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Speaker 1: The following presentation is Del Marvis Studio's production. You're listening

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to the fact Hunter Radio Network. Here is your host,

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Doeuge Hobbs. Welcome back truth seekers from around the world.

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It's time for another edition of the fact Hunter podcast.

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As we record on this Sunday, February, the first twenty

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twenty six of very cold wedintry day. It felt like

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negative three this morning, very cold weather. We had a

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decent turnout at church. Many churches around where I live

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didn't even open today, but ours was and we had

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a decent little turnout. We had a great message, and

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I just hope everybody's doing well. We are certainly living

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in interesting times. It's nothing to be afraid of, but

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certain things you should be wary of today. You know,

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I have a bunch of these subjects that I wanted

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to talk about, but you know, the schedule's been crazy,

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the weather, this, that and the other thing. So just

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if I have an opportunity a free hour or ninety

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minutes or even a half an hour in some cases,

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I'd like to just sit down at the record button

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and get the message out. It's something I've been working on. Right.

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We often say that certain events have to transpire for

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them to get to their endgame, which is the Beast

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system right where you can, you know, have to buy

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into their system if you're going to be able to

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buy and sell and live. Otherwise you know you're going

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to have a very persecuted life, right. They couldn't really

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execute COVID until they had a lot of that technology

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in place. All of these things, you know, are generational planning.

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And I just took a look back. It's February the first,

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which is hard to believe. January's already gone. Christmas was

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like five weeks ago already, but just in the short

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I guess next month it'll be six years since the

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scamdemic happened, which even that in itself is insane to

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think it's been six years. But just to prove a

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point here, how they can normalize certain things that even

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ten years ago you couldn't even imagine. Now, obviously, some

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of these things that I'm going to point out today

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hit a little harder than others. And there's a list

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of twenty that I came up with. And by the way,

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at the end, I want to talk about a few

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things that are interesting and kind of a sneak peek

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working up to the Charlie Kirk episode. And here's one

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of the quandaries I'm having with that is, many of

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the things that I want to talk about, I feel

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they require video, So I don't know if I'm going

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to do an audio video episode. I'm still kind of

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floating some things around because the more that we have

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dug into things, the less things make sense. If that

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in itself makes sense. But even some of the things

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I initially believed, I'm not so sure I believe them anymore.

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You know, if you google what a thirty eight six

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does just to a pumpkin or something like that, it

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you know quite a distance. There's so many things in play.

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The way you never want to judge someone because everybody

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handles death differently, but there's just been too many red

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flags with Erica, and you know, I'm trying to be

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careful with that how to present it. There are so

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many things involved with this. The one thing I wanted

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to take away since September the tenth of twenty twenty

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five was not to hold Charlie on a pedestal, but

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the the what was supposed to have been the heart

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of the movement, which was faith in Christ But you

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know some of the things, I'll mention it at the

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end of the show. It kind of turns your stomach.

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It does me how they have taken this and ran

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with it, made a money machine out of it, and

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it's just difficult to swallow. But we're going to start

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today with we're going to talk about, you know, all

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of the things that shifted after twenty twenty, right, things

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that we would have never dreamed of, which is now, well,

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it's just the way it is now. And you hear

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that all the time. Right before twenty twenty, when you

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picked up food, you didn't tip, right, you tipped your

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delivery driver. But if you ordered a you know, a

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cheese steak and a side of fries and you went

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and picked it up, you paid whatever it costs for

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the food. But now everything, there's a tip request for everything.

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I took my grandchildren to the mall down in I

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think it's called a Arundel Mills Mall outside of Baltimore,

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and they like these little cookies that are like one

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cookies four fifty apiece macaroons I think they're called, right,

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and they want a tip for handing you cookies. And

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it's just these type of things that have become normalized

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post twenty twenty, But the playbook is always the same, Right,

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Crisis rules become default rules and a lot of temporary

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measures that turn into these permanent profit centers. And obviously

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it's more important than profit in their eyes. It's about control, right.

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so important to them, because all these things are stored

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in the cloud. Right. And here's another thing I thought about,

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are all these data centers really for AI or are

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they to store these digital conversations? Right. Somebody had messaged

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me last weekend and said, you need to go see

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this movie Mercy. He said, I believe this is coming

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a lot sooner than what people think. And my wife

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and I had some free time Friday after lunch and

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we went and saw it was only about ninety minute movie.

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And I thought the very first red flag was it

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was case number nineteen. Right. And there's that number nineteen again, right,

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COVID nineteen. All the numbers that we've seen associated with

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the number nineteen. Right. It's very interesting, but it's very

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minority report meets you know, AI, judge, jury and executioners. Interesting,

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But let's start with number one, remote life becomes a

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business model, not an emergency measure. Right Zoom and teams

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did not just normalize room meetings, they normalized remote everything.

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And I remember this back in twenty twenty when I

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saw the doctor, the VA had this special app on

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the phone and you could have a conversation with your doctor.

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All of these things had to happen to normalize it.

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And it's everything now, job interviews, doctor's visits, therapy, parent

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teacher conferences, even court appearances. Right, my son has us

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hooked on these police cam videos. And there was this

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guy who had a court appearance for driving with a

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suspended license and he was because you know they do

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it remote now, he was actually driving his car when

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the judge pulls him up for his suspended license case.

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you're telling me that you're seeing me about a suspended

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license and here you are on the phone, uh driving.

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But even of course we've talked about worship services. You

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know my thoughts on church. I think the technology is

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an important tool to have in the toolbox, but I

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don't think it's a great idea to you know, put

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on your pajamas and eat a bowl of cereal and

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watch church. I use it as a tool. I don't

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listen to music when I'm driving around. That's just me.

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I'm not telling you what you should do. I listen

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to certain passers, certain messages, certain audio books that have meaning.

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a good message, I'll go back and listen to it again.

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That's a tool. But to have it as your primary

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is not the greatest idea. And now listen, I get it.

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I get emails all the time. I can't find a church.

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I can't find a church. You can find one. It

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takes a lot of work. Sometimes it took me four years. Guys,

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it took me four years. But worship service and even

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family gatherings now I will just do it on zoom.

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So the bigger change is that being of available expanded,

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and the expectation is not just that you can work

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from anywhere. Think about this, it's you can be reached

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from anywhere. Right. And alongside that came the new home

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office with new overhead. Your power bill has gone up,

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your internet bill has probably gone up. Right, desk chare

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extra room. Many people absorbed the costs that employers used

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to absorb. Think about this. In nineteen eighty eight or

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eighty nine, I worked for Chase Manhattan Bank eight two

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Delaware Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware. They had a thirteen or

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fourteen story building that had indoor parking, a cafeteria. Think

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of the overhead that it costs that bank. Now most

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people who work for Wells Fargo Chase discover they work

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from home. All that overhead has shifted to the employee E.

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Where do you think that money goes that they used

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to spend on rent and everything else? It goes into

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their pocket. Remote work also made surveillance normal, right They

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track your time, screenshots, activity, monitors, always on camera culture.

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Why to normalize them spying on you? Okay? Number two

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contact lists? Right? Remember contactless deliveries?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: It turned into reduced human service. They don't want people

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mingling together. Why. What was the first rule of the

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Georgia guidestones, right? Keeping the population down? They want you

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home by yourself watching pornography. Right? Remember contactless started as

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health theater right. Now it's resulting in staffing cuts, less

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customer support. When's the last time you've seen a cashier

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you may see one, two, three, depending on where you live.

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And I makes you know, I'm nice about it. I

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try to be funny about it. But you know, when

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people come up and say something to me, I'll ask

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about employee discounts. What do you mean do you work here?

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I'm like, well, I'm I'm doing my own groceries. And

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what about the bags before twenty twenty? Let me ask

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you this, how many people remember paying for a bag?

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a bag. If you go to Redner's, it's ten cents

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a bag. Once again, who carries the bird? Now the customer? Right?

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You're still you can still buy things. But here's the problem.

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You can't easily speak to a human when something goes wrong.

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Like you know, we all have our different hobbies. I'm

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a radio guy. I was up till I lost track

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of time. I was up till one o'clock in the

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morning working on my new DMR radio. I was like,

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oh my goodness, I got to get to sleep. It's

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one o'clock. They get up at six. But you know

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most of these come from China, right The boofangs, the chaigus,

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even many of the things that have American names are China.

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have an issue, I got to email a guy in

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China and he's got to translate it and the whole thing.

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But it's the same here in the United States, right,

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you get less quality for more money. You pay more

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money and you get less quality, you get less food.

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and by the way, I'm not trying to turn this

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into a boomer episode, just me complaining. I'm just trying

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to point these things out. When they do I think

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of all the things, it does get frustrating because we

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really like to go to Texas Roadhouse, and we don't

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go out that much. I mean, we might go out

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to a restaurant once a month every now and then

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we'll hit the little delivery place down the street, but

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to actually go and sit down, we just don't do

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it much. We live in the sticks. We got to

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drive twenty thirty minutes everywhere we go. Church is twenty five, right,

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Low's is twenty five. Sam's Club's thirty. But you know

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I got chicken from and that's what I get for

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not getting a steak, right, But I got a chicken

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from Texas Roadhouse and it was medium rare. I didn't

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know that chicken case. It was terrible. I got pretty

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sick from it. I rolled the dice. But you know,

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it's just you know, self checkout. Like I was saying,

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the customer does labor, the store saves on payroll, and

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the customer gets watched like a suspect while doing unpaid work.

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This is the truth, right, and this pattern is everywhere kiosks,

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QR codes, app only coupons scanned to tip screens. Convenience

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is real, but it also trains you, right, that's the thing.

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It trains you to accept less human accountability. Number three,

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Delivery culture has become the default, and it has changed

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pricing psychology. You got your DoorDash, your Uber eats, instacart, right.

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They just didn't add a new option. What they did

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was they rewired what people consider normal paying higher menu prices,

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service fees, delivery fees, and then your tip. By the way,

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if you don't order an x amount, there's a small

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order fee. Right. By the way, we never ever use

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any of those things just mentioned. I know people who

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do that's their choice, right obviously, but it's crazy if

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you think about it. The average person now routinely pays

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thirty to seventy percent more for the same meal then

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they would have paid just six years ago. Now. You know,

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some people say, well, you don't really notice it because

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the charges are split into smaller prices. I don't agree

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with that. People see the end result. And you know,

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somebody was saying, it seems like just a minute ago

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you can get a four to ninety nine value meal

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at McDonald's, and now you know it's ten ninety nine

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or whatever. That's everywhere. It is just where we are now. Right.

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that you do not see the real price until the end. Right,

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that's a huge cultural shift, right, I think that what's

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the new term for that drip pricing?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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I'm gonna do it in the order I have it

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written down. Mass tipping, right, and what tipping was. And

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by the way, if you if you've never been to Europe,

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tipping doesn't exist in Europe. I remember getting too hungry

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and Croatia and Germany. You don't tip. It's just you

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don't tip. It's in their ways, it's their job. And

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over here again this mass tipping moved from gratitude to

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payroll substitution. Right tipping expanded into places that used to

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retail checkouts, even check out kiosks ask for tips in

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some cases. Again, it's not an accident. This is all.

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again risking or shifting. I should say, the risk from

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employee to customer. So in the old model, you tipped

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for direct personal service. Right In the new model, tipping

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is a guilt lever attached to a touch screen. It

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pushes customers to subsidize wages while companies preserve margins and

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keep base pay low. Right now, how about the subscription model.

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Everything is a subscription now, that's all post twenty twenty.

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of the first subscription services that started. And now that

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you know that the guy who started Netflix was related

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to now I'm having a brain fart. The guy who

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did the torches of freedom. A Burnez Right, the guy

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who founded Netflix was like Edward Burne's steptw nephew. Right,

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Burnees was his uncle, right psychology right X amount of

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dollars a month. Remember you used to get the DVDs

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in the mail, two of them, you'd pay for one,

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two or three. You'd watch them return them. You'd look

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in the mailbox and your DVDs would show up a

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few days later. But that was really that what I

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recalled the first subscription service, and then Blockbuster tried to

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emulate that before they went out of business. But subscriptions,

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it's everything now, Right. You used to pay for cable,

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your one bill, but now you have to have ESPN,

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have Hulu, you have to have Peacock, you have to

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have Apple on and on and on. Right, So instead

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of having one monthly bill for your entertainment, you've got ten. Right,

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you think about it, and if you have your PlayStation

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or the other one xbox right, software, entertainment, exercise, car features, printer,

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inc music, cloud storage, your ring, security camera. Right, And

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when you think about it, the normalization isn't just the

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subscription itself, it's dependence. Where have you heard this before?

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You don't really own it. When I order, by the way,

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old boomer here, I still order Blu rays. If there's

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something like They Live, I have it on Blu Ray.

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My wife wants to get that movie we just saw

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on Blu ray when it comes out, because when you

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watch it the first time, you're more invested in the story.

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But I like to go back, like with Contagion, and

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take notes and what did I miss? What's the true meaning?

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Investigate those things. What are they trying? What message are

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they subconsciously trying to get across to us? Right? But

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the biggest thing is you don't own it, right. I

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buy that movie, I own it, I have it right.

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I can bust out the the Blu ray player anytime

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and watch the movie. You pay for a subscription service,

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you stop paying, There goes the movie. Right. That's you

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will own nothing and be happy. It's the same. I

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wrote an article on substack two weeks ago about your property.

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You don't own your property, Yes I do, my house

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is paid off. Okay, then don't pay your property taxes

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for three years and tell me how that works out

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for you. You don't own it, right, And I think the

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psychological effect is a little heavier than what people realize. Right,

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A thousand small, Well, it's only four, it's only ninety nine,

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it's only twelve one nine. Right, Those charges create a

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life where your income is pre spent before the month

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even begins. And fees right, you know, I hear people

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complaining about concert I have not been to a concert

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and I can't tell you how long we went to

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the certain del soleat Beetle thing year, eight or nine

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years ago, I think, And you know, but to actually

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go to I never was a concert guy. And as

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bad as my tonight says, I'm thankful because I couldn't

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admit imagine it being any worse. But these convenience fees right,

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the ticketing adding more layers, the restaurants adding serve charges,

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and if you want to make a reservation, many of

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the restaurants in Lancaster, believe it or not, you have

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to use a thing called rezi rs y and they

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have charges right, online payment service fees, kitchen appreciation fees.

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of people posting these what is it like employee wellness fees?

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While you're going to cover my staff's insurance? Right again,

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a lot of it's the same story. The posted price

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is a suggestion. The real price, that's the surprise. Right.

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And you know number seven, paying for basic necessities got

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reframed as environmental virtue. Right. Again, this goes back to

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grocery bags. Charging for grocery bags is a good example

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because it was framed as a moral improvement. Right, just

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like those awful whoever came up with the paper straw

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You need to just go away. I'm sorry. Paper straws

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is the most discussed. I get very angry when I

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am sitting down with a friend. There's a place called

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the Green Turtle in Middletown, Delaware. We used to meet

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up for lunch once a month there. They're out of

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business now, but you know twenty twenty started and they

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brought up with our water and a paper straw, a

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paper straw in liquid genius, I tell you, right. But

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again it's framed its moral improvement. But again, in practice

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it operates as a quiet regressive fee, not huge, but

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it's constant. And again, once people accept paying for bags,

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it becomes the norm. Ten years from now, nobody will

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blink twice when they pay for their bags. Right. How

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about shrinkflation, right, became so common that it barely shocks

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anyone anymore. Packages got smaller, ingredients got cheaper. I'm not

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talking about price wise, I'm talking about quality wise. Quality dipped,

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but the prices continued to climb when you were getting

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lower quality and people noticed it first. I still do.

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I talk about it often. My wife, she hears about

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it all the time. Right, they now people just I

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think people are just adjusting their expectations downward, which is sad. Right,

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this is one of the most important normalizations since twenty

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twenty because it really touches our everyday life. It's not

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just economic. I do believe it is once again psychological conditioning.

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You are trained to accept less and you simply call

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it normal. And that's not the way it should be, right,

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That's not what we believed was the American way. This

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was a number nine is a big one to me.

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Service quality has declined. You want to talk about minimum

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effort in many cases, and I'm here to tell you

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it's not always the guy who you see, right. Maybe

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it's the guy serving you the food. Maybe it's the

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guy who's coming out to do a you know, who

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works for a big corporation a service carpet guy right

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coming out to clean your carpet, because I think these

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companies don't have nearly enough employees. The employees that we

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do see are taking on more than they can possibly handle. Right.

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So you know, now the customer is just expected to

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be understanding forever and tolerate everything. Right. And I do

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believe in twenty twenty, for the most part, even for truthers,

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those who could see people were patient. We gave them

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the benefit of the doubt for fifteen days. Right, long lines,

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reduced hours. You know, mom's sick in the hospital. Only

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one of us can go. We understood fewer staff people

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were sick. Right, slower service, we get it. Nobody wants

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to work right now and again, whether or not that

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slogan had truth in it, it functions as an excuse

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that protects the business from having to improve. And we

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have become an excused based country. It snowed, don't have

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to go to school, get on the computer. Right. You

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know how many snow days my daughter has had zero

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She still gets up and does her school. Right. Moving

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on number ten, supply chain problems, and this is a

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big one for me. I was a loggie. Right, I

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was a logistition. I understand how in twenty twenty six

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still feel it feels weird saying twenty twenty six that

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just in time ji t logistics. So for the business

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the least, I should say, the less amount of time

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that a product is on the shelf, the more it

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benefits the company. Right back in the day, the grocery

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stores in the fifties, sixties and seventies, they had to

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stock up their supplies. But now they have logistics. You know,

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computers can have it. So just as that last gown

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of milk is being sold at Walmart, the next batch

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is rolling in. Right. That's called just in time logistics.

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The problem with JIT logistics is that if there is

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a crack, it's very much like the airline industry. Right.

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So I'm a stewardess, a beautiful one at that. I

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leave Miami at six, I go to Atlanta at seven thirty.

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Then I have to be on the ten o'clock from

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Atlanta back and it's you know, they do three or

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four a day. If one of those flights gets delayed

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or canceled, then that stewardess can't get on the next flight.

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They don't have enough crew and that gets you see

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where I'm going with this, and that became a permanent

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explanation for problems. Right, and for a while we all

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remember in twenty twenty and here in Delaware, anytime there's

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even one to three inches of snow forecast that people

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will run by milk and eggs, milk, eggs and bread.

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It can be one inch. Everybody will freak out and

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apparently the only thing that can keep you alive during

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a snowstorm is milk, bread and eggs. But the normalization

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was that the supply chain became a catch all justification

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for price hikes, delays, reduced selections, which we still see today, right,

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even after the worst of the disruptions had passed. It

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created a new standard. Businesses can cite visible complexity and

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customers cannot verify it.

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Speaker 2: All.

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Speaker 1: Right, Moving on app dependence, Right, even many churches now

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have apps. You can tithe on it, you can watch

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the service on it, the service replay. They have prayer walls.

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The pastor can send out messages during the week. Right,

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that's one of the things we talk about, you know,

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double edged swords. These what is called app dependence. Right,

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it's really become the gate keeper of normal life. Right,

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to get the deal, you need an app. Right, every

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grocery store you have to have the app. I again

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went to that mall in Baltimore to see my grandchildren

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right before Christmas. All the free parking was gone. I

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had to pay for parkers. I was a dummy and

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I took my truck to Baltimore and I had to

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pay for it was ten bucks for the day, but

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I had to download an app. I had to scan

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the little sign in front of the parking spot. It's

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just ridiculous. Right, Loyalty programs are all part of the

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game because they are and will be a part of

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a digital tracking system that all plays into your social

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credit score. Right, QR codes have replaced menus and receipts

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went digital by default. This is the normalization of data

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extraction right now. We trade it for convenience, but the

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price that we pay is surveillance and something called behavioral profiling,

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identity checks, and paper culture expended in subtle ways, more verification,

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more account creation, more two factor prompts. Right to prove

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you are you? Sometimes it's justified by fraud, And I mean,

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how many of y'all if you're like me. I get

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ten spam calls a day. I get many emails a

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day saying my Norton anti virus is expiring, or my

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iCloud is expiring, or my email is expiring. Disheartening. How

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many scammers are out there that are looking to prey

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on people, That in itself kind of saddens me. It's

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like it says that many crooks out there, come on man, right,

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But really it's what it's about. Again. The deeper change

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here isn't security, it's fragility. Anyway, let's move to thirteen.

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Public health language became a template for policy enforcement. Okay,

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and listen, even if you took the politics out of it,

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the normalization is that emergency language can be used to

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justify rapid rule changes. And I told you that anytime

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the word emergency is used by politicians, you better be ready, right,

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no bid contracts are in place. Their buddies get rich,

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and it all comes at the cost of the little guy.

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If you do just a little research and see how

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many small businesses have closed over the last five years,

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it's devastating. And you want to talk about the greatest

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wealth shift in history, in history sixty five hundred years

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00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:58,599
happened on our watch just six years ago. It's sad, right,

472
00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:04,079
and again they use it to justify rule changes, enforcement

473
00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:10,759
right limitations that would have been questioned more aggressively before

474
00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:18,200
twenty twenty. But again, once people accept temporary, there's no

475
00:33:18,319 --> 00:33:21,079
going back. You can't put the rabbit back in the hole.

476
00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:25,680
You just can't. Number fourteen Medical and mental health shifted

477
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:33,200
toward tell everything telehealth Tell a friend is convenient and

478
00:33:33,319 --> 00:33:37,240
sometimes it can be helpful, but it can also once

479
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:43,920
again be normalized into shorter interactions algorithmic triage. You know,

480
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,680
we've talked about the shortage of nurses in the states,

481
00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:50,920
nas in this state, and you know, the medical industry

482
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,319
is very complicated because on the pharmaceutical side of it,

483
00:33:55,319 --> 00:34:00,319
it can be very inherently evil. We've discussed it many times.

484
00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:07,319
But when you depend on this telehealth, you're also risking

485
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:16,920
missing something major, cancer, something of the right. It's just

486
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:23,880
normalized medication management through quick visits, right, and his normalized

487
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:30,079
outsourcing care into apps. And you're all Number fifteen Education

488
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:36,480
to me, the you know now everything is taught on tablet.

489
00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:42,920
I listen. I am not opposed to technology. I love technology.

490
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,960
Everything in my office I'm sitting here. Even my old

491
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,639
eighties arcade cabinet's sitting over there with Joust on it. Right,

492
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,320
that's technology. My radio is technology. I'm all about it.

493
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,800
It's how it's executed. And you have to understand who

494
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,159
we putting in, what your children are studying, and the

495
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:09,719
Rockefellers and everyone since the nineteen you know, early nineteen hundred's,

496
00:35:10,119 --> 00:35:15,639
early twentieth century to today, they are trying to once again.

497
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:21,400
They want to dumb down the country. They don't want

498
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:26,119
your children asking questions. They want serfs. They want serfdom.

499
00:35:26,199 --> 00:35:30,239
They want people who obey the government without question. Okay,

500
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,960
but it all starts with the moral compass. It starts

501
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,840
with mom and dad raising the children correctly and understanding

502
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,760
you know, hey, Johnny, Hey, Jill, Susie, whoever.

503
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 4: You know.

504
00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: Authority can be respected, but if it crosses that line,

505
00:35:49,039 --> 00:35:53,519
it is your moral, spiritual obligation to stand up against it.

506
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,239
That's not what they teach at school. They have you

507
00:35:56,639 --> 00:36:00,920
pledge allegiance to a flag. They ring the bell every

508
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,920
fifty minutes, just like you know back in the day.

509
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,280
They don't have factories anymore. Right, But I think that's

510
00:36:07,639 --> 00:36:10,800
kind of what it was all about reacting to the bell, right, lunch, bell,

511
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,800
break bell, And that's what it was all about. Now,

512
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,760
obviously they're heading towards the final system. They have everybody

513
00:36:18,039 --> 00:36:22,599
behind a camera, behind a tablet, and education right, this

514
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:23,559
hybrid learning.

515
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: Right.

516
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: Nobody went to school this week in Delaware. I'm not

517
00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:30,239
saying it was good or bad. I'm not right. I'm

518
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,400
not the governor, I'm not the mayor, I'm not the

519
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:37,760
superintendent of the school districts. But they have lowered expectations.

520
00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:43,519
Schools and even colleges have integrated remote components, digital assignments.

521
00:36:46,119 --> 00:36:49,599
You know, once again, just like shopping, they have made

522
00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:53,719
parents become the teachers during lockdowns, during bad weather. They're

523
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,920
in charge to make sure their son and daughter gets

524
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,920
it right. Now, that side I don't have a huge

525
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,920
problem with, because you know how I feel about education

526
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,159
in itself. As I wrote in my sub stack, I

527
00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:06,239
believe it is the parent's responsibility. Right on that property

528
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,679
tax article, it's not my responsibility to pay for your

529
00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:16,000
child's education, just as it's not your responsibility to pay

530
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:21,480
for my child's education. Right. But once again, that is

531
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:25,239
the public school putting that on the parent and the

532
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:30,480
normalization is the expectation that education can be delivered like

533
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:36,920
content rather than information. Right, having a conversation, critical thinking skills,

534
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:40,239
and that does I'm here to tell you that plays

535
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,400
in a discipline, attention span, and you could argue social

536
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:51,440
development sixteen. We're almost there. Safety theater moved from airports, right.

537
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:55,360
That happened with nine to eleven, and it became every

538
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,239
day even to this day. Anytime we go to the

539
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:02,280
Dover Air Force Base to use the grocery store there

540
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,079
called the Commissary. There is a place where at off

541
00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:10,519
base Chinese restaurant my wife loves, so we'll grab some

542
00:38:11,599 --> 00:38:15,199
whatever fried rice and dumplings that she gets. And even

543
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,480
to this day, you know, when COVID happened, they put

544
00:38:17,519 --> 00:38:20,440
up this plexa glass with the speaker. To this day

545
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,880
it's still there. So it's normalized. Right, the directional arrows,

546
00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:29,960
the sanitation rituals, the signs, many of the signs are

547
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,639
still there. Many grocery stores still have the arrows on

548
00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:37,400
the ground. Right. Maybe they have faded, but you know what,

549
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:43,000
the mindset has stuck. Institutions learned that visible measures can

550
00:38:43,039 --> 00:38:46,880
replace meaningful measures. It is not about health, it's about

551
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:55,519
managing perception. Number seventeen. Corporate moral messaging became part of

552
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:58,920
branding and then faded, leaving distrust.

553
00:38:59,039 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 3: Right.

554
00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:04,599
Speaker 1: Remember all the companies became loud about values and causes

555
00:39:05,679 --> 00:39:08,320
and then they went quiet when it stopped paying. Right,

556
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:14,360
people are starting to pick up on that, right, and

557
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,360
if you've noticed, many of the companies have gone away

558
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,280
from it. Right because many of those companies who took

559
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:28,880
up causes that weren't inherently authentic. People turned their back

560
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,239
on those companies. You know, we could say target right.

561
00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:36,400
They were falling into fiscal collapse and they started stepping

562
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:41,239
away from the wokeism, the bud light, and then they

563
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,159
had to hire all these famous people to save them.

564
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:48,039
The man you know, Peyton Manning and whoever that guy

565
00:39:48,079 --> 00:39:52,000
with the tattoos on his face. He's a singer or something.

566
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:59,800
But that's what it's about. Right. We remember twenty twenty,

567
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:04,360
and it's incredible that we were alive during that year

568
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,719
because you had the nation shut down and then three

569
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:16,519
months later you had cities burning. It was quite a time.

570
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,559
And here we are almost next month will be six

571
00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:27,360
months since that happened, and we're still talking about the changes. Right.

572
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,039
Number eighteen. The economy has normalized and this kind of

573
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:34,320
goes hand in hand with what we talked about earlier.

574
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:40,679
But high price, low stability, right inflation. I mean, we

575
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,800
are closing in on why more conditions with you know,

576
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:56,079
your dollar goes nowhere anymore. Right, rate hikes, layoffs, the

577
00:40:56,159 --> 00:41:04,519
housing instability, and they're doing everything to protect you know,

578
00:41:04,559 --> 00:41:09,239
it's a they want to contract in New York City.

579
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,800
That dude wants to tell homeowners how much they can

580
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,360
charge rent. That's not how it works. That's not how

581
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,639
a free economy works. Right. Grocery bills through the roof.

582
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,559
That's why we don't get our meat at the commissary

583
00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:27,199
on Dover Air Force Base. But we get some produce

584
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,400
and some canned goods and seeds for the birds. By

585
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:38,519
the way, man, I feed birds cats. I want to

586
00:41:38,519 --> 00:41:42,400
claim these birds and cats on my taxes this year

587
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,400
because I think we have two thirds of the birds

588
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,920
in Delaware come out every morning. We get big thing

589
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,760
of seeds. And we have a woodpecker that'll peck on

590
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,599
the top of my house if I don't, if I'm

591
00:41:52,599 --> 00:41:55,599
not out there by seven am with his food, he

592
00:41:55,679 --> 00:42:02,800
pecks on my house. But that's really, it's incredible what's

593
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:07,400
going on. And again I think that's part of the shift, right,

594
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,880
this deep change that we're seeing. This is all long

595
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,039
term planning, right, and I think people are defaulting to

596
00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:21,960
shorter horizons. They're acquiring much more debt than they want to.

597
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:30,760
You can see the stress in people's lives and it's

598
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,280
just interesting. Last two I got to get going here,

599
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,880
But social life. Do you remember always to be social

600
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,840
back in the day, and all of you who are

601
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,239
my age or older, remember Saturday nights you were at

602
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,280
somebody's house playing pee knuckle or having a potluck dinner

603
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,440
or that has just gone by the wayside. Now part

604
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:56,719
of it is just because of the entertainment value. Right

605
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,360
when I was growing up, I was in a house

606
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,400
with a black and TV. Now we had a color

607
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,599
TV upstairs on the porch, but we had two TVs

608
00:43:03,679 --> 00:43:06,800
in the house. Now everybody has a device in their

609
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,599
hand that they can watch whatever they want. And we

610
00:43:09,639 --> 00:43:13,159
didn't have Wi Fi. You know, we could play backgammon,

611
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,239
we could play chess, read the newspaper. But people were

612
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:23,320
more social and the last six years, social life has

613
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:30,440
shifted toward isolation and being entertained instead of us being entertaining,

614
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,920
and I think that has drawn out a lot of personality.

615
00:43:34,639 --> 00:43:37,639
And I'm not picking here, right, we're all this generation. No,

616
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,840
but you do notice that the younger children up today

617
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,960
are more quietly, are more reserved, not as outgoing as

618
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,960
you and I used to be. That is not across

619
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,840
the board, every single one, obviously, but I think most

620
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,599
of you could look me in the eye and give

621
00:43:51,599 --> 00:43:54,360
me a little north south. Yes, yeah, I agree. Right,

622
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,920
people go out less, people host less, socialized in more

623
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,400
controlled environments. Even me and my family, we have made

624
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,559
it a concerted effort over the last year to go

625
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:10,920
out and interact with people more. If the local church

626
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,920
down the street is if we don't go there, if

627
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,320
they're having a spaghetti dinner or whatever, we go, we go.

628
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:22,159
And we're trying to show our children that, look, go

629
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:26,039
out interact with people. It's very good for the heart,

630
00:44:26,039 --> 00:44:28,599
it's good for the soul, and it's good for the mind. Right,

631
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,840
But that's not what they want. They want controlled environments,

632
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,280
and that's what laptops and iPads and all that do. Again,

633
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,559
they're great to have, they're great tools, but don't be

634
00:44:38,599 --> 00:44:42,000
consumed by them. Right, Some people just feel happier. I

635
00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:46,519
have a community online, right, But I think that can

636
00:44:46,599 --> 00:44:49,960
lead to loneliness too. It can lead to inwardness. And

637
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,039
everybody's different. And again I'm not telling anybody how to

638
00:44:53,079 --> 00:44:58,000
live their life, but there is a way you could

639
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,400
look at it. That normalization is that isolation is not

640
00:45:02,519 --> 00:45:04,679
seen as a crisis or a problem, but it's seen

641
00:45:04,679 --> 00:45:10,800
as a lifestyle. And lastly, you know everything is a

642
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:20,159
scam is mainstream and I think that might be the

643
00:45:20,199 --> 00:45:26,000
most fact hunter friendly point. Right. Since twenty twenty, when

644
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:32,039
this podcast began, people have watched narratives change fast, rules flip,

645
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:40,039
experts disagree, and institutions care only about protecting themselves. You

646
00:45:40,159 --> 00:45:50,440
adding crypto financial collapse, influencer fraud, corporate price games, grocery

647
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,440
store prices going through the roof, property taxes going through

648
00:45:54,480 --> 00:46:01,960
the roof, political theater, absolutely embarrass saying presidents tell you

649
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,360
to get vaccinated or you're gonna have a winner of death.

650
00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:16,159
Wake up. You're being managed, you're being compartmentalized, you're being

651
00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:20,480
sold a bill of goods based on lies. They are

652
00:46:20,559 --> 00:46:26,679
trying to manipulate you constantly, right, And that type of

653
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,519
thing reshapes behavior, and that's probably why you're listening to

654
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:33,760
this podcast right right now, right, you have less trust

655
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,599
for their government. I know some of you still hold

656
00:46:36,639 --> 00:46:38,920
on to hope that just maybe, just maybe Trump might

657
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:46,119
be a good guy, right Psalms one eighteen eight, Just

658
00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:50,880
remember that. Okay, before we go, I'm going to play

659
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,800
a couple clips for you. The first one is Jack Hibbs.

660
00:46:55,840 --> 00:47:00,199
He is the senior pastor at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills

661
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,119
and the founder of Real Life Ministry. If I remember correctly,

662
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,039
I think this guy's life was in that movie. I

663
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:09,159
think he was with Lonnie Frisbee, part of that Jesus

664
00:47:09,559 --> 00:47:13,480
Revolution in the seventies. But this gentleman has had a

665
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:18,199
also reported has had a long or had a long

666
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,760
standing friendship with Charlie Kirk that went you could say,

667
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:28,400
well beyond casual. Right. He appeared on his podcasts, spoke

668
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:33,119
publicly about praying with him, mentoring him, and if you

669
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,000
recall what Charlie said in the Last Days calling out

670
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:41,880
Israel and all of that, and then listen, this is

671
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,840
again Pastor Jack Hibbs, who by the way, has over

672
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,719
a million subscribers. This is a two minute clip of

673
00:47:49,679 --> 00:47:53,199
you Can't question Israel and be a Christian. It's heart.

674
00:47:53,639 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 5: This is good news. This is an amazing indicator of

675
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:00,440
the last days. The true Church of Jesus Christ, the

676
00:48:00,559 --> 00:48:04,960
true believers will be friends of Israel, will pray for Israel,

677
00:48:05,119 --> 00:48:08,280
will reach out to Israel to lead Israel to Christ

678
00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:13,000
because Book of Romans Chapter two, begining verse twenty six

679
00:48:13,199 --> 00:48:17,800
out to about verse thirty. Romans Chapter two tells us

680
00:48:18,039 --> 00:48:21,280
that a true Jew is someone who's been circumcised in

681
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,159
the heart, and that we are to be people who

682
00:48:24,199 --> 00:48:27,760
provoke the Jews to jealousy in that we know their Messiah,

683
00:48:28,519 --> 00:48:32,840
God came to this world as a Jew. He's coming

684
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,599
back as a resurrected man. Jesus Christ not only the

685
00:48:37,679 --> 00:48:40,320
King of kings and the Lord of lords, but he's

686
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,639
Jesus Christ, King of the Jews. His throne will be

687
00:48:44,679 --> 00:48:48,960
in Jerusalem, the Jewish capital, in the nation of Israel,

688
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,440
the Jewish state, and he will sit upon the throne

689
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:57,199
of David, an amazing Jewish musician and warrior and king.

690
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:02,199
All this rhetoric you're hearing, get pumped. We're in the

691
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:03,000
last days.

692
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: It's got to go this way.

693
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:05,639
Speaker 2: Listen.

694
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 5: If your church is not pro Israel, it's not a church.

695
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,039
If your church is not pro Israel and pro reaching

696
00:49:14,079 --> 00:49:16,480
the Jewish people with the love of God, you're not

697
00:49:16,599 --> 00:49:20,440
in a New Testament church. You're actually attending a fraud.

698
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,679
It's fraudulent. Get up, get out, And if you have

699
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:28,119
any doubts about this, read the Seven Letters to the

700
00:49:28,159 --> 00:49:32,239
Seven Churches that Jesus gave us in the Book of Revelation.

701
00:49:33,159 --> 00:49:36,519
Please do that. But by all means, pray for the

702
00:49:36,559 --> 00:49:40,440
peace of Jerusalem. And when you find a Jew, hug them.

703
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,960
Tell them that you're praying for them, and that Jesus Christ,

704
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,039
according to Proverbs thirty verse four, is the Son of

705
00:49:48,079 --> 00:49:52,440
God to the Jewish people.

706
00:49:52,559 --> 00:49:55,639
Speaker 1: See, that's a very mixed message. Number One, New Jerusalem

707
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:59,239
comes is down from Heaven. Jesus isn't coming to the

708
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:04,559
Middle East. Okay, get that right. Please read Revelation twenty one,

709
00:50:05,079 --> 00:50:09,760
verse two. Right, I saw the Holy City New Jerusalem

710
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:14,000
coming down from God out of heaven. And then it's interesting,

711
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:17,280
he says, read Revelations the Seven Letters, Revelation two nine

712
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,599
and three nine, and times people will claim they are Jews,

713
00:50:20,599 --> 00:50:26,320
but they're not there liars. That's all of these people

714
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,679
involved in turning point. USA will throw half truths at

715
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:34,559
you half truths. By the way, George Zen, if you

716
00:50:34,599 --> 00:50:37,639
remember him who claimed to have shot Charlie Kirk, do

717
00:50:37,639 --> 00:50:40,800
you remember, right after the incident happened, the old guy

718
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:45,000
yelling I did it, I did it, the distraction just

719
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:49,519
two minutes after his assassination. He was sentenced to fifteen

720
00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:54,159
years in prison for obstructing justice and two counts of

721
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,880
possession of child porn. And as you know, the joke

722
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,599
in DC, anytime they want to get rid of somebody,

723
00:50:59,639 --> 00:51:03,639
what are they do? And in a day and age

724
00:51:03,639 --> 00:51:06,280
where everything is electronic and there's AI, you can be

725
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:10,400
framed and be considered a garbage human being and tossed

726
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,000
away for the rest of your life. George Zinn will

727
00:51:13,039 --> 00:51:17,119
no doubt be, in my mind, die in jail, or

728
00:51:17,159 --> 00:51:20,960
he'll just be an old man forgotten because they controlled

729
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,800
the narrative. They're not going to give a microphone to

730
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:28,400
this guy in fifteen years, right, Zen, on many accounts

731
00:51:28,639 --> 00:51:33,559
on alternative media, was said to have told hospital staff

732
00:51:33,599 --> 00:51:36,360
that he was paid to cause a distraction and say

733
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,079
that he shot Charlie. But we never found out who

734
00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:41,840
he was supposedly paid by. And remember this was the

735
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:50,119
same guy who was at other events. Interestingly enough, another

736
00:51:50,199 --> 00:52:01,480
pastor who is involved with Turning Point USA is Greg Laurie. Now,

737
00:52:01,519 --> 00:52:04,760
actually Greg Laurie, I apologize. I think Greg Laurie was

738
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,800
the guy who was involved in the Jesus Revolution Friends

739
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,480
with Lonnie Frisbee, which we did a podcast on I

740
00:52:12,519 --> 00:52:16,400
think two years ago, and his church, Harvest Christian Fellowship.

741
00:52:18,519 --> 00:52:22,599
They towards the end of twenty twenty five were facing

742
00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:30,760
several high profile federal lawsuits that alleged negligence, child trafficking violations,

743
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,599
and upwards of a two decade long cover up. Right,

744
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:41,000
and again, these people are directly involved with Turning Point USA.

745
00:52:41,199 --> 00:52:44,119
Greg Laurie, Yeah, he was the guy who was involved.

746
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,320
He was the topic of the Jesus Revolution, from that

747
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:53,320
twenty twenty three movie Friends with Lonnie Frisbee, the whole

748
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:59,000
seventies movement in southern California. But again in twenty twenty

749
00:52:59,039 --> 00:53:02,599
five law all suits were filed against Laurie and Harvest

750
00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:09,360
Christian Fellowship Church in regard to you know, let's just say,

751
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:14,639
crimes against humanity to those under eighteen at an orphanage

752
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:23,239
in Romania. Now, this is where it gets really interesting.

753
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:29,800
Where's my notes. Yeah, we already talked about Romania. Oh

754
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:30,519
here it is.

755
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:32,119
Speaker 4: So.

756
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: I think Eric Kirk's nonprofit was called Everyday Heroes Like You,

757
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:47,320
and that played into Romania as well. They pulled during

758
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:51,800
my search, they pulled all of their tax returns off

759
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:56,760
the internet. They have been tax exempt since two thousand

760
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,639
and nine, so there should be even if they haven't

761
00:53:59,639 --> 00:54:02,760
filed last year's there should be fourteen or fifteen years

762
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:07,320
worth of tax returns on pro Publica. They are missing.

763
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,599
And I'm not the first person to say this. There

764
00:54:10,639 --> 00:54:12,760
are a few other people, not any big sites, but

765
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,119
a few smaller sites like myself, who have pointed this

766
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:20,760
out that they, whoever they are not the good guys,

767
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,559
have pulled and hid all the evidence that has to

768
00:54:24,559 --> 00:54:29,599
do anything with this orphanage in Romania. More on that,

769
00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:34,679
I'd like to close. If you have as this podcast

770
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,880
comes to an end today, I'd invite you to go

771
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:46,800
to Turning Point USA's homepage and you'll see that they

772
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:51,880
are selling a book called Stop in the Name of God,

773
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:59,239
Why Honoring the Sabbath will Transform your life? You know

774
00:55:00,559 --> 00:55:07,079
that is a work it should honor Christ. I have

775
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:11,639
not read the book, but on their homepage you know

776
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:16,519
they're saying it's the last book Charlie wrote. This is

777
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:21,599
a money machine that is ran by people who pretend,

778
00:55:23,119 --> 00:55:26,960
you know, turning point Usay, I'm sure they passed out Bibles,

779
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,880
but if you saw them, they passed out hats more

780
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:34,000
than they did Bibles. Delivered a lot of half truths.

781
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:42,679
And I'm still not convinced about Charlie's demise. Still have

782
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:44,400
a lot of pondering thinking to do. And I'm not

783
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,239
sure that's the most important thing because we know all

784
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,119
the world's of stage. So I don't think anybody in

785
00:55:50,119 --> 00:55:53,239
this audience should or would be shocked if that were

786
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,239
the case, right, But we'll see, We'll continue to ponder.

787
00:55:57,639 --> 00:56:01,239
I did have one more piece of audio before we go.

788
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,760
This audio was eleven days I think after Charlie was killed.

789
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:15,000
This was like September the twentieth and Erica. Again, I

790
00:56:15,079 --> 00:56:25,320
get we all are different, right, but I know that

791
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:29,480
you know, if my wife passed, folks, there wouldn't be

792
00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:34,280
a podcast for some time. I couldn't get past the

793
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:39,760
first minute. Again, everybody grieves differently, But to put on

794
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:46,440
a show, the show must go on. No, No, especially

795
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,400
not when you're asking for money. I want you to listen.

796
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,280
This is three minutes and this is ten days after

797
00:56:52,519 --> 00:56:55,440
you know, the person she loves the most on this

798
00:56:55,519 --> 00:56:56,880
earth has passed away.

799
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 6: Hi, everybody, I still of all these emojis, zoom things.

800
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 7: Wow. I don't even know where to begin.

801
00:57:09,559 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 6: The fact that we were able to pull off.

802
00:57:13,679 --> 00:57:18,039
Speaker 7: An event of a century, like it's just insane.

803
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 6: We had over two hundred and seventy five thousand people

804
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:31,000
that attended, and the stadium overflow Westgate.

805
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:35,199
Speaker 7: Insane, you guys. And then you have was it one

806
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:36,880
hundred million over.

807
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 6: You guys that heard the gospel and all about Charlie

808
00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:46,960
and all about everything that you guys do, and the

809
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,719
hard work of turning twenty wessay is insane. We had

810
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:54,719
thousands that were registered to vote. I think we're at

811
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,159
like over two hundred thousand for merch sales. Don't quote

812
00:57:58,199 --> 00:57:59,559
me on that because I think it just keeps like

813
00:57:59,599 --> 00:58:02,559
bumping up like crazy. But I just wanted to say

814
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:05,679
a huge, huge, huge thank you to the events team,

815
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:10,159
the development team, the graphic design team, the production team.

816
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,159
Speaker 7: It's just phenomenal.

817
00:58:12,199 --> 00:58:17,159
Speaker 6: Their incredible work of leading into the memorial and honestly

818
00:58:17,199 --> 00:58:19,639
a lot of this staff that worked on the memorial.

819
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,760
They had twenty hour days for a week during the

820
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:27,599
time of us grieving the loss of my husband, and honestly,

821
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:32,239
I know several staff that didn't even sleep again.

822
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 7: You guys are breathing angels, and I'm so grateful for

823
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:38,360
all of.

824
00:58:38,239 --> 00:58:41,199
Speaker 6: You, and obviously a huge thank you to the Mosaic

825
00:58:41,239 --> 00:58:42,559
team v I.

826
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 7: You guys are ten.

827
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,679
Speaker 6: Out of ten, Like we have the most incredible team.

828
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,480
We just do, and you guys know that, and you

829
00:58:51,519 --> 00:58:52,519
guys are all a part of that.

830
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 7: And I am so so thankful.

831
00:58:55,559 --> 00:58:57,559
Speaker 6: And if you do have a moment and you run

832
00:58:57,559 --> 00:58:59,800
into any of those staff members, know.

833
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 7: That you know had a role in this, and you know.

834
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 6: That they put a lot of their time and effort

835
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,880
into it, just say thank you. There's something really special

836
00:59:12,719 --> 00:59:17,679
to be seen in moments like this, and it's not easy.

837
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,880
I am speaking from experience. I'm right in the trenches

838
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,679
with you guys, and so the fact that you just

839
00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:27,239
a simple thank you. I don't care if any of

840
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,880
you have beef with each other from the past or

841
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,519
have any issues.

842
00:59:31,079 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 7: With someone says something about.

843
00:59:34,039 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 6: This or that, Like, if you guys have any of that,

844
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,960
please put it to rest. My husband's dead. Like I'm

845
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,280
not trying to be morbid, but he's dead. And it

846
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,159
puts life into perspective of how short life is and

847
00:59:44,679 --> 00:59:47,440
relationships and God puts people in your life for a

848
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:49,519
reason and it teaches you a lesson, it teaches them

849
00:59:49,519 --> 00:59:49,960
a lesson.

850
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,079
Speaker 7: So if you are going through a time where.

851
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 6: Just lay it to rest and we are moving forward

852
00:59:57,079 --> 01:00:00,159
Turning point USA two point zero with Charlie and our hearts,

853
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,400
that's what he would want.

854
01:00:03,199 --> 01:00:05,679
Speaker 1: There, you go, balls in your court, and I will

855
01:00:05,679 --> 01:00:08,719
tell you what. I'd love nothing more than to hear

856
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:13,440
what you think. My email address is the fact hunter

857
01:00:13,679 --> 01:00:17,000
at mail dot com and that email addresses in all

858
01:00:17,039 --> 01:00:20,599
of the show notes. I would love nothing more than

859
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,599
to hear from you. What are your thoughts on this?

860
01:00:25,239 --> 01:00:29,440
I really would, no matter which circumstance there's So if

861
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:32,440
you saw my notes, how do you even organize something

862
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:38,199
like this? The plane just things like that. We're moving on, Charlotte,

863
01:00:38,199 --> 01:00:41,239
you know Turning point two point zero where we have

864
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:49,400
Ben Shapiro speak, it's just you know, money this They

865
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,519
talk about God, but again they never mentioned Jesus did

866
01:00:52,559 --> 01:00:57,840
say gospel give her that, but again half truths that's

867
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,800
what it is all about. Me an email, what you

868
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,239
think about all of this that has to do from

869
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:08,400
September tenth, twenty twenty five to today, The event itself

870
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:15,559
that happened that day, reactions, you know, the money grab Eric,

871
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:18,840
which I guess the latest thing is she doesn't even

872
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:22,280
have custody of her children anymore? Has that been like?

873
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:28,760
Is that solid? Weird? The whole thing anyway, I'm glad

874
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,519
I had this a little bit of downtown down time

875
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,760
on the Sunday afternoon because I really wanted to catch out.

876
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:37,400
I did not have a chance to put that Thursday

877
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,719
night out like I said I was going to try.

878
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:43,920
So there's your bonus. We'll certainly drop another episode this week.

879
01:01:44,159 --> 01:01:46,039
If I can get five or six, at least five

880
01:01:46,119 --> 01:01:48,960
or six emails regarding this by Thursday, I'll do a

881
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:54,199
special Thursday night. I'll just read you know, first name,

882
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,039
where you're from, and read the email for listeners to

883
01:01:57,079 --> 01:02:00,280
hear your thoughts. I'll read those emails on the air,

884
01:02:00,559 --> 01:02:05,320
your thoughts about this, and you know, we'll see what

885
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:09,360
happens anyway. Listen, have a great week. If you're being

886
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:14,960
affected by this weather, take your time, be safe, right

887
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,480
that's the most important thing. Just take your time, keep

888
01:02:17,519 --> 01:02:20,320
your feet under you. I fell on Tuesday. It's it's

889
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:24,519
not pleasant when you get closing in on sixty and

890
01:02:24,559 --> 01:02:28,199
you hit the ground. It's still pride is the first thing.

891
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,199
When I hit the ground, first thing I do, before

892
01:02:31,239 --> 01:02:33,280
the paint even registers. I'm looking around to see if

893
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:37,280
anybody's watching me. And then it's like, oh, ow, you know,

894
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,320
I really hurt my arm trying to catch myself. Cut

895
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:44,719
my right hand wide open and knucklehead. There you go.

896
01:02:44,719 --> 01:02:47,519
God bless you. Keep your head on a swivel, in

897
01:02:47,559 --> 01:02:50,880
Christ in your heart. And until we meet again, my friends,

898
01:02:52,159 --> 01:02:53,360
we will see you.

899
01:02:56,079 --> 01:03:01,679
Speaker 8: I know it's been struggle. I don't know you've had spain.

900
01:03:04,079 --> 01:03:11,880
I know you feel tired, held down by all the way. Yeah,

901
01:03:12,079 --> 01:03:13,440
I know you feel.

902
01:03:16,079 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 2: You smile ain't the same.

903
01:03:20,119 --> 01:03:24,440
Speaker 8: That's all you were going from you. I feel like

904
01:03:24,639 --> 01:03:25,679
you've lost your way.

905
01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:32,239
Speaker 3: Don't give it. No, don't give it.

906
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:34,679
Speaker 1: And never is home.

907
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 4: Don't let call the primise.

908
01:03:37,639 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 3: It ain't done yet.

909
01:03:39,119 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: He's got a glad.

910
01:03:41,039 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 4: Why it's away, time got up?

911
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:53,079
Speaker 3: Gave me? Come? Why afraid? God m called?

912
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:04,679
Speaker 8: I can see the street beside you. Childs are putting

913
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:09,519
up the fid. Oh you're stronger than anything.

914
01:04:10,119 --> 01:04:13,679
Speaker 3: You are. Yeah, you're gonna be all right.

915
01:04:15,599 --> 01:04:18,039
Speaker 8: You're accepting a dead found you.

916
01:04:19,679 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 4: Beautiful.

917
01:04:20,599 --> 01:04:22,039
Speaker 8: You're shoving ride.

918
01:04:23,639 --> 01:04:26,159
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're live and breathing oven.

919
01:04:27,639 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 8: You can hold your head of pie.

920
01:04:33,639 --> 01:04:36,239
Speaker 3: Don't give up, No, don't give in.

921
01:04:37,639 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 2: Never loves home, don't let go on the primies.

922
01:04:41,639 --> 01:04:45,639
Speaker 3: And ain't done yet? This god up Planting wants a

923
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,559
way down, the God of Mericau. Don't give up.

924
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 7: No, don't give in you never love home, don't.

925
01:04:55,159 --> 01:04:55,719
Speaker 3: Let go on?

926
01:04:55,960 --> 01:05:01,519
Speaker 4: The primis, ain't don life his worth a man? What's

927
01:05:01,639 --> 01:05:02,599
a lay down?

928
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,199
Speaker 1: The God up bay called?

929
01:05:09,119 --> 01:05:18,119
Speaker 3: Why sur pray down the baby? Oh? Yes, what spray

930
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:29,039
down the god? Baby call? Oh yeah, got TV call.

931
01:05:37,599 --> 01:05:40,239
Don't give up, No, don't give in?

932
01:05:41,639 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 4: Never so do they go of?

933
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:45,039
Speaker 7: The primis?

934
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:45,719
Speaker 1: I mean?

935
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 7: And don yas got a play?

936
01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:56,199
Speaker 2: What kind of heavy coats? Don't give no dog giving?

937
01:05:57,639 --> 01:06:02,559
Never hol do they go up? Fine is getting done?

938
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,159
Love is both living?

939
01:06:05,119 --> 01:06:16,679
Speaker 4: What's done? God of ancors all, the God of needs

940
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:22,679
cos why's done?

941
01:06:23,079 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 3: God of a.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network. Just the facts,

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