We're Back! | Zeducation University #7

Welcome to episode 7 of Zeducation University! Podcast is available on all platforms, Full video of show is on YouTube plus clips of the show throughout the week.

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SPEAKER_04 0:00

We have a jam-packed episode today. That's the worst thing you've ever said. Well, this is breaking news to me. I haven't I haven't heard anything about this. Quick story, quick story time. I had that freaking near fatal collapse. We didn't. Welcome to Zeducation University, the world's first tuition-free education program in podcast form. In today's episode, we will be discussing income taxes because it is tax season. We all just got screwed a couple days ago. Zombie fishing, the Artemis Moon Landing, and much, much more. But first, we are back. Go ahead. Do the honors.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Thank you. Deal of the century, right here, boys and girls. Okay. So I just want to do a promotion for uh our local holiday. I think it's someone. What is it called? What is uh what is the gas station called?

SPEAKER_05 0:54

Uh well it uh Circle K now.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Oh Circle K, yeah, Circle K.

SPEAKER_05 0:58

Do you know the the story of the holiday up in between uh Swan Brainerd about the guy because he was on the fishing show? So when you'd go up there, hold on, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

I can't wait. Okay, we we tangent it like eight times.

SPEAKER_05 1:09

Finish your story, Dave. Okay, well, there uh River Monsters. He was on River Monsters when Jeremy Wade came up here and I interviewed him for uh I believe it was walleye's okay. It was walleyes or muskies because he got a big chunk of his leg taken off. What? And uh you'd go in there, he was quite a character because you'd give him like 20 bucks or whatever, and he'd he worked the he worked the till, worked the till at night. He'd do throw the money behind the back into the till. Oh, I've seen that guy. Yep. Yep, just a character. But he was on River Monsters, fun fact. Okay, back to there's tangent one, tangent two, what's the I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Well, I was having a moment, even like what you were telling the story. I was like, shut up, I gotta take a sip. I think there's something, honestly, I think there's something in between the the air between the drink and and the can. Like when you crack it open, I because when you take that first drink, that first that first sip, it's like heaven. I don't know what it is. They put like some kind of like you know, crack cocaine inside there or something.

SPEAKER_04 2:04

Deal of the century, and then we'll get back to the intro.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Deal of the century right here is if you buy a polar pop, which is like 99 cents up to an extra large. Do you know what that is? Like the like the fountain drink. A fountain drink, yeah. Yeah, gulps, eh? Yeah, a big gulp. And uh, if you buy one for 99 cents, you can get two of these for a dollar each. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's really good. How many times a day do you do that? Two to three. Okay. I've been buying them like to stock them up. I've been buying to stock them up. Because if I drive by, I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna stop and get a polar bop. A polar sodi, dude. A soda.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

I'm a broken record. I don't even want to try anymore. How many times have I told you going back 10 years now? This is different. It's not different. This is different. Back to the intro. Welcome back, folks. What do we have? This is like three weeks since our last show.

unknown 2:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

It's been a long time. Lots happened.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

There was a baby born. There was did you was that your trip? Or did you take the trip before the last episode? That was before.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

I did take a trip, but I got another trip here coming up right away. When do you come back from that? Because there's probably not gonna be a show next week. Um like not I come back the following week. I'll be back the following week.

SPEAKER_04 3:08

Okay, so we don't have a show next week. Um, Dave. What's what's what's new with D? Any any big things last couple weeks?

SPEAKER_05 3:17

No snow on the ground. No snow on the ground. No snow on the ground. There we go.

SPEAKER_04 3:19

Let's starting it off with good news. It's gonna be an I already can tell it's gonna be an insane show by the conversations before the camera started rolling. So welcome back, folks. Um the biggest news, obviously, the baby came. Um baby's doing well, mom's doing well.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 3:38

It's pretty good at the house.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

It's good looking baby, too.

SPEAKER_04 3:41

It's pretty chaotic. Uh you know, I'm on toddler duty, wife is on baby duty, so it's like you know, we're double teaming the the kids. It's it's definitely different having three, but oh my god. Okay, welcome back, folks.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Dude, I got I got yelled at for saying mulatto. You can't say mulatto. I didn't even know you can't say that. Yeah, who knows? I don't even know what you can say. You can say whatever you can say whatever you want. Go ahead, go ahead. Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 4:09

The show I did like I said, guys, the show's gonna be nuts. Uh something's wrong with you right now.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

All right, go ahead. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 4:17

Uh what was I saying? Um I wanted to get to that. Yeah. What you can and can't say, but versus like what is real and what's not real in today's show.

SPEAKER_06 4:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

Because I feel like you guys said it before the show started. We're gonna get to the Artemis II landing. Um, and there was something that Obama said like 10 years ago as far as like taking down a country, right? And it feels like we are as far as making people so confused that they don't know what's real, uh, who they can trust. We're way past that point, and it feels palpable to a concerning degree now on online.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Wait, is this like the Mandela effect effect? Like what Obama said?

SPEAKER_04 4:56

No, no, no, I think he just predicted it. Either he was foreshadowing what was to come from his side, because this is completely pushed by, in my opinion, you know what, left wing sensors.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Remember the movie he made?

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Yes, we'll get okay, we're gonna get to that. Okay, we're gonna get to that because that is very relevant, and that is terrifying because a lot of the stuff that's what's coming in today's show, folks. But we have a lot more to talk about. Starting with um first, if you're on YouTube, head over to the podcasting app, and if you're on your podcasting app, head over to the YouTube channel. There are two YouTube channels, Zeducation University Clips and Zeducation University. So check out those channels. You don't have time to listen to the whole show, check out the clips channel. We'll post all the clips from the show. Um, as far as streaming goes, all of you members, this episode will probably come out after we stream, but I plan on streaming on Fridays again. So stay tuned for that. Get it on nine o'clock. So if you are a member on Zeducation, check that out. Um anyways, let's get into today's rapid fire headlines before we get into our statistics class, first period. So grab your pens and papers as you're sipping your uh coffee here. Let's get to our rapid fire headlines. Only got a couple. So since our last show, which again, I think was was it three weeks ago or two weeks ago? I think it was three weeks ago.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

I think it was three, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

Yeah, three weeks ago. So almost a month. That's crazy. But Rory McElroy, he won the Masters. Did you guys watch the Masters? Did you care?

SPEAKER_00 6:20

No, just the very end. I watched, I watched like the last probably five holes.

SPEAKER_04 6:25

It was pretty good. He like he was, I think he birdied like the last six of seven or something.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Yeah, it was over.

SPEAKER_04 6:30

Which is good because he historically melts down. Right. Um, so that was a big deal. He back-to-back champion, I think the first or the fourth back-to-back champion. Um I can't remember. So there's yeah, pretty historic. The Iran stuff, we're not gonna talk a lot about that today, but that is still going on. Uh, I this is what we kind of just mentioned earlier on the show. I don't know what to believe. I don't know. Uh Trump has said now probably five different times in the last two weeks that the Iran war is over, but it wasn't actually a war, he said before, but then he said the war is over, so wait, it was a war. I don't know what to believe, and I don't know, and it's definitely not over.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

It's real close. Yeah, it's real close.

SPEAKER_04 7:11

No, no, no. He said yesterday it's over. He said the Iran war is over. Yes, he did. No, he didn't. Yes, he did. No, yes, he did. Again, again, for like again, the fifth time. So I don't know, I don't know if he you know what?

SPEAKER_00 7:25

I just you know what there's a I I just heard someone say this the other day, and I thought it was kind of interesting, and I don't know if he uses this as psychology, but you aren't something, you have to pretend you're something before you are, right? And the law of attraction and then what they used is like when you go to sleep at night, you have to pretend like you're asleep before you fall asleep. We all do that, right? And it's like, does he do that? Does he is he doing that? Because a lot of times he says things and you're like, oh, that ain't true, but then it seems like it does become true a lot of times.

SPEAKER_04 8:00

Yeah, no, I I again I don't I still am rooting for him, I still want him to do well, but I I so this is such a roller coaster. The stock market, the the oil prices go up to 110 one day, then oh, the war's over, it goes back down to eighty. All the manipulation, dude. It's insane.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Well, that's there's another question. There's another question. Yeah, there's another question.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

How many people are profiting off of this on these swings?

SPEAKER_00 8:21

Right.

SPEAKER_05 8:21

Look at uh this is a a treat of because Trump does like to say, you know, he's the only president that lost money. They say his net worth is now six point five billion after this because they he extracted, and this is on-chain of 1.5 billion from the crypto markets through World Liberty Fi, his meme coin, uh everything that has come with that was a complete extra. And if you've been in the meme coin crypto world of gambling, you know this. But the world liberty fi is wild. I don't know if you've kept up with that, but I have a little bit. It's uh yeah, very unfortunate.

SPEAKER_04 8:54

It's just a bad look for the crypto world in general.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

It is, and heard of it.

SPEAKER_04 8:58

So they yeah, you have. Remember, they were selling pre-sale, pre-sale. You you could we didn't do it, but you could buy for like five cents a coin or something. It was very, very low.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Yep. Was it like the Melania coins or was that we're gonna go?

SPEAKER_04 9:10

No, no, no, that was for meme coins. Those are meme coins. Okay, those were pump and dumps, get rich quick schemes for them, for them, yeah. Yeah, well, the I think Trump, what is it? What is it like a penny a coin right now? What is it? Uh it's a couple bucks. But the money. But it was up to what was it up to? What did what did the Trump coin get up to on the day that it was very wild? And Melania coin is way down.

SPEAKER_05 9:30

Yep. And uh the biggest thing is is so like when you program these coins, you can do like real projects have like an open-ended network where they can kind of change it as things go, and that's the part of like they call it a DAO where the governance you we all get to vote on the change, and if it doesn't vote, the code doesn't allow that change to happen. But with World Liberty Fi, they own like 51, 52 percent. So they owned so they can make all the changes they want, yes, and then so they extracted all this money, and if you bought World Liberty Phi, all of your money is locked in there and you can't take it out, you're just stuck with it in there. So now what they did to make it right is to null and void all this extraction out of World Liberty Fi. But to do that, all these people have to vote yes. If they vote no, their money is still locked indefinitely. But the kicker is if they vote yes, then it null-invoids that money extraction and they can take their money out. But uh the world liberty fi team, the Trumps own majority of the shares, so they get to essentially write themselves a pardon by saying, Yes, we allow this to be null and void all the money extraction, right? Because they have 51%. Yeah, dude, it's wild, it's a mess. It's a mess.

SPEAKER_04 10:44

And it makes it disappointing because I'm a huge believer in blockchain and just the possibility of that money. Right. Well, there's a lot of benefits to it, but um, the the fact that you could start a bank account with a you know a wallet right here, right now. You don't have to go to a bank, you don't have to get permission, yeah. You can do it without any ID. You can start a wallet, you can have a bank account from your phone right now. But uh, you know, things like that, breakthrough technology is just it makes it all look bad. Makes the whole crypto industry look bad. So, um, anyways, uh last one, and this is probably one of the last times we'll talk about Trump today. Again, I want I still I still want Trump to do good. I do. I I I'm rooting for him. I am, I'm disappointed. But uh the it was viral like two days ago or yesterday that he depicted himself as Jesus. Did you guys see that?

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

And a lot of people were pissed, and they I was pissed. I was like, what are you doing, dude? That is idiotic. Yeah, what are you doing? And then you know, I think the part that was disappointing to me was a lot of uh conservatives called them all for it, but there are a lot of people that were like the the no matter what he does, loyalists, I will support him no matter what, defending like oh he just does stupid stuff. Okay, come on. How many how many times do we gotta use that excuse? Like you don't get his humor, man. No, well that's yeah. But that's what I mean. That's that's the response. Like, okay, you people are some of you are are just as bad as the far left. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

I enjoy it. I enjoy it. I you know, I I enjoy the fact it's kind of like that Jesse was Jesse Ventura effect that we had. When Jesse Ventura was it here, he would always say crazy shit, and then people would be like, ah, but you know what is great about him is that we didn't have with Biden is the media is all over his ass, and and there's uh I think I feel like there's a lot more transparency because of that, you know, which we don't get when the media is covering up for you know elected officials. Where there I feel like just like in Minnesota, like Minnesota media where there's a lot more corruption that's happening. Oh, it's terrible when you know, so they hold him more accountable. That piece of it I kind of like, right? Like it's like and remember, people, we had two choices basically. We had her or him, the lesser of two evil. Which one, and still to this day, who would you vote for? I know who I would vote for. I'm I'm with you. You know, I know.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

But at the same time, dude, at the same time, and I get that. I I've heard the argument a thousand times, the lesser of two evils, I get it. Of course, I would have voted for Trump again. I I wouldn't have voted. There's not a chance in hell. I was telling this to D uh for Minnesota, for example, do you want bathhouses? Do you want free needles? Do you want all this like social degeneracy like corrupting our young kids, right? Or do you want uh just a crazy guy, you know, that can get stuff done. We don't know what's really getting done, but um at the same time, dude, like it makes I I think the part that I said last time was there is a he demands loyalty to a fault. No matter what he does, you should be loyal to me. If not, I disown you. And we've seen that with multiple people that he's very close to. Yeah, you're you're dead to me because you called me out for depicting myself as Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Right.

SPEAKER_04 13:44

You're you're dead to me. Literally, he said this. You're dead to me if you care about the Epstein files. You're not a voter of mine, you're not a supporter of mine. He said that. Right, that's where he lost me, big time. It was like, dude, you this was a big campaign thing, and you're just now you're dead, we're dead to you. We we're not your supporters. Okay. So we he demands undoubted loyalty, but where's the loyalty to us? Like, there's gotta be some like two-sided to the coin. We put him in power, right? So where's the loyalty there? You can't have blind loyalty, like a one-sided blind loyalty.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Well, you see this, so you know, it it and there's there's some weird swampy decisions being made. Even right now, I just saw I just read an article this morning where he's this tower now, this Trump uh yeah, the arch. The arch that's being built. It's like, man, like what are we doing? That's swampy. You know, it's like we don't need to be this stuff. It's like, you know, it's it's like a trump. Trumpeter arch or something. I don't know what it's called, but yeah, it's his personal monument. It's a monument for his presidency, but it's it's gonna be like this gigantic marble arch with like a you know gold eagle on the top, blah, blah, blah. And it's gonna end up being, you know, graffiti, you know, and bums sleeping on the bottom of it, yeah. Kind of thing. And we're gonna spend freaking probably a you know billion dollars on this thing on taxpayers' money. Yeah. It's like I don't want this, I don't want this anymore. Like, I'm you know it's stop with the spending.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

Like that's very swampy. We're gonna get to the taxes because we're gonna do a whole period on taxes today, a couple periods, because it was tax week. Um, but before I forget, I'll probably bring it up again. I listened to the Joe Rogan episode with um is it Spencer Pratt?

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Yeah, it just dropped last night.

SPEAKER_04 15:16

Did you watch it? Uh listened to it.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

I didn't haven't seen the whole thing, but I've yeah, I was watching it.

SPEAKER_04 15:20

Awesome. Yeah, awesome. It it felt like he tapped into that Trump energy that in 2016, where Trump was drain the swamp, like, and we're all like, hell yeah, this is it, this is what we want.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

My wife is like ready to divorce me and like go after Spencer Tratt. She talks about him all the time. She's like, Spencer Punch of Pratt.

SPEAKER_04 15:38

This is what, and this is where it's like, and we should talk about this later because we got to move on here. But um it's kind of like because we always talk about moving from the state, right? Yeah, but this guy is putting his money where his mouth is, right? His house burned down in the Palisades fire, and he's like, No, I see the corruption. Screw you guys. I'm gonna fight for my home. I'm gonna take your job. I'm gonna take it over, I'm taking your office. And he lays out his plans on the Joe Logan episode. It's like, okay, let him do it. Vote him in there, let him do it. If it works, let's do it everywhere. Right. You know, so it's like, I highly encourage everyone to listen to that episode because um, you know, I I hope if you live anywhere near that or know people in LA, you guys have to vote that guy in. He has to be the mayor. It's the only hope. It's the only hope for that city.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Dude, what's crazy is his wife's like super famous in uh Japan or something like that. In Japan? Yeah, she's a singer. She's like a uh famous singer in Japan. K-Popper? What? His wife? I don't know. I don't know her name. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 16:30

I thought they got famous on reality TV.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

They did, but she's now a singer.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

Oh, really? Yes, like overnight. That's incredible. All right, let's move on here. All right, so there you go. Welcome to the show, folks. We got a lot more to talk about, a lot more fun stuff. Uh, you know, switching gears here from from politics to some fun facts. First period statistics class. This is a good one here. Number one, on average, a person farts around 14 times a day.

SPEAKER_05 17:00

Nice.

SPEAKER_04 17:00

Would you say you're above or below that?

SPEAKER_05 17:03

Never counted.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Boy, I don't know. I mean, like, I think well, sleeping in that too. Uh I would say that's gotta be right. Probably sounds right.

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Pretty accurate. Kids would probably have a better idea for you.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

It just happens now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:19

It's involuntary, yeah. Getting older. Number two, since the invention of the automobile, cars have killed an estimated 60 to 80 million people and injured over two billion. And I think that is proof that we need to ban them. That number seems low. If they didn't exist, we wouldn't have any car accidents. No people getting hurt by cars.

SPEAKER_00 17:41

That number does that number seem kind of low?

SPEAKER_04 17:43

60 to 80 million people? I mean, over the over the last 150 years. 20 years, yeah. It seems pretty low. I mean, if you over a hundred years, two billion people, that's what, 20 million a year? 20, yeah, 20 million a year that could have get gets injured. If I'm doing my math right there, and then 60 to 80 million people dead over a hundred years. I mean, that's a lot of people. 600 to 800,000 people a year.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

It is a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05 18:08

Uh, one of the best clips is when they uh Did I do that right?

SPEAKER_04 18:11

60 to 80?

SPEAKER_05 18:12

I think it's over in Washington. Wherever they do the interview, they're gonna ban drinking and driving. And he's like, Man, you're telling me I can't drive home and crack cold one after a long day of hard work. Next thing they're gonna make you wear your seatbelt. And it was back in like the late 60s, early 70s. I mean, there was a guy that was taking off freedoms. I seen that.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

I just saw an interview that they had televised in like 1926 or something like that of a guy that was a Civil War veteran that had actually met Abraham Lincoln, and he was they interviewed him on a uh on a camera, and he was like, they're like, What do you what's your what's your what's your what's your secret? He's like, I drank he was he was like a highball twice a day. I have uh tea, coffee, and they're like, Well, how much water do you drink? He's like, you see what that stuff does to pipes? He's like, Imagine what it does to your body.

SPEAKER_06 19:01

I was like, dude, who is this guy? Who is this guy?

SPEAKER_00 19:04

He was like a hundred years old, too. You know, I'm like, yes. I was like, I'm going to the distance, boys and girls.

SPEAKER_04 19:09

There is an element of luck, I feel like. I think there's an element of luck where because you see some people that uh I mean, there's I remember a guy, he would walk in at the VA clinic, right? He was a veteran and he'd uh or at the where I worked, we saw a bunch of veterans, but he was supposed to be quitting smoking, right? He's got the oxygen tank and he walks in there smelling like a chimney. And he's like in his 80s and he's still kicking, but you still smoking? No, sir. Dude, I smell it on you. I smell it on you.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

He goes and nicotine in his fingers, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:39

But he's still like he made it into pretty old age. Yeah, living horribly, smoking pack a day ever, you know, for years.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

You guys might not remember this guy, but his name is George Burns. He was an actor, an old actor back in the uh days, and he smokes, he was old. I mean, he must have been in his 90s, and but he smoked cigars like crazy, just puff, puff. And back in the 80s, like when everybody was smoking, it was like, see, George Burns made it. We can make it too. Like he was our freaking, like our monument of uh you can smoke, it's okay. He was our guiding light. It's healthy. Yeah. That's the secret. That's the secret.

SPEAKER_05 20:11

Regular smoking, probably better than that vape and stuff. Yeah, I get the popcorn lung.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

I would agree with you. You know, but I just had this conversation with a guy that's inventing a um a filter to take out CO2 out of the uh out of marijuana, like fresh like uh actual marijuana, uh, so that you're not taking the uh CO2 in and only the resin. And uh, but I was like, man, you know, I would think that that would be probably not bad for tobacco, too.

SPEAKER_05 20:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

You know, instead of instead of all the chemicals, like I mean, I'm surprised that's not a natural thing, like a natural tobacco that organic tobacco, is that a thing? I don't know, I don't know enough about it, but I don't know. Couldn't tell you. Couldn't tell you, yeah, I don't know either. I don't, it's not my thing.

SPEAKER_04 20:51

Here's a depressing one. Number three, the average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day. The average 40-year-old laughs just four times a day.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

That's not true for us. That's not true for us.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

That definitely is not true for us. Yeah, yeah. It's uh it's a coping mechanism. Where do you live in Minnesota?

SPEAKER_01 21:11

You don't even know what a bad day is. I'm gonna show you what it looks like, boy. You don't even know what a bad day is.

SPEAKER_04 21:18

Uh at any given time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk, meaning at least 50 million people are drunk right now.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Wait, what? Point what?

SPEAKER_04 21:28

Point 0.7%. So almost 1% of the world's population is drunk at any given moment.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

So 50 million out of are we at 9 billion people yet? Let's see. World population world population. I keep seeing them say that so 8.3 billion allegedly right now. But I keep seeing them say like it's that's really something hard that's something that's harder to measure than they it they realize. Like China, we talked about this before, is not they think that their population isn't even close to what they say it is, just based off of basic math.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Well, I've been hearing. People saying it's closer to the United States population. Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 22:02

Because if you're if there was, I think they said 500 million people or 300 million people, we'll say back in the 60s and 70s, whenever the the one child policy was enacted, if each family was only having one child, then how would that triple the population in one generation? It wouldn't. So mathematically, that was impossible.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

It would subtract it.

SPEAKER_04 22:24

Right, right.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

So uh even India, like we're we live in a time, a lot of those countries over there, it's not here where your child is born, there's a birth certificate, there's a paper trail in the child on the first breath. Over there, dude, they just kind of pop out. I mean, there ain't no documentation. I mean, even to get the documentation is super, super hard, and it's a rare thing. Like you're in the high upper class if you have that documentation.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Dude, I just had like a aha moment. Is the cost of goods right now, how everything's so expensive, population control? Because we don't want to have more kids because it's so expensive to have kids.

SPEAKER_05 23:01

I think only here. Because if you go to a third world countries, yeah. You go to a third world country. I mean, if the world goes to just hell in a handbasket, I want to be there. Because those people, you know, they struggle each, they know what struggling is. I want to be around people that understand what struggling is. I don't want to be around people that don't understand what it's like to be hungry for two or three days. They don't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Right.

SPEAKER_05 23:23

So that's just my thought on that. I want to be around. Or we're cooked.

SPEAKER_04 23:26

No, I don't I don't think that's purpose, purposeful. I think it's just like population control. I think it's just the the system that we have, especially in our culture too, our like super sick culture where having a family or having a career is more important than having a family. I mean, that's been like that, and preach to young adults, specifically young women, since the 70s. You you have to have a family. You can do it all, which is totally not true. You cannot have a career and raise a family. You just can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

By the way, I don't think that's population control. If you know me, I a lot of times I'll spit stuff thoughts out of my head. I do, I'll spit thoughts out of my head. Doesn't necessarily mean I believe it, but I'll throw it out there because it's thought provoking, right?

SPEAKER_04 24:04

He does that. Okay, here's a great one. This is a great one to end the first period. Dude, this is wild. Going to baseball. Barry Bonds, he walked a ton of times. I don't even know what he's got the record for most walks. When you convert that into miles, Barry Bonds walked 43.6 miles in his career. Gosh, that's amazing. That's an amazing stat. 90 feet to first base.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

That's an amazing stat. I love that stat.

SPEAKER_04 24:30

That's insane, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Yeah. Yeah. 43 miles.

SPEAKER_05 24:33

43.6 miles. Couldn't believe it. Imagine even if some of those take half and the amount of home runs that got taken away from the guy. I mean, dude, he could have probably from being intentionally walked.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 24:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Those games he was intentionally walked the game.

SPEAKER_04 24:48

Yep. He's I think he was intentionally walked with the bases loaded before. I'm pretty sure he was.

SPEAKER_05 24:53

Yeah. Yeah, that was insane.

SPEAKER_04 24:55

I actually I'll never forget his 500th and 600th and 700th home runs. I think it was all at uh my buddy's house. Every one of them. Yeah. Yeah, what a what a career. Put him in the hall, man. Put him. I don't care if he was using the stuff.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

I saw Martin McGuire's 500th home home run in person. I drove down to uh I drove down to uh St. Louis the night so he the night that he hit 499. Was it 498, 499? I hit 499. I said, if he hits 499, I'm going. You know, I'm sitting down in uh I was in the basement of my parents-in-law's house and he hit it. I was like, honey, I'm going. She was like, okay. I literally got in the car right then in there, like and drove to St. Louis. And you hit it the next night? And that night, and that night he hit two that next night. Yeah. But um that night he also was supposed to uh or uh Tony Gwynn was going for his uh 3000th hit also. Oh so I was standing outside like a freaking 12-year-old waiting for autographs, and Tony Gwynn walked up and he's like, I'll sign after the game. I literally had it in front of him, you know. His uh I had I what I had was I had his number just for so I would sew it on a jersey, but I asked him to sign the number. So you know, then I would sew it on the jersey, but he was like, he wouldn't sign. Then I saw Mert McGuire in person, like me and you standing right there, and he was signed for kids. I didn't ask him for his autograph because there's a bunch of little kids there at that point. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, but he was well, that was I mean, it was years ago too. I was like 20, but um, whatever that was. But um he his leg, dude, was like I mean, it was so big in person, and his like his arms were like the size of my thighs. And um, he was giant he was a monster.

SPEAKER_04 26:29

Don't you have a story about uh is it Ken Griffey or or Randy Johnson in the elevator when you were a kid?

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Yes, yeah. So I used to, so I used to uh I was a big autograph hound. I lived in Minneapolis, I lived real close to the Metrodome, and I would go down on the Metrodome every single day when I was a kid and get autographs. I can tell you about everybody. And what we would do is we would go down to the hotels and uh before they would even leave to the uh to the dome and try to catch them there because they would roam around in the morning, they would go get coffee or they would, you know, get breakfast or whatever they were doing out there, but they would roam around the outside of the hotels in the morning and we would capture autographs there. Well, I learned that to go up into the Hyatt, which in Minneapolis was the second story in the lobby, I would sit there on a chair and I would just act like I was supposed to be there, and I'd watch guys come down into the elevator, and then when they got in the elevator, I would trap them.

SPEAKER_04 27:21

Well, one day in the elevator a 12-year-old just like, yeah, how do I get Randy Johnson?

SPEAKER_00 27:26

So it I got Randy Johnson and Ken Griffey Jr. in the elevator at the exact same time. And I'm like, I have this book of cards, like it's like so. You take like the you know how you uh do pictures, photo, photos? Yeah, like how they have the little corners. Well, I'd put my uh I'd have like this index card thing that I could flip over and I'd have everybody's card there, and then I'd put the baseball card inside these corners so that would stick, and I'm like, oh my god, I gotta ask one for the autograph right now, you know. And I'm looking, I'm like, it's Randy Johnson or Ken Griffey. Well, dude, you gotta go for Ken Griffey. Yeah, of course. So I went for I went for Ken Griffey and I was like, Can I get your autograph? And he's like, I don't sign in the hotel. So this was right when we got in the autograph, or right when we got in the uh elevator, and it was a slow ride down, like sitting there.

SPEAKER_03 28:10

You're sitting there with Ken Griffey Jr.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

and Randy Johnson and he wouldn't sign, you know, and I'm just telling you.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

I actually think that was a right decision by him, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Probably, yeah, probably, yeah. Because I mean, like, I, you know, I infiltrated where I shouldn't have been. Yeah, yeah. I kind of got in his space. Yep. And when he was like, I'll sign when I get outside. I was like, all right. So I followed him right outside. When I got outside, every freaking autographed hound was outside. Like it was just piled out there of autographed people and didn't even get his autograph. Never got his autograph. Ah, well, you know what?

SPEAKER_04 28:39

You tried. It's a good story. You infiltrated. Yeah, you still got to go on the elevator with Randy Johnson and Ken Griffey Jr. That's pretty badass.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

That is pretty. I I gotta share with you. I did on that old guy thing, there was an old guy that would uh be out there every day for autographs, and Kirby Puckett came in and he would be like, he's like, damn it, his name was Ken. The guy's name was Ken. He's like, damn it, Ken! He's like, What are you doing with all these autographs? Are you reselling these? Yeah, Ken Griffey yelled at him, right? Oh Kirby Puckett. Kirby Puckett did, yeah, yelled at this guy, this Ken guy that was getting autographs down there. And one day the kids were like pushing to get uh Kirby's autograph. Ken had a Sharpie, a black sharpie for an autograph, and Kirby had this brown leather jacket, and Ken's like across his jacket. Kirby Puckett's jacket. It was a Sharpie, and he looked down, Kirby Puckett did, and he was so pissed. You could see he was just fuming, right? Yeah, and he just turned around and walked away. He didn't say anything, he kept his cool. He just walked away, but I mean, like, yeah, this really nice leather jacket. I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:35

So Ken, so he didn't sign any more autographs. Ken ruined it.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Ken ruined that day, yep.

SPEAKER_05 29:39

Uh you see those guys though, it's like, because for the kids, it's like, dude, go for it. Like, let the kids go up there. But you see these dudes that I mean, they're coming with a little freaking suitcase full of stuff, they got all this stuff, and it's like, dude, they're pushing the kids to get in front. It's like, dude, you're you're the problem here, man.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

You know who was the best though? Was uh uh Kent Herbeck. You remember, yeah, you know, he's a local first baseman for the World Series. He's got that pulled the guy's leg off when remember on the press base.

SPEAKER_06 30:05

I still can't believe I wasn't out.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

That was crazy. I didn't know. But he um he, if you wanted his autograph, you had to go. They put he parked his car, his personal car in the back of the um in the back of the dome, and he would take a golf cart, the golf, like one of the workers would pick him up from the golf cart, drive him around to the ticket office to bring him inside, right? You had to meet him at the golf cart and run around the dome following the uh following the golf cart in order to get his autograph. Yep. And he would only sign the the kids that would follow would run around the the Oh, that's awesome. The golf cart. Yeah, nice. Nice. Yep. That's the only way you could get his autograph.

SPEAKER_04 30:42

I love that. Can't the guys with the suitcases can't follow. Yeah, those bastards, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

I love those stories. Got a couple, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

We got a bunch more of those, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

Well, we'll they'll come out as the show goes on. Um, but we got to move on here. We got to move on to second period meme studies class. So we got memes today, laugh-you lose version of the podcast. Uh, a lot of tax memes since it's tax season, and then third period, we're doing tax class because you're not learning much about taxes in your elementary schools, your middle schools, your high schools, publicly funded. You don't learn much about taxes there. So we're gonna teach you. Teach you about taxes here on Z Education University today. But first, let's get to our tax memes. Diva, I can't read that one. You go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 31:25

All right, math.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

I wasn't supposed to be in here, but that's we'll do that one anyways.

SPEAKER_05 31:29

No, do it, do it. That's a good one. Go back. All right, math, racist, climate change racist, USA racist, man with 14 priors slashing a girl's neck, yelling, got that white girl, not racist.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Isn't that crazy? That story's not bigger. Did you see it is crazy? And did you see that they made they took her damn uh someone's doing a mural and they made them cover it up? What? Yeah, did you see that? Yeah, really, yeah. They someone paid for a mural and like he was painting, like in the middle of it being almost done. Like, they're like, Nope, take it down. Wow. It's like what a lady was murdered?

SPEAKER_04 32:02

Literally, in cold blood, he said that. He said, I got that white girl. It was clearly racially motivated. No, and I think he just got off with an insanity plea. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he did. Um, and I think that's why that I saw that meme went viral. I didn't I didn't mean for it to be in here, but it's in it's here. We'll have we'll talk about it. Um I think people are are starting to get sick and tired of that stuff. I I there is a um it's palpable online. People are not afraid to to talk about it anymore, and it's uh and it's good because it's I mean, I think people are sick of it. So um and it's very sad though, because that girl was a Ukrainian refugee. She was minding her own business, going to work, think thought she was safe on the train. Um and the more disgusting thing was, and the if you guys don't know what we're talking about, um I can't remember her name, but uh, she was murdered in North Carolina, I think it was Raleigh, right? One of the Carolinas on the subway. This is what January, I think, maybe December. I mean, if you missed that story, I don't know where you were, but um yeah, you literally it's not taught you're not supposed to talk about it. You're like this this was a racially motivated attack against a uh a Ukrainian refugee. Everyone that was there, that was the most disgusting part. They just sat there. Some people whipped out their phones and watched her die. Absolutely disgusting, but very representative of the the culture we're living in right now. I guess. And again, I think I think people are pushing back on it. People are pissed, people are sick of it.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

Well, it's been wild too. I'm I'm pretty bad online too. I mean, I'm I'm not gonna lie, like I I say all kinds of crazy comments just because I like getting rises out of people. But I got I got uh suspended on Twitter. You did yes, yeah, because someone's someone's like um the black astronaut that had gone, and you're like, look at what a black man can do, and and a white guy, you know, and there's no way a white pilot could do this, you know. And I was like, what the hell? I was like, you know, I was like, what kind of statement is that? Yeah. So I went in there and someone's like someone wrote in there and they said, just think the things that George Floyd would do if he was still alive. So then I made a meme. So then I made a meme and I made a meme of George Floyd in an astronaut suit.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

Oh, that got you banned?

SPEAKER_00 34:05

Yes, I made a meme of George Floyd in an astronaut suit, and it said, it said, uh, it said basically it said he would complain because he can't breathe in outer space. You know, and it got me banned. I will say I got me suspended.

SPEAKER_04 34:17

I didn't think that was that funny, yeah, but I do think it's funny in that, and I think those memes are are funny because it's it's mocking the propaganda that we were force fed, right? Yeah. It's like this guy wasn't gonna be an astronaut, he was a drug addict, he was a bad guy, he was. Yeah. Should he have died? Probably not, but he probably overdosed. That's like you look at the toxicology report. That's what people are sick of. People are sick of being force-fed the propaganda um like that. So I'm very surprised you got banned for that.

SPEAKER_00 34:45

Suspended, not banned. Okay. Suspended. I guess suspended.

SPEAKER_04 34:48

Anyways, let's get back to the taxes. Let's get back to the taxes. Uh 1775, 2% tax. 2024, 40% tax. Yeah, no, this is a good one. A very uh, what do we call it? 40%, that's on the low end. The bread bread and circus, right, Dave? Yeah, it really is. The bread and circus, dude. And there's val there, and this is my question. And I should probably just save this question for the end of tax class. But at what point do we throw the tea into the harbor? At what point are is enough now. That's what that's that's where I think we are. I think we're past the point of no return. Yeah, I think people are so pacified, they're so just you know, they don't care.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

We'll have nothing and you will be happy.

SPEAKER_04 35:34

It's happening. Yeah, it's happening.

SPEAKER_05 35:36

I think the last time we did anything to a politician was like 1860s, it was before the Civil War. But that is where the whole government shifted into uh the downturn that we are today is like there is no one on watch. And the politicians back in the day were I don't even think they really got paid. They pretty much had their own money, especially in the original days of the colonization of the United States breaking away from uh Great Britain, like that was their own money, they lost everything, and now though the goal to become a politician is to get rich, it's the complete opposite of what it used to be.

SPEAKER_04 36:10

Well, I think uh I heard this on Sean Ryan, but and I think he had someone on there with uh like an expert in the Roman Empire. It was a really interesting podcast, but during the fall of the Roman Empire, according to this guy, um, you know, it wasn't about your duty to your country anymore, it was about your duty to yourself. What kind of benefits, what kind of things can I get out of my service? Now, what what kind of service can I provide my fellow citizens, my country? And we are we are way past that. People don't serve. I even look at myself. I didn't serve, I served to serve the country, but I also served because I was poor shit and I didn't have money for college, right? So I mean, and I'm just being honest, like there was some self-motivation in right. I'm proud of serving my country, and it kind of turned into that. But my initial motivation for serving the country wasn't just out of my patriotic duty.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Right.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

Um, and and we are way beyond that. People who serve in Congress, people who serve in Congress. It's all about uh, you know, insider trading now. Uh, I mean, some of the things that they vote on, you have to be like, okay, what's going on the behind the scenes there? Like the they just voted for to extend the Haitian refugees for like three years. Like, wait a minute, hold on, hold on. Like, people voted against this a long time ago. And you got like Republicans are now voting with this too. What's going on here? Yeah, what forced you and what caused you to vote for this? What kind of backdoor deals are you getting?

SPEAKER_05 37:30

The the greatest like depiction of this was when Minnesota passed the uh legal marrow, the recreational marijuana is every Republican was take they voted for it, but was taken off guard, like, whoa, we didn't know that was in there. But it's like because you got what you wanted in the bill, that's why you voted yes. You didn't vote yes or no on what the whole bill was, is that you got your your kitty out of it. You fed your little niche of group, so you voted yes, and then that person, their little niche was to get the recreational marijuana, and then it passed, and every Republican was like, Well, we didn't know that was in there, so we gotta redo it.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

Yeah, you know, it's funny. We we just got done talking about uh car accidents and people being drunk all the time, right? And and I think those two have something, you know, they're somewhat related. And we there's a lot of people that die from drinking and driving. Yep. And there's a lot of families that die or that have deaths in their families and blah blah blah from alcohol, like I mean, from fighting, families getting destroyed from fighting and alcohol. If anything was going to be illegal, it would be alcohol versus guns, right? If but but weirdly, everyone always goes after guns, and I think there's a couple of reasons why they do, but but it does show where we get to a position where it's like, what can we do to take back our power at some point? And that's how we took power into our hands, is we protected ourselves from a government that wanted to take uh that to control us, and we didn't want that, right? And it's like it's interesting that they want to keep going after guns for how many people that die from guns each year, but there's no talk about taking alcohol away from us, right?

SPEAKER_04 39:04

It's none it's exactly because that's it's not about deaths, no, not at all. No, it's about power, it's about power, it's about power, it's about taking that last stitch of power from citizens 1,000%. Because if it I mean, that's what it was there for. That's what the Second Amendment's there for, to protect from tyrannical governments, and we are past that. Oh, yeah, we're way past that. But here's the problem, though, and let's keep going because this conversation is gonna keep going, and there's a million points to be made, but we're gonna so let's go to our next uh tax meme here. Uh, where's our money, tampon boy? That's uh I don't know where that is, but obviously that is in Minnesota somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

So uh next one tampon tim.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Tampon Tam. Where's our money? Tampon boy.

SPEAKER_05 39:44

Go ahead, Dave. Uh blue states to taxpayers gone. Why is everyone moving to Florida?

SPEAKER_04 39:51

Yeah, and you see this now with uh New York, you see it with California, you see it with like a lot of these. I I just heard of a friend of ours, the company she works for, her company is now moving from Minnesota to Texas. Um and then you you see that another guy know his company moved from New York City down to Dallas. So it's like all these companies, because they're they work for profit, it makes no sense for them to stay in these blue states and get taxed to you know to no end.

SPEAKER_05 40:20

And the best is they're just gonna vote another blue person and ruin that state and go, what happened?

SPEAKER_04 40:24

Yep. And they're gonna blame it on rich people right now in Minnesota. They're blaming it on Trump's um ice invasion. Yeah, his ice invasion caused businesses to lose tons of money. No, no, no, no. Your fiscal irresponsibility did that. But the people in Hennepin and Ramsay County are gonna eat it up. And it's it's it's disgusting.

SPEAKER_05 40:42

It's not what And uh, dude, the two the because you know Minnesota we passed that uh what was it, uh bereavement pay for uh you know a loved one, a sick one. Right now, I could go in, sign up some paperwork, and say that I need 12 weeks. I think it's 12 weeks, and you get paid for that 12 weeks, and the amount of people that took time off for for bereavement pay, the line just went straight up during the yep.

SPEAKER_04 41:07

Well, my wife is going through that right now because she just had a baby, so you get you get it for having a baby, you get uh time with the baby and then recovery time. Yep. The and uh uh a friend of hers just went through the process too. It is a disaster. Like uh the the the wait time to actually get it approved and go through the process is insane. It's it's an absolute disaster.

SPEAKER_00 41:30

Dude, okay, so on this, on this, since we're talking about this, on the uh the the the meme that I had or oh yeah the picture that I sent you, see the one with all the writing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at this. Read that. In New York City, whites function as tax cattle, receiving three cents in benefits for every dollar in taxes paid. Each group receives disproportionate benefits. So look at this. They wrote this down via um demographics. So if you look at New York City? This is New York City, yep. So Hispanics receive $1.95 for every dollar they give in taxes from the government. They they receive a dollar ninety five. This is this is uh the IRS. Okay, okay, sorry, keep going. Yep, so um, so the sources, uh the New York City uh Housing Authority, the X, the 2020 Cent, this IRS 2023, blah, blah, blah. Anyways, um, blacks receive $1.77 for every dollar they pay in taxes, Asians receive 22 cents for every dollar they pay in taxes, whites receive three cents for every dollar they pay in taxes.

SPEAKER_04 42:32

That's incredible. And I'm not surprised. And this is uh this is relevant. What that's crazy. That is crazy. That's crazy. And this is relevant because uh Mamdani, did you see he is literally trying to uh do like a uh equality tax? Did you see that? He yeah, the uh he can he used racial lines, he he drew racial lines saying, oh, white white families on average in New York City make $200,000 a year, whereas uh black families make $20,000 a year, and we need to close that that equity or something like that. So they're he's talking about taxing white people more. He's literally openly saying that. It's not even a secret, it's not a conspiracy. This isn't this is happening.

SPEAKER_05 43:08

Dude, just give me the three-fifths vote already for crying out loud. Let's just go there. Let's just rip the band-aid off. That's what you want to as uh as a white guy? Yeah, just do it, just get it over with. What is it? What the three-fifths vote? Because you know, back in this after slavery, black slave got three-fifths of a vote.

SPEAKER_04 43:25

Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So D thinks D thinks the rolls are flipping. Yeah, just rip it off already.

SPEAKER_00 43:31

So, so up here, so I was just talking, so Foster's friend works at uh Craigens, does like uh what do you call it? Um, catering. And he said that there was a conference up here from people in Minneapolis that were doing a uh reparations. They're trying to figure out how to do a reparations bill here in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_03 43:50

Really?

SPEAKER_00 43:50

They're having it, yep, up here. And I was like, damn, dude, that's crazy. Like, here we go in Minnesota. Let's go. Buckle up.

SPEAKER_05 43:57

And then you have the southern states, though, that they actually. Actually had slavery, and there are some of the reddest states you'd ever see.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Dude, it's the biggest the the whole slavery thing.

SPEAKER_04 44:08

Okay, let's not get on this. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

But I want to tell I do want to say something though. Go ahead. Like on the on the defense.

SPEAKER_04 44:13

No, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 44:14

But we're already.

SPEAKER_00 44:15

I went on a rabbit hole, though. I went on a rabbit hole. Go ahead, go ahead. So you know how they were supposed to be because I was like, well, you know, I mean, they never got their uh 40 acres and a mule. That mule thing is a lie. That was never a thing. The 40 acres was, and did you know that they actually got their 40 acres? Really? All the slaves did. They got the 40 acres, they put them down in in Georgia. And what happened was Andrew Jackson, Democrat, took it all away from them. Little fun fact. Really? Yes. Was he a Democrat? Yeah, he was a Democrat. Andrew Jackson? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 44:48

I don't know. Um creator of the KKK. No, Democrat, yeah. Um, it's always in Democrats throughout history. It's always it is. Um what was I gonna say on that? Oh, no, though, that's what we should watch um because I've been watching Matt Walsh. He's been doing these series on YouTube where he uh the true history of slavery, the true history of of Indians, American Indians. Yep. And it like it's shocking information, and it's all real information from from uh people's journals, books, like this is uh true history, right? It's like holy crap, we were totally lied to. I watched the trail of tears, yeah. Complete BS, complete BS. It's like how did this happen? And then he kind of walks through like uh you know the the liberalization of college and schools and how this propaganda started, and it's it's like oh uh how did we let this happen? When do we need start pushing back? When does this when like literally this is this is a problem, this is a huge problem. It destroyed the minds of generations. Our generation is completely gone. Yeah, completely gone. Um, and and the other part too that's crazy is you show people this information that's completely true information, they don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear it. So um okay, back to taxes. Back to taxes. Um I think we have one more meme. Just finished my taxes. I owe Somalia $30,000. So on this last one here, and then we'll get to some more taxes. I want to say uh I keep seeing people use this phrase that absolutely drives me nuts that you have a patriotic duty to pay your taxes. No, no, no, no. No, you don't. Oh, you don't like roads? Dude, we are way past roads. We are way past schools.

SPEAKER_05 46:34

I hate the roads one because when go get the road redone in front of your house, your taxes don't go to that. That's BS. So the uh You get assessed.

SPEAKER_04 46:43

You get assessed, yeah. Um so the that uh guy, the New York or the LA mayor guy, Spencer Pratt, he gave this example of how this money is being spent for specifically for homelessness on the Joe Rogan episode. There was a uh a building sold like for six million bucks or something, and then the very next week, I think it was, it was sold to an NGO for like 25 million, like an insane amount of money, kind of like the Black Lives Matter scheme. Do you guys remember that? Oh, yeah. And for reference, if you guys know what I'm talking about, the I think she was the leader of the Black Lives Matter. She she bought a mansion and sold it to Black Lives Matter for like double the price three days later. I mean, it was like how much more transparently corrupt can you get? Right. And how and again, when you show people these this information, they don't want to see it, they don't care. It's like, oh, we'll just let it slide. What are you talking about? You can't criticize anyone else for corruption if you're not gonna call out your own you know agenda for corruption. Um, but anyways, where was I going for that? You so my my point is uh back to taxes and these NGOs and the this these slush funds. Uh in Minnesota, you like the the new slush fund recently is the autism slush fund. Like suddenly in Minnesota, what did it go from like a million bucks or a couple million bucks to $300 million for autism in a couple years? No, that's where your tax money is going. It's going to whoever is on the receiving end of those those slush funds. Those kids, those people that are supposed to be fine, and it's a lot of this, it's a lot of the Somali community that uh are is being uncovered. Um, so and again, the other part on this, it's not your patriotic duty. It's your patriotic duty to not pay taxes, in my opinion, as least amount of taxes as possible and prevent it from going to these insane things. But do it legally, do it legally, do not turn into a song. Do it legally. There are I think it's completely valid uh real estate insane write-offs there. I mean, there's uh I think a lot of people don't realize how much they can write off if they structure things correctly with a personal business or whatever.

SPEAKER_05 48:48

Um you get into some wild rabbit holes though, and you're like, all you have to do is Google is like, how do I avoid paying taxes and you get sucked down in some weird people places?

SPEAKER_00 48:57

There are people that don't, they definitely don't do it legally, but um I get scared to even Google anything like that or ask you know uh AI because I'm worried that it's gonna flag me. There you go.

SPEAKER_04 49:06

This is why there won't be another tea party, is because we are at the point where if you wanted to, for example, you wanted to start a tax strike, you wanted to start gaining momentum around the country and try to get people to not pay taxes as a strike. Hey, you guys aren't spending our money wisely, we're not gonna pay you taxes. And you let's say you gain momentum on that. You get a million people to sign your petition, they're not gonna pay taxes. Guarantee you that they have all of your information. You will be framed for a crime. You will be something will happen to you where you will be silenced. Yep. 1000% guarantee it, the power is gone. And I hate to say that, but it's true. It's it is it's completely true. That you see people get silenced left and right. I just watched a video on Alex Jones where he like it was after because he was real big in 9-11, obviously. He was pred he predicted 9-11 way before it happened. Like six, seven months. Literally said it was going to happen, and it happened when it happened the day after he said there's a video of him saying they're going to use this to take away our civil liberties. That's exactly what happened. Introduce martial law. Then all of a sudden, you know, they they at the first chance they get, once he starts gaining a lot of power, they wipe him out. They wipe him out.

SPEAKER_00 50:19

It's weird how people like they'll they're willing to trade safety for freedom. Oh, yeah. Like in a hot second, and then this and they're not even really even getting safety.

SPEAKER_04 50:28

So it's apathy. It's and it's what what is best for me? Here's an example. I uh in Minnesota, they're proposing a wealth tax. They're proposing a 1% wealth tax on anyone who has a net worth of $10 million or more. And I said this to some friends. I was like, this is insane. This is where our state is, boys. Like, when do we leave? When is it time to jump ship? Yeah. When is like is it too late to get involved to try and write this ship around? Which I sadly think it is. Um and the response was uh it doesn't apply to us, so who cares? Whoa, dude. Like it doesn't, oh, I don't have $10 million, so it doesn't matter for me. Do you that's how income tax got to where it is? Income tax started as a 1% tax on the 1%, and now it's up to 37% federal tax. Not that doesn't include states. If you live in Minnesota, California, New York, you pay over half your paycheck to taxes because of things like that. It's like we talked about earlier, this one percent tax, people from Minnesota are gonna flee. There's no it's already happening. People with money, they're gonna leave. They're gonna make less in taxes when those rich people leave. Oh no, we have to, oh, it's 10 million. Yeah, we're gonna open it up to people with a net worth of five million. Next election, one million. Next election, you know, we're gonna do it on everyone. If you own a house, you own property, you have a 401k, we gotta take 1% from everyone. Okay, we're out everyone. Now we're gonna double it to 2%. Uh, you know what? Screw it. We're gonna double it to five. Next thing you know, in 30 years, it's we have nothing. Oh, we got a breadline. That's how it works. That's exactly how it works.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

So I so I and I haven't talked to you about this, so I'm talking about it here, and we've been seriously talking about moving out of here. I mean, all of us have we are and I know you guys are more serious yes. Yeah. Um, a lot of moves have been made already at this point. I mean, reaching out to other people, and and and we sat down with our accountant and asked for a real breakdown of what the price difference is between living in three different states, is what we're we're looking at right now. And it and it and it has moved to actually five states because of some other outside sources or uh forces, I should say. Um, but the thing that really opened my eye right now, so last year's taxes, because we just did our taxes, if we would have lived in, if we would have lived in Florida, our taxes would have been 38,000, $38,000 less in Florida. And in um Texas, if we would have lived in Texas, it was forty-six thousand dollars less in taxes versus living in Minnesota, is what we would have paid in. It's wild.

SPEAKER_04 53:06

It's a no-brainer. That's a it's a no-brainer.

SPEAKER_00 53:08

That's that's a lot of people's what they make in a year.

SPEAKER_04 53:11

It is, and you you do that over 10, 20 years. You're talking that's a generational amount of money. That's a that's a life-changing amount of money. Well, that's $40,000 is a life-changing amount of money.

SPEAKER_00 53:20

In 10 years, I mean 40, just say in 10 years, that's half a million dollars. Half a million dollars? In 10 years, and then invested, what is that? Especially if you start, you know, you start throwing millions. Several million dollars. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 53:30

Like, we're I mean but you don't want that to go to Somali daycares, right? What about learning centers? But how are these other states operating?

SPEAKER_00 53:39

How are these other states operating and and and we can get away with it? Doesn't even make sense. It's this is what it is.

SPEAKER_04 53:45

And I just said this on Twitter this morning. These Democrat politicians, they know that. They they know exactly they know this fraud is happening. This is distribution of wealth, this is redistribution of wealth. They know that, and that's what they want. That's dude, Tim Walsh is a known commie bastard. He's he went over to China, what, 30 times? He literally, their campaign was bring back the joy. That was a Mao Zedong slogan. That was a communist party slogan, the party of joy. Dude, they flaunted it in our face. This is not a secret. So, all this, how do they do it? They do it because they're not communists, they're not, they don't believe in redistributing wealth. That's what's happening in Minnesota. That's why uh the the Keith Ellison, he doesn't go after these people, he doesn't care. He wants this to happen. The guy was photographed with that uh that book, the the uh antifascist, the anti-voc. Yeah, yeah, they flaunt it in front of our faces, they don't care. It's happening in LA. The the uh Spencer Pratt was talking about it. These people aren't even Democrats. They are the they use Democrat in their name to get elected because they go to he talked about this. Yeah, it's like Democratic Socialist of America or whatever. It's a wide organization, so they have Democrat in their name. They go to these old people and they campaign and they go, Oh, yeah, we're Democrats, blah, blah, blah. They they manipulate these people into voting for them.

SPEAKER_05 55:05

That's how they get into power. Well, a two-party system, man. You gotta go one or the other, or you're not getting elected.

SPEAKER_04 55:11

Well, again, it's it's the lesser of trivials. That's that's a whole nother conversation.

SPEAKER_05 55:14

But uh bread and circus, you want your popcorn buttered or salted? Can't have both. No, I'm pissed.

SPEAKER_04 55:22

No, I'm pissed. But again, um we talked about, and I know we've said this on this already. I think on the very first episode we did, but at one at what points, as you know, your family in in our lineages, somewhere, someone said, you know what, we're gonna take that wooden ship overseas because it's gonna be a better future for our family. Right. You know, and at what point is that that situation now? Do we do that now with our family? Because is the future here in this tampon in boys' bathrooms, messed up culture, those bathrooms, tax bathhouses, the taxes, insane taxes. Is that future better here in Minnesota or is it somewhere else? The the answer is obvious, but it the the it's a lot harder. There's more variables, obviously. But those hard decisions need to be made.

SPEAKER_00 56:11

Even looking at what happened there, I mean, looking at our history, they decided to move from where they were, and I think that's where we're at right now, is like you got to move for where you're at. Yeah, you can fight too, and I and that's admirable, but I think the option of moving is the less resistance, you know. I mean, the easier option at this point right now, where we can actually get real results, move, and have you know something tangible, you know, from that action, from that amount of work. So you're getting something back. But at some point, just like what happened to our ancestors, it they got put into a corner where there wasn't another option. It was the we die for this. Like this is we're finally here, you know. And if that happens, I want to get around people that are likewise, like like you know, and I don't feel like I'm around that right now. I feel like I'm I'm around people that are not like that at all.

SPEAKER_04 56:58

There's good pocket, there's amazing people here, but there's um yeah, there are there's a lot of loony people too, right? Like extreme people, not just like uh yeah, I voted for Obama people. Like I I hang the the weird flag people, and yeah, you're you're you're a Nazi if you don't do that too.

SPEAKER_05 57:14

Right. Right. Right. That's why I think the best route is Texas over to Florida. You got the Gulf states. They're still gonna be prosperous. I mean, uh I don't know how far that line will go, but there is eventually gonna be another Dixie line that takes place, and it's not gonna be it's gonna flip sides. The Democrats will be on top this time, conservatives on the bottom. Yeah, I mean it's gonna have I mean eventually because that's that statement is crazy, but it's true.

SPEAKER_00 57:43

Yeah, I mean people wouldn't even run people, most people don't even understand that statement. That was a deeper statement than I think most people even understand.

SPEAKER_04 57:49

Back to the Second Amendment thing and that conversation is I think, and we've I've made fun of people like this in the past that talk about that, but um, I I was I can't remember who I was listening to, but they're talking about how we don't we don't live in reality and we haven't for probably since the end of World War II. You know, I think Vietnam vets, you know, uh people who went overseas in in Iraq, Gulf War, they got a taste of reality. Reality is conflict, reality has been war forever, and we haven't had to deal with that for a very long time. And people who don't think that could happen again are delusional. Um, it just you know, things pile up. We look at Iran. I mean, things are escalating very fast there to places people don't want it to go, but one thing leads to another, and next thing you know, like it's you're it's full blown. Um, so yeah, I think people should be semi-prepared for reality. Yeah, because that reality is secular, it's gonna happen again.

SPEAKER_00 58:41

Did we talk about this? I don't because I don't want to read talk about this, but or did we talk about this in in private? But I I'm concerned with the amount of infiltration that's happening from other countries that are coming into this country. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, that that's on purpose too. That is 1000% on purpose, but how willing everybody's like, come on in, you're welcome. Suicide come on in. And it's just like, wait a minute, wait a minute. And it's like, oh no, no, no, no. Don't be mad about it because we have privilege, we have a good life. It's like, wait, what are you doing? Like, why why are we giving this all up to these people that are they don't give a shit about us? They want to take this from us. Yeah, you know, it's just like, what's going on here? I mean, it's on purpose. It's not about racism, it's about like protecting our culture and protecting who we are as people.

SPEAKER_04 59:20

It's on purpose, it's 1000% on purpose. And um and then there's people that hate our culture that are a part of us.

SPEAKER_00 59:26

That that that's who they are. Like, which is again another crazy, it's just freaking mind-boggling.

SPEAKER_04 59:31

I know, yeah, I know, I know. And that's where it's it's disguised as empathy, and people that's where I think um, what is it, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. A lot of these people think they're doing the right thing, right? I'm protecting the people who don't have a voice. I'm flying the I'm flying the weird flag that represents all these underprivileged people because I'm better than them and I see them as beneath me, and it makes me feel good.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

You know what?

SPEAKER_04 59:55

That's what disguise does. It's disguise, it's suicidal impossible.

SPEAKER_00 59:57

You know who doesn't have a voice? They're children, they're children's children. They're they're children's children. Like those people don't have a voice. Those guys are gonna be the ones that suffer for what the actions that are happening right now, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:07

A lot of those extremists don't want kids.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:09

They uh that's true too.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:11

You know, which is good. They're they're the end of the road. No, that's good.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:14

I mean, that's good. I hope they don't have kids. Um but let's uh we're gonna combine this period. I told you it's gonna be a good show today.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:23

We're fired up.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:23

No, I actually am fired up, man. I really am fired up. And I I know there's supposed to be a good time on this show, but um this is this is where we're at. This is what we gotta do. We'll get to some good stuff here in a bit, but um just some real quick third period. We're gonna meld it into second period here. Um on clips, we'll have to clip this into multiple things because it's a long segment. But um, some more on the the taxes before we move on. Um some more facts here. Half of this, okay. So on this, the the talking point right now is the rich people need to pay their fair share. Uh it's getting louder and louder because of places like New York City. Um, pay your fair share. The rich got to pay their fair share. But they kind of already do. The top 1%, top one, okay. So first off, half of taxpayers pay 90%, 97% of federal income taxes. So the top 50% of taxpayers pay 97% of the federal income taxes. The top 1% pays 40% of all income taxes, the top 10% pays 72%, top 25%, 87%, and like I said, the top half, 97%. Um, and it's it's like 52% pay 100%. So if you're in that bottom half, roughly, you pay 0% income taxes. Um, and more on that, let me see. I think I have it here. I guess I did. Oh, here he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the income for people making over $640,000, a ton of money, they're taxed at a 37% rate. The income of people making under $50,000, $50,401, is taxed at a 10 to 12% federal income tax rate. So there is a lot of leeway there in how things are taxed here in America. Um and the pay your fair share narrative, it's totally false. But I feel like it's um it's the easiest the easiest identity politics to to peddle the haves and the have nots because it's like it really is, you know, 99% of people don't live like Jeff Bezos. They don't live like Elon Musk. I guess even Elon Elon Musk doesn't live a lavish lifestyle. At least, you know, I think he lives in like a box next to it's like a trailer.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:38

Yeah, yeah. I think he sold a lot of his houses.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:40

But um 99% versus 1%, that's an easy thing to peddle.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:45

If we all just 99% of us get together and we take down the system, it'll work.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:50

You know, I mean, that's easy. Yeah. Versus white versus black, versus women versus men, 50-50, roughly, you know. Um, so it's one of those identity politics that is really it's gaining a lot of steam right now in places like New York, Minneapolis. Um, but it's just a false narrative. It's false. The the wealthy do pay a lot of money. They do. Um, what else here? Oh, the last one here before we move on to our social studies class. The tax code is over 70,000 pages long. Can you believe that? That's insane. I asked my accountant, I think this was like two years ago now. I was like, hey, you know, as someone who has been in this business for a long time, you know, you got politicians coming and going on both sides, state and federal. Like, as an accountant, as a professional, what is it like for you to keep up with all these changes? And he said, he's like, I do anywhere between like 48 and 72 hours of continuing education every single year. Like, and he's like, you know, you can just hear the uh he's just tired, the exhaustion. You know, I'm like, it is nothing new. I do this every year. It sucks. I'm sick of it. So the obvious the answer obviously is a flat tax, but that'll never happen. Um 10% tax on every single transaction. There you go. There you go. You got the answer. One page tax code.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:04

So so easy. If you're a billionaire and you spend like a billionaire, then you pay more taxes. Exactly. It's that simple. If you're poor and you got no money and you pay and pay for things like you're poor, then you're paying less taxes.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:16

Pay less taxes. And and even oh, but but if you only make a thousand dollars a year, you that's you only have nine hundred dollars left after you pay your ten percent of a hundred bucks. Okay, well, let's say if you make under 50,000, we do a progressive tax system just like we already have. You don't pay any taxes. Because that I understand that argument. $100 and yeah, so it would work. That's my point. The flat tax would absolutely work.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:38

The only thing is like the flat tax, I wish it was a flat tax where it was simple, what they, but they would never have that will never ever happen because of the simple fact that we have no idea how much we're paying in taxes. Really, truly don't, at the end of the day. I mean, be when you go gas up and you pay tax on that gas, when you go to the freaking uh you go, you know, you you get taxed out of your check, and then you go to the store and you get taxed again, and different counties or different cities are taxing at different rates, and you get taxed for your license, you get taxed at different rates for your freaking cars, you get taxed for uh if you want to go hunting or fishing, you get taxed on your uh if you have a jet ski or a boat or whatever the hell it is, you know, it's all these different places you're getting taxed at, you know, and then if you want to do stuff like even go into like some of these parks and stuff like that, you got to pay fees, you gotta pay this and that. And you know, it's just like you can't just it's like wait a minute, I thought this was a government thing. Like, why isn't that?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:27

The actual the actual amount of tax dollars, what you're saying is who knows? Who knows? It's probably closer to 60 65% after you pay for all that stuff because yeah, it's you pay taxes and everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:38

Shit, you're paying for taxes on tariffs of things that you're buying too, right? When stuff's being tariffed. It's like you don't think that they're paying that. No, you're paying that. You're paying that, yeah. You're paying that. Like that's that's another hidden tax. Yep. Yep. Inflation. That's another hidden tax. Piss me right off.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:55

No, I'm pissed. I'm uh Oh, oh, ah, huh. All right. Let's move on here. But anyways, uh yeah, tax system is very broken. And I will say though, this is the first year that I really feel like people are fed up. Like people are really fed up. And I think a lot of it has to do with um I I sadly the the the undelivered promise of Doge. Doge was this thing to go in there and chop out all the waste and the fraud. People will say, oh, it still exists. Okay, well, where's the cuts? Yeah, this money is getting cut. They vote the I think Congress passed like nine billion in cuts, maybe. Dude, we have like a trillion dollar deficit on interest. So like literally nothing. So I think people are just like, you know what? Both sides are in on this crap and we're sick of it. So um, anyways, let's move on here. We got social studies class. Um, we're gonna have to speed through this one here. Um I mean, did you guys have stories to talk about? Did you have anything? Because if not, we'll skip it. We'll skip it. Okay. So, because this is a good one. This is totally different changing topics here. This is a wild story that I came across on Reddit. This is on a it's on the true off my chest Reddit. Um, I highly encourage you not to go on Reddit. It is a cesspool of horrible, horrible ideas in people. Um, but every once in a while, people the people that are on there find gold like this. It's a wild story, and I think that it's like a true crime. Um, this would be a crazy book or documentary. But, anyways, this guy says, I found out my ex-wife didn't abandon our family, she was dead the whole time. He, 45-year-old Mill, has a daughter, 22 years old, and a son that's 18. Uh, with Annie, ex-wife, who I thought abandoned us 15 years ago. Let's she say she was going through a bad phase of her life, she was very depressed and had already abandoned us once for three months in the past. She promised me she's never gonna do it again. One day, she said she was going to the store, and after a couple hours, I decided to go see at the store, she wasn't there. I waited one day hoping she would come back, but she never did. So I go to the police station to file a missing report. But they said they think she ran away because she has done it before, and a grown adult can vanish if they want. So they never filed a missing report. I was devastated. How can I announce this to my kids? I was furious at her because she left me with our two kids alone. So 15 years has passed since that time, and one day I got a call from an investigator who said they need a DNA sample from my son or daughter because an investigation about an unidentified murder unidentified murder victim. I was very confused, but I tell it to my son, and he was he agreed to give them a sample. Three months later, after that, I receive a call from the same investigator on the case and find um the unidentified victim was my ex-wife. For 15 years, I thought she had abandoned us. I feel so bad now. My kids are devastated too. I don't know how to feel about that because I didn't believe her when she never she said she was never gonna run away again. I feel like a piece of crap for being hateful toward her, but all this time she was dead and I had gone through this horror, I didn't know or to think.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:22

Isn't that insane? That's wild. Isn't that crazy? Dude, I don't know, man. That guy seems sketchy. Like I don't if your wife like went disappeared one day and you're like, oh yeah, she's not. I mean, she's kind of been a little flaky, but I feel like I would be Magnum PI. I would have to like find out. Like, I need an answer. Like, if you don't want to be around us, that's great. But I I needed to know what's up.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:42

I think the part of that story, and maybe it's totally BS, but maybe like the part that she had gone before.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:47

Yeah, that that is a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:48

And maybe during that time before he did that, maybe he was distraught, like, hey, what are you doing? Come back home, blah, blah, blah. And the second time was like, I already went through that. I tried to tell her, I tried to convince her. He did go to the police. He went to the police, yeah. That's isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:02

That is weird. Yeah, that's a weird story. I know. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:05

Onto another weird story.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:08

Is this what you've been doing while you're I'm out home feeding the kid, reading weird stories.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:13

Yeah, I was up from like midnight to 4 a.m. last night, and uh, this is what I was reading. This wired out of a whole pot of coffee this morning, dude. How you guys doing? Yeah. Let's talk about taxes and racial issues.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:25

This is not what we were planning to talk about. We've gotten off the rails so hard today that's like okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:33

I could feel it in the air. I told you guys it was gonna be a good show. I could feel it, I could feel the tension in the air. We're all on edge. But this is the feeling I get online as a whole. I feel like everyone is on edge. And this back to taxes, and onto this story, and this is actually where I wanted to have this conversation. Is uh let's start with this story first. Artemis. The Artemis uh the moon, the moon visits. So uh honestly, I have seen the official stories. Um, the Artemis mission, there were four astronauts, they went around the moon, they came back the furthest, furthest a human has ever been away from the moon and came back. Actually, uh just been away from the moon in general. Um, they landed in the ocean, uh, they went on their press tour. Now, this is what I wanted to talk about. First off, let me ask you guys do you guys think we went to the moon?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:29

No.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:29

This time, not if we're not getting into the the one lady was an actor. Are you serious? See, see, this is what I want to talk about. That's not true. I don't think it is. I don't think it is. I don't think it's true, dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:40

Let me find it out.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:41

Find it. She was an actor. She it was in a big movie. The the the the astronaut was an actor? The woman? That and I saw the post Dave's talking about, but I think I think it's fake. I don't think she she was in um uh Mad Max. Yes. I I don't know if that's her though. I think it's I think it was a fake post. So this is what I wanted to talk about because I from what I've seen online, and I'm everywhere, I'm on the the weird rabbit hole stuff, I'm on the official, you know, I look at the New York Times stuff. It's real. She really was? Yeah, she was an extra. That doesn't mean it was fake, though. Let's just say it was real. Let's say she was, okay?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:19

How does that does that mean she was an actor for the NASA space mission? That doesn't mean that.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:25

What if she had a fun that was her phone hobby? Well, here's why I think it was fake is you go on and look at uh all the images that they put out are CGI. Why do you got to put CGI out there? But I think what it is, I sent you the photo or I told you the photo, the Antichrist, that we would not be delivered the Antichrist until the back side of the moon was revealed. Is what uh does that say that in the Bible? Uh in an old archaeology discovery. It doesn't say it in the Bible, I don't care. I think it does, it did in an old one, in a really, really old one, like the Ethiopian style. Dude, I like that you brought that up. Yeah. So it I mean, you go on, dude. It's fake. So okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:05

Tadiv's defense. This is where the internet and I think everyone is as a whole. Nobody believes anything. Nobody believes anything. And I will say that actor thing that gives people reason to believe it's fake. The um there's a green screen thing, which I actually believe was AI, but there's they were in front of a green screen floating. Yeah. They believe that that gives people reason to believe it's fake. The CGI photos, the the I keep people say, see, the the thing was just traveling, it was 25,000 degrees, and they're touching it two minutes later. That's a reasonable thing, but there is an explanation for some of that.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:42

There is, and this is uh the only reason I don't understand why we would fake it at this point is in the 60s, we had a reason to fake it. Like the faster we pushed our mission to the moon and we pushed that outer space adventure, Russia broke race. Right. The space race. I mean, you're bankrupting these countries where it had a purpose to fake that. I mean, but we had the hidden the hidden gem, Stanley Kubrick.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:07

That's okay. Dave's getting way down there. I don't even know what you're talking about. See, what he's getting way down the rabbit hole in the other space landing. We're not gonna talk about that because it's that's a long one. What? I want to stick on Artemis. Okay, and you know what? Actually, maybe that is relevant because I think a lot of people think that was fake too. Um and so they don't they literally don't believe anything. They don't believe anything. Yeah, like this, this, if real, which I think it was real, I do think it happened. I think it should have been a monumental time and a and a great thing to to get behind and celebrate, but nobody cares. Nobody wants to care, nobody believes it. And I understand it. I understand people's problem with authority, but we can't keep living like this. We can't, and I'm not saying we should bend the knee and just believe everything automatically, but something's broken. I don't know how it gets fixed, but and I don't want to live like this either, dude. Every time I get online and I everything I see online, I immediately think AI uh that's my initial thought. Oh, that's gotta be AI. Well, here this is this is fake. This is there's a propaganda here.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:12

Yeah, you know, like, but why share CGI images? Why is the news why do we have to resort to CGI imaging?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:18

Can you pull up what you're talking about?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:19

I don't even know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:20

Well, and it's not just that either. It's not just CGI, but it's it's like it's the conversations that astronauts have. They're like, we can't see any stars in space. Yeah, we see a lot of stars. There's so many stars you can see in space. When you were up there, there's a lot of stars. Did they say that? Yeah, um, there's been conflicting like astronauts actually talking about what you can see in space and what you can't see in space. Yeah, yeah, forever. But they come they completely go against each other.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:40

You tell me right now, when you look at this, um dude, that's all fake images. Like, why would uh why would that be like that?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:52

Well, do you see dude so fired up? How about that video of the astronaut like uh from like ABC where he was like doing the first moon walk or I mean the first spacewalk? Did you guys ever see that in black and white?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:03

That was hey, that was that was uh the reverse image. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. So I I actually uh shared that in his education one time, and allegedly that was a pro that wasn't pitched to the public as the actual footage.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:17

It wasn't, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:18

At the time, allegedly it wasn't even this was like a reenactment. It wasn't like, hey, this is him on this because that thing faker than fake.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:24

Yeah, that's it. That's what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:27

But yes, that was not actual, they were not pretending it was footage.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:31

Allegedly, and I could be totally wrong. I could be seriously, I this is what I mean though. I don't know what's real. I can't tell. And I want to get to what Obama said about this, too. Like I said in the beginning of the show, I think this is a good one. This is one of the CGI photos. I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:44

There's no way we landed on the moon.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:46

I can't tell me which one of these is real.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:47

There's no way we landed on the moon.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:49

There's no way we landed on the moon. I have I have my doubts about there's no way, dude. I have my doubts about the initial moonlight. Look at this one. Look at this one. That is that is not real. How I don't know what website is it from? Um is that on a NASA website? Go to the NASA website and see if they have photos on there. I want to see what they're actually pushing. Because this is this could be all blog stuff. I don't want to see blog stuff where people artificially generate stuff. I want to see what so from NASA. I want to see what NASA's putting out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:17

NASA or the Smithsonian. Yeah, that's a good one too. I mean they shouldn't be lying.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:21

So, okay, on this though, what is the point of faking this if this is fake?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:25

See, at this point, that's the part. There is no reason money laundering. That they do say that uh dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:33

And okay, I'm not saying that's wrong, but this is where this my whole point here of this whole bit is nobody believes anything. We have lost complete trust in the system, and I understand it, but this is not good. There has to be some trust, dude. No, there there has to listen. How do we have a functioning society? There's no way we went to the moon. Listen, there's no way listen, but it's not what I'm not talking about. I'm not talking about that. But I'm talking about 2026.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:58

I understand, but I'm no, I'm saying even now, like, how the hell did we go in the 60s and all we had to do is launch a rocket and then fling around the freaking the earth and then say hit a little freaking gas, and then freaking all of a sudden you go into the moon and then you you you go around the moon and you slingshot back to earth. We go in the 60s and then we don't go back. I understand. We didn't get easy. Is that easy? That 70s, we said that easy and we never go back.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:26

I agree with you. I think there's a there's a lot of reason to believe that those that never happened.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:32

I believe you. I actually it just doesn't make sense why we didn't go back if it was that easy.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:36

I understand. But here's another thing. Here's a question on the on the Artemis. I have seen probably 50 different times now SpaceX launch a rocket and land it yeah upright.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:47

Yeah, that's insane.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:48

So to say we can we can do that, we can all see it with our own eyes. To say we can't just go out into space and come back, I mean they might probably do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:58

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:59

So but where's my that's not out of the question of possibility? Where is the real footage? That is all I'm asking for. Because I don't know. It's like, dude, this isn't real. That's not real.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:10

Like, I'm not saying it's not real. I'm just I'm this is the whole point of this thing is, and I again, uh maybe maybe it's all fake. Maybe everything is fake. Maybe we're all in a simulation and it's all an illusion, and we're just making things up in our own heads as to what reality is individually. But dude, the point is, is, and this is what Obama said, you should try to find this clip. This is actually very important. Um he says, once these these things erode, once our trusts in institutions, when we can't tell what the truth is, what what uh what's real, what's fake, then that's when countries fall. And we are at that point. We are at the point where I I this is outside of this, I don't believe anything. I can't believe anything online. It's awful. This is why I'm at the point where it's like, you know what, I'm gonna throw my smartphone away, I'm gonna go to church every Sunday, we're gonna grow our own garden, we're gonna live like the Amish, because that's the that's probably the correct way to live. That's a five-minute clip. Is there any like is there uh can AI like summarize it?

SPEAKER_05 1:20:13

Is there an AI summary of it? Uh the game is one quote. In a 2022 speech at Stanford University, Obama stated, once they lose trust in their leaders, in mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of truth, the game is won. The game is won.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:28

And I think and I think he was probably saying that on the side of the the winners, yeah, on this authoritarian takeover that is happening, specifically specifically with like uh the the tech lords. Dude, yeah. Now like the tech lords are probably the biggest threat that over any government, yeah, but the governments are helping the tech lords. Um but that's what he said is where we are. We are we are there, the game is over. The game is over as far as like our our uh our current our current country as it stands. Like yeah, the game isn't over. I I think um the answer is to just unplug from it and and go to church and focus on your family.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:08

But no, I agree, because I think at this point you can't um we can't turn back the dial. The dial is laid it the dial is broken, and we have we have entered uh Mach 10, we're past it, and you can't bring that speed back down. Once it's broke, it's broke.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:25

I was I was just thinking about this passage in the Bible. It says uh Timothy 3 7, always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Uh talking about end times. Like we'll we have teachers that will teach us, but they'll never bring us to the truth. You know, it's just like that's how I feel though. I feel like we can't, we like that I and I hate to say it this way, but this is really truly how I believe it. But I feel like it's like a fight against the devil. Like the truth is thousands. Like we just can't believe nothing. Like, you know, nothing, everything's a lie. That's a lie.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:53

That's why I asked Steve Riller. Did it say that in the Bible? Because that's where I'm at. Does it say it in there? Because if it doesn't, I don't believe it. Yeah, that's where I'm at. That's where that's like our guiding star of our family. Yeah. I feel like that's where we are at.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:05

Because you can't believe anything else.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:07

Yeah, and and and I have to say that out loud too. I have to say that you know, I can I'm not gonna sit back and hide that. I I don't believe that that we're in a fight. Like uh when it all comes down to everything, even the even our taxes and our and the money and the war and the everything that's happening, it just feels like it's a complete fight against good and and bad. It is it's it's the devil and and and God. It's just it's we we are in this struggle, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:31

Yeah, no, I I I agree. I agree. I just had this conversation with the buddy. Um, but that's where I like we as individuals have to strengthen ourselves and and and be that hopefully that rock for other people, right? To to help prevent them from going down those bad paths.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:50

Because you can slip into a bad path in very in a lot of places now, you know, and and and not to you know, I don't even want to say that. Um I think we need to also truly, truly be stronger Christians. Like and I'm when I say stronger, I'm not talking about more loving and caring and that, like stronger to our faith, like no sorrow for what we believe. You know, like it's like I'm not, I don't give a shit what you say about my faith or or whatever, or try to put me down or put me in a place that you use it the leverage against me. It's like, no, I'm not, that's not that's not my faith. That's not who I am as a as a Christian, you know. That's not me. I'm sorry. And every time people do that and they try to judge me to say, Well, you shouldn't have said that because of that. It's like, you know, F you. I don't give a shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:31

Did you listen to the uh um the Easter sermon?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:35

Um, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:36

He kind of mentioned that. He's like, look, there he he said there is a sacrifice as an individual for believing in Christ. And sometimes that's right, yep. Sometimes one of those sacrifices you're gonna come across is as especially as a newer Christian, is oh, he found he's all churchy now. He's he believes in Jesus now, he's one of those Christians now. Right, they're gonna mock you, they're gonna laugh at you. And you're gonna have to deal with that. That's part of that's part of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:01

That's part of it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:02

And that's you know what? Whatever. But I I I found this um this is I this this guy, I discovered the coldest Bible verse in the Bible, and this is my favorite one now. On what you were just saying, Psalms 118-11. They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. I love that.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:20

That is a great one. What is that?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:22

Which one is that? Psalms 118-11. Hold on a second. And it's it's the montage is like rocky. Nice uh football. It's dude, yeah. I'm gonna send this to you guys actually. 118-11. Yeah, I'll send it to you guys in text right now. But yeah, so I I think there is a battle between good and evil, no question.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:40

No question. As we sit now, with all trust losses, anything can happen now. They can do whatever they want. There we go, Dave. And this is what I wanted to touch on before I move on.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:51

Um, I think that this information haze that we have, we it's the wild, wild west still, even with all the consolidation of websites and platforms. I mean, the traffic online is consolidated to several platforms, social media and you know, Google, whatever. Um, because back in the day, I mean there were so many different websites. It was insane. It was insane. Uh, it was the true Wild Wild West. But now the information haze is so strong, there's so much misinformation. The Artemis thing, for example, maybe it was fake, but I can't, I don't know what's real. I don't know if I've seen so many things where they they were AI generated. Whoever said, Oh, look at this, this this uh CGI photo, that actually wasn't a real photo, it was someone just spreading misinformation. That this is going to be a license for the Democrats when they get back into power to censor us. It is going to be like COVID times 10. Yeah, and I will and I'm very comfortable predicting that because I don't even think it's a good prediction. I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah, they're out there saying this. Uh, who was it? Um was it Kathy Holkel? One of the big Democratic heads right now, or was it um Newsom's wife? Have you guys seen videos of her? No, what a nut job. No, Newsom's wife? I've never seen her before. Oh, dude. I buy bo I buy dolls for my boys so they understand what it's like to take care of a human. Like she's a she is woke times 10. But, anyways, those people are gonna get back into power at some point, especially if Trump keeps going on the path he's going on, pissing his voter base off. Um, and they are going to use all this information, haze, all this misinformation that is out there. Um, and they're gonna use it as a license to to censor people.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:32

Oh, yeah, dude, it for sure. Absolutely. It's coming.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:34

It's coming. I honestly I'm I would be shocked if we wouldn't get censored at some point for probably 10 different things. It's coming again.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:41

I mean, we're in it, we're just in a different, we're in a different zone right now, right? Or a different phase of the whole freaking information flow. I don't know why. And I sometimes it scares me too to get on here and and and talk because I'm like, oh, they're building their case. Well, that's what like who's who? You know, you see a lot of this, like you see a lot of uh you see right now, I'm seeing a lot of racist stuff online. Oh, there's a lot of hate stuff against true, like actual bad stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:03

Yeah, yep. Not like, hey, let's have a conversation about no yeah, uh uh racial culture in our country. Right, right. But real, like I hate you because you have this skin. Right. That actually it's everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:15

Yep. Yep, but I feel like they're making a list.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:18

Oh, they are, oh, that's sure they are for sure they are. The Palantir government contract has to do with that, it's about uh terrorism tracking and through hate speech and all that stuff is involved inside of that contract. So when it gets brought into the next step, a part of Agenda 2030 is being able to take this information and there because a lot of the people that post that kind of stuff probably do go commit crimes, but just because I bookmarked one of those tweets, welcome to the list, welcome to this, and then you keep categorizing yourself with all those little things you interacted with. Yep. So agenda 2030, and then eventually, because now the the digital currency push, I don't know if you saw this. Recently, but it was uh within the last month that people are now coming out saying, Yep, it's a matter of time that we will be a fully de uh fiat currency. Everything is gonna be digital, and then with that, without a doubt, because dude, I remember when I brought up the social credit score of China, you're like, dude, that's there's no way that's real, and dude, it's been real for years, and we it's a matter of time before something like that because the EHG scores was never a thing, and then all of a sudden it was under Obama, I believe, and then then businesses had to work with this not DEI culture, but that kind of woke culture to cater towards the green energy. Yeah, so agenda 2030, it's happening.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:43

You know, the only thing that we can combat that with is you think about back in the days is being able to barter. And it's like, what do you have to barter? Yeah, right. Like what what what trade do you have? What skill set do you have? Like what items do you have access to, or you know, what skill set do you have that you can barter in the future that they can't control that? They can't control like with money. You can barter this always. It's like, hey, you need this done, you need some concrete work done.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:06

I can do concrete, you know, if you can do this, or I'm not saying that's a bad thing, or I'm saying that is a bad thing, but what I will say is we already have a digital dollar. Yeah, people don't even realize it. Like uh, and I've said this, I've probably seen this like 30 times on the show previously, but credit cards and well, yeah, over 90 percent or yeah, 90% of US dollars do not have a physical backing. So 90% of US dollars already are just numbers in a computer.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:35

So if we all if every single person went to go get money out of the bank, only we'd only get 10% of it because there's no actual physical dollars behind it.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:43

And it's been like that for a while. But they're not they're not tracking exactly how you're spending your money.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:48

No, but I mean but they can track it pretty damn easily. They can. If especially with it's digital, like dude, if you have if you uh take out 10,000 or put in ten thousand dollars, they have to report that to the IRS. Yep, they can see where that money goes unless you take it out in all cash. But again, only 10% of money is cash. Yep. So that will make it much easier though. Like you literally won't be able to hide anything. Yep. Everything will be transacted in that, but listen, it's coming digital currency.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:14

Here's here's where I stand on this. Digital currency is part of the great erase, right? The greater race, like historically, so we we the great erase. Yes, the great erase, right? So I think that there's uh there's possibly I'm starting to wonder, I'm the more I'm like going down um quantum physics, like I start to believe that well, I'm positive that time travel can exist, but I'm starting to wonder if time travelers don't come back and they have to come back certain spots, right? If there's no documentation of what's going on in those times, in those time periods, maybe they don't want to come back. So they erase so so, in order for us to protect ourselves, in order for us to protect ourselves, we have to erase everything. So everything that's on the internet, like we've gone away from libraries and books and and things that you can actually intrinsic things that you can hold and to tell what's going on, you get you move on from that and you go on to the digital aspect of it. And on the digital aspect of it, we can erase everything with a touch of a button, all currency, all information, everything that we are as a society and people, all the documentation is gone and we disappear just like that. Like, boom, overnight. We're gone. The time travelers won't know what happened, like in like 30,000 years. They won't, they'll have no idea what happened in this time frame, so they'll have no interest in coming here. They won't they'll be because they don't have like this great thing that you're like, oh man, let's go back and see Adolf Littler and kill him or something weird shit like that, right? It's it won't be anything like that. We'll just be gone. And we're protecting ourselves from them coming to traveling for us right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:38

What are you talking about? I just wonder something. Jeez.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:43

Here's the part. Okay, back to church. I hate to do this because uh yeah, but uh, you know what, maybe it's the right thing to do. What did he say this weekend? Like the whole message was like, look, we're all gonna die. So what do we do? What are we doing here? What are we doing clinging on to this stuff? It doesn't it in the long run, in the grand scheme of thing, you are a mist. Is that what that's what he says in the Bible? You are a mist in the span of time. This doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:07

It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:08

So it's fun to talk about. It's we should care while we're here.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:11

But at the end of the day, like we are gonna die. So so 30,000 years from now, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:17

You know, I I've been doing a lot of uh I've been I've been looking into uh I don't know, I've been going on like this, I've been listening to these physics physicists talking, and I'm just like at this point right now, I think that we already are dead. You know, I'm like, it's possible that we already are dead at this point right now. It's already happened. Our whole lives have already happened. And and and I believe that even on a biblical sense, because God went through and and he he walked um uh who is it? I can't even think now, or walked through like the history of time and talks about the end times. I mean, that's right, it's so it's already happened, right? Our lives have already happened, and I think sometimes like you can like you can stack time in in like in think of like a book like we can travel through the pages right now. We're just living in our consciousness right now, we're living on a certain page, right? But I think you can go up and you can go down. I think we're already dead, honestly. And I think that does it what does it matter? The story's already written.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:08

Have you seen have you heard of the can since you're down this rabbit hole right now? Have you come across the one where um you don't actually die? If you do die, you you surf to a a parallel reality where you're living. So you don't actually die?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:24

Yeah, you just it's more of like a blink.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:26

Right, right. Like you're about to die, but so in one life you might actually die, but you're not gonna realize it because your consciousness is gonna just gonna go to the parallel and I'll be dating.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:34

Right. Well, I mean, there's a lot of things again, going back to the Bible, it's like he knew us. I can't quote script, I'm not a good quote scripture quoter, but I mean, in the in the in the in the jest uh of it is like he knew us before we were even born. Yeah, right. It's like okay, so he knew us before we were born, and we know that there's internal life after the fact, right? I mean, you go to hell, you go to heaven, like what's I mean, where you know, where's this, where's that? I mean, is this are these different universes you gotta go to? You gotta do you know, it you start wondering a little bit. It doesn't it doesn't lay it out exactly in the Bible, but there's little clues. Yeah, you know, there's little clues that you kind of can fill in the blanks, and you probably you know, I think a a lot of Christians would say, Well, don't do that, don't don't start making up stuff and and feeling like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:15

Well, yeah, of course, yeah, because people do do that and they they yeah, it's it's crazy what uh can come of it perversion of uh I'll see stuff and be like, Well, where does it say that? Like, does it actually say that? But then I'll go look it up and like that's how you guys doing that. I just following that. That's not what it says, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:29

Right. But I think you know, one thing on the Bible, like it's the living word. You always hear the living word, and it's like, man, that thing really is like you go into church and someone you might go into church on Sunday and say, you know what, that was written for me. And then someone else that has a completely different group of problems that listens to you know, listens to the Bible and they're like, that was written for me. What's going on for me right now? It speaks to people differently, yeah, yeah. You know, and it's it's an interesting thing, but I don't know, man. I don't know. I we were just talking about the the the the digital dollar. I don't know how we got here.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:00

Well, I don't know, you got real dark and you're like, uh dude, so we're it's all dead, we're all dead anyways.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:04

Well, you know, we're alive, but I mean it's just uh in this current time in the state that we're in, we clearly are alive, but Tracy Lawrence makes a song to explain it all.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:14

I think it's more complicated. March is on, yeah. It's more complicated.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:17

We just we need to be as strong as we can and uh and and build ourselves up as much as we can while we're here. That's what I believe. We uh we can't blackpill that hard. Yeah, and I think that the stronger we are, we make people around us stronger as well. So, and that's where I that's what the the mentality people need to have, I think. Um so because it yeah, it's not over. I think there's a lot of great things happening.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:38

You know, screw the Lamborghinis, screw the money, screw all that stuff, it doesn't matter. You know, I mean, really, truly just try to be good people, find relationship with Christ. You're gonna let you're this this this ride is quick, man. I'm 50 freaking years old, and I'm about to be 51 years old. It doesn't, it just is like boom, it's so fast. I can't tell young people how fast it is. It's so, so fast.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:58

I was actually just saying that to uh my mom. I was like, man, I remember when your your guys' son was born. Well, we went to the restaurant and he was sitting in that little high chair. We're in like the bar for happy art with a little baby.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:10

You know, at the time we do that all the time now, or you know, when we go to the restaurants now, it's like, well, whatever. Let's bring the kids, you know. But uh, that was 15 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:18

That was crazy, dude. You know what my son said to me? And then now, you know what my son said to me last night about the astronauts? He literally said this like unprovoked. He goes, you know what, Dad? I don't think they uh I don't think they went to space or they landed on the moon. I'm like, what? Uh he said this unprovoked. He goes, you know the astronaut, uh he goes, one of the astronauts they asked if you went to the moon and he wouldn't put his hand in the Bible.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:36

Yeah, yeah. What? Which guy was that? Buzz Aldrin, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:41

Uh he was like, Yeah, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:42

That's the same. Dude, it's a crazy rabbit hole, man. And I'm I'm yeah, there's so many questions around that. Um yeah. We gotta move on. We gotta keep going. Dave, do you have anything? Did you have anything for your story?

SPEAKER_05 1:36:54

The uh the lake? Um, well, no, actually, uh, I have uh 13 tons of Kit Kat chocolate bars totaling roughly 400,001 units were stolen during a transit shipment in Europe. And they were like this is amazing! And they were a special edition for the F1 races. So uh Nessie confirmed each bar has a unique batch code printed on the package. So uh they launched an official stolen Kit Kat tracker on April 1st, which nobody believed it either because it was April 1st, you know, April Fools. Um and yeah, stolen candy bars was part of a special edition range developed for a Formula One promotion. Um nothing, haven't found it. But like, dude, so this they got away with it. Yep. No, dude. Actually, lately, have you guys been hearing all the art thieves and stuff? I mean, this is straight out of a movie. What? Dude, they're breaking into art galleries like the Louvre and these top ones that you see like on movies, and they're in and out in 10 minutes, and they're stealing high-end million dollar, like, dude, top of the line. And all of them are like, we've never seen any group work like this before. The one they put a crane outside of the window of the building, and they just broke in and out of it. I saw that one, dude. It is wild. Like, we're seeing uh the full on from real oceans 11. Yeah, but better because it's real.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:22

Oh, you know what? In New York, I was at the Smithsonian, and they had like Van Goghs and stuff like that there. You and I'm like, how do they I mean, I could literally be like, you know, touch it. It didn't have glass over it or nothing, it just was right there, nothing between us. How do they get away with that? I don't get away. I think it's I think they put fakes out there. You think?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:41

I think they're probably they have to, they have to, yeah. It's just too valuable, some of them, you know. Like that's the part with art, dude. It's fart. Like some of it's good, but how do you really? I would never be able to tell the difference.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:56

Yeah, I yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:58

But dude, real thieves, man, real life freaking oceans 11 coming out here. And then we got these Kit Kat guys, they're like, dude, one day we'll get to the art. We gotta start somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:07

What a weird thing we do as critters. Like, we like you paint, you put some paint on that canvas, and it's worth millions of dollars.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:14

Yeah, well, okay, as a so I feel like when I see something, uh, even the guy that we know, when I see that, it's like, huh. That's like hours of that guy's life. Go, you know, and in what's going on in his brain when he's doing that, you know. I mean, that's kind of something different, but like someone that paints something that I'm gonna draw my emotion, right? It's like, oh, like the or the people that um these churches, even that's a piece of art that take like 600 years to build. That's actually I went down the uh the Tartaria rabbit hole. Nice, nice. I don't think that's real, but uh it's a good one. Some of those churches, though, in Europe, you're like, whoa, I mean, that's someone's life in those sculptures. They sat with a chisel and did that, dude. That's insane. I can appreciate that. That's like thousands of hours of that guy's life, yeah. And it's and it's living still. That's insane.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:01

That's why I like there was uh I feel like we're in this weird era right now of like we kind of go through our phases, but because there was the piano phase where I mean that was the thing, like being Sebastian Bach, and then you're getting trained in to be uh, you know, not Van Gogh, but uh you just go down the list of the pianist, and then it was kind of in and out of painting artist, but the art phase right now is totally cinema, and I don't know if we're moving out of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:27

But cinema as in movies, or you're talking like a Gen Z. No, like movies, okay, because that's like the word now.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:32

It's cinema, dude. It's like that's cool. No, I'm I'm not that cool. You know, we it totally in the 1900s we moved over from and painting and stuff still is there, but uh movies have become the the future art of what maybe people are gonna look back in you know, two, three hundred years of this era's generation.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:52

That makes sense, actually. I mean, with AI, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:54

Yeah, and then maybe that'll be the next hundred years. Is the AI artists freaking whatever?

SPEAKER_04 1:41:01

Um speaking of heists, uh, there's something else gonna say too, but I forgot. Um the organized cheese bandits. I love those quirky stories, like the they they steal stuff. That's what I was thinking of when he told that. That's what I thought of when he was. That's real. They're stealing cheese in Wisconsin. Oh, yeah. Some of that cheese is expensive. Yeah, that aged cheese, some of it's real delicious too, but they uh like this one here, organized cheese bandits still on the loose. Still on the loose, man. That was gonna be a movie. It should be. Yeah. It's like those it's like those quirky movies that get made that they don't get made anymore because they don't make the money.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:36

I feel like still in the Kit Katz was a mistake.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:39

20,000 pounds of fresh Wisconsin cheese from Green Bay to Milwaukee led to a mysterious crime that remains unsolved. 20,000 pounds? 20,000 pounds. Uh a one heart's a lot. Semi-trailer driver. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:53

So uh $46,000 worth of stolen cheese. Well, dude, that's where like when my thought is who the heck would steal cheese? So if I'm working the factory and some guy pulls up, like, yeah, here to get this, this, and this. If his confidence was there, yeah, all right, dude. I guess you're here to get it. No, who else is stealing cheese? Right. That's how you do it. You gotta be confident.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:15

It's all about confidence.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:16

Well, that's like the time we snuck back into the uh Timberwolves locker. Remember that?

SPEAKER_06 1:42:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:20

Did you remember that? Yeah. We snuck, and that was that's such a great example in my life of how that like that works. Yeah. Is uh block. Dude, no, I know I'm pretty sure we've told this story a long time ago, but we were, I was probably was that real right out of the military, I think. So 2015. You must have been just out. Yeah. Just fresh out of the military. Because it was, it was that spring too, because it was that season. So like March of 20, March of 2015, and uh, you're like, dude, let's sneak back in the locker room. And we walk, we kind of just creep over there, and you're like, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna distract the security guard. And then when he gets distracted, you guys go and we're walking over there, and all of a sudden you go, Oh, go, go, go, go, go! And the the security guard was distracted by that kid in the wheelchair. We literally just walked right by. Walked right by and went in, and nobody said anything. And then we then someone said something when we got to the um like the defined dining area, and he's like, What are you guys doing back here? And you're like, we lost a guy. Have you seen him? Like short brown hair. Like he's like, Oh, yeah, I know you were so confident that they he thought you belonged there. Yeah, and he just didn't even ask questions. He's like, I don't haven't seen him. And that was it. Yeah, that was it.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:25

We just did that was it. It worked.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:29

Because people, yeah, I mean, it's uh it's just the same thing we do with our little kids, you know, it's just uh distraction. It's a distraction, you know, confidence and distraction. Yeah, you know, it's you distract them, you're like, oh, look over here. And it's like, what, what, what? You know, and remember, all these people are typically are making, you know, I mean, they're making minimum wage standing there. Yeah, a lot of them are, yeah. So they don't know what the hell's going on, and they don't want to piss somebody off and get in trouble, you know, because they don't know who's who and they're you know, they're just like, uh wait, who are you? They know that they're just you're supposed to have a badge, but maybe maybe you're someone that's so important that doesn't have a badge.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:03

That's uh that's one thing about content nowadays that reminds me, is um because there's people that have that's their content, is they sneak into places, yeah. They sneak into uh locker rooms, they sneak into venues and um and they videotape it, and I'm like, that's genius. And then I'm like, ah man, that is a great idea, but at the same time, it's I don't know if there's any good content ideas anymore. Like everything's been done so many times, and but it but if this happened in 2013, I mean that would have been he would have been on Ellen, right? He would have been they would have invited me on Ellen. Like the dumbest stuff got invited onto shows when the internet was a new thing still. The dumbest channels went viral because they were pioneers.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:45

So there's a new channel, so there's a new channel called uh that has PDF. Yeah, is that the is that the thing is, you know, like little kid things. Yeah. Anyways, um, he catches the he catches this the stalkers uh that are doing this and then he beats them up, right? Well, I saw one last night. This is just coming up on my feed. He caught two, and he's like, all right, I'm calling the cops on you guys. You both have to uh basically you guys have to fight. Whoever wins the fight, I'm gonna let go. The other one is going to jail, right? And they fought it out. The two the two uh the two people fought it out. I'm like, that's where that's where our content has gotten to, though. I know I'm like, dude, why don't you just call the cops on both of them?

SPEAKER_04 1:45:22

You know what? That's not even extreme enough because that's been done repeatedly. And isn't that crazy that they're doing it for content?

SPEAKER_06 1:45:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:29

For content. Not to save kids. Yeah, not to say, oh, you're gonna let you go. Yeah. There that's been so many. I mean, there's like a dozen channels now. That started with Chris Hansen. And Chris Hansen still does it. That's right. He still does his show. Did you know that? Yeah, he still does his show. Uh-huh. And I saw that because some guy got caught and he was doing his interview, right? And because he his is a classic show, right? It was like the OG of that kind of content. It was literally on uh, what are they aired on, MSNBC or CNBC or something?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:54

But anyway, it was on TV for years. The guy was like, You're still doing this? The guy that he caught, the the PDF guy he got his, like he was he was insulting him. I'm going to jail. It's like it's like you're still doing this? Take a seat. Hey, are you Chris Hansen? I am. Yeah. Let's take a seat. Let's look over your text messages. Dude, you're still doing this? Like he was insulting him. Like, like, dude, you're the one in trouble. But uh, I guess that's the point though. I'm making though, is um, everything's been done. Everything's been I don't know if you can do anything original at this point anymore for content. I mean, me personally, when I consume content, it's like uh seeing it. Give me a good documentary, that's all I care about. Like I give me something, that's it. Like one of those come out a month. Oh, actually, I should say we we talked about the Matt Walsh series. Yeah, those are great. I love that content.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:43

Someone will regurgitate something from the old and make a new version of it, and because no one will remember that it existed, and then it's just that's basically how it will play out. Yep. I mean, to have real new, true, new content. That's tough. It is. That's really tough.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:59

It is. Um, all right. You know what? Speaking of documentaries, let's move on to our last bit here, and then we'll uh we'll get to get and we'll end this crazy show. Um, speaking of which, we gotta have a guest on here at some point.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:10

I know. Janelle DeBell.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:11

Let's start with Janelle.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:12

Janelle DeBell.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:13

Actually, there's a lot I want to talk about with Janelle. Um so she'll be our first guest.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:18

You asked me. She's loaded up.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:20

I know. Well, that's why I want to have her on.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:21

Buckle up.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:22

But I want to talk, I want to talk to her about a lot of a lot of stuff though. And I think it'd be a really good interview and a good pilot interview too, to kind of get used to it. So um but until then, and I and that's what I want the show to turn into. We do this once a week, we do an interview once a week. So that is still the goal of this channel, but uh like man, we've been we've all been all over the place with busyness and so having kids and traveling and moving to other states.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:49

Trying to, mentally trying to.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:52

Yeah, getting out of the winter depression. Yeah, it's there. I think it's there. I think we're out of winter. All right, but seventh period film studies. This week we watched, or we're supposed to watch, I don't know if you guys watched it, the untold operation or the untold operation flagrant foul. And then next episode, which will not be next week, it'll be the week after, the plastic detox. I have not watched it yet, but it's allegedly it's about plastic. It's out of our bodies.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:17

It was uh it was on Joe Rogan. Have you watched it? No, I haven't, but I've heard of it.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:21

I've heard a lot of people talk about it. Um, our mom talks about it a bunch, but it's apparently a bunch of shocking info. So we will watch that for next week. Um, I'll try to watch that Joe Rogan too with her. But Untold Operation Flag and Foul, we decided to watch this after we were talking about sports betting in the NCAA, and I think this was very relevant to where we are now because I saw this crazy stat. So anyway, before before I get to the crazy stat, um this documentary is about uh the referee who got caught sports betting, shaving points and uh helping manipulate games in the NBA. Um it was a giant story when it happened, and people were shocked and they couldn't believe it. And I think the thing that I saw, like when I was watching this, I was like, Yeah, this happens probably every single game down. Right? Yeah, we live in a sports betting world. I know this happens every single game. Every game. And here's more proof of that in the NBA specifically. Um, I gotta find this tweet here. I said this to my buddies because I think I might have sent it to you, Dave. Yeah, how many are doing it per how many get caught? Yeah, right. Right. You know, but look at this. So this is from um a guy named Mark Stein on Twitter, a notable NBA trend stat. Teams were awarded nearly 4,500, 4,500 more free throws this season compared to last year. 57,768 free throws. Last year, 53,312. What? That is insane. So if you're a referee, it's it's a little close. It's gotta be eight points or less. Right. Call an extra foul here. I'll call an extra foul there. I'll miss that call there. Stop the momentum. Stop the momentum. Guaranteed that happens now. And I feel like that's proof. For sure, that's proof.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:10

Listen, it's entertainment. Let's just everyone calm down. It's entertainment. It's entertainment. And it blows my mind to think even when I'm watching a game and I see a call. Like, so if I'm watching Monday Night Football, for example, and it's a blow game, and then someone like throws like a hell Mary up and they're like, we're just trying to get back into it. And then they catch the ball, and then like their foot, like they they're like, no, that wasn't a catch. It's like, dude, you just had a chance to pull this game together. If they don't pull the game together, I'm if I was the NFL, I would lose my mind. I would lose my mind because it's like, dude, listen, keep people engaged, keep people watching, keep people in the game. Like it's like we got we have commercials to sell, we have ratings to meet.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:53

It makes sense. You know, that makes sense to me. But then on the on the on the flip end, like what we're talking about here, it's it's you know, it's not just that, but now people are, you know, cashing in themselves, trying to control the game themselves. Each individual's are controlling the game, like this, you know, this referee was on.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:08

Well, uh, it was at the beginning of the season, the NBA season. Do you remember the Troncenville's thing?

SPEAKER_00 1:51:11

Yeah, Terry Rozier.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:12

Terry Rozier's. There was a so you can bet on the craziest stuff on these websites. If you're, and I think this is what Terry Rozier did. There's there's footage of him taking himself out of a game. So you can bet, like, uh, is Daniel gonna get more than nine and a half points? Or ten and a half?

SPEAKER_06 1:51:29

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:29

So if I'm the player and I know that's out there and I know my buddy has 10 grand on that bet, exactly, I might miss a few. I might get hurt.

unknown 1:51:37

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:37

That's what Terry Rosier did. He purposely pretended to be hurt, took himself out before he hit that threshold, and cashed in. That's happening all the time. I guarantee it.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:47

Yep. And I'm all for I think sports betting, the player should be allowed, but you can only do it on the team to win. You can only do it on your team to win. If you're betting- I would love that. I mean, if you're that makes sense, it does.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:58

It does make sense, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:59

You're betting on your team to win. Well, it benefits the team, it benefits you better.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:03

You're gonna play harder. Yep. Yeah, that should be allowed, actually. Absolutely that should be allowed. Yep. But uh, yeah, no, the the the sports bidding is out of control, and I think that's um these referees are for sure on it. 1,000 percent. Um what was that other one? Actually, have you guys watched any of the recent Untolds? There's two more that they suck. Oh, really? They did one on Lamar Odom. Yeah, that I saw that one over there. Because he he got into drugs, you know, crazy story, but he got the documentary because he's a Kardashian. They had Kobe and POW. I mean, they just did another one on the Trailblazers, garbage. It was like, stop doing the NBA, do something for do like do one on Randy Moss. Like, do dude, do one on do it on a fun one, do it on the Vikings curse, like do one on well, dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:52

I love when they do college guys, like uh when they do like like the untold, like that's what I thought the whole thing was. Is uh I can't remember the football guy, absolutely phenomenal at Auburn, like just crushed every record, but then he I think he tore his knee or something and just couldn't really cut it in the NFL. Um, and then they they had a few college ones where the guys were absolutely insane, like Lenny Bias. You know, not a lot of people really know him, but he was like my better than Michael Jordan at the time, they said, and then died of a cocaine over.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:26

Oh, yeah, yeah, that was a crazy one.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:27

But you don't hear of him, I mean, that we're 30, 40 years past that.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:30

Yeah, God, you know, you could you don't want that you would be easy to cheat, we're coming on the draft right now, so people are probably betting on who gets drafted where.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:38

Yep, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:39

But I mean, even as a coach, you could say, Yeah, we're looking at this guy, this guy, we're probably gonna draft this guy or this guy. You know, that coach himself could be betting against you know that. And then if they said, Well, why didn't you go after him? He was available, be like, Yeah, we're yeah, I mean that could have been a smoke screen. You know, like, no, I don't want to really, we did we we didn't like what we saw. We just wanted someone else to pick him.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:56

Yeah. The first overall bet now as a coach, screw it, dude. Bet the family farm for a couple bucks.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:04

That is kind of a crazy thought. I mean, like, yeah, even the giraffe you could control. Yeah. Everything's gonna be a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:10

I mean, dude, that's where uh they just I think it would the Trump administration just I think they put out a warning to people who work in the White House, like, hey, you guys, you can't be using Kel She and and you know, polymarket. Right because it's it you're gonna get caught and it's gonna be bad press. Um, because they were definitely doing that. Yeah. There's no question. I mean, someone real close to Trump is doing that with the crypto market. Oh, yeah. That's obvious. We just talked about it earlier in the show, but what day would the war be over?

SPEAKER_00 1:54:37

Oh, it was over yesterday. He declared it over yesterday. Yeah, he won big time.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:44

Speaking of which, can you bet on that?

SPEAKER_00 1:54:47

Can you bet on when the one? Oh, dude, you can you can bet on everything.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:50

You can bet on everything. Let me pull it up right now. You can bet on everything, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:53

I haven't been on these sites like because uh it's illegal in the state, is it not? No.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:57

No, not anymore. No, no, that's the thing. We talked about this. I this is not this is not a sports betting website, it's a prediction market. Yep it's it is the most hilarious workaround I've ever seen in my life. Not I'm saying, like, I actually do think these should be illegal. I do think sports betting online should be illegal. I think it's I think it is a detriment to society. I really do think it's bad for like 99% of people that use these apps. The the amount of stories I've seen where people like they started betting five bucks a game, next thing you know, they lost their college tuition and they're into drugs and they you know attempt their own life, and it's like is this something that we should be letting young people get into or anyone in general? Like a very, very severe, terrible vice. Here's one. What's the gold price today gonna be at 5 p.m. Eastern? Above $4,794? Above $4,804? You can bet on that right now. You can bet on that. That's insane.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:54

That is insane.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:55

That's insane. Um, Brent crude oil prices at 5 p.m. Eastern. $99? Above $98? What about tomorrow? Is it gonna be below $90.99? $90? You can bet on anything. Anything. Let's see. What else we got here? Elections. New Jersey special election. Democrats allegedly have a 99% chance of winning, so there you go. California governor, Tom Steyer. You can bet on that. Speaking of what, did you guys see that? That idiot that got uh uh Eric Swalwell. Oh yeah. Oh, dude, what a jackass. I I you know what I wish him well. I hope he finds uh purpose in life. I don't have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, he was running for uh you know who that is, right? No, he was probably one of the more vocal uh Trump tards, like uh Trump derangement people. Okay, you know, like uh the Russia Gate people, which we know is a hoax, right? One of those people that was like Trump doesn't behind bars, bar on camera. He was the guy. He's the guy farted on camera. Yes, yes, yes. He farted on camera.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:55

Okay, yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:56

Classic clip. Yeah, um, one of the bigger scumbags in Washington, D.C., he was running for governor and was the favorite to win because Newsom was gonna run for president. Um it came out like there's multiple allegations from people that worked for him, multiple women came out against him, and then a video, multiple videos came out of him in hotel rooms with hookers, and it was so bad. Like something that he couldn't just lie his way out of that he had to resign, he had to step out of the race and resign from Congress. Wasn't he he's not even finishing his own?

SPEAKER_00 1:57:27

The spy?

SPEAKER_04 1:57:28

The spy, the China, that's how delusional and blind-eyed these people were. Like crazy. He married or got with I don't know if he was married to or dated a Chinese spy. God knows what he said to her and gave uh in secrets. You know, so yeah, he went down in flames, and it's a beautiful thing to see. He deserves it.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:45

What do you guys think of um what's her name? The the that lady that was a big Trump supporter, the Congresswoman. That was like a huge and now she now they're claiming that she took uh money from Soros, possibly. Marjorie Taylor Green? Is that who it is? Uh yeah, that is her, but if that's what they're trying to say, or it's who's the guy that uh who's the guy that uh exposed the Somalian daycares? Nick Shirley. Yeah, Nick Shirley's claiming that she took money from I believe uh it's her that took money from Soros. Really? Like 50 billion or 50 million dollars in order to flip-flop, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:18

I just want to make sure that that's because I will say I I actually I don't mind her. I I think that um her early days in Congress, it was like ah this is kind of a bad look at some of the stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:28

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:28

Um, but uh, and that's a lot of people in Congress, but I feel like she's been pretty consistent with this America First thing and just saying, hey Trump, dude, you like abandon America first, man. What the hell's going on? Yeah. So and I think a lot of people are on her side, like, yeah, he's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:43

He's claiming he's got proof. I just kind of I just caught a glimpse of that. MTG Soros. I just got a glimpse of that like this weekend. I'm like, what? And I haven't I've you know, I've been super busy like dealing with family stuff right now. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:55

Soros buying MTG would explain it all. So uh one picture here there's a picture of her with Alex Soros. While looky here, Marjorie Taylor Green and Alex Soros. I wonder if that's when she cut the deal and accepted the bribes from the Soros family. I hope it's worth it, MTG. Damn Benedict Arnold. Uh I don't know if if this is true or not. I would be shocked. She's been consistent with your message. That's the only thing. She has. And that's the part where I'm like, it would make sense for them to smear her with that because it's totally discrediting.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:24

Sure. Um but she the Epstein, that's all she wants, is the Epstein files, and I'm for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:29

I know that's a thing. That's what she says, and I'm like, yeah, she's right.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:33

Like, and that's what I said earlier in the show. Is like, if we care about the Epstein files, we're no supporters of you. Okay. I I that's what you campaigned on. That's what you know, JD Vance, your attorney general, all these people said was gonna come out, and now you're saying we're backstabbers if we want that. Anyway, so for her to like keep her uh consistent, I don't know if this is true or not. I'll have to look more into this, but I'd be I'd so here we go. This is what Grok says on that. No, there's no evidence of bribery by Jorles or Gates. MTG's stock gains are from her disclosed congressional trades, which are publicly tracked and show strong performance in 2025. The Nick Shirley receipts claim originates from an unverified social media post without supporting documentation or IRS action reported anywhere. Um, so and this is it's got a fact check on here, too. So this looks like like one of those Trump loyalists, Trump could shoot someone and he would still be a Trump supporter accounts, um, smearing her. And this is it looks like it's a fact check. So I don't think that's true.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:35

According to this, according to that, I don't, I don't, I don't who the hell knows again. What's true, what's not true?

SPEAKER_04 2:00:39

What's true and what's not. I don't know. I don't know. Um, there's there's a photo of her and Alex Soros. Is that AI generated? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:47

Well, they they decided yesterday not to go and forward with the investigation against um the uh attorney general here. Um what's his name? Keith Ellison.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:55

Keith Ellison, yeah. They voted to impeach Waltz and him, and it was eight to eight. Yeah, Democrats all voted against impeachment, of course, but that there's another sign of Minnesota being too far gone. Yeah. I don't know if if the Democrats get both the House and the Senate or the the state control, it's over, dude. They're gonna pass everything they want. It's it's over. And we're already gonzo. It's just it's sad. So when I think of back to before we get going, we gotta get going.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:23

Before uh that uh the guy that's running for mayor, Spencer Pratt. Yep, he's staying and fighting for his his town, right? Yeah, good for him, yeah. I know that's what I want to do here, but how? And I don't know, I don't know if it's possible.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:34

I really don't for sure it's possible. You can run.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:36

You think it's you think it's possible to win to take back power from the Democrats in Minnesota?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:40

Um that's not possible. I think that I think that it's well, I think that there's I think that there's boy, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:47

I don't think it's possible. And here's why. You talk we see we all see this stuff, like this is all factual information why like conservatives in Minnesota are pissed off, why everyone's upset, why this state has become a laughing stock on the national stage. It has been a laughing stock for years. It's a it's an embarrassment what this state has become. When you go into Minneapolis, when you talk to people who live there, when you uh I see posts online. They think Minnesota is a utopia. They think Minneapolis is a utopia. They love what's happening. There is a great divide here, and it I don't see that divide ever happening or ever changing.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:24

So here the storm has to happen like this. So this is the problem, this is the problem. So the good for the the the Republican Party right now is that all the corruption that's happening in Minneapolis. I mean, there's everyone I can't disagree. You can't even deny it that there's corruption happening, right? I understand, but you can't deny it. So I'm and I'm talking about you can't, you the the diehards are gonna be the diehards for always on both sides of the parties, right? But there's those middle people that are like, yeah, there's a lot of corruption here. The butt to it is there's it's not a perfect storm right now. See, Trump is a little bit on the wild side right now, where I feel like it's got to be on the presidential side, it's gotta be a Democrat, and then on the and and they're train wrecking everything, and on the local side, it's gotta be, you know, ri ran by the dump the Democrats also, where people want change because I think as Americans, we definitely are for about shaking the freaking, you know, grabbing all the dice and going for a Yahtzee, you know, throwing all five dice inside there and seeing what happens kind of situation. And I don't think we're there because it's not the perfect storm. That's the only bad thing.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:25

So you're saying that things will get so bad that people finally rising. Just like 2016.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:31

Things have to get so bad. Here's the thing about that, though, in order for that change to happen.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:34

The part that scares me about that, that's generally the the cycle of politics. Yeah, Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The Democrats in power now are extremists. They are, they're extremists. And I they're not the old Democrats. So them getting in power and holding power, they will do whatever they have to to stay in power.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:55

Who's that news guy on HBO? Um, John Oliver? No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:59

He's got the glasses. Uh I can't think of it. I can see HBO. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:05

He he has a he has a show. He's a he's a big, he's a big time Democrat. He's a big Democrat. Um, he's he now he's uh he also has it on other channels now, too.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:12

Um I have no idea. Dude, he's super big. You would know him right away. So Cooper? Nope.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:17

Oh, he's not on the news. He's like a he's like a comedian slash ultra smart Bill Maher. Thank you. Okay, yeah, yeah. Bill Maher. Uh, but he uh it's funny because if you listen to Bill Maher, it's like no, see, like some of the shit that he says, like I don't I've never really liked that guy, but some of the shit he says, I'm like, okay, I can get behind that. I can't.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:35

He's anti-woke, he's you know, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:36

But I mean, he he doesn't even like like he doesn't like where the Democrat Party is. And he's been an extremist in the past. Like I can remember, I'm old enough to remember him back in like the early 2000s and nineties saying stuff, and you're like, who is this wild idiot? Yeah, you know, over the overton window is now he's like, yeah, now all of a sudden he's like the old man that yeah, like it's like who is this guy? Like, screw you, old man, get lost, you know, get lost. So he's either gonna have to like go follow them to the extremist, or is he gonna be the voice of reason? Right? Will he continue to use the platform as the voice of reason?

SPEAKER_04 2:05:05

But yeah, but I I I see exactly what you're saying. There are voice there are pockets of people like him out there, the the older Democrats that have not shifted into the extremism, but those people aren't in power, right? The AOCs, the Mamdanis, the the Gavin Newsoms, the extremists are in power. And those positions of power attract the crazy people. So I don't know, and I reasonable people have to stand up, and that's the only thing. But then you have to convince other reasonable people that that's a good idea and that's worth it. That's where I feel like most people right now are just like that's not worth it, dude. Well, it doesn't matter. And there's look at this guy right here. Yeah, and there's voting doesn't this that's what he thinks. Voting doesn't matter. And it doesn't.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:42

I think most people think that, and they they're starting to see that. It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter because it's the same, both sides are the same people, and you can't allow a third party to come in because the lobbyists, the money won't allow that third party to ever compete. There you go, dude. You just hit it on the head.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:58

The money is the one controlling it, it's not even the candidates, it's the it's the the uh the soros is funding the extremists. So they're the ones that are gonna win. That's why it's a true bread and circus. All right, we gotta get going here. It's getting too dark.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:12

You can vote for the head or you can vote for the tail, but it's the same dog.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:15

Yeah, yeah. That that's true. I do believe that. Uh, but anyways, we got it going. Do you guys got any parting words? We're not gonna be back next week.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:22

Dave, go ahead. Time marches on. Only thing that changes is the world is always changing. The only thing that changes is change itself, dude. Is that a is that a Beatles song? No, that's uh like who? Tracy Lawrence, man.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:38

Daniel, parting words. Yeah, man, just time doesn't exist. So uh I'll see you tomorrow. We'll be on here tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:43

We this show is out of control. Out of control, man. All right, guys. Thanks for uh being here if you're still here. Once again, we'll be back, not next week, but the week after. If you are a member, we will be doing the morning stream here uh with myself about 9 a.m., maybe a little bit before that. So hope to see you guys there. That is it for today's show. I'm Tyler Zed, and this is Education University.