Episode 39 Guess Who's Back? Back Again? Fred Is Back. Tell A Friend!

Fred is back again after his vacation with the family. R.J. and Fred discuss their weeks right off the bat. Next the guys bring a story to your attention from Belfast and the U.K. After speaking on that they decide to talk Iowa primaries in a little more detail. Last but not least the guys talk about this week's wildcard. Nasty messes are on their minds. Tune in for some fun and insightful talk!

Resources:

https://www.jfeed.com/crime-and-justice/belfast-attack-uk-civil-unrest

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https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/ia

https://electionresults.iowa.gov/IA/126082/web.345435/#/summary

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SPEAKER_00 0:15

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unknown 1:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

How was your week? I haven't seen you in like a month or a year.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

It's it's been a little bit. Um we went to Tennessee. Um, we were in a really small town called Cosby, Tennessee. Um 45 minutes pretty much from everything. I guess no, no, no, Bill. Good, good. Um, I guess the closest big like it's 45 minutes away from Gatlinburg, like 20 minutes from Newport, Tennessee. So um stayed in a cabin, Airbnb. Um, the lady's actually selling her place for way too much, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

But that's isn't everybody know?

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yes, but I mean, like, it's you're in the mountains, so you're isolated, but you're not because there's like neighbors all around you. It's really weird how they do that, but with it being so far away, it's not I don't think it's that worth that much. And there's there's a lot of work because obviously it's on a mountain, so there's a lot of shifting. Um but it was a good time. Um the kids uh we drove two vehicles, so two of them rode up with me, and then two of them rode back with me. Um we hit Louisville. I hate Louisville, I really do. Kentucky? Yeah, because every time I go down there, there's always something like massive downpour. One time I was going to college and I lost my waiver, like the blade just flew off. Like, couldn't keep up. Um this time, so there was like an on-ramp, this lane ends, and then this is the only lane that eventually becomes the only lane because there's road construction, because it's road construction season. And uh, we probably stayed there, stopped for like an hour, and my son's like, or not my son, it was my second youngest, was like, Dad, let's go, and I'm like, I literally cannot, I can't go. So explaining that to um a three-year-old was fun, and then we saw a semi-truck driver whose back dually the trailers with the right outside one was flat, like just running, just and so I was like hesitant on going around because I was like, I don't know if this thing's gonna just blow over. And I was like, yeah, if it gatored, I didn't want to be behind it, and I didn't know how far it gators out, you know. There's just someone's like, yeah, we're just gonna pass, and then I like waved and like went like that, but I'm pretty sure that means nothing in trucker, but I don't I don't speak truck and ease, so truckers don't even know this.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

They're just like the only thing we know is like doors open, oh crap, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

Yeah, tires, uh we got 17 more, we're okay. Like you're good, it'll be alright, but yeah, uh so nothing, no incidents or anything. We saw a truck during that construction while we were stopped for an hour. There was a double trailer truck. Well went off the interstate just and uh yeah. So interesting. Yeah, it was it was it was pretty wild down there in Kentucky. So but we made it, went to uh um couple Gatlinburg shows and stuff they feed you and really expensive. But um kind of like Branson stuff? Yeah, kind of like that. It's like dinner and a show, and um I feel like Dolly Parton likes to pride herself in the fact that she grew up poor in the Smoky Mountains, but she forgot what did she do? Does she do something over in Louisville too? No, not Louisville, but over in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge area. I think she actually was born and raised in Pigeon Forge. I'm not really sure about that one. Dinner and show stuff, but Dollywood. So like I saw this dill, I was like, oh man, Dollywood tickets, everybody's ticket is the price of a child's ticket. I was like, dude, we might hit Dollywood on this trip. And uh I look each kid ticket is eighty-four dollars. That's just getting in the gate. That's not parking, that's that's nothing. And I was like, $84 for a kid admission? And then so we left Sunday, so it had to be Friday maybe, Friday, Saturday, somewhere on that, I think it was Saturday, I saw a deal two-day past $99. I was like, that's a deal that we can't take advantage of. So, but yeah, so but we we know some people that live there and spent time with them. It was pretty good. Um I don't know. For it being a vacation, it was pretty busy and kind of rushed. Um I don't know. It was it was probably the first time being in Tennessee where things were um like that. Normally it's things kind of slow down a little bit more, but that didn't happen. So um this week's been really fun because I'm on post-vacation, so like got to work on Monday and had no idea what was going on, and then throughout the week, little oh hey, yeah, we need this, and little things that I had done that kind of keep things organized just didn't happen. So I was like, yeah, so late days. Um I mean, still within reason, I guess, but um yeah, so next week work-wise should be pretty good. Um we're almost done. That's good news. They uh they still have a lot of heat in there. Still heat in the building. It's dumb, but um yeah. Supposed to get a surprise visit from uh a corporation or not a corporation, third party that makes sure everybody's following rules, supposed to come on site because somebody got injured. Not with mine. Is it kind of like when we worked at McDonald's and corporates comment? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't anybody from the company I'm with. Um they got hurt, but somebody got hurt, so now we're no longer accident-free. Can I say somebody else's name since you don't work for them? Yeah, sure. Commonwealth, right? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it wasn't Commonwealth, but ironically, it's dude, it's so weird that we've only had one accident, but the ambulance has shown up like four times on the job site. But it was pre-existing medical stuff.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:35

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

So I only say that company because that was the kid that ran into my semi. Oh yeah. Yeah, he worked there. He didn't work there long after, but yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

You'll have that. You'll have that. Yeah. So there's rumor going around that uh buggies, those little side-by-sides, are going to be removed off job sites. Because on a job site, not in our state, but in Omaha, someone died in one.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

So Nebraska. Leave it to Nebraska to ruin everything, right? Hey, maybe it's good for you guys because you're out the walk and well, we don't even have them.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

That's the funniest thing, is like we so the company I'm with.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

So am I getting this wrong? I was thinking of a gator. Yeah, like a gator.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

All those are on the those aren't ours. Those are those are the Commonwealth's buttons. And yeah, they have they have them too. But we actually have three sight trucks that are lightnings because it's a tax credit, I'm thinking. So they look cool. I like how the LEDs look in the front. Yeah. We had a cat in one the other day in the undercarriage, and then it got up to where the battery was. It didn't it didn't it we took it out and took it to the shelter. So yeah, it wasn't me though. I I saw a sticky note and I I really thought this dude was messing with me because he used to work for the company I'm in, and now he's with the other company. Yeah, and uh so there's this big sticky note, and it says, Caution, there's a cat in your undercarriage. So So that I get down there, and I'm like, kitty kitty, kitty, meow, meow. And uh I feel like an idiot. That'd be funny if there wouldn't have been anything. Well, and there wasn't. I was like, dude, kind of looking around, like I did it probably for a minute or two. I looked around, I was like, man, somebody's messing with me, but like nobody was looking. Yeah, so then that sight truck went to two guys that were working and they were getting parts, and then they they're talking to me, they're in the truck and they're talking to me, and I hear and I'm like, Dude, you guys hear that? And he's like, No, like one's an older guy, and then the other guy is just going deaf, is what he says, but they had their music on a little bit, and I was like, dude, they're making some crazy beats now, like that sounds like a cat. And I told him, I was like, I don't know if it's true or not, but there's a sticky note on there, told me to watch for a cat. So then they get up to like the job site where they're actually working, and like they're like unloading material and they hear this cat, and they're like, What in the world? So then, like, there's probably six of our guys like in this truck looking for, and then one pops the thing, they access the battery, and it cat's right there. I was like, Man, it's crazy. But so then they took it to um I don't know if I can AR shelter, yeah. Yeah, so that's close enough down the road. Yeah, so and it was funny because the kid who took it was leaving early, and our general foreman's like, whoever takes it, I'll pay eight, you can just go or pay the day, like ten hours, and you can just go home. And then this kid's like, Oh, I'll do it. And he's like, Aren't you leaving early? You don't just take the cat. So but yeah, that was that was the excitement for the week, man.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

But I had to ride with my brother. They're taking their cat back to a shelter and they put it in the cat kennel that didn't have a front cover. So guess who got a ride with the cat with the kennel cover and the cat just scratching at my chest the entire ride? Yeah, that was fun. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Was it an orange one? I don't think so. This one's an orange one. If you're in their area, you want a cat. A little kitty. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

Nobody wants cats. They're pathetic. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, how was your week? Uh this week was fine. Um I guess I'll do one story. Um went to work. Well, sorry. Work out this morning, and usually I'm kind of like pushing it on time. And uh I'm like two minutes for I'm supposed to get out the door to go. And I'm over by the sink and I was washing off my cup or something, and then down by my foot, I noticed that there's like water dripping, and I'm like, crap. I just replaced the hose on my dishwasher like two weeks ago. My poor wife's been waiting for me to fix that, and I haven't fixed that for a while because I couldn't figure out how to get out of the cubby. Oh, pull it out. Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to pull it out. And I think part of it was because they broke the tile underneath, so it was getting wedged, and then by the way it was sitting, I was like, it seems like it's super tight, like I'm not gonna be able to move the feet up because I can't move the feet up. Anyways, I got it out, got it fixed. So first thought in my head was, well, I just screwed that, like, I'm gonna have to go back and re-redo that. Thankfully, no, but my um garbage disposal is just leaking like crazy. So I'm like, yes. So um I looked underneath of it, it's coming from like one of the screw holes. So I'm like, I'm not even gonna mess around with it, I'm just gonna just replace it. So um that's when I was trying to get out the door, and I was like, Yep, this is great. Sorry, honey, love ya. Like, just don't use that side, and I'll take care of that tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

But I think I've said that same quote.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

I'm so mad. I'm so mad.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Just don't use that side of this thing.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

She put a bucket under there just in case.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

No, um, she's remembered, and when I came home tonight after my volunteer work and getting ready for the show, I was about to use that side and I'm like, something looks off. And I'm like, oh wait, duh, I can't use that side. I was like, honey, I'm so glad you remember this kind of stuff because if I was staying at home and you were at work, like it would have been flooded.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

You would have been you would have been reminded though.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Really quickly. Yeah. Yeah. So but yeah, that's all I got for my week.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Nothing special. I gotta mow, but I don't want to mow because my clover, it's like really thick and tall, but there's like no actual clover flower on all of them. So I don't know. Obviously, I inherited the clover that I have, so then growing it, I don't know if I'm supposed to just mow it down and then it'll magically stay lower and get the flower part. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Because you're trying to attract bees. Yeah. Well, kind of, yeah. In a way. Yeah. So okay. Well, you ready to get down to some serious business? Yes. Alright, so there's been a couple stories this week that have popped up. Um the one I'm not gonna cover is the Carmelo Anthony story with Austin Metcalf, where Carmelo Anthony killed the Metcalf boy um down in Texas. Um, I believe it was last April, and they finally decided on it here the other day. Um he was found guilty, I believe 34 or 35 years in prison. No, it's 35 because he's eligible for parole after 17 and a half years. Um it's just sad to watch um the black community after that. I'm not throwing everybody in um the same group, but the vocal ones that are speaking out about that case um don't care about the facts or what happened with the case. It's just that it was a black man and he was found guilty. Um, like I said, that's the vocal part. Yeah. And um that's been very discouraging. Um, I even saw a video of one guy just white people know don't come out this weekend in Texas because they're just gonna do stuff to you if you come out, just cause you're white. So yet as a white Christian male, I'm the racist one. So that's not the story we are covering. We are covering a different story that I'm gonna actually read from jfe.com. There is a video that is circulating this past week from Belfast. So, a horrific daytime assault in Northern Ireland during which a foreign national attempted to publicly decapitate a local resident has sparked a severe political crisis and triggered mass anti-immigration protests across the United Kingdom. That also probably was helped with the other story, what, just a week or two before, where the young man from Europe, not Belfast, but Europe, um, had gotten stabbed by an illegal or an immigrant of some sort, or legal immigrant. Um and the person that did the stabbing had told the police that he was saying some racial slurs, I believe. So then they handcuffed the legal resident as he was trying to tell the police that he had been stabbed multiple times and they wouldn't listen to him, and he ended up dying. Yep, just being handcuffed lying there. So these two things are sparking some stuff, apparently. The security landscape in Northern Ireland has deteriorated into widespread civil volatility following a savage knife attack on the streets of Belfast that was captured in graphic detail by local witnesses. The violent incident occurred late in the evening outside of a residential complex on Kinnard Avenue, where a 30-year-old male subject of Sudanese origin launched an unprovoked assault against a local citizen. The event has ignited a massive wave of public fury, leading to intense debates within the British Parliament and triggering an immediate mobilization of nationalist protest groups. According to initial police reports and video footage circulated widely across social media platforms, the suspect, the 40-year-old victim to the pavement, sorry, the suspect pinned the 40-year-old victim to the pavement and initiated multiple deep puncture strikes targeting the head and neck. Emergency witnesses can be heard screaming that the attacker was actively trying to sever the victim's head before a group of brave bystanders intervened to halt the slaughter. Local citizens rushed the scene, engaging a desperate physical struggle with the armed actor and striking him with a sports bat to restrain him until emergency services arrived. The victim was rushed to a nearby medical facility with catastrophic lacerations across his face, neck, and back, where doctors currently list his condition as exceptionally critical. I believe now he has recovered a little bit. He's blind in both eyes now, and something else happened to him as well. But high-ranking political figures moved swiftly to address the public panic, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer releasing a statement calling the incident absolutely sickening and promising that the government would enforce a policy of zero tolerance against street violence. Concurrently, opposition figures like Kemi Badinock and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage demanded that the Home Office immediately release the full immigration and visa status of the detained Foreign National. The horrific event has acted as a major catalyst for anti-immigration organizations who have issued urgent calls for mass demonstrations across Belfast, including adult males to assemble in dark clothing to resist local authorities. The sudden urge in civil unrest comes at a time when public sentiment across the United Kingdom was already severely inflamed due to the ongoing fallout surrounding the death of an 18-year-old student named Henry Novak. That is the story that I was talking about earlier. Novak had been stabbed in a separate incident by an individual with from a minority community but newly released police body camera footage exposed a massive scandal where the arriving officers chose to comfort comf sorry to comfort the attacker while the dying teenager was left handcuffed handcuffed on the ground. The dual controversies have placed immense pressure on the ruling administration as populist movements leverage the graphic footage to demand a complete ban on diversity programs and the immediate passage of strict equal enforcement legislation. So that's the end of the news story from J Feed. So I personally have a few thoughts. Take them with a grain of salt, like them, hate them. I just have a few thoughts. So if we don't wake up, I feel like the same thing is gonna come here. I mean it's already come here, but it's it's gonna happen. The mass migration in the UK is a preview of what will happen if we don't solve our own crisis. If we are bringing in cultures that don't believe in what we believe, that means we're at odds. If people don't want to assimilate, but bring in their culture, once again, we're gonna be at odds. Um oil and water don't mix.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Yeah, I think I think um the biggest problem is there's the immigration policy, which definitely needs to be reformed. Um just because it's I think it's a system that's not um clear. It's also not a speedy one, not that we just want to get people here, you know, and just slap citizenship on them, although there's some people who do. Um but uh another thing is is we also take in like refugees. So that's a little bit of a different area too, but it's like and and right now our our culture has this really our our our American public have a very hard um time differentiating between the rights of American citizens and then that of um people here in our country on a visa. Like you're you're literally a visitor to our country, therefore you you don't have the same like like if you come into my house, you're a guest in my house, um, it's a little different with you.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

But I don't have the right to turn up and down your thermostat, it's your house.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Right, right. You gotta be respectful and and um I I think that's that's kind of the the thing that's lacking greatly. And um obviously there's conflicts in the world, so having people leave those areas that are just innocent not in the conflict people, right? Like women and children that that aren't doing anything, they're literally just trying to live life. But I think that's a different that that that's part of that pull of immigration that there's multiple layers to it that needs address the system. It just it seems like every so often somebody just waves a magic wand and says, Hey, if you're here illegal, you magically have citizenship.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

So if if you did have a magic wand, I'm not gonna get you into gotcha here, I'll put my answer first. But if you did have a magic wand, and you could just stop everything right now until we get stuff fixed and solved with this with the people that are already here, before we ever bring in anybody else, would you? Because I would, I'd be in all in favor of just stopping until we fix the problems.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

I I I know like looking at the masses and stuff, I I think about like during World War II, and there are people current day who are upset about what America did during World War II because we took a bunch of Asian Americans, I don't I don't know if they're Americans or just you're Asian, you we need you to go to this this island that's off America and we need you to stay there. Um and then we did the same thing over in the East Coast too, and uh I think it's divisive, but at the same time I I can see big picture like why politically they would do that, like internal safety and all that stuff. But as far as right now pumping the brakes on everything, um I think immediately if you close our borders up, your internal ramifications are gonna go nuts. Like people are just gonna lose their minds. And it's like I think I think it's something that maybe like, hey, we're just gonna do this for six months. We're we're not going to we'll we'll allow visas, but the process is just we're revamping it. Like I I don't know if that would answer it because nobody's really addressed it. Um I personally think um, you know, either you you get a a stronger force on the borders or you build a physical structure. Um it's it's America, it's not like Europe, it's not the EU. Um there's certain countries in the EU that literally have stricter borders in America. Oh yeah, you know, but then there's some that it's literally open border. I don't even think you need to show a passport. Um but it's like you that that helps slow that process, but then you're you're initially getting back to what is the bottleneck of the immigration process of getting citizenship. Um I think it's it's out there, it's known information that people can get as far as like especially the people that get very heated about this conversation. Uh go look up what what is the immigration process and educate yourself with that, and then you can kind of know more. Um I don't I don't think every politician is lying when they're like, yeah, this person wasn't a citizen of the United States, and these are the heinous crimes that they've committed. Do I think every immigration or every illegal immigrant in America is doing that? No, no, but but if it's happening, it's happening. You know what I mean? It's it's like I don't I don't I can't think of another example that's not immigration, but it's like if that is a problem, then we should stop that at the border before it even gets in here. And educating the American people that if you're here on a visa, you're not, that doesn't make you have the rights that Americans have. You're you're you're a guest in the house. So those are my my my thoughts on the immigration. It it's something that needs fix, and I feel like I'm gonna say at least the last 12 years, it's been talked about so much, and it's like, why are we not fixing it then?

SPEAKER_00 29:19

You know, but all the way, yeah. Second part I have for the story is um the media isn't even covering the specific stories they should. I'd say just like our media, um, they aren't reporting that necessarily it was an actual attempt at a beheading. Um, the video shows the guy laying on the ground and the guy slowly trying to take his head off, which I usually I don't know why, but I was thinking with a beheading all the time it would be something quicker. But no, this guy was going really slow with a knife, and the media was just saying that was a stabbing or knife attack. It took me multiple stories to look and actually find one that mentioned it was a beheading. Um and people just need to know the facts.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Well, and I don't know if you remember, there was it had to be 2012, 2013. There was like an incident with like a school stabbing, and our media ran with we need to have stricter gun laws. And I'm like, that that has nothing to do with this, and I feel like if this would have happened in America, that would be the the message.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

Well, maybe not with this current administration. Well, this one with the media, this would have got swept under the rug and put away. Ours, yeah, probably. Yes. So um if we give our wow, I'm sorry, if we give up our rights for safety, we won't be able to defend ourselves. Prime example here is they had to find a baseball bat in order to fight off the attacker. Um they didn't have any firearms. From my understanding, they're not allowed there. Nope. Yeah. So um UK is very strict, like they even use rubber bullets. So nice. Um, so yeah, um, getting stabbed in the neck or getting beheaded, you have to find a baseball bat or a shovel or something nearby. Um we can choose this route as a nation, but just know what you're choosing if you give that up for safety. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

It's amazing what people are giving up for safety. Yes. It's normally if you're trading something, you're losing something, and it almost most of the time you can see where it's like you give me this and I'll give you this. But this actually protected you and didn't need this. You needed this, but I got you to do this, and then I'm just gonna stop doing that. It's it's pretty wild how that works.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Yeah, and the last bullet point on that part is if I want to hurt you, I'm gonna find a way to hurt you, right? It doesn't matter if I have a gun, if I have a knife, I can use a car, I can use, I don't know, homemade bob materials. Like, there's gonna be a way to kill people if I want to kill somebody.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

Well, and I know locally in Iowa, um we had one of the biggest issues we had were what they call ghost guns, which are unregistered, like VINs off and everything. They're just wiped guns, and those were the ones that are like so. If if bad guys want to get bad things and do bad things, they're gonna find any way to do it, because that's what they want to do, that's their objective.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

So, yeah. And then lastly, I kind of want to ask the question, cuz not necessarily here, people eventually got involved. You know, in the video, I think it counted like 15-20 seconds, and the men got involved. But what is going on with our culture where we are so eager just to pull out our phone and record and not do anything? A grandma could be getting beaten to death by somebody in front of you, and you would just record her instead of acting. Like, what has taken away the test testicular fortitude for men to act? Like that used to be a thing, like we would act and we would do what was right, no matter what the cost. Um my thoughts on this.

SPEAKER_01 33:51

Excuse me, we're I had a few. If it is a like an organized thing. So um we had known people in America getting paid to go to other political parties caucuses or whatever, their their town halls, and cause problems, right? People are getting paid to do that. So if something like that happens, I'm wondering if those are the ones that kind of form that barrier to keep the the thing going, right? So, like, I'm not gonna let somebody go through because I'm over here recording and like I'm getting paid to make this chaos go on. Like, I thought that might because I've seen it, you see it all the time where people are just standing there with their phone, and it's like, why don't you help that person? Like you want to go viral, don't be the one on the phone, be the one in there helping, you know? And then I thought, our country is so sue happy to where if anything happened and you're you're assisting, and somebody, you know, god forbid got an injury from you, good or bad, right? They're gonna try and turn around and sue you. Right. And it's like, dude, you so a lot of people are just taught, don't do anything, wait till the authorities come and assist them. Well, I got it all right here. And it's like sometimes you just gotta step in and do something, stop what's going on, the hope that somebody takes their phone and actually calls the 911. But that's one of the things you get taught is like if we're in an incident and I need you to go do something, I won't say, Hey, can someone go call 911? I would literally go, hey, you sir, in the flannel jacket, I need you to call 911, get get the medics here, whatever, right? Right. And then if you know names, be very specific. Otherwise, people are just gonna assume, well, he didn't mean me, he meant he meant something. I gotta record this. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

I just I just I don't know. I'm dumb, yeah. I'm just I'm dumbfounded because that's that's the only reaction I see nowadays. Well, and it's like you want to go viral being the guy doing helping in, yeah. I don't know. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've seen well I could, but how many times I've seen a story where somebody does the right thing and somebody comes after them legally, a lot of people will step up and help them out. Yeah. Prime example, the guy that took down the demon statue here at our capital because they can celebrate Christmas too, right? And um, it took a gentleman from out of the state to destroy that statue, and we he had legal representation just very quickly. Well and people were willing to help him out.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

It's amazing how many people will stand behind you when you do stand up. Yes, and that just takes one. And that's the thing, is I think I was just explaining this to my children, I don't remember which ones, probably all of them, but they asked, Do bad guys know that they're bad guys? And I said, By and large, the ones that know it what they're doing, the masterminds, know that they're bad guys. They know that this is the right and they're opposing it. I said, but you have all these people in the middle, and you're kind of some will go to the right side, see and and and know that that's the right correct thing to do. But then other people will just kind of sway either by their emotions or that person made me mad or whatever, right? Whatever reasons, they'll follow this, and they don't know necessarily that this is bad. They're they're just following what either feels good, what's best for them, um, and as a result, they're doing bad things or the work of the bad guys, and they're just like, but if you're doing bad things, how do you not know that? And I'm like, You just believe a lie? I don't I don't really know. Like, you get indoctrinated, you know. I don't know, man. Yeah, I'm you you don't take that time to step back and look and evaluate things and educate yourself, you just parrot what everybody else is saying.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Like, yeah, I'm uh I'm like tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt. There's um, and he does this on purpose, but there's a show I listened to and he used to say this a lot, and it'd frustrate me every time because like let's just call it out for what it is. He would say, for an example, um Biden's policy about letting in so many illegal immigrants, like just flooding it with how many people he had. And then he'd say, What's the benign, innocent explanation for him doing that? And it's like there is no benign, innocent explanation for that. And then what would happen on the show is they'd be like, Well, maybe it could be this, but more than likely it's not. And every time he would get me because you know that that's not what's going on, like things that are happening right now don't need soft words, in my opinion. Like, we need some not brash words, but we need some accountability. Like, yeah, hold their feet to the fire.

SPEAKER_01 39:24

It's yeah, but anyways, just we need more than just politicians to fix it. We need people doing the the pressure on the politicians and holding them accountable. Which means we need people showing up and doing their duty, which means local involvement, which means don't just sit around complaining about it.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

We gotta do something about it, but and one way we can do something about something is by talking about our Iowa primary. The primaries. Yes. Um we talked a little bit about the primary when you're gone, and we dove a little bit into kind of the female mind of why they do what they do and um interesting conversation with the wife. So listened, unlistened. I figured. So um so here in Iowa we have what you would call a closed primary. I'll give us a couple examples or the examples of each primary for states, alright? So closed primaries, like we have in Iowa, the definition of it is only registered party members can vote in their party's primary. Example, you have Democratic Party, if you're registered Democrat, you can vote in that primary. Same thing for Republican, okay? So participation participation, independents, and unaffiliated voters are excluded. So if I am personally registered as independent or not registered at all, no chance. Well, until I read.

SPEAKER_01 40:55

You do have a chance there because what will happen is both parties will bombard you, aka your mailbox, and try and get you registered as a Republican or registered as a Democrat for the primary. Yes. And then you can change your um affiliation. Yes, that's the word.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Open primary. So any registered voter can participate in any party's primary, regardless of their own party affiliation. This system allows maximum flexibility for voters. So more or less Democrat can vote for the Republican side, independent for Democrat. Yep, just but you have to be registered. You have to be registered. Yes, but that is it's just like voting in a way. Yes. Semi-closed primaries. Unaffiliated voters can choose which party primary to vote in, while registered party members can only vote in their own party's primary. So if you're not registered, you can vote however you want, but if you're registered, you have to stay in your party.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

No, like if you're independent, you get to go to whichever one you want. But if you're a registered Democrat, you have to go to the Democrat. They won't let you in the Republican. Oh. That's what semi-closed is.

SPEAKER_00 42:07

Yes. This system allows some crossover voting while maintaining party integrity. Gotcha. See that I I kind of wish that, because I hate being a registered Republican.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Well, I because I I know we'll keep it. Because I know you're gonna ask that. I know you're gonna ask that.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

Um multi-party primaries. All candidates, regardless of any party affiliation, are listed on a single ballot. Outcome is that the top candidates will advance to the general election regardless of their party. And California and Washington use this, so I don't think it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

It sounds good because it's like it doesn't matter like if you're independent, can Democrat, like all of the like for the recent one, it'd be I'm a Democrat, so I have uh sand on there, and then I have all the Republican, and I'm voting, and it's like the top three. Yeah, make it to the final ballot, which I don't I don't like that one. No, like it's more like the overall ballot um for the actual like making it, not the primary, but like the final ballot is what it's more like. But and obviously I'm not in California or Washington, I don't know how that stacks. Like, is it heavy Democrat, heavy Republican? Like, does it ever flip-flop? Is it you know what I'm saying? Like California?

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Yeah, I'm sure prime example. Um, there's a LA mayoral race. Um, oh man. Terrible woman at her job, I believe, got in first, I think Karen Bass. And then there's a lady that was down in third, and there's a guy named Spencer Pratt that was making waves with his ads. Um, somebody that lives in Was tired of his own house being burnt down and nobody there to take care of him. And he had gotten himself up to second place. And wouldn't you have, wouldn't you know it? Um a week later they're still counting ballots, and um he got pushed out of the lead, and the girl in third that's also Democrat got pushed up in second. Now he's out. Yeah, I yeah, I don't. Yeah. As long as as long as their um mail in ballot ballot, their absentee ballot, um, has the date of the primary on it, they can still count it. And you can actually write that. It doesn't have to be post-oh, it doesn't have to be post-stamped.

SPEAKER_02 44:35

No.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

Huh. That's not that's not weird at all.

unknown 44:38

No.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

So integrity, man. Yeah. So do what you gotta do. Yeah, whatever, whatever we gotta do to win, so nobody else can ever get in there, right? Um, would you choose to have our primaries be ran another way?

SPEAKER_01 44:53

If if I did anything, I do like closed, but if I did anything, it would be the open to where you can you can cross over. Um with that though, I would want crucify me now. I would want more voter ID registration and stuff like that. Like making sure that Democrat is not going to the Democrat and then going to the Republican. Like, you know, just just making sure, like, you know, I only voted once and it was over here or over here and not both. Um as long as that's there, then I'm okay with that. But I think the way it is right now in Iowa is the I want to say the easiest to make sure the most integrity or keeping it um I I guess above reproach. Yeah, above board. Um uh yeah. I mean, unless you you do put I don't I don't I've never understood why there is such a disdainment to voter like ID. Like why why? Like because they want they want illegal votes, that's why. Well yeah, and and I guess I'm Occam's razor. I'm thinking if you're not using that to your advantage, there shouldn't be a reason why you're not for it.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

Like Yeah, because the prime example right now is you know, usually it tends to lean towards it leans to the left when it comes to the illegal voting. Um, but then you have um people throw balls on the Republican side that just won't do anything about it either. So it's just like okay. Yeah. So this is how it goes, yeah. Uh myself, I like the uh I like the semi-close because they stay in their party, but then if they're unaffiliated, independent, like I would like to be, I'd much rather be independent than affiliated with the Republican Party. And then I can vote on which side that I'd want to.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

I just I just feel like with with that system, I'm just gonna frankly, the GOP sucks. Yes. At um life. I was gonna say at getting getting people in. Um so so like independent, you know, I it the flexibility for an independent is good. But the let's say I'm a Democrat and I do want to jump over, I I this Republican GOP sucks at doing that. So that would be my only hindrance toward that, or hesitation. But yeah, I like that independents are flexible and they can go wherever they want.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Um I mean, in all fairness, though, it should just be open. I mean, your vote should be able to go for whom you want it to. Right. Freedom, right? Right. Right? Well to choose. Well. Um, okay, so the definitions out of the way. Let's go over some numbers for our primary. Um, and I'm gonna get my statistics from independentvoterproject.org. And I will tell you guys, I was trying to, I don't know how to get them, but I was trying to look for demographics like age age groups, race. I was trying to break all that stuff down. I don't know how to get my hands on that. I don't know if it's too soon. Um, I'm not friends with the campaign, so I don't get their numbers. Right. So this is it's not much, but this is all I got. So here in Iowa, total registered voters is two million forty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. Okay, and this will break down by party. So Republican side, we have 748. Sorry, 748,167 voters. That's 36.6% of the electorate. Democratic side, remember this is just registered, this isn't voted on the primaries. 561,827, which is 27.5%. Independents are 731,861, which is 35.8% of the electorate. So it's pretty obvious that we are a Republican-led state. That being said, independents are very close behind that. Um I myself, like I said, would much rather be independent, but then I wouldn't be able to vote on my primary unless if I switched my votes over to Republican and then switched back back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So um and like I said, it'll fill your mailbox.

SPEAKER_01 49:59

Yeah. Yeah. Hard. Yeah. Which, if you're like me, you get union propaganda. So they have pumped the brakes on because they gave us a survey, and like a lot of us were like, no, like I because frankly, I'm kind of like, yeah, if they're for it, I'm probably not gonna be for it as an individual. So with that, it was kind of like, do you think we should do this? And we're like, no, like, no.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

Like your job's to keep me working. Yep. Make sure I'm getting paid and treated fairly. Yep. Okay, so in 2024, in the general election, we had 1,674,011 votes. So that's 71% of voters turned out for the presidential election. Let's see how many of us came out to vote in this most recent primary. Now, these numbers I'm gonna get are from electionresults.io.gov. Okay. Total ballots cast were 411,663 votes, which is 19.17% of total registered voters. Which was sorry for getting out of view, the total registered is 2,041,855, and only 411,663 people voted. Now I know it's primaries and you know caucuses, usually those will have lower numbers that turnout people coming, but um then numbers will come back up for more general elections. But was this strictly GOP?

SPEAKER_01 51:58

No, no, so it's both it's taking both numbers. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's that's pretty low. Oh, I'm sorry. Because the the Democratic side is just 411,000 were both.

SPEAKER_00 52:12

Okay. Um, and that was ballots casted for, I believe, governors. That's what that was. So why do you think turnout is always so low for these primary elections?

SPEAKER_01 52:27

I'm gonna say because there are a large group of people that were on vacation. Like, seriously, like not just because I was, like, 100% because they do it the first Tuesday in June.

SPEAKER_00 52:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:41

So a lot of graduation, a lot of summer, a lot of family trying to spend time before their kid goes off to college. Um so a lot of that's going on. Also, the reality, like I don't I don't think I've heard very much conversation, like job site-wise, about it. Um we talked a little bit, would have been a week of Memorial Day, because it was before I left. And I I think I asked somebody if they were gonna go vote. And uh I said, yeah, I I'm not. I mean, because we're I didn't, I didn't do absentee or anything like that, but um I said it kind of stinks that we're gonna be out of state, you know, during that time. But because normally we do, and I I truly this is one thing, I don't know if I've said it on here, that I wish our country almost made that a holiday.

SPEAKER_00 53:46

Like everybody's off work, um made a vote and took the excuses away for it, more or less.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

Right. Um just I guess exercise your right. If you don't want to vote, don't vote. But um I think removing any obstacle, which even our job, they say, like, we can't hold you here. Like go vote by law, yeah. And I I've I've literally told people, I'm like, you want to go vote, go vote on lunch, come back. Yeah, like just let me know when you get here. Like, I don't I don't care if you need to leave early, let me know, you can leave early. Like the the I feel like if you did something like that where you could work it out and go earlier, like you it's probably gonna be a lot faster. Whereas if you go after work, it kind of gets bottlenecked pretty hard. And obviously, the bigger city or town or state, whatever that you're in, the more people, the harder it's gonna be, the more time it takes. So it's like, you know, I think that's something that the local government should look at and maybe be like, hey, why are we but then again you gotta ask yourself, do they even want that? You know, do they want to make it easier for the general population to go out and vote? I don't know, you know? I also don't understand why you don't want to let me make sure that you're who you're saying you are. Like, I don't let's put it in a system and then go, okay, Fred Graham's already voted once, so he can't vote anymore. Like, you know, I don't I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 55:23

I don't know, man. So and like I said, I'm I'm the one that just gives short answers in here, but like it's frustrating. Like turnout solo is just people just don't care.

SPEAKER_01 55:35

I know I don't know what the weather was like either. That was beautiful, that literally could be the excuse too. Oh man, I went fishing, it was a beautiful day, and it's like yeah, because I went I went running and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna try to get over there and vote and then get ready for work because I was like trying to get back.

SPEAKER_00 55:53

I'm off at 7 30, so am I gonna get back by 8 to vote? Probably not. So I was like, I'll get it in there. So I ran and there was there's like five people there. I wonder. Took me five minutes.

SPEAKER_01 56:05

I kind of want to make a sign. I mean, obviously. I don't know, I don't know, but like excuse me, because if you put a uh candidate sign, it just says their name and what they're running for. But it doesn't say like go vote on Tuesday or June 2nd, vote for, you know. I I think that would be, you know, even if it's like not even endorsing the candidate, but just putting the signs out there like go vote. We got all those billboards that pop up digital and stuff. Just June 2nd, remember to vote. But like I said, I don't know if they really want the general population to vote. They both sides have an agenda. They they have somebody that they want to get in there, they have X amount of people that they do want to show up to the polls. I don't know, man. I I don't get a look at that puppeteer.

SPEAKER_00 57:05

You know, I'm the little puppet, you know. So yeah, no, it it just it frustrates me. Um do you think it'll ever be solved, fixed? People want to go out and vote.

SPEAKER_01 57:19

I hope so, dude. I really do. Um the older I get, the more I'm like, dude, there's two things everybody should talk about, and it's religion and politics. Like, I hate that people are like, uh, you know, don't talk they they're they can be controversial and divisive, but so is talking about the news. You know, like that's I just don't understand. We'll talk about rivalries with with sports teams, and and we'll talk about dropping F-bombs and very offensive things. And divisive, yeah. And yeah, it's it's like, but don't talk about religion and don't talk about politics. And it's like those are probably the two most um they have the most impact on your life.

SPEAKER_00 58:09

Yeah, most consequential, and I mean it's kind of crazy. One might think that it might have gotten turned that way for a reason.

SPEAKER_02 58:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:20

Okay, so on the Republican side we had 186,174 vote on election day, and out of those, oh I'm sorry, in 26,232 people chose absentee. So, what are your thoughts on absentee versus in-day voting?

SPEAKER_01 58:38

I don't know the check and balance with absentee because I know I know Pennsylvania really, really messed that up, like really bad, to where people like they just flooded all of Pennsylvania with absentee valids. So then people got absentee valids and then they went and voted in person. It's like California, they ship them to everybody, yeah. And it's like I think Iowa, you have to request them. Yeah. Um, and that's how Pennsylvania used to be prior to that election, which was really sketchy. But so you pretty much have to say you have to request it and tell why. And I don't have a problem with that. A lot of people are like, oh, it's invasive. I'm like, if you're not gonna be there, that's all you gotta put is I'm not going to be in the state or unable to vote in person, medical health, whatever. Like, you don't have to get into violating HIPAA policies or anything like that. You just so for me, I don't have a problem with absentee as long as it's again being checked and balanced. Like, I I think if we made a bigger deal of voting and politics in our country, I think I think it wouldn't be as much of a need. But obviously, only 26,000 people did it this time around. I didn't do it. I didn't think about it. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:15

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:16

Got me. You're good. So um, yeah, and call me old-fashioned or stickler here, but I feel like there's gonna be an absentee. I would feel better about it being like down at the courthouse or wherever, right? Um, secretary, wherever he's at, Secretary of State, or I think that's who Paul Pate is, and that's what he does. But um that you have to go in and you have to do something in front of somebody while they check your ID and all that stuff. I don't like the whole idea of sending out to my house if I request it, somebody else could fill it out for me and send it back in.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:50

You mean you don't trust the government organization called the USBS? I don't trust the government. That got a bunch of money right before a major election that really, really messed up the absentee ballots. Hmm. Wholeheartedly.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:11

With my life. Well, I won't go that far. So um so the winner, like we discussed for the Republican nominee.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:20

So what you're saying is you don't like absentee, you like early voting. That's what you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:29

Let me physically see you, see your ID. I want to see you. I don't want you to be able to send something in. I I'm thinking it's you. Yeah. Yeah. I if it was up to me, it would just be only election day. Even if you weren't here, it would just be election day. Only people that would be able to get to vote for absentee would be um military, in my opinion. I that's just my thought.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:52

Yeah, I know it's designed for like obviously let's say you do have a medical thing where you're you can absentee vote. And if you do you gotta go somewhere else or you're going somewhere else, like let's say you got a work thing they sent you out. No, not gonna happen. They sent you out to Montana to get training magically June 2nd, you know. Ohio. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:21

Um so as I was saying before, I was rudely interrupted, but uh no. The winner for the Republican nominee is Zach Lane. Um he just picked his lieutenant governor today. I didn't see that. Is his name. I've never heard of him. Um the winner for the Democratic nominee is Rob Sand. And he did run unopposed, so pretty easy fight there. Uh he also named his guy, I think it was Josh Turek, something like that. His face looked familiar, and I don't know why I can't place it. I don't know where I've seen him else at. They say he uh he's a Paralympian, I think, or something like that, but anyways, so that's that's who's running with him. So, we didn't get to ask you yet, but what were your thoughts about the Republican side of things?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:17

Um my early on nominee that I wanted was Zach Lane. Yeah. Um, and then when he didn't show up, I thought that was very weird. So I was very hesitant. Um, which not gonna lie, I'm kind of glad I didn't vote because I knew it was like I don't know who because I did like Adam, I did um looking into him more, um he was my when when Zach did not show up to that one, I was like, dude, that was the deciding factor for me. Yeah, I was like, what are you doing? But then obviously you talked about it last week, um, but I feel like a lot of people were like, hey, who's gonna be our best to beat Sand? Which I'm I'm also like, I don't I don't know if if Zach Lane was the only one that would have fought had a fighting chance. Um I'll just I'll just say the town like up in Ankony, it seemed like they love Adam Snean. Like everywhere you went there were signs. I don't know if they just that was the only people who bought signs, but like that whole city town. They were free. You're gonna have to make a donation. Because I was just like, it seemed like everybody had one. And I I mean huge but um but yeah, looking into more of his stuff, um I I was like, yeah, I just I just wish I knew what his thought process was, like why he didn't go to that debate. Um but I'm just I'm really glad that Randy didn't make it.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:56

But I know his his answer, if I'm not mistaken, so please screw me if I'm wrong, but I believe his answer was more or less they're gonna keep debating on the same stuff over and over. And if the main guy that everybody had contention with was Randy Thienstra, um if he wasn't showing up, then what was the point of answering the same stuff over and over? So he wasn't gonna entertain it and he wasn't gonna Which I was like, because I I thought I had heard Yeah, I just didn't show up because I don't like what's the point?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:26

That's that's what what I and I was like, yeah, dude, I don't like that. Like I'm trying to figure out if you're you're the good fit, you know? And right. Um but he seems he seems very I mean obviously you very education focused. I think he's very family focused. Um he has farm blood, whatever you want to call it, like generations in his family. Um I mean obviously right now everybody's like, yeah, cancer and you know, that's how how are we gonna fix that? We're gonna put more demands on the spray and the greed of agriculture and you know, stand up for the farmers. And it's like yeah, you're saying that, but like how? You know, that's that's kind of the stuff that I think. Yeah, because everyone's like, yeah, like we're gonna fix this cancer problem. It's like, okay, how? We're gonna hold the manufacturers more accountable.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

Okay, how? Like not that I'm saying this is linked, but how are how is our drinking water always having issues with nitrates? Always. Like this is like I feel like the third or fourth year in a row in the summer where it's like they bring it up like you can't water your lawn now because the nitrates are super high.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:48

It's a lot to do with I think this year's flooding, but it's a lot of the farm, like the runoff, which I'm like. But that's from the manure that they spray in their fields. So it's it's just again. How? How are you gonna fix that? It's great that you're saying you're gonna fix it, but but that's the political answer of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:18

Oh, I don't. I'll just say it. Who cares? So if I pee in the water, will it even it out? No. No, no. Sorry. You gotta get out of the pool. I just I don't know. I don't know, man. It's yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:35

It's uh yeah, that's the thing, is everybody's gonna tell you their great big plan, but not start with even the first step. So that's the frustrating thing of debates. Because yeah, Zach Lean's kind of right. It's same questions. If not, it's topic B that's same questions, nobody's gonna like yeah, that's what I I what they said. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:05

Any other thoughts that you want to wrap up this primary conversation with? Like I said, I really wish I could have gotten some demographics because when I was listening to Steve Day's show, the number I believe he said was 65 was the divider here. If you're 65 and above, you're voting for Feenstra, more so than below. So it seems like there's a new generational Have you seen this video?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:36

It's actually I think it's Rush Limbaugh that brings it up. Oh right. With uh yeah, with Zach Lane when he first made it yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:43

Yep, when he was questioning Obama about Obamacare.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:47

Yep, yeah, and he brought it up on his show. Yep. I was gonna talk to you about that off air, but it just came to me. So me and my wife talked about putting my huge picture just smack dab right there. No blimball that yeah. It's huge. I know it wouldn't fit in the screen. Like, no, it would be just like his shoes. Yeah, cut off his chest. Well, because it's only a picture from his like stomach up is all it is, but yeah. Okay, cool. So let's jump on to the wildcard, shall we?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:19

Wild card.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:21

And welcome to the same segment of the wildcard.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:29

You ready? I'm ready, buddy. Alright. As a dad, today's wild card question comes from me. That's right. So, if you don't like it, submit your own. Thanks, listener. Yeah, yeah. So, what is the grossest thing you have ever had to clean up as a dad? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:50

So, don't take this the wrong way. The um because I don't look at this thing as my child, but our dog, okay? I'll do something with my kid after this. Only because this is recent. Hashtag dad dog. Dog dad. That's what I meant.

unknown 1:10:09

Gosh.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:10

You gotta get me a new co-hop. Scratch that flip. Uh my dog has been eating diapers. After his after his bite attack or attack from the dog and biting me. There's some things that have changed with him, and eating diapers is one of those things. And guess who cleans up the dog poop to Mo? Most of the time. This guy. So picking up his dog poop that is um diapers. Mixed with diapers, is it's the gel. It's like jelly poop. It's great. It is great. It is worse than when like they go to the bathroom and it gets all soft in the rain. This is like jelly. It's it's disgusting. Um that's really gross, dude. Grossest thing you've ever had to clean up as a parent. Um, I mean, as a parent, you kind of get very numb to things that happen with your children, like diarrhea, poop, wiping it up. It's gross, right? But I'm gonna clean it up. I'm about to say, probably. We'll just say my daughter one night, she just she was just really sick, her stomach was really hurting, and she had, I believe, thrown up in multiple places. And throw up is just I can deal with the poop, but the throw up is just the smell, and yeah, and I believe she had like red mixed in, so it got into the carpet, and then she's like had to carpet clean it too, and yeah. Poor kid. So that's I guess that's the grossest thing. They haven't like made any weird, nasty mixtures in the house or anything. How about you? What's the grossest thing you've had to clean up as a parent?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:45

Uh we'll start with the dog. Um, we had a dog that was it was boots. Um he would just eat random socks, and if you left your chonies out, he would eat those too. Um, so I cleaned the yard. Friend, what are what are chonies? Those are those are those are underwears. Um but he uh he would eat them and then I would let's see what Boots ate today. And uh, so yeah, that was that was you know, you cope with it by making stupid games. Uh the most like what color today? Well, I'm just like, what did he eat today? Oh look, yeah, that's uh sock. Alright. Um, but the two grossest things I have to one is the sheer volume of vomit was from our living room to the upstairs bathroom, and it was pink. Oh and it was like I literally like our child was laying on the couch sick, and we had that projector over the stairs. Uh-huh. Um, so she was sitting there watching pictures of it. Yes, okay. She was sitting there watching um a show, probably I don't know. I don't know. Spirit. Yeah, honestly, yeah, probably spirit. And we had given her some strawberry applesauce.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:13

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:13

Um, I think we probably put a little vitamin C in it to help her, and she devoured it, just plowed through it, throws up on the couch, throws up on the way to the bathroom, because like Sarah was like, help her, and I was like, She's gotta be done. Like, that was a man amount of vomit, and so I pick her up and she's all the way, and then we get to the bathroom, like clearly, there's not gonna be more, there's more, so it's like couch, hardwood, well, rug, hardwood floor. You say is that like 25 foot probably? It might be, yeah, 25 plus the extra, maybe 30. Yeah, you know, and then on the toilet, like on the side, like just really sheer volume gross work, you know, smell chipotle, disgusting. Because it was like Parmesani is smelly, very gross throw up, man. And the chunk, yeah. Oh, the worst, yes. But I I've been fortunate enough to like if if a poop is bad, we just throw them in the tub. Like, that's yeah, yeah, that's the game plan. I've been fortunate to where I think the most wipes I've gone through because we were not at home, was like six and one change, and a whole new outfit. Yeah, but um about to use the old outfit on them, bro. Just wipe with it and throw it in the trash.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:45

We'll buy new ones, but yeah, nope, that's a a fun thing, I must say, for you dog owners, just to spice things up if you gotta pick up dog poop. It is actually really cool to see if your dog just ate a whole bunch of crayons because it turns into like speckled egg poop. Like it's pretty cool, like just it it changes, so just thought I'd throw that out there. Give your give your dog some crayons, they're non-toxic. Non-toxic. Be alright. I'm sure it's great for him. My dog's still alive, so iron gut. Yeah, yeah. For real. I can't afford to take him to the bed. Like, you eat. I don't know, you eat drywall next. I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to pass it. I'm sorry. Yeah. He'll be alright. Yeah, he will. He'll break it down. Then I'll pick it up and throw it away for him. You'll be like, oh, there's the dry four days later, but it came out, we're good. So Alright, buddy. You ready to go? Nope. Alright, let's get out of here. Thank you for listening to This Is Today's Show. Don't forget to stay in. Thank you.