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also have two Skype callers who have already joined us. So that's the way
it is on a Friday. Bpete, let's start with you. I know
you haven't gotten a chance to skim the news today or anything, but who
knows, maybe we won't talk about news. We'll talk about whatever these people
want to bring up as they call in join us. Or whatever. We
got two skypers already on the line. I'll get to them after you,
but first be beating my calls my brother. How are you? Oh,
I'm good. We're glad. It is Friday. Man, it's been a
long week, so we're getting ready to freeze our butts off overnight though supposed
to get down a load twenties so winters here and of course North Carolina weather,
you'll be able to wear shorts of flip flops next week when he gets
up to seventy. Yeah, I think I'm about to get the cold snap
tonight too. I'm not sure if it's going to drop to the twenties on
the overnight or not, but there it is. It's been weird in the
Southeast lately. I know we got one skiper from the southeast, and we
got one from another part of the country, not quite in the southeast,
but not too far away. I just dropped something now I got to try
and pick it up here. Anyway. The deal is, it's getting cold
and a lot of places snow hitting here and there. Do you get any
snow in North Carolina because I'm in a slightly different tempered region. Oh yeah,
well, we always get in the western part of the state. We
get it here occasionally. You've got to get snow in this area. You
have to have a low pressure system come from Texas, skirt the Gulf,
and right before it hits Florida, it turns left at Georgia or it goes
past it's the Atlantic Ocean comes up the coast and we get what's called a
northeastern right and that's I mean, just like a hurricane. You've got this
low pressure system churning and it's going up the coast. So every all the
winds are coming in from the northeast and it just blows the banks and the
beaches and everything to pieces and works its way on out. Now, if
it's cold enough, when one of those come through, that's when we get
snow. And we've had up to a foot in this area off foot and
a half, so it's rare that we get it. When we do,
it's usually a dusting. But we get it out west like We've got some
real good snow skiing out west, a lot of slopes up there, so
yeah, we're used to it. Well, look the second that people can't
try, no, no, not at all. The second the previous day's
rain freezes on an overnight here in Georgia, look out, man, because
nobody knows how to drive on it. They're sliding off the road, hitting
things, hitting each other, yeah things. But you know, I find
it funny that we've got so many of these damn Yankees coming down here from
where snow is all the time, and you know what, they can't drive
in it either. So ignore what's you here. If it snows, get
up there, have a blast. Just make sure your insurance is paid up,
and you know, take chance, roll the dice, you live life.
Yeah, the Yankees don't know how to drive in the snow. Notice
it doesn't look like that in Jersey. Even though they got like a foot
and a half up there right now or something. People are not abandoning their
cars on the side of the road for a little ice. Go ahead.
But but think about a north You've got the equipment up there hitting the roads.
It's able to get crap moved in most cases, and traffic the world
can still function down here. It's not like that. They got, you
know, a single axle dump truck with a blade on the front. They
think they're gonna push snow over that. It's so bad on the interstates.
We put we have to put motivators out there. It is pretty funny.
Like four, it is pretty funny. Nobody's prepared. They can't figure out
how to dump sand on the road or nothing around, you know, in
the in the South here it is funny. I mean, look, it
is true they're prepared up there. But the funny part is well, but
the funny part is it keeps coming down, so you have a constant sheet
of ice that these guys actually when they're clearing away all that snow and getting
that out of the way, sometimes that leads to more problems because they turn
slush over and then it freezes again on the overnight and you're on a constant
sheet of ice, whether you're walking outside or you or you're driving outside.
So believe it or not, they do get a tuned to driving on ice
at least now as far as the snow goes. Yeah, you're right,
I mean, nobody knows how to driving the damn snow. Everybody's an idiot.
It's it's too funny, and you yeah, you might as well just
embrace it. So hey, you know, someone just time to drive in
the snow and go out and have you know, do your go about your
business. We don't shut down. I'm still commuting an hour and a half.
Snow, rain, it doesn't matter. So you just can't take on.
Which is funny if you notice how nowadays like here, Oh it's going
to get super cold, and we're going to postpone school. Oh it's supposed
to snow. Okay, well, schools shut down. You know, we
haven't seen the first flake and it's not coming for a day, but we've
gone ahead, declared an emergency, and we're sutting schools down for three days.
I don't see how today's generation can get through winter without spending all of
summer in therapy because they're so put out. I mean, we close,
we close the school. If it gets too hot, we close the school.
If it's too cold in the morning. Kids can't wa Whose last time
you saw a kid walk to school? It's weird. I don't know how
people can survive. There's just a bunch of Wilsies out there that can't handle
mother Nazer fair enough. And for that kind of thing, why don't we
turn to our other friends on Skype and see what they got to say.
Start with Captain Tripps. If he's with US. Captain you available to talk?
I am, I am. I thought it was a left turn at
Albuquerque, not Florida. Is this something there? You go? How is
it? How is it in Desanta, Stan with your governor being absent there
in Florida? Is the weather? I mean, like, I think I've
made this comment. As a governor, for the most part, he actually
is pretty good. Unfortunately, he's a little He's got his areas where I'm
in complete disagreement with him, But overall, as a governor, I've liked
him. As a presidential candidate, he has been absolutely abysmal. It's a
real shame. I keep scratching my head, going, dude, why did
you do this? And I mean you got some really bad advice. Still,
he came in second place in New What was it in Iowa? Right?
I mean in the Iowa coues he's second place. Even though he's licking
his Did you see him on his town hall on CNN any clips of that?
No, he's licking his lips like a dog that you forgot to leave
the water bowl out for from yesterday. I mean, like just over and
I'm trying, I'm like, why is this weird? Ticket. I'm thinking
back, Why am I focusing on this? Oh yeah, because every debate
I was watching him grinding his teeth. I mean, at first I saw
him do that before. What the hell I mean, he's he's I don't
know what it is. And I've talked to more than a few people that
actually know him personally, and they said, he's not like that in person.
Apparently he's very He's much more personable and easy going if you actually have
a conversation with the guy. But yeah, he he he seems to freeze
up on the camera, super nervous. I mean, Nick, Nikki Haley,
you can watch her drop her head and recollect herself all the time,
and that's her little gig, right. I mean, I watched the ticks
of these people because it tells you a lot about their personality. Nikki Halee,
You'll drop her head and go okay, okay, I'm not going to
say this, but I am going to say this, and then she'll pick
her head back up and put her eyes back on the camera. She's trained.
Okay, It's just that simple. DeSantis is not. He's grinding,
Steve. He seems very very very fake, very scripted, you know,
look, I'm going to tell you the same typical things that everybody's been telling
you for the past thirty years. That's how it goes. And he speaks
with that cadence exactly. I'm going to say, get it out here,
all in one sentence, right at once. And it doesn't matter if I
made a mistake in what I said, because I'm just going to keep going
that that's the way he handles things, right, that's my Desanti's impressions everybody,
But it's not it's actually not that. What blows my mind though about
him is he's never capitalized on his strongest, you know, his strongest campaign
thing, which was the whole COVID crap. And it's like, and I
watch him, I'm going, you have the perfect you know, you could
attack you can he could have actually attacked Trump on this because Trump attacked him.
Yeah, and you know he but but yet he doesn't. He didn't
focus on that, And I just have to scratch my head, going,
that was your strongest point and you have I mean, he's made you know,
he'll make a couple of comments about it, but you know I was.
I just keep thinking, man, that this is your strong point,
and for some reason, you're just not even going near it. Well,
have you had local news in Florida, because I'm curious as to how they're
covering your governor literally placing second, even though the rest of the media across
the country is treating it as though Haley one, yeah, which is really
weird because she didn't and I mean in reality right now, RFK Junior could
claim more of the Republican uh, you know, voters than Nikki Haley could.
He's just wasn't part of the caucuses. But it was. I just
I saw a story I can't remember where it was, basically warning Trump,
don't pick this woman to be your vice president. You'll I think I think
that would lose him the election. I don't know. I don't know because
she's really I mean, yeah, she she is the establishment pick, and
I think that may have been what it was for some reason. They thought
the Santis was going to be on pro establishment and I mean on some things.
On some things he certainly is, but on some things he's not right.
But I think I think Haley would be you know, uh, would
would definitely be more friendly to the to the uniparty established. Absolutely true.
Local news, I don't really pay much attention to it. Sorry, what
would that be? I was I was going to say, if you look
at the job of vice president and what they do, Nikki Haley would be
perfect for it. But yeah, anybody has qualified for it after what we
have in office now as vice president. Yeah, you could put old shoes.
Would definitely be more intelligent, There's no question about that. But she's
she's hit some foreign state experience, you know, uh, be an ambassador
to you in she's well also working with international companies as being the governor of
South Carolina. I mean she has that gubernatorial experience as well. So I
mean one could say from a typical political standpoint, she has plenty of experiences
to be able to work in the White House, to be able to work
in the cabinet, to be vice president, I think no problem from a
purer skills standpoint, BPTE. Don't you. Oh yeah, I think she'd
make a good vice president. But I don't see it happen but under Trump.
But not a good worry. What worries What worries me is what I'm
afraid may happen. And I could be wrong, but what I'm what I'm
afraid may happen. I mean, it really looks like unless unless they can
somehow get something to stick to Trump and they can somehow officially pull him off
the ballot. I don't think there's any way this guy doesn't win the Republican
nomination. And if you, if the polling is even remotely accurate, he
should beat Biden. I mean, if you if the election was held tomorrow.
I quite frankly, I think if the election was held tomorrow, I
could beat Biden. But that's that's a whole other story. Yeah, I
think I could too, because she's got about what a thirty three approval rating.
I mean, if that hord, then he you know, he's alienating
a lot of I think the core support that he had because they disagree with
his administration's his administration's position on the Israel Israel Gaza issue. And I'm not
taking a position, and I'm just saying, clearly, a good percentage of
the people that voted for him in twenty twenty have a different point of view
than his administration does on this whole issue. So I don't see I see
him losing votes for that, And honestly, I'm going to be shocked,
as I'm going to be shocked as anything if the man is actually going to
be on the ballot in November. He just doesn't look like he's gonna live
that long. Biden, whether I like him or not, I hear you,
but you know, will either one of them live? There was that
weird thing going on where syphilis started trending on Twitter for a minute because of
sores showing up on Trump's hand. I thought that was pretty funny, and
I wanted to point out to people that I got excoriated for saying it in
twenty seventeen. But you know, I'm a bad guy. Or actually I
said it before that didn't I But it doesn't matter. That's when I said
it a few times out loud. I'll tell you what's funny is, you
know, again bringing up RFK Junior if you take a look at his position
when you talk about people that want to stay out of war, and I
want to get the regular Joe next by the way, But here it is.
This is from their campaign because I get emails several times a day from
them, and I also get text messages. I'm on all these lists for
RFK Junior, and I don't even know how I got on some of them,
but anyway, the Ukrainian War should never have happened. This is from
Kennedy twenty four. It's a dispatch from the RFK Junior. The Ukrainian War
should have never happened, and it's time we understand the complex webs surrounding it.
The backstory. Now this is not my words, this is again the
RFK Junior campaign. The backstory. Russia tried multiple times to settle this conflict,
wanting one key thing is to keep NATO out of Ukraine. However,
the big military contractors had other plans. Adding new countries to NATO meant a
captive market for specific companies like Northbrough, Grumm and Raytheon General Dynamics, Boeing
and Lockheed. The financial toll. In March twenty twenty two, we committed
a staggering one hundred and thirteen billion to the war in Ukraine. To put
it in perspective, that could have provided homes for almost every homeless person in
our country. But it doesn't end there. An additional twenty four billion was
committed two months ago. Now President Biden is seeking another sixty billion. The
money trails Senator Mitch McConnell recently revealed a startling truth. It's a money laundering
scheme. The funds aren't really going to Ukraine, They're going to American defense
manufacturers. And who owns these companies Blackrock The loan illusion. Senator Tim Scott
tried to ease concerns by calling the billions were giving away a loan, but
it's not a generous offer. It's a tactic. By labeling it alone,
extreme austerity measures can be imposed on Ukraine. This includes putting government owned assets
up for sale to multinational corporations, including its prize to agricultural land. The
land grab Ukraine's farmland, the bread basket of Europe is a major target.
Thirty percent of it has already been sold to DuPont, Cargel and Monsanto,
all entities owned by Blackrock, meat qualifying this pulling that away partially owned by
Blackrock, not completely owned by Blackrock, but partially indeed anyway. The building
contract is the next headline in here. In December, President Biden awarded the
contract to rebuild Ukraine, and yes, you guessed it, black Rocks secured
the deal. The strategy. The strategy is ancient but effective. Keep us
at war with each other. By fostering division, they maintain control. They're
doing all this right in front of us because they believe they can get away
with it. How do we stop them? We unite. That's printed in
red, and various things were underlined as I went. The last line in
their communication is the power to change the lies. The power to change this
lies with us, the citizens. We can't dismantle the corrupt systems that perpetuate
war for profit without your generous support. Of course, this is the thing.
Now, you're supposed to contribute to Kennedy's campaign, et cetera, et
cetera. But that is a position that's being taken by a lot of people.
I'm not saying it's all correct. I'm just saying that this is a
logical ste that's being made coherently by a bunch of people about this situation.
And that's only one of the wars that we're actually involved in, despite the
fact that we're lacking headlines on a bunch of stuff. Anyway, all of
this in mind, I want to turn to my other friend who's kind of
snowed in, and I have a feeling hasn't been paying a lot of attention
to the news. Regular Joe, is any of this hitting your psychological field,
your cocoon over there or regular Joe? Have you missed all of this
in recent days? I've missed everything that you guys have brought up. Excellent,
excellent, So I'm hearing a bit of it for the first time now.
So yeah, no, I've officially dropped out. I think so.
But I am snowed in and I think we're supposed to be seeing windchills of
fifteen below zero tonight. Oh boy, that's rough. I don't know what
the windshills are here. I haven't studied it yet. I don't even want
to look until after at least I'm done with my show. But let me
ask you, man, what is on your mind? I know you definitely
pointed me to the latest Dave Chappelle offering a couple of weeks ago. You
and I have been in and out of contact lately. I had some problems,
but you know it is what it is. How are you doing and
what is in your world your mind? And what would you like to discuss?
I mean, I could turn to some other emails I get regarding news
like Metal Hammer with it with a headline that says, hopefully we get more
horny heavy metal songs in twenty twenty four. We could go to some recent
news science. We could go to JP Satilli's statement, Bbe's Moment of truth
if you want to talk about Israel, but I have a feeling you don't
want to cover any of that. We could go to the five minute Fix
from the Washington Post, which I find really bizarre, as they discussed the
Hunter Biden situation, which is ongoing and apparently he's going to be testifying at
Congress soon. But anyway, what's on your mind? Actually, well,
on the whole vice president job you guys were talking about earlier, I've got
two words. You ready, it's blast from the past. But dan Quail
nice nice and the country didn't collapse, you know, the country didn't collapse.
And I don't know what to take a dan Quayle. I'm told he's
a fairly decent lawyer. But anyway, go ahead. Yeah, So,
you know, my stance on politics is now and probably even more so than
it ever was. I just don't participate, and I and not figure out
for the life of me why anyone else does. So, you know,
you know we've been scammed and what's well, you know, if you know
it's a scam and you call for it anyway, that's your fault. Yeah.
Well, you know, the fun thing is it is kind of a
mostly bloodless sport, So I mean, what else do you got to entertain
you? I don't think the AI is writing most of the you know,
of the entertainment lately are doing a good job because most of it sucks.
Although I did enjoy that Dave Chappelle show, I gotta tell you that was
a good recommend thank you. Well, yeah it was. It wasn't bad
at all. It wasn't as good as some of his previous ones, but
even Dave Chappelle, even on an off night, as one of the best
there's ever been. Yeah. I was kind of comparing to his to his
three heroes that he mentions frequently himself. He's like a mixture of the three,
and that's Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. That's that's Dave
Chappelle. He's like those three perfected. Yeah, and you know, it's
amazing that he did that tour with Chris Rock and that was a big deal.
Uh, you know, because to me, Chris Rock is kind of
a poor man's Eddie Murphy. Uh, that's the way he's always been.
But of course he's become a bigger star than Murphy was in a lot of
ways. You know, it's it's weird, but Dave is is unique.
It never stops with him. And by the way, I love the overreaction
of his you know, oh, there he is. He's bashing the Trani's
again and I'm like, no, he's not. He is just poking at
you people and laughing his ass off all the way to the bank. I
think it's brilliant actually what he did with that special throughout it just kind of
going oh, by the way, no, I'm not afraid to talk about
it, but I got other stuff to cover. Boom. I thought that
was pretty funny. What did you think of that? Yeah, he's just
brilliant. He's always on top of his game and he's it's like he never
missed. As if he was a baseball player, he would have record stats
because you know, he just says what he wants and I think it's his
goal to to fire up canceled culture. He wants to do it. It's
obvious he's doing it on purpose every time, and they still haven't caught on.
Yeah, he's winnings. We talk about how you know, it's so
funny to me because they keep falling for it each and every single time.
You want to talk about people falling for the same thing, they keep going
for it every single time. And he yanks that rug right out from under
him. I mean, it's hilarious. Yeah, he's before he tells the
joke. It's like it's like he has turned comedy into chess. He's brilliant.
Yeah, and with the social issues and what's funny is I really wish
there was more. It seems like a lot of the people that are very
concerned with cancer cancel culture and you know, and and the whole Oh my
god, you know that the trannies are coming. You know, I'm afraid
of the story hours and all these those people should be like cheering him on
the way he's handling this, and they're not. They're not getting behind him.
It's always the weirdest thing to me to watch that where it's like they
they still want to tout Joe Rogan, they still want to tout you know,
Oh, look at what's going on on Twitter, which, by the
way, Twitter X. Now you know the wonderful free speech platform. You
know who's now going to have a broadcast show on there? And I doubt
it's going to get any action, But pretty funny that this guy's going there,
Don Lemon, So, I mean, is he gonna play how racist
is this? On? On Twitter X platforms? I mean, he's going
the way up. And you know there's money there. If you've got Tucker
Carlson and Don Lemon going to the same well, guess what that means.
There's at least a good paycheck behind it. Somehow somebody's guaranteeing him decent money
to just go on Twitter and put out a podcast basically through their platform.
So it's a weird world. And oh, Alex Jones was restored. I
don't know if you knew about that. Joe to Twitter and all that.
Yeah, I didn't know. But Alex Jones, man, well you gave
it up on Twitter a couple of years ago. But yeah, good,
the whole thanks Pale thing. It's like, why have these groups that figured
out that he's on their side? He's flat towed them in more than one
special I'm on your side, you know. He he just can't stop writing
the jokes. Yeah, and well, because one they're writing themselves and two
here's the other thing that people miss the point of when it comes to a
comedy. Matter of fact, I put up on Twitter right away at right
after I watched the special. I was a little pissed, and why I
made sure to include blind Joe in the descriptor. I said, you know,
he's not making fun of handicapped people enough, and he doesn't make any
blind jokes. I'm a little pissed. I feel left out and blind Joe,
how about you? Doesn't this suck because I'd like, you know,
I'd like people to remember there's actually handicapped people out there to be made fun
of too. Everybody should be the target of humor with a guy like this,
and I love it, I really do. So sorry. That was
the only thing I was mad at is that he started to act like he
was going to pick on some handicapped people, you know, and then he
did it like one joke only and no blind jokes. Damn it, come
on, Dave, blind jokes, let's go. I know you can do
it, okay, you know, look back at Eddie Murphy with his Stevie
Wonder impression. That was the best, even Stevie Wonder nugget, Come on,
man, anyway, sorry, go ahead, And even the most lame
joke he told that he knew wasn't going to work because he said he'd told
it over and over and it never worked, and he said, and it's
not going to work tonight either, and it didn't. And it was still
good with the cone joint of us in our watery grave, yep, he's
making and and that's well, it's almost you know, it's not going to
work. You tell it anyway, and it's all right. It's still didn't
work, but it's it's okay, Yeah, that's good, and it's great
because and I know he's just telling The funny part is he's telling that in
front of everybody to basically needle his wife. Which is the funniest part of
it is that he's doing that right out in public too, you know.
But then again, this is the same guy he says, you know,
every once in a while when he catches her sleep and he just humps her
feet too. I mean that that's another thing, like, this is a
guy who just doesn't care and lays certain things out there for the world to
hear, regardless of how much it makes somebody else squirm, even himself,
which I think is hilarious. And he doesn't do to spare himself either.
I mean he busts Sea Bus jokes on himself all the time. Yeah,
and they're brilliant. So you know, I'm a fan, I really am.
I think he's a genius. Yeah, no, I agree with you.
But anyway, so I wanted to be glad to cover that part of
the media as we go forward. I've got this five minute fix from the
Washington Post which is all about Hunter Biden. I might read from it a
little bit, but before we do that, we got a caller to get
to. So, Joe, you got anything else you want to put on
the on the table here before I go to UH, looks like Jimmy James
is the only one on the phone line, but anybody could join us.
Three one nine five two seven five zero one six. That's the number to
call. UH. I want to get to Jimmy next. But you got
anything else, Joe? Before I go there out, Let's go ahead and
move on to Jimmy. All right, be Pete, you good with that?
Or you got something you want to add in? You want to say
something about Chappelle anything all right, excellent? And I love the fact that,
you know, people that were picking on him for being racist, it's
hilarious too, like he was anti Asian. At one point He's like,
well, my wife's Asian and you know I got kids too, But okay,
you know, it's so funny. It's just too too funny. And
his response to the uh you know, the we they them crowd was to
have one of them open for him. Uh that you know, people said,
you know, he wouldn't support you know, artists like that. He
just went and did it. I I just I don't know what to say.
The guy responds perfectly every time. I think people need to take lessons
from him for dealing with cancel culture and the uh the woke but completely sleepwalking
still alleged left. But anyway, I believe we got Jimmy James on the
line. So let's see what's on his Jimmy James that you this is a
that is I. That is him saying I as in I am here.
So I am Jimmy James. How are you? Oh? I'm doing all
right? Negative for here? No when chilled factor needed, it's just playing
negative four mm hmm. But your football team did well, right, You
got that right? M h Well, hey, look broken clocks and such.
I gotta get something right once in a while, so it's on your
mind. No, everything, and not too. I was just thinking of
Shakespeare. Shakespeare. Tell me Chuck, of course, tell me Chuck.
Do you appree she Shakespeare? I appreciate a lot of Shakespeare in work.
Sure. I used to really enjoy a lot of his poetry. And of
course I read the plays, and well not all the plays, but many
of the plays, you know, the historical ones. I liked Julius Caesar.
I think at some point I read Romeo, Romeo and Juliet. I
really like Hamlet, to be honest. A lot of intrigue in that one,
political assassination and all kinds of chicanery going on in the kingdom there in
Denmark. But yeah, interesting stuff Shakespeare, and a lot of things I
believe in coded messaged in there in the writings of the alleged William Shakespeare,
who may or may not be one or more people historically speaking. But what
are your thoughts on Shakespeare? And some people say, Sir Francis Bacon,
good, I'd say, you're there's a last smoke of what you just said.
No, there is, there is. I'm not saying I conclude that
it's accurate, but I see where there's good evidence for there being maybe him
and other authors involved in the collective works of the alleged William Shakespeare. But
regardless of who authored it, it's pretty pretty amazing stuff. Yeah, yeah,
and clearly I mean Shakespeare. I mean, have you ever met anyone
in your name in the world with it. It's obviously a fake Shakespeare,
as you know, the guy who well, yeah, to shake a spear,
right, a guy who constantly was making currently you know, in his
time, right, a lot of political commentary, but claiming that it was
through historical figures, right, trying to explain things with these historical plays,
ascribing it to other countries, and very likely making commentary about current events related
to the crown in his own country, even if that indeed was his own
country. You know. Again, I stand kind of agnostic as to whether
this guy was legitimately a singular individual or if indeed that was his name,
so you know, but but go ahead. I mean, it's pretty interesting
stuff, even historically. Yeah, oh, it's fascinating, it is.
And before the Percetolet, Elizabethtnah and Old Shakespeare and the King James fir surviible.
You know, we wouldn't have if we were to try to speak to
someone that's spoken that type of English and just it wouldn't happen. They were
just completely ignorant people. They just one could read, one could write,
but the stories were translated. But see that was the point of the place,
right Well that was the point of the place, wasn't it, Jimmy,
Because wasn't that the point of the plays? Because even if you couldn't
read or write, you could follow the stories right right right right? That's
why. And I think that they were trying to and they did successfully manipulate
the English language. Wouldn't agree, Oh absolutely, the English language. I
agree with Jordan Maxwell on this that it's a designer language, and it's designed
to be simultaneously unifying and confounding. You know, where a lot of words
are meant to imply one thing, when meanwhile they're stating exactly the opposite thing,
and it's meant to be misleading. And I'm not sure what the entire
design was about, but it appears to be something that somebody thought out pretty
well. Integrated many other languages into it, and it nearly is a universal
language as matter of fact when it comes to business. In the late nineties,
early two thousands, you know, again, English was before the days
of now what we have almost universal translators. We could translate stuff in real
time almost you know, a lot of people were encouraging their children, look,
go learn English, because that's going to be the international language of business.
And this way you can also speak to the Americans and various other countries
that use a variation of this language, and that seemed to be something that
could be universal, you know. So you know, in Asia and Europe,
they very much encouraged English, the English language for a little while.
I think that might have shifted in recent years oddly enough, but I don't
see people really pushing other people in other parts of the world to learn Chinese,
although I think it wouldn't be a bad idea if some people around you
knew how to interpret it. You know, there was a point at which
people were saying we should all learn Japanese because they were dominating the computer world,
the technology world, et cetera. But that faded away. The Japanese
no longer dominate those things. They built up something very strange over there in
their society and were very successful financially for a little while, but now have
kind of stagnated, it seems, on the world stage. But then again,
perhaps it's because of my disconnect from that culture that I don't understand all
of what's happening. I do know about the birth rates and the loneliness of
men and stuff. But anyway, somehow they somehow they definitely lost their yen.
There's that they definitely lost their yet right around what about ninety five seems
like, right. So anyway, my buddy Japanese no no, I was
just gonna say that, you know, and I know Bpete sometimes is rather
fascinated by Korean culture, which to me, although I know it's incorrect,
but you know, dumb American over here, it seems like an offshoot of
Japanese and Chinese culture, and I guess it's related because it's kind of in
the same region but has its own sort of unique history, despite the fact
that it was divided into two countries, you know, when the Armistice took
place, you know, after the Korean conflict. It is a different culture
as well, and one that takes a bit of deciphering to begin to understand.
Although they built some bridges with things like k pop and various other forms
of entertainment. You know, people have gone and looked at the animation and
some of the television shows and some of the storytelling and have adapted it into
the English speaking world. In recent years, Korea has sort of risen up
as a cultural influence oddly enough, and seems like stronger than Japan, even
which Japan again was seemed to be a rising titan when I was growing up,
even starting with car manufacturing and then moving to other technologies. Yeah,
ah'd be pete. One thing that has to do with that is the fact
that South Korea is the most wired country in the world based on population size
and their internet infrastructure. Everybody's online, and they lead South Korea is Korea
itself is a totally separate culture from China and Japan. They've had influence,
They've been ruled over by various aspects, but they're their own, you know,
distinct culture. They had their own dynasties way back, you know,
when dirt was created. But they lead in a lot a lot of the
new technology in that they are the most wired country in the world. A
lot of well like MTV. MTV was huge here when they used to play
music and music videos were the thing, and that's what these entertainment or record
companies did is produce videos strictly for that medium. VH one, MTV.
They're still real big over there. A lot of the entertainment companies go to
MTV studios to have their music videos shot. They're leading technology. I mean,
look at their car industry. Hyundai and Kia are big sellers here in
the States now. They've kind of surpassed Japan in a lot of areas,
and they're way ahead of China in most areas. But it's all technology driven,
and it's an old world culture that is at the leading edge of what
we're seeing today in the forms of media and electronic media. So South Korea
is very influential when it comes to things like that. Yeah, it's a
long way. Yeah, it's strange because before that tumbling that, you know,
Jimmy James kind of pinpointed around nineteen ninety five, which I think is
about accurate, where Japan sort of fell from its position to promin it's its
perch. It seemed like Korea was starting to challenge them in a literal technological
race regarding things like consumer electronics. I think that's when those car companies really
started to sell here in this country. I don't know how long they've existed.
I don't know the history, but you know, previous to that,
Toyota and what was it, Mitsubishi. I think we're the two biggest producers
that were doing well here. Yes, sorry, yeah, it's Toyota and
Nissan were the two biggest. Oh nsaid Subaru had other companies come in Mitsubisi.
Mitsubisi is really shrunk compared to where they used to be in the all
market. It's it's they're very limited in the series of missispecies that you can
still get over here. They were big at one time, but Hunda and
Kia hold a huge part of the market and product wise put something out there
that's just as comparable and can compete with either Nissan or Toyota. Oh and
you know what told you that they were going to have and even bigger market
share is and this relates to you a little bit, is when they came
out with those commercials with the hamster driving the car. To be honest with
you, it was perfect it was exactly the kind of thing to get attention,
uh for what some people call the toaster, right, the little Kia
souls that are those funny shows. Yeah. Of all the cars I've owned,
I've owned Subarus, I've owned Toyotas, I've owned Fords, I've owned
Chevyes. Of all the cars I've owned or driven throughout my entire life,
I really like that Kiyas. For the money and the ride and the durability
and the economy of the car. I'd buy another one. Oh well,
you saw how it was you took it when we drove it to Texas.
It's not a bad for a cheap little car. It's not a bad ride.
No. I was just gonna say, driving twelve hours that Texas didn't
kill me in that car. I mean, look, I was a little
stiff, but you're gonna be stiff sitting anywhere for twelve hours, right.
But the thing is, I mean it actually was fairly comfortable. It's compact,
it doesn't kill you on gas, and the sticker price isn't brutal to
begin with, So you know, I mean I'm looking at everything else being
what it's like, fifty thousand dollars for a new car realistically at this point,
and used cars are a way to hell up, you know. So,
And right now I got nothing to say because all I got is a
busted Saturn in my driveway of two thousand Saturn. But yeah, same what
she came over here. They tried, you know, they started cutting in
on the market on Nissan well back then Dotson and Toyota, and they were
affordable Subaru gl and it was a great little car, five speed, you
know, get you down the road sheet and it didn't cost much to ensure
it. But then the berking Stock crowd got ahold of a couple of models
of Subaru, and now they have a very high opinion of what their car
is worth. So, you know, for spending the money on something like
that, Kia now is where Subaru was before they got expensive and nobody could
afford them. Right I forgot about Dotson, but a very very good car.
I'm looking at a Hyundai right now. I've been considering buying one of
those new Santa Cruz is a small four do or pickup that they've got,
and I'm thinking very seriously about it. But yeah, I'd buy another Kia
Soul in a minute, it's been an excellent car. I'd recommend it to
anybody. Yeah, and what was it that Toyota Corolla was like the longest
lasting damn thing in the world. Like those things were on the road for
thirty years, Like no matter how you treat it, pretty much well at
the Corolla right sale value, you know, they hold their value because they
do last so long. Yeah, with without you know, a ton of
intense maintenance, just with some basic maintenance. I mean I had a friend
had one for like twenty years, literally like the same you know, light
blue and you've seen these commonly the Corolla. The model was very prevalent for
a while and it was everywhere, you know, So I don't know,
man, it's a weird thing to watch. But but nowadays, yeah,
I'm thinking Korea is you're next up and comer, although in manufacturing other goods
and things, you know, Vietnam is on the rise too. There's always
an Asian nation, you know, rising up to take care of the cheap
goods aspects of things, and there's always one that's on the cutting edge of
technology. And as much as you know, China ends up manufacturing all kinds
of small electronic pieces. They never do master the more complex machinery and the
larger tag items. So it's pretty fascinating. You know, China's all your
cheap, cheap, small crap. But and you know, used to be
slave labor but now no longer. Uh. But all these other Asian countries
are coming up and filling that gap now. So you know, it's a
weird world. And while we're talking about that, there's a lot of international
business going on that I think people are paying no attention to. But you
know, as per usual, let's watch who finishes second place next to New
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Live Mike here on o'chelly dot com. So Hey, I'm curious to hear
what you think out there. That's what this show is about, not what
I have to say. I've got something loaded up. Maybe I'll talk about
hydrox cookies before we're all done. I keep teasing that. Who knows if
I'll get to it. Maybe I'll save it for a news story for next
week. And I got a news program to put out from last night,
but I got to do some editing because there was some flaws in the recording,
so I got to fix that and gonna put it out though hopefully you
guys heard it live if you listen to the live stream here and there.
But I'll get that out over the weekend along with this show, Aaron Show
and Uncle, which is coming up at ten pm Easter and Aaron Franz returns
to Friday Nights with the Age of Transitions and Uncle. The broadcast will start
at eleven pm Eastern or somewhere thereabouts. So back to it, Bpete.
We still got two guys on the skype and well, it looks like one
additional caller outside of Jimmy James on the regular phone line. I thought we
had two, but I think the other one hung up. So you can
call back in three one nine, five, two seven, five zero one
six join us. You can talk about anything you want. I don't hold
anybody back on this show. Discuss whatever's on your mind. Curious if regular
Joe or well, let's start with regular Joe, regular Joe Shakespeare, any
of those thoughts lately, any anything about that, that conversation or anything to
add Okay, I guess not wow, Okay, now I'm looking at my
call set up here, P Pete, looks like we did we lose.
No, we still have Captain Trips with us, but he might not be
available now Trips. No, I'm here, I'm here. Okay, Sorry,
I got confused for a moment there because I all of a sudden didn't
see regular Joe and you had been moved over to the side. Anything to
add I mean, Jimmy James has lately mentioned poetry and william S. Well,
I don't have anything to add to that, but I needed I forgot.
I was in the middle of a thought and then we got onto something
else and I never got the thought out. I just wanted to go back
to what my my I had originally said I were starting to say about my
concern with Trump possibly picking the wicked witch of the East. I guess because
Hillary Clinton is the wicked witch of the West. I don't know. I've
lost track ant Hillary is. How is Hillary the wicked witch of the West?
I thought she came from Arkansas, didn't she? Kay? And I
guess she's the wicked witch of the Ozarks? Okay, Well, I mean
was that she lives in New York? Now in that Well, that's got
her, That's right. My main concern with with the former governor Haley is
what worries me because it it really looks like they're not going to get any
of these charges to stick to him. And it also looks like and I'm
not making any comments about whether I agree disagree, I'm just just kind of
reading the teleies and I don't see any of the other current crop of Republican
candidates being able to beat him in the primary. What worries me if they
attach Haley to him as the vice president, they get him into office,
they immediately bring him up on impeachment charges and quite frankly, I think there's
enough Republicans that don't like him that they would impeach him, and we are
stuck with President Haley. Yeah, and that, well that that scares me
more than any of the other ones. Well, she's in my own opinion.
I think that was my thought. Okay, I think you have nothing
to worry about there, and I'm going to tell you why. I hope
you're right. A couple of reasons. One, in recent days now,
she's kind of doubled down, straight up called Trump a liar and everything else
in public. And that's the kind of thing that he personally doesn't matter if
he's Trump the politician, Trump the real estate guy or whatever. As soon
as you start calling him out in public for he in a pos for any
reason, guess what, you aren't working with him no more. Uh,
good point. I urge you to witness the lawyers that simply disagreed with his
strategy, the the the trail of tears that is in the law profession at
this point, all the lawyers they got dismissed from the various Trump teams.
You know, once you come out in public and say something like that,
it is the sin that has never forgiven. I know she said that,
so that I mean personally, it looks like what's his name, Ramaswami is
positioning himself as the potential VP. But I also heard that Trump himself made
mention of the Congress the congresswoman out of New York, what is a Staphonic
or Stephanic I think is her last name? You know what, the or
et least at least at least Stephonic, you know, would be a fascinating
you know, it would be a fascinating and really really intensely interesting pick if
somebody convinced Trump to do it. Because Tim Scott, who has now you
know, suspended his campaign, made it a point to come out and basically
endorsed Trump ahead of New Hampshire in recent and yeah, I saw that that
would be an interesting pick. He picks a black guy to be his vice
president, It's perfect. It's like, oh, you want to kill me,
racist, I have a black guy. He's a vice president. He'll
say it every day, And quite frankly, you could make the same argument
if he picks the congress Roman from New York because she's a female, And
you might even be able to stretch it with ramas Swami, because who in
the hell ever thought we would have a potential presidential candidate with the last name
of Ramaswami. Yeah, let's be honest. No fair enough, But Ramaswami
I think has too much of an ego to accept second fiddle, although other
people have said he's kind of positioning himself for that. But I think Tim
Scott is the perfect boot licker to be the vice presidential candidate. Besides that,
I mean, in a weird way, he's already kind of had a
female vice president and after all, uh, you know point, I'm gonna
I'm gonna leave that good boy. But a black guy that would throw a
monkey wrench into a whole lot of people's problems with him, and it would
be a direct a front to the MSM attacks on him. Trump is racist,
Trump is racist. Well I gotta have a black guy. He's a
vice presidential candidate. And of discussion, even Don Lemon would have to say
on on Twitter, X now I can, I can, I can hear
Rachel Maddow's head exploding currently? I love it. I actually I actually like
that. I hope he does it. To be quite honest with that would
be and that would be good. And what has Tim Scott done. He
has absolutely consistently defended Trump all along. Right, So on a personal level,
Tim Scott's an acceptable pick, and he's he's fairly well spoken. I
mean I heard him in the debates. I don't agree with a lot of
his positions, but that's really not the question. And he's well spoken.
He seems to be fairly p popular, at least in South Carolina. Right,
So that's a good thought. I didn't really think about that. But
and crushes and undermines the whole South Carolina theme with Haley. Yep, yes
it does, you know. And the only difference is, yeah, they
have different experiences, but you can't say that Tim Scott wasn't somewhat experienced too.
I mean, he's no less experience than guess what Mike kents so exactly,
he definitely has the he would definitely be able to maintain that Christian conservative
vote. That's it. And that's the thing. I think. It's actually
an intelligent pick. Now, that doesn't mean it's going to happen because I'm
nice, you know, I know I'm crazy, So no, I mean,
you might be crazy, but you're not wrong on this one. I'll
tell you that could be crazy, but not wrong. Thank you. I
appreciate that anyway, BP, Before we go to our next caller, what
do you think of that though, I mean, I think that Captain Tripps
has nothing to worry about as far as you know, Trump selecting Haley,
especially because she's saying that, you know, he's a liar, and he's
also afraid to debate her in recent days. This is what her statements are,
right, So he's afraid to debate me because I'm gonna call him a
liar on stage. I'm gonna call him out on his lies. And that
is exactly what you say to Trump to make sure you don't work for him
anymore. So, I mean, it doesn't matter if you're on the Apprentice
or if you're you know, work in real estate deals in Queen's, it
doesn't matter. I think there's no way Haley is going to be the VP.
She has definitely decided that is not her course of action. Now,
she might be looking to run in twenty eight. That might be something that
she's looking at seriously. But Tim Scott, I think is a fun pick.
That would be something that would shut a lot of people down as far
as their general attacks on Trump, what do you think of that VP?
Before we go to the next caller, Tim Scott would be a good choice,
if I'm not mistaken. Was now I was gonna say, Nikki Haley,
someone appointed Tim Scott to his position and then he ran. I think
he'd be a good choice for those of us that really don't care for Trump,
you know, really wouldn't make any difference. I wouldn't vote for him
just because he had Tim Scott as a VP pick. But yeah, and
also based on this last interview of Nikki Haley, can we start referring to
her as the little brown girl as she refers to herself. So I thought
that was someone's gonna run with that call of racist for for using the same
terminology she did when she was talking about growing up the little brown girl,
which speaks a lot for the for the for the attitude of South Carolina.
I mean, you know, they've had an Indian American as their governor.
Very South Carolina is not like it was years ago. They've really become more,
I think, more progressive than North Carolina. But yet they still hold
tight to a lot of conservative things that North Carolina has given up. A
while back, so it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
But I think Timscott to make a great choice. Yeah, brass tacks.
I think South Carolina is still kind of classic conservative in general, but
they're progressive as far as you know, not being part of the backwards ass
part of being conservatives, you know, which, which is the way I
would put it in the middle of Alabama right right, or or other places
not far from me, just you know, I could probably throw a baseball
at it. Anyway. It is what it is, and we are what
we're doing here, so I think it's right about the right time to hear
from this caller. It looks like we got Harlan on the line, and
I think he was on there before we went to break, but hopefully he
hasn't fallen asleep on me. Harlan, what's on your mind? I know
you've been listening, and what do you got to say about all this?
Op? Maybe we don't. It appears as though I have Harlan on the
line, but I don't know. HM shouldn't be muted and he can mute
himself. Could be, Harlan, you could be talking to your mute button.
I'm gonna just go for a quick mic check to Jimmy James then,
just to make sure our phone lines are operating properly. Jimmy, you hear
me, right, Yeah, there you go. So we can hear Jimmy
and Jimmy can hear us. Just hang on, Jimmy. I might come
back to you real quick, especially if we can't get Harlan on the line.
Let's try one more time. Harlan, Okay, I don't know if
you can hear us, but we cannot hear you. Maybe you put your
phone down, I'll put you back on hold, and perhaps you'll come back
around or call back in. I'm not sure which, but either way,
all right, So continuing on, be Pete, anything else you want to
cover? Or shall we continue on with this discussion about the GOP. Should
we go back to Jimmy James? What do you think, my co host?
We go back to Jimmy. I'm just sitting here trying to decide where
I'm gonna put my bet money on the NFL this weekend. Oh, well,
what do we got going on there? By the way, We're down
to playoffs right? The wild card was last week? I think? Yeah,
Divisional round now you got, you got San Francisco going against Green Bay,
Detroit just going against Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Bills are playing the Chiefs.
It's gonna be interesting, and oh crap, the Ravens and the Texans,
and out of those they'll move on to the next round next weekend.
So you'll have two AFC, two NFC teams played to see who's going to
the super Bowl. Well, I don't know why, but I feel like,
and don't ever bet with me, because I will pick. And by
the way, if you want to know who's to win the Super Bowl,
ask me and then bet against it, because I have only picked a Super
Bowl correctly three times in my entire life, and I've tried to pick a
winning team since what nineteen seventy nine. Anyway, anyway you go about it,
it's hard to pick. I mean, you know, I think the
lines are gonna take care of Tampa Bay and get them out of the way.
Packers and Packers in San Francisco. That's a tough call. I think
San Francisco might come out on top of that because they're playing in San Francisco,
Bills and Chiefs. That's going to be an interesting game because they're playing
in Buffalo. Oh, playing in Buffalo, they're going to be Exans.
But out of that, I couldn't even down to, you know, eight
teams. I can't really figure who's going to be going to the Super Bowl.
The one that worries me is the Chiefs fields. Yeah, that could
go the way. Well, here's the thing, playing in Buffalo. Now,
they they did postpone the game per snow this week, right, and
then they had to play it on Monday or something. Kansas City used to
playing in the snow. I mean, they've had a lot of games in
their own stadium where snow's been blowing sideway. So it's but it's not Buffalo
snow. That's you know, it's not You play Buffalo at home is tough.
And that's where the Chiefs messed up by losing out towards the end of
the regular season. They lost home field advantage and uh now they got it
to travel. So it's going to be interesting to see how they do with
Buffalo. But that's gonna be the toughest one for me to make a call
off. Well, yeah, so the Lions got I think San Francisco is
going to be the Packers who knows. Last week's game of the Packers was
good, but I don't know if they can stand up San Francisco. In
San Francisco see that Buffalo Chiefs game. I would favor Buffalo, but I
might be right about this because it is tough to play Buffalo at home in
this time of year. It is. It is Buffalo's last week. Buffalo
had a good game, so it's gonna be interesting. Kansas City is not
the team it was a year ago. They've got injuries, They've gotten to
Mahomes and have beat him up a little bit, so I'm curious to see
what's gonna happen. I'm thinking the Bills are gonna pull that one off.
Yeah, it could. It makes sense to me because again, Buffalo is
tough to play at home at this time of year. They always have been,
and that that that's just a standard. But of course I'm the guy
who bet on them every time. When they lost the Super Bowl, Okay,
I kept thinking they would win every single time. I picked the Bills
four times. When they lost. I think it was so you know,
but still, I've been to Buffalo and I'll tell you that snow there is
unlike any other place I've ever been. The cold weather is unlike any other
place I've ever been, and the people that live there are accustomed to it,
unlike any other place I've ever been. Now, true, I haven't
been to some of the frozen countries in Europe, et cetera, et cetera.
But just telling you, man, it's unique. I used to I
used to go ice fishing or fishing on the Niagara River in February with my
stepfather. And yeah, that that is a cold like like you can't.
I can't describe it. I don't. I don't anyway. Yeah, the
first time I went to Buffalo and ever set foot there, I'm not sure
if I touched the ground because I was riding in the back of the truck.
I jump out of the back of the truck and I was about up
to my waist in snow. And it was crazy, like, how is
it you pulled into a place and there is that much snow behind the box
truck? How the hell did you even do that? I don't know anyway,
this guy must have backed into a snow bank just to screw with me,
I'm thinking, but maybe maybe not. I know this much. I
looked at the place I said, crap. We went, We drove all
this way from Jersey and there's no way they're gonna put on a show.
This town is not going to move today. I doubt the restaurants are open.
Well, we go find a place to sit down, get a cup
of coffee and eat. And it was open. People were there, and
by the time the afternoon came around, yeah, they had taken care of
it. People were moving around and the show was fine, no problems.
It was like nothing happened. And I'm telling you, it was like two
feet of snow and I'm going, what the hell? I never seen people
do this before. And they looked at me like I was crazy taking that
nobody was going to show up. And that was for a local show in
Buffalo. I forget the name of the place, but it was some common
club name, you know, the whatever outrageous name place, and you know,
with all the crazy directions and a bunch of things up from the seventies,
a disco ball still tucked up in the ceiling, you know, kind
of joint. And yeah, those kids came out for a metal show that
started at like six pm. When we got there at about noon, and
it looked to me like nothing was going to move that day or for several
days in that town. So Buffalo's different sort of place. Jimmy James,
We're gonna go back around to you and maybe try and get to Harlan next
but uh, anything you want to add, I know you might have something
to say about that Lions thing. Uh. BP thinks the Lions are gonna
win this round. You think they're gonna go all the way? Jimmy James,
what's up? Oh? Yes, they will win a heading to the
Big Bowl. So you're saying super bowieve or may not be called chuckles.
Uh, you know what, you might be right, which is like a
comedy club part of the week and a music club another part of the week.
I think that sounds about right. That sounds correct and bubba yeah,
okay, good. Oh I'm the BP thing. I'm gonna say, Yeah,
you've got no worries with daily and now here you learn the correct Jimmy
James answer and the VP pick. You know, Trump's already said he knows
who he's picking, right. I think that's just a psychological trick to make
everyone on their best behavior, though, or to make them drop their pretext
on because if he already made his selection, then nobody else is buying for
the job. He's just not announcing it. But you know, I doubt
that that's true because he couldn't. He can't help himself put announce something like
that if he knows it for sure. I'm thinking, Jimmy, what do
you think? I'm pretty sure he's got it down fifty to fifty. I
think it could go two ways. Here's the real choice. It ain't Dan
Quayle, and ain't the black guy from South Carolina an ant the thirty year
old swami and the correct answer Senator Ted Kruz or equally possible Governor Christy Noman.
And also i'd ever got my real parts down about Shakespeare. But I'll
let you guys toss around what I just said. Well, no problem,
We'll go to Harlan next. But go ahead and hit your Shakespeare thing if
you want, because I got you. If you think that's the pick Ted
Cruz, that would be that would be a wild pick. I don't know
how he could square that exactly. Didn't cruise good? What do you mean?
Well? I thought Ted Cruz is sup bordered. Yeah, but it
just seems too establishment for him to pick him. He's not a senator.
Ted Cruz is not an you think he is. But he's not that guy
in Florida Rubio if that's what you're think. No, No, he's not
Rubio. I'm not saying that at all. But last of the people that
were elected in Yeah, but the last of the two any party people that
went fully into the GOP fold, right, is Ted Cruz. That's why
he's still there. Wow, why he's still there. He's there because the
voters too. And actually it's in for the fight of his life because well,
surprise, surprise, his district has been solely filled with new people.
Anyway. And Shakespeare, Uh, yeah, I think it's creed to me.
You're called that time that was very big about all these girls and other
idiots put on their Facebook to thy unknown, to thine own self be true.
I remember you never why I raged one that permitted a chat because it's
stupid, because it means exactly the opposite of what they think it. I
don't recall it. But but but I agree with your sentiment. Yeah,
it's the Uh, it's definitely the misunderstood idealism that comes of it, you
know, much like in the eye of the Beholder and all that. People
have very very miss misplaced ideas about what these things really meant when you put
them in context with where they came from. Pulling them out of context and
you know, turning them into something else is one thing, and that's what
they've done. But they somehow think they're making an illusion. Yeah, that's
kind of the Bible in that way when you see it. Mm hmm.
Yeah, people that misuse the people, right, People misuse a lot of
things from the Bible the same way. And there are some people that believe
that it is the character whoever it may have been, that was William Shakespeare
that might have written the King James Bible as well, you know, translated
it into that similar type language. Uh. There there are some people that
say that as well. Right tells me Willie was busy at the time.
Mm hmm. But my main grape is, of course, everybody's favorite uh
parked the maligned world Shakespeare there, And I'm sure you love this. What's
your favorite part of Shakespeare? Let me guess what do we do first?
Chuck? Uh, you tell me, man I I I I've got,
you know, odd ideas about what I appreciate about Shakespeare. Again, I
liked the Sonnets a lot, and there they were. There, they were
loaded with unique images that people just pass right on by and just you know,
take at their surface level and never think about. But they were very
complex in their construct and had a lot more to say aside from the typical
well you know, high school level analysis most people give to it. And
uh so, so that's that's me. Outside of that, I mean,
you know plays, I mean, Hamlet as Pedestrian as it is is my
favorite among them. So, oh, you know your favorite quote. I
can hear you saying it right now, what do we do first? First
of all the lawyers, right, yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah,
And Harlem's going, amen, Amen, he's on hold right now,
going amen, that's right. I don't know, let's try to find that.
Let's try and find that. Of course, you remember which you can't
remember the person the in the book that said that Ama correctly with Satan and
of course this is always they, of course Stalin and Hitler. Yeah,
first of all, you do kill all the lawyers, because of course,
in the absence the law, there is no freedom. You just live by
day by day like a cave man. I guess okay. Well, the
most bizarre truths in the world are often told by the most evil people because
or the most evil characters in literature, they often have a seemingly uninterrupted stream
of consciousness that sometimes cuts right to the root of many issues. And indeed,
I see some of the greatest truths in literature told by those characters who
believe themselves a hero in their own narratives, and they are usually the evil
ones. It's quite often you'll get some profound truths from those characters. So
yeah, I still stand by that that's still a good idea. Doesn't mean
that what they do with it afterwards is good, but yeah, that's me.
What can I say? Let me put you on hold and see if
we can get to hear from Harlan directly this time. And Harlan, I've
joined you back in, but we couldn't hear you last time. Maybe we
got you this time. How are you, sir? Okay? Still no
Harlan anyway, meat Pete. I don't know what's going on with Harlan.
Maybe he put his phone down or something. Let's check in one more time,
Harlan. Harlan, I put you back on all right? Well,
hopefully he's okay, and he's not, you know, caught up in some
snow somewhere or gotten into a scuffle at the awful Waffle, because you know,
that kind of thing happens to him on the road or could happen to
him on the road as he travels. I do wish you to be safe,
Harlan. I hope everything's okay. I'm not hearing any sound from you.
All right, Let's see our phone lines are working. Everything seems to
be working. Harlan, one more time, maybe are you there? Nope,
Okay, I'm just gonna put you on hold. And how much time
do we have left? Jeez, let's see, we got about a half
hour, so beat Pete. What else should we cover? Should we go
back around to Captain Trips? What's on your mind? We go back around
to Captain. I think I've got my bets settled now, so we're gonna
let things ride and see if we're making a little money this weekend. Ah.
Well, what is the odds with the Chiefs and Bills? By the
way, I mean, do they have any odds? Are you going with
even bets or are you trying that now? Predicted? Have you seen the
predicted website. By the way, I don't do We're I bet football.
I bet football. Forget the odds. We got a group of guys that
get together and we start at the beginning of the playoffs, and the first
round of off is twenty bucks each person per game. Then the next round
goes up to fifty, then the next round goes up to seventy five.
Then Super Bowl usually it's one hundred. Everybody puts in nice and I mean
it's just a way that way, you know, you can play odds if
you want. With the online betting now, I have no idea how they're
setting odds. It's become big business. And everybody hears complaining in this state
because we legalize online betting, but we don't have a portal for it yet
and all this crap. So you know, figure they won't at you get
a poker game going in your house and they control video poker. But online
betting is fine because they're sponsoring our elections. You know that that's the mistake
of the guys who control those machines that are in the various convenience stores that
nobody's supposed to pay attention to. Right, I love it there's a couple
of convenience stores near me that are clearly places that are set up just for
those machines, because the stuff that's sitting on the shelf has clearly been sitting
on the shelf a long time. Uh, And the whole purpose of the
place, it's just those machines. Yeah, it's kind of key here because
it depends on the county, and it depends on the county prosecutor and the
sheriff. Some counties have cracked down on them. Some counties say, okay,
we'll let you operate, but you can only have certain games. Then
you got other places that says, okay, you can operate because we got
bigger stuff to worry about. You're illegal, and we're letting you know you're
illegal, but we're not coming out a bus unless we have problems. Some
counties, the only reason the place get shut down is because they end up
getting robbed in the middle of the night. So various counties, various rules.
Some places you can go in and they've got every kind of game you
could possibly play. A lot of it is just online computer stuff now,
But I play the old the old video poker machines, the old ones,
not this new stuff. I don't even I don't even put my money in
them. But it's it's amazing how much money is generated at these places.
And yet the law is you're not supposed to be able to redeem for cash.
You can redeem for merchandise and things like that. So and one guy
got real creative. He started giving away different sized Teddy Bears and then he
would buy the Teddy Bear back from you and pay you in cash. So,
I mean a thousand guys staying up at night figuring out how to get
around the law. Yeah, I love it. Their care yet. Yeah,
casinos at Cherokee. We're getting ready to open up another casino up here
here Roanoke, Virginia, somewhere on the our side. Two other tribes are
trying to put in. So we have allowed casinos, we have the lottery,
we have powerball, now, we have online sports betting. But they
won't settle the question on the video pogram machines. It's crazy. And the
reason they don't do it is because it's so hard to keep up with the
tax that it would generate. You know, they said, oh, there's
no way that we could do this, Well, yeah, there is.
Every one of those machines gives you an internal run. It tells you how
what bills were put in it, what denomination, what it hit on,
what the payout was, what the daily register is on the whole thing.
So it would be very easy to do taxes on it, but it would
involve a lot of hours to keep up with it. With the number of
machines, they don't have the personnel to go around and and force stuff.
So, you know, but online betting, see, these guys are giving
their contributions to the legislators every time they run. So yeah, we're gonna
allow. We're gonna allow it. Now online betting is the next big thing.
Well, you know what's funny is if you just added the enforcement arm
to the lottery commissioned people, it would take very little expansion in personnel to
handle it, and it would probably collect more than scratch off tickets in a
hurry if they did it that way, and even a little more it would
be a little more intricate in trying to keep up and enforce a bunch of
video pogram machines. You think about years ago, the way the organized groups
would get into the jukebox business or slot machine business and it's eating with the
number of machines in this state, it would take some personnel to have to
go over the books and make sure they're being the right amount of taxes on
what they're taking in. Yeah, but it would be real simple if you
have lottery commissioned people that stop by at all of those places generally speaking,
right, and you basically have them have to be licensed and have their machines
hooked into a network same way that the lottery machines are. End a story,
you have an unregistered machine against seized. That's that's how you go about
it. And guaranteed a lot of people would immediately sign up to get those
licenses, which would create a sudden burst of revenue right away. And then
yeah, you could easily collect and do it remotely most of the time,
and you can see in real time things being collected and everything else, just
like the lottery machines do. It's not that hard. Gtech has that stuff.
I mean, that's old technology, but I know it's all technology.
If you want in the machine to be able to go and nice machines as
possibility, and people wouldn't play them if they think the there's a chance somebody
could get in there and tell that machine what to hit and what not to
hit. People will stop, They'll go find something else put their money off.
Well yeah, maybe so leap, I know, okay, maybe so.
So with all that in mind, uh geez, let's see, I'm
checking at the phone lines again. Let's see if we got anybody else on.
Looks like we might. Well, let's see who's on there, quick
check. No, so far, Harlan's still hanging on the line, but
I haven't heard from him yet. Got Jimmy James hanging there, and we
still got Captain trips with us, I think. So. Anyway, we
got about twenty three minutes left here in the show, and we are going
to end abruptly so we can get to Aaron Franz on the other side of
the hour. So if you want to join us three one nine, five,
two seven five zero one six. I'm just thinking there's a way to
integrate it into the Lottery Commission without too much trouble. It could be done,
all right. Look at use Cherokee as an example. Cherokee Casino,
for the most part when it opened up, was all video poker, video
slot scenes, video poker machines, those things are all hooked up in the
house. When you get there, they give you a a swipe card and
you put your money in. It tells you how much you put in,
and at the end of the year they send you a ten ninety nine for
all your winnings for you to declare on you and pay on your taxes.
You could do that these video poker machines, but you would have to have
a central processing place that would be able to handle the electronic data coming in
and be able to go through it, because they would not only if they
had to report to the state what they were doing, they would also have
to report to the state who won what. Now video poker machines, now,
some of these places will only pay Let's say you hit them for two
thousand bucks, they'll only pay you out five hundred dollars a day, So
you're going back there for three more days to get what you won from them
on the first day. And a lot of them say that cuts down on
the chance of us being robbed because we don't have to have large cash amounts
in here to pay out a ten thousand dollars win. So, and they
make a point, but they don't stop you from putting whatever you want into
that machine, so if you do hit, you know it's I got into
an argument with one on one time I hit for about twenty five hundred dollars.
Well, we only pay out five hundred dollars a day. I said,
well, you had no problem with me putting eight hundred in that machine
before it hit. He says, yeah, I will point. I said,
well, I want my money, Well you can get it, but
I only pay five hundred dollars a day. I said, I didn't put
my money in there over the course of four days. He says, well,
I could keep track of it and issue you a ten ninety nine for
tax purposes. I said, well, I got no problem with that if
you keep track of how much money I put in there on the times I
came in here and didn't hit, because my losses could be greater. I
said. But here's the problem. You get. Some old, blue haired
old lady comes in here with a twenty. She puts it in a machine.
She hits for three hundred bucks. She made three hundred off of twenty.
You pay her. She goes out the door. I come in here
and put five hundred dollars in this machine. I hit it for six hundred
dollars, You're only gonna pay me five hundred, and I gotta come back
tomorrow for the other hundred. You're only down one hundred with me because I
put five hundred in it. You're paying out six. But with her,
she put in a twenty and she walked out with two hundred and eighty dollars
profit. But she got hers today. And you know, I said,
it's just not right. If you're gonna regulate how much you pay out,
then you got to regulate how much people put in. Yeah. See.
But the argument there, of course, is that the lottery doesn't because you
can go and hit the lottery for two three hundred bucks and walk out like
you said, and nobody reports anything. Uh, you go over five hundred
dollars in most states, then guess what, you can't even get your cash
payout? Right, you gotta it's like five hundred six ten, it's over,
it's over. It's over five hundred dollars. Yeah, you're gonna you're
gonna be able to cast that in store. Over a certain amount of winnings,
you have to pay tax on, right, and if you hit big,
you know, lottery agency, you have to catch that in at the
office, and they do all the subsequent paperwork, and you pay taxes on
it out and they get they pull their taxes off the top, of course,
but that's what I'm saying. Though, you win five hundred bucks,
so you can walk away. I've seen guys turn around and, by the
way, sell it to the store. There's another thing people do so they
don't end up with anything on their taxes. They'll go, look, just
give me the five hundred. You can keep the other you know, it's
a seven hundred dollars one or whatever. Yes, true with the state.
Also, like let's say if you've got a let's say you've got an unpaid
violation or something, or you have a paid you have a lapse of insurance
fine of fifty bucks from DMV or child child supports a good one for payments,
or you owe something else, or you for state taxes from four years
ago. Before they give you your winnings, they make sure the state doesn't
have any claim on anything, because if they do, they take that out.
Then also, oh yeah, so a lot of people with somebody else
to cash in the ticket give them one hundred out of the eight hundred that
they wont just so they can walk away with seven and nobody's making them pay
for those past fins they haven't paid, right, It's great. It's it's
like selling food stamps almost yep, yep, same thing. You know.
Most people do that at about fifty cents on the dollar, and that's the
way it is. And even with these cards, people have figured out how
to do it. It was a lot easier with the paper ones. But
even with the cards, people have figured out how to make those transfers.
So it is what it is. So look, we've got about seventeen minutes
left, and I think it would be a good time to get around everybody's
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I want to turn it over to to my co host. I guess we
should get around to Harlan has an open line, by the way, and
he's not responding at all, so I haven't heard from him. I don't
know what's going on. I hope he's okay. We still got Jimmy James
on the phone line, and Captain Tripps might still be with us as well
on the skype. Looks like he is. We lost regular Joe. But
let's get around to everybody. Be Pete what he say? Where should we
start? Oh well, I guess you could go a verse order. We'll
start with Jimmy and work all way backwards. There we go. So Jimmy
James, let's get you on the line. And little delay who It just
made me click on something I didn't want to click on. Hold on,
hold on, I got an echo one two three, one. Okay,
that's gone, Jimmy. I think you're back on the line, So uh,
go ahead and shout out whatever you want to shout out here before we're
done. Oh well, it is sorry you didn't get out, Harley.
What in the world. Maybe it's just trying to listen to the show.
Could be could be either way. I hope he's all right. That's weird.
Yeah, go ahead, Jimmy. Yeah, and the rest at least
less all your life. All right, so go ahead, Jimmy. Yeah,
that's negative seven degrees, so always good luck to the Lions. Have
just scrowing the Buccaneers. It's gonna be fun. God bless the mark,
absolutely, Jimmy. I can't argue with your sentimentality there. Let's hope everybody
who is hearing the sound of my voice right now receives a blessing. I
hope all of you do. Actually, it's time. I think we all
need to do better this year. I started out the year a little rough
myself. Other people are reporting that, but let's see where it all goes.
I think we can all do better. Captain Trips, anything on your
mind before we close out this show, all right, just a couple little
things. One, it's currently fifty five degrees, but it is going down
to forty tonight in thirty eight tomorrow night. So I'm right in there with
you, Jimmy James, I know we're I'm pretty close to that negative seven.
Sorry, I couldn't resist, no good conversation. I'm pulling for the
Buccaneers because my Jags fell apart in the second half of the season. And
quite frankly, they were just a disappointment. So I was hoping for the
Dolphins, but then they froze to death in Kansas City, and then I
was going back to my Steelers, and well, we saw what the Steelers
did, So right now I'm going with the Buccaneers, although I don't think
they're gonna pull it off. I'm mainly pulling for anybody but the Ravens,
and that's more just a family dispute. I want to throw one thing out
there, Chuck. I don't know or if any of you are all familiar
with this yet. Has anyone looked into or heard anything about this guy name?
I think it's David Rogers. Web released a self published e book called
The Great Taking Take a look into It. I've read it. It's it's,
it's it's making the rounds. I think Kathain Austin Fitz has addressed it.
Chris Martinston definitely has addressed it. Lou Rockwell dot Com had a good
article on it, and a couple of people on the Brownstone Institute. It's
I can't really get into it for on a two second thing, but take
a look at it. I think it would be an excellent discussion and glad
I like everyone's thought about about Nicky Haley not not quite full in the post.
I never thought about Ted Cruz though, that's an interesting thought. Although
I still like your thought about Tim Scott, Chuck. I think that's about
it. Yeah, I think that would make it enjoyable, and like I
said, it would be, it would be actually a very well placed strategic
middle finger. It's very strategic and it makes you wonder if if it's not
in the works. But I noticed that as well, that that he came
out immediately endorse him for president. So it's a thought. It's definitely a
thought. But I am actually going to cut off because I got some work
here. I need to get done, Chuck, you and I need to.
We'll touch base touch base offline next week. Yeah, we're definitely going
to have to. I'm going to update you on what what's actually gone on.
Might seek your advice a little bit, but you know, but it's
it's been an interesting couple of weeks. Let me put it to you that
way, all right. I know I've been I've been kind of in communicato,
but then I think I've been working. I don't know, I've lost
track. I totally understand when Look, when you're putting in seventy eighty one
hundred hours a week, you know pull. I'm pulling between sixty and seventy
every week next, next couple of weeks. This week was a seventy two
hour I'm finishing up my seventy two hours this week, next, the next
two weeks after that get better, though. I'm back to only about fifty
hours a week, which is kind of where I want to be. So
stay warm, everybody. The cold weather is nothing to mess around with.
I'm glad I don't have to deal with it like I used to. But
my heart goes out to all of you who are dealing with it, and
we'll talk soon. Right Thanks to Captain Tripps. Appreciate you for joining us,
and always you're welcome. You know the way it is right now,
it's about thirty degrees according to what I got here, which is weird because
it's colder in Georgia than it is in Florida by a bit. Yeah,
so yeah, I think I think this system is kind of right above us,
and we're just getting the fringes of it. So it seems to happen
with the last one. Though. Last week we got nailed with almost a
tropical storm for the one day it was actually kind of wild, just got
flooded with rain. Yeah, we've had freezing conditions come in and out,
you know. For the past week. I've been having a hell of a
time just trying to keep the heat up because you know, look, I
could sit in isolate in one room and stick the dogs in there with me
if I wanted to, but I got other people here, so right right,
Yeah, the other thing I got, I got seven puppies I gotta
get rid of, which, by the way, Uh, just for everybody's
knowledge, poor port Buster has been fixed, so there won't be any more
of this odd mini mighty mutts coming out of the Ocelli house unless he knocked
up. I hope he didn't, But I hope he didn't knock up a
little honey, because if he did, then that means we got one more
slew, one more litter to come. And I still got to figure out
what to do with these seven little mighty mutts. So uh, I wish
I could help you, but I just couldn't do it. Well, you
know, it looked to be if you need some dogs, I got them,
just telling you, and I'd love to send them to some loving homes
if anybody is in the area, especially in Georgia or something. If you're
listening, I know a couple people do. Yeah, I have the Mini
Mighty Mutts and they are very cool and they're a special kind of breed.
So uh, I'll keep it. I'm keeping an eye. I haven't I
haven't seen anybody, and it's looking for a puff. But if I if
I catch somebody, I will let you know. There you go. All
right, thanks man, appreciate it anyway, Take care, gentlemen, have
a good night. Chaptain trips, so be pete. I'll give you the
last few minutes here. I've already kind of made my statement about what I
want to say regarding you know, get get in on o'helly dot com.
Course, any help over there is appreciated. If you make a contribution,
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what's on your mind? Close it out. You got about six minutes,
it's yours. Well I'm not gonna take all six because I'm gonna give
you a break between now and when Aaron comes on at the top of the
hour. So so what I have to say is kind of short. Everybody,
just stay as warm as you can. I know it's tough out there.
I've noticed a lot of places have opened up more shelters this year than
they had available last year, so that a lot of the people that are
on the street can have a warm place to go and get out of the
elements. But you know, it's that time of year. We're gonna have
to deal with it now for another month or so. And here in North
Carolina, you know, we're lucky. We have fridging cold one day and
sixty five the next day. So you know, for what you if you're
worried about spending too much running your heat pump, your airc will be kicking
in in the next couple of days. So just you know, there is
that that factor. Other than that, I want everybody to out there to
support your local food banks. They're getting hit pretty hard. There's been and
I've seen an increase in the amount of trucks that are going to further away
destinations to people that can't make it into town to get to the food bank.
Uh, they'll find some someplace out there in the middle of the boonies
and they'll get word out through the community and on radio and that that they'll
be at such and such places, such and such time, and they're bringing
vegetables and can goods and and things to help people get through. It's really
getting tight out there. I know the mainstream media likes to pump the fact
that we've got low unemployment and you know, people are out there working and
people working two jobs. Has gotten even worse. There's a lot of people
out there that are off the grid. They're not participating in the workforce.
You know, we've got a lot of rural people that are used to farming
and is an economy and is getting harder on them. So, you know,
keep an eye out for your neighbors, support your food banks, any
of these organizations, through any churches that you belong to. You know,
do what you can to help them out. And it's really tough right now.
We get through this next year, of all the politics and going on,
I don't see any change in anything. You know, interest was up
again last month another four and a half percent. So they're telling everything's rosy
and every thing's working out, everything's working its way back down. But until
I start seeing prices come down in a grocery store, I don't believe a
word of it. You know that that affects people more than a lot of
other things. Gas, keat and food. I mean, those are the
three basic things that people are struggling with right now. So do its can
to help them out. And join us again next week on Friday, where
we will provide a couple hours of entertainment for four airing kicks things off at
ten o'clock. There. You will see you next week. Appreciate it.
B Pete. Always happy to have you along, and I'm glad that you
are along with me because I don't think I could do this by myself.
And you know, just to tail onto what you said, I mean,
in this area, it's like a couple of cans of beans and a bag
of rice is about all anybody's getting from a food bank right now. That's
where a family of three, literally like three cansabans and a bag of rice
and like a bag of discarded chips from some you know place. This is
what I've seen. It is what it is. This is where we're at,
and unfortunately we are not going to do well if we're waiting for a
savior to show up and say, hey, I'm from the government. I'm
here to help. So no matter who you are, where you are,
when you are, I am merely Ocellian. All of you