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Eugene and DePriest tackle political plays, transportation tactics, and modified food ingredients. Learn how Trump's ballot ban could impact 2024 votes. Hear theories on oil supply games costing truckers. Debate immigrant policy impacts and prepaid debit controversies. All this while lawmakers quietly plot adding vaccines to vegetables! The guys cut through partisan noise to deliver informed opinions.
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the next one. All right, what's up? Good people, we want to thank you for coming into the Truckless Lounge with you guys, priest and Jean. We got a little lineup today, a few things that we're going to be discussing in our commentary today. We got Illinois putting on the show. We got truckers I guess it's an updated story that the truckers Boycott in New York supposedly may be going into full effect. We don't know. We got Mitch McConnell stepping down. We got now we're probably looking at some issues with our fuel prices now because of what's going on overseas, and we also got politicians wanting to put on the show vaccine in our produce. So we got a lineup today.
DePriest:Jean. How you doing, bro, doing well, man, how you doing tonight? Man, I'm good man, just trying to get it right. Yeah, just trying to get it right. I'm going to try to set a little vibe here, man Going and everything. But, uh, before we set the vibe, we want to start off the story with, uh, my guy, like I said, I'm not a Republican, but my god, trump, uh, we're going to start off the story with what's going on with him in Illinois. Most of us by now we already know what's going on with him in New York, with him being sued for greater than a half a billion billion dollars. So he got other issues going on, so he's getting the business right now. But we're going to start off with this news clipping from a local news station, wq AD News 8. They reported on this story, so here's a little clip and it's bringing you into full context on what's going on in Illinois with Trump now.
Audio News Clip:Former President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot next month overnight at Cook County Judge ruling that Trump violated the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause due to his actions during the January 6th Capitol attack. It's not a done deal, though. This decision doesn't actually take effect until tomorrow, so this is essentially letting the public know in advance what the decision will be. The judge is expecting appeals. A spokesperson of former President Trump is calling this decision quote unconstitutional. The ruling overturns last month's decision by the Illinois Board of Elections that Trump could remain on the ballot. This ruling is the latest in the string of decisions around the country concerning Trump's ballot eligibility. Right now, the U? S Supreme Court is hearing a case after the Colorado Supreme Court kicked Trump off its state primary ballot. It's unknown yet if that upcoming decision will have any effects on the ruling here in Illinois.
DePriest:Alright, there you have it. So the surprising thing for me is is how rapid this thing is going on. It's like one after another, if it well I know as far as the state ban. It started with Colorado, then the state of Maine got involved in it as well, so now we got Illinois in it. So, gene, what are the details you got on this situation here?
Eugene:Well, they're using that Illinois judge, which is the circuit court county judge, tracy Porter. They're using the the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment that basically says it will ban officials from serving if they've engaged in any insurrection, which you know, which is what they claim that Trump was a part of January 6th. Now Tracy Porter ordered the Illinois Board of Elections to remove Trump name from the ballot but put the order on hold just in case of an appeal. Now his attorneys were able to file that appeal and in that appeal it basically says that they're pretty much going to retain the order of stay of the judge, judge Porter, and it says, I quote, until the appeal is fully resolved by the Illinois Appalach Court First District, the Illinois Supreme Court and or the US Supreme Court. So basically can go through all those different courts till they reach a decision. That's my understanding that it can go through those courts. It go through one court if they appeal fails and then go through another court all the way up to the US Supreme Court that they can fight it.
DePriest:Well, this sounds like. I mean, if that's the case, this would be music to someone's like Donald Trump's ear, because the election is going to be in November. If he wins the election, they're not going to be able to touch him. And really, right now, with what's going on with the Democratic Party, you got so many of their core base seem to be turning on them Now a lot of people, which is understandable. They don't want to hold their nose and vote for Trump. And don't get me wrong, I get it. I don't criticize anybody for not voting for him because I didn't vote for him the last time. But my opinion is a lot different now.
DePriest:With everything that has been going on since the pandemic and right now, you know we we're dealing with too much post pandemic anxiety to be sitting here looking at this nonsense swirling around in the news. And the reason why I call it nonsense is because when he was in office, he did a lot of shit that he should have probably been out of office for, for what they were accusing them of. If that's what he was guilty of, no action was really taken, just a lot of political talk. I mean, it was good entertainment if you was glued to the news like I was, but it was just political talk. I mean you had politicians in the past did things. I mean you know, I think they handled Bill Clinton kind of rough when they impeached him for you know, you know, getting fallacious. I think they let George W Bush get away with lying about nuclear weapons being in Iraq, iraq and Afghanistan basically.
DePriest:Right just to kick a wall and which that caused hundreds of thousands of Americans are alive, as well as the you know, unfortunately, the victims that went down in the fall of the towers in New York. So I mean it's to me, it's it's it's nonsense, because number one, the Democratic Party I haven't seen anybody that they had that was appealing, other than Joe Biden. That's all I see, who they seem to be giving a push to. Then, a lot of these guys are old, so we're going to have an old guy. I feel like you might as well have Trump at least try to get the economy back on track for some of the Americans who are financially suffering, pan high rent or whatever. I really feel like Donald Trump will come in and rectify those issues.
DePriest:Joe Biden is a corporate politician. I don't feel like he's for the people. Truth be told, just by some of the moves that he's making, I mean I just, I mean it just looks silly to me. I mean it's, it's it's bigger things they could be worried about than to be trying to get the man put off the ballot. I mean it's it's looking more and more like dictatorship than than democracy. I mean I haven't never seen this before, where they put a candidate off the ballot and if it happened in the past, which I'm sure it has, it wasn't in the media this way for the, for the Americans to see in this way.
Eugene:Yeah, Right, and I think that's one of the things that they should just let the people decide. You know, instead of just taking his name off the ballot altogether, they should just let the people decide on who they choose and who they, who they know, who they choose to vote for.
DePriest:Exactly, exactly. And then I want to say this here too for the average American if I'm talking to the ones who doesn't have a political seat, don't get caught up in the choosing the size of the political out, and there's no need in some of you saying, no, I'm not like that. Okay, we'll compare this to a basketball game. I've been around so many people that'll take a win any kind of way that they get it. And let's just be honest, even when Trump was in office, he wasn't perfect. I mean hell, if you ask me, none of them are.
Eugene:Yeah.
DePriest:So let's, let's let's be truthful in our judgment on this. Does he deserve what he's going through? Yes, is it necessary in these times? Hell, no, you don't have anything appealing to be in leadership to get the country back on track, because you keep putting these corporate politicians into play and they keep it just seem like most of their policies that's directly affecting us immediately. It's in the favor of the people with the money you know.
DePriest:So, that's just the way I look at it. I just really feel like it's a waste of time. So that's why you got now the truck, our fellow brothers it. You know it was a news update. What about? What about yesterday? It was yesterday, I think it was reported. It wasn't many news sources, it was a local news source in New York had reported, like an update, about the truckers boycott, which I'm pretty sure they're probably just going off of the last story that that we've reported. I just saw one new guy speaking up on it, but I can't even see that happening.
DePriest:Now. This is what I see happening. If you're a truck driver that live in New York, in a trucker, boycott happens. It's going to be some New York truckers, it's going to be some pretty good damn rates. That's, that's what I see happening.
DePriest:I don't see a unity forming amongst truckers to boycott New York for the sake of what they're doing to Trump Hill. You want to even boycott these, these horrible rates out here. You want to even boycott these fuel prices. You want to even boycott these long waits that the shippers and receivers. That's costing us money, because our time is money when we're in the transportation industry. So let's not, you know, play this political game, drivers of this. Boycott New York, because you know just as well as I know that it's not going to happen Anytime. You have a pandemic and the average rate go up, go up towards six to eight dollars a mile and then drastically take a drop within a year and a half and then go down to a dollar and seventy five cent on average for certain modes of transportation. I mean, just stop it, you ain't going to do nothing, just stop it.
Eugene:Yeah, because everyone calls for a strike. You know everybody's pretty much go to is a let's strike, but no one really comes up with the right type of organization. You know they don't know how to organize it per se. On how to strike, I think one time they did a, a rolling, what you call a slow roll in in DC. You know slow down the traffic and stuff and it's a lot of truckers was going to be doing that, you know. And a one day strike or two day strike. I don't know how much that's going to change because not everyone is going to afford, be able to afford. They might better do one or two days, but that's not going to really drastically affect the country and make some changes that you're looking to to see. You know you're able to do a one month boycott and shut your trucks down. Then you might be able to see something, but not everyone can afford to do that.
DePriest:Well, you got to watch pockets, and what I mean by that is, you know, when you got these bigger companies out here, like the Mega Carries, like your JB Hunt, your Swift, your Mega, your Mega Shipping facilities, or manufacturers like your General Mills, your Kellogg's, your Home Depot. The owners of those companies are just who they are, but they pretty much ran by their investors, which are called shareholders. So unless you plan on playing that game, it to me is going to take a month. Because see, here's the thing, the more you run, the more money you put into the shareholders' pockets. The more money you put into the shareholders' pockets, the more power you give them to come up with another plan to counter your attack. Yeah, you see, right now they're pushing heavily automated trucks. We want them to be rolling unmanned by the end of this year in certain areas. Nobody in the trucking community is paying attention to that. Everybody just focus on getting the bag. You're not even realizing that your bag's going to have a leak in it.
Eugene:Yeah, a big, long cut.
DePriest:Right, you know. So, like when you talk about strike, we're talking about months of preparation, of stocking your de-freezer full of food, getting all your bills paid up ahead of time and, on top of that, being able to put money to the side. Then you shut this motherfucker down for about six months. Even if they come to the table, you still make them wait, you make them agree and you make them wait. That's the game that you got to play with billionaires. They don't hear you. They don't hear a slow roll one day of holding up traffic. They don't hear that. Is it a problem? Yeah, it's a problem. Does it affect billionaires' bottom line? Hell no, it does not affect their bottom line.
DePriest:If you want to play that game with billionaires, you got to get ready to go to the max with it, because they got too much money to play with it. And out, wait us on these slow roll, these one day strike going up the Washington line. Enough honking your horn and all that shit. They got too much money to play with. They're not going to hear you. You got to get ready to be balls to the wall with it. Just imagine yourself coming down faster gap and getting in that hammer lane. That's how you got to be with this shit. Yeah, don't waste your time upping them rates for them guys in New York, only for them to get on social media Talk about how much money they done made, because if you do that, you're going to have more of these guys with these goddamn masterclasses talking about how good the rates are, when the rates ain't going to know them where. They just hide in New York because y'all went and did a strike.
Eugene:Yep, and then you have everybody trying to get into the New York and northeast area to take those runs from the guys who live there.
DePriest:Right, Exactly, you know. So I mean, let's get it right. I mean, if anything come together, let's get on the one umbrella and learn and understand the technical business side of the industry, because when you learn that then we could operate the same way shareholders do when we're negotiating our rates. You know the market, the market, this bull crap market. They claim they set the rates. Those rates are set by the people in power, the people that has the money, the shareholders.
DePriest:Do you not realize these shareholders a lot of the same names that are shareholders under JB Hunter Swift, are on the board with General Meals, which is a manufacturing company, on the board with some of these. What's another shipping company? What Walmart? You can consider Walmart a shipping and what you call it, a seller or product to the consumers. Right, they got big shareholders. All these shareholders because there's only so many of you know, all of them sits on the board of a big transportation company, a big manufacturing company, a big shipping company, a big freight forwarding company and the biggest brokerage company. Doesn't that sound like monopoly to you guys? So, like I said, man, you know, until you're already to move like that under one umbrella, ain't nothing going to happen. Ain't nothing going to happen. They're going to slide these automated trucks right up under us and it's going to be what it's going to be until we move and I suggest we move quickly, right.
Eugene:That's true. That's so true because you know they already started with the fully automated yard trucks at some warehouses across the country, Different warehouses across the country. I think one of the most recent ones is at a Nestle warehouse in Arkansas. They bought well this. I think this was an electric truck.
DePriest:Right yeah, that's an electric truck.
Eugene:Okay, yeah so, but over in Texas they have a warehouse that's fully autonomous when it comes to the yard trucks Right.
DePriest:A company, a technology company that make the robotic, what automated trucks is called ISSE. It's a company from overseas somewhere and they got their yard fully automated.
Eugene:Yeah.
DePriest:Yeah, so you know, if you want to stand for Trump, just vote for him anyway. I mean, if you're in New York, I mean people that, not not New York, I'm sorry in the states that they're being in, Trump off of the ballot Illinois, Maine, Colorado, you know, darling, people have to speak up as Trump supporters because now you're, they want to vote for a particular candidate and you're taking them off the ballot. And now you're depriving I don't care what the law says, you're the, you're depriving citizens of their American right to vote for whoever they want to vote for. To put it off, Right? So, so the people over there could start screaming. I just get sick of the news and you know all this shit. They try to make it like it's so difficult to make it happen. Yeah, it's difficult, in a sense of when you're trying to get people to come together and speak in one loud voice. But it's not geometry, Right? You just take a little sacrifice, that's all.
Eugene:Yeah, but you know there's how stuff get when they were in politics. I mean they sling and all kinds of mud. They'll go. They'll go back to a candidate is any type of candidate. They'll go back into a candidate's high school or college time and pick no, pick up what they did. And if they were a bully in college or a bully in high school, they're going to go and address that and pull that out. And that's the part about politics. I've never really cared for how they go so far back and they just sling mud and as as if that candidate is still the same person today.
DePriest:Well, actually, like like me, I'm sorry, go ahead. I thought you was finished.
Eugene:No, no, I'm done. Yeah, you go ahead.
DePriest:Well, actually, like me, I feel a little different about that. I'm actually I'm cool with that in the spirit of politics. If you want to play the game like you did this here, you ain't no good. You slept with this many women If you want to play that kind of game. But when you start getting into messing up people, marriages, like, just like maliciously tearing down somebody, reputation, this situation they got going on with Trump. Now they trying to use the law for personal matters, you can't tell me that it's not personal.
DePriest:I was glued to the TV when this with this great, when this guy was in office, because he was so entertaining. So I saw everything on the news. It all the connection, all the links to Darcy, a Julia Sergeant, and WikiLeaks, the situation with Facebook and Facebook being infiltrated by Russia and China taking over the information to steer toward Trump. I watched all of it, you know, and so you can't tell me he didn't step on toes and this is the result of him stepping on toes when he was in office. This ain't about what he did illegal. You know. This is this. This is more personal. And then they're sending people out they look like new people to basically like dogs, sicken them on them, like those DA's in New York. Fannie Willis, down in Georgia they got her tied up in some stuff. Now that I'm pretty sure that was brought up with her affair with this guy. There's this that's got her on trial to be disqualified from this case. So I'm yet so you know, it's just a lot of personal, malicious muscle in career in then type tactics that they're using and I think that's unfortunate, you know, for this country to be in that kind of trauma where we got leadership doing this kind of stuff. But again, like I say, as Americans is our fault because we forget they work for us. Even Trump, if we vote him in office, he works for us. If he win the election and you didn't vote him in office, he works for you. That's true. You know I like what killer Mike said on the view.
DePriest:He said I don't want to get caught up into the soap opera. You know it was asking him. You know when you're going to endorse by the he's I'm gonna focus on my our local elections in Atlanta. You know he said that's what I'm more focused on. He said what's going on right now? He's I don't want to get caught up in the politic drama of all this he said he said like I think he said his grandma or his granddad told me, said one thing my grandma or my granddad told me stay out of white folks building and sit back and see what he's doing. You know right, but to me that was like his way of saying I'm not endorsing no body. Body really hasn't did a whole lot.
DePriest:You know they went through this list about all the money he gave the HPC use and you know blah, blah, blah and all that. Okay, yeah, that's cool, but what about all the other stuff that he's doing is directly affecting people. When Trump had the stimulus checks going around, a lot of people depending on that, yeah, you know, and he did, and he kept it going for a year after he got in office and it was gone, just like that. You know he came out with some old funk as a prepaid card to give you what was it like? $500 a month insurance, $200 a month, something like that.
Eugene:Yeah, I think it was some some similar to that.
DePriest:And we all know how, how these doctor bills are when you don't have insurance and and and and. Okay, that's fine for the you know to give us prepaid cards to go to the doctor, but why damn card it for the prescriptions we need that car, right, you know, because it I mean like. I mean, it's like a horror movie to go to the doctor. They tell you that, okay, so this pay for your doctor visit, but the medicine that you need costs $700 for 20 pills. You know, then, what you know now you don't find that I got a problem and I don't have any money to fix it. You know, this is the time that people will put out of work because of post pandemic, when a lot of businesses were closing down, people were, people were in, are still feeling the effects of that Right.
Eugene:Yeah, yeah that's unfortunate. That's true and I know we kill a mic. I remember watching some of that His interview on the view and I remember one does one of the things he was speaking on. One thing I did like about him in prior elections you know he's always said don't vote for someone who doesn't give you anything. He just given your vote away and you know I think he voted, if I'm not mistaken. I want to say he voted independent of this election.
DePriest:Yeah, is that correct. He was back and Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders. Then they make it in.
Eugene:Right, right. So I think he voted independent, or so you know, and that's, and that's the thing. That's something that we've talked about was don't just give your vote away because you're a Republican, you've always voted Republican, or you're a Democrat, and you've always voted Democrat. Whoever the candidate is that's going to do the best for you and your family, that's who you vote for it, in spite of your affiliation.
DePriest:Right, right. So I'm not going to speak for Jean, but you know, I'm in my 40s and I just recently learned, a few years ago, that and and this is how I view it. So so don't judge me. I don't consider myself Democratic or Republican, and let me explain why. Because I feel like it's. It's just like.
DePriest:This is how I look at look at it like a fraternity. I can like the Q dogs, I can like the alpha. I could be a supportive of them, I could be at every event that they have, but I'm not a Q dog, nor am I alpha. I don't have the power to make any decisions that I may see them doing or any events that they're having to change it. I'm not a initiated member or voted in member. That's how I look at politics. I'm just a citizen who, looking for you know we're going to have government. I'm just a citizen who wants the individual in there who's going to do what I want them to do. I know they can't do everything that I want them to do, but at least some of the important things that I'm looking for, that's what I want them to do.
DePriest:I be damned if I vote for D or R just because my family voted a certain way. I be damned if I vote for D or R just because I might like or feel like Trump is the best choice. You know, once in, and I want to make this clear If Trump gets my vote, it'll probably be a long time before another Republican gets my vote Because, to be told, I don't see the Republican Party that's some of them that's in office not doing too much, enough right, but holding up progress, and I see the Democrats trying to give away money in all the wrong directions. Yeah, you know, which is going to lead us to our next topic. Once we get there, I wanted you to have a look. You know, and you know more input on this topic.
Eugene:Well, I mean, I felt the same way because you know we've talked about a few times is I've never said that I was a Republican or Democrat, because I've always looked at the parties I voted Democrat and Republican on different ballots.
Eugene:I know, when I lived in California and a lot of people might laugh at this and like I can't believe you, but I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger where he became the governor of California. I think I was like 18, 19, or so I first began, you know, got the, got my chance to vote in that election for the governor. I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger and I think he came in as a Republican, you know, because I was interested in some of the things Okay, yeah, and I was interested in some of the things that he said that he was going to do for that economy in California, you know, and so I voted Republican. I didn't affiliate myself with the Republicans or the Democrats, I just did that and that's one thing I've always tried to look for who's going to do the best for me with what I'm trying to do?
Eugene:And I think that's how everyone should vote Exactly.
DePriest:Exactly, but, yeah, but, but. But we're going to move on to the next topic. You know, in New York. New York is, as a lot of us know, there. They have been having issues with the immigrants being bussed into New York City and it's a lot of benefits being given away. A lot of our fellow Americans in New York don't feel like it's fair. I don't think it's fair In a lot of ways. I'm all for anybody coming to the country and want to better themselves and better the country. I'm all for that. But this here is something else to me. It just, it just looks like something else. So I don't know what this is, but we're going to play a little news clip in here from a local news station in New York City. Basically, you know, talking about Mayor Adams. A lot of the weight is falling in on him. Eugene is going to have more information on what's going down with it, but we're going to bring this news clip in, then Gene is going to bring it in the context for us.
Audio News Clip:Mayor Adams says giving asylum seekers debit cards to buy their own food will save the city millions. But the head of the city council's oversight and investigations committee wants to know why the city issued a $53 million no bid contract without seeing if it could get a better deal.
Audio News Clip:I think you should be able to see who would do the best job at the best cost for taxpayers.
Audio News Clip:And also member Gail Brewer says she wants to investigate a pilot program launched by Mayor Adams to give asylum seekers prepaid debit cards that will allow them to buy food, baby products and other necessities at supermarkets, bodegas, groceries and convenience stores. The $53 million contract we used by CBS2 gives the firm mobility capital finance lots of fees for services, including $125,000 one time setup fee, $250,000 in annual management fees and fees based on how much money is distributed to migrants $1.5 million for the first $50 million handed out, $2.5 million for the next $100 million. The program will involve 500 families staying in short term hotels like the Row and the Watson. According to the contract, the most the card can have is $10,000, but most cards will be refilled every four weeks. A family of four can get about $1,000, $35 a day and they can buy whatever food they want to eat.
Audio News Clip:I don't know exactly how it's going to work. In other words, I do say from the release that it would be for diapers and baby products and food, but you know you have to be careful that that's what it's actually going to be for.
DePriest:Now, on the face of it, I'm not for that. I mean, have you ever had somebody that owed you money? And you see them at the store and you know you buying your cigarettes or your food or whatever, or local bread or whatever and they come in and they're getting like $100 in gas and they owe you. That's what this looks like. When you talk about everyday Americans in New York City living in the streets, homeless, I mean just having a hard time. Rent is so high up there. I can only imagine you know the fluctuation of gas prices up there on top of that.
DePriest:So, yeah, this is a slap in the face to Americans and we need to stop this notion that just because that Americans don't like this, that they got something against the immigrants. We need to stop that bullshit notion. I mean, I think to me that's a cop out to just keep from addressing the issue head on. But one of the things that I'm curious about is that you know, I see a lot of this weight is falling in on Mayor Adams. He's a mayor in New York City, he's an African American and I'm just curious to know is this something that he's doing on his own or is this more like a federal law that puts him in a position that he has to accept these immigrants.
Eugene:Now I think that when it comes to that, when you look at all the immigrants that have been led into the country, they for some reason they led them into the major cities you know, a lot of the major cities already have strained budgets and strained resources that they're trying to maintain for its own citizens, you know and so a lot of the immigrants are brought into New York, just like they were brought into Chicago.
Eugene:Now, mayor Adams basically said that this was basically the solution to a problem and this would help them save money, because they were basically saying that it would help to curve the cost of expensive food distribution because a lot of food was going to waste. So I think at first they were just distributing food but it was going to waste, and so they said, okay, why not, let's just come up with a pilot program. We'll take 500 families and this is what we'll do. We'll just hand them those carts and allow them to buy the food that they want and supplies for babies I think it's like Pampers and baby wipes and stuff of that nature and that's all they can use that money for. And they said this will save them, say pretty much, say the taxpayers about $7 million a year.
Eugene:Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute To my giving money away to the immigrant, giving it to the immigrant, because they have to take care of the immigrants anyway, and so them doing it in that case would be cheaper, because they said that would save them that amount of money. Now, the part about it, now all of it, it sounds pretty suspect to me. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm sick, I don't know what's that Go ahead.
DePriest:You know, just interrupt one second. So let's do a comparison to something that we're familiar with. So my light bill, say, for instance, normally $120 a month, let's just say that and you in the city or energy which we have, energy in the area that we're in raises our light bill up to $300. So I have to go out and get a salt, pay thousands of dollars for a solar panel set up to save money. Is that the analogy that we can compare that to when they say they just want to say the city money?
Eugene:You could use that. Yeah, because the different yeah. So, that's what we're doing now. Now, because he the part about it that really I mean all of it is going to make the citizens and the taxpayers angry, but especially the fact that they're giving them $1,000 a month prepaid card. That's what that those immigrants get. Like a family of four qualifies for a $1,000 a month prepaid card.
DePriest:So that same. I'm sorry because you just hit me with some. So, so. So they couldn't have had that same savings if they took care of the, the, the, the Americans, that's living on the street, and giving them prepaid free? You know same room and board, you know the prepaid cost. Doesn't it seem like they could still save the citizens in New York this same amount of money? It was even more, it was even now.
Eugene:Now, now in the face it is now. Mayor Adams said that you know he's requested help from, or they requested help from, the White House, but they haven't had any in turn. Dealing with that Now on the federal level? I don't know. That's the part that kind of confuses me and I had to do a little bit more research on is why these immigrants being dumped in New York City. But they said over the past two years over 173,000 immigrants have come into the city. Why is that? That's a lot of people, you know in two years and Shucks that's probably what you say. That's probably more than than the the great migration that African Americans had 100 years ago. They moved from the South into New York City, moved up North and everything.
DePriest:I don't know, those are some statistics that we would have to look up to be sure, but I do know this that's just New York we're talking about, right? We're not talking about cities like Chicago, right, and yeah, you know, we're not even talking about them. I mean, and they are really Democrats, are really in political trouble in Chicago.
DePriest:Yeah, you know, behind that, you know, and apparently, apparently it must be some kind of fatigue behind it, because CNN posted an article two days ago that Mayor Adam is calling for changes in the New York sanctuary policy because they haven't crime rate picking up there. It's you know that that the immigrants are committing like home invasion and all that, and he want to change the policy and sanctuary in a sanctuary policy so he can send them out of New York. So that's what's got me kind of thinking that he's not right.
DePriest:Like his hands are tied, Like he can't stop this train from rolling in, Right, and you know, and I hate to say it like this, but by him being a, you know, African American in a position like that and if I'm not mistaken, I think the mayor in Chicago is black as well To me it looks like a political setup, because when this first happened, they was crossing over into Texas and Texas was like OK, since y'all want them, since y'all don't want to build a wall or y'all want them to come in, we're going to bust them over to some of these blue states. And that's how the busts and had began. But I never really understood or really looked into what the sanctuary policy was all about. So apparently it looks like his hands are tied, so he's trying to find a way to get some of them out of there. You know, and the way it looks, just by reading this article it seemed like if he could have it his way, he'd get them all out of there, Right, but apparently his hands is tied.
Eugene:Because you got to see I mean 170,000 extra people in two years and more common Right. That's a strain on the city's budget, I would think.
DePriest:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, like I say, it just looks like dirty politics, because if it's a sanctuary policy, I don't know who passed it, but if it was a sanctuary policy, that's got his hands tied. That looks like a political setup, because right now his position is in jeopardy. Now New Yorkers are not feeling what he's allowing to happen in the city and I mean it's just unfortunate. You know, if that's the situation, yeah, it's just unfortunate. But but yeah, I'm sorry.
Eugene:You said what the Nah, I'm going to say, I guess we'll see. As you know, everything begins to unfold and the story continues to develop. I'm sure we'll really be able to get down to the bottom of what's going on.
DePriest:Yeah, hopefully. Yeah, I'm trying to look up something now on the sanctuary policy.
Eugene:Okay, yeah, this is going to pull up. Yeah, I didn't even know they had a sanctuary policy in New York. But that makes sense because when you look at, a lot of your immigrants from the country are in New York. You know New York is a melting pot of, you know basically different groups of people, ethnicities and everything.
DePriest:Right, but see, we didn't know about the sanctuary policy. We knew they were calling themselves sanctuary cities, yeah, but we didn't know about the sanctuary policy. But yeah, this right here, what I found I don't think I don't think it was a sanctuary city is a municipality that limits or denies its cooperation with national government and enforcing immigration laws. So, yeah, that's a little deeper. We're going to have to do more research and touch back on it on another show. But, however, there are some immigrants that are very happy about it. You know so much to the point that this next clip kind of can't we're not going to say kind of idea, come off insulting, we'll see here. But anyway, we're going to play this next clip now. This next clip here that I'm going to play is a clip of a story that Jesse Waters was covering about.
DePriest:One of the immigrants went on TikTok social media, whatever channel. He went on and he was bragging about the money that the United States is giving them. You know he doesn't speak English, so they have a translator translating his words. So I just want to keep this in mind. I just got through talking about dirty politics.
DePriest:Now, one thing that we learned during the Trump era. You see it in and Fox News Didn't mind doing whatever they had to do to push their agenda. So I don't know if this guy is a plant by the Republican Party so that they can have a story to cover to veer more votes toward Trump or this real. But see, we're going to take it as if it's real because he actually posted it. We saw the video of him actually posted it, showing his family. So you know so, but I just want to kind of give you that context. So if you hear somebody talking, it doesn't sound like a form, it's translated, you know giving it. But here's the clip on that data we're going to bring up here, with this immigrant here speaking about the benefits that he's getting.
Audio News Clip:Okay, from the Venezuelan migrant in the country illegally bragging about ripping the country off, listen to this.
Audio News Clip:You came to the United States to work and I came to vacation. Look at the difference. She is the one that maintains me. That is why I don't work, because the government gives her what belongs to her, to my daughter, for being an American citizen, capiche, I have no need to work because, well guys, like few of you, this little princess, for being American, already receives a lot of money. Capiche, the trick is to have children in the United States. Here is the gold mine, the gold mine.
Audio News Clip:So we're suckers and we don't want to speak up about it because we're afraid of being labeled haters.
DePriest:Okay, Now, let me, let me explain. You know, do that? I mean he made a song, okay, right. So if you listen at the context, he wasn't talking to Americans. If you listen to the context it started off with, he said you.
DePriest:So he's actually beefing with somebody on social media what it sounds like to me and he kind of like rubbing it in their face, like hey, we over here, you know we get in the bag over here and we ain't got to work for it.
DePriest:You know right, but nevertheless it's still insulting to me, to Eugene, to my mother, my father and all my ancestors that work to build this country, as well as yours. So, even though he might not be talking directly at Americans, that's good information to, to have to know what our government is doing with money. And then you got people out here they doing investigation in Americans that they're doing investigation in on who got the PPP loans. They want you to pay back the SBA loans that you may have gotten for your business during the pandemic. And we're Americans who pay taxes here. You know, I mean, I know I've been taxed heavily in my business and you want to bring these people over here to give them benefits like that that I'm paying for, just for them to brag on it like that. That's a slap in the face.
Eugene:Right, we don't qualify for it. I would like to see receive a thousand dollar a month stipend a prepaid off my family. Let me pay my rent.
DePriest:Exactly. But see, and that's the crazy part about it, is like I'm assuming the thousand dollars for the family afforded their getting that's just extra cash, but the the room and board is already paid for and I think they're giving them something else, like like foodstaff car for food. You know, I'm yeah, yeah, I'm thinking that's what's going on because Brother man Ray does. If, if, if Rick Flair was a foreigner, that's what he would sound like, that would be him. That would be him. If Rick Flair was a foreigner, that's what he would sound like Exactly. So yeah, that's an insult flat out in. So, man.
Eugene:Yeah, that is crazy and I'm sure cuz he was pretty much in that video was telling all all the his. You know, latino brothers and sisters, you know the bass play, come on over. You know, yeah, they they telling you a lie that the board is closed. No, it's, it's wide open.
DePriest:Come on Right right in, in in. We have to think about it too. You know, what we hear on the news is just that, what we hear on the news. We're not on the grounds in these spaces to know what's really going on, so we have to rely on the media to report it to us. And Now, if you see it like I see it, you can't really even trust the media right now to really tell you the whole truth About a lot of events that's happening in the world. Like they say that they coming over here for a better life. Well, who's to say they wouldn't live in a pretty good life where they were? Yeah, you know, I mean, it's a better life to come over here and own multiple businesses and, and and and have many mansions or big mansions. Yeah, sure, that's a better life, but at what cost is that a cost to us? Yeah, you know.
DePriest:Right, you know I don't have anything against foreigners. I don't want anybody think think that. But right, it's right. You know, in in in Summer, our communities, we have foreigners. Some are good, don't get me wrong, so I'm a good. You know, we got one in the, in the area that we stay in. He owns a gas station. He's very involved with the city. Give him back, you know, and I salute him for that. But you got some over here. They're just absolutely shit on the people in our community.
DePriest:They only their only purpose is to come to our community, make money. They don't put anything back. That money goes right back out of our community, right? Some of them don't even bother to even fix their businesses up to make the community looks look better. You know now, if you want to call that racist, you're crazy. That's not racist.
DePriest:I have the right Not to approve or agree with anything, no matter what it looks like. It don't matter if you're a foreigner, don't matter if you're gay, don't matter if you're straight, don't matter if you're black, don't matter if you're white. I have the right to disagree without being you know something, something someone saying that you're racist. Well, look, I'm black. I can't be racist for one. You know. I mean, you know. I'm saying not, not in there, since not not with the hard times our ancestors had here in in this country building this country and we still don't get what we feel like that we should have.
DePriest:Yeah, mainly number one one of my concerns is the level. The level of education our children receive in the public school systems I Think is bullshit. Ever since George W Bush passed that, no child left behind law. This is like they just been absolutely garbage in the public school system. Then I'm a black and white man and I have to get facts on this, black and white facts. Then you got the public school system donating supplies to the private schools For real.
Eugene:Yeah, I didn't know where that happened.
DePriest:That's been going on. That's been going on Especially in the hometown that I'm from, to the private schools.
Eugene:Like they used supplies or something.
DePriest:It don't matter why you don't name anything to the private schools when they charge in parents to have their children there.
Eugene:Yeah, I didn't know they were doing that.
DePriest:Yeah, you know, I mean it's crazy. Yeah, see, they do a lot of stuff under our nose that we don't know about Because, see, we have people on you know sitting on the school board that's affiliated with these private schools. So any resources that come in, that's left over. Yeah, they help their buddies out. Yeah, they make over the board of those private schools. Yeah, they do that Because they have the power to distribute that money supposedly any way that they want for whatever the grant may be for, for the school system, or whatever Private schools is a school system. Now some people are going to disagree oh, no, that's bullshit. No, it's not. No, that's not bullshit, you know. So it's just a lot of crazy stuff going on. It's not just about Biden, it's not just about Trump, it's not just about President Obama, that's just the political system that we have allowed to be going on forever. Right, you know, these people, just like some of these local politicians, they don't bring their asses around until they want to vote.
Eugene:Yeah, then you see them, a lot of them. They ain't see them coming to your church. Yeah, exactly, they're so tired, you know doing they clap and they, you know the pastor. Let them sit up in the pool, put in a lot of smaller churches and give them a few words to say and you know, go on from there.
DePriest:Yeah, and it just lets you know how lenient God is. You know that he didn't send a tornado through there. They stood up in the church just for a vote. Right, Come on now. Come on now. But speaking of politicians, that'll do anything for a vote. Mitch McConnell stepping down from Senate leadership, and so I guess he could get out of the way.
Eugene:I mean old Mitch yeah, that's what he's gonna say at the age of 82, he decided he's gonna go on here and step down when he's stepping down as the Senate Republican leader.
DePriest:But he ain't stepping down for working, no he look, listen, you know he gonna wait till 2027, at the end of his term, to retire. Right yeah, he'll be 85 or 86 years old, Wow. Now let me say this that's a damn shame. It's a shame it's so greedy of power that your enjoyment of your golden years is making laws.
Eugene:Yeah, and you know he's had some times I think on two occasions that I know of where he froze up, you know all the time he was looking like he was shitting himself Right. Well, he looked like he was having a stroke or something you know on one of them occasions.
DePriest:Excuse me. Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. I've been on the porcelain throne before. On my phone you know FaceTime and people and I've had that face before. Let me stop making fun because you know, because it's not funny, you know, but you know Mitch McConnell. It's a blessing that you know for him even to be, you know, still here at 82 years old in a job like that. But uh, that man did a lot of you know things in politics. You know it was for the betterment of somebody, but on the face of looking at a lot of the things that he did, you know he blocked President Obama nominee for the Supreme Court. Was it Garland? I?
Eugene:believe. Yeah, I'm not familiar with who he, who he blocked on that.
DePriest:Yeah, yeah, president Trump, president Obama was trying to get, I think, mayor Garland uh voted in as Supreme Court. Yeah, well, voted into the Supreme Court. Mayor Garland was a Democrat, mitch McConnell. By him being a Senate leader, he blocked it uh to clear the way for Trump nominees when Trump came in office.
DePriest:Okay, a lot of people didn't like that. Uh, I know the Supreme Court is not an immediate effect on us. I know that's like a long term effect. By the time we feel some of what Mitch McConnell did. He may be gone by then, you know. But uh, he has did a lot of things where he's held up policy for uh reasons to just play dirty politics, you know. But I'm pretty sure he had his reasons for his agenda. But to us it just like man, you know you're, you're holding up a lot, you know, just for your own personal reasons. Whether it be money, because of certain special interests that he may have in certain businesses and certain laws are being passed to benefit them, you know whether it's going to boost up a certain uh start or whatever, you know. So it's good that he's stepping down, but it's sad that he stayed too long.
Eugene:Yeah, and I think that, um, I believe, I think that they should really just change or make it a law that says that you can only serve in a political position, in a political position of power, up until the age of 65. At 65, you have to retire. You can't be an airline pilot or commercial airline, I think it's just a pilot in general. You can't be a pilot as 65 years old. There are a lot of jobs in positions that age 65. That is the age limit you have to retire. How many people you see boxing or in sports? You know a certain age, when they get past a prime, it's time to retire. And I think they should do that. Uh, for politicians, and you know, let them serve on it and serve on an advisory board or something to advise some younger people that's coming in. But I think they should make a federal law that at the age of 65, it's time to retire.
DePriest:But you know what? It would be hard for them to be advisors, for the simple reason is it's something about holding that seat that can get you to a point to where you know you're not listening to your advisors. You know, and I think that's the reason why they don't want to just be advisors, because once you hold that seat you can advise me all you want, but when it's showtime I do what I want and that's right. And when you got that kind of power and you have special interests that you're not telling anybody about because you don't want to get caught up in no kind of legal situation for you passing laws for certain reasons, whether it be for monetary reasons or whatever, you know that that would eat somebody like Mitch McConnell up. Yeah, you know, for somebody, you know who I mean. That's just like driving from the passenger seat for for for Mitch McConnell.
DePriest:You know he, he, he been empowered for so long. Then he said he stepped it down for the next generation to step up. Man, you should have been gone two generations ago. It should have been gone. Yeah Right, we probably missed out on some good politicians that could have held their seat because of your greed. You know, brad Fawd. Doom Green Bay Packers like that. They had to run him off like that because he didn't want to move out the way for Aaron Rodgers to come up. Okay, you know what I mean so yeah, you know.
DePriest:I always bet Shoot man Brad Fawd, Hold on, Let me look at that. Tell me when he left Green Bay.
Eugene:Yeah, when he left or when he retired he didn't retire from because I don't really follow the sports like that he didn't retire from Green Bay.
DePriest:No, no, he didn't retire from Green Bay. He loved Green Bay and they sent him to the jets and then he left there and went to Minnesota Vikings and then he retired when he was with Minnesota Vikings, but I think they let him come back to Green Bay to retire. I could be wrong, but I think they let him come back to Green Bay to retire because he had put in so much work at Green Bay. He pretty much built Green Bay up to have the name that they did have. He was 41 years old when he retired in 2010.
Eugene:Okay.
DePriest:Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah yeah. That's pretty old for a quarterback, you know, taking the hits that he took.
Eugene:Yeah, Okay. So how old was? You said that was Brad Fawd, right.
DePriest:Yeah.
Eugene:So how was Tom Brady when he retired, when he around the same age?
DePriest:No, Tom Brady was 44.
Eugene:Okay.
DePriest:Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was 44 years old. Look like Brad Fawd. Like he left, he got traded to the Jets in 2008 from Green Bay, so he was 39 years old, but now, brady. That's why, that's one of the reason why he, going down in history, is one of the greatest quarterbacks. He's the first quarterback that did it that long at that level.
DePriest:Yeah, brad Fawd got to the point that man was so shook up. I remember one game that man had ran five, about five yards past the line of scrimmage and still passed the ball down the field and he knew that was a penalty. He, you know, he was shook up on taking them hits, right, you know, he got about five yards past that line of scrimmage trying to scramble and the big boys were coming down to me. He, just he, he, that thing down the field. That's when I knew. Then I said this old with bread. Yeah, yeah, it's old with bread, you know, because it reminded me so much of I don't, I don't think what was the name of that movie Jamie Foxx was in when he was a football player.
Eugene:Oh, friday night lights or something, is that it?
DePriest:No, no, I wasn't Friday.
Eugene:No, it's my. With him and LL Cool J. Yeah, I thought that was Friday night. That must be Will Ferrell. I forgot what the name of that movie is. It was something with Friday in it. I thought Well any given Sunday.
DePriest:Okay, yeah, dennis Quaid was playing what's his. He was playing like the quarterback. He was the quarterback that had built that team, that they had built that team around for like years and he was aging and Jamie Foxx came in as a backup quarterback to him and you know they called Dennis Quaid cap and cap had took so many hits through the years. I mean he, you know like every time the ball snap it was like his life was flashing, you know, in front of his eyes. You know he was still trying to be productive but he didn't have that nerve of stealing anymore to stay in that pocket like he used to. You know, them days were gone. You know he had took too many hits. Yeah, and uh, yeah, so that that that that reminds me of Brady Farr. But see, but it's, it's still the same analogy to politician at some point in time you don't took too many hits, you're not productive like you used to be. That's when it's time to go and get on out the way and let somebody else take over.
DePriest:What happened to Mitch McConnell, that freeze up? That happened to him. That ain't the first time that happened to him. That that I'm willing to bet. That has happened to him quite a few times in private, you know. But, but, but greed of power.
Eugene:Yeah, and they tried to cover it up as best as they could, but those few times that we saw they had slipped up, you know, and we got a chance to see you know what he probably been dealing, have been dealing with for the past 10 years possibly.
DePriest:Right, right, and, and what is that is related to a mental issue. You know, uh, uh, alzheimer's. You know some kind of deterioration going on in that. You know, uh, alzheimer's. And what's the other one, dementia dementia. Right, you know you, you mean to me, you got these issues and you're making laws for us.
Eugene:That's something to think about it is, you know and see, I thought until I did some research on it, um, I thought that there were other positions outside of uh Supreme Court justices that had positions for life. You know, I thought, like some of those uh senators had, you know, their positions for life. So he had to keep getting elected in, and I'm trying to figure out who kept elect them. Because he was a senator of the state of Kentucky, you know, and so that would mean that the citizens kept electing him or voting for him. You know, every. I think they served six years or so. That's the time that they have, it's like six years of a term.
DePriest:Man, I don't tell how many elections these politicians still in, you know, say special politician like Mitch McConnell, being from a state like Kentucky, I mean hell, you know. You remember that scandal with Bob Dole and uh, who's a Bob Dole?
DePriest:and George W Bush when they said they they, they, they leave it out of him with suitcases full of votes Wow. So you know, I mean you know what I'm saying. To me, it's just hard to believe that there's no new upcoming candidate that can represent a seat like that. But one thing I can say guys like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, they do put on for their state, they don't put on for their supporters. Whatever they think their supporters want, they are going to put it, put it down. They don't care how crazy they sound, they don't care how much ass it looked like they're kissing. They, they, they have no integrity to me now. No integrity, no morals, because we talk about Ted Cruz.
DePriest:Donald Trump talked bad about the man's wife and he did the same thing to Mitch McConnell he talked bad about the man's wife. Now, politician or not, you can't talk to me. Once you make an insult like that, you know not moving around with the demeanor like Donald Trump. And and I guess that's why I like Donald Trump because at the same time, washington needed that. Our leaders had got too complacent, got too comfortable, you know, got got got too secretive.
DePriest:Yeah, and you had old Trump come up there and just blew the roof off of a lot of it, exposed all of it. Right, you know. So I learned more about politics and government, the four, the four years Trump served. Then I did in school, you know, and that's because of the way that I was looking at it. See, I didn't get caught up in just looking at Trump, I was looking at the reaction to Trump. Yeah, yeah, that's what I got caught up in, right.
Eugene:Yeah, I think a lot of people were looking at that because a lot of people were very highly entertained, entertained during that election.
DePriest:I was one of.
Eugene:I was one of yeah, you tripped me out how you came over names for everybody.
DePriest:Oh man, look, my favorite one was Nervous Nancy.
Eugene:Nervous Nancy, yeah, yeah, yeah, nervous Nancy, I like that he would say little Marco, little Marco, right, right.
DePriest:Yeah, yeah, little Marco, but you know, but see, but he had called Nervous Nancy. Well, I'm sorry, nancy Pelosi, I ain't mean to you know, but when he called it, when Trump called Nancy Pelosi, nancy Pelosi and I, and I quote, nervous Nancy, he was so damn mad he. I mean he because you, because you know, that's when her Trump and Chuck Schumer got the argument in the over office on the news.
Eugene:Okay, I think I remember that. Yeah, I remember that.
DePriest:Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so he was, he was real upset about that because he was like nervous Nancy, I mean he was, I mean he was really upset. So but see, but nerve. I keep calling her Nancy, I like the name too much, but Nancy Pelosi, she did stand up to him. I mean she, she wasn't going for that, for what she felt like was bullshit. He was talking which it. You know.
DePriest:In that case his delivery was kind of messed up because he was on some other shit with them folks on that day. You know, it's been a battle and and he wasn't just wrong on his side. It had been going on ever since beginning because they, even though Trump is looked at as a billionaire to those politicians, they view Trump the way I feel like they look at us like just regular, average American. You don't supposed to be here, you know, and I and I just like how he just broke down those barriers and in a way that he approached it.
DePriest:I mean hell, I wish Obama had the same approach. Yeah, I swear, I wish president Obama had the same approach. I feel like president Obama was just too careful with, you know, a lot of this stuff because, like the uh, uh health care that he was trying to pass. I think that could have been really good if the house and the Senate and the Democrats and the Republicans alike all worked together. Yeah, you know now we sitting around here hell, most taxes we pay, we shouldn't have to pay for no, uh uh medical care.
Eugene:No, we shouldn't. You know. It should be like uh other countries that their health care is taken care of.
DePriest:Right.
Eugene:I mean you paying for it anyway.
DePriest:That's right. Right, that's right. So, no, no, maybe it'll get better, but look, but uh on to the next topic. Uh, bring us in on uh this situation going on with the uh crude oil.
Eugene:Yeah, uh, you know, over a lot of the oil tankers, the one that brings the tankers, the oil tankers that, in that, pretty much bring the oil from one country to the next. Well, they are having a shortage of tankers, um, and they have a crisis going on because a lot of those tankers, because of the U? S and the UK air strikes, dealing with the, with the, the Houthi, the healthy how?
Eugene:are you saying Houthi, houthi, houthi, houthi militants over Yemen, yemen, um, because of those air strikes. Well, it's causing them to bypass their normal routes, which is the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, because they don't want to be under attack. That is pretty much going through a war zone and so a lot of those uh cruise vessels were not cruise vessels. Those shipping uh vessels they are going uh around the tip of Africa and just going around the southern tip of Africa adds about two weeks to their shipping time. Now, with that being said, that's two weeks it's going to take for their customers or the ports that receive the goods to receive their product. Also, it adds to the shipping rates for those tankers because the price goes up.
Eugene:Now they said one of the biggest things that's affecting that is the production or the delivery of brand new shipping tankers. They came out with an article, I think, a few months ago, saying that they're trying to retire the old tankers and come in with more, newer and more efficient tankers and because they said they're just more fuel efficient. Well, I think that, with them retiring the old ones, if you look at they had a chart that I was looking at and they're not making nowhere near the same amount of tankers that they were making a few years ago, I think for this year they were only delivering about two oil tankers to oil fleets and they said that they only have a. I think it was about four or five that they have set to deliver for next year. Yeah, it's going to be like a significant drop, though, ain't it?
Eugene:Correct compared to like the 2022 or 2023, when they delivered like 50 tankers. They were only delivered two this year, you know. So a lot of that is just uh. You know me personally. I think that that's a way, with everything going on, it's going to be a way, a bargaining chip for them to be able to raise the price of fuel. It's going to allow them to raise the price of fuel and also raise their price for shipping costs, which they've already done, that They've already raised their shipping costs because they have to go out of route to make their deliveries, but it's also going to but it's also going to raise their prices of the ships, because if we can make less ships, then we can put brain stress on that economy, on the global shipping economy, and that's what's going on right now.
Eugene:So, yeah, I don't, I don't know, uh, like they said, they only make it about four ships for next year and they only did two this year. So I don't know what's going to be the difference. But when you look at a chart that they've had, of all the ships that they've built or they've delivered over the years, this year and next year is way below what they've done, and so to me they just look like they're just creating their own market.
DePriest:So the brain in more for the people who may be listening that uh probably don't don't understand what we're talking about, because I know I was reading the article, trying to scan through it, and I was kind of lost on a few things. So the tankers that they're talking about is filled with product that we need, like gasoline, diesel and crude oil correct, correct. So they're going to minimize the amount of ships that they have coming over and that's based what they're saying, right, correct. And the ones they're going to replace them with supposed to be more fuel efficient, to, I guess, make the shipping cost cheaper.
Eugene:Yeah, it's going to be more modernized. Uh, basically they say that just the cost of operation is going to be a whole lot cheaper with the newer ones compared to the older ones.
DePriest:So what about the amount of product of the down size? Are these going to be bigger ships to hold the same amount? Or you didn't cover that part?
Eugene:I didn't see that in terms of the size of the ships, I didn't see why they were reducing the amount of deliveries that they were making. You know, outside of me, just taking it upon, just seeing it, it just appears like they're creating their own market. But I think it also has a lot to do with the war that's going on in those areas Right right.
DePriest:Well, I know they say that that that's going to be tight for a few years. So we're going to see, uh, probably a higher frequency of fluctuating fuel prices and the frequency most likely. The frequency is not going to be like when the prices drop. It's going to drop to like normal. What we see is normal, like in diesel. When we first came out, diesel was like what? 260 a gallon at average.
Eugene:Yeah, some weapon around there 265.
DePriest:Right in the average, like what? Around four dollars plus it just got over.
Eugene:It just got over four dollars this month that the national average for diesel got over four dollars. It back over four dollars rather.
DePriest:Right and it and it didn't stay under four dollars very long, did it because it was not out at all.
DePriest:It was in December, right, correct? Like I said, man, we're, we're. We just have to take the media and these CEOs who, who's pulling a lot of stuff out at their word, I mean, uh, I mean I'm not discreet, you know, like discreet, you know that it's a war over there. That's not what I'm saying. I mean, these are like big time people. Supposedly you don't have a plan A to Z. That's your plan. And I mean you improvising on the fly, you know, right, it's just crazy. I mean, well, well, people, let's just get ready for that, you know, for possibly more hard times for the majority of us. We have to just start coming up with a bunch of different hustles to make ends meet. I know, in our area here in the south, we got people already paying money out the Wazoo just to have a roof over their head, right, and you, you know, match that beside our cost of living. I mean, it just ain't jelling, right, you know.
Eugene:Yeah, and a lot of people hurting alone. Like I said, along with the cost of living, you know, rent going up ridiculously for people.
DePriest:Right, right, and and we hate to be a Debbie Downer, but you know we can't just ignore the fact that you know that, that this is what's happening. I mean we just can't look over this stuff, guys. I mean we gotta, we gotta take this into account, because you know the next topic that we're talking about, you know that we're going to be discussing. Is he more crazier than than fuel prices? Yeah, I mean, it's even more crazy than fuel prices, but that's Eugene's report on the fuel. Well, possible fuel prices, whether they're going up and down, you know basically what he just gave us. It looked like it's going to be going up a lot higher. You know what?
Eugene:I wouldn't be surprised if we see five dollars and fifty cents a gallon national average for diesel behind this, yeah, I would be, sure yeah, and because in certain places already probably over five dollars, I had to check California and see what California West Coast is charging for diesel.
DePriest:Well, here look, the national average hit five fifty here. It's going to be about right at ten dollars a gallon over there. I mean just keeping it honest. But but look, but on to the final topic. You know we ain't gonna hold you long, but on to the final topic now. This is something that we really gotta take seriously, gotta talk about this.
DePriest:You know, I don't know how everybody feel about vaccine. I could say I would raise my hand and I would say I didn't take the COVID vaccine. I have taken flu shot, but I'm kind of paranoid about that too because, like I say, I don't know. I don't know what they're telling us, what they're trying to do, but we got lawmakers in Nashville, tennessee, that's trying to. They're trying to pass a bill to put vaccine in our lettuce and tomatoes, polio vaccine in our lettuce and tomato. We're going to play this clip and Eugene going to bring us home with a little bit more understanding on who's behind this policy, if anyone's fighting against it. It's just something that's going to be able to be pushed. So I'm going to run this clip here, you know, so that we could bring everybody in context on all this.
Audio News Clip:Okay, Something a lot of us have never thought about vaccines in the fruits and vegetables you get at the store. Some lawmakers say it could be a reality soon and they're looking to create some new rules to keep Tennessee in safe. Tony Sloan's lives in the state capital to tell us more about this legislation. Good morning.
Audio News Clip:Hey, good morning Ben. Well, we want to make it clear that there are no vaccines in your lettuce or tomatoes when you go grocery shopping right now. But lawmakers say it may be a question of when, if not if. Now representative Scott's a pick. He says researchers in California have perfected putting vaccines into certain foods, so he's crafted a bill to make sure that you know whether you're picking up a tomato with a vaccine in it or not, as an example. Now, basically, he says that this is a consumer protection bill that will make sure you know what you're buying. He says before this comes to Tennessee, there needs to be safety measures in place to protect you when you shop for yourself and your family.
Audio News Clip:If you're going in to buy tomatoes and there's a polio vaccine in there that you were aware of, what you're buying has a polio vaccine. The problem you have is if it's not treated as a pharmaceutical. Being the size and difference between you and me, how many tomatoes do I have to eat to get the proper dosage, versus how many tomatoes that you have to eat? And if you eat too many, do you get a overdose?
Audio News Clip:So it's raising a lot of questions. Representative John Ray Clemens question whether having vaccines and fruits and vegetables is legal in Tennessee and if not, is the legislation necessary? So picky says having something in place is better than not. The protection passes latest House committee vote just last week, but of course we'll let you know what happened.
DePriest:Now I'm a what I'm about to say. I may sound out of the loop, you'll inform, I may even be considered lame, but I gotta say that sounds like some crazy shit to me.
Eugene:Yeah, yeah, they uh, I've never heard of nothing like that but them being able to put, because they said that the researchers in California had preferred, had perfected, you know, the method of putting vaccines in certain foods.
DePriest:So how long without telling people?
Eugene:well, I'm sure they would like to put it in there without telling you. That's why that state representative, scott Sipiki, came up with that bill he wanted to come up with. He wants to come up with a bill that was a consumer protection bill, basically that would require in the state of Tennessee that whatever foods have those vaccines in them, that they have to be labeled on the packaging that there's a vaccine injected into their food. If, if, how would that go? I don't know, because from my understanding, if I'm not mistaken, no, we have food on the shelves that's been cloned and it's not labeled yeah, that's, that's.
DePriest:That's been going on too. I mean that that red del was even messed up. You know right, you know, and we have only in that shit man correct.
Eugene:Now we have food that has on the back, that is genetically modified right right, it's been genetically modified so you would know, hey, what you're consuming.
Eugene:But I've never seen a label that said that it was, uh, fully or partially cloned, cloned meat or whatever you know and um, but that that's their hope to pass that bill in the state of Tennessee, that any products that have that vaccine in it it has to have the consumer label on it saying what's in there, so every consumer can know what they're buying man, that's some crazy shit to me, man, you know, I mean it was already crazy with the genetically modified uh uh stuff.
DePriest:But man, that's, that's crazy. Man, it's like, okay, this is the way I'm looking at it and I'm looking at it, you know, of course, from a health reason. Okay, you are already putting in uh, msg and food, uh like, like, like these snacks, fast food and all that shit which make people uh um more addicted to, to, to fast food, uh uh, shelf food, food like chips and and candy bars. So you're already attacking that and it's causing obesity. I believe that a lot of that stuff is causing cancer because once it enters in your body, all that sugar and stuff crystallizes in your system, make it hard to for that stuff to run through your body properly like it should.
DePriest:Yeah, and now you want to mess with the vegetable. You know the escape. You know the uh uh power healing. Why the hell you need to put a vaccine in in uh produce when they are already? If you stop fucking with the food, cloning shit, all the nutrients is there, all the healing powers there in the food itself? So for you to go around here. You know, with this memory, they trying to play god to me. That's the way I look at it. Maybe I hadn't read into the story enough, but on the face of it it just sound like some crazy shit to me. Uh, you shouldn't be. I mean, hell. I mean you, think about it. It's. It's certain foods that they sell over here to us that they won't even allow in other countries, right? Why is that?
Eugene:because it's dangerous man, that's crazy and most foods that have the food coloring in it is uh eat, you know, is banned in other countries. You know a lot of those foods that have, I think the msg is it's banned at the in. Genetically modified foods are banned in other countries yeah, exactly, there's just some crazy shit, man yeah, yeah, it is well, it's, it's, it's, it's.
DePriest:Not much more I have to say on that topic other than there's just some crazy shit. Shit like that leads me speechless, man. I mean, you know, you know we just got to stand up, man. You know, individually, we got to stand up to be united together. You know, I mean there is no unity till we all stand up at the same time and get a lot of this stuff going on.
DePriest:Whether you uh trying to make us uh uh or uh you try to veer certain politicians our way, to make us vote in a certain way, uh, whether you want to bring people from uh foreign countries and and give them resources that we pay for through paying our taxes and social security, and medicare you fucking with the food. I mean you got shit going on over there, a war going on, blocking a, a route that's causing shipping costs to go up, which is going to call uh calls prices to go up for us. Come on, man, look why. Why not trump he? Can he do any worse? Right, that's the way I look at it. So you know, man, unless you got something else on it, man, I you know?
Eugene:no, I'm done, man. I uh. I think we had a pretty good segment on some of the things. We tried to give some insight and our opinions on yeah, so we.
DePriest:So we just said we were talking to you guys for an hour and a half man. We hope that you like the show. Uh, make make sure you come back for more. Now you know, we're gonna uh try to schedule uh every week to release uh long-form content like this by seven. No, uh, by Friday. We hadn't came up with in the exact time yet, but we're trying to at least have it out there by Friday and, like I said, we hope you enjoy again. I'm priest, my, my co-host, my man with all the facts is Eugene. We, the guys in the truckers lounge, and we're looking forward to you coming in, sitting with us and having a discussion in the truckers lounge. Till the next time, stay safe. We love you. Please don't forget to subscribe, like and share or download on anywhere you're listening to your favorite podcast. Peace out people, right.