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four, allegedly according to that thing we call a calendar, and it is
a Friar's Day Friday night, so we got the open mic and that means
you can join us and talk about whatever it is you want. Never know
what direction this show will go in on a Friday. Three one nine five
two seven five zero one six is the number to call three one nine five
two seven five zero one six. And I'm not entirely sure, but I
do think we're going to be followed by Aaron Franz at ten pm uh here
on Friday with the age of transitions, but all the way up to ten
pm. You can definitely call us at three one nine five two seven five
zero one six and uh. You can also reach out to me Charles dot
Ocelli on Skype, ask me to and I'll call you into the show.
But here we are live on a day. Of course, if you're hearing
the podcast, you need a time machine to call us, but what the
hell we do encourage everybody to join us on Friday nights because just a good
thing to do. Anyway, I didn't put out a lot of podcasts this
week yet. I do have two in the pipe though, because well,
one is incomplete and one is complete. But I got one with Mike Swanson
and we talked about China and what was going on there. That seemed to
get a few people interested in the live discussion. But I don't know.
I don't know how that's gonna fall when the podcast comes out and we got
a newsblast, maybe if I can complete it, but we'll see what happens.
I'll get it done over the weekend along with this show and Aaron's show
and everything else, and we'll have podcasts flying. All right. So let's
check in with my co host Vpte. It was with me every Friday night.
What's going on, be Pete? Oh, not much of nothing.
It'spent a hectic week, really. I haven't had time to do anything except
work from winter time to cranking up summertime. So pretty soon it's going to
be back six days a week, converting from winter to so you know,
in most of the country, or at least the northern part of the country,
they don't know what the hell you're talking about there, because February it's
still cold. You know, in March it's still cold. You know spring
is coming, but not just yet, and who knows if it'll stay cold
during the first parts of the spring for a lot lot of the country.
Well, here we have a unique situation. It gets warm in February.
In fact, most Februaries it's warm enough during a week week and a half
to go to the beach and lay out. I mean, it's that warm.
And then we always in March end up getting something either in the middle
of March right at the beginning to April, and sometimes we get our biggest
snows the last two weeks of March. So it's up and down. Oh
right, yeah, well yeah, you're you're just north of me, so
it does mean that it's still snows there. Occasionally I get like no snow
here pretty much. But anyway, better off because like I've always said that
nobody knows what to do when it snows, and apparently earlier today nobody knew
what to do with the rain either. A lot of car accidents and stuff
in Georgia. I didn't go and collect the information on it, but I
bet you by tomorrow we're gonna see like the aftermath of tons of car accidents
all over Georgia. I don't know, man, it gets too rainy,
it gets too cold, anything, and they just can't they can't drive here.
Get maybe that's everywhere. I don't know. Anyway, I don't want
to discuss this. We could talk about all kinds of news. We could
talk about the year of the lawsuit paying off Ppete. Seems like there's lawsuits
of flying everywhere, appeals, people getting arrested, lots of different stuff going
on in the year of the courtroom, really supreme court cases, etc.
Right, not just among the biggest political names, but all over the map,
all kinds of crazy stuff. Oh, by the way, frozen fertilized
embryos are people. Now, it's getting corporations are people, so why not
embryos? You know, that was my my My next thought is, well,
if a corporation's people, why not uh FROs and embryo is closer to
people than than than a corporation is absolutely the corporation in and of itself.
I know that the corporation then employs a bunch of people, but you know,
so does any given individual employee. A bunch of people, A bunch
of people got to do something for an individual, even uh throughout the course
of their lifetime. There's a lot of jobs created just by a person being
created. But uh, anyway, all that weirdness going on and uh and
and lawsuits all over. But anyway, you're you're not getting involved in any
lawsuits this year, are you? Or do you have one in mind?
No. I will try to stay out of court as as much as possible
this year. I really can't afford the fees and I'm tired of paying lawyer.
So but there is an int seen story though. There's a guy that
lives here in North Carolina and Raleigh. He's a journalist. He works for
The Blaze, and he was there actually covering January sixth, and was videotaping
and went inside of the capital. But the thing is he was I mean,
he's legitimate press. He also sold all his foot or was paid by
the I think it was the New York Times or someone for some of his
footage showing what was going on. He had been compensated for that. So,
I mean, the guy's a legitimate reporter and he was notified sometime back
by the FBI Justice Department, and they said they were going to charge him,
but they wouldn't tell him what the charges would be. So he was
directed to surrender himself this morning. Was it this yes, this morning.
I believe it was to the FBI office here in North Carolina, or I
know maybe it was DC. Not sure. Anyway, they told him when
he shows up to wear t shirt, shorts, and some flip flops because
soon as they get a chance to go throw him in an orange jumpsuit and
throw some shackles on his ankles and handcuffs. Well, he shows up in
a three piece suit. Well, they arrested him and apparently he's being charged
for misdemeanors one. I think one of the charges is unauthorized access to a
building. I don't think he was actually charged with obstructing anything. Not sure
yet. I've got to dig into it. I've got the news late.
But it's funny that they contact him, tell him to show up surrender himself
this morning at seven o'clock, but they wouldn't tell him what the charges were.
And someone at the Department of Justice said they're not gonna tell him what
the charges are because they don't want him tweeting out what the charges are.
But this guy sat down with footage. They got the footage from the Capitol
complex that showed what was going on. And one of the police officer,
Capitol police officers that was confronted by was it the Proud Boys? Who was
the other group that was there. Well, there was the Proud Boys and
then there was also the oathkeepers. Was there oathkeepers? Yeah, some of
those guys were there. Anyway, there was about six or seven. I'm
going to confronted this guy. And when these guys with the trial, this
Capitol policeman testified that, you know, they were agitated and they were aggressive
in their actions and their words. And these guys actually, and you can
see this on videotape and you all got to just go out there and search
for it. These guys were actually standing between the cop and the pissed off
guys behind them and kept the crowd from from basically overrunning the guy. Well,
when he testified against these guys in their trials, he said that,
you know, they were being aggressive. There was a lot of language.
He was being called the N word, all this other vile crap. So
after he testified, there was another Capitol Police officer that testified that he was
there and he identified these six guys. The problem is the guy that was
backing up his testimony was in a completely different building at the time. This
journalist that got arrested this morning went through the footage and showed where this guy
lied on the stand. There's no possible way that he could have been there
when he said he was there or saw what he said he saw, because
by the time he makes it to the rotunda, these guys are on their
way out the exit door. So when he started reporting on this is when
the FBI beacon goes off and they decided to arrest this guy. Now I
forget how many journalists they said were there covering January sixth. This is the
only one that I know of that has actually been charged. So it's interesting
to see how this is going to go and when this court case happens,
this guy is going to sit there and just bombshell him with well, the
reason I was arrested is because I started calling out showing where others were lying
on the stand, committed perjury, and people are in jail because of it.
So it's going to be very interesting to see how this one plays out.
Well, they never took a cop to jail who lied, right,
I don't know if any do you No, I wouldn't think so. Normally
that wouldn't be the case. And oh, by the way, color me
surprised that a cop told a story on the stand that isn't true. You
know, in any case, it doesn't matter. Well, this would be
this would be multiple cops. Yeah, apparently. But you know what else
is old? You know, it gets it gets really convoluted when you get
into this stuff. And now he's being charged with being on you know,
being someplace he wasn't supposed to be. Because here's the thing, even if
he goes under the journalistic shield, he still could be charged with stuff like
trespassing if he was there collecting footage and trespassing at the time. But it
is fascinating that they weren't gonna charge him until he was calling out people that
had already testified and basically proving that they were lying. Uh, that's a
little you know, come on, how much more on the nose do you
need to be? Uh? You know so? And I don't think that's
the part is an issue either, by the way, I think that that
no matter what the case is if you turn around and do that, you're
you're you're asking to get yourself arrested because they're gonna come and get you.
You're you're blowing up their case. They're gonna come and get you. I
mean, that's just the way that's gonna go. But well, it's gonna
be interesting to see. Uh, Steve Baker, I'm sorry I had the
wrong name. His name is Steve Baker. He lives here in Raleigh,
in North Carolina. It's just it's amazing that his trial is going to be
coming up, and there's going to be appeals that are going to come up
for these guys that got busted for this stuff, and some of them are
sitting in jail now. I think one of them got what twelve years based
off a lot, and it's it's going to be very interesting to see what
goes on when these appeals come up and they bring in this new you know,
it's funny that of all the footage that was recorded, you know,
the Capital Complex got cameras everywhere, so you know, it's funny though that
when they had their house hearing to get behind the matter, find out what
actually went on, how much stuff was suppressed by the Democrats, and that
committee footage that wasn't released, footage that they didn't want people to see because
it basically told a different story. You know, they were talking about all
these guys that are just cro mating, you know, mass mayhem and tearing
things up. And for the most part, yeah, there were some instances
where things got heated, but for the most part, a lot of people
were just me angering through the Capitol building and being basically welcomed by the cops
and told where to go and what's where. And you know, it's like
two completely different stories. And we haven't we haven't been told from the government.
I've really lost all faith in the government being able to treat people fairly,
giving people, you know, a chance on something after January sixth,
of what I've read and seen from some of these trials that have gone on,
and it's I don't trust the government for crap for nothing. And I
didn't trust them a while back. Now it's even worse. It's terrible.
I mean, these we have a government now. In fact, a poll
that was done by one of these big poling agencies just within the past week,
the top three results of things that concerned voters. One is the economy
and two the government. That's pretty bad. People are starting to get wind
of what this government that we have in place is capable of. You know,
you think about it. You've got this congress in the Senate who for
some reason can't do math enough to balance a budget. But it's funny how
they all get rich. Yeah, yeah, that's the only guarantee is that
they end up making way more money and end up with a whole lot more
money than what their salaries dictate during the time they're in office. And the
longer they stay in the more they make, right, they all become millionaire.
So you know that's the whole purpose. I mean, because they've asked
for years the question, you know, why do you spend ten, fifteen,
twenty thirty fifty million dollars to get a job that you know, if
you stay in the whole term, like in Congress, you're there for two
years, right, So what is the point of spending twenty five thirty million
dollars to get into a two year congressional seat? Well, oh, if
you can make a whole lot more than that, and plus that's not your
money to begin with. It seems like it's a win win for somebody to
get in there. Why not, you know, but here we are a
big surprise to some people. So look, we got one caller already,
and I invite others, you know, join us three one nine five two
seven five zero one six. I Am going to take a break right at
nine o'clock because I got something I got to do at nine o'clock during the
show. Uh So, you know, just keep that in mind. We're
about eighteen minutes, nineteen minutes almost after the hour. Uh So if you're
hearing this live, just be aware you got about forty to call in before
I'm gonna have to take this break. But uh now, look January sixth,
I haven't really gone into it that much on the show because I'm I'm
already tired, already tired of it. You know. Everybody grabs it and
uses it however they want to use it, including the government, and nobody
wants to realistically take a look at the whole of the event or to say,
you know, look, this is really what it is, uh not
without it being you know, a political weapon, not without being a you
know what they call it a truncheon that basically you can pummel somebody with for
political purposes. Nobody wants to you know, actually looked at it objectively.
The idea that absolutely nothing went wrong that day is stupid to me, you
know, like, oh, no, everything was perfectly normal and fine.
Usually you don't have a guy taking a crap on the speaker of the House's
desk, you know, during normal visits to the Capitol. I'm just saying.
Plus, you know, people had to be moved, and there was
some interesting things being chanted in the crowd. And I don't know, do
you normally erect the news outside for no reason. It wasn't just a symbolic
gesture. There were windows broken, there was stuff broken, So something happened.
So the people that say nothing happened is one thing. The people that
say that it was absolutely you know, like a coup attempt also inaccurate.
It just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the truth is. It just
matters how you can weaponize it. And of course the FBI and law enforcement
will weaponize anything according to their needs, their purposes. And I'm not even
the least bit shocked that a guy who turns around gets the footage improves that
somebody alied on the stand later on gets arrested, and probably wouldn't have got
arrested if he didn't show the contradiction there, But you know, you know
how it is after a while. The chilling effect is the biggest point of
this all, more than anything. It's not even about the political issues supposedly,
are you on the right side or wrong side of history? That's irrelevant.
It's about exactly how it can be used and and look, who's gonna
take advantage of it and weaponize it for their purposes. That's all the risk
to it, and that's all there is to any of this. Hey,
by the way, before I go to the caller, be Pete, did
you see that there was a news story I was going to cover on a
news show but never got to do it. This week, Wendy's is going
to start doing peak priced during They caught so much crap over that. I
think that you won't see that happen. Yeah, they really caught a lot
of backlash on social media over this. Well, because it's kind of wild.
It's like, oh, when we're busy, Because we're busy and it's
harder for us to do the work, we're going to raise the prices during
that time. I mean, does anybody go to a fast food place going
Look, doesn't matter, I'm gonna pay whatever to get my burgers, you
know what I mean? No? No, yeah, some people would.
The funny thing is, though, is when they started getting on the backlash.
One of the spokesmans when the weddings came out and said, oh no,
no, we're not trying to capitalize on the busy time and being able
to charge more. What we're doing is employee a pricing scheme that would allow
us to direct our customers to take advantage of our dining room on the off
peak hours. I'm sitting here thinking, dude, you just admitted what you're
doing, but you're trying to spin it as to a positive. You're going
to charge more during your busy times because you can make right, there's no
other reason. I mean, yo, guess we're busy, so we're gonna
charge more for the same product. Why don't you just hire more people during
your partner or your peak times and you can get to do the product out
the door quickly, you know. But no, we're gonna direct our We're
gonna direct our customers to take advantage of our dining options. At the off
peak periods. Well, I'm sorry, but most people that are working can't
stop to have dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, two thirty in the
afternoon. They're gonna wait and get something on the way home. You're gonna
stop after you get the kids from soccer game and you're on the way home
and you hit the drive through. Well, if you're having a problem staying
up with the amount of customers that you got, hire more people. Simple,
yeah, well simple, but not the current corporate structure. Not the
way they want you to handle. Uh, you know, uh uh human
resource management, this is not what you do. Uh. When I first
start working on that, you know, in the nineties, that was the
answer. Look, you just hire more people when you need them, and
strip down your employees when you don't need them, and make sure it's balanced,
and make sure to justify it by the flow of business. Pretty simple.
But no more of that. Now, Let's keep it at a bare
bones minimum no matter what, and come up with other ways to shunt and
control the business. You know, the self checkout, all that kind of
stuff. Yeah, no, it's no longer about let's just address it and
you know, give good customer service or make things move accordingly. No,
A lot a lot of companies that have employed this self checkout are starting to
pull back on that because people are telling them they're sick and tired of it.
Yeah, you know, if I'm going to check out, if you
want me to self check out, you give me a ten percent discount,
how about that? Then I'll self check out. But when I self checkout,
I still have to show my receipt when I go out the door,
because you didn't trust me to be able to check out all my items.
You know, we get no benefit from self checkout, none whatsoever. So
if you want me to use it, give me a cut on price,
I'll be happy to otherwise lower your prices all over. I mean, if
people are doing your work, you don't have to charge the prices that you
charge to me payroll because they're doing the work for you. You're not paying
health insurance or benefits of any kind to a customer that comes in there self
checked out. I hate it when I go to Low's Home Improvement has gotten
ridiculous about that. They've got ten checkout lines and the only thing that open
is self checkout. I walked in there and had maybe five items that I
was going to purchase, a hose for my air compressed or a set of
fittings, things like that. I've got these five items in my hand I
walk across the lady, is the only thing I open self checked out?
Well, yes, that's the only thing we have at the time. I
set my stuff down right on a stack of stuff at the end of the
checkout aisle and forget it. I'm not even going to put this back on
the shelf. For what you're charging me, I expect to be able to
come in this store, get in line check out and make it quick.
You've got a line all the way through the paint section of people that are
waiting to self check out. Forget it. I'll go down the road to
the Home Small Hardware store and pay a little bit more, but get treated
with customer service where I can walk in there at any time and say,
hey, have you got this? Yes, sir, I'll show you right
where it is, let me take you to it. Yeah, forget it.
I've quit dealing with companies like that. It just it's ridiculous. Yeah.
See, Walmart does the same thing, though they got ten lines right
and like for them, our self checkout those are always open, but they
only open one of the lines with a cashier on it, and then it
gets backed up, so of course, and then they even send out employees,
which I find funny to direct you away from that line and go,
look, yeah, I want to wait ten people deep go over there.
Self checkouts open right now, and most people go, you know and a
place like like you know, home depot or whatever or lows. I mean,
they're gonna cop the same attitude. And Circle K does the same thing
now with this self checkout nonsense. Oh. I had it out with a
manager over that. Try buying cigarettes at that little self checkout scanner when all
cigarettes are behind the counter and you can't walk behind the counter and get them.
No, you can't. I have out with a manager. She said,
I don't know, you know what your problem is. I said,
here's the problem. I said, one person you wanted, you got one
scanner that's cash only and one scanner that's card only. I'm going to the
card only it's open, but I can't. I need to get a product
that's behind the counter. Now, are you gonna let me walk around there
and get my cigarettes? Oh? Of course not, I said, then
you need to keep somebody up here add a cash register to allow me to
come up and buy those items and check out and go. Well, you
know, we're trying to streamline things. You've just made it worse. Yeah,
no, exactly, because now I've got to hunt down somebody to go
and get the impact cigarettes behind the counter. Well it's ridiculous. Either that
or you got to grab them off of the line where they're ringing people up,
and that means that you just stopped that line from moving. Uh you
know, hey, can you grab some cigarettes for me? I'm using the
self checkout, but any because I've had to do it and tell you something
else. You don't get your discounts that you're supposed to get on the self
checkout. That's another thing. And you can't even argue with it. It's
like, well we don't know, you know, well, I punched it
into the machine like it's supposed to work and give me a discount. And
they're like no, uh, well we don't know. It's all pre programmed
and we don't. You'll have to talk to corporate about that. Are you
the manager? Yeah, well then you're corporate. I'm talking to corporate.
Yeah, right, good luck with that. Anyways, Look, we got
we got a couple of callers, so let's see if they got troubles with
self checkout or something else on your mind. Let's see. Yeah, we're
going to start with this one. It just says it's a wireless caller.
Not sure who it is, but hey, you're live, you're on the
air. Who are you where you're calling from? This is Harlan Stonewall.
I'm in the middle of Kansas. I don't know why you can't have it.
Gonna find my phone anymore? Okay, Well, I got this new
one and it might be shooting off of every signal or something. Yeah,
it could be. Could be Harlan. How you doing? Man? Believe
me, if I knew it was you, I would have said, hey,
it's Harland, but nope, I had an unidentified callers. So anyway,
good to hear from you. What's going on? Man? Now,
I'm just trying to live. I've done got fowered up on self checkouts while
I was on hold. You know, you guys talking about it, and
I speak to Walmarts and circle K because a circle K that I'm had a
lot or in the area where that I work out of they have installed them
too, and I get along, you know, pretty good with most of
the staff, and you know, I'm in their regular and they put one
in in the last few weeks, since they remodeled the store in the last
couple of months, and I just refuse to use it because, just like
BP said, you know, a circle k is bad enough trying to get
your discount, like you was talking about and about the only time I ever
get a discounts when I get a cart. If I buy a whole cart
and cigarettes, I do get a pretty good discount. When you go to
getting like one or two, it just you know, really don't seem like
you're getting one. But far as Walmart goes, it's always been according to
where you are. I kind of thought ten years ago it was pretty much
anywhere that they thought they could sucker the people in to do it and what
have the less thievery was a way that it kind of seemed like to me
that it used to work. But pretty much now you've got some of these
places, even one local kunt of local to me that's not too far away
over in Kentucky. They've got down to where, you know, they've got
a couple of lines that they keep opening front. They've restructured the front of
the store, but you'll have as many people standing there just watching you that
could be over here running a cash restort. I see more people there now
than when they had, you know, fifteen and twenty different registers. See
that. Yeah, that was my next point, Harland, because look,
and by the way, the one that the one that I go to is
not in a low crime area, is not in a low shoplifting area.
Uh I thought that too, that they would put these in the lower shoplifting
areas because you know, people would be less likely maybe to uh oops,
I didn't scan it, you know kind of stuff at the self checkout,
right, which I mean, I gotta be honest with you. I don't
know anybody who hasn't at least tried that a little bit with a self checkout
where it's like, let me see what happens if I accidentally forget to scan
some them, you know. And here's the deal, because you're aggravated that
you're the one doing the work and you've only you've got to work with the
thing, and it keeps yelling at you to put the thing on the on
this platform or that platform, or you got to move the product and you
already did and all that. But anyway, you go through all that crap,
and true, they leave like two people standing there, and yes there
are many different self checkout kiosks, but leave two people standing there watching you
scan stuff. First of all, Then when you leave, it's even worse
because I don't know if this is in your area, But how many people
do they have station at each of the exits? Because each of the exits,
when they increased these self checkouts, we went from you know, one
person at the exit, can I just see your receipts there? You know,
and like they look over it, quickly, check a couple of big
items, you know, make sure the team is at least on there or
whatever, and that kind of crap, and they let you go. Now
there's three four people at each of the exits. So how many employees are
you using to just stand there to try and catch people? As opposed to
why don't you just put them back into cashier? You know what I mean?
Because if you did that, it would be convenient, it would be
faster probably, you know, you wouldn't have the machine yelling at you,
oh, put this item in the bagging area. I already did. I
mean, I don't know how many times I've been yelling at a self checkout.
I already put moved it there. Damn it, I've already scanned it.
You know it's like scan You're right, no, put it in the
bagging area. Don't remove things from the bagging area. You know. It's
like, damn, I already did this. What do you are you still
telling me to do it? And I already did it? All right?
Well, now I had. I had the cops called on me one time
for refusing to show somebody in my receipt on the way out of a Walmart.
Well, they call it else it. It floored me. The ladies
said, come and see you receive I said, no, Well, sir,
I'm supposed to look at your receipt to make sure. I said,
wait a minute, I just checked out from your checkout line. Everything that
I bought was put in the bag. I paid for it. I have
the receipt and I'm walking out. Well, but my job, I said,
I don't care what your job is. So she calls the manager.
By the time I'm about ready to go out the outer door, the manager
sir, and I turned around and says, we would like to see your
receipt. I told her, In fact, I told him in very rude
terms, he could kiss my ass. I'm not showing him a damn thing.
Well, sir, I said, look, once I pay for the
items their mine, I don't have to prove a damn thing to you.
I went through your checkout, and he called the cops. I told the
cop I said, I don't have to show him legally, I do not.
Once I pay that lady, she puts it in the bag and gives
me a receipt for it. I don't have to show a damn soul anything.
I'm going home, and you're gonna arrest me. Get ready to lose
your job because I'll sue you. I'm at the point now I'm waiting to
sue somebody. Now, did they have three or four people at the exit
when you go be Pete or or And I want to know that from Harland
too, But are there like three or four people at each exit? Now?
At Walmart? It's usually some little blue haired old lady who couldn't stop
anybody from doing anything. Okay, so she's more of a greeter than have
a good day or Okay, you know, as you're going out, gotcha,
So you are in a loafat area, but go ahead, Harland ahead.
My policy for years was, and I have kind of revised it here
in the last couple years, but my policy for years was, if it
was something little old granny, a little old man or whatever, I'm gonna
show my seat. If h's some can like one story that I'm gonna tell
just a second, very short story. If HiT's some you know scumbag that's
sitting there, you know, basically watching the door. If you know the
buddies is, you know, sneaking stuff, you know, bying Robin Walmart
blind. You know, I used to say, no, go get you
a warrant. Caught all the police. You know, I'm in such and
such truck I live, blah blah blah. That's where I'll be, you
know, kiss my eyes. You know, put up a sign here that
says that you know, by entering, you have to show a receipt.
But the reason why and I'm not talking about like if you buy something in
the back. I'm talking about like if you're up front with five hundred you
know, cameras on you, like you're at a casino, you know,
cash check out or something though. That's what I'm talking about now. You
know, if you buy something in the back, I understand. And you
know used too with Walmart they had their little take and everything. If you
bought something back wherever and they put it in a bag, they run it
down through that, they taped it up, and they stay with your received
on it. I've not seen that in years. Maybe somebody else has.
But to Chuck's point about them having several people where I've really seen the several
people four or five, six, eight or nine will be up there walking
around the self checkouts. I've just been seeing one as you go out to
exit door pretty much. But I have been in the situation before. I
can remember one time in Oklahoma City Walmart right off Inner State forty, went
in, bought a few things, a couple of bags, and I bought
a cooler. Well, I'm sitting here looking and you know, here's carrying
down at the end the you know, the receipt checkers, the greeter wherever
you want to call her, she's sitting there staring at me. Okay,
I paid with a debit card. Best I can remember, I go to
walk out and I get probably about twenty foot from her, and I just
take the receipt and I look at it and I just throw it over in
the trash can. Now, this has been several years ago. It's probably
been fifteen sixteen years ago, maybe longer than that. And she jumped right
out in front of him and says, I want to see your seat.
I said, it's over in that trash can. I've got to see your
seat before you leave. And I said, well, ma'am, I said
it's over in that trash can. And I said, I'm out here in
such and such kind of a truck. It says this on the side of
it, and you know, call the police, and I skiff walking,
you know, all in cameras and there are people's one who checked you out.
Hey, look, that's just the road too far. But I will
have to say Walmart has got a lot better on the self checkout. I
don't care if I've got like a few things to do it, but I'm
not going to pull up there with one hundred and seventy five to five hundred
dollars worth of stuff and I have to go through all that mess. I'm
not as hardcore as what it used to be about now, Kyle whoever or
whatnot? Because if you get banned out of Walmart out of one, now
you get banned out of all of them. And they're supposed to have facial
recognition technology that I've heard, you know, like if you got banned out
of one, you know in Tennessee, that they could pick you up if
you was in California. And once you get banned, you're gonna go to
jail for catching there. That's the stories I've heard. But I'm just not
as hardcore and as raw. But but I will tell them when they want
to say, well, I want to look at your receipt, I'm like,
well you want to look at the stuff here? Because what good does
it do for them just to look at the receipt if they're not going to
go through it? Right? You know what I'm saying, it's kind of
kind of bussac. Well, that's the other thing is when you got like
a hundred items, you know, is this guy gonna check every single thing?
Now? Usually I don't think so. I think they just check the
bigger ticket things, right, Uh you know, Okay, well we'll check
the bag of dog food, We'll check the TV We'll check the box with
the sneakers in it, whatever, you know what I'm saying, the bigger
stuff that's obvious. The case of water is that on there? Does it
look like there's a bunch of other things on there? Okay, I don't
think they're checking every single item, you know. I don't think it's even
possible, you know, because then you create another bottleneck in the store anyway,
And what do you do for the guy who's bought two items if you
got a hundred item guy in front of them? I mean, here we
go again. And I hate these self checkouts for that. When when I
go, like actually do a grocery shop and forget about it, it's like,
well, all right, I know I'm gonna lose an extra hour to
the self checkout, you know, at least, But anyways, that's just
me and I guess Mike's there is a little different with the extra people at
the entrances. But that's what I've noticed lately, probably where you're at,
probably the area, because you know, I've been to several different ones of
them, and folks, I'm not sitting there trying to bash and hate on
Walmart. And you've got to remember what they're dealing with with employees in a
lot of cases. But some of these people that they go too far with
it. They just run it in the ground. And I mean, you
know, here again, if you get a big screen TV. They've been
you know, stole from that. I can remember, like nine years ago,
manager was telling me like if they was losing twenty some grand a month
or maybe it was a quarter just in different little smile things, they was
losing thousands just in makeup. And so some of the people they was catching
A few of them was women that you know had six figure of year jobs.
This is in twenty fifteen. Yeah, and that was kind of minduale.
But you know, they have lost a lot of money. I understand
that, and they have done this stuff for years. But some of them
it's just you know, focus on a parate trip and I try not to
even fool with it. I mean, I try to dodge them, you
know, I try to you know, I'm not running up to them unless
it's granny that's walking this way, or you know, you've got to you
know, you know, an old veteran sitting there, you know, if
fourteen thousand flag pins on and whatever, But you know, they're just standing
there trying to live, getting out of the house to have something to do,
or they're there because they need the money to my ends. Mate.
Now, I'm not gonna get you know, cute before of them, but
it is in something for them to stand there with all these cameras now and
then go up for a words, you receive that, and then they're just
sitting there, you know, just looking at it. Went through it last
week when I went Walmart. A little girl there look like she was in
her twenties, you know, didn't look like she was have you say.
I mean, it was good to say she was at work, you know,
and I didn't want to say anything out of the wayter, but man,
she really went unless she said, I gotta looks to this, you
know, and I said, well, I'm glad you're looking instead of just
stopping here eating up for inconvenience and not even looking at anybody. All right,
Look, you can't begrudge somebody who's actually trying to do a job.
But look, I'm gonna put you on hold, Harlan, because we got
looks like we got advanced on the phone. So let's see. You know,
I knew this was gonna give me a little trouble. I had a
little trouble setting up. But there we go, all right. I think
I got Dvance on the line, and he might have something else on his
mind, or he might want to talk about the self checkout and the the
fun of it all. Maybe not just at Walmart. I mean they got
these things at Kroger and everything else anyway too. Uh, but it's all
the same kind of routine to me. They shut down all the other cast
year lines and they forced you through there. Whether it's Circle, Kroger,
Walmart, doesn't matter. It's just part of what's going on. And I
think about it in terms of replacement, because eventually, if they can sort
themselves out security wise, it will mean less employees. And you know how
efficient does a Walmart or a Circle K need to be? Anyways, Dvance,
what's on your mind tonight? I'll just I guess I got the Walmart
blues now. Yeah, well, you know, and the funny thing is
Advance. You know what else I noticed is ten years ago or so,
a whole lot of us that had, you know, ethical concerns, did
not want to use Walmart. But you know what, every area of the
country it seems like they dominated the landscape, the local landscape, so much
that you run out of choices. After a while, it's impossible to find
stuff. You wind up back at Walmart. Even if you're trying to avoid
it and use more localized merchants, use the smaller businesses. One way or
another, you're gonna get trapped into going there. And it's just people that
we used to try and avoid going have slowly but surely given in and went
back to Walmart. I mean, I remember how everybody was very upset in
the early two thousands. It might have been the year two thousand, even
with that documentary Walmart, the high cost of low prices right, all about
the slave labor and how they were, you know, basically doing stuff and
oh it's all Chinese products and everything. People tried to back away from Walmart,
and they become so ubiquitous that you can't escape them. So even people
that wanted to ethically refuse Walmart won't and it does it's not gonna matter much
more with the self checkout anyways. Well, I'm proud to say I haven't
been in a Walmart in over three years. Oh that's you, okay,
Okay, Well, Hey, you're you're one of the few, my friend,
that that hasn't been in a Walmart in the past few years, because
it seems like to me, everybody else I know, even the people that
were hardcore about I'm not going back there. I don't care, have ended
up back in the Walmart web if you will. But anyway, yeah,
go advance. You want to talk Walmart blues or you got something else Walmart.
Well along that line that I live. You know, historically, I've
lived around San Antonio stuff, and we have a local grocery chain called h
B which is you know, been around for you know, the fifties or
whatever. In fact, my grandma dated him in one of them in high
school, or he tried to date her, but he was creepy and she
didn't mess with him, so I couldn't be related to Henry Butts was his
name. I think Harry Henry anyway, So so anyway, I'm twenty miles
from San Antonio now and then here in Castorville there he was that. There's
another local chain called super Ass, which is a small you know, they're
usually in small towns only know, not you know, big towns, and
everything's you know, fifty cents more or whatever, you know, and not
as big a selection, but you know that most of the staples and all
that. But it was like eighteen miles from my house to the HIB the
closest HIV, and and so I would go there like to buy my big
stuff, you know, most of the time or whatever. I would,
you know, I didn't mind you know, driving over there to save a
little money if I was buying a lot of stuff, but if I just
needed something, you know quick, I you know, get it at Supers.
And then they finally built in they had a Walmart and Hondo, which
was fifteen miles up the road, so I would drive eighteen miles to HIV
rather than go to the Walmart. So I would do all that, and
then eventually they built one here in Castleville. And then you know, gas
prices and everything else, and it's just, you know, it's just cost
too much. I guess I can justify it that way or whatever. But
as far as they're checking the baskets and all that shit here, they normally
also I've seen them, do you And it's a smaller in town and not
that much crime or anything, and they only check you if you like gut
some sodas or anything that's you know, not bagged and or you know,
like dog food under the basket or whatever. You know, that's the only
the only time they've ever stopped me or you know, asked me anything.
And and I don't mind showing him that for that, you know, it's
like yeah, because that's all he looks for, is doctor Pepperson. You
know, I go through you know, but but uh, yeah, I
wouldn't. I wouldn't if it wasn't There's no way they can do it to
everybody. I mean, if they're going to check everybody who going through it,
I've never seen them check anybody, you know, just and when I
go through the line and and bag all my stuff and I don't have,
you know, something like that, they don't, they don't ever ask me
anything. So well, that sounds to me like yeah, that sounds to
me like the way it was some years back, when it was just a
big, unbagged item, like I said, you know, a case of
water, a case of soda, a case of a case of something underneath
because maybe you forgot to scan your case, you know, maybe you forgot
to scan your big bag of dog food, big bags of dog food's another
one, or cat food or kitty litter, you know, stuff like that
in a large bag. Yeah, that used to be the way it was
in a lot of places, and I guess still like that in a small
town. Maybe it just varies depending on your location a little bit. I'm
here in different different variations here based on locations. I mean, you know,
so maybe that's what it is. But I'll yeah, the one thing
here recently and like here a month or so ago in the parking lot there,
showed up all these big gas containers and they put like a fence around
it and all this, and I'm like, okay, I guess they could
do some remodeling or something and in here, and maybe this is happening in
other markets or whatever. But they're just like totally read changing everything like for
the last couple of weeks ago in and like what was here is not there
anymore. And now I'm going, okay, so where the fuck is the
sup aisle now? You know? And last night I went and they had
they did a few aisles two nights ago. I went and it was like
I was just cussing that I was walking by all these people I know,
you're just fucking everything. If you fuck got now, I got to walk
around here looking for you know, ask somebody where the hell do you keep
this now? You know. So it's like they're you know, trying to
discombobulate people on purpose or some shit. Well dynamically, they add stuff too,
like services, like you know, in some places they've gotten rid of
the eyeglass place and some places they put them in. Uh they have you
know, healthcare things. They temporarily set up the tax for preparation, uh
say around this time of year, right, you got Sometimes they got a
restaurant in there, they take that out. The McDonald's used to be in
the Walmarts. I don't know if they still are. Uh the Walmart near
me has a subway in it still, you know. And they put different
stuff in there, automotive or an automotive department that has a service department.
Maybe they might have that in there. And they change these things around depending
on what you know, gets demanded in an area. So they're always doing
that. It looks like Walmart. You can't blame them for that. And
they do remodel and move things around supposedly to you know, to better serve
the customer, right, at least that's the clean But yeah, I don't
know. It sounds to me like if you're in a smaller town, it's
really not that big a deal. But still they're bringing in these self checkouts
there, right, I mean, that's that's everywhere, isn't it. We
we don't have the closest self checkout here would be Greenville or Kenston, the
here and Grift and we don't have enough to We don't really have enough business
for somebody to put in a self checkout. I mean, you talk about
small town, We've got what twelve hundred people living here in the surrounding area,
maybe nine hundred actually in the city limits, so not a whole lot
of people. But what I'm curious to know is who's going to take Walmart's
place, because up until now you had what Wolco, Woolworths, Kmart.
You know, they were the they were the discount big stores. Super Ks
you know, was the big thing when they were opening up and they all
went bust. I'm wondering who's going to take the place of Walmart when Walmart
goes bust. Well, with the expansion of Dollar Tree and Dollar Dollar General
and Family Dollar that that tryad there seems to be the new replacement because those
things are growing like wild. You know, everywhere seems to dollars. You
know. It's funny. Walmart came out with their with their big stores,
and they came out with the Walmart supercenters, and then they came out with
the neighborhood stores, which was a smaller version that basically just carried groceries and
things like that. Well, now Dollar General is getting into the neighborhood market.
We've had several of them built around here just in the past year,
where they're carrying actual fresh produce and more grocery items than you see in their
normal stores. And they're really growing. I mean, the joke around here
is, you know, you leave a pile of dirt laid around long enough,
eventually a Dollar General sprout. Probably that's how. Yeah, i mean,
they're building like crazy, and they're really putting a lot of pressure on
Walmart, Dollar General, Family, Dollar Dollar Tree, all of them on.
Yeah, exactly. But that's what I'm saying is between those three,
I'm thinking that that's the next thing that's just going to be everywhere everywhere.
Dollar General was not something that you saw everywhere only a few years ago.
I remember when those stores are like, we're pretty much first in Jersey,
and I'm going, what the hell is a dollar General? And I thought
to myself, does this mean it's everything is a dollar store? And no
it wasn't. You know. Well, now, I'll be honest. The
Dollar General that we have here in my town, they they do a big
business. I mean, we didn't have a grocery store for a long time.
The one that we had, we had a Pigley Wiggley here and it
eventually bought during one of the floods during the hurricanes, got damaged. In
fact, they built a new store and didn't think about putting the floor above
flood stage, so it got swamped and they closed it down. So they
went It was a good twelve thirteen years here. And just before Christmas last
year, a guy went in and took the old original Piggly Wiggily store on
Main Street, completely refurbished it and opened it up as a I want to
say, it's a food pride is the chain that they're connected with. His
prices are a little a little higher something I might spend. You know,
I've got to drive twelve miles to get to a food line one direction or
the other. Their prices are a little better. But a lot of the
items that I buy here locally, just for convenience, you might pay a
quarter to fifty cent more than what you see in food line. And you
know, food line is huge, so they can afford to knock prices down.
But this is this guy here locally has been doing well. I mean,
he's he says that he's At first he was having trouble because they didn't
have him set up to take food stamps or EBT cards. Now that he's
got all that figured into his program, he's doing good. And it's good
to see. I mean, this little community needs a store that you can
go to at six point thirty, you know, at night and get something
without having to drive, you know, to either Greenville, Aid or Tinston
to go shopping. So it's very convenient. He's been able to keep his
prices low. He's got a pretty good selection considering how small store it is,
right, and Walmart glad to see he's doing well. Yeah, And
Walmart went in every direction by the way, experimentally. I mean, at
one point they had convenience stores, they had the neighborhood market. Then they
had a convenience store. It was like a Walmart Express or a Walmart on
the Run or whatever. They've had, you know, the gas pumps installed
in some of them, and left and right, they've gone in every possible
direction. And of course they're connected to Sam's. So you know, you
got your Sam's Club. The really big box version of the store is already
a part of it, because that was always part of it, Sam's Club,
So you know, just like you get the Sam's Cola at Walmart,
right, it said Sam because it was Sam what was his last name?
I forget all this time. Wealton there you go, you know, and
that family every time there's a tax breaker or whatever, that family always does
good. I love how everybody brings that up and then forgets it immediately when
it's like, you know, hey, you see that corporate tax cut.
Guess what the Waltons got out of it? You know, every time,
and they've continued to expand. Look, I'm gonna put Vance on hold,
and I'm definitely gonna get back around to you and to uh, you know,
and and to uh everybody who's on the phone right now. For sure,
Harlan and Vance right now are the only two. So that's the only
two I'll get back around to. But uh, who knows what else we
might discuss outside of the retail markets and uh such cause there's a lot more
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So so far we've been into the retail business, didn't even touch politics yet,
so I'm happy about that. To be honest with you, haven't gone
into the wars that are and the rumors of wars and et cetera. Yet
all good as far as I'm concerned. What else is on your guys minds
out there tonight. I don't know, b Pete, what else you got
in mind? Anything else that important went on this week? Or you think
we need to address before we go back around to our callers and see if
anybody new joins us. Well, well, the biggest news to me all
week is the fact that Mitch mcconnald says he's going to step down as leader
of the Republicans in the Senate come November, and then he's going to finish
out his term. Now, you know, it's about damn time. I'd
like to thank all the people out there listening from the state of Kentucky that
have foisted that ass hat on us for the past thirty years. Maybe one
down, we can get the rest of them. Muh, you got some
ambitions there. I mean the idea that they start getting rid of the people
that they keep re electing, which I always find funny, by the way,
it seems like during the time when people are complaining most about the politicians
that are there forever is when they usually keep putting the same guys back in
there forever. I mean, maybe it's just me, you know, well,
I mean I've always said that, you know, I've told people,
you everybody complains about you know, the government be a run by old,
rich white guys. Well why do you keep collecting them? You know,
people that they complain about their own actions. They don't think about it,
you know, Kentucky has you look at the difference between Mitch McConnell and Rand
Paul, two totally opposite ends of the spectrum of the Republican Party, And
Mitch McConnell he has this last bit and what really set me off was this
last immigration bill that the Senate voted on. You know, they call it
bipartisan, you know, because a couple of Republicans voted for it. It's
a bipartisan bill, so that means everybody should accept it because both sides put
it forward. Well, basically, it was an amnesty bill, and it
was an amnesty bill that tied the hands of the next president, regardless of
who it is, on being able to change things. And luckily the House
said, hey, it's dead on arrival. We're not even going to bring
it to the floor. This is ridiculous. Guys haven't done a damn thing
to solve the problem. All you do is granted amnesty to all these people
that are here illegally, and you tie the hands of the future administration to
be able to go in and do what they need to do based on the
flow of immigrants into this country. I'm glad to see Mitch McConnell gone.
He'd be the first one I'd want to throw dirt claude at when he comes
out of the building. Well, I mean, there's plenty of them that
have been there forever though, you know. I mean, and yeah,
he's just a start Pelosi, Nadler, McConnell. I mean, they're all
of the same ilk. You know, we've had a guy here from North
Carolina, Tom Tillos. He hadn't been there that long, but all he's
done is called problem. Since he's been there, he's selling out people left
and right, if you honestly think, and this is what gets me about
being a you know, an election year, all these commercials. You know,
I'm a conservative and I'm gonna do this, and I'm going to stop
the spending, and I'm going to cut this, and no you're not.
I don't see anything cutting a budget in what twenty years. And if you
cut the rate of growth, the Democrats come out and say, Okay,
well the Republicans are trying. They're just trying to cut they're trying to cut.
No, we're cutting the rate of growth. It's still growing, but
at a slower rate. But all you hear in the media is all they
just want to cut sole security, or they just want to cut this,
they just want to cut that. Well, yeah, I'd love to cut
some stuff. Let's cut salaries for politicians that can't do their job and get
a budget passed. That's the first thing I'd want to cut. I'd simply
say, look, if you guys don't come up with a budget when by
the time you're supposed to, you don't get paid because you're not doing your
job. Yeah, but would that work? Considering again, like we brought
up at the beginning of a show, it's not like that's where their real
money is, you know, that's where their healthcare is. That's the funny
thing they have, you know, the really good version of the government healthcare
they get for free from the rest of their lives. Don't they know.
Well, I don't know. Maybe I'm different than most people. If I
were elected president, the first thing I would do is seize the Federal Reserve.
I would show up with armed troops and every Federal Reserve bank and put
it under control and say, now, you guys are not printing another dollar
bill until we go through the books, and we're going to see if we
can't cut some of this death that's owed to the FED because of the way
you guys have been stacking the game. So you did, we'll see just
exactly how much debt we own, so you we take a lot of people
off. But you damn right, I've seen the Fed Reserve day one.
So you'd be all for the Ron Paul Audit the FED idea, then oh
hell yes, you know. And I can't argue with you. I mean,
uh, there's step one maybe and maybe it's a baby step, but
still step one. That would be the best thing to do. But again,
if you keep selecting the same people and they go with this, you
know, gotta state true to your party no matter what crappy guy they stick
up in that and you know, well, he's got the right letter in
front of his name. Nothing's getting done, you know, and the dark
money and everything else. I mean, if somebody could solve that one,
stop dumping these hundreds of millions of dollars into these political campaigns, that would
be nice too. Wouldn't that be interesting if like you had a cap a
limit, a serious limit, and you know, you didn't have all these
super PACs doing all this kind of nonsense where well, they're not really under
our control. Yeah, okay, sure they're not. They're under the control
of somebody you're friendly with, though. He's the first things I do,
I'd seize the thaied. Second thing I would do is push to rescind the
amendment that allows for senators to be elected and go back to the way it
used to be where they were appointed by their state legislators. Second, the
third thing I would do was immediately propose a law that nobody can be spent
on an election out of state of the from out of state of the person
that's running. So if I'm running here in the first Congressional District of North
Carolina, that means I can't accept any donations from anywhere outside this state because
I'm supposed to be representing this state, not the interests of somebody out of
state, and I'd cut that right there. And if someone says, oh,
but what about the corporations. If a corporation has a physical location within
this state, then find they can donate. But if we take out the
Senate elections and they're appointed by the state legislatures, then we immediately remove a
whole bunch of money out of the elections. And if we change the election
laws where people from New York can't flood this state with donations. I'm sick
and tired of in the morning driving to work and hearing nothing but political ads
for an hour and a half. I'm sick and tired of seeing it on
TV. Get the money out of it, Take the money out of politics.
It's the one money corrupts faster than anything. And I don't care who
you are, you're gonna sit here in campaign that yes, I'm going to
go to Washington and we're we're going to close the border, We're gonna cut
taxes, and we're gonna cut the wasteful spending. No, you're not,
because every politician has claimed that for the past forty years, and in the
past twenty to thirty years, none of it has ever taken place. It's
just an out and out lie. And I'm getting sick and tired of people
lying to me constantly for a year to two years before the election telling me
they're going to do all this stuff, and nobody ever does it when they
show up. Look what happened with the Tea Party. These people were elected
to go in and change the establishment, and what happened the minute that they
got into Washington. The Republicans turned on them and treated them like Red had
step children and just basically banished what. Ted Cruz I think is the only
one left. Did he? They got elected during that, during the big
Tea Party. Yeah, there might be it might be one or two more,
but not among the big names. I think Ted Cruise was probably the
biggest name left. So take the money out of it. Let's listen,
money corrupts quicker than anything. Let's get the number one corrupt influence out of
the whole damn deal. I mean, I think Mike Pompeo was part of
that too, right wasn't. I don't know about Pompeo. I'm not sure
he may have been. He may have been. I know most of them
are gone now. Cruise is the only one that I know was elected during
you know, as a tea party republic treated the minute they got to Washington,
they were treated like outsiders, and nobody wanted to put them on committees,
nobody wanted to listen to them. You know, the government. Our
constitution was set up so that people elected citizens to represent citizens. That's not
what they represented anymore. They represent big business, they represent the party,
they represent money. Money is power, and the Democrats, the Democrats are
excellent at pulling dirty tricks to try to increase the amount of money they got
because they know money is power. And until we start getting rid of these
people that have corrupted the system, we're sunk. There's nothing we can do.
We're some well, you know. And then again, a guy like
McConnell and some of these others, it also opens some wide for the foreign
money. Like I've always said, it's their paymasters that make their decisions,
not them. And they're not representing the people, they're representing those that are
lining their pockets. And well, trying to sound racist, when don't we
just start looking at McConnell's wife's ties to China. She's Chinese, she owns
a business in China, should we do a little bit of looking there.
We're worried about Hunter Biden and his connections. We're worried about Joe Biden and
his connections. How much has Mitch McConnell sold us out to favor China over
the past thirty years. Let's take a look, set a little light on
it. Well, like I said, nobody really wants a true picking of
the scab because there's way too much puss to go around on all sides.
So well, that's the first thing I do is rip that scab off.
It would be interesting to see done. Anyways, we'll go back around to
the calls, but again we'll take new ones and they'll get a I already
at three one nine, five, two seven, five zero one six,
but we got about forty nine minutes or so left in the show, so
Harlan's still on hold. Harlan. Now we're now we're into the political arena.
Apparently I didn't know we were going to go there, but here we
are. Uh, Mitch McConnell's stepping down this week, though, any thoughts,
Well, I'm gonna kind of just roll a lown pack on the back
of the stuff that the Pete said you know, I agree with almost everything
that he said. They're one hundred percent. I'd also like to say that
Ran Paul I thought that he come in on the tea party gimmick well back
in the day, as I'll test, him and Cruz both got there about
the same time. Ain't that rap? I don't know, it seems like,
but it's hard to tell because of course who his father was. I'll
look it up while y'all were talking. Yeah, I don't remember exactly when
he came in, but to me, he came in really on the back
of his father's reputation. I thought, Paul, Yeah, I don't think
Ran as hardly as principal is. Run is not all something that and a
lot of people on the right, so called conservatives, you know, people
that are conservatives whatever, they bought this propaganda that that, you know,
my private company is lowered and master. I've always considered myself a high ice
libertarian. Reason why I can't say I'm a three quarter full ice libertarian is
the libertarians, you know, for the most part, especially the hardcores,
they basically want some private company to be rolling over some corporation gimmick. But
until you get back to we the people instead is the we the corporation.
And then that means that you can't be running around here saying, well because
the corporation said it is gospel. I think that's actually worser than the big
government gimmick, because hey, look who is a big government? Big business?
Even these far left social justice gimmicks, there's big money behind them.
For the most part. It seems like to me environmental movements, you know,
all that shit, But you've got to get away from that. And
something that Pete said, I'd like to, you know, kind of throw
out there. I've heard this stuff for you know, thirty years about going
back and the state legislatures appointing the senators. Well, you know that's kind
of like you know, paper hand county paper ballots. Well, that's only
as good as whoever is doing the counting. I did vote early last week
on the local election, and it was for the Super Tuesday primary election.
And now we've swapped in my county to where you've give them your driver's license,
they skip an them and asked you if you want to vote in the
Republican or Democrat primary or just the local election. And we got a whill
tax and I want to be done a podcast the Guy tomorrow night at a
local you know, Tennessee issue. But anyway that we're actually getting to,
you know, vote for against this time around. But my overall point is,
you know, you they printed out, you check your boxes, and
you run it back to you know, a feeder, and they stand it
then. And it's supposed to be gospel from here. But back to the
part about the senators, that's only going to be and I agree with with
him one hundred percent that you need to get this out of state money regardless
of what state you're in. You know, you don't need somebody on one
end of the country telling somebody in Georgia, Tennessee, you know, how
to do stuff because they don't want to hear it. When we're saying free
speech and Second Amendment in New York, so what we don't want to hear
whatever that they've got to say. And you know other states. But as
far as you know, the state legislatures picking the senators, well, you
know that's getting down to where you've just got a handful of people insteads the
whole state. And I don't see in this day in time where it's going
to be any better, because you're basically gonna have the establishment still picking the
candidates just like we're doing now. And a red state is always going to
go with the Republican and a blue state is always going to go with the
Democrat. And if it's just the state legislatures, well it's still going to
be, you know, the establishment picking whoever that they're picking. I mean,
I'd like to know his opinion on that. And I understand in the
perfect world and everything, you know, that would work great. And I
understand that used to be the way that you know, everything working as to
what it was in the Constitution. And one more thing, when when advance
gets on here, I was going to ask him what the deal was with
Tom Cooper getting banned off of of Twitter slash x. I noticed that he
got clipped off from there. Tom Cooper got knocked off in there. I
didn't know that, I think so, so I lost his number and advances.
Also, I think I found Vancey's I seen that you sent it to
me, but I didn't read that email. But I got to typing into
one zero and I think I sent him something here. I know I tried
to send something last week, but I didn't notice that what I could gather
there on Twitter that you know, there's another post there that said that you
know, he'd been banned and he just he was gone. I call him,
but I lost his number. Well I wasn't lost the bons No problem.
Look I don't have Tom's number, but but Advance can probably put you
in touch with him. So but yeah, ge advanced back on in a
minute, give me Kyle sometime Lance when you get a Chancher tonight or something
there you go, there you go, no problem, I'm gonna put you
back on hold, though, u VP go ahead. What do you want
to say about that about you know you wanted to hear what you had to
say about I forget? How how did you put that? Orlan? Go
ahead? Repeat that about what you want to be Pete to speak to?
Well? Just what I was saying, like, how would it be different
if the state legislatures are the ones that's electing the senators? Say? Is
pretty much now everything is based upon the establishment is who's picking the candidates.
And you might have somebody slip by every once in a while, but for
the most part, it seems like to me it's whoever that the establishment,
you know, blesses. Now, there's a few times didn't needs primaries that
somebody slips by. But in a lot of cases, if you know,
if a certain person is annoyed, I give a good example. You know
you had up in Pennsylvania. You had this black lady that everybody was kind
of behind, and you know the chosen one of knowing that, you know,
doctor Oz And look how that right there turned out. But like,
what would what is his argument? How is that going to be better?
I mean, I ain't been as smart ass. I just want to know
why that folks thinks that he would be better if the state legislature was elected
on versus the people considering the setup that we're living in. I mean,
I know if we was living in nineteen, you know, fifty five or
you know, eighteen eighty six or something, it would definitely be different.
But I'd like to know how it would be different in today's world. There
you go, So what would be the improvement over that? Good? So
I'm gonna put yeah, I'm gonna put him on hold here and we'll get
to vance in a minute. But Harlan's on hold, But go ahad me
pete. It would be better in that in that well, it would take
the money out of the election. But and I'll use my state as an
example. My state is weird when it comes to politics. We've had a
Republican led legislature now for the past I think sixteen years, maybe a little
maybe fourteen years, and they've just drawn maps so that they may stay in
power a lot longer. The Republicans in North Carolina running the legislature was the
first time in like four hundred years, you know that far back, it's
always been a Democrat state. We will elect a Republican legislature and a Democrat
governor. Now, if you want to see people at odds, put a
Democrat governor in North Carolina against the Republican legislature. They don't agree on anything.
They never In fact, we've had to override Governor Vetos, and luckily
we've had enough people in position to get the votes to override the veto.
In fact, in the past two years, there's been I think three Democrats
change to the Republican side of things because of the ridiculous crap that the Democrats
are coming up with when it comes to schools and things like that. But
it would each state, you know, Pennsylvania, let their legislature put their
senators in place to look after Pennsylvania's interests, not New York's interests, not
California's interests, not Florida's interests. Let them let them represent their state in
the Senate, which is the way that it was originally set up. People
forget that the United States are fifty individual states, and then what territories that
we have puer Rico and Guam and things like that. But we are fifty
let's keep it's simple. We are fifty individual divided groups that make up these
United States. And where our state's number one industry is agriculture, another state's
number one industry might be industrial production or manufacturing, or you know, some
other type of business. The states have to be able to get along as
a unit. The problem is the federal government has become so bloated and so
big that the Senate and the Congress are now looking at things from the view
of government, not the state that they represent. You know, we have
Medicare programs and social Security programs, and welfare programs and healthcare programs, all
these things that are done on a national level. If we sat down and
actually took That'd be another thing I'd do if I was elected. I would
sit down and say, okay, guys, you people in the Justice Apartment,
you go through the Constitution, you find me every single government agency that's
not called for in that Constitution, and we're going to start getting rid of
of and we're going to start returning these things back to the states. Let
the state decide what's going on. Let the state look at their interest to
promote their number one industry of agriculture or banking or whatever it is, and
get these fifty individual groups that make up the United States to start having to
work together instead of this behemoth of Democrat versus Republican. And when you wipe
away the names, you find out it's pretty much the same underneath both titles.
They're there to pump money into this behemoth that's the government that's gotten so
big it can't feed itself anymore. People can't We're going to go broke because
we can't afford it. Let the senators from North Carolina worry about the interest
of North Carolina. Of course, they're gonna look at, you know,
the guys in Iowa, because their big industry is agriculture. They're gonna look
at the guys in Georgia, Florida, those agricultural interests and come up with
a farm bill that's gonna benefit the farmer but also benefit the consumer and make
our products more competitive in the world. I mean, we feed the world.
Let's start, you know, let's start getting some benefits of that,
instead of people always wanting to throw tariffs on our products. Oh though you
use this, use that in your manufacturing, We're not gonna allow that in
our country. Okay, fine, you don't want to let our stuff in.
Your stuff just got hit with tariffs. Let's start doing this fairly.
That's one thing that Trump did when he got in. He can completely redid
these trade deals because we were getting screwed royally and nobody said he could do
it. And damn if he didn't pull it off. I mean, look
what he did with NAFTA. He got us out of a bad deal and
got us in something better. But let these like states work together for the
interest of their states, not for the interest of the federal government. And
I think the first step is getting senators out of this nationwide political machine and
have them start worrying about what's going on at home. I just think it
would be better. It would promote each state interests better if you take the
election out of there, take the money out of there, take the corporate
money out of there, and let the legislators appoint those people that they feel
safe is going to represent their state in the federal government. Everybody looks at
it from the federal government down instead of from the states up. We are
fifty United States, and they're going to be different interests in each state based
on the state's makeup, the population. You know, you have we have
more illegal aliens across the border since Joe Biden became president then thirty six of
our state's population. And what does that tell you? Forget the federal government.
Let's start looking at the states requirements for what they need and start benefiting
the states instead of you know, this behemoth that we call the US government.
Well, looking back at a couple of the bigger stories recently regarding you
know, the the illegals that have committed certain crimes and everything, you see
five six times where you know they could have been ejected. That's not just
during Biden's time. This is something that's been going on, you know,
again with the way back and forth if somebody wanted to fix that, they
would have fixed it. But look, I don't want to sit and pick
apart a whole bunch of stuff. I do agree that one way to begin
to cure this problem is to take the money out of it. But we
got a fresh new caller, one I don't recognize, so I want to
bring them on. Maybe it'll be like the Harlan situation. Let's see,
I think it's a nine to one six area code. Let's get to him.
See what he's got to say or what he wants to throw on the
table. Okay, you're live. This is yeah, this is Danny Dumphy
from the state of California. Hey, is this the same Danny Dumpy that
that does occasionally tweet at me on Twitter? Exactly? Okay, great,
great, thank you. Good to hear from you, Danny. It's like
I think his first time he called in, isn't it I called on the
Uncle Show The New Year's Revolution? Okay, okay, but I used to
I'm generally working or I'm asleeps but I happen to be up so I was
able to catch the show, which kind of tie bow into like what's about
the Behemoth? The power. You know, it's interesting you're talking about Walmart,
and during the early eighties we didn't even have a Walmart in California.
But I remember I was looking through an Atlantic magazine and I was really interested
in this copy about the Mecladoria programs because I started seeing the the de industrialization
of the United States, and especially picking apart the devastation the rural communities and
farming communities at that time. Remember all the farm aid and farmers losing the
property. But there was another article in there called the Walmartization of America.
And I think that's what we're talking about, is that they came in,
they took over, they put small businesses out, and they were all this
part of this process and they enriched themselves. And it's just like these older
politicians, they're just this they're just this vicious cycle that they have a monopoly
on power. And I've just witnessed it over decades. Right, Honestly,
I've had a personal boycott of Walmart for more than thirty years. I've probably
maybe stopped it, stepped in them maybe four or five times. I will
not shop at the Walmart. See, now, you're one of the few
guys that's actually stuck to it. I'm telling you. It was a big
thing like around the year two thousand and where a lot of us were going,
you know, screw this. We're tired of these things coming in and
destroying all the local businesses, and let's let's protest against it by not participating.
And I'm telling you, slowly but surely, I would say ninety nine
out of ten of the people that I knew that we're doing that have now
had to give in because you can't, you can't function otherwise, nine out
of ten of us, and I'm one of them. Unfortunately, I've ended
up shopping at them. Dann Walmart, I hate it. Go ahead,
yeah, I get it. I mean I deliberately went to a particular grocery
store because the neighbor around the corner he worked there in the Delhi and he
was able to buy a home here in California retire with a pension because they
were a union company, and I paid a little more money to buy the
groceries. But I saw it as helping my neighbor, and where I saw
Walmart was destroying my neighborhood and destroying the small busines, right right, No,
I get it, and it's and it makes sense. But here's the
problem for some of us, right, is when they first put these things
closer to us, so now you don't have to travel, and the price
is lower, and the other stores are going out of business. So the
place like you know, like you said, the local grocery store, most
of those disappeared. I mean, I remember, here we go, old
man again. I remember a time when there were independent grocery stores. You
know, it would be like you know, Jimmy's Groceries or whatever, and
it would be a fair sized grocery store in a neighborhood somewhere, and that's
in the northeast, not an easy place to compete. And those places are
extinct that that just doesn't exist anymore. Now it's a matter of which corporate
entity is coming in, and do you want to deal with the big one,
the small one, or the one that comes in. And let's uh,
like when I'm in Pigley Wiggley over here, because I'm in Georgia.
Now I go to Pigley Wiggley. They are owned by their workers, right,
their workers have a share in the store. I'd kind of rather go
there, except that they price gouge this stupid Pigley Wigley. And if they
didn't price see, but now the price gouging. It's like, look,
I'm not gonna pay double for a product here. Why not just drive another
five minutes and go to the Walmart instead of paying double for the product?
Right? It just after a while you get forced into it and it's like,
what do you do? California's got a huge variety of things, and
I get it, and I would love to have stuck to those principles.
You know. I didn't like them putting the hardware stores out of business.
I didn't like them putting the paint stores out of business, even the corporate
ones, the Sherman Williams and whatnot. All those things are gone, you
know what I mean? So yeah, go ahead. Yeah, there was
a little local right here in the town I live in. City I live
in, there was a local hardware store. I would go there because it
was all family and they could save the money even though I paid higher price,
because they can tell me how to do it. I go walk in
a home depot, I can't get any help, any service. And I
came from a family, third generation. I was part of a third generation
of a small family business that was in agriculture. And I realized once I
got out of high school started working for my father, I started working as
a teenager that our job or our wholesaler as the small farmer, was dissipating.
The larger farmer got bigger because we catered to the small farmer, that
our buying power shrunk, and the same job or salesman was going over to
who we used to service and cutting deals with them, and the whole vicious
power cycle of cutting the big guy cutting the little guy out. And it's
almost, you know, we used to have monopoly laws in this country,
which is still in the books, but we don't enforce them. That's true.
Look at Duke Energy. They got a stranglehold on Seventh States. They
broke up my bell Fell telephone for less than what Duke Power is getting away
with today. Right, But that's but he's right though. It's a constant
theme of here's the bigger corporation that just eats the little guys. And then
you get a couple of you know, next tier corporations, you almost you
know, go well, I just want to go with the second tier corporation
at this point, Uh, you know, for one of the only votes
that really counts, which is where you spend your money, and you virtually
have no choices left, I mean, and that's well, we had a
good lesson in that in the past year. I was reading an article today
that Transhauser Busch has lost one point four billion dollars because of the bud light
boycott, all because they wanted to make Somebody sitting in an office made a
decision to do a promotion and it blew up in their face. And now
they've had to sell brands just to be able to make ends meet. And
I I hate to see these people being put out of work. But one
point four billion dollars in less than a year, man, you talk about
a screw up. Yeah, just because they made one specialized can for somebody.
You know that that really doesn't go with the majority of who their brand
likes. Uh. It's funny that people can get motivated enough to cost Anheuser
Bush enough money, but they can't get it together to like stop the Walmart
machine rolling. They can't get it together to stop the Amazon machine from rolling.
They can't, you know what I'm saying, Like these other ones,
you can't stop them. But they can they What's gonna happen is, you
know, Walmart is going to get boutiqued to death. You're gonna start seeing
more of these small independent stores opening back up, and people will pay a
little bit more to keep from having to go to Walmart. People right now,
I mean, we went through an era where we were addicted to cheap
Chinese junk, and basically that's what I used to buy in Walmart. You'd
buy a product, even a product under a name brand. It seemed like
whatever it was being sold in Walmart either broke or wore out so fast you
were back in there buying it again. I'd rather spend the money and buy
something the quality is gonna last me. Then you know, blow it in
Walmart. But I don't know, I don't know when it's gonna come,
but I have a feeling Walmart it's going to start losing their share of the
market. All I can say is from your lips to God's ears VPTE,
we can only hope, yeah, yeah, exactly. But I've seen this
happening. It's it's it's even in politics on both sides. It's the it's
big money. You know, once money became free speech, and you know
there used to be it was the McCain findal, but tried to, you
know, a couple of decades to try to Oh, don't get me started
on this. Yeah, well, I know they got rid of they got
rid of vine Gold, you know, but they didn't get rid of mcking.
But that was the big money interest. He's done. I mean that,
I'm amazed that they allowed him to stay in the Republican Party. I
run him out with a back of dirt clouds the first chance I got.
Yeah, yeah, I mean an offense. I mean, I'm one of
those that feel like they need to continue working on the border wall, and
when they get at Arizona, make a sharp left hand turn and go right
there between California and Nevada and just go ahead and block California off. We
used to live in California, you know, so I know a little bit
of what I speak of. But as far as I'm concerned, we can't
give that state back to damn Mexico because they have done nothing but cause problems
for the rest of this nation for the past fifty damn years. Yeah,
hating on California, All right, Well, what can I say? It's
all good. I love California, so I'm not going anywhere northern California out
of love. I love northern California. It's beautiful, see, I mean,
it's it's that's the part of the state that you want to keep.
But the craft that's going on in Sacramento, Sacramento, San Francisco, and
LA you just keep it. You couldn't pay me to live there. Yeah.
Well see, and I'd love to move back to the northeast. I
love the northeast of the country, but I can't afford it. There's just
no way to afford it. You know. In California is another place where
like I can't even imagine affording living there anymore. Uh no, oh,
yeah, no, it's it's not it's not It's like I said, it's
a complex place. I mean, the biggest problem in California is it's just
it's just a lot of people. There's forty million people live in California,
so you're going to have forty million different problems. Yeah. Well, if
you could isolate Bakersfield, you know, and make that a state of its
own, I'd be okay to live there. You know. It's just it's
the frame of mind of the people there, you know, so much different
than from the big city. And I don't know, I just I see
a lot of problems come out of California because whatever starts out there happens to
work its way east. Well maybe if we build a wall high up.
If you listen to the recity, it's not a small city anymore. Well
true if you listen to the brand new independent media hero named Tucker Carlson.
Though, all we got to do is follow the Moscow frame of mind when
it comes to the grocery stores and everything else, because it did not open
up some people's eyes didn't. A lot of people that were really gung ho
on Tucker Carlson got their eyes open here just very recently. Well, I
hope they realized how stupid that was. I mean, but I don't think
they do, because it's like, oh, look this is only ten rubles
and wow, it's amazing. You can get a cart and you get your
you know, we had those things here for a lot of years. Tucker,
we put a quarter in, you know, not ten rubles, but
a quarter, and you know, and then he's like, oh, look,
you can get anything you want in one of these grocery stores. So
it's not the Soviet grocery store that we were told about. Yes, get
it, sure, but man, I don't I don't know. I don't
know what to say about this. I like the fact that Putin blasted him
afterwards, kind of going, you know, I'm not really sure what his
agenda was, but if that's like one of your top media people, wow,
that's sad. Pretty much, is what he said in his own language.
I had a whole thing I was going to play on the show,
but we're running low on time now. So yeah, because Putin turned around
and gave an interview afterwards describing it, He's like, I was waiting for
tough questions and he gave me no tough questions basically. And you know,
everybody that that prayed the alter of Tucker and now see that what he's capable
of. You know, when you put him out there, he's on his
own and he's trying to cover a store, create a story, and create
interest in it, and he flopped. So you know, hey, are
you Tucker fans you know, just keeping on? Well? You know how
it is, though, it's going to be like the people that are still
big fans of his are gonna pretty much that he can do no wrong.
You know, kind of kind of attitude is going to be there. It's
just gonna be there. They're not going to objectively view it. But I
just found it funny. I'm thinking to myself, Yeah, there's the solution.
According to Tucker Carlson, we'll just uh, we'll take up the Russian
model. Yeah, r there we go. We should be like Russia exactly.
So, Danny, I appreciate you calling in and anything else you want
to add before you what's that, I'm sorry I didn't hear what you said.
Yeah, go ahead. Oh I thank you for having me look.
Absolutely always good to hear from you. And I love hearing about as somebody
who lives in California as opposed to us just talking about it from a second
hand kind of point of view. I have no problem. I can I
can take it. I got pril Fick skin. As a matter of fact,
I'm fourth generation and my grandchildren are sixth generation. I kind of I
bleed California. I'll take the good and the bad. There you go,
and I'll tell you again, nothing more diverse, you know, from a
from an ecological standpoint, I mean, the different you got deserts, you've
got, you know, farmland, you've got uh you know, serious,
big city, you got every kind of landscape in California available to you.
It's just again, it's just like like it is on the coasts, very
expensive. Well I would say that, I would say that California is the
United States most diverse state. Yeah, in in what you've got. North
Carolina's a close second. From the mountains to the coast. You know what
you see here, californ has got I mean, they're the king of it.
From one extreme to the other. It's a great state. But the
politics and the left out there have just created such a hard living condition on
people that just want to be left alone. I mean, when your government
starts mandating that you have to have a gender neutral toy section at Christmas time
in your stores, because boys and girls are confused as to what they like,
you know, and we can't push anything on them. So they didn't
want little Billy to have to have trouble finding in the barbies, and they
didn't want little Susie having trouble to find the toy work bench. So we're
just going to mandate that. I mean, government out there has gotten ridiculous
in the mandates that they're throwing on people, and why can't they just leave
people the hell alone. Well, I think you're making a really good point
because what you what you sell into is the trap that you got us all
fighting about something that's kind of nonsensical instead of this fighting about real issues that
really do matter to every day here being, I think majority of people are
smart enough they can figure what they're gonna buy for their kids. They're absolutely
that kid is going to tell that pair in a thousand times what they want.
I mean, remember the oldest Seers catalog wish book. You know,
those things got doggy. They looked at, you know, by five kids
in the family every day for a month before Christmas, Mom and dad pretty
much knew what little billy little Susie wanted for Christmas. And exactly my mother
caught me looking at the women's underwear section, so you know what direction I
was going there. Absolutely, Hey, that's not a bad thing there.
But yeah, the catalog are all gone though, I mean, and in
our kind of age group, or my age group anyway group, you know,
it's what they blasted us with on TV that everybody wanted and nowadays it's
what the kids see online or what they play during the YouTube videos. I
guess that makes them want different things. And the kids always know what they
want. And I don't think it's got anything to do with gender or anything
else. It's got to do with what the hell the kid wants. Yeah,
so no, this is one of those things that's absolutely unnecessary. But
agreed, Danny, it's always about getting us fighting about things that don't really
matter, or that we can't actually affect, or that should not be even
legislated. Let's argue about that stuff because that way they can continue to get
away with doing all these other things that are highly profitable for everybody except guess
what, we the people. So you know, there it is. It's
profitable for the very few to keep us fighting about things that don't necessarily even
make sense. And that's the beauty of it all. That's why propaganda and
the political system continues to thrive because we never do turn and focus on the
stuff that really matters, that can actually be affected, you know. So,
But anyway, like I said, it's one of those issues where and
I've talked to plenty of people from California, You're like, you know,
I love this place. Everything up. Matter of fact, you know Aaron
Franz from California, he'll be up next. And you know, it's just
look, people love it there, and they don't necessarily love everything that goes
on there. But what are you gonna do? Man, It is a
unique part of the country, and you're definitely the most diverse. I mean,
I didn't even mention the mountains of the forest, but those are huge
topographical features. I mean, I don't know. I think it's great.
I did not enjoy living in Los Angeles though, I'll tell you I hated
that, but you know, I went there with a purpose in mind.
It didn't work out. I don't hold it against the state, but it
just, you know, it was like I don't belong in Los Angeles,
never did, never will. So it was like it was from another planet.
Danny. I'm sorry, it just was Los Angeles is like otherworldly.
I'll give you an example. I've spent a lot of time in La I
get it. Yeah. Yeah, this is a story that I heard just
this past week. Sequoia trees, the huge sequoia trees out there. Some
of those trees are older than dirt, and yet they've had a lot of
wildfires out there. Sequoia trees, giant sequoias are able to replicate themselves,
but they have to have fire to do it. You get these brush fires
going through there, and the heat causes cones to open. There's sections now
where they're gone out there after these most recent fires, and the floor of
the forest around these trees a sea of green. It looks like carpet.
And it's these new sequoia trees that have come up from all these seeds that
got dropped in the last burn event. And it's something that's going on since
the beginning of time. But you have groups of people that are now complaining.
These scientists are out there trying to take these transplants and move them to
areas to help increase the amount of giant sequoias out there, but you've got
groups that are protesting this going. Well, you're not keeping it pure.
You know, you're taking seedlings from eight or nine miles away that may have
a little bit of different genetic makeup than the trees where they're moving them.
You know, forget the argument that having diversity in a species like that allows
it to be able to thrive. And so they're trying to get this program
going where they can transplant these things and help keep the natural resources out there
that California has become famous for. And you actually have people that are protesting
the damn thing because you might get a tree ten miles away brought over here
and no, we can't do that. We have to keep things pure.
It's gotten to where you can't even plant a damn tree without getting into a
government fight over trying to save something that not anywhere else in the world has.
It's amazing. Well, the amazing part is is I think the bottom
line with that, the complexity of California, the attorneys have to eat.
They've got to find somebody, you know. I think they get together to
have these fights, because this goes on all over the place, even in
my own community, and it seems like they will argue about anything, doesn't
matter how trivial it is. It becomes one big, blown up government get
battle. Yeah, and I think it's a lot of factions. I think
it's like I said, attorneys have to eat. I think they kind of
get together and they collaborate to have a fight and have lawsuits. And that
seems to be the you know, we try to get you know, we
got housing issues here. If we want to have low income housing, you
know, they'll they'll set it up, there'll be a fight, there'll be
a lawsuit, and they don't get anything done, and it's just the problem
doesn't get any better. Well, I think that the quickest way for me
to start gaining more respect for the state of California is if you guys would
do something to get to put Adam Shift into working in a subway and get
him out of politics. I'm not an Adam Shift, then I'm probably maybe
politically economics and foreign policy the left of Adam Shift. But he he is
a he is a bold I can go on. He is a bold face
wire. You took the words right out of my mouth. I have it.
He kept on, you know, with the whole rush of Gate,
I've got secret intelligence. I've seen the intelligence. And he never came out
of proof. Matter of fact, I went and read the testimony when he
had Sean Henry of Cloud Strike, and it was I think the third twenty
ninth it's thirty second page. Sean Henry admitted he did not know who hacked
the DNC, So right there, I mean, and he sat on that
information. I am not voting for him. I'm I understand it well.
I understand that he's leading in the polls for was it Barbara Boxers? Barbara
Boxer, who's Diane Feinstein for her seat? Understanding he's kind of leading in
that there's two there's two Senate seats going up. There's there's Diane Findsights,
and there was Padilla who's not running again. The grace will be is Adam
shipped, the liar Steve Garvey, the Republicans a white theater. And then
there's Katie Porter and Barbara Lee. Now, Barbara Lee, I have a
lot of respect because she had more courage on September fourteenth, two thousand and
one, after nine to eleven, She's the only one that stood up and
said, let's cool, her heads prevail before we give the president full immunity
of full app action to take military action. And she had the only guts
and more balls than any man in that in that house. Mm hmm.
Katie Porter, why do I know that name? What is she? She's
the white board. She gets the whiteboard up and she kind of takes down
corporate executives. Okay, I'll take her over. I'll take her over Adam's
ship, and I definitely take Barbara Lee. Mm hmm. Katie Porter's whiteboard
has a Twitter account. By the way, sometimes she gets me laughing.
Sometimes she's pretty funny. Yeah, well, I don't know. I I
agree with you on Barbara Lee, but then I have to look at uh
on what's her name? Oh crap, what is her? Now? Who's
the black woman from is it? Is it l A No, that would
be Maxine Waters? Maxine Waters. Yes, thank you for fully steen her
upon us over the years. Well she's you know, you know, we
complained about these politicians, but they seem to keep always getting reelected. Yeah,
don't thank you. Really wonder how though, I mean some of the
things that she has said over the years, and I'm thinking, you know,
the area that she represents, are they all like that? How does
she keep getting so I just think she's been there so long that she's just
got it. She's got a stranglehold on the money. She's another one.
Dirk Claude, the first chance I got. Yeah, wow, all right,
then, well there you go, Danny. I thank you for calling
in though. It's great to hear from you. We got less than ten
minutes left so I'm gonna put you on hold, but definitely great to hear
from you on the show. I appreciate it. I know we were about
ready to go back around advance before and now we're on time. So let's
see and anybody else he wants to call in. I mean, you got
a couple of minutes left, but you're not going to get in a lot
vance anything you heard there in California in that discussion, Hey, you're in
the state that everybody pits against California, right. All the people that are
leaving California are going to Texas apparently. Yeah, And then I've been reading
and seeing some articles lately about a lot of people that decided to go back,
you know, so I'm like, okay, and I don't care,
you know, I'm you know, if you're bringing your Yeah, did you
know Austin's supposedly all screwed up and stuff, And that's just the the materialistic
aspect of all. It's like you you know, you're saying La and those
places, and and just like here in Texas and I'm in Casterville and it's
a whole different kind of you know, vibe than it is. And then
you know, in San Antonio. I can just go utter twenty you know,
miles up the road and find that vibe or whatever. But so,
you know, but that's what they focus on in the media, is all
this, you know, they create all this havoc and these you know,
designated areas that they've you know, you know, be peached starting out this
morning that the show earlier about you know, his you know, little monologue,
and I repeat again, you know it sounds like b peats. You
know, it's that you know, the difference between the libertarian and an anarchist.
There's two more election cycles. So I posted, I posted a link
in the chat to an article about the global private public public private partnership,
which is the hierarchy of you know, how all these policies and stuff were
you know, it comes from people that aren't elected and that you know,
along with the corruption, like I said, the monopolization of everything and the
commodification of everything, your information and you know, the whole thing, they're
able to control society this way and and you know, telling this enough of
us you know understand it that you know, how is it that you know,
why is the world so screwed up? Now? When you got these
you know, United Nations and world economic bombs and their whole thing is to
save humanity from itself. And you know what are they doing. They're just
driving it off the bucking cliffs. So exactly fascism. Ye now see what
you just wait a minute. You just made an excellent point. And this
is something I tried to point out to some family members not long ago.
When you hear public private agency or or group think fascism, fascism, because
that's exactly what it is. When the government and private industry start colluding together,
that's fascism. Now, when the when the the public part of the
public entity of that decides to go, well, well, the when the
private entity of that, the businesses that think tanks the groups decide we need
to do this in the government says no, you we don't agree to that.
So our public private partnership is about to fall and we'll just take you
over. You've gone that extra step into communism. People around here don't understand
that this public private partnership is nothing more than fascism, plain and simple.
Is the government and business colluding to affect the populace, and fascism is mani
faceted thing. It doesn't. You know, it doesn't have to be you
know, Holocaust and you know, death camps and stuff. But you know,
oh absolutely not, absolutely not. But you're just one step away from
communism. I mean that's the only difference between the two. Communism fascism you
can have, you know, fascistic communism. It's you know, it's all
the same. It's all collectivism versus individualism. And so you can call it
whatever you want now, you know, in my opinion, you know,
fascism is the extreme version of all the collectivism and and and uh you know
that we're basically just you know, feeding this machine that is destroying us.
Yeah, they have it. We need to do something to the machine.
Yeah. There, I put diesel in a gasoline powered engine. Let's just
screw it up from get going. If it can't work, well come up
with something new. And that's what gives me. You know, we started
this country rebelling against England. I mean we were Rabel ralph Or, we
were insurrectionists, oh my god. And in the minute we've become a country,
we make it illegal to be an insurrectionist. Go figure. Indeed,
well, good talking to all y'all, and I'll let you go into the
next color. There you go. So thanks for calling, Vince. Appreciate
you, that's for sure. And uh yeah, so what else could we
say? Well, there's only about four minutes left, so b Pete,
should we go back around to Harlan? What should we do here? Uh
yeah, grab Harlan real quick and then we'll just things up and we can
you can move on into the into Aaron show. There you go. So
coming up next on the stream here will be the Age of Transitions with Aaron
Franz Live Autochelli dot com. And uh yeah, so you guys, go
ahead, Harlan, you're you're getting the last word tonight from the callers.
Anyways, it's good to be here real quick. I'd like to say that
BP must not been to Bakersfield in many years, because it wouldn't be the
first place i'd pick, or Tern County in general. They would arrest you
if I had a mask on out there a few years ago. And if
it came between you know, moving up the East coast, even five mile
up the road to Virginia from my house, I'd find somewhere in California.
Well that's the choice today, And I'm just saying I've been there plenty of
times. But I hope everybody has a good weekend, being good being here,
and I'll jump off from here in case you boys want to add something
else before you kick over the Iron Show. There you go. Thanks again,
Harland, thanks to Vance, and also thanks to Danny for calling in.