Politics Over Breakfast

Politics rarely happens in a clean studio with perfect talking points. It happens at breakfast, in between jokes, wedding logistics, and somebody ordering extra cheese. That’s the vibe we bring, but we don’t stay on the surface for long. We react to the death of Robert Mueller and Trump’s blunt response, then dig into why a personal comment can instantly become a national media event and a partisan loyalty test.

From there, we zoom out to the bigger foreign policy picture: Iran’s missile capability, the Strait of Hormuz, and what deterrence really looks like when the risk of escalation is always on the table. We talk through the logic and the danger of hitting infrastructure, why “no boots on the ground” still leaves room for Marines to be positioned nearby, and what it even means to “win” when airstrikes can only do so much. If you follow Middle East news, U.S. national security, and war policy debates, this is the messy middle that doesn’t fit in a headline.

We also hit domestic pressure points that shape everything else: energy prices driven by supply speculation, nuclear power coming back into the conversation, and the SAVE Act fight over voter ID, registration, and election integrity. Finally, we get into the government shutdown impacts on DHS and TSA and the strange reality of billionaires offering to cover public payrolls while politicians deadlock.

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Transcript

Cold Open Breakfast Banter

SPEAKER_02 0:02

That's his mouth yoga. Sounds like a sexual terminology over there. That's exactly what it is. All right. All right. By the way, that's that's also gonna be the tagline for our upcoming uh relationship themed podcast. The only thing we're experts about is not caring about your feelings. Nah. I care less about your feelings. Take that, bitch? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Probably look a lot better too if you turn your hat around.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

No. Like goof. No, I look like I'm hiding a bad hair day, and that's exactly what I'm doing. I thought he was gonna say bad hairline. Since when do I give a shit about image?

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Never.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

I don't wear pants for Christ's sake. You don't wear pants? No. It's fucking disgusting. Shorts. All the time. All day every time. Sure. All right. And my cod piece. Yeah. There is one day. There is one say tune that you have to wear pants. For a little while. Believe it or not, I can pull myself together to be professional and and and uh sound relatively intelligent at times. Uh one of my uh roomsmen came up with the idea of uh overalls with no t-shirt and no underwear.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

How about no? Yeah. Hey, we got uh we have a special guest here, Mr. Ed. How are you doing, everybody?

SPEAKER_02 2:16

You need to stop calling him Mr. Ed. I know. I know he is not a talking horse from the 1950s.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Well begged a diff for some time.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Well, a horse is a horse, of course, of course. Now tell us about your political affiliations.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Uh so what's up, Ed? What's going on? What's new?

SPEAKER_02 2:33

Uh, not so much, you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

It's been a while since you've been on the show, a good two years, I think. It's been a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Alright, we all just come back from breakfast. And uh, I I have a question for you, Ed. You disappeared when we finished. Where where did you go?

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Okay. There it is. Alright. Took a piss break. And I grabbed a styrofoam cup from one of the leaves for a dip.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Okay. I bet. I would go out to bet.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Look at the look at the palm of his hand. I I I'm willing to bet it's got a phone number written on it.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

That's what I'm thinking. 1-800. That's what I'm thinking. No?

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Unless it's a scratch off, I don't see. I just have to keep, you know, scanning the QR code. I'll take the omelet. Hold the romance.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Extra cheese. No, you don't want that.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

So, Jim, we have uh something new going on with you lately. You're putting together something?

SPEAKER_02 3:44

Yeah, I'm putting a band back. Well, I'm putting a band together.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Sweet, sweet deal.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

And with any luck, everything works out, and uh I can utilize the$20,000 worth of musical equipment that I'm hoarding currently in my studio and actually do something with it. It's gonna be nice. Is that the other gentleman, Jim, gonna be involved? Yeah, as as of right now, it's it's myself and Jim. Jim's gonna be playing rhythm guitar. I'm going back to playing bass, which is where I'm comfortable because nobody looks at the bass player. And uh there's gonna be another guitar player and a drummer, so people will be able to shake their ass with an actual beat in the background.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Then I'm gonna be the lead vocalist.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

That's right. Did you come up with a name? Uh I have a couple of names kicked around kicked around in my in my so it's not gonna be two gyms anymore? No. No. No, because there's gonna be more than two gems. If only I could find two other gyms and we could call it four gems. But no.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

You know, we're talking about four gyms with no pants.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

No, well, shorts, let's be fair.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

We're talking about twos and threes and fours. Did anybody ever hear of a thruple?

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Yeah. What the hell's a thruple? That's what I want to know. I can tell you what a thruple is because I'm a pervert and a piece of shit. A thruple is the same rules as a couple, but they're literally bringing a third party into the relationship. A thruple isn't just like a threesome. A thruple is an actual three-way relationship where everybody has basically the same role as a long-term girlfriend or boyfriend or a long-term uh spouse. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

All right. I I I I heard the term. I never heard the term before up until last week, and I heard the term twice in one day.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Right. On next week's episode, we'll discuss the dirty Sanchez. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

The chili dog, which, you know, who doesn't? Oh, the chili dog. Yeah. So how are you making out with your wedding there, Timothy? Interesting segue. You make me good.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

It's not gonna be a thruple. Thank God.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Thank God.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

We'd have issues if it was. No, things are coming along. They're moving along well. Well, uh, we now have a caterer. Um most of the invitations are out. Um it's all the little things that drive you crazy. Like rings. Like it's funny that you said rings as a phone is buzzing, but go ahead. Yeah uh um, I found out by uh I'm gonna say he's 14 months old. Grandson is gonna be the ring bearer. I'm hoping he walks a little better by then. But uh the ring goes rolling as he goes flying.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

Um but yeah, it's um it's it's coming along well. Good, good. Uh I'm not ignoring you, I just gotta try to make my camera a little. There we go. There we go. Oh, it's all about you. I had to make my camera brighter because I was like in the dark. There we go. Good, good. Everybody's good. Nothing much going on with me. Thanks for asking.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Yeah, I know. We're we're we suck. Yeah. We're letting you lead the round table conversation of current events and of your guests and co-hosts.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Alright.

Mueller Dies And Trump Reacts

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Where do we want to start? Could I uh I wanted to bring up the death of Robert Mueller, um, 81 years old, former FBI director and head inquisitor of uh Trump during a special investigation.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Uh he passed away, and uh Trump took to so uh social media, Truth Social is social media, and said, quote, I gotta check this for, you know, I want to make sure I get this absolutely right.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Not really orange.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people. And people are going absolutely insane about that.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Uh I would say I would uh just by that alone, I would say, yeah, he was a little offbeat with it.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Oh, it's it's a great sound bite or a visual blur.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

That I will say, but I know we but and that's that's what I want to do. Yeah, but uh once we hear the the the rest of this. The rest of the story. This is the yeah, we'll we'll we'll know. We'll we'll we'll get a better understanding. Um, many patres and video spirito santay.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

Uh so here's here's the here's the deal. Our our president has this tendency to put his personal opinion out there, and the media has a tendency to take it as a public policy statement. He didn't like Robert Mueller because for for for two years, Mueller was up his ass as part of that special investigation in a very public way.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Yes.

LBJ Stories And Political Hypocrisy

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Uh it may look at any special investigator or special prosecutor that we've had for any president, they become a hateable figure because of the tedium involved in these long-term investigations. And when it's focused on somebody as bombastic as Trump, you have to expect that Trump's going to respond because that is who he is. So people are out there clutching their pearls that he would say something so terrible. And and it it's it's really a false kind, especially from the Democrat Party. You know, the Republicans are on board and saying you shouldn't have said that, but the Democrats are the ones that are like, oh my lord. Uh so I would like to remind the Democrats about the behavior of one of their lions. You told me to turn my hat around, and all of a sudden you turn yours around. I I I just You look 20 years younger. Yeah, I had a reason. Anyway, so let's talk a little bit about Lyndon and Baines. Lyndon Baines Johnson. Okay? LBJ was a president who's uh who's who's largely lionized by the Democrat Party because of his signing of the Civil Rights Act.

SPEAKER_03 9:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

But there's a few things about Lyndon Baines-Johnson that aren't as commonly known. He was a son of a bitch. That's that's the biggest one. That he was. One of the things that he used to do when he was having cabinet meetings is he had a bathroom adjacent to the room where they were having the meeting, and in the middle of the meeting, he would stand up, go to that bathroom, leave the door open, pull his pants down, and shit while talking to his cabinet. Nice. Nice. And he did that as a way to intimidate. Also, Lyndon Vance Johnson, he during meetings and press events, has exposed himself. He had exposed himself several times to members of the press, to members of his staff. Once again, it's an intimidation with a big presidential dick swinging around to kind of keep people in line, to kind of intimidate them.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

And when he signed, which arguably his most famous thing, when he signed the Civil Rights Act, he was quoted as saying, I'll keep these N-words, except he used the real expletive, voting the Democrat for the next hundred years. Now, this is a guy who used intimidation as a policy, not a guy who's expressing his personal opinion on a personal matter. Not a personal matter, but a a matter that non-political. Well, yeah, the the Mueller investigation was purely political.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Well, uh, uh, uh, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:16

You know, because I'm trying to I'm trying to draw a correlation between I think you're still on the Trump buck. Okay, go ahead. You know, Trump Trump spouting his personal opinion about Robert Mueller versus a president who's who's you know dropping mud during policy meetings. I got you is a big difference, and he was doing it solely for the purposes of intimidation LGBT LBJ was. Right. And I'd also like to sum up my little diatribe here by saying Robert Mueller, after two years, came up with two things, jack and shit.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yep. Nothing at all.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

So, you know, after all of that, for for Trump to be essentially exonerated, people would argue that he wasn't exactly exonerated, but for him he no wonder he didn't like the guy. And, you know, he said what he said. Uh Trump has a history of saying things. What's on his mind. Yeah, exactly. People like terms possible. Yeah, that he when he says what's on his mind, people get butthurt.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Well, i i it's just like uh when the Democrats say something off-color, uh nothing's really said too much about it. No. But when Trump says something off-colored the devil, uh it's uh it it's uh front page news. It's front page news, it's gone through with the fine-tooth comb. And uh I think this comment here though, yeah. Yeah, that too. But I think this comment here it might hurt him a little bit, might hurt the Republican Party a little bit. I I honestly think he probably would have been better off just staying quiet. Probably, you're correct, yeah. I would think so too. But I think with all the bashing, the fact that he they found nothing on him for the the last two years, and they put him through the ringer on multitude of accounts, that I feel like his personal feelings upon that, that when he made the statement, he came through exactly what he felt about the guy. Right, I agree 100%. Here's the thing with this whole the whole situation, all of it, from the Republican side to the Democratic side, and when you bring them all together, it's just a shit show. There's no more politics anymore. It's all about bashing one side or the other for personal gain and gaining control. It's no more about doing for the people.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

It's also hopping on whenever whenever anybody has any kind of verbal gaff or makes a statement that could be construed as uh offensive, everybody's got to pile on. Yeah, every and that that that doesn't stop uh between Democrat and Republican. Republicans are hopping on this as well. I also believe the last 10, 12 years, the presidential speeches that used to be given that were so prim and proper and watch your language, it's all out the window. It's all got and it has taken everybody down in Washington down two, three, four, five levels. In my eye, it's also in my opinion, trying to resonate with the common folk. You know what I mean? They're they're they're and it's not necessarily a good thing. No, it's it doesn't work for me. Um it really bothers me every time I hear one of the uh Democrats call turn your mic a little bit towards you. Yeah, you gotta eat that mic when they're calling Trump Hitler a Nazi. That's my point.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

That's the point I made. You know, it's it's a good point.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

It just knocks him down so many. As soon as they say that, you no longer want to listen to them. Right. And by the way, I'm not I'm not making any excuses for what Trump said. I don't think it was personally a very good thing for him to listen. I think it's a bad look. I think it's a bad news.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

It's just the point that he said it and now everybody's gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

And now the pearl clutching. It's it's it's a oh my jeepers, I can't believe it's shut up. I think stop it. One of the biggest problems right now is I I believe this all started when Trump started calling the reporters on his first presidential when he started calling the reporters garbage and stupid and fake news, and this, that, the other thing. I I believe that's where it started. And then Biden, he tried to follow suit. He didn't succeed very much. The best quote that Biden ever had is he was taking the stage with Obama and there was a hot mic in old Joe. This is a big fucking deal, isn't it? You know, that's that's that made some headlines that that ruffled some feathers.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Everybody's got to realize that uh Donald Trump has no filter.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Nope, not at all. And if we don't know that by now, the man's been an icon since the 70s, late 70s, early 80s. Right. And he he just speaks from his from his heart.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

From his ass sometimes. Probably more often than not, but yeah. Yeah, it's just amazing how they go after him for saying one off-color thing, uh, which was pretty personal in a very long time, and you got the Democrats uh saying shit, you know, and nobody says nothing.

Pearl Harbor Joke And Hormuz Stakes

SPEAKER_02 16:32

Well, you know, it wasn't just one off-color thing. It's been a while. It's been a while. No, it hasn't. Um earlier this week, he had the Japanese Prime Minister. Oh, that was a good one. That was a dig and it was a good one. The Japanese Prime Minister's name is Takeichi, I believe I'm saying it correctly.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Takei, I I do love sushi.

SPEAKER_02 16:55

Anyway. Um, so in this meeting, Takeichi uh put forward the fact that Japanese would the Japanese were not alerted when we moved into Iran and started dropping bombs. And Trump's response was uh, well, you know, I don't generally broadcast when we're about to take a military action. And then he said, quote, who knows better about surprise than the Japanese? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Right. And you you know what? That's that was a very good dig. Yeah, but it was a God's honest truth.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

It was a God's honest truth.

SPEAKER_02 17:28

But I've given this some thoughts since hearing this, and I think it was more than a dig. It's actually a little clever if you think about it. After World War II, the Japanese were they had to follow certain rules that they agreed to in the in the the formal surrender that they signed about what their military can do and their involvement on the world stage in military matters. That was a slap down to remind them of that. So if you're gonna ask, if you're gonna ask to be advised for advice and consent before we bomb anybody, do you remember how it ended the last time you got involved in world?

SPEAKER_00 18:01

You know, now do you think this this might like possibly open up a can of worms with that comment? More expensive sushi. Now we have to understand now, uh, in the treaty that Japan signed years ago at the end of World War II, they are not allowed to attack any any uh anyone any special period. Right. Unless they're attacked first, they're attacked first. Now Trump is he he's been asking for help with uh to uh uh secure the uh Strait of Hermuz. Right. And uh Japan I don't I I don't see why they cannot. There's nothing in the treaty that says that they can't. But he's also he has also asked NATO to uh help out, and they will not. They refused. They refused, but there are countries that want to help, but it's like but they're in NATO. So are they violating uh something that is in NATO? Something in the in the contract with NATO that they have.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

I honestly I I don't know exactly what the specifics of this um but but you're talking about the Japanese helping with the Strait of Hormuz. They have 10 fishing trawlers that are painted great. That's their navy.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

I mean they have minesweeper.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

No, I'm just I'm messing around.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Yeah, but I know, but I they do have minesweeper. But I will say this, they do.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

I will say this. Trump was widely ridiculed by asking NATO for help keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, which is an interesting prospect because a lot of the NATO countries get their oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz, whereas we, the United States, does not.

SPEAKER_03 19:53

Right.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Um, however, he was laughed at. NATO as an entity said, uh, no, we don't think so. But 20 countries uh led by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan have agreed to join efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah, there we go.

Iran Escalation And Targeting The Grid

SPEAKER_02 20:10

So whether or not the United Nations, or I'm sorry, the uh NATO said yes or no, some of the power players in NATO, away from NATO, have agreed to help have agreed to help with that, uh keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. I I heard this morning that Trump gave an ultimatum 48 hours, the straits open, or I'm gonna start killing your electric grid. Exactly. Your power plants.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

No, we talk about this uh about killing the the uh power plants, and so essentially when he does that, he's he's knocking out all the electricity into Iran. Uh what kind of concerns me about that is okay, you're gonna do this now all the people. All the population is gonna suffer. So is the population of Iran now gonna say to Trump, well, why are you doing this? Are they gonna turn now? Are they gonna start uh uh turning against the US for doing that? Uh I I'm kind of wondering if they ever took that into consideration. Of course they did. How far, Jim? How far do you think that this needs to go? I mean, listen, they they have no Navy left, they have no no capability to produce uh ICBM anymore. The only thing that they really have is the uh IRG, which is pretty much gone, pretty close to it anyway, and their drones.

SPEAKER_02 21:48

Uh that's not necessarily true because just today, or was it last night at this point, someone lobbed a couple missiles. And they lobbed them much farther than we as thanks to the coast.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

They did, but Eventually they're gonna run the target, sure. Eventually they're gonna run out. They have no capability to manufacture this stuff anymore. Well so it's like how far do we need to take this?

SPEAKER_02 22:11

All right, well, really quick, let's let's talk about clarify what we're talking about right now. Last night, Iran launched uh a missile at Diego Garcia, which is well beyond the range of what most people thought their missile capabilities were.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

And this kind of puts a feather in the cap of Trump and uh the basically uh United States Intelligence Services for knowing that, hey, look, they've got these weapons that threaten far further than we thought they did. Right. And they proved it yesterday by launching two. Yeah. Uh one of them failed and one of them was shot down.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

And this was my point we I made in the last podcast we did. Uh when are you gonna the imminent danger is there, it's there right now. It is there. So for anybody to say, come out and say, Well, there was no imminent danger, bull fucking shit. It's there.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

They they also log one or two into Israel, and one of them hit. Yeah, but the other one doesn't. Israel's no surprise. Right. Like there's no surprise that they're gonna hit Israel. And they they they put them into uh urban centers too, or uh population. They killed 40 people last night.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Right. But when they start they they start launching them into other Gulf states, that's that's uh And again, that the the range of uh the Diego Garcia missile.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

That's crazy. What was that, 2500 miles? Uh I am not sure of the exact item. Yeah, 2500 miles. Very good. It's actually right in front of me. I was watching some of the news this morning. But it's right, one hit, but it didn't hit the target, and the other one got knocked down. But as far as how far you have to go, put it in a different perspective. Somebody breaks into your house and they have a knife. You manage to get the drop on them and you hit them once with a baseball bat, but they don't let go of the knife and they're getting to their feet again. Do you quit and say, okay, that's enough? No, you keep hidden. Because if you're if your goal is to disarm them, then that's what you do. You keep hidden until they drop the knife. Why are they hitting Israel? For what reason? Because Arabs despise the Jews. And that's that's that's biblical. It's all the way back to Genesis. Yeah, well, I've heard that's why.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

But it's our goal is almost reached. It's almost there. Almost. Almost. But we're not there, but we're getting there. I I think by taking out the the the electrical grid, you you're gonna start, you're gonna change, you're gonna change the dynamics of things. I I don't agree with it. I don't agree with with uh doing that at all. And and and I and I also uh don't agree with Marines being sent there right now.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Yeah, from San Diego, California.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Right.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

And right now. 2,500 of them are on that ship. They're hitching a ride with the United States Navy. Yeah, and uh it kind of it if if if you if you look at how it's been framed, Trump has said, you know, I have no intention of putting boots on the ground over there. However, he does not rule it out completely. He's he's like leaving it on the table. And I think you have to do that because the minute that that is a trap that's been it's like it's kind of like the no new taxes trap. Because if you wind up having to implement taxes, that'll lose you an election or your party in election. It happened with uh George Bush Sr. Um similarly, if you're gonna say no boots on the ground, no boots on the ground, and all of a sudden you find yourself in a position where you have to put boots on the ground, you are now a liar, as opposed to a warmonger or whatever the hell else they want to call you. And people will look back and say, Well, you said no boots on the ground and you dismissed it out of hand. Yeah, but was there a clause before they were gonna do that? Was there there was a warning before they wanted to put them on the ship by the Marines being on the Navy?

SPEAKER_00 25:50

They were talking about doing this last week or the week before.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

But what ramped it up for them to put them on there? Because you have to follow through with what you say. Right, yeah. Well, I get that part. It's a deterrence thing as well.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

It's more like a to for me, it's more of a posturing. Very much so. That's what I think it is.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

But but like basically puffing your chest out in somewhat to do that too. Right. But you say, like, if this is now things have escalated, now he's gonna have to do it.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Now my concern is where where where are these troops gonna be stationed at? Yeah, which I don't think we'll ever know. We'll know that eventually, but not right right from the get-go. And let's say that these Iran has a couple, you know, ICBMs, they take their drones, they find out where these guys are, and now we got troops, more troops being killed. Now this thing is gonna get escalated into something more than what it is right now.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Well, it reminds me of Beirut in '82. It does. Uh what happened was uh that they they drove a truck full of explosives into a marine base and killed several marines. Um wasn't there just eight marines that just uh eight guys that just got killed from that drone strike? I I really don't know. There's uh there's a lot going on. Yeah, I don't know that. But what I'm what I'm talking about is is when when you have Marines stationed in uh an area that is volatile, yeah, uh, you know, it can it can go very badly. And uh that's what happened in Beirut. And we also have similarly, Iran has been already hitting its neighbors. It it has no problem lobbing missiles into its neighbors. So if our troops are going to be stationed in some of the bases we have, that's an incentive for Iran to throw whatever's left at them.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

That that's what I'm worried about, is that's gonna be an escalation.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

But at that point, are those neighbors gonna be pissed off at Iran or pissed off at us or both?

SPEAKER_00 27:35

I don't think they'll be pissed off at us because they're letting us be there and they know the consequences.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

But also they're not doing that for free.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

They're not. No, absolutely not. There's a there's an incentive there, right. I I think uh we might have a uh problem here with that. But we'll we'll find out as as we uh get deeper. So it's telling you right now it says thousands of U.S. Marines are being deployed to the Middle East, specifically the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

Hormuz, yeah, rather than directly into Iran. These forces are focused on securing shipping lanes with potential plans to occupy strategic locations like Iran's Karse Island.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

So well and also uh, you know, not that not to belabor a point here, but if you say you got you have to have every military option available to you, but you also have to have them staged and in place if you need to exercise that option. You can't go waving around an unloaded gun.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

So it makes sense. It it's a scary proposition to know that those Marines are on those boats, but also if you're gonna say that you're capable of doing something, you have to have that capability at your fingertips. Oh, my baby girl. There she is, man. My big baby girl. Huckabee Sanders. Love her. They booted her out of a restaurant, uh, but of course they did so after her and her party paid and tipped.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Right.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

And they asked her to leave because they're uh I believe they're part of the LBGTQ elementop crowd.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

What why didn't they ask her to leave while before she even ordered her food? Exactly. Or while she was eating, because they wanted to get paid, obviously. Exactly. But it's like, you know, if now what if we went, we all just came from breakfast, we sat down, we're eating, and that family came in and sat next to us. And Jim offended them.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

After warning Ed not to. Yeah. Hey man, watch your mouth. There's a little girl.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

If we said, you know, could you ask them that we don't want them here? They're offending us because they're Democrats.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Well, the owners are the ones that asked Buckabee Sanders to leave. Right. Not not the not the fellow patrons.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Same difference.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Not really. There's a difference there because like if if there's a complaint from the next table, you there's a side that you can take. Well, wait a minute, we didn't do anything. Why are they, you know, why do they have more rights than we do? Well, you can make that argument. The owner I'm sure somebody has gone to the owner and said, I I would I would almost assume the owners of every establishment usually have a sign somewhere in there that says we reserve the right to refuse service to every anybody. Right. They didn't do that, and this is what makes them hypocrites. Hypocrites. Oh my god, I can't talk. Uh if they were to have said to Sarah Hookabee Standards as she entered Iron Dole Missile Interceptors built in Arkansas. That's where they're manufactured, not where they're stationed. That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. At least they're made in America. Which I want to get into something on that a little bit too. But yeah, when when when she walked in, if they had the moon walked over and said, listen, you need to leave, you don't fit the criteria of our they would have been well within their rights to have done so. What makes this kind of a shitty thing for them to do is that they waited until she got there, ordered, paid, tipped, and then they're like, We don't like your politics, leave. Well, you already got yours, didn't you? She already got hers. We were on our way out anyway, so I'm so offended. Exactly. So kiss my cankles.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Kiss my cankles till tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

She looks great. I'm filling up over here. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Well, the people wanted it. But there's no one in there, YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

I don't know if that's comical. It's a statement of hotness. Come on.

unknown 31:23

Dear Lord.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

Chuck Norris died. No combo on him.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

I always thought Death was afraid of Chuck Norris. I I made a Facebook post.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Chuck Norris was a badass man. He was.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Yeah, and I made I made a Facebook post saying that he he he left this mortal coil to go and battle evil on the other side.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

He's on a mission. From what I understand, it was a very sudden death. It wasn't he'd been sick a long time. It was a sudden He was pretty healthy, man. Up until I I think he just made a uh X post just a couple of weeks ago or something like that, talking about his physical regimen that he still does, still did. Yeah. As far as exercising, you know, I believe he was 82 or something like that. 86. 86. Yeah. That's a again, a good ticket. Yeah. Yeah. You talk about a full life. And a well-respected guy, for the most part. I mean, apparently he made some comments that were everybody within martial arts, I mean, thousands and thousands of people. Politically, he caught the usual amount of shit, though, because he he was he was to the right. And he made some comments about uh uh homosexuality and that the gay lifestyle that got him in some Dutch a while back. But, you know, it Yeah if you if you speak on politics, you're gonna make enemies. It is what it is.

What Winning A War Looks Like

SPEAKER_00 32:45

It's what it is. And, you know, we talk about all this stuff going on with Iran, not everything going on over there. The US says it's winning in Iran. And I found this in the opinion portion of our local newspaper, and they say it's time to act like it.

SPEAKER_02 33:06

This is this goes back to what we were talking about last week.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you know, what the freak I I don't understand what what what the frick they're doing here. It seems increasingly evident that the White House rushed into war with Iran without fully considering the potential consequences, that's all the more reason to head to hasten the conflict's end. After nearly three weeks of fighting, the US is reaching the li the limits of what air power can accomplish. Although American and Israeli strikes have destroyed thousands of military targets and killed dozens of top officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Ayatollah Alakamana. Uh the regime remains unbowed. Yeah. Uh how how should we act? How should we act? Should we be doing cartwheels in the street? And we're not.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

No, but we should evenly report our victories with the peril that we face in uh uh engaging in a longer-term conflict. Like everybody is willing to report that this can turn into a quagmire, this can do this, this can do that, this can do the other things. If you want to talk about that, you also have to talk about the fact that, hey, we also wipe them out pretty effectively. And I like what they said there, though, about the limits of what airstrikes can do. That is true. There's going to be cachets of weapons that we don't know about and that they're going to surprise us with. But part of war is not only taking people out, it it's it's reducing or negating the enemy's ability to make war, which Iran can't manufacture these missiles missiles if we take them out.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

That's 100% the United States goal.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Yeah, they can't fuel their armies if we take out their uh uh reserves of petroleum or their their stockpiles of weapons that we know about.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

Now, Ed, do you think their that their uh their goal also is to change their way of life over there? Because they want a democracy. Everybody wants a democracy. Do you think the Iranians want a democracy?

SPEAKER_02 35:25

I would think that if the democracy was going to go into play, I would have to say that what were the restraints before the war started?

SPEAKER_00 35:34

And if they do, what's going to there's a lot of restraints. Yeah. Yeah. So if this takes some of the restraints off, then I would think that there would want they would be more vivid to have democracy. Now, before uh uh I Iran got uh crazy like this, that was a beautiful country. There's freedom. Pre-1979, yeah. Right. There's freedom for the people, uh the ex uh the women running around showing their hairs, they would had jobs, they were going to school, and they went nuts in '79, and they went back to the old ways. And is that what the US wants now? Do the Iranian people want to go back to the old way?

SPEAKER_02 36:17

Who knows what the Iranian people want, though, because they've been stifled for so long. Right. Nobody has a really good idea, but they only go by what we see that you know the celebrations. The rights have been given up, which means Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

So they were under scrutiny if they were, I guarantee you this the scrutiny would have come in if they if they want to go go back to their old ways. You know, women would be scrutinized for not show for you know covering, you know, if they're not covering up. Is it an oath? Is it uh, you know, is it now it's a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

They just killed that uh still following an championship uh wrestler. Wrestler, that's what it was. Hung them. Hung them.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Hung them.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Two others in two others. Two others, right? Unmade-up charges. Yeah. And by the way, the the the the the persecution and and deaths of uh protesters are still going on over there. It's still happening. You would think it would have bec would have been cut down to a certain extent because they kind of got their hands full with us attacking them now. Well, but there's still people showing out in the street and chanting down the system that they have right now and they're getting met with bullets. And it's like we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

And some don't. They want to stay the way things are. What did they really accomplish other than uh taking away their military capabilities?

SPEAKER_02 38:08

I think first of all, I don't think they'll ever completely kill the uh the terrorist group.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

I don't the it's like trying to kill a thousand-headed snakes.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

They're popping up everywhere. Um, this could be uh very biased on the news media, but they are showing all the celebrations of the the regular uh people population there, and um that could be very biased.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

Maybe they're hiding the half that does not want that, which are afraid to be exposed.

hy No One Trusts The News]

SPEAKER_02 38:45

They're afraid to come out of their and actually feel free. But since but since when has the media been in the tank for anything that a Republican president has done? Yeah. If the media is gonna report on anything, they're gonna report on something that's gonna go against Roman. I just I have a hard time, and it's not just this war. I have a hard time believing anything. Yes, I agree. That you hear on the the the regular media.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

I'm gonna be honest with you, I I stopped, I didn't stop 100%. I'll I'll watch it maybe on a Friday or Saturday. I stopped watching the news. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't watch outlets anymore. Well, it it it's not all negative, Ed. I think it's no matter what channel you watch, it's one side or the other.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

And it all passes through a bullshit filter where they add their own bullshit to it.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

Right. It's very hard to determine what is true and what is not. No. If you if you just focus on one channel or the other, it's very difficult.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Or is that the attention they're gonna get the audience by how they present it off TV? That's where they get the viewers from, is how they can regulate it in a way to like Jim said, knock Trump down or do whatever they need to do. They're always gonna have something negative to say about one party or the other.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

And you're gonna be sitting thinking, which side is what? You can't spend the hours I keep it at work. I get up very very early on the weekends. And this morning I turn the local ABC affiliate on to watch the news. It's ridiculous. It really is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

It's all of them. ABC, it's all the major networks, it's Fox, it's CNN, MSNBC, it they're all the same.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

My answer, my answer to your question, Rich, about if nothing really changes at the end of this, what do we accomplish?

SPEAKER_00 40:42

Right. Other than the threat.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

That's exactly what I was gonna say. We the the only the the if nothing changes, we still have the clear message of we can cripple you.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

We could cripple them.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

And it's not popular and it's not nice, and it's it but a forced doctrine is an acceptable threat.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

It is.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

And it's and it's also an outcome that is acceptable.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Now let's say, let's say, let's say in uh 2028 we lose the presidential election, Democrat gets in there. What do you think is gonna happen? The fucking border is gonna be wide open again.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

Sure. And the pallets of cash will be going over to Iran again.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

The appeasement philosophy, like uh uh uh uh who was it with uh the the Neville Chamberlain, I believe, was the guy who was in charge before Churchill and he had an appeasement policy with the Nazis.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Yes, it was. It just wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

And how did that work out for him?

SPEAKER_00 41:40

Right.

Corruption Talk And Energy Price Pressure

SPEAKER_01 41:40

Did you guys see any of this this week?

SPEAKER_02 41:42

The the what the hell is his name? Mike something or other? The the young guy that uncovered all the uh the fraud up in Middle East. Oh, yes, yeah. Uh and then he just went out and he covered a bunch of fraud out in California. Yeah. He's running for Congress. I didn't know. And he promises to call out all these politicians that go into office with a net worth of, say, 300,000, and six years later, all of a sudden, they have 10 million. Million.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Right.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

Um, yep. Yeah. Um he also called out Newsom's wife. She has some charity that is now worth 3.7 million or billion because of uh no use that. Um there was some sexual lifestyles, whatever. It's it's California, what you're saying. You know, it could be new. One other thing that happened this week that I I I will give Trump a pat on the back.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

He's getting an old drill out of California, Rio. Thank you for the coming right now.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

Yeah, they're they're fixing.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

They already started it.

SPEAKER_02 43:10

Yeah, well, they started the process because you don't just turn it on like that. Yeah, it's also been it's been down for a while, so they're gonna have to do repair maintenance and everything else like that to get in the snuff, but it's in the works, and that is basically what we talked about last time. Uh about it it, you know, it doesn't come online instantly. You don't start getting oil instantly, but it's in the works. And that's important because most of the oil prices are driven by speculation of uh uh uh less supply. Well, here's more supply coming online. You could speculate that everything's gonna be all right and give us back our cheap gas.

SPEAKER_00 43:43

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 43:44

Well, then he got also four hundred million barrels from other countries. I mean, we were talking about that. Venezuela, too, yeah. Venezuela was a big contributor. And uh I heard this morning um that is it Russia? Starting to buy natural gas from up in Alaska. See, that's interesting. There's no reason at all that Russia should be uh importing natural gas. They've got so much.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

Well, how are they buying it with their with rubles? No support. When we have sanctions against them.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

That's exactly it. Like, why would but but you don't know because sanctions have so many holes in them, they're like Swiss cheese.

SPEAKER_03 44:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

You know what I mean? So you don't know what kind of weird little provisos are put in there. And also I heard that um Russia will stop feeding Intel to Iran if the United States stops feeding Intel to Ukraine.

SPEAKER_00 44:44

That's a I did I did read something on that. I did. And that's a that that's a concern, to be honest with you. Sure it is. Uh that's a concern on all different kinds of levels. If if if we're not gonna feed uh Intel to Ukraine, they're gonna be crushed. They're done. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

Like whatever whatever kind of defense Ukraine is mounting right now is largely uh uh 85% supported by the United States.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

Right, you know, and uh and if that is the case, Russia's gonna own that whole freaking country again. Sure. They're putting the band back together. Right, and they're gonna thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

I'm here all week, tip your way, just and they're just gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I said this I don't know how long ago, but I could see Russia trying to do what they did back in the freaking 30s, man. Yeah. I could see it. I'm telling you, it's gonna happen. They're gonna attempt it.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

And post and post-World War II, uh as well for historical context, what happened? They took over all the satellite countries and they became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. The USSR was what we feared. It wasn't necessarily Russia, it was the USSR. Right. And that's something that that you know Putin remembers those as the glory days, it's something he's always aspired to have, is is the might of the USSR, that empire.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

Yeah. And and what concerns me what he aspires to. It's like with all this going on, we got we're gonna move on after this. We have to gotta move on. What concerns me is with what we're doing in Iran and all the amount of money we have given Ukraine and all the weaponry that we're burning up in Iran, all the weaponry that we have burned up giving to Ukraine, and if things escalate in Europe and we're still part of NATO, and we have to go over there and help, where are we giving the money to defend ourselves or to to defend help defend our allies?

SPEAKER_01 46:50

Not just the money.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

The Congress denied$44 million to Trump that he asked for.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

Million?

SPEAKER_01 46:56

Billion.

SPEAKER_02 46:57

Billion billion. I was gonna say 44 million ain't shit. But where?

SPEAKER_00 47:01

I mean, there's only so much money you can borrow.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

Okay. But let's take this another way, too. Because that's the negative that you're mentioning right now, and it's it's a valid point. However, let's uh take the stock of uh our arsenal that we're burning through. That also presents an opportunity for you know some of the Defense Department contractors to start doing uh business with the government again, making more of these weapons.

SPEAKER_03 47:27

Right.

SPEAKER_02 47:28

And uh that's that's that's an economic opportunity for our economy. So it's a weird kind of thing. It's it's one of the reasons why war has uh boosted economies almost every time. Look at Medeco, look at uh general dynamics in Scranton.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

They're all government people that are making shells, they're making bullets, they're doing everything. Extra marinara.

Nuclear Plant Upgrades And Three Mile Island

SPEAKER_02 47:57

Yeah, over the goat. All right. I was talking here's something kind of off topic, but I was talking to a gentleman last night starting Monday, I believe. He's going down, they're upgrading the Berwick uh nuclear plant.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

They updated that I'm gonna say 30 years ago. It's time then, isn't it? Yeah. And what's interesting too about that comment is they're gonna be opening up TMI pretty soon. I think it's by the end of this year they're gonna open up. Well, there's one reactor down there I think that's been functional since but the other two are going to be functionable, I believe, by the end of this year.

SPEAKER_02 48:43

By the way, TMI, for those who are under the age of 40, uh, does not mean too much information. It means Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility down near Harrisburg.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Yeah. And we had a a major, major uh meltdown meltdown down.

SPEAKER_02 48:58

That was in 1979 as well, right?

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:00

79's a popular year for bullshit, isn't it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:02

Yeah, Tim, I cut you off. You were gonna say something.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

Go ahead. This the guy you were talking about. No, no, uh, but what this gentleman was telling me is um he's gonna be working pretty much around the clock.

SPEAKER_03 49:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:14

Uh he's uh welder by trade. Oh yeah. And he's gonna be doing very well this year.

SPEAKER_00 49:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:21

Like what he worked on the last time they upgraded that, that's why I know it was about 30 years ago. And he was in uh Carpenter's Union and he made uku dollars. Because they don't get I think when they work on something like that, they don't just get the union salary. I think they get other shit thrown in there. I'm not sure, but I think so.

SPEAKER_02 49:44

Overtime applied as well. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

Alright, what else you got there, Jimmy? What what else we all do?

SAVE Act Debate And Voter ID

SPEAKER_02 49:50

Scorching case of furpes. No, um we're gonna talk about uh something else that's going through Congress right now. Uh and the debate is the Save Act. Save Act. The Save Act, for those of you who do not know, and I write this down because I can't remember a damn thing. It is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. And essentially, the the large thrust of the Save Act is voter ID. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

That's one of them. Um the other there's other things that that are of my concern with this. But yeah, that is the main the main thing, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

My my biggest problem with with the talking points on the Save Act from the left is, and Chuck Schumer's guilty of this, and and everybody seems to do, every Democrat seems to do what Chuck Schumer wants them to do. But uh essentially their argument is that it suppresses voters, it's voter suppression, because women who get divorced and they took their husband's name, but they have to revert back to their last name can't get an ID. And and minorities, but they're they're essentially stating that they're too irresponsible and too ignorant to get an ID so that they can vote. And I heard a great quote about this. It's one of my favorite things that I heard this week. That is the soft racism of lowered expectations.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:21

You're telling me that women are too stupid to go and get an ID. Bullshit. You're telling me that minorities can't get it. Bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

That's a bunch of shit. That's an excuse.

SPEAKER_02 51:31

Well, the reason I say it's bullshit, and I apologize. I'm not I'm just trying to complete my thought here. Um you need these, you need ID in America to do basic everyday stuff like flying in a plane, driving, buying booze or tobacco, banking, starting a new job, getting into federal buildings, military bases, renting a house, getting utility services started. These are all things that you need a valid ID for. So you're telling me that that black people don't have utilities because they can't get an ID? No. It's a nonsense argument and it's a condescending argument to their base. Sorry, man, but please go ahead. No, I was gonna mention, like, I'm 61 years old. Half the places I go to buy my tobacco, I have to physically give them my driver's license and they scan the back of it into their cash register before they'll sell it to me. 61 years old, but you got the ass of a 27-year-old. Well, thank you very much. It's crazy. I I think Lisa agrees with you. Yeah. I I You're working those glutes.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

You definitely need, uh in my opinion, you definitely need to have order ID.

unknown 52:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:39

And and that's fine. Uh my problem is with that is uh you can go anywhere, walk in there, and if the the the officials don't ask you for it, you're gonna vote. And if you don't have it, they're gonna mark you because all they do is put check marks that by your name that you had it.

SPEAKER_02 52:56

It's well, those people on the voter rolls that do that are volunteers. So at some at some point. They're not government officials. Exactly. At some point there might have to be a policy in place, kind of like kind of like Tim's talking about, where they take his ID when he's obviously over the age of 21. You're gonna have to put institute a policy where these people, you have to check IDs.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

Well, that that's part that's part of what's in this act. It's part of election security and integrigation.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

The the small town that I live in, I'm on a first name basis with most of those poll checkers. Right. They they know exactly who I am, but if I move to Scranton or Wiltsbury, which I never was, you're so home, right? I'd never moved to either one of those locations.

SPEAKER_01 53:42

But if I did, I would expect to have to prove who I am to have the right to vote.

SPEAKER_00 53:53

Now, with with with all that being said, and with all the illegal immigration that has happened, is it really gonna make a difference now once they take a census, whether you have voter ID or not? Is it really gonna make a difference?

SPEAKER_02 54:09

I don't give a damn about the sentence, uh, the the census. What I care about is voter integrity in our elections. Right. But you want to come here and camp out and take voter free, that's one thing, and that's another issue that we've put on ad nauseum.

SPEAKER_01 54:22

Right.

SPEAKER_02 54:23

But when it comes to electing our officials that might be able to help clean it up over the course of 10 years or however long, I want you to be able to flash an ID to say that you belong here. Doesn't the SAVE Act also do away with the uh mail out ballots? They want it to they want it to go ahead of it. Do they want it to go back? Do they want it to revert to where uh it was like kind of for the military and people like uh over-the-road truck drivers who might not be able to get home? You need a definitive reason to be at LaMille in your ballot. Uh the way it used to be.

SPEAKER_00 54:55

They also want to have same-day voter registration. I disagree to this, yeah, absolutely, because there's no way to verify anything. Uh I I don't agree with that at all. And they want this is this is the my big thing, big thing that I would like them to stop doing. Banning partisan gerrymandering, which is restructuring of the districts. That that's a huge thing for me. Uh that could change uh the outcome of a presidential election.

Gerrymandering Standards And Early Voting

SPEAKER_02 55:28

Well, uh an example of low-key gerrymandering, for example, is what uh Obama did by sending all of the Somalians up to Minnesota. It it changed right, it changed the voting block and and and gave it a more democratic stance. And that's and opened the door to fraud.

SPEAKER_00 55:44

Right. Right. And that's what this woman in the governor in uh West Virginia is trying to do. Is it West Virginia or Virginia? Uh I'm not sure. Like what exactly? She's trying to restructure the uh the districts. She's trying to make it more Virginia.

SPEAKER_02 55:59

Well, if if if that's Virginia, that govern that governor has a huge agenda because she's also biting hard into the Second Amendment rights of Virginians. Right. Uh that broad is on my radar too for you know angry fist shaking.

SPEAKER_00 56:13

All all 50 states, this is also in there, uh would uh uh approve uh early voting. I do agree with that. I I think you should be able to vote early.

unknown 56:27

How early?

SPEAKER_00 56:28

I would say no more than two weeks.

SPEAKER_02 56:31

Okay. That I could see. Two weeks. But how long does the background take? Well, the the instant should already be registered. Yeah, you have to be registered before uh why is it that it takes two, three, four days to get a background check done for a new job, but yeah, they'll approve you instantly to vote.

SPEAKER_00 56:55

Well, then also that's my problem.

SPEAKER_02 56:57

They'll approve you instantly to buy a firearm, too. Right. Well, state of Pennsylvania. With ID. Yeah, with ID. With ID, right. But that's my problem. That's as simple as scanning your your ID into the computer system.

Real World ID Scanning Example

SPEAKER_01 57:09

Well, look at let's go back to the easy pass. Yeah. So here's the same thing. When we go down the road, and I'm not trying to bring up trucking, but here's the here's the paradox behind that. When you go through the Easy Pass, as we have driveways, you know what that scans automatically? It scans your driver's license, it scans your dot your DAC report, your DOT, if you have any points, right?

SPEAKER_02 57:28

It's done through the truck's GPS that's located to the transponder that's above it. How do they attach that truck to you if you're not the owner of the truck? They don't. Like I know. Yes, they do.

SPEAKER_00 57:39

Yes, they do.

SPEAKER_02 57:40

So that they're able to take a look at the license plate of that truck and the easy pass and say Jim Yellen is driving truck 369804 today. Really?

SPEAKER_00 57:49

Not not to not to get on the trucking. No, I don't want to. But I well, I was up in Connecticut last summer, or last summer, summer before. Uh I got pulled in. Uh the uh DOT officer says, uh, you just come up with no registration. And and I had to show him the physical copy. So I was good to go. But I said, I have a question for you. I said, how do you determine who to pull in and who not to pull in? And he says, Well, we scan your light your license plate gets gets scanned. And he says, if you are attached to this vehicle for one week straight, more than likely more than seven days. Right, more than seven days, you're not gonna get pulled in. But your your driver's license goes through that license plate. Everything, like Ed said, your DAC report, everything, and they pull that up. Now, I don't know if this is every state, but this is how they do it in Connecticut. They they they know everything about you, who's driving it, what your CSA score is, everything.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

I didn't realize there was that much information involved, especially when the guys who hop scotch from truck truck to truck, I didn't realize that they're able to.

SPEAKER_00 59:03

Well, that's why it it pulls it up. If you if you're bouncing from truck to truck, and more than likely you're gonna get pulled in. Right.

SPEAKER_02 59:12

Yeah. Slip so slipseat guys are are are SOL right if they're if they're moving uh randomly from truck to truck.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

But now, as far as other states doing it that way, I don't know, but that's what that DOT officer told me.

SPEAKER_02 59:24

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SPEAKER_00 59:35

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SPEAKER_02 59:38

So yeah, I mean, it doesn't take that long for anybody to scan anything that's on your license. It doesn't want to eat that mic a little bit, man.

SPEAKER_00 59:46

Yeah. And uh the the next thing uh that uh is it's not concerning, but I think it's something that should be upheld with this act is uniform rules for for uh redist redistricting, like we just said. You know, uh for me that's big. Everybody should be following the same rules. If you're not, uh that's a problem. It's a huge problem.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:11

Even when it goes even when it works to our advantage, our our like our political band, that advantage, because that happened down in Texas. Yeah, the redistrict redistricting uh edged out uh Crockett. The hell's her name. Uh Jazzy. Yeah, Jasmine Crockett.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:27

Which snazzy jazzy.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

Believe me, everybody was thrilled about that, who who even leans partially to the right, because that one is insane.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:34

But you know, still I I'm still a firm believer that the the federal government should be overseeing all these elections. Every single well, as far as the presidential election, I think the federal government should it should be one one set way of doing things for every state, you know, and it's not like that. And there's so I don't care how much you look into states, how much security you put around, anything like that, you're there's gonna be fraud, no matter how you look at it. And the only reason fraud was about brought up this time because it was just so blatantly done. That's that's my opinion on that.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:13

Uh, really another really quick thing on this uh before we move on. Uh voter ID is a hell of a lot more popular than people think, even going down racial lines. Uh a vast majority of uh whites are cool with voter ID, a vast majority of blacks are cool with voter ID, a vast majority of Latinos are cool with voter ID. This is not something where like everybody's like, no, it's not fair. This is bullshit. If there is wide acceptance and and and want for this system to be in place where you have to prove who you are before you determine something as important as who leads this country.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:52

Now, here here's my problem. Here's my problem with this is what Now we look at Mondani, right? He's not he's not allowed to run for president. Right. Right? Okay. So let's say, God forbid, God forbid, I don't know if he has kids or not. If he does, and they were born here, they can run for president. God forbid, Modami just keeps going up the ranks, going up the ranks, going up the ranks in in the political field of the mayor, senator, congressman. And by the time he hits Congressman for his 2030th year, his son is his sibling, or sorry, not sibling, but his let's say it's it's his sibling. Offspring or offspring, whatever, who's born here and decides to run for president. And that that that person is more pro-Sharia law than they are the United States law. We'll be we'll be following other Sharia law.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:07

Well, it's kind of a stretch for that because it is a stretch. When you're running well, when you're running for president, it is a possibility, but when you're running for president, you also have what, two, three years that you're vetted essentially through uh ads, through uh bringing up the history of what you've done. So at that point it's incumbent upon the people that are running against this character to say, listen, this dude's a wack-a-doo. We cannot have him elected. That's what the election process is. Well, or the race, the campaign race.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:38

We all thought Mundami was a wack-adoo.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:40

I said it. I I never thought he'd win that freaking race, but he won't won it. He's a mayor of New York now.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:46

Yeah, how did he win it, though? He promised everybody the world, and it within two weeks delivered. But look at how Cameltoe got in there. She wasn't voted in there.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:57

No, she's appointed.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:59

Yeah, she was appointed.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:01

Right.

Cuba Power Grid Collapse And Fallout

SPEAKER_02 1:04:02

Uh it it's I thought you meant how how did Kamala Harris start her political career, which is vastly different, but it did involve her knees. I've got bad knees. Gee, I wonder why. Dear Lord, what else we got? Uh Cuba. Let's go, Cuba.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:22

What about Cuba?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

Well, I mean Cuba's hurting. Cuba's falling apart. Now, I saw, but one thing before we get into the the unbelievable reality of what's going on down there right now. I saw just this morning the headline is that Cuba's power grid has failed. And this is coming hot on the heels of the fact that Cuba can't get any gas, gasoline, oil, or anything like that. And uh there's there's been problems with uh uh getting materials, essential materials for years now because they've been uh they've been under sanctions, at least from the United States, since Batista was ousted in 1959. Hasn't it been like five or six months since they've gotten any crude oil? Something along those lines. But but what I did see this morning, I'm watching this this report on how bad things are in Cuba. And there's people driving around, and the only light in the city is from the headlights of the cars. Like, wow, what a you know, these are like semi-modern cities that are now only have the headlights of cards. No, no, look at the car. It's a 1953 Porthole Buick convertible that looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor. Yeah. And behind that there was a 1958 Packard. Yeah. And I was like, okay, Cuba's cool for two things, sandwiches and cars. Cigars. And cigars if you're a cigar aficionado, which I am not. Would you guys be offended by a cigar now? Not at all, man. Smoke up, Johnny. Right. But you know, it it right right now, Cuba's in in in probably the the worst free fall that it's been in since Fidel Castro took over. And you and we all kind of were Raised with Castro being in charge. You know, the dude It was a nutcase. Oh, absolutely. Not to mention the fact that his face looked like a London broil dropped on the floor of a barber shop. Those big weird lips of his. But that being said, he's dead than Dillinger. And uh Cuba's been in a bit of a free fall ever since.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:23

Now I want to say that it could be a problem for the United States, but I'm all for it. Yeah, I'm all for it. Uh the further they crumble, the worse they get. That's the more Cubans that are gonna come to the United States. And I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm okay with that.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:39

Well, if you've ever talked to any of the Cuban population in Miami, like they are they they embrace America like no other. Absolutely. Like no other. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:49

And uh uh they they despise and revile communism. Yep. And they're vocal about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:54

Yeah. Uh uh the Cuban people people are awesome, I think. I have no issues with with Cuban people. And again, that sandwich.

unknown 1:07:03

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:04

I don't like Cuban sandwiches. What? No. Communista! No, I I don't. No. I mean, they're all right. You know what happens when I eat them? You know what happens? The same situation I got into last week with that fucking chicken.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:20

Well, let me ask you this pork and lamb mustard and hand. Have you ever heard Jim say there's a food that he does not like? You're so full of shit, it's not even fun. And I want to tell you this right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:31

You know, I've never seen Jimmy previously.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:34

Oh no, thanks. No, thanks. I don't like that. For other people watching, the camera adds 150 pounds. Well, I guess 950 failure way, too. It's pretty puts a filter on. I actually have an A-pack adds, and that V that goes down to my crotch, it's awesome. Uh that V that you still call it is considered a gunt. No, that would be if I was a woman. This is a guck. Or if you put the U in there or a guac. Who calls it delicious? Everybody loves guac.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:11

I will say a director said he was the first one to be done. No, he wasn't.

unknown 1:08:15

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:17

Well, this isn't done before mine showed up. One plate though. Like, y'all. Oh, we're gonna get this, we're gonna get the pancakes along with it. We're gonna get it. I have a lonely omelet with a low-carb fucking lifestyle. Wait a minute, wait a minute. A lonely omelet with an extra egg. Yeah. It's much cheese.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:43

Extra egg, please, and a lot of cheese.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:48

You've got to be specific when you order shit. I'll think it's very specific. I'll put the chocolate the fact that I want to just enough. And twice as much. Oh dear war. Uh when it doesn't want to stick with you, you are in serious trouble. What is with all of you guys bringing up your ass and what flies out of it and at what speed? I'm out of this. Have you no shame? And I'm putting you in a tooth. I have no shame. What an answer. You're doing a roarshock test in the back of the bowl.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:32

All right. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:40

No, you did a lot of shit. It was full of cheese.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:47

Oh, God. Thank God you live in a municipality that has a public sewer.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:53

Listen, it was there was so much cheese in that animal that when I do go to the bathroom, you're going to hear a metallic tink when it hits the bowl. All the toxins that are going to come out. What's the matter with that house? Oh, he was trying to flush a cinder block.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:07

Extra mortar. Just for them.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:14

I'm going to buy one of those big industrial rolls of toilet paper and put it on a branch back in the back.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:22

Just in case Oliver gets too molding.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:28

You know, I use wet wipes like a gentleman. So you know what? I gotta do wipes right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:33

Alright, we gotta move on then before I gotta take a dog.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:36

Gotta eat your breakfast on the shade of butter, baby.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:40

Government shut down. Oh Jason.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:44

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:45

You gotta move on.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:46

We gotta take a deep time, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:49

Didn't Trump just say if you don't vote to open the government back up, I'm gonna set ICE free again. Yeah, he's gonna have ICE agents go in and do the TSA's job. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:00

Also, an ICE will allow TSA to go back to screening and moving people through quicker.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:08

They're all gonna be wearing balloclawus, but still. Uh another interesting thing about getting the TSA workers back to what they need to be doing was uh Elon Musk coming out and saying that he will pay TSA workers' salaries out of his own pocket. I got right here words. Yeah, right now. Did you hear what the Avenue Diner did for the TSA workers up at uh No, I was busy stuffing cheese in my ears. They called up the airport and they said, How many TSA agents work at that airport? The airport responded with 41.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:39

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:40

The Avenue Diner sent 41 gift cards up for every, you know, one for each of the TSA agents. Well, look who's putting in an application for being to be a TSA agent. We're not getting paid. Only if that gift card comes with extra cheese.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:55

The chicken parm. I guess we're going to the Avenue for breakfast next week. Ooh, not that. Oh. Yeah. But this is what he says. This is what he says. Uh, what are we at here? All right. Elon Musk. Uh on March 21st, 2026, Elon Musk offered on X to personally pay Transportation Secretary Administration salaries amid a Department of Homeland Security funding laps lasting over a month. The funding deadlock stems from the Department of Homeland Security lacking government funding for over a month, as Republican and Democrats in the United States governments remain divided on DHS funding. Operational strains is evident in major U.S. airports, including Houston, Australia, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, with over three hours security waits and 366 TSA officers quitting since the shutdown began, risking small U.S. airport closures. Community support includes food drives and donations as TSA workers face hardships, with many taking side gigs or applying for food stamps, according to union leaders.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:11

TSA agents not getting paid and not showing up to work is actually like a small part of the larger issue of Homeland Security not being funded. And that's part of what's going on with the government shutdown, very partial government shutdown that's that's aimed at the whole aim of this is to uh change the way that ICE does business and uh uh uh go call for ICE reform or whatever they want to call it. However, in a time that we are essentially in a battle or a war, however you want to phrase it, with uh a foreign entity, Iran, not having Homeland Security funded is insanity. Especially considering the the and here it is again, uptick of uh uh is Islamic attacks on our homeland, on our on our soil. That is Homeland Security's bailiwick, and with them not being funded, it is it is insane. It's an insane policy to not fund Homeland.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:10

I feel like they're all treating this as a game. Of course, it's a political game at all. Period. All they're doing is putting our our country more at risk than ever before. Uh that's exactly what they're doing. Uh it makes you wonder is this their new way of opening a border? I never thought about it until just right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:36

What it's easier to slip through. Yeah. Because TSA's not, or not TSA, homeland's not watching us. I think that's part of it. I don't know. I uh what I do know is that Democrats, as usual, move in lockstep. There have been several bills that have been put forward to uh at least partially fund homeland. Uh you have Republicans that are standing their ground and saying, listen, it's an all-or-nothing proposition. Uh but when when when the occasional bill comes through to uh only fund the TSA, Democrats shut that down too because they want what they want and Republicans want what they want. At this point, though, again, we are in a conflict with a Muslim country that is known sponsor of terrorism and has been since 1979, not having Homeland Security, which is the agency that is in charge of watching out for this shit. You know, homeland, it's right in there, yeah, is suicidal. It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:27

It is. It is. This is uh what Chuck Schumer says. Chuck Schumer once again voted, he didn't say it, but he once again voted no on reopening DHS, all but guaranteeing the funding bill will fail, and T say chaos will get worse. Democrats hate America. I was just gonna say that pretty much, you know, that that phrase right there, Democrats hating America, sums it all up. Did you see that picture, Nana Schumer? And it's a shame. And it's not these politicians aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing at all. They're running their own game. That's what they're doing. It's all a game to them. It's you know, during during the presidential uh uh address a couple months about a month ago, a little bit more maybe. And I saw uh Horkin Jeffries there. He was sitting on I wish I could pull that picture up. He was sitting on the back on the back rest of his seat with his freaking foot on the armrest of the seat. He was perched. It's like this is almost this is like hollow ground. And he was treating it as if it was a freaking cesspool. Who's that? One who's making his cesspole is hanging back.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:08

Who's that uh I believe he's from Texas that was sitting at the State of the Union address holding up signs and he got booted. Oh yeah, yeah, he lost his uh he lost his primary. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:22

I forget his name too.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:23

Al Green. How do you forget Al Green?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:26

Yeah, yeah. Al Green, yeah. He had uh twice he got kicked out, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:32

Twice. What do you mean, physically removed from the chamber? Yeah, twice. Yeah, I believe so. Twice. Yeah. But but then he also got booted out of his seat in Congress. He lost his primary Congressman. Yeah. So snazzy jazzy lost. Double, double whammy there. She's she's gone. And she's pissed about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:49

She loves she loves the camera more than anything.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:52

What did she do? What did she do actually do while she was in there? You know made several statements that made her look incredibly foolish. I think before the last podcast, I I I found something on there. I don't know what the hell it was, but she did nothing. She did nothing but go after Trump. That's all she did. You know, fascist, racist, Nazi, Marxists, whatever. But that's my whole my whole problem with our government today. It's all a game to them.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:19

That's all it is. The Democratic catchphrase now is fuck Trump.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:23

It is right their ads. Like, oh my god. But also, over the course of the last, let's say, 15 years, the Democrats have shifted to ICE agents will be at airports Monday. Well, I guess there's going to be a complete lack of travel from certain demographics. Yeah. Anyway. But who is that?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:44

This is why we don't get no fucking views.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:48

Are you telling me I'm wrong? I know you are correct 100%. So, okay. The Democrats have cuddled up to the lunatic fringe. Okay, whether it be the far left, whether it be the LBGTQ, LMNOP, QRS, whatever, they have appealed more to the lunatic fringe. They're very loud, very left. That's not their base. Most Democrats, the lock, the the rank and file Democrats are not. This isn't their standing point. This isn't their hill to die on. They have made very loud public overtures towards such a marginal segment of their their base.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:48

Speaking of batshit insane. What? What's your thoughts on this? On the shutdown and and ice. I asked the question, who's funding ICE?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:03

That's part of the well ICE ICE is funded in what for 40 years, you said?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:08

Well, they're they're they're funded through Homeland Security.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:10

Okay. So they're they're getting paid. Right. How are they getting paid and TSA is not?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:18

ICE has been funded. It's a different segment.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:23

So who's funding ICE? The government. Yeah. But sold in. It's not part of the the the uh shutdown. ICE isn't part of the shutdown. But wouldn't it still be under the umbrella of Homeland Security? No. Yes and no.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:38

Yes, they're under their umbrella. No, it's different funding. It's right, it's different funding. It's yeah, it it's literally funded, not just different funding, but funded differently. It's channeled differently.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:47

It's right. It's channeled through Homeland Security.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:51

ICE is what on a different segue? Different segment. Yeah, they they they fall under the umbrella of of Homeland Security, but their their their funding is different. And their funding is guaranteed for for I think a certain amount of years. Yeah, I thought it was 40. Yeah, I I 40 is what what I remember for some reason.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:07

Because I said that.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:08

It could be bullshit. I'm an expert about nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:10

I think they're funded for that's not true. I think they're funded uh for they're just funded under Homeland Security. I think I said 40 years just to give an example or whatever. I think I said that. They're funded and they're funded. Yeah. But here's my question. Here's another question that if Elon Musk was offering to pay the TSA agents their salary, why didn't uh why couldn't you do that? Why didn't why are they bringing ICE in? Why couldn't uh Elon just say up here? Here it is. Let me write you a check. During a government shutdown, ICE immigration and customs enforcement agents generally continue to get paid because their workers deemed essential and in the 2026 scenario funded with secured DIA, the one big beautiful bill act, and previously separated congressional appropriations. This allows the agency to continue operations and pay staff while other departments face funding laps. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:09

That's basically basically almost like the COVID thing. You're deemed essential. Well, they're under the ICE border protection.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:16

Ooh, look, I got a piece of paper. So why would why wouldn't TSA be uh deemed uh uh essential? Under the same act, right? Because they're still doing immigration, they're still doing well, not really. Well, they they're still fil filtering who like well they're filtering anybody who's already domestic right, domestic and coming in. So not coming in.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:41

But if they have suspicions, they can still interrogate them, then they can bring in ice, they can do whatever they need to do. They're like the step before ice.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:48

Yeah, well, coming in that would be from the coming from customs, right? Customs. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:55

TSA is more broad-reaching than than than customs, though. Everybody goes through TSA, even domestic, right? Right. Customs is is when you're coming in from that's why you have to have that fan two little star on your license.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:07

Yeah.

unknown 1:23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:08

Yes, the most expensive star ever.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:11

I have to get mine, yeah. I still didn't do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:13

I had to get mine when I was uh doing all that government crap with steel cases.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:18

Yeah. Uh I'll get my passport. But either way, whatever. What else we got? We pretty much covered everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:25

I I I've exhausted everything that I wrote down.

The Animal Question And Closing

SPEAKER_00 1:23:28

Yeah. Uh okay, Ed, I got a question for you. Go ahead. I asked uh June this question. I asked him the question at the end of the show. And uh it's very important. You gotta put some thought into it. Okay. It cannot be a fish. It cannot be a bird. Wait a minute, his was a bird. Or not a fish? Or or uh invertebrate? A fish or a dog or a cat. Got it? If you were an animal, what would you be? A lizard.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:04

What? He wants a deal from Geico. Why a lizard? Why?

SPEAKER_00 1:24:13

Why not? Well, I can't be a cat, a dog, or a fish. Right?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:20

A lizard can climb pretty much anything. They're also they can also go through water. They're very they have amphibious ways of going through water.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:35

You can like an iguana can climb a tree, they can swim, they have multiple functions with their body. They make great purses. I can also squash you with my foot. Depends on the lizard.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:48

So can a fish, so can a cat, and so can a dog. Look at Vietnamese people.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:54

I guess. I guess. They do cut up cats. Jimmy's a polar bear. Jimmy's a polar bear. Timmy's an eagle, I'm a skunk.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:03

Hey, can I can I I have a suggestion? It's almost a polar. It's almost a humble bear. It's a skunk. Well, that that fit in last week with his his chili dog woes. Um I have a I have a homework assignment and a suggestion for you. I think that you should for a moment. When you ask that question. Hold on, Professor. When you asked that question last week, if you could be any animal, what would you be? Uh-huh. It really threw me. Because like I did not expect that to come out of your mouth. I think that every week you should come up with a question that is apropos of nothing. I'm going to. And and we have to answer it.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:42

I'm not even writing that down because that was my intentions.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:44

Okay, guys, boxes are brief. Who's with me?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:47

But I figured Ed was here, brand new to the show. Right. A new start for him. Um, and uh I figured I'd throw him for a little. But uh that's it. I think that's uh we covered everything. And uh it was a great time, great breakfast, great conversation. Thank you for breakfast, I'll be thank you very much. I can tell you we have uh one new listener.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:08

Oh yeah? Who's that? Lisa's son Brandon.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:11

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:11

Yep, he uh bugged the shit out of me. Where he can find us.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:17

How old is he? Just turned 31. Bring him down for another show.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:23

We have another new listener. Oh yeah? What's your name?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:31

Putin in, pootin' out. Uh that's all I got. I think uh we did it. We uh completed another show. That's all I got for Jim, Tim, Ed, and myself. Thanks for listening. Don't forget, like, subscribe to the channel. The show on YouTube. Um, mostly on YouTube, Spotify, and Facebook. Instagram, I'm not putting it up there no more because I don't like Instagram. And that's all I got.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:01

Have a good week, people. Have a good week. Talk to you guys later. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:05

We're out of hell. Oh shit, I forgot to hit record. Every week!