1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,500 Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Nate and with me is Mike. 2 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:14,440 It is a tale as old as time. 3 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,080 We are smoking, and that's a hint because this is going to be kind of, even if it's 4 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:24,040 not a two-parter topic-wise, it will be a two-parter cigar-wise, we are smoking the 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,840 Gurkha Beauty. 6 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:27,100 And it's a hefty one. 7 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:33,600 It's a Gurkha legend, and it looks like a lighter wrapper Connecticut maybe, and it's 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,440 a Gurthie lengthy bastard. 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,400 Alright, so Mike's had some technical difficulty. 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,160 It could be us, but I'm just going to blame Mike for it because I don't want to blame 11 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:46,440 myself and therefore I should go into politics. 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:52,320 Well, I have a very old MacBook and we're going to blame Steve Jobs because he's dead. 13 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,640 Let's blame him. 14 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:58,840 Also, we've been continually smoking throughout, so we're, I don't know, maybe a third of the 15 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,640 way through the cigar, so just heads up that if we finish before you finish... 16 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,760 There we go. 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,080 That's assuming you're smoking the same cigar we're smoking. 18 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,480 But to bring us back to where we were is, I'm assuming that like other episodes and 19 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,520 other topics that we talk about, it's not going to end up being a America is all bad 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,080 or America is all good, it will be some shade of gray. 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:23,960 But I'm excited to hear Mike's four pages of single-spaced notes. 22 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:25,640 Perfect. 23 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:31,640 So people talk about America and whenever I criticize America to people, they like to 24 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,960 bring up, well, would you rather live in communist China or something? 25 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,040 Like that's the only option. 26 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,600 Like that's the only option. 27 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,360 So we're going to lay some groundwork. 28 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:49,760 There's 36 countries that meet the IMF, World Bank, Human Development Index, and also make 29 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,160 at least $22,000 a year of a First World Nation. 30 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:59,120 So the IMF, the World Bank, and that HDI, which is created by the United Nations, has 31 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,120 a set of criteria that makes you a developed country. 32 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:11,520 There's 66 of those, but only 36 make more than $22,000 a year per capita GDP. 33 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:17,280 So when we're comparing America, really we're only talking about 36 to 66 countries that 34 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,760 we're even considering in the ranks. 35 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:20,760 You know what I mean? 36 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,760 Out of the 224. 37 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:22,760 Yeah, because I mean there's that... 38 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Oh, go ahead. 39 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,760 Oh, I was just going to say because there's like... 40 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,640 Out of the 224 recognized countries, oh geez, we're talking over each other. 41 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:29,640 Go ahead, Nate. 42 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:30,640 I'll be done. 43 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:37,280 Now, I got to get some words in before Mike gets going because like we're talking about 44 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,640 you said 36 countries or 66 or whatever it is. 45 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:45,360 But there's countries out there, like that one country that has that tribe of people 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,080 that don't want to see any... 47 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,840 Like that reporter tried to land there and they shot him with a bow and arrow or something. 48 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,600 So nobody's landed there forever. 49 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:53,600 Right. 50 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:54,600 Yeah. 51 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,600 Like we're not talking about that country. 52 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,640 Like that's not where we're talking... 53 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:59,280 We're not comparing to that country. 54 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,280 Right. 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,280 There's... 56 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,880 I think there's 174 countries in the UN and there's 224 countries in the world total, 57 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:10,040 but only 36 meet all the criteria of a developed nation. 58 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,040 Yeah. 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,800 And to be comparable enough to the United States. 60 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,800 Right. 61 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,280 66 are in the zone. 62 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,520 36 are really what we're looking at. 63 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,160 So you talked about... 64 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,520 The sweet spot. 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,920 You were talking about the Human Development Index earlier. 66 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:35,160 And the HDI is created by the UN and it's a stat that gauges an economy, life expectancy, 67 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:42,040 education level per capita income, and it's an attempt to capture what the economic opportunity 68 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,600 of a country is or economic opportunity for an individual. 69 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Sure. 70 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,680 Is that your understanding, I guess? 71 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,680 Yeah. 72 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:55,200 It's not necessarily a true happiness index, but it takes in enough other things to where 73 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,880 you can kind of get a quality of life index. 74 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,480 And that wouldn't necessarily equate to happiness, right? 75 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,880 Because there's certain things that are causation or correlation, and this would probably be 76 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:11,040 more in the correlation camp and less in the causation camp because there's a lot of things 77 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,080 that contribute to happiness. 78 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,080 Right. 79 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:22,280 So the UN ranks the United States 20 and 21 on the HDI, whether it was last year or the 80 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,280 year before. 81 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:24,280 It switches. 82 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,000 That sounds an awful lot like not number one. 83 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,120 That sounds an awful lot like not number one. 84 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,520 Are we sure the UN isn't communist? 85 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:34,520 Right. 86 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:40,120 The UN, for those who don't know, is basically funded by the United States. 87 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:45,360 So anything that it produces is going to favor the United States as much as possible. 88 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,160 Well, we've got to up our contribution then if they're giving us 20 or 21. 89 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,160 I mean, come on. 90 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,160 We've got to bribe them for something, right? 91 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,760 So how are we going to get all those immigrants to take our jobs? 92 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,760 Rank in 2021. 93 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,000 What is it with that bullshit? 94 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,040 This is going to make it even more interesting. 95 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,320 There's something called the Inequality Human Development Index, which is also used by the 96 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,360 United States or the United States, the United Nations. 97 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:20,660 And that modifies the HDI with the level of inequality in a society and basically the 98 00:05:20,660 --> 00:05:26,360 attempt to create a realistic, a more realistic view for the average person. 99 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,960 And on that index, the United States is ranked 25th. 100 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:30,960 Okay. 101 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:31,960 Yes. 102 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:32,960 And we'll talk about... 103 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:33,960 Which is still probably better than our... 104 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,360 I feel like that's still better than our math scores on standardized testing. 105 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:43,160 We have that on this list too, Nate. 106 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:44,160 Okay. 107 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:45,160 I'm jumping the gun. 108 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,160 I'm getting ahead of things here. 109 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,160 Oh yeah. 110 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,760 Oh yeah. 111 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:56,400 So a lot of this data comes from the United Nations and for the Organization for Economic 112 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,000 Cooperation and Development. 113 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,000 And that group was created in 1948 to run the Marshall Plan in Europe. 114 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,660 And then at the conclusion of the Marshall Plan, it got co-opted into the Cold War to 115 00:06:09,660 --> 00:06:13,480 promote democracy and capitalism around the world. 116 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:21,400 And that organization creates a lot of stats that the United Nations and other stuff uses. 117 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:27,720 So a lot of this stuff is coming from this Cold War era, US backed NGO. 118 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,720 Okay. 119 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,320 Just so we all know. 120 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:36,640 And before we get too much further in, I feel like I'm just approaching the halfway mark 121 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,240 and I had a couple of sour puffs here on my stick. 122 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,560 It's been good so far, but I had a couple of sour puffs, so I'm kind of, it sounds like 123 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,280 power puffs, but they're sour puffs. 124 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:49,120 And so I'm just going to let it sit for a little bit. 125 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,200 I don't know if you've had the same thing, Mike, or if that's just, I got excited when 126 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:57,800 you were saying we're 25th and I got like, I was puffing angry. 127 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,160 If I remember correctly, this one's really susceptible to getting sour if you smoke it 128 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,160 too fast. 129 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,000 So I'm really only like three quarters of the way through because I've been trying to 130 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,040 take it slower during our technical difficulties. 131 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,440 I'll try to take it slower too. 132 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,440 Yeah. 133 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:12,440 Anyway, carry on. 134 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,920 Mine's good, but I'm taking it a little slow. 135 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:22,240 These are all, well, a lot of these stats come from this Cold War organization that 136 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,200 wants to boost the Western world. 137 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:29,920 So they're trying to like make the US look good because it's paid for by the United States 138 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:30,920 tax dollar. 139 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:35,200 So these are best case scenarios, I guess is what I'm trying to say. 140 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:36,360 And some of them are pretty good. 141 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:37,400 Some of it's good. 142 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,080 It's not all gloom and doom here. 143 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,720 So there we go. 144 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:47,100 You and I, we have a fairly good life and I would like to live more of it, right? 145 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:53,040 So the World Health Organization has ranked the United States health expectancy, which 146 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,000 for us is 77.28 years. 147 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,240 And they have this index and it's based off of 195 countries, which is all of the UN countries. 148 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,880 So I misspoke earlier, it's 195. 149 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,680 What rank is the United States out of 195? 150 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,120 Well, I know it's not number one because, well, I don't want to say because why, but 151 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,320 I feel like there's other cultures that live an awful lot longer than we do. 152 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,640 The United States is ranked 51. 153 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,800 So we are out of the 36. 154 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:30,160 We're still in the 66, but we're out of the 36, which is where we really want to be. 155 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,120 Even being the ranking to be one of the best, we have to be in the top 36. 156 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,120 So there we go. 157 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,120 Yeah, for sure. 158 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:44,080 On to education, which we can, you want to talk about the healthcare system or the education 159 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:45,360 system first? 160 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,160 Well, you know, we just talked about life expectancy. 161 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,040 So let's kind of go that way, I guess. 162 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,880 And we'll stick there and then we can switch over to education. 163 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:56,880 Sure. 164 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,680 So for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Prosperity, the blah, blah, blah, the 165 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:06,320 United States is ranked 36 out of 36. 166 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,920 We have the lowest life expectancy and we have the highest per person medical costs 167 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,240 of $10,000 per year on average. 168 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:20,880 The next lowest country, which is number 35 out of 36 has a life expectancy of 81 and 169 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,720 $6,800 out of pocket by comparison. 170 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:24,720 Okay. 171 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,280 So it's a good 40% drop of medical care. 172 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,280 Yes. 173 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,280 Yeah. 174 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,200 So 10, 10 extra years, nine, 10 extra years or whatever. 175 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,480 Three extra years and like 40% more money. 176 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,920 Yeah. 177 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:46,000 The WHO has ranked our medical system. 178 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 The WHO. 179 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,760 Who is that? 180 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:55,240 They've ranked our overall medical system as 37th in the world overall. 181 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,240 Okay. 182 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:03,480 And if you take the health of citizenry as a priority, we're 72nd because our citizens 183 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,960 are not healthy. 184 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:05,960 Yeah. 185 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,840 And so that's out of the 195? 186 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,440 That's out of the 195. 187 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:17,200 We're 37th overall for medical and 72nd in health of the average citizen. 188 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,200 Okay. 189 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,200 Yes. 190 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,720 The U.S. Hey, we got a top 10 here. 191 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:27,760 The USA has the fifth highest reported cancer rate in the United Nations. 192 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:28,760 You know what? 193 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:30,800 It's a win and I'm going to take it. 194 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,800 Right. 195 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,920 Now granted, I looked at all these stats. 196 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:35,920 Yeah. 197 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,480 These first world countries are all higher than us for the cancer rate as well. 198 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,880 I think Bangladesh was in the group, but it's like Netherlands and a lot of the cancer rates 199 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,360 in the Western world are high because we have reporting. 200 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,920 So again, it's based off that main 36 because that's where our main group of data is from. 201 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:55,920 You know? 202 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:56,920 Yeah. 203 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,240 And I think that's a good point, Mike, about the cancer rates and reporting and we don't 204 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:02,960 have the greatest healthcare. 205 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,640 I think anyone that's an American knows that. 206 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,000 I think anybody that's not an American knows that we don't have the best healthcare, but 207 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,980 we do a lot of reporting and we have a lot of mandated reporting on stats and things 208 00:11:14,980 --> 00:11:17,400 and a lot of these other countries just, they don't. 209 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:22,520 You know, if they're industrialized and westernized or whatever, or you know, first world country 210 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,600 type of thing, they probably have reporting, but it might not be as stringent as ours. 211 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,600 Not that it does us any good really in the long run, but it's kind of one of those things 212 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:35,880 when you're looking at 195 countries or 66 countries or even 33 countries, not everybody 213 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,280 collects the same stats. 214 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,400 So sometimes it's a guess. 215 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:40,400 Right. 216 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:41,400 It's all relative. 217 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,560 But like I say, they're going to try to make the United States look as good as possible 218 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:46,560 when they can. 219 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:56,120 So the United States has the 46th highest maternal mortality rate in the world. 220 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:01,720 Out of the top 36 nations, we have the highest childhood deaths. 221 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,200 So we're 36 out of 36. 222 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,200 Yeah. 223 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,720 And I guess let's clarify that just real quick. 224 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,960 What does childhood death mean? 225 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,640 All cause mortality. 226 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:21,360 So that includes gunshots, that includes car accidents, that includes childhood cancer 227 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:22,360 rates. 228 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,280 That was everything I was trying to get at was does it count abortion? 229 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:31,960 Because no, I just want to make it clear for any religious listeners that when it says 230 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:39,000 childhood mortality, that means post egress from the yes, from the well, I mean, I don't 231 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,520 want to dive too deep into it, but we have like no, no, 100% more childhood deaths from 232 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,440 car accidents and like the numbers are crazy. 233 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:52,160 Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of crazy and SIDS kind of comes up and down and a lot of other 234 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:56,200 countries don't have that same kind of issue with it, I believe. 235 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,660 So this is some of this is all right. 236 00:12:58,660 --> 00:13:04,920 So these are the five year survival rates after certain diseases where we have 13th 237 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:11,560 best for colon cancer, for 16th best for rectal cancer, for fifth best for lung cancer, we're 238 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:16,640 ninth best for stomach cancer, for 14th best for childhood cancer. 239 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:17,640 This is the high one. 240 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,880 We're second best for breast cancer. 241 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:26,380 31st best for cervical cancer, seventh best for heart attacks and sixth best for hemorrhagic 242 00:13:26,380 --> 00:13:31,320 strokes and fourth best for ischemic strokes, which I've never heard of. 243 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:32,760 I know some of those words. 244 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,760 Yes. 245 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,160 So it's a real mixed bag for long-term survivability after major events. 246 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,800 If you have breast cancer or lung cancer, you're pretty decent. 247 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,320 But for everything else, we're kind of middling. 248 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:50,720 We're kind of a middling country in a lot of these stats. 249 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:51,720 Sounds about accurate. 250 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,720 Yeah, I mean, that's that's going to be the theme here, guys. 251 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,720 I hate to tell you this, but we're just kind of we're not the best. 252 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:59,720 We're not the worst, though. 253 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,720 I never let anybody tell you that we're the worst. 254 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,200 I think that's kind of the thing is, you know, would you say, well, I hate it here, like, 255 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,120 I wish America would be this or that. 256 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:14,260 A lot of the people that are on the rah rah pro America side are so that side that they 257 00:14:14,260 --> 00:14:18,040 will not even take any form of criticism whatsoever. 258 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,000 And they go right to the like you said, well, would you rather live in communist China? 259 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 That's not what I said. 260 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,600 That's not what I meant. 261 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,280 There are things that need to be fixed and should be fixed here. 262 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:32,600 I'm not saying I'm packing up my bags and moving to Russia or China or that island in 263 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,800 the Pacific or wherever that's got the tribe that will shoot me with arrows. 264 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,800 Like, that's not what we're saying. 265 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:38,800 Right. 266 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:44,880 And I think anybody that's a little more logical and rational will will say like, look, there's 267 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:46,400 some good things about America. 268 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,600 There's some bad things about America on the whole, like without doing a huge kind of life 269 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,920 change or big international move. 270 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,160 Like, what are you going to do? 271 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,600 Are you not really going to go anywhere? 272 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,000 I mean, some people, but the more you look at the stats, there's no one country that 273 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,440 comes out as like a clear number one. 274 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,920 There's averages that are significantly better than the United States. 275 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,880 And there's probably a dozen countries that are overall better in a lot of ways. 276 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,960 But even they have issues. 277 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:16,960 You know what I mean? 278 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,400 Like they have problems, too. 279 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:19,600 They're not perfect. 280 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:25,040 So I there's a growing community of people that think that the United States seems to 281 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,840 be like unforgivably evil and bad. 282 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,840 And that's just as foolish as the people who think that we're the greatest country on 283 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,840 Earth. 284 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:32,840 Yeah. 285 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:33,840 Yeah. 286 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,080 We're not the worst country on Earth. 287 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:36,080 We're definitely not the best. 288 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,040 But I mean, all these numbers you're going to find, it's it's middling at best. 289 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,520 We are number one in certain areas. 290 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:44,960 Did you also look at like the carbon footprint? 291 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:45,960 Yes, I did. 292 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,280 OK, I figured you would have. 293 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,240 So carry on because we got a lot of stats to get through. 294 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:53,920 Yes, we do. 295 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,640 So we're going to go on to education. 296 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:02,080 We are ranked 16th best education system in the world. 297 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:08,400 I don't know how they got that because internationally we're ranked 40th in math, 25th in science 298 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,640 and 24th in reading. 299 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,280 So I don't know how you add those three together and get 16. 300 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,760 But apparently you do. 301 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,780 Maybe the statistician went to school in America. 302 00:16:22,780 --> 00:16:26,760 We have the second most expensive post-secondary system. 303 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:27,760 England is more expensive. 304 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,760 I was just going to ask who was first. 305 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,360 Yeah, it's England. 306 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,040 Costs have doubled since 91 at private schools and two and a half, two and a half times a 307 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,040 public. 308 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,240 So, yeah, it's gone up. 309 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:43,120 And then apparently, and this stat got started to get recorded in 1980. 310 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:48,540 This is the lowest ever that a college degree has made in the history of the country. 311 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:52,420 So that college degree that's costing twice as much is not worth the least amount it's 312 00:16:52,420 --> 00:16:53,420 ever been. 313 00:16:53,420 --> 00:16:54,960 Yeah, I can see that. 314 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,280 And I think it's only going to go down, to be honest. 315 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:58,600 Oh, it will. 316 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,600 It will value. 317 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,800 I mean, the value of the degree is only going to go down. 318 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,060 I agree. 319 00:17:05,060 --> 00:17:09,640 A lot of the degrees that are valuable in our country right now are like two year degrees 320 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,640 and people going to two year school is not very high. 321 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,440 So we'll see. 322 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,720 But there's a coming change, I'm sure. 323 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:23,400 So let's move on to our government because that's people love the United States government. 324 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,800 They love to hate it and they love to love it. 325 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,000 And I have a couple of interesting stats. 326 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,640 Oh, they love to talk about it. 327 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,400 So people love our democracy. 328 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,720 They think that we're so democratic. 329 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:42,640 The Economist magazine has rankings for these things and they generate a metric out of 60 330 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:50,480 indicators and the United States is ranked 30th freest country out of 167 that they ranked. 331 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,560 Now I don't know about that. 332 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:57,940 That doesn't sound like number one to me. 333 00:17:57,940 --> 00:18:04,160 The United States government was ranked 23rd least corrupt by Transparency International, 334 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,800 which is an NGO that works with people. 335 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:13,200 We were ranked the 45th most free press by Reporters Without Borders, which also works 336 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:14,200 with the UN. 337 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,160 I said, OK, OK. 338 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,440 And we were ranked 21st least corrupt in the justice system by World Justice Project, which 339 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:25,840 also works with the UN. 340 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,200 Well, shoot, that's pretty good. 341 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:29,200 Right. 342 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:34,200 It's like I say, it's not great, but it's not the worst. 343 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,760 Yeah, twenty twenty first is definitely not twenty fifth. 344 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:39,760 So yeah, exactly. 345 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,080 Well, you remember, we're competing against thirty six countries realistically. 346 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:45,080 Yeah. 347 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,440 So we're like middle to bottom of the top nations. 348 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,800 It's kind of it's kind of the yay, we're not we're not last. 349 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:59,640 Yeah, we're not the worst place to live in the developed world. 350 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:00,640 Which is great. 351 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,440 We got the most we got the most Super Bowl wins of any country, I tell you that. 352 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:05,440 We do. 353 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,760 We do. 354 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:14,120 We have a big topic because our economy is the Republicans like to say we have the strongest 355 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:18,560 economy in the world and they have this big message, right, that all economy, economy, 356 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:19,560 economy, economy. 357 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:24,280 And a lot of this, a lot of the economy statistics are manipulations. 358 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,280 Right. 359 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:26,280 Well, yeah. 360 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:31,760 So they like to talk about averages and they don't like to talk about medians when they 361 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:36,000 start talking about income and they like to talk about GDP. 362 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,000 They don't like to talk about GDP that's adjusted for purchasing power and they don't like to 363 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,760 talk about the median GDP. 364 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,080 So just for a quick refresher between average and median. 365 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:48,080 Yes. 366 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,040 So I have this written down because I knew we didn't want to talk about it. 367 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,040 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 368 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:58,040 So the average is taking all the people and taking all their data and dividing it by the 369 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:02,720 number of people where the median takes half of the people on the bottom side and half 370 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:08,840 the people on the top side and they find the middle of these 50 percentile groups. 371 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Boom. 372 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:16,420 So in the United States, according to the World Bank, the United States is the fourth 373 00:20:16,420 --> 00:20:19,640 most unequal country on the planet. 374 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:20,640 I can see that. 375 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,640 OK. 376 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:26,960 So 122,000 people out of 125 or four were number four most unequal. 377 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,360 We're more unequal than France before the French Revolution. 378 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:31,360 Yeah. 379 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:38,360 So two point two nine percent of our country has zero income and is not looking for work 380 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:42,600 and is not included in our unemployment statistics. 381 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:47,200 Yeah, because that's another cook the books kind of thing, the unemployment. 382 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,840 And I remember that back when like 2008 like that crash. 383 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:56,960 And you have to be actively seeking work to be considered unemployed. 384 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,600 And if you kind of give up, then you're not unemployed anymore. 385 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:01,600 Right. 386 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,920 And we're ranked 20th in the number or the percentage of the population that is just 387 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:10,920 not looking for work and is, I mean, either homeless or living off other people. 388 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:11,920 Yeah. 389 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:13,500 And that's a huge percentage of people. 390 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,320 So when you talk about averages, you're taking that two point nine percent and then you're 391 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:22,040 talking about Bill Gates and then you, you know, you're trying to make somehow make that 392 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,760 OK with the average, which is impossible. 393 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 Yeah. 394 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:31,200 Well, I mean, like what Bill Gates makes so much money that I heard one statistic at one 395 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,400 point that he makes so much money that if he were to drop a one hundred dollar bill, 396 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,960 it wouldn't be worth his time to stop to pick it up. 397 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,580 I've heard that one, too. 398 00:21:40,580 --> 00:21:46,680 So now that we've kind of laid a groundwork for our stats, I would like to talk about 399 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:47,680 our economy. 400 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:48,680 Right. 401 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,000 So the average incomes of percentile. 402 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Right. 403 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,040 The point one percent average income in the United States is three point two million. 404 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,560 The top one percent is eighty eight hundred and twenty three thousand. 405 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,520 Five percent is three hundred and forty two thousand. 406 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,840 The top ten percent is one hundred and seventy three thousand for an individual. 407 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:09,840 OK. 408 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:15,000 So if you're making like one hundred and seventy K a year, you're in the top 10 percent 409 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 of earners in the country. 410 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,320 You're on the you're on the edge of the top 10 percent because you have to be one hundred 411 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:20,320 and seventy three. 412 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:21,320 Yeah. 413 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,960 Well, yeah, I just I just meant like generally speaking. 414 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:24,960 Right. 415 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:31,440 So with that in mind, our per capita GDP is seventy four thousand dollars. 416 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:32,440 OK. 417 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,080 Our median for individual, right, for per individual. 418 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,240 So our per capita, that's our average GDP. 419 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:40,520 Seventy four thousand. 420 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,520 Right. 421 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:48,200 The average income is fifty four thousand and the median GDP is thirty three seven. 422 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,320 See what I'm saying? 423 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,640 That's a little swing. 424 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:52,940 That's a huge swing. 425 00:22:52,940 --> 00:22:58,680 So if our GDP was split up evenly amongst all people, we'd all be making seventy four 426 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,440 thousand dollars a year. 427 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,440 Right. 428 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:07,140 If you take all of the money and you divide it up equally, you know, you take all the 429 00:23:07,140 --> 00:23:10,400 money that we make, you take all the people and you divide it the same. 430 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:15,160 It's only fifty four thousand, which means that twenty two thousand or twenty thousand 431 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,480 dollars per person is actually going to a corporate entity. 432 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,280 It's not going to an individual at all. 433 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:21,280 Right. 434 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,240 So two out of every seven dollars is going to a corporation. 435 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,240 You know, just disappear. 436 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,240 But we're not a corporate accuracy or anything. 437 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,240 Right. 438 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,240 Yeah. 439 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,120 Two out of every seven dollars made in the United States goes to a corporation. 440 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:43,440 And so then, like I say, the I love that for us. 441 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,440 The median income is thirty three seven. 442 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:52,960 So even that average is a manipulation because of all the rich people who are taking the 443 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,760 other two dollars out of the pile. 444 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,400 Yeah. 445 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,360 So their average is inflated to make it look good. 446 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:06,120 And I also wrote a note that when you look up the average income or the median income 447 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:10,080 in the United States, it pops up sixty seven thousand all the sites. 448 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,640 But if you dig into that, that's for a family. 449 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,640 That's for a household. 450 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:14,640 That's not for an individual. 451 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:15,640 So it's a manipulation. 452 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,640 That's family earnings. 453 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:22,120 So that that's really like sixty seven thousand for a family. 454 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,800 That's really thirty three thousand seven hundred and sixty is what it is. 455 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:26,800 Yeah. 456 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,720 That's the median income for a person in the United States. 457 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:30,720 Yeah. 458 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:35,120 So, you know what, Mike? 459 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:36,120 You know what, Mike? 460 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:37,120 Freedom isn't free. 461 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:38,720 It costs a buck oh five. 462 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:39,720 OK, right. 463 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:40,720 Oh, I know. 464 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:41,720 And I want to. 465 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:42,880 So this is another one. 466 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,680 I loved this wage increases from nineteen. 467 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,160 What's what's that? 468 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,160 What's that? 469 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,600 What's a what's a wage increase, Mike? 470 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,600 Wage increases. 471 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,640 Yeah, I know. 472 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,360 So I have three groups. 473 00:24:55,360 --> 00:25:01,040 The top one per top point one percent saw three hundred and eighty nine percent increase 474 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,360 from nineteen seventy nine to twenty twenty. 475 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:04,360 OK. 476 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:05,360 The top one. 477 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:10,360 And then and then between twenty twenty and today it was another seven hundred and eighty 478 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,560 five percent because of the pandemic and they just raped everybody. 479 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,560 Possibly. 480 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:15,720 But anyway, sorry, sorry. 481 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,120 We're only going to twenty twenty with our stats today. 482 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,560 I actually have one coming up to twenty twenty three. 483 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:21,560 Oh, OK. 484 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,560 Well, you keep going. 485 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,560 I didn't want to derail the top. 486 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,560 Yep. 487 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:30,040 I would derail away the top one percent of earners made one hundred and seventy nine 488 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,040 percent more. 489 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,040 Yeah. 490 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,280 Can you tell me what the bottom 90 percent wage increase from nineteen seventy nine 491 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,960 to twenty twenty was? 492 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:43,320 I'm going to go right out of our my corporate handbook and I'm going to say maybe three 493 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,320 percent. 494 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,320 And I think that's being a little generous. 495 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,320 Oh, twenty eight percent. 496 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,600 So the increase in wages is from nineteen from nineteen eighty. 497 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,600 So it'd be like, yeah. 498 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,600 Yeah. 499 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,600 OK. 500 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:56,600 Yeah. 501 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:57,600 Yeah. 502 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,600 Yeah. 503 00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,600 It's like a tenth of what the top point one percent is. 504 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,080 What do you think the inflation rate is during that same period? 505 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,960 I've never heard it go down. 506 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,080 And I know we've and I know recently we've had like eleven, twelve, maybe even fifteen 507 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,680 percent inflation for a couple of months here. 508 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:17,600 So I feel like the inflation rate probably is a little less than what the top point one 509 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,000 percent saw in wage increase. 510 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000 You're right. 511 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,680 It was two hundred and fifty six percent. 512 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,600 So every American from nineteen eighty until twenty twenty lost money other than the top 513 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,480 one percent lost, lost over two hundred percent of their income. 514 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,480 Yes. 515 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:34,960 In real earned wages to inflation. 516 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:35,960 Yeah. 517 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:36,960 I mean, to inflation. 518 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:37,960 Yep. 519 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,240 Because you can't get a twenty six percent increase over that time span and have a two 520 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,280 hundred and fifty percent inflation increase and still be OK. 521 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,280 Right. 522 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,280 Yep. 523 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,600 From twenty twenty to twenty twenty three. 524 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,960 What do you think the inflation has been? 525 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:59,480 Well, it's been I would say average per year or just collectively from from twenty twenty 526 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:00,480 to twenty twenty three. 527 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,160 So you have to take the inflation rate for all three years. 528 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,160 OK. 529 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,920 I'd say maybe like fifty, fifty percent, sixty percent. 530 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:08,920 Yeah. 531 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:09,920 Sixty percent. 532 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:10,920 Just shy of sixty percent increase. 533 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:11,920 Yeah. 534 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:19,560 So realistically, it's even worse for normal people because my wages haven't gone up that 535 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,560 much. 536 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:21,560 Right. 537 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,280 No, I get even if I go gangbusters at work, I get a three percent increase. 538 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,280 Right. 539 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:32,400 You know, and it's like, but we've had eleven percent, fifteen percent and, you know, cumulatively 540 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,720 over three years, it's been sixty percent inflation and I've got maybe a three percent, 541 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:37,720 three percent, three percent. 542 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,760 Like, no, you're not you're not OK. 543 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,240 You know, like it's not I don't think it's sustainable. 544 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,080 And I know that's not we're talking about because we're talking about general happiness. 545 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,440 But and there's all those people out there that say, well, money can't buy happiness. 546 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,440 But you know what? 547 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,760 No money doesn't buy happiness either. 548 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,320 So well, you know, there's these like weird stat people that say once you make seventy 549 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,920 five USD, seventy five thousand USD a year, your happiness is pretty much peaked out. 550 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:03,960 But we're half of that. 551 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,560 We're not even half of that for the median. 552 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,400 So we're only fifty percent of maximum happiness level. 553 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:14,920 If we had equal sharing, then we would all make that. 554 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,800 Our economy can't even generate that amount of wealth for everybody to make that. 555 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:19,880 Yeah. 556 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,800 And it's kind of crazy. 557 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,200 And we so our GDP, I feel like it could. 558 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,200 I feel like it could. 559 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,840 But that's a different, completely separate topic. 560 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:29,840 Sure. 561 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,240 We do have the highest GDP. 562 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:37,200 But when you adjust it for exchange rates, we have the second highest. 563 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,440 China beats us out when adjusted for exchange because the exchange is based off of the US. 564 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,400 So everybody's number goes up or down based on ours. 565 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,260 Yeah, as it should. 566 00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:51,160 So this is the one that blew my mind. 567 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,160 OK. 568 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:57,520 When adjusted for purchasing power, our per capita GDP, which we've already shown our 569 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,480 per capita GDP is twice our median GDP. 570 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,760 So this is already a manipulation. 571 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,320 We're ranked number 12 in the world per capita GDP. 572 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,320 Right. 573 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:15,440 And even scarier, our per capita GDP at number 12 is 57 percent of the fifth highest per 574 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,760 capita GDP and half the top. 575 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:19,760 OK. 576 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,120 That was a lot of words in there. 577 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,560 So our GDP is 70. 578 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:27,560 Let's see here. 579 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:28,560 What the heck is it? 580 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,720 Seventy four thousand right somewhere in there. 581 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:31,720 Yeah. 582 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:32,720 Yeah. 583 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:33,720 Yeah. 584 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:34,720 That sounds we're ranked number 12 in the world. 585 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:35,720 OK. 586 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:36,720 Per capita GDP. 587 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:37,720 OK. 588 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:38,720 Yes. 589 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:43,600 But we but we we had just then said we're like 30 percent median. 590 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,600 Right. 591 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:45,600 Yeah. 592 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,240 The median GDP is half of that. 593 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,280 It's like 30 some thousand dollars. 594 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,280 Yeah. 595 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,360 It's less than half, I suppose, when you get to nitty gritty. 596 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:59,120 But even with that inflated GDP number, we're still only number 12 in the world. 597 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,120 Yeah. 598 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,640 And we're half of the number one country in the world per capita GDP. 599 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:04,640 Oh, got it. 600 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:05,640 OK. 601 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,400 So the per capita GDP of number one is like one hundred and forty or one hundred fifty. 602 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,400 Yeah. 603 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,440 It's like one hundred and forty three or something like that. 604 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,080 And then the fifth ranked spot is like one hundred and thirty some. 605 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,080 Right. 606 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,560 So we're fifty seven percent of the number five spot. 607 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,160 So there's a huge gap between number five and number 12. 608 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,160 Yeah. 609 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,160 Yeah. 610 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,520 And then you're talking about purchasing power. 611 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:26,520 Yeah. 612 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,280 That's one adjusted for that one is that one's adjusted for purchasing power. 613 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,280 So that's not Roger. 614 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:33,280 OK. 615 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,280 OK. 616 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,760 That's adjusted for exchange rates for currency. 617 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,760 OK. 618 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,760 I got it now. 619 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,120 Which is the real this must have been some real. 620 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,120 Yeah. 621 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:49,240 I mean, this must have been some real nice light late night reading for you, compiling 622 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,760 all these stats and making sense of them. 623 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,760 Yeah. 624 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,880 Oh, no, I feel like I'm back in a feel like I'm back in econ or something like what the 625 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,280 fuck are you talking about up there? 626 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,760 I enjoyed economics in college. 627 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:01,760 Oh, yeah. 628 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,760 I was a nasty fuck. 629 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,880 So yeah, yeah. 630 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,200 Oh, it's interesting. 631 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:12,040 It takes a little bit because a lot of the terms and the stuff and like the stats, I 632 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,460 can get very confusing. 633 00:31:13,460 --> 00:31:14,460 So I'm not intentionally. 634 00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:15,960 It's easy to get lost. 635 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,960 Yeah. 636 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,600 I'm not intentionally trying to be obtuse, but I'm just trying to clarify. 637 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:20,840 So I understand. 638 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,440 And then hopefully our listeners could understand as well, because if my head's swimming, you 639 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:26,880 know, other people's must be as well. 640 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:27,880 Yes. 641 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,560 Well, the GDP talk, the important thing to take away, we're not the richest country in 642 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,560 the world. 643 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:33,560 We're the 12th. 644 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,560 Yeah. 645 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,960 The world's richest country in the world. 646 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,360 And the numbers that they're reporting are gross manipulation. 647 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,760 Yes. 648 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:48,520 And the numbers that are being reported is a gross manipulation. 649 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:54,200 So and again, that's why we're ranked fourth most unequal country in the world by the World 650 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,200 Bank. 651 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,200 Yeah. 652 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,200 So there we go. 653 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,200 Yep. 654 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:03,800 And I couldn't believe that almost three percent of the U.S. population is basically unemployed 655 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,800 forever. 656 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,440 Yeah, that's kind of mind boggling to me. 657 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,440 I don't know. 658 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:14,520 Do they then subside on the social programs or what do you? 659 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,280 I think that there's a mixture of homelessness, right? 660 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,380 Some of those are homeless. 661 00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:21,520 Some of those people are in social programs and some of them are just leeches. 662 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:22,520 They're TERFs, man. 663 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:23,520 They're not TERFs. 664 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,520 They're not employed, not in education. 665 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,800 Yeah, like the NEETs. 666 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:29,800 The NEETs. 667 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:30,800 Yeah, the NEETs. 668 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,120 And we had a whole episode, season one about NEETs. 669 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,800 So if you need more data on that, go back to season one and check it out. 670 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:38,800 Yep. 671 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:39,800 So interesting. 672 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,800 Yeah. 673 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,200 Another little couple economic stats. 674 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:50,040 We have the 19th highest minimum wage, aka 18 countries have a higher minimum wage than 675 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,080 we do. 676 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:57,360 According to the World Economic Forum, we are second in global competitiveness and third 677 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:03,660 most globalized, which basically means that we have the fewest regulations and the least 678 00:33:03,660 --> 00:33:06,880 amount of worker protections, second and third in the world. 679 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,880 Yeah. 680 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,360 Well, if little Billy wants to work, little Billy's going to work. 681 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,360 Okay. 682 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,360 Right. 683 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,360 Right. 684 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,520 We have the eighth best cost of living in a country out of the major nations. 685 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:18,960 So we got that going for us. 686 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:19,960 Okay. 687 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:20,960 Yeah. 688 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:21,960 Yeah. 689 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,920 We don't have purchasing power or income, but you know, cost of living ain't too bad. 690 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,320 Let's see here. 691 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,280 I mean, some people live in Iowa. 692 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,440 Right. 693 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:38,880 We have the prosperity index and we're ranked 19th in the prosperity index, which is like 694 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:45,600 a investment firm metric that tries to balance wealth, growth, education, health, personal 695 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,400 well-being and quality of life. 696 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,400 So it's like a... 697 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,400 All right. 698 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,680 So we missed, we just barely missed the top third of that, I guess. 699 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:53,680 Yeah. 700 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:54,680 19 out of 36. 701 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,680 I mean, if that's what we're comparing against, it's fine. 702 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,440 And then we have two bad ones. 703 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,480 We have the 13th highest household debt out of any country. 704 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,880 And even worse, we have the 12th highest government debt as a percentage of the GDP. 705 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,280 And if you look above us... 706 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,560 We just keep raising the debt limit and it's okay. 707 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,680 Oh, if you look above us on that list, they've all gone bankrupt. 708 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:15,680 It's pretty sketchy. 709 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:16,680 Okay. 710 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,960 So like what happens when a country goes bankrupt then? 711 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:26,560 That means that they have austerity and they have to like cut all their government programs, 712 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,360 which for us would mean like anything other than the military. 713 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,960 I thought that's what we already did with our budgeting. 714 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,960 We kind of do, but we still have public lands and we still have stuff like that, which we 715 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,440 have that later too, because we're actually pretty good as far as public lands. 716 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,240 But yeah, I've heard really good things. 717 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:49,360 And we talked about this on one of our previous episodes about the kind of the national parks 718 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,120 and stuff, but we'll talk more about that when we get there. 719 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,800 So yeah, exactly. 720 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:59,520 So yeah, the GDP, the government debt is out of control. 721 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,640 It really is scary. 722 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:07,040 It's scary every time they come up with a new word to define a number above like trillion. 723 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:12,720 You can stop inventing words, just stop spending so goddamn much. 724 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:13,720 It's insane. 725 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:14,720 It's insane. 726 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,960 The military spending is a significant portion of the budget. 727 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,720 Some people would estimate 50%. 728 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,640 They hide a lot of military spending. 729 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,880 So it's hard to assess what it really is. 730 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:30,560 Yeah, I know back in, I think it was, I don't know, back in the end when I was in college 731 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:35,640 or shortly when I was out of college, I wrote, and nobody's going to believe this, I wrote 732 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,080 a blog post, okay? 733 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:43,320 And I broke down the government data from, you know, like the White House or the secretary 734 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,120 of the treasury or wherever the fuck it came from, right? 735 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:54,640 And I think I landed on about 46% that was traceable was military, maybe a little higher. 736 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,920 I can't quite remember, but that was, you know, early 2000s. 737 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,120 And you know, it was the height of the Iraq war stuff. 738 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,120 Yes. 739 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,120 But still, it seems like an awful lot. 740 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,440 Well, did that include all the $1,500 toilet seats? 741 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,440 You know, I don't know. 742 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,880 It was just what they reported as military. 743 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,320 So it was, it was whatever they wanted to portray. 744 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:20,520 So I didn't dig super into it in a sense, but I remember looking at it with kind of 745 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:27,240 a critical eye and not delving in to find like ghost funds or whatever, hidden funds. 746 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:32,200 I found that it was about 46, 50% ish, you know? 747 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:38,200 Which seems like an awful lot for somebody who hasn't been invaded since like 1812 or 748 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,200 something. 749 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,200 Right. 750 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,920 We can have guns or we could have butter and pretty clearly we're not going to have butter. 751 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,240 So yeah, butter's overrated. 752 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:47,240 So is tea. 753 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,680 Throw it in the harbor. 754 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,960 So we're going to get into happiness. 755 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,520 I think we've discussed the economy enough. 756 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:55,520 We're not the best economy. 757 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:56,520 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 758 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,960 I think the caveat is we're not statisticians and we're not economists or we're not happiness 759 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,520 experts, yada, yada, yada. 760 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:03,720 No, I'm not an expert. 761 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:07,320 I'm just looking at the publicly available statistics and trying to make an informed 762 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:12,440 decision based on my reading level, which is above average. 763 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:17,120 And I'm sure that most of the people listening probably have an above average reading level. 764 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,120 Not the only thing of yours above average. 765 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,480 I'm above average in the United States, which is like 25th in the world. 766 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:26,960 So yeah, so I mean, it's saying something, but not as much something as one would like 767 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:27,960 to be saying. 768 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:28,960 Yeah. 769 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,200 If I was an Australian, it would mean more. 770 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,760 Yeah. 771 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,200 So you were talking about the global happiness index. 772 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:38,200 Yeah. 773 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,200 So we're going to go into that. 774 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:46,480 Before we get into that, this kind of ties back into the government and the economy. 775 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:55,840 So the UN creates a global peace ranking and the United States is 121 of 162. 776 00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:02,040 So there's 120 countries that the United Nations considers to be more peaceful than the United 777 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,200 States. 778 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,760 So we just don't do the serenity now, I guess. 779 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:08,760 That's pretty shitty. 780 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:09,760 I'm just saying. 781 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,840 That's pretty bad. 782 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:18,200 Well yeah, and that's not good at all. 783 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,600 And it should be. 784 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:26,040 And I wonder, and I don't want to make the whole show about this at all, but it makes 785 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:32,600 me wonder if that is one of the things or one of the major drivers of all of the mass 786 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,600 shootings. 787 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,080 Well, we are not like people. 788 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,200 We have a very aggressive culture. 789 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,200 Yeah. 790 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,160 We're happy and we're not peaceful. 791 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,640 And I don't know. 792 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:47,080 The thing is a lot of these people have plenty of red flags, but we don't have, and that's 793 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:52,720 part of the part that goes back to the healthcare thing is we don't really have a societal good 794 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,920 outlook on getting mental help. 795 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,360 And people have red flags and they say, hey, that's not my business. 796 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,080 They should probably go get help, but I'm not going to do anything about it. 797 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,760 I'm not going to say anything about it. 798 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,880 Even if they get reported and nothing gets done about it, so they don't get the help 799 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,880 that they need. 800 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,280 The help that they need is too expensive because a lot of times it's not even covered by insurance 801 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,200 if you have insurance, which some people don't. 802 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,200 And it's a whole big thing. 803 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,840 And you know, but I don't want to go, I don't want to get into a huge. 804 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:21,840 Yeah. 805 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,200 We don't need to get into a diatribe about that. 806 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:24,200 We can do a show about that later. 807 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:25,200 But yeah, yeah. 808 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:30,680 But I think before we go into this next happiness step, as much as I like being happy, because 809 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:31,840 I do. 810 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:36,400 Do you want to do something crazy or do you not? 811 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,200 Well, so I was thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah. 812 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,800 I mean, I've got, you know, four inches left of my cigar. 813 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:44,800 Really? 814 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,640 You have, I don't know. 815 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,600 I have like two and a half. 816 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,560 Oh, OK, OK. 817 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,420 I just pulled up my tape measure because I'm very bad at estimating distances and numbers 818 00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:55,420 and things. 819 00:39:55,420 --> 00:39:57,080 Yeah, I got two and a half inches left. 820 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,080 I'm sorry. 821 00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,600 I thought I guess I was putting it in the wrong area. 822 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,120 It felt bigger than it is. 823 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:09,520 So do you do you have more than two and a half inches of subject matter? 824 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:10,880 No, I don't think so. 825 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:11,880 Oh, OK. 826 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,600 You think we're going to wrap it all up in this? 827 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:14,600 Yeah, I think so. 828 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:15,600 Yeah, I think we will. 829 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,600 OK. 830 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:17,600 Yeah, I don't have that. 831 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,040 I do a lot of stuff, but. 832 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,880 Well, so I was going to ask if you wanted to like instead of doing two episodes, do 833 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,880 you just want to like when we're done with this, light up the other one and keep going? 834 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:28,880 Oh, yeah. 835 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:29,880 I mean, we can do that. 836 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:30,880 Two sticks in one episode. 837 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,200 I mean, it's up to you. 838 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,200 What do you feel like? 839 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,200 Sure. 840 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,240 It depends on how much because I don't know if I'd really want to do a topic change if 841 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:39,240 we're going to do the two cigars in one episode. 842 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:43,840 But if we're if we're going to do another episode, then let's do a different topic. 843 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,280 This trying to see where you're at. 844 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,240 Yeah, no, I think I'll be able to wrap it up with this one cigar. 845 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:53,480 This last part will be a lot quicker because a lot of them really like heavy duty meaty 846 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,040 stuff we we got through pretty quick. 847 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,380 So back to the quality of life. 848 00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:04,240 So the WHO has a quality of life index and then US News has a quality of life. 849 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:06,800 Yeah, the who? 850 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:11,520 The joke never gets old for me, but yeah, I know the US News is going to have has a 851 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:12,520 better number. 852 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:17,600 We're ranked 20th, but the WHO ranked us at 28th. 853 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,680 OK, so best case scenario, we're in the middle of the pack worst case scenario. 854 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,960 We're at the low end of the 36 countries that we're trying to compete against. 855 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:33,120 Yeah, which is still better than the when you take all 195 countries like still. 856 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,560 It's fine, but it's not good when you're when you're looking at what should be our direct 857 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:38,560 competitors. 858 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,360 Yeah, we're in the middle of the pack. 859 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:46,720 The Economist ranks the United States the 16th best place to be born. 860 00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:49,960 So we're in the middle of the pack. 861 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,360 The economic cooperation and development. 862 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,240 It's the the little thing that we created back in the Cold War ranks the United States 863 00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:02,640 30th in time available to be devoted to leisure and personal care. 864 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:09,680 So 30th, we're 30th and time for leisure. 865 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:10,960 It's that damn hustle culture. 866 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,560 I tell you, it is the damn hustle culture. 867 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,560 Yeah. 868 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:19,040 So of the 36 countries, we're 30th in free time, basically, which is shit. 869 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:25,400 I mean, of course, people are unhappy if we're having a free time. 870 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:26,760 Retirement This is big. 871 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:32,120 We have the highest retirement age out of any of the industrialized world at 67. 872 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,440 Now this is modified because we can qualify for early retirement through Social Security 873 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:37,720 at 62. 874 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:39,640 And realistically, you can retire at any time. 875 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:44,880 But to get your full Medicare and Medicaid and blah, blah, blah, you have to have 67 876 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,960 retirement age. Australia, Denmark, Greece, Iceland and Israel all have retirement age 877 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,560 of 67. 878 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,240 So that's we're at the top. 879 00:42:54,240 --> 00:43:00,920 But unlike all the other countries that have a retirement age of 67, we also have the lowest 880 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,200 life expectancy of that group. 881 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,760 So we have the highest retirement age out of the top 36 countries and we have the lowest 882 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:08,980 life expectancy. 883 00:43:08,980 --> 00:43:13,680 So our retirement, total retirement age gap is the lowest. 884 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,000 OK, yeah. 885 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,000 See what I'm saying? 886 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,880 So if you combine our lowest life expectancy with highest for full retirement age, we get 887 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,760 the shortest amount of retirement because we die earlier than everybody else. 888 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:25,760 Yeah. 889 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,760 By a lot. 890 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:27,760 By a lot. 891 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:28,760 A lot. 892 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,880 So yeah. 893 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,560 We have an interesting step. 894 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,880 Now this I look deep into it. 895 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,160 This we're number one, by the way, in this next step. 896 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,360 We are number one. 897 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,080 So you can be proud of that, Nate. 898 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,680 I'm so proud already. 899 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:44,680 We are number one. 900 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,080 We have the most prisoners out of any country in the world. 901 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,280 The most. 902 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:55,680 We even beat communist China, who has three times more people than us. 903 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,600 And the reason why, if you look at the stats, we're actually ranked number two. 904 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:05,000 But if you look down, they separate they separated out all of our territories. 905 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,480 So if you add our territories into our prison population, we're number one. 906 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,960 So in order to manipulate that stats, so the United States was at the highest, they took 907 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:18,820 up Puerto Rico and Guam and American Samoa and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 908 00:44:18,820 --> 00:44:20,280 So we're actually number one. 909 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:21,560 We are we are the best. 910 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:25,280 We have the most human beings imprisoned out of anybody. 911 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,280 OK. 912 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:31,080 And even better, we're twice as much as number three. 913 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:38,640 So beat that Brazil at 800,000 people incarcerated. 914 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,240 So there there if you did, if you take it. 915 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:43,240 Yeah. 916 00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:45,840 If you take a per cap, we're fifth. 917 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:53,160 So El Salvador, Rwanda, Turkmenistan all have a higher percentage of their population in 918 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:54,160 prison. 919 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,560 OK, so not exactly nice places. 920 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,560 Any of those countries, I don't think. 921 00:44:58,560 --> 00:44:59,560 Yeah. 922 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:00,560 Oh, and Cuba. 923 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:01,560 Sorry. 924 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:02,560 Cuba is on that list, too. 925 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,080 We don't want to be in Cuba. 926 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:06,080 Yeah. 927 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,760 So we have a really high natural disaster risk. 928 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,760 We're one hundred and sixty eighth out of one hundred eighty five. 929 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,560 And that's really does it. 930 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,520 That just means that we have a huge territory. 931 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,280 So I have a couple of the countries. 932 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,400 Canada is one hundred and sixty first. 933 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,000 Australia is one hundred and sixty fourth. 934 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,720 And Russia is one hundred and sixty fifth, one hundred and seventy fifth. 935 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:25,820 I'm sorry. 936 00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:28,800 So a lot of that has to do with the size of the country. 937 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,000 Yeah. 938 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,720 But apparently we're very vulnerable to natural disaster. 939 00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:37,680 This goes to like our happiness for the Internet. 940 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:43,440 When we talked about this before, we have the 11th highest broadband speed, the 25th 941 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,040 highest mobile phone speed. 942 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,680 But and this is really good. 943 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:53,080 We have the third highest 4G LTE coverage out of any country that's ranked. 944 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:58,040 So we're not really that fast, but we do have really good cell phone coverage. 945 00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,040 Yeah. 946 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:00,040 So that's good. 947 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:05,160 And we have 97.1 percent cell phone coverage in the states, which is crazy because I go 948 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,600 into dead zones all the time. 949 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,960 So apparently I'm one of those areas. 950 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,400 Yeah, I don't get that. 951 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:17,800 For the environment, we do not meet the WHO limits on air pollution. 952 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,560 Not even close. 953 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:26,520 Our average for a city is 12 micrograms of pollutants and five is the guideline. 954 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:32,240 So we're it varies by city, but we have unacceptable levels of air pollution. 955 00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:33,240 No, no. 956 00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:37,160 Rural areas are good, but city areas, not so good. 957 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:41,240 And funnily enough, the Biden administration's goal is to bring it to nine, which is still 958 00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:42,720 almost double the guideline. 959 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:46,800 So yeah, yeah, there we go. 960 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,760 So carbon dioxide emissions, we talked about this. 961 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,040 We are the second most in the world directly behind China. 962 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:58,880 And that means that we're 13.7 percent of total emissions and we're the highest. 963 00:46:58,880 --> 00:46:59,880 We're not the highest per capita. 964 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,280 We're the third highest per capita. 965 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:03,920 OK. 966 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,080 So we're not the worst polluter per capita or in total, but we are the second in the 967 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,080 third. 968 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:15,360 Well, if we try hard enough, we can be number one. 969 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,360 Right. 970 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:21,240 Then I have three more quick stats for us and then we can discuss what you think. 971 00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:24,800 We have the second most agricultural land directly behind China. 972 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:25,800 And that's good. 973 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:26,800 That's good. 974 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:27,800 Yeah. 975 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,600 We have the most expensive and the most powerful military. 976 00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,880 And that's I don't know if that's good or bad. 977 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:33,880 Yeah. 978 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:34,880 Yeah. 979 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:40,640 And we have the 13th or we have 13 percent of our total landmass under federal protection, 980 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:47,160 which is only the 119th highest percentage by total amount of landmass. 981 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,160 But it is the largest amount. 982 00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,160 OK. 983 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,280 See what I'm saying? 984 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,280 So like a lot of these smaller countries have more than 13 percent of their total country 985 00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,960 under like in the parks program. 986 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:05,120 But because we're so big, we have the most actual amount of land that's under a federal 987 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,000 a federally protected program. 988 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,000 Yeah. 989 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,000 So and that's really cool. 990 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,000 I think that's awesome. 991 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,000 Yeah, me too. 992 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:17,440 I love being outside and kind of all that stuff, you know. 993 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,440 Right. 994 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,880 So I think for the air pollution, we're nowhere near the most polluted. 995 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:27,240 The worst countries have a hundred and eighty five micrograms per cubic meter. 996 00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:28,240 And we're at 12. 997 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:29,240 Yeah. 998 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:31,320 So we're not like crazy in the bad part. 999 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,520 We're just above what we're supposed to be. 1000 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:34,520 Yeah. 1001 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,040 Which is not good. 1002 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:43,360 But it's not like we're by no means bad as far as like air pollution by comparison to 1003 00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,280 you know, others. 1004 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,320 So yeah, pretty interesting. 1005 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,160 But I don't know if we did we talk about the Human Development Index? 1006 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,200 So we're ranked 20th on the human. 1007 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,200 Yeah, we did. 1008 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,200 We already did. 1009 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:57,200 Yeah. 1010 00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:58,200 Yeah. 1011 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,200 So overall, if you take the inequality part into it, you average it out. 1012 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,680 We're probably the 25th best country. 1013 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,280 You know, we're we're maybe depends on how you want to look at it. 1014 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:14,080 But we're we're not the worst place in the world, but we're not even top 10. 1015 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,080 Yeah. 1016 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:19,960 A lot of stats out there, I'm sorry, guys. 1017 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,320 It's a stat heavy episode. 1018 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,320 That's OK. 1019 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,840 Well, we we knew that was going to be the thing, because like I say, it's trying to 1020 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,680 trying to create an average out of all these random stats. 1021 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:37,040 And we're not top 10 and hardly anything unless it's bad. 1022 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,080 Yeah, it is true. 1023 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,360 Yeah. 1024 00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:42,360 So what do you think, Nate? 1025 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:43,360 What do you think? 1026 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:50,600 Well, I think America is number one and all these other commie countries need to get in 1027 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:51,600 line. 1028 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:52,600 Uh huh. 1029 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:58,560 No, I mean, I think, you know, like I think if people would sit and be honest with themselves 1030 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:04,520 and understand that you can be critical of the country and critical of the government 1031 00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:10,640 and critical of things without wanting to burn the flag in the street or move to communist 1032 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:16,960 China, if you're if you're, you know, honest with yourself, you know, we're not like we're 1033 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:17,960 not number one. 1034 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:22,080 And I don't think any country is number one in everything. 1035 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,040 You know, there's got to be a number one in every category. 1036 00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,560 But just because you're number one in one category doesn't mean you're number one in 1037 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,080 all the rest of the categories. 1038 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,200 So everything's kind of a trade off. 1039 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:37,720 You got to pick, you know, if it's in your lifestyle to move, you know, like, what are 1040 00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:42,200 you going to judge which of these categories, which of these stats that we've talked about 1041 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,160 is most important to you? 1042 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,160 Right. 1043 00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:50,520 You know, I think for me, the big ones were like the inflation, the buying power and the 1044 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,640 median GDP. 1045 00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:57,600 Like those are kind of the big ones for me because I've heard that 75k thing too. 1046 00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:58,600 Yeah. 1047 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,880 You know, like 75k will buy your happiness. 1048 00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,800 And that's per person, not per not per family, but per person. 1049 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:12,200 You know, when our median GDP is like half of that and inflation has been crazy rampant. 1050 00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:13,920 Like, yeah, don't get me wrong. 1051 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,760 There's other good things about living in America. 1052 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,120 Healthcare isn't one of them. 1053 00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:23,640 So you know, like there's room for improvement and you can look at it negatively. 1054 00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,960 You can look at it positively and say, hey, we've got a lot of work we can do and we make 1055 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,880 things a lot better here or we can move and not worry about here too. 1056 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,880 So right. 1057 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,560 I thought about taking a job in Australia several years ago. 1058 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,320 I think I told you that, didn't I? 1059 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,320 Yeah. 1060 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:38,320 Yeah. 1061 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:39,320 Yeah. 1062 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:40,320 I think we talked about that. 1063 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,200 So and I'm glad I did it because their COVID policies were fucking crazy. 1064 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,200 Yeah. 1065 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,200 I think I would have gotten mad. 1066 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:46,640 You know what I mean? 1067 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,880 With all the crazy rules and restrictions they had going on. 1068 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:50,880 Yeah. 1069 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:57,600 But yeah, I mean, I really seriously considered it at that time because Australia is ranked 1070 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,200 better than United States on average over for a lot of things. 1071 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,200 Yeah. 1072 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,240 I would say that their First Amendment or their freedom of speech is way less. 1073 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:09,040 And obviously they don't have the same gun rights that we have. 1074 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,920 So I do consider freedom of speech to be pretty important. 1075 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:14,800 Gun rights, not so much, but I like hunting. 1076 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:19,040 So yeah, it's one of those things. 1077 00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:20,840 But very interesting. 1078 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:21,840 Very interesting. 1079 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,600 So yeah, US is not the definitely not the worst place. 1080 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:31,800 Like I say, I didn't get offended when I started hearing these like Gen Z years talking about 1081 00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,360 how the US is the worst ever and blah, blah, blah. 1082 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,120 It's like, get over yourselves. 1083 00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,080 We're not even close to being the worst place on earth. 1084 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:39,080 We're just not the best. 1085 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,480 Like I realized that we've been taught that lie that we're the best. 1086 00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,720 And it's very clear that we're not the best. 1087 00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:46,560 But I'm not sure that there is a clear best. 1088 00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:47,560 You know what I mean? 1089 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:48,560 Yeah. 1090 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:53,000 Well, that's the whole thing is like, there's not one country that really kind of like stands 1091 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,600 out, right? 1092 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:55,880 As number one. 1093 00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,240 No, not really. 1094 00:52:57,240 --> 00:52:59,200 I mean, the Western European nations are good. 1095 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,680 Like I said, there's 36 of the top nations. 1096 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,640 So any one of those 36 is probably pretty good. 1097 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:11,920 You're talking about Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and 1098 00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,040 then South Korea, too, is actually in that group. 1099 00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,320 Now, South Korea is in that group. 1100 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:18,320 Okay. 1101 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:19,320 So yep, yep. 1102 00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:20,320 And it's yeah. 1103 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:25,000 And Western Europe, like I say, it's the 36 nations. 1104 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,560 But most of them are in Western Europe. 1105 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,320 And they're all little tiny things that are the size of a state. 1106 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:30,320 So yeah. 1107 00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:35,400 Yeah, we're talking like Luxembourg and the Maldives and like these little tiny. 1108 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:36,880 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1109 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:37,880 Yeah, yeah. 1110 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:38,880 And the Netherlands and Belgium. 1111 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,640 I mean, the Netherlands is like the size of a county. 1112 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:43,840 Yeah. 1113 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:47,640 So not to like talk bad about the Netherlands and they're a wonderful country. 1114 00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,960 But you're talking about landmass and all that. 1115 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:58,080 I mean, it takes like nine hours to drive across our state, let alone, you know, the 1116 00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,080 country. 1117 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:00,080 Yeah. 1118 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,080 Yeah. 1119 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:02,240 Mm hmm. 1120 00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:04,760 This actually this cigar is pretty good, I thought. 1121 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,360 I hate it. 1122 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:07,360 Really? 1123 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,360 You hated it. 1124 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:09,360 Well, I'm not a fan. 1125 00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:10,360 Why did you hate it? 1126 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:11,360 I'm not a fan. 1127 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:12,800 I'm not a fan. 1128 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:13,800 Several reasons. 1129 00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:20,640 One is, I mean, the first half was fine and it tasted fine. 1130 00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,520 Wasn't anything like overly special in my mind. 1131 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,720 And then the second half got really sour. 1132 00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:29,640 And I've been trying to not smoke as fast. 1133 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,040 And then it kind of goes out. 1134 00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:32,040 And then I relight it. 1135 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,000 And then it's just sour again. 1136 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,000 And I don't know. 1137 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,480 I don't know. 1138 00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,120 This is one I probably wouldn't I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to smoke again. 1139 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,400 So I took it slow the whole time. 1140 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,240 I have an inch and a half left or so. 1141 00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:47,080 I was slow, slow puffing it. 1142 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,840 And I'll agree with you that the flavor was not incredible. 1143 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,480 There's nothing impressive going on. 1144 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:53,480 Yeah. 1145 00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,380 But I haven't got sour out of it. 1146 00:54:55,380 --> 00:54:58,520 I think because I started off slower and I stayed. 1147 00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:02,240 Yeah, that could be like I understand that I'm probably like. 1148 00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:03,240 Yeah. 1149 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:06,560 The first time I smoked one of these, if I remember correctly, I thought they were shit 1150 00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:10,700 and I smoked it too fast and I thought the second half was crap. 1151 00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:16,720 So it's going to be at the user's discretion whether or not to purchase one of these. 1152 00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:17,720 Yeah. 1153 00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:19,800 And their experience. 1154 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,720 So how much do you have left? 1155 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:22,720 Let me measure, Mike. 1156 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:26,680 I'm and I think it's out now and I just I'm not going to relight it. 1157 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:27,680 Sure. 1158 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,200 It's just about an inch and three quarters. 1159 00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:31,200 Oh, OK. 1160 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:32,200 Yeah. 1161 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,840 I would say that I wouldn't call this anything particularly remarkable. 1162 00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,840 It's acceptable. 1163 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,000 I don't think it's better than a bin cigar, though. 1164 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,160 No, I don't think it's better than a Fuma. 1165 00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,060 Definitely not better than a Fuma. 1166 00:55:45,060 --> 00:55:46,060 Definitely not. 1167 00:55:46,060 --> 00:55:47,060 Not a Rocky Patel Fuma. 1168 00:55:47,060 --> 00:55:48,060 Those things are pretty pretty good. 1169 00:55:48,060 --> 00:55:49,640 Yeah, those are good. 1170 00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:50,640 Yeah. 1171 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:55,840 That's like definitely one of the memorable ones as far as like a really cheap, good cigar. 1172 00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:56,840 Yeah. 1173 00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:01,000 So is that going to be our our final thoughts on the the Gherka beauty? 1174 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,000 Go buy a Rocky Patel Fuma. 1175 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,440 Yeah, go buy it. 1176 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:06,440 Something else. 1177 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:11,480 If you're thinking about this, go buy something else. 1178 00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:12,480 There we go. 1179 00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:13,840 So I think I think so. 1180 00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:14,840 I think that's it. 1181 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:19,000 I think just like America, this cigar is not number one. 1182 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,440 It's not number last either, though. 1183 00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,200 So no, it wasn't offensive. 1184 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:28,760 You know, it's definitely definitely something where it's like if you learn how to smoke 1185 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,720 it the right way, it will probably treat you just fine. 1186 00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:32,720 Yes. 1187 00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:34,360 And if you're not careful, it will bite you. 1188 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:35,360 Yep. 1189 00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:36,360 And I done been bait. 1190 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:37,360 Be safe. 1191 00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:38,360 Have fun. 1192 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:54,320 Have a great week.