🎙️Podpinions Episode 18: D.C. Crime. Now You See It, Now You Don't!!

 D.C. crime headlines flip faster than the news cycle — we cut through the chaos, the spin, and the politics to show what’s really going on in America’s capital. 

Podpinions Episode 18 dives into a range of hot topics, starting with Trump's intervention in cities struggling with crime and the backlash from Democrats. The hosts discuss the potential political traps and the need for citizens to hold elected officials accountable. They transition to the topic of the current generation's responsibility to improve society and the importance of voter registration.

The conversation shifts to the influence of Chinese students in US universities, questioning the balance between trade agreements and national interests. They touch on Marjorie Taylor Greene's stance on the issue and the potential backlash.

The hosts then explore societal changes, including the decline of community, the rise of sterile environments, and the impact of technology on human interaction. They reminisce about knowing neighbors and the loss of compassion in modern society.

The discussion moves to parenting styles, contrasting "because I said so" with over-explanation, and the importance of protecting children. They share personal anecdotes about childhood experiences and the lessons learned from them.

The episode concludes with a critique of Cracker Barrel's recent changes, suggesting a return to its original style and values. They also discuss the decline of 24-hour diners and the rise of microplastics in everyday products. The episode ends with a discussion on the rise of crimes committed by illegal aliens and the importance of legal immigration.

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Welcome to Pod pinions, where the world's on fire and we show up like it's a backyard barbecue. Politicians Roasted, Woke, trends torch, Common Sense. We've got you covered. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Pod pinions. I'm Rich. I'm Bruce. We're back once again. Number 18. Number 18. We're getting there. We're getting there big time. Hey, like us. Subscribe. Follow us everywhere if you want to check out our. Our videos, you know, rumble, YouTube, Spotify for podcasters, Ron there and audio Spotify and Pandora. Pandora we've got. We're everywhere. Amazon, Apple, iHeart, it's all there. It'll flash across the screen there. So check out the. Check out our different places we're at and like, follow comment, subscribe, subscribe. And we're interested in hearing your Pod pinion. That's right. Everybody's got a Pod pinion, right? Absolutely. I heard a million of them today from a bunch of different people, including the plumber. Yeah, our. Yeah, our hot water heater decided to. Yeah. Created a waterfall this morning. Oh, man. So unbelievable. Great, isn't it? Yeah, Great fun. Yep. But it's fixed. We have hot water again. Yay. At least we didn't lose all the water. Right, Right. So. So what's happening? What isn't happening? It's just a. Another week of oh, my goodness, can't keep up. I read it. Well, okay, so the big. The biggie is. Well, there's a bunch of biggies, but Trump, as you all know, he sent the. Or, he called out the National Guard in Washington, D.C. now he's also threatening to do it in Chicago, New York, and, you know, wherever. Which I'm not sure if he can do or not, but we shall see. It'll be interesting, but he's really pushing the envelope. So I read this article today. Oh, my God, these people are losing their minds. He. He's basically like. He's. He's just riding a man. It's like unbelievable. He is like playing them like a violin. Right. It's unbelievable. He keeps saying he walks them like a dog. It's unbelievable. So he. He wants to drive the crime rate down. Right. So what does he do? He sends the. The national guard to Washington, D.C. and constitutionally he's allowed to do that because it's the District of Columbia, which. It's a federal city it Estate. Right? Right. So the biggie is that all the mayors and governors of all these other states are losing their minds because they're saying it's unconstitutional and God Forbid, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. So now for years, we have been hearing from these same people. Right. That they're fighting to get their crime rate down. So here's Trump actually doing it. And they're losing their minds. They're losing their minds. We don't need it. The crime rate is down. And yeah, it's unbelievable. So for years they've been screaming and yelling that they've been struggling to overcome the GOP accusations that they were soft on crime. Well, they were soft on crime because they're letting these people out. No bail. Letting these people out. And he did something with something about cash. No, no cash bail. Right, yeah, right. He's ending that. Right. In D.C. right. I don't know if he can do that. Right. Federally, but in D.C. so they're absolutely losing it. And it's really funny because he turned it on them. Yes. So now they're screaming and yelling that. They don't want that. They don't want that. Where they were screaming and yelling. They needed, you know, to get the crime under control. And so now guns and all this stuff, you know, every time there's something going on, it's, you know, oh, we got to strip everybody of their gun rights. And then somebody comes in and does something about it and they don't want it. So now that he sent troops into D.C. to, well, he wants to send more into like, violent prone cities such as New York, Chicago, know, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans. And just as they did decades ago, the Democrats are walking into a trap. Yep. I believe it. So I think he set them up. I could be wrong. No, no, but they're, they're, why would they, they look like idiots. Yeah, well, and it exposes them to the citizens of their cities. Right. But first they want it, now they're saying, no, we don't want our streets to be safer. Trump is going to make the example out of Washington, D.C. he's going to do what he can do legally by cleaning it up, stopping the crime. And then he's going to say, all right, what's going on over here? What's going on? Why are your, why are the citizens letting your elected officials get away with this stuff? It's craziness. So that, that's what I think he's doing. He's setting the example. He's, it's not just a piece of paper with statistics. Whether the numbers are correct or not, or somebody's cooking the books or not cooking the books. He's actually doing something that's going to bring down the crime rate. And they're actually opposing all this, which is mind numbing. So if I'm a citizen of that city and I've been listening to how, you know, we got to get the crime rate under control and, you know, it's, it's all this stuff, guns or whatever, and then they're letting all the criminals out, walk, cashless bail, just, you know, a revolving door. And then all of a sudden, Washington, D.C. gets cleaned up. Cleaned up. The citizens have to hold their elected officials. I actually know a bunch of people I know, sorry, I didn't mean it. No, it's all good. But I actually knew some people that actually moved out of D.C. because the crime got so bad. They sold their, their houses and they out. So hopefully the, you know, things will clean up. Yeah, no, and I've, you know, all you got to do is go on social media, X and true social, even Instagram, and you see videos of citizens going, I saw one, you know, there hadn't been a, a murder in 11 days or something like that. I don't know if it's true, but, you know, if that's happening and it's, what, been a week and a half? Yeah. What, what's going on in these cities that these elected officials and city councils and all this stuff can't do? Well, they're taking the power away from their police departments, of course. Yeah. So here's my big questions. Let's just hypothetically say this all works out and the crime rate drops down to like, next to nothing. Just hold that thought. How many counselors did he send in to clean up D.C. wasn't that the thing was supposed to defund the police and send in like crisis counselors instead. Of the, that's what they wanted. Yeah, right. How, how many did Trump send it? Zero. Okay. As far as I know. Just checking. 800 and something. Yeah. National Guard. National Guard, but zero counselors. So hypothetically, let's say he cleans it all up, he pulls the National Guard out. Do we go back to the high crime rate now? I mean, what's going to happen? Well, again, that's my question. Once you've shown the example, and that's one thing that Trump is doing, is he's actually given examples of what has to happen. It's not, oh, he's a Russia double agent and we have to keep all the documents secret, top secret, because it's so dangerous we can't let it out. But I saw it and you got to trust me. He's a Russian secret Agent, that pencil. Neck geek is still saying that crap, which blows me away. Yeah, but he is, he is. Started a defense fund. True. You heard about that. Yes. So, but Trump's actually doing the work and making the example. So results versus talk. He's, he's setting the example, making results and that is going to go a lot further in my view, my  Pod pinion than somebody saying, oh yeah, you can't see the documents, but they're true. Yeah, but do you think, do you think once the National Guard is out of D.C. that it's going to close. The Queens, the citizens and the police department and the citizens putting the elected officials in charge. Now they have the example, so it's basically in their hands. True. So either they let it slip back and go back to the way it was or they put people in charge, elect people that will actually protect them. And not because even around here it's bad. Played a game. I mean we're having some nasty stuff going on here. Yeah, yep. It's, yeah, somebody, I saw a couple clips of, you know, city officials and that sort of thing in Philly and you know, better not do it here. Crime is down. Yeah, okay. And Philly's, they don't have, they don't have any citizens on there. Given their opinions. It's just a newscaster and the official. So. But again Trump's putting out the actual examples and he's going to show what should be done. And then it's, it's, listen, Trump is elected for four years and what's going to happen after that? We'll see who gets elected, who gets in, but it's up to the people to take care of it and maintain it. Like I just was watching another podcast and you know, we're at the age now where, you know, the baton has been handed to us and once you get to be like 40 something, I'm way past that. But you know, the neck, the older generation is passing a baton to us and we have to maintain or make better what they passed on to us. And obviously I don't think it's really been a great job so far. So we get, we gotta, we gotta leave our kids and our grandkids better than what we inherited. We would hope so. So it's up to the people. And that's why I keep saying, well we keep talking about voting and last I heard, Scott Pressler, I think it was about a week And a half, two weeks ago he put out Pennsylvania is, was like 58, 000 registered voters from flipping to blue to red. Okay. So if you're not registered to vote, just register. Register to vote. That does scare me though, because all these Democrats flipping to red, they could be doing that just to screw up the primary. Yeah, yeah, it could. But I, I don't see. I'm, I'm definitely a, A. I don't, you know, everybody's an ax murder until proven otherwise. I don't think they're thinking that deeper could. Because then the election would have went. The other way maybe. You know what I mean? So I'm not, I, I don't think they're thinking that deep. I, I just look at the overall picture. Yeah, I, I think they're mostly smoke and mirrors. I think they, they put on a big show and they don't have any, they don't have any actual thing to show for it. They talk a lot. They talk about the numbers and the crime is down, but everybody can see it. It's not. Well, right before we came on here, I tried to look up the, the DC crime numbers and it goes up to like 2004 and like everything now what's going on? Squished. So again, they don't have any actual. There's no reality. It's all reality tv. That's all it is. It's all. The Truman Show. Yes. So I was thinking that's what's being exposed. I hope you're right, Bruce. I really do, because he's. It took him about two years and he did admit it. I did. I did admit it. Because I, I'm, I'm a, I'm a guy. The glass is not half full. It's like empty, right? Not even half empty. It's just empty. And everybody's an axe murderer until proven otherwise. And so I'm very, I'm very, I'm very skeptical. I'm like, like the skeptic. Skeptic. And he's been telling me for years now what was going to happen. It's like, yeah, okay, sure, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. I'll do it when I see it. I'll do it when I see it. And now it's all coming true. And yes, I fessed up and I said, you were right. As hard as that was to do. Sometimes, you know, it's cool to sit on the 50 yard line, you know, a couple seats back, and you're right there with. I don't know if you don't like football, but people who been to games or baseball. I've been in football games. I just, it's stupid, but I'M I'm saying that's. Those are great seats. And, you know, you can see everything here. Here, the players talk and the hits and whatever, but then change from there and go up to the last seats, the nosebleed seats. And it's like watching on TV when they pan out and you see the play develop. It's like sometimes you got to get out of the 50 yard line seats and go up in the nosebleed seats to be able to see the play develop. And that's what you did, and that's what I. You went up in your spy. You went up in your spy balloon. Spy balloon, yeah. Well, I mean, what was Biden gonna do? Actually, I heard. Believe it or not, I actually heard about the spy balloon on the news today. Oh, did you really? Yes, they were talking about it this morning. What'd they say? Well, they were still saying, like, what happened to this story? What happened to the parts of the balloon that they shot down? Because they did retrieve them. Right. Still nothing. Nothing. Zero. Which I think is kind of bizarre. Yeah, same thing with all those drones, but I don't want to beat a. Dead horse, but yeah, the. The Chinese spy balloons, which we have something about. The. We have something about students. We do from this. This is kind of. We're skipping ahead here. Yeah, but that's all right. We can skip around. There's. There are no rules. But I'm actually kind of upset about this one in that Trump is planning to allow. Ready for this one. 600,000 Chinese students to attend universities here. So you're thinking this might be some kind of agreement he made, like a. Bargaining thing, Trade deal with the tariffs and that sort of thing. Who knows? But. But 600,000 Chinese student visas. Now we're talking about people from mainland China, a communist country. And how many did they just throw out because they were spies? Right. And now he's giving him more visas. So the flip side, you know, you got to look at both sides. It's like, if they come in and things are progressing back to freedom and getting our. Our rights back that have been stripped away, maybe they won't want to sell our soul to the devil. Maybe they'll want to live free. You know, I don't buy that at all. And then what about 600,000American students that are losing seats in a college? No, I, I agree with that. I'm just. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate and look at both sides. If, if they're actually happy with the way things are progressing and have Freedoms that they don't in China. You know, that could be a blow to China, because then it could be. But I don't think so. I really think they should fill those seats first with American students and then whatever's left over. Okay with that. Yeah. You know, whatever's left over. Then give them to. To the foreign students, not necessarily all Chinese. Right, right. But spread it out. Right. But this is really. I wasn't thrilled when I saw that either. But I, you know, there's. There's some things that have come up that I'm, like, not sure about that. But then you see the. The play develop, and it's like, this. One bothers me, though. It can because of everything that's been going on over the years with China, and I just don't trust them. Yeah. Call me weird, call me strange, but so this. There's the people that are screaming and yelling like. Well, I haven't been screaming and yelling about it, but I'm. I feel strongly about it. But there are, like, Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's being really, really vocal about this, and she said if refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15% of them to fail, then these schools should fail anyhow because they are being propped up by the ccp, which is the Communist Chinese Party, and. It may be a test and maybe, you know, sticking your toe in the water to see what the backlash is or whatever. I, you know, I'm. I'm not saying that he's gonna, you know, there was a couple things that he. He made statements on that kind of backed off on. Well, I hope this is going to be one of them. We'll see. Because this just. Conservatives are losing it also. He's got to get the. He's got to get the citizens involved. And just like we're talking, you know, we're not out marching in the streets necessarily, but we are putting our opinions out there, trying to break it down, make sense of it, kind of make it simple for the everyday people, because that's all we are. We're everyday people. Speak for yourself. The. He's got to get, like, we got to get out of this. Their kings and their. Their. Oh, absolutely. You said that the last episode, and I agree with you, 100. That's what's happening is, is more people are getting involved in understanding and waking up to the fact that, wow, yeah, crime was really bad in D.C. so for years, the example. For years it's been mad. And then the batons pass to the people. They got to maintain It. But you're talking about this whole thing about putting the politicians up on a pedestal, like there were kings and queens. I mean, look what they did in the 60s with the Kennedys. They called it Camelot. Yes, right. And they put them way up here, you know, and that whole family was super corrupt way back to like dear old Joe, who was a bootlegger, you know, and he basically bought, you know, his kids, like, you know, political futures, power, whatever. So, you know, this is, this has got to be a long term thing. And, you know, whether you hate Trump or like Trump, he is putting it out there and then he's gonna have to pass the baton because it's not one person that's going to be able to maintain it. It's gotten so bad that there's been so many, in my  Pod pinion, corrupt people getting into power that are just out for themselves that now we have to get the, the people that are silent or feel like they can't speak now that, that could. Because that's the majority of the people in the country. Well, they, they have to, they have to, they have to get involved now. Okay, classic example. I live in an HOA. I mean, it's a lake community. There's 400 families, you know, 400 houses, whatever. Property owners. At the last board meeting, guess how many people showed up, right? Take a wild guess. Out of 400 and something houses, I. Don'T know, maybe I'm gonna say 12. It was like eight. Okay, that's pathetic, right? But yet I see him on Facebook screaming and yelling about everything that's going on. We'll go to a meeting right now. Same thing with that. That is those are the same people that you're talking about that don't go out there and scream and yell about. The politics or where they don't register to vote or whatever. But you got to stop. Like this is our part of the start of trying to get ourselves involved. Too and make a difference. And, you know, everybody's got to kind of get out of their safe space. And yeah, you might have a house and, you know, two cars and, you know, a TV in every room, but that's only going to stay if the country stays semi free. I mean, right now we're on the cusp of, or we were on the cusp of losing everything. I still think we are because it's. Like this close, but it's going to be up to the people. It's just like every other country that's fallen, whether it's China or Venezuela or Russia, under communism and socialism and all this stuff, by the way, none of that's ever worked for the people. It's only worked for people in power. It worked out for the Romanos real well. Yeah, it's, it's got, you have to get involved and, and I, I think it's on purpose that people said. Made politics so dirty and out there that it is dirty because people say, I hate politics. It's disgusting, all this stuff, but it's running your life. So. Absolutely, if you just blow it off, it's, it's gonna take over and doesn't have to be politics. It can just be a community that has people voicing the community and making laws and, and doing things for the community, the country, because the country is a community. So if, if we get that stigma out of our heads and you know, I, I didn't follow politics, you know what I mean? I mean, election cycle, I'd pay attention a little bit, but I never got into all this stuff that, so this. Is, you know, this was at our kitchen table. This was our kitchen table. Since I'm like, you know, when I was an embryo and, you know, like. I, I said, I, I wanted to vote in the primary, so that's why I actually picked a party. I was independent. And I don't think that's fair that just anybody can't vote. Depending on what state you are, you can, but, but anyway, that's a different topic. But again, it's the citizens that have to stay involved and you don't have to be in charge. You just have to pay attention and keep the people that are elected in charge. Their feet to the fire, make sure they do what they're gonna, you know, it's best for the community. And everybody's gotten into their own little world and, and worrying about their own 401 and their retirement and, and your kids can't buy a house till they're 39. I mean, unless you're paying for it. So what's going to happen to their kids? What are they going to be in their 50s? Yeah, basically, if you go by, if you use the same math, I mean. I see some young kids, you know, you know, I say young because I'm older, you know, in their late teens, even mid teens to 20s. And, and they're busting their humps and they, they're gonna have a tough time out there, no matter what. And it was always, well, you know, needed higher education, you know, you had to graduate and you had to go on to school, trade schools. That's where it's at. Yeah. Because all this infrastructure, all this, the electrical grid, all that's getting old and it's going to have to be rebuilt by somebody and if we don't have people to do it, it's not going to get any better. So trade schools, obviously. Oh, absolutely. But you have to, you know, it's the same thing with the, like I was talking about passing a baton. It's, it's what, what are you leaving your kids when, when you're gone, we all know what happens. You know, kids may not want to be a. The same as you or, you know, they may be doing it. But what, what's happening, you know, your, your inheritance, you're leaving them. How, how far is that going to really go? Not far at all if they can't. Support it and grow on it. So that's, that's. I, I think that's what's happening. I think he's trying to make an example for the people of the country to maintain it and we have to keep going. So Chicago is probably going to be next on his list because it's, it's bad. So another bloody weekend in Chicago this past weekend and a lot of the residents that were interviewed and we're talking about some, like, nasty neighborhoods, they said they would welcome reinforcements of, of the National Guard. They were even saying, I was seeing on, around the election about the, the city council getting together and people up in arms about. Well, do you remember that there was a, A. I think he was a minister or a town councilman or maybe he was a minister who was a town councilman in Chicago. And he would go up on a rooftop. Do you remember him? With the press? Vaguely. Yeah. And you could hear all the shooting in the neighborhood. Yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. But they say crime is down. Yeah. No, from where? No. So D.C. he wants to take the same effort that he's making in D.C. into Chicago. And supposedly in D.C. 12 days without a homicide. Then Chicago Trump said Chicago is a total mess. That was on Friday, saying it's. It's the next one, meaning that's the next city. That's. But I don't know if he can do it legally. Right. We shall find out. It's going to depend on what he did in LA with the enacting the executive order for the. What was it about the invasion. Right. So we'll have to see what happens there. So, I mean, he just can't just walk in and. Right. Take over the city. So there's a woman, Danielle Carter Walters Is she's black woman in Chicago and she is the co founder of Chicago Flips Red, a group of Windy City Trump supporters. And she said our communities are out of control. The destruction, the devastation of what's happening. We're being displaced out of our homes by illegal aliens. And she told that to the Chicago Sometimes there's a lot of us, thousands silently supporting us. And she thinks that, well, most people think that black women cannot be maga, meaning making America great again. And all of a sudden people are seeing that there's a lot of them, more than, more than they thought. Safety they want, education they want, they. Want to do the same stuff we want. We're all just people. I don't care what color you are. We all want the same thing. Exactly. She is on the south side of Chicago and she said it's really, really bad. Like, really bad. And guess who is, like, making a stink? The mayor. Absolutely. And Rahm Emanuel. Brandon Johnson. Is that. I forget his name. I don't remember if he's a council, city council, or my. I've heard that all over the, the clips and they were going to the council meetings. It was Brandon Johnson. So I'm, I'm assuming that he's trying to say everything's fine, don't worry. Well, what's interesting is the former first assistant state's Attorney General of Cook county, which is where Chicago is, guy's name is Robert Milan. He's counted among those who were supporting Trump's plan. And former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Right. To flood high crime areas with more police and National Guard. Now that's funny. I mean, that's really funny that these guys are saying, yeah, let's, let's get this going. Right. Yeah. So this should be quite interesting. And. Because now the Democrats are coming over, some of them, the smart ones. Yep. Well, I think they see the writings. If you're really paying attention. Again, D.C. is going to be made the example. Right. That'll be the poster child. Yeah. And why are these other places not. Like D.C. well, look who's running Chicago. Yeah, but he's going to make the example. Look who's running Illinois. The governor's an idiot. Been running D.C. i know. Same thing with New York. So if I can do it here, it can be done other places. So. And it's not done by crisis counselors. No, that's a, that's a joke. No, I mean, especially when somebody's shooting at you. Not, not only is it a joke, as far as, you know, thinking that they can clean up gangs and all this other stuff. It's, it's putting those people at risk. Oh, absolutely. It's putting them at risk. It's, it's like, what are you thinking? They're not armed. They're not, you know, I don't, I don't know. That's, it's stupidity as far as I'm concerned. But that's my  Pod pinion. No, I'm right there with you. I have the same one. Yeah. I just hope that you're right and I hope that Trump can actually do what he says he's going to do. Well, he's got a strong, he's got a strong administration behind him, so. But look how many people are fighting him. Oh, yeah. But it's unbelievable. Look at the last 10 years. I mean, they've fought him since he come down the escalator. Even before that, really, when he started just talking about maybe. Yeah. Although it's, I remember when he was on Oprah's TV show and she was asking, would you ever run for president? And he said no, unless it got so bad, then he would come in and fix it. And that's exactly what he did. And she just kind of laughed and hahaha. And here we are. And now she's like, and again, I. I really had my. There was a time in November after the election, Biden got elected, that there was, you know, there was questions about the, the voting and the mailing ballots and all this stuff. And there was a quiet time and it just seemed to me, looking out, it was like, do we press us? Because I don't think he had, I don't think he had the, the citizens back. And I'm like, he did in 2024 election. Who? Trump? Probably not, but he had the base, his base is back at him. But I don't, There was nowhere near the people just waking up and go, whoa, wait a minute, you know, But. I really, I really think that we had to go through the four years of buying. No, that's what I was getting at, I think, I think to appreciate what he had made of. Okay, this is what you, this is what you voted for or let this happen. Let's just see what, where it goes. And people were not happy with the way. No. Which is. So I, I really think it was supposed to happen that way. Yeah. From the guy up there. Yeah. You can think I'm nuts, but that's my  Pod pinion. So it's kind of like, I don't know, somebody, you know, or maybe even family member Kid, you know, you keep telling them, keep telling, don't do that, don't do that. They want to keep doing it. It's like, okay, good, and here we are. They learn, right? So I think it took the. The nation learned in four years. But he couldn't have gotten away. Not gotten away. I don't think he could have been as like, okay, now we're going to make the examples. Yeah, he wouldn't be able to do all this. Right. I don't think. No, he wouldn't have had the support. But you still have guys or people that are. Got their heels dug in that he's like the orange terror. Sure, absolutely. And that's always going to be. That's always going to happen. But I mean, some of these people, some of my musician friends, there's. Bruce, I showed you some of these. These people are out of their minds. They need mental health. I mean, they seriously need a shrink. It's scary sending the crisis counselors there. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I showed you some of these posts on Facebook and elsewhere. And these people are mentally ill, but again, they're. They're speaking on fictitious stuff. There's no but. You hit him with facts and they lose it. Well, I mean, they start raging. They look bad, but they start raging. It's like, oh, yeah, by the way, they're not correct. Here's a fact. Right. Yeah. And, and they don't want to be wrong. They're, you know, it's like exposing the sunlight. Vampire to a sunlight. They can't. They can't. Well, or throwing holy water on a vampire. So it's, it's like you just have to look at. Forget personality, forget the, you know, what everybody's called everybody. And just look what's, what's happened, the actual facts. Boots on the ground. What's happening in this country. And it's not good. Or at least it wasn't good. It's still trucks. We're trying to. Or we're all trying to turn it around. The ones that are hopeful that we can leave our kids and grandkids a better place than our 401k we stayed on, you know, or, you know, built up. That's. That's only going to last for so long. You just look at the house prices, you look at the land prices, you look at, you know, everything else and just the availability of homes, you know, housing crisis. Have you been on Trulia lately? Or any of those real estate things. There's like a million houses available everywhere. But what I'm saying Is it's gotten to be the norm of, you know, not having anything. Like, I was watching the clip this morning. We talked about, you know, it was a woman and young, young woman. And she was saying about different things. She was against and more conservative leaning. But she said that, you know, she likes her room, like straight, narrow, crispy, clean. Oh, it's Cracker Barrel, right? He was talking about. And you know, the knickknacks on the wall. You walk in, there's stuff all over, and she's like, you know, Xers, you know, boomers and Gen Z get aggravated because we don't like clutter and we don't like all this knickknacks and all this stuff around. She said, but you go in a Cracker Barrel, that's what you expect. Absolutely was the atmosphere. Even though she doesn't keep it herself. That's. Don't go there if you don't like that. But then I get the thinking. It's like, okay, so what's been the big push? It's like, what changed? Right? That's what I always say, what changed? And the big push was, well, you have to unclutter your mind. So you have to unclutter everything around you and positive thoughts only and all this stuff. And then, you know, you get to thinking. You. You walk into this cold, just sterile feeling, sterile room. It's almost like a prison cell. There's nothing on the wall. There's just, you know, everything's one color. Everything's just there where you need it. You don't need anything extra. And there's no history there. There's no nothing. Where have you been? Wherever you. Where we come from. Not saying that you have to, you know, have your house decorated like Cracker Barrel, but growing up, parents kept everything, right. I still have some of it. Yeah. So there's some kind of mental play going on in my  Pod pinion there where it's. You've. You've taken the kids, you put them into school, you educate them, you got the parents out of the picture for the most part. Created herd mentality where the majority of kids don't want clutter, they just want a phone and, you know, their clean room with no, no history, no checking on, you know, what happened in our past. They don't want anything from anybody that has been before them. They don't want a set of dishes. They don't want this. You know, I've got four sets of china if anybody's interested. I can't give this stuff away, so. But that is, I believe, my opinion that is a, a sign of the generation being steered that way. No, it's possible to own nothing and be happy with it. But that's communism. Yes. The way they live in all these exact different, you know, cultures. Yep. Although you go to Japan and everything's. Pretty sterile, but the government supplies it to every, you know, everything, you know. Well, not Japan. No, but I'm saying that's the, you know, the 15 minute cities they were talking about where everything's within 15 minutes. You didn't have to go anywhere. You don't even have to leave your house or apartment. Well, it's like that now. I mean, Amazon just shows up. I ordered something, I ordered something on Amazon for my trumpet. It was a mouthpiece puller. Right. Because I couldn't find mine or I loaned it to somebody and it's. So I order one on Amazon in the morning. By one o' clock it was at my front door. That's just kind of weird. And what happened in the past was. I'd have to go to the store. Well, you had a couple music stores. In the area, which there's like none. Right. And you would have to hope that they would have it. And if you were a regular, they probably had stocked up on one or two, left it in there because they know you're going to come in eventually and all that, all that mom and pop is gone. Gone. It's all been erased by warehouses and I've seen videos of, you know, Walmart drone dropping a bag of chips in somebody's yard and all that's gone. It's, it's. Is that how we want to live? I don't, you know, although it is convenient. Oh, absolutely. But is that where you. It's just. No, I like going to the store and touching, smelling, feeling, licking, you know. It'S very cold and uncaring and, and when you really look at how society has become the crime in the cities and that sort of thing, it's just, it's very cold and uncaring. It's just 1984. There is no compassion. There's no, it's just. Okay, let me ask you a question. I want. And this is it. And this is question for you guys. So when you were growing up, did you know all your neighbors? Yeah, right. You could probably still name them. Same thing with you. Right? You knew all your neighbors. Same thing with me. I mean, it was like an open door policy. I'd be at the next door neighbors. Oh, you want to stay for dinner? Whatever. Right. I don't know any of my neighbors, then. Oh, no, of course. Yeah. Do you know yours? No, no. Do you know your neighbors? Maybe. Yeah, I know one. Yeah, that's what I was just going to say. I know one, but she's been there forever. Yeah. So. But it's sad. That's really sad. Right. And some of them that I've seen, I don't want to get to know. Well, there was always those, those neighbors in the town, too, that you. Everybody kind of shunned away from. Yeah. But I'm surrounded by them now. And we have a lot, we have a lot of airbnbs. Yeah. Because we're on a, you know, we're on a lake. Yeah. So you have a big turnover and it sucks. They are strangers just coming in and. And they make loud noise and, you. Know, but, but again, that, that's coming. That's, again, it's like there's no community there. No, there isn't. There's just transients that are coming in and out and there's no, there's no feelings for who's there. And. But I, I really, I really missed that. Getting to know it was almost like family. When the street I grew up on, it was like family. And, and a lot of us, we stayed in touch, you know, to this day, I mean, we don't see each other a lot, but, you know, Facebook got us hooked up, but I stayed in touch with quite a few of them of my old neighbors, and it was great. And I really wish that that kind of community was present today with compassion. Because there's people that know other people. But no, it's like, it was literally like family. No, no. Right. I, I, no, I get you. And that's what I'm getting at, too. It's like, you know them, but, you know, this one down the street has a lawn cutting business. So you do that and, you know, maybe you make a couple extra bucks, but you know each other and you're friendly and whatever, but it was not. Like you hang out and have dinner together and. But that's what I'm talking about. And the parents would get together, you know, the kids would play together. And, you know, it wasn't always fair. You know, there was, I was not great at sports growing up. Wanted to be, but, you know, I had asthma when I was younger, so I was limited to what I could do. And so I wasn't always picked the first one. But that, I look back at that and I wouldn't have it any other way because it wasn't like they excluded me, it's just I couldn't perform that necessarily function. But I was still involved and I, I think nowadays trying to include everybody just because. Could you imagine he didn't pick me. Yeah. And you know, everybody gets punished. But that I, I just. That other podcast I was watching, you know the. He's a very well known singer who basically went out on his own after his contract got done. Oh yeah, this is the guy you were telling me about this afternoon. Right. And you know, one of the comments that he came up with, and I've run into this personally. It's like when a parent says, or a child says something to a parent and the parent says because I said so. Oh, I used to get that all the time from my, my dad. And it's not the parents obligation to necessarily write a novel out so the child can completely understand exactly where you're coming from and then find out what the child's feelings are. It's because I said so. Now we can talk about it at some point maybe, but the parent sometimes knew the child wasn't going to be able to understand it. And there were some instances where because I said so was because that was to protect a child, not just to be in charge. And we've lost that. There is no more actual. You have to kind of explain everything out to the point where you're trying to make the child equal instead of letting a child grow into who they are. How can you like explain that to like a 5 year old? You can't. Right. And, but that was, that was the way it was. And, and you had respect for your. Oh absolutely. Elders. That said, because I said so, you. Made us think it's like, oh yeah, I'll show you. But, but there was a reason. And sometimes, you know, maybe you wanted to go out on a date with somebody and that person definitely was not right for you. You're not going to. Why? Because I said so and that was. It, end of story. And you know, and then if you kept pushing it then you know, could get grounded or whatever. Give me the car keys. You know. But that was a form of protection for your future and not getting picked. I think I got stronger in other areas whereas, you know, I wasn't necessarily coddled. My mom didn't come down and chew out the whole team because I didn't get picked first. But did you get a participation trophy? I did not. But I did get a couple scraped knees because I was allowed to even play. Do you remember? Do you remember? Like, got hit with a couple balls. Because I was. Do you remember those scrape knees and you get gravel in. Oh. Oh, man. Do you remember that? Yeah. Fall off your bicycle and you, like, hit the gravel in your neck. Oh, man. Then. Then after, like, three days, you're, like, showing it off like a badge. Right. Look at that. Look at that piece in there. Oh, that's what it reminded when you just said that. The scrape. Like, wow. But. And. And those are bonds. And even. You know, there was one neighbor kid that would not. Neighbor kid. My best friend that was a neighbor. Well, he was a neighbor. His cousin would come over and he was just a jerk. And, yeah, he was very. Not very nice to me. And I. But I learned, you know, not everybody is nice. And you can't. You know, just because somebody is your friend doesn't mean that everybody in their family or everybody is the same as them. Absolutely. You have that in your own family. Right. You know, there's. I have. I have relatives that I haven't talked to in years. Why I don't want to. And, you know, so it's not okay to try and, you know, make everything sterile for everybody. You know, people got to learn. So getting back to the. The restaurant. Yep. Pull. See how we did that? We just made, like, this big, huge circle. Now we came back. We're coming for the chicken and biscuits, baby. The. The. I read a post on. I forget which social media platform, but it was one of those copy and paste things. It was like, I guess they. They attributed it to Robert something or other, but he supposedly was a advertising executive back, you know, in the 70s and 80s. He came up with this whole thing about they should fire the CEO immediately and they should shut down every restaurant for a week, retrain the staff and retrain all the chefs and start using fresh food instead of canned and frozen. And he said, and that would do it. And then their advertising plan would be, well, yeah, we goofed. Right. And we're making it better. You know, that's one thing about this country. We are forgiving. If you come out and you say. Oops, I screwed up. Not all the time. If it was, you know, something really bad, well, you still need to take the punishment. But, you know, the country is forgiving to say, okay, everybody messes up. We'll give you a shot. Don't do it again. We'll give you a shot. So, you know, Trump had put out a post today about the cracker barrels is they ought to just come out and say they messed up. Well, it's like, remember when the executive. Yeah. You know, the whole board. I mean it. Yeah. Well, I'm surprised the board didn't come down on the CEO and, you know. Some things that I didn't notice, you know, because the logo change. Then they had different examples of different chains that have changed their logo. I don't know that it's countrywide, because I don't necessarily see it around here all the time, but, like, McDonald's and Taco Bell and some of these other. Well, I remember when Taco Bell changed because Pepsi owns Taco Bell, and there was, like, a big, huge thing. But it's very. Just clean. No. No feelings. It's just sterile. It's a sterile. Well, even a Pepsi logo changed. Yeah. So Coca Cola stayed the same. But do you remember when they changed the formula? Yeah. And everybody went nuts, including me. But we all tried it. We're like, all right, let's. Yeah. That new Coke was awful. Was bad. It was horrible. But we tried it. Right. I tried it, but I didn't buy it again. And what did they do? They went back to the old formula. They said, we messed up and Coke is still around today. It is. I don't know that it would have lasted. Probably not, because nobody was buying. Everybody switched to Pepsi. Right. So. And now everybody's switching to Pepsi because you're using real sugar instead of fructose corn syrup. So, you know, that's what they have to do. I mean, that's exactly what they have to do. They have to say, we messed up, and they should try to rebrand themselves as far as using fresh stuff and retrain the staff and close down for a week and just. Just say, listen, we really messed up. And, you know, and take all those. I think their profits will. I. I would drive someplace. If they did that. I would drive an hour just to go to a Cracker Barrel. Well, and then they. They should go back and take all the stores that they changed that are now sterile and put them back the way they used to be. Exactly. Yep. Put the wagon wheels back on the wall. Right, exactly. What's wrong with that? Nothing. It was like walking into a museum. It was cool. Yeah. If you never. If you don't get into that. Well, then don't go. Don't go. That's all. It's your. And go to Perkins. Right, exactly. Right, exactly. I'm not a big Perkins fan, but. But, you know, different stroke for different folks. That's like. That's like the. The staple on the road is like, Perkins. Denny's crack, you know, and they've all. Become kind of the same. Yeah. But you get, you get really. It gets old real fast when you're on the road and living out of a bus. You know, we do need a Waffle House around here. We do. You know, but then you have fights. Waffle houses are notorious for fights. Well, that's, you know, any, any place during the. In the cities. I guess that doesn't matter. You know what I do miss? Because the crime isn't under control. Correct. What I do miss is 24 hour diners. Yes, that is what happened to those. Even in New Jersey, the diner capital of the world, there are no 24. Hour diners stopped after Covid. Really? Yeah. You look at even the, the big box stores, you know they're closing 8, 9 o'. Clock. Well, I know the Walmart here is closing early because they had a shooting in the parking lot late at night. I mean, you take your life in. Your hands, but everybody got used to having some time off. And I think, you know, it's almost like growing up Sundays, whether you were religious or not, you know, everything was closed. Make it to the store between 12. And 4, you're done. And the gas stations were all closed. So you had a gas up Saturday before. Before they're being closed, you had to go to grandma's. Well, everything was closed on Sundays. At least where I grew up. You didn't have convenience store. You didn't have a little convenience store at every gas station. It was lucky you had a gas station open. Yeah. With. With bays that they actually did repairs in. And maybe that, maybe the A treat soda machine was working. A treat soda. Yeah. They have the best ginger ale. Yes. And they go glass bottles with very fizzy. Absolutely. Now no microplastics. No. That's another one is big on the news again this week was microplastics and all kinds of weird stuff. But what's that stuff that they use for? Keep your regular. Miralax. Miralax. I look that up. We'll look that up. Why? There's like a ton of microplastics in it. I think it is plastic. Really? Oh, that's creepy. It's made with plastic. I'm not positive, so don't quote me. But I saw, I just happened to see. I was in this walking down an aisle and I looked and it just looked very strange. Oh. Just because I was in a plastic industry. The description popped out at me as. And I didn't think to stop and look at it. So we'll have to check that out. You need that Yucca app. Yes. Which is Yuka. It's a little carrot. Go to the app store and you can scan a barcode in the store and it'll tell you everything that's in it. Good, bad and otherwise. And it'll tell you, it'll say this one's bad, this one's good, this one's not. And it'll show you like all the additives and what they do to you. So that's Yucca. Y U K A. It's a good app. You showed it to me. It was pretty cool. Yeah, it's very cool. So now we, we had that in Florida. The bus, the 18 wheel driver that killed three people by doing an illegal U turn in the middle of a, an interview. Now I'm seeing a couple other instances everywhere. Everywhere. Yeah, that you know, got, you know thank goodness that nobody got hurt but well had to stop because a truck come over and is waiting there in the center medium waiting to, to make the U turn and the highway. Where are the state police? Yeah, seriously, even here you go on 80 and I don't see any state troopers. These people are driving like maniacs. I mean we've talked about who wants to be a cop these days. Yeah. Nobody. I feel bad for them. So there's been multiple fatal crashes this week tied to illegal aliens. Not immigrants, not migrants. Illegal alien aliens. And they're getting arrested Left and right. One, a 15 year old kid on a bicycle got hit. And the authorities in different parts of the country have been announcing that the arrests of multiple illegal aliens accused of fatally striking drivers, pedestrians and even a teen on a bicycle in recent days according to authorities and local newspapers. So it seems that it's a daily occurrence now. And they're illegal aliens. So those of you who keep calling them migrants and that they should be here, kumbaya. That's exactly how I feel about it. Just  Pod pinion. That's my. No, that. Yeah, that's my Pod pinion. Absolutely. But the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of homeland security, Trisha McLaughlin. What you remind me of watching Bongino with the foot up. I'm subbing, I'm trying to, trying to fill the void. But she said that this was all preventable if these illegal aliens were not in our country. In Louisiana, a 31 year old by the name of Juan Alfredo Chavaria is accused of slamming into a bicycle, riding 15 year old boy and killing him. That's disgusting. Right? And the guy was drunk. Then another one on August 10, left a woman dead and her husband seriously injured. According to the authorities there, police arrested Julio Cesar Herrera Gonzalez on a drunken driving charge, vehicular homicide, and other charges at the time. And then he had a criminal record once they, like, booked him. What really aggravates me is the people trying to gloss it over by saying, oh, well, there's drunk drive. Americans are. You know, they drive drunk, too. Well, these two people would be here if these people weren't here illegally. Correct. So end of story. That's it. Yeah, I'm sick of hearing it. I am sick of hearing it. Well, if. Well, let's compare. It's these two lives. They'd still be here today. The families wouldn't be going through what they're going through, burying their kids, burying, you know, their brother, their sister, their. They would be here today. And you cannot defend that by any argument because it's a fact. It's not fiction. It's a fact that they would be here today if that person wasn't there at that point in time illegally doing what they were doing. Absolutely. It's also happening in Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Like, enough already. Yeah, I just. I. I just saw it real quick. Something about. In Florida, I don't know whether DeSantis is doing something with the checks at the truck stops, the weights way. Yeah, they're doing that here, too, or they're going to start. Yeah. Unless Josh Shapiro squishes it. Well, I mean, then again, he's our. He's our governor. These other states will be the example. I think Florida. Florida is a real good example to not put up with it anymore, but it's. It's disgusting. Time is it coming? I know, but I'm so sick of hearing all these bleeding hearts saying, oh, but they need a fit. You know, they. They have families and they're here. They're trying to make, you know, do good and get a job. No, no, you know, again, just do it legally. Right. It's all just do illegally. But I'm sick of hearing about it. Yeah, no, I know. Because now we're having people getting killed. And I'm sure it was happening before, but just now it's getting reported, right? Yep. Yeah, before it was kind of swept under the rug and, you know, defund the police and everything's hunky dory and a crime is down and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I know. We gotta go. We gotta go. Yeah, it's that time. Trying to keep it around an hour, so. Yeah, but thanks for being with us. And we're going to continue this when we come back on the next episode. That's right. Yeah. We've got other things to talk about. So we didn't get to it all. Today, but we'll get it. We'll get it. That's for sure. 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