The Long Way Out
It’s never too late to find your truth or change your mind. Join partners Carlos and Anthony—a nurse/professor and an addiction recovery coach—as they navigate an age-gap relationship, late-in-life coming out, divorce, and the art of the "second act".
While our journey started with our own story, we’re going everywhere from here. The Long Way Out explores any and every topic through the lens of experience and curiosity. We’re opening the floor to guests and callers to share their own stories, educate us on new perspectives, and join the conversation. Whether it’s life on the front lines of healthcare or the messy reality of starting over, we’re proving that the long way out is often the most rewarding path.
The Long Way Out
Episode 14: Not In My Backyard!
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Recorded on Friday, May 29, 2026.
In this episode: School's out! A bit about nursing, and what Carlos gets offended by. Diversity, diversity, diversity--just not in my backyard! Marblehead, Massachusetts--their problems are a reflection of America's problems. Built-in forgetters are permission to misbehave. Voting in America is a complicated mess. Be careful how you vote. President Narcissist and his MAGA cult. America's farmers. The U.S. may never recover from this war. Don't forget about the Epstein Files!
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Music: Stick The Landing by Everet Almond
Can you do a clap test? That's good. All right, I'm just gonna do one clap. We need one clap. What's it for? For editing. That's it.
SPEAKER_10I don't understand it. We're back again, once again.
SPEAKER_11Ah, I know. But look, this time we've have we have video.
SPEAKER_10Yes, we are. I don't know how I feel about this yet. I know. It's uh it's like somebody's watching us.
SPEAKER_11Uh yeah, I think a lot of people hopefully will be watching us. But explain to me the clap test that we did. Oh, I think that's for timing because what happens with um with video is that it uh it lags behind the audio, right? So you have to when you're editing, you have to kind of align everything. So you align it to the clap. So I've read. So you read and it makes a lot of sense because you know the audio doesn't take that much to process. So you know, the video takes longer to get through. So now, yeah. So we have to do the clap test every time we do this. There we go. But anyways, cheers. Our first time on video, folks. Here we go. I yeah, we'll see how it goes. It feels a little bit weird because now we actually have to look like um, you know, normal. We can't do this like, well, you know, out of rolling out of bed and just No, I know, right?
SPEAKER_10How do I look? Do I do I look uh you look cool? Like I'm ready for an episode.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah. Probably more ready than me. But anyway, school's over. It's been exhausting this last few weeks.
SPEAKER_10You worked your ass off. You did a great job.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, I have to say the pinning ceremony went well. Every student graduated. Wow. We're all happy with it, you know. Um, but it was a lot, you know. I also planned what for what I thought was gonna be my boss's retirement party as well, because traditionally, after pinning, we go to dinner as a as uh as a faculty. Um, but yeah, she was gonna retire, my boss, and then she decided to extend her tenure another year. Yeah, which is cool. I mean, I like her and all that. Do you know why? I guess because there's a lot of stuff going on for after like uh with the state right now and the nursing board and everything, and every school is going through some bullshit right now that they impose new things. She doesn't want to leave them high and dry. Yeah, but but right now she wants to make sure all that is in place and it's gonna take another year. And then even though she's you know, my boss is on top of it, like she's known in in and I guess we call it an industry in the education industry, uh, for going to other um schools of nursing and telling them how to fix their problems. That's how well she knows it. And I think our um curriculum at our college is being used as a model in a book in a textbook.
SPEAKER_10Wow. On curriculum. Yeah. So it's a big deal. Yeah. So well, she did you say 44 years? I think she was there for like, yeah. Like a long time or a nurse for 44 years. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Probably longer than that. Wow.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, because you know, women became nurses at a, you know, I mean, they still do.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_11You know, a lot of them uh out of college, out of high school go to college, right? And they become nurses, and which is crazy to me because uh in in my opinion, you know, for me, working at a community college, I have second career students, right? And they already had jobs and careers, and some of them have their their own kids and stuff, you know, and they're older, so it's a different bag.
SPEAKER_10Yeah. I I bet you when she first got into nursing, she was probably one of those nurses that you had to live like at the college. Yeah, I know. Possibly. Yeah, I know that's in Salem, you know, they had uh like the nurses' house where they lived. Yes, yes, on the Salem campus.
SPEAKER_11Yes, there used to be, and that was uh a school like that in Tuxbury as well. On the campus, on the campus at the time it was only a certification to get that license. Nowadays you have to have a degree. Yeah, and now most places want you to have a four-year degree. Yeah, you know, two years, two year degree is cutting it now.
SPEAKER_10Do you know how long how long it's been from when you know from a a certification to a degree? How long it's been? Yeah.
SPEAKER_11Probably in the last 20, 30 years. Yeah. Probably longer. Since the 80s, I would say. So longer than 30, about. Yeah. Um, but uh yeah, it's it's a serious job, even though money and funding are being taken away because we're not viewed as a profession anymore. Fuck you, Trump. Um, for that one.
SPEAKER_10Uh with a grain of salt, where it's coming from.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, but still, I mean, a lot of people still don't know what we do for a job. It's basically everything, you know, and it's offensive to hear people say things like like our neighbor did the other day, when they're like, Oh, this nurse was acting like she ran the hospital. I'm like, Yeah, we fucking run the hospital. What do you think? Who do you think runs the place? Who said that? I don't want to say who, but it pissed me off. They're like, no, they're just a nurse. I'm like, obviously, you don't understand what we do, right? We do everything from wiping your ass and making sure that you fucking live. Yeah, to do what our comforting your family, yeah, to comforting your family, and we do everything, right? People forget, you know. Um, the most offensive things that I've heard are like, well, you knew what you signed up for, you're getting you're getting paid a lot of money for this. And I'm like, you know who's getting paid a lot of money? The fucking doctor. Let me go get that person because I only spoke to them for two fucking minutes. Yeah, like don't go there with me. Okay, you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the doctor that you only saw for two minutes, right? And I'm there the entire fucking time doing absolutely everything. They have it twisted, you know, and when they think like, oh, you only have five patients, I'm like, yeah, in the emergency room, they're usually sick as fuck a lot of the times, right? Sometimes they're not, you know, people come in for ridiculous things, I will admit, but you know, you you you get very sick ass people, you know, and sometimes things change, right? They're care like things change as people sit in the waiting room for hours and then sit in the hospital for hours. Sometimes they get worse, and things completely change, and now your care plan has changed, right? Yeah, people don't quite understand what we do, but it requires a lot of science, understanding of you know, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and meds, like lab values. Like we pay attention to all of those fucking things while we're running around like with your heads off. Oh yeah, right.
SPEAKER_10But anyway, but you know, I think that you know a lot of people out there appreciate the nursing industry.
SPEAKER_11Um, they do and they don't, you know, a lot of people like to abuse us because you know, and again, that's part of what we deal with. Yeah, right. If you watch the pit, you know, a lot of people are like, holy shit, nurses are treated like that. I was like, Yeah, sometimes even worse.
SPEAKER_10Well, I mean, I let's take a picture at you this year. You know, you you got sucker punched.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah, I did. I work. And I was and I don't work at that hospital, right? It just happened while I was teaching, which is even worse. Like I wasn't like not even an employee there. Yeah, right. And it happened. Unreal. But yeah, that stuff happens every day. But I still love what I do.
SPEAKER_10Especially you could tell you love what you do.
SPEAKER_11Well, nowadays I'm teaching more, yeah, you know, on both jobs.
SPEAKER_10So it's not this week. You you're going on for five straight nights. I am, I know it, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_11I think I can do it because now I don't have the uh teaching job, the college job to deal with, right? That's done. Thank God.
SPEAKER_10Let me ask you, would you rather have five straight days or five overnights?
SPEAKER_11I would probably do overnights more. I'm more of a night person. It's a different vibe at night. A lot of people will leave that, oh, just because it's, you know, it's more chill at night.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_13You know, and yeah, it is.
SPEAKER_11I'm not gonna lie. You know, people do go to sleep. However, remember that when the day staff go home, right? This the patients that were there during the day are still there. Right. And we go down to like a third of the staff sometimes, yeah, and sometimes even less than that, you know. And so now you have more to do, you have fewer resources because not all of your specialties are there at night. You know, so the name of the game at night is know your shit and keep your people alive.
SPEAKER_10Uh have you been a a uh a night nurse most of your career? Yeah, yeah, for the majority of my career.
SPEAKER_11And I like it more because there's a lot of more, there's a lot more autonomy, you know. Like I make my own decision, right? You know, especially in the emergency department. I walk up to the doc and I'm like, I'm gonna order these things, or you just go ahead and order them because that's what you do. Right, you know.
SPEAKER_10Um people think, like, you know, other nurses, they think, well, you know, they don't do anything at night. You know, the patients are all sleeping. No, they're all sleeping. Which, you know, for the most part, they're not.
SPEAKER_11No, we're not, because you know, a lot of these patients, especially older patients who have dementia, they don't know what fucking time of day it is, right? Like, you know, people get confused in the hospital and then they start acting out, and then things just change. It happens, right? So you have to know how to manage those things. And for those who are newer at it, they learn how to do that at some point, right? Um, but nights is where it's at. It's a different vibe because I don't like managers like peeking around in the corner, yeah, you know, micromanaging me. I don't have every all these specialists, I don't have all these family members. I can actually think and do my job. Yeah, you know. Um, so there are advantages to it. I mean, the only thing that really sucks is that it fucks with your sleep, right? And especially for someone like me, where I'm flipping between day and night, you know, that's difficult, right? Because my every Monday and every Friday during the school year, I'm doing both of my jobs with a nap in between, if I'm lucky, you know.
SPEAKER_10Thank God you don't have to do that this week.
SPEAKER_11Yes, this week was great. But you know what? The pinning ceremony was great, even though I thought it was gonna be a dumpster fire. I'm glad that my colleague Jill was there for me. Uh, and she helped me out. Yeah, we were planning this with the college, and it went super well. I thought it was gonna be a dumpster fire, but surprisingly, it came together.
SPEAKER_10I would say flawless pretty much.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah. You know, um, and traditionally, you know, we get together as a group, we go out to dinner afterwards to celebrate the end, right? You know, yeah. Um, but you know, my um, you know, we had that yard sale last week, and this is and the and the reason why I bring this up is it it it connects somehow. Work with me here, okay. I I had a good time. I don't know if you did. Yeah, yeah, it was fun. Sold a shit ton of stuff, but you know what I learned about yard sales though? You don't you don't bring your stuff there that you want more money for, yeah, because people are so fucking cheap.
SPEAKER_10Oh, yeah. Well, they you know something? People expect, like around here, uh they they expect to get a yard sale price, like you know, one, three, five bucks, you know, yard sales aren't these motherfuckers weren't paying five bucks for anything, yeah.
SPEAKER_11Even though I'm like, this was like right, lots of money. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_10It was like boom, blow it out. But if you really, if you really want to sell your stuff, you should do a flea market. You know, you can probably get more money out of flea market.
SPEAKER_11I didn't know the fucking difference. I was just like, I just needed to get rid of shit. Right, you know. Um, I have been obsessing with van life, but we'll get into that after. Yep. But we met a lot of interesting people during the yard sale. There was this one particular woman that we met. Janet. Was it Janet? She was funny because she was she reminded me of you. You get you can you make friends with everyone?
SPEAKER_10Yeah, yeah. Well, I I know her family. I you know we can't go anywhere with me not knowing somebody. No. I always know somebody.
SPEAKER_11Did she did she live in Marblehead or in Swords?
SPEAKER_10Yeah, well, yeah, she moved, she she uh she moved to Marblehead, but she was an East Boston girl. Yeah. And you know, I was born and raised in East Boston, and um, you know, when I asked her her last name, she said Renzuli, her maiden name. And her brother is Frank Renzuli, the executive producer for the Sopranos.
SPEAKER_11I that was kind of cool.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, yeah. That was very you because I was like the the Ranzuli.
SPEAKER_11I remember because you talked about it all the time. You were obsessing with it at one point. Yeah. But um, no, she was an interesting character, she was funny as hell. Yep, uh retired nurse. She was, of course, that's how we bonded, was really interesting because she was talking some shit about Marblehead, which I was like, I didn't and I it was funny because she just she gave she had zero fucks about um saying the things that she did. But one of the things that she did say out loud in front of everybody was um, you know, Marblehead is all about diversity, diversity, diversity. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10Until she was like until one moves next door.
SPEAKER_11Yes.
SPEAKER_10She was like, just not in my backyard. Nimbi, not in my backyard.
SPEAKER_11Yeah. And that made me laugh the way she said it, because she was just very like zero fucks given and people could hear and she didn't care. Which got me thinking about that area because I remember because part of what I was doing when I set up the you know um the pinning ceremony, I also wanted to set up because my boss was gonna retire and she decided not to this year. She changed her mind, so she extended her tenure for another year. But I called a restaurant in Marblehead that I've that we've been to that was really good. Yeah. Okay. Um, and I didn't and I didn't want to make shit out of it, but I couldn't help it after Janet said those things. Yeah. But the bottom line is this I made a reservation, or I tried to make a reservation for 30 people because after the pinning ceremony, we all go to dinner and it was gonna be doubled up as my boss's retirement party, you know, because that was the only time we can get people together. Right, right. So I make the call, I and I was told, oh, email the owner. I'm like, fine. I'll email the owner, followed up on the email twice, heard nothing, you know? And so it got me thinking because you know, I called other places after that, you know, that were just as nice, if not nicer, you know. Um and they couldn't accommodate. They were like, oh, it's a big party, we're a small space. I'm like, oh, okay. Um thanks for you know considering it, you know. But this fucking place, you know, didn't like give me a call back. And I emailed them from my college email. Why why do you think why do you think I don't I see I don't want to be this person being the person I have to be this person right now. But like I when we went there, you know, it was kind of early in our relationship, probably within the first like few months that we met, six months, right? And so I remember going to the to the uh host, hostess, asking for a table, and they made us kind of wait a little bit, you know, and then they sat us outside. And then I was like, wait, what? I mean, you have plenty of seats in here. Like, what are the chances that you have a reservation for two? And I paid attention because from the outside I could see the inside very clearly.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I I didn't notice, I I just thought that um you know they they they wanted to put us outside for ambiance or but it was a little cool out.
SPEAKER_11It was, you know, you know, but I didn't want to sit outside, yeah, you know, because it was cooler, yeah, you know, and I just wanted to chill inside, whatever, you know. Yeah, but there were tables, right? And there were spots at the bar. Yeah, like was that April or May? I can't remember. But like, how annoying, you know. And I and I remember keep looking and I kept looking in the restaurant, I'm like, well, those tables, I mean, it's been an hour now. Yeah, you know, the the service was really slow, you know. Um, and that's my problem with outdoor seating a lot of times when you don't have the staff that are taking care of that outdoor part, right? You get forgotten. Yeah, right. Yeah, and that's what happened. Yeah, you know, and I looked inside and I'm like, okay, so those tables are still empty, and they filled them up maybe like an hour, hour and a half later, because we were there for a while.
SPEAKER_10Right, right.
SPEAKER_11You know, and so it got it got me thinking when Janet said that that I was like, how fucking rude, these motherfuckers, right?
SPEAKER_10Like well, you know, Marblehead, right? I I did some uh some snooping around. Uh-huh. And in that town, there are no black police officers, there are no black firefighters. Imagine.
SPEAKER_11It was because we started talking about this. Yeah, yeah. You know, and I didn't want you to think I was crazy, so I didn't make a big deal out of it. Yeah. But then you know it it sucks. It sucks to be treated like that. Right. If that was the case, it's very hard to prove. Yeah. That's the problem with it, you know. However, I'm watching and I'm very, very observant about a lot of things. Yeah. You know.
SPEAKER_10Well, how what what's your feeling about that? Like, you know, it's a predominantly white is there's like very affluent. White, right. But there's like no black families in Marblehead. There's there's like, you know, one percent of the population, less than one percent of the population is of color. Isn't so I mean, is that the reason why they're not hiring somebody black?
SPEAKER_11Maybe. Or people people of color don't feel like they belong there. You know, and and I'm not gonna just say it's a race thing, it's a class thing, too.
SPEAKER_10But they do they do have app I I read that they do have applications, you know. Um, you know, civil service that, you know, black uh black people filled out to become a a policeman, you know. So they do have applications on file. I don't know why they're not hiring.
SPEAKER_11I I guess I I don't know how that works. But it it it bothered me a little bit because I thought about it. Because back to the the preservation that I attempted to make, you know, the the my boss who was going to retire and changed her mind, you know, her um I even called and talked to the hostess, and I was like, hey, you know, I'm just following up, and you know, she was like, Oh, just send another email, I'll also, I'll also hit her up. And I'm like, okay, thank you. And I tried to even say, like, you know, the the person retiring that we're throwing this party for is from Marblehead. She's a Marblehead resident. We both like the place, you know. But after this, I'm like, fuck it, you know, like I'm not never going back there now. Right, right. Right? I don't care how good the food is.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_11You know, how cool the place is, how how good the drinks were, or you know.
SPEAKER_10Did you I I see I seen a little snobbiness in in her what was her name? The retiree.
SPEAKER_11I don't want to say her name.
SPEAKER_10Okay, but that did did you see I seen a little snobbiness in her around the I did a little bit, yeah. A little bit. She's an she's an old school nurse, man. Yeah, an old old school marblehead. No, I don't think it's that.
SPEAKER_11I think it's more like um because she is a big voice for um GEI. Like she's she completely supports it. Oh, absolutely 100%. Um, and I feel that from her, and it's not and it's not bullshit. I think I feel that it's genuine. She's always been like this, you know, and she's never wavered from that. Which I was like, wow, you're good. Yeah, you know, you're one of the good guys, and she truly is because she's a because Because even though she's not part of the union, she supports the union very heavily.
SPEAKER_10Right. Well, that's because she's she's management. She can't be in right, she's management. That's correct. Yeah, she can't be in the union.
SPEAKER_11She's upper administration, so she can't be in the union, but she supports it. And she won't ever put us, any of us, in a position that we would be taking advantage of. She's like, Well, if you're putting in extra time, you let me know because you're gonna get compensated for that extra time, right? So she's always been good about that.
SPEAKER_10That's good.
SPEAKER_11And she's always reminding us about things like that. You know what I'm saying? So she's very much like it's not pretend coming from her. Right. You know? Yeah. Um, and the way she is, like, she used to scare the shit out of me when I was a student there. That's how long she's been there. She's been there like 30 plus years. Right. And um, she was the head of the department when I was a student. Yeah. Over 10 years ago.
SPEAKER_10Did did she ever like was she ever a nurse in a hospital? Yeah, she was.
SPEAKER_11She worked in the ICU and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_10Where Salem?
SPEAKER_11Uh, I don't know. I don't remember. Um, but no, but like I admire her very much. I mean, she still scares me a little bit, but you know, but at the same time, she reminds me, like, oh, you're a colleague now. You don't need to, you know, because I think the first year I called her professor and she was like, Can you just can you call me by my name already? Yeah, you know. Um, no, but she's she's the real deal. She's really cool, even though she comes off a little bit kind of, you know. Yeah, um, but yeah, I'm it's over. I'm never going back to that place. I'm never gonna like, you know, why do I need to spend money in a place that's gonna treat me like that?
SPEAKER_10You know, typical marble that they think they shit's ice cream, yeah. Yeah, that that place, uh we won't say the name, but um, yeah, it's multiple corners.
SPEAKER_11Yeah. But you guys did pick up on that. So you did say something about uh when you were talking to my boss, you were saying something about um the guy that went viral in Marble Hill. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Talking about what what was it?
SPEAKER_10Uh we um yeah, it made national headlines. You know, they had a town meeting, yeah, you know, regarding the um the bid the building of of um of houses, you know, and uh to get federal funding, and you have to be close to the MBTA to get the funding and and whatnot, you know. So public transportation. Yeah, and they and they had they had the town meeting and like 4,000 people showed up, and this guy got up there and he gave the spiel, you know, and uh he was like, you know, we we we need housing. People live in houses, you know, you're getting around it. So we're like doing having this meeting for a bunch of nothing. And then he goes, We're kind of being pricks about it, aren't we?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like it, and the thing is, I can't I can't just like shit just on Marblehead because this is happening everywhere. Oh, yeah, yeah. It happened in Milton too. Yeah, it's happening everywhere in the country, not just in my back, yeah, yeah. Right? And so I guess they plotted it on a golf course, this housing. Right.
SPEAKER_10Which they'll never grow on, which they'll never build on. Yeah, they'll never grow on, yeah.
SPEAKER_11I I I such fuckery. I just can't.
SPEAKER_10Horrible. It is it is horrible, and that's another thing. Uh from my understanding, this particular golf course, it's private, and uh from what I understand, there are no black members.
SPEAKER_11There seems to be a trend.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, and it's in Marblehead. And I guess like if you were a member of the of this particular golf club, yeah, the clubhouse, if you were a member of the clubhouse for this particular golf course and you wanted to p take a black guest, uh, they will find a reason. From what I understand, they will find a reason to terminate your membership.
SPEAKER_11God damn. Yeah. Are you fucking serious?
SPEAKER_10Yeah, yep, that's what I heard.
SPEAKER_11Okay, so maybe I wasn't making that shit up with the restaurant then. Maybe it's exactly what I felt. Yep. Because when I sent them that fucking email, I know I said I'd already killed it. My name is at the email. It says my rank as an assistant professor. Right. I'm now associate professor, just got promoted. You called me. Congratulations. Thank you. But um, yeah, you know, I thought that would make a difference. Yep.
SPEAKER_10Yep. That's what I heard that a long time ago, and I heard it from many people that a golf is. You know, I asked them, you know, you have a golf at uh Tedesco? And uh they're like, no, I won't go there because they they're prejudiced, they're racist. And I'm like, what do you mean? God damn! And then they explained it to me, you know, the way I just said, man, like, yeah, there are no black members, and if you take if you if you're if you're a member and you and you try to take a black one, you will be terminated. They'll find a reason to get you the fuck out of the club. So in essence, nobody will take a, you know, if you want to stay a member, they won't take a black person in a black person in. What the fuck? To be your best friend and try to explain to your best friend that you know that golfs, right, that you can't take him on that fucking course because you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_11But motherfucker, if it's his best friend, why he why would he be a member of that fucking place?
SPEAKER_10Who knows? He probably he probably didn't know when he joined. And and it's a lot from what I another thing, you have to spend in that place like 20 grand a year in the clubhouse dining room. You have like during the winter to you know to keep the club going and stuff, you have to spend 20 grand a year. You have a quota.
SPEAKER_11I imagine how fucking crazy is that it is crazy because we don't have money like that, but you know, it's probably a drop in the bucket for a lot of them. Yeah, yeah. Unreal. What's crazy really is that it's still like I I guess it always existed and now it's just okay to be this way. Yeah, right? Like I don't and I never let it get on my nerves before. Um, because it it I guess like when I grew up, you know, my my family, my family, you know, raised me to be a certain way. You know, yes, dad was military, you know, and now and I've reconnected with some of my friends, my old friends from back then, you know, and the only ones that went to college and to graduate school are me and my siblings amongst all of our other friends that went into military, they went into you know what I'm saying? So my parents pushed us a lot, you know. And my mom would say things like, I raised you to be white. Really? Yeah, you know, and and I you know, and there was a time that I was like, well, I guess that's fine, you know, because my family assimilated into American culture. They wanted to be Americans, and they and I guess they believed that that's what they had to do was to kind of erase their own identity as much as they could, and kind of like whitewash us in a sense, you know, so we can get ahead. And we did as a result, right? Because my mother was like, Well, I taught you how to play their game, and that's what I wanted for you, right? Which is fucking terrible. Yeah, yeah, you know, like it should have been like, oh, you know, we're that's how she looked at it though, you know? And and and I guess that's why they are the way they are, yeah, and the way they vote as you know, as a heavy Republican MAGA person people, you know, yeah. Um, because they feel that you need to assimilate, yeah, right, in order to make it. I don't know if that's the right thing, you know, because now, like when I have to like speak Spanish or something, I'm not that great at it as a result, right? Like I I can get around, I I you know, I can have a conversation here and there. I can't understand absolutely everything, you know. And there's a lot of slang used in in different um dialects. Yeah, different Spanish countries use different words, you know, they use different slang, right? Most people can pick it up right away. I will not. You know what I'm saying? Like that's and that's put me at a loss.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, but you even, you know, I wonder if it has anything to do with you, like, you know, at a at a young age learning Spanish, and at the same time, you were growing up speaking, you were living in Germany.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, but also like we were speaking Chinese to my grandmother. Wow. Yeah. So it was very hard to like, you know, get a grip on those languages and have to like learn English, right? And then growing up, like I spent like five years in Germany, yeah, and I learned German. So, like, and so remember when I told you that one time, I was like, I can say phrases like in four languages, right? Or sometimes when I forget the word in Chinese for something, I know it in German. Doesn't help me when I'm in Chinatown, right? Like, but it's Cantonese, and that's it's slowly getting phased out as well, which is unfortunate.
SPEAKER_10Yeah. Well, just this morning, I hate to cut your short. No, it's okay. But just this morning, I was watching um Mishy uh you know, the the the Jewish guy, um Hishe, Hishe something. Yeah, oh he's got a show that's offensive as fuck. And um, you know, they wanted to build a homeless shelter in some ritchy part of New York City. It had to be predominantly Jewish, wherever this area was, and they wanted to put a homeless shelter in the area. And he had two women, all the older Jewish women with him. And he's like, Do we want homeless children going to our schools? And they both of them simultaneously. Nope, nope, not in the not in our schools, nope, and nope, we don't we don't need a homeless shelter, not in this area.
SPEAKER_11Which is so offensive because here are people who were at one point marginalized, yeah, and now they're applying it to other people. My fucking problem with Israel. Yeah, not with Jewish people, yeah, okay, but the anyone who's hateful, I'm gonna have a problem with. Right. Right? They just happen to be Jewish, these people. Yeah, and that that was just wow, yeah, unreal.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, you know, and absolutely, like, you know, their ancestors or or their mothers, these these women were old enough where their their moms and dads could have been in Auschwitz.
SPEAKER_11That's what I'm saying. Yeah, directly.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, they themselves could have been there for all we know. And they were they were, you know, their parents were being put down, and here you are putting down the homeless.
SPEAKER_11Yeah.
SPEAKER_10Like what fucking balls?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, it's really, you know.
SPEAKER_10Built-in forgetters.
SPEAKER_11That's exactly it, right?
SPEAKER_10Built-in forgetters, you know.
SPEAKER_11But there was another story that happened recently. You were showing me videos on it in East Boston.
SPEAKER_10Oh, yes, yes, yes. There was a Latino restaurant, a Latino restaurant where a family was having a get together, about 15 of them. And um, you know, it was like uh four o'clock in the evening. They were there for dinner, and you know, there was some laughing going, you know, it was out out on their um, you know, in the backyard, you know, of the restaurant. Of the restaurant, yeah. Yeah, they they they had uh some seating. And you know, you know, people were out there eating and laughing, and and some Latino music was playing, and the backyard abutted a home of a resident, you know, not a business, a residence.
SPEAKER_11Yeah.
SPEAKER_10And um, you know, they uh they called the police, and the police came down and said, you know, and met these people and says, well, you know, they they can as long as you know they're not disturbing the peace, but after 11 o'clock, if the music continues, give us a call. So around uh 6 30, 7 o'clock rolls around, what happened was it started to get out instead of calling the police. It escalated. Yeah, it escalated with name calling, and then you know, like the husband grabbed the garden hose and started shooting it over the fence uh at the at the family that was having dinner.
SPEAKER_11See, that's now you're crossing the line.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, and then the racial slurs ensued, and then uh, you know, it was getting where you know he would the the guy was shaking the fence and a piece of the fence broke off and he threw it over the fence and it hit a 12-year-old kid. You know? And then the cops came, and the long and short of it was, um, you know, the wife is saying, I'm gonna fucking kill you, you fucking S P I C explicitive, you know, you know, throwing it out there. And uh the the police heard it and the husband and wife got arrested. Good, absolutely, and they and they got charged with you know hate crimes and assault and battery, and you know, and they're they're they're in trouble. They're in trouble. I'm telling you, hate's alive and well. What the fuck, man? You know, so about the penalties too these days.
SPEAKER_11Well, I mean, if if they choose to pursue it, which I'm happy that you know Boston police did something about it, because like, okay, now that's a hate crime. Yeah, but come come on, guys. You live in fucking East Boston, right?
SPEAKER_10And we're where you know 70% of the population is Latino, but you live in a fucking city.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, you don't want noise.
SPEAKER_10This guy was this guy was half Latino and half Italian. How fucked up is that?
SPEAKER_11I forgetters. Really? Yeah, built in forgetters.
SPEAKER_10He doesn't even know his own race. Yeah, God.
SPEAKER_11My God. I I can't. You know, we we have some neighbors here because we live technically in a city as well, you know, and they complain about the noise. Yeah, right. One of one of our neighbors, I just can't with him because you know, was complaining, like, oh, they had like uh they blocked off the street and was blaring music.
SPEAKER_10You know, they had to have their street parades. You know, like the teenagers, you know, music was playing, they were giving out free pizza and ice cream.
SPEAKER_11They should do that shit here every week.
SPEAKER_10Absolutely, and they would, you know, they had all kinds of uh artsy for artsy stuff going on.
SPEAKER_11It was nice. We went over, we had a good time. Yeah, I loved it. I thought it was absolutely cool, yeah.
SPEAKER_10We supported it. We but we bought it, we bought a couple of bags that I gave back to them.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, you know, to sell again, but it was so hateful. Yeah, he was like, I don't want this, and yeah, you know, and he made the comment because it was some Latino music playing. Yeah, and I'm like, I get dude, can get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_10Well, even even our neighbor downstairs this morning, I seen her when I moved my car. She was walking the dog, and she was like, What was that nonsense over there yesterday? Oh my god. I'm like, come in. I said it was it was kids having a you know all cripes.
SPEAKER_11People don't want to fucking fucking noise and don't live in a city. Move the fuck out, go to some remote location, yeah, beat it, you know, and fuck off on your own. Yeah, don't need to bring it here.
SPEAKER_10But back to um back back to the Latino family, there uh yeah, it got real ugly. It was on every every news media station in Boston and beyond. It made inside edition.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_10All over Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat and Facebook, you name it, man. Like they're blowing this family up.
SPEAKER_11Well, I'm telling you, do you see it the the shit was always there? Yeah, okay, and now people just have permission to act like this now. Oh yeah, right now you were given permission. Be careful how you vote people.
SPEAKER_10Oh, yeah. But you know something, how fucking stupid are they knowing what they're doing, right? And cell phones are everywhere. You know, cameras are everywhere.
SPEAKER_11Ring doorbell cameras and your residents is around. How stupid are you? I yeah, I I I don't get it.
SPEAKER_10Caught in the act, and you know what else I heard was, you know, I was reading some of the remarks on Facebook, and that family was like heavily involved in uh the East Boston Pop Warner Football League. And the wife was the treasurer. And the league for the last three or four years has been failing because they they they're trying to put together like that, you know, they were stealing the money, yeah, embezzling the money. Yeah, yeah. And now, you know, people are saying you gotta take a look at the you know how that league is run now. You know, we and we have one of the comments was and we trust our kids with these people, yeah.
SPEAKER_11Absolutely.
SPEAKER_10Can you imagine? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. So they they have to step down from that. The the public outcry in the community is like they are villains.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, they are fuck them up.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, right. They made their bed, man. They gotta fucking sleep in it. Oh, I hope they investigate that embezzlement. Oh, yeah, they're still the money. And then they're and then there were people in the community, like Latino people, that were born and raised there, you know, because what they did say was go back to your own country.
SPEAKER_11Oh, yeah. I love when people tell me that too.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, they said go back to your own, and and I seen on Facebook, go back to my own country. They're like, I'm gonna get fucking everybody I know, you know, we're all born here, and we're gonna have a fucking barbecue on your front steps, and we're gonna blare music and have a fucking dance until 11 o'clock at night.
SPEAKER_11Yep, yep. You know, I would do the same. Fuck them. God, absolutely. I love when people tell me to go back to my country. Like, really? How stupid they are. I was like, I know for a fact that I'm more American than you. Right, right. Right? Because I'm older, I was here first, so fuck you.
SPEAKER_10Okay, like what the fuck? The intellectual capacity of some people, man. Seriously.
SPEAKER_11I'm telling you, you know, and I know this keeps coming up, guys, and I'm sorry, you know, but like voting. You get it really matters. I still will not give up on it. Okay, like you really need to vote for the right people because this is what's happening in the world now, or in this country, you're seeing it a lot more now. Okay, absolutely. Um, but yeah, now this administration is giving this permission for people to behave this way because it's okay from the top, right? Right? That's your leadership acting like this.
SPEAKER_10But you know, there's a lot of people out there that uh that voted for you know Donald J. Trump that can't stand them now, you know, because you you know, like I they're saying I didn't vote for this.
SPEAKER_11Well, they can't stand them now because now it's affecting them. It's affecting them.
SPEAKER_10That's right. Right? And that well, you what yeah, there's a lot of issues out there that's affecting them.
SPEAKER_11You couldn't critically think like this guy acted this way last time, and it's not gonna be worse when he came back.
SPEAKER_10And one of the people that that it affected was uh on the weedy box there.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, who we talked about last time.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, yeah, yeah. Caitlin Jenner. Caitlin Jenner, man. Well, she is pissed. You know, she voted for him and her uh her passport came back, her identification as a male.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, well, fuck her. Yep. She can she can own it now, she can suffer the consequences of choices. Yep, you know, but like I've been saying, like it is quite cultish because like they still will support them. Yeah, right? Because didn't she say the same thing? She would support them. Yeah, right? Yeah. But anyway, recently in the last month or so, um, you know, there's been a lot of changes in the voting, you know, that whole thing in Texas and in California, where they're kind of redistricting the areas, right? Make it convenient, yeah, you know, to try to sway the vote in one direction. Yeah. And that and redistricting, and what I've been trying to learn, because the voting shit is confusing.
SPEAKER_10You know, right? Again, not to interrupt you, but like the redistricting uh redistricting, right? I was looking at like, you know, on on the news, they were showing the map, and instead of like having it square and geographical, like the districts, yeah, they're like go this way, up and in, up this way. Yeah, like it's it's doesn't even make any sense.
SPEAKER_11No, the one rule is that these play these areas have to connect. Yeah, they can be any shape, right? Right, right. But really, it makes more sense that it should be, you know, fairly even. They should just even it out, right? Yep, you know, in straight lines, I guess. I I don't know if that's possible because from what I learned, like that's why you have a census every 10 years. Yeah, right. You have to see how the population has changed, and then, you know, based on the the population, you know, you you rewrite, you redraw those districting lines based on the population. So that way it's kind of fair and distributed throughout. Yeah. Right. Um, so a lot of this redistricting is more like gerrymandering now. Yeah. Right. And that's where these politicians are, you know, kind of breaking up populations or clumping populations to sway the vote in their direction. Right. And that should be illegal. I don't understand. That's why that's why they're doing it. The other thing that makes me crazy is that in every fucking nation in this world, like the popular vote is what wins the vote. Right. Right. Yep. Um, not here. Yeah. Right. Because now we have the electoral college.
SPEAKER_10Oh, well, we've always had the electoral college, which is blue and red.
SPEAKER_11Blue and red. So I, you know, I kind of under like I thought I understood it at one time. I didn't really, you know. Um, so just trying to understand how it works, you know, like when we vote in the state, you're basically voting for those delegates to vote for the president. Yeah, yeah. Right? Like, I guess that's how it works. So, for example, in California, you got 50-something representatives, right? And if one side wins by one vote, they would get all 50-something of those representatives. And that's how that electoral college mess works. That's nonsense. Yeah, it is, it is really nonsense. Unbelievable. But now they're working on trying to fuck with the vote. No, no, and they're making it harder to vote because now they want they don't want mail-in ballots, and a lot of people that's how they vote.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, yeah. And you know, I am not a big fan of mail-in votes. There's too much there's too much fraud.
SPEAKER_11No, there is gotta be. How can there not be fraud? They have to verify those votes, they can't just dump them into the fucking like box.
SPEAKER_10Car Carlos, there is so much fraud out there. Oh my god. You see, you're perpetuating. No, no, no, whoa, time out, time out. There's no voting fraud. Carlos, right here in Lynn Mass, they arrested somebody who was getting eight eight welfare checks. The same dude getting eight under different names. They put it all together. There's ways to fucking there's fraud all over, all over like that. There's definitely fraud.
SPEAKER_11But that has nothing to do with voting.
SPEAKER_10That's not voting for that's a different type of fraud. If if he could get checks, right? And you have to have IDs and all that, I'm sure that he he you can go that same route to cast a vote. Easier. I'm sure it's easier.
SPEAKER_11No, because only one ballot gets voted or gets sent out, right? You don't get you don't get multiple, and they have to verify if there are multiple.
SPEAKER_10How do they verify? What do they have for the thing? You know what?
SPEAKER_11I wish I would have dug into that, but I did not. Right, right. Okay. But to perpetuate this lie that there's voter fraud. I think there is. There is not. There's got to be. How is there possible? You think this last election was there any voter fraud? Yeah. Really?
SPEAKER_10Yeah. So boat ways. Both ways.
SPEAKER_11Oh my god.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I think this. I'm not saying, you know, that they're all doing it.
SPEAKER_11I'm not saying, you know, that uh This is a lie that Donald Trump put out there.
SPEAKER_10No, it's been out it's been out years when they when they first started it, before Trump even ran, before he even had a twinkle in his eye that he was going to run for president, the the the mail-in bullshit was going on.
SPEAKER_11No, he perpetuated that lie because he didn't want to leave the presidency last time. Oh. Right? Even though he fucking lost.
SPEAKER_10No, but his his people, you know, voted with fraud, and Biden's people voted with uh Harris, you know, absolutely. I think there's definitely fraud. No, absolutely. How can you say there's no fraud? You think every freaking buddy, like this guy, you know, there's what the margin of error for fraud? You don't think there's any margin of error?
SPEAKER_11And so how are people who are not available to vote in person supposed to vote? Do they lose their vote then?
SPEAKER_10If they can't mail another one, there's gotta be a different way. Like what? I don't know, send somebody to their fucking house.
SPEAKER_11Oh, so if they're stationed in the Middle East somewhere, they can't vote now?
SPEAKER_10Well, well, even though they're that that that's like well, no, no, no, no, no. That's the military. Okay, if they're stationed, okay. So then what they should do is have a commanding officer at the booth, right? And you check your name off. Boom, okay. Sergeant fucking Wilson just voted. Check his name off, he can't come back up.
SPEAKER_11Huh? I I don't okay.
SPEAKER_10No, no. This is craziness. No, it's not. No, it's not craziness. No, no, no, it's not. You think I'm crazy?
SPEAKER_11No, there's I am legit. I am legit. There's never been fraud, but people need to be careful what they're voting for. Absolutely. I mean, look, Caitlin Jenner's learning a hard lesson. She's just one fucking example. Yeah. Okay. You know, they're making it harder to vote because they're they're trying to get rid of mail-in voting, which Trump himself did. Fucking hypocrite, right? He did that. Um, they're also requiring ID now, or they want to require ID. I don't know how far we got into that. Okay, so that's gonna, you know, you're just making it harder for people to vote.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_11And then parts of the voting rights act have been, I guess, pretty much that whole act is destroyed now. You know, there's some parts in there that allows minor inconveniences, for example, you know, taking away areas for people to that go where they can go vote, just getting rid of them completely. Yeah, and now they have nowhere to go. Right, right. They'll have to go hours away to vote or something like that.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_11They c they complicate the shit out of everything. Well, they need to, right? Because they need to complicate these things so that way they could keep them in power. Yeah. You know, which is concerning to me, right? Because now you have President Trump currently, and it's very hard for me to say President Trump, but he is the president.
SPEAKER_10He thinks he's gonna be the president for another two eight years.
SPEAKER_11Six or eight more years, like what did he say? Oh, this is what he says right here. Hold on.
SPEAKER_21I get out of office in let's say eight or nine years from now, I'll be able to use it. You're gonna chuck it. I'll be able to use it myself.
SPEAKER_11No, dude. My God. I think he would be lucky if he fucking lasts one fucking year, right? Because he's not a healthy person. I know it. Right? I think a doctor just the other day said, you know, it's kind of ringing the alarm on him. Like, he's fucking sick. Yeah. You know, like he's not gonna last that long.
SPEAKER_10You know, I I he I I think he's like in for for a modern day president, man, so many people try to fucking kill him. Yeah. You know, so so many attempts against him. He's so hated fucking the most hated fucking dude on earth, man.
SPEAKER_11I I I joke about missing, you know, like, but uh I don't want that for anyone. Yeah, you know, I don't want the political violence, right? Right, right. But this guy needs to be stopped in another way, and they can. Yeah, you know, they I forget which amendment was is that 25th? To kind of remove him, you know, 24th. I can't remember which one. I'm very bad with my amendments, but get remove this guy, he's fucking bananas right now, you know.
SPEAKER_10His first term, he was impeached before he even got sworn in.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, you know, and that should have been a signal then, right? And so now he's requiring things or he's saying things like all non-citizens, uh, even if they're waiting for a green card legally, need to leave the country until you yeah, until you have the green card.
SPEAKER_10Sick.
SPEAKER_11Like, what what are you people are here working with those right now. So you're just gonna disrupt everything like that? Like, this is fucking crazy. Oh god. I don't know what he's trying to do. I mean, he I know exactly what he's trying to do. He's trying to like make it their own nation. Yeah, you know, he's being in a dictator. Well, he is a dictator, all right. Uh recently he also got uh forever immunity from tax audits. Really? Yes, so now he can't be audited. Neither he or his family members that are, you know, his Trump Jr. and those fuck tarts.
SPEAKER_10They're all exempt?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, they the entire how how did they do the I have no idea how they did it, but they do a lot of things. Oh my god, and everybody is so slow to fucking do something about it, which pisses me off. And that was after he fucking sued his own IRS, yeah, right, for $10 billion or like because his tax records were revealed or something stupid like that. Yeah, when they rated his fucking but the thing is, like, oh, and I love this, right? Because not only did you know that they get the money because the IRS settled with him, right? Now he wants to use that money to I guess the January 6th. Yeah, but what the fuck is happening? Yeah, right? Like I I don't understand, okay? They were you know they committed a crime, right? They were convicted of said crime, you know. Um not only were they granted, you know, uh clemency, is that the right word? Um but now they're gonna get a fucking payout as well.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, right?
SPEAKER_11So how does that work? I get that this is what I'm not getting, okay?
SPEAKER_10Yeah, how's he gonna funnel the money to them?
SPEAKER_11Like and you know, and my and and oh he can. He could do whatever he wants, apparently, because people are not stopping him. He's getting away with it, right? And like, you know, when my mom says things like, oh, he doesn't even take a salary, I'm like, yeah, this is what he's doing instead. Of course he's why why take a measly salary when you're gonna do it.
SPEAKER_10He's like the neighbor. He's like having a neighbor who like uh doesn't cut his grass, you know, he's working on his house, he's got construction bullshit all over the ground. That's the way he's treating the White House, that's what it looks like. Yeah, you go by there, it looks like a demolition like area.
SPEAKER_11Totally doesn't give a fuck for a fucking ballroom that nobody wants. Okay, only he wants that, claiming that they wanted it for what, how many years? Yeah, making shit up, right? So stealing for the ballroom, okay. Um, that trip to China was basically a family and oligarch vacation.
SPEAKER_10Oh, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, right. Um, not helping the Americans at all. But it's making me crazy. The other thing, too, like what I wrote here, uh, he now wants a $250 bill. Did you hear about that?
SPEAKER_10Oh, yes, he wants his face on the bill.
SPEAKER_11$250 bill to commemorate 250 years. What the actual fuck. Fucked up. Okay. Fucked up. And not only has that like recently the passports got changed, I think it has his image on it. I swear people need to start doing, okay, is if you get your hand on one of those $250 bills if when they get printed, if they get printed, or if you get a passport with his image on it, we should have a contest to see who draws the most offensive ones, you know. Draw not I'm not just saying draw a mustache and stuff, but like do other shit. Right. And does it doesn't mean it won't be him doing a Nazi salute, maybe with his Hitler stash, that sort of thing.
SPEAKER_10You know, and he will he wants to build a uh, you know, that big that that arch. The arch. Yeah, he wants to build that arch with his name on it.
SPEAKER_11Well, he's getting a lot of things with his name on it. I hope someone, like first day, reverse all of it. Yeah, you know, take it all off. You're not deserving. Nobody, you know, this is this is like pure narcissism right now. Yeah, yeah. You think you are so self-important that this should be done for you, that you're that important to people. Nobody gives a fuck about he does not give a fuck about us. But not at all, people will still vote for him. Right? There's this cultist mentality here. Here's one woman, she's black, and here she is.
SPEAKER_04I love him. I don't want to hear nothing you got to say about their racist stuff, and nobody looking at me in the news on me because I'm standing up for somebody that deserves to be standing up for the man's back, let him do his job, he's doing the right thing.
SPEAKER_11Come on, get the fuck out of here. That's on Fox News. Wow, okay, like so. This black woman who supports him. I'm like, bitch, everything is working against you. What are you not seeing?
SPEAKER_10So naive. That's beyond naive. And in the in the stupidity, they're in the dark.
SPEAKER_11Like, what is this mentality? Like, what are you gaining from someone who's protecting pedophiles and billionaires?
SPEAKER_10Well, you know what it is with some somebody like her, she heard two or three different good things that whoo, but that's about it. Yeah, and every everything else, she has no clue. You know, she focused in on a couple of topics that she went along with, you know.
SPEAKER_11And what I found that they do is that they wrap things together. Meaning that if you like they'll might they might say, Oh, no taxes on tips, and then like in the fine print, there'll be other things written. Yeah. That, oh yeah, and also like abortion's illegal and blah, blah, blah. Stuff like that, right? They're gonna put it all in one bill. Yeah, but that's why a lot of bills get voted against by Democrats because they're reading the fine print and going, No, we're not gonna accept that because of what it says, you know, that's buried in there.
SPEAKER_10Oh, yeah. And not only that, those bills take you five days to read.
SPEAKER_11Well, more than that, so pages long, I heard. Like it's craziness. Here's more of the mentality. Hold on, let me see if I can grab this. My God.
SPEAKER_18Everybody says Trump lies, they never give an example of a lie. Does he exaggerate sometimes? Absolutely. That's what he does. He speaks in superlatives.
SPEAKER_14Well, let's talk about the there's a difference between lies and superlatives. He's the best president we've ever had, and we are so blessed that he is willing to be persecuted for nothing because Joe Biden is a liar, a fake, a fraud, incompetent, and a fool. And we are blessed to have the best president in the middle of billions of people in a channel up here today and every time he comes, no matter where he goes. No matter what he says or does, I will vote for Donald Trump.
SPEAKER_17What if he said he has would you still vote for him?
SPEAKER_14Um, it wouldn't be right, but I wish you still vote for him.
SPEAKER_17What if he said um everybody should give them um little pigs? Would you still vote for them?
SPEAKER_21I wish to vote for him. He's not the vote of him. And that's what happened. That's what made me vote for my first time in my life in 2015.
SPEAKER_00He said he loves America, but he broke American lum. Does that give you any pause about supporting a felon for president? Because it's all a scam with them uh about courts. What makes Donald Trump so special?
SPEAKER_18My goodness, his honesty, his bravery?
SPEAKER_13Donald Trump, do you think he's a very honest guy?
SPEAKER_18Oh, he's horrifically, wonderfully honest.
SPEAKER_13Horrifically honest.
SPEAKER_11Horrifically honestly honest. Horrifically honest. Oh. Right? Like, but these people exist, right? And I hate to say it. My family, too.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, man. Damn.
SPEAKER_11You know, like I I can't with this. I don't know. You know, he's he and this looks like it's rural America.
SPEAKER_10What why why why do you think your mom is a Trump super? She's a pretty smart woman.
SPEAKER_11She's super smart. Yeah, but just because they, you know, they vote that way doesn't necessarily mean they're not like they didn't work really hard to get where they got. Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you know, there's a lot of people who went to university and there's lawyers who support it, support them, right? Like I I don't understand. But it is to me, it's a very cultist. I mean, do you hear this? Yeah, do you hear these fucking people? They're brainwashed, yeah. They are completely brainwashed, and I and I'm afraid to say that like my my my parents are unfortunately part of this lot, and there's no talking them from it, yeah, which is very difficult to deal with, you know. But anyway, I did see something on Reddit where you know they are saying that um, you know, Trump is doing a great deal for rural America, and that was just, you know, those those were of rural America, those clips, right? But here's uh from Newsmax.
SPEAKER_15No, China knows that he means business as well. So we're trusting it, we trust in Trump that he's over there making a great deal for us. No one's done more for American agriculture and rural America than President Trump, Secretary Rollins, and a Republican-only Congressman. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_11Right? For rural America. He has done a lot for farmers. No, no, not a fucking thing. You know what I remember? Probably like last like six months, there was a woman who put out a video because there was a family that had a soybean farm, and I wish I could find it because it was the funniest video. Because she said one of the funniest things, how she didn't give a chicken fried fuck about any of these people and have the date you fucking voted for her. Right? And I was like, Oh, I wish I could wrap that up because that was a really funny clip that was like, you know.
SPEAKER_10But it's fucked up. Like a lot of the farms are being bought up by China, by the Chinese government.
SPEAKER_11Well, it's you know, that's not, and like um, the seeds, you know, that are used for growing are controlled as well. Like you can't, from what I understand, you can't use seeds from an old season into a current season and not you know, you would get in trouble for that.
SPEAKER_10You know, up in Maine, um some Chinese businessmen bought, you know, buying out farms be uh because you know they want to grow marijuana. Okay. They want to grow marijuana. Yeah, but they you know they don't live here, they're foreigners, like they're just coming in, gobbling up a beautiful farm, tearing down the farmhouse, you know, like just wrecking, you know, nostalgia and in beautiful landscape.
SPEAKER_11It's if you have the money to do that, you're gonna get a pass. Yeah, right?
SPEAKER_10Because that's what that's what's being allowed now. Oh yeah, right? And these are you kidding me? Like these people are you know, for for uh ten or twenty million dollars to get rid of a farm that you know that's been sitting there with a broken down farmhouse that you've been paying tax on, you're gonna sell it. I would.
SPEAKER_11I don't know. I don't know if I would. I'm glad I'm not in that situation.
SPEAKER_10No, I don't have to make it. But it you know, it all comes down to money, man.
SPEAKER_11But let me see if this has uh all come down to money. What about this here? Oh, yes, here's a farmer that is saying, okay, here we go.
SPEAKER_09My family's farm for 100 years. You don't want to be the one that that can't keep it going, you know.
SPEAKER_19I am a Republican. I voted for this administration, but my patience is running thin.
SPEAKER_06We're here in the heart of the Mississippi Delta to talk with farmers about how the war with Iran is impacting them. Oh, it's it's been awful. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing prices to skyrocket. Things like diesel fuel and fertilizer.
SPEAKER_19We're buying a little bit at a time. Sometimes we we know that we've only got two weeks of fuel. So what has happened to us is not just the impact of one year. We have lost customers forever. They will never come back because we're deemed an unreliable supplier.
SPEAKER_08I'm paying 60% more for diesel fuel than I would have been paying 45 days ago.
SPEAKER_05You gotta have diesel for everything. You got diesel to disc, to plant, to harvest. So diesel steadily going up like this, man. It affects us bad. We have no choice.
SPEAKER_09You gotta go ahead and buy it no matter what the price is.
SPEAKER_19There's gonna be a lot of people that go out of business at the end of the year, either perhaps they have to, because they're tired of losing money.
SPEAKER_07Farmers have already been struggling with rising costs and even tariffs making things even harder. It's gonna be the nail in the coffin for for a number of farmers.
SPEAKER_19It's just the straw that broke the camel's back.
SPEAKER_16A lot of the money that comes through the economy is just shuffled from the government back to, you know, these big corporations, and you just kind of farmers and middlemen these days. Really?
SPEAKER_05We can't control diesel, we can't control, you know, wars, we can't control anything. All we can control is once we put that seed in the ground, that's all we are called to do, right? And the rest of it is up to the good lord.
SPEAKER_09I've supported Mr. Trump this entire way.
SPEAKER_08I did not vote for this administration. We're just hoping that the administration can right some of the wrongs that it's created for farmers, with terrorists, and mainly what this war has inflicted on us.
SPEAKER_03A lot of people that did vote for this administration say it'll come around. But my question sometimes is will you be in business when it does?
SPEAKER_07If President Trump were standing here in this field right now, what would you say? I'd ask him to stick a sock in his mouth and not say anything for a while.
SPEAKER_19Get these field projects. Shut the fuck up. Get them back. There's an old African proverb that says, When elephants fight, it's the ants that get crushed. The ants are getting crushed.
SPEAKER_08War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
SPEAKER_10But is it good for not fucking legal?
SPEAKER_11Right now, but it's unreal right now.
SPEAKER_10Wow.
SPEAKER_11You see, so these are farmers that are turning on to him. Turning against him, turning on him, I should say. Um but you fucking voted for this guy. Like you didn't think that this was gonna happen. You know, the pickup truck rallies and and I think a lot of that was because they're like, oh, you know, he they were acting like, oh, you know, we are with like religion or something. I think it has something to do with that, how they're weaponizing religion to be used against people, right? Like you tap into the right vein and then you're gonna get support that way. With all of this going on with the war, what they were mentioning, you know, fertilizer is also a product, right? Petroleum product that goes through the strait as well. Okay, and I forget which country develops it the most. Um, but yeah, a good percentage comes from there, you know, and it still hasn't been lifted. It's still you know, I think they said that it was a deal today, but I think it's a bunch of bullshit.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I heard there was like twenty four hundred ships just sitting stagnant. Can you imagine?
SPEAKER_11No, all that all that time wasted, all that money burned, yeah, right? But like, don't start a war, dude. Right? Everything was working just fine. Yeah, you know, there was like himself out of it. You know, you keep claiming there were bombs. They've been saying that shit for 40 years now in Israel, you know, and now you fell for it. You know, and then now you expect everyone to help you clean it up. Yeah, no, no, sorry, fuck you. Right? That's what everybody's gonna say. We're never going to recover from this again.
SPEAKER_10No, I don't think.
SPEAKER_11Here's this kid that uh highlights every lie about the war in 60 seconds. Wow. Yeah, he's uh Adam Mockler, I think his name is. He's like a smart kiddo, like very impressive. Hello. Uh he looks young. I I don't know. I don't know much about him. He's uh maybe like a little older, but but he could really talk his way through stuff and like, but here he is right here. The tape, please. Let's roll this right now.
SPEAKER_20I just want to address the absurd reframing that I heard here one second ago. This idea that Donald Trump is willing to take some political hits as if this is all some intentional strategy on his part. When this war started, we heard three or four different things: no missiles, no nukes, no terrorists, and maybe regime change. That's what that's what he was going for. Regime change has not happened. The IRGC is still in the past. It's not gonna happen. The IRGC is listen, the IRGC is so deeply embedded in cardboard coming up. The IRGC is in Iran and they're in charge. They're so deeply embedded in Iran's institutions that you can't just get them out unless you go boots on the ground. Who's in control right now? The IRGC. Number two, on no nukes. What they did was scatter the scientists around the country and put all of the blueprints into the cloud. So it still exists. Yes, the nuclear is uh the enriched uranium is buried under rubble, but it's still in Iran. They can just rebuild, get the info from the cloud, and then rebuild again. So that takes me to no terrorism. They can still fund terrorism, they'll likely get money from this deal, and the Strait of War moves will likely be told three months from now. So they're gonna keep taking money. What was the last one? No nukes, no terrorists, no missiles. Okay, we just talked about that right there. They clearly still have missiles. In fact, our own supply.
SPEAKER_11That's what I'm saying. This kid is really smart that he was able to like break it down like that. Yep. He's very impressive. But all this just to cover what the real problems are, right? That your president is a criminal.
SPEAKER_10Yep.
SPEAKER_11You know, and it's uh it's unnerving.
SPEAKER_10Like how how how much money does he want? Like, I mean, when is enough enough? It's not even about you know, something it's not even about the money, it's it's about his ego.
SPEAKER_11But the thing is, I think even like in any billionaire that we've seen that have aligned with him, yeah, right, kind of have that narcissistic quality too. Right, right. Right, but they're being put down by him, and I don't know what control he has on them, you know, because they have a lot of money. They could be like, fuck off, dude. Yeah, like yeah, take their money and go elsewhere with it, right? So I don't understand. Yeah, but a lot of them want these policies, and like I said in previous podcasts, they want these policies, but they they don't have the like the fucking minerals to put down their names on the ballot because no one's gonna fucking vote for them, right? Right, they're not gonna gain that kind of support. So, what do they do? They use their money to control the vote, right? In other ways that they can.
SPEAKER_10So buying the election, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_11You know, and then ever end, never end, and not only is that like now he's like a war criminal too, right? He's remember the whole Epstein, remember that? We forgot all about that. Oh yeah, yeah. So just a reminder for everybody, Thomas Massey. Let me see if I can get Thomas Massey here.
SPEAKER_01I want to ask about the Epstein files. As you've noted, the speech and debate clause actually protects you from being prosecuted for whatever you say on the floor of the House. You have named names in the Epstein files in the past. Can we expect you to name more names in the coming weeks and months?
SPEAKER_12Yes. Um Todd Blanche is violating the law. There's still millions of files they haven't released. We know from talking to the victims' lawyers that their own 302 forms haven't been released. We know the files have been over-redacted. I have released at least three names of billionaires who are implicated in this. I don't think it's possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanch at the top and and with the FBI director, Cash Patel, at the top, because they've effectively both perjured themselves by saying that there's nobody else in the files. Even Melania doesn't believe that. The first lady knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn't act alone. And here's the great thing, Kristen. Whether I'm in Congress or not, the Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, and it goes on for years. So if we can't get this attorney general and this FBI director to do the right thing, the next ones who take those seats are obligated by law to release the files that these individuals are not releasing now.
SPEAKER_10They'll be out of the country. Yeah. They'll be uh long gun.
SPEAKER_11Of course. You know, they're gonna be not here. They're gonna get out. And so I love how he's like, oh, not even Melania, who claims that doesn't fucking know him. Oh he banged uh oh god, he put it in a but you know it it uh I can't with these people. But anyway, that's all I got for today. I'm tired. Yeah, you gotta go to work. I gotta go.
SPEAKER_10My allergies are kicking in. I gotta take my glasses off.
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SPEAKER_10Here we go. Chow mein. Bye bye, the long way out.
