🎙 Episode 8: Release the Wrecking Ball

 The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's wrecking ball through the federal workforce — but is it reform or revenge? In this episode of Podpinions, Rich and Bruce dive into the deeper impact of this landmark decision, government unions, and the quiet power moves happening behind the scenes. Politics, policy, and a whole lot of Podpinion. 

00:00 - Supreme Court’s Breaking Decision
06:04 - Government Overreach and Pushback
12:09 - Birth Certificate Bureaucracy
18:09 - Airport Security & Freedoms
24:21 - Comey, Brennan & Buried Info?
30:57 - When Allies Turn
37:10 - The Government’s Biggest Army
43:03 - Time for Some Podpinions
49:12 - Things Are About to Get Interesting
55:30 - Speech vs Censorship
01:01:52 - Final Thoughts & Follow Reminder

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In breaking moments ago, the Supreme Court with a decision that will allow the Trump administration to move ahead with their plans to cut the federal workforce, at least for now. Justice correspondent David Spot give us the back story here, reporting live from Washington. Hi, David. Hi, Martha. Nice Tuesday afternoon win for the Trump administration. And it's funny because the justices normally are on their summer recess right now, doesn't mean they don't work behind the scenes. But these justices have been busy because of these executive orders and the way they've made their way through the legal process. But this right now is a order from the Supreme Court essentially saying that a San Francisco judge who put a stop to the Trump administration from cutting several federal agencies, they're saying that the Trump administration, in fact right now can continue forward as the case plays out. Welcome to Pod Pinions where the world's on fire and we show up like it's a backyard barbecue. Politicians roasted, woke, trends torched. Common sense. We've got you covered. Hey everybody. Welcome back to Pod Pinions. I'm Rich. And I'm Bruce and we have a bunch of stuff. That's right. Oh, there, there is never ending amounts of stuff that we can give our opinion on, is there? Our  Pod Pinion. Right. So today the Supreme Court let Trump go for it with his little wrecking ball and cut some of these government jobs. Okay. So the government employees union. So the Supreme Court today allowed Trump to move forward, at least for now, with plans to implement large scale cuts to the federal workforce. And the lefties are going nuts. Yeah, well, it's, I understand that the argument about the jobs, but all these jobs are taking our tax dollars. Right. So if you have people that are not performing and we're paying for them, out you go. Well, evidently a lower court had an injunction against the administration's executive order. Trump evidently signed an executive order to make these cuts and some lower court said, nah, you can't do that. So there was an injunction and then the Supreme Court overturned that. But it's still. Right, it's still in the courts, up. In the air, but for now at least. But yeah, it was a 6, 3 decision with the Supreme Court. Right. And it was down party lines again. Right. I mean it's. Yep, yep. It's not even. The court has become political. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Like we keep talking about, the political tentacles are everywhere on everything, every aspect of our lives. It's ridiculous. Really is. You can't go anywhere, do anything without government somewhere. It's almost, you know, it's like 1984 is actually coming true. The book, the Orwell book, it's kind of scary. The, the, the thing that changed me. And I don't even know if they do it with the schools, but back in, I guess it was probably ninth grade. Freshman year, maybe it was sophomore. I think it was freshman. They had us read Animal Farm. Good book. Yeah, we read that too. Great book. And that changed my whole aspect on. Did it really? Yeah, it was just, just something that hit me that, and I really wasn't political. You know what I mean? It was. But just the, the actions of what happened there. If you haven't read it or if your kids haven't read it, I, I strongly suggest it's a must read to read. And it's, it's, it's good for the young people because it's made with animals and examples. And 1984 is a fantastic book as well. That one scared me when I first read it. Right. And. But it may be, you know, I, for me, anyway, for my taste, I had to read Animal Farm before I read 1984 to kind of get the, the gist of everything. The examples with the animals and the farmer and, you know, at the end of the book, I don't want to give the book away, but what the pigs do at the end of the book. And it's, it's, it's pretty good. Pretty good. So getting back to this thing with the Trumps, you know, fighting in the courts about. So it's basically about getting rid of government waste. And I can think of several examples of government waste. And one, I, I have a buddy that I grew up with that he was in show business for a really long time. And he wound up, I don't know why, but somehow he wound up at the Department of defense in Washington D.C. his job was to go to trade shows. That was the whole gig. It was like, go to trade shows, set up a booth and have a little booth there for the Department of Defense to get contracts. Are you kidding me? Right? And the guy's got a full boat pension, God bless him. But talk about a waste of money. Yeah, yeah. And that's, and what they try to do is get your emotions involved by. Well, these people aren't waste. They're people. They have families. It's not the concept of hurting the people. The people got sucked into this because the government expanded and they got drawn into this and now they're stuck. But hey, God bless him that he had a great job all those years and he got a pension. Hey, I'm not holding it against them. I just think that having a professional meeting planner for the Department of Defense is kind of a waste. No, I. I totally agree. And I think that should be. Well, do you remember when was it? A couple years ago. The. The. It was. Some government thing was in Las Vegas and they got busted because they were, you know, having this lavish party. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. They went to some convention or something and they had like, these suites with booze and. Yeah, yeah. I don't even remember if that was. I forget what department it was. Yeah, I don't remember if that was. I know there was a couple with sayings on Secret Service and stuff. Yeah, they were having parties too, like in Brazil. Yeah. Gotta love it. And we're paying for it. We're paying for it. I mean, do you want to have a party? You're off duty. I think that's what. That's different. But on your dime. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Not on the government's dime. It's the same thing we talked about the last podcast. We were talking to the one gentleman and, you know, with his kid. Well, I'm going to Ghana to teach math or something. Well, okay, but it's on your dime, not mine. You pay me back. So the gig paid like nothing. Yeah, I keep saying gig. His job didn't, you know, would have paid nothing. Your cough button. I'll have to talk to the crew, but yeah. So I think that's what this is all about, is that. And they're screaming and yelling that because he's bypassing Congress with this. And it was an executive order, so I think that's where the. The rub comes. Yeah, well, that. Plus if people have to go out and actually support themselves with their trade or their experience or their skills, it may be. And they start paying taxes on having to be resourceful for themselves instead of living off somebody else's taxes. Maybe that may sway their little lever they pull in the ballot box too, so. Good point. You know, didn't even think of that. It. I think it all goes back to ballots and bodies and staying in power. So the more people that actually. Actually fend for themselves almost. I mean, if you. If you look at. Take one building in Washington, D.C. and count the heads and how many people are actually working there. It's insane. Meanwhile, where was it? They had a cave, like in Pennsylvania, Rural Pennsylvania somewhere. The salt cave. Salt mine. The salt mine where there was like a handful of people doing. What was it? Pensions or something. Right, Yeah. I never did look to see how many people were there, but there was a lot of people. But everything was manual. Exactly. And it took them like 10 times longer to process somebody's retirement. Right, right. They could only do like 8,000 or 10,000amonth at max to go through their retirement. Yeah, but talk about government waste. No, no, absolutely. Who use technology and that was uncovered during the whole DOGE thing. Yes, yep. And all this, this stuff as well, it's, it's, you know, somebody counting flies or doing something like that. Do we really need that? Do. Does taxpayer have to do that? Because I'm sure all these jobs could be done by a capitalistic company. Oh, I'm sure. Outsourcing. The problem is about outsourcing. Yes, but the problem is their employees. Actually have to produce, whereas the government ones don't. They don't necessarily have to. Now all the government employees are not the same, but I met quite a few that are not, you know, the stellar sleeping two hours a day because they're working. So I think. So talking about government stuff. Right. Getting back to this real ID thing. So according to the way I read this whole thing about real IDs, you can't fly without one. You can't go in a government building without one. So now if you go to the post office, that would be considered a government building. Can you go to the post office? If you do not have a real id, can you go to the Social Security office without a real id? Right. What's going to happen? I don't know what the long term goal is on that, but yeah, that's a good point is to force everybody to get the real id. And what's the difference between a real ID and another id? You still have to show your birth certificate to, you know, driver's license or form of ID there. So I don't understand what background. Now somebody told me recently they went to go get a real id. So one of the things you have to take is a birth certificate. They had their original birth certificate from 1957. They wouldn't accept it because it didn't have the right kind of raised seal on it. So they had to go back to whatever town it was, you know, from where they came, where they were born, to get a new birth certificate. This is ridiculous. So that it's very interesting, you know, with voting as well, because you have these places that you don't need any type of ID to vote yet that's a government function. Good point. You know, is that going to overlap into that. I don't know. But you need. You need an ID to buy cigarettes and buy booze. Right. But not to vote. Right? Not to vote. I needed ID to get a hunting license. Mm. Need an ID to. To buy a firearm, you need a ID like you said. Alcohol, tobacco. They scan your. See now ID now let them do. There's. There's a couple stores around here. Not the state store. Now, Pennsylvania is weird. I'm still not used to it. If you want beer, you go to the beer store. If you want, like, hard liquor and wine, you can go to a state store, which the state runs. I guess the state oversees the beer. Yeah. Distribution thing. Anyhow, still have a liquor license, I believe. Yeah, but there's like, some of the grocery stores actually sell wine and beer, and what they will do if you buy it is they will actually scan your driver's license. I won't let them do that. It's like, none of your business. You go to the state store, buy hard liquor, they don't even, you know. Yeah, that's true. They don't even ask you for it. That's true. Which I find kind of odd. Right. But I don't want somebody scanning my driver's license. So what's that all about, too? I don't know. I didn't. I didn't put that together with the state stores, but. Yeah, it's kind of funny, right? Have you ever been carded? No. No. Nope. Yeah. What is if anybody knows. Yeah, that's not a question. That's a great question. Why would a grocery store actually scan your license, but yet the state store that sells hard liquor doesn't even ask you for it? I'm sure that if you looked like you were underage, they're probably asking. Oh, yeah, sure, I'm sure. But in the comical. In these other stores, you can't buy anything. It doesn't matter if you're 80 or if you're look like you're 16. Right. They ask you for your ID, so it's just bizarre. Yeah, but they scan it. That's the part that I don't like. Unless it's a CYA type of thing, that they. They're just maybe, you know, still scan everybody. So that way. Yeah, but where's that information going? Because on that screw on the back of your license, there's a whole bunch of stuff. Yep. That I don't know. Good question. So if anybody knows the answer to. That one in the comments, get a hold of us, speak up. Send us an Email, Put it in the comments. Louderd@podpinions.com  That's the email   go to. Yeah, yeah. Our website, podpinions.com. Yep. What else is going on? Ah, the 20 year old, or actually it's over 21 was 9 11. One was the shoe bomber dude. Oh yeah, Richard Reed. Yeah, Richard Reed, the weird British guy. Yep. That wasn't long after, right? It was around 9 11. Yeah. So this guy, if you don't know, right after 911 there was like major airport security and this guy, Richard Reed was caught with bombs in his shoes. He tried to ignite it on the plane. I will never forget this. And he had matches or something and he had a fuse. You have to see. Type in Richard Reed, shoe bomber. Okay. And you'll see they have pictures of these shoes with the fuses and stuff. It's really stupid, but because of that guy, that's where this whole thing. You had to take your shoes off at the airport. Right. And then they put them through the scanner. Yep. So all of a sudden they're changing that. So you're not gonna have to take your shoes off anymore unless they think there's like an issue. Right. Then maybe they'll ask you to take your shoes off. So it leads me to believe, like they're not just gonna let anybody just walk on with a potential of a bomb in their shoe. No, there's got to be some kind of technology that they've upgraded to be able to, you know, be able to tell if somebody's at, at a risk of hey, you know, come over here, take off your shoes. You know, it's got to be something. So it should be. And they were talking about the whole thing with carrying liquids on, you know, like they limit you to, I don't know, whatever. But what gets me is you go through the, the checkpoint. Right. And then you get to the restaurants and all that stuff. So now I buy a cup of coffee. It says Starbucks on the side or Dunkin Donuts or Dunkin, not a Starbucks guy. And so they won't let you carry that on a plane. Why? You already went through the checkpoint. Right. But you could order a coffee on the plane. Yeah, but the coffee on a plane sucks. That's terrible. But still it's, that's the point of. Yeah, Airport, airline, coffee. No, no, no, no, no, no. So, but Kristi Noem said that in the past 20 years, technology has improved like you said. So they probably have something that can detect that. Right. I would imagine that's like bomb sniffing dogs. Yes. Right. No Exactly. And maybe they're gonna have more of them. I don't know. But it would be nice, though. It would be nice. You don't have to take off your shoes so you can leave those socks you had on for a week. Get on a plane. You're all good. You don't have to show your crunchy toenails. That was wrong. Yeah. But, hey, less things for the. The airline employees to talk about, I guess. Yeah, right. Look at those beautiful feet. Yes, exactly. And then the. This was. This was great. On right before we came on, I just happened to look at. At one of the news outlets, and it just popped up as I was refreshed by itself. And CIA director, former John Brennan and former FBI director James Comey are under criminal investigation with the Department of Justice. How good is that? Well, we'll see where it goes. I can't wait. We'll see where it goes. Both of those scumbags should be in prison as far as I'm concerned. And Brendan was part of the 50 people that signed the. The letter about the Russian collusion nonsense. That'S been debunked for years now. Yeah, but they're still going with it. No, no, I know. Yep. Because people still believe it at that point. That blows me away. Well, they. They turn on a channel, and that's why the channel feeds them that propaganda. And that's all they go with. So they're thinking. They're not really saying, like, what's going on, what they're investigating, however, I'm guessing, and from what I've read, that it's about making false statements to Congress. Although Comey got a pardon, did he not? I believe so. I think he was part of that. I don't know if Brennan did. I'm not sure. So how's that going to work? Yeah, well, I guess it's going to depend on this auto pen thing, because that's also high on Trump's list. It seems like he keeps talking about it, so. Yeah. But again, Trey Gaddy 2.0 mouth goes. And then nothing happens. So we'll see what happens. As far as. With this. If that goes anywhere, if they can connect this. And then they have to go after the auto pan for actual. Is it. Is it legal or not? You know, that's all gonna be an intertwined. This is gonna be. This look. It's like a spider web. It's just like a spider web. I mean, it's. It's all these strings everywhere, and they're all connected together, so they're Just gonna have to go one by one and try to connect it all. And it is all connected. It's just. You have to connect it. I. I can't believe these guys have to deal with this crap. But current CI CIA Director John Radcliffe referred evidence, evidently of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI Director Cash Patel for potential prosecution. So. And then a criminal investigation into Brennan was opened and is underway, but the DOJ sources declined to provide any further details. So it's unclear if the investigation spans beyond the alleged false statements to Congress. And that's. You know, it's interesting because they. You know, one of the first things Trump did is remove all these security. Clearances for all those guys, and they all got really angry, which I thought was kind of. And now they're starting. They just got the Supreme Court nod to go ahead with downsizing the federal government employees. So it's going to be interesting. The people that are embedded into the federal government that may be supporting people like Comey and Brennan, if they're going to be part of the cuts, because then they don't know what's going on inside. Oh, good point. So, again, it's like the spider web. Again. It's the spider web, and you just have to go string by string. And, you know, and I. It's just been a progression of, well, you got to do this first, and then we're gonna follow up with this and this and this and this and. And, you know, we kind of talked offline about the Epstein thing. You know, is that actually kind of being pushed off to the side? Because we have to focus on certain things first. I don't know. You know, I'm not sure what their. Yeah. I don't know. You had also mentioned that the Epstein thing, they could be saving that for, like, right before the. Yes. Right before the midterms. That's possible, but that's kind of. I mean, that's kind of slimy. Yeah. And I. I don't know that it's going to sway too many people that. If that's the case. Right. You may solidify the base you have, but I don't know how many people are going to switch over. So, you know, I did get. I need some microplastics. I did get. Have some thought on that. And, you know, maybe that's not the case, but if there's international players that are intertwined in the Epstein, maybe we have to take care of this. You mean like Prince. Right. Well, there's got to be more. I'm sure if there's A list. Yeah, but he was obvious because there were pictures. But what I'm saying is the, the ones that they may not have as obvious players, maybe this is somehow gonna connect to that as well, and they have to wait to progress to that. You know, it's. What is that tied to the Comey and Brennan? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, if they hid stuff, if they're making up stuff and they hid stuff. Because I, I had heard that when Cash Patel moved into the FBI building and, and then Bungino said something about it, that they found boxes and boxes of stuff that was never filed. It was just like hidden away somewhere in a room. Right, right. And it was like, oh, my God, what's this? Right. So if everything disappeared, where did that go? Yeah, I don't, I don't know. And it kind of. He said he mentioned it once and then poof, never mentioned it again. So if Trump wasn't part of Putin and Putin, Putin's puppet. But there's history. That's what blows me away. But the history, if you look at their history, everything they project onto somebody else is actually what they're doing. Right. So are they actually Putin's puppet? And so that you're talking about like Hillary and. Because that's when this whole Russian, Hillary and this is back to 2015, 2016. All of them, is that the real thing that they're trying to hide and project onto Trump is what they've been actually doing. So that's going to be interesting to see what they come out with this stuff. Because if, if their, their actual goal is to have Putin influence them on what they're doing, then obviously that's treason. Right? Yeah. But we don't have firing squads anymore. Yeah, well, going to prison is just fine with me for now. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. But if they go to prison. But there's always a chance of getting out. Oh, yeah, there is firing squad. There's no getting out of jail. I just haven't been able to kind of put the pieces together as far as what their connection to Putin versus what, everything. What's happening across our country, how that's connecting. Because from what I see, I don't see Russia as a full blown communist country anymore. I mean, obviously Putin's in charge and that's it. He was the head of the kgb. Right. But not a nice guy. But there's, there's. Yeah, I'm not sure, I'm not sure where it's going to connect, but it's got to be something that they're projecting because that's their history. That's everything that they've done. If you're a racist, it's because they're racist. They're racist. If it's, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia, it's because they're Russia, Russia, Russia. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens there. And it has to be a. It's, it's almost like a. We progressed very slowly to get to this point. And it's like they say, don't wake a sleepwalker. So you got to progress back slowly. So it's not the shock and the. Because people aren't going to want to believe it. They're not going to want to. People still believe this whole Russia collusion. Thing with Trump, but there's more and more people seen or understanding that they did investigations and they cleared them. You haven't been watching Facebook much. Well, that's crazy. That's the people who just don't want to believe what they're. Regardless of what happened. Yeah. It's just, they have. All right, so now how does this tie into the whole Iran thing? So that kind of just went away real conveniently. Well, Iran was, I mean, Iran was our ally. And if you look. But if you really look into what's coming out and on the interweb. Thanks, Al Gore. Thank you, Al Gore. With all these podcasters coming out with people that are former CIA, that are former government employees or some kind of knowledge of the, the military and seeing what has been done in the past for overthrowing countries or overthrowing leaders. Right. So the shaving. He got ousted. Right. So. And he's now dead. But Obama gave this regime, like, billions of dollars. Now, they say it was their money, but he didn't have to give it to them. Correct. But again, it's. America has been viewed as being, you know, too good for this stuff. But we have our agencies that have gone into countries and. Well, yeah, look at. Worked on the whole Bay of Pigs. Nonsense, overthrowing leaders of the country, installing another leadership, the Taliban, all these, you know, groups that have come up, it's, it's because somebody's no longer in charge, so they can move in and take over. And if you look at some of the documentation that's coming out now, how we've supported that move, and then all of a sudden now they're an enemy again or now they're our enemy. Well, yeah, like I said, we helped. Right. Bin Laden put them in power. Yeah, we put Osama bin Laden in power to fight The Russians. Right. And then after that was all over, then he turned on us. And what happens is you're, you're ensuring that there's going to be conflict. So that way you always ensure that you can sell weapons and use. Well that's huge. I mean war is good for the economy. Trillions of dollars. Trillions of dollars. I was just curious what your feelings were about this whole Iran thing with Russia because they're kind of. Well, I think Iran and Russia are going to be. I think yeah, they are together and you throw China. Right. But their goal I think is to overthrow the dollar by their. Devalue the dollar. Well. And eventually put in a new global dollar. Well, I think that's why they're pushing. Their cryptocurrencies and you know they have. What is it? A bricks. Is it called bricks? You know, they're, they're countries together for maybe I'm thinking of something else but it's. That was England, was it? Yeah, yeah that's right. That's bricks. I don't remember what the name of it is but Brexit. But there is a coalition of China and Russia and I believe it's either. I believe it's Iran and North Korea was that they're trying to start a global currency to overthrow the US Dollar which is. Has been the global currency for ever decades. So if they can do that, that's probably what the plan is There the problem becomes because the US is such is the biggest consumer of goods from across the globe. If you start devaluing the dollar then you start having issues with China supplying all this stuff across the globe. For instance, China being the, the big dog in the, in the game and then so they're hurting themselves if they devalue the dollar because then we're not going to be able to buy as much and that's going to affect their economy. Yeah, it's just right. And I don't think they'll drain and go down it. Right. So I don't know if it was going to be like a military, you know, might thing over the economy thing. I, I'm not sure but I think they're, they've tried to overtake us financially. And well this happened even when we were kids. I remember stuff being made in Japan. There's the big one at first and then China. Right. Overtook it. But the problem became is China became the supplier so fast I don't think they've planned to. To actually have a solid plan to really take us over as financially because we consume everything that they produce. And if they don't sell it now. They'Re buying, like all our farmland up. Well, they're buying our farmland. They've, they've, they've created islands. They built islands that they can now claim as Chinese territory. And they, they put missiles there and military. You know what amazes me about all that is I've thought about this a lot. China has how many billions of people as their population? Right. You would think with all those people, they would stand up to the government because the government's this big, yet the population is like this big. So you would think that they would stand up somehow. Everybody talks about, well, we have to give the land back to the Native Americans. And that's a perfect example of. Each of the tribes had actually done. What they did in Little Bighorn was a group together. We wouldn't be sitting here. We wouldn't be sitting here. But they didn't. And it's the same thing with the people. If, if we don't group together here or if they don't group together there, the people in charge are gonna keep being in charge and do what they want to do. It's, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's, it's a game. It's behind a curtain. You know, that the, the wizard of Oz is just a guy with controls and, and everybody's afraid of it and they bow down in front of it, but it's really just smoke people. Right. And that's, that's what it's always been. That's what it's always been. Yeah, but the problem with it is. That. Lots of people can die because of that. Right, Exactly. It's not the people in charge. It's the citizens that are controlled by the government. I mean, just when was the last big, I guess, major thing that a country got together on itself and took over the government was probably like the French Revolution, right? Yeah, probably. I mean, I'm sure other ones, yeah, they're smaller, but as far as, well, Vietnam. Yeah. No, that went the other way. That basically wiped out the government control. Right. And installed the citizenship back. I mean, even this country, you know, England was in charge over here until, you know, the people here, the colonists said enough. And it was a very small amount that. That really overtook the biggest government entity and army. Biggest army and navy in the world. In the world. So it can be done. It's just that you have to have enough people to understand what's going on to be able to do It. And they didn't have technology back then. They couldn't track exactly where everybody is. They couldn't get. Now you get an app on your phone and that's creepy. Like we have this app for the family. Right. So I can go on there. Life360, I think is what it's called. So it's a GPS thing and I can go on there and see where the kids are, where they're driving. I can see how fast they're going. You know, it's just. But it creeps me out. Yeah. Because if I can see, you can see it. Somebody else can see it too, right? Exactly. I mean it's, it's handy. Yes. And it's kind of a safety net to know where your family is. But. But how did we survive without it before? It was connected? Very. You know, it's really weird is if I forget my phone. Good God. Oh yeah, yeah. Like whoa. I've done that a few times and it's like, oh my God. I feel, I feel lost. And then I think, wait a minute. You were a boy scout. You know you're not going to get lost, right? Yeah. What do I need it for? I don't. Right. It's all, it's all up here for a period of time. It was about three and a half years. I was with somebody. We gave up our cell phones. Did you really? Yep. We shut them off and we were either at work or we were at. How did that work out? Did it drive you? Worked out great for us. Everybody lost their frickin minds. Couldn't get a hold of you. But they could, they just couldn't text or they. It was just a mental thing that they could push a button even if we didn't answer. Because you don't have to answer every call you get. True. You don't have to answer every text you get. But it's just that. Yeah, but I feel compelled. If somebody texts me, I feel compelled. I have to answer it. And there was. There was like a 20 minute span. There was like a 20 minutes first span from work to home that you may not be able to get in touch with me by phone. But it was like we, we lost a couple like friends over that. You're kidding. Yeah. No, it's like you don't want to talk. I'm so insulted. I don't want nothing to do with you. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy. Nuts. Well, I've seen it where. I mean, with friends, like we'll go out to a restaurant or something. Everybody puts Their phones in the middle of the table, and it's. It can get really weird. Mm. Well, yeah, and that's a. That's a thing, too. If you go out to a restaurant, just stop and just look around and see how many people. Well, I think I told you this. We went to this big resort over here. Went to this. Met a friend at a. There's a steakhouse in this one resort. So we met him there, and the table next to us was this family. There was, I don't know, five or six people. Two parents and the kids. Right. And the kids were. There was a little one, maybe about, like, five or six. Then there were two teenagers, and there was another one. Yeah, this is like three teenagers. They were all sitting there like this all through dinner, and we all just. Wow, look at that. Like, they're not talking. They don't even acknowledge each other's existence. The waiter came over to take their order, and they ignored the dude. I couldn't believe it. And. Yeah, I got one for you too. We're at, like, just friends and got together and kids and whatever people were having conversations. At the table was a couple Texan parents and kids, you know, looking at their phones while we're talking. Didn't really think of nothing of it. And then I found out that as we're talking, the parent and the kids are having their own little conversation. Not even focused on what was going there. They were talking back and forth to themselves. Wasn't even, like they were texting a friend down the street or something each other. And they're sitting across. Right? That's messed up. Yes. So, yeah, it's really. That's like. No, that's just. So if you guys have done that. Stop. Yes. Stop doing that talk. Yeah, it's really. Yeah, Pay attention. Just go out. Next time you go out, just take a look around and see what's going on. Put your phone away and just, like, pay attention to your surroundings. And then if you want to see how technology has affected people, just tell your friends and family tomorrow. I'm cutting off my cell phone. I'm not using it anymore, and see what happens. I can't believe you lost friends over that. Yeah, that's just bizarre. Yeah, it was nuts. I'm gonna try that, though. Yeah, try it. Just turn my phone off for a day, and then. Well, don't. Don't even. You don't even have to. I mean, you could turn it on. Turn the ringer off or whatever. Turn it off. Because that way they don't see if you read the text or whatever. But just tell people, I've had enough of the technology, I'm going off the grid and I'm cutting my phone off tomorrow and see what happens. That should be fun. Yeah. Obviously it won't work to anybody that has seen this, but. Yeah, right. But. Yeah, but how many people are watching us right now? We made what, a $10? We're really talking about the pinions. The pod pinions. And then. Oh, speaking of pod pinions, I have a good one on this one. Biden's doctor was asked to go in front of Congress to testify on his mental acuity. By his mental acuity. Right. Thank you. And you know what I meant. Yeah, yeah. So. And you probably knew what I meant. So what happened was he. When they said that he wouldn't get executive immunity, he said, no, I'm not showing up. So now they subpoenaed him and he has to show up. Guy's name is Kevin O'. Connor. Dr. Kevin O' Connor was Biden's doctor while he was president. So the guy, he's supposed to testify about COVID ups or alleged cover ups of Biden's mental decline during his presidency and he doesn't want to do it. And this is going to get really interesting. So. He, he's refused to appear voluntarily. So now he was subpoenaed and his lawyers now petitioned for a delay. Now what's that all about? Right. What is there to delay? Right. To get your story straight with somebody else. Right. I mean, it was all it would. I mean, obviously some of us paid attention and saw it. It was so odd, the progression. I mean, the guy was like a talking bowl of jello. Yeah. But it wasn't until that debate that actually everybody got to see. Yeah. National tv, you know, a meltdown. Yep. So this is going to be very interesting, what he has to say in Congress again. Trey Gaddy 2.0. Yeah. Congress really can't do much about it. But if he's. Has he ever. Well, he had to sign documentation saying that Biden was physically and mentally fit. Right. Well, supposedly. Okay, so if he comes into Congress and lies. Right. Or if he comes into Congress and tells the truth and what he documented was lies. Oh, good point. That may be where they're going. You know what I mean? So either way, he's doomed. Right. So is he gonna lie in Congress or did he lie on the stuff he signed off on? I don't know. But if I got this correct, the way this progresses is if he. Let's Say he lies in Congress or they find something amiss. So they can refer that to the Department of Justice to prosecute him. Right now, whether the Department of Justice does or not. Right. Is a whole nother ball game. And then. Which is what happened with all the stuff before it was referred to. And then they dropped it. And then if he did basically falsify documentation that he was physically and mentally fit, then you have him in a position of saying, all right, well, who put you up to this? And then. And then. Yes. So no. Full circle. Yeah. So then he may be able to shed some light on what was. Who was actually running the country or. Exactly. Or who put him up. I heard something. Most of the people in the know are saying it was Jill Biden, but. I. I find that hard to believe. Yeah, but she was running cabinet meetings. Yeah, but what's that all about? Do you really think Jill Biden could have ran the country? No. So. So somebody behind the scenes had to pull him. Strange. She was like another. But she was. Well, she. She was maybe put as the fall guy. I don't know. And her ego is, like, over the top. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Who. Who better to put somebody in that Think. Think they. They. Nothing can take them down. But I remember seeing footage of her in the Cabinet room sitting at the head of the table, running the meetings. Right, Running the meetings. But did anybody follow any of the directions? What was the first lady doing in a cabinet meeting in the first place? I agree. But again, who is really running the country? That's. That's who I want. I want to go. It wasn't Jill Biden. I mean, she may have been the face that they're going to pin it on. I think it was Barry Sotero, but it was not. That's Joe Biden, Barry. So it could be. Could be. But even Barack Obama, for even him, you have people that have been in the government 30, 40 years that he's taken his cue from. This is true. It's. You're talking about the. The career government worker people that is unseen. The ones that we just talked about. Unseen. Gonna be losing their jobs. Unheard, Right, Exactly. Unseen, unheard. But they're making bank from favors or whatever. Those are the people that really have to take it on. So maybe that's why they're getting so bent out of shape over these government cuts. That could be. That could be. Again, if they're not in that position anymore, then you can put somebody that actually wants to do the job correctly, and then you're not feeding Anybody on the outside information, it, this should get very interesting. Yep. Yikes. It's, it is a chess game. It is, it's one big taxpayer paid chess game. And the problem is, it's exhausting though, to watch all this. It is, but it just shows how bad this, the citizens allowed this to, or how bad the citizens were, watch the hand over here misplayed or propagandized or whatever that they weren't even paying attention to this stuff. It's between the media, between, you know, the politicians on, you know, doing their reality shows every, every other day on whatever network. It's, it's. They've been able to burrow themselves into our government and I think this is. A way to get, to start unraveling all of it. Yeah, could be. Because if you don't get rid of them, they're just gonna wait you out. And that's what happened with Trump the first term. They thought they got him out and they didn't. And they didn't. Actually, I really think that Biden getting in there in between was a good thing. Oh, no, absolutely. It was probably because if Trump just. Had two back to back terms, I don't think that all of this nonsense would be exposed. And how incompetent he was was a real help to trying to expose all this stuff. I think you're right. Yeah. But then you were talking, we talked about this the other day, that I said, what's going on with Trump and Elon Musk? And you said this was a diversion. Yeah. I'm not convinced that they're not trying to create some kind of, you know, show to keep everybody. That's really not, I guess, on Trump's side, but to kind of divert their eye over here because then, oh, Elon's coming back to our side and, you know, he's exposing them and so that they can concentrate on stuff like this. And it's got to be with the government agencies. Anybody embedded in the government agencies going to think that now Elon's going to be against Trump so they can kind of start working whatever they need to do to go that way and that's going to expose them as well. Yeah, I hope you're right. Yeah. I don't know. You see, the, what do they call the, the part of the police enforcement? You know, they put a female cop on the, on the. Oh, yeah. When they do the, the sting. Yeah. You know, I think it might be something like that where they're creating this and these people. Prostitution rings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Somebody pulls up and they offer them money and then bang, done. Done. So it may be some kind of sting operation that way. I hope, I hope it is. I hope you're right, Cruz. Yeah, because they're not paying attention to all the propaganda nonsense. These people that are working embedded in this are not listening to Fox News or cnn. None of them. They're doing their own thing. They're having their goals. So they're not paying attention to all the noise on the outside. They just have a focus on that. And it might be that somebody as big as Elon Musk actually gets their attention, that now they can start maneuvering. Is this a pod pinion or a conspiracy? Yes. Never know. We, we have run out of them, so we might as well start one. Start. Start. Start a good one. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, all right. So now you and I have been talking to. Now we're going to get on this religious thing because I have some questions here. We're talking about. Well, you. Everybody knows what's going on in Texas with the flooding, these kids dying and all that. And my big thing is if there's a God, why would he allow this to happen? And you said free will, but I don't buy that. I just don't buy it. Why would they allow evil to happen? Since God created the flood, why can't he stop it? Good question. Right. Like I said, I'm not a religious scholar, so I don't have all the terms and sayings and structures. No, I'm just saying this is a really good discussion. I'm sure there's other people out there that feel the same way I do. The only thing I can compare it to is what a government would do is control. And if you have somebody in control, then you're really not able to be. Have a free life. And if you are religious, then this is just a period of time until what you've been told was the next step. So it's, it's. And it's completely up to you whether you believe that or not, whether there is a next step, whether there isn't. And based on that, whatever's going to happen is hap. Is going to happen. So the only way you can truly express yourself or, or be truly free to choose, that is. No, no, there's no interaction. It's just what happens, happens. So that's kind of what I was getting at with the free will. It's bad things are going to happen, and that's part of life. But if you believe that there's something Better or more out there then what we're feeling now is not necessarily what the outcome is going to be ultimately. I don't know, we're all going to find out. Yeah, I don't think anything they're going to be. But it's just a good question. Yes. No, if I, if, if there is nothing, I'm not going to know it, so. But if there is. Well, no, I just this whole Bible thing, it's, it just, I, I'm stumped because we were talking earlier, Adam and Eve, right? Two people on the entire planet, they have two kids, right? Abel and Cain, they go off to the land of nod. There's all these people. Where did they come from? It's stuff like that. It's just, you know. No, no. Yeah. And again, it's like. Well, we've talked personally about church versus religion or not not necessarily religion, but spirituality. Spirituality, yes. So you always have that interaction or that, that humans have implemented themselves into the theory or the belief or the non belief or you have to do it this way. And even in the church there's hierarchy. Lots of politics in the church. Politics. So how much is that tainted on the word of God? Going, progressing. I'm sure there's gaps there. Right. So we might not know the whole story. Much like we don't know the whole story on all this stuff because humans have not done the due diligence of being actual, factual or keeping facts current throughout history. So again, I'm, I'm, I don't know, I'm just, this is my opinion. Pod pinion. My pod pinion or God. I have a belief. Opinion. Yeah, I have a belief on. Well, I do too, you know, but I, it's just something that it always comes up and you know, my wife will say to me, well, it's, you know, it's free will and. Yeah, but I, it just doesn't make sense to me because if there's a God and why would he let all this bad stuff happen to these little kids? You know, it's. Yeah, no, I know, it's. It's just hard things. Just hard to grasp. Right. And, and I know I'm not alone feeling this. Oh no, absolutely. I mean, I hear it all the time. There's people that have stopped believing just because of that fact. But again, if you have somebody controlling everything on that point, for instance, there is no real free will at that point. True. You know, some other entity is controlling what the outcome you have versus what you actually choose. And everything we do, whether it's making a right turn or left turn or setting our alarm or go sign our line. You know, it's our choice. And because of that choice, there's an outcome. And depending on where you choose every second of the day, whatever you choose, there's going to be an outcome. And if somebody controls that or something controls that, then you really don't have multiple outcomes that can happen. It's just all guided. Right. You know, so. Yeah, it's not. It's not a. Doesn't make me feel good to say it's free will, necessarily. Well, that's what you hear. Because. Because religious people. Because of this. When I say religious people. When I say religious people, ministers, you know, priests, rabbis. It's. Oh, yeah, free will. Right. This little kid did not decide to die that day. Right, Exactly. Exactly. But hopefully, because of free will and innocence, there is something better, I hope. Now that we completely bummed you out. Yeah, exactly. It's time to wrap it up. Yeah. But I just wanted to throw it out there, you know, something to think. About and listen, you know, maybe some people got some comments on that. Again, it's. Well, we're both open to hearing absolutely all sides of it. So that's. That's. It's a very deep subject, and we're, you know, I don't think anybody's gonna really find out until we find out. Yeah. Or not. On that note, we'll see you next time. All right, have a good one. Take care. Bye. Bye. Hey, everybody. If you like what you see, best way to support us is to make sure you follow us, especially on rumble. Also on YouTube,  TikTok , X, Instagram, and Truth Social. We're Pod pinions all across the social media platforms as well. That's right. So don't forget to click the little notification button. It's that little bell thing. And you'll get notified when something new comes up. That's right. You don't want to be last and have everybody else hear our Pod pinions before you. That's right. You want to be the first kid on the block with a  Pod pinion. That's right. And don't forget to leave your comments. That's right. Comments are important. Yes. 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