What Do We Owe Strangers Before We Help Neighbors

The show starts with the usual studio chaos and jokes, then swings hard into the stuff that actually keeps people up at night: national security, immigration, public safety, and whether our leaders are even speaking the same language as regular working Americans. We kick around Iran headlines and the “missile math” problem, then get into a Virginia policy fight that sounds small until you realize it can affect everything from ICE cooperation to Secret Service coordination during a presidential visit.

From there, we dig into why businesses keep leaving New York, how shoplifting laws and taxes shape real-world decisions, and how protest coverage turns complicated issues into one dumb talking point. The biggest thread of the night is immigration policy, and we don’t treat it like a slogan. We go back to Ellis Island, the vetting process, the “public charge” standard, and the old expectation that you show up ready to work, assimilate, and contribute rather than demand a new set of rules.

We also react to a run of political clips that left us shaking our heads: “undocumented Americans,” victim-blaming after a killing, attacks on ICE even when agents help move airport lines and respond to emergencies, and a hot-mic moment that sounds like politics over people. We close with a brutal reminder of how violent things can get among teenagers today, plus a weird detour into why ham became an Easter staple and a final question of the day.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Studio Chaos

SPEAKER_06 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 podcasting on the internet? Sit back relax and join the conversation with Jim and Rich. The only thing that we're experts about is not everything about your heart truth facts that maybe you care. The heart truth facts and their opinions. Here it is, Jim, Jim and Rich. Yeah, here we go. Another day, another dollar, another show here in the studio. Why are you guys not in this frame? That's alright. Because the camera knows better. What's going on there, boys and girls? Now I gotta figure this out.

SPEAKER_08 1:19

Go ahead. We're gonna bring it to your knees with our opinions.

SPEAKER_10 1:27

Take me now, my portly stallion.

SPEAKER_09 1:30

It's a good thing the cameras are not working.

SPEAKER_06 1:34

Yeah, so what's going on? Anything good? No? Same old bullshit. I gotta figure this out now. It's alright. We'll have to relaunch. We broke it. There we go. Oh no, he found us. There we go. There we go. I just gotta minimize you. Don't minimize it. Because for some reason, you guys uh were lost. There, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_08 2:05

You're not wrong.

SPEAKER_09 2:08

Not wrong. That's a shorty there. Speechless.

SPEAKER_08 2:12

He was like no, I almost said motherfucker.

SPEAKER_06 2:17

That's what I almost said. You know what I'm shocked about? Nobody said nothing about my head.

SPEAKER_09 2:22

You know, I was like, what did he do? Yeah. Is that his summer cut?

SPEAKER_06 2:29

You know, I'm so cheap I don't want to pay$30 for a freaking haircut.

SPEAKER_09 2:33

Great clips. It's$20. No, it's more than that.

SPEAKER_06 2:38

Great clips, but a pretty good haircut. Yeah. Well, it is what it is.

SPEAKER_09 2:42

That's where I go. It's$21.

SPEAKER_06 2:44

Yeah. Well, even still, that's$21 I don't want to spend.

SPEAKER_09 2:50

I just thought it was a failed attempt at a mullet. So I wonder how expensive it's going to be to call the plumber to get all your frickin' hair out of the sink.

SPEAKER_06 2:59

It's in the no. No. I vacuumed it up and it's in the garbage. Yeah. Yeah. So that's it. We were supposed to have somebody uh on here today, a special guest, but uh no show. Don't even say no, it wasn't. No. So we had to do a little manipulation this week, but whatever. Uh I really don't care. No, it's just the three of us. It is what it is. We're a thruple. We're a thruple. Timmy's the pivot man.

SPEAKER_07 3:38

No, eat that cracker. Okay. He likes to play. He likes to play. Sock puppets. Oh god.

SPEAKER_09 4:02

Oh, for Christ's sake. Uh-huh. That's what you get about that big camera joke fucker. Speaking of 12 seconds of silence, it's just sitting quietly, bro.

SPEAKER_06 4:15

You know, we're gonna do this show one night on a Saturday night where we can have a couple beers, and it it'll be a lot worse, I think.

SPEAKER_08 4:24

That one that one won't make you two.

Iran Update And Missile Math

SPEAKER_06 4:28

All right, relax, relax. So, what's going on in the world today? There's not a whole hell of a lot going on with uh Iran right now. I mean, there's a little bit, but not not a whole bunch.

SPEAKER_08 4:43

Nothing definitive, nothing uh significant, really. Yeah, we're talking to them. Then the Iranians are like, they're not talking to us. Okay. Now what?

SPEAKER_09 4:54

And I I I also heard that so far we've used 850 tomahawk missiles, and we can make a hundred of those a year. Yes. So where are we going? Yeah, we're behind schedule.

SPEAKER_08 5:06

Like I said, we can always ramp up production, and that's good for American manufacturing. Yes, right. That whole wartime manufacturing thing, that's how we won World War II, folks. It is that's how we got oil to come out of California.

SPEAKER_06 5:17

Exactly. Right, right. So yeah, there's there's not a whole hell of a lot going on there. They can't, there's no definitive leader over there that I know of. Yeah, they've got nobody to kill. Yeah, they don't know if the who they're proclaiming is the leader. They don't know if he's dead, alive, maimed, or or what the deal is. Yeah, yeah. Uh yeah. Is is that the gay one? Do you think the the the son of the uh the dead ayapola?

SPEAKER_08 5:48

It's it's widely reported that he's gay.

SPEAKER_06 5:50

You wonder how that how that goes, how that's gonna work over there.

SPEAKER_09 5:53

Well, for anybody else over there, it goes it, they'd throw you off a tower.

SPEAKER_06 5:56

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 5:58

I I think they send the Vaney missile at him.

SPEAKER_06 6:03

You backed right into that one. Yeah. Oh god. Um, what else we got? Uh there there's a lot we're gonna be talking about here. We're gonna be talking a little bit about AOC, Hakeem Jeffrey's remarks, uh, wokeness, frickin' bullshit.

SPEAKER_08 6:20

Um a senator who seems to like uh uh illegal immigrants more than Americans. Right.

SPEAKER_06 6:27

Uh I was gonna bring up this this uh governor from from uh from uh Virginia oh and uh this Abigail Spanberger about her resending um Governor uh Lufkin's uh article 47 back and uh what what she's saying is she said that uh now I tried pulling up this this act 47. There there's really not much to it. It's just when Lufkin uh put it in, he look at all the warships we have over there. But when Lefkin put it in, it was just um authorizing the uh law enforcement to assist the federal agencies. It was maybe it was too broad. It was very broad. Yeah, and even when Spamberger rescinded it, she took it away. She just said they are not mandated to help government agencies, and that was pretty much it. That there's nothing else to it.

SPEAKER_08 7:40

So what Lufkin put in place was broad. Her rescinding it leaves a wide open, broad interpretation of whether to help federal law enforcement or not, which would be a real problem. Uh and we we talked about this uh during the week. The example that I gave to you is whenever you have uh, say, a presidential visit, it's a coordinated effort between local state law enforcement and the Secret Service. Right now, if for some reason you have a president who's not popular uh politically, can that rescinding of Article 47 leave it open for a local law enforcement agency to say, nah, we're not participating in this? It's it like her rescinding it isn't necessarily relegated to just helping ICE or not helping ICE. The way it's worded from what you're telling me is at least the door open for them to say we're not helping you no matter what. They can pick and choose when they decide to help.

SPEAKER_06 8:36

Well, but it's like I agree 100% with what you're saying. But at the same time, what if we have a uh conservative uh chief of police, conservative sheriff, and says, Well, we're helping. Is that breaking any law?

SPEAKER_08 8:50

No, because the way it's worded, it's it's it's very open. Right. But but the helping federal law enforcement is nowhere near as dangerous as not helping federal law enforcement. Right. Because the Secret Service is a remarkable agency. In the example that I'm using about a presidential visit, the Secret Service is a remarkable agency and they bring a lot of force to bear, and they have a lot of personnel, and and and that's great. But they do need help. They do need state police help for crowd control and traffic control. They need local law enforcement for crowd control and traffic control, and also the local guys know the layout on the ground.

SPEAKER_09 9:27

Wasn't it a local guy that killed the one who uh shot at Trump? Got him in the ear? I think he was a local cop. It was a local or state.

SPEAKER_08 9:39

That shot Trump in the ear? No, no, the guy that killed the would-be assassin. Yeah, the guy that killed the ass. I was under the impression that that was a sharpshooter. Yeah, that was Secret Service guy. It was a local sharpshooter. Yeah, that was a secret service guy. The argument has been made that local guys actually kind of dropped the ball on that. They did because he was seen climbing up on that. I remember that also. Yeah. Right. So I guess you take the good with the bad. Well, when you have an event that big, it's almost like a warm body theory. Every warm body with a badge and a stupid hat, get out there and help us out. Yeah. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 10:14

But I you know, I I I get her point here by doing what she did. It you know, we sit here and we uh the three of us, we we will bash, constantly bash uh the liberals, and we have every right to do that, and rightfully so. Right. But at the same time, she when she ran for office, she ran as a moderate. But then once she got in office, she went hard left. I mean freaking hard left. But uh there's gotta be a time where we kind of have to defend these people also on the left when they do have some kind of common sense, and that's why I wanted to talk about this a little bit.

SPEAKER_09 11:02

I don't I don't think it's a bad idea to let the local whoever's in charge of the local PD or obviously the governor's in charge of the state police overall. Uh but it it's not a bad thing to let a local police chief decide if he wants his his force to either help or not.

SPEAKER_06 11:25

You're you're 100% correct, yeah. But I mean, what what she her point here was is why would I take my my officers off of the street from patrolling our our community and keeping our community safe and doing traffic stops and uh you know whatever domestic shit, whatever they're doing there. Uh and I agree with her on that. I I do.

SPEAKER_08 11:53

I would also say that every every event that happens has to be taken on a case-by-case basis. Right. And for that reason, there should probably be something written into the rescinding law. Like there should be some structure on both sides. When Lufkin put this into place, it should have been more structured instead of a broad base, you have to help. Right. By the same token, her rescinding this, this gives her an opportunity to draw a scaffolding for okay, on a case-by-case basis, we're going to review what's necessary, uh involvement that's necessary. Do they need boots on the ground? What do they need? Right. And and we'll go from there. And and is it in my imagination or Governor Lufkin? It sounds like a Jewish dish.

SPEAKER_10 12:37

Did you eat your Lufkin?

SPEAKER_08 12:41

More cabbage. Sorry. Does she wear one of those funny hats? No, no, that wasn't no. This one this governor from Virginia, the lady's name is Governor Who? What's her name? The one that's rescinded, the Abigail's Spamburger. Spamburger, that's it. Yeah, yeah. You know, and Spamburger's delicious too. Everything's food. Shut up. Maybe you're right about the camera. God damn it. I'll have a Spam burger with some Lufkin. Hold the mustard.

New York Business Flight And Shoplifting

SPEAKER_06 13:16

Holy shit. Comedy Central here, man. Shit. Oh my gosh. But you know, I I wanted to bring that up and you know make it clear.

SPEAKER_09 13:33

Have have you heard the um the governor of New York is losing her mind?

SPEAKER_06 13:41

Yeah, that's been a good thing. Over Mondami.

SPEAKER_09 13:44

No. Over it's not just the wealthiest of the wealthy that are leaving New York. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 13:52

I just read yesterday, Macy's is closing 150 stores in New York. Oh, Macy's. 150.

SPEAKER_08 13:59

Macy's is a failing enterprise, though. Local Macy's went under. Right.

SPEAKER_09 14:04

But it's big in New York. Sure. It's huge in New York. Yeah. Macy's Day Pride. I I believe it was$47 billion that the state of New York is going to lose in revenue just from Macy's doing that.

SPEAKER_06 14:20

Now, why are they closing their stores? Is it because of uh the wokeness or didn't say you know but a hundred how many stores you say? 150. That's that's a lot of stores. That's that's a lot. That that's quite a bit.

SPEAKER_08 14:36

A lot of times when when st big retail outlets like that, uh of a higher echelon brand name like Macy's close, a lot of it has to do with uh uh uh uh the some of the laws that have been put in place as far as shoplifting goes. And and I don't I don't think Macy's kind of fits the bill here. Mostly that's like Walgreens, CVS, uh Target has closed stores, Walmart has closed stores for that reason. Yeah. Because of the rampant shoplifting in bad neighborhoods. And I I I realize how foolish I sound because I'm trying to think of the last time I saw Macy's in the ghetto. Yeah. Doesn't often happen. But wouldn't it be great if they opened 150 stores in Florida? Yeah, right. Like that's that's the real fuck you.

SPEAKER_09 15:18

Well, they they said a lot of businesses have been closing in New York. Um, I think they said 841 businesses have left the state of New York. Uh 350 of them have gone to Florida, and uh between North Carolina and Georgia, I think was the um where the bulk of the rest went.

SPEAKER_08 15:41

Yeah, uh more states that have a uh less onerous tax structure, uh less uh uh wokeness, you know, and I'm using it as a general blanket phrase. That's a term, wokeness, that that is fading out.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 15:57

It's becoming very much uh like you know, if you say the word wok woke, you're gonna have some blue-haired nose ring dude saying, okay, boomer. You know, that kind of thing. Right.

SPEAKER_06 16:08

I keep losing you guys, but uh that's I'm gonna play a clip clip here in a minute here as soon as I do this once again. It's pissing me off. Technical difficulties podcast. I don't know why it keeps doing it, but it does. No Windows 8. No, yeah. All these all these uh these businesses leaving. I mean, I know she's having a meltdown uh uh up there also, uh, because everybody is um they're uh these these companies are leaving. Uh not only companies, wealthy. And one minute she says, Yeah, get out. You don't want to be here, leave. Now she's begging them to come back because bring a friend. Yeah, because they're losing uh a lot of revenue.

SPEAKER_08 17:03

Well make New York attractive to wealth into business again.

SPEAKER_09 17:07

Now, just from driving a truck, New York has absolutely no problem spending money on the roads. Like no, they they actually do know how to with winter maintenance, like they're not dumping the cinders. No, they're dumping pure salt. They also, you know, obviously the the other three seasons, um they do a lot of making Syracuses under complete construction, replacing bridges, replacing roads, replacing on-ramps and on-ramps.

SPEAKER_08 17:43

That's all well and good, though, but what Hokel's talking about, which she wants funded, isn't it? It's not roads and bridge projects or anything like that. She's talking about the, and this is a quote from her, they're general and I'm sorry, they're generous social programs, essentially welfare.

SPEAKER_06 18:02

You know what I mean? Yeah, I keep losing that camera, I'm not screwing with it no more. That's right. You don't need to see us, folks. Believe me, we're doing you a favor. No, you're good up in this scene, but the other one, it just wasn't it keeps losing. But I I did see a uh it might have been a lot.

SPEAKER_09 18:18

Uh do you know what EBT stands for? The EBT card? Yeah, yeah, but essentially it's it's the access welfare card. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:24

Everybody Wow. Yeah, we've got to edit that one out. Wow. What's that?

SPEAKER_08 18:32

1830. You know what you should really do? You you should you should have every part of that joke except the punchline and then just skip over it like it never happened. Yeah. Keep keeping wondering.

No Kings Protests And Media Soundbites

SPEAKER_06 18:44

That's gotta go. I love how you mark the time on that. I have to. That's that's a ban right there. Yeah. What else we got? What else we got?

Ellis Island And Legal Immigration

SPEAKER_08 18:57

Well, the Democrats are are out in force this week, and the Liberals are out in force this week, uh, with the No Kings protests that are happening nationwide. And uh I I was watching the news this morning and and I got a little bit angry as I have a tendency to with our local news sources. Our our local news source has a tendency to find the dumbest, most toothless, ignorant example and give them a platform to spew their ignorance. And it it's very rare that you find that they they interview somebody articulate. And this No Kings thing, we had two here, one in Scranton and one in Wolksbury. Uh there were others around the area, but there were the two beggies in in our in our little thiefdom here. And uh turned out it was mediocre. It was okay. Right. I'm not saying that nobody showed, but it wasn't like, you know, breaking down the town or anything like that. But they interviewed this young lady. They focused on the very old, you know, and I could kind of give the very old a pass. They interview uh they interviewed some 80-year-old, they I want my country back. Well, you probably fought for it in 1776, so I'll give you a pass. But then they interviewed some 19-year-old girl with a head full of mush, and what she did is she blathered talking points, and the talking point that she blathered about was uh this country was built on immigrants and immigration. Yeah. Let me stop you for a hot second there, okay? Let's talk a little bit about how this country was built on immigrants and by-immigrants. Uh it was built on immigration and hope, according to this young lady. Bullshit. Uh organized legal immigration is how this country was built through Ellis Island. They came up with a process. And the process wasn't always gentle. It was not a gentle process. They were herded like cattle into Ellis Island, where they were evaluated. And when they were evaluated, they were grouped and segregated by their race and ethnicity, marked. Yeah. They were processed through, and uh I I got news for you, about a quarter million of them were turned right around, put back on a boat, and sent back. Okay, that's that's something that's not widely reported. Um they were sent back for reasons like disease, or this is a good one, being unable to support themselves, which was known as being a public charge. If you had no, if you had no way to support yourself or no idea what you were going to do once you got into America, you were out. You had to come here with America. Exactly. And so uh they were legal when they came out the other side. They were processed, they were on the books as Americans. So what built America? Blood, sweat, and tears is what broke America, not the jazz fusion ban from the late 60s. Uh the the the the the those immigrants that came in that were processed, they knew that there was opportunity here, but there was no handouts. They weren't coming here for a handout. There was no food stamps, no Section 8, no welfare, no uh subsidies for multiple offspring, no Medicaid, no cash assistance. As a point of fact, over 30% of the immigrants that were processed in Ellis Island went back home because they couldn't hack it here. But the ones that did make it through, the ones that did come through Ellis Island, they came from their countries of origin with a skill, a marketable skill. Professional stonemasons, professional construction workers and builders, and architects and uh uh uh uh carpenters. And I'm not talking about architects in the sense that we have them now where they go through eight years of schooling and they work in uh the top floor of a building wearing a suit. I'm talking about the dudes that build shit. That's the immigrants that helped build America, but they went through a process and they came here with something to prove, and they came here with a marketable skill. And uh uh the toughest, smartest, and hardest working were the ones that made it. But again, a remarkable number. I think it's like 3.2 million, 30% of immigrants that made it through looked around and said, for whatever reason, America ain't for me, I'm going back. That's what built America. And that seems to be lost in translation.

SPEAKER_09 23:20

Well, you're Well, we the with the last administration, we got the polar opposite. We got the prisoners, right?

SPEAKER_06 23:28

The worst of the worst. But I think the reason why the these these people went back was because they got here and they realized they had to work. Yeah. They had to work hard. The streets were not paved with gold. Right. They had to work hard for what they wanted. And now you have people that come here and they expect a handout and they get the handout. That's the problem. That's the problem.

SPEAKER_09 23:57

That's why I don't know present day, but that's why it used to be so many Irish were the police force in New York City because they got off the boat, they got cleared, and they went to the police academy.

SPEAKER_08 24:10

Yeah, yeah. Well, the Irish were essentially a slave class in their home in their home country. Yes. So like these are people who were coming from real shitty places where there was no opportunity. Right. Where there was almost a caste system. If you were born into it, you weren't gonna rise above it. That's the opportunity that was America, and I guess is America to this day. You could start off with nothing and make something. Um when you take away that sense of accomplishment, you wind up with a class of people who are born on third base and act like they hit a triple. Oh yeah. Yeah. And that's that's there's no there's no pride there. No, no, no. There's no sense of accomplishment there.

SPEAKER_06 24:55

Uh it's just like when we raise our kids, uh somewhat, you know, when you teach them, you know, this you have to work for this. You have to have some kind of sense of accomplishment, some kind of uh work ethic, and know what it's like to fail, learn from your failures, and succeed. Yeah. And there's none of that.

SPEAKER_08 25:16

And the first thing that this is too hard, it's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_06 25:20

Yeah, nothing in life is easy, man. I I say that to my kids every day. You want something shiny, you gotta polish something shitty. Yeah, yep. And uh it's it bothers me a lot that people come here and they want a handout, and it's coming from our pockets.

SPEAKER_08 25:41

Now, another quick quick aside, I was looking researching Ellis Island to see what the conditions were and like like what what it was like. It was remarkably efficient, yeah, is also what it was. An immigrant that got off the boat would usually stand in line about six hours to be processed. It's like a TSA line. That's what I was I was just gonna say. You know, if you want to say it's the same goddamn thing now, but uh yeah, it it's uh remarkably efficient. We had a country to fill up, and so we figured out a system to do so. But now we don't have a country to fill up. And our country is filled up. You there really should you should have to offer something to come here. You should I know that that sounds unbelievably cruel, but that was the premise of immigration in the first place. Don't just show up for a new place to shit. Show up and have something to offer.

Assimilation And Voter ID Arguments

SPEAKER_06 26:36

You have to have something to put on the plate. Right. No shit. Right, no, right, not not to change the subject, but it it kind of coincides with what we're talking about. I we I brought this up uh a couple podcasts before about you know the uh the nation possibly turning into like shharia law, where we're going, where we might head into that into that uh uh portion of our country, you know, maybe 20, 30, 50 years down the road. And if we keep doing what we're doing, that's where we're heading.

SPEAKER_08 27:10

Well, now is the word assimilation is a dirty word. It it is a dirty word. Once again, going back to Ellis Island, they came out the other side of Ellis Island, those immigrants, knowing that listen, time to learn English. See, and and and time to get on board with with the melting pot that is America, it's where that expression came from. Assimilation is the name of the game. Get on board, come on in for the big win, you know. But uh be American.

SPEAKER_06 27:36

We uh I said this, I mean, I mean, a long time ago when we were like over in that corner and I was over there, whatever, about Ellis Island. And why couldn't we do something like that now? You want to come here permanently, okay. Go through Ellis Island. You come here, we take your name. We have that's the only way you're coming in. You're not coming in from down to Mexico, down in through Texas, Arizona, Canada. You come in through New York, through Ellis Island. Central processing. That's it. What's the problem now?

SPEAKER_09 28:11

That's right now they can.

SPEAKER_08 28:12

It's not racist. Sure it is. How is that racist? The argument will be made that it's racist. Believe me, that was sarcasm. Uh I get it. Well, we can't afford immigrants can't afford to get to New York. That's their immigrants are problem. Immigrants are coming in at the point of easiest entry, and we need to accommodate the that's that's what we'll pretend.

SPEAKER_06 28:33

That's their problem. That's just like uh when these when these these these liberals say, well, these people can't afford IDs, so we can't have, or they can't, they don't know how to get them, or they don't have access to get IDs, so we can't have uh ID, uh uh uh what do you call it for voting? Voting ID. We can't have that. It's the soft racism of whatward expectations. If they don't know how to do it, that's their problem. Yeah, pick up a fucking book or frickin' go online, go to a library, go online, and Google it. You're being mean, just like the rest of us.

SPEAKER_09 29:08

Imagine how the harder it was 200 years ago to get to Ellis Island. Oh, it's a freaking three-week trip.

SPEAKER_08 29:17

Yeah, most you know, yeah, probably a month-long boat trip.

SPEAKER_09 29:20

And uh in in some of the worst conditions that those boats offered, they now they're gonna spag, you know, however many hours sitting in a jet.

SPEAKER_06 29:29

Uh it it it just dumbfounds me on uh where this country's going. And and uh it's freaking scary, man. It really is. Because if these fucking retarts get in the office, we're done. I'm telling you, we are fucking done.

SPEAKER_08 29:47

It should be hard to become a United States citizen. It should be hard to be uh uh uh uh considered a refugee or uh or claim aggrieved status to get into the country. Right, it's a burden of status. Thank you. Right. There should be a burden of proof. There there should be a very thorough vetting, right? Especially with what's going on in the world today. Yeah, this shit wasn't happening when Ellis Island was being utilized. You didn't have to worry about, you know, Vincenzo Alvaretti coming in with a bomb strapped across his ass.

SPEAKER_06 30:20

And that's what everybody's worried about. And here's my problem, too. Well, that's not a problem. It's something I want to say. I talked to another driver about this stuff, and he says we should make it easier and less time consuming for people to come in here. Are you freaking kidding me? Why? Yeah, that that there's the why.

SPEAKER_08 30:41

Why? And by the way, tell him his answer to that. Nothing. Tell that driver to try to get into any other country and see how he's treated. Right.

SPEAKER_06 30:52

Now, this guy, this driver's from Vermont. Oh, wow. What an exotic locale.

SPEAKER_09 30:58

Very liberal with uh Bernie Sanders?

SPEAKER_06 31:01

No, he's from Vermont. He moved down here about 21 years ago.

SPEAKER_08 31:06

He was an immigrant from Vermont. He showed up with only 50 gallons of maple syrup. And we let him into it. Yeah.

Grandkids And Fear For The Future

SPEAKER_06 31:13

Now he drives truck. It's just it just dumbfounds me on how people, how they think, what their thought process is, and the common sense is just totally thrown out the window.

SPEAKER_09 31:25

You know, the the this morning I was spent the morning with my one-year-old grandson. And you have to wonder what it's like going to be. I'm sorry, Tim. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 31:39

I love it, man. I really do. It's it's I do. Yeah. It's such a uh 180 degree from like your persona of only two years ago. And I think it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_06 31:50

I and before you continue, I I I gotta say, Tim, since since this, since you got engaged and you met this this woman, yeah, your your personality, your demeanor.

SPEAKER_09 32:03

Uh no, my demeanor is is is 1000% worse at work. Maybe at work, but not here.

SPEAKER_06 32:10

It doesn't follow you. No, you are such a totally different person, happy, happy person. Totally different.

SPEAKER_09 32:18

We'll have to blame Lisa.

SPEAKER_08 32:20

It's been it's been such a net positive over the last two years, your life. And and yeah, that my life I've I've slid into sarcasm and misogyny. So the juxtaposition is remarkable.

SPEAKER_09 32:35

What what I was gonna get to was uh let's just say when he's 30, what's his country gonna look like?

SPEAKER_06 32:43

That's what scares me.

SPEAKER_09 32:44

Yeah, it scares me. It scares me. Yeah, I'm definitely dead.

SPEAKER_06 32:49

You know, I got five grandkids, I got you know, one that's not even one, I got one that's gonna be two, one that's gonna be seven, one that's gonna be nine, and one that's gonna be twelve.

SPEAKER_09 32:59

You know what my greatest accomplishment is over the last year? I taught this baby to do the fist bum.

SPEAKER_06 33:07

How old? One. He's one. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 33:10

Every time he sees me.

SPEAKER_06 33:12

Cool. He knows how to greet. He knows how to greet. That's awesome. I want to play a clip here.

SPEAKER_09 33:17

He's from Jetta, you know? The hood.

9/11 Site Respect And Culture Clashes

SPEAKER_06 33:19

I want to play a clip. And uh I want you to tell me, nope, that's not the one. I might have deleted it. Oh boy. I got two of Hakim, that's why. Oh I'll find it. But uh yeah, it's gone. But the clip was the clip was in Southern North Carolina, a couple hundred uh Muslims doing a march down the street. I don't know if you've seen that or not.

SPEAKER_08 33:53

Yeah. Well, listen, uh one one of the things that that that that's that's bothersome or worrisome, and and people will say that this is ridiculous on his face, but I disagree. Um in New York, for example, and this is just an example, but it's to me it's the most it's one of the biggest ones, uh, these Islamic immigrants and and is Islamic leaders are setting up prayer rugs on the 9-11 site. Yeah. And I'm sorry, tell me that that isn't just a poke in the eye. That place should be sacrosanct. It's just uh for any religion, by the way. Focus on what happened there. You can even eliminate the why it happened. Focused on what happened, focus on the remembrance of the dead. Like you're trying to politicize. Tell me that that is not a a religious politicization of that site and that event when you're hanging prayer rugs for the people who arguably were the were the people that did fault were at fault for the event. Watch this. Watch this. Opening ass. Where are we watching it? Over there. To your left, to the left. Hey, look, there's a lot of things. Everything you own on the screen, to the left. Watch this. Wait. Uh yeah. Glasses.

SPEAKER_06 35:19

This is in uh, I believe, uh North or South Carolina somewhere. I don't know if this is actual. I don't know. I'm looking, yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_08 35:34

You know, I know this is terrible, but all I can think of is those snow plows that are angled to the front just cutting right through that crowd. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_06 35:41

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_09 35:42

You know what else I was thinking? What's that? Can we bring a bacon?

SPEAKER_08 35:47

You know, not for nothing here, but I made You looked hungry. I call it Sunday bacon because I made all about it. Yeah. Bacon on a blackstone flat top will change your life. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure. Any breakfast, if those nice Muslim folks that were marching in the street were able to smell my Sunday bacon, yeah, they'd convert.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

I I make bacon a lot. Breakfast a lot on my flat stone. Yeah, it's phenomenal.

SPEAKER_09 36:17

Is that what they call now? Flatstone?

SPEAKER_06 36:19

Flatstone, blackstone, flat top, whatever. Blackstone, flat top. But yeah, it's totally different taste, man. Especially when you use the avocado oil. Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_08 36:29

Yeah, higher smoke point on the avocado one.

Bacon Talk And What You Hear In Line

SPEAKER_06 36:31

Yeah, yeah, it's good. It's good.

SPEAKER_08 36:33

You know, the whole Ellis Island thing, yeah, you had people that were sitting in line or standing in line for six hours, and and and we don't have to stand in line as truck drivers all that much. But I have heard if you if you open your ears, and my ex used to be a people watcher, she she prided herself on that, and she she made she had a point. The most interesting shit happens when you're in line and you just shut up and listen to what's going on around you. Right. Like, I don't know if you can imagine the conversations happening on Ellis Island, but in my personal life, I like I'm gonna give you a couple of examples here. I uh one day I was standing in line at pilot, pilot truck stop, I'm a truck driver, who knew? And I'm standing there just waiting, waiting, and there's two black gentlemen in front of me talking to each other, dazzling urbanites, and uh uh the one looked at each other and goes, man, I had this shit so bad I couldn't fuck.

SPEAKER_09 37:41

What what where did that come from? I was apparently his ass and his dick.

SPEAKER_08 37:49

And and I I I was sitting here with my coffee and I thought you had to break down the words. I had to shit so bad I couldn't fuck. What a fantastic expression of what you did last night. Similarly, and another time at Pilot.

SPEAKER_09 38:10

I I thought I'd heard every expressive book from a girl, but another one!

SPEAKER_08 38:16

Not this one. Another day at pilot. I'm standing in line yet again. And you know, truckers have this thing. We have the we have the Bluetooth headsets that we wear that make us look like air air traffic controllers. Make us look like and some of us never take them off. Never, ever. I know certain people that just they walk around with them constantly, like it's grafted on their irremetically. But uh I'm I'm standing in line and there's this white dude in front of me, and he's on the phone. Uh I'm guessing with his wife, and this this is the conversation I hear. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Honey, I love you. Don't be a pain in the ass. Wow, click. And he hung up the phone. Like, if if you if you just listen to the conversation around you, you're going to hear some shit. And the last one I have, my local Turkey Hill. I went in there. I in some of my darker days, I decided that I needed to mainline chocolate milk, which is a great idea for a fat diabetic. But I'm standing in line with two gallons of chocolate milk, like a gentleman, because I want to be prepared. And there's a black dude in front of me on the phone, and he is pissed. I think he was talking to a bill collector, but I can't be sure. But this is the conversation. Who am I? Who am I? I'm Mr. Dog shit. That's who I am. I'm Mr. Dog shit. And I how do you not laugh when you hear something like that in public? Because this guy looked like he was about to spike his phone on the ground and throw it. And I just I I I laugh about that for eight hours. Didn't you spike your last phone? I spiked several phones. The only good thing to come to the end of my last relationship is that I've had the same fucking phone for two and a half years. Oh, dear Lord. Dear Lord. When you're in line, open your ears and close your mouth because you're gonna hear some things that are great.

SPEAKER_06 40:12

I I don't have a lot of time to spend. My time is very limited. Uh yeah, I feel up and go. Grab a freaking coffee and I'm out. Yeah, but you can't help it if you're in line and back. Well, if you're right, right.

SPEAKER_09 40:25

Some of the best chatter. Oh you go in to uh you know, relieve yourself. Some of the best chatters come up with that stall.

SPEAKER_08 40:32

Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah. Some of the most amusing graffiti that we can't get into on this podcast. You want to you want to talk about the news. You read those walls, man.

SPEAKER_06 40:43

Don't burn some shit. Literally. I was down, not not to harp on this, but I was down at the pilot flying JF to 77. Uh, this is gone back a couple years ago. That's a high quality stuff. Oh, that place sucks. And uh I had I had to go to bathroom like freaking bad. And I had to stay the night there. So I'm high tailing it into the shitter and I get in there and I'm letting loose and I I was it was rough. The guy in the stall next to me, hey buddy, you okay?

SPEAKER_08 41:17

This week's shit talk segment is brought to you by Peter Bill.

SPEAKER_06 41:21

Peter Bill said, What the frick, man? I think to myself, this that had to be nasty, and it was, but whatever. Buddy, you okay? You're in there grabbing the bar that they have bolted on the bottom. That's pretty much what it was, man. It was rough. Yeah, that would that was rough. He's playing the Rio Speedwagon Classic riding and storm out on his phone. You had a cover. Oh God. But but where are where are we going now? What what do we got now? Talk to me. I've been blabbing like an asshole. You have anything you want to bring up? Uh I always have something to talk about, always. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 42:05

Let me move back to this. Always has something to talk about. Radio silence.

SPEAKER_06 42:15

What happened here?

SPEAKER_08 42:17

Dear in headlight. You okay over there?

SPEAKER_06 42:21

No, I almost screwed up.

SPEAKER_08 42:22

No, he's shitting in his seat.

Steaks Traegers And Hot Chicken Boom

SPEAKER_06 42:26

No, there we go. No, I had to adjust something on there. Uh, what else do I got here? Oh, we got a blank pizza with the phone. Yeah, there's nothing on there. I had uh, I had uh had well, I I got so busy because we were supposed to have somebody here. I was setting up cameras, you know, to get everybody in the shot. And I planned on doing it last night, but that didn't happen because them Yangos wanted to go for dinner again last night. So it was somewhere nice. Yeah, what are we talking about? Uh freaking uh where do we go? Uh Longhorn.

SPEAKER_04 43:02

Nice.

SPEAKER_06 43:04

I was disappointed. You know, my wife got she got the six-ounce uh fillet. It looked like it was maybe three, three and a half. I was gonna say, what did she do? Like, did it get caught between her teeth? It wasn't good, you know. And uh I got the T-bone is like that thin. Hey, it's like, nah, it wasn't very good. My son got uh what did he get at a porter house, maybe? And uh he big boy steak, yeah. But uh he ordered it a medium rare, it was like really, really like raw. A good vet could have had it on the sheet and covered.

SPEAKER_08 43:38

I was I was disappointed. I really was. I'm telling you this, you're gonna get a better steak and a better meal overall at Texas Roadhouse and it's gonna cost you less. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:48

It wasn't good. I'll tell you where we do go to eat quite a bit is uh Agilinos in West Pittsden.

SPEAKER_09 43:56

Oh, yeah, I've been yeah I've been is that the one like Caddy Corner across the street? From uh Antonio's.

SPEAKER_06 44:01

Yeah. Very, very family atmosphere. Very much so. The prices are very reasonable. Yeah. You know, what I love over there is the linguini with clam sauce. The blue, the red and the white. Oh, man. Freaking delicious, man.

SPEAKER_08 44:16

I don't know if you've heard there's there's a new burger place uh in the area that uh McDonald's. They got some shit going on. Who's getting me?

SPEAKER_09 44:28

Yeah. Uh I'd like to uh try that. What is it? Assad's hot chicken? Uh yeah, there's a couple of hotels. There's a couple of hot chicken. There's one just open at Wilkesbury. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 44:38

Yeah, there's Mike's, there's Dave's. There's a couple different places. There's a chicken Holocaust happening in ours. There is. Yeah, they're killing some birds. The one in four in uh is it 44? A guy bought an old gas station, turning it into hot chicken. I don't know if that's Dave's or Mike's.

SPEAKER_08 44:56

Uh there's I know there's all there's also one uh right in Kingston on Maybe that's that's true. That's the one. That's the one. Yeah, it what that used to be a uh a sub shop. Okay. Okay. All right, and their subs were fantastic when the guy and his the guy and his wife went out of business and uh it's it's been replaced by this hot chicken place with a I I haven't heard any reports yet, but very good. Oh yeah? Yeah. Uh RJ got it a couple weeks ago. Delicious. Awesome. It's good food. I'm waiting for my kid to come back uh from North Carolina, and then we're gonna hit up they probably talked about this before Marty's Blue Room. Oh yeah. And and you're yeah, listen, me and him aren't gonna me and him aren't getting out of there for less than 250. Well, neither myself nor the food can sell as much. I will say it's worth the money. Damn right it is.

SPEAKER_06 45:41

It's worth the dollar stuff.

SPEAKER_09 45:42

I'll tell you what, I I bought that new Traeger last year. Oh, yeah, I remember. And uh uh Lisa's son, he's 31-ish. Um, he can cook.

SPEAKER_04 45:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 45:55

And uh a couple weeks ago, uh that new Traeger'll go up to 500 degrees. So you get a real good series. Yeah, yeah. I bought that half a cow.

SPEAKER_06 46:05

Yeah. Good.

SPEAKER_09 46:07

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 46:09

Tim knows his beef. He knows his beef. Oh, yeah, yeah. He knows his beef. What else we got? Besides hunger.

Democrats On Mic And Immigration Spin

SPEAKER_08 46:17

Wanna pull up a clip? Yeah, you know what? Let's let's talk about the Democrats and how they've eaten their shoe leather uh over the past week or so. Um choke down their shoelaces. The Democrats have this habit of going on and and saying things that that they try to sound educated, they try to sound like they're part of the common clay of the American experience, and they wind up coming off as imperious assholes. So here's four examples that we pulled up on that. And I believe we're gonna start with Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut. Chris Murphy. Yes, and uh he he he he talks about how the Democrat Party really feels like Is this the two assholes? Yes. Okay he talks about how he feels about the Democrat Party feels about American citizens versus immigrants. I I gotta make nope, that's not the one. That's that's one broad, not two guys. That's not the one that's the broad and a guy.

SPEAKER_06 47:11

Because it's it's to the right, to the right. There you go. Oh, there you go. All right, we ready? Here we go. Chris Martin. Let's let's see what they gotta say here. Relax, man.

SPEAKER_10 47:25

Ukraine fun, right?

SPEAKER_06 47:27

Let's back it up.

SPEAKER_10 47:29

The negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship. It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine fun.

unknown 47:41

Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

So you are right that that has been the democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe. Uh, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.

SPEAKER_08 47:58

The negotiation the people that we care about most, which would be the undocumented Americans in this country. That's good to know. Yeah. It's something that we've uh everybody who's even marginally on the right has thought. But to have a uh Democrat politician go on a national news show and say it out loud that the people they care about most are the undocumented Americans. I also love how he says that. But that is the norm, right? Not immigrants, not illegals, the undocumented Americans.

SPEAKER_06 48:34

Yeah. Bullshit. Yeah, that's that's the norm right now. Yeah. And what's funny about this, when when he talks it's a little off topic, but uh when he when he talks about Ukraine, did you notice that uh the president of Ukraine, Zelinsky, is offering uh technology, the drone technology, to Israel to protect themselves. Did you notice that? I did not know did you hear that? No, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 49:09

I'm I'm pretty sure Israel, considering that they're in partnership for developing weapons technology with America, yeah, doesn't need Soviet bloc.

SPEAKER_06 49:20

Well, my opinion is the reason he's doing that because we cut him off. No money from us, he's looking to get it from somewhere else. He's trying to sell everything in the shed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 49:30

Do you think maybe some of those drones he's willing to give away came from here in the beginning?

SPEAKER_06 49:34

Probably. Oh, they sure bought it. Yeah, absolutely. I'm wondering how the hell they have the the uh capability to uh manufacture these drones as they're getting pummeled over there. If you don't want drone, I have moose and squirrel. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know. These freaking Democrats and this immigration shit, I mean, we just beat it, we beat it like a dead horse, but it has to be talked about, and there's just so much you could say. Well, if you know, uh it drives me frickin' crazy that it it's happening.

SPEAKER_09 50:13

Well, here's what I don't understand. I consider myself fairly intelligent. Not I'm not the smartest boy on the block. I get it. I put a lot of thought before I go to the polling place. How can anybody we'll just say the people that were at Wilkesbury Square yesterday? How can anybody in their right mind vote for any of these people after they say things?

SPEAKER_08 50:43

I think that you've got the key thing right there in their right mind. I I don't get it. But when it comes when it comes to polic when it comes to politicians defending the actions of illegal immigrants and their ill illegal immigrant status, it it's getting to be disgusting because of some of the actions that these illegal immigrants are taking part in. For example, our next clip here, um which is entitled Ending Wokeness, uh comes courtesy of Maria Haddon, who is a Chicago alder woman in the 49th War. Now, something recently happened in the uh in uh Chicago where an 18-year-old white Loyola University student was fatally shot in the back. In the back, is is is uh very important here by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant. Um his name is Jose Medina Medina, which sounds like a pop star, to tell you the truth. But uh uh they run out of names now. She makes a statement that essentially victim blames, and she caught a lot of hell for this. She should. As she should. And we're gonna continue to pile on today if we can hear what she said, the excuses that she made for this Venezuelan immigrant who was trigger-happy and shot an 18-year-old in the back.

SPEAKER_06 52:03

All right, here we go. Oh, hold on, volume, volume.

SPEAKER_00 52:09

Sounds like this might have been a wrong place wrong time. Running into a person who had a gun, they might have started. It'll play over the pier unintentionally. Um the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood, and it sounds like this might have been a wrong place wrong time. Running into a person who had a gun, they might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally.

SPEAKER_08 52:34

Um intentionally startled this person at the end of the pier. So let's talk about this person at the end of the pier. Let's talk about where they were. They were in a public park. They had gone there to photograph this Chicago skyline, this 18-year-old girl and her friends. Yeah. They said they were going out that night to look at the um Aurora Borealis. Yes, as well. Yeah. Trying to get a picture of that. Yes. So their intent was clear. They were in a public place that is known as a park where people go. It's it's a park. It's it, that's what it's there for. This dude, this Venezuelan guy, Medina Madena, was at the end of the pier, dressed entirely in black, wearing a black mask. And when this girl startled him, his response was to shoot her in the back. And this Democratic Alderman's response is to victim blame and say, well, wrong place, wrong time.

SPEAKER_06 53:35

Alright, for for first off, how are you gonna startle somebody when your back is turned against them if she got shot in the back?

SPEAKER_08 53:42

The the the working theory here is that uh when he pulled the gun, she turned around to try to run. And and by the way, if you're startled, you jump. You don't pull a gun, wait for somebody to turn around and shoot them in the back. Right, right. Uh and again, here's another aspect of this. It's Chicago. That was not a legal gun because illegal immigrants cannot have a legal gun. Right. And nobody could have a legal gun in Chicago. It's exceedingly difficult to get a gun in Chicago. Yeah. So there's many layers of everything that this man did wrong. But, you know, hey, wrong place, wrong time, and she shouldn't have startled them.

SPEAKER_06 54:15

Well, for me, it this is just another liberal making an excuse to defend an illegal.

SPEAKER_08 54:23

That's exactly the way that I feel about it. Um they will never admit that these people are what they are illegal immigrants. That is the keyword is illegal. I don't care if you jumped the fence, accorded a stream, if you stayed here on a legal visa and let it lapse, you are here illegally by definition.

SPEAKER_06 54:43

Now we had we had a we had a gentleman on our account. He had a he had to quit, he had to leave because his work visa expired, and he wanted to do the right thing, and he went I don't know where he was from, but he he left and he went back to wherever he was from. Did the right thing.

SPEAKER_08 55:02

How long was he here on a work visa?

SPEAKER_06 55:04

I think he was here for two years. He had two years to try to get his ducks in if he wanted to stay. I don't think he wanted to.

SPEAKER_08 55:10

All right, well, there you go.

SPEAKER_06 55:11

I don't think he wanted to. Go home. That's right. From what I understand, yeah, I don't think he did, from what I gather.

SPEAKER_08 55:18

And that's exactly what we were talking about earlier with the 30%. And I'm like, all right, this I tried, it wasn't for me. I'm going home. Yeah. That's fine. Yep. And good kudos to him for doing the right thing. Then following our laws after we graciously allowed him to be here for two years.

SPEAKER_06 55:34

And that's what bothers me about all this illegal immigration and everybody coming here, they come here. We say it, I say it all the time, and I'll harp on it all the time. You come here to escape your laws, your way of living, wherever you're coming from. And you come here, but yet you want to change our way of living to what you came from. Right. Makes no sense.

SPEAKER_08 55:58

Makes no sense. Let's turn it into the third world shithole that I tried to escape. Exactly. Right. So in that same vein. One of the other things that uh Democrat politicians love to do is attack ICE. Yeah. Now, President Trump, uh, recognizing the problem with the TSA and the long lines at airports and the delays that are happening there, and that our TSA agents aren't getting paid, trying to relieve the uh long waits at our airports, sent in ICE agents to effectively do the job of TSA agents or at least assist uh in the jobs and try to get the lines moving faster. Um Hakeem Jeffries, whose name has come up in between uh us on this podcast because of our dislike for the man. Piece of shit. He absolutely is. Um That's all you can say about the man, he's a piece of shit. He uh uh unfortunately you share a haircut with him now. Um fuck. They're like twins. Hey, hey. You're gonna have to adjust that tint a hell of a lot more. Uh Hakeem Jeffries decided to go after ice. Uh and uh well, let's see what he has to say about ice and the job that they were going to do at the airports, and then I'll go with what really happened.

SPEAKER_06 57:12

Oh, frickin' Hakeem.

SPEAKER_08 57:14

See? That is uh that's a really nice haircut. Damn right it is. Cheap too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 57:21

I can see him over his sink.

SPEAKER_06 57:28

Where's the volume? Uh-oh. Let's pause it because I think I have another one of him. That might be an issue.

SPEAKER_09 57:38

No.

SPEAKER_06 57:41

Nope. I don't know why I don't have any volume here. Come on now. The technical difficulties, podcast.

SPEAKER_08 57:49

If you like, I can play it off my phone. The sound quality is not going to be as good, but you'll get the general idea.

SPEAKER_06 57:56

There's no volume for some reason. Let me try this.

SPEAKER_09 57:58

In that clip, there's not one of the people on the screen. No, there's nobody doing the hand puppet dancing. No.

SPEAKER_08 58:03

Hold on one second here.

SPEAKER_03 58:07

Donald Trump and Republicans have sent ICE agents to airports all across the country. Watch this. ICE agents who are sitting around, standing up, doing nothing to address the airport crisis right now. Donald Trump goes. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 58:27

There it is. There. I got it. Let's play it. Try it again.

SPEAKER_03 58:34

Watch this. Donald Trump and Republicans have sent ICE agents to airports all across the country. Watch this. ICE agents who are sitting around. Standing up, doing nothing to address the airport crisis right now.

SPEAKER_08 58:53

All right. So that's what he said was going to happen. And he also, I love how he contradicts. They're sitting around. Sitting around, doing nothing. Well, what are they doing? They're sitting, they're standing there. What do you want them to do?

SPEAKER_06 59:07

And if they were doing something as far as arresting somebody or doing something, then they'd get crucified for doing that.

SPEAKER_08 59:12

They're putting the right foot in. They're putting the right foot out. They're shaking it all about.

SPEAKER_09 59:17

I think they were ICE was actually doing the first step where they were checking IDs. That's what they they couldn't do the uh the second pat down in this at the end. They couldn't do the security check going through the screening. But they could check IDs.

SPEAKER_08 59:32

Well, let's examine the reality of what happened. This is what he says is going to happen or has said was going to happen, that they're going to stand around, they weren't going to help, they were going to be ineffective. Not so much. It turns out that at a large percentage of the airports where ice was introduced, lines reduced significantly because they were able to get them flowing again, get people on their flights again, and dramatically reduce wait times. And in addition to this, in one episode, an ice agent was able to s uh give CPR to a one-year-old toddler who was dying, basically saved the kid's life. So that to me sounds like a lot of something, not a lot of nothing. And more Hakeem Jeffrey spewing bullshit from every orifice. And they were also handing out water throughout the airport. For people who would be who had been in line for six hours.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:18

Right.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:19

Um, so I can't imagine like my mom's gonna fly up here for uh for my wedding.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:24

Might be quicker to drive. Yeah, no shit. She's 83.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:30

Imagine if she was in a six-hour line to get on a plane.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:35

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:37

So uh there it is again. Hakeem Jeffries and I and and other Democrats are so desperate to attack ICE that they won't even recognize when they're when they're doing a service, a genuine service. So that brings us to our last foot-in-mouth moment, the mighty Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC as she is widely known. Does she ever remove her foot from her mouth? No. No. But she's relatively attractive and young. And that apparently makes her the new the the face of the Democrat Party's future. Never mind what she's saying.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:18

I kind of think she looks like a dunk.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:20

Listen, she does, man. I know, I know. I said relatively.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:27

You know, I don't I don't know. We we gotta get Jim a date.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:30

No. I'm sorry. You know what? This is not gonna turn into a referendum on my taste in women because we all know where I stand on my taste in women. I want cankles and angry bitches. That's what I fucking want to. The trail is on, yeah. That's right. So how'd it work out for you? Oh well, I didn't have well there there was she was she was angry, but no cankles on on my next. But if I get a shot with standards, I'm taking it. The lovely governor of Arkansas is who I'm referring to.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:00

Uh and a shot at love. But we gotta specify that, not a shot.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:04

ALC is in her 30s. She is a relatively attractive woman. And the teeth scare me. You can live without oral. Come on. There's there's there's there's husbands all over this country living without oral. You can too. Boo-hoo. Yeah, I don't want to be one of those guys. You know what doesn't have teeth? Your hand. Oh, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:31

Oh, sure. And my comment was bad.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:33

Can we please get to what this broad said? All right. Let's bring it up. So yeah, AOC had a uh a moment on mic that she didn't realize was being recorded.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:44

All right, I already know it's not gonna have volume. What? Yeah, watch.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:51

Oh, why? Yeah. Why doesn't it have volume, man?

SPEAKER_09 1:02:56

You know what it's doing? It's filtering stupidity out, and that's why nothing.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:00

Yeah, you've got a dumb filter on, and everything that this woman says is usually kind of weird. This is freaking bullshit.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:06

She was she was recently Jim wants to uh watch that over and over because he likes to see them chiclets waving around.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:14

Eeehaw. That's that's all I hear. That's all I hear, but again, you what are you gonna do? Put her up against Nancy Pelosi in a looks contest and we'll see where we land. I don't know why. I don't know why either. I could play it for my phone again.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:34

There we go. Okay, hold on here.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:47

Oh my good God.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:57

Why is this so difficult all the time on the moment?

SPEAKER_08 1:04:13

We need we need to hurt more we working people and Americans more to get them to poll because she does not want the Democrats to be perceived as weak. This rod's still babbling under me. It's just like she's on the Senate floor or the Congress floor. It's almost like you two are on a date. Believe me, she'd be the politics would make me not want anything to do with her. Never mind.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:36

When when a Democrat when somebody who votes Democratic or liberal or how in God's name, when you hear something like that, how how do you, with good conscience, go in there and hit that button for anybody in the Democratic Party?

SPEAKER_09 1:04:59

The only thing I can think of to answer that is the people that are you know down in mommy's basement.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:06

Um nothing else to do.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:08

Nothing else to do. And they belong to something are well, she meant this. She meant right.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:14

Well, that's it.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:15

That's the norm.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:16

Or the person in their 70s that's been been pulling the Democrat lever ever since Democrats were actually Democrats. They're actually afraid to pull a Republican. Because right, I've said this before. A JFK Democrat today would be considered a hard right Republican. JFK was lower taxes, strong military, you know, he would be he would be perceived as a hard right Republican.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:41

Why why wouldn't why wouldn't anybody want freedom, freedom of speech, lower taxes, a good economy, strong economy? Uh what else? What else do we have that is that is just totally awesome? Freedom to own a house, freedom to own a gun. Uh freedom to eat what you want. Wait, that's not so great. Freedom to buy what you want. Yeah. All these freedoms.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:08

Hey man, communists give you free toilet paper. I mean, that's the source right there. They're probably they're not giving you the high quality stuff. No, they're a pain in the ass in every respect. But am I correct? Yeah. Am I correct? Well, how could anybody listen to an audio like this where she literally says in a moment where she didn't think she was being recorded, hurt the people? We need to hurt working Americans to get them to fold more. More to get them to fold and make them perceive that that Democrats aren't weak. Yeah.

unknown 1:06:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:36

Who would listen to that and say, like, yeah, this is this is somebody woman representing us in higher office. Now I I'm sure she knows this video is out there. She does. She does now.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:46

It's like, why wouldn't you come back? I don't know when this was made. There's no date on it, but why wouldn't she come back and try to uh justify what she said?

SPEAKER_08 1:07:01

Because there's no justification for what she said to me. Right, right. Because the news cycle is a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:08

But this is not going to go away because I I will play this on the next podcast. You will. I will has CBS. They won't play it. No, no, you will not.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:19

Any of those outlets said a word about that ice agent who was at the right place, right time, saving that infant in the airport.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:26

Only one outlet that I could think of. And I think we all know it's Fox News. Fox News.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:31

Yeah. Yeah. It's just it all this shit just freaking amazes me, man. It really freaking does.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:42

It does. All of it. But that's that's that's our little segment on Democrats opening their mouth and inserting their feet.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:55

Okay. So they are you have any more on this topic, Jim, before I move on?

SPEAKER_08 1:08:02

Do I have any more on the topic of rampant rampant stupidity? Yeah. You could be here all week. I just don't have documented cases of it, like I put together, you know, four of them here with the with the clips we have. Um but there's no there's no end to the verbal gas on both sides, by the way. You put a live mic in front of somebody, they're gonna say something stupid eventually. I do it every Sunday. Yeah, me too. We have air to fill. I can't just sit there staring at the lights. Yeah.

Ilhan Omar Claims And Minnesota Fraud

SPEAKER_06 1:08:38

All right, I got something here. Uh oh. That come on, Eddie. All right. I I want to talk about this here real quick. African National tells you tells us say the world on extraditing Omar after fraud claims. So what nation is willing to take her? That's the problem. Nobody wants to bitch. Oh, African Nation says that they say the word. We'll bring her here. An African nation is calling for representative Elon Omar, Minnesota, to be extradited after Vice President J.D. Vance claiming claimed during an interview that the lawmaker committed immigration fraud.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:22

Somaliland, does that say?

SPEAKER_06 1:09:23

Okay. Where? Uh the next paragraph. Uh, the Republican of yeah, Somaliland. My eyes are really good after this. A partially recognized state in the Horn of Africa reacted in a post on X to the claim that Vance made in a podcast interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson. I like the uh Ambient music in the background. Oh shit. What the frick?

SPEAKER_09 1:09:49

Like, am I the only one hearing that? So let's talk about that. I think you gotta collapse the window in a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:54

Let's just close it out there. Now, it's speculated that how Elon Omar came to this country, she married her brother, right? Handsome feller. Handsome feller. And uh that's how she got her citizenship by by marrying her freaking brother.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:17

Isn't that where two-headed children come from?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:20

Uh no, no, that's that's um uh it's three-eyed. Three-eyed.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:24

So, with that being said, how uh how much more often do you think that has happened? Marry marry your brother. Marriage, there has always been a marriage loophole in immigration laws then. Right. Now it there is documentation out there that that has happened. It's it's a confirmed fact. So why is this bitch still here?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:49

The same reason that I think that uh certain companies are afraid to hire or fire underperforming employees. I think it's the minority bent. I think the perception of racism would come into play. Uh, I think that she is loud enough with enough people behind her to make that look like something it isn't. I agree to a point. But now And we are we are I'm sorry to interrupt you, Tim, we're more afraid of optics these days than we are being politically correct. We're more afraid of the optics than we are committed to putting the fact out there and acting on it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:29

Wasn't it uh what was it, 19 billion in Somali fraud in Minnesota? Yeah, with the guy.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:38

I don't know that number number.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:39

I don't know what the exact number is 19 billion. But you know what? I did get an email from a Nigerian prince.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:48

And for a very small fee, I can get very wealthy. Have you noticed that since the start of the uh uh war over there in Iran, um nobody's really concerned about my car warranty anymore. No, I don't get any calls.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:03

It would be ironic if your car broke down, though.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:07

If only if only I was getting a call. Nine billion. Nine billion. Oh, wait a minute. With federal pro what do we got here? The founding amount of fraud in Minnesota is estimated to be over nine billion dollars, with federal prosecutors indicating that half or more of the approximately 18 billion in federal funds for various programs may have been stolen. Right. That's freaking insane. This includes uh significant fraud in areas such as child nutrition, housing services, and autism programs. The investigation has led to federal charges against numerous individuals, with many of the defendants uh being of Somali descent. The scandal has gener garnered national attention, particularly due to the whatever. But yeah, you know who's been remarkably silent lately? Waltz. Governor Waltz. Well, yeah, he can't run for he's not running for governor no more. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:07

Uh but he also comes off as an idiot every time he opens his mouth, and even he realizes it. He's staying away from cameras and microphones.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:15

Yeah. Could Minnesota have unclaimed money in your name? I'm not Somali, so probably not. Not in my name. Nope. Oh, that's all I got, guys. What else have you got a sister to marry? What else you have? You have anything else? What else? What else we got? Painful rectal itch. I had that yesterday and I took care of that, though.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:38

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:40

I slathered up my ass with liniment. Kettle sucks.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:47

Did you see that um the clip of that uh that I sent you about the plane above the Los Angeles uh No Kings rally?

SPEAKER_08 1:13:55

Yeah. No. So Los Angeles No Kings rally. Tim sent me this clip earlier. Uh they hired a plane with the the that dragged the signs behind it. Yeah. And it it says uh uh let's see, Trump's not your king, he's your daddy. Just walking into these people. Group of attention. What's all this?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:17

Relentlessly uh trying to pause it.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:20

Any given day ending in Y in Chicago?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:22

Uh this is uh a clip of uh people external beat. Why want to pause? I don't want to hear that. There we go.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:30

If we're gonna watch videos of people getting beat, I prefer the law enforcement ones where they have to drag them out of their car kicking and screaming.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:36

Let's play this.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:38

What's the background?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:39

This is interesting. Uh, it looks like a bunch of people beating up on somebody.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:44

Oh my god, we can find those videos all day out there.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:47

WCPO9 News is I think this is in Chicago. You're kidding. Let's bring this up. ABC. Let's uh bring this up. Just need somebody screaming World Star in the background. Yeah. I I uh sorry for the for the darkness, but I I gotta do that to bring the video up.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:08

Darkness is a fantastic early 2000 Spanish from the British Empire.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:15

What do we got here? Right one, right one, Richard. Sorry for a black screen there, boys and girls. We're trying here. Uh I still say it's an improvement over the usual view. There we go. Well, let's watch this.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:33

And Sir Shiny Head over there. That's right. I almost put my sunglasses on.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:39

Let's watch this. They're wilding. Yeah. Watch this. This is craziness. Let's back it up.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:46

Mary to have money. A group of attackers relentlessly beating a 13-year-old girl. The video is hard to watch. This is crazy. For the victim's hands, it's just difficult. It's heartbreaking. Mary Tan Hudding. She has to remain anonymous, but she agreed to speak with us about what happened. She says her niece was celebrating opening day in Washington Park when a group of teenage girls followed her to Republic Street, and they robbed her, taking her purse, electronics, and jewelry. That's when chaos broke out.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:26

That's insane.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:27

The extent of her injuries. What was that like at the hospital? Her vision.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:34

Why is my question?

SPEAKER_08 1:16:37

Well, they already got what they already got what they wanted from her. Maybe she had the temerity to tell them that they shouldn't have robbed her and they decided to beat her now.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:46

Maybe she tried to take her things back.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:50

13 years old. Yeah. Well, she startled them. She's yeah. She startled them. You know? Thirteen years old. That's scary. When I was 13, did I get into fights like that? Did I ever see a fight like that? At 13 years old. And that's what I noticed here too. You got five girls beaten up on one. And these are little girls, 13 years old, being violent like that. Could you imagine what they're going to be like when they turn 18, 20, 21 years old? Dead. They might be dead by then, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:17:31

Starts with an E. The middle initial is B. And the last initial?

SPEAKER_06 1:17:37

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:38

Embarcerated? No.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:40

That's what they'll be doing in another eight years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:44

Listen, there's a fantastic song by My Chemical Romance called Teenagers. And the tagline is Teenagers scared the living shit out of me. And that should be the theme song to every clip that we see like this. And unfortunately, you can sit here and watch these kind of clips all day, every day.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:59

Yeah, and that's the sad part.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:01

I think that the one of the biggest problems is, well, it's not a problem, but we have no idea what it's like to grow up now. The country is so different than when we were growing up.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:13

There's zero excuse for what we just saw. You're right. Zero excuse. I don't know. I don't care how they grew up.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:19

But the way we grew up, it just doesn't exist anymore.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:25

No, we fought one-on-one. No, one-on-one, no no guns, no knives, maybe in knives occasionally, but see, I'm an old man now. I carry a gun and a knife. You know, it's scary. The world is scary. Our country is scary. Uh, what it may turn into with these frickin' scary liberals. Yeah, it's a shame. It really is.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:46

I mean, when when I look back at my upbringing, you know, at the time, though, I think. But now I'm just so glad I had it the way I did.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:56

Yeah. Yeah. You know? And you know, it's funny too. Uh the generation before us said the same thing about our generation. And the generation before that said the same thing about the the the other gener. And look at the trajectory that this country has taken. It turns out they were right. Yeah. It just keeps manifesting and manifesting, and uh it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. It's a shame. Darn kids with their Atari. Yeah, it's a shame. It's a shame. And and who do you who do you blame? Who who could you blame? Seriously. No. Can you blame, can you blame the parents? Can you blame the teachers? Can you blame the politicians? Yes. Uh yes. There's always blame to go around. There's always blame, but who who do you think is really at fault? Dr. Star. Who has the biggest pers percentage to this? I don't know why.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:53

It starts at the top with the democratic leadership and it just trickles down into the teachers' union.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:00

It does. Timmy hit it right on the nail. Hit the nail right on the head with it.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:04

Unfortunately, it's a topic we can't delve too far into because even if we display facts and figures, it's going to be construed as something it's not. Right. Right, right, right. So it's it's kind of one of those things where you want to scratch the surface, you want to go a little bit deeper, you want to talk about things that happened all the way back into the 1960s and 70s, how uh uh you know how certain families were uh uh kind of taken apart and and and the fathers left the equation, and and but you can't get too far into it because it's going to be perceived as a racial discussion and it's not.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:35

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:36

But in order to preserve our ability to post this on on YouTube, we we we can't really scratch the surface of this.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:45

You could you could to a certain extent, and maybe we'll do that on the next show.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:49

And oh my god, do you have to be careful? Yeah. Oh my god, do you have to be careful? We'll be careful.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:53

We'll watch what we say, how it's said, what we do.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:56

Because facts and figures are cons are are are said to be racist now for some reason. Well, I was always brought up that numbers don't lie. They don't lie, numbers are definitive. So if we do scratch the surface on this, what we're gonna have to do is our homework and make sure that we have where we're getting our numbers and facts from, and they are going to have to be unimpeachable sources. Well, just to cover our own asses.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:18

Next week we will not be podcasting. What? What is it that Jeebas guy? Unless uh we do something really, really short. No. No, I don't want to do that either. Let's just take a let's take a break for a week. Oh.

Why Ham Became An Easter Tradition

SPEAKER_08 1:21:33

Oh. Hey, you ever wonder how it is that ham became the official meat of Easter when Jesus was Jewish? Explain. I don't know. Oh, I don't know either. I know it's part of the new covenant with the New Testament that they like kind of like open us up to eat certain foods that that weren't thank God it's not an ocean.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:50

Oh, I can't say. But it's funny you bring that up because you and I had interesting conversation over the week about uh different shows I've been watching. Uh and I and I'll advertise it on here, I don't care. If you really want to watch and learn about biblical times and the Bible, uh go to Fox Nation and get that app and download uh AD, it's called, uh the Bible. And I'm sure everybody heard of the Saints. Awesome, awesome, awesome freaking shows. But uh I learned a lot from watching them shows.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:30

Did you learn why we have ham on Easter?

SPEAKER_06 1:22:34

Part of the new covenant. No, no, let's pull it up real quick. Yeah, I'll pull it up. I don't care. Let's pull it up.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:41

I just thought I just thought it was always hysterical. It's like, you know, Jesus being Jewish, he was he was he he was raised in a time where Jewish ate kosher, not only for religious reasons, but to stop people from dying. Because kosher is about cleanliness and avoiding certain animals that'll kill you if they're improperly prepared.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:01

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:01

But uh uh, you know, who doesn't love a good smoked ham?

SPEAKER_06 1:23:06

Let's see what we got here. See what it says. Let's let's see. Then I have the question of the day. Ham is traditionally eaten on Easter due to historical culture, cultural, and religious reasons symbolizing abundance, the end of Lent, and the arrival of spring. Interesting. Oh God reaping misogyny.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:35

Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:39

The tradition of eating ham on Easter dates back to medieval Europe, where pigs were considered symbols of fertility, prosperity, and good luck. Pigs were often slaughtered in the fall, and the meat was cured and preserved. All right. There we go. That's interesting. Now we know. Now we know. Knowing is half the battle. Yeah. All right, boys. She's ready for the question of the day. Oh boy, here we go.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:06

Wait, wait.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:07

Today's non sequitur is brought to you by. Yeah. Are you ready for 12 seconds?

SPEAKER_06 1:24:16

That was just that was just like the the oddest thing. It really was. It was odd. Buffering.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:34

Need the phones to come in here and hit him on a short buffering.

Question Of The Day Road Signs

SPEAKER_06 1:24:42

All right. Question of the day. If you were a road sign, what would you say?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:54

And where would you be placed? I'm gonna let you go first, man.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:00

So I can think about this for a minute. Twelve seconds.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:08

Yeah, no word bumpering. Wow. Come on, man. I'm gonna piss my pet. I've gonna piss for like the last half hour.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:39

All right. I would be one of these stupid road signs that we see for construction safety. My mommy works here. Give her a break, B-R-A-K-E. I would be that sign because I think it's the stupidest fucking sign I've ever seen in my life. Where would I be placed, you ask? I would be knocked over in on a ditch on the side of the road with a bloodstain on me. There. There's your answer. Fucking construction. Sicken me.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:16

I'm drowned. Nothing. Nothing. Falling rocks. Yeah. I guess I won't be here next weekend because I spent too much time buffering.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:26

Okay. So now now we have to hear the person who posed the question. What would you be?

SPEAKER_09 1:26:32

I I didn't have a whole freaking week to think of it.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:35

Yes. I I did, but no, because I just came up with this question yesterday, actually. And uh getting things up on Saturday. And it was it was tough. It was tough. Uh the only thing I could come up with would be finger looking good with the arrow pointing. Construction sign? I didn't say construction sign.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:54

You said road sign. Oh, well, for the love of God. All right. I got to change mine. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm changing mine. I didn't, I thought we were relegated to road signs. Go ahead. No. Well, yeah, it could be a road sign. Okay, not construction sign. It could be any sign. In the south, there is a building that houses a strip club, and they advertise on a billboard about 10 miles out. It is called Big Jim's Booby Bungalow. And there is my choice.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:25

That would be placed in the house. I gotta write that down of Jim's house.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:30

Absolutely. Big Jim's Booby Bungalow. Yes. Bungalow. And if it's a self-advertisement for my own boobies, I would add underneath in parentheses that they're uneven and one is larger than the other. Thanks to having a dominant right hand. And years of loneliness.

Holiday Sign-Off And Two-Week Break

SPEAKER_06 1:27:50

Alright, we gotta call this because I I really gotta pee. Oh my god. Gotta go pee. Can't go pee. Oh God. Alright, we're out. Good evening. Want everybody to have a Safe and happy holiday season. Have a ham. Have a ham. Uh go to church if you're a Christian. Whatever do we do on during Easter?

SPEAKER_08 1:28:13

That's all I got, man. If you're of Jewish descent, act like the person involved does not exist.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:18

That's it. That's all. That's all. All right. That's all I got. That's all you guys got. That's all I got, man. All right. We're out. Have a good day. Have a good uh holiday. Uh we'll be back in two weeks. Two weeks. Take it easy, folks. Have a good day. And uh stay safe. We're out of the house.