
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"What the taliban takeover looks like to me is local afghans knowing how to survive invasions. Oh yeah absolutely you figure out which big dog is leaving and you make nice with the next alpha dog in line and afghans have been doing that for decades listening there were there were reports their stories about this even now this late date. A lot of afghan farmers thought that the us people who were there were russians. Wow when they. They never quite processed that the russians had left a long time ago. But you know to them. There's no difference americans russians. They're all outsiders. And of course the soviets left in eighty nine. So yeah it's been maybe before some of these. These farmers were little kid now. It was but you know i. It's almost it almost doesn't matter from their perspective. There is no difference. Both both groups of outsiders came in and said we're gonna make a better future for you. You know the soviets did we're gonna we're gonna to clue you in on the glories of of international socialism We came in and said we're going to clue you into the glories of freedom democracy and modernity it was all nonsense to them. It had nothing to do with anything about their everyday lives. Fred kaplan thank you so much. Sure my pleasure. Fred kaplan writes the war stories column for slate. His latest book is the bomb presidents generals and the secret history of nuclear war on monday afternoon. President biden said. He stood by his decision to withdraw. Us troops from afghanistan and added that the us would move quickly in coming days to help transport afghans with visas out of the country. The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what's happened. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight if anything the development of the past week reinforced at any new us military involvement afghanistan. Now was the right decision. American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dine in a war that afghan forces do not willing to fight for themselves. The show what next is produced by the amazing davis. Land daniel hewitt carmel. Shad and elena schwartz. Alison benedict is the executive editor of slate. Leash montgomery is executive producer of slate. Podcasts i am. Mary wilson filling in today for mary harris. We'll catch you back here tomorrow. Thanks for listening..
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"What the taliban takeover looks like to me is local afghans knowing how to survive invasions. Oh yeah you figure out which big dog is leaving. And you make nice with the next alpha dog in line and afghans have been doing that for decades listening there were there were reports their stories about this even now this late date. A lot of afghan farmers thought that the us people who were there were russians. Wow when they. They never quite processed that the russians had left a long time ago. But you know to them. There's no difference americans russians. They're all outsiders. And of course the soviets left in eighty nine. So yeah it's been maybe before some of these. These farmers were little kid now. It was but you know i. It's almost it almost doesn't matter from their perspective. There is no difference. Both both groups of outsiders came in and said we're gonna make a better future for you. You know the soviets did we're gonna we're gonna clue you in on the glories of of international socialism We came in and said. We're going to clue you into the glories of freedom democracy and modernity it was all nonsense to them. It had nothing to do with anything about their everyday lives. Fred kaplan thank you so much. Sure my pleasure. Fred kaplan writes the war stories column for slate. His latest book is the bomb presidents generals and the secret history of nuclear war on monday afternoon. President biden said. He stood by his decision to withdraw. Us troops from afghanistan and added that the us would move quickly in coming days to help transport afghans with visas out of the country. The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what's happened. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight if anything the development of the past week reinforced at any new us military involvement afghanistan. Now was the right decision. American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dine in a war that afghan forces do not willing to fight for themselves. The show what next is produced by the amazing davis. Land daniel hewitt carmel. Del shad and elena schwartz alison benedict is the executive editor of slate. Leash montgomery is executive producer of slate. Podcasts i am. Mary wilson filling in today for mary harris. We'll catch you back here tomorrow. Thanks for listening..
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"Jeffrey buster clark seems to have left the doj gotten another job moved on. But i'm not convinced that there aren't people with his. Pov still inside the government still inside an institution that has thousands of lawyers working for it. So is there any evidence. That merrick garland the new attorney. General has said about trying to establish a consensus about what the rules of the road are for his attorneys. For you know the people who work under him is that going on so first of all i think your your intuition is dead rights. And we've actually seen some whistle blowers come forward and say that jeffrey bossert clark Successfully burrowed in some super partisan political Folks at the justice department right before he left so he basically manipulated the rules of hiring to bring in some super partisan republicans into positions where they are treated like an considered to be career staff. and dot is that is kind of frightening and it strongly suggests that this was going on more broadly across the justice department and we only know about a little bit of it. There's not a ton. america orleans can do about the presence of these people. The whole point of burrowing in which trump and his and his allies really excelled at is that by deeming these people career appointees and a political they get these jobs protections and it's hard to sniff them out so i don't think bear garland is going to be able to clean house but i do think that he will be able to prevent these crazy people from putting their plans into motion. We may still have some insurrectionists at doj but they now answer to different bosses. and so. I'm fairly confident that we won't be seeing a lot of craziness coming out of of these offices. Because at the end of the day garlands can prevent them from unleashing. They're crazy or flying there freak flag but what i think comes through reading your reporting and others is how much some of these decisions hinge on the individual takes of like single people. You know the only reason. Why bossert clark did not become the acting. A is because a number of other attorneys say we will all resign on mass and they wrote it down so that we know it which also seems quite intentional to me and so it does leave you with this. Feeling that we're we're a little bit of a breath away from someone being promoted and making a different choice Yes and that's another reason to be terrified about future elections Our republic itself rested on the shoulders of a few partisan republicans. Who just happened to have enough of a conscience to draw the line somewhere. That might not happen in the future. And you can go for mike pence all the way down to these people at the justice department and see that each of them made a handful of decisions. Usually at the last minute sometimes for grudgingly that staved off disaster and we just don't know if we replay this with a slightly different set of variables if that outcome will happen again of starting. Thank you so much for joining me. Always a pleasure thanks. Mary marches of stern covers. Courts and the law for slate. And that's her show. What next is produced by. Daniel hewitt davis land. Mary wilson carmella shad andolina schwartz. We are led by alison benedict deletion. Montgomery and i'm mary harris. You attract me on twitter. that's where i was reacting. Live to governor cuomo's resignation. Yesterday i was supposed to be in a meeting. all right. had you back here tomorrow..
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"Jeffrey clark seems to have left. The doj gotten another job moved on. But i'm not convinced that there aren't people with his. Pov still inside the government still inside an institution that has thousands of lawyers working for it. So is there any evidence. That merrick garland the new attorney. General has said about trying to establish a consensus about what the rules of the road are for his attorneys. For you know the people who work under him is that going on so first of all i think your your intuition is dead rights. And we've actually seen some whistle blowers come forward and say that jeffrey bossert clark Successfully burrowed in some super partisan political Folks at the justice department right before he left so he basically manipulated the rules of hiring to bring in some super partisan republicans into positions where they are treated like an considered to be career staff. and dot is that is kind of frightening and it strongly suggests that this was going on more broadly across the justice department and we only know about a little bit of it. There's not a ton. america orleans can do about the presence of these people. The whole point of burrowing in which trump and his and his allies really excelled at is that by deeming these people career appointees and a political they get these jobs protections and it's hard to sniff them out so i don't think bear garland is going to be able to clean house but i do think that he will be able to prevent these crazy people from putting their plans into motion. We may still have some insurrectionists at doj but they now answer to different bosses. and so. I'm fairly confident that we won't be seeing a lot of craziness coming out of of these offices. Because at the end of the day garlands can prevent them from unleashing. They're crazy or flying there freak flag but what i think comes through reading your reporting and others is how much some of these decisions hinge on the individual takes of like single people. You know the only reason. Why bossert clark did not become the acting. G. is because a number of other attorneys say we will all resign on mass and they wrote it down so that we know it which also seems quite intentional to me and so it does leave you with this. Feeling that we're we're a little bit of a breath away from someone being promoted and making a different choice Yes and that's another reason to be terrified about future elections Our republic itself rested on the shoulders of a few partisan republicans. Who just happened to have enough of a conscience to to draw the line somewhere. That might not happen in the future. And you can go for mike pence all the way down to these people at the justice department and see that each of them made a handful of decisions. Usually at the last minute sometimes for grudgingly that staved off disaster. And we just don't know if we replay this with a slightly different set of variables if that outcome will happen again. Merchants of starting. Thank you so much for joining me. Always a pleasure thanks. Mary marches of stern covers. Courts and the law for slate. And that's our show. What next is produced by. Daniel hewitt davis land. Mary wilson carmella shad andolina schwartz. We are led by alison benedict deletion. Montgomery and i'm mary harris. You track on twitter. that's where i was reacting. Live to governor cuomo's resignation. Yesterday i was supposed to be in a meeting. all right. had you back here tomorrow..
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"Can no longer remain in office we will move expeditiously and look to conclude are impeachment investigation as quickly as possible who've it's pretty straightforward. Yeah does he give a timeline. Not quite yet stay tuned. It'll be interesting to see how long they let it wait because the longer they wait. The more people's resolve weakens Yeah i think we're going to have to see because it feels like it. It's not over yet. It will take acts of what some would perceive as political courage to keep moving it forward and if lawmakers have not acted up until this point there have been questions about why. And you know we. We may soon find out bridget. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me brigid. Bergen is a senior reporter for wnyc. And that's the show in case you missed it back in may. I actually interviewed one of the women. Who've come forward to accuse governor cuomo of harassment. Conversation is definitely worth revisiting this week. The fastest way to track it down is to go to my twitter. That's at mary's desk. I've linked to it there. What next is produced by davis land. Linda schwartz daniel hewitt mary wilson and carmel delchad we are led by alison benedicta leisure montgomery. And i'm mary harris. I'll be back in this feed tomorrow..
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"Or civil in nature I should note that at the assembly speaker has just moments ago issued some comments And i think it. It is suggests that there will be action in the new york. State assembly From speaker carl. Hasty from my colleague He says it is abundant abundantly clear to me that the governor has lost the confidence of the assembly democratic majority and that he can no longer remain in office we will move expeditiously and look to conclude are impeachment investigation as quickly as possible who've it's pretty straightforward. Yeah does he give time on not quite yet stay tuned. It'll be interesting to see how long they let it wait because the longer they wait. The more people's resolve weakens Yeah i think we're going to have to see because it feels like it. It's not over yet. It will take acts of what some would perceive as political courage to keep moving it forward and if lawmakers have not acted up until this point there have been questions about why. And you know we. We may soon find out bridget. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me brigid. Bergen is a senior reporter for wnyc. And that's the show in case you missed it back in may. I actually interviewed one of the women. Who've come forward to accuse governor cuomo of harassment. Conversation is definitely worth revisiting this week. The fastest way to track it down is to go to my twitter. That's at mary's desk. I've linked to it there. What next is produced by davis land. Linda schwartz daniel hewitt mary wilson and carmel delchad we are led by alison benedicta leisure montgomery. And i'm mary harris. I'll be back in this feed tomorrow..
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"The confederacy and many of the students wanted it taken down for generations. Yeah and and had been working for decades to remove it in a way that was legal and followed all the rules and they went through every process. They could go through the north carolina. General assembly passed a law specifically to protect statues of this type from being removed even by the communities in which they stand and schools where they are in court houses and to make it virtually impossible to remove them and so stymied and unable to do this in a legal way protesters toppled the statue on the campus. And so what happened. After that was members of the board of governors board of trustees in conservatives north carolina said put it back up we would like to redirect confederate statue now in the modern era and this was twenty eighteen and so this was for a lot of reasons. Very bad idea. People who are white supremacists or showing up sometimes armed on campus to quote unquote defend. The statue You know and it's just a terrible terrible idea to deal with any further. So what did the university do about this well in their telling to try to get around this law the state law. That's still in place that protects these statues. They made a secret deal with a neo. Confederate group called the sons of confederate veterans whereby the sense of confederate veterans. Who don't have anything to do with the statue assert that it is their property and they've gotten rights to it from the daughters of the confederacy which did in fact was the group that so many years before had had erected a statue and that they'd be willing to take it off the universities hands in a legal way if they would give them the statue and several million dollars. Technically for upkeep of the statue but still over two million dollars to maintain a confederate statues. That's exactly right and the leader of that group in a celebratory email. Said we're gonna use some of that money to build a headquarters for ourselves. We've won our allies in the unc system in the board of governors Simply helped us do this. It was a huge controversy and and the public only found out about it when it was done deal and it had been announced. So what happened with nicole. Hannah jones when i listened to all of this history is part of a pattern and it becomes clear like in the weeks after the ten year. Back and forth was reported on there was some reporting that for instance i think seventy percent of black faculty had considered leaving the institution. And when you place. What happened with nicole. Hannah jones into the wider context. You can understand why that it's just one more incident that might make that faculty feel unwelcome. Yeah in fact. A prominent tenured professor williams turkey in history. Farmer told me he thinks it's probably closer to ninety percents and their other professors who are leaving their Are publicly saying this is why we've got professors who they were trying to recruit who our top people in their fields. Who've said i'm not coming there and this is why so guy there's there's it's not a theoretical cost so for people who live in. North carolina is the solution to this problem in their educational system. The same solution. We keep hearing about for every other political fight. Were in the middle of vote. Like that's the only way out given the way the boards are appointed as you disagree with what they're doing. Yeah if you agree with what you're what they're doing and this is a. These are the glory days while their husband likes to talk about objectivity and reporting if i totally objective about this and i overlooked any number of things that are ethically objectionable or outright illegal and i just sort of look in it with the totally objective lens than what i see is a political struggle between two sides conservative general assembly in their political appointees and faculty staff alumni and students of the university of chapel hill in many universities in unc system who are are more liberal progressive and they have competing interests and competing philosophies about the university of how should operate what should stand for and one of them is in power and one of them is not a joke kellyanne. Thank you so much for joining me. Glad to help jokey leeann is an investigative reporter at nc policy. Watch and that's the show. What next is produced by lena. Shorts carmelo shod mary. Wilson daniel hewitt and davis land. We are led by alison. benedict unleash. montgomery mary harris. You can go track down on twitter whenever you want. I'm at mary's desk tomorrow. Stay tuned to this feed what next. Tvd is going to be here. Henry gruber is coming in the hosting chair. And he's going to be talking about what happens with remote work once we all go back to the office. okay. I'll get you back here on monday..
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"Say is kind of like the definition of selfishness. You've alluded to what next term looks like the fact that there's an abortion case. There's a gun rights case and you've publicly worried that even though the justices seem to be taking this brick by brick approach of plucking away rights as they go and sir kicking legs outta tables and watching them fall that they could come in next session and say screw it. Let's be legend. Yes which i loved when you said that But you really think that's going to happen given what you saw this term like that. I knew that there are people who are more moderate than you who were like mark you know this is not going to be that bad but is is the real fear screw it. Let's be legends. Or is it that they just take another brick or two away and we realized in ten years. What legends they were. well why not both There are a lot of rights out there that are very vulnerable at the supreme court. And something. I've tried to stress today. Is this matter of priorities. Of what is at the very top of the list for the conservative justices. And what can wait for a few terms or a few more years. And i think that by taking up this pair of cases the the challenge to roe v wade and the challenge to limits on concealed carry. The conservative justices have revealed to priorities. They really want to overturn roe. And they really want to establish a constitutional right to concealed. Carry and expand the scope of the second amendment. I don't see any other explanation for those moves because remember this time. Last year the supreme court had just turned away a bunch of very similar cases. The gordon turned away. Abortion cases at a turned away gun cases. It had said we're not dealing with these. It's not our priority. And there was great reporting by joan biskupic that revealed the reason why it was because the chief justice more or less said i will not go with you like i will not walk with you down this road to the rest of the conservatives. He said i am not ready for this. This is not what i want yet. Yes this is. Not what i want yet. But now the chief justice has been sidelined and it only takes four votes for the supreme court to hear a case just four and so last year cavanagh gorsuch alito. Thomas did not all vote to take up all those big cases because they knew robert's would not go with them would not walk with them down that road to be the fifth. Vote to actually do what they wanted. Case came to them exactly and this year. Something changed what changed. Rpg was replaced with amy barrett. And so those four votes. That weren't there last year because they were afraid of john. Roberts they suddenly materialized. Because there's no longer a reason to fear. John roberts because barrett is here and there are five ultra conservative votes for these priorities. Well there's another way to see that. Which is that. There are four votes to take the case. There may not be five votes. To rule the way the ultra conservatives want to rule that is a plausible theory but it rests on the four ultra conservatives. Being really naive or ignorant or tactless because again this time last year they said that fifth though isn't here so we're not gonna take up these cases and now they've decided the fifth is here. Do we think that they mis-read someone. Do we think that they're calling it wrong. I don't know i don't know the answer. Maybe yes maybe. We'll be pleasantly surprised next year but it seems to me that if there were four votes to take up these hugely contentious cases then there had to have been some summit behind the scenes there had to have been some conversation where five justices all agreed that they would go the same way on these cases that they would not take this risk without making sure that there was a solid majority to do the work here and to issue that conservative decision that republicans have been dreaming up for decades. Marcus stern thank you so much for joining me. Always a pleasure. Thanks so much. Mark does of stern reports on courts and the law for slate. You can get him and dolly ludwig on the latest episode of slates amicus podcast. They will dive even deeper into all things. Supreme court go. Check it out all right. That's the show. What next is produced by mary. Wilson carmel dilshad davis land linda shorts and daniel hewitt we are led by allison benedict unleashing montgomery and mary harris. You can go track me down on twitter amount. Mary's desk thanks for listening. I'll get you back here tomorrow..
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"Action but without that there are other ways to try to fight this of course. Political organizing matters agitating for transparency. And you know it might mean that you know people are going to have to be vigilant over the next few years over trying to change. Who runs election boards. And how these things happen and that's not the ideal way to do it but we've got. We've got a fight with tools that we have. Thanks for joining me. I'd say it's been a pleasure. But it's been an important discussion for having me on tuesday afternoon. The democrats got that show of force. That rick was talking about all fifty democratic senators including west virginia. Joe manchin voted to open up debate over voting rights legislation but without ten republicans. The motion failed the senate. Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing issue here in the united states. Senate initially no less fundamental than the right to vote. And that's the show. What next is produced by. Daniel hewitt mary wilson carmel. Dilshad davis land and elena schwartz. We are led by allison benedict unleashing. Montgomery and mary harris. You can go from twitter. I'm at mary's desk. In the meantime meet you back here tomorrow..
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"Check big business is to make sure that they have rivals so they have to compete with each other instead of fighting to just take over the government which is what they're doing now and that's what the point of antitrust is and was and price is only part of that story this out in two thousand seventeen and it really was explosive and you see a lot of skepticism around big tech right now but the reason is largely because of the movement that lena con has been leading. So that's what's so important about her is she's reoriented. The intellectual foundations of antitrust in the political foundations of antitrust and basically how we do business in america. You're talking about how. Lena connoisseur reorienting to an earlier idea of antitrust and i was reading that she found a quote from nineteen zero five from a journalist named ida tar bell. Who's writing about john rockefeller. And when she read this quote which basically describes rockefellers patient like a general who looks out at the field. And it's like okay need to capture that tiny little hill over there that tiny little hill. And if i do all that. I'm going to get the whole field. She looked at this and she thought this is exactly what jeff bezos is doing like he's just capturing all these little pieces of the market and all the sudden he's going to be running the whole thing. Yeah i it's funny. I remember when she was she was working on that article and she you know she's just was like it's amazing. You know you read about rockefeller. And it's like you're reading about bezos you know. In many cases they use some of the same tactics fighting the same political battles. You know it's it's it's pretty much all the same. There really are no new scams or no new ways to monopolize. It's always the same thing it's always. Acquiring bargaining power surveillance rebates kickbacks bribes. A lot of the coercive practices. You know you have new things like data but but you're basically using the same techniques to to acquire power with whatever technology is lying around. Can we talk about. Why the idea of what antitrust was or could be changed over the course of the twentieth century. You've alluded to that a little bit about. How the idea of antitrust evolution. So can you explain why we ever moved away from what we had back in the thirties. Sure so so. The anti monopoly. Tradition actually really goes back to the foundation of the country. Although antitrust is a late nineteenth century thing having to do with the formation of of industrial corporations but the anti monopoly tradition goes back much further and from kind of the moment that big business appeared. Big industrial corporations appeared eighteen eighties to all the way to kind of like the nineteen thirties. There were kind of debates about what do you do. How do you have a liberal democracy. Our republic and american state and society consistent with these big businesses. We've never had that kind of concentration of power. The only thing it looked like to americans that day was sort of some of the aristocrats elements. America had broken off from the kingdoms. And that's how. John sherman justified. The sherman act in eighteen ninety Talks about autocrats have trade and and kings of commodities. So you know there. There were a bunch of fights about what to do about like rockefeller and the firms that they had formed by the nineteen thirties. In the new deal. And what what have ultimately happened is is. The fdr smashed the power of the financiers. And while there were big businesses they were. They were forced to compete for network systems like. At and t. They were heavily. Regulated by the government and then for a lot of industries like banks us retail stores a lot of small light manufacturing farms. It was family size or slightly bigger and that was kind of the way that we organize. The economy and antitrust was a key. Part of that antitrust prevented big business for merging. It prevented them from cramming down their suppliers. It protected a retail stores from distributors. Did that look like just constant fines and lawsuits and approvals of mergers. What would it look like. It looked like a la mancha lawsuits. And you know and then lawyers. You know knew that this is what you can do this. But you can't do because the laws were the rules. Were pretty clear. They were interpreted through the courts but there were lawsuits in their work a lot of breakup of firms. And then also you had a private litigation so if someone is screwing me. I can sue them. It's possible to bring a case and and win that case and so you had a as an incentive system to prevent coercion things began to change in the nineteen seventies to academic schools of thought started having an argument about concentration of economic power on the left scores. Were happy to see. Businesses grow dominant as long as the government taxed them in redistributed. Some of that wealth on the right scholar saw hegemonic business as a natural growth of skill and needless to say the right didn't think such businesses should be highly taxed for their success but mad. Stoler he says. Both sides agreed monopolies. We're not inherently bad. If something looks unfair you know that's just maybe your perspective but it's if the big companies doing something that looks unfair. That's because the big company is good at what it's doing and you don't really understand it. Let's let's let those economists kind of the scientists figure it out and so i'm getting some real. Gordon gecko vibes here. Yeah i mean. That's gordon gecko. The the movie wall street was filmed in written in the nineteen eighties. Which was kind of just after this ideological transformation at happened that idea greed is good so liberal and conservative agreement like. Let's just not do this anymore. Yeah that's right. I mean the liberals the left and the right is still hated each other but the whole intent monopoly. Tradition fell away this agreement between the left and the right. You really see it. Take hold during the presidency of ronald reagan. He started dropping antitrust cases firing lawyers relaxing laws and appointing judges who didn't believe an antitrust enforcement the crucial point. Though is this this attitude continued. You can see it in decisions of both conservative and liberal supreme court justices you can see guiding the policies of the clinton administration and matt stoler. Says you can see it. During president obama's term to the obama administration was actively bad on this stuff. So what's what's really difficult. I think for most people understand about the monopoly. Problem is that it's really not a partisan issue and these ideas came from both the right in the laughed and they came from both political parties. So you know the ftc. Under obama had evidence of monopolization by google and instead of bringing a case in they decided to drop the suit in two thousand thirteen. A month after obama's re election when google ceo eric schmidt was sitting in obama's election war room seeing voter turnout. I mean conflict of interest much. Well there's tremendous. There was a lot of suspicions about deep corruption. But i think also the philosophical point. I'm making you know these guys really don't believe in decentralizing power because they think oh it's concentrate power and put our friends in charge and put the experts in charge. They know how to do stuff right. That's really their philosophy. And so i think it's it's really hard for. i think. Democrats to internalize that. It really is and democrat but it really is our fault and same thing with republicans. It it really. It really is kind of their fault to you. And so it's it's weird because everyone's looking for you know. Oh well it's the other guy that did it and we need to invest more on the ftc. And you know obama was good but he didn't go far enough and no actually what happened is there is this ideological revolution. That happened and reagan to obama even to trump somewhat that ideological revolution just continued and now we are reversing it going back to a traditional more traditional american view of the danger of monopolies counter revolution and antitrust take metzelaars. Got some ideas back in a minute in the right hands money can change the world. Another is a new kind of crypto currency. That is one hundred percent accessible to one hundred percent of everybody as more of us. join and use. Not the tokens. More value is created and return to people on the network. It is an economic system designed from the ground up to return value to the hands of its participants specifically you as you do. Well we all do well. Learn more at a nafa dot eye. High eye remedial. I'm a program manager at google right now. Lots of people are looking for ways to learn new job skills. That's why we created. Google career certificates and online training program for fast growing fields like it support project management data analytics user experience design. And more. you don't need any prior experience and you can be job ready in about six months so put your skills to work. Go to grow dot. Google slash certificates said that part of. What's hard for people to kind of get about what's happening at the ftc. Right now is how much what's going on. There is really about democrats and republicans. And what's interesting to me about. That is the fact that the confirmation of lena khan was bipartisan. As well and it seems like both parties have kind of come together to maybe not say oops out loud but to realize that. There's a problem here and they need to take a different tack. I'm wondering if watching her confirmation hearings you sort of saw. Democrats and republicans working through this life on air. Yeah i mean it's been happening for a few years. What is fascinating is that. Lena con is a progressive. And she's not shy about it. She's aggressive to like so during her confirmation hearing. She said there's potential criminal activity and she was alluding to price fixing between facebook and google in ad markets. I'm a some of the lawsuits that were filed last year. I think underscore these issues as well as potential criminal activity as well so i think it will be important to continue seeing how those lawsuits play out. You would think just a few years ago if you had somebody in one of these positions making allegations about some of the most powerful firms in the country you would think are. They're going to really have a rough road right for confirmation to put someone progressive. The republicans are gonna hater and the moderate surgery. Nfl all squishy. But what's interesting. Is that in fact what happened. Is that the moderates are the ones on the ropes. Because the moderates are the ones who led us to the status quo which everybody hates the fact that seventy five percent of industries in america have gotten more concentrated over the last twenty years and of top five tech companies. They bought a thousand firms and nobody. They didn't stop a single one. They're everyone's really angry about that. And so lee kong gets up there and says you know. Here's my philosophy. Here's my track record. And then she gets twenty two republican votes in the senate. And that's just. It's just astonishing and a real sea change in how we understand politics. I wonder if there's kind of a sense of relief in washington bringing someone like lena con in because having lena con allows them to feel like she's gonna handle it for us. We don't need to solve this one right now. you know. we're putting this person in place and hopefully that all right the ship here. There's definitely some of that. I think when you write a letter to the ftc your senator and you're like hey we pass this law asking you do this thing. The ftc usually takes those ladders and ignores them and so senators and members are really frustrated because because ftc staff and and leaders really don't believe in governing they really don't want to interfere in the business world they feel like that's inappropriate and so to have someone who's going to govern who's going to start using the authority the late night the ftc. I think is a relief. And i think it'll be interesting to see what happens when you know. When and if con- is able to start governing and starting start to say we are going to start restructuring these industries and banning unfair practices. And not letting monopolist run the show. What happens then and that's kind of an. That's kind of an open question. Yeah i mean you've written about. How even when ftc does do something. It's often not enough. And they don't seem to be taking charge of their role like they find facebook five billion dollars which sounds massive for being careless with users personal information but the ftc didn't even announce it facebook announced it an earnings call and even five billion dollars. It's not even that much for facebook. Facebook stock went up by forty billion dollars when they announced it so it was just kind of like a joke. And that's what i think. The ftc is perceived. You know. I think so. Commissioner row hit chopra. Who's a different ftc commissioner. He said that having a consent decree from the ftc is seen now kind of as a right of passage by silicon valley firms. Right so it's it's it's pathetic but there's a broader issue here and this is i think why lena connoisseur important which is that you have a crisis of the rule of law more broadly. So if you look at something like the sackler family and purdue pharmaceuticals which is the whole opioid crisis. You know these guys are drug dealers and it really should have been in jail for what they did you know but the the doj and the government let them off the hook and you saw this with the financial crisis were not a single banker of any importance went to jail and you know you see this over and over there is simply lawlessness. In our economy writ large and the ftc's a big part of it. It's not the only agency that's proven to be. You know feckless. But i think having somebody who's going to really focus on fairness in competition in america can really change that dynamic notches at the ftc. But i think kind of across the government in general and that is actually what the people want it's increasingly. I think what congress wants. People are very confused. They're very afraid of the idea of wielding power to govern. But i they're open to it. Here's what i think is going to be a little bit interesting about what happens with lena con once she gets going you say the people behind what she wants to do but once you start to corral big companies i just wonder if prices are gonna go up for people and if that will then become a big stick that can be used politically against whoever's in power to say. Listen people your prices are going up. Because he's people are being regulated more. And that's the way the cookie crumbles. We're already seeing already. Seeing this happen with inflation when it comes to stimulus money going out the door. So i wonder if you think about that too. Yeah i mean what you're essentially saying in in different words is that these firms are so powerful that they are ungovernable. Yeah and. I think that that is an open question. The idea that we the people through our governing institutions with people that we elect cannot touch. these firms. Leads us to the question. I mean i don't necessarily believe that that's true. But i don't know that it's not true but i think it does lead to the question of do we really live in a democracy if our government can't touch the corporate sector. What does the history tell you about how long this work takes this kind. Of course correction. I think it'll take generation. I mean every generation gets its chance to secure freedom or to give up on freedom because freedom liberty is a scary thing right because it means that that governing you have to govern yourself fundamentally as a human being and what the monopolist ultimately promises. Don't worry i'll take care of you. All you have to do is surrender your liberty to me. And it requires a sense of confidence. Among the people among policymakers in our democratic institutions. And it's a never ending struggle. If you stop fighting for your own freedom if you stop having courage that you can be a free person live in a free society you lose that free society so we earn a pretty deep hole. So i think it'll take twenty to thirty years but it can. We can have some stuff almost immediately but to get back to where we were in terms of like our institutions. Like yeah we can. We can It'll it'll take a while but it's gonna be fun. That's the other thing is this stuff is really fun and really innovative matt. Stoler thank you so much for joining me. Thanks a lot. Thanks for having man. Stoler looks at the american economic liberties project. He's also the author of the book goliath the hundred year war between monopoly power and democracy. You can go check out his subject. It's called big and that's the shelf. What next is produced by mary. Wilson carmel shot lena. Schwartz daniel hewitt and davis land. We are led by allison benedict unleashing. Montgomery and mary harris. You can find me on twitter. I'm at mary's desk. And if you wanna make us the most dominant monopoly of a daily news podcast. Go leave us a review. Go do that on itunes or wherever you listen in the meantime i will catch you back.
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"The cdc got so much criticism last month when they put out these new guidelines saying vaccinated people could do nearly everything without a mask and the pushback was because of people like you. Basically doctors were saying. Listen not enough. People are vaccinated yet. People are going to miss here. This they're gonna think they can go. Maskless no matter. What their vaccination status is. I wonder were you upset about the guidance at the time. Because you're in this interesting position. Where i'm sure you understand as someone who's training people to go and talk to vaccine hesitant people. I'm sure you understand that. Like offering them a maskless future is very enticing and may in fact get some folks to get a vaccine who who might not otherwise but at the same time. It's like the cost of doing that is everything you're talking about that that despair. You're feeling yeah i was. I mean i think i like many people was upset about the guidance and i was upset about the guidance. Not because i think it's necessarily bad guidance. If everyone followed the letter of the law i mean there's increasing evidence that vaccinated people transmit virus at a far far lower rate. But i also think realistically the way human behavior works if vaccinated people toss their mask unvaccinated. People are gonna toss her masks to and i obviously have no way of distinguishing those people. So the cdc's in a tough spot rate they have to go by the evidence and they can't have the nation locked down indefinitely but it's true that step. I think made things a lot. More dangerous firm. you know. Compromise people for people with suppressed immune systems. It's still hard to figure out what's risky. What's not only one. Thing's clear the health of everyone around you matters a lot. Lindsay remembers when she read the news headline last month that the us is unlikely to reach herd immunity. That i think was a moment. A stomach dropping moment because with herd immunity. There was a possibility of near-eradication in the us. You're never going to have total radicals. Someone might come on a plane from another country but the prospect of this just indefinitely circulating is incredibly difficult because then the possibility of getting infected. Even if it's small is always hanging over your head and you know. I live in a city in san francisco with very low infection rates but urban centers are also poorest. People visit san francisco all the time. Now that mask. Mandates are dropping in california. I think the governor's going to push you know planning on pushing for more tourism and so the difficult thing is it's always going to hang over my head that you know someone. I'm sitting next to in a restaurant could be visiting affirma- state with much higher covert incidents and could have covid so that layton possibility is not gonna go away. And that's i think quite difficult. Yeah i wonder if you can even picture yourself sitting indoors at a restaurant anytime soon. I can't picture myself sitting indoors at a restaurant anytime soon. dr ryan. Thank you so much for joining me. Thanks so much for having me. Lindsay ryan works at san francisco general hospital and the san francisco via medical center in california and that is our show. What next is produced by carmel. Shod davis land. Daniel hewitt linda schwartz and mary. Wilson led by alison benedicta deletion montgomery and. I'm mary harris. You can always talk on twitter. Tell me what you thought about the show. I'm at mary's desk mixture. You stay tuned to this tomorrow. Because lizzie o'leary will be here with what next. Tvd that is our friday show. Thanks for thing. I'll catch you back here on monday..
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"Keep your comments coming. Love extreme stream team okay. Final series here for our for us to predict here on on the drop podcast still. Yeah sixers hearts The one five matchup sixers series two games to one dominated the last two meetings actually winning by a combined. Sixty six points both of those coming at the wells fargo center phillies loan loss to the hawks game in january. So i think that was a game. The sixers were missing. Eight guys like health and safety protocol. I don't think simmons plate anyway. Game one sunday hawks six abc. Yeah that's right one pm eastern keys to the series. I'll just start because it's the number one to the city dwelling beat health. But how healthy is he is playing. Because if he doesn't completely changes the complexion of this matchup the sixers. I saw shuman with this stat. Thirty and six when they're full. Starting lineup were playing and one of those losses was game four against washington when embiid didn't play after the first quarter so let's call it maybe thirty one and five continues to play and they probably win that game. So it's huge. I don't think the sixers win the series with joel embiid. Because i believe in the hawk at least that much and i think they're that good. They're playing with house money. At this point they're loose. No one's picking them to win again. Most people weren't against the next. So i just think it'd be put so much pressure on a cappella and a call on to get them in foul trouble. He lives at the line easy points but if he doesn't play because of the need then man then it's more of a coin flip to me. So that's the that's the key. And i don't think we really know the answer to that right right now as of recording this on friday. I think they're hoping he'll play right task. But who knows a giant dude that a could play like we just saw. The anthony davis lands awkwardly. And then he's out for the season series against so that's massive to me. But i don't maybe you disagree that the sixers couldn't they couldn't win even if he didn't play does anybody who disagree with that. I think the sixers could win without embiid. Yeah i think. I mean starting with The fact that they're able to guard trae young with ben. Simmons that's gotta be so so different than the knicks series. Who are giving them. A lot of space and taj gibson was dropped him back. I think i mean that would be a lot on joel. Embiid if he comes out and plays and they get him involved in the pick and roll. I think to be up to. Ben simmons really to to get out there and scramble back so joel embiid king can fall back himself in. Stop clint cappella. Dwight howard healthier and better suited to do that right now. But either way simmons out there on trae young. He's going to take this extremely personally. He keeps on call himself defensive player of the year. He's going to do a really good job on trae young and it's going to be up. I think to the other hawks to make up for what trae young isn't able to do in terms of setting guys up big pressure on bogged down bogdonovich. But i think the simmons defense just takes away clint cappella to a degree because the center. Whoever it is if it's dwight or dwelling beat can drop back but same is not going to allow that space that the the knicks you just saw trae young he he definitely perused into the lane a little too much just too much and they dropped in. They put taj gibson in there and he was he was a fallback guy and embiid. I worry almost that if he does play. It's just so much to ask. He'll probably play like taj gibson. Did but ben. Simmons will be out there. And it'd be a lot different than reggie bullock. So that's a good could pick them apart as well if they decide to fall back in that coverage but it's it's hard not to really believe in who doesn't have a lot of offensive responsibility. I guess it goes up with joel. Embiid is out though. So that's yeah. That's a huge huge question. Mark whether it be plays. I think he tries to fight through. I think there's this was his season. He wasn't every p. candidate. I think we'll see him out there when this thing gets going but how long it's totally fair. Who the heck knows that trey. What's your key to the series. Well skates you're right embiid's health as the number one key to the series of one hundred percent. The sixers win this series pretty easily. I think but it does not look like he's going to be one hundred percent. We have no idea what's going to happen. We have no idea even going to play people in the stream team or suggesting perhaps the sixers keep them out until they lose again. That could certainly happen given a little bit more rest. But it's a huge unknown. That's why tobias harris is mo- verney keenum in this series because he might have to be the seventy sixers leading score. We don't know what we're getting from. Bead simmons is unreliable as a scorer at least coming into the series. I think tobias harris has to be an an offense of hub for the sixers. It's going to be nice up. I think he'll have deandra hunter on them a little bit. I think you'll have john collins on them a little bit. They did a great job on. Julius randle forced them into a lot of isos played physical and just made every possession tough. It felt like randall was taken forty. Eight dribbles every single time. He had the ball. Harris is certainly more skilled score than randall. He.
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"Essentially what the international olympic may is. They forced tokyo. They forced their host cities to spend billions of dollars to build infrastructure. And prepare for these games and then the ioc takes most of the revenue from them. You say forest but the host cities vie for the honor of hosting the games right but when you say that out loud it sounds like there are a bunch of chumps getting more and more unpopular to bid for the olympics. It is been the reason is very much. Intangible it's the international prestige that you get from hosting the olympics. And that's why you see. A lot of countries like china for example and russia wanting to host the games but more and more people are realizing that it is a terrible economic decision. Does the olympics. I mean you've said that. Hold cities hostage. It's this extremely one sided contract. They signed with every host city. Who wins wins the right the quote unquote right. To host. The games it gives most of the revenue. Ioc and heaps all of the risk which we're seeing come to the surface now onto the host city. The was the only one with the right to cancel these games to make any sort of changes to the plan to the host contract whereas if tokyo tried to get out of this they would be on the hook for billions of dollars in damages. They would have to cover the legally if the were to be sued by broadcasters sponsors for not delivering on on their deals yes so let me just see if i understand this correctly so the international olympic committee has all of the deci decision making authority here about whether the games take place but if they cancelled the games or the games went for whatever the only people who have the risk the the monetary exposure is the host country yes the the host country and the organizing committee have to indemnify the basically always and they have to waive all sorts of legal protections when they sign this contract which they signed way back in two thousand thirteen so yes the ifc ifc prophets and host cities barrel the risk. You know the international olympic committee has said the reason. We're doing this for the athletes. do you think that's fair to some extent. But it's it's good pr to say they're doing it for the athletes. It's obviously not good. Pr to say they're doing it for themselves. And for money and for the future of the olympic movement. The answer is that they're probably doing it for both of those things. And i think there are people at the ifc who generally do have the athletes best interests in mind but there are a lot of other cases where the irs has shown that it is ioc first athletes second. When is the time when they've kind of left. The athletes behind the the basic economic structure of the olympics where athletes don't get that much money for competing in the olympics and aren't allowed to promote their own sponsors at the olympics they have to promote ioc sponsors which the ioc gets a lot of money for there are rules that prohibit freedom of speech at the olympics that prohibit protests than peaceful demonstrations. They're all sorts of rules. Where the. I ac- assumes that the olympics are so attractive that ifc forces them to conform to what the ifc wants. I wonder if you've talked to any athletes who may be feeling this kind of internal division. I mean they're not gonna get the broadcast revenue from the olympics. But this is kind of pinnacle achievement. If you are someone who's a competitor you want to go and you want to prove yourself. Are there any stories of athletes that stand out to you who are trying to make this decision about what they do here now the vast majority of them do want to compete for all the reasons you just mentioned and it also that if you think about three years and eleven months in between olympic games if you put that too if you if you if you outright cancel these olympics and make it seven years eleven months in between olympics. That's the span of a lot of olympians entire careers. That's their window to to have this chance to accomplish. A lifelong dream. Never mind money or anything like that. People just their dreams and they put so much time and energy and there is that just that tension within within their minds of the pandemic versus their own dreams. I wonder if you think whatever happens with. This olympics is gonna trickle down to future olympics. And how like i wonder if other potential host cities are watching and wondering whether an olympics investment actually makes sense or whether they need to be thinking about their contract with a little bit differently negotiating. A little bit harder. I think that's absolutely. I think it's a great call. And that's absolutely what's going to happen and it was already getting increasingly unpopular to bid for the picks and that's why for example. Beijing is going to host the winter games in eight months fourteen years after hosting summer games in two thousand eight. The reason for is nobody else wanted to host the twenty twenty two winter olympics. It came down to beijing and a city in kazakhstan The has to some extent acknowledged this and realize that they are starting to make more concessions to host cities and just try to make hosting the olympics more viable. But it's still very one sided. And i think this whole saga is setting off alarm bells in a lot of people's minds who might potentially bid for future olympics. That you know there's a lot more downside here than we realize and maybe there's less upside than we realize as well and maybe this isn't something we should do. Henry's been asking people if they think the tokyo olympics will go on. He says most folks give ninety percent chance. The games are going to happen when i asked how many of those people think the games should happen. I think they should happen. You wanna go the olympics. I would want to go to the pex. I'd be okay going to the olympics henry. Bushnell thank you so much for joining me. Appreciate it mary. Henry bushnell is a features writer for yahoo sports. And that's show. What next is produced by davis land. Carmel dilshad daniel hewitt elena schwartz and mary. Wilson are feeless leaders. Allison benedict unleashing. Montgomery and mary harris. You can go. Track me down on twitter about mary's desk. I hope you had a great holiday weekend. If you're celebrating. I'll talk to you tomorrow..