00:01:10.680Outside of the Revolutionary War period, it would be hard to find another period in American history when Americans have been more reluctant to pay their taxes, and justifiably so.
00:01:19.780I mean, at this point, it's understandable if your eyes start to glaze over when you hear about yet another massive fraud scheme that's been engineered by foreigners to steal millions of dollars worth of your money.
00:01:31.020We're talking about billions of dollars in Medicaid fraud in just the state of Minnesota alone every single year.
00:01:38.560And in just one state, Medicaid fraud all by itself, which is enabled by insurance companies and the Democrat Party, accounts for billions of dollars in theft.
00:01:48.440In response, the Trump administration has launched an anti-fraud task force led by J.D. Vance to prosecute some of the worst offenders.
00:01:55.800But the truth is, an anti-fraud task force can't actually solve the problem.
00:02:00.300Playing whack-a-mole with fraudsters isn't going to work.
00:02:03.020they're too creative, and our system of taxpayer handouts is effectively based on the honor system.
00:02:09.580In order to understand what I mean, we'll start with a fun little exercise where we all play
00:02:13.600detective. So I want you to watch this footage from an alleged armed robbery in Georgia and try
00:02:19.800to identify what, if any, type of fraud might be occurring here. Also, for your own amusement,
00:02:26.720watch very closely when they zoom in on the alleged attack on the store clerk, but here it is.
00:02:33.020Security video captures what looks to be a Georgia cashier being held up by an armed robber.
00:02:38.700But police say the whole thing was fake, and the duo staged the armed robbery to steal $5,000 from the register.
00:02:45.900The incident happened in January at a Duluth, Georgia Shell gas station.
00:02:50.120Surveillance video from January 20th shows the cashier, who was later identified as Raj Patel, behind the register.
00:02:56.580He then walks over toward the cash register, opens it up, and takes a stack of bills.
00:03:00.600Then a man in a black hoodie is seen charging toward Patel before throwing what looks to be a punch.
00:03:06.780It's unclear if the robber's fist actually connected to Patel's face, but he collapses to the floor.
00:03:13.940Once outside, that's when the officer encounters a man later identified by police as Danny Curtis, who tells them he works at the gas station.
00:03:57.680what you got in your pocket there what's that what's all that that rustling around
00:04:11.720yeah hey come here Danny come here come here stop Danny stop stop stop stop look
00:04:22.540Now, first of all, if you're going to stage a robbery to steal $5,000 from the store, you've got to make it look more convincing than that.
00:04:34.560I mean, LeBron James would be embarrassed by the flop there.
00:04:38.040For $5,000, you've got to make contact.
00:04:40.140I mean, you've got to just take the punch, all right, at the very least.
00:04:43.420And it would probably be smart to have your eclopolis leave the premises for a bit
00:04:48.560instead of sticking around and pouring the cash all over the ground when the police show up.
00:07:02.280Rana Kumar Patel, Sangeetha bin Patel, Minkesh Patel, Sonal Patel, and Mitul Patel.
00:07:11.480I actually nailed that. I think I nailed that. You didn't think I would. You thought that was
00:07:17.580going to be a total massacre, but it really wasn't. I think I nailed it. Anyway, yes,
00:07:22.860every single one of them is named Patel, which incidentally is the same name as the cashier in
00:07:27.140the video I just played. Although to be clear, that particular guy hasn't been accused of visa
00:07:31.460fraud. He was supposedly just after the insurance money. And as for these 11 others, according to
00:07:36.280the DOJ, quote, Rambai Patel and his co-conspirators set up and carried out staged armed robberies of
00:07:41.560at least six convenience slash liquor stores and fast food restaurants in Massachusetts
00:07:45.160and more elsewhere. It's alleged that the purpose of the staged robberies was to allow the clerks
00:07:49.220present to claim falsely that they were victims of a violent crime on an application for
00:07:54.180U non-immigration status. Now, as you might imagine, this kind of fraud is very difficult
00:08:00.100to detect so we can assume that this is happening constantly all over the country. Unless these
00:08:06.060people are monumentally dumb, they won't get caught. They're taking advantage of laws that
00:08:11.120were passed when America was a very different place. And unless we repeal all these laws,
00:08:17.000we're going to see a lot more fake crimes and a lot more fraud. Every other day, we're learning
00:08:23.000about a new scam. The New York Post, along with Nick Shirley, have just uncovered rampant hospice
00:08:27.560fraud in California to the tune of a hundred million dollars. Uh, for example, take a look
00:08:32.160at the empty building below. And, um, according to the, to the post, a, a, a grand total of 12
00:08:40.540hospice and home healthcare agencies are registered to operate from that one vacant
00:08:46.720strip mall in the San Fernando, San Fernando Valley. And there's plenty more where that came
00:08:51.920from quote, San, uh, St. Rita's home health, which data shows build Medicare about $4.3 million
00:08:57.520between 2019 and the first half of 2025, was registered to a vacant Van Nuys strip mall with
00:09:05.040a for rent sign outside. The Post contacted several of the companies allegedly operating
00:09:09.580inside the building. One hung up when asked to confirm its location. Another said that it moved,
00:09:13.980despite still being listed on the California government database at the North Hollywood
00:09:18.140address. And a third went to a voicemail for Alexander from Southern California Auto.
00:09:23.180One alleged hospice fraudster had the audacity to show off her $4 million Carmel-by-the-Sea home for a news outlet just days before being arrested and charged with stealing $3.2 million from Medicare.
00:09:37.340Now CBS did its own investigation and they found the same watch.
00:09:42.000An update on a CBS News investigation following our recent report on fraud in the hospice system in California.
00:09:49.580House Republicans say Congress is now looking into it.
00:09:52.480Our team found that more than 700 hospice programs in Los Angeles County triggered red flags for potential fraud, according to the state's own definition.
00:10:02.880The House Oversight Committee, citing our reporting, called it, quote, alarming evidence of fraudulent activity.
00:10:11.280700 fraudulent hospices, and those are just the ones CBS found.
00:10:16.220Obviously, if journalists and YouTubers can uncover fraud like this, there's no excuse for state and federal regulators.
00:10:22.480They're clearly complicit in an unprecedented fraud on the taxpayer, and unless we simply turn off the funding, the looting will continue indefinitely.
00:10:30.920It's not enough to just look into it. We need to turn off the funding entirely.
00:10:36.260At the same time, as disastrous as this fraud is, it's important to understand that it's really just one symptom of a much larger problem, and it's one that I think every American at some level recognizes.
00:10:50.140So today I want to move past, for now, the issue of immigrant fraud, which we talk about all the time and we'll certainly return to.
00:10:57.260But I want to see if we can get to something deeper, a problem that has been on my mind for a long time, a problem that I think, as I said, everyone has noticed.
00:11:05.680And that problem is that basically forms of fraud are everywhere. Virtually everything is fake now.
00:11:12.500You know, in high trust society, there's societies, there's a general expectation that people tell the truth and everything is transparent.
00:11:20.520But in the society that we have now, partially as the result of foreign migration, the opposite is true.
00:11:26.760You can't get a straight answer on anything and very little of what you see, whether online or in the real world, is authentic.
00:11:34.760So take as something as fundamental as food, for example.
00:11:39.500Okay, Johns Hopkins recently found that more than half of calories consumed at home by adults in the U.S. come from ultra-processed foods.
00:11:47.500These are foods with ingredients that are often impossible to pronounce, contain no nutritional value, and significantly increase your risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, colon cancer, which, as we all know, is now dramatically more common in young people.
00:12:00.680One of these ultra processed ingredients is called TBHQ. I won't even try to pronounce that full. I'm on a roll. I'm not going to, I don't want to ruin it. But it's TBHQ is short for something. It's found in a large variety of shelf stable foods because it prevents the fats and oils from breaking down.
00:12:17.180And common products with TBHQ include microwave popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, frozen meals, putting prepackaged dinners and frozen pizzas, fast food, cooking oils, peanut butter, packaged cookies, pastries, and so on.
00:12:31.340In high enough doses, TBHQ has been found to cause liver enlargement, convulsions, tumors, weakened immune systems.
00:12:38.100While the FDA has classified TBHQ as safe for consumption, there's a caveat.
00:12:42.240It can only account for 0.02% of total fat or oil content in a product. And in that respect, TBHQ is similar to aspartame, the fake sugar that's found in Diet Coke and many other diet products.
00:12:57.160In moderation, it's generally considered to be safe, allegedly, but several studies, including one published in 2023 from an agency of the World Health Organization, classified aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans if consumed in large quantities.
00:13:13.000Some previous studies had found that it could cause cancer in rats in high doses, but in moderation, it's supposedly okay, just like cell phone use.
00:13:21.160but most people don't realize any of that. They don't understand that food is intentionally made
00:13:26.040to be more dangerous and more artificial because it needs a longer shelf life. That's not even
00:13:31.460getting into foods that are fraudulently labeled in the first place. Something like 50% of Parmesan
00:13:37.320cheese is not authentic, for example. The outlet Food & Wine just reported on the extensive fraud
00:13:42.720that affects a variety of food products in the grocery store. Quote, in 2024, The Guardian
00:13:47.160reported that olive oil fraud reached an all-time high in the European Union, with most of the
00:13:51.280fraudulent olive oil mixed with cheaper alternatives and several labeled with misleading
00:13:55.760origin labels. In Turkey, one of the world's largest honey-producing nations, authorities
00:14:00.340seized nearly $30 million worth of fraudulent honey over the course of just a few months in
00:14:05.1402025 alone. Spices are another concern, with the FDA explaining that not only do people sometimes
00:14:10.560mix in other plant parts to bulk up production, they may also use dyes to give spices and
00:14:17.080certain color, especially when the color strongly impacts the perception of the quality. It added
00:14:22.140lead-based dyes and other industrial dyes that can cause adverse health problems such as cancer
00:14:27.420have been found in spices such as chili powder, turmeric, and cumin. Even cheese is often
00:14:34.000misrepresented. A few months ago, we talked about how one company, Leprino Foods, makes roughly 85%
00:14:40.180of the cheese that goes on pizza. Whether you buy it frozen or at a restaurant, you're getting the
00:14:45.680same thing. Some more fraud there. And they have a variety of patents for making cheese as
00:14:52.200efficiently as they can. But most companies that supposedly sell cheese in this country
00:14:55.440aren't bothering with that. So take Cheez Whiz, for example. Here's the label. You can see it
00:15:00.820there. It's an incredible list of ingredients. You've got your whey, your canola oil, corn syrup,
00:15:06.900protein concentrate, mustard flour, garlic powder, sorbic acid. Less than 2% of the product,
00:15:12.820according to this label, is cheese culture. So they add a microscopic element of cheese in the
00:15:16.980product, and that gives them the go-ahead to claim that their product is made with real cheese and
00:15:21.540real dairy. There's nothing real about any of it. It's all fake. You know, what you want in actual
00:15:27.440cheese is a much simpler list of ingredients, pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, some
00:15:31.940enzymes. This is one area where federal regulators have actually made authentic products easier to
00:15:37.020identify. Watch. In America, the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has very specific
00:15:44.760definitions for what can legally be called cheese. Real cheese must be made directly from milk,
00:15:50.920with limited processing. So when it came to processed products, regulators had to create
00:15:56.800a new vocabulary. That's why you'll notice some labels don't say cheese. Instead, they say things
00:16:02.900like pasteurized processed cheese food, cheese product, or imitation cheese.
00:16:08.440These aren't just marketing terms, they're legal categories.
00:16:12.620Pasteurized processed cheese equals at least 100% cheese but melted down and reformed.
00:16:18.580Cheese food equals at least 51% real cheese, the rest is dairy additives.
00:16:23.800Cheese product equals anything with less than 51% cheese.
00:16:28.400cheese equals well you don't even want to know so yes that slice on your burger might technically
00:16:34.500be less than half cheese surprise now what's interesting about the video i just played is
00:16:42.880that it's probably not real either i mean the facts are real i verified them but i have no
00:16:47.560idea if there's an actual person narrating that footage i don't think there is or if it's ai
00:16:52.320sounds like it is uh no narrator ever appears on camera he maintains the same cadence throughout
00:16:57.400this entire thing. All of the footage is stock imagery. No one has left a comment. And the script
00:17:01.920is all based on information from government websites like the FDA. So for all I know,
00:17:05.780an AI wrote the script too. I mean, that's probably what happened. And that brings me to
00:17:08.720yet another area of life that's becoming almost entirely fake, which is social media.
00:17:14.200Bots and AI have overrun pretty much every social media platform. Go on Facebook and you'll get
00:17:19.340bombarded. I mean, if you haven't been on Facebook in a while, with a lot of people my age or younger
00:17:24.420have not, go check it out. I mean, you'll be bombarded with AI videos everywhere you look
00:17:31.060and people interacting with them who don't know that they're AI. Some of the most popular genres
00:17:36.600involve fake stories about celebrities complete with sob stories or some other lazy emotional
00:17:42.620hook. So here's Peyton Manning going to a funeral for a fan that he's never met. People love that
00:17:50.540one, even though it didn't happen, it's not real. There's a whole genre of apparently of
00:17:55.740Peyton Manning AI slop along these lines. And then you have videos like this one, which will
00:18:03.360play for you. Apparently, you know, an awful lot of people think that giraffes are rescued with
00:18:09.500cranes. You see a lot of, there's a lot of giraffes are also popular in these AI slop videos.
00:18:14.240See a lot of them for whatever reason. And by the way, the reason is that the algorithm just
00:18:19.880sort of like this stuff is all generated by, you know, it's AI generated and it's all
00:18:23.520algorithmic. And so it's just kind of like picking up on these trends and then creating
00:18:27.840videos based on it. But then the videos also influence the kinds of content that people
00:18:34.400are watching and looking for. And so then it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle so that
00:18:41.080you could say that, well, we've got all these Peyton Manning and giraffe videos because
00:18:44.360apparently people are into that, but people are only into it because that's what's getting
00:18:48.800served by the algorithm. So the algorithm is not just picking up on the taste that people have,
00:18:52.800but it's shaping those tastes and then serving you based on the taste that it has created for you.
00:19:00.640There's something like 23,000 likes on that video that we just showed you there. And
00:19:05.240it's not real, by the way, just in case you didn't know. And that sounds pretty bad,
00:19:10.660but then you realize that those 23,000 likes might not be real either. A lot of them are
00:19:16.260probably bots, which drive up the engagement for the video. And when engagement goes up,
00:19:20.500the algorithm is more likely to show the video to more people. That means more ad revenue for
00:19:25.400the creator or whoever is ultimately behind the account, whatever person, if there is a person.
00:19:30.800So social media is full of artificial content generated by bots and liked by bots and commented
00:19:39.200on by bots. So it's bots talking to bots. It's layer upon layer of fakeness all the way down.
00:19:44.340as a result of fraud like this the truth is you really can't tell how many people are actually
00:19:50.160watching any particular piece of content it's also hard to know if you're debating a real person when
00:19:56.340you respond to a comment or you get into a back and forth and the flip side of this problem is
00:20:01.740that very often legitimate channels and outlets will be accused of buying fake engagement when
00:20:06.480there's actually no evidence that they're doing it you'll see accusations that ai was used to
00:20:10.360create artwork just based on a hunch some people have. And so there's so much AI stuff and so many
00:20:15.640bots that even the stuff that's not fake, well, you don't know if it is or not. And you start
00:20:21.520seeing that as also fake potentially. I don't need to belabor the point. Most people who watch
00:20:27.140my show are already aware of AI slop and how I feel about it. What's important is recognizing
00:20:31.720that as much as we like to dismiss AI slop as a unique phenomenon, it's actually part of a broader
00:20:36.760trend. We're surrounded by fakeness and reality becomes much harder to discern.
00:20:46.400And this again is everywhere, even if you put your phone down. A few weeks ago, we talked about the
00:20:51.240home buying process and how many new homes are in very poor condition, even though they were
00:20:55.940advertised as move-in ready. Many homes also have fake wood and fake wood exteriors now to the point
00:21:01.600that it's hard to buy a home with natural wood. You're likely to get stuck with luxury laminate
00:21:06.380flooring or vinyl flooring instead. And that vinyl flooring is a lot cheaper, doesn't scratch easily,
00:21:11.920it's waterproof, looks like wood at a distance. The problem is that you're almost certainly going
00:21:16.920to have to replace it in 20 years once the top layer is damaged, starts to fall apart very quickly
00:21:20.860after that. You can have genuine hardwood floors that last a century, or you can have the imitation
00:21:25.460that falls apart in a decade, but it's cheaper and quicker and all that. And increasingly the
00:21:30.540fake option is winning out. A decade ago, according to one survey, vinyl flooring accounted for just
00:21:34.6006% of all new home flooring. Now it accounts for 30%, making it the second most popular option
00:21:39.540behind carpeting. On the other hand, real hardwood was used in around 37% of new builds back in 2017.
00:21:45.620Now it's down to less than 7%. And these are estimates, but they give you an ideal.
00:21:51.200People's homes, the single most important purchase of their lives, the place where they spend the
00:21:55.560majority of their time, the place where they raise their children, are becoming demonstrably
00:21:59.840faker along with everything else. What do you lose as a country when inauthenticity runs that deep?
00:22:08.320And in the same vein, what happens when fake jobs are created solely for the benefit of women and
00:22:14.440so-called people of color? There's an awful lot of those fake jobs, as you might have noticed,
00:22:18.160around 80% of government employees at the local, state, and federal levels are just as incompetent
00:22:22.940as the DMV or the TSA. And they have the same demographics, which is almost certainly a
00:22:27.960violation of federal civil rights law, by the way. It's just that you never see these government
00:22:32.500employees and they never show up to work. They're basically in a jobs program. It's all fake.
00:22:38.660Not that the private sector is much better in some cases. 90% of HR departments serve
00:22:43.040no purpose, really. They exist to discriminate against white men and foster a culture of
00:22:46.660constant paranoia. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley is full of project managers who are ripped straight
00:22:52.020from office space. Supposedly, they're good at talking to engineers or whatever, but in reality,
00:22:56.320they spent half their day posting TikToks about all the perks they get at work, like the free
00:23:00.420lunches and spa days. Now, thankfully, ever since Elon Musk fired 90% of Twitter employees, these
00:23:05.600videos have been a little harder to find. But just in case you forgot, here's one of those videos
00:23:10.080from 2022, just before Elon took over. Watch. Welcome to a day in the life of a UTC grad working
00:23:18.280at Twitter. Hey guys, my name is Kayla Santos. I graduated May of 2021 and now I work at my
00:23:26.760dream job. I work for Twitter of Atlanta and here is just a normal day in the office.
00:23:36.620I definitely have UTC to thank for my confidence professionally.
00:23:41.760Everyone there taught me to be myself and strive for anything that I wanted.
00:23:48.280If there was one tip that I could give you, it's definitely to put yourself out there and make connections and network because you really never know who you will meet on the outside.
00:23:59.540And that is all, folks. I hope you liked it. And go Mocs.
00:24:06.840So it's a day in the life video and she doesn't say a word about her actual job.
00:24:11.120She doesn't have one. She just strikes a bunch of poses, plays with some pillows, gets lunch, shows off the kitchen and gives cliched life advice.
00:24:17.940with the maximum possible amount of vocal fry.
00:24:44.540about their six-figure tech jobs doing nothing.
00:24:47.140Based on the employment numbers, many of them are still working, quote unquote, somewhere in some capacity.
00:24:52.380They're just wasting some other employer's time and some other fake job.
00:24:57.020And we can go on and on. You know, we know people adopt fake genders now.
00:25:00.260They chase fake money and fake art, which is what the NFT craze was all about.
00:25:04.700Various scam cryptocurrencies are what they're still all about.
00:25:08.900Fake friends and girlfriends are more common than ever as well.
00:25:11.800In fact, one of the most popular scams right now involves getting a text message that appears to be a wrong number situation.
00:25:17.340And then when you respond that the person has the wrong number, they'll text back, try to get to know you, and then they'll convince you to log on to their scam crypto website so they can steal your money.
00:25:27.420One guy in California lost a million dollars in a scam like this.
00:25:30.560This is a longer video, but we'll play it because it's a very common situation.
00:30:26.120And by the way, the musicians don't even look like real human beings. Take like Sabrina Carpenter or Nicki Minaj, for example. After the apparent lip injections, Botox, hair dye, they're unrecognizable.
00:30:38.040cosmetic procedures are are more popular now than they've ever been speaking of fakeness even if
00:30:44.320pop stars are leading the charge when it comes to turning their bodies into a mesh of silicon and
00:30:49.400plastic it's it's not just rich pop stars millions of normal women are doing the same thing
00:30:56.740so the epidemic of fakeness extends not just to social media or food or your fake wood floors but
00:31:02.560even to the bodies of the people who are interacting with this stuff and it's not just
00:31:07.740women either. Instead of encouraging people to look the way they naturally look, the most popular
00:31:12.300influencers are pitching, you know, double jaw surgeries and looks maxing just to make the
00:31:17.960inauthenticity problem even worse. Watch. They basically make a cut on the lower jaw and then
00:31:24.480move it forward and apply screws. And same with the upper jaw. It's like a, it's called a Laforte
00:31:30.360osteotomy. They cut along your interior nasal spine and then advance your jaw forward. It's
00:31:36.040Like they actually have to break your jaw.
00:33:02.520to promote his brand, and now he's everywhere. In the span of three months, he's gone from a
00:33:08.080complete nobody to the alleged voice of a generation. A voice that's saying what exactly?
00:33:14.340Who knows? He turned a stunt into a social media domination. But just a few years ago,
00:33:20.180that kind of stunt wouldn't be anywhere near as effective. A lot of podcasters got an audience
00:33:25.400by talking to people, by presenting ideas. I mean, I got to start in my car, but I wasn't
00:33:33.960running somebody over. I was talking to people in the car. But this is the winning strategy now.
00:33:42.260And now we have fake influencers giving fake advice about how you can make your body
00:33:46.300even faker, just like they do. Now, it's important to understand that at some level,
00:33:51.660People find this to be a very unsettling state of affairs.
00:33:56.640Now, I'm not convinced that people have any desire to live in a fake world, even if that's the world that we now inhabit.
00:34:03.120It's a good sign that Mark Zuckerberg just canceled his metaverse after spending $80 billion on it.
00:34:09.380He also changed the name of his company from Facebook to Meta on the theory that people were really into the fake universes that they could control in virtual reality.
00:34:17.080that didn't pan out. Possibly because when you spell it out for people, it's not appealing.
00:34:23.260And there's something really interesting about that. I mean, we're surrounded by fakeness
00:34:26.640everywhere. And yet when Zuckerberg built a fake world that we could go pretend to live in
00:34:31.940and spent $80 billion on it, nobody took him up on the invitation. Is that because deep inside,
00:34:38.320we still yearn for authenticity? Or is it because the real world is already so fake
00:34:42.420that the metaverse seemed redundant? Or is it a bit of both? I think it's probably both.
00:34:50.520So what is the antidote to fakeness? It's clear that everything around us is fake. The food is
00:34:56.220fake. The houses are fake. The music is fake. The movies are fake. Social media is fake. The people
00:35:00.800are fake. What's the cure? I mean, how do we break free from this overwhelming, choking fog
00:35:07.920of fakeness. Well, it isn't something that a government can mandate. It's not a policy that
00:35:14.300can be instituted on a mass scale at this point. It has to be done on an individual, personal level,
00:39:03.200No, you can't, but you do have the power to control whether you become fake as well,
00:39:07.620whether you become a vessel for all of this deception.
00:39:11.760And no matter how popular doomerism may be, no matter how intoxicating it may be to say that there's no way out of this particular doom loop, that's actually a lot of power.
00:39:24.860Every one of us should make the conscious decision every day to use it.
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00:42:16.360Fox News cameras captured the moment that a Florida transportation official pulls a big rig trucker of service after the driver struggles to understand English and read road signs.
00:42:27.120Florida DOT is making a major push to enforce commercial licensing rules after several deadly crashes involving illegal immigrants.
00:42:35.280This comes as Florida troopers reveal a shocking statistic.
00:42:39.100Nearly 50% of truckers pulled over on one major highway do not speak English.
00:42:44.580So here's some footage of that. Watch.
00:43:14.580the sign what does that mean what do you have to do okay if you don't speak enough english
00:43:27.380to be operating a commercial vehicle okay you also don't have enough knowledge of the signs
00:43:32.900so you can say it okay so this right now right now you're going to be placed out of service okay
00:43:38.580Okay, so this is something we've been covering here for a while.
00:43:43.200Our roads are littered not just in Florida, but everywhere with truck drivers who don't speak English.
00:43:49.720This is something the Trump administration has been cracking down on, but it's a huge problem.
00:43:54.500And it will take a long time to sort out.
00:43:56.900And it's impossible to know exactly how many of the CDL drivers are not proficient in English.
00:44:02.720Florida says, you know, 50% on one highway that pulled over didn't speak English.
00:44:07.000that indicates the number is very high. Now, if you look at official estimates,
00:44:13.200estimates that were published, provided by the government, especially during the Biden
00:44:17.820administration, they would say that it's like 4%. They claim that 4% of truck drivers are less
00:44:24.980than proficient in the English language. Now, even if that drastic undercount were true,
00:44:30.580Well, there are 3.6 million professional truck drivers in the United States.
00:44:36.480So 4%, do the math, that's like 140,000 who don't speak English.
00:44:42.760So that's like, imagine 3,000 non-English speaking truck drivers in every state in the country driving around.
00:44:51.680Obviously, it wouldn't actually be divided up that way, but you get my point.
00:45:00.580Because if we're only 4%, you wouldn't have 50% of your truck drivers over on, you know, pulled over on one road on a highway in Florida who are non-English speakers.
00:45:11.400And if you listen to the truck drivers themselves, they will tell you that this is a much bigger problem.
00:45:19.340So St. George Insurance Brokers, an agency that provides insurance for truck drivers, and they have this report on their website.
00:45:26.040A recent survey conducted by the digital platform Overdrive reveals information about the current state of CDL drivers on U.S. roads regarding English proficiency.
00:45:35.520While most responses were collected before the FMCSA updated its ELP verification guidelines, the results suggest a concerning disconnect between the regulation and the industry's reality.
00:45:46.960Respondents estimated the percentage of fellow CDL drivers with whom they directly interacted who failed to meet the English language requirements in the survey.
00:45:56.04040% of participating truckers selected the highest available option, more than 25%.
00:46:01.940So in other words, they surveyed truck drivers. They asked them how many of the other truck
00:46:10.860drivers that you have interacted with could not speak English. And 40% of those truck drivers
00:46:17.200said that more than 25% of the truck drivers that they interact with don't speak English.
00:46:22.880um and uh then another 21 said that it was 15 to 25 percent of uh of truckers
00:46:31.880lack english proficiency so you know and this is and this is what you hear
00:46:37.460um it's the pattern we see you know we get the official estimates but then you talk to the
00:46:45.060people on the ground and they say almost uniformly uh no it's way worse than that
00:46:51.040And I've also, I've personally heard this from truck drivers. I've heard, I've heard many of
00:46:55.660them tell me, as we've talked about this issue, that a huge number of their fellow truck drivers
00:47:01.180not only don't understand English, but also don't understand really how to be truck drivers.
00:47:06.540And you can't teach them because they don't understand you.
00:47:10.640And keep in mind that many of these drivers, you know, we know that like 20% of truck drivers
00:47:15.660on the road right now are foreign-born, which again is a huge number. You know, it's hundreds
00:47:23.220of thousands of truckers, and many of them come from countries where traffic laws basically don't
00:47:27.420exist. The road system is total pandemonium. Anything goes. There's no rules. There's no
00:47:33.840traffic enforcement. A lot of times there's no traffic lights. There's no speed limits.
00:47:40.020It's just a road, if even that. Like the most that the government, to the extent that you have
00:47:45.200one in a third world country, the most they'll do is maybe they'll provide a road, probably won't
00:47:50.600maintain it, but maybe they'll at some point pave one. And then they say, okay, you're on your own.
00:47:58.280Here you go. Best of luck. Best of luck. Good luck. So they're coming from places like that.
00:48:07.460And then you add in no, no, you know, they're not able to speak English, therefore not able to read
00:48:13.980the signs or understand anyone who's trying to advise or help or teach them. And you have
00:48:19.340a recipe for carnage, which is what we're getting. You would hope that we could ask
00:48:27.080for a bare minimum. A bare minimum is, hey, can we at least make sure that the drivers
00:48:34.960on our roads who are driving around these, driving inside a huge metal weapon, a huge
00:48:44.780metal battering ram going 75 miles an hour down the highway, can we at least make sure
00:48:49.600that those people are capable of reading the signs on the road? Can we at least have that?
00:48:58.480and the message we've gotten for years is uh no you can't even have that that's too much to ask
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01:03:44.000You know, when the prodigal son returns and he's embraced by his father, but you notice the prodigal son, the prodigal son shows up to his father in a state of abject, total humiliation and humility.
01:03:56.020He doesn't show up and say, hey, dad, I'm back.
01:03:58.500And let me, why don't you all sit down for a second?
01:04:24.320This kind of pridefulness that you find, I think,
01:04:26.380in many Christians who are so eager now
01:04:29.320to talk about their sinful wayward past.
01:04:31.340And look, again, there are occasions where that could be appropriate.
01:04:34.740There are also people I will acknowledge who are maybe uniquely called to use their personal story, their sinful past, their misguided youth as a tool, as a teaching tool in their ministry.
01:04:47.760There are some people who are called to that, but it can't be that everybody is called to that.
01:04:54.580It can't be that 100 million Christians on social media are called to that.
01:05:02.160Most people, if you live a sinful past and you come to the faith, your calling is to now, okay, go and live a humble life away from the limelight.
01:05:10.480That's what most people are called to.
01:05:13.520If you have a really dramatic story and it would be really inspiring and you're an incredibly gifted communicator, then maybe you're called to that.
01:05:24.160you know most people most of us are called to keep our sins to ourselves to confess them to
01:05:30.980be absolved to work out our salvation with fear and trembling and um and exercise much
01:05:38.680discretion and keep the intimate details of our lives private that's what most of us are called
01:05:43.080to do and i would humbly suggest that that's the case here you know it's clear that trevor
01:05:50.400is not called to use his, much less his wife's, personal intimate details as a ministry because
01:05:55.320this post did not help in any ministry. It had the opposite effect. And the line about more pure
01:06:02.280than most virgins is not the spirit you would have if this was actually your calling. That is the
01:06:08.420pride of somebody bragging about past sins. It is not the humility of somebody revealing them,