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and Nowgated, NOOI and Oma Wow
and Wow. March one, twenty twenty

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four, allegedly according to that thing
we call a calendar, and it is

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a Friar's Day Friday night, so
we got the open mic and that means

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you can join us and talk about
whatever it is you want. Never know

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what direction this show will go in
on a Friday. Three one nine five

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two seven five zero one six is
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two seven five zero one six.
And I'm not entirely sure, but I

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do think we're going to be followed
by Aaron Franz at ten pm uh here

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on Friday with the age of transitions, but all the way up to ten

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pm. You can definitely call us
at three one nine five two seven five

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zero one six and uh. You
can also reach out to me Charles dot

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Ocelli on Skype, ask me to
and I'll call you into the show.

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But here we are live on a
day. Of course, if you're hearing

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the podcast, you need a time
machine to call us, but what the

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hell we do encourage everybody to join
us on Friday nights because just a good

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thing to do. Anyway, I
didn't put out a lot of podcasts this

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week yet. I do have two
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one is incomplete and one is complete. But I got one with Mike Swanson

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and we talked about China and what
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get a few people interested in the
live discussion. But I don't know.

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I don't know how that's gonna fall
when the podcast comes out and we got

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a newsblast, maybe if I can
complete it, but we'll see what happens.

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I'll get it done over the weekend
along with this show and Aaron's show

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and everything else, and we'll have
podcasts flying. All right. So let's

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check in with my co host Vpte. It was with me every Friday night.

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What's going on, be Pete?
Oh, not much of nothing.

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It'spent a hectic week, really.
I haven't had time to do anything except

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work from winter time to cranking up
summertime. So pretty soon it's going to

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be back six days a week,
converting from winter to so you know,

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in most of the country, or
at least the northern part of the country,

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they don't know what the hell you're
talking about there, because February it's

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still cold. You know, in
March it's still cold. You know spring

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is coming, but not just yet, and who knows if it'll stay cold

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during the first parts of the spring
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Well, here we have a unique
situation. It gets warm in February.

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In fact, most Februaries it's warm
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to go to the beach and lay
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And then we always in March end
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of March right at the beginning to
April, and sometimes we get our biggest

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snows the last two weeks of March. So it's up and down. Oh

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right, yeah, well yeah,
you're you're just north of me, so

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it does mean that it's still snows
there. Occasionally I get like no snow

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here pretty much. But anyway,
better off because like I've always said that

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nobody knows what to do when it
snows, and apparently earlier today nobody knew

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what to do with the rain either. A lot of car accidents and stuff

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in Georgia. I didn't go and
collect the information on it, but I

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bet you by tomorrow we're gonna see
like the aftermath of tons of car accidents

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all over Georgia. I don't know, man, it gets too rainy,

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it gets too cold, anything,
and they just can't they can't drive here.

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Get maybe that's everywhere. I don't
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to discuss this. We could talk
about all kinds of news. We could

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talk about the year of the lawsuit
paying off Ppete. Seems like there's lawsuits

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of flying everywhere, appeals, people
getting arrested, lots of different stuff going

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on in the year of the courtroom, really supreme court cases, etc.

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Right, not just among the biggest
political names, but all over the map,

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all kinds of crazy stuff. Oh, by the way, frozen fertilized

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embryos are people. Now, it's
getting corporations are people, so why not

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embryos? You know, that was
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if a corporation's people, why not
uh FROs and embryo is closer to

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people than than than a corporation is
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I know that the corporation then employs
a bunch of people, but you know,

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so does any given individual employee.
A bunch of people, A bunch

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of people got to do something for
an individual, even uh throughout the course

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of their lifetime. There's a lot
of jobs created just by a person being

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created. But uh, anyway,
all that weirdness going on and uh and

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and lawsuits all over. But anyway, you're you're not getting involved in any

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lawsuits this year, are you?
Or do you have one in mind?

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No. I will try to stay
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this year. I really can't afford
the fees and I'm tired of paying lawyer.

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So but there is an int seen
story though. There's a guy that

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lives here in North Carolina and Raleigh. He's a journalist. He works for

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The Blaze, and he was there
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and went inside of the capital.
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he's legitimate press. He also sold
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the I think it was the New
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footage showing what was going on.
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I mean, the guy's a legitimate
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by the FBI Justice Department, and
they said they were going to charge him,

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but they wouldn't tell him what the
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directed to surrender himself this morning.
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I believe it was to the FBI
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know maybe it was DC. Not
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he shows up to wear t shirt, shorts, and some flip flops because

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soon as they get a chance to
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throw some shackles on his ankles and
handcuffs. Well, he shows up in

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a three piece suit. Well,
they arrested him and apparently he's being charged

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for misdemeanors one. I think one
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building. I don't think he was
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yet. I've got to dig into
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But it's funny that they contact him, tell him to show up surrender himself

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this morning at seven o'clock, but
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And someone at the Department of Justice
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the charges are because they don't want
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But this guy sat down with footage. They got the footage from the Capitol

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complex that showed what was going on. And one of the police officer,

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Capitol police officers that was confronted by
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the other group that was there.
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then there was also the oathkeepers.
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those guys were there. Anyway,
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going to confronted this guy. And
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Capitol policeman testified that, you know, they were agitated and they were aggressive

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in their actions and their words.
And these guys actually, and you can

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see this on videotape and you all
got to just go out there and search

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for it. These guys were actually
standing between the cop and the pissed off

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guys behind them and kept the crowd
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when he testified against these guys in
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you know, they were being aggressive. There was a lot of language.

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He was being called the N word, all this other vile crap. So

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after he testified, there was another
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there and he identified these six guys. The problem is the guy that was

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backing up his testimony was in a
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journalist that got arrested this morning went
through the footage and showed where this guy

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lied on the stand. There's no
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when he said he was there or
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by the time he makes it to
the rotunda, these guys are on their

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way out the exit door. So
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the FBI beacon goes off and they
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forget how many journalists they said were
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only one that I know of that
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to see how this is going to
go and when this court case happens,

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this guy is going to sit there
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reason I was arrested is because I
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on the stand, committed perjury,
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So it's going to be very interesting
to see how this one plays out.

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Well, they never took a cop
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I don't know if any do you
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that wouldn't be the case. And
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surprised that a cop told a story
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know, in any case, it
doesn't matter. Well, this would be

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this would be multiple cops. Yeah, apparently. But you know what else

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is old? You know, it
gets it gets really convoluted when you get

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into this stuff. And now he's
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being someplace he wasn't supposed to be. Because here's the thing, even if

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he goes under the journalistic shield,
he still could be charged with stuff like

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trespassing if he was there collecting footage
and trespassing at the time. But it

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is fascinating that they weren't gonna charge
him until he was calling out people that

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had already testified and basically proving that
they were lying. Uh, that's a

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little you know, come on,
how much more on the nose do you

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need to be? Uh? You
know so? And I don't think that's

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the part is an issue either,
by the way, I think that that

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no matter what the case is if
you turn around and do that, you're

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you're you're asking to get yourself arrested
because they're gonna come and get you.

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You're you're blowing up their case.
They're gonna come and get you. I

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mean, that's just the way that's
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be interesting to see. Uh,
Steve Baker, I'm sorry I had the

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wrong name. His name is Steve
Baker. He lives here in Raleigh,

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in North Carolina. It's just it's
amazing that his trial is going to be

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coming up, and there's going to
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for these guys that got busted for
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sitting in jail now. I think
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off a lot, and it's it's
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goes on when these appeals come up
and they bring in this new you know,

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it's funny that of all the footage
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the Capital Complex got cameras everywhere,
so you know, it's funny though that

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when they had their house hearing to
get behind the matter, find out what

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actually went on, how much stuff
was suppressed by the Democrats, and that

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committee footage that wasn't released, footage
that they didn't want people to see because

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it basically told a different story.
You know, they were talking about all

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these guys that are just cro mating, you know, mass mayhem and tearing

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things up. And for the most
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where things got heated, but for
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were just me angering through the Capitol
building and being basically welcomed by the cops

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and told where to go and what's
where. And you know, it's like

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two completely different stories. And we
haven't we haven't been told from the government.

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I've really lost all faith in the
government being able to treat people fairly,

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giving people, you know, a
chance on something after January sixth,

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of what I've read and seen from
some of these trials that have gone on,

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and it's I don't trust the government
for crap for nothing. And I

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didn't trust them a while back.
Now it's even worse. It's terrible.

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I mean, these we have a
government now. In fact, a poll

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that was done by one of these
big poling agencies just within the past week,

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the top three results of things that
concerned voters. One is the economy

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and two the government. That's pretty
bad. People are starting to get wind

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of what this government that we have
in place is capable of. You know,

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you think about it. You've got
this congress in the Senate who for

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some reason can't do math enough to
balance a budget. But it's funny how

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they all get rich. Yeah,
yeah, that's the only guarantee is that

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they end up making way more money
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money than what their salaries dictate during
the time they're in office. And the

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longer they stay in the more they
make, right, they all become millionaire.

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for years the question, you know, why do you spend ten, fifteen,

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twenty thirty fifty million dollars to get
a job that you know, if

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you stay in the whole term,
like in Congress, you're there for two

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years, right, So what is
the point of spending twenty five thirty million

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dollars to get into a two year
congressional seat? Well, oh, if

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you can make a whole lot more
than that, and plus that's not your

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money to begin with. It seems
like it's a win win for somebody to

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get in there. Why not,
you know, but here we are a

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big surprise to some people. So
look, we got one caller already,

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and I invite others, you know, join us three one nine five two

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seven five zero one six. I
Am going to take a break right at

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nine o'clock because I got something I
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show. Uh So, you know, just keep that in mind. We're

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about eighteen minutes, nineteen minutes almost
after the hour. Uh So if you're

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hearing this live, just be aware
you got about forty to call in before

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I'm gonna have to take this break. But uh now, look January sixth,

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I haven't really gone into it that
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already tired, already tired of it. You know. Everybody grabs it and

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uses it however they want to use
it, including the government, and nobody

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wants to realistically take a look at
the whole of the event or to say,

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you know, look, this is
really what it is, uh not

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without it being you know, a
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know what they call it a truncheon
that basically you can pummel somebody with for

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political purposes. Nobody wants to you
know, actually looked at it objectively.

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The idea that absolutely nothing went wrong
that day is stupid to me, you

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know, like, oh, no, everything was perfectly normal and fine.

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Usually you don't have a guy taking
a crap on the speaker of the House's

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desk, you know, during normal
visits to the Capitol. I'm just saying.

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Plus, you know, people had
to be moved, and there was

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some interesting things being chanted in the
crowd. And I don't know, do

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you normally erect the news outside for
no reason. It wasn't just a symbolic

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gesture. There were windows broken,
there was stuff broken, So something happened.

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So the people that say nothing happened
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say that it was absolutely you know, like a coup attempt also inaccurate.

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It just doesn't matter. It doesn't
matter what the truth is. It just

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matters how you can weaponize it.
And of course the FBI and law enforcement

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will weaponize anything according to their needs, their purposes. And I'm not even

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the least bit shocked that a guy
who turns around gets the footage improves that

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somebody alied on the stand later on
gets arrested, and probably wouldn't have got

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arrested if he didn't show the contradiction
there, But you know, you know

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how it is after a while.
The chilling effect is the biggest point of

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this all, more than anything.
It's not even about the political issues supposedly,

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are you on the right side or
wrong side of history? That's irrelevant.

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It's about exactly how it can be
used and and look, who's gonna

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take advantage of it and weaponize it
for their purposes. That's all the risk

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to it, and that's all there
is to any of this. Hey,

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by the way, before I go
to the caller, be Pete, did

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you see that there was a news
story I was going to cover on a

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news show but never got to do
it. This week, Wendy's is going

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to start doing peak priced during They
caught so much crap over that. I

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think that you won't see that happen. Yeah, they really caught a lot

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of backlash on social media over this. Well, because it's kind of wild.

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It's like, oh, when we're
busy, Because we're busy and it's

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harder for us to do the work, we're going to raise the prices during

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that time. I mean, does
anybody go to a fast food place going

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Look, doesn't matter, I'm gonna
pay whatever to get my burgers, you

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know what I mean? No?
No, yeah, some people would.

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The funny thing is, though,
is when they started getting on the backlash.

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One of the spokesmans when the weddings
came out and said, oh no,

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no, we're not trying to capitalize
on the busy time and being able

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to charge more. What we're doing
is employee a pricing scheme that would allow

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us to direct our customers to take
advantage of our dining room on the off

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peak hours. I'm sitting here thinking, dude, you just admitted what you're

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doing, but you're trying to spin
it as to a positive. You're going

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to charge more during your busy times
because you can make right, there's no

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other reason. I mean, yo, guess we're busy, so we're gonna

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charge more for the same product.
Why don't you just hire more people during

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your partner or your peak times and
you can get to do the product out

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the door quickly, you know.
But no, we're gonna direct our We're

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gonna direct our customers to take advantage
of our dining options. At the off

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peak periods. Well, I'm sorry, but most people that are working can't

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stop to have dinner at two o'clock
in the afternoon, two thirty in the

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afternoon. They're gonna wait and get
something on the way home. You're gonna

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stop after you get the kids from
soccer game and you're on the way home

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and you hit the drive through.
Well, if you're having a problem staying

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up with the amount of customers that
you got, hire more people. Simple,

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yeah, well simple, but not
the current corporate structure. Not the

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way they want you to handle.
Uh, you know, uh uh human

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resource management, this is not what
you do. Uh. When I first

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start working on that, you know, in the nineties, that was the

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answer. Look, you just hire
more people when you need them, and

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strip down your employees when you don't
need them, and make sure it's balanced,

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and make sure to justify it by
the flow of business. Pretty simple.

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But no more of that. Now, Let's keep it at a bare

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bones minimum no matter what, and
come up with other ways to shunt and

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control the business. You know,
the self checkout, all that kind of

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stuff. Yeah, no, it's
no longer about let's just address it and

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you know, give good customer service
or make things move accordingly. No,

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A lot a lot of companies that
have employed this self checkout are starting to

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pull back on that because people are
telling them they're sick and tired of it.

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Yeah, you know, if I'm
going to check out, if you

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want me to self check out,
you give me a ten percent discount,

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how about that? Then I'll self
check out. But when I self checkout,

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I still have to show my receipt
when I go out the door,

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because you didn't trust me to be
able to check out all my items.

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You know, we get no benefit
from self checkout, none whatsoever. So

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if you want me to use it, give me a cut on price,

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I'll be happy to otherwise lower your
prices all over. I mean, if

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people are doing your work, you
don't have to charge the prices that you

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charge to me payroll because they're doing
the work for you. You're not paying

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health insurance or benefits of any kind
to a customer that comes in there self

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checked out. I hate it when
I go to Low's Home Improvement has gotten

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ridiculous about that. They've got ten
checkout lines and the only thing that open

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is self checkout. I walked in
there and had maybe five items that I

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was going to purchase, a hose
for my air compressed or a set of

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fittings, things like that. I've
got these five items in my hand I

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walk across the lady, is the
only thing I open self checked out?

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Well, yes, that's the only
thing we have at the time. I

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set my stuff down right on a
stack of stuff at the end of the

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checkout aisle and forget it. I'm
not even going to put this back on

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the shelf. For what you're charging
me, I expect to be able to

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come in this store, get in
line check out and make it quick.

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You've got a line all the way
through the paint section of people that are

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waiting to self check out. Forget
it. I'll go down the road to

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the Home Small Hardware store and pay
a little bit more, but get treated

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with customer service where I can walk
in there at any time and say,

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hey, have you got this?
Yes, sir, I'll show you right

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where it is, let me take
you to it. Yeah, forget it.

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I've quit dealing with companies like that. It just it's ridiculous. Yeah.

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See, Walmart does the same thing, though they got ten lines right

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and like for them, our self
checkout those are always open, but they

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only open one of the lines with
a cashier on it, and then it

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gets backed up, so of course, and then they even send out employees,

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which I find funny to direct you
away from that line and go,

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look, yeah, I want to
wait ten people deep go over there.

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Self checkouts open right now, and
most people go, you know and a

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place like like you know, home
depot or whatever or lows. I mean,

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they're gonna cop the same attitude.
And Circle K does the same thing

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now with this self checkout nonsense.
Oh. I had it out with a

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manager over that. Try buying cigarettes
at that little self checkout scanner when all

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cigarettes are behind the counter and you
can't walk behind the counter and get them.

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No, you can't. I have
out with a manager. She said,

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I don't know, you know what
your problem is. I said,

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here's the problem. I said,
one person you wanted, you got one

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scanner that's cash only and one scanner
that's card only. I'm going to the

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card only it's open, but I
can't. I need to get a product

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that's behind the counter. Now,
are you gonna let me walk around there

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and get my cigarettes? Oh?
Of course not, I said, then

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you need to keep somebody up here
add a cash register to allow me to

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come up and buy those items and
check out and go. Well, you

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know, we're trying to streamline things. You've just made it worse. Yeah,

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no, exactly, because now I've
got to hunt down somebody to go

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and get the impact cigarettes behind the
counter. Well it's ridiculous. Either that

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or you got to grab them off
of the line where they're ringing people up,

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and that means that you just stopped
that line from moving. Uh you

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know, hey, can you grab
some cigarettes for me? I'm using the

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self checkout, but any because I've
had to do it and tell you something

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else. You don't get your discounts
that you're supposed to get on the self

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checkout. That's another thing. And
you can't even argue with it. It's

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like, well we don't know,
you know, well, I punched it

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into the machine like it's supposed to
work and give me a discount. And

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they're like no, uh, well
we don't know. It's all pre programmed

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and we don't. You'll have to
talk to corporate about that. Are you

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the manager? Yeah, well then
you're corporate. I'm talking to corporate.

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Yeah, right, good luck with
that. Anyways, Look, we got

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we got a couple of callers,
so let's see if they got troubles with

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self checkout or something else on your
mind. Let's see. Yeah, we're

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going to start with this one.
It just says it's a wireless caller.

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Not sure who it is, but
hey, you're live, you're on the

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air. Who are you where you're
calling from? This is Harlan Stonewall.

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I'm in the middle of Kansas.
I don't know why you can't have it.

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Gonna find my phone anymore? Okay, Well, I got this new

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one and it might be shooting off
of every signal or something. Yeah,

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it could be. Could be Harlan. How you doing? Man? Believe

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me, if I knew it was
you, I would have said, hey,

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it's Harland, but nope, I
had an unidentified callers. So anyway,

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good to hear from you. What's
going on? Man? Now,

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I'm just trying to live. I've
done got fowered up on self checkouts while

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I was on hold. You know, you guys talking about it, and

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I speak to Walmarts and circle K
because a circle K that I'm had a

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lot or in the area where that
I work out of they have installed them

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too, and I get along,
you know, pretty good with most of

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the staff, and you know,
I'm in their regular and they put one

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in in the last few weeks,
since they remodeled the store in the last

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couple of months, and I just
refuse to use it because, just like

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BP said, you know, a
circle k is bad enough trying to get

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your discount, like you was talking
about and about the only time I ever

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get a discounts when I get a
cart. If I buy a whole cart

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and cigarettes, I do get a
pretty good discount. When you go to

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getting like one or two, it
just you know, really don't seem like

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you're getting one. But far as
Walmart goes, it's always been according to

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where you are. I kind of
thought ten years ago it was pretty much

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anywhere that they thought they could sucker
the people in to do it and what

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have the less thievery was a way
that it kind of seemed like to me

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that it used to work. But
pretty much now you've got some of these

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places, even one local kunt of
local to me that's not too far away

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over in Kentucky. They've got down
to where, you know, they've got

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a couple of lines that they keep
opening front. They've restructured the front of

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the store, but you'll have as
many people standing there just watching you that

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could be over here running a cash
restort. I see more people there now

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than when they had, you know, fifteen and twenty different registers. See

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that. Yeah, that was my
next point, Harland, because look,

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and by the way, the one
that the one that I go to is

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not in a low crime area,
is not in a low shoplifting area.

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Uh I thought that too, that
they would put these in the lower shoplifting

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areas because you know, people would
be less likely maybe to uh oops,

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I didn't scan it, you know
kind of stuff at the self checkout,

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right, which I mean, I
gotta be honest with you. I don't

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know anybody who hasn't at least tried
that a little bit with a self checkout

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where it's like, let me see
what happens if I accidentally forget to scan

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some them, you know. And
here's the deal, because you're aggravated that

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you're the one doing the work and
you've only you've got to work with the

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thing, and it keeps yelling at
you to put the thing on the on

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this platform or that platform, or
you got to move the product and you

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already did and all that. But
anyway, you go through all that crap,

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and true, they leave like two
people standing there, and yes there

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are many different self checkout kiosks,
but leave two people standing there watching you

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scan stuff. First of all,
Then when you leave, it's even worse

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because I don't know if this is
in your area, But how many people

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do they have station at each of
the exits? Because each of the exits,

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when they increased these self checkouts,
we went from you know, one

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person at the exit, can I
just see your receipts there? You know,

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and like they look over it,
quickly, check a couple of big

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items, you know, make sure
the team is at least on there or

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whatever, and that kind of crap, and they let you go. Now

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there's three four people at each of
the exits. So how many employees are

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you using to just stand there to
try and catch people? As opposed to

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why don't you just put them back
into cashier? You know what I mean?

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Because if you did that, it
would be convenient, it would be

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faster probably, you know, you
wouldn't have the machine yelling at you,

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oh, put this item in the
bagging area. I already did. I

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mean, I don't know how many
times I've been yelling at a self checkout.

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I already put moved it there.
Damn it, I've already scanned it.

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You know it's like scan You're right, no, put it in the

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bagging area. Don't remove things from
the bagging area. You know. It's

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00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.160
like, damn, I already did
this. What do you are you still

409
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:12.160
telling me to do it? And
I already did it? All right?

410
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.960
Well, now I had. I
had the cops called on me one time

411
00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:18.359
for refusing to show somebody in my
receipt on the way out of a Walmart.

412
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:26.960
Well, they call it else it. It floored me. The ladies

413
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.720
said, come and see you receive
I said, no, Well, sir,

414
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.119
I'm supposed to look at your receipt
to make sure. I said,

415
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.640
wait a minute, I just checked
out from your checkout line. Everything that

416
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:38.839
I bought was put in the bag. I paid for it. I have

417
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.440
the receipt and I'm walking out.
Well, but my job, I said,

418
00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:45.359
I don't care what your job is. So she calls the manager.

419
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.640
By the time I'm about ready to
go out the outer door, the manager

420
00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.000
sir, and I turned around and
says, we would like to see your

421
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.680
receipt. I told her, In
fact, I told him in very rude

422
00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.599
terms, he could kiss my ass. I'm not showing him a damn thing.

423
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:00.960
Well, sir, I said,
look, once I pay for the

424
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.480
items their mine, I don't have
to prove a damn thing to you.

425
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.599
I went through your checkout, and
he called the cops. I told the

426
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.960
cop I said, I don't have
to show him legally, I do not.

427
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.079
Once I pay that lady, she
puts it in the bag and gives

428
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:17.160
me a receipt for it. I
don't have to show a damn soul anything.

429
00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:19.559
I'm going home, and you're gonna
arrest me. Get ready to lose

430
00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:23.880
your job because I'll sue you.
I'm at the point now I'm waiting to

431
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.839
sue somebody. Now, did they
have three or four people at the exit

432
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.079
when you go be Pete or or
And I want to know that from Harland

433
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:33.720
too, But are there like three
or four people at each exit? Now?

434
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.599
At Walmart? It's usually some little
blue haired old lady who couldn't stop

435
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:45.519
anybody from doing anything. Okay,
so she's more of a greeter than have

436
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.559
a good day or Okay, you
know, as you're going out, gotcha,

437
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.920
So you are in a loafat area, but go ahead, Harland ahead.

438
00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:59.279
My policy for years was, and
I have kind of revised it here

439
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.319
in the last couple years, but
my policy for years was, if it

440
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.240
was something little old granny, a
little old man or whatever, I'm gonna

441
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:11.359
show my seat. If h's some
can like one story that I'm gonna tell

442
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:17.240
just a second, very short story. If HiT's some you know scumbag that's

443
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:19.920
sitting there, you know, basically
watching the door. If you know the

444
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:25.119
buddies is, you know, sneaking
stuff, you know, bying Robin Walmart

445
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:27.599
blind. You know, I used
to say, no, go get you

446
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:32.880
a warrant. Caught all the police. You know, I'm in such and

447
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:37.240
such truck I live, blah blah
blah. That's where I'll be, you

448
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.559
know, kiss my eyes. You
know, put up a sign here that

449
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.519
says that you know, by entering, you have to show a receipt.

450
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.079
But the reason why and I'm not
talking about like if you buy something in

451
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:55.279
the back. I'm talking about like
if you're up front with five hundred you

452
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.039
know, cameras on you, like
you're at a casino, you know,

453
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:03.039
cash check out or something though.
That's what I'm talking about now. You

454
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:04.839
know, if you buy something in
the back, I understand. And you

455
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:08.920
know used too with Walmart they had
their little take and everything. If you

456
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.160
bought something back wherever and they put
it in a bag, they run it

457
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.240
down through that, they taped it
up, and they stay with your received

458
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.599
on it. I've not seen that
in years. Maybe somebody else has.

459
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.759
But to Chuck's point about them having
several people where I've really seen the several

460
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.400
people four or five, six,
eight or nine will be up there walking

461
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:34.640
around the self checkouts. I've just
been seeing one as you go out to

462
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:41.440
exit door pretty much. But I
have been in the situation before. I

463
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:48.240
can remember one time in Oklahoma City
Walmart right off Inner State forty, went

464
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.720
in, bought a few things,
a couple of bags, and I bought

465
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:53.799
a cooler. Well, I'm sitting
here looking and you know, here's carrying

466
00:31:55.279 --> 00:32:00.920
down at the end the you know, the receipt checkers, the greeter wherever

467
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:06.039
you want to call her, she's
sitting there staring at me. Okay,

468
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.960
I paid with a debit card.
Best I can remember, I go to

469
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:14.839
walk out and I get probably about
twenty foot from her, and I just

470
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:16.839
take the receipt and I look at
it and I just throw it over in

471
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:21.240
the trash can. Now, this
has been several years ago. It's probably

472
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.680
been fifteen sixteen years ago, maybe
longer than that. And she jumped right

473
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:29.160
out in front of him and says, I want to see your seat.

474
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.160
I said, it's over in that
trash can. I've got to see your

475
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:37.640
seat before you leave. And I
said, well, ma'am, I said

476
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.119
it's over in that trash can.
And I said, I'm out here in

477
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:44.440
such and such kind of a truck. It says this on the side of

478
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.880
it, and you know, call
the police, and I skiff walking,

479
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:52.759
you know, all in cameras and
there are people's one who checked you out.

480
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:55.079
Hey, look, that's just the
road too far. But I will

481
00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:00.599
have to say Walmart has got a
lot better on the self checkout. I

482
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:06.319
don't care if I've got like a
few things to do it, but I'm

483
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:09.839
not going to pull up there with
one hundred and seventy five to five hundred

484
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:14.480
dollars worth of stuff and I have
to go through all that mess. I'm

485
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.599
not as hardcore as what it used
to be about now, Kyle whoever or

486
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:22.240
whatnot? Because if you get banned
out of Walmart out of one, now

487
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:27.759
you get banned out of all of
them. And they're supposed to have facial

488
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:31.279
recognition technology that I've heard, you
know, like if you got banned out

489
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:36.319
of one, you know in Tennessee, that they could pick you up if

490
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:39.680
you was in California. And once
you get banned, you're gonna go to

491
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:45.559
jail for catching there. That's the
stories I've heard. But I'm just not

492
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.000
as hardcore and as raw. But
but I will tell them when they want

493
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:51.920
to say, well, I want
to look at your receipt, I'm like,

494
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.839
well you want to look at the
stuff here? Because what good does

495
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:59.519
it do for them just to look
at the receipt if they're not going to

496
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.000
go through it? Right? You
know what I'm saying, it's kind of

497
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.640
kind of bussac. Well, that's
the other thing is when you got like

498
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.760
a hundred items, you know,
is this guy gonna check every single thing?

499
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:14.039
Now? Usually I don't think so. I think they just check the

500
00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:16.599
bigger ticket things, right, Uh
you know, Okay, well we'll check

501
00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:20.159
the bag of dog food, We'll
check the TV We'll check the box with

502
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.519
the sneakers in it, whatever,
you know what I'm saying, the bigger

503
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:27.000
stuff that's obvious. The case of
water is that on there? Does it

504
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.400
look like there's a bunch of other
things on there? Okay, I don't

505
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.199
think they're checking every single item,
you know. I don't think it's even

506
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:37.079
possible, you know, because then
you create another bottleneck in the store anyway,

507
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:40.519
And what do you do for the
guy who's bought two items if you

508
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:43.960
got a hundred item guy in front
of them? I mean, here we

509
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.280
go again. And I hate these
self checkouts for that. When when I

510
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:50.760
go, like actually do a grocery
shop and forget about it, it's like,

511
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:52.360
well, all right, I know
I'm gonna lose an extra hour to

512
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:58.280
the self checkout, you know,
at least, But anyways, that's just

513
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.920
me and I guess Mike's there is
a little different with the extra people at

514
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:06.599
the entrances. But that's what I've
noticed lately, probably where you're at,

515
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:09.920
probably the area, because you know, I've been to several different ones of

516
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.719
them, and folks, I'm not
sitting there trying to bash and hate on

517
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:19.079
Walmart. And you've got to remember
what they're dealing with with employees in a

518
00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:22.880
lot of cases. But some of
these people that they go too far with

519
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.920
it. They just run it in
the ground. And I mean, you

520
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:30.400
know, here again, if you
get a big screen TV. They've been

521
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.360
you know, stole from that.
I can remember, like nine years ago,

522
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:38.280
manager was telling me like if they
was losing twenty some grand a month

523
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.400
or maybe it was a quarter just
in different little smile things, they was

524
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:49.559
losing thousands just in makeup. And
so some of the people they was catching

525
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.960
A few of them was women that
you know had six figure of year jobs.

526
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:59.000
This is in twenty fifteen. Yeah, and that was kind of minduale.

527
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:01.280
But you know, they have lost
a lot of money. I understand

528
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:06.199
that, and they have done this
stuff for years. But some of them

529
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:13.119
it's just you know, focus on
a parate trip and I try not to

530
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.239
even fool with it. I mean, I try to dodge them, you

531
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:21.679
know, I try to you know, I'm not running up to them unless

532
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:23.840
it's granny that's walking this way,
or you know, you've got to you

533
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:28.519
know, you know, an old
veteran sitting there, you know, if

534
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:34.960
fourteen thousand flag pins on and whatever, But you know, they're just standing

535
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.960
there trying to live, getting out
of the house to have something to do,

536
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.159
or they're there because they need the
money to my ends. Mate.

537
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:43.559
Now, I'm not gonna get you
know, cute before of them, but

538
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:51.039
it is in something for them to
stand there with all these cameras now and

539
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:53.119
then go up for a words,
you receive that, and then they're just

540
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:57.559
sitting there, you know, just
looking at it. Went through it last

541
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.719
week when I went Walmart. A
little girl there look like she was in

542
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:06.280
her twenties, you know, didn't
look like she was have you say.

543
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:09.000
I mean, it was good to
say she was at work, you know,

544
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.039
and I didn't want to say anything
out of the wayter, but man,

545
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:16.679
she really went unless she said,
I gotta looks to this, you

546
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:20.079
know, and I said, well, I'm glad you're looking instead of just

547
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:24.800
stopping here eating up for inconvenience and
not even looking at anybody. All right,

548
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.679
Look, you can't begrudge somebody who's
actually trying to do a job.

549
00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:30.639
But look, I'm gonna put you
on hold, Harlan, because we got

550
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:36.360
looks like we got advanced on the
phone. So let's see. You know,

551
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.079
I knew this was gonna give me
a little trouble. I had a

552
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:39.559
little trouble setting up. But there
we go, all right. I think

553
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:43.760
I got Dvance on the line,
and he might have something else on his

554
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:45.920
mind, or he might want to
talk about the self checkout and the the

555
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.320
fun of it all. Maybe not
just at Walmart. I mean they got

556
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.039
these things at Kroger and everything else
anyway too. Uh, but it's all

557
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.119
the same kind of routine to me. They shut down all the other cast

558
00:37:55.199 --> 00:38:00.599
year lines and they forced you through
there. Whether it's Circle, Kroger,

559
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.519
Walmart, doesn't matter. It's just
part of what's going on. And I

560
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.039
think about it in terms of replacement, because eventually, if they can sort

561
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:14.440
themselves out security wise, it will
mean less employees. And you know how

562
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:17.039
efficient does a Walmart or a Circle
K need to be? Anyways, Dvance,

563
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:24.760
what's on your mind tonight? I'll
just I guess I got the Walmart

564
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.159
blues now. Yeah, well,
you know, and the funny thing is

565
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:34.559
Advance. You know what else I
noticed is ten years ago or so,

566
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.559
a whole lot of us that had, you know, ethical concerns, did

567
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:42.840
not want to use Walmart. But
you know what, every area of the

568
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:46.840
country it seems like they dominated the
landscape, the local landscape, so much

569
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:52.679
that you run out of choices.
After a while, it's impossible to find

570
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.400
stuff. You wind up back at
Walmart. Even if you're trying to avoid

571
00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:00.920
it and use more localized merchants,
use the smaller businesses. One way or

572
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:05.559
another, you're gonna get trapped into
going there. And it's just people that

573
00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.440
we used to try and avoid going
have slowly but surely given in and went

574
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:12.800
back to Walmart. I mean,
I remember how everybody was very upset in

575
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.519
the early two thousands. It might
have been the year two thousand, even

576
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:21.480
with that documentary Walmart, the high
cost of low prices right, all about

577
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:23.679
the slave labor and how they were, you know, basically doing stuff and

578
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:30.880
oh it's all Chinese products and everything. People tried to back away from Walmart,

579
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:36.599
and they become so ubiquitous that you
can't escape them. So even people

580
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.599
that wanted to ethically refuse Walmart won't
and it does it's not gonna matter much

581
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:44.039
more with the self checkout anyways.
Well, I'm proud to say I haven't

582
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.159
been in a Walmart in over three
years. Oh that's you, okay,

583
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:52.159
Okay, Well, Hey, you're
you're one of the few, my friend,

584
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.920
that that hasn't been in a Walmart
in the past few years, because

585
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:57.920
it seems like to me, everybody
else I know, even the people that

586
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.039
were hardcore about I'm not going back
there. I don't care, have ended

587
00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:05.880
up back in the Walmart web if
you will. But anyway, yeah,

588
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:09.760
go advance. You want to talk
Walmart blues or you got something else Walmart.

589
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:16.599
Well along that line that I live. You know, historically, I've

590
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:22.440
lived around San Antonio stuff, and
we have a local grocery chain called h

591
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.159
B which is you know, been
around for you know, the fifties or

592
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.599
whatever. In fact, my grandma
dated him in one of them in high

593
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:32.880
school, or he tried to date
her, but he was creepy and she

594
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:38.039
didn't mess with him, so I
couldn't be related to Henry Butts was his

595
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:45.599
name. I think Harry Henry anyway, So so anyway, I'm twenty miles

596
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:52.320
from San Antonio now and then here
in Castorville there he was that. There's

597
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:57.800
another local chain called super Ass,
which is a small you know, they're

598
00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:01.480
usually in small towns only know,
not you know, big towns, and

599
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:07.440
everything's you know, fifty cents more
or whatever, you know, and not

600
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:12.480
as big a selection, but you
know that most of the staples and all

601
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:17.360
that. But it was like eighteen
miles from my house to the HIB the

602
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.360
closest HIV, and and so I
would go there like to buy my big

603
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.920
stuff, you know, most of
the time or whatever. I would,

604
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.519
you know, I didn't mind you
know, driving over there to save a

605
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.039
little money if I was buying a
lot of stuff, but if I just

606
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:36.400
needed something, you know quick,
I you know, get it at Supers.

607
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:40.119
And then they finally built in they
had a Walmart and Hondo, which

608
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:44.639
was fifteen miles up the road,
so I would drive eighteen miles to HIV

609
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:45.920
rather than go to the Walmart.
So I would do all that, and

610
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.440
then eventually they built one here in
Castleville. And then you know, gas

611
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:54.920
prices and everything else, and it's
just, you know, it's just cost

612
00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:00.119
too much. I guess I can
justify it that way or whatever. But

613
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:04.880
as far as they're checking the baskets
and all that shit here, they normally

614
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.559
also I've seen them, do you
And it's a smaller in town and not

615
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:13.199
that much crime or anything, and
they only check you if you like gut

616
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.840
some sodas or anything that's you know, not bagged and or you know,

617
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:22.119
like dog food under the basket or
whatever. You know, that's the only

618
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.280
the only time they've ever stopped me
or you know, asked me anything.

619
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:30.440
And and I don't mind showing him
that for that, you know, it's

620
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:32.639
like yeah, because that's all he
looks for, is doctor Pepperson. You

621
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:37.239
know, I go through you know, but but uh, yeah, I

622
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:44.039
wouldn't. I wouldn't if it wasn't
There's no way they can do it to

623
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:45.880
everybody. I mean, if they're
going to check everybody who going through it,

624
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.360
I've never seen them check anybody,
you know, just and when I

625
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.519
go through the line and and bag
all my stuff and I don't have,

626
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.199
you know, something like that,
they don't, they don't ever ask me

627
00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:00.639
anything. So well, that sounds
to me like yeah, that sounds to

628
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:05.920
me like the way it was some
years back, when it was just a

629
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.239
big, unbagged item, like I
said, you know, a case of

630
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.800
water, a case of soda,
a case of a case of something underneath

631
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:15.440
because maybe you forgot to scan your
case, you know, maybe you forgot

632
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:19.079
to scan your big bag of dog
food, big bags of dog food's another

633
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.000
one, or cat food or kitty
litter, you know, stuff like that

634
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.960
in a large bag. Yeah,
that used to be the way it was

635
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:29.400
in a lot of places, and
I guess still like that in a small

636
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.239
town. Maybe it just varies depending
on your location a little bit. I'm

637
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:38.440
here in different different variations here based
on locations. I mean, you know,

638
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.880
so maybe that's what it is.
But I'll yeah, the one thing

639
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:50.639
here recently and like here a month
or so ago in the parking lot there,

640
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:54.199
showed up all these big gas containers
and they put like a fence around

641
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:57.239
it and all this, and I'm
like, okay, I guess they could

642
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.360
do some remodeling or something and in
here, and maybe this is happening in

643
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:07.400
other markets or whatever. But they're
just like totally read changing everything like for

644
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:10.719
the last couple of weeks ago in
and like what was here is not there

645
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:14.119
anymore. And now I'm going,
okay, so where the fuck is the

646
00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:20.760
sup aisle now? You know?
And last night I went and they had

647
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:24.920
they did a few aisles two nights
ago. I went and it was like

648
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:29.519
I was just cussing that I was
walking by all these people I know,

649
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:32.840
you're just fucking everything. If you
fuck got now, I got to walk

650
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:37.480
around here looking for you know,
ask somebody where the hell do you keep

651
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.480
this now? You know. So
it's like they're you know, trying to

652
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:46.320
discombobulate people on purpose or some shit. Well dynamically, they add stuff too,

653
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:50.559
like services, like you know,
in some places they've gotten rid of

654
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:54.199
the eyeglass place and some places they
put them in. Uh they have you

655
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:59.679
know, healthcare things. They temporarily
set up the tax for preparation, uh

656
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.800
say around this time of year,
right, you got Sometimes they got a

657
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.000
restaurant in there, they take that
out. The McDonald's used to be in

658
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:13.320
the Walmarts. I don't know if
they still are. Uh the Walmart near

659
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.639
me has a subway in it still, you know. And they put different

660
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:21.960
stuff in there, automotive or an
automotive department that has a service department.

661
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:27.119
Maybe they might have that in there. And they change these things around depending

662
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.760
on what you know, gets demanded
in an area. So they're always doing

663
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:32.119
that. It looks like Walmart.
You can't blame them for that. And

664
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:38.679
they do remodel and move things around
supposedly to you know, to better serve

665
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:45.280
the customer, right, at least
that's the clean But yeah, I don't

666
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:46.840
know. It sounds to me like
if you're in a smaller town, it's

667
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:51.840
really not that big a deal.
But still they're bringing in these self checkouts

668
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:57.880
there, right, I mean,
that's that's everywhere, isn't it. We

669
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:04.920
we don't have the closest self checkout
here would be Greenville or Kenston, the

670
00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:08.320
here and Grift and we don't have
enough to We don't really have enough business

671
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:12.039
for somebody to put in a self
checkout. I mean, you talk about

672
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:16.239
small town, We've got what twelve
hundred people living here in the surrounding area,

673
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:21.719
maybe nine hundred actually in the city
limits, so not a whole lot

674
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:25.079
of people. But what I'm curious
to know is who's going to take Walmart's

675
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:34.440
place, because up until now you
had what Wolco, Woolworths, Kmart.

676
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:38.079
You know, they were the they
were the discount big stores. Super Ks

677
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:40.960
you know, was the big thing
when they were opening up and they all

678
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:45.519
went bust. I'm wondering who's going
to take the place of Walmart when Walmart

679
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:51.960
goes bust. Well, with the
expansion of Dollar Tree and Dollar Dollar General

680
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:57.639
and Family Dollar that that tryad there
seems to be the new replacement because those

681
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:01.280
things are growing like wild. You
know, everywhere seems to dollars. You

682
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:05.719
know. It's funny. Walmart came
out with their with their big stores,

683
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.599
and they came out with the Walmart
supercenters, and then they came out with

684
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:15.039
the neighborhood stores, which was a
smaller version that basically just carried groceries and

685
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:19.440
things like that. Well, now
Dollar General is getting into the neighborhood market.

686
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:22.280
We've had several of them built around
here just in the past year,

687
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:28.039
where they're carrying actual fresh produce and
more grocery items than you see in their

688
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:31.119
normal stores. And they're really growing. I mean, the joke around here

689
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:35.639
is, you know, you leave
a pile of dirt laid around long enough,

690
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:39.000
eventually a Dollar General sprout. Probably
that's how. Yeah, i mean,

691
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:44.320
they're building like crazy, and they're
really putting a lot of pressure on

692
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:46.559
Walmart, Dollar General, Family,
Dollar Dollar Tree, all of them on.

693
00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:50.639
Yeah, exactly. But that's what
I'm saying is between those three,

694
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.199
I'm thinking that that's the next thing
that's just going to be everywhere everywhere.

695
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:58.960
Dollar General was not something that you
saw everywhere only a few years ago.

696
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:01.800
I remember when those stores are like, we're pretty much first in Jersey,

697
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:06.039
and I'm going, what the hell
is a dollar General? And I thought

698
00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:07.880
to myself, does this mean it's
everything is a dollar store? And no

699
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:12.079
it wasn't. You know. Well, now, I'll be honest. The

700
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:16.159
Dollar General that we have here in
my town, they they do a big

701
00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:20.280
business. I mean, we didn't
have a grocery store for a long time.

702
00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.239
The one that we had, we
had a Pigley Wiggley here and it

703
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:28.199
eventually bought during one of the floods
during the hurricanes, got damaged. In

704
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:30.280
fact, they built a new store
and didn't think about putting the floor above

705
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:36.840
flood stage, so it got swamped
and they closed it down. So they

706
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:42.840
went It was a good twelve thirteen
years here. And just before Christmas last

707
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:46.119
year, a guy went in and
took the old original Piggly Wiggily store on

708
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:52.039
Main Street, completely refurbished it and
opened it up as a I want to

709
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:59.039
say, it's a food pride is
the chain that they're connected with. His

710
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:02.880
prices are a little a little higher
something I might spend. You know,

711
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.639
I've got to drive twelve miles to
get to a food line one direction or

712
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.719
the other. Their prices are a
little better. But a lot of the

713
00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:15.800
items that I buy here locally,
just for convenience, you might pay a

714
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.800
quarter to fifty cent more than what
you see in food line. And you

715
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.679
know, food line is huge,
so they can afford to knock prices down.

716
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.679
But this is this guy here locally
has been doing well. I mean,

717
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:31.639
he's he says that he's At first
he was having trouble because they didn't

718
00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:37.400
have him set up to take food
stamps or EBT cards. Now that he's

719
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:40.360
got all that figured into his program, he's doing good. And it's good

720
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.880
to see. I mean, this
little community needs a store that you can

721
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:46.639
go to at six point thirty,
you know, at night and get something

722
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:51.559
without having to drive, you know, to either Greenville, Aid or Tinston

723
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:55.719
to go shopping. So it's very
convenient. He's been able to keep his

724
00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:00.039
prices low. He's got a pretty
good selection considering how small store it is,

725
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:04.400
right, and Walmart glad to see
he's doing well. Yeah, And

726
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.280
Walmart went in every direction by the
way, experimentally. I mean, at

727
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.480
one point they had convenience stores,
they had the neighborhood market. Then they

728
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:15.440
had a convenience store. It was
like a Walmart Express or a Walmart on

729
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:19.599
the Run or whatever. They've had, you know, the gas pumps installed

730
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.719
in some of them, and left
and right, they've gone in every possible

731
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.039
direction. And of course they're connected
to Sam's. So you know, you

732
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:30.679
got your Sam's Club. The really
big box version of the store is already

733
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:35.119
a part of it, because that
was always part of it, Sam's Club,

734
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.360
So you know, just like you
get the Sam's Cola at Walmart,

735
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:42.519
right, it said Sam because it
was Sam what was his last name?

736
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.760
I forget all this time. Wealton
there you go, you know, and

737
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:50.360
that family every time there's a tax
breaker or whatever, that family always does

738
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:53.320
good. I love how everybody brings
that up and then forgets it immediately when

739
00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:55.840
it's like, you know, hey, you see that corporate tax cut.

740
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.920
Guess what the Waltons got out of
it? You know, every time,

741
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.960
and they've continued to expand. Look, I'm gonna put Vance on hold,

742
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:07.480
and I'm definitely gonna get back around
to you and to uh, you know,

743
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:12.599
and and to uh everybody who's on
the phone right now. For sure,

744
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:15.480
Harlan and Vance right now are the
only two. So that's the only

745
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.519
two I'll get back around to.
But uh, who knows what else we

746
00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:22.800
might discuss outside of the retail markets
and uh such cause there's a lot more

747
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:28.360
that we could discuss up until ten
pm here on the Friday night Live open

748
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:32.760
mic stick around And remember three one
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749
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751
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752
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ahead, call it the truth about
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756
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what do you want to know?
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757
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:14.719
knew Ruby and Barry answer weapons.
Really, I imagine I could claim I

758
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:19.039
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759
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Let's say you can get Judith Very Baker

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Again back for second number two of
the Friday Night Open mic, and here

785
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we are again. Three one nine
five two seven five zero one six is

786
00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:02.039
the number to call three one nine
five five zero one six or reach out

787
00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:06.599
to me Charles Daughtacelly on Skype and
I will call you into the show.

788
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:10.480
So so far we've been into the
retail business, didn't even touch politics yet,

789
00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:15.039
so I'm happy about that. To
be honest with you, haven't gone

790
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.079
into the wars that are and the
rumors of wars and et cetera. Yet

791
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.920
all good as far as I'm concerned. What else is on your guys minds

792
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:25.320
out there tonight. I don't know, b Pete, what else you got

793
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:29.400
in mind? Anything else that important
went on this week? Or you think

794
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:32.239
we need to address before we go
back around to our callers and see if

795
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:37.039
anybody new joins us. Well,
well, the biggest news to me all

796
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:43.960
week is the fact that Mitch mcconnald
says he's going to step down as leader

797
00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:49.440
of the Republicans in the Senate come
November, and then he's going to finish

798
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:52.440
out his term. Now, you
know, it's about damn time. I'd

799
00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:55.960
like to thank all the people out
there listening from the state of Kentucky that

800
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:02.679
have foisted that ass hat on us
for the past thirty years. Maybe one

801
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:07.480
down, we can get the rest
of them. Muh, you got some

802
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:12.440
ambitions there. I mean the idea
that they start getting rid of the people

803
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:15.559
that they keep re electing, which
I always find funny, by the way,

804
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:21.159
it seems like during the time when
people are complaining most about the politicians

805
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:24.280
that are there forever is when they
usually keep putting the same guys back in

806
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:29.320
there forever. I mean, maybe
it's just me, you know, well,

807
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:30.679
I mean I've always said that,
you know, I've told people,

808
00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:37.519
you everybody complains about you know,
the government be a run by old,

809
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:40.840
rich white guys. Well why do
you keep collecting them? You know,

810
00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:45.480
people that they complain about their own
actions. They don't think about it,

811
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:52.280
you know, Kentucky has you look
at the difference between Mitch McConnell and Rand

812
00:56:52.320 --> 00:57:00.199
Paul, two totally opposite ends of
the spectrum of the Republican Party, And

813
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:06.039
Mitch McConnell he has this last bit
and what really set me off was this

814
00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:09.079
last immigration bill that the Senate voted
on. You know, they call it

815
00:57:09.119 --> 00:57:14.400
bipartisan, you know, because a
couple of Republicans voted for it. It's

816
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:19.000
a bipartisan bill, so that means
everybody should accept it because both sides put

817
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.440
it forward. Well, basically,
it was an amnesty bill, and it

818
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:28.639
was an amnesty bill that tied the
hands of the next president, regardless of

819
00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:32.039
who it is, on being able
to change things. And luckily the House

820
00:57:32.079 --> 00:57:35.559
said, hey, it's dead on
arrival. We're not even going to bring

821
00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:37.679
it to the floor. This is
ridiculous. Guys haven't done a damn thing

822
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:42.199
to solve the problem. All you
do is granted amnesty to all these people

823
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.719
that are here illegally, and you
tie the hands of the future administration to

824
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.400
be able to go in and do
what they need to do based on the

825
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:55.280
flow of immigrants into this country.
I'm glad to see Mitch McConnell gone.

826
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:59.079
He'd be the first one I'd want
to throw dirt claude at when he comes

827
00:57:59.079 --> 00:58:01.119
out of the building. Well,
I mean, there's plenty of them that

828
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:05.320
have been there forever though, you
know. I mean, and yeah,

829
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:09.440
he's just a start Pelosi, Nadler, McConnell. I mean, they're all

830
00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:14.199
of the same ilk. You know, we've had a guy here from North

831
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:15.880
Carolina, Tom Tillos. He hadn't
been there that long, but all he's

832
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:20.239
done is called problem. Since he's
been there, he's selling out people left

833
00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:23.079
and right, if you honestly think, and this is what gets me about

834
00:58:23.079 --> 00:58:30.960
being a you know, an election
year, all these commercials. You know,

835
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:34.679
I'm a conservative and I'm gonna do
this, and I'm going to stop

836
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:37.679
the spending, and I'm going to
cut this, and no you're not.

837
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:43.159
I don't see anything cutting a budget
in what twenty years. And if you

838
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.519
cut the rate of growth, the
Democrats come out and say, Okay,

839
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:49.920
well the Republicans are trying. They're
just trying to cut they're trying to cut.

840
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:52.960
No, we're cutting the rate of
growth. It's still growing, but

841
00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:57.119
at a slower rate. But all
you hear in the media is all they

842
00:58:57.159 --> 00:58:59.559
just want to cut sole security,
or they just want to cut this,

843
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.039
they just want to cut that.
Well, yeah, I'd love to cut

844
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:07.800
some stuff. Let's cut salaries for
politicians that can't do their job and get

845
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:12.480
a budget passed. That's the first
thing I'd want to cut. I'd simply

846
00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:14.880
say, look, if you guys
don't come up with a budget when by

847
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:17.800
the time you're supposed to, you
don't get paid because you're not doing your

848
00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:22.760
job. Yeah, but would that
work? Considering again, like we brought

849
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.239
up at the beginning of a show, it's not like that's where their real

850
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:30.760
money is, you know, that's
where their healthcare is. That's the funny

851
00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:34.920
thing they have, you know,
the really good version of the government healthcare

852
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.719
they get for free from the rest
of their lives. Don't they know.

853
00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.039
Well, I don't know. Maybe
I'm different than most people. If I

854
00:59:40.039 --> 00:59:44.760
were elected president, the first thing
I would do is seize the Federal Reserve.

855
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:52.159
I would show up with armed troops
and every Federal Reserve bank and put

856
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:54.840
it under control and say, now, you guys are not printing another dollar

857
00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:58.840
bill until we go through the books, and we're going to see if we

858
00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:02.840
can't cut some of this death that's
owed to the FED because of the way

859
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:07.400
you guys have been stacking the game. So you did, we'll see just

860
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.719
exactly how much debt we own,
so you we take a lot of people

861
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:13.840
off. But you damn right,
I've seen the Fed Reserve day one.

862
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:17.840
So you'd be all for the Ron
Paul Audit the FED idea, then oh

863
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:22.280
hell yes, you know. And
I can't argue with you. I mean,

864
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:27.079
uh, there's step one maybe and
maybe it's a baby step, but

865
01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.880
still step one. That would be
the best thing to do. But again,

866
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:35.400
if you keep selecting the same people
and they go with this, you

867
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:38.679
know, gotta state true to your
party no matter what crappy guy they stick

868
01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:42.360
up in that and you know,
well, he's got the right letter in

869
01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:49.000
front of his name. Nothing's getting
done, you know, and the dark

870
01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:52.519
money and everything else. I mean, if somebody could solve that one,

871
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:57.280
stop dumping these hundreds of millions of
dollars into these political campaigns, that would

872
01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:00.480
be nice too. Wouldn't that be
interesting if like you had a cap a

873
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:04.400
limit, a serious limit, and
you know, you didn't have all these

874
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:07.360
super PACs doing all this kind of
nonsense where well, they're not really under

875
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:12.320
our control. Yeah, okay,
sure they're not. They're under the control

876
01:01:12.360 --> 01:01:15.039
of somebody you're friendly with, though. He's the first things I do,

877
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:22.679
I'd seize the thaied. Second thing
I would do is push to rescind the

878
01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:30.320
amendment that allows for senators to be
elected and go back to the way it

879
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:35.199
used to be where they were appointed
by their state legislators. Second, the

880
01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:42.760
third thing I would do was immediately
propose a law that nobody can be spent

881
01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:47.559
on an election out of state of
the from out of state of the person

882
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:52.159
that's running. So if I'm running
here in the first Congressional District of North

883
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:57.480
Carolina, that means I can't accept
any donations from anywhere outside this state because

884
01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:01.840
I'm supposed to be representing this state, not the interests of somebody out of

885
01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:06.280
state, and I'd cut that right
there. And if someone says, oh,

886
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:09.920
but what about the corporations. If
a corporation has a physical location within

887
01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:14.760
this state, then find they can
donate. But if we take out the

888
01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:21.679
Senate elections and they're appointed by the
state legislatures, then we immediately remove a

889
01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:25.719
whole bunch of money out of the
elections. And if we change the election

890
01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:30.840
laws where people from New York can't
flood this state with donations. I'm sick

891
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:35.360
and tired of in the morning driving
to work and hearing nothing but political ads

892
01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:37.079
for an hour and a half.
I'm sick and tired of seeing it on

893
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:44.639
TV. Get the money out of
it, Take the money out of politics.

894
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:50.079
It's the one money corrupts faster than
anything. And I don't care who

895
01:02:50.119 --> 01:02:52.039
you are, you're gonna sit here
in campaign that yes, I'm going to

896
01:02:52.119 --> 01:02:55.519
go to Washington and we're we're going
to close the border, We're gonna cut

897
01:02:55.559 --> 01:02:59.519
taxes, and we're gonna cut the
wasteful spending. No, you're not,

898
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.960
because every politician has claimed that for
the past forty years, and in the

899
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.840
past twenty to thirty years, none
of it has ever taken place. It's

900
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:09.679
just an out and out lie.
And I'm getting sick and tired of people

901
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:15.760
lying to me constantly for a year
to two years before the election telling me

902
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:20.119
they're going to do all this stuff, and nobody ever does it when they

903
01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:23.039
show up. Look what happened with
the Tea Party. These people were elected

904
01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:28.559
to go in and change the establishment, and what happened the minute that they

905
01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:34.840
got into Washington. The Republicans turned
on them and treated them like Red had

906
01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:39.239
step children and just basically banished what. Ted Cruz I think is the only

907
01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:44.280
one left. Did he? They
got elected during that, during the big

908
01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:46.199
Tea Party. Yeah, there might
be it might be one or two more,

909
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:50.880
but not among the big names.
I think Ted Cruise was probably the

910
01:03:50.920 --> 01:03:55.400
biggest name left. So take the
money out of it. Let's listen,

911
01:03:55.920 --> 01:04:00.760
money corrupts quicker than anything. Let's
get the number one corrupt influence out of

912
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:05.039
the whole damn deal. I mean, I think Mike Pompeo was part of

913
01:04:05.079 --> 01:04:09.960
that too, right wasn't. I
don't know about Pompeo. I'm not sure

914
01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:12.039
he may have been. He may
have been. I know most of them

915
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.920
are gone now. Cruise is the
only one that I know was elected during

916
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:21.000
you know, as a tea party
republic treated the minute they got to Washington,

917
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:25.320
they were treated like outsiders, and
nobody wanted to put them on committees,

918
01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:30.920
nobody wanted to listen to them.
You know, the government. Our

919
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:39.599
constitution was set up so that people
elected citizens to represent citizens. That's not

920
01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:43.920
what they represented anymore. They represent
big business, they represent the party,

921
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:50.000
they represent money. Money is power, and the Democrats, the Democrats are

922
01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:56.639
excellent at pulling dirty tricks to try
to increase the amount of money they got

923
01:04:56.679 --> 01:05:00.440
because they know money is power.
And until we start getting rid of these

924
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.000
people that have corrupted the system,
we're sunk. There's nothing we can do.

925
01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:05.199
We're some well, you know.
And then again, a guy like

926
01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:09.960
McConnell and some of these others,
it also opens some wide for the foreign

927
01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:13.119
money. Like I've always said,
it's their paymasters that make their decisions,

928
01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.119
not them. And they're not representing
the people, they're representing those that are

929
01:05:16.119 --> 01:05:21.159
lining their pockets. And well,
trying to sound racist, when don't we

930
01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:28.400
just start looking at McConnell's wife's ties
to China. She's Chinese, she owns

931
01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:30.599
a business in China, should we
do a little bit of looking there.

932
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:33.880
We're worried about Hunter Biden and his
connections. We're worried about Joe Biden and

933
01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:39.400
his connections. How much has Mitch
McConnell sold us out to favor China over

934
01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:43.400
the past thirty years. Let's take
a look, set a little light on

935
01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:45.719
it. Well, like I said, nobody really wants a true picking of

936
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.599
the scab because there's way too much
puss to go around on all sides.

937
01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:54.199
So well, that's the first thing
I do is rip that scab off.

938
01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:57.800
It would be interesting to see done. Anyways, we'll go back around to

939
01:05:57.840 --> 01:06:00.440
the calls, but again we'll take
new ones and they'll get a I already

940
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:02.679
at three one nine, five,
two seven, five zero one six,

941
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:08.360
but we got about forty nine minutes
or so left in the show, so

942
01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:13.360
Harlan's still on hold. Harlan.
Now we're now we're into the political arena.

943
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:15.840
Apparently I didn't know we were going
to go there, but here we

944
01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:20.039
are. Uh, Mitch McConnell's stepping
down this week, though, any thoughts,

945
01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.679
Well, I'm gonna kind of just
roll a lown pack on the back

946
01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:32.239
of the stuff that the Pete said
you know, I agree with almost everything

947
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:35.360
that he said. They're one hundred
percent. I'd also like to say that

948
01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:42.760
Ran Paul I thought that he come
in on the tea party gimmick well back

949
01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:45.119
in the day, as I'll test, him and Cruz both got there about

950
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:49.480
the same time. Ain't that rap? I don't know, it seems like,

951
01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:55.079
but it's hard to tell because of
course who his father was. I'll

952
01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:58.039
look it up while y'all were talking. Yeah, I don't remember exactly when

953
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:00.440
he came in, but to me, he came in really on the back

954
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:05.280
of his father's reputation. I thought, Paul, Yeah, I don't think

955
01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:11.719
Ran as hardly as principal is.
Run is not all something that and a

956
01:07:11.719 --> 01:07:15.360
lot of people on the right,
so called conservatives, you know, people

957
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:19.880
that are conservatives whatever, they bought
this propaganda that that, you know,

958
01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:26.360
my private company is lowered and master. I've always considered myself a high ice

959
01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:30.559
libertarian. Reason why I can't say
I'm a three quarter full ice libertarian is

960
01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:36.239
the libertarians, you know, for
the most part, especially the hardcores,

961
01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:42.960
they basically want some private company to
be rolling over some corporation gimmick. But

962
01:07:43.199 --> 01:07:46.400
until you get back to we the
people instead is the we the corporation.

963
01:07:46.599 --> 01:07:50.960
And then that means that you can't
be running around here saying, well because

964
01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:57.320
the corporation said it is gospel.
I think that's actually worser than the big

965
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:01.719
government gimmick, because hey, look
who is a big government? Big business?

966
01:08:02.440 --> 01:08:10.280
Even these far left social justice gimmicks, there's big money behind them.

967
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:15.199
For the most part. It seems
like to me environmental movements, you know,

968
01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:18.560
all that shit, But you've got
to get away from that. And

969
01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:24.119
something that Pete said, I'd like
to, you know, kind of throw

970
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:29.279
out there. I've heard this stuff
for you know, thirty years about going

971
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:38.720
back and the state legislatures appointing the
senators. Well, you know that's kind

972
01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:43.119
of like you know, paper hand
county paper ballots. Well, that's only

973
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:48.640
as good as whoever is doing the
counting. I did vote early last week

974
01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:54.520
on the local election, and it
was for the Super Tuesday primary election.

975
01:08:55.119 --> 01:08:59.520
And now we've swapped in my county
to where you've give them your driver's license,

976
01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:01.640
they skip an them and asked you
if you want to vote in the

977
01:09:01.720 --> 01:09:06.159
Republican or Democrat primary or just the
local election. And we got a whill

978
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:12.720
tax and I want to be done
a podcast the Guy tomorrow night at a

979
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:16.399
local you know, Tennessee issue.
But anyway that we're actually getting to,

980
01:09:16.760 --> 01:09:23.159
you know, vote for against this
time around. But my overall point is,

981
01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:28.119
you know, you they printed out, you check your boxes, and

982
01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:30.800
you run it back to you know, a feeder, and they stand it

983
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:34.359
then. And it's supposed to be
gospel from here. But back to the

984
01:09:34.399 --> 01:09:39.840
part about the senators, that's only
going to be and I agree with with

985
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:44.000
him one hundred percent that you need
to get this out of state money regardless

986
01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:47.640
of what state you're in. You
know, you don't need somebody on one

987
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:51.880
end of the country telling somebody in
Georgia, Tennessee, you know, how

988
01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:56.960
to do stuff because they don't want
to hear it. When we're saying free

989
01:09:57.000 --> 01:10:00.520
speech and Second Amendment in New York, so what we don't want to hear

990
01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:06.159
whatever that they've got to say.
And you know other states. But as

991
01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:12.279
far as you know, the state
legislatures picking the senators, well, you

992
01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:15.640
know that's getting down to where you've
just got a handful of people insteads the

993
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.760
whole state. And I don't see
in this day in time where it's going

994
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:27.000
to be any better, because you're
basically gonna have the establishment still picking the

995
01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:31.399
candidates just like we're doing now.
And a red state is always going to

996
01:10:31.479 --> 01:10:36.479
go with the Republican and a blue
state is always going to go with the

997
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:42.159
Democrat. And if it's just the
state legislatures, well it's still going to

998
01:10:42.239 --> 01:10:47.479
be, you know, the establishment
picking whoever that they're picking. I mean,

999
01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:53.079
I'd like to know his opinion on
that. And I understand in the

1000
01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:57.960
perfect world and everything, you know, that would work great. And I

1001
01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:00.319
understand that used to be the way
that you know, everything working as to

1002
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:03.920
what it was in the Constitution.
And one more thing, when when advance

1003
01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:08.199
gets on here, I was going
to ask him what the deal was with

1004
01:11:08.319 --> 01:11:16.359
Tom Cooper getting banned off of of
Twitter slash x. I noticed that he

1005
01:11:16.439 --> 01:11:19.680
got clipped off from there. Tom
Cooper got knocked off in there. I

1006
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:26.199
didn't know that, I think so, so I lost his number and advances.

1007
01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:29.479
Also, I think I found Vancey's
I seen that you sent it to

1008
01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:32.000
me, but I didn't read that
email. But I got to typing into

1009
01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:35.800
one zero and I think I sent
him something here. I know I tried

1010
01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:42.319
to send something last week, but
I didn't notice that what I could gather

1011
01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:45.000
there on Twitter that you know,
there's another post there that said that you

1012
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:50.279
know, he'd been banned and he
just he was gone. I call him,

1013
01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:55.119
but I lost his number. Well
I wasn't lost the bons No problem.

1014
01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:58.239
Look I don't have Tom's number,
but but Advance can probably put you

1015
01:11:58.319 --> 01:12:00.039
in touch with him. So but
yeah, ge advanced back on in a

1016
01:12:00.079 --> 01:12:05.000
minute, give me Kyle sometime Lance
when you get a Chancher tonight or something

1017
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:09.760
there you go, there you go, no problem, I'm gonna put you

1018
01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:12.960
back on hold, though, u
VP go ahead. What do you want

1019
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:15.479
to say about that about you know
you wanted to hear what you had to

1020
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:18.079
say about I forget? How how
did you put that? Orlan? Go

1021
01:12:18.079 --> 01:12:20.279
ahead? Repeat that about what you
want to be Pete to speak to?

1022
01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:26.520
Well? Just what I was saying, like, how would it be different

1023
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:31.319
if the state legislatures are the ones
that's electing the senators? Say? Is

1024
01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:38.600
pretty much now everything is based upon
the establishment is who's picking the candidates.

1025
01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:42.680
And you might have somebody slip by
every once in a while, but for

1026
01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:46.600
the most part, it seems like
to me it's whoever that the establishment,

1027
01:12:46.920 --> 01:12:53.399
you know, blesses. Now,
there's a few times didn't needs primaries that

1028
01:12:53.479 --> 01:12:57.640
somebody slips by. But in a
lot of cases, if you know,

1029
01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:01.960
if a certain person is annoyed,
I give a good example. You know

1030
01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:08.079
you had up in Pennsylvania. You
had this black lady that everybody was kind

1031
01:13:08.079 --> 01:13:12.079
of behind, and you know the
chosen one of knowing that, you know,

1032
01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:15.239
doctor Oz And look how that right
there turned out. But like,

1033
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:20.359
what would what is his argument?
How is that going to be better?

1034
01:13:21.319 --> 01:13:24.399
I mean, I ain't been as
smart ass. I just want to know

1035
01:13:24.439 --> 01:13:29.600
why that folks thinks that he would
be better if the state legislature was elected

1036
01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:33.000
on versus the people considering the setup
that we're living in. I mean,

1037
01:13:33.039 --> 01:13:36.520
I know if we was living in
nineteen, you know, fifty five or

1038
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:42.119
you know, eighteen eighty six or
something, it would definitely be different.

1039
01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:45.720
But I'd like to know how it
would be different in today's world. There

1040
01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:47.880
you go, So what would be
the improvement over that? Good? So

1041
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:51.000
I'm gonna put yeah, I'm gonna
put him on hold here and we'll get

1042
01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:54.920
to vance in a minute. But
Harlan's on hold, But go ahad me

1043
01:13:55.000 --> 01:14:00.000
pete. It would be better in
that in that well, it would take

1044
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:04.439
the money out of the election.
But and I'll use my state as an

1045
01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:09.239
example. My state is weird when
it comes to politics. We've had a

1046
01:14:09.279 --> 01:14:14.560
Republican led legislature now for the past
I think sixteen years, maybe a little

1047
01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:21.039
maybe fourteen years, and they've just
drawn maps so that they may stay in

1048
01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:27.920
power a lot longer. The Republicans
in North Carolina running the legislature was the

1049
01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:31.600
first time in like four hundred years, you know that far back, it's

1050
01:14:31.640 --> 01:14:39.439
always been a Democrat state. We
will elect a Republican legislature and a Democrat

1051
01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:44.840
governor. Now, if you want
to see people at odds, put a

1052
01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:50.520
Democrat governor in North Carolina against the
Republican legislature. They don't agree on anything.

1053
01:14:51.079 --> 01:14:57.720
They never In fact, we've had
to override Governor Vetos, and luckily

1054
01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:01.600
we've had enough people in position to
get the votes to override the veto.

1055
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:05.600
In fact, in the past two
years, there's been I think three Democrats

1056
01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:12.760
change to the Republican side of things
because of the ridiculous crap that the Democrats

1057
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:15.359
are coming up with when it comes
to schools and things like that. But

1058
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:21.640
it would each state, you know, Pennsylvania, let their legislature put their

1059
01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:29.880
senators in place to look after Pennsylvania's
interests, not New York's interests, not

1060
01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:39.239
California's interests, not Florida's interests.
Let them let them represent their state in

1061
01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:44.319
the Senate, which is the way
that it was originally set up. People

1062
01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:49.800
forget that the United States are fifty
individual states, and then what territories that

1063
01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:58.239
we have puer Rico and Guam and
things like that. But we are fifty

1064
01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:04.159
let's keep it's simple. We are
fifty individual divided groups that make up these

1065
01:16:04.399 --> 01:16:11.560
United States. And where our state's
number one industry is agriculture, another state's

1066
01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:18.319
number one industry might be industrial production
or manufacturing, or you know, some

1067
01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:26.479
other type of business. The states
have to be able to get along as

1068
01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:30.760
a unit. The problem is the
federal government has become so bloated and so

1069
01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:41.079
big that the Senate and the Congress
are now looking at things from the view

1070
01:16:41.279 --> 01:16:45.279
of government, not the state that
they represent. You know, we have

1071
01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:53.359
Medicare programs and social Security programs,
and welfare programs and healthcare programs, all

1072
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:57.079
these things that are done on a
national level. If we sat down and

1073
01:16:57.119 --> 01:17:00.720
actually took That'd be another thing I'd
do if I was elected. I would

1074
01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:03.319
sit down and say, okay,
guys, you people in the Justice Apartment,

1075
01:17:03.399 --> 01:17:09.840
you go through the Constitution, you
find me every single government agency that's

1076
01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:13.000
not called for in that Constitution,
and we're going to start getting rid of

1077
01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:16.920
of and we're going to start returning
these things back to the states. Let

1078
01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:23.079
the state decide what's going on.
Let the state look at their interest to

1079
01:17:23.159 --> 01:17:29.880
promote their number one industry of agriculture
or banking or whatever it is, and

1080
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.800
get these fifty individual groups that make
up the United States to start having to

1081
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:42.520
work together instead of this behemoth of
Democrat versus Republican. And when you wipe

1082
01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:45.640
away the names, you find out
it's pretty much the same underneath both titles.

1083
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:53.720
They're there to pump money into this
behemoth that's the government that's gotten so

1084
01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:59.399
big it can't feed itself anymore.
People can't We're going to go broke because

1085
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:03.159
we can't afford it. Let the
senators from North Carolina worry about the interest

1086
01:18:03.239 --> 01:18:08.039
of North Carolina. Of course,
they're gonna look at, you know,

1087
01:18:08.239 --> 01:18:13.039
the guys in Iowa, because their
big industry is agriculture. They're gonna look

1088
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:18.399
at the guys in Georgia, Florida, those agricultural interests and come up with

1089
01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:24.199
a farm bill that's gonna benefit the
farmer but also benefit the consumer and make

1090
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:29.680
our products more competitive in the world. I mean, we feed the world.

1091
01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:33.560
Let's start, you know, let's
start getting some benefits of that,

1092
01:18:33.720 --> 01:18:39.039
instead of people always wanting to throw
tariffs on our products. Oh though you

1093
01:18:39.159 --> 01:18:41.720
use this, use that in your
manufacturing, We're not gonna allow that in

1094
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.159
our country. Okay, fine,
you don't want to let our stuff in.

1095
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:46.479
Your stuff just got hit with tariffs. Let's start doing this fairly.

1096
01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:50.119
That's one thing that Trump did when
he got in. He can completely redid

1097
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:55.239
these trade deals because we were getting
screwed royally and nobody said he could do

1098
01:18:55.279 --> 01:18:58.279
it. And damn if he didn't
pull it off. I mean, look

1099
01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:00.720
what he did with NAFTA. He
got us out of a bad deal and

1100
01:19:00.760 --> 01:19:05.159
got us in something better. But
let these like states work together for the

1101
01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:10.039
interest of their states, not for
the interest of the federal government. And

1102
01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:15.600
I think the first step is getting
senators out of this nationwide political machine and

1103
01:19:15.720 --> 01:19:19.640
have them start worrying about what's going
on at home. I just think it

1104
01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:26.199
would be better. It would promote
each state interests better if you take the

1105
01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:29.439
election out of there, take the
money out of there, take the corporate

1106
01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:33.479
money out of there, and let
the legislators appoint those people that they feel

1107
01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:39.399
safe is going to represent their state
in the federal government. Everybody looks at

1108
01:19:39.399 --> 01:19:44.600
it from the federal government down instead
of from the states up. We are

1109
01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:50.199
fifty United States, and they're going
to be different interests in each state based

1110
01:19:50.239 --> 01:19:55.159
on the state's makeup, the population. You know, you have we have

1111
01:19:55.479 --> 01:20:01.680
more illegal aliens across the border since
Joe Biden became president then thirty six of

1112
01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:08.439
our state's population. And what does
that tell you? Forget the federal government.

1113
01:20:08.520 --> 01:20:13.640
Let's start looking at the states requirements
for what they need and start benefiting

1114
01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:16.920
the states instead of you know,
this behemoth that we call the US government.

1115
01:20:17.159 --> 01:20:21.039
Well, looking back at a couple
of the bigger stories recently regarding you

1116
01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:26.760
know, the the illegals that have
committed certain crimes and everything, you see

1117
01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:30.720
five six times where you know they
could have been ejected. That's not just

1118
01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:34.319
during Biden's time. This is something
that's been going on, you know,

1119
01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:39.319
again with the way back and forth
if somebody wanted to fix that, they

1120
01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:41.119
would have fixed it. But look, I don't want to sit and pick

1121
01:20:41.159 --> 01:20:44.720
apart a whole bunch of stuff.
I do agree that one way to begin

1122
01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:46.079
to cure this problem is to take
the money out of it. But we

1123
01:20:46.159 --> 01:20:50.359
got a fresh new caller, one
I don't recognize, so I want to

1124
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:55.399
bring them on. Maybe it'll be
like the Harlan situation. Let's see,

1125
01:20:55.399 --> 01:20:57.960
I think it's a nine to one
six area code. Let's get to him.

1126
01:20:58.279 --> 01:21:00.319
See what he's got to say or
what he wants to throw on the

1127
01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:06.479
table. Okay, you're live.
This is yeah, this is Danny Dumphy

1128
01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:12.800
from the state of California. Hey, is this the same Danny Dumpy that

1129
01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:17.680
that does occasionally tweet at me on
Twitter? Exactly? Okay, great,

1130
01:21:18.239 --> 01:21:20.760
great, thank you. Good to
hear from you, Danny. It's like

1131
01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:26.319
I think his first time he called
in, isn't it I called on the

1132
01:21:26.399 --> 01:21:30.319
Uncle Show The New Year's Revolution?
Okay, okay, but I used to

1133
01:21:30.359 --> 01:21:33.760
I'm generally working or I'm asleeps but
I happen to be up so I was

1134
01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:39.399
able to catch the show, which
kind of tie bow into like what's about

1135
01:21:39.399 --> 01:21:43.439
the Behemoth? The power. You
know, it's interesting you're talking about Walmart,

1136
01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:47.720
and during the early eighties we didn't
even have a Walmart in California.

1137
01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:53.680
But I remember I was looking through
an Atlantic magazine and I was really interested

1138
01:21:53.720 --> 01:21:59.960
in this copy about the Mecladoria programs
because I started seeing the the de industrialization

1139
01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:06.319
of the United States, and especially
picking apart the devastation the rural communities and

1140
01:22:06.439 --> 01:22:11.560
farming communities at that time. Remember
all the farm aid and farmers losing the

1141
01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:16.239
property. But there was another article
in there called the Walmartization of America.

1142
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:23.000
And I think that's what we're talking
about, is that they came in,

1143
01:22:24.399 --> 01:22:28.840
they took over, they put small
businesses out, and they were all this

1144
01:22:29.039 --> 01:22:32.119
part of this process and they enriched
themselves. And it's just like these older

1145
01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:38.840
politicians, they're just this they're just
this vicious cycle that they have a monopoly

1146
01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:44.159
on power. And I've just witnessed
it over decades. Right, Honestly,

1147
01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:47.479
I've had a personal boycott of Walmart
for more than thirty years. I've probably

1148
01:22:47.479 --> 01:22:50.800
maybe stopped it, stepped in them
maybe four or five times. I will

1149
01:22:50.800 --> 01:22:54.880
not shop at the Walmart. See, now, you're one of the few

1150
01:22:54.920 --> 01:22:57.760
guys that's actually stuck to it.
I'm telling you. It was a big

1151
01:22:57.840 --> 01:23:00.840
thing like around the year two thousand
and where a lot of us were going,

1152
01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:03.920
you know, screw this. We're
tired of these things coming in and

1153
01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:11.800
destroying all the local businesses, and
let's let's protest against it by not participating.

1154
01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:15.239
And I'm telling you, slowly but
surely, I would say ninety nine

1155
01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:20.239
out of ten of the people that
I knew that we're doing that have now

1156
01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:27.279
had to give in because you can't, you can't function otherwise, nine out

1157
01:23:27.319 --> 01:23:30.680
of ten of us, and I'm
one of them. Unfortunately, I've ended

1158
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:32.239
up shopping at them. Dann Walmart, I hate it. Go ahead,

1159
01:23:33.079 --> 01:23:40.560
yeah, I get it. I
mean I deliberately went to a particular grocery

1160
01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:44.760
store because the neighbor around the corner
he worked there in the Delhi and he

1161
01:23:44.840 --> 01:23:48.159
was able to buy a home here
in California retire with a pension because they

1162
01:23:48.159 --> 01:23:51.920
were a union company, and I
paid a little more money to buy the

1163
01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:56.720
groceries. But I saw it as
helping my neighbor, and where I saw

1164
01:23:56.760 --> 01:24:01.039
Walmart was destroying my neighborhood and destroying
the small busines, right right, No,

1165
01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:03.880
I get it, and it's and
it makes sense. But here's the

1166
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:08.319
problem for some of us, right, is when they first put these things

1167
01:24:08.359 --> 01:24:12.520
closer to us, so now you
don't have to travel, and the price

1168
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:15.079
is lower, and the other stores
are going out of business. So the

1169
01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:18.039
place like you know, like you
said, the local grocery store, most

1170
01:24:18.039 --> 01:24:21.560
of those disappeared. I mean,
I remember, here we go, old

1171
01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:27.079
man again. I remember a time
when there were independent grocery stores. You

1172
01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:30.079
know, it would be like you
know, Jimmy's Groceries or whatever, and

1173
01:24:30.119 --> 01:24:34.000
it would be a fair sized grocery
store in a neighborhood somewhere, and that's

1174
01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:40.359
in the northeast, not an easy
place to compete. And those places are

1175
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:45.359
extinct that that just doesn't exist anymore. Now it's a matter of which corporate

1176
01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:47.199
entity is coming in, and do
you want to deal with the big one,

1177
01:24:47.239 --> 01:24:50.279
the small one, or the one
that comes in. And let's uh,

1178
01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:54.399
like when I'm in Pigley Wiggley over
here, because I'm in Georgia.

1179
01:24:54.439 --> 01:24:58.479
Now I go to Pigley Wiggley.
They are owned by their workers, right,

1180
01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:02.079
their workers have a share in the
store. I'd kind of rather go

1181
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:08.079
there, except that they price gouge
this stupid Pigley Wigley. And if they

1182
01:25:08.079 --> 01:25:10.800
didn't price see, but now the
price gouging. It's like, look,

1183
01:25:10.840 --> 01:25:15.640
I'm not gonna pay double for a
product here. Why not just drive another

1184
01:25:15.680 --> 01:25:19.800
five minutes and go to the Walmart
instead of paying double for the product?

1185
01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:26.199
Right? It just after a while
you get forced into it and it's like,

1186
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:30.439
what do you do? California's got
a huge variety of things, and

1187
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:32.079
I get it, and I would
love to have stuck to those principles.

1188
01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:35.119
You know. I didn't like them
putting the hardware stores out of business.

1189
01:25:35.119 --> 01:25:40.039
I didn't like them putting the paint
stores out of business, even the corporate

1190
01:25:40.079 --> 01:25:43.760
ones, the Sherman Williams and whatnot. All those things are gone, you

1191
01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:47.479
know what I mean? So yeah, go ahead. Yeah, there was

1192
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:50.119
a little local right here in the
town I live in. City I live

1193
01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:54.359
in, there was a local hardware
store. I would go there because it

1194
01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:59.199
was all family and they could save
the money even though I paid higher price,

1195
01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:00.960
because they can tell me how to
do it. I go walk in

1196
01:26:01.039 --> 01:26:05.239
a home depot, I can't get
any help, any service. And I

1197
01:26:05.319 --> 01:26:10.159
came from a family, third generation. I was part of a third generation

1198
01:26:10.239 --> 01:26:15.079
of a small family business that was
in agriculture. And I realized once I

1199
01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:18.359
got out of high school started working
for my father, I started working as

1200
01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:29.199
a teenager that our job or our
wholesaler as the small farmer, was dissipating.

1201
01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:32.640
The larger farmer got bigger because we
catered to the small farmer, that

1202
01:26:32.960 --> 01:26:39.000
our buying power shrunk, and the
same job or salesman was going over to

1203
01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:43.880
who we used to service and cutting
deals with them, and the whole vicious

1204
01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:47.720
power cycle of cutting the big guy
cutting the little guy out. And it's

1205
01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:51.800
almost, you know, we used
to have monopoly laws in this country,

1206
01:26:51.840 --> 01:26:57.119
which is still in the books,
but we don't enforce them. That's true.

1207
01:26:57.399 --> 01:27:00.520
Look at Duke Energy. They got
a stranglehold on Seventh States. They

1208
01:27:00.520 --> 01:27:05.119
broke up my bell Fell telephone for
less than what Duke Power is getting away

1209
01:27:05.159 --> 01:27:11.039
with today. Right, But that's
but he's right though. It's a constant

1210
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:15.720
theme of here's the bigger corporation that
just eats the little guys. And then

1211
01:27:15.760 --> 01:27:18.680
you get a couple of you know, next tier corporations, you almost you

1212
01:27:18.760 --> 01:27:21.000
know, go well, I just
want to go with the second tier corporation

1213
01:27:21.079 --> 01:27:25.720
at this point, Uh, you
know, for one of the only votes

1214
01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:30.199
that really counts, which is where
you spend your money, and you virtually

1215
01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:33.000
have no choices left, I mean, and that's well, we had a

1216
01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:36.720
good lesson in that in the past
year. I was reading an article today

1217
01:27:36.840 --> 01:27:43.920
that Transhauser Busch has lost one point
four billion dollars because of the bud light

1218
01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:48.960
boycott, all because they wanted to
make Somebody sitting in an office made a

1219
01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:55.319
decision to do a promotion and it
blew up in their face. And now

1220
01:27:55.359 --> 01:27:59.600
they've had to sell brands just to
be able to make ends meet. And

1221
01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:02.560
I I hate to see these people
being put out of work. But one

1222
01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:06.920
point four billion dollars in less than
a year, man, you talk about

1223
01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:13.359
a screw up. Yeah, just
because they made one specialized can for somebody.

1224
01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:15.840
You know that that really doesn't go
with the majority of who their brand

1225
01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:20.880
likes. Uh. It's funny that
people can get motivated enough to cost Anheuser

1226
01:28:20.920 --> 01:28:26.039
Bush enough money, but they can't
get it together to like stop the Walmart

1227
01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:30.760
machine rolling. They can't get it
together to stop the Amazon machine from rolling.

1228
01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:32.359
They can't, you know what I'm
saying, Like these other ones,

1229
01:28:32.479 --> 01:28:38.319
you can't stop them. But they
can they What's gonna happen is, you

1230
01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:43.039
know, Walmart is going to get
boutiqued to death. You're gonna start seeing

1231
01:28:43.119 --> 01:28:49.039
more of these small independent stores opening
back up, and people will pay a

1232
01:28:49.119 --> 01:28:54.520
little bit more to keep from having
to go to Walmart. People right now,

1233
01:28:54.640 --> 01:28:57.399
I mean, we went through an
era where we were addicted to cheap

1234
01:28:57.479 --> 01:29:00.800
Chinese junk, and basically that's what
I used to buy in Walmart. You'd

1235
01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:04.319
buy a product, even a product
under a name brand. It seemed like

1236
01:29:04.359 --> 01:29:09.199
whatever it was being sold in Walmart
either broke or wore out so fast you

1237
01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:13.279
were back in there buying it again. I'd rather spend the money and buy

1238
01:29:13.319 --> 01:29:16.399
something the quality is gonna last me. Then you know, blow it in

1239
01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:23.079
Walmart. But I don't know,
I don't know when it's gonna come,

1240
01:29:23.119 --> 01:29:26.840
but I have a feeling Walmart it's
going to start losing their share of the

1241
01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:33.119
market. All I can say is
from your lips to God's ears VPTE,

1242
01:29:35.279 --> 01:29:41.920
we can only hope, yeah,
yeah, exactly. But I've seen this

1243
01:29:42.079 --> 01:29:45.680
happening. It's it's it's even in
politics on both sides. It's the it's

1244
01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:50.439
big money. You know, once
money became free speech, and you know

1245
01:29:50.520 --> 01:29:55.600
there used to be it was the
McCain findal, but tried to, you

1246
01:29:55.640 --> 01:29:59.720
know, a couple of decades to
try to Oh, don't get me started

1247
01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:04.000
on this. Yeah, well,
I know they got rid of they got

1248
01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:09.279
rid of vine Gold, you know, but they didn't get rid of mcking.

1249
01:30:09.399 --> 01:30:14.319
But that was the big money interest. He's done. I mean that,

1250
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:17.159
I'm amazed that they allowed him to
stay in the Republican Party. I

1251
01:30:17.399 --> 01:30:20.079
run him out with a back of
dirt clouds the first chance I got.

1252
01:30:21.079 --> 01:30:25.479
Yeah, yeah, I mean an
offense. I mean, I'm one of

1253
01:30:25.479 --> 01:30:29.359
those that feel like they need to
continue working on the border wall, and

1254
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:32.279
when they get at Arizona, make
a sharp left hand turn and go right

1255
01:30:32.279 --> 01:30:38.119
there between California and Nevada and just
go ahead and block California off. We

1256
01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:40.720
used to live in California, you
know, so I know a little bit

1257
01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:44.119
of what I speak of. But
as far as I'm concerned, we can't

1258
01:30:44.119 --> 01:30:47.199
give that state back to damn Mexico
because they have done nothing but cause problems

1259
01:30:47.199 --> 01:30:51.960
for the rest of this nation for
the past fifty damn years. Yeah,

1260
01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:57.479
hating on California, All right,
Well, what can I say? It's

1261
01:30:57.560 --> 01:31:02.319
all good. I love California,
so I'm not going anywhere northern California out

1262
01:31:02.319 --> 01:31:09.079
of love. I love northern California. It's beautiful, see, I mean,

1263
01:31:09.439 --> 01:31:12.520
it's it's that's the part of the
state that you want to keep.

1264
01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:16.520
But the craft that's going on in
Sacramento, Sacramento, San Francisco, and

1265
01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:21.800
LA you just keep it. You
couldn't pay me to live there. Yeah.

1266
01:31:21.920 --> 01:31:25.720
Well see, and I'd love to
move back to the northeast. I

1267
01:31:25.760 --> 01:31:28.439
love the northeast of the country,
but I can't afford it. There's just

1268
01:31:28.479 --> 01:31:30.920
no way to afford it. You
know. In California is another place where

1269
01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:34.840
like I can't even imagine affording living
there anymore. Uh no, oh,

1270
01:31:34.920 --> 01:31:39.520
yeah, no, it's it's not
it's not It's like I said, it's

1271
01:31:39.520 --> 01:31:43.760
a complex place. I mean,
the biggest problem in California is it's just

1272
01:31:44.039 --> 01:31:47.359
it's just a lot of people.
There's forty million people live in California,

1273
01:31:47.439 --> 01:31:54.479
so you're going to have forty million
different problems. Yeah. Well, if

1274
01:31:54.479 --> 01:31:59.279
you could isolate Bakersfield, you know, and make that a state of its

1275
01:31:59.319 --> 01:32:06.079
own, I'd be okay to live
there. You know. It's just it's

1276
01:32:06.119 --> 01:32:12.119
the frame of mind of the people
there, you know, so much different

1277
01:32:12.159 --> 01:32:16.680
than from the big city. And
I don't know, I just I see

1278
01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:20.159
a lot of problems come out of
California because whatever starts out there happens to

1279
01:32:20.159 --> 01:32:26.399
work its way east. Well maybe
if we build a wall high up.

1280
01:32:27.199 --> 01:32:31.079
If you listen to the recity,
it's not a small city anymore. Well

1281
01:32:31.119 --> 01:32:35.720
true if you listen to the brand
new independent media hero named Tucker Carlson.

1282
01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:41.359
Though, all we got to do
is follow the Moscow frame of mind when

1283
01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:45.640
it comes to the grocery stores and
everything else, because it did not open

1284
01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:48.199
up some people's eyes didn't. A
lot of people that were really gung ho

1285
01:32:48.439 --> 01:32:53.039
on Tucker Carlson got their eyes open
here just very recently. Well, I

1286
01:32:53.079 --> 01:32:56.239
hope they realized how stupid that was. I mean, but I don't think

1287
01:32:56.279 --> 01:33:00.239
they do, because it's like,
oh, look this is only ten rubles

1288
01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:02.840
and wow, it's amazing. You
can get a cart and you get your

1289
01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:05.359
you know, we had those things
here for a lot of years. Tucker,

1290
01:33:05.479 --> 01:33:09.680
we put a quarter in, you
know, not ten rubles, but

1291
01:33:09.720 --> 01:33:13.119
a quarter, and you know,
and then he's like, oh, look,

1292
01:33:13.319 --> 01:33:15.760
you can get anything you want in
one of these grocery stores. So

1293
01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:18.000
it's not the Soviet grocery store that
we were told about. Yes, get

1294
01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:23.279
it, sure, but man,
I don't I don't know. I don't

1295
01:33:23.279 --> 01:33:26.800
know what to say about this.
I like the fact that Putin blasted him

1296
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:29.359
afterwards, kind of going, you
know, I'm not really sure what his

1297
01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:33.399
agenda was, but if that's like
one of your top media people, wow,

1298
01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:36.920
that's sad. Pretty much, is
what he said in his own language.

1299
01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:39.720
I had a whole thing I was
going to play on the show,

1300
01:33:39.760 --> 01:33:46.039
but we're running low on time now. So yeah, because Putin turned around

1301
01:33:46.079 --> 01:33:49.800
and gave an interview afterwards describing it, He's like, I was waiting for

1302
01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:58.039
tough questions and he gave me no
tough questions basically. And you know,

1303
01:33:58.199 --> 01:34:03.199
everybody that that prayed the alter of
Tucker and now see that what he's capable

1304
01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:05.000
of. You know, when you
put him out there, he's on his

1305
01:34:05.039 --> 01:34:10.760
own and he's trying to cover a
store, create a story, and create

1306
01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:14.079
interest in it, and he flopped. So you know, hey, are

1307
01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:17.760
you Tucker fans you know, just
keeping on? Well? You know how

1308
01:34:17.760 --> 01:34:20.079
it is, though, it's going
to be like the people that are still

1309
01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:24.239
big fans of his are gonna pretty
much that he can do no wrong.

1310
01:34:24.359 --> 01:34:26.880
You know, kind of kind of
attitude is going to be there. It's

1311
01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:30.039
just gonna be there. They're not
going to objectively view it. But I

1312
01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:32.119
just found it funny. I'm thinking
to myself, Yeah, there's the solution.

1313
01:34:32.199 --> 01:34:34.960
According to Tucker Carlson, we'll just
uh, we'll take up the Russian

1314
01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:40.000
model. Yeah, r there we
go. We should be like Russia exactly.

1315
01:34:41.399 --> 01:34:46.039
So, Danny, I appreciate you
calling in and anything else you want

1316
01:34:46.039 --> 01:34:51.560
to add before you what's that,
I'm sorry I didn't hear what you said.

1317
01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:57.279
Yeah, go ahead. Oh I
thank you for having me look.

1318
01:34:57.359 --> 01:35:00.439
Absolutely always good to hear from you. And I love hearing about as somebody

1319
01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:03.640
who lives in California as opposed to
us just talking about it from a second

1320
01:35:03.640 --> 01:35:09.399
hand kind of point of view.
I have no problem. I can I

1321
01:35:09.439 --> 01:35:12.399
can take it. I got pril
Fick skin. As a matter of fact,

1322
01:35:12.399 --> 01:35:16.000
I'm fourth generation and my grandchildren are
sixth generation. I kind of I

1323
01:35:16.039 --> 01:35:20.119
bleed California. I'll take the good
and the bad. There you go,

1324
01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:24.720
and I'll tell you again, nothing
more diverse, you know, from a

1325
01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:29.079
from an ecological standpoint, I mean, the different you got deserts, you've

1326
01:35:29.079 --> 01:35:31.880
got, you know, farmland,
you've got uh you know, serious,

1327
01:35:31.880 --> 01:35:38.439
big city, you got every kind
of landscape in California available to you.

1328
01:35:39.039 --> 01:35:43.800
It's just again, it's just like
like it is on the coasts, very

1329
01:35:43.800 --> 01:35:47.880
expensive. Well I would say that, I would say that California is the

1330
01:35:48.039 --> 01:35:53.600
United States most diverse state. Yeah, in in what you've got. North

1331
01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:57.760
Carolina's a close second. From the
mountains to the coast. You know what

1332
01:35:57.920 --> 01:36:01.279
you see here, californ has got
I mean, they're the king of it.

1333
01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:05.960
From one extreme to the other.
It's a great state. But the

1334
01:36:06.039 --> 01:36:12.319
politics and the left out there have
just created such a hard living condition on

1335
01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:15.399
people that just want to be left
alone. I mean, when your government

1336
01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:23.960
starts mandating that you have to have
a gender neutral toy section at Christmas time

1337
01:36:24.079 --> 01:36:29.079
in your stores, because boys and
girls are confused as to what they like,

1338
01:36:29.880 --> 01:36:32.720
you know, and we can't push
anything on them. So they didn't

1339
01:36:32.720 --> 01:36:36.720
want little Billy to have to have
trouble finding in the barbies, and they

1340
01:36:36.760 --> 01:36:43.680
didn't want little Susie having trouble to
find the toy work bench. So we're

1341
01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:47.399
just going to mandate that. I
mean, government out there has gotten ridiculous

1342
01:36:47.520 --> 01:36:53.039
in the mandates that they're throwing on
people, and why can't they just leave

1343
01:36:53.079 --> 01:36:59.560
people the hell alone. Well,
I think you're making a really good point

1344
01:36:59.640 --> 01:37:03.720
because what you what you sell into
is the trap that you got us all

1345
01:37:03.800 --> 01:37:11.479
fighting about something that's kind of nonsensical
instead of this fighting about real issues that

1346
01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:15.680
really do matter to every day here
being, I think majority of people are

1347
01:37:15.720 --> 01:37:18.439
smart enough they can figure what they're
gonna buy for their kids. They're absolutely

1348
01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:23.720
that kid is going to tell that
pair in a thousand times what they want.

1349
01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:27.960
I mean, remember the oldest Seers
catalog wish book. You know,

1350
01:37:28.119 --> 01:37:30.600
those things got doggy. They looked
at, you know, by five kids

1351
01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:34.680
in the family every day for a
month before Christmas, Mom and dad pretty

1352
01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:41.439
much knew what little billy little Susie
wanted for Christmas. And exactly my mother

1353
01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:45.000
caught me looking at the women's underwear
section, so you know what direction I

1354
01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:50.840
was going there. Absolutely, Hey, that's not a bad thing there.

1355
01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:57.159
But yeah, the catalog are all
gone though, I mean, and in

1356
01:37:57.279 --> 01:38:01.680
our kind of age group, or
my age group anyway group, you know,

1357
01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:06.439
it's what they blasted us with on
TV that everybody wanted and nowadays it's

1358
01:38:06.439 --> 01:38:10.399
what the kids see online or what
they play during the YouTube videos. I

1359
01:38:10.439 --> 01:38:15.439
guess that makes them want different things. And the kids always know what they

1360
01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:17.039
want. And I don't think it's
got anything to do with gender or anything

1361
01:38:17.039 --> 01:38:19.520
else. It's got to do with
what the hell the kid wants. Yeah,

1362
01:38:20.760 --> 01:38:25.039
so no, this is one of
those things that's absolutely unnecessary. But

1363
01:38:25.560 --> 01:38:30.000
agreed, Danny, it's always about
getting us fighting about things that don't really

1364
01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:32.960
matter, or that we can't actually
affect, or that should not be even

1365
01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:38.760
legislated. Let's argue about that stuff
because that way they can continue to get

1366
01:38:38.800 --> 01:38:44.159
away with doing all these other things
that are highly profitable for everybody except guess

1367
01:38:44.199 --> 01:38:47.319
what, we the people. So
you know, there it is. It's

1368
01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:51.960
profitable for the very few to keep
us fighting about things that don't necessarily even

1369
01:38:53.000 --> 01:38:56.960
make sense. And that's the beauty
of it all. That's why propaganda and

1370
01:38:57.239 --> 01:39:01.560
the political system continues to thrive because
we never do turn and focus on the

1371
01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:08.199
stuff that really matters, that can
actually be affected, you know. So,

1372
01:39:09.159 --> 01:39:12.479
But anyway, like I said,
it's one of those issues where and

1373
01:39:13.159 --> 01:39:15.520
I've talked to plenty of people from
California, You're like, you know,

1374
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:17.119
I love this place. Everything up. Matter of fact, you know Aaron

1375
01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:23.720
Franz from California, he'll be up
next. And you know, it's just

1376
01:39:24.520 --> 01:39:28.840
look, people love it there,
and they don't necessarily love everything that goes

1377
01:39:28.880 --> 01:39:31.520
on there. But what are you
gonna do? Man, It is a

1378
01:39:31.600 --> 01:39:35.920
unique part of the country, and
you're definitely the most diverse. I mean,

1379
01:39:36.039 --> 01:39:40.840
I didn't even mention the mountains of
the forest, but those are huge

1380
01:39:41.159 --> 01:39:45.319
topographical features. I mean, I
don't know. I think it's great.

1381
01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:47.840
I did not enjoy living in Los
Angeles though, I'll tell you I hated

1382
01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:51.199
that, but you know, I
went there with a purpose in mind.

1383
01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:55.239
It didn't work out. I don't
hold it against the state, but it

1384
01:39:55.439 --> 01:39:58.239
just, you know, it was
like I don't belong in Los Angeles,

1385
01:39:59.479 --> 01:40:03.720
never did, never will. So
it was like it was from another planet.

1386
01:40:03.800 --> 01:40:08.079
Danny. I'm sorry, it just
was Los Angeles is like otherworldly.

1387
01:40:09.319 --> 01:40:12.479
I'll give you an example. I've
spent a lot of time in La I

1388
01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:15.319
get it. Yeah. Yeah,
this is a story that I heard just

1389
01:40:15.359 --> 01:40:19.880
this past week. Sequoia trees,
the huge sequoia trees out there. Some

1390
01:40:19.960 --> 01:40:26.680
of those trees are older than dirt, and yet they've had a lot of

1391
01:40:26.680 --> 01:40:32.640
wildfires out there. Sequoia trees,
giant sequoias are able to replicate themselves,

1392
01:40:32.800 --> 01:40:36.359
but they have to have fire to
do it. You get these brush fires

1393
01:40:36.399 --> 01:40:42.960
going through there, and the heat
causes cones to open. There's sections now

1394
01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:46.800
where they're gone out there after these
most recent fires, and the floor of

1395
01:40:46.840 --> 01:40:50.800
the forest around these trees a sea
of green. It looks like carpet.

1396
01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:57.000
And it's these new sequoia trees that
have come up from all these seeds that

1397
01:40:57.079 --> 01:41:00.319
got dropped in the last burn event. And it's something that's going on since

1398
01:41:00.359 --> 01:41:05.159
the beginning of time. But you
have groups of people that are now complaining.

1399
01:41:05.880 --> 01:41:12.840
These scientists are out there trying to
take these transplants and move them to

1400
01:41:13.000 --> 01:41:18.560
areas to help increase the amount of
giant sequoias out there, but you've got

1401
01:41:18.640 --> 01:41:23.439
groups that are protesting this going.
Well, you're not keeping it pure.

1402
01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:29.199
You know, you're taking seedlings from
eight or nine miles away that may have

1403
01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:33.960
a little bit of different genetic makeup
than the trees where they're moving them.

1404
01:41:34.359 --> 01:41:40.520
You know, forget the argument that
having diversity in a species like that allows

1405
01:41:40.520 --> 01:41:44.399
it to be able to thrive.
And so they're trying to get this program

1406
01:41:44.399 --> 01:41:49.079
going where they can transplant these things
and help keep the natural resources out there

1407
01:41:49.520 --> 01:41:55.079
that California has become famous for.
And you actually have people that are protesting

1408
01:41:55.199 --> 01:42:00.000
the damn thing because you might get
a tree ten miles away brought over here

1409
01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:02.000
and no, we can't do that. We have to keep things pure.

1410
01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:08.000
It's gotten to where you can't even
plant a damn tree without getting into a

1411
01:42:08.039 --> 01:42:14.600
government fight over trying to save something
that not anywhere else in the world has.

1412
01:42:15.039 --> 01:42:19.159
It's amazing. Well, the amazing
part is is I think the bottom

1413
01:42:19.239 --> 01:42:24.319
line with that, the complexity of
California, the attorneys have to eat.

1414
01:42:24.359 --> 01:42:27.520
They've got to find somebody, you
know. I think they get together to

1415
01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:31.239
have these fights, because this goes
on all over the place, even in

1416
01:42:31.279 --> 01:42:40.119
my own community, and it seems
like they will argue about anything, doesn't

1417
01:42:40.119 --> 01:42:43.760
matter how trivial it is. It
becomes one big, blown up government get

1418
01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:48.399
battle. Yeah, and I think
it's a lot of factions. I think

1419
01:42:48.399 --> 01:42:51.319
it's like I said, attorneys have
to eat. I think they kind of

1420
01:42:51.359 --> 01:42:56.520
get together and they collaborate to have
a fight and have lawsuits. And that

1421
01:42:56.600 --> 01:42:59.880
seems to be the you know,
we try to get you know, we

1422
01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:02.840
got housing issues here. If we
want to have low income housing, you

1423
01:43:02.840 --> 01:43:05.279
know, they'll they'll set it up, there'll be a fight, there'll be

1424
01:43:05.319 --> 01:43:10.279
a lawsuit, and they don't get
anything done, and it's just the problem

1425
01:43:10.319 --> 01:43:15.359
doesn't get any better. Well,
I think that the quickest way for me

1426
01:43:15.439 --> 01:43:17.760
to start gaining more respect for the
state of California is if you guys would

1427
01:43:17.800 --> 01:43:20.680
do something to get to put Adam
Shift into working in a subway and get

1428
01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:29.520
him out of politics. I'm not
an Adam Shift, then I'm probably maybe

1429
01:43:29.800 --> 01:43:34.319
politically economics and foreign policy the left
of Adam Shift. But he he is

1430
01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:38.880
a he is a bold I can
go on. He is a bold face

1431
01:43:39.000 --> 01:43:43.840
wire. You took the words right
out of my mouth. I have it.

1432
01:43:44.560 --> 01:43:46.960
He kept on, you know,
with the whole rush of Gate,

1433
01:43:47.039 --> 01:43:50.199
I've got secret intelligence. I've seen
the intelligence. And he never came out

1434
01:43:50.199 --> 01:43:55.079
of proof. Matter of fact,
I went and read the testimony when he

1435
01:43:55.159 --> 01:44:00.600
had Sean Henry of Cloud Strike,
and it was I think the third twenty

1436
01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:05.760
ninth it's thirty second page. Sean
Henry admitted he did not know who hacked

1437
01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:11.319
the DNC, So right there,
I mean, and he sat on that

1438
01:44:11.359 --> 01:44:15.920
information. I am not voting for
him. I'm I understand it well.

1439
01:44:15.920 --> 01:44:21.119
I understand that he's leading in the
polls for was it Barbara Boxers? Barbara

1440
01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:26.399
Boxer, who's Diane Feinstein for her
seat? Understanding he's kind of leading in

1441
01:44:26.439 --> 01:44:30.479
that there's two there's two Senate seats
going up. There's there's Diane Findsights,

1442
01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:38.760
and there was Padilla who's not running
again. The grace will be is Adam

1443
01:44:38.840 --> 01:44:43.640
shipped, the liar Steve Garvey,
the Republicans a white theater. And then

1444
01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:45.600
there's Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
Now, Barbara Lee, I have a

1445
01:44:45.600 --> 01:44:50.199
lot of respect because she had more
courage on September fourteenth, two thousand and

1446
01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:53.840
one, after nine to eleven,
She's the only one that stood up and

1447
01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:58.840
said, let's cool, her heads
prevail before we give the president full immunity

1448
01:44:59.359 --> 01:45:03.039
of full app action to take military
action. And she had the only guts

1449
01:45:03.119 --> 01:45:06.720
and more balls than any man in
that in that house. Mm hmm.

1450
01:45:09.399 --> 01:45:14.000
Katie Porter, why do I know
that name? What is she? She's

1451
01:45:14.000 --> 01:45:16.439
the white board. She gets the
whiteboard up and she kind of takes down

1452
01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:23.039
corporate executives. Okay, I'll take
her over. I'll take her over Adam's

1453
01:45:23.039 --> 01:45:29.239
ship, and I definitely take Barbara
Lee. Mm hmm. Katie Porter's whiteboard

1454
01:45:29.239 --> 01:45:34.359
has a Twitter account. By the
way, sometimes she gets me laughing.

1455
01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:38.840
Sometimes she's pretty funny. Yeah,
well, I don't know. I I

1456
01:45:38.880 --> 01:45:43.119
agree with you on Barbara Lee,
but then I have to look at uh

1457
01:45:43.560 --> 01:45:50.279
on what's her name? Oh crap, what is her? Now? Who's

1458
01:45:50.279 --> 01:45:56.159
the black woman from is it?
Is it l A No, that would

1459
01:45:56.159 --> 01:46:00.960
be Maxine Waters? Maxine Waters.
Yes, thank you for fully steen her

1460
01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:09.319
upon us over the years. Well
she's you know, you know, we

1461
01:46:09.680 --> 01:46:14.479
complained about these politicians, but they
seem to keep always getting reelected. Yeah,

1462
01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:19.239
don't thank you. Really wonder how
though, I mean some of the

1463
01:46:19.319 --> 01:46:24.199
things that she has said over the
years, and I'm thinking, you know,

1464
01:46:24.279 --> 01:46:28.920
the area that she represents, are
they all like that? How does

1465
01:46:28.960 --> 01:46:32.680
she keep getting so I just think
she's been there so long that she's just

1466
01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:36.640
got it. She's got a stranglehold
on the money. She's another one.

1467
01:46:36.840 --> 01:46:43.800
Dirk Claude, the first chance I
got. Yeah, wow, all right,

1468
01:46:43.800 --> 01:46:45.720
then, well there you go,
Danny. I thank you for calling

1469
01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:48.520
in though. It's great to hear
from you. We got less than ten

1470
01:46:48.520 --> 01:46:53.359
minutes left so I'm gonna put you
on hold, but definitely great to hear

1471
01:46:53.439 --> 01:46:56.960
from you on the show. I
appreciate it. I know we were about

1472
01:46:56.960 --> 01:47:01.680
ready to go back around advance before
and now we're on time. So let's

1473
01:47:01.680 --> 01:47:03.880
see and anybody else he wants to
call in. I mean, you got

1474
01:47:03.880 --> 01:47:06.000
a couple of minutes left, but
you're not going to get in a lot

1475
01:47:06.159 --> 01:47:12.279
vance anything you heard there in California
in that discussion, Hey, you're in

1476
01:47:12.319 --> 01:47:15.000
the state that everybody pits against California, right. All the people that are

1477
01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:21.359
leaving California are going to Texas apparently. Yeah, And then I've been reading

1478
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:26.319
and seeing some articles lately about a
lot of people that decided to go back,

1479
01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:29.560
you know, so I'm like,
okay, and I don't care,

1480
01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:32.840
you know, I'm you know,
if you're bringing your Yeah, did you

1481
01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:39.760
know Austin's supposedly all screwed up and
stuff, And that's just the the materialistic

1482
01:47:39.880 --> 01:47:44.800
aspect of all. It's like you
you know, you're saying La and those

1483
01:47:44.840 --> 01:47:48.640
places, and and just like here
in Texas and I'm in Casterville and it's

1484
01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:51.840
a whole different kind of you know, vibe than it is. And then

1485
01:47:53.079 --> 01:47:55.880
you know, in San Antonio.
I can just go utter twenty you know,

1486
01:47:55.960 --> 01:47:59.720
miles up the road and find that
vibe or whatever. But so,

1487
01:47:59.840 --> 01:48:01.920
you know, but that's what they
focus on in the media, is all

1488
01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.680
this, you know, they create
all this havoc and these you know,

1489
01:48:05.479 --> 01:48:11.680
designated areas that they've you know,
you know, be peached starting out this

1490
01:48:11.760 --> 01:48:15.279
morning that the show earlier about you
know, his you know, little monologue,

1491
01:48:15.319 --> 01:48:18.479
and I repeat again, you know
it sounds like b peats. You

1492
01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:24.039
know, it's that you know,
the difference between the libertarian and an anarchist.

1493
01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:30.039
There's two more election cycles. So
I posted, I posted a link

1494
01:48:30.119 --> 01:48:35.880
in the chat to an article about
the global private public public private partnership,

1495
01:48:36.000 --> 01:48:41.520
which is the hierarchy of you know, how all these policies and stuff were

1496
01:48:41.680 --> 01:48:45.079
you know, it comes from people
that aren't elected and that you know,

1497
01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:50.479
along with the corruption, like I
said, the monopolization of everything and the

1498
01:48:50.720 --> 01:48:57.279
commodification of everything, your information and
you know, the whole thing, they're

1499
01:48:57.279 --> 01:49:00.720
able to control society this way and
and you know, telling this enough of

1500
01:49:00.800 --> 01:49:05.079
us you know understand it that you
know, how is it that you know,

1501
01:49:05.439 --> 01:49:09.039
why is the world so screwed up? Now? When you got these

1502
01:49:09.119 --> 01:49:14.000
you know, United Nations and world
economic bombs and their whole thing is to

1503
01:49:14.039 --> 01:49:16.560
save humanity from itself. And you
know what are they doing. They're just

1504
01:49:16.640 --> 01:49:24.279
driving it off the bucking cliffs.
So exactly fascism. Ye now see what

1505
01:49:24.479 --> 01:49:27.159
you just wait a minute. You
just made an excellent point. And this

1506
01:49:27.239 --> 01:49:30.399
is something I tried to point out
to some family members not long ago.

1507
01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:39.439
When you hear public private agency or
or group think fascism, fascism, because

1508
01:49:39.439 --> 01:49:43.960
that's exactly what it is. When
the government and private industry start colluding together,

1509
01:49:44.319 --> 01:49:46.840
that's fascism. Now, when the
when the the public part of the

1510
01:49:46.920 --> 01:49:51.319
public entity of that decides to go, well, well, the when the

1511
01:49:51.359 --> 01:49:59.199
private entity of that, the businesses
that think tanks the groups decide we need

1512
01:49:59.239 --> 01:50:02.399
to do this in the government says
no, you we don't agree to that.

1513
01:50:02.560 --> 01:50:08.520
So our public private partnership is about
to fall and we'll just take you

1514
01:50:08.600 --> 01:50:14.079
over. You've gone that extra step
into communism. People around here don't understand

1515
01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:18.359
that this public private partnership is nothing
more than fascism, plain and simple.

1516
01:50:18.479 --> 01:50:28.479
Is the government and business colluding to
affect the populace, and fascism is mani

1517
01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:31.640
faceted thing. It doesn't. You
know, it doesn't have to be you

1518
01:50:31.680 --> 01:50:35.399
know, Holocaust and you know,
death camps and stuff. But you know,

1519
01:50:35.520 --> 01:50:40.920
oh absolutely not, absolutely not.
But you're just one step away from

1520
01:50:40.920 --> 01:50:45.840
communism. I mean that's the only
difference between the two. Communism fascism you

1521
01:50:45.880 --> 01:50:47.720
can have, you know, fascistic
communism. It's you know, it's all

1522
01:50:47.760 --> 01:50:53.640
the same. It's all collectivism versus
individualism. And so you can call it

1523
01:50:53.680 --> 01:50:56.119
whatever you want now, you know, in my opinion, you know,

1524
01:50:56.239 --> 01:51:01.399
fascism is the extreme version of all
the collectivism and and and uh you know

1525
01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:08.319
that we're basically just you know,
feeding this machine that is destroying us.

1526
01:51:09.239 --> 01:51:13.479
Yeah, they have it. We
need to do something to the machine.

1527
01:51:14.279 --> 01:51:16.960
Yeah. There, I put diesel
in a gasoline powered engine. Let's just

1528
01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:19.399
screw it up from get going.
If it can't work, well come up

1529
01:51:19.439 --> 01:51:23.439
with something new. And that's what
gives me. You know, we started

1530
01:51:23.520 --> 01:51:28.520
this country rebelling against England. I
mean we were Rabel ralph Or, we

1531
01:51:28.520 --> 01:51:31.399
were insurrectionists, oh my god.
And in the minute we've become a country,

1532
01:51:31.560 --> 01:51:39.520
we make it illegal to be an
insurrectionist. Go figure. Indeed,

1533
01:51:40.359 --> 01:51:42.760
well, good talking to all y'all, and I'll let you go into the

1534
01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:45.920
next color. There you go.
So thanks for calling, Vince. Appreciate

1535
01:51:45.960 --> 01:51:49.920
you, that's for sure. And
uh yeah, so what else could we

1536
01:51:49.960 --> 01:51:53.760
say? Well, there's only about
four minutes left, so b Pete,

1537
01:51:54.319 --> 01:51:57.640
should we go back around to Harlan? What should we do here? Uh

1538
01:51:57.720 --> 01:52:00.119
yeah, grab Harlan real quick and
then we'll just things up and we can

1539
01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:03.840
you can move on into the into
Aaron show. There you go. So

1540
01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:08.680
coming up next on the stream here
will be the Age of Transitions with Aaron

1541
01:52:08.680 --> 01:52:14.359
Franz Live Autochelli dot com. And
uh yeah, so you guys, go

1542
01:52:14.399 --> 01:52:16.920
ahead, Harlan, you're you're getting
the last word tonight from the callers.

1543
01:52:16.920 --> 01:52:25.399
Anyways, it's good to be here
real quick. I'd like to say that

1544
01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:30.399
BP must not been to Bakersfield in
many years, because it wouldn't be the

1545
01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:34.279
first place i'd pick, or Tern
County in general. They would arrest you

1546
01:52:34.319 --> 01:52:38.880
if I had a mask on out
there a few years ago. And if

1547
01:52:38.920 --> 01:52:42.439
it came between you know, moving
up the East coast, even five mile

1548
01:52:42.560 --> 01:52:45.359
up the road to Virginia from my
house, I'd find somewhere in California.

1549
01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:50.479
Well that's the choice today, And
I'm just saying I've been there plenty of

1550
01:52:50.479 --> 01:52:55.520
times. But I hope everybody has
a good weekend, being good being here,

1551
01:52:55.560 --> 01:52:58.359
and I'll jump off from here in
case you boys want to add something

1552
01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:00.920
else before you kick over the Iron
Show. There you go. Thanks again,

1553
01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:04.119
Harland, thanks to Vance, and
also thanks to Danny for calling in.