Experts At Nothing

Gas prices jump overnight, the news screams “world on fire,” and you are left wondering what is real and what is being sold to you. We sit down and sort through Iran, the Straits of Hormuz, and why markets can spike on speculation long before any real shortage hits your neighborhood. We talk tanker traffic, drones, mines, and why naval escorts and deterrence matter, then connect it back to what you actually feel: pain at the pump, shipping surcharges, and the slow grind of price drops that never seem to match the speed of price hikes.

We also call out the media incentives that reward fear over context. When coverage fixates on losses and skips over outcomes, it shifts public opinion and turns complicated national security decisions into emotional soundbites. We argue about what “imminent danger” even means in a world of nuclear ambitions, and we get into domestic energy policy, including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, domestic oil production, and using tools like the Defense Production Act to push supply back online.

Then we bring it home to domestic security and policing. From attacks that fit the definition of terrorism to a deadly traffic stop, we talk about the growing hostility toward law enforcement, what compliance actually looks like in the moment, and how body cameras changed discretion on both sides of the badge. If you care about geopolitics, oil prices, media bias, domestic terrorism, and police safety, this one is built for you.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Big Claims

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Welcome to the podcast where we're experts. Experts about absolutely nothing. Just the hard facts, difficult truths, and real-world opinions. Are you ready for the greatest opinionated podcast to hit the internet? Sit back, relax, and join the conversation with Jim, Tim, and Rich. The only thing that we're experts about is not caring about your feelings. Just the hard truth, facts that may bring you to tears. Now, here's three guys that'll bring you to your knees with the hard truth facts and their opinions. Here is Jim, Tim and Rich. Alright, boys, what's happening? What's cooking? What's going on? Not a whole bunch.

SPEAKER_04 1:03

Although when I hear that opening, I feel like we should rehearse and do the hello, hello, hello. We should. We should.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

You're a little loud. That's all right, though. Me? Yeah. Yeah, we're good. So what's cooking? Anything good? Nothing new? Nothing exciting?

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Uh, you know, work hard. No time to play.

SPEAKER_04 1:25

Yeah. First full week back to work for me. How's it going? Actually, it's going a hell of a lot better than I expected. Like getting back into the groove of things, and and I'm I'm one of those OCD freaks who has to do things a certain way. Yeah. And legit. Yeah, no shit. But I I I fell back into that pretty easily. Um, minimal amount of pain, but you know, pain is the receipt for living. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

I dropped my truck off uh Thursday for Penske for the Almighty PM and don't have it back actually and Friday and tomorrow I get to drive an intertrational.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

Nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

Whoever designed the seat in that truck should be strung up. Whoever designed the truck is perfectly straight up and down, and that's as far back as well.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

That's just a yeah. See, mine goes back pretty far.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Well, you you don't have a sleeper. Yeah, you don't have a chunk of steel right behind you.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

I like my international. I do.

SPEAKER_04 2:23

I was gonna ask you when you hit your million miles, did they get you a Pete? And I guess they didn't.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Not yet. Is it in the works? I don't know, to be honest with you. I don't know. I didn't inquire about it.

SPEAKER_04 2:35

If you do, even the sleepers, I think you're gonna like the Pete better. There's not a massive difference in drivetrain, but there's subtle differences in the design of the layout of the cockpits better.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Right, right. Well well, I'll tell you what. Al has one, and he has had nothing but problems with that thing since he's had it. Whether it was the tranny or something leaking, something breaking. This time he had uh uh the uh one of the brake chambers go. He had uh a shock that busted. He had all kinds of crap going on with that thing.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

Everything you're describing is got exactly what I went through with my Pete, right down to the brake chamber.

SPEAKER_02 3:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:14

And when my Pete left the factory, it's like they didn't tighten anything down. So literally I'd be going down the road and shit's falling off of it. Yeah, like both of my spotter mirrors in front fell off within a week of each other. I had them in the foot well in the cab.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Yeah, the problem with that. Yeah, yeah. He lost three, three spot mirrors in two weeks. Yeah, pain in the ass. But I I I'm kind of a little reluctant on taking one.

SPEAKER_04 3:36

So this segment's brought to you by Peterbilt.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Uh called the the owner yesterday at our meeting. You know, the next uh spare truck that I get, I'd I'd really like to try out one of those new Volvo's.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

And she says, No. What?

SPEAKER_02 3:58

Why not?

SPEAKER_03 4:00

The main reason is uh where you're uh where they connect the truck into the where they run that wire to the ECM.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:13

The international and the Freightliner, it's those round nine points. The Volvo, it's a square 16 point. It's$125 just for the cord.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

And she's like, no, no. Good luck. And that and she says it's kind of like sitting in a couch all day. I'll never get you to move.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Yeah, right. You know what I you know what I saw driving down the road the other day? Actually, another driver did, not me. A Mac with JB Hunt.

unknown 4:41

What?

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Embry was on it. Yeah, it was a daycab. A Mac Vision? I don't know. Those things were tiny on the inside. Wasn't sleepers pulling a uh flatbed. I got him on television.

SPEAKER_04 4:54

So I'm tired of having to grease up my hips and shoulders to get into tiny trucks.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Yeah. Well, you're not a tiny man.

SPEAKER_04 5:02

What? Hell you said.

Next Week’s Guest And The Agenda

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Oh god. Next week we're gonna have uh somebody else here with us, which will cause me more technical difficulties, more than likely. That's the other name of the podcast.

SPEAKER_04 5:15

Technical difficulties.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Would any of you like to guess who is gonna be here with us next week? I have a guess.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

I have a guess.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Let's see if you're both right.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

Steve?

SPEAKER_01 5:26

No. All right.

SPEAKER_04 5:30

Your father-in-law.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

No. Damn it.

SPEAKER_04 5:32

Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

That's what I was everybody's saying damn it about that, but he won't.

SPEAKER_04 5:36

All right, my last guess. Charo.

unknown 5:40

No.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

You're close. Alright. You're close, but no. We're gonna have Mr. Mr. Ed on. The horse? The horse. Mr. Ed. Well, yeah, horse head. Horsehead ed. Yeah. Ed Rhodes.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

Eddie. All right.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Yeah. Eddie'll be here with us next week.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

I think I was here the last time he was here.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:02

I'm intended myself.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Yeah, yeah. That's where he asked, well, I don't know what to do. I said, just don't be a dick. You'll be alright. So, but yeah, hey.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

A simple plan.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Oh, we have a bunch to talk about today. There's more shit on the agenda than you could possibly imagine. Like I said, uh on a couple of videos I made, last YouTube I made, there's just so much, and we had to break it down to a few things.

SPEAKER_04 6:34

It's funny how you may you have an idea and an outline of what we were what we're going to talk about on Tuesday. And by the time Saturday and Sunday rolls around, everything changes.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Everything's happened, and you know you have to adjust and roll with it. You do. We can't do this show every day, so we have to go with uh what we find out and what we know.

SPEAKER_03 6:55

You know, if Rich paid better for coming here.

SPEAKER_04 6:58

Listen, I got a killer cup of coffee in front of me.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

I got nothing to complain about. That coffee's freaking great. It really is. It is good, good stuff. Uh but yeah, that's it's tough to keep up. So, you know, we go by exactly what we what we see and hear uh the night before we do the show. So uh we're we're uh definitely talking about Iran. That that's without a doubt, that's the hot topic right now. Uh disrupting a protest in Manhattan with uh the mayor's house almost getting bombed. You know, we're gonna discuss that.

SPEAKER_04 7:36

Nothing to do with the mayor, though, except the address.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Right, right. The media stoking the ambers of panic, you know. I I think it's fear-mongering, to be honest with you, to get the people to watch their show so they could uh get the uh the revenue from the advertisements, but that's the way it is. Fuel fuel prices skyrocket, kind of goes with what's going on over in Iran. Is there an uptick of assaults against law enforcement here in Pennsylvania or for that matter across the country? Uh I've seen a lot of uh police officers getting assaulted over the past, I'd say, since the beginning of the year. I must have seen at least 15 or 20 of them in uh different videos.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

8th of November, uh excuse me, March.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

Uh another trooper was just shot for no reason.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

Yeah. You never remember the gentleman's last name. His first name was Tim, though, wasn't it? No, it's Connor. I have it. Connor was his last name. No, that was his first name.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Oh, I have it. I have it.

SPEAKER_04 8:37

It's in your notes.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Yeah, you've you you did the you did the research.

SPEAKER_03 8:40

It was in West. No, it was down West C-A-L-N Township.

Megan Kelly Segment Sparks Anger

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Yeah, it was down near Philly. Was it what? Near Philly somewhere. But before we get into any of these topics here, uh, you know, I'm a big uh big fan of Megan Kelly. I love her. I love her show. Uh, and she's one of the reasons I started doing these podcasts. But I'll tell you what, man, the one show she had on with Marjorie Taylor Green, the two of them, and I, you know, I don't know much about Marjorie Taylor at all, uh, other than she's uh resigning from her seat in uh as senator. And uh the way they handled the this situation with what's going on in Iran, uh I I don't think I've ever been so pissed off in my life. The way that they they articulated the the way it was playing out, they seemed to turn it as uh we were at fault for this war. And the things they said was just outrageous. Outrageous. Um for one, they the what really pissed me off with Marjorie Taylor Green is Megan Kelly really didn't have a lot to say. She just kind of nodded her head and agreed, which really infuriated me even more. Usually she she would challenge but she didn't.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

She just kind of gave Marjorie Taylor Green Green a platform then. Right.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

It just gave me the impression that she was agreeing with what what Marjorie Taylor Green was saying. And and what pissed me off about it was the biggest thing was is when Marjorie Taylor Green goes and says that we have we at that time there was only there not only, we don't want one service member to die in a war. But she says we had five five service members die in this conflict already, and now the these families got to be notified, and and uh you know, we got to put these families through this, and that was one that pissed me off, and I'll explain why in a minute, and I'll have you guys chime in. And the other thing she said that there she was really pissed off that Trump started this because there was no imminent danger. That's two things that really piss me off because one is one, when you join the military, you know why you join. You know, you join for two reasons. One, you're there for the money to go to college. That's one reason. The other reason is to defend your nation. You know that you are put in a position where you may go to war, you may be in harm's way, you may not, you may die. You you your family members know this. And if your family members don't know this, well, that is your own fault for not informing them of the consequences of joining the military. The other thing I said that really burned my asses was when she said, Marjorie Taylor Green says that there was no imminent danger. Well, what are you gonna do? Wait until they get Iran gets all the assets that they need to build a nuclear weapon? Are you gonna wait till they have 10, 15, 20 of them to fire at us? Are you are we gonna wait for that to happen? Don't didn't didn't didn't doesn't she use her head before she spoke about about this at all? No. No. This this is the shit that pisses me out. And the fear mongering. Oh now now these family members have to be notified by by uh higher f echelon of the military. They have to sit out in front of the house and and wait for the lights to come on, and they have to go tell these poor people that that that they're they're they're they're family members been killed in war. Well, to me, that's that's turning the script a little bit, wouldn't you say?

SPEAKER_04 12:56

Well, it's also a whole hell of a lot softer than the way it was done former conflicts in World War II. Families got a telegram correct, yeah. Yeah. Uh now it's it's much more personalized. Not that it takes the sting out of what happens at all, but it also shows a bit more humanity on the part of the armed services that they're sending an envoy uh in full uh uh uniform or dress uniform and and informing this person about their loss.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

It just pissed me off the way they handled that. It really does. It pisses me off when anybody says that there was no imminent in danger. You know, it's like it's like painting a fresh piece of wood, right? Fresh piece of wood, nothing on it at all. And you put the paint on first, and then put the primer on it. Tell me how that works out. Not well. Is that how Marjorie Taylor Green is gonna paint her house? She's you know, come on, man.

SPEAKER_04 13:55

Well, also, Marjorie Taylor Green is is doing something like laying that out like that is one of the things that turned the tide of the Vietnam War for public opinion is people saw the caskets coming back.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Right.

SPEAKER_04 14:11

Okay, and that is a stark realization of how this you know how the sausage is made.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:19

You don't want to see the inner workings of that if you want morale and support for something to stay high. And as a lawmaker, she knows that very well. As as an official, she knows that very well. Right. And so to come on and and and and not expose, but talk about that, focus on that is is automatically going to sway public opinion. Right. That's the first thing. Second of all, as far as there not being any any direct threat, we covered this in the last podcast. Every administration since 1979 has dealt with a threat from Iran. Right. Whether that be the existent uh the existential threat of terrorism and them funding terrorism, there are people committing terrorism, there are governments backing terrorism directly and indirectly, uh, the little provocations that have happened over the years, the shit that they do to their own people. Don't tell me that there's no reason for this.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

Right. There's not. And I'm just seeing here uh U.S. moves troops from Pacific Theater to the Middle East. I just saw that.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Yeah. Uh what was the numbers? I think 3,000 Marines are on their way.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

Yeah, plus Navy personnel that brought it up to around 5,000.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

But Biden and Obama tried to solve the problem in Iran with cash. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Well, that was the problem. Yeah. Cash. You're giving them frickin' money to go buy material, billions, eighty billion dollars of cash on a pallet.

SPEAKER_04 15:41

And the argument that was made at that time was that it was Iran's money that was seized by a different administration.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Even if it was seized, so what? It's terroristic money. Why would you give it back to the bastards? You know what term goes along with seizure?

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Forfeiture. Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Right.

SPEAKER_04 15:59

When you seize bad money, there's also a forfeiture of those assets. There was no reason to return that shit to them. Right. None. There wasn't. And we all knew where that money was going to be used. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knew how that money was going to be used when it got when it got Iran.

SPEAKER_03 16:15

You know, it's I think it's they're waking up the the guys that are napping over here. Now they're awake.

January 6 Takes And “Nobody” Pundits

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It it just burns my ass the way they handled that. And uh, you know, this this other woman here, uh I was browsing yesterday while I was shut down. And uh Jennifer Welch, she comments on uh on the the Trump investigation. And uh she says, uh, well, first off, who is Jennifer Welch? Well, her credentials uh uh as far as making accusations that Trump should have been investigated deeper for the January 6th riots uh really don't make her a qualifier uh quite any qualifications to uh voice her opinion at all on this. She's a frickin' interior desk in uh uh uh decorator. She was on a show on Bravo, um and she now she has a podcast. I don't I don't know how many followers or have she has, and I'm not gonna put the podcast of the her name of her podcast on here because I I can't stand her just by what she said.

SPEAKER_04 17:27

How much more scrutiny could Trump have come under with the January 6th investigations? They went over everything second by second. Every syllable that he uttered, they went over.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Come on. The reason they they didn't they didn't go deeper than what they did, because they would uh if they did go deeper, it would be found out that Pelosi, or at least one of the democ somebody from the Democratic Party, was probably behind the whole frickin' thing.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

Well, I know that the Pelosi waved off uh extra capital police when it was offered, or was it was it the guard? There there was another form of law enforcement in numbers that was offered to Nancy Pelosi by the Trump administration, and she waved it off. Right. And she denied that right until her daughter came out and said, No, no, no, no, no, I have it on tape. My mother's saying no.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, you know, she she goes, she says, former President Joe Biden F the country after he and former Attorney General Merrick Garland failed to prosecute President Donald Trump. Well, they didn't fail, they just didn't do the investigation because of what they were afraid of what they were gonna find.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

They knew the truth.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

Right. And then she says, and then my brain goes to, god damn it, Joe Biden effed us, Welch said. Uh he he fucked us so hard on oh my god, because Merrick Arland should have prosecuted him. She put that in in uh question form, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 18:59

Yeah, the tooth fairy should have left me more money when I was a kid. What's her point?

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Yeah, I mean, let it go. It's done and over with. Nothing else is gonna come about this, and if it does, I would almost guarantee it's gonna go back to the Democrats.

SPEAKER_04 19:13

Let's assume for a moment that Merrick Garland had prosecuted. So what would that have gone, or how would that have gone? With the evidence that they've put out there or the lack thereof, it would have been millions upon millions upon million dollars on a show trial that dominated the headlines and ultimately probably went nowhere. So it just would have been drug out, it would have been more division of the United States people. You know what I mean? Because that was right all it would do is cause more bullshit all the way around, more financial bullshit, more divisive bullshit. It would have yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Why is this lady, why is she still yapping about it?

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Because she's got nothing else to yap about. Because her side lost. Right.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

I don't know. Uh listen, losers are the people who lose in any competition, and that can you this because this serves the right and the left are always better. Always right. Some are better at at picking up and moving on from their loss, and some dwell on it and dye their hair blue and get a nose ring and scream to the sky.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

It it just burns my ass that that she she she's just a nobody that really she's not. She's she's she's nothing, in my opinion, that uh has an influence on what she says because she has so many people listening to her podcast. And I I I guarantee it, you know, 90% of the people that listen to it are all Democrats, more than likely. But, you know, not all Democrats are bad, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 20:54

I'm hoping someday that we have like millions and millions of followers. That way I can influence people to wear hoodies and shorts year-round. Yeah, yeah. Good luck with that.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

How about this shit?

SPEAKER_04 21:05

It's a fashion state.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Last week we go from the 70s down to to 30s here in the northeast. Yeah, yep. This winter just doesn't seem like it wants to end. All right, let's move on. I'm off, get off.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

Move on from winter? Good idea.

Iran, Hormuz, And Naval Escorts

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Get off that kick. Iran, 90% of Iran assets destroyed. Uh and uh they're they're pretty much crumbled. They're they're they're they're crumbling. They're they're done.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

I think what's hurting us the most right now is they just can't get it, they can't get in control of that straight for the oil.

SPEAKER_04 21:46

I'm glad you brought this up because this is definitely something I wanted to focus on. Straits of Hormuz is what we're talking about. It's a major oil n uh pipeline, it's the route that from which most tankers in that area get out. Um And to bring their oil to the market. Now, Iran has threatened to shut it. I don't know how the hell they're going to accomplish that, but what they have left in their arsenal are um mobile launched surface-to-surface missile missiles that can, you know, do some damage to shipping. Uh they have mines that they can lay, and of course they still have drones. The drones are the concern. They're the concern right now. My the answer to this that's been bandied about, and I think right now the United States Navy is is is uh uh getting their shit together to make it happen would be armed escorts through the Straits of Hormuz for tankers. And also Trump just issued a a call. You know, listen, if you benefit from the oil that comes out of this area, how about you send some escort ships over here to other countries just to saying, hey, get your Navy's asses in gear from other countries. Contribute to the cost. If you if you're getting oil from this area, you have a vested interest.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

I heard uh middle of this week that uh to ship 200 million in oil say China from here would cost twenty million dollars.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

From say that one more time.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

I don't know how many ships it would take to haul two hundred million gallons of oil. Oh no, worth of oil. But it would cost twenty million to get it there. To get it from here to China? Yes. I like I said, I have no idea how how many ships that would take.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

That's not including the price of the oil, I'm assuming, because that's like billion. Just a ship.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Right.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

It's 20 million just a ship. Twenty million. But with oil trading up based on speculation of the Straits of Hormuz being closed, the escort, the military escort going through that area is is the key. It is to allaying fears of investors and bringing the price of oil down. And talking about these mobile missile systems and mines and shit like that, we have minesweepers that can take care of the mine issue. The drones and the mobile missiles are U.S. Navy ships, a very good chunk of them, and I'm guessing that these would be the ships that would be used to escort tankers through, have a system called a phalanx system. Right. And what the phalanx system is it's a very large gatling gun that is computer and radar controlled that assesses threats and takes them out with a gun that shoots 4,500 rounds per minute.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

Ah, Mexican.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

Have you ever seen those guns being shot?

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

Yeah. That's similar to uh it's it's a different size, but it's like the cannon on the front of the A10 Warthog plane. And it it that that cannon is so powerful that when the plane is midair and they shoot it, it slows the plane down.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Right.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

You know what I mean? So these these these these phalanx uh weapon systems are like gonna be the number one defense against things like drones and and and uh surface-to-surface missiles. Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Well they're surface-to-surface missiles, they're they're they're almost uh incapacitated, right? The the stationary sites. Right. The stationary sites are done for they're they're done.

SPEAKER_04 25:28

They have mobile sites that basically roughly hide through a stinger missile.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

A hole in a mountain and uh bring it out when it's needed. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

You're not far from the truth. Oil release to bring down nation's reserves down forty-one percent. So what what that's telling me there is that they're gonna start using our reserves, and that's gonna bring it down 41%.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

Well, at least now there's an actual world reason to use our reserves, unlike when Biden took it down to nothing.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

And it was like we were talking earlier that w they were looking into drill off the coast of California.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

It's an already existing platform that they have out there. Is it only one? Yes, but what what makes it a huge deal is the fact that it's where where it's at.

unknown 26:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:11

Got two turntables and a microphone. Um where it's at is is off the coast of California. Right. And and nobody likes nobody from California likes anything that seems to be beneficial to America. Uh just that whole state's a lost cause, in my opinion. But they really should be their own country. Exactly. And and and what's happening now is that Trump wants the oil company that owns it, this platform, this drilling platform, to open it up, uh, directing the oil company to restart California operations. And uh he's invoked in he's invoking an act that is called the My Phone is failing me, you son of a bitch. Uh invoking the Defense Production Act.

SPEAKER_01 26:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Because I wanted to get the title of the act.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

I had another act here, too, but that's the same.

SPEAKER_04 27:00

It's basically stating in a time of uh a time of conflict you you you use all the resources available to you. This is a refor resource to have domestic oil production to add more. And you know, people of California are now.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

I wonder, let's just say he does do that. How long is it going to take to get that platform up and running?

SPEAKER_04 27:22

Probably probably a while. Nothing is overnight, but I will say this. This is a longer-reaching thing. Like once it is up and running, by the same token, you can't shut it right down either. So eventually America will benefit from getting this up and running if it takes six weeks or two months.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Right. In the long term, we'll definitely benefit from it.

SPEAKER_04 27:44

And even if we utilize that to refill our strategic oil reserves as part of part of the thing to refill our part of an effort to refill our strategic oil reserves, it's something.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Right, right. Well, right now, right now, they're saying uh oil oil now is around ninety-four. It's hovering be it was hovering Friday between ninety-four and ninety-six bucks a barrel.

SPEAKER_03 28:06

It was up to a high of what, 110?

SPEAKER_01 28:09

It was up there, yeah. That was that was like right at the beginning of the war, right at the beginning of this conflict. Uh I I think we touched on this the on the last uh podcast, Jim and I. Was uh, you know, it was like the fuel prices skyrocketed. They went right up. I swear to God, 10 feet before the first bomb hit hit Iranian soil. And uh they went down a little bit since, but not much. Uh why? Why does it take so long to bring the prices down and it's so easy for these bastards to raise them?

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Well, one thing I noticed a little gas station in my little town. They're not getting uh gasoline delivery every day. Every day their price goes up.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Yeah, they're raising the prices on what was in those tanks anyway.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Right. So they're they're you know, they're they're making money uh off of uh the rate plus right. Well, what they're what what's going on is they paid whatever cents a gallon when they got that delivery, the first bomb hit, and they raised the prices, so now they're making double of what they're making on that delivery.

SPEAKER_04 29:26

So as an investment in my personal future, I ordered 50 barrels of crude oil delivered to my home for$27.98. Timu. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Timu. When did you do that? 1939? Timu.

SPEAKER_04 29:40

You can get amazing. I don't know what I'm gonna get. The barrels are gonna be this big, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:45

God damn Chinese. Yeah. Oh God. Right now the traffic going through the Strait of Hemoose is down 97%. That's what they're saying. So how does how is that go? How does how bad does that affect us over here as far as oil prices when we don't even get oil from Iran? Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

I heard this morning that uh UPS and FedEx are now charging a surcharge? Surcharge.

SPEAKER_04 30:19

Really? Yeah. Another another interesting thing that came out uh I don't know if it was this morning, but I I read about it this morning. Iran made a statement that all are welcome to use the Strait of Hormuz, except Americans and Israelis. Wow, of course. Okay, but but still that's considering we don't get our oil from that area. Who cares? Exactly. So that there it going by that statement, there should be no backup. There's that 97% right reduction should go right on. It's cool.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

They're only after Israelis and Americans. Whatever you do, you do.

SPEAKER_04 30:55

And even if an American ship does go through there, get the stickers out and put a Swahili flag on there or some shit.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It all bothers me the way this is playing out as far as as uh the oil goes. It it really does, because there's no reason for us to be suffering at the fuel pump for our vehicles. Uh uh yesterday I paid 402 up in Goldsboro for a gallon of gas.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

What?

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

What?

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Yeah, 402.

SPEAKER_04 31:28

Did they at least give you a fruit basket?

SPEAKER_01 31:30

I only I only put in ten bucks just enough to get me downtown so I could get cheaper. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

They they really should have given you a small gift after that fight.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

It's like, what what the hell? You know? They're freaking ridiculous. I don't know what the hell they're thinking there. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

But tomorrow, but like listen, tomorrow morning oil could start trading at$56 a barrel. Right. And we would still see these gas prices for the next three, four weeks. You know what I mean? Uh whereas we saw uh an uptick, which we we've been using that term a lot, uptick. We have been. But we saw an uptick in gas prices within 24 hours or less of the attacks starting, which is bullshit on its face.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Right. Where where I I I have my opinion on this, on on how this all started. Where do you think this all this started as far as raising fuel prices like this whenever there's something bad going on? What do you think? I I I I have my inclinations on on why they started doing this.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

We we saw um price gouging, for lack of a better term, uh right after 9-11. Before that. Uh even before that, you think?

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Yeah. Yeah. I think it all started with Katrina.

SPEAKER_04 32:53

Well, 9-11 was before Katrina.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Was it before Katrina? Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, I think it really started with Katrina. Yeah, it was before Katrina.

SPEAKER_04 33:02

Well, after 9-11, the gas prices shot up and and the government stepped in and locked that shit down. Right. Like they were very, very cognizant of the price gouging thing and said, you know, sit down and knock that shit off or prosecute.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

But it started with Katrina when all the oil refineries got hit down there in Louisiana. They said, Oh man, we got we have to bump these prices up. And I think these oil companies saw what they were doing and what they were getting away with, and it continued. Every time there's a conflict or any kind of disruptance in our economy, it always seems like the oil prices always go up. Always. And they never come down as much as they go up on a percentage basis.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

Never understand is it costs no more per barrel to get that shit out of the ground in Texas or wherever because somebody dropped a bomb in Iran. Right.

SPEAKER_04 33:54

And that's that's where everybody who argues that we need to use our domestic. Listen, we are a net exporter of oil now, meaning that we make so much oil we now export to other countries. Right. Let's turn that inward just a little bit. Let's let's let's utilize what we have. Yeah. Now, at least with Katrina, um the area that was hit, not just it was it wasn't just oil production, it was also refineries.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

It was the refinery, the issue of refining the oil.

SPEAKER_04 34:21

I understand refineries need to be uh fast tracked, in my opinion. Like people hate them and oh my god, it's dirty. Yeah, well, so's life.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

And I get that, and I understand why they did what they did during Katrina, but now it I don't get it. I I just don't. I I I don't. And I don't I don't know if I'll ever understand it. I'm not an economist, that's for sure. Like I said, we're experts on nothing here.

SPEAKER_04 34:46

Well, it's it's like what happened when uh um the attacks on on Ukraine. Gas and oil shot up after that, too. And we don't even guess we're out oil.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

Exactly. Exactly. So what's the frickin' what's going on here? Who in our government has their hands in the pot or per se in the in the oil barrel? Who has their hands in the barrel?

SPEAKER_04 35:10

I don't know. Maybe the same politicians who are supposed to be making$200,000 a year and yet somehow become millionaires when they're in office for a couple of years.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:20

I'm sure there's a certain amount of inside information that's being you know uh bandied about. Right. And and the market itself usually fluctuates based on not fact, but where things might go, speculation. Right.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

So, you know. Well, I I would go to say that 90% of it is based on speculation and anticipation.

SPEAKER_04 35:42

Which ties into something else that we want to talk about, media fear mongering.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Yeah. That that you know, that's what you know what was going on with uh M MTG and uh when she was on a Megan Kellish Kelly show. It was her opportunity, it was her opportunity to muddy the waters. Right, to muddy the waters, make things a little blurry for the people, you know, and it I think uh and that's what's going on with the media right now, also. It's all about getting that click. It's a it's just like listen, the the the the fucking the fucking media now, all of them, every single one of them, even Fox News, as much as I like everybody on that on that channel, they they're there for one reason, make money, and and that's what they're there for. Hasn't been the same since the old man died either. No, it hasn't. It just took over. Shit went left. Yep, it definitely did, but not a whole bunch, but it did definitely go that way. Right. It was noticeable. But they it's just like social media, the these uh these media outlets, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBSA, all of them. It's just the get that view to get that click so they could bring in the advertisers and make that million dollars for that 30-second clip of that of an advertisement. That's what all these news media outlets do. They they really I don't know. I I don't know if they care or don't care. I I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 37:10

Money talks and bullshit doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

It's all about the cash, man. It's all about the cash.

SPEAKER_04 37:16

Well, I have a I have a take that I don't know how you guys it might it might be a little bit different. Um my problem is with the unbalanced reporting. I'm not even talking about necessarily biased from left and right.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

Now, not to cut you off real quick before I lose my train of thought on this and I forget. There was uh the uh president of uh the uh federal communications board gave a statement, I believe it was yesterday, that if if the uh media outlets don't tone down the way they perceive the move, they're gonna lose their license. I think that's a bit heavy-handed, and that's where the first amendment's gonna come in. Let me see if I can bring that up. Go ahead. Go ahead, Jim. Sorry to cut the out.

SPEAKER_04 38:00

I was gonna quit in protest, but whatever. No. I resign. No, my my problem is uh uh not not from uh necessarily a left or right stance, but uh and as they should, the media will talk about how um uh this many American servicemen died in in an accident or because a plane was shot down that you know that our our enemy got lucky and found one of our planes. And they will they will talk about that for the entirety of the news cycle over and over and over again. Where's the list of assets that were taken out by our military on the Iranian side? Where where where why aren't they listing our successes as well as our failures? It is disproportionate. We have had unbelievable success in the targets that we have hit, the people that we have taken out, the infrastructure that we have disrupted. But that's not being reported on, not widely.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

The only thing that I've seen and that I could pull up that that uh gives an indication of what they had taken out was like we said, their navy's gone, totally destroyed, their uh surface-to-air missiles totally gone, their stationary ones. Uh even their their infrastructure as far as manufacturing goes is totally uh disrupted, totally uh disabled. They can't produce anything as far as weaponry right now. They're they're totally their shit out of the water.

SPEAKER_04 39:27

All right, that information is out there, but you're not getting that from the media. You're getting that from the media uh posting excerpts from quotes of our president, Pete Heggseth, right? Uh you know, other uh uh departmental heads. That's where you're getting it. You're getting it from quotes, not the news and opinion makers that spin this shit. They refuse to acknowledge our successes. And you know, I don't want a propaganda wing.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

And that's what it is.

SPEAKER_04 39:54

Well, it's it's going to the opposite. But I'm not what I'm not saying is I don't want rah-rah. Right. I don't want them to come on and say, you know, USA, USA, USA, and and only report the the successes. You have to report the failures as well. But for the love of Christ, we're beating the living piss out of them. Could you let us could you let the public know our successes? You know, it's it there's there's a great quote from uh full metal jacket, you know, that the the the the guy's standing there, why don't you come on in for the big win? Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, come on, give us something here, folks. Because that way the people get behind something if they have some idea that we're having success. And you're downplaying our successes.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

Right. And and I think too that uh uh when you don't get this information the proper way in a proper information, that's what makes these people turn against what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 40:47

And I I also think it goes well just say Fox and Industry and MSNBC, all the way down to your local network. Uh ABC, C B S M B C I know our local, which is pretty much W N E P and W B R. Yeah, there's no CBS and they're kind of intertwined.

SPEAKER_04 41:12

Right.

SPEAKER_03 41:13

Uh but I find that a lot of like we'll just say WNEP, very, very biased. Very biased. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Well that's ABC. I was gonna say, yeah, exactly. No, that's ABC. Who owns that right now? It's somebody local, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 41:32

What ABC or N E Play W N E P T starts with T. Uh it's a company. Time Warner?

SPEAKER_04 41:38

No, not Timu, is it?

unknown 41:40

No.

SPEAKER_03 41:40

No, uh where's my oil?

SPEAKER_04 41:42

I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

The only reason I remember this is because for a while they were fighting with uh DirecTV. Oh, that happens every couple of years. Yeah. And I forget the name. It starts with a T.

SPEAKER_01 41:54

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

I used to believe Tegna.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

T-E-G-N-A. Tegna.

SPEAKER_03 42:02

Um I thought uh oh, it was a weatherman and his wife.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

Tom Clark. Yeah, I used to think they owned it, but they had they they they were pretty deep into it, though. Yeah, they they were deep into it.

SPEAKER_04 42:18

I used to have a big thing for Norian Clark. Did you really? No joking Hoboken, man. This shaky voice and everything. She had this cool wet look leather jacket that used to turn me on as a kid. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 42:27

There's something wrong with this. She she was alright. Well, at least we're not talking about cankles today. Yet. You know?

SPEAKER_04 42:33

Day ain't over yet, fuckers.

SPEAKER_03 42:37

So many things wrong with you.

Scranton Parade And Diner Food Debates

SPEAKER_01 42:39

Not according to Naureen. You were up there last yesterday, weren't you? Well, scratch grand. Yeah. Little uh St. Paddy's Day parade.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

Uh yeah, I uh uh I spent my day in a couple of bars and didn't drink, which to me might be the most interesting social experiment in the world. No, no, I was highly amused. First of all, I forgot how much effort and work it is to sit on a fucking barstool all day long.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:03

Like I was more sore when I got home than if I'd spent the day walking.

SPEAKER_02 43:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:07

Uh but like watching the aberrant behavior of these people, it was I've never been up to Scranton on parade day. It is legendary in this area. Never been. No. Why didn't we do this live from the Wilkesbury? You wouldn't have heard a damn thing. Listen, we're so loud.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

I am uh in the process of setting up a couple things live.

SPEAKER_03 43:28

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

We're gonna be going live.

SPEAKER_03 43:31

Can we go to the pilot and we'll sit there and make fun of Derek Derka?

SPEAKER_01 43:35

We could. We could do that. Good coffee. But I'm in the process of uh setting some stuff up live. Uh before we move on or start uh on something else here, I want to bring something up on the local level. Uh just to give a couple couple things out there. Um is uh T and Moore opens up in downtown. Pitts and it's a nice little uh brunch uh place to go get some brunch, get something to eat. Uh it's called Tea and More.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

Oh, Tea and More.

SPEAKER_01 44:11

Tea and More. They got chili dogs over there? I tell you what, speaking of chili dogs, I you know, you know me. I I I I I I love a good dog. Good chili dog. I could eat hot dogs every day of the week. And I was coming home Friday, no, Thursday. And I was coming down McAlpines, not McAlpine, but uh Foot Ave and the firehouse is right there, and they had a food truck in there, and I saw the sign, chili dogs. I man, I freaking hit the brakes, I whipped it in there. Just a good old boy. That's what it was like, too. I whipped it in there, I said, I want three. And uh she says, Okay, we'll get you three. Rookie. Well, I could only eat two. Oh yeah? Because they were not that good. It seemed like the chili was uh like the Gatling gun Jimmy was talking about before the following day coming out my ass. I got halfway up the main, and uh I that was right after right right when you called. I just uh finished uh downloading them chili dogs, and uh it was uh pretty freaking nasty. So I suggest uh don't eat the chili dogs from that from that food cart over there.

SPEAKER_03 45:31

It's packed.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

Yeah, I think uh uh a dog trainer has uh sessions over there. A hot dog trainer?

SPEAKER_03 45:41

No, yeah, no, that was a lot more cars than dog training.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

Yeah. They might have something going on in there in the front.

SPEAKER_04 45:50

All right, well, we'll go from your bad experience to my good experience up in Scranton. I I listen, I'm not a Scranton guy. I grew up within 15, 20 miles of the place. I know nothing about Scranton. Never. I I my my band used to play at a couple of clubs there. I knew how to get there and out. Have you ever heard of uh the glider diner? Yes. Yes. I think we all have. Yes. Okay, I've heard the name, but I never experienced it. Went there yesterday, had a patty milk, and fries with gravy. Now I'm a gentleman that knows my gravy. Fries with gravy. Oh god, it's that good shit. I have always loved KFC's gravy because it's terrible for you and it tastes great. Yeah, it's all fat. It's a microcosm of their chicken. It's so good. Instantaneously cardiac arrest. The glider diner's gravy blew KFC's out of the water. Oh, that was really bad. Possibly the best gravy I've ever had in my life. How'd you feel after you ate it? Uh, fantastic. There were no ill effects. The food was excellent, it was on point, great service, nice people. Uh, but I I just I left that place thinking to myself, why do I want to live? You know what I mean? Like, like I my diet should be gravy, cheese, and fried foods until I keel over in two years, but I'm gonna die happy. Now, what kind of gravy? The good kind. No, uh the brown gravy. Like a uh the dark brown? Not not as not as dark as what came out of your ass after those chili dogs, but you know, certainly uh uh uh beyond tan about that. All right. Yeah, I I love what's right around the corner from uh No, I don't. I just told you I don't know shit about scrunch.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

If if you would make a right out of their parking lot, go to that light and then just bear right and make the first right, that's where the uh farmers co-op is also hanging out there.

SPEAKER_04 47:41

Yeah, you yeah. All right. I wasn't thinking about fruits and vegetables, I was thinking about gravy and cheese.

SPEAKER_03 47:46

Well, you gotta wait a couple months for uh fruits and vegetables in this area.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

There's a local diner here. Uh it it is not Marie's diner. Come on. Marie's diner is awesome. I love their food there. But it's the other diner. The other one. It's not in music, is it? No. It's in Pittston. I heard Terry's is good. Terry's is good. Uh I don't want to bring up the other diner, but it is in Pittston. Near the dump.

SPEAKER_03 48:18

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 48:20

That food has gone downhill over the past year and a half, two years. Bad. I will not go there to eat anymore. I will not. Won't do it. No. It used to be good.

SPEAKER_03 48:31

I went in there once probably three, four, or five months ago and vowed to never return.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

Yeah. When I go in there to eat and my son goes in there to eat, and we don't finish our plates, you know the food is bad. Wasn't good. Even a breakfast wasn't. How could you fuck up breakfast, man?

SPEAKER_04 48:48

Yeah, an omelet. It's the first thing you learn as a cook is how to make an omelet.

SPEAKER_03 48:54

Avenue.

SPEAKER_04 48:55

Avenue's gallery. Avenue's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 48:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:58

Myself and Jim have lunch there every once in a while. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:02

It was, it's, it's the only chicken parm in the world that he can't finish. Well, not only that he can't finish, like, you know, and my ex-girlfriend Shell, she made chicken parm that I I would murder somebody for. Yeah. And that was the only one that was like kind of even approaching that level. To this day, I'll go to Avenue.

SPEAKER_01 49:19

Yeah, their food is good. Now, I used to go to I used to live across the street. We're we're harping too much on some of his local stuff.

SPEAKER_04 49:26

Maybe it's a little light-hearted as it goes to bombing the shit out of people.

SPEAKER_01 49:29

But I used to live across the street from there. There used to be uh the eagles over there, and I used to live in an apartment on the top with my mother when I was a little guy. And up until the way with that diner used to be the RJ diner. And very, very, very extremely close friends with my family. And if you ever go in there, and when you first walk in, and to the left, you have all the stools, and you have that one stool that's raised higher. Yeah, the presidential stool.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

That's Obama's also before that it was Carter.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

Carter's wife, maybe? But that stool was actually raised for me so I could see above the counter and eat. Fuck you, man. So it's your ass, a couple of presidents. Yeah. Yeah, that stool was actually raised by Roger and Ronnie, the previous owners for me, so I could sit there and eat. Yeah. It's funny to not to harp on this. Yeah. But went to uh when when Roger passed away. We went to uh his viewing, and I think there was more pictures of me up that they put up than than half of their family.

SPEAKER_04 50:51

Spent some time there, did you?

SPEAKER_01 50:53

I kind of felt bad. I was like, holy shit. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:58

Believe it or not, not that uh the avenue is paying me to say this, but uh, I believe they're gonna cater our wedding.

SPEAKER_01 51:04

Oh, yeah?

SPEAKER_03 51:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:05

Okay, order extra. Uh well now I'm RSVPing even quicker. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we got you, we got the invitations today. We'll send them back.

SPEAKER_04 51:15

The the formal way you're not gonna see any of it. It's just gonna be me sneaking in out in the trunk of my caddy.

SPEAKER_03 51:21

I I know one thing is definitely gonna be sausage and peppers.

SPEAKER_04 51:25

That's good. Like I said, trunk of my caddy. Yeah. Uh what else we got? All right, let's move on. Because now now I'm hungry. Thanks. Yeah, that was good.

SPEAKER_03 51:35

Yeah, we can scratch kitchens open right on your way home.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

Yeah, but I gotta fight the Christians. How about that place, the portions that they give you? Mink yeah, fuck. Yeah. Well, I have a I have a you know a figure to maintain. That's why I like that place. But man, oh man, I ordered this is the last we're talking about this food. I ordered a freaking omelet, and it was bigger than my fucking head. Yeah. Thing was friggin' huge. It's like, holy shit. But I've been there a couple times. It's good stuff.

SPEAKER_04 52:05

Try their breakfast burrito.

SPEAKER_01 52:07

Yeah. Lord have mercy.

SPEAKER_03 52:09

The trick is you gotta get in before church. Let's uh oh yeah.

ROTC Shooting And Deportation Argument

SPEAKER_01 52:12

You always have to fight the Christians. Yeah, we went there a few times and it was uh it was packed. Uh Michael Baylor Jallah, 36 years old, former National Guard member. Do we know who he is? Sure we do.

SPEAKER_04 52:28

All right, spit it out, Jim. What do you got? Well, and this is not right in front of me, so if I I do have it in front of me. It is in case it is the guy who uh in uh in Old Dominion uh he went into an ROTC program room and opened fire. Yep. And uh not only, by the way, was he a former National Guard, he's also a former ISIS sympathizer and uh supporter and it was convicted of that and sentenced to ten years, I believe. It was ten years, but he didn't spend the whole ten years. I think he served between seven and eight. Yeah, I think it was eight. Biden. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:12

The only part of that story that I that made me feel good. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 53:17

You're you're going exactly where I was gonna go with this. Is that the teacher was killed. Well, that part wasn't good. Well, that wasn't good.

SPEAKER_01 53:24

That wasn't the good A, man.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

Students. The reaction's so good. The students beat him to death.

SPEAKER_01 53:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

R O T C students and painful death that he deserved. What I loved.

SPEAKER_04 53:44

What I loved was the awkward way that the head of the university had to give this information. Yeah. Uh they they they I think her quote was, and I'm paraphrasing here, but it's something along these lines. The students then rendered him not alive. They unlived him. Yeah, because you know, God forbid you just say, yeah, they jumped in and they beat his ass until he f he moved no more.

SPEAKER_03 54:10

I can't imagine beating somebody to death that at one time was holding some sort of firearm. Yeah. And they just I'm assuming they gang jumped him. No. Beat him to death.

SPEAKER_01 54:28

Now well deserved. It was well deserved, but now we're gonna look at lawsuits, wrongful death. You watch and see if something happens with that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:39

You watch and see considering his checkered past and his actions, uh, I I don't I don't think that that's gonna be a major thing. I and if it is, then we're doomed as a country. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

Well, this guy was arrested for uh and released for uh attempting to aid ISIS. He expressed admiration to the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. Uh there's a 2016 investigation on him. Online, he was watching online lectures from an al-Qaeda leader that was not disclosed on who he was watching the lectures from, but we could probably I don't know. I don't even want to speculate because it doesn't matter. Yeah, right. And now before that, this incident here, we had the one up in uh up yonder, up in Connecticut. The shooting up there.

SPEAKER_03 55:42

Wasn't it Rhode Island?

SPEAKER_01 55:44

Rhode Island, yeah. Right? Was it Brown? Brown, brown. Oh, okay. We had that one, right? And then we had one before that at another school.

SPEAKER_04 55:54

Really quick, the guy that opened fire at the ROTC, uh uh he was from Sierra Leone. Uh something like that. I believe it was Sierra Leone. And uh my question is all right, he he was convicted of conspiring with ISIS and uh, like I said, sentenced to around 10 years. He didn't serve the entire term. When he was released, why wasn't he shipped back to Sierra Leone? And I have the answer, it's because he was a naturalized citizen. At what point should we have the right to look at our naturalized citizens and say, you have fucked up beyond the pale and you need to go?

SPEAKER_01 56:34

I think we brought this up on the last show.

SPEAKER_04 56:36

Uh I think it's I know we brought it up in conversation.

SPEAKER_01 56:40

I know we talked about it. I don't know if it was on the show or not. But I I agree 100%. I don't care if how long you've been here, if you were naturalized here, and uh you commit a crime like this or any crime, any crime like this out, gone, revoke your green card, whatever the fuck you got there, and go back to where you came from and don't come back. When he was convicted of aspiring or conspiring with ISIS, that makes him a traitor. Right. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's treason. I was just gonna say it's treason. Or which would be better, but it would cost the taxpayers money, put this son of a bitch in prison for the rest of his life. That way he doesn't have the he doesn't have the the uh capability to come back over here and release back into public.

SPEAKER_04 57:30

He's probably living better in prison than he would in Sierra Leone. Not exactly a great place.

SPEAKER_01 57:35

Well, it's better than I think than have him run in the streets of our country and wreaking havoc on our citizens.

SPEAKER_04 57:43

But the to me, the ultimate would be okay, you served your eight years, cool. You're out you're out. You're out. And I think I think that there's nothing wrong with the concept of looking over naturalized citizens that are committing egregious crimes and getting them the hell out, revoking the invitation that we so kindly extended to them to be part of our country and culture.

SPEAKER_01 58:01

Right. And that's they're they're the key key words. Our culture, our country, our culture, our way of life, our lifestyle.

SPEAKER_04 58:09

And I didn't mean to interrupt you because I know you're going to move on to other examples of where you're going with this point.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

And it I said it before. You came here to this country because you liked what you saw, presumably.

SPEAKER_03 58:25

Until you got here.

SPEAKER_01 58:26

Until you got here and you started getting free shit. And now you want to start changing our way of life. You want to start changing our culture. Everything we do offends you, it affects you. You you don't uh you don't respect our country, you have no respect for humanity, and then all of a sudden you realize that you have to work a little bit to get ahead. You have to put forth an effort, and uh you don't want to do that. You don't you don't want to work hard, you want to get free shit. That's why you came here. You want free shit. So now you're pissed off at the world, at our nation, now you start hating us and you start that's working from within to to to hurt right this country. And and now you're you're you're going back to your radical ways. Your radical ways.

SPEAKER_03 59:20

It's it seems to me that the culture of this country is slowly changing.

SPEAKER_01 59:26

Oh, without a doubt. Not so slowly anymore. Without a doubt, but it's changing. I I agree with Tim 100%. It's starting to change. It has it's been it's been changing over the past hundred years. Well, it's also capitulating.

SPEAKER_03 59:43

I'm 61 years old. From when I grew up to now. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 59:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:54

Oh my god. Here's just one thing. One thing I'm not saying whether it's right or whether it's wrong. When I was growing up, you would never hear a president drop the F-bomb in public.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:08

No. And that's part of the problem. It's part, it's part of the problem.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:12

I'm not saying whether it's right or whether it's wrong. The lack of formality. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:16

And of um it's the lack of respect. It's the lack of respect. It's the lack of of of working hard for something that you want. Over the years, we just gave too much shit away. Gave, you know, and it all, in my opinion, the one of the podcasts we did a couple weeks ago, it all started with uh welfare.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

And now the big stink is because uh I'm not sure how it works with snap benefits.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:47

Well, if that was that's a podcast we were I was just talking about.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:51

Um they're now like you can only buy healthy, right? Yeah, no, the people are pissed. Yeah, they are pissed.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:00

Energy drinks people used to buy with that. No. Yeah. It's it's supposed to be for basic food stuffs, you know, and legitimate meals and the necessities.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:11

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:12

Not potato chips and uh Pepsi, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:16

Uh but you anyway, you had started down the road of uh uh the the Rhode Island shooting the brown, right? Uh this guy with the ROTC. I'm gonna I'm gonna toss in here if you don't mind and say uh the recent attack. That was Thursday. Uh uh uh a synagogue.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

That's oh where the guy drove the truck.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:34

That's this here.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:35

Right. He uh he he drove he drove a vehicle into a synagogue and armed guards in the synagogue shot him dead after a firefight. Right. And apparently one of the one of the bullets hit an incendiary device that he had in the truck and caught it on fire. Good. Uh yeah, exactly. Happy ending to the guy died. The bad part of it is here's here's that, and I'm gonna use the term again, uptick that we're seeing because all of these incidents have one commonality denominator, and that's Islam.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

Right. And why is that? Why? Because they're against this war, probably. And that's my problem. You come here, you need to support or or at least uh what's the word I'm looking for? You don't have to support the war, you don't have to support it, but at least respect what the president's doing.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:28

And if you're so incensed about what we are doing as a nation, feel free to fly back to your home nation and volunteer for their military. Yeah, goodbye, see ya. You know what I mean? But but have a nice day. This this is what we're talking about. This is this is the um the ugly reality of terrorism.

NYC IEDs And Terror Labels

SPEAKER_01 1:02:46

Right. It is. It's like uh last year, year before, you had all these people protesting against Israel. You know, we need to stand up for Israel, need to fight for Israel. Go over there and fight for them then. Instead of causing all these the havoc here, go over there and defend Israel or defend who Hamas or whoever you're you you're you're you're you're rooting for during these conflicts. Don't don't bring your shit here. And and and that's part of the problem too. They bring their shit here and and and people start to uh uh uh gravitate to that stuff and they start to believe it. It's like watching the excuse me, watching watching um watching uh Fox News or CNN, MSNBC, it it it you're you're being uh brainwashed by these by these media outlets. If you only watch one channel, that's all you're gonna believe. That's all you're gonna believe. One perspective. One perspective, and you're gonna be brainwashed by it. And that that's what's what has been going on. Uh that they're they're not they're just got a tunnel vision. That's it. Tunnel vision, one track mind, and uh it's a major, major problem, major issue.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:12

By the way, we forgot to mention, and we had brought this up before, the uh two lovely young gentlemen from Philadelphia who went to New York City and decided to throw basically improvised explosive devices uh at the feet of law enforcement and at uh another protest.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:28

What was his name?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:30

Alagamana. I don't I don't fucking know.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:35

They were two two young men from Philadelphia, but that had privileged backgrounds, by the way. And they were both um radicalized Muslims. And uh the the protest that was going on in New York was going on in front of Mayor Mundani's house.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:49

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:49

And what it was, it was a protest about the Islamification of America, and specifically New York City. These two young men didn't like that message, so they built two improvised explosive devices and hurled them at the feet of law enforcement and the protesters as a form of counter-protest because you know your voice isn't enough. You have to have a casing full of screws and nuts and bolts or a fuse on it. And yet they try to downplay that. Yeah, exactly. The media does. Of course they did. When when the media first reported on it, uh that they they tried to say that Mamdani was the target of the bombs. It wasn't. It was the protesters, the Islamification of New York City and the United States in general, and also the police, because those were thrown right at the feet of the police. Right. So, you know, and and and that goes to a general inability to articulate and reasonably protest your point. Uh you know what I mean? Like they they can't uh the only protest chant they have is Allahu Akbar in Kaboom. And then it also speaks to a lack of respect for the police.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:55

Right. Right. And you know, we talk about that lack of respect for the police. Uh we had a state trooper. Uh Jimmy brought the or Tim brought this up. We were talking about this uh a couple times over the course of the week. Uh this trooper got killed down near what is the name of the town?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:17

West. I'm not sure how you pronounce it. C-A-L-N. Colin.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:23

Callan. Callan. Uh he's that trooper was shot. Uh we had another trooper.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:32

And the the the trooper it wasn't like he was going into a desk domestic disturbance or this, that, the other thing. He pulled the driver over for whatever traffic interaction. And he was shot before he even got to the car.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:49

The only the only the only satisfying outcome of that is that the sh the guy who shot the police officer walked a couple paces away from the car and killed himself.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:00

So what what was your point of doing all of this? You got no satisfaction out of it because you're dead.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:06

Where is uh uh all the people yapping about oh now those uh you know the service members that got killed uh their poor families? Yeah, what about that officer's family?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:21

What about that officer's family? What about the the the um higher-ups in the state police that have to put on their dress blues and go to mom, dad, or wife and family's home and say, hey, your son, daughter, husband, wife, mom, dad is not coming home.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:46

And by the way, the skill that pulled the trigger on the cop, uh strong ties to Antifa. Strong Antifa ties.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:54

Uh I mean, chances are it was just a stupid traffic infraction.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:00

Oh, got well, that that this is it exactly, it kind of ties into what we were we were going to talk about on this. And we talked about we touched on it briefly last time we were together.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:09

Um this this trooper's name was uh uh Corporal Timothy J. O'Connor Jr. I knew there was a Tim involved.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:18

Uh, but like in general, a lot of the things that I've seen that escalated out of control are things that could have been avoided and probably had that person walking away with a citation.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:35

Or you know, something very simple, and it becomes amplified in seconds to something that is you're on the ground, handcuffed, tased, you know, a load of piss in your pants. And this this speaks to a general lack of respect and uh and lack of a lack of an idea of how to handle being addressed by the police. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how how we're how we're not teaching people how to just be generally respectful and follow commands, but there's a disconnect there.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:07

It's not even be about, I mean it is. It's about being respectful, following commands, but it's a lot about common sense. Oh god, yeah. Common sense. It's not so common.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:18

This is what I found over 40 years driving a tractor trailer and 40 years driving a car. Yes, sir, no, sir, goes a long way.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:29

Yeah. It does. It does. Uh, this gentleman here, uh Corporal O'Connor was shot and killed during the traffic stop in West Calne, C A L N Township in Chester County, following a report of an erratic driver. This Corporal O'Connor approached the vehicle. The driver immediately opened fired from inside the vehicle, striking the 15-year Pennsylvania State Police veteran. The gunman then exited the vehicle, walked a short distance, and fatally shot himself. What is the point of shooting yourself? That's cowardless.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:11

What is the point of shooting a trooper over to an infraction?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:15

Yeah. Well, did they find anything in the car?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:21

Unknown. Unknown. But I'll but I will say this.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:24

I'm not showing anything here. Was he drunk? Was he uh intoxicated? Was he under the influence of anything? I see nothing here that uh implies any of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:34

Well, let's play a devil's advocate on the part of the guy who who was pulled over. I've been pulled over a couple of times in my driving career. I've never had a police officer search my vehicle. If you're once if you're cooperative and you hand over your information and accept your citation without back talking bullshit, nine times out of ten, they're not gonna want to search your car.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:00

Well, let me tell you what happened to me. I was a teenager.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:03

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:04

I was a teenager, I was about 17, 18 years old. I was heading down the big hill, going towards Harvey's Lake, me and my girlfriend at the time. And uh Harvey's Lake police pulled me over. I was speeding. I'm not gonna deny that. But they pulled me and my wife out of the car, didn't pull me out, but told us to get out so they could search the car. And I don't know why. I I don't know why. But what I do know was is that I when I told my old man this back then when he was alive, he had a lot of connections, and them two officers released of duty immediately. They were they were fired a couple days later for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:50

There's no reason to search my car. Okay, so let me ask you this. I I'm let me let me let me guess how you handled that. I just got out of the car. No, no, no. Go ahead. Let me guess. You said, Why do you need me to get out of my car? I didn't do nothing. Then when they dragged you out of the car, did you scream I can't breathe? Right. Or did you scream, did you scream that you were pregnant?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:13

Uh because that is it, like everything gets amplified all the way. Uh did they scream stop resisting at you? Like this what you described is a bad stop or a good stop with a with them uh exercising their power more than they needed to. Right. And and there was a way around that. You and your girl drove away from that situation without going to the the slammer because of the way you handled yourself. That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:39

Yeah, yeah. It's funny because you know, you watch a lot of these video clips of these these people, you know, uh, they're just getting pulled over for a traffic infraction and they don't want to listen. Nope. They don't want to look at the officer, they don't want to talk to the officer. All on the street, which they are not entitled to, by the way. Right. They always ask for a supervisor all the time. And why I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:05

It's all volume and attitude.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:07

Listen, even if you do ask for a supervisor at that moment in time, that supervisor is not going to go against his patrolman. He's always gonna side with the patrolman and you know, figure the rest out in court. The side of the road is not the place to argue anything. Right. Court doesn't really do that. You ever see Friday with Frank? Friday's with Frank? Yes. Yeah. He pulled somebody over and the guy started debating with him, and Frank says to him, This is not a courtroom. I'm not here to debate with you. Give me your driver's license now, please. And that was the end of it. And the the the driver, okay, here.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:44

But it wasn't getting nowhere. He but that even shows common sense. That that driver showed common sense, wanted the debate. The guy said, Listen, I'm not doing this. All right, fine. Yeah. He he capitulated, he he he cooperated, and he probably drove away from that stock. Right. He he did. He did. But when you refuse, or when they tell you to exit the car, and I think I brought this up in the last podcast. I hate to reiterate things I've already said, but I've been told by people that I do it all the time. We all do. Yeah. Uh when the officer tells you to get out of the car, that's game over. Right. There's there's actually a Supreme Court decision called Pennsylvania versus Mims, which states that they can ask you to get out of your car and you have to comply. If you don't, they could break your window, drag you out, cuff you. You might not even get arrested. I think that's pretty much across the board.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:32

Yeah nowadays due to Pennsylvania versus Mims.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:36

Yeah, if they ask you to get out, you have to get out. Yeah, that's a U.S. Supreme Court decision. It just happens to be coincidental that it's a Pennsylvania thing that started. Right.

Traffic Stops, Body Cams, And Respect

SPEAKER_01 1:14:43

So, you know, uh it just I'm just really dumbfounded on how there's no respect for law enforcement anymore. I mean, there's none. Absolutely. Even there's no respect for I I want to go on to say that I I could be wrong. Correct me if you think I'm wrong. It starts with with our government. You know, the way these clowns act when they're in Congress and at a hearing or in a congressional hearing or the way they they fight amongst themselves, it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:19

You know, they don't have respect for each other. No, they don't or the Senate.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:26

None at all.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:27

And the way they talk to each other now is just absolutely ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:31

Yeah. Yeah. I I think that's something that you bear witness to. Like I'm I'm gonna start with a childhood arc because children aren't watching that shit. No, children aren't watching MSNBC or C SPAN or any of that. They don't see how lawmakers treat each other, they don't give a shit about that stuff. What I do know is that my parents taught me respect for the law. And listen, respect and fear are not mutually exclusive. Right. So respect the law. When I was when I was riding around my hometown on my bicycle when I was 12, 13 years old, and I saw a police officer. I I I minded my P's and Q's. I wasn't gonna throw the finger up and start screaming at him. Yeah. You know what I mean? Or uh you know, we're playing basketball at the park that was behind my house. A cop pulls into the park, we stop dribbling the ball to see what he wants. Right. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:22

It's um now, now it's like, what do you want? What are you doing here? Get out of here.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:27

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:28

Yeah, like like you own that space. That's what it's like. And you know, and it's funny because who's the first person they're gonna call when somebody's trying to break into their house or a car gets stolen or a bike gets stolen? You respect the first person you call.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:45

You know, and I guess the way I was brought up, I'm the guy. If you see the old guy sitting there in some restaurant with the veteran hat on, I make sure shake his hand, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:58

There's no more of that. There's none of that. Yeah, there's no more of that.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:03

If I happen to be in a sheet or uh, you know, something like that, the cop filling his car with fuel, uh, hey, your coffee's on meat today.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:12

Yeah. Yeah. Yep. It it just amazes me.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:16

See, but but but what what would be said about that it's not respect, that's boot licking.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:22

That's that's that's that oh you're a bootlicker. No, that's what they would call it.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:27

I respect the fact that this dude has has made a commitment to serve and protect. Yeah. And and that is still a thing. And uh uh you know, there there's no acknowledgement of that anymore. It's it's almost like a it almost seems like a contest, yeah, a face-saving contest. Well, I'm sorry, there are people who are in authority over us. It happens every day. It happens with a child to a parent, it happens with an employee to a boss, it happens uh with a citizen to a police officer. We give these people broad powers of arrest and and detainment, and we do that for a reason because they are there to maintain order. Uh without order, there's chaos and anarchy, and that shit never ends well. Yeah. Yeah. Just look at any neighborhood in Philly where the cops don't want to go to now.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:13

And imagine not giving respect to somebody who's willing to lay down his life to protect your family.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:20

Yeah. Go back a generation or two. Imagine not giving respect to your old school cops. If you'd said some of the shit that these kids say to cops today before body cams, yeah, they would they'd pull out the nightstick and start tenderizing your ass. You might not get arrested, but you're gonna get a lesson. And I think that's a big thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:38

I think that's a big thing, too, is that you know, with these body cams, a lot of these people they know they're on camera. And even if they if they don't think they're on camera, they're gonna be on camera because they're all doing this, holding up their phone. Right, right. You know, yeah, touch me, touch me, do what you want, do what you want.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:56

I'll sue your ass for a couple million uh TikTok or Facebook or whatever, and uh with uh uh ice and the girls, you know, the guy's going right here, but then they just blast them in the Facebook covers, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:11

Yeah, those those are extremely satisfying.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:13

Yes, for me, they are extremely satisfying. I wonder what that spray tastes like.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:23

Not good. Not good. There was a time when if you coped an attitude with a police officer, yeah, you might not even necessarily get arrested because there was also that they officers used to have broad latitude where if you were an asshole, they'd tune you up, but you would also go home that night. Right. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. Now it the cameras have done a couple of things. First of all, they've caused police officers to hesitate in situations where they need to act.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:50

They've also That's an issue. It's a big issue, to be honest. In my opinion, it's a big issue.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:55

They've also caused um police to not have the latitude to uh be lenient in certain circumstances because now the infraction is on camera and it's no longer up to that police officer. He has to follow a protocol now. Yeah. Yeah. So the the leniency and goodwill that you got from some police listen, but before there were uh cameras, I got pulled over. Uh I guess I was weaving. Yeah. And uh uh probably accurate to pull me over because I was drunk as shit. Driving driving a very fast car. Uh but I had my hands at 10 and 2 because I knew my condition, and I had this cruise control set to 58, but I guess I weaved a little bit and he pulled me over. And the guy came up and a state police officer, he looked at my ID. He said, Uh, you live a half a mile from here. I said, Yes, I do. He goes, get there now.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:53

It doesn't matter. Do not exit your they couldn't do that now. Nope. Leniency is not a thing anymore. Even when they pull you over for speeding, everything is electronically logged. They can issue you a warning, but that's about that's about as cool as they can be.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:09

I was up on 90 uh about a month and a half ago, maybe two months ago, right after a snowstorm, going up through uh Connecticut or Mass on 90, and uh cop pulls me over. I don't know what the hell he's pulling me over for because I can't speed. So I pull over. He says, you know, he says, I can't with good conscience let you drive anymore with this big chunk of ice on the back of your trailer. He said, I let you go through two underpasses to see if you would knock it off because nobody was behind you, but now you're in all kinds of traffic. If that comes off, you're gonna kill somebody. He didn't give me a ticket or nothing. You maybe call road service, come get the chunk of ice off. How long did that take for them to show up, by the way? About an hour and a half. Yeah, that's exactly my argument with the whole clearance top of the trailer shit. Yeah, about an hour and a half. And you know, I was grateful that he didn't give me a ticket, which he could have, you know. Uh not that we're gonna get on the trucking subject, but we could if he's want. Uh they're cracking down on that shit a lot. The problem even on on uh cars.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:21

Yeah, but the problem I have with it now with these new, well, they're not new, but new to me, intermodal trailers.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:29

You know how the sides are all ribbed?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:31

Yeah, they hold us the top. Oh, really? Yes. Really? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:36

I did not know. That makes sense though. They're containers that have to be interlocked. Right. So that makes sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:42

So I'm just gonna use PG as an example. If there, if it's if there's snow on there, they have a snow scraper. We're more than welcome to use. They there's a sign-up. Please use our snow scraper before you leave. And the problem with those ribs, snow scraper does nothing down inside the ribs.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:00

Down inside the ribs, right. Intermodal container is ribbed for her pleasure. What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.

Shutdown Fight And Midterm Predictions

SPEAKER_01 1:23:14

Holy Jimmy. Holy Jimmy. Oh God. As we move on, we didn't plan on talking about this, but I was just I just saw it on the news.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:24

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:25

Uh the government shutdown. What what what what do we think about this?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:31

About the homeland security still or homeland still not being Yeah. Yeah. Well, and considering we're in the middle of a military conflict, uh It's not good. No. And also considering what we've seen uh uh with the uh the home uh the the terrorism that's got and I'm sorry, folks. It it's it's it's not just isolated incidents, these are terrorists' acts. Right. When you have somebody going in and shooting up on an RTC or throwing IEDs in New York City, uh that is terrorism. Yeah. Uh uh driving a truck into a synagogue, terrorism. They all have Islam in common, but yet the Democrats are gonna say, well, we're not gonna fund homeland security. What are you out of your mind? Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:14

Like the TSA agents. They have to They're walking off the job. They they have to show up. They have to go up.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:21

They're walking off the job.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:22

I don't think T I don't think TSA has to show up. I think that that's uh that's only aircraft controller. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:29

Yeah, right. But uh, but the the the security guys that they're walking off the job. I just saw the lines uh in the airports. They're like, you know, uh they're going out the frickin' doors out the you know and it's only because cubic protests turned violent amid economic crisis. Not to cut you off, Tim. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:50

Chuck Schumer and his band of brothers want to act like two-year-olds.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:54

Well, he is a two-year-old. Man of Schumer. You know, he's about a dweeb. He needs to just just step down, do pull Marjorie Taylor Greene and re-resign.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:04

Surprises the hell out of me. Better me. Yeah. Never saw him.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:09

I never thought that he would bend the way that he's been like the way he's going.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:12

I said give him all the credit in the world.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:14

You know, I said it on the last podcast. I wouldn't be surprised if you see him flip. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:22

He's eating shit from his fellow Democrats, too.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:25

Yeah, yeah. I think uh they're gonna lose a seat. They're gonna lose a seat, I think.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:31

I don't know. I'm I'm still I'm still really up in the air on the on the midterms. I I I really do think that I said it before, I'll say it again, the blue hair nose ring folks are gonna come out in force. I don't think they are. I do.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:46

I don't think half of them know how to make it to the fucking polls.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:48

The problem is the Republican side is they don't show up unless it's a big election.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:52

Agreed. And I also think I agree with that. Yeah. I also think that they can figure out how to vote. They're pissed off and they don't know why. They can't articulate why they're angry at the Trump administration administration beyond he's a fascist and a Nazi and a pedophile. Yeah. Okay, great. Uh, can you define any of those three? No. Okay. But they're gonna show up just just to just to just to fuck Trump, honestly. I I I'm not and listen, I'm not a uh Well, I don't think anybody here is a hundred and hundred percent Trump supporter. I think that we see things that he doesn't like, eh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:32

Well, there's definitely things that I see that I don't agree with.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:36

But these but these are people that I'm talking about that are so hardened on the left and so ignorant of anything besides Trump bad. That's it, that they'll come out and they'll pull that lever just to just to make their little statement known.

Nukes, Ukraine Money, And Rebuilding Questions

SPEAKER_01 1:26:54

It's it's like what I said before, they watch one media outlet and that's it. They get the tunnel vision, and that's what they do. And it is what it is. So I think uh I don't know. I I think we might be okay with the midterms. I I think so. I hope so. I think so. Uh you know, that's one of the reasons I like doing this podcast to get people out there to vote. And uh, you know, like I said, we're not experts, but it's just our opinion.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:28

Uh and even if you're not a hundred for percent for what's going on right now, take a couple of minutes to look at the alternatives. That's what you gotta look at. And what the other side is espousing as normal.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:40

Before Trump dropped uh with the with those stealth bombers and blew up that mountain. Before that, they were this close.

unknown 1:27:50

All right.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:52

Oh, yeah. That would reach California.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:56

Would reach California.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:58

That's why I say that, you know. How could you sit there and just and wait for for them to develop a nuclear bomb or ICBM before? Yeah. Before uh we do anything. What are you gonna do? Wait until the thing is in midair heading towards New York? Come on, man. Like, what the fuck are you thinking?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:20

Growing up when I did, the biggest fear you had was a nuclear weapon.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:27

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:28

Yeah like oh yeah. And to this day, like the way I think of Putin, I'm I you know, it doesn't keep me up at night, but that guy's nuts.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:39

Yeah, he is. Well, he he is nuts, but he is one that understands what the uh consequences are if he decides to push that button and go that route.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:50

He also remembers the stability of the USSR. Right. He remembers the old the old regime, he re he remembers mutually assured destruction. He remembers that there are checks and balances in place.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:02

Oh, this guy back again, by the way. Uh Ukrainian president uh does he need more money? That's exactly what he needs. He's now he's now open to negotiations again and throwing up the air quotes for negotiations uh between uh uh himself, uh Russia, and the United States, and uh that's probably because he wants another pallet of cash from America.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:21

Well, I I don't think he's gonna get it. Trump's not gonna give it to him. Zelensky.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:25

Yeah, we have to pay ourselves. Yeah, we need some more bonds. We need somebody to put those to get it.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:31

Yeah, told you the bad one names. We talk about this war, and uh, you know, I brought it up on the last podcast. What's your opinion on this, Tim? Who's gonna pay for the rebuilding of Iran? Who's gonna pay for this? You know, there's already to admit it, there is already contractors just waiting, chomping at the bit to go over there. But who's gonna pay them? Where who's gonna pay them?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:58

Well, uh, initially, I think it's gonna be there, they're gonna be government contractors that are going over there initially, and how do they recoup how does the government recoup their losses? Oil. Right. That's that's the key. And that, but that, but then again, that was the promise that was that was put forward uh with the Iraq and uh over in Kuwait that we were gonna get cheaper oil from them. And how'd that work out? Yeah, right. You know, right.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:21

We're not hearing anything about Venezuela anymore.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:24

The last I heard from Venezuela is that they were gonna contribute a million extra barrels per day, I want to say. Yeah. To the cause to try to keep uh uh oil in check as far as trading. That was last week.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:38

Something like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:40

Venezuela basically has a gun to their head too. It's like cooperate. You know, we we gave you we we took care of the uh we took care of the bad guy, and it's your responsibility to cooperate now and make your country whole again because you have all the ingredients. Venezuela has oil fallen out of its asshole, and then there's no reason why they can't parlay that into a successful economy. Right. Uh now that the the guy who basically held them down. And anybody who supported that guy in Venezuela is absolutely insane because they're holding the hand that held them down.

Cuba Protests And Communism Reality Check

SPEAKER_01 1:31:13

Right. So we to we talk about Venezuela, and I just saw in the news here the headline that uh there's riots down in um Cuba now because uh their economy sucks. Their economy sucks for years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:31

For years since ever since Castro took over Batista, and I think it was 59.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:35

Yeah, 50 something.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:37

Communism working out for you.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:38

Yeah. We'll talk about this and then I think we'll call it here pretty soon. Um, what do you think what do you think is gonna go on with Cuba? You think we we're gonna go in there and and try to do the same thing we did with Venezuela? I don't think we have to. I don't think we have to either, but it's a stronghold.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:57

Yeah, but the Castro that's in charge right now isn't the Fidel Castro of old. Definitely not, not even close, right? And also, you know, the the the economy down there sucking is nothing new.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:10

Like we've had strong uh um but they're still living in the 1960s down there. Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:18

You can find a you could find a 59 Packard down, it's great. Yeah. I mean, I mean that's terrible. But and a Cuban sandwich. I mean, look, come on, yeah, let's get real. Yeah, great. But that being said, Cuba's got some things going for it that Venezuela doesn't. Uh from our perspective as Americans. What is that? Well, before Castro took over, Cuba was America's playground. It was a tropical destination, casinos, entertainment, beaches, people were flocking to go there. Yeah. If they got their shit together and cooperated, once again, they could open up to tourism from the United States, from other countries who are at least half-assed uh cooperating with the with the uh uh I'm not say embargo, but there's there's another word for it. For years we've had financial sanctions against Cuba, and if there's been cooperating countries with us to a lesser or greater extent. If Cuba cut their bullshit, they could benefit from the money, even just from tourism, that would do a lot to save the economy of that island. Tiny island. Oh, yeah. It's not gonna take much to right that ship, you know what I mean, as far as the economy goes down there. One of the big things that they're bitching about now is that they have no oil. Yeah. Oil and gasoline down there is crazy. Right. Um so it it doesn't take much cooperation to get a lot of good results. Yeah. And uh how much of what's going on right now with the government down there holding onto the old line is just stubbornness. And I'd like to see what kind of shape these I'm sorry, Tim. I'd like I'd like to see what kind of shape these protests are taking. Are these people protesting their own government and saying, hey, you gotta do something to stop this shit? Or are they saying America sucks because life is terrible for us?

SPEAKER_01 1:34:13

That's kind of the way I'm looking at it. Yeah, well, you know, they're still stuck in the 60s, and here we are with all this technology living the dream, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:23

Once again, how's that communism working out for you?

SPEAKER_01 1:34:25

Yeah, yeah. And that's what these Yonkos want to bring here.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:29

From New York City.

Animal Question And Wrap Up

SPEAKER_01 1:34:30

Yeah. All right, I got one last question here for you. Uh it's on the lighter side of things. Tim, I want you to answer first.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:40

No, I'm not going to cross the street to get a chili dog.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:43

No. Um if you were an animal, uh, what would you want to be? Jesus Christ. What is this, a dating game? You can't be a dogfish or a cat.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:00

You know, nothing uh makes me feel uh better than when I see a bald eagle.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:07

Yeah? Alright. All right. Didn't expect that at all. Jim. So many jokes.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:22

If you were my alarm clock, how would you wake me up? I wouldn't. I'm no dingling. Uh any animal. Christ on a cracker.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:32

Um I could smell the smoke.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:38

Yeah, I could because this is honestly something I've never thought about uh for more than You didn't expect this, didn't you? No. So here's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say polar bear.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:49

A polar bear? That kind of fits the size anyway. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:52

Because I'm fucking adorable.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:54

Yeah, we'll go with it. Don't sound it with that tone, no. All right, your turn. I think I'd be a skunk. Just by the way, blast out my ass after that chili dog. That stinks. That's all we got, ladies and gentlemen. You guys have anything else?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:13

Not after that, no. I'm busy buying a ticket to the you know Antarctica.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:18

All right, all right, we're out of here. Thanks for listening to uh what are we calling this now? What do you want to call it? Knitting crew. The knitting crew experts at nothing. Just experts at nothing. Yeah that's it. That's what we're gonna call it. That's what we're gonna change the name to.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:34

That way, if anybody has any criticism of our opinions, we could deflect and say, look, we're experts at nothing.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:39

Nothing, nothing, just our opinion. That's it. Uh that's all I got.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:46

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:46

Tim?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:47

Um fresh out.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:48

No? You're getting excited to get married.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:52

The the um it's starting the reality's starting to settle in, you know. We gotta get this, we gotta get that. Getting close.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:03

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What's the bachelor party gonna look like?

SPEAKER_05 1:37:10

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:13

That's exactly it. Hey, look, a tumble a tumbleweed just went down across the landscape.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:18

Uh um a couple of my buddies have talked about a strip joint, but uh Lisa's fine with that, except the caveat has to be all the strippers have to be in their 60s.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:29

What Lisa said was because she went to that mail review or whatever they call those.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:36

Uh she says, yes, you're more than welcome to go to a strip club. That way you can see um people or women naked in public that should not be naked in public.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:46

Yeah, there you go. Nice C-section scar.

here To Follow And Next Week Tease

SPEAKER_01 1:37:53

All right, we're out of here. Hey, have a good week, guys. Uh, don't forget to follow us on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, mostly on uh YouTube, Spotify, and Facebook. I'm your host, Rich. I'm here with Jim and Tim. Next week we have Big Ed coming on the show. We'll see you on the next one. We're out of here. Have a good one. Good day.