Share The Struggle
Share The Struggle
SNL Racism & Government Audits 241
The episode delves into the transformation of comedy, especially focusing on the shift of Saturday Night Live from a beloved pastime to a divisive political commentary. By sharing personal stories of how humor has shaped relationships and identity, we explore the importance of unity in confronting societal challenges.
• Discussion of childhood influences and comfort with humor
• Personal anecdotes of how comedy facilitated friendships
• Critique of the evolution of SNL into a political entity
• Reflection on the potential of humor to heal and unite
• Emphasis on the responsibility of comedians in today’s climate
Government inefficiency and political accountability take center stage as we confront the frustrations of skyrocketing net worths and mysterious Social Security payments to the implausibly aged. Is transparency across political lines achievable in a system that seems rife with fraud and waste? Join us as we critique the media's role in perpetuating division and delve into pressing topics like government audits, IRS scrutiny, and the need for a balanced approach to protecting personal freedoms. Through an engaging and critical lens, we aim to spark meaningful conversations about accountability and the path to a fairer system for all.
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How does it feel when one of your favorite childhood TV shows identifies you as a racist? And what does it mean when a unifying topic, an obvious call to action, actually ends up doing the opposite and results in yet more protesting, more drama, more trauma, more hate and despair? But thankfully, I'm here to clear the air that and so much more on today's episode of Share the Struggle Podcast. Let me tell you something Everybody struggles. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life. If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you. Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations? Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you. When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense. Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities. You are right where you need to be Back on time. We need to find what we need to find. We all take on what we find. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. What a day. What is hot, diddity-doo. Good Lord Almighty, am I so excited to be back with you? Oh, it's true, it is damn true. How you doing, y'all, how's everybody doing?
Speaker 1:Snowmageddon continues in the Northeast Yet another big-ass storm. Thankfully, I was able to get my tractor back together and handle. That Also created more opportunity for some deep thought. Deep thought, tractor seasons sessions, whatever you want to call it. We've talked about it for a few weeks now. Y'all Take advantage of that downtime, and I mean it's not downtime because you're busy, you're working, like if you're on the Northeast and you're moving snow around. I'm talking to you right now. Okay, if you're doing that mindless chore of moving snow, whether you're in a plow truck, you're on a tractor, you're behind a shovel, whatever it is put some knowledge in your ears, man, plug in, get those wireless earbuds or old school headphones, whatever it is, and just filter in some positivity. That's what I like to do. So that's the benefit of all this snow removal. I've been cram jamming positivity into my brain and it's got me feeling oh so positive. Except for partaking in media mainstream media, nonsense media, social media. I don't know why I do it, y'all. I don't know why I do it, and we're going to start off this episode of the podcast with a little conversation about a show that I used to love A show that was so critical to my upbringing. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's true, it's damn true.
Speaker 1:Let me set the scene for you, america, as a young kid. Let's just say that I struggled mentally with making friends. I was a really shy kid growing up, believe it or not, and my parents actually encouraged me to kind of come out of my shell and in doing so they actually taught me how to sell. I know this sounds kind of strange, but when I was a little kid you think back to the holiday season right, it's Christmas time and I used to make these Christmas ornaments Like some were out of, like little beads and pipe cleaners, and you make candy canes and wreaths and stuff like that. So I would make these little Christmas crafts as a young little lad.
Speaker 1:And my parents used to always go to Dunkin' Donuts and hang out with their friends and have coffee every evening. So, first off, my social group was a elder group. Okay, I had no problem talking to adults. I think it was kids that I kind of struggled with, but even then I still wasn't really comfortable approaching strange adults. Does that make sense? My parents' friends I had no problem holding court and telling jokes with them. But if I didn't know you, I really got shy and just kind of bottled up and just kind of shut down a little bit.
Speaker 1:So my parents actually encouraged me to do these arts and crafts and I would stand outside the Dunkin' Donuts while my parents were drinking coffee and I would sell my arts and crafts and whatever I would make from those sales I would use that on my Christmas gifts, like I would buy my parents gifts you know, siblings gifts, things like that. So that tradition started with me as a really young kid and as I got older that molded into like more crafts, right, more difficult things like going out in the woods and picking ferns and making wreaths and cutting down birch trees and making Christmas candles, and it really morphed into a big deal where I would be at flea markets on the weekends selling things and I used to take all this money and fund my holidays or anything that I wanted to do and accomplish. So my parents pushing me to get out there and sell really helped. You think about I don't know if they still do it these days, but old school back in the day playing football, like in my middle school years you had to go sell those boxes of candy bars, right. You had to talk to strangers, you had to get out and sell things, so doing those type of things, I think that really opened me up.
Speaker 1:But another thing that opened me up as I got older was comedy. So I was always a big kid. There was times in my life when I was picked on. I overcame that. I used to be bullied and I overcame that and those conversations and subjects and topics are for another time and maybe that's another great episode to hash out. Now that we're in the 200s here on episodes, maybe I can go back and talk about some of them, topics that we've touched early on. But I overcame some of those things.
Speaker 1:But as I get a little bit older, I used comedy right, as I would watch movies and things and as a young boy I was drawn to sports and comedy from the very early onset and being around adults and hearing them tell jokes and seeing how they would tell jokes, like I loved my parents, friends that were that were comedians right, the ones that were the showmans that could hold court and tell stories, and everybody loved them and you could see everyone get excited when they would show up, Right, I was drawn to that. I picked up on that and those things kind of kind of molded me, right, it shaped my future and I was drawn to all forms of comedy. And as I got older I really started to be hooked on Saturday Night Live, the weekly episodic comedy show on NBC every Saturday night at what was it? 1135 or something. It started and I used to be drawn to that show. I used to watch it religiously. I never missed an episode.
Speaker 1:And Chris Farley Chris Farley was my guy. I loved Chris Farley To this day. I still think he's the greatest comedian that's ever lived and you can hear, if you've been listening on to all these shows, you can certainly hear the comedic influence that Chris Farley has had on me and I've never strayed away from that. So Chris was one of my biggest inspirations and there were so many other comedians on there that I fell in love with that have gone on to become stars and celebrities of today. Right, you think about Adam Sandler, you think about Will Ferrell, you think about those people David Spade, you know those those guys Norm MacDonald, kevin Nealon I just start thinking um just back. Molly Shannon, sherry Terry, or whatever the heck it was all these names, right Names I haven't even thought about in the longest time and before my generation of comedy. I was on the tail end of of Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live and I think John Belushi was before my time, but I went back and watched all those episodes of Belushi and I've seen a lot of Phil Hartman and I could go on forever naming all these cast members, chevy Chase. They were inspirations to me as I got into high school.
Speaker 1:For me, I went to a small middle school that does not my town does not actually have a high school, so we had to tour certain high schools and then you could pick the one you want to go to. The city would pay, or your town tax dollars would pay for you to go to any school in the state, but they would bus you to three or four of them. I chose one school, my local school, biddeford High School, which a few of my friends went along with me. But you think about all these kids you grew up with from kindergarten now all going your separate ways. It truly felt like we were entering college, but we were actually entering high school and I'm going into high school. I'm actually going and touring high schools at like age 12, right, I'm going into high school. I'm actually going and touring high schools at like age 12, right, I'm going into high school around like age 13. So you're leaving all these people and friends and teachers that you're comfortable with, that you've grown up with, you've become big man on campus in this K through eighth grade setting, but now you're going into a freshman to senior atmosphere in a big city.
Speaker 1:Coming from a small town. It was intimidating. The only way that I was comfortable, the only way that I could make friends, the only way that I could fit in, was to be a comedian, and I leaned into my Chris Farley roots, into that like I don't even know how to describe it. But that action-packed, in-your-face, heart-hating, moving comedy right, the ones that use body language and physicality, like running into walls, hurting yourself, doing dumb things, making fun of yourself, which, ironically, could make the situation worse for you, because at some point, when you're the type of comedian that I was, where you make people laugh at the expense of yourself, eventually that expense becomes greater than the laughter, because at some point, even though you're the one telling the jokes, you often go home and cry yourself to sleep wondering are they laughing with me or are they truly laughing at me? Do they think my jokes are reality or they're jokes? That's a vicious cycle to find yourself in, but that's again another topic for another time.
Speaker 1:The point I'm making here is I love Saturday Night Live and every weekend I would watch Saturday Night Live and I would go back to school and I would just throw back out all the skits that I loved, like the greatest latest Jim Brewer skit, whatever it was. I would throw it all back right and then I became an integral part of this group of SNL fans, because the more you submerge yourself into things and the more you show those things, the more you find like-minded people. We were talking about this on our love episode. Common interests, core values, shared interests that's the best way to find your soulmate. It's also the best way to find your best friends, and my circle of friends were highly driven by by sports, by wrestling and by comedy, and we used to get together on the weekends as I got older, going to friends, friends' houses, partying, you know, making dumb decisions, drinking beers, doing whatever. I'm sitting around slugging a 30-pack with my buddies and we're watching Saturday Night Live and we're reenacting all the skits. It then became this tradition. Actually, if you listen to the beginning of the show, every week's show, that musical background beats that get you out of your seats, those, those you know interlude gut checks that come in when we need to switch topics and conversations, and the closing credits of the shows. The background beats to this podcast is led by one of my best friends, jeff Foran from the Gut Truckers.
Speaker 1:Me and Jeff. I used to go to Jeff's house every weekend and we would throw Saturday night live parties and we would watch every weekend and in between there we'd get a camcorder and we would record our own skits and we would play them back and we would watch them and people would come over and watch them. We'd throw parties and we would put on our own Saturday night live performances. We had a whole cast of characters that would join in. So you could go to jeff's mom's house and hang out and we would bust out our own personal saturday night live skits for you right there. Ridiculous things I'm in jeff's mom's sweater, I'm breaking family heirloom recliners, I'm falling through tables, getting hit in the head with toilet seats. Whatever the heck I had to do to make you laugh. We would do it. We had the most ridiculous, endless amounts of skits.
Speaker 1:Saturday Night Live is an integral part of me. The comedy of that show has been ingrained in me. Now that's the long-winded version of me painting the photograph that we're about to frame. Here's the scenario. As years go on, if you're asking me, saturday Night Live no longer was funny. It lost its edge. The best performers moved on. They were big stars in Hollywood and they just moved on to greener pastures.
Speaker 1:Either they passed on or they moved on, and Saturday Night Live began to become extremely difficult to watch. So my weekly tradition of watching shows became maybe once a month and then once every couple of months. Then, finally, I was like I don't know if I can do this anymore. So I take some time off for the show and then I go back to the show and then I realized then that all it has become is a political weapon. That's all it's become. It's a political weapon with full intentions of destroying Donald Trump and downplaying and disgracing any single Republican on the face of the earth. That's all the show became to be. When I then realized that Lorne Michaels, owner and writer of the show, is just a crazy, ridiculous, woke left-wing freaking jambalaya, right, I said I'm done. Not only is this show not funny anymore, it's now insulting me and a great portion of the population. I'm done here.
Speaker 1:I have not watched Saturday Night Live in I would say 10 years, right, if you think about it. President Trump, four years, four years of Biden, and then for a year or two before their presidency I just didn't find the show funny. So then you factor in the presidency stuff and then I'm out. So, yeah, it's got to be close to 10 years. I haven't been watching the show. When I see a skit pop up for the show or I accidentally turn it on In 20 seconds, I realized this just isn't funny and I just move on.
Speaker 1:Well, a couple weeks ago one of my best friends I just mentioned to you, jeff Foran, the one that we used to get together all the time and watch all these skits together he reached out and he asked me hey, have you been paying attention to SNL 50? And I said no, I really haven't. I've given up on that show. And he said you should go on and watch it back on Peacock, they're highlighting a lot of the old performers, like the stuff that you and me used to love. I think that you would get a kick out of it. And I said well, if you're recommending it, then I can do my best to go back on my commitment here to boycott this stuff. I guess I'll make the exception if I'm going back and reliving the good time. So I agreed I would watch it, but I haven't found the time. Then over the weekend Jeff texts me and says SNL 50 on NBC right now you need to put it on.
Speaker 1:Reluctantly, I switch over. I wasn't really watching anything, I was working on my phone anyways. And uh, I switched over to SNL and I saw the tail end of a old, long running Will Ferrell bit on um Robert Goulet. That used to be funny and I watched it and it was. It was kind of funny not what it used to be.
Speaker 1:And the very next skit was a skit called Black Jeopardy and I think Kenan Thompson was the host of the actual show and I can't remember all the characters that were on it, but one of them was Tracy Morgan and the next one was Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy was actually on there pretending to be Tracy Morgan and that was kind of funny. Eddie Murphy was actually on there pretending to be Tracy Morgan and that was kind of funny. Eddie Murphy was doing a good job being classic Eddie Murphy and, uh, doing a great job impersonating, uh, tracy Morgan, and I thought that that was kind of funny. It wasn't got roaring funny, but it was kind of funny and I was like you know what, maybe, if they leave politics out of it and they just keep bringing in some of the old characters like Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy, I'll watch some of this and I'll shoot messages back and forth with Jeff like the old times.
Speaker 1:Well, that didn't last very long, because about 30 seconds later, tom Hanks comes out dressed up like he's pretending to be some kind of slouch, lazy Republican and what he deems to be so right, and I'm not saying that's what he looked like, but that's what he was trying to portray, because he was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and a blue flannel shirt and a Make America Great Again hat, which that outfit alone in itself is something that you could very easily see me wearing any day. So, number one, you're trying to pretend to be a slob, but you're also wearing what I'm wearing a lot of times anyway. So you're certainly signaling myself out and I don't remember what the question is, but he makes this comment about. You know, I think that something along the lines of the world would be a much better place. If you know, we all leaned into God a little bit more and Kenan Thompson was like you know, I agree with you and he came over to him and when he went to shake his hand he backed up and was fearful and scared and didn't want to shake a black person's hand. I sat there staring at the TV, disappointed, and I realized this shit is never going to change. It's never going to change If you are Donald Trump or you are a fan of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1:If you are a Republican, you, in the eyes of Saturday Night Live, are a racist. You, in the eyes of so much of this mainstream Hollywood personalities like Tom Hanks, you are a racist. Tom Hanks, somebody that every single person listening right now has given that man money. We've all watched Forrest Gump. We've all gone to multiple movies of his or rented movies or bought DVDs wherever the heck it is. We've recital lines for movies forever. I've impersonated Forrest Gump for the longest time, doing jokes, always pulling that out of my back pocket. Here you are calling me a racist Again.
Speaker 1:The show that I grew up on the show that inspired me so much. If I'd only known then that the owner behind the show the financial dollars behind the show thought I was a lazy white piece of trash, I wouldn't have given my life to it. I wouldn't have given my support to it. All the money I've spent on Saturday Night Live backed things like movies and t-shirts and you know just all the nonsense. I can't believe it. I also really hope that, after we had a resounding yes in the election, a resounding yes that said America is ready for change, a resounding yes that said America wants Donald Trump, a resounding yes that says it's time to make a difference.
Speaker 1:I thought this was the opportunity for some of these shows, some of these Hollywood personalities, to realize put down the hate, accept the fate and move on. But no, let's continue to do dumb shit, to alienate, to segregate, to call out and to crap all over a large portion of the society. And think about it, folks. Donald Trump won the popular vote. That means that Saturday Night Live and Tom Hanks decided it was a good idea to call the majority of the American population racist. I can't do it y'all. We are continuing to just breed hate. I don't understand it. I don't know why we continue to do this. It's uncalled for, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:My strike with Saturday Night Live continues. Thankfully I didn't give them more than two and a half minutes of my time on a television. I can't believe it. Tom Hanks, you're a certified piece of shit. And Lorne Michaels, you are the walnut wheels in the turd. You know what I mean. If Tom Hanks is a piece of crap, then you're the trusty old walnuts that nobody could digest as wheels on the poop log of transportation.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I hate it. I'm disappointed. I don't know. I hate it. I'm disappointed. That's just it, folks. I'm not fired up mad, I'm just disappointed, man. I'm disappointed that it always has to come back to race.
Speaker 1:I'm disappointed that they decided to take jabs at the majority of the population in this country for no damn good reason. Number one it wasn't even funny. Number two, it wasn't even called for or there was no need for it. In the show. You literally removed Eddie Murphy, who was the one funny thing happening on my television, and replaced him with Tom Hanks' old decrepit ass telling stupid shit. None of it made sense. You don't even in a game show. You're not just going to pull a person out and throw somebody else in. None of it makes sense. You don't even in a game show you're not just going to pull a person out and throw somebody else in. None of that even made sense. You were so hell bent on making that segment about race. You were so hell bent on shit talking Donald Trump and alienating the large portion of the population that is Republican that you said you know what? I got an idea. We're just going to do it right here. You know what? Go fuck yourself, gotcha. The rain is kickin' his mind. Business for the kids.
Speaker 1:Thank you, jeff Fulman and the Gut Truckers for that little musical interlude and also thank you, jeff, for the first segment of the show, because if you didn't put my ass up to watch on that garbage on Sunday evening, then, uh, I don't know. I don't know what else I would have started the show with. So thanks for that and thanks for pouring salt on the grief of Saturday Night Live for me. I guess I appreciate that, but who knows what I would have started with if it wasn't for Jeff. Actually, I do.
Speaker 1:Now I would have started with the nonsense that we're about to talk about next, because there should be a unifying task right now taking place in this country, led in the United States government. You know what that task is Getting rid of fraud and getting rid of waste, getting rid of nonsense, getting rid of nonsense. That should be the number one task, no matter which side of the aisle it is you sit on, whether you're a Democrat, whether you're a Republican, whether you voted for President Trump or the other lady, whatever it is. We as a society, we as Americans, should be unified in the quest to clean up the government, to get rid of the fraud, to get rid of the waste, to balance the budget Should be pretty unifying. You know why I can say this is to get rid of the fraud, to get rid of the waste, to balance the budget Should be pretty unifying. You know why I can say this is unifying? Because all the way back in the early years of Obama himself, he sat in front of all Americans and said we need to eliminate the waste, we need to find if there's fraud and get it out of government. America is going broke. It's time to balance the budget. We need to get into the books. And all Democrats supported him and I'm sure all Republicans supported him. But what happened? Nothing. More waste, more fraud, more deceit. It all happened.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing, folks. President Trump ran on a promise. He ran on a promise to get rid of the waste. He ran on a promise. He ran on a promise to get rid of the waste. He ran on a promise to balance the budget. He ran on a promise to fix America and to drain the swamp. All freaking campaign long and half of his rallies. He brought Elon Musk with him and they stood in front of you and they talked about Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and what they were going to do and how they were going to go, line item by line item, through the budget, through the books, through the catalogs, through the papers, through the computers, through whatever the hell it has to be, to balance the budget, to find the fraud and to take care of the nonsense. He promised this. We, the American people, voted for this. You understand, we voted for this. He won the Electoral College and he won the popular vote by a landslide. That means the majority of Americans agreed it's time to expose the fraud. It's time to remove the waste.
Speaker 1:Here's the only difference between Donald J Trump and Joe Biden and Barack Obama and every other president that came before. This president is actually delivering on his campaign promises and it's making people sick. Now I could stand here right now and tell you how proud I am to be American. I could stand here right now and preach to you how exciting these changes have been for me. I could talk for hours about the fact that now every day, multiple times a day, I put on Fox News to watch what my president is up to. I could stand here and preach about how much I love transparency president is up to. I could stand here and preach about how much I love transparency.
Speaker 1:We talked even in a relationship episode that you don't demand trust. The man himself, elon Musk, said that trust comes from transparency. This cabinet, this administration, is nothing but transparency. When they do something, they show you. They actually post the receipts to social media. It is un-freaking-believable. I can't even count how many press conferences I've seen with Donald Trump Multiple conferences in a day. We could talk for hours about all the inspirational leaders that he's already met with, leaders of foreign countries, all the things that he's already done.
Speaker 1:The executive orders, the milestone changes, the fact that he signed an executive order to keep transgenders out of women's sports, to keep little boys out of girls' sports. The fact that, instead of going around sniffing children, he signed an executive order to protect the little girls of our country. That now has a real soft spot for this proud freaking girl dad over here. When I watched President Trump sign an executive order, surrounded by dozens and dozens of little girls wearing their basketball jerseys, all their sports jerseys, their cheering uniforms, in the Oval Office surrounding the president as he signed the executive order, I think about the difference between that moment in time and an old, creepy-ass president sniffing kids and making them feel uncomfortable. I think about that and we could talk for hours about that. And I could talk to you about the fact that our president is trying to end wars, that our president is getting hostages home.
Speaker 1:I can talk about the fact that at 10.30 at night, I watched our president stand outside in full suit greeting a hostage that he rescued from Russia without giving up a damn thing, a hostage that President Biden let go. Let sit there and rot. Instead, he wanted to bring home WNBA star Brittany Griner. Let me slow this down for you, star Brittany Griner. Let me slow this down for you. Let's free the celebrity female black gay activist Brittany Garner. Let's get her home. The celebrity LGBTQ activist, let's get her home. Let's get her home. When we leave the white school teacher in prison to rot, just we could sit on that for a moment. But I laid in bed and watched while I was getting ready to go to sleep. I watched our president greet and receive that hostage 1030 at night standing outside in a snowstorm in a suit, and then holds court in the White House and lets him answer questions and brings in his 95-year-old mother to meet him. I watch those things right, the peace unifier that we have as a president.
Speaker 1:I could stand on here on my high box and I could gloat and boast and yell and scream from the high heavens about how much I love what our president's doing, all the great things that he's doing. I could go on for hours and hours and hours. You already can feel the passion and know that I can, but that's not what I'm going to do today. What I'm going to do today is I'm going to talk about common sense. What I'm going to talk about today is the fact that it should take common sense and there should be a common agreement between all Americans white, black, red, whatever color you can think of, no matter what side of the aisle Republican, independent, democrat, I don't care you should realize that you don't want America wasting your hard-earned dollars. Right? Can we say that for a minute? If you can go to the grocery store and complain about the price of eggs because there's birds dying from flus, if you can complain about the price of the gas pump, but you don't want to complain about your hard-earned tax dollars going to the government and getting wasted on nonsense that don't make any sense. So we're going to talk about common sense.
Speaker 1:I don't care what you stand for, I don't care who you voted for, but what I do think is a common ground that we can all stand on is that when we work hard every day, when we work hard every week, and at the end of that week, when there's money, hard earned cash, coming out of your paycheck that you could use to feed your family, to overcome those high gas prices, to overcome the lack of eggs on your store shelves, those hard earned dollars that would go a hell of a long ways for your family to feed and to provide and to do what is necessary. Instead, they land in the government, they go to the arms of the government and you just make in your mind the exception. This is the way it has to be, and it's the way it needs to be because the government needs the money and it's going to take care of people like me. The government is going to help those that need help. I support those programs, I support those choices.
Speaker 1:But when you find out your hard-earned money isn't going to the right places, when you find out nonsense like condoms being sent to freaking all over the country right, what is it? Gaza and Mozambique? We think about millions of dollars for a Sesame Street program to be built overseas, for drag queen shows to be put on all over the freaking free world? Think about these things, people. You're sending money, your hard-earned dollars to the government and they're doing whatever the hell they want to do with it. There's places outside of our country which we can argue. I could argue all day long about the fact that I'd rather have all taxes be spent in our country, because it's our hard-earned money and our country's suffering. But if we want to go out and help other countries, we can have a conversation about that. But the difference is helping another country and going out and funding LGBTQ activities in other countries. There's a big difference between spending millions and millions of dollars on sex changes overseas. There's a big difference. We can go on for hours about the nonsense of these programs. $59 million going to a three-star hotel in New York City to house immigrants All this nonsense. Let me ask you this, boys and girls Would you rather have the money at home in your account, buying eggs, buying gas, buying oil, buying propane, feeding your family, providing for the ones you care and love about, or would you rather have it housing immigrants in a New York City friggin' hotel? Would you rather have it funding sex changes for field mice out in freaking Pakistan? Think about it. We can all agree that there should be accountability for the money that comes from you and me.
Speaker 1:I believe Doze has already found and identified I want to say it's $55 billion in fraud already. I've seen reports that it's 55 billion dollars in fraud already. I've seen reports that it's up to 80 billion dollars. It keeps rising, but as of today, today, doge has found 4.7 trillion dollars in virtually untraceable treasury payments. 4.7 trillion dollars that the treasury has sent out. That is, they're saying, at this point in time, virtually untraceable Because the government doesn't even follow checks and balances. They're sending out these major payments and not even filling out line items to identify what they're for. They're writing checks. They don't even have anything in the damn memo field. Think about this, guys you wouldn't write a check for home heating oil without putting in the memo field heating oil. Our government does not prescribe the same checks and balances that we do, but they demand that we do.
Speaker 1:We're talking right now about people that are going AWOL over this. There is protest. There's protest in my home state going on right now over Elon Musk and President Trump and how everything they're doing is wrong and corrupt. And on President's Day, there was protest in every state all across the country about what's happening right now. And I ask you why, why? Why are you okay with your money going to waste? Why are you okay with $4.7 trillion virtually disappearing? You realize that your government is broke, right? You realize that this country is on the verge of being completely, utterly broke, and you do realize that President Trump and Elon Musk can fix that in a year.
Speaker 1:Listen, there's a reason why there's no checks and balances. There's a reason why there's no proof to follow the footsteps, because, let me just tell you this when a politician enters into Congress, into the Senate, into whatever, and their average pay is $50,000, $100,000, $200,000, and after a few years their net worth is $4 million. There's an issue there. You don't get into politics to get rich unless you're screwing the system. I understand, I fully understand, why these crooked politicians are in an uproar. I fully, wholeheartedly understand why these crooked politicians are in an uproar. I fully, wholeheartedly understand why these deadbeat politicians like Adam Schiff are in a freaking uproar about Elon Musk and President Trump and what's happening. Because their gravy train is going to run out, because they're going to be exposed, because the American people, the American voter, is going to see and know that they've been robbing you blind.
Speaker 1:What I don't understand is why the common man and woman is upset. What I don't understand is why fellow taxpayers are standing out protesting what's happening. I don't understand why you're not okay with this. I don't understand why you don't prescribe to an audit. Let me just tell you this the people that you're protesting for, the people that you're on the side of, let me just tell you this the people that you're protesting for, the people that you're on the side of, are the same ones that agreed to hire 80,000 IRS agents to audit you and to audit me, because they have a hard time believing it's okay for you to process over $600 in Venmo. You need a freaking receipt and you better pay taxes on $600 in your Venmo account. We need 80,000 IRS agents to find and seek out all the Americans that aren't paying taxes.
Speaker 1:But guess what? The American government can lose $4.7 trillion and say fucking oops, come on. If the government can audit you, then we, the people, can audit the government when we, the people, are. The people can audit the government when we, the people, are paying the government and our money isn't going anywhere but to the wrong damn places. What it's intended for isn't what it's going for. They might put up this hope and dream and bubbly scheme on all the great and good things that it's doing how it's, you know, taking care of the sick and feeding the hungry but the truth is, for every dollar that goes to the sick or goes to the hungry, millions go into the pockets of cricket politicians, and it's time to expose it, and Elon and Trump have been exposing it, and I don't know why we continue to be confused by the nonsense. I can't even watch local news to see the spin and ridiculousness that's taking place. It is hard to run from the facts. America Anytime they make a statement, they show the receipt. Here's the money, here's where it's going. It's $59 million going to a hotel room. Think about the difference here $4.7 trillion with no ever-loving receipt. If you can't give a receipt to the federal government for your Venmo account, you, sir, are screwed.
Speaker 1:I see all these people on TV, all these politicians and media personalities and talking heads saying I don't want Elon Musk snooping around my personal credit. I don't want Elon Musk checking on my Social Security dummies and my bank accounts. He is the richest, ever-loving man in the world. I don't think he needs your 250 bucks, cindy. Think about it. If I could trust anybody looking at my social security number and my bank accounts, number one I'd be the richest freaking man on the planet. Okay, because he doesn't need my broke ass. Maybe he'd accidentally stumble around and leave a few bucks in it because he felt bad for my fat ass. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? Right? I'm not worried about that. What you should be worried about is the fact that you're fighting him, seeing it legally when he's on TV telling you it's very easy to find it illegally because we have no checks and balances because we have no securities.
Speaker 1:Think about this. Why are people so ever loving dumb? Elon Musk and Doze is not trying to snoop on you and your bank account and where your funds are going, when it comes to you and how you're getting paid. They're looking to snoop around on what happens with your accounts when your money comes in, when your tax dollars comes in, and it ends up in the pocket of a damn politician. That's what they're snooping around for. When I think about the fact that the government has been saying they need more IRS agents to snoop on you and me and you're standing outside in the freezing cold in Maine in a snowstorm protesting that we can't let the government be audited, this is not constitutional. This is unconstitutional. Listen, they audit you all the time.
Speaker 1:As a young man that had his house and livelihood and everything he owned and his family worked so hard for to own when I grew up having threats from the IRS that that would all be taken from us. I remember coming home and having answering machines messages from the IRS that that would all be taken from us. I remember coming home and having answering machines messages from the IRS threatening things. I remember the meetings my parents used to have. I remember the discussions. I remember all the things we sold to keep the things that were most important, because the IRS said that we owed them money. Them dirty sons of bitches tried to take every single thing we own and tried to put us out of home.
Speaker 1:If you think for one iota of a second, I feel bad about the government being audited you can suck on a Coney Island footlong. I can't believe it. I can't ever love and believe it. Why are so many Americans pissed about this? Let's find the one thing that they could remotely try to complain about people losing their jobs. All these people are losing their jobs. I can't deal with it. I can't get behind this.
Speaker 1:Well, I do believe the final number was about 75,000 people that President Trump said if you resign, we'll give you $20,000, right, or some of them, I think, was $30,000. $20,000, right, or some of them, I think, was $30,000. You're getting paid for them a half a year's pay to just walk away, to go do something else, to take your resume that you boosted working for the government, that big fat check and get a reset and a start over. Number one I didn't even agree with paying these sons of bitches. But what I'm going to say to you is, if there's people out there that are saying, hey, I have a problem, All these people are getting laid off, well, here's the deal, man. Here's your cash. This is what you can do. Can you imagine that factory reset for me? And you, if someone said, hey, guess what, try something new? Here's 30 grand, go, knock yourself out, take a chance, dream big, do something amazing. Wouldn't you jump for joy over that man? I wish I had that freaking offer. But here's the thing. Here's the facts.
Speaker 1:America, when a business isn't doing good, when a business is suffering, you lay people off. As somebody that ran a Harley Davidson dealership, I can honestly tell you, when the numbers suck, when the business can't pay its bills, it is forced to let good people go. Here's the thing America can't pay its bills. America, the business is going broke. Before America, the business goes bankrupt, it has to do what's right for business. Unfortunately, that's let people go. We're letting people go. It happens, and a lot of these people deserve to be let go.
Speaker 1:Because government jobs if there's one thing that is clear as day, is redundancy. There's so much nonsense, bullshit, jobs in government that it's ridiculous, and they're all overpaid on it. I'm not saying that there wasn't good people that lost their job, but good people lose their job every damn day in this country. That's the facts of life. That's the facts of life. That's part of this world. We all lose jobs from time to time.
Speaker 1:I've been fired over a dozen times, you understand, but they didn't have a damn press conference for me saying, oh my lord, keith Liberty was fired from Radio Shack on New Year's Eve over the telephone. There wasn't no damn press conference for me. Where was the press conference for the 14,000 people that, on day one in Joe Biden's presidency, got fired when he said no to the Keystone Pipeline? There was 14,000 people that lost their job with a soup of a freaking pen. And you know what he said to them Learn to cope. That's what he said, president Biden. Learn to cope. You lost your job. Learn to cope.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing. All y'all dumbasses out there in the snow, sleet and freezing rain protesting my president, elon Musk, I got a little piece of advice from your personal president Learn to cope. We're cutting the bullshit, we're losing the weight. It's time for America to get back out there and date. You understand what I'm saying. It's the great rebuild. It's a beautiful comeback, the golden age of America, and I couldn't be any more ever-loving happy for it. I hope y'all jump on the gosh darn train, toot, toot, all aboard. It's the American Express, mother trucker, and I love my president and I love Elon Musk, and if you don't love that, then fuck you. Sorry, I got a little deep there.
Speaker 1:That was a Will Ferrell line. That's how I tied Saturday Night Live into the back half of the podcast here, because Will Ferrell used to be one of the greatest characters on Saturday Night Live and he went on to become a big movie star. And when he was a movie star which I guess he still is one of his best movies was Talladega Nights. And one of his commercials on Talladega Nights, when he started winning races and doing sponsorships, was for Big Red and he stood there in his little race uniform and he said if you don't chew Big Red, then fuck you. So here's the thing. If what I just said about my president, elon Musk, offends you, well, I guess we're even there Saturday Night Live, because a few days ago you called me a racist. That, boys and girls, is how you tie in the first segment of the show to the back end of the show. Good God, almighty.
Speaker 1:In all seriousness, outside of that ever-loving beautiful, powerful rant that I just went on, I want to thank Elon Musk for two things. Number one saving free speech for all Americans, because when he bought Twitter and he exposed the nonsense, he saved free speech for America, and now he's sacrificing everything about him, his reputation, his business, to save America, to balance the budget, to find the fraud and to give American people back the power. For years, your government has been lying to you. Your government has been stealing from you. Elon Musk is only here to expose all that to you. Your government has been stealing from you. Elon Musk is only here to expose all that to you, to give back the American people the power that we so deserve. Because the truth is, us as Americans, us as American taxpayers, should have a lawsuit towards the American government for our damn hard-earned money back, because right now we could all use it, instead of them having inexplainable excuses on why they lost it, on where it went and how it was spent, and all the receipts that they lost and the checks that weren't even signed. You know what? Speaking of checks, before we go today, before we close the show today.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about a few checks. Let's talk about some Social security checks, because I thought it was real interesting when Elon Musk was standing in the Oval Office of President Trump and a little ex was standing there and he was giving a little roundabout you know impromptu Q&A session and he started talking about social security and how he's seen people in the age of 150 still cashing social security checks. They shouldn't be getting social security checks. It should be in the Guinness Book of Records for being the oldest person alive and that kind of piqued my interest. And then recently Elon released a list of people on social security. Let me just point this to you real quick.
Speaker 1:Folks I'm going to run down some numbers here. People, americans, from the age of 120 to 129, 120 to 129. We have given $3.4 billion to people age 120 to 129. Is there some people out there around 130 years of age? Maybe $3.5 billion worth, I don't know. Let's speed it up a little bit 140 to 149 years old how many Americans do you know that are 140 to 149 years old? I don't know. Well, $3.5 billion worth of Social Security payments are getting cashed by people in that. 140 to 149 years old, 150 to 159, $1.3 billion, freaking dollars.
Speaker 1:There's people in here that are 170 to 179 years old $6 billion worth. What about 180 to 189? $695. That's got to be the highest, right. There can't be anybody in here from 190 to 199. Well, you're wrong. There is. There's Americans up to the age of 199 years old $448 Social Security checks. That's got to be it, right, nope, wrong. We got Americans from age 200 to 209, 879 bucks worth, I might add. We've even got Americans from the age 210 to 219. How in the hell has the US government not realized they're writing Social Security checks with $866 to Americans age 219 years? Oh man, that's got to be it, right? Nope? Actually, there's more people in this country that are between the ages of 220 and 229. $1,039 worth heading to some individuals between the age 220 and 229. We've got people on here age 240 to 249, and we even have somebody from the age 360 to 369.
Speaker 1:America, if you can stand up and be okay with this kind of bullshit, then get out the way. America, if you don't think there needs to be an audit, because we're sending thousands of dollars to people ages 200, we're sending billions of dollars to people that are cashing social security checks that are age 150, 160, 180, then something's wrong with y'all. Some of the shit that's been exposed is ridiculous the fact that there's no paper trail, the fact that there's checks with no memos, the fact that there's these accounts that are getting fed, or these little feeder programs, too, that, in a roundabout way, just end up right back with some freaking, crooked deadbeat politician. It's not okay To all the people out there saying we didn't vote for Elon Musk.
Speaker 1:We didn't elect Elon Musk. Well, I didn't elect Anthony Fauci. I didn't elect his deadbeat ass to run the CDC, but instead all Americans had to sit back on their couch and watch Fauci tell you that you couldn't leave the house today, to watch Fauci tell you you needed to wear a mask when you went and took a piss in the bathroom today. That son of a bitch wasn't elected by you, wasn't elected by me and we all took orders from him. I don't want to hear nobody telling me oh, we didn't vote for Elon Musk. I'm not going to listen to Elon Musk Y'all. We didn't vote for Fauci and he told our ass that we couldn't get together for Thanksgiving. He told you you couldn't spend time at Christmas with your family and the ones you love, because it wasn't safe, because you were putting all Americans at risk spending time with your family, that son of a bitch running the CDC.
Speaker 1:He put more people out of jobs than Elon Musk and President Trump will do with their cutbacks. You understand, I know good businesses and great people that lost their jobs because they folded, because the economy folded. I know tons of people that lost their jobs because they wouldn't take the vaccine that Fauci said you needed to take, that Biden mandated you to take. How many healthcare workers in this country lost their jobs? How many military, how many firefighters, policemen, how many people lost their job in this country because they didn't take the damn vaccine that Fauci who nobody voted for said you had to take?
Speaker 1:You can put this bullshit up your ass. I'm sick of it. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of protest. I'm tired of nonsense.
Speaker 1:This is a topic that we should all be unified on. We should all have checks and balances, because, god damn it, the government demands that you have them for yourself. We, as the people, should demand they have them too, and whatever comes of it, so be it. Put it all on the table. That's how I feel about it. That's my two cents. I hope it made a little bit of sense. I hope you're feeling a little bit angry, because maybe I am, but it's all for a good reason, because all that's going to come out of this is nothing but the damn best America. We're on to big, bold, beautiful things. It's the golden age of America. All aboard, sons of bitches. Until the next time. Thank you for supporting my American band. That's it and that's all. Biggie Smalls.
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