🎙️ Podpinions Episode 13 – 🫏 Runaway Donkeys | 🔥 Loud Thoughts, No Filter 💥

From lost manners to political mayhem, Bruce and Rich tackle the week’s chaos with zero filters. They call out the disappearing “please and thank you,” the revolving door of politics, big pharma oddities, border insanity, voting shenanigans, and the media spin that keeps the truth buried.

🎯 Fact Check: Non-U.S. citizens can vote in certain U.S. local elections.

As of Aug 13, 2025:

• Washington, DC – All local offices (Mayor, Council, etc.)
• San Francisco, CA – School board only, for noncitizen parents/guardians
• Oakland, CA – School board approved in 2022, not yet implemented
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• Maryland – 18 municipalities (municipal only), including Takoma Park, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, and others.

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⏱ Timestamps:

00:02 – Whatever happened to basic manners?

05:02 – Political sideshows and the unhappy middle

10:03 – Speak up, look sharp, own your space

15:04 – Family roots and America’s turning points

20:06 – The “uniparty” problem in plain sight

25:10 – Playing the leverage game in politics

30:14 – Ozempic ads and what’s really wrong

35:15 – Arrested today, back on the street tomorrow

40:17 – Stopping illegal voting before it starts

45:20 – Rule changes that tip the scales

50:23 – Justice that never quite lands

55:27 – From earthquakes to media misdirection

1:00:31 – No quality control, anywhere

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Transcript

0:01

Where did basic good manners go? Please and thank you. Yeah, that ship  has  sailed. I think for a while anyway. Hopefully it'll come back ass handed to me if I was like rude to somebody when I was a kid. Oh yeah. Now it's, it's completely different. Like don't nobody even says please anymore. I actually held the door for some lady one and she started yelling at me and I just looked at her. I can do it myself. Okay. Yeah. What's that all about? I was told to do that when I was a kid. It's called Mental. 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  Podpinions. I'm Rich. And I'm Bruce. We are on episode number 13. Unbelievable. Lucky number 13. It really amazes me because this kind of just evolved out of nothing. Yes. Two of us sitting around just yapping. It's like, wow, this would be a cool podcast. And here we are. Yeah. And here we are. Who would have thunk? Yeah. It took us what, about a four or five weeks to get a name, right? That was pretty funny. That was pretty funny. And then it just, it just happened. It just appeared. Right. And the logo. Yes, yes. Just out of nowhere, within boom. Like what was it, a half hour, 45 minutes? We had a name, we had a logo, we had. It was just. We kind of like just did a. Yeah, a mind melt thing. Exactly. Crazy stuff. That's right. And you know, just in case you can't watch us. I mean, we are on Rumble, YouTube, Buzzsprout, Spotify. Spotify podcast. Just in case they can't watch it. Watch it. You can listen to it. Yeah. Not that you want to listen to it. Right, Exactly. You want to see it. A lot of visual. Right? Yeah. Not. Not to say we should do a whole. We should do a whole podcast with just subtitles. That way you just listen to silence. If you're just listening, too bad we couldn't speak French and then subtitle it in English. You know. Pod Pignon? That's right, the Pod Pignion. We can find us on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, everywhere. We're everywhere. So look under Pod pinions everywhere and give us a follow wherever you're listening or watching. Yeah, you can just check our website out. Everything's listed on there. Podpinions.com. Yep. And still working on some merch, but we'll get there that's right. Your nephew wants shirts. Yes, yes. He keeps bugging me so. But his is going to say  Pod pinions. I seen, I seen it. There you go, Bobby. So what do we got? Well, what don't we have this week? Right. It's crazy. I mean I like, like I said the last, last episode that you turn on the news in the morning, you see one thing, by noon, everything is completely different. Today is no different than that. The whole week. I even said to you earlier, I said, you know, I should start taking notes during the week. Like what, what we, you know, things we could possibly talk about. Then I'm thinking about it and it's. Like to be outdated, like. Right. It just, it's kind of moot. It's like the invention of the wheel to high speed trains or something like that. Unbelievable. Speaking of high speed. Well, now we can save that for like whatever happened to. It's becoming my favorite segment. Whatever happened to. But what today? Yeah. The FBI was asked to go arrest all these Democrats from Texas. From Texas that all went to New York and Illinois. Now what gets me is for those of you don't who don't know, Governor Abbott in Texas, correct me if I'm wrong, wants to redistrict. Right. So it goes by redistricting will actually probably add Republican seats to the House of Representatives. They're estimating four or five, something like that. Yeah. So the Democrats are losing their minds over this. Although Kathy Hochul in New York state did the same thing two years ago and the bozo from Minnesota who was running for vice president, Tampon, Tim, he did it and now they just did it in Illinois. Right. So like what is the problem? Well, I think the main problem is I don't think when they redistrict, I mean, obviously it happens on both sides. So whether you think it's right or wrong, it happens on both sides. It's just whatever side you're on, you're happy when it happens on to your side and then unhappy one. But they're making it sound like they never did this before. Right, but it's called gerrymandering for those of you who don't know. I don't know the right side, the Republicans, if they've ever like disappeared like this. Now I can remember twice now, Democrats leaving, leaving the state so they didn't have to. Yeah, they did this last time. I thought it was Texas as well. Yeah. But I don't know that it went this far. Throw up, folks. Do your job. Right. Sometimes you get what you Want. Sometimes you don't. So, I mean, that's the way it is, unfortunately. I mean, it happens to both sides and. But the way everything is painting out, they're going to be made to look like an example if they don't get their stuff together and come back and do their job. I don't understand the taking my toys and going home thing. I really don't. Right. I mean, you run for office to do a job, do it. Exactly. You're representing the people. So when you abandon the people, I kind of shows you a lot that you're. You're not really out there for the people. You're trying to make a stand, stomp your feet and, you know, try to be a television star. I guess this should be. Yeah, this should be. Well, like Mrs. Crockett. Yeah. From Texas. This woman. I saw a video of her. She needed subtitles. I had no idea what she was talking about. Well, you know, it's all an act. It's all a portrayal of, you know, trying to be hip or whatever they're trying to be and just get television time. And people are tired whether. Whatever side you're on. I mean, just so tired of the television superstar look alikes that, you know, Congress and Senate and everybody else are doing. It's just go in, make our country better, make life bearable for us and our children and our children's children. Do you remember when both sides actually work together? What a. But, you know, can't we go back to that? Yeah. I mean, did they work together? Well, look at Reagan. Or did they Reagan and work together to make it better? Or did they get work together to get us to here? That's the question. Good point. But Reagan and what was his name? Speaker of the House, Massachusetts. I can't remember his name now. Anyhow, they were like best buddies and they worked together, you know, and got stuff done. Right. Well, why can't I think of his name? Put it in the comments. Yeah, I just had a brain for it. We're old senior moments. But Jasmine Crockett, she was excited that the Democrats left Texas. Yeah, she was excited about it. Right. Well, she's one of the ones that actually, if they do redistrict that, she's going to be losing her seat, basically. Wouldn't that be a dream come true? She's out of her district. It's going to be changed. So. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Because she's an idiot. I mean, seriously. So she actually, this, this is a quote. Over 130 Texans died in the July 4th floods. Republicans responded with zero flood relief bills and a mid decade redistricting scheme to help Trump cling to power. That's not governing, that's exploitation. We broke quorum because Texans deserve better. And that was her and this guy John Busey. So my big question was to you this afternoon was, what about all the people in North Carolina when the Democrats were running everything? Nothing. During the, after that hurricane and then. The dam break, Right? Yeah, yeah. And then what about East Palestine, Ohio? Biden didn't do squat. Those people are still, you know, in a quandary. Right. I mean, Trump said he was going to help them, but I don't know if anything ever actually materialized. Yeah, that I'm not sure on either. And I mean, even though Hawaii, the fire. Right. Nothing. Well, again, but where she looks, saying that the Republicans aren't doing anything when she was in office. Well, if you're not smart enough to look at your history, then you're not smart enough to go forward and talk and sensible. I guess that's the only thing I can. Yes, absolutely. She's been in office, she's a Democrat, and yet they did nothing. Right. But it's like live for the now, Forget the rest. You know, don't look ahead, don't look behind. Just live for now. Speak your piece, make yourself look like a star. And. We all suffer for it. Everybody suffers for it. So that's what I was getting with the television star thing. It's like, enough is enough. You know, everybody's tired of hearing celebrities with their opinions about politics. Go act in a movie. Right, but that's why we're here. Right? You know, we're not making movies. We're not making, you know, we're, we're not on a stage, although you've done that. We're not on a stage right here playing music or something like that. It's like, go act, go play, go. You know, speaker, comedian, piece. That's what you, that's what you do. And what they're supposed to be doing is taking care of laws and, and making the country better for people. And they're running around like spoiled brats as far as I'm concerned. And both sides. Oh, absolutely. You know, I don't like anybody. Right. So politics or not. Yeah, it's just, like I said, it's just gotten into our lives so deep. There's nothing on the news anymore except you watch the local news and even that, you know, they start out with the big political stuff and then they work into how many People were killed in this accident and this fire, and there's nothing ever positive out there. I can't watch the local news only because, no offense, that these. It's like watching high school. It's bad, like really bad production value. Not that we're fantastic here, but we're just two guys sitting here talking. But I mean, this is like professional tv supposed to be. And it's just horrible. Yeah, I can't watch it. The same thing with, like, network. This. I don't, I don't think this is too bad for a, you know, cell phone, you know, iPad. Right. And a couple lights. Right, Exactly. Yeah, we're doing pretty good. What do you think? Yeah, let us know. We'll graduate eventually. Yeah, right, exactly. Now, the other thing that really incensed me this week was this Democratic rep. And I'm not just picking on Democrats here, but it just seems like they're like out of control this week. Delia Ramirez of Illinois, everybody jumped all over her on social media because she said her pride is in Guatemala and not the United States. And yet she's a congresswoman. Well, that's like Elon Omar, you know, standing up for the Somalis. Somalia, you know, working for Somalia. You're an American now. You're an American and you work for this country. So she said she was proud. She. I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. Wrong, sorry. You, you like, left that behind. You gave up your citizenship in Guatemala, I would assume, and you became an American citizen. That's a good question. Yeah. You raised your hand and you swore an oath to the United States. So. And, and the bet, the best part is her husband and is an illegal alien and this woman is in Congress. Right. What is wrong with this picture? How many other. I'm pissed. We're going to have to look that up. I'm really pissed this week. How many, how many other countries have people that are supporting other nations in their parliament, congress, whatever they want to call it? You know, I always have always said, you see China, for instance, and you see the mass amount of people in there. Well, how many billions of people live in China? Yeah. One point something. Four or five, something like that. Even though India did overtake them as far as population. But if you look at all the people there, and I'm not saying that right or wrong, but other countries run their different. There's. There's no black, there's no white, there's. No. Polish, there's no Russian, there's no Somalian, there's no They're. They're all Chinese. Good point. And I don't think that it should necessarily be all look alike, but you should be an American no matter where you came from originally. And because America is a melting pot, it should be diverse, but it should be working for America. Right. Actually, for other countries. You just made me remember something. My grandmother came over here from Hungary. Turn this century. Not this century, the, you know, 1800s into the 1900s. And she came over on the Lusitania and went through Ellis island, so she didn't know any English at all. And she came over with a couple of her nephews and nieces. She brought them before the rest of the family came over and she became a United States citizen. I remember her telling me when I was a little kid that it was like the proudest day of her life. You know, she had to learn English, she had to read and write it. She had to know American history, and she had to take a test. Written and oral. Right. To become a citizen. And her relatives, well, her sisters and my aunts and whatnot, would come over, great aunts, and they'd hang out and she. They'd be speaking Hungarian and she's. No, no, we're Americans now. English only. Yep. And that was, like, huge. Which I kind of am sorry, because I. I did understand. I speak. I could speak and. And understand Hungarian when I was really, really little. But then the minute I started school, that was it. Right, right. No more Hungarian in the house. Yep. And, you know, and even. Even now, I mean, if you look at. Actually, and you don't see it anywhere because it's positive, and you don't want to be positive on people actually becoming legal citizens, but if you look at the groups that are raising our hand and, you know, they're thrilled. Tears and happiness. Absolutely. But to have a congressperson be married to an illegal alien, this is just insane. No, no, it is. It is. It's insane. I mean, she should be thrown out of Congress, right? Absolutely. For harboring an illegal alien. Absolutely. I completely agree. We'll see if anything happens about it. I have a feeling, you know, I. Mean, look what happened. Eventually it's going to get there. What was the woman's name? She was. This is during Trump's first administration. She used to be on Fox News, and then she became a spokesperson for the State Department. I can't remember. Heather. Heather something, I think it was. Anyhow, she had an illegal alien working for her as a housekeeper. She had to resign. Right. No, yeah, listen, it's. Oh, yeah. It's. This is all now, Newell. Something like that. This is all, you know, they're above the law. They feel they're untouchable. We have to do what they say, they don't have to do what we say. And that's where it's all progressed to. This is where we're at. And it doesn't make sense. This is not what the country wants. You can, you know, sit and tell me stories upon stories upon stories that this is how the nation wants it. No, it's not. Not even Martha's Vineyard wanted it. No, that was great. So that when they sent the illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard. Yeah. They lasted like, not even 24 hours and they were ousted. Right. And all you have to do is go into these protests and all this stuff and go up to them and say, you know, here's five illegal aliens. Would you take them into your house? Oh, well, you know, I'm busy and, you know, I don't have room and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's laws for the. And not the. Not for me. Right. So it's. It's a sad state of affairs we've let this tumble into, but it's, you know, unfortunately, it's everybody's fault and we need to work together to get it back, and it doesn't matter aside. This is our nation, this is our children's future, and we have to fight to get it back, and we don't. I'm not talking about, you know, uprising and guns and all this stuff. I'm talking about getting out and voting for one thing and getting involved also. Learn who you're voting for. Don't just watch the, the. The news channel and say, you know, this one's ahead. Oh, well, I guess I'll vote for them. That's not how it works. It's. It's. You have to take the time to figure out who it is. And if you don't like somebody, sometimes, unfortunately, you got to take the lesser of all evils. You know, we. We kind of got into a point where you couldn't tell which side was which because they all blended together. Right. It was like what they call a uni party. And it was like, oh, it doesn't really matter who you vote for because you're voting for the same thing. They're both working kind of the same way. Unfortunately, that carries over to years and years of, well, my vote doesn't matter anyway, so why should I bother? Well, it's getting back to the registrations, like in Pennsylvania we discussed this. One of the episodes that most of the hunters in Pennsylvania are not registered to vote yet. They're the biggest complainers about what's going on, but I still don't understand why they don't vote. Yeah, it's just beyond me. No, I totally agree. Well, you know, and again, that's the biggest thing. It doesn't matter anyway, the fixes in or whatever. You've had two examples now of 2016 and 2024, where supposedly the other party was supposed to wipe out one other party, and that didn't happen. It's because people got together and went out and voted. And whether it's. You think it's good or bad, we have to see. You know, we're six months in. We're gonna have to see how it pans out. I have a lot better outlook than I did six months in the last. Oh, absolutely. Election. You're talking about when Biden won? Yeah, around this time. I don't remember the exact day, but I believe it was in August was when that Afghanistan debacle, pulling out of there, you know, 13 service members killed and billions of dollars of equipment left and all that stuff. Um, so I think, you know, and again, we'll. We'll see how it pans out in a few years, but it doesn't look like the terrorists are doing all the doomsday predictions that everybody's been screaming about yet. Right. Because, you know, and you know what's going on is four years of all these people coming across the border. You cannot tell me terrorists didn't come along with all the terrorists. Yeah, no sleeper cells. No, I mean tariffs. I would say tariffs, yeah. Oh, I thought you were talking terrorists. No, no, no, tariffs. The doomsday criers about the tariffs and how it's gonna wreck the economy and, you know, the world was gonna collapse. Well, actually, it's been doing good. That's. That's what they say. We'll see what happens. What was interesting was there was an economist I, I saw on tv. Forget the guy's name, but he was talking about how the stock market dropped when they did this whole new round of tariffs. And when they realized that what was going on, all of a sudden the stock market went up again. Right. It's not as. Like I said, it's not. The sky is falling. You have to give it time to work. And then they make deals, and then they make trade deals. And that's what he's been doing. You know, every couple days, this one, this country has made a deal that country's made a deal, and if they don't make a deal, then he rises it up and then they come back to the table. So it's a bargaining chip and he's using it. And some, there's some companies coming back to the United States for manufacturing, which is great. Yeah, right. I can't wait for, like, Pittsburgh Steel to start up. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Or Bethlehem Steel. Yeah. And that's what we have to do. We, we've farmed out everything that we actually need to survive, whether it's, you know, medicines or food or, you know, essentials. Other countries are making it for us. Even, even the clothes on our back is. It's all coming from other countries. And these are Podpinion   S hirts. Yeah. These are from, like, overseas. Yeah. Which we're going to change. But hopefully. But anyway, the, the fact that we're not able to support ourselves, you know, we've given away all the technology, we've given away all the plants, the, the factories, the, you know, the jobs, and we've become a service industry nation. You know, hotels and medical. It's all people serving people. And you can't, you can't survive on that. You need some kind of base that you're able to, you know, if something happens with China and they cut us off of everything, what are we going to do? We're screwed. Especially with the pharmaceuticals. Right. Most of the drugs and vitamins are what are coming from China. Right. But on the other hand, right now we have the leverage also because if they don't sell to us, then they're going to collapse because we're the biggest purchasers of them. So it's kind of like a standstill between the two. So we have our opportunity to bring back manufacturing, to bring back essential products that we need to make here. And then we can watch how they're made. And, you know, Bobby Kennedy's and, you know, cutting the dyes and cutting, you know, now Coke is supposed to use only real sugar and. Well, I just had the Pepsi with the real sugar. It reminded me of being a kid. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. Try, Try. Drinking water. Yeah, exactly. That's all I drive. I'm not, I'm not, not a soda guy. Even though he could probably. Can't tell. Occasionally, though, I'm not a soda guy, but try, I guess it's Heinz ketchup, no sugar added. And how does it taste? It tastes like it used to to me because I always, I stopped using, like, ketchup because it's just like syrup or something. I don't know. It's pretty gross, disgusting. And then I just happened, we happened to try that. It was like, whoa. This is, this is kind of like how I remember it, you know, no sugar added. So I don't know what they've been. I, I guess sugar is supposed to addict you. It's supposed to make it. Oh, absolutely. Well, no. To high fructose corn syrup. Right. I mean, the other sugar is not great for you either, but. Right. And then that's, you know, I mean, just look at the, the gas with the ethanol added. You know, all you have to do is, is use it in your, you know, two stroke engine. I got yelled at for this, right. By a guy that repair small engines. And who knew? So the thing was acting up my weed whacker. So I gave it to him to fix and he said, it's shot, throw it out. I said, what do you mean? It's, you know, the thing's 30 years old. He goes, no, it's burned out. You burned it out using ethanol? Who knew? I didn't know that. Yeah. And it doesn't on the label when you buy it. And what is, I don't remember what the percentage is.8, 10% depends on the, the season they add more or less. And. But if that's doing it to your motors and your engines, imagine what it's doing to your inside. So not that, not that you want to stop. You know, I'm not saying stop eating corn or whatever. It's just like that's a commodity that they've transformed into many, many different uses. Oh, absolutely. Guys are, the farmers are being paid to grow that stuff as opposed to other crops. Right. And the government subsidizes it and you know, they make money off the taxes off of it, off the taxes off the fuel. Now my question going back to Bobby Kennedy, what happened? I remember him saying something about one of the things he wanted to do was to ban drug commercials just like they did with cigarettes. What happened? Every other commercial is a pharmaceutical thing, right? Well, he's probably got a lot to fight against that. I'm sure there's a lot of lobbyists that are sick of it, up in arms about it. And then I listen about the side effects, possible side effects. I'd never take this stuff ever. I always like the part in the commercial that says ask your doctor about. It's like, isn't that the doctor's job to tell me? Absolutely. I mean I could be informed and go research it, but I don't want to ask the doctor about it. I want the doctor to tell me this is what it is and this is what I suggest. And then that's my decision. Give me some alternatives. I can take this, this, or this, or do this, this and this. Or how about we try something natural first? Right. No, right, exactly. @ have choices, but, you know, just to watch a commercial and go, you know, call up your doctor and say, hey, doc, what about. Well, I read another article yesterday how. And they're always singing and dancing. I know, just. And it's like this really cheesy, like, Broadway stuff. Like, horrible. There's this one, this is big fat chick. She's dancing, like. And it's just wrong. A. It's. I think it's for Ozempic, actually. Maybe it's some. I think it's Rose epic. Okay. And she's dancing and it's got like a whole. It's like a chorus line. Like they're doing a Broadway show, right. And they're talking about weight loss. And I'm looking at this chick and it's like, no way. This is just ridiculous. Even that wasn't originally that. I don't remember what it was originally. It was for. It's for diabetes. Right. But like the weight loss was like an after effect or something. Right. And then people jumped on a bandwagon. So is that like a side effect or. I guess. Is it a positive side? Well, I know two people. Probably not long enough to, you know them too. Right. So the one guy is taking Ozempic, he's diabetic. They're both diabetic. Everybody's diabetic these days. Everybody. I'm not. Yeah, okay, whatever. Yeah. So the one guy, he takes Ozempic and he's losing weight. The other guy takes Ozempic and he's gaining weight. Right. Go figure. So it probably is a side effect, I would assume. Yeah, but how come losing weight. But now they're promoting it as losing. Weight, so it's kind of weird. Yeah, but yet, like the Broadway show stuff, it's got to stop. It's just going to your doctor and he breaks out in song. I always want to do that. And like one of those conference. Conference meetings once in a while. I'd think about that. You know, back in my previous careers, you know, have the morning meeting and just when they come to you, okay, Bruce, what do you have to say? And like, get up on the table and start doing Top Hat and you know, like the Dick Van Dyke, you know, old movies. There was Actually, a comic bit. I. I'm trying to. I think it might have been Saturday Night Live, or it could have been. In a van down by the river years ago. It might have been one of the British comedies, but it was a thing where they were, like, just walking down the street and they just break out into dance get people, you know. It's pretty funny. Yeah. But, yeah, the drugs, it's gotta stop. Yeah. Oh, it's like, you know, it'd be like doing that for smoking or something like that, you know, you just don't do that, you know. Well, no, the smoking thing, they ban that in. No, I know that. No, no, I know that. That's what I'm saying, you know, and. They did it with booze, too. Right? Remember that? Now I think they're starting to come back with the alcohol, you know, on tv. But clean up all the. The ingredient bars that are on your food, and then we'll see what happens. If we need all these drugs. I don't think we will, because I honestly believe that all this medication is actually making people worse. That's what it seems to be pointing to. See? Yeah. I can't wait for it to change, though, because. Do you remember? Well, even that part is like, with the manufactured meats and. What do they call that? The lab meat. Yeah, the lab meat. Lab grown meat. It's like, all right, so now, you know, you're putting all this stuff in the food. Now you're gonna grow meat too, in a lab. It just sounds disgusting. I don't know. I don't know. It seems like. Would you try it? No, I wouldn't. I mean, but I have seen videos where people say that they bought package of meat someplace and it's, you know. Well, they have that meat glue, too, where they take all the bits and they glue it together. My wife was telling us. Yeah. Remember she saw. Where was it? Some store. She saw meat and it didn't look right and it wasn't bad because it still was. Like the guy was just bringing it out and she said it didn't look right. Right. So it's probably. It may be glued together like a. That's disgusting. Jigsaw puzzle. Got 40 cows in one steak. What a thought. No, thanks. How about Trump today with this? Federal control of Washington, D.C. yeah, well. We'Ll see what happens. I think it's not a bad. He's tried a couple other things. He's put DC on notice a couple times about the crime. And. Yeah, evidently the crime rate in Washington is out of Control. And what happens is nothing happens. That's the point. It's like the crime happens. If they get arrested, then they're let right back out. So, I mean, how does that work? Well, they get arrested, they get booked. No, but I mean, how does that work to benefit the city? It doesn't. I mean, D.C. is. It just emboldens those who want to do wrong to people and it's, it's gotta stop. I would think that the way the crime rate is in D.C. that it would prohibit people or prevent people from going to visit. Yeah, you'd think so. I, I'm. Well, if they don't really pay attention, then they may not know, you know. Until they get mugged. Right. Or robbed. Well, then they know deal of the above. Right. Or worse. So he, he was getting upset about. He said the local youth and gang members are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming and shooting innocent citizens at the same time, knowing that they're going to be out immediately, they're going to get released. So he's really on a war path with that. Then I, I heard today that there was a bill that went through, I believe the House, where. Well, in Washington D.C. illegal aliens are allowed to vote in local elections. Did you hear this one? No. This is crazy. So. It seems that, well, they have IDs and driver's licenses because they all paid for with our tax money, so the go. So why can't they vote? Why not? Yeah. No. Yeah. So nuts. The Republicans in the House passed this bill that prohibits them from voting. The Democrats are losing their minds over this, saying that it's not fair. How? Because the, the, the logic that the Republicans were using was, well, you could have Russian operatives, Chinese operatives, people, spies, voting to control the local power. Well, not only that, but you, you have people that are voting much like this person in, in Congress. Oh, with the illegally alien husband. Yeah. Well, not only that, but, but she's pledging allegiance to her home country, that they're, they're, they're going to be wanting to vote for somebody that's going to be sympathetic to the country, that they're actually citizens. Right. That was the point. So. So they're now saying that Washington D.C. is controlled by the feds, so therefore their law will stick. So there's this big backlash. So it should be interesting to see what's going to happen. Well, I thought you would have heard about that one. I didn't, I didn't hear about that one. That's kind of, it's, it's just to me it's common sense. Yeah. You're not as. It shouldn't even be taken time up in Congress or the Senate or. Right. If you, if you went to Canada, you vote there. Should be. They should be working on other things than this. Yeah, but I mean, can you go to Canada and vote? No, apparently not. Can you go to Japan and vote? Apparently not. No. So why is it they're allowed to come here and vote? Shouldn't be. Thank you. Right, exactly. Call your Congress people and yell and. Scream at them and tell them to do real work and get this out of the way and concentrate on real stuff. Because that one just. But again, it's here for a reason. Because people didn't stand up and stop it. So now we have to go back and fix it. That's the problem. Nobody's paying attention to this stuff. The borders close and they shut off the. You know, they turn on frickin. Whatever show. Frickin Whatever show they're watching tonight. And I gave him a look. No Dunkin Donuts. I was gonna say, did you stop at Dunkin Donuts? Nope. Okay, Okay. I won't say freaking no more. Then he stopped stopping at Dunkin no. More Dunkin Donut Ranch from this boy. But if it shouldn't have gotten this far and our tax dollars should not be paying them to sit on their asses and stand up in front of the TV cameras and talk about this stuff because it's common sense. It doesn't, it doesn't make sense. It should never happen. And it should have never gotten to this point where we actually have to now think about passing laws to prevent it from happening. Yeah, that's crazy. We have to prevent a law to. Or no, we have to pass a law to prevent illegals from voting. Right. That's just nuts. No, I mean, really, you think? You gotta laugh. Yeah. You have to. No, it's nuts. It really is. And then Chucky Schmuckle Schumer, he's. He's on a war path again. He's blocking every single one of Trump's appointees. Is he? Yes. And. The Senate gop, they're ready to go nuclear on Schumer's political extortion of Trump's nominees. So evidently, from what I read, there are currently over 1200 positions that go through the Senate for confirmation, through the whole administration, and they've only been able to confirm 130. And there's. And it's ridiculous. So we were talking earlier, before we got on about, isn't there an option if the Houses go on recess. The nuclear option. Yeah. Oh, no, no. The, the recess appointments. Reset appointments. I'm still not quite sure on that. I had it written down here someplace. Oh. Article 2, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution says the president shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. And the recess appointments clause authorizing the president to make temporary appointments when the Senate is not in session was adopted by the Constitutional Convention without dissent and without debate regarding the intent and scope of its terms in a Federalist number 67. And Alexander Hamilton refers to the recess appointment power as nothing more than a supplement for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary method of appointment in cases to which the general method was inadequate. The Supreme Court evidently has upheld several of them and is also gone against it on certain cases. So I'm not real clear on how the whole thing works because Obama was like, he was like rattling these things off the recess appointments. But. So if I got this straight, if the Senate goes on recess like they are right now, they're coming back in about September, so they're off for the whole month of August. They have to be gone 10 days in order for a recess to be considered a recess, right? I do. Yeah. I didn't approve any time off. I'm just saying, you know, for the part time job, I paid taxes and I should be able, they work for me, so I should be able to. So where was I? We were talking about the. Yeah, so Obama was like jamming these things through when the, you know, recess appointments. However, there's this little rule that if they have a Senate committee meeting, they're not in recess. So what the Democrats are now doing. So Trump can't appoint recess appointments, that he can't appoint anybody is they're having these little committee meetings, even if it's 15 minutes via like, you know, zoom or something. So that's, that's hanging him. So I do know, and I'm, you know, I don't know that. Like you said, I don't know exactly how it works, but I do know that the president can send both houses into recess by order for a period of time, and then he could. Yes, but if they have these stupid little meetings. But if they're on. No, it's, it's supposed to be like presidential order that they could, he could send them out on recess. Well, we'll see what happens. I don't remember the, you know, the clause or right off the top of my head, we can look into it. But, but these, these guys, I mean, Schumer should just like get over it. No, he should probably take care of his mortgage fraud issues instead of holding up the whole country. True. You know, but they're gonna just keep stonewalling it. So it's, it's laughable, but it's not, it's really making me angry. Oh, that's another. You know, if he, if he did this, you got another, you know, so potential criminal. What the. Holding up the whole country. So what the Republicans are thinking of doing now, under normal circumstances, changing the rules in the Senate would require 67 votes, meaning that the Senate Democrats would have to be on board with the change of rules. However, there's a path that lawmakers refer to as the nuclear option, which allows for rules changes to only need a simple majority, which the Republicans have. So they're seriously thinking about doing that. However, what would happen is if they change the rules is then when the Democrats come back into power, they got the same rules, so they could just flip it back onto the Republicans and. Right. So it's the same crap all over again. So one of the things that we. Back to Texas with this redistricting, Ken Paxton, the ag, he's also put in for court, basically determination or finding that because they're not here, they're not coming back to vote on this redistricting, that they have vacated their seats and therefore then Abbott could just appoint them. Appoint. Wouldn't that be fun? Seats. Right. Well, you know, that's going to wind up in the Supreme Court. Oh, sure, absolutely. But again, you know, laws for thee, not for me. But I wonder how the Texas Constitution reads with that. Well, I, I would imagine that's probably, I don't know, that they're just pulling it out of their hat. You know what I mean? Well, no, because in the Texas constitution, it's the only state in the union that actually allows for succession from the United States. Well, that's what I'm saying. I'm sure they're the governor and the AG is probably not pulling it out of the hat. There's some kind of legal. Yeah, I mean, their whole point in the Constitution different than all the other states. Yeah, that'll be interesting. Yeah. Well, this whole thing is interesting. Like we said earlier, just you turn on the news at 8 o' clock in the morning and by noon it's like a completely different exact scenario. Talking about jobs and companies coming back at 8am and then, you know, talking about the FBI going and arresting Congress people for defecting. I would love, I would love to see that. I just, I would love to see it. Well, they're not Congress people. They're. Yeah, Representatives. Representatives of Texas. Yes, but they're, they're, they're, they're Congress, right? Well, no, they're, they're. It's an Assembly House of. Well, it's not a House of Representatives. Well, yeah, I guess it is, but it's the House and the Senate. But Texas, Right? Yeah. Not federal. Right. State. Right. Pregnant paws. Here's another good. Yeah, dead air. Here's another good one. Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary, his wife, have been subpoenaed to appear before Congress to testify about their whole thing with Jeffrey Epstein. And the plot thickens. I did not fly with that woman. This should be, this should be good. Although I don't think they're going to really. I don't think this Epstein thing is going to go anywhere. I really don't. That's my personal pod pinion. It's almost, it's almost like a, a distraction for, you know, things going on with Tulsi Gabbard and the Russia Gate stuff. This is almost like, to keep people busy over here so that they can. Go ahead with the whole Russia Gate thing. Didn't they. Didn't she just. Kam Bondi referred it to a grand jury. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. They're not talking about that. They're talking about Epstein. Both. Both. So I, I don't know what the whole deal is. Now all of a sudden Democrats are into the Epstein thing other than to make noise, to try to distract from the Russiagate thing. That's. That's the only thing I can think of. Well, yeah, but they had, they can't. If it's in a grand jury, there's nothing they can really do about it. No, but what I'm saying is the public viewing it or watching or paying attention to it, make. Make noise over here, they were, they. Were screaming and yelling. They didn't want. This Epstein thing is dead. Right? Well, that, yeah. Before now, all of a sudden, they. Want to know, but now they're saying, well, Trump's there. Well, if, If Trump was involved, then why during the Biden administration, didn't it come out? You would think so. Yeah. You would think that during the last election cycle, they would have dragged that stuff out. Absolutely. Instead of doing about the documents at Mar A Lago and his bank loan payment that he paid in full with interest, you think that maybe they would have drugged this out if it was true. So I think that they'd have a little more standing than trying to, you know, have somebody go to. Go to prison for paying their loan. And the bank saying, hey, he didn't do anything wrong. We, we don't mind. We made our loan back. We made our interest. We. We don't. We have nothing to say. Well, well, that was Letitia James and what's his name. Yeah. Right. And that's still going on. Like what's happening with those two Alvin Bragg and Leticia. Yeah, bragging Letitia. It's like a. What is it? Beavis and Butthead episode. It's like a spin off, but yeah. What's happening, Leticia? You know, we talk about stories ago that we just went away. There's one. What happened to Letitia James's mortgage fraud? Well, maybe she did marry her dad. Maybe that'll be on the next. Did they move to Utah? Reality TV show. They became Mormons and moved to it. Could be, could be. Maybe she probably has a house there too. Maybe Schiff also. But all that stuff just went away. I know nobody is talking about it, not even the conservative news outlets. I don't know if that was referred to a grand jury. I. Something happened with that. So it may be processing but. Well, the other thing, I don't know if you've heard anything I found refreshing. Refreshing was not only did the Clintons get subpoenaed, but James Comer. No, I'm sorry, they. Who else did they. Where's my list there? Oh, Merrick Garland, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Alberto Gonzalez along with Jeff Sessions, William Barr and Comey and Robert Mueller were also sent subpoenas. Like it doesn't get any better. Yeah. And I can guarantee you they'll all plead the fifth Amendment. Probably. Except for the. Well, except for the ones that got the pardons. Right, right. Then they have to talk. Right. Or else they can be charged with lying to Congress. Right. Yeah. So we'll have to see where this goes. And Hunter Biden got a new job, did he? Yes. Yeah, he is now the. He's running a non profit in California. Oh, surprise, surprise. I wonder if it has anything to do with all the money coming from the fires. I don't know, you know that you know, Fires R Us or something like that.org.org the musical. Fires R Us.org to musical. Yeah. So he's got a new gig running this non profit. It was very sketchy. The. The article that I read about it. It was. It was pretty Vague. I, I think he had quite a few. The Bidens had quite a few companies that were non profit. They didn't make a profit. They do just like there. They were just funneling money. Yeah. So laundering money. He's good for non profits because apparently they just pass checks back and forth. Loans. Loans. Yeah, loans. Loans my butt. Now here's, here's one. We got to keep an eye on this thing. We're not going to go into depth, but there's a new outbreak in China. Surprise, surprise. It's called the Chikungunya virus and it's. It's spread by mosquitoes and evidently it causes severe headache. Really, really debilitating joint pain, muscle aches, and it can get worse and worse and worse and there's no cure for it. Sounds like something we have over here. What, the flu? No, Lyme disease. Yeah, right. It's very similar, but this one's spread by the tiger mosquito. So we got to keep an eye on that. Evidently there's an outbreak in China of 7,000 people came down with this and now they're worried about it spreading outward by airlines. Okay. People traveling. So wear your bug spray. I mean the only Good point. Mask up. That's right. You know, around here, by next month they'll be. The mosquitoes will be gone because it'll be sub zero. Right. But. Well, I'm sure they'll make their way over here somehow. Yeah, but it's the World Health Organization. Oh, and WHO did co. The who. That's right. Who are you? So my favorite, My favorite. Yeah. My favorite segment right here. Right. Whatever happened to speaking of the Clintons, what happened to the $20 million in the Clinton Haiti fund? Very interesting. Remember, everybody remember that Haiti had that. Monster earthquake back in 2010, I believe, and their fund was supposed to provide capital to Haitian entrepreneurs in the wake of the. Yeah. 2010 earthquake. But the Post could only. There's a New York Post could only find evidence of one project that received funding which was like bupkis. It was like hardly anything. And they just built Haiti for everything it was worth. Yes, I remember. I was younger, but I remember them going over and it was a joke. Clintons were talking about this and that and starting the fund and it's just a way to make themselves richer. That's all these, not all of them. I think you start a non profit. Yeah. Nonprofit. Exactly. Yeah. No. Hey, you know, it seems like that's, that's the way to go. Now everybody's doing a non profit. And originally I thought like the IRS was really looking into non nonprofits growing up, you know, I thought, you know, you had to be careful and you know, you got dinged for this thing for that. And they would basically wipe you out. But as soon as the government officials started getting involved with nonprofits, seems like the IRS started looking otherware other places to, you know, ding. Yeah. So that, that story just went away. Yeah. And that was huge there for a while. Oh yeah, absolutely. Haiti hates the Clintons, so I just. Thought that was interesting. And then In November of 1978, France set off two nuclear explosions in the South Pacific. The Soviet Union set off two more in Kazan, and that was matched by the United States and Britain, which both set off their two bombs in Nevada. Nobody talked about it. It like went away. Right. Why? Take a wild guess why. Don't know why. Well, there was also an Iranian revolution that same. Around the same time Sri Lanka had an Icelandic air collision which killed 183 people. Do remember. And it was all washed away by the Jonestown suicide. Suicide. Jim Jones, 1978. Yep. Yeah, yeah. In Ghana. Right. It's amazing how all this government stuff just kind of gets erased by other things. Right. It's like the Pentagon with the how many trillion dollar day before? 9, 11. Right. $10 billion. Whoops. Was that a trillion or. It was trillion. Yeah, 2 trillion or something like that. It was something ridiculous. And they were going to start the hearings the next day. Oops. Yeah, no, we're busy now. We have to go start a 10 year war look for. Well, we're still there really, if you. Think about weapons of mass destruction that aren't there, as Bush would say. Now this one, this was kind of interesting. News anchors who completely vanished. I saw this and it's like, wow. This should be interesting. And Connie Chung, you remember Connie Chung. Yeah. She was married to Mari, right? Maripovich. Yeah. And she was on ABC News and he had his thing on, on, what was it, Channel 5 in New York. He had like a talk show and then they were doing a thing together for a while. Where'd she go? Yeah. Poof. Yep. Just disappeared. Yeah, Just completely disappeared. Yeah. And then Linda Ellerby, remember her from cnn? Gone, gone. I mean, she retired, but where'd she go? Right. Nothing. Yeah, they never said anything about it. Well, you know, I would imagine some, some of those people, they, they've seen so much and had to talk about so much nonsense. It's like they probably don't even own a TV or. Matt Lauer, remember? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He Vanished from the spotlight after his fall from grace. Yes. In November of 2017, he was axed from the show. Right. Because several women accused him of sexual misconduct. Now, he apologized, which means he did it. Right. What an idiot. I mean, why would you do that? Well, you know. And he's never been seen since. Right? Gone. Just a moron. I mean, it's just Bryant Gumbel. Him. Another one vanished. That's right. Where'd he go? Yeah, don't know. What else disappeared? Quality control. This is the good stuff. Not just on products, but also in the service sector. So you get your service business, you know, like Dunkin Donuts. There's no quality control. No. Right. Like none. Yeah, it's just. It's unbelievable. No, it's. It's the mindset of the. The people now, they. They don't care. And it just has infected it throughout the whole business. And then all of a sudden everything's a mess and nobody cares. And you know, they tell you, basically threaten you if you make a stink. And it's unbelievable. Yep. Absolutely crazy. Perpetual licenses, for example, I have this app on my phone. It's a photo editing app. Right. It's been free forever. All of a sudden I can't use it. It's like disabled unless I subscribe. And it's like 49 bucks a year now. Yeah, it's like a year at least. What's up with that? Let me just start at 499, something like that. Right, right. But no, but still, it's been free. For all this time. Right. But now I have to subscribe and it's 49.99 a year, which means I'm not buying it. I'm like renting it. Right, right. You can't. Yeah, right. You are. You're subscribing even like QuickBooks. Yeah, right. You don't. You don't get a disc anymore. It's like in the cloud. Well, it's like, it sucks. They. They're just taking the. What do they call it? Housing. You know, they build all the apartments and condos. No, for the, the. It's supposed to be for the poor people or Section 8 housing. Not Section 8, but there's a term for it. Housing. Mass housing, basically. And you don't own them, you just rent them. Right. It's the same thing now. Everything's getting rented. You have to have a subscription or you lose your documents, you lose your history, all that stuff. It's like the low income housing. Okay. So you never own anything. You just basically pay the Government for having the housing there, basically. Right. Or not necessarily the government, but the. The person that built the housing to get subsidies from the government to build the housing. So. This is where everything's going. It's just going to be. You're gonna have nothing. No, I want. You're gonna like it. I want to. No, I get it, I get it, I get it. And if people stop, start refusing to do this, to rent it, to subscribe, things will change. Used to be able to buy the disc. The disc, and it was yours. Now I did upgrades. And what they do is they do upgrades, upgrades, upgrades, and they get you online. And then all of a sudden you're paying for the updates all the time. So it's just wrong. Yep. But it is what it is. Gauges in cars, where'd they go? Now you have a widescreen tv, Right. Dashboard. Right. There's no gauges. Yeah. Isn't that bizarre? Yeah, it's kind of weird. Yeah. No, and if your electrics, electronics go, you're screwed. Oh, sure, Absolutely. I like those old gauges where you could see everything, you know? Yep. And bugs. Do you remember? All right. We're in the middle of the summer, Right. So when I was a kid and you're driving down the road, bugs on the windshield, you'd have to clean your car all the time. Do you have that now? Nope. Where'd they go? Yep. Where? Right. Nothing. It's like. When was the last time you saw a ladybug or a butterfly? It's been quite a while. I've seen one. One or two here and there, but. It'S a big one. Lightning bugs. Yeah, I know. They're. They're far few between two and. That's what I said about bats. Bats you don't see very, very often. They used to be everywhere. I live in basically a swamp. Right. We're across the street from a lake and it's all swampy. We used to have tree frogs up the wazoo. You'd hear them all night. Lightning bugs. Was really cool. You sit on a deck, listen to the frogs. You listen to the. You know, you could see the lighting. Nothing. I don't think I've seen a lightning bug in years. Right. And the frogs are all gone. I don't know, you know? Yep. Where'd they go? According to this article that I read, the bug populations have plummeted in the last few decades by 70%. Wow. So where did they go? Yeah. I still say it's all connected to this. All the sound waves and all the Radio waves going through there. I would not doubt. Bluetooth, you know, technology, cell phones, all that stuff, it's. It's got to be having some kind of effect. Has to. I wonder if anybody's doing a study on that. What's it doing to us? Yeah, no, no, right, exactly. If it's killing bugs, let's just say hypothetically that the cell towers and all this electronic stuff going through the, you know, going through the air. There was, there was an app, it was going to come out and this has got to be, oh, probably 12, 15 years ago. I remember reading about it. It was a big thing, you know, flashing a pan, what it was going to be. It was app on your phone. And of course phones weren't as sophisticated as now, but it was an app on your phone. No, no, it was, you know, smartphone. But. You were supposed to be able to hold the screen up and see where all the waves really in the air and somehow it went away. It wasn't allowed to proceed because you. Hear about doctors telling, well, don't put your cell phone next to your bed to charge it. Charge it in another room. Like it was like, mine's like next. To my bed, Right. You know, on the table next to the bed, right next to my head. Right. So what's that doing? Right. Well, look, just sitting in your car. You get all the electronics now with the screens and everything else. I mean, you're surrounded by all GPS and everything and everything's coming in, whether it's WI fi or Bluetooth or whatever. I mean, that's all different frequencies. That's all. You can't escape. No, no. Kind of scary. Yeah. Yeah. Where did basic good manners go? Please and thank you. Yeah, that, that's that ship to sailed, I think for a while anyway. Hopefully ass handed to me if I was like rude to somebody when I. Was a kid, right? Oh, yeah. Now it's, it's completely different. Right. Like nobody even says please anymore. I actually held the door for some lady one and she started yelling at me and I just looked at her. I can do it myself. Okay. Yeah. What's that all about? I was told to do that when I was a kid. It's called mental. No, I was being mental. You hold the door open for somebody, you know, male or female, just hold the door open if they're right behind you, Right? Yeah. And then you say thanks or thank you. Right? No, I can do it myself. Appreciation, you know, you don't have to do that. No, I gotta, I can do it myself. Right, right. Okay, Go put your hat on. Amazing how they knew how women were. Yeah. Where'd they go? What women were that. That parade, wasn't it? Where'd they go? I don't know. I don't know. The Pussy Hat Ladies. Yeah. I don't know what happened to them. They vanished. Yes, along with the manners. Coincidence? I don't know. Here's a good one, because I have a story to go along with this. Whatever happened to the ability to read and then comprehend anything more complicated than a Dick and Jane novel? No, that's true. Not even a novel, just a book. Well, I mean, got kids who can't write cursive. They can't sign their name. Okay. I don't know if I told you this. Yeah, you did. That's why I brought that up. So I went to the bank to make it deposit. I write the name, you know, name, account number and deposit only. I have a rubber stamp for the business stuff. So I go to the bank. To the drive. No, I went in the bank. That's what. Because I had to get changed, too. So I. I went in, I hand the lady the checks. They knew how to make change there. Yeah, right. As opposed to Dunkin Donuts. So I said it. So she. She looks at it, she goes, oh, my God, you actually have the account numbers on the checks? I said, well, yeah. Aren't you supposed to do that? She said, you have no idea how many people come in here and don't put their account numbers on the checks. And then we have to go look it up because they don't have any information with them. And now all the banks don't have deposit slips. Yeah, but that. Yeah, that's just weird. So I put the number on the back of the check. That's how I was taught a million years ago. And I said, I just find that unbelievable. She said, no, you have no clue. She said, these people, they don't even know how to sign their name. I said, what? She said, no, they come in to open up an account, they don't even have a signature. They print everything. She said, I don't even know if that's legal. But they still open accounts for them. But they. Clueless. Right. And at one point, being in that situation was because you had to leave school for. Usually it was a family situation. You had to go work for the family poor, whatever. You weren't able to progress in school. But these people, the graduates. Graduates, we're talking college graduates. They can't write. Yes. So. And don't even know this is an account number on the back of the check. If this is progression, count me out. Yeah, please. Where did just hanging out go? Oh, yeah, that. That was. That was years ago. That was erased. That. I used to love that. Just like. Sure. Well, it got to the point where they got less and less, and then trouble happened at these points, and then they just shut them down. Then nobody had anything to do. You know, you go to the, you know, pizza shop or you go to the arcade or even hang out on Main street for, you know, we used to go skating, and we go to the pizza shop and hang on Main street for a little while, and then we go. We didn't make trouble. We're just hanging out, talking, and. And then, you know, while this happened here, so we got to close this down and we have to have curfews and all this stuff, and it's just little by little, little by little, little by little, you lose your. Your freedom, you lose your ability to congregate. You lose your ability to talk to each other, and all of a sudden, you're sitting alone on a screen with Grock's new fantasy land. It's kind of weird access where you can have a, you know, a girlfriend right there online or a boyfriend right there online, and it's all animated and made up. So that's where we're at. It was really funny. Like, my wife and I went out for dinner the other night. So we're sitting in this restaurant, and I'm looking around, and I said to her, check this out. And she turned around, she goes, what? I said, nobody's talking to each other. They all had their phones out. And it's like, wow, this is really twisted. And then the woman who was the cashier at this place, she had her phone out and was ignoring. Because we're waiting to come in. I saw the. The waitress. Excuse me, server. When did that change? What happened to waitress and waiter? Yeah, no, yeah, server. It's a waitress and a waiter. They were like, if they weren't busy doing something, they were standing there with their phones playing on, and it's like, wow. We were, like, the only two in the place talking to each other. And the good point is, if you want to go out for a quiet dinner, you just go about anywhere now. Yeah, right. Because everybody's on their phones, is messing around on their phones. It's unbelievable. I couldn't believe it. It was pretty. It was bizarre. Yeah. And then whatever happened to eye contact? Have you noticed that? Yeah. Talk like you meet somebody and they don't look you in the eye. Right. As a kid, I mean, my dad used to tell me, well, several things, but when you go to meet somebody, shake their head, look them right in the eye. And then he said, look at their shoes. Like what? Look at their shoes. You can tell a lot about a person's shoes if they're not polished. Then he goes, it'll everything about their character. Right. And he was right. Yeah. They're wearing sneakers. I mean, it's different. But, you know, you're in a business suit and then you got. Oh, no. Right. Yeah. Crappy shoes on. Yeah. Yep. It's like musicians that show up on gigs. Tuxedo in, like, frumpy shoes that are like. They look like they just got them from the Salvation Army. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just. But they're comfortable. Yeah, right. They're comfortable, but they look like, you know, it's just. I'm sorry. Pardon my mouth. I just. I'm. I'm wound up this week. All this stuff with. With everything that's going. These people in Texas are making me nuts. Yeah. Well, it's going to be interesting once we get done here to check in and see where they're at. Well, I'm curious to see what's going to happen since they went to New York and Illinois. Yeah. If will those governors that are harboring them now, are they going to be held responsible? It could be. Could be. Legally. Yeah. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. I don't know how that would carry over, but. And can the FBI actually go to New York State and arrest these people? I. I mean, the FBI is countrywide, as far as I know. That's why they called them in. These people are state. Well, federal. Federal Bureau of Investigation, so. Yes, but these people are state rep. Right, but they can go out and arrest a citizen. They don't have to, you know, they don't necessarily have to be a federal employee. I would love to see that. Yeah. Could you imagine all these people with. Doing the perp walk? Yes. That'd be awesome. To the bus. Trump could put them next to his mug shots. Unbelievable. Make a collage. Oh, man. Oh, well. Well, keep. Keep your eyes open and see what's going on. Yep. 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