Friday Freedom

Episode Transcript

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All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Welcome one and all to fifty plus on this Friday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I thank you all for listening.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I truly do appreciate it as all lots of things
to unpack around the world, and I'm probably going to
be leading with.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Something that may surprise you.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You might be thinking I would talk about something other
than what I'm about to share, but I think it's
really worth the listen.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay. In Denmark, one of the.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Most progressive, welfare happy countries on the planet, the liberals
in charge there are pushing back against immigration by people
who have no interest in assimilation and full interest in
eventual takeover of that country. And they're doing so for
one of two reasons that nearly every country in the

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world either has closed their borders or is in the
process of closing their borders to unchecked immigration.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
And they've been working on this project for several years now.
It's not something that happened overnight, but in Denmark they
finally figured out what every place that offers all this
welfare finally figures out at some point, is that offering
wealthfare fair to everyone in the country, including thousands upon
thousands of people not interested in becoming Danes. Well, that

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all put tremendous burden on the national purse, much the
same as it's done in our country after the former
administration ushered in what literal millions of people about whom
we know nothing except that the left wants to bribe
them into voting Democrat with free housing, free medical care,
free meals, and a judicial system that quite often looks
the other way on any but the most horrific of

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crimes committed by these people.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
But that's a different story. I digress there.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
So anyway, Denmark's done with paying for all those uninvited guests.
And here's some of the stuff. Well, first of all,
let me tell you why they took a hard look
after years of research really and coddling these people and
waiting for assimilation that never happened.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
And it turns out these foreigners just.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Aren't any more Danish now than when they arrived in
the country years ago. Despite being only fourteen percent of
the population, they account for more than thirty percent of
the violent crime convictions there, and specifically, Somali immigrants had
a conviction rate of one hundred and fourteen per one

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thousand of them. So in Denmark eight years ago, first
thing they did was they banned burkas and facial coverings
in all public spaces. First defense is going to cost
you a thousand kroner, second offense ten thousand kroner. Human
rights organizations just lost their minds screaming islamophobic and Denmark

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didn't care.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
But here's the deal. It also created it so called.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Denmark did not yet, but Denmark also created so called
ghetto rules.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I don't know why they picked that word, but.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Anyway, in which crimes committed inside those zones carried double
the punishment had the same crime been committed elsewhere. And
to really rock the liberals, toddler's as young as one
year old in Denmark are required by law to attend
twenty five hours a week in care centers where they're
taught Danish customs and culture, Christmas traditions, democratic norms, gender

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equality and more. And if parents refuse to send their
children to those state run centers, they lose their welfare checks.
And because of all these changes they've made over there.
By doing that and just a lot more, I think
Denmark has a real chance of maintaining its identity and
its culture. Over here, we're allowing very similarly troubling behavior

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among immigrants to go unchecked like much of Europe now.
Even protecting the undocumented immigrants and putting their rights ahead
of those of our own citizens.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Lots to unpack, I know.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
But so anyway, so all of that brings me to
something else. I wanted to share the story of a
woman who grew up in Iran. She grew up in
Iran as a child and watched the takeover of her
co by Islamic extremists. But those extremists didn't accomplish that
takeover on their own. She's a plastic surgeon now in

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Los Angeles and a public speaker. Her name is doctor
Shila Nazarian, and I listened to several minutes of her
cautioning America's Americans about what's happening right here and right now.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
She explains it brilliantly.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
To first, she said, social Back over there in Iran
when she was a young young woman, Socialists and Islamis
formed this odd alliance based on their common goal of
overthrowing the Shah. The Socialists believed religion was backwards, she said,
and the Islamis wanted religious rule totally opposite spectrum ends

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of the spectrum. Socialists were for sexual freedom, Islamis killed
gay people. The Leftists were women for women's liberation, and
the Islamists wanted to control how they dressed, where women
could go, and what they could do. The only thing
they had in common was a to bring down that regime,
and the leftist, she said, thought they were using the

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Islamis to install a Marxist government. In fact, though all along,
the Islamists were using the socialists, and as soon as
their combined efforts toppled that regime, the Islamis turned on
the socialists, and those blind sided Optimists were told that
if they wouldn't stand up for their own country, they
couldn't be trusted, and so they were eliminated. Those wide

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eyed liberal young adults who helped remove the Shaw were
no longer useful and they were purged. The professors who
encouraged their students to participate purged. Intellectuals imprisoned are purged,
and the remaining leftists that tortured and executed out they went.
Universities were shut down. Nothing remained of the far left

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movement in Iran, but its history. Doctor Nassarian was very
clear in sharing that story, and as she put it,
she's seen that movie before and now she's seen it
over here.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's pretty eye opening.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
And briefly before we have to go to break, I
wanted to come a little closer to home. I guess
the attorneys for Carmelo Anthony, who was convicted of murder
in the death of Austin Metcalf at a track meet
a while back, those attorneys have filed and I think
he's got six attorneys on his team right now. Those
attorneys have filed an appeal to get Anthony a new trial.

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I read some of the things that they found inconsistent
with a fair trial, and there's a lot of nitpicking
that's going on. There are a lot of things that
will have to be determined by people with a lot
more legal smarts than me. But the law is the law,
and we'll just have to see how it all turns out.
Speaking of out, I need to take a little time
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I believe it's thousands now who are so.

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that they can apply that knowledge specifically to seniors.

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That's us, and that's a big deal, it really is.

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There are only a handful of institutions around this entire
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And here we go again, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you all for listening on this wonderful Friday afternoon. Boy,
every Friday seems like it ought to be declared wonderful
because it leads to the weekend for most of us.
If you are someone who still mails the occasional letter

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or bill, you might want to stop by the post
office this weekend and pick up a bucket of forever
stamps before Sunday. That's when the latest price hike, the
fourth in two years, is going to take effect. This
time the cost is gonna go up from seventy eight
cents to eighty two cents, while the postal service still

(09:30):
struggles to even maintain any relevance at all. First, we
have lots of options, safer and cheaper options. Usually when
it comes to sending things from one place to another,
email comes to mind for letters and bills and documents
that really doesn't cost you a dime. Well, it does
in electronics and in Wi Fi and whatnot, But you

(09:51):
don't have to lick the back of your laptop to
send an email. And if you do have to send
something important or maybe just it's a package that you
want to send to somebody, you've got Ups, You've got FedEx, Amazon,
all willing and eager to transport something you want from
wherever it is to wherever you are, or vice versa.
Two things that have the US Postal Service in hot

(10:13):
water these days, maybe three if you count the obvious,
which is that the service is part of the federal government,
which isn't exactly known for its efficiency. And then there's
just safety and security. There have been stories on top
of stories lately about mail being stolen from the post
office by postal employees. No less, they grab anything in

(10:33):
the envelopes, usually that look like they might contain a check,
and then if it does contain a check, they'll take
it out, they'll wash it and then change the name
of the paye or the amount or both to just
steal however much money they can. Two of the three
post offices nearest me have made the news in the
past year over stories about that The other thing that's

(10:55):
hurt in the Post Office, and it's tied to that
first thing, is the frequency of the services rate hikes.
You want to mail a shoebox x dollars. Want to
mail that same box around the Christmas holidays, it's gonna
cost you more. There's a surcharge that can cost people
as much as sixteen dollars more to mail a package
around these United States than during the rest of the year.

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And justice past April, they launched an eight percent surcharge
on both retail and commercial commercial priority Express Mail, Priority Mail,
Ground Advantage and parcels select shipments. And still the Post
Office managed somehow to lose two billion dollars just in
the second quarter of this year. The word privatize comes

(11:41):
to mind slowly, but surely. We're watching in real time
the extinction of a dinosaur moving on, if I might. Domestically,
major metropolitan centers are grappling with severe infrastructure threats. In
New York City. If you didn't see it, I guess
it was yesterday, maybe the day before. A high rise
office building undergoing structural conversion in Midtown Manhattan forced into

(12:06):
emergency evacuation. Authorities they ordered the immediate clearing not only
of that building but of surrounding offices and hotels after
buckled columns and sagging floors triggered legitimate fears of an
entire structural collapse, which severely disrupted traffic as you might imagine,

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and stranded some tourists. Boohoo for them. Kind of a
welcome to New York City. If you can imagine it,
it probably will happen if you stay there two or
three days. That building that had to be evacuated was
under structural repair. So I guess I was thinking that
maybe maybe New York City isn't paying close enough attention
to some of those buildings in its.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Heart that are really old.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
They're old buildings, and things move and things age, and
they crack and they crumble, and that's why there were
bricks falling onto the street after those support beams buckled
the other day. So the good news is that those
engineering issues are being addressed at least, But the bad

(13:13):
news is the way that city's going nobody's going to
be around to pay for the repairs.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Nobody's going to be around.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
To provide tax dollars for the government in the city
to do the repairs. And up to now, I haven't
heard any word about the status of any of those
evacuated buildings. I don't know if anybody's been allowed to
go back. I don't know what they're doing. I guess
I'm glad it's in New York City so I don't
have to worry about it. Moving to a little bit
of politics, see Democrat Party is managing a high profile

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crisis right now with the withdrawal of Graham Platner from
the main Senate race. Platner ended his campaign and he
will have his name removed from the ballot after he's
been He's had fingers pointed at him on some pretty
credible public allegations of domestic violence and assault from a
former girlfriend. The Democrats in that state are scrambling now

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to find some sort of process to select a replacement nominee.
The progresses and the moderates are already clashing over potential successors.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Who knows who it's going to be.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Also in politics, to hang there for a minute, President
Trump is still fighting a lot of battles on the
legal front, and one of them is his announcement that
he's going to petition the US Supreme Court to rehear
that challenge to his executive order regarding birthright citizenship, and
I really do hope that the court decides to hear

(14:36):
that again and maybe this time pay a little bit
more attention to what birthright citizenship does to our country
long term. And for those of you who are still
keeping an eye on the FIFA World Cup this year,
never mind that our guys got knocked out in the
round of sixteen, the matches are actually doing very well

(14:56):
on television. Here TV is pulling record breaking domes stick
television viewership. The excitement is spilling over into the entertainment
news as well, now that FIFA and the World Cup
organizers have announced a massive Super Bowl style halftime show
that's going to take place during the July nineteenth tournament

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final in New Jersey. Bad Bunny, by the way, is
not on the list of entertainers who will perform at
that FIFA World Cup halftime show. Instead, the lineup for
this one includes Shakira, BTS, don't know who that is, Madonna,
and Justin Bieber. I'm not sure whether that's a really
good list or not so good list. I'm also not

(15:38):
sure whether or not Justin Bieber is young enough or
Madonna is old enough for them to be grandmother and grandson. Also,
I've just learned that BTS is a Korean boy band.
And since I'm a staunch supporter of and speak for
the Coastal Conservation Association, two pieces of conservation news from

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around the world. First up, French Polynesia has officially established
a massive marine protected area that covers a million square kilometers.
It's roughly the size of France. This unprecedented global good
news conservation initiative is going to protect some very fragile
coral reefs, encourage deep sea biodiversity, and protect some pretty

(16:24):
important water that's vital to whale migration corridors that have
been impacted by industrial operations. Also of interest to anybody
who's done any snook fishing or bone fishing around the world,
mangrove forests globally are demonstrating remarkable resilience and making a
big comeback thanks to dedicated conservation and community replanning efforts.

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There's a lot more mangrove than.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
There were just a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
I've been to a couple of places where mangroves have
been lost, and I've seen pictures sent to me five
ten years later from the people who set about taking
care of those areas and replenishing the mangroves.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
And it's just an.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Amazing recovery now that I'm hearing about that's spreading worldwide
really and kind of makes me want to jump on
a jet plane and go someplace to go fishing.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Good Heavens, it's break time again.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
And I am going to tell you right now about
Midway Meat Market out there in Katie.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Off I ten.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
You take I ten through ninety nine and then hit
that I think it's the second KT exit. May be
where it says Highway ninety Old Highway ninety, Highway ninety whatever.
You see ninety, bail out of the freeway there. It'll
take you right into town and there you will see
at the second stoplight a strip shopping center. On the
far west end of that shopping center, you're gonna find

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Midway Meat Market, the same place it's been for fifty
seven years now, the same a lot of the same people.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Actually, there are a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Who've been working there not that long, but for decades apiece,
because it's a great place to work and they're great people. Beef,
chicken and port cut the way you want, twenty five
flavors of wonderful sausage with samples available every day. Lots
of grab and go snacks too if you're headed farther
west on Ien. And of course that lunch counter where
you can get a cheeseburger, you can get a traditional

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barbecue lunch with all the fixings whatever you want. They're
open from eight am to seven pm every single day
of the week, and the moment you walk in the door,
somebody is gonna say welcome to Midway. All kinds of
specials out there too from time to time. Check the
website for details midwaymeetmarket dot com. That's midwaymeetmarket dot com.

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All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you all
for listening. I do appreciate that, and once again for
sharing your afternoon with us. Be sure to bring some
friends next time. We'll talk in this segment about something
most folks our age don't really think often about at all,
I would bet, but with so many of us living
so much longer, it makes sense to share some information
about HIV. And with that, I'm going to welcome in

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doctor Robin Beach, board Certified Family Nurse Practice and professor
at professor at mcgovernm Medical School who specializes in HIV
care and prevention, has done so for more than twenty years.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Welcome aboard, doctor beach Well.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
I am thrilled that you want to talk about this
because it's extremely important I do.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
And I really I feel like, well, first let's start
with a definition. So what is HIV?

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Well, HIV it's basically, it's a chronic viral illness. It
attacks our immune system. Specifically, it attacks.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
CD four P lymphocites.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
And without treatment, HIV can progressively weaken the immune system
and lead to what you've probably heard of as acquired
immune deficiency syndrome or a right. Fortunately, modern therapy that
we have today allows people living with HIV to to

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achieve a normal or near let's say, near normal life expectancy.
People living with HIV are expected to have the same
life expectancy as those without HIV if they maintain an
undetectable viral loads.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
When did HIV first appear in our country?

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Do you recall, Oh, my gosh, it was back early
eighties is when we really started recognizing that there was
something there.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
It was called grid back then.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
But really like early eighty eighty one eighty two.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, and most of my fifty plus audience now fast forwarding,
even the single ones don't really think about much IV,
do they.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
They don't think much about it, do they?

Speaker 5 (20:49):
No, absolutely not, And you know not to I guess
out myself. But I'm beyond your fifty plus group as.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well, well, so am I believe me?

Speaker 4 (21:02):
So you're right.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
And I've been at UTA Health for twenty six years
now taking care of patients.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
So in that time, as you imagine.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
People have aged with me, right, And yeah, people just
don't know. And if I'm on an airplane or in
an uber and people ask me what I do and
I tell them, the first thing out of their mouth is, wait,
that's still a thing.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, it sure is.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
No one really thinks about it.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
And let's talk about how it's transmitted too, so we
can kind of get into we'll get into that and
then get into some of the prevention and the treatments
and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Yeah. Well, it is transmitted in just a couple of ways, really,
and one of them is through sex.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
And it just you know, it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Matter what type of sex you're having, it's just sex.
And that's one thing that even though it's part of
our our natural way way of living.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Just talking about sex can be taboo.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
And people think that, you know, it only comes with
one type of sex, but no any type of sex.
And it can also be shared through needles if you're
if you are sharing a needle for whatever type of substance.
And let me tell you, in the fifty plus group,
there's a lot of men in the gyms that are

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sharing needles using testosterones. So it's that just thinking about
illicit drug use. It's as simple as sharing testosterone and
then of course one can be born with it, but
that's extremely.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Rare these days, extremely rare. We have about yeah, we.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Have about forty almost forty one million people in the
United States that are currently living at HIV in Harris County,
in Houston, Harrison County, and of course statistics lag, but
in twenty twenty two we had over thirty thousand people

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living with HIV alone just in our county.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Doctor Robin Beach with me here on fifty plus. So
and with anything so serious as HIV, there are always misconceptions,
things people think are true but aren't.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
What are some of the biggest.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Ones, Oh, my gosh, there are so many misconceptions. HIV
is not spread by hugging, kissing, sharing food or drinks,
toilet seats, casual contact, sweat, tears, alive the coffee sneezing,
mosquito bites, the more swimming pools.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
You've been asked that before, haven't you?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Oh my gosh, every single day, I even you know.
There are medicines that can be used to help pret
tech you from getting HIV. Just this week someone told
me they didn't want to take the medicine for prevention
because they heard that it contains HIV tremendous misconvention.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
No, that's a big problem, I would imagine. So what
are the best ways to avoid catching this condition?

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Well, number one, you should be proactive and really consider
your sexual wellness and sexual prevention just like you would
any of your other standard things. If you're going to
go in and ask for a PAPSME or a Mamma
Graham colonoscopy, any of your other standard screenings, you should

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also inquire about your sexual health and be proactive in preventing.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
HIV acquisition. And how can you do that?

Speaker 5 (24:55):
You can ask for PREP which is pre exposure prophylaxis
medication that can you can take in a variety of
different ways and help prevent HIV. I'm sorry, but you
know people fifty and olders still have sex.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh yeah, I've heard some of the stories that come
out of the assisted living places and they curry your hair.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
It really will.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Well, it's it's not even that. You know, we get
into our fifth, sixth, and seventh decade and perhaps we
lose our partner, right, and we don't want to live alone,
so we start looking.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
For other partners, just like we did in.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Our teens and twenties.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Sure, and that may include having sex.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
So if you're not going to use a condom, which
I'm not naive I know people do not want to
use condoms.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Well, then certainly look toward.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
Prevention with prep because you're going to have sex, and
you're supposed to have sex. Yeah, so have all the
sex you want.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Just help prevent it, prevent getting HIV.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Doctor Robin Beech here on fifty plus, let's talk about
the treatment options. Now, I've seen TV ads for drugs
that make the virus undetectable in people who have it.
Does that mean they can't infect other people?

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Sure? Sure, we call that U equals you. It's a concept.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Known as the undetectable equals untransmittable. Okay, we have a variety,
a huge variety of medications that are fully efficacious, they're safe,
and as long as people take it as they're prescribed,
they can obtain this concept.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
You equals you.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
And once the virus is pressed down to that undetectable level,
they cannot transmit it to another person.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Wow, that's that's very good news compared to what it
was twenty thirty years ago, isn't it DNS? Yes, and
so in all these years after HIV and AGS first
came on to the radar, though, there's still a stigma
attached to it, isn't there.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah, that's the biggest problem. People still make jokes about it.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
You know. The stigma is there because.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Talking about HIV is, I don't know, people try to
make it a moral condition. It's not a moral condition.
It's a medical condition. And we need to remember that
it can affect anyone regardless of your age, gender, sexual orientation, race,

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or socioeconomic status. It can affect you, it can affect
your friend, your neighbor. So we need to remove that stigma.
We need to remove the fear, the misinformation and stop
making jokes about it and.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Just know.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
That sex is normal.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
So the best way that we can reduce this stigma
is through education, empathy, just normalizing conversations about it, which
you and I are doing.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
And talk about HIV prevention and care.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
That sounds good to me, Doctor Robin Beach. I hate
to tell you this, but we are out of time.
This has been very enlightening and I know my audience
will appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
I thank you so much, and I hope we can
do it again sometime.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Thank you Bayby.

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New Promised Neuropathy dot Com. All right, rounding third and
headed home on this Friday afternoon. I've got a couple
of domestic stories i want to talk about, but we'll
also talk about some things going on around the world,
and not all bad stuff either. Delving back into the
laboratory of contemporary socialism aka New York City Mayor Moron

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Zomdani is putting his radical housing scheme into action. Now,
this program is called Fix the City, but it's likely
to do any such thing. Once again, this is just
a socialist putting a fancy.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Name on a horrible program.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
What he says he wants to do is to target
the city's worst landlords, and by worst, I'm sure he
just means people who are trying to make a little
profit off of what they're doing off of the buildings
they invested in years ago. I actually know a man
who invested in New York real estate many many years ago.
He was able to buy a lot of older apartment

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buildings for literally pennies on the dollar. They needed a
good bit of work done to them, but he was
also able to find financing to get that done, and
in the end he made a very handsome sum of
profit off of I don't know, I think it was
a couple of hundred, maybe three hundred apartments that were
all renovated and fixed up just enough to pass inspection
and look better than what was adjacent to them. He

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got them all rented out and then he sold the
buildings and moved to Texas. Smart guy too. I've done
a little work with him, and I really like the
way he goes after business. So anyway back to what
I was talking about, So, Mom, Donnie wants to target
these horrible, horrible landlords and either make them make repairs

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on the apartments they own and operate, which by the way,
will be almost impossible for them to do. So a
lot of them are going to wind up facing foreclosure
on those properties, after which they will be put up
for sale and in a very thinly veiled proposition to
make this look favorable for shelters and nonprofits. He's even
promised them first rights to purchase these buildings if the

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landlords can't bring them up to speed. So far, though,
the nonprofits and other qualified buyers under that program have
sat very quietly.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
On the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
And meanwhile, landlords who can are cutting their losses and
bailing out, as are almost all of the bigger lenders.
And as for the tenants with no heed or low
water pressure or leaky faucets. Right now, the New York
City Housing Authorities buildings are being choked to death by
eighty billion dollars in back logged repairs, and as you

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might guess, any plans of actually getting those repairs done
are entirely dependent on him being able to raise higher taxes.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
But there are.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Increasingly few people in the city to pay those taxes.
New York City's right over the next couple of years
is going to be a really bumpy one. You better
buckle up, buttercups. In more new Surrounding our upcoming midterm election,
the Department of Justice sent notice to all fifty states
and the District of Columbia yesterday letting each of them

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know that election officials are going to face criminal charges
if any non citizens are allowed to vote in our
November elections. Already, we've had stories seen them. I've seen
several of them just recently, where homeless people are in
drug addicts and whatnot are getting paid, sometimes a few

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bucks or sometimes a couple of packs of cigarettes just
for their signatures on blank ballot.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
It concerns me to say this, but if.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
The DOJ really sticks to its guns and really digs
in deep in this next election, I've got a hunch
there are going to be more than a couple of
people who thought they could get away with things and
don't get away with things, and they're going to pitch
a hissy fit when they find out they're going to
federal prison. Our right to vote in free elections is

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one of the most precious things that Americans have, and
that right should be protected with every resource we've got.
Eighty percent of Americans agree with that statement, agree that
the ballot box should be almost sacred. It is is
something that only citizens should be able to use in

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federal elections, and still the Democrats won't consider passing the
Save Act despite eighty percent of the whole country wanting
it to succeed.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
You know.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I've got a little story that I've been wanting to
plug in somewhere for the last couple of days and
just haven't found the place.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
But I think this one's appropriate.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Looking at the time I've got left and what I
want to talk about. A volunteer in the UK unearthed
a remarkably rare and historically significant copy of guess what,
the United States Declaration of Independence. It was sitting in

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historical archives somewhere over there, probably hadn't been touched for decades,
if not a century, and lo and behold there it was.
If I had just a little more money than what
I have, I would probably jump on a jet plane
and go over there and see that document. Two hundred
and fifty years and a few days ago we declared

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our independence from England from Great Britain said enough's enough,
We're going to do this ourselves. And we had to
fight hard to hang on to that chance we had,
and we did. The people of that era, and really
all the way up through I would say World War two,

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even into Vietnam, we were just such a tougher bunch
of people.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Than we are now, and we were a.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
More patriotic bunch of people than we are now. And
the saddest part is that most of that would have
been avoidable had we not allowed extreme viewpoints to come
in and overtake a lot of what we're trying to
teach our children.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
I saw video video what is vodeo?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I saw video footage this past week of little kids
over in California somewhere. I can't remember exactly what town
it was in it I don't know, but anyway, little
kids watching a parade of naked grown men and women
walking down the street.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
That's just not right.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
And for as long as that video was on, nobody
was trying to cover the kid's eyes, nobody was trying
to stop those people from walking naked down the street.
They acted as though that was normal, and I just
have to strongly disagree. Throughout this country's history, our men
have been masculine up until about the last twenty thirty

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years when the notion of feminism rose up. And I
have no problem at all with women being successful, with
women working, with women being in every part of our lives.
But I think that trying to make men and women
equal just goes against everything that's in our DNA. We're

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different from each other for a reason. Historically, women have
been nurturers and men have been providers. And like I said,
I don't have any problem with a woman who wants
to be a provider or a man who wants to
be a nurturer.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
But you got to kind of be true to your roots.
Even as old.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
As I am and as weak as I've gotten, if
someone were to threaten my wife or my son, I
would step in between my wife or son and that
other person. If my house ever catches fire, I'm going
to be the last person out of there.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
That's just how I was raised.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
And on the bright side, I do see the pendulum
of former traditional masculinity swinging back in a positive direction
for starters. Recruitment into the US military is at an
all time high right now, and that actually surprised me
and comforted me both when I heard about that. We

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are a strong nation, and we are a powerful nation.
And what we need is if people are going to
immigrate here and come into our country, they need to
know that, and they need to assimilate into being just
as proud and just as strong for the United States
of America. I think we're pretty good at the military thing.

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What we've got to do now is clean the dust
and dirt out of our own politics and eliminate all
this fraud that's going on around the country. It's amazing
that every time we turn around there's just another state,
another city where fraud is not just around the corner
and hidden up in an alley somewhere, it's everywhere. Tens

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of millions of billions of dollars that our taxpayers have
paid for people to live lavish lifestyles and not even
do any of the things they say they're doing with
the money they're receiving. And on the way out for
this Friday afternoon, this may be a first for fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
A potato story.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Archaeologists in Peru found five hundred year old freeze dried
potatoes that were in excellent condition, to which I would
reply to the archaeologists, Okay, if you're sure they're in
excellent condition, why don't you go ahead and eat one first.
That's going to wrap it up for this day and
this week.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Thank you all for listening.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
I'll see you next week on fifty plus. Right here
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