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I thought provoking plus really thought provoking peace about, why is everybody so unhappy

when we're so wealthy in the United States as a country?

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So stay tuned.

So this is highly unpleasant, but my god, it's revealing this 18 year old Loyola University

freshman, her name, Sheridan Gorman, was gunned down on a Chicago beach during a late

night walk with her friends.

They were looking for the Northern lights.

I mean, with her newfound college friends, it's just absolutely heartbreaking.

She was gunned down by an illegal immigrant.

And the commentary around it has been absolutely bizarre and obscene in some quarters.

I think, Michael, let's start with 81.

This is kind of the background of what happened, then we'll get into some more analysis.

Sheridan Gorman and a group of friends went out to appear to see the Northern lights early

last Thursday when police say the group was ambushed by 25 year old Jose Medina, a Venezuelan

national according to DHS, who allegedly shot and killed the college freshman is she tried

to run away.

Sheridan was elated in everyone's lives.

She never had anything negative save anyone.

She always had a positive shiner.

So yeah, it's alleged they, well, I won't get into what's alleged at this point.

Go ahead with 80 now, Michael.

This was preventable and should have never happened.

We just don't have serious leaders in Illinois.

Governor Pritzker needs to point the finger directly at himself.

Angel families in Illinois are speaking out.

After Democratic Governor JB Pritzker deflected blame for the killing of 18 year old Sheridan

Gorman, allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant, suggesting that president Trump

not his state sanctuary policies are responsible.

I agree.

There have been real failures.

For national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure

of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst.

A sanctuary state and a sanctuary city that has progressive prosecutors that systematically

let illegal immigrants loose without helping ice and or just domestic criminals turn them

loose over over again.

But this is Trump's fault.

Okay.

I get sort of what I've been saying.

I think enough politicians have now figured out you can say that sort of thing.

Your crowd, only your crowd will hear that.

It will make sense to them.

You won't be challenged on that take and everybody just does that now.

You live in this weird post-truth world where you could just say anything.

Yeah.

I mean, it's actually nonsensical as an argument a little more of the reaction 82, Michael.

Following Medina's arrest, the Gorman family blamed Illinois's policies saying when systems

fail, whether through release decisions, lack of coordination or unwillingness to act,

the consequences are not abstract.

They are real.

In our case, they are permanent.

Despite that, today, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson still says ice isn't welcome in his

city.

Chicago does not want ice on our streets, in our airports, nor in our city.

Chicago believes in abolishing ice.

And one more clip from the worst mayor, perhaps an American history.

We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.

We've already tried that.

It is racist.

It is immoral.

It is unholy.

And it is not the way to drive violence down.

So keeping a violent illegal locked up would not help anything.

That's what we can't incarcerate our way out of violence.

And then you got the attitude toward illegals.

So loyal in university's own newspaper issued an apology earlier this week because they

had called the guy, the murderer, a legit murderer, an illegal immigrant instead of a Rodgers

Park resident as they should have.

The newspaper issued an apology and the editor said no human's existence is illegal and

we quickly changed our wording to reflect that.

So they went with Rodgers Park resident rather than a legal immigrant and apologized, even

though he is by any definition legal or cultural and illegal immigrant.

These people's the disconnect between their apparent intelligence, although branded Johnson's

a moron, but like the editor, I'm sure that editor is very bright, but completely lacking

in wisdom that the counter argument to that is so effortless and short.

I'm not even going to bother offering it.

Well, the word illegal refers to the immigration status, not the human being.

Everybody knows that except young intellectuals who are confident that they know everything

they need to know about the world.

Meanwhile, what a hallmark card sort of sentiment.

The whole no human is illegal, which is what what's the actress said?

The singer said and the Grammys remember she said that Billy Irish Billy Irish.

You're a child.

That's a child's argument.

The grownups are talking sweetheart, pipe down.

Meanwhile Chicago alder woman Maria Haddon, good solid progressive, started out okay.

She posted a video to X. The kids were out doing normal things people do in the neighborhood.

And that's when she should have shut her mouth, but she decided, right, so who is this

credit worth to?

I'd write her in the New York Post, but she's proceeded to relay the most twisted version

of this slaying quote, and it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time

running into a person who had a gun that might have startled this person at the end of

the pier unintentionally.

You can hear a jaws dropping pose a Medina illegal alien from Venezuela came in shockingly

under President Biden's open borders in 2023, chased them and shot her in the head.

If your kid got murdered, if her that writer's kid got murdered, would they feel the same

way?

Well, you know, probably startled them, so that was the other woman who said that.

It's kind of on them.

That was the city council person for that district who said that.

Ron, just wondering if they had a kid who got killed, would you are thinking be it's

kind of on my kid.

Because, you know, they startled the person, so you know, my kid shouldn't have done

that wrong place, wrong time.

To their credit through their grief, the family is saying practically that Sheridan was

exactly where she should have been, close to campus, surrounded by friends, living her

life.

What happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to the idea of someone being in the wrong

place at the wrong time.

This is not an abstraction.

This is the loss of a daughter, the loss of a sister, the loss of a future filled with

milestones that will now never come.

Our family is forever changed.

Well, wrong place, the wrong time, and you can't incarcerate yourself out of violence.

That argument is no good.

Period.

If she were walking through the worst neighborhood in town at three in the morning drunk, somebody

still doesn't get to shoot her in the head.

Right.

So it doesn't make any difference.

Right.

You can call that poor judgment, but it's still murder.

Medina, by the way, was arrested for theft or shoplifting or something at one point and

then turned loose, of course, with no prosecution, certainly no deportation.

Man, if you ever nod your head, you're probably not listening to this show if you would, but

if you ever nod your head along to the no human being is illegal, your brain is so

pliable.

You should wear a helmet at all times.

What if you fall on the shower?

You're going to crush your brain because you have a soft head.

Or they just have a child's understanding of the world.

No one is illegal on stolen land.

Oh my God.

She doubled it up with on stolen land and then the whole, okay, how about give your home

back to the illegal and then you could make the same argument for the no human is legal.

Okay, you come home and there's somebody, you know, some random person in your house.

Have they committed a crime?

They refuse to leave.

You're just going to let them stay there because no human being is illegal.

It's just, it's so dumb.

Then Governor J.B. Pritzker expressed condolences on Monday, but then blasted Trump administration

for quote, politicizing heinous tragedies and instead focus on real solutions, like reinstating

federal funds to prevent violence that support our public safety efforts.

Well, as we've said eight million times, how we haven't come to a final ruling on the

whole sanctuary, city sanctuary, state thing is amazing.

If Katie were here, I would ask her to look up the word tragedy.

I don't like, maybe it's just my conception of the word when I learned it as a kid, but

I don't use tragedy to describe brutal, premeditated acts of violence.

Right.

It's not a tragedy is a mudslide that wipes out a village or an earthquake.

It's not a premeditated homicide of an innocent victim.

There are different words for that.

Certainly, tragic for the family.

I'll concede that.

Okay.

So we who don't want innocent girls shot in the brain by illegal immigrants are politicizing

a tragedy.

J.B.

He is absolutely an evil person.

Well, then how about the mayor with just you can't incarcerate yourself out of these

problems.

That whole incredibly marxist view of crime and punishment is so troubling.

Does he believe that or is he just a tear down the system guy?

I don't know.

Brandon Johnson is so stupid.

I think he is, he is an avowed Marxist.

I don't know if he's smart enough to get what he's doing because there are the people

who understand it.

We're trying to overload the system and break it so we can reform it to our communist

ideals.

Those people know what they're saying is not solving problems.

They don't want to solve problems.

They want to break the system.

And then you've got the useful idiots like Billy Eilish who thinks she's being a good

moral person by repeating those arguments.

That's it's definitely two kinds of people, but that's why the whole the useful idiots

comment was so powerful.

It really describes the way Marxism works.

For some reason that remind me, I'm listening to this book about the Cuban Revolution and

Castro and stuff.

I have some stuff on the air that I thought was really interesting since we're about

to take over Cuba.

I think it might be the end of their horrifying, horrifying history that goes quite a ways

back with bad leaders.

Why don't we go to break and do that and then I'll pay off the why we're all miserable

even though we ought to be happy.

I want to get to Barry Bonds last night on the opening game of the year said something

interesting about a job offer he got from the New York Yankees.

Now he ended up never being a Yankee.

Pretty stunning.

The announcers are like, well, that's going to get social media going among other things

on the way.

Stay here.

And the fans start to chant Barry.

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Wow.

I think I understand that was course Michael.

I think I know what he was suggesting.

So baseball season kicked off last night.

One game instead of an opening day where everybody plays at the same time, because Netflix

bought the contract and they wanted to have the first game and let everybody know Netflix

as baseball.

So fine.

And they had the Yankees and the San Francisco Giants.

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Giants.

Could have played for the Yankees in an interview later in the game in which he revealed

something he'd never revealed before about almost becoming a Yankee.

He had already Barry Bonds, who's the current home run champ.

He had already won two MVP's as a Pittsburgh pirate.

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hear he explains.

When you came here Barry, there was so much discussion of the Yankees being interested.

You ever think back in a what if sense, what if I was a Yankee?

You know, I got to tell you a story because George isn't here anymore, so I can tell

the truth.

Well, I would have been the Yankees, but Stanford got on the phone and they called us and

they told me Barry, we're going to give you the money, the highest paid player at that time.

But you have to sign the contract by two o'clock this afternoon and I said, excuse me,

I just hung the phone up.

Wow.

I went to go get lunch and my dentist, Gilbert, my agent, they were like, what do you know

you just did?

I'm like, did you know what he just said?

I just said, forget it.

I went to go get my time.

I walked down the street to go get lunch.

I said, let me just think about this.

The giant's calling me and I said, I'm going home.

What?

Yeah.

I think that's going to get pushed around on social media a little bit that story.

It's the truth.

That's exactly what I was told.

So, wow.

Nobody knew he came that close to being an Yankee.

They were offering in the most money anybody to ever have been paid baseball, but for whatever

reason said, but you got to sign it by two thirty and he's like, whatever.

Yeah, that's funny.

That's one alpha male.

Not understanding that there's another alpha male right there.

Right.

Didn't it point you really want?

Is that alpha male?

You got to treat him with a little more.

This guy's a big deal.

Right.

Then I order you to do something I want you to do immediately.

Yeah.

Wow.

That's funny.

What a miscalculation.

On the other hand, you could be an alpha male, Barry Bonds and say, what a dick, but I'm not

going to turn down this kind of money to be in the number one media market in the world.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

And figure out a way to make it happen.

And I heard a bunch of people weigh in online anyway, baseball experts that just the way the

ballpark was shaped.

They're Yankee Stadium.

He might have hit a thousand home runs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot, obviously.

Yeah.

Of course he was rooted out of his mind and his testicles were tiny in his head was giant.

Oh, as the man's testicles are none of your business.

All right.

They were in the court.

They are the publics.

What does they call that?

People have the right to know.

I mean, it was a testimonial information act.

Right.

Exactly.

There's testimony in a courtroom about the size of his testes.

He's had some paragraph 14 C does not exclude testimony about testicles.

It's absolutely in there.

Now I realize for you know, sports fan, you have no interest in this whatsoever.

But for whatever reason, the other day, I ended up on something that was listing Barry

Bond stats.

They are unbelievable by anybody's standards.

Babe Ruth is the only thing that even comes close to the kind of stats that Barry Bond says.

It's kind of a shame that he was part of the whole Roy Deere.

Just because it kind of puts a cloud over everything when he was an amazing hitter, amazing

hitter.

But he ate that many home runs when he got walked four times a game.

Yeah.

It was just amazing.

Interesting.

So coming up in the next half hour, absolutely action packed number one, really compelling

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Yeah.

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Our total oil production is greater than Saudi Arabia's plus Russia, and more than we consume

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Yes.

I think that message is to all those people Europe and Japan that signed that letter a

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the ones that need the oil.

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I agree with your analysis, though.

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This is really important for you all.

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Could be a great, great, great turn in the history of certainly this century as discussed

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I don't know.

So many hours.

I know.

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It's crazy.

So as I mentioned earlier, David French is a calmness to thinker.

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I think he's wrong a lot.

I think he has Trump's arrangement syndrome among other things.

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be so miserable when it's so rich?

And he writes the American economy is the envy of the world.

Actually, Americans, however, are not happy about their economy and they've been unhappy

about it for a long time.

He says both of those statements are true.

Until recently, frankly, they stumped me.

How could it be possible?

How could it possibly be rational to feel such prolonged pessimism in the face of such

extraordinary economic growth?

And then he goes into some of the stats about GDP growth and how the living standards of

the average European are very comparable to the living standards of people in Mississippi.

Yeah.

That was a forest state.

That was a big story.

Right last year, I guess, that the average Brit was living like middle class Mississippi.

Yeah.

Our poorest people, which is quite amazing when you think about it.

And then he writes, we hear about a shrinking middle class, but it's shrinking because the

ranks of the rich and the upper middle class are growing.

He goes into a bunch of stats.

It's not because Americans are getting poorer that are getting richer, much richer.

The percentage of Americans who were poor or near poor plunged from 30% to 19% over

the same time period, which was the time period, 1979 to 2024.

So that's pretty long span.

I guess I would explain it.

From when I entered high school till now, when I'm always thinking, why does so many people

fly and do all these things that we didn't do when I was a kid?

It's because so many people have moved up the ranks from middle class to better.

The percentage of lower middle class family shrank as well from 24% to 16% during the same

period share of upper middle class and rich Americans has exploded.

He goes into those statistics and he gets into a fair amount of detail that I don't think

he's necessary.

He says Americans on average live in larger and more luxurious homes than Americans in

generations past.

Oh, that reminds you, I've got an article about how much money is being spent on doggy

daycare and grooming right now.

It's exploded.

Anyway, of course, people don't have kids.

But he says previous luxuries, things like central air, big screen TVs, home computers

and multiple cars are now common staples of American life across.

Most although of course, not all of our social classes, and I wish we had time for this

whole thing because it's interesting, but he thinks one of the big answers of why people

are miserable.

I think a big part of it is lack of civic engagement, no religious affiliation, you're

just not part of a community in the way we used to be.

So a big source of joy in the world is gone.

It's people are staring at their screens, but his take is completely different.

He read a piece by Daniel Curl, who's a management consultant, that changed his perspective

and he saw a reality, he couldn't unsee quote, we were miserable in part because we

are wealthy.

So this guy's piece was about the economics of Disney World.

It's described to park once accessible to most Americans that has become extraordinarily

expensive, charging fees that would crush the budgets of countless millions of Americans.

And that's not, and it's not just the baseline cost of attendance that's exploded.

Disney offers various extra benefits and extra costs that have created a multi-tiered

experience.

Think of the park as creating something like the boarding groups for airline flights.

Life is just better if you're in group one.

And in one sense, the Disney story is understandable and lamentable, but it's hardly alarming

over.

But it's not just Disney.

The examples are all around us.

This month, the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating article about the explosive

costs of youth sports.

The average family's annual spending on baseball, for example, has increased from 660

bucks to 1,100 plus just in five years.

That's partly because of the nature of youth sports has changed.

He goes into the details.

Now travel sports have taken over and travel sports teams are expensive.

Yeah, friend was telling me about her daughter is going to play soccer and it costs her

roughly $2,000 a year, $2,000.

Yeah, a few thousand dollars worth of apparel equipment swag.

Forget the local team sponsored by local business.

Now you often find yourself traveling regionally or even nationally for teams called Alliance

A or Alliance B, representing different branches of your chosen travel sports company.

What about flying?

Oh, if you're a sports fan, forget about going to see your favorite pro team unless you

get a lot of extra cash on hand, according to the athletic price of attending an NFL or

MLB game rose on average by around 300% from the early 90s to the early 2020s average NFL

tickets.

Now more than $300.

What about flying to purchase a plane ticket is to open a restaurant menu.

You've got choice after choice of seating tiers, not just first class and coach boarded

back to front anymore.

No, we've got first class main cabinet extra main and basic economy.

We've got concierge key boarding pre boarding and nine other boarding groups.

Result can be endlessly frustrating.

We're constantly reminded that America is a multi tiered society in which high income buys

you a very visible degree of prosperity and a decent income gives you nothing special

at all.

There are so many high income Americans that the entire economy is warping to accommodate

the minority at the expense of the majority.

In other words, we have a group one economy for a group nine nation and it's no wonder

so many Americans feel economically disadvantaged and insecure.

In other words, every single day you are walking through the first class cabin, looking at

those people before you get stuck in the candle car.

And everything you do and you can't blame any of these individual businesses for doing

this.

It's just a pretty clever way to make more money, but it certainly hasn't made us happier.

Right.

I mean, it's just your right.

It's endless comparison.

Yeah, exactly.

If everybody was just going to Disneyland, that's one thing.

If you go to Disneyland and you're slapped in the face all day long with the fact that

you're only third tier rich as opposed to number one tier rich, but we're better than

five.

But you're just where you're not where you'd like to be.

Everything you do, that's really interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there's more, although now's a great time to point out that study that came out a number

of years ago that told you virtually everything you know, need to know about human beings.

Yeah.

I can't remember precisely how it was put together, but people earning say $90,000, living

next to somebody making $80,000, we're happier than somebody making $120,000.

If they live next to somebody who making $150,000, it was all about comparison.

And then you've got that human nature thing that I talked about a couple of weeks ago from

the philosopher.

And I don't remember Bertrand Russell who said what people miss about socialist communists

is it they're not driven by helping the lower class, they're driven by punishing the people

above them.

Yeah.

That's just a human nature thing.

NV and hatred.

Yeah.

And then French, this is a long piece.

We'll post a link and I'm strong and you getty.com.

I hope you don't get pay walled.

I don't know what New York Times current pay wall looks like, but because I'm very, very

wealthy.

No, I'm kidding.

Well, what if you live in a city that the top 10% love, well, then even being upper middle

class doesn't feel affluent at all, six figure salaries purchase shoe box apartments and

everything from groceries to gas costs and absurd amount.

Soon enough, you're googling the real estate prices in Chattanooga or Des Moines, surely

it's cheaper there, whether or not you intend to ever leave.

And we're going to do this to the road soon where you look at the person driving faster

in the lane to the left of you.

It's because they pay that tiered pricing, right?

Just another comparison opportunity.

Yeah.

You know, I remember, where was I traveling that had that a lot?

It might have been the Carolinas or Florida, I don't remember, but it was one of those

places.

It was one of the first, I really, the Bay area is the first place I ever saw where they

have electronic signs announcing, hey, you can get in this lane, but we're going to

ding your $4.95 for whatever, which, you know, for most of my life, I never did.

I remember the day I thought, hell, I don't care, that's an inconsequential amount of

money.

I'm going to go over there and drive with the rich people and leave you poor people stuck

in traffic.

If you're everywhere you go, that's, you're okay, but you're not as successful as these

people or rich or whatever.

Constantly, humans are not designed for this.

Well, how about that?

Just it's a fact.

So I'd rather be poorer, but around people that make less money than me, then to be richer,

but I'm the poorest person in the neighborhood, which makes no sense, obviously, or even the

second richest in the neighborhood.

It makes you no sense.

Oh no, it's idiotic.

It's a flaw in the programming, clearly, because the comparison matters to you than the

actual size of the house, quality of the car, whatever you can afford.

Yeah, a former coworker of ours, a fascinating person, multilayered and a pain in the ass,

but aren't we all hit us with the saying comparison is the thief of joy.

It is absolutely more built for it.

I had not heard that until I was middle aged, which is a shame because that's a powerful

truth bomb right there.

Apparently, it's essentially a thief of joy.

We don't look at the people, I have known this my whole life.

You don't notice all the cars on the road that are crappier than yours and think, well,

I'm really lucky to be driving this vehicle that is better than the 40% of cars out here.

You notice the ones that are way nicer than you and feel like you know, I don't have that

and I don't have that.

I don't have that.

It has something to do with our animal brain to improve our lot, but yeah, you pay no

attention to all the people in your neighborhood who have more modest houses than you and you

fixate on the guy with a really nice one.

We're built that way.

There must be an evolutionary advantage to it.

Yeah.

It's not a happiness advantage, though.

Yeah, you got to get hold of that yacht because the modern world is, well, it's perverse

in so many ways.

That's one of them.

Well, yeah, because of the internet and social media, you get, it's not just your neighborhood

you compare yourself to.

It's everybody on the planet.

Yeah, don't have to physically go anywhere, sitting in your own home, cocoon, is it

worth from the outside world?

Just don't get online.

I'm plugging with you.

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One of the biggest Broadway musicals ever was the people from South Park making fun of Mormon.

Yeah.

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Yeah, if you want to be happy, run your own race and make a gratitude list daily.

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Run your own race, that's a good one.

Yeah, that is a good one.

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Yeah, Jackie, final thought.

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