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 - Hello and welcome to your seduction.

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 I'm your host Paul Schilling.

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 I wanted to let you know that if you're listening to this,

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 Thank you for listening and enjoy the show.

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 For those of you that have been paying attention,

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 our last episode ended about right here.

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 Now, I had just passed through a residential area

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 and I'm back onto what I would call a commercial street.

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 We see lots of mixed-use buildings here,

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 mostly residences, but also some businesses.

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 We are in a residential section of a commercial street

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 actually right down the street from where we just were.

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 That'd be two episodes ago, but I'm still new to Paris.

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 And because this is a residential section of that same street,

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 I don't actually recognize it as my street.

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 So you'll notice that I don't turn right to go back home.

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 Instead, I keep going.

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 If we pause here for a moment,

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 you'll see that this boulevard is my street.

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 That's the street we should turn on.

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 And I stop and look at it for a moment

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 to try to figure out if that's where I'm supposed to go,

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 but like I said, I'm new to Paris and I'm new to French.

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 And I just can't remember the names.

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 They're just not in my head at all.

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 There is no French word that comes into my head

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 and I don't recognize anything I see.

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 So again, instead of taking a right,

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 which would have been towards my home,

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 I decide to go straight.

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 And this is a theme.

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 I'm always constantly going the wrong way.

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 Every city I've gone to so far in Europe,

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 I go the wrong way every time.

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 I always choose wrong, but that's okay.

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 Paris is a lovely city to get lost in.

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 It's safe, it's secure, it's well designed,

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 and it doesn't feel like you're lost.

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 One of the greatest things about Paris

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 is as a tourist or as somebody who's new to the city.

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 It seems like everywhere I go,

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 there's something beautiful at the end of the street.

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 Every street ends or terminates

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 at some amazing architectural structure.

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 If you look ahead, you'll see that there's a dome

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 where approaching something, well, as it turns out,

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 that's a school.

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 It used to be a church or at least a religious building.

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 And now it's a school, a college to be exact,

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 but what a wonderful repurposing of old infrastructure.

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 Now this happened to me multiple times when I was in Paris.

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 I'd be walking down a street, thinking I'm going nowhere,

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 just like you do in the United States.

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 You don't ever think in the United States

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 that you're gonna find something beautiful to look at.

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 It's just not how the city was built.

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 None of them.

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 There are a few exceptions.

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 You could go to DC, you could go to Boston,

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 you could go to New York.

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 But the vast majority of cities in the United States

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 are just disposable buildings, awful looking everything.

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 And there's no sense of place.

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 There's no personality.

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 Everywhere you go has amazing personality.

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 at the end of every boulevard,

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 there seems to be some amazing picturesque historical monument

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 that you can bet at least some people came to Paris

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 just to see that one building.

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 That's how beautiful Paris is.

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 I don't think it's a particularly good point,

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 I think it just speaks to the depravity

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 of North American thought and expectations.

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 We are a weak people with little thought to our surroundings,

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 no sense of space, no want or expectation

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 of something better, of high quality.

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 We like to say things like, oh, you get what you pay for.

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 Or, you know, it's America made.

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 Or these colors don't run or whatever.

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 to building things, to designing our spaces,

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 we just throw together whatever.

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 And that's because nobody cares.

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 Our urban planners and government entities

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 and boards of directors were bought and sold

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 by the millionaire and billionaire class 100 years ago or more.

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 And they haven't done anything of substance sense.

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 Nothing beneficial for the common man and woman.

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 No public infrastructure worth a damn.

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 Every piece of public infrastructure in your city

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 is specifically designed and was implemented

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 to extract as much taxpayer dollar out of your pocket

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 and redistribute it to the wealthiest people in the world, period.

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 Not only that, that infrastructure was also meant

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 to just continually extract that money.

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 Every road that you see, every strode,

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 is a never ending maintenance nightmare

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 where money goes from your pocket the taxpayer

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 to the richest people in the world.

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 you have to buy an awful depreciating asset

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 from the richest people in the world.

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 to the richest people in the world for things like tires

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 and oil and gas and seals and gaskets, spark plugs.

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 to the richest people in the world just in case you accidentally

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 hurt yourself or somebody else.

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 This is, of course, through insurance.

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 to the richest people in the world just to prove

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 that you're capable of using this infrastructure.

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 This is, of course, through licensing.

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 I'm not suggesting that we don't license drivers.

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 We definitely should, but you shouldn't have to have a license

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 just to use useful infrastructure in your city.

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 But that's exactly what happens.

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 And by the way, that money, they take that,

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 they put it into the tax base and they redistribute it

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 to the richest people in the world.

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 That's what our tax base does.

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 Watch where the money goes.

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 Watch who decides what's built, when, and where, and why,

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 and who gets contracted for that money.

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 It's never a mom and pop business.

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 It's never you, it's the richest people in the world.

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 It does, this is the system that we are in.

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 So the infrastructure you see me walking through right now,

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 this gorgeous tree line street with tons of space,

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 with benches and access to subways and places to sit

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 and plenty of shade and plenty of room for bikes

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 and plenty of room for cars and plenty of room for buses

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 and everything, all this beautiful infrastructure you see,

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 all of this mixed use building infrastructure,

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 all of these gorgeous permanent structures

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 that could be used and reused and purposed

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 and repurposed and repurposed, add infinitum,

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 was built for the people.

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 Paris and Europe isn't a place that's void of corruption

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 or fascism or the corporatization of government,

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 but they are a place where these systems

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 have been kept at bay.

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 They reorganize their democracies to make it better for people.

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 And you can see how much better it is

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 just by walking down the street.

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 I'm in Paris at a time of day when traffic in the United States

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 would be stop and go, stop and go, stop and go.

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 There would be endless cars in every queue.

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 There would be no movement.

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 But look at the street to my left.

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 It's almost empty.

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 You can see that it's late in the day here.

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 You can see that this is after work for most people

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 and where are all the cars?

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 Where are all the people?

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 They're biking.

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 because they have other ways to get around.

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 Because they care.

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 Because they didn't allow for corporations

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 and the richest people in the world

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 to tell the government exactly what to do when and why.

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 And the fact of the matter is,

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 is in the United States, we did.

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 That's why every city you go to

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 is just the fucking giant McDonald's.

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 leads to the exact same five restaurants.

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 That's why every time a new stadium is built in your city.

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 The billionaire owner of that stadium

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 and all of all the teams that play there.

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 And by the way, who makes hundreds of millions of dollars

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 every year just by renting out that stadium

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 to people like Taylor Swift or whoever's coming through your city

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 and can actually sell out 20,000 or 60,000 people.

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 That's why, before they break ground on any of those buildings,

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 they immediately try to tap into the tax base.

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 to give us a tax break before we're going to actually do this.

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 We're going to partner with the people of Denver

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 or the people of wherever.

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 And they say stupid things.

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 It'll increase this tax revenue and that tax revenue.

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 Meanwhile, they surround these massive buildings

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 in the center of some of the best real estate in your city

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 with oceans of parking lots that don't do a goddamn thing

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 for anyone.

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 to a 20-year-old temp who says, hey, maybe we should--

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 there's like this urbanist movement thing going on.

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 Maybe we should build houses here or residences here

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 or mix to use urban fabric here or have a train stop

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 or a bus station or biking or a pedestrian something

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 or another.

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 Maybe we should do something like that.

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 And the billionaire goes, oh, yeah.

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 Would that make us a whole bunch of money?

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 I'll look into it and they go, yeah, do that.

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 I'll look into it and see if we can make another billion dollars

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 just by selling most of that commercial space

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 that we build to Wal-Mart's and the other are billionaire friends.

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 presidencies at this space so that the luxury apartment owners

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 who are probably millionaires can buy stuff from billionaires

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 and then come to concerts at my arena.

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 Let's do that.

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 This is why change like this, like what we're seeing in Denver

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 right now with ballerina and the new stadium

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 that they're building for the Broncos,

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 this is why none of this stuff ever happens

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 until they get taxpayer buy-in.

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 Because they're looking for huge tax incentives,

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 not just for the first few hundred million dollars to break ground.

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 They're looking for decades-long tax breaks

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 that are going to pay them back billions of dollars

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 over the next 30 years.

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 And they want you to pay for it.

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 They have billions of dollars.

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 They have more than enough money, not only to build an ice arena

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 like ballerina, a place where they play ice hockey,

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 but they could build that to the passive house standard,

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 the highest energy efficiency standard in the world,

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 which would use 90% less energy to heat and cool,

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 which could also, by the way, be heated and cooled

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 using geothermal and heat pumps,

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 and which, by the way, could also be offset

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 by geothermal electricity production or solar or wind.

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 because their buddies are the ones that they're paying

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 for natural gas to heat it.

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 Their buddies are the guys that they're paying

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 for the electricity to cool it.

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 They don't want to save money.

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 They're getting all these tax breaks.

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 The taxpayers pay for these charges.

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 Sure, at the end of the day,

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 Kronke has to sign a check to XL energy to pay for the bills.

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 It comes from a tax break that he gets.

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 He doesn't give a shit.

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 He's a multi-multi-billionaire,

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 and he's making multiple billions.

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 where they still have local cinema.

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 Okay, anyway, that was a side note.

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 The dollar's on these tax breaks.

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 He's already made up a few hundred million,

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 most likely, if not more, just to break ground.

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 Just partnering with the city to quote unquote,

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 "better the residents" by increasing sales tax.

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 Bullshit, bullshit.

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 Paris in particular, and France in general,

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 is a place where it's obvious

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 that the government cares about its people.

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 Not just the ultra-rich.

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 Paris is a place designed for everyone.

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 And these ballards to my right and left here

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 are demonstration of that.

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 How do I know Paris cares about that lady

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 that just walked past this awful McDonald's?

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 to keep her from getting hit by a car.

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 because they don't care.

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 and giving it to the richest people in the world

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 so that they'll build things that screw us over generation

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 after generation after generation.

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 And that's exactly what's been happening.

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 Now, I wasn't planning on going on a rant.

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 That was for the next episode.

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 I was gonna go on this giant rant in the next episode.

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 But for some reason, the mood struck.

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 I'm looking at this footage here.

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 I'm thinking about the last time I went downtown

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 in my city, Denver, on an awful strode Broadway,

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 which is, I guess, updated or upgraded

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 or improved by having bike lanes.

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 It's not.

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 It's still a strode.

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 And I'm just filled with rage and disappointment.

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 Disappointment in my fellow man.

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 Disappointment in my fellow North American

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 and disappointment in my fellow Americans.

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 It's sad when I think of how many people

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 and look up the statistics, it's a huge minority

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 of people work for Fortune 1000 companies

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 or even more elite companies, Fortune 100 companies.

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 Huge percentages of people.

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 Don't quote me on this, but it's something like 40%.

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 That's 40% of the electorate in the workforce

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 that works for the richest people in the world.

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 against their best interests.

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 I think they think voting for these ultra-rich

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 is actually voting to benefit themselves.

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 That's how diluted we really are.

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 Thank you for listening.

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