🎙️ Podpinions Episode 16 | Testosterone and Control

Hormones, conspiracies, and politics collide — a Podpinions deep dive into power and control.

This episode of Podpinions explores testosterone, hormones, and how they connect to bigger political and cultural systems of control. Rich and Bruce discuss conspiracy theories, Russia and Ukraine, and how AI is exposing hidden money flows through NGOs. Equal parts funny, sharp, and thought-provoking.

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So what's up with this testosterone thing? Right? And we got this. And I. It was a really fast question as well. Is like, just because I've seen some different things posted in articles and theories and conspiracy theories. Bruce is like the conspiracy theorists. Conspiracy theories. I need more. I need more because they're all coming true. This was a good one. They're all coming true. True. So. But no, I asked him basically, how does the pill work? Oh, that's right. And you know, the birth control pill, and it's to regulate the hormones and estrogen and that sort of thing, which we got then talking into. Well, what happens once you take it and your body flushes out whatever is there? And it's not just the pill. It's all kinds of stuff. Yeah, viruses. I mean, your body sends out all this stuff so it lands somewhere. And most of us have that little handle on that porcelain thing in that little room. 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 are back once again and again. It's just jam packed with stuff. I didn't know where to start today, looking stuff up. I know, right? It was crazy. Yeah. And the loony left is going loonier and lefter. We haven't even looked into. Deeply into the Russia, Ukraine stuff even. No, I mean, it's just too much. Yeah. So we'll let that work out and we'll get back to. Once they hammer out a deal. I guess the only thing with that was that. All right. I read something on Facebook this morning from a friend of mine who's kind of way over here someplace, and he's just left of communist. Just. Anyhow, he's in the closet. No, he's not in the closet. He's like out there. Right. So he was saying how all these foreign leaders begged, like, got together to gang up on Trump. Hmm. Where in fact, it was the opposite. He invited them to the White House to try to work something out here. And beans are all part of NATO. Right, Right. They do need to be involved, you would think. Like, they're just going to be told what to do. They have to have a say so in it, I would imagine. And since they're all allies, I'm just. Sick of the nonsense. You know, all these people just. Oh, no, they're. They're doing it because Trump's nuts. And they're getting. They're coming to the white. Well, no, Right. He invited them to work something out that they can all do something together. To work on Zelensky. Exactly. Putin. But it's going to be safer and equal for all parties involved if they can make sure that Russia is, you know, taken care of. As far as no war. We don't want them to start going forward in the other countries and stuff. So they all got to make a deal. I mean, the same thing with any of the other wars that happened, whether it was World War I, World War II. I mean, countries have to come together and make a deal, right? Hopefully so. Sometimes they don't, but. Hopefully. But what gets me is this guy was just going off about crazy Trump and all this nonsense. And then evidently there was a hot mic moment. Did you see this? I did not. Trump leans over to. Who's the French president? Macron. Yeah. Macron leans over to him and whispers something in his ear that got picked up on the microphone and now the lefties are going nuts over that. And it was basically like, well, Putin's gonna make. Make a deal. He wants to make a deal for me. Right. Something to that effect. I'm paraphrasing. But regardless, who cares if people stop dying, right? I mean, who cares really whether it's Trump wants to take the, you know, make the excuse or if it's actually Putin respecting Trump's decision. I mean, what does it matter as long as they work out a deal, right? Well, Bill Gates wants everybody to die. So that's my pod pinion. Yes, Pod pinions. That's more run amucketh. That's more of a conspiracy theory is. Yes. Bill Gates wants everybody to die. Everybody to have a blue screen internally, Right? Yeah. Oh, can you imagine? Wow. I've been getting. Have you been getting like weird stuff going on with your computer lately? Oh, yeah. And spam. Spam. It's getting like real technical. Well, no, My computer all of a sudden will just shut off for no reason. And it's not that old. It's like all the computers, even in this building, like all the computers will just get wacky, right? Yeah. For no reason. I. I've had a couple that are, that are last six months or so. Yeah. But they are in the midst of phasing out going into the next. Well, I don't know the next Microsoft, but Windows 11 is going to be the standard now. It's. There aren't going to be any other. We go back to 98. There aren't going to be any other updates for any other, you know, releases other than Windows 11, I guess, on. My music software, Right. Last night I was messing around. I played you some of this stuff I was messing around with pretty much. It's really crazy. But my regular music software, which I was using Finale for notation, and they ceased to exist. So there's this other company now that replaces them, and I downloaded that and it's. It's just. There's a learning curve. You know, the other one I had down, I mean, I've been doing it forever, right. I had it down and I could. I could bang parts out and whatnot. But where was it going with this? Oh, so I'm working on. On some music stuff last night, and all of a sudden my computer starts, like, changing screens on me just without me doing anything. Right. It was really weird. The government is watching Pod pinions. Yeah, right. No, it's just really strange. It's like my laptop and my desktop at home just started doing weird stuff and reboot both of them. You know, I think the programs that they're coming out with and the way they're loaded and HTML, JavaScript versus, you know, JavaScript. And I think there's a lot of conflict that has to go through anymore that. Because I've noticed some programs on some computers act differently, you know, and I just think it's the processors and the way they're handling all the data now. And so. And then, you know, of course, everybody in their uncle has a program, so each one a little different. Different. We have this program, Pod pinions. Pod pinions program. We need an app. Yes. For what? I don't know. First we need shirts. Yeah, right. First we need shirts and merch. We got to get the crew. We're working on that. First we need a crew. So. So this afternoon a buddy of mine brought it up. We was. He was talking to both of us and. Oh, actually, no, let's go to this one first. Okay. This. This other thing, I jumped ahead. Tulsi Gabbard, removing all. Oh, this is funny. All the security clearances, like 37 people. And. And this is in addition to the original, right? That whole bunch was Clapper and. Yeah, Clapper was this one. I think it was. Was it this one? But it was. It was Comey and Paige and Struck and who else? There was Brennan. Brennan y. All those nice people. Yes. So this was another 30. So the memo sent out on Monday included names of officials who worked at the CIA, nsa, which is the National Security Agency Council The. Let's see. Obama dni, James Clapper Gabbard said that he was compromising normal procedures to rush a 2017 intelligence community assessment related to the Russia nonsense in the 2016 election. Stunner. Yeah. Hearing a lot of stuff coming out. There's a lot of documents, there's a lot of emails. There's all this stuff. Right. But yet the Democrats are still saying it never happened. Right. And they're still on this Russia thing. Yeah, they're gonna beat that Russian horse till it's dead gone. And there's a monument somewhere put to it. I don't know. No, they don't. They'll take the monument down. Oh, ye. Yeah, that's. You forgot. Yes, I did. Until it's dog food. They'll keep beating it until it's dog food. So being in. She said that being entrusted with security clearance is a privilege, not a right. So I'm real curious how many more of these people are gonna. I mean, I'm sure there's gonna be more. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. And I don't even know whether they really announce anybody that's. Yeah, there's a list here. I downloaded and printed out the actual memo and the list. Oh, people. Okay. So is there. They all pretty well known or. No, I never heard of any of those people. There's people in the agencies that are also being told their clearances are. Oh, yeah, no longer. And a bunch of people like, see out. You're being escorted out of the building today. And I think these are some of them. It almost goes along with the taking the DC and cleaning that up. Seems like they're not just doing it on the streets. No, every agency everywhere. And it started with USAID and finding out about the. But wait, that didn't happen either. Oh, it didn't? No. Oh, see, because now all that money that was going there, the Democrats aren't getting it for the little pet projects and all the lefties that I know are going nuts over that. Well, I guess they're gonna have to tighten our belt and get the hot dogs and Mac and cheese out. Ketchup sandwiches. That's right. Oh, man. But I, you know, and again, all this money, it's. It's. It's crazy. Billions and billions and hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars. I mean, we talked about the. Just before 9, 11 on September 10th. $2.3 trillion missing. Yeah. And so in fact, they were going to start. They were going to start that investigation the next day on September 11th. Oops. So where's all this money going? Who knows? I looked up, look, I'm going to get a. I'll look it up further so we can talk about it. But I went into some of the AI programs and typed in like put a realistic dollar amount on what NGOs in the US actually take in on a yearly basis. And it's staggering. It really is. Between donations and now tell everybody who. Doesn'T know what an NGO is. Non governmental organization. Okay. Which would be, which would be somebody that is not supposed to be. Not involved with the government. It's supposed to be a entity that is separated from the government. So if you look into, you know, they're not, they're not an arm of the government, basically. All right, it's like Planned Parenthood. Correct. So they, they. I'm not sure why they went to NGOs and not the nonprofits. I guess nonprofit didn't work out as far as the. What they're trying to push, I guess because basically it's a nonprofit dot org. Everything's a dot org and which costs. More than if you go to register the. Isn't that amazing? It's actually costs more than a dot. Com because everybody else is paying for it. It's like the government, it's just so bizarre. So just had to throw that out there. So they live on, supposedly live on donations. It's a non profit but they do get governmental grants and different things that they apply for. But it seems like the government has found a way to try and use these program or companies to try and push their agendas. So that is basically what's coming out is all this money laundering through these NGOs. One hand washes the other. They look away for taxes and this and sort, you know, get them involved in being able to not pay as much taxes. Everybody screams about the corporations, but they. Don'T scream about the entities because they're benefiting from it. Right. So basically this is going to be all tied together, all the money laundering. You know, they're looking into this Act Blue, the donation site that they found people, people's names supposedly making these donations that, you know, I've seen the videos where James o' Keefe or somebody goes up and knocks on the door and says, hey, did you make all these donations?$120,000 and the person's making like I don't know, 60,000 a year. And it's like, how do you do that? How does that work? Right? He cracks me up because he'll have his camera hidden in his Briefcase or. Yeah, right. Didn't he get in trouble at one point, if I remember correctly? I don't know that he's ever lost a court case, to be honest. Okay. I think he's been taken to court quite a lot. But we should do that. We should get like a. Yeah, you know, a James Bond briefcase with the camera in it. Get them cool hats, you know, tilted to the side a little bit. I don't know who we go interview, but. Yeah, right. We could interview each other, I guess. Yeah, there you go. See what works. So I'm. I'm just curious because Tulsi Gabbard said that, or she actually wrote it in an X post, that those in the intelligence community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold, which means that they're thumbing their nose at the Constitution, which. Is pretty obvious that that's been done. Absolutely. But they're all screaming about how Trump is wrecking their democracy. Even though we're a constitutionalist. Isn't it amazing? We don't really know what their democracy is. It's always their democracy. Yeah. I don't know. What is their democracy? Good question. You know, so I'd like that kind of spelled out for me. What is. I don't think you're gonna get their democracy. You're not gonna get it. I've asked and I don't get an answer. Not a clear one. Our democracy. Our democracy. Their democracy. It's like, first of all. Or a constitutional republic. That's first and foremost. Absolutely. So what is their democracy? It's what they want it to be, which nobody knows what it is. Okay. So anyhow, this is the story that I thought we were going to start with, but I goofed. So. So a buddy of mine was talking to the two of us today, and he was telling us, somehow we got on the subject of testosterone in young men. How did that even come up? I don't remember. I think we were. I forget what question you asked him, but he was basically going over different things. Diabetes. He's in the medical field. You know, different things that are noticeable in the medical field. The rise of diabetes, loss of testosterone stuff. So then I said, so what's up with this testosterone thing? Right? And we got this. And I. It was really fascinating as well. Is like, just because I've seen some different things posted in articles and theories and conspiracy theories. Bruce is like the conspiracy theorists. Conspiracy theorists. I need more. I Need more. Because they're all coming true. This was a good one. They're all coming true. True. So. But no, I asked them basically, how does the pill work? Oh, that's right. And you know, the birth control pill, and it's to regulate the hormones and estrogen and that sort of thing, which we got then talking into. Well, what happens once you take it and your body flushes out whatever is there? And it's not just the pill. It's all kinds of stuff. Viruses. I mean, your body, all this stuff. So it lands somewhere. And most of us have that little handle on that porcelain thing in that little room, and it goes down and. Then goes to the processing plant now. Well, it goes to processing plant, depending. On where you're at. Right. Yeah. Here we have mostly septic tanks or septic systems. But I'm curious, does that. That must leach into the groundwater? Oh, I'm sure. In the drain fields, I think, right? I would think so, yeah. I wouldn't think that would be as bad. Well, except for me that it was, like, on antibiotics all summer from all the crap I had going on. But, yeah, and I remember years ago, it's changed since then. But I remember family member passing, and I'm like, well, what do we do with all this medication? You know? Yeah, you just flush it and. Well, they didn't say that then. What they said was, well, you know, I'm like, could we take it back to the pharmacy? And they're like, no, no, you can't do that. And told me to put it in Ziploc baggies, put water and, you know, put water in a baggie, put the medicine in the baggie, like triple Ziploc and throw in the garbage. Okay. But then it winds up in a landfill and eventually leaches out into the ground again. That doesn't really sound like it's very safe. No. So he said that, you know, you're peeing this stuff into the toilet, it gets flushed, and then it goes to the processing plant. The processing plant. It doesn't filter out pharmaceuticals? Well, it's some, but not all. And it depends, according to this article that I read after we had talked, because I wanted to know more. Depending upon the type of filtration system the place has, is how much the drugs will come out. But even with, like, the really heavy duty filtration, you're still getting trace amounts in your water system. So. What'S the same way with, you know, the chemo. Correct. They. They give you pills now, I guess. I'm not sure exactly how it works. But there's pills that have to be taken. It says on the bottle, you know, wear gloves. Don't, you know, get this on skin contact. But, you know, after you take it, it's got a good, you know, stuff's got to go someplace. Yeah. So we, we kept going into this because Bruce's theory. Well, tell him what the theory was. No, I had said because he had brought up loss of testosterone. I said, well, if this stuff is leaching into the water systems and even getting into the food systems, estrogen, let's just say, is that a reason if everybody's ingesting this and including men, is that a possibility? That that's why testosterone levels are dropping? Dropping, which is possible. So according to. It was just. It opened up like more that conversation today. And so I started looking it up and I found this article, and it was. It says if you were to drink 2 liters of water a day for 70 years, at the end of those 70 years, you would have taken 1% of the normal daily dose of someone taking that prescribed medication. So for a variety of standard medications, the concentrations are exceedingly low. However. And this was from a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Montreal in Quebec. The question we don't have the answer to is what is the impact of chronic exposure to a very low exposure of a mixture of drugs? Right. So they're starting to do some research on drinking water, antibiotics, antidepressants, contraceptives. And you just keep going. Opioids, Right. He was talking about. My buddy was talking about opioids and clams and shellfish. And it's like, whoa, you got to be kidding me. That's how they measure. Supposedly. They take a sample from the shellfish. That's how they measure how much is in the water. Is in the water. Well, in the ocean. Right. And then there's. They're doing testing with fresh water, but it's. There's no, like, guidelines. Yeah. Which I. Who would have thunk it? Right? So if it's showing up in shellfish. Like clams gotta be. And then you eat the clam. I don't know. Really. Anything that doesn't have drink water, plants. Animals, humans, microplastics have all this crap in it. Right. That we just found out today that they were talking about it in here. That I didn't realize. I didn't either. I mean, we've been on this microplastic kick for like two months already. And so according to what this, this one study said is the present, the presence of endocrine disruptors found in drugs such as steroids has been shown to seriously mess with hormones in fish, decreasing fertility and even causing sex changes in fish. This is just from like groundwater stuff like the medications and whatnot leaching into the water. And then it continues on saying that one study found the presence of six antidepressants in brook trout concentrated in the liver and brain. And then we go and eat the brook trout. So what's that doing to us then? So not just drinking 70 liters of water, but all the food and whatnot. Right, right. And we're worried about pesticides. But wait, there's more. So the presence of certain drugs in water may have a cumulative effect. This is this one study from Canada. So if antibiotics back into the. Or, you know, work their way back into the human population, for instance, it said it could contribute to antibiotic resistance. I was just gonna bring that up. That. That was the big thing. We talked about that one time, and now you don't hear about it. It's like you were on three different antibiotics. Yeah. For like the whole summer right between. So now we're finding out that we're getting it in the water. We're getting it in the fish. Right. We're getting. Well, there's. But wait, there's more. I feel like the guy. What was that guy's name? He's dead. The. The huckster. He was selling stuff. But wait, there's more. Oh, right, yes, yes, I know. You mean. I don't remember. I can't remember his name. Anyhow, so there's trace amounts of these drugs, you know, if over the course of time, not just the water part, but like the fish, the food, everything, you know, that we're ingesting the plastic. What is that doing to us? Yeah, and I think you're right about. With the. The hormones lowering the testosterone levels and then if. And it's young people changing sex and fish, I guess it can change. Make people want to change their sex here, right? Humans, I would think. You never know. That's your. My Pod pinion. No, that's your conspiracy theory. Yes, but. The future research is just start. I mean, they're just starting this research, so they don't even know what's going on down the road. So there's no established guidelines at all for this stuff, which is kind of. Creepy, but they do have cool Broadway commercials. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. I hate those. But there's one particular study. They measured water samples from a network of 139 streams across 30 states. So why aren't we hearing about this on the news? I happen to find this only because my buddy said something today. So I went and, you know, delved in a little deeper and I'm finding all this stuff. So the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the water in addition to hormones and other, you know, in the Wastewater they found 80% of streams sampled had this stuff in it. 80% of the streams out of 130. Right. Or 139. Then there's agricultural runoff. So that would be if you know how to make change, you might be know how to do that. So that's about 104 out of the. Hundred and yeah, but wait, there's more. So the World Health Organization, one of. Our favorite groups, not who Are you? They identify both human and veterinary drugs and feed additives as contaminating water through excretion, disposal waste and into the soil before eventually coming into contact with drinking water sources. So nobody thought about putting, I, I know there's a big thing now buying meat that doesn't have antibiotics in it and that's the big push, but they didn't think about that beforehand before they put all this stuff together. And then bioengineered meat or the medical. Establishment saying, you know, put it in a triple plastic bag and throw it in the garbage. Okay, I'm going to piss off a lot of doctors right now, but they're only practicing medicine. That's true. That's true, that's true. So there you go. Yep. So what else is going on? Is the disrupting chemicals, the endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDC as they call them. The. Now one of the main health risks linked to the pharmaceuticals found in water, according to this report from your tap water that is, is it has reproductive impairment due to specific EDCs and it's going to mess up your endocrine system. Endocrine system, sorry. It impairs fertility and development in humans. It also causes neurological and behavioral changes and have been linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes. Diabetes and all kinds of other stuff according to the Hormone Health Network. But there's a drug for that now, right? I, I, I was, we were talking about this the other day. I, I curious as to all of a sudden why there's all this diabetes going around. No, no, yeah, no, we talked about it. So this may be part of the cause. You either hear your diabetic or you're pre diabetic. There is no in between anymore or less of. There's no three sections. It's pre or diabetic that's it. And it's. It's got to be coming from somewhere. It's not just the chemicals in the food. It's got to be from somewhere. There you go. And there's more. So not just the water, but according to this thing, the EDCs stem from pharmaceutical residues. But. But they're also found ready for this one in common household products. You have it in cosmetics, in lotions, antibacterial soap. What else was it? Pesticides, herbicides, plastic packaging. And the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign study identified that pesticides can be transported in water long distances from their sources and impact human health. Some of these studies, they actually found this stuff like 30 miles away from where it was dumped. Wow. You know, from the, like the sewage treatment place, 30 miles downstream, they're finding all these drugs in the water or in fish or in critters. We should look up, like, the amount of drugs that were actually available 30 years ago compared to the amount of drugs that are. In other words, account somehow. You know what I mean? I don't know if they've gotten that far yet. What do you mean, as far as. Well, maybe, maybe. I don't know. But I mean, as far as the research going back. No, no, I'm saying from the drug companies, like, how many, you know, you back. Our grandparents had aspirin and true iodine and, you know, well, there was. There were curochrome, which was. Which was the one they had to blow on. It was iodine, right? Yeah, right. Mercurochrome. Didn't. Didn't burn. It was the iodine that was the burn. All of them just sucked. It did. I hated that stuff. Blow. You had to blow on the. I remember the nurse at school, you. Know, you got a cut on your knee or something. Oh, here comes that. So this article is talking about the problem. The kids these days just don't know. They don't get it. They don't get it. Come on. Do you remember, like, falling off your bicycle and you get a knee full of gravel? Oh, yeah. And mom would be there with the tweezers pulling the ground. That one is always embedded so deep, you know, I had to wait like six months for it to work to the surface. Oh, man. I had a piece of quartz in my finger. I had a. Like a thorn one time. I don't remember what plant, but it. It was embedded, was this finger right here, Right here. And it actually, when it came to the surface and you know how the skin gets all kind of crusty and stuff and I I picked it and the whole thing just come out. You could see the. The thorn. Oh, man. Yeah. I had a piece of quartz in this finger. Yeah. Human body's freaking. Freaking. He said it. It's amazing. I'm telling you, it's absolutely amazing. So they were talking about how to get rid of pharmaceuticals the correct way without flushing them. Which. What do you store them in a closet? Yeah, right. On an alien ship. Yeah, I was gonna say launch them into outer space. Elon, we got a job for you. Yeah, right. Could you imagine SpaceX? SpaceX? Yeah, be funny. Space RX. There you go. Good one. Good one. They were talking about don't flush the unused medication down the toilet or down the drain, but rather use drug take back programs within your community for safe disposal. Now, I haven't heard of that around here. I haven't either. I've always heard, you know. But what are they doing with it? What is us? Yeah, they're probably down the toilet. Oh, man. Yeah, I don't. Who knows, you know? Are they Osprey toilets are pretty strong. Yeah, right. But are they burning it? Maybe it's being incinerated. I. We. We'd have to find out what they're doing. It's like the, the recycles. We. We're talking delay about it with the. Yeah. Want to hear a scam? Nice segue, right? Yeah. I'm taking an aside here. So we're talking about the recycling, you know, cardboard, plastic, all that stuff. So around here we. And I'm sure you do too, there's two garbage cans, there's one for your regular trash, and then there's a recycling. Container, both made of plastic. So I've got this thing full of cardboard and plastic bottles, right? Guy comes along, picks it up, off it goes. So I know somebody who is a garbage collector or used to be. He used to own a garbage company and he was telling me that it's a real scam because they all go to the dump and just dump this stuff and then it doesn't even get sorted. It's like 9% of recycled stuff that actually gets recycled. Yeah. Across the globe it's like, so why. Are we doing this? I'm paying extra money for the recycling container and it's all I could just. Throw because it's money. Until, I mean, when it first started, they were recycling it. And then the companies that were manufacturing like I was in started using our own recycled plastic instead of going and buying it someplace else. How would you get your own recycled plastic? Well, there's different parts of the plastic that come out. That is waste, basically. Okay. When it. When you're doing the molding. Yeah. I mean, there's several different ways to mold, but a lot of the things that we did is what's called a runner. If you've ever done a model. Oh, those little plastic tree things. Right. That you break off the piece. Well, that tree thing, when you're done with it and you put the model together, that goes in the garbage. Right. You would recycle those. Same thing happens, because what it does, it runs through the channels in the mold, goes into a injection site, which is a small hole, and fills the cavity to make the part. So that piece, called the runner, is scrap. So you would save all those? Well, we would have grinders, and most of the time, there were. They would fall right into the grinder, and it would suck it back up. Oh, wow. And reuse it. That's kind of cool. Yeah. The problem is, after it's been used so many times, then it starts degrading, and then you have to, you know, start making new stuff to recycle. So once the company started doing that, and not just grinding it up and sending it out someplace, because what would happen, we would grind it up, or we'd throw it in the box. These companies would buy it, they would grind it up, and then they resell it or repellentize it and resell it. So to take out, the middle person, company started reusing it right on site. Interesting. And then you don't have any need for recycled plastic. Recycled plastic anymore, because you're recycling everything you need there. Interesting. So grocery stores, all the stuff in the plastic, we don't. Well, I'm not in it anymore, but we didn't need to get extra. We. We had our own. So. Wow. And anything. And the thing about plastics is also, you know, the companies I work for, it was probably 14, 15 different plastics that I've worked with, and they're not all compatible. Summer completely different makeups, and you can't combine them. So it depends on the type of plastic. It depends on the container. Depends on what was in the container. So all that has to be. And now there's separated plastic. Has to be separated, has to be cleaned, has to, you know, make sure it's not contaminated with other plastics. So all that is labor. And so we're being scammed, though, with this recycling thing. So that's why all your recycling centers that you used to go down, fill up the trunk of the car, and you had your bottles and you had your plastic bags, and you had your plastic clear, you know, bottles, green. That's why they're no longer there, because they're not making money off of it. Interesting. The way they're making money is making you pay for two containers that actually could probably get away with just use of one. I could. Absolutely. So getting rid of these drugs back to that. They're saying that if there's no take back program in your town, that you can crush all the. Take the pills, dump them in a thing and crush them all up in a baggie and add water and then just throw it in the garbage. But then it goes to the fill. Right, right. Landfill, and it leeches into the ground and we're back to square one. Well, not if the. Well, unless they incinerate it. None of the garbage truck person, you know, pushes out the garbage very easily. And then the bulldozer person just kind of pushes it gently. I don't know, it's a landfill. So they're talking about the best way to fix the problem is to invest in better wastewater treatment to remove the pharmaceuticals before they discharge it into the water. And I don't see that happening anytime in my lifetime. But who knows? Well, hopefully we start really getting the information on the food, the water, you know, Bobby Kennedy. Maybe this will all be part of it. I hope so. Three and a half years. But that was an eye opener, that conversation today. I mean, I couldn't believe it. So I had to dive in here and find out more. And I'm sure there's even more than this going on. Oh yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. But when I found out about the oxycodone and clams, I mean, it was like, wow, so what's that doing to us? Maybe that's why. Yeah, I mean, coming up with all. The ADHD and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, no, it could be. And you know, people are up in arms about a soda cane container getting stuck over a seal's head or you know, baby seals head or something like that. But nobody's talking about this stuff. Never. I haven't heard anything about this until he mentioned it this morning. And then you've got all the, like, what do pharmaceutical companies do with stuff that isn't, isn't up to grade? Like if they make a bad batch. It'S all coming China, so who cares? Right? But where does that go? Who knows? I mean, the Chinese stuff. No, any, any pharmaceutical, any, any batch of vaccine, for instance, or any batch of drugs. I don't know. That is that something happened. Because let's face it, it's not all perfection. There's, you know, pipe breaks or something happens. I know somebody I can ask about that. So what happens to all that good stuff? And then what about all the stuff that's past its expiration date? True, true. What happens to that? Like, you can't tell me that the. Go down the pain aisle and you're drugstore, local drugstore, and see all the different brands, they all have a date on them. So what does happen to them afterward? Good point. Spacerx, baby. I love it. I love it. I love that. Oh, man. So now we get into the illegal alien thing. Not migrants, illegal aliens. So the Medicaid just directed all the states to crack down on illegal immigrant enrollees with monthly checks. So, yes, there are illegal aliens collecting Medicaid or getting Medicaid benefits. So the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new nationwide push to purge illegals from public health insurance programs today. They did. And under this new initiative, there will issue monthly enrollment reports to states that identify any Medicaid or children's health insurance programs or just CHIP enrollees whose citizenship or immigration status cannot be confirmed. And then you're out of here. So we're not only drinking medicated water all the time, but now we're paying for other people to have Medicaid. That shouldn't be. Exactly. Not as a human. It just. We're a country. You should come in. You want to do it, Come in legally. And then here's the benefits. Absolutely. So the they were saying that every dollar misspent is a dollar taken away from an eligible vulnerable individual in need of Medicaid. And CHIP was the Dr. Mehmet Oz. Well, I mean, you know, look at all the people that could use it that are citizens. And I have a good feeling that free health care that everybody screams about, if you took all the money that's just being wasted. Yeah, we could have free health care. And you could have free health care for citizens here. It's a timeout. This is one of my pet peeves. Health care, health insurance. So which is it? Healthcare. We have health care. You have free health care. You can go to the hospital and go to the ER and they have to treat you. Right. But somebody pays for that. Well, absolutely. So what I'm saying is, if you took all the money that is being wasted and everybody's up in arms about, you know, because of their feelings, actually looked at it, we could have health care that either doesn't Cost an arm and a leg. An arm and a leg. It's pennies on the dollar for anything or it wouldn't cost us anything. So it's. I don't know if I'd want that, though. Only because then you really. The choice. Well, I mean, obviously, obviously the medical professionals would have to be paid. So it's going to come from somewhere. They're going to have to be paid, obviously the cost of making the drugs or the. But they're made in China, so they're cheap. That's true. Well, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. Okay, so. But if you take all the benefits, all, all this stuff, and, and it's like the va, I mean, they've been screaming about every election. It's the va. The va. Just fix it. Yeah. I mean, how hard is it? You know, and that's what Trump is doing. He's fixing it, or at least attempting to fix it. Well, I don't know what's happening with the va. Well, not necessarily just the va, but all this stuff that has been just stuff for people to fight about and people to get reelected, promising they're gonna fix it this time that they promised 40 years ago when they got elected they were gonna fix it. Now Trump is actually doing something and saying, just like the border being closed, you know, he just posted something, you know, the other day. Well, it turns out you didn't need a. Well, he posted it in the very beginning. It turns out you didn't need a. A bill. Turns out you just needed a different president. Absolutely. So he sent the bar pretty high for the next person being in, whether it's Republican, Independent, Democrat, whoever it is, the bar is up here now. Oh, absolutely. I mean, look what he did in six months. Right. It's like unbelievable. So whoever's coming in, he's got. Got some big shoes to fill. And whether you like them or not, the transparency, all of. I'm watching videos of citizens in D.C. walking down the street at 8 o' clock at night going, you know, I could never not do this, like three weeks ago. And they're happy. Yes. But the Democrats are losing it. Oh, sure, sure. Martial law. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, no, he's cleaning the town up. I mean, DC is a shithole and it's our national cat, it's our country's capital. Right. And you should be safe walking through there. Should be proud of it. Absolutely. And the problem is, once you clean it up, anything that's corrupt or dirty is going to stand out. Right. So that's what they don't want. They want chaos. They want just a mess so you can't see. Your eyes are focused on the person. You know, what do they call that? The zombie. They're hunched over because of the fentanyl. I forget what. There's a term. Did you see that one? It's like, more powerful than Fenton. Is it? Yeah, I just flush it down the toilet. Yeah, right. There you go. But once you clean that all out, then you get to see exactly what's going on. It's going to be obvious. Yeah, well, it's starting to become very obvious. I just don't think that the right people are waking up yet. Well, I. There's a lot of people waking up, and I think, I think D.C. citizens, residents, there's going to be some, obviously, that don't want this to happen, but the, the people who are going to benefit from it by being safe and their kids are going to be able to walk to school. They're going to be in favor of it. I hope so. You know, I really hope so. It's just had to get, you know, so bad that people are willing to accept change that needs to happen. It's. It's a culture change right now with this whole thing, with this Medicaid thing. Tish James, one of our faves. Yes. And more than 20 Democrats bragging, Tish. What do we say the, the spin off would be? So 20 Democratic attorney generals or attorneys general led by New York Attorney General Tish James. They're suing the Trump administration over his policies that require verification of immigration status to get benefits. Like, are you kidding me? Yeah, it's just getting to be nonsense. It's like, really is. It's just nonsense. What part of illegal doesn't she get? Well, let them sue again and let's see which judge sides on their side. But it's such a waste of money and time. Yeah, but until you expose it and let them expose themselves. She already did that, didn't she? Well, not everybody's in tune to it, so sometimes you just got to let them do it to themselves. I just can't believe her, of all people, is leading this charge against the Trump administration over illegal aliens when she's, like, being, you know, investigated for mortgage fraud. That's like. I just watched your, your favorite politician, Jazzy Crockett today. You know the one you have, the poster on the wall. Yeah, right. I think not. And she was on a rant about because of the redistricting, which I, I guess they're gonna go ahead with the vote. All of a sudden, they have to. They have no choice. So she was saying about the midterms election, midterm elections. She wants all the Democrats from across the country to come into Texas and help support them and make, make the, the other side, you know, flee to. I forget where she said Arkansas or something like that. It's like, it's just in the news about California doing another redistricting. Not that they don't already have that. Locked up, but he can't do it. So the California Constitution doesn't call for that. So. But what I'm saying is it's just been. I've just seen clips of, you know, the other side complaining that they're. That's what they're trying to do, but. That'S what they've been doing for years. That's the, that's the bizarre part about all of this. So, again, it's, it's like, just let them shine. Let them spew their nonsense. Because we've all been through a lot in the last 10, 12 years. The whole country's been through a lot. And it had to, we had to go through it to be able to see. Right. Well, you and I have discussed this a couple times, that I was really happy that Trump didn't win the second time. Yeah, absolutely. Because if Biden hadn't gotten in, none of this would be working. And they panicked, let's face it. They totally freaked out. And they, they just tried to rush everything through. They tried to put him in prison or whatever they were going to do. And they're still trying. They're. They just, they, they didn't know what to do, and they panicked. Oops. And everybody saw it. And everybody saw it. What's interesting is some of the mainstream media now is actually coming out and calling out these people. Well, that's because they've been implicated by covering up for them for all these years. I mean. So you think it's a cya? I think they're gonna try, but we can't let them get away with it because they, they were part of the propaganda. Absolutely, they were. I mean, how long did it take before Biden's, you know, screw up on the debates that they finally say, oh, yeah, oops, he's not quite all there? No, he was tired and he was on Ambien according to what it was. Okay. But then everybody questioned it. And then all of a sudden, he got shoved in the closet and not even a vote. This Harris just got put into place. She was appointed. Appointed. And it Took to that spot in the three and a half, three years to. For actually people to go, whoa. To pay attention. So all this stuff is just more spotlight on what they're trying to do as far as I'm concerned. I applaud it. Oh, I do too. You know. Absolutely. But this, I mean, just the whole Letitia James thing just cracked me up. Oh, yeah. No, exactly. Yeah. I mean, I saw this on TV this morning and I actually laughed. Yeah. Because it is. It is getting to that point where it's absurd. That's absurd. Same thing with Adam Schiff, right? He's screaming and yelling. Meanwhile, the guy's being investigated for mortgage fraud and a whole bunch of other stuff. And I listen to him spew his bullshit and I start laughing. Yeah, yeah. And that's all you can do. It's just. They might as well put a sock puppet show on. Schmuckles too. He's another one. Yeah, exactly. I gotta get some of them cool half cool glass thing. No, you don't. No, I think he has them like. He'S got him way down, super glued. Because they don't move. Like not at all. It's. It's actually him up. He had them up today. Did he? Or whenever they. They video. I've never seen him. He. I, I would wondered if he sleeps with him like that maybe, you know. Did we ever meet Mrs. Schmuckles? I've seen pictures, but I don't think I've ever. I don't seen her at any event. Have you ever seen the two of them together? No. No, never. Maybe they're one and the same. Ah. What do you think, Mr. Mrs. Schmuck? That's a good conspiracy theory. Chucky Schumer and his wife are the same person because you never see them together in the same room at any one time. Never know. Never know. So start spreading that one around. Yeah, right. Maybe we can ask Rock. What's the other thing? This AI thing, which is really kind of creepy, I think. No, that's creepy. It's cool, but it's creepy. So with this, like, grok you were mentioning, Grokton, there's chat, gpd. I mean, there's a whole bunch of different ones. How do you know which one is correct? Exactly? It makes this stuff up. Right? Because what it's doing is just scraping the Internet and it scrapes what is out there. And if any of the search engines are pushing stuff that can't be searched, then how do you know? You don't, so. But you did find articles on this. Stuff I did, which I. I couldn't believe it. So it hasn't gotten that far yet. Yet. But I'm surprised that nobody's covered any of this. I'm really surprised. So, Leslie Stahl, where are you? Yeah, right, sir. Geraldo. Maybe that was in a capod safe. Maybe this was article was in there maybe years ago. Oh, yeah. And Alligator Alcatraz. Yes. There's, like, all kinds of stuff they're trying the  ALCU, and I forget what the other organization was. They're now suing to get the thing shut down, saying that these people, they're not having their due process. They're illegal aliens, and there's a court right there. Where's PETA? Trying to protect the alligators. That's what I want to know. That's one of the things you're screaming about. They're saying that they built this thing in the middle of, like, protected wetlands. Well, it's been there forever. Right. None of it makes sense. They're just. The airport's been there forever in the middle of the Everglades, and they actually. Use it as staging centers for hurricanes. Correct. That's what it was used for. Correct. For all these years. So now Desantis said, well, wait a minute. We've got all this space. We're not using it right now. Let's build a prison. It's not raining right now. No hurricane at this point in time. So let's try and figure out the next. The other nine months. We don't need it. So here. So these guys are suing to get it shut down because of the. They're saying that these. The prisoners or the detainees are being kept in un. What was it on? Unhumane or inhumane conditions. Yeah, I've seen inhumane conditions. Like big air conditioners. Yeah, right. They got bunks. They got me line. There's. Yeah. They got a cafeteria. They got a hospital. Half the veterans sleeping under bridges should be so lucky to be treated as inhumane. Is that. And then the alligators and all the critters, the snake, the boa constrictors, that shouldn't even be there. So they're saying that they built it in the middle of wetlands. Protected wetlands. It's like, really? I mean, it makes me nuts. Yeah, well, they're scraping. 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