December 15, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode of A Numbers Game, Ryan announces the podcast’s expansion to three episodes per week beginning in January 2026 and dives into the data behind today’s most urgent issues. He examines recent tragedies—a school shooting at Brown University and a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah gathering in Australia—questioning police response, gun laws, and the real-world consequences of failed public safety policies. Ryan breaks down new polling that shows economic anxiety, inflation, and healthcare continue to dominate voter priorities, while warning that mass immigration and multicultural policies are straining Western security and cultural cohesion.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to a Numbers Game with Ryan Grudowski. Thank
you guys for being here. I am so excited to
tell my listeners that I have some new news, exciting
new news. Starting January first, this podcast is going to
go from two days a week to three days a week.
It will be out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
ten am. I felt like I could only do this
podcast correctly in the midterms of I had more access
to you guys and more time to do it, So
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I'm really excited about that. I hope people a will
like and subscribe and follow me on all the platforms
including YouTube to really get all the breaking data coming
into this midterm election, and I promise to give it
to you guys as fresh as I can, with new
perspectives every single week with great new guests. So please
like and subscribe and join me. I'm very, very excited
about this. So I want to start with this podcast
by one giving my condolences to the people at Brown
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University who were murdered in the shooting, in the school shooting,
and to the Jewish community in Australia and speak specifically
about that issue. Because the Brown shooting, they still haven't
even caught a suspect. I don't even know if they
have as yet. But we know what happened in Australia.
Two Islamus targeted. They went to a Hanukah event that
was on a beach, and they targeted Jews and they
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shot into the crowd. They shot at the crowd, killing
loads of people. Scores of people. At least a dozen
are dead. It keeps climbing, so I don't want to
give you an accurate number of total assessment because it's
unfortunately likely to go into several dozens who will have
been murdered, including a ten year old girl who lost
her life. The gunmen used scopes in their guns, so
it's very likely that they saw this little girl running
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and specifically targeted and shot her and murdered her. In
the midst of this violence, one man at the event,
an immigrant from Syria, worked to try to disarm one
of the two gunmen. He was shot twice and he
was extremely brave and extremely heroic, but because Australia has
such strict gun laws, he had no idea how to
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work the gun he had confiscated from one of the gunmen,
So rather than shoot the terrorist, he let him get away,
and that's not his fault. I'm not blaming. I'm sure
the Russian adrenaline in the second Who knows what anyone
would have done, but the gunmen ended up going getting
by another firearm and going back to shoot into the
crowd at the beach. There are a lot of lessons
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to take from this terrorist attack, as I think that
there are with most terrorist attacks. None of them are
being learned by people in the media who are focused
on this, people like Piers Morgan. They're honoring the immigrant
from Syria who did the right thing, who tried his best,
who showed bravery in the moment, but they're not willing
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to learn any hard lessons. One first being on policing.
There were three police officers there when the shooting happened.
They were all female police officers. I've heard rumors, so
I canno confirm that they were not even armed at
the time, and according to live footage, to footage and
to witness testimony, police officers just stood by as the
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gunmans were shooting. Now, I'm not saying that these women
were hired because of DEI policies, but it's clearly the
should not have been police officers. I come from a
cop family. I have a lot of police officers. You
know my family generationally, My dad and his brothers were
all cops. It's a tough job, and policing, unlike other
civil service jobs, you never really know what you're going
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to face on a day to day moment. It could
be a gunman, it could be a you know, a
lost child. It could be a terrorism, it could be
a million things. It could just be a random mugger,
or it could be a mentally ill person. Being a
police officer a very, very difficult job, and most do
the job well, but it's incredibly stressful and it brings
them men scrutiny. And if you can't do the job,
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whether it's because you're too trigger happy or in this case,
because you're too trigger shy, then you shouldn't be a
police officer. These women should not be police officers. And
police departments that mandate day they hire girls for the
sake of hiring girls are doing it a service to
every single person in their community, right. I mean, these
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women clearly could not stop these gunmen even if they
tried to tackle them, even if they couldn't shoot them,
because they didn't have arms or I don't understand why
in parts of the world, like in the UK, they
don't have guns. Secondly, while the man who disarmed the
terrorists briefly was and he was immensely brave, he didn't
shoot the terrorists in part because his family said he
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had never held a firearm before, he didn't know how
a firearm worked. Now there's no telling if he would
have been worked better if he had a gun, or
if he had had or you know, he would have
actually been trained if gun ownership was easier in Australia.
But Australia has disarmed their citizens for decades and this
still happens. Stricter gun laws did not prevent this act
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of terrorism, and more gun laws, which is what Australia's
leadership is proposing, won't. And Lastly, and there's no getting
around this, the West has a problem with Islamic terrorism,
and because of mass immigration, we're importing more people who
were susceptible to become is Islamic terrorists. If elected leaders
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of the West cared about their civilization, their liberal democracy,
their Jewish population, women in their society, gays and minorities
in their society, protecting Western philosophy, which maximalizes personal, personal
and economic liberty. You cannot continue to import millions of
people from the third world, especially those from cultures that
are heavily influenced by Islamic ideology. We have seen this
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all over Europe for over a decade, and the elected
leaders of the West's answer to this threat is to
continue to import more people and hope that we don't
notice things like the mass assault of German girls in
New Year's Eve twenty sixteen, the Backline Theatre mass murder
and torture in Paris, the tens of thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of British girls across the UK who
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were groomed and gang raped by Pakistani men, and now
the murders of dozens of Jews on the beaches on Australia.
I'm not saying this case is the only example of
anti Semitism. We know that it exists in these population.
We know that it's not exclusive to the Islamic population, right,
it's a broad thing, but it's very real among these people.
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And when it came to the footage of who was
celebrating the Bondi Beach massacre, the ones I saw from
across the globe. The ones in the UK, they were
all waving Palestine flags. They were all wearing Palestinian Palestinian scarbs.
No one seemed to have a history in the UK
that were celebrating the Body Beach massacre going back to
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the ten sixty six Norman invasion. They were all recent immigrants.
It is an existential emergency and has been this way
for decades, for at least two decades. I'll give people
the benefit of the doubt that maybe they missed this
in the nineties when the populations were much smaller. By
the twenty tens and two thousands, especially by the twenty tens,
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it's very clear what is happening across the West. It
is an existential emergency and if only leaders of the
western of the West clampdown immigration, if they only did that,
they could probably end the entire national populist revolution that
is sweeping across the world. They just won't do it.
They can't do it. Mass immigration is so key to
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their global experiment. It is like oxygen to creating water.
You can't have one without the other. They think that
it's noble and wonderful to change your society into something
that is unrecognizable, and that diversity at any cost is
worth it and ethical, and it is proper to sit
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there and rub noses of diversity in front of people
that you know don't like it, but they don't live
among those people. Over the weekend, I was tweeting with
Crystal Ball. I was tweeted at Crystal Ball because she
she's a progressive commentator. She was on MSNBC. She's got
a big YouTube show called Breaking Points. I've been on
it many, many, many times, and I personally really like her.
She's not, you know, one on one. She's a very
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lovely person. But she was tweeting how the best thing
about America is the cold mixing and feeling differently than
that is Unamerican. Well, guess what the demographics of Crystal
balls neighborhood in Virginia are. Take a wild guess about
how diverse this neighborhood that she lives in it. Or
Kentucky Representative Sarah Stalker, a Democrat who drawing a committee
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hearing last week, that she felt guilty about being white
and said we need DEI in schools to make white
kids own their privilege. She backpedaled a little and said
it's not about making them feel bad about their race.
But we kind of know she loot the cout of
the bag. It is about feeling bad about your race.
It's not just about knowing their privilege and through history.
And she said how much pride she has that one
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hundred and forty five languages were spoken in Jefferson County,
Kentucky public schools. Do you think that Jefferson County, Kentucky
public schools have the adequate budget, the adequate number of
teachers to teach in one hundred and forty five languages,
even with all the technology that's easily available for them,
Stalker the representative. Well, of course, an area called Saint
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Matthew's in Louisville, which is ninety percent Caucasian. She doesn't
live in a diverse area. And then, of course there
was Piers Morgan. Piers Morgan who I mentioned in the beginning.
You know, he was on at Tucker Carlson's podcast or
vice versa, one of the more on each other's podcasts.
Maybe Tucker was on his podcast and he said that
it was great that the UK will no longer be
the majority English by middle of the century because the
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food is better now than it was thirty years ago,
and we should celebrate that diversity. And he said that
we should celebrate the hero in Australia. We shouldn't talk
about the fact that immigration brought terrorism to Australia. Just
talk about the good immigrant, not the bad ones. That
they are random, that it's randomly happening. So a few people,
such a few people massively raping British girls, it's just
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a few people committing acts of terrorism or plotting acts
of terrorism. You know, it doesn't matter the fact that
there have been four Afghani nationals and five Palastinian nationals
in America in the last year who either successfully or
unsucessfully plotted terrorist attacks in this country. They're outliers, so
therefore ignored were the bigger problem of immigration from Islamic countries.
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Guess the demographics appears Morgan's kids schools. Guess how lily
white the schools he sends his kids to are. It's
called Thomas London Day's School, and it's where Prince william
sends his kids. There couldn't possibly be a wider place
on this planet. No, all of these people that push
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and love diversity, they want you to embrace diversity at
any cost, because it's not their daughters who will be
groomed or gang raped in Northern England or die on
a beach in Australia that massacre or assaulted throughout the
streets of Berlin. Now they will live in America or
Australia or Germany of Britain in the nineteen fifties, in
their own little enclaves. They'll get to go to the
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best diversity cuisines, because that's apparently all that matters, is
that there's diverse food. You know, we can't just import
a chef, We have to import an entire village. It's
the poor people. It's the working class who will never
live in that level of comfort, live with all the
chaos that comes with declining social capital because of mass population,
increases up immigration. All the people who spend their lives
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and it's not their whole lives, but maybe the last
ten plus years hating Brexit, hating Trump, hating Farage, hating Lapent,
all of those people who have made their whole lives
focused around hating those people, hating the National populist revolution.
They're responsible. They caused it because rubbing everyone else's noses.
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Diversity made people rebel against their whole experiments, all while
they choose to live as far away from it as
humanly possible. And say what you want about Israel, which
is pseudonangrada in a lot of circles, even on the right,
say what you want, But the fact is that they're nationalistic.
They know they sit there, and they know the time
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of day. They value their national identity and they're willing
to do anything to preserve it. And there's a lot
to learn with that. That's all. And I truly am
feeling heartbroken for all the family who are going into
both Hanukah and Christmas burying somebody. It is senseless, It
is reckless, and I hope that somebody can possibly wake
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up and do something. Next up, I have some polling
to show you really where how America feels going at
the end of twenty twenty five going into the new year.
On politics, on the economy, that's coming up next. NBC
News Decision just release a massive poll on Sunday discussing
American's feelings on Trump, the economy, which party had was
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the best, on the cost of living, a lot of
different questions, and this poll was powered by survey Monkey.
That is an Internet poll. I normally don't bring up
Internet polls that are exclusively Internet because I don't really
trust them. But NBC is the one that sponsored this poll,
so they're covering it. So because NBC is covering it,
it's kind of making its way through the ether. You're
going to hear about it either in traditional media or
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on social media. So it's worth covering and really breaking
down what this poll says. Now, this is different than
a lot of other polls that ask registered vote voters
or likely voters. This is asking all adults. Forty one
percent of respondents of the twenty two hundred and fifty
two respondents did not vote in the last election, right,
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they did not vote. Twenty six percent are not even
registered to vote. So this is a broad section of
people who I don't want to call ill informed, that's
not correct. But they are low engagement. That's the way
to say. They're low engagement on facts, on news, on information.
So first question of they sit there and they say
what are you most interested in? Interestingly enough, politics is
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a declining interest to most Americans. It went from twenty
five percent of the public saying is what they're most
interested in to twenty one percent. I think that's actually
kind of healthy. Personal finance and money and health and
wellness have increased. Health and wellness has increased the most.
It's probably a good thing and a bad thing. Biggest
issue facing our countries obviously the economy. Economy comes in
well ahead of everything else at twenty seven percent. That
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they basically stagnant the entire yet NBC as doing this poll.
Second is threats to democracy that's declined a little bit.
Threats to democracy are both people who are like at
the No King's rally and people who are at QAnon stuff.
It's two different side of the same crazy coin. And
then lastly is health care. Health Care has been pretty
consistent for a while now. Lower level is crime and safety,
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that's a twelve percent, and then immigration is number five,
so fifty four percent. This is what I find very entering.
Fifty four percent agree with this statement when asked. When
it comes to politics and society, nothing really matters because
powerful people will always do whatever they want. This is
I'm sure this has been this way for a very
long time, but this shows true levels of declining social
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trust that the elite, that the wealthy that the politicians
can be held accountable, which is why the mishandling of
the Jeffrey Epstein story was so detrimental, because it was
such a close case of this is a very bad person,
but so far aside from Prince Andrew, who was really
held responsible, he's lost basically everything, although he didn't go
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to jail, but he's lost all of his titles. He
no one else had any accountability. Only twenty five percent
of people disagree with that, by the way, so also
very very interesting part of the poll is when they
said how has twenty twenty five been for you and
your family? A majority of people say twenty twenty five
has actually been a pretty good year. Fifty nine to
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forty one twenty twenty five, They say twenty fney five
has been a good year. They ask, how do you
think going to twenty twenty six how it will be
for you and your family? Seventy percent say it'll be better.
People are genuinely optimistic, which is interesting given the news narrative. Now.
When they ask people what economic issues are most important
to them, Number one, by by far is the rise
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and cost of living forty four percent. Number two is healthcare,
all the way at thirteen percent. When they ask people
about that, how their personal finances have changed better or worse. Interestingly,
thirty one percent of people who make more than a
one hundred thousand dollars a year say it has been better,
Forty four percent say it's the same. Plurality of every
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group except for people with household incomes under fifty percent
say it is the same, thirty nine percent say it's
the same, forty five percent say it's worse. For you
will make under fifty thousand dollars a year, and when
they ask you, what what are you doing to change?
What personal decisions have you changed because of the rise
and costs of living, Sixty five percent of household making
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less than fifty grand a year say they've changed what
groceries they buy to stay within budget, and sixty four
percent that say they cut back on extra entertainment. Cutting
back extra entertainment has been the number one across all groups,
but it goes from sixty four percent among people who
make less than fifty thousand dollars a year to fifty
seven percent for people who make between fifteen one hundred,
and then forty three percent by people who make over
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one hundred thousand dollars a year. That's very very interesting
because there seems to be a clear break line around
fifty grand of what how severe the inflation is people
making over fifty grand. Our households making over fifty grand
doesn't seem to be as intense. What they're talking about
as far as things go, as far as cost of
living goes, and what they're doing to change the cost
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of living is dramatically different. Right Cutting groceries is fifty
three percent for people making between fifteen one hundred versus
sixty five percent. That's a big drop. And when you
go over one hundred grand, it's down to just thirty
nine percent. So I found that very fascinating. Next up,
when they sit there and say what is your biggest
economic problem facing your family? Cost of housing is one,
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cost of food is two. Costs of insurance health insurance
is three. That is the entire ballgame for the Republicans
in twenty twenty six. Those three things, housing, healthcare, food,
and obviously they only have so much to control all
those things. Rents are going down for four straight months,
Housings costing to be stagnant, which is good. Food is
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still very expensive, and certain things, and health insurance is
still a disaster, and I it's been a disaster since Obamacare.
But speaking of Obamacare, they asked voters, would you rather
repeal and replace Obamacare, keep it or unsure? Forty six
percent say keep it, twenty four percent say repeal it,
thirty percent or unshut So why if healthcare is failing
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do people want to keep it as is? Because people
do not like uncertainty. And Obamacare was remarkably unpopular until
the minute it was attempted to re repeal. Not because
it's working great. It's not working great. Every once is
there and says it's not working great. Why are they
afraid of repealing it? Because they're afraid of being uncertain
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and not having health insurance if something happens. That's really
where it is. So any kind of transformation when it
comes to health insurance market has to work with inconsistent framework.
So people don't feel like there's going to be a
moment that they don't have anything to grab onto. They're
worried tremendously about that. Which party do you trust more
to handle healthcare? This is devastating for Republicans fifty seven percent,
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Democrats forty three percent Republicans. Who do you trust is
that they're in handle the rising prices of everyday things
Fifty three percent Democrats, forty seven percent Republicans. I mean,
Republicans should not be losing on the economy. Maybe because
the tax cuts are coming next year and hopefully prices
are reduced. This may be okay in the end, like
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this may stabilize in the end. It's not that far
off Republican Democrat, but it really has to be emphasized
that that's things are getting better. The problem for Republicans
is that the media has done a very good job
about branding Trump's tariffs. Tariffs are super, super unpopular. People
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believe that they're responsible for the rising costs of everything,
when in fact, when they've looked at this time and
time again, consumers have not beared the brunt of rising costs.
There's a lot of things that are making those cost rise.
It's not just terroists. Tariffs are helping a little effect,
but things like health insurance, are auto insurance, are home insurance.
These things have nothing at all to do with tariffs.
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How much will you spend on Christmas this year? Fifty
five percent say less than last year? Nine percent say more.
This is a really bad sign. People are not People
are optimist with the future, but they have been through
it this last year and they thought that it was
going to get better. Question twenty three. I'm reading these
as they go along. Question twenty three, how would you
feel the stock market crash? By thirty percent? What a
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stupid question these people charge by question, So imagine wasting
one of your questions. How would you feel the stock
market crashed? Oh, I feel wonderful. Do you support or
oppose the building of the ballroom once again, a thing
that doesn't affect anybody's life? Thirty three percent support, sixty
seven percent to pose, no one cares like this is
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not why anyone's going to go vote. The handling of
the Jeffrey Epstein files with the Trudministration seventy one percent disapproved,
twenty nine percent approve. This is not a question for
me because I don't watch sports and nor do I
gamble on them, But I think it's a fascinating question
we talked with during the podcast over the last year.
Do you think that sports betting is losing is lesting
the integrity of the game? Seventy percent say yes, Thirty
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percent say no, how far. How concerned are you that
the increasing availability of sports betting will lead to the
game becoming rigged? Sixty three percent say yes, thirty eight
percent say no. Okay, that's basically the poll there's I mean,
they're going to make a big deal of They asked
are you more of a MAGA support or a Republican?
It was fifty to fifty. Are you more of a
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progressive or a centrist Democrat? Fifty to fifty. When you're
dealing with such an undecided population, so many people who
have never voted, as this poll is, you're going to
get numbers like that, it doesn't really mean anything. I
think the biggest thing that you could take with this poll,
which I mean it probably isn't covering that extensively, is
people are optimistic about the future. But where they're seeing
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their day to day lives increase, food, insurance, housing is
where they're going to go vote on those three issues.
Anything existential outside of that is not going to mean
as much. Those are the three things that if you're
a Republican consultant, even figuring like like I am. But
if you're a consultant or campaigns, you have to spend
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your days thinking, how will I address these three issues?
How will I talk about these three policies that or
how to think about policies that will make these three
things better and correctly address what's affecting their rises, what's
affecting their costs increases, and how best a politician can
answer them all? Right, Coming up next is Ask Me Anything.
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Stay tuned now it's time for the Ask Me Anything segment.
If you want to be part of the Ask Me
Anything segment, email me Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast dot com.
That's Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast dot com. I will either
answer them personally if they're just you know, one on
one thing like I did actually two of them today,
or if it's a question for the whole audience will
like I will talk about it publicly on the air.
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So this one comes from Patty from Sacramento. She said,
I really enjoyed your interview Representative ROCNNA. I'm in California,
not in his district, but interested in what he says.
I caught some disconnect in his ideas and plans to
move forward regarding immigration and AI that concern me. I
like that he's actually interested in you and your opinions. Patty,
thank you, And that's why I tried whenever I have
a guest, especially I know who I am, right, I
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know Democrats don't want to talk to me. I was
the guy who made the beet Bridge, I get it right.
So I always want to make people when they come
on the podcast feel comfortable have a conversation. I'm not
here to own you. I'm not here to sit there
and yell at you. I'm not going to try to
make a viral moment for myself because it doesn't it
doesn't make the audience more interested or smarter. Right, Yeah,
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that's just clicks. That's what everyone does. I'm not interested
in that. I want to have a real conversation over
ideas because there's things that a Democrat or a Republican
could say that you could disagree with or that you
could agree with, and we can all become more intelligent
for hearing each other out. I loved represent On Connor
for coming that, but he did not make any sense
when he said that, because he's saying AI is taking
our jobs, and the same time he's talking about fears
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that we're not going to be so pro immigrant to
bring in the whole world. That's why. I said to him.
I was like, you're going to run out of tax
He wanted to do this AI new deal where everyone
was getting checks from all these companies, and I was like,
you're going to run out of tax dollars if you're
bringing in the whole world. And he kind of he
didn't have an answer for it. And I think that
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maybe it kind of I hope did him think, I
really do. I don't know if it did any Patty.
You say, your niece teacher is in La and the
kids don't speak English or Spanish at the home, and
it's very, very difficult. This type of mass immigration is
changing the fabric of our state, in our country, and
not in a good way. I believe that we do
not take care and educate our citizens in our own country,
we will fail. We cannot help any other parts of
the world if we are a failure. Patty, I could
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not agree more with that. And yeah, and I have
in laws and relatives over in different parts of the country,
in small town America, small town right America, and they're like, oh, yeah,
we have kids in THESL. Their teachers are like, we
have kids in THESL. They don't speak Spanish. Or English,
and they don't. We don't know, we don't know how
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to communicate with them or using apps and stuff like that,
and I'm like, is that helping? And they're like, well,
it kind of and they're making like shadow puppets. Who
the hell knows. They're trying to communicate to fel any
which way possible. But if you are not literate in
your own language, the chances of you picking up a
second one from just a few hours of school a
day not high likely. Okay, second and last question for
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this episode. It comes from Joel. Joel, thank you for
rating me again. He says he's keeping an eye on
the UK politics, especially the Guardians Today in focused podcasts.
I've not listened to that podcast, but maybe I should
check it out. He says. Have you seen the reports
alleging Nigel Farage bullied and tormented Jewish classmates in high school?
I have. I know that they're making a big deal
of this. I kind of doubt it. I mean, the
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man is like sixty five years old, so I mean,
you're telling me fifty years ago that they've been holding
on this anger that he made fun of a Jewish
classmate fifty years ago. I mean, unless he like beat
them to a pulp. I would say, probably get over
someone saying something mean about you, especially considering he's been
probably the most pro Israel person, pro Jewish person running
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for office in that country. What this means for Reform
ukse trajectory, especially for Ross to lead. It can a
populist party absorb something like this and survive, So I
think that Listen. The way it kind of works with
a lot of these papist parties is they kind of
worry about peaking too early, and I think that's more
Farage is wor that he's peaking too early. Labors putting
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out a lot of good press stuff saying look how
much we're reducing immigration. We're reducing immigration or reducing immigration.
That may not be enough to sit there and say
Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, but it could lessen the blow,
especially as progressive voters, they're not labor voters. Rather, they're
not looking to maybe Farage in many places, but they're
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looking to the Green Party or the Live de so
Starmar so Farrage. Reform UK is definitely still leading the
polls Forag's biggest worry is that he has to get
very serious about leading this party to victory, a national victory,
which he's never done before. A national victory that's that's
not for the EU Parliament, before the Parliament in London,
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and not be a victim's own success. And their numbers
have gone down a little bit, but they're still large
and in charge. Second, there's a new Leftis faction called
Your Party, coalescing around the former Labor figures like Jeremy Corbin.
It looks like a socialist alternative to Labor, emphasizing trans everything, housing, redistribution,
anti war and protest rights. Do you think they'll pull
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votes from labor? That is simply yes, that's an easy answer.
And finally, have you followed Zach Polanski's rise as leader
of the Green Party. He seems like he's pulling towards
a kind of left wing eco populism similar to the
young progressive circles and the US curists. If you think
the style politics could gain traction here too, it already has,
you know, I mean, the Green New Deal was everyone's
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I mean everyone gravitated towards it. But I think that
part of what left wing populism in this country is
is a lot of it is racial identity just because
of how the left views everything, even more so than
the environment. If you guys watched Jasmine Crockett announced her
run for the US Senate in Texas, it was a
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bit of a disaster. Her ad was weird and her
video or her sorry, her opening speech rather was strange
where she she kind of said that we need illegal
immigration because black people stop picking cotton. Okay, Jasmine, I
don't think that that's really what Hispanics want to be
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compared to I know a few Hispanics who live in
South Texas. They're usually very proud people. They've been here
for generations. A lot of the Dejanos always say, like
the border moved, we didn't. They've been here longer than
a lot of other people have. They don't really view
themselves as and it's interesting that she does. And it's
interesting the way she talks about illegal labor, very very
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very curious. I don't know if she's gonna win, and
she might win the primary, but my guess is she's
probably gonna burn down and plumb. She als said she
doesn't want the support of anyone who voted for Donald
Trump in Texas, so that'll go very very well because
it's not like he won the stay by fifteen points
or anything like that. Then I go extremely good, she's
so smart. All right, guys. That is my episode for today.
Thank you guys for listening. I really really appreciate it.
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YouTube wherever you get this podcast, and I will see
you guys on Thursday.
Welcome back to a Numbers Game with Ryan Grudowski. Thank
you guys for being here. I am so excited to
tell my listeners that I have some new news, exciting
new news. Starting January first, this podcast is going to
go from two days a week to three days a week.
It will be out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
ten am. I felt like I could only do this
podcast correctly in the midterms of I had more access
to you guys and more time to do it, So
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I'm really excited about that. I hope people a will
like and subscribe and follow me on all the platforms
including YouTube to really get all the breaking data coming
into this midterm election, and I promise to give it
to you guys as fresh as I can, with new
perspectives every single week with great new guests. So please
like and subscribe and join me. I'm very, very excited
about this. So I want to start with this podcast
by one giving my condolences to the people at Brown
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University who were murdered in the shooting, in the school shooting,
and to the Jewish community in Australia and speak specifically
about that issue. Because the Brown shooting, they still haven't
even caught a suspect. I don't even know if they
have as yet. But we know what happened in Australia.
Two Islamus targeted. They went to a Hanukah event that
was on a beach, and they targeted Jews and they
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shot into the crowd. They shot at the crowd, killing
loads of people. Scores of people. At least a dozen
are dead. It keeps climbing, so I don't want to
give you an accurate number of total assessment because it's
unfortunately likely to go into several dozens who will have
been murdered, including a ten year old girl who lost
her life. The gunmen used scopes in their guns, so
it's very likely that they saw this little girl running
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and specifically targeted and shot her and murdered her. In
the midst of this violence, one man at the event,
an immigrant from Syria, worked to try to disarm one
of the two gunmen. He was shot twice and he
was extremely brave and extremely heroic, but because Australia has
such strict gun laws, he had no idea how to
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work the gun he had confiscated from one of the gunmen,
So rather than shoot the terrorist, he let him get away,
and that's not his fault. I'm not blaming. I'm sure
the Russian adrenaline in the second Who knows what anyone
would have done, but the gunmen ended up going getting
by another firearm and going back to shoot into the
crowd at the beach. There are a lot of lessons
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to take from this terrorist attack, as I think that
there are with most terrorist attacks. None of them are
being learned by people in the media who are focused
on this, people like Piers Morgan. They're honoring the immigrant
from Syria who did the right thing, who tried his best,
who showed bravery in the moment, but they're not willing
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to learn any hard lessons. One first being on policing.
There were three police officers there when the shooting happened.
They were all female police officers. I've heard rumors, so
I canno confirm that they were not even armed at
the time, and according to live footage, to footage and
to witness testimony, police officers just stood by as the
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gunmans were shooting. Now, I'm not saying that these women
were hired because of DEI policies, but it's clearly the
should not have been police officers. I come from a
cop family. I have a lot of police officers. You
know my family generationally, My dad and his brothers were
all cops. It's a tough job, and policing, unlike other
civil service jobs, you never really know what you're going
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to face on a day to day moment. It could
be a gunman, it could be a you know, a
lost child. It could be a terrorism, it could be
a million things. It could just be a random mugger,
or it could be a mentally ill person. Being a
police officer a very, very difficult job, and most do
the job well, but it's incredibly stressful and it brings
them men scrutiny. And if you can't do the job,
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whether it's because you're too trigger happy or in this case,
because you're too trigger shy, then you shouldn't be a
police officer. These women should not be police officers. And
police departments that mandate day they hire girls for the
sake of hiring girls are doing it a service to
every single person in their community, right. I mean, these
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women clearly could not stop these gunmen even if they
tried to tackle them, even if they couldn't shoot them,
because they didn't have arms or I don't understand why
in parts of the world, like in the UK, they
don't have guns. Secondly, while the man who disarmed the
terrorists briefly was and he was immensely brave, he didn't
shoot the terrorists in part because his family said he
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had never held a firearm before, he didn't know how
a firearm worked. Now there's no telling if he would
have been worked better if he had a gun, or
if he had had or you know, he would have
actually been trained if gun ownership was easier in Australia.
But Australia has disarmed their citizens for decades and this
still happens. Stricter gun laws did not prevent this act
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of terrorism, and more gun laws, which is what Australia's
leadership is proposing, won't. And Lastly, and there's no getting
around this, the West has a problem with Islamic terrorism,
and because of mass immigration, we're importing more people who
were susceptible to become is Islamic terrorists. If elected leaders
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of the West cared about their civilization, their liberal democracy,
their Jewish population, women in their society, gays and minorities
in their society, protecting Western philosophy, which maximalizes personal, personal
and economic liberty. You cannot continue to import millions of
people from the third world, especially those from cultures that
are heavily influenced by Islamic ideology. We have seen this
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all over Europe for over a decade, and the elected
leaders of the West's answer to this threat is to
continue to import more people and hope that we don't
notice things like the mass assault of German girls in
New Year's Eve twenty sixteen, the Backline Theatre mass murder
and torture in Paris, the tens of thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of British girls across the UK who
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were groomed and gang raped by Pakistani men, and now
the murders of dozens of Jews on the beaches on Australia.
I'm not saying this case is the only example of
anti Semitism. We know that it exists in these population.
We know that it's not exclusive to the Islamic population, right,
it's a broad thing, but it's very real among these people.
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And when it came to the footage of who was
celebrating the Bondi Beach massacre, the ones I saw from
across the globe. The ones in the UK, they were
all waving Palestine flags. They were all wearing Palestinian Palestinian scarbs.
No one seemed to have a history in the UK
that were celebrating the Body Beach massacre going back to
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the ten sixty six Norman invasion. They were all recent immigrants.
It is an existential emergency and has been this way
for decades, for at least two decades. I'll give people
the benefit of the doubt that maybe they missed this
in the nineties when the populations were much smaller. By
the twenty tens and two thousands, especially by the twenty tens,
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it's very clear what is happening across the West. It
is an existential emergency and if only leaders of the
western of the West clampdown immigration, if they only did that,
they could probably end the entire national populist revolution that
is sweeping across the world. They just won't do it.
They can't do it. Mass immigration is so key to
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their global experiment. It is like oxygen to creating water.
You can't have one without the other. They think that
it's noble and wonderful to change your society into something
that is unrecognizable, and that diversity at any cost is
worth it and ethical, and it is proper to sit
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there and rub noses of diversity in front of people
that you know don't like it, but they don't live
among those people. Over the weekend, I was tweeting with
Crystal Ball. I was tweeted at Crystal Ball because she
she's a progressive commentator. She was on MSNBC. She's got
a big YouTube show called Breaking Points. I've been on
it many, many, many times, and I personally really like her.
She's not, you know, one on one. She's a very
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lovely person. But she was tweeting how the best thing
about America is the cold mixing and feeling differently than
that is Unamerican. Well, guess what the demographics of Crystal
balls neighborhood in Virginia are. Take a wild guess about
how diverse this neighborhood that she lives in it. Or
Kentucky Representative Sarah Stalker, a Democrat who drawing a committee
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hearing last week, that she felt guilty about being white
and said we need DEI in schools to make white
kids own their privilege. She backpedaled a little and said
it's not about making them feel bad about their race.
But we kind of know she loot the cout of
the bag. It is about feeling bad about your race.
It's not just about knowing their privilege and through history.
And she said how much pride she has that one
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hundred and forty five languages were spoken in Jefferson County,
Kentucky public schools. Do you think that Jefferson County, Kentucky
public schools have the adequate budget, the adequate number of
teachers to teach in one hundred and forty five languages,
even with all the technology that's easily available for them,
Stalker the representative. Well, of course, an area called Saint
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Matthew's in Louisville, which is ninety percent Caucasian. She doesn't
live in a diverse area. And then, of course there
was Piers Morgan. Piers Morgan who I mentioned in the beginning.
You know, he was on at Tucker Carlson's podcast or
vice versa, one of the more on each other's podcasts.
Maybe Tucker was on his podcast and he said that
it was great that the UK will no longer be
the majority English by middle of the century because the
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food is better now than it was thirty years ago,
and we should celebrate that diversity. And he said that
we should celebrate the hero in Australia. We shouldn't talk
about the fact that immigration brought terrorism to Australia. Just
talk about the good immigrant, not the bad ones. That
they are random, that it's randomly happening. So a few people,
such a few people massively raping British girls, it's just
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a few people committing acts of terrorism or plotting acts
of terrorism. You know, it doesn't matter the fact that
there have been four Afghani nationals and five Palastinian nationals
in America in the last year who either successfully or
unsucessfully plotted terrorist attacks in this country. They're outliers, so
therefore ignored were the bigger problem of immigration from Islamic countries.
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Guess the demographics appears Morgan's kids schools. Guess how lily
white the schools he sends his kids to are. It's
called Thomas London Day's School, and it's where Prince william
sends his kids. There couldn't possibly be a wider place
on this planet. No, all of these people that push
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and love diversity, they want you to embrace diversity at
any cost, because it's not their daughters who will be
groomed or gang raped in Northern England or die on
a beach in Australia that massacre or assaulted throughout the
streets of Berlin. Now they will live in America or
Australia or Germany of Britain in the nineteen fifties, in
their own little enclaves. They'll get to go to the
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best diversity cuisines, because that's apparently all that matters, is
that there's diverse food. You know, we can't just import
a chef, We have to import an entire village. It's
the poor people. It's the working class who will never
live in that level of comfort, live with all the
chaos that comes with declining social capital because of mass population,
increases up immigration. All the people who spend their lives
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and it's not their whole lives, but maybe the last
ten plus years hating Brexit, hating Trump, hating Farage, hating Lapent,
all of those people who have made their whole lives
focused around hating those people, hating the National populist revolution.
They're responsible. They caused it because rubbing everyone else's noses.
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Diversity made people rebel against their whole experiments, all while
they choose to live as far away from it as
humanly possible. And say what you want about Israel, which
is pseudonangrada in a lot of circles, even on the right,
say what you want, But the fact is that they're nationalistic.
They know they sit there, and they know the time
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of day. They value their national identity and they're willing
to do anything to preserve it. And there's a lot
to learn with that. That's all. And I truly am
feeling heartbroken for all the family who are going into
both Hanukah and Christmas burying somebody. It is senseless, It
is reckless, and I hope that somebody can possibly wake
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up and do something. Next up, I have some polling
to show you really where how America feels going at
the end of twenty twenty five going into the new year.
On politics, on the economy, that's coming up next. NBC
News Decision just release a massive poll on Sunday discussing
American's feelings on Trump, the economy, which party had was
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the best, on the cost of living, a lot of
different questions, and this poll was powered by survey Monkey.
That is an Internet poll. I normally don't bring up
Internet polls that are exclusively Internet because I don't really
trust them. But NBC is the one that sponsored this poll,
so they're covering it. So because NBC is covering it,
it's kind of making its way through the ether. You're
going to hear about it either in traditional media or
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on social media. So it's worth covering and really breaking
down what this poll says. Now, this is different than
a lot of other polls that ask registered vote voters
or likely voters. This is asking all adults. Forty one
percent of respondents of the twenty two hundred and fifty
two respondents did not vote in the last election, right,
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they did not vote. Twenty six percent are not even
registered to vote. So this is a broad section of
people who I don't want to call ill informed, that's
not correct. But they are low engagement. That's the way
to say. They're low engagement on facts, on news, on information.
So first question of they sit there and they say
what are you most interested in? Interestingly enough, politics is
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a declining interest to most Americans. It went from twenty
five percent of the public saying is what they're most
interested in to twenty one percent. I think that's actually
kind of healthy. Personal finance and money and health and
wellness have increased. Health and wellness has increased the most.
It's probably a good thing and a bad thing. Biggest
issue facing our countries obviously the economy. Economy comes in
well ahead of everything else at twenty seven percent. That
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they basically stagnant the entire yet NBC as doing this poll.
Second is threats to democracy that's declined a little bit.
Threats to democracy are both people who are like at
the No King's rally and people who are at QAnon stuff.
It's two different side of the same crazy coin. And
then lastly is health care. Health Care has been pretty
consistent for a while now. Lower level is crime and safety,
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that's a twelve percent, and then immigration is number five,
so fifty four percent. This is what I find very entering.
Fifty four percent agree with this statement when asked. When
it comes to politics and society, nothing really matters because
powerful people will always do whatever they want. This is
I'm sure this has been this way for a very
long time, but this shows true levels of declining social
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trust that the elite, that the wealthy that the politicians
can be held accountable, which is why the mishandling of
the Jeffrey Epstein story was so detrimental, because it was
such a close case of this is a very bad person,
but so far aside from Prince Andrew, who was really
held responsible, he's lost basically everything, although he didn't go
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to jail, but he's lost all of his titles. He
no one else had any accountability. Only twenty five percent
of people disagree with that, by the way, so also
very very interesting part of the poll is when they
said how has twenty twenty five been for you and
your family? A majority of people say twenty twenty five
has actually been a pretty good year. Fifty nine to
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forty one twenty twenty five, They say twenty fney five
has been a good year. They ask, how do you
think going to twenty twenty six how it will be
for you and your family? Seventy percent say it'll be better.
People are genuinely optimistic, which is interesting given the news narrative. Now.
When they ask people what economic issues are most important
to them, Number one, by by far is the rise
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and cost of living forty four percent. Number two is healthcare,
all the way at thirteen percent. When they ask people
about that, how their personal finances have changed better or worse. Interestingly,
thirty one percent of people who make more than a
one hundred thousand dollars a year say it has been better,
Forty four percent say it's the same. Plurality of every
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group except for people with household incomes under fifty percent
say it is the same, thirty nine percent say it's
the same, forty five percent say it's worse. For you
will make under fifty thousand dollars a year, and when
they ask you, what what are you doing to change?
What personal decisions have you changed because of the rise
and costs of living, Sixty five percent of household making
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less than fifty grand a year say they've changed what
groceries they buy to stay within budget, and sixty four
percent that say they cut back on extra entertainment. Cutting
back extra entertainment has been the number one across all groups,
but it goes from sixty four percent among people who
make less than fifty thousand dollars a year to fifty
seven percent for people who make between fifteen one hundred,
and then forty three percent by people who make over
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one hundred thousand dollars a year. That's very very interesting
because there seems to be a clear break line around
fifty grand of what how severe the inflation is people
making over fifty grand. Our households making over fifty grand
doesn't seem to be as intense. What they're talking about
as far as things go, as far as cost of
living goes, and what they're doing to change the cost
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of living is dramatically different. Right Cutting groceries is fifty
three percent for people making between fifteen one hundred versus
sixty five percent. That's a big drop. And when you
go over one hundred grand, it's down to just thirty
nine percent. So I found that very fascinating. Next up,
when they sit there and say what is your biggest
economic problem facing your family? Cost of housing is one,
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cost of food is two. Costs of insurance health insurance
is three. That is the entire ballgame for the Republicans
in twenty twenty six. Those three things, housing, healthcare, food,
and obviously they only have so much to control all
those things. Rents are going down for four straight months,
Housings costing to be stagnant, which is good. Food is
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still very expensive, and certain things, and health insurance is
still a disaster, and I it's been a disaster since Obamacare.
But speaking of Obamacare, they asked voters, would you rather
repeal and replace Obamacare, keep it or unsure? Forty six
percent say keep it, twenty four percent say repeal it,
thirty percent or unshut So why if healthcare is failing
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do people want to keep it as is? Because people
do not like uncertainty. And Obamacare was remarkably unpopular until
the minute it was attempted to re repeal. Not because
it's working great. It's not working great. Every once is
there and says it's not working great. Why are they
afraid of repealing it? Because they're afraid of being uncertain
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and not having health insurance if something happens. That's really
where it is. So any kind of transformation when it
comes to health insurance market has to work with inconsistent framework.
So people don't feel like there's going to be a
moment that they don't have anything to grab onto. They're
worried tremendously about that. Which party do you trust more
to handle healthcare? This is devastating for Republicans fifty seven percent,
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Democrats forty three percent Republicans. Who do you trust is
that they're in handle the rising prices of everyday things
Fifty three percent Democrats, forty seven percent Republicans. I mean,
Republicans should not be losing on the economy. Maybe because
the tax cuts are coming next year and hopefully prices
are reduced. This may be okay in the end, like
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this may stabilize in the end. It's not that far
off Republican Democrat, but it really has to be emphasized
that that's things are getting better. The problem for Republicans
is that the media has done a very good job
about branding Trump's tariffs. Tariffs are super, super unpopular. People
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believe that they're responsible for the rising costs of everything,
when in fact, when they've looked at this time and
time again, consumers have not beared the brunt of rising costs.
There's a lot of things that are making those cost rise.
It's not just terroists. Tariffs are helping a little effect,
but things like health insurance, are auto insurance, are home insurance.
These things have nothing at all to do with tariffs.
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How much will you spend on Christmas this year? Fifty
five percent say less than last year? Nine percent say more.
This is a really bad sign. People are not People
are optimist with the future, but they have been through
it this last year and they thought that it was
going to get better. Question twenty three. I'm reading these
as they go along. Question twenty three, how would you
feel the stock market crash? By thirty percent? What a
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stupid question these people charge by question, So imagine wasting
one of your questions. How would you feel the stock
market crashed? Oh, I feel wonderful. Do you support or
oppose the building of the ballroom once again, a thing
that doesn't affect anybody's life? Thirty three percent support, sixty
seven percent to pose, no one cares like this is
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not why anyone's going to go vote. The handling of
the Jeffrey Epstein files with the Trudministration seventy one percent disapproved,
twenty nine percent approve. This is not a question for
me because I don't watch sports and nor do I
gamble on them, But I think it's a fascinating question
we talked with during the podcast over the last year.
Do you think that sports betting is losing is lesting
the integrity of the game? Seventy percent say yes, Thirty
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percent say no, how far. How concerned are you that
the increasing availability of sports betting will lead to the
game becoming rigged? Sixty three percent say yes, thirty eight
percent say no. Okay, that's basically the poll there's I mean,
they're going to make a big deal of They asked
are you more of a MAGA support or a Republican?
It was fifty to fifty. Are you more of a
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progressive or a centrist Democrat? Fifty to fifty. When you're
dealing with such an undecided population, so many people who
have never voted, as this poll is, you're going to
get numbers like that, it doesn't really mean anything. I
think the biggest thing that you could take with this poll,
which I mean it probably isn't covering that extensively, is
people are optimistic about the future. But where they're seeing
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their day to day lives increase, food, insurance, housing is
where they're going to go vote on those three issues.
Anything existential outside of that is not going to mean
as much. Those are the three things that if you're
a Republican consultant, even figuring like like I am. But
if you're a consultant or campaigns, you have to spend
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your days thinking, how will I address these three issues?
How will I talk about these three policies that or
how to think about policies that will make these three
things better and correctly address what's affecting their rises, what's
affecting their costs increases, and how best a politician can
answer them all? Right, Coming up next is Ask Me Anything.
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Stay tuned now it's time for the Ask Me Anything segment.
If you want to be part of the Ask Me
Anything segment, email me Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast dot com.
That's Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast dot com. I will either
answer them personally if they're just you know, one on
one thing like I did actually two of them today,
or if it's a question for the whole audience will
like I will talk about it publicly on the air.
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So this one comes from Patty from Sacramento. She said,
I really enjoyed your interview Representative ROCNNA. I'm in California,
not in his district, but interested in what he says.
I caught some disconnect in his ideas and plans to
move forward regarding immigration and AI that concern me. I
like that he's actually interested in you and your opinions. Patty,
thank you, And that's why I tried whenever I have
a guest, especially I know who I am, right, I
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know Democrats don't want to talk to me. I was
the guy who made the beet Bridge, I get it right.
So I always want to make people when they come
on the podcast feel comfortable have a conversation. I'm not
here to own you. I'm not here to sit there
and yell at you. I'm not going to try to
make a viral moment for myself because it doesn't it
doesn't make the audience more interested or smarter. Right, Yeah,
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that's just clicks. That's what everyone does. I'm not interested
in that. I want to have a real conversation over
ideas because there's things that a Democrat or a Republican
could say that you could disagree with or that you
could agree with, and we can all become more intelligent
for hearing each other out. I loved represent On Connor
for coming that, but he did not make any sense
when he said that, because he's saying AI is taking
our jobs, and the same time he's talking about fears
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that we're not going to be so pro immigrant to
bring in the whole world. That's why. I said to him.
I was like, you're going to run out of tax
He wanted to do this AI new deal where everyone
was getting checks from all these companies, and I was like,
you're going to run out of tax dollars if you're
bringing in the whole world. And he kind of he
didn't have an answer for it. And I think that
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maybe it kind of I hope did him think, I
really do. I don't know if it did any Patty.
You say, your niece teacher is in La and the
kids don't speak English or Spanish at the home, and
it's very, very difficult. This type of mass immigration is
changing the fabric of our state, in our country, and
not in a good way. I believe that we do
not take care and educate our citizens in our own country,
we will fail. We cannot help any other parts of
the world if we are a failure. Patty, I could
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not agree more with that. And yeah, and I have
in laws and relatives over in different parts of the country,
in small town America, small town right America, and they're like, oh, yeah,
we have kids in THESL. Their teachers are like, we
have kids in THESL. They don't speak Spanish. Or English,
and they don't. We don't know, we don't know how
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to communicate with them or using apps and stuff like that,
and I'm like, is that helping? And they're like, well,
it kind of and they're making like shadow puppets. Who
the hell knows. They're trying to communicate to fel any
which way possible. But if you are not literate in
your own language, the chances of you picking up a
second one from just a few hours of school a
day not high likely. Okay, second and last question for
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this episode. It comes from Joel. Joel, thank you for
rating me again. He says he's keeping an eye on
the UK politics, especially the Guardians Today in focused podcasts.
I've not listened to that podcast, but maybe I should
check it out. He says. Have you seen the reports
alleging Nigel Farage bullied and tormented Jewish classmates in high school?
I have. I know that they're making a big deal
of this. I kind of doubt it. I mean, the
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man is like sixty five years old, so I mean,
you're telling me fifty years ago that they've been holding
on this anger that he made fun of a Jewish
classmate fifty years ago. I mean, unless he like beat
them to a pulp. I would say, probably get over
someone saying something mean about you, especially considering he's been
probably the most pro Israel person, pro Jewish person running
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for office in that country. What this means for Reform
ukse trajectory, especially for Ross to lead. It can a
populist party absorb something like this and survive, So I
think that Listen. The way it kind of works with
a lot of these papist parties is they kind of
worry about peaking too early, and I think that's more
Farage is wor that he's peaking too early. Labors putting
(26:37):
out a lot of good press stuff saying look how
much we're reducing immigration. We're reducing immigration or reducing immigration.
That may not be enough to sit there and say
Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, but it could lessen the blow,
especially as progressive voters, they're not labor voters. Rather, they're
not looking to maybe Farage in many places, but they're
(26:57):
looking to the Green Party or the Live de so
Starmar so Farrage. Reform UK is definitely still leading the
polls Forag's biggest worry is that he has to get
very serious about leading this party to victory, a national victory,
which he's never done before. A national victory that's that's
not for the EU Parliament, before the Parliament in London,
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and not be a victim's own success. And their numbers
have gone down a little bit, but they're still large
and in charge. Second, there's a new Leftis faction called
Your Party, coalescing around the former Labor figures like Jeremy Corbin.
It looks like a socialist alternative to Labor, emphasizing trans everything, housing, redistribution,
anti war and protest rights. Do you think they'll pull
(27:41):
votes from labor? That is simply yes, that's an easy answer.
And finally, have you followed Zach Polanski's rise as leader
of the Green Party. He seems like he's pulling towards
a kind of left wing eco populism similar to the
young progressive circles and the US curists. If you think
the style politics could gain traction here too, it already has,
you know, I mean, the Green New Deal was everyone's
(28:02):
I mean everyone gravitated towards it. But I think that
part of what left wing populism in this country is
is a lot of it is racial identity just because
of how the left views everything, even more so than
the environment. If you guys watched Jasmine Crockett announced her
run for the US Senate in Texas, it was a
(28:24):
bit of a disaster. Her ad was weird and her
video or her sorry, her opening speech rather was strange
where she she kind of said that we need illegal
immigration because black people stop picking cotton. Okay, Jasmine, I
don't think that that's really what Hispanics want to be
(28:44):
compared to I know a few Hispanics who live in
South Texas. They're usually very proud people. They've been here
for generations. A lot of the Dejanos always say, like
the border moved, we didn't. They've been here longer than
a lot of other people have. They don't really view
themselves as and it's interesting that she does. And it's
interesting the way she talks about illegal labor, very very
(29:07):
very curious. I don't know if she's gonna win, and
she might win the primary, but my guess is she's
probably gonna burn down and plumb. She als said she
doesn't want the support of anyone who voted for Donald
Trump in Texas, so that'll go very very well because
it's not like he won the stay by fifteen points
or anything like that. Then I go extremely good, she's
so smart. All right, guys. That is my episode for today.
Thank you guys for listening. I really really appreciate it.
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