Podpinions Episode 27 — Are We All Getting Burned?

In this episode, Rich and Bruce examine whether Americans are quietly absorbing the cost of broken systems.

Topics include:

• Minnesota daycare fraud & government oversight
• Banks, the Federal Reserve, and inflation
• Gold and silver discussion
• Flooding and insurance frustration
• Pharmacy and medication availability
• Local taxes and collections (Berkheimer)
• Cultural discussion (Kennedy Center)
• Vaccines, measles, and flu shot debate
• Dunkin’ Donuts running out of donuts

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Transcript

Title: Transcript - Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:56:53 GMT
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:56:53 GMT, Duration: [01:20:36.35]
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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 torched. Common  sense, we've got you covered.

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to Pod pinions.

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I'm Rich.

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And I'm Bruce. And we are back.

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Last show of the year, huh?

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last show.

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Officially, we're recording this 30th of December.

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That's right.

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25.

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You believe we're actually going into 20? 26.

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Oh, it's gone fast. Really fast.

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I mean, too fast.

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Like, September stalled a little bit, and since then it's been runaway freight trains.

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It's like, you know, it's like there's so much going on. Like, where do we even begin?

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Yeah, yeah, it's.

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You said, let's do a recap of the year. Like, where do we start?

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Yeah. Well, started out like a ball of fire, I can tell you that. For the first three months.

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Well, you and I had.

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As far as political.

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Right. You and I had a discussion about this earlier and you said you had. Well, actually, we'll back up. I get a text message from him at like 7 o' clock in the morning, right? It was this long diatribe about Trump. And so I'm thinking to myself, hmm, it was about the Antichrist. And what was the other. I can't even remember.

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Yeah, there's stuff going all over the place about theories and all that stuff. And what I had said was, basically, I'm taking a break. I need to see results of why this person was elected. So I'm still all for it. I think it still can be done, but the administration is not doing anything. Yeah, Pam, Bonnie, nobody's in cuffs yet. No, no, nothing is stuck as far as the courts. We're still, you know, now the big thing is Minneapolis. It's like, okay, can we. Can we start and finish something? Finish something, right. Until we start something else.

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Actually have that here. But it was like, at the bottom of the bottom of the pile.

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Not saying that we shouldn't go full force and clean house there, but we got a lot of debris that we got to clean.

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No, absolutely. Where was this thing? Now? I can't find it. Bummer. I had was this whole. Oh, here it is. This kid, Nick Shirley, he's 23 years old, he's a YouTuber, right? And he's got like over a million subscribers on YouTube.

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I don't know what it was before.

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No, I don't either, but. Well, no, it was up there.

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Was it?

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Yeah, it was way up There. But he's. He's this kid, conservative, and he actually spoke at the White House. They had like some kind of, I don't know, a meeting of minds. And he happened to get invited. And this was back in September, maybe. Anyhow, what he did, he uncovered more corruption in Minnesota with this childcare day center or the daycare thing.

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Daycare stuff. Yeah. So what he did is he hooked up with a guy who's been investigating this stuff on his own. Like, just.

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Yeah, they're. Both of them are. Independents.

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Yep. And they hooked up

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he went.

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Knocking on doors, started, hello. And what was, what was funny was there was one that he's got. It's on his YouTube channel if you want to go watch it. It's kind of fascinating, but.

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And it's just matter of fact, he's not trying to.

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Yeah, he's not trying to do anything. He's just trying to get some information.

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Real, actual information. Why are all these daycare centers getting all these millions and millions and millions of millions of dollars?

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So this one viral scene, he's standing in front of a supposed quality learning center, misspelled on the sign as a luring center.

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Learing

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Or learing.

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Yeah, they're very

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E A R.

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N G.  L

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G.  L center.

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A daycare center that can't even spell learning, right. Yeah. So he deadpans to the camera, the building appears abandoned at midday on a weekday.

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Right.

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And then some guy, like, walks up and asks, like, what are you doing? And he said, well, where are all the kids? The door is locked and it's dark. And when he told him what was going on, this guy vamoosed. I mean, he just poof. Disappeared. That happened to, like, all these different places. And the. The thing that ties them all together is they're all Somalians, Right?

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Yeah. And unfortunately, it doesn't look good for the representative there that's been. Happens to be from the same country and has been on recorded video basically saying that she's going to support her home country, not the, you know, she doesn't come out and say, not the U.S. but she's. Her allegiance is to Somalia.

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It's unbelievable. So the Somalian Americans make up 82 of the 92 defendants charged in this whole Minnesota fraud thing. And that's according to the U.S. attorney's office for Minnesota. And there were 14 Minnesota run programs since 2018 that like $9 billion have been, you know, moved from point A to point B. And there's no.

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Right. Nothing I even saw. And I don't remember what her title was, but she came out and said that the one. I don't know if it was the leering center or how stupid can you be? Just happen to think it was that one. She came out and said that that had been closed due to lack of interest, lack of children attending or something like that. And then somebody went back like two days later and they were shuffling kids in there to make it look like it was being used. So they, they can't even get their story straight.

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They got caught with their pants down.

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But unfortunately this is just

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tip of the iceberg.

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Like a dot. This is like a piece of sand thrown it into the ocean. Of all the corruption going on.

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Well, in Minnesota too, there's. Besides this, there's all kinds of Medicare. Medicare and Medicaid fraud going on.

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Yeah. And then they, because of what happened in Minnesota. Now I'm seeing people are starting to investigate some of these other blue states like Washington and they're starting to get documentation of the same type of fraud that's going on. I don't know whether it's the same type of community, but it's the same type of fraud.

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So it's running rampant.

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When you know Tim Waltz was on camera, you know he signed in that something about the driver's license being for.

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and

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Well, they're asking him to resign now.

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Yeah, well, hey Tim, we're going to turn the page.

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Guy's an idiot.

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How could he not think that he wasn't going to get caught or that they weren't going to get caught with this?

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He, he came out, honest to God. They showed videos of this dude actually saying how he's been trying to fight this corruption since 2018.

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Yeah, well

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If it wasn't for a place like X. Thank you Elon. And thank you Al Gore for inventing Internet that we're able to see this. Thank you.

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Absolutely. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Al Gomp.

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That's right.

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So. But what aggravates me is everybody knows this has been going on forever. Forever. And especially the people on both sides know that there's fraud going on because you have the different government agencies, you got different attorneys, you got different judges. Judges, you got different bureaucrats. They knew what was going on.

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Oh absolutely.

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And everybody kept it hush hush until the public.

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Yeah, a 23 year old kid like blows the lid off of this thing. I think that's funny. Oh I Not funny.

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Haha. Right.

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Like. No, the other kind of funny. I mean, according. According to our Vice President Vance, reposting Shirley, this Nick Shirley's 42 minute report. He said, this dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes.

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Absolutely, absolutely. And I think.

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Yeah, but now there's going to be a hit out on this kid. You wait.

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But. Well, it's, it's out there now. So now there's going to be thousands of people looking into this because it's exposed now. And now it's not only going to be Minnesota, it's going to be across the country. And I just saw a post on. I'll try to get a link to it. How to foia, you know, different requests for some of these different. What do they call them? The, the grants and all this other money that's being handed out.

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Well, here's.

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It's not a very difficult thing to do, but they do kind of make it difficult if you don't do it the right way.

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All right, so here's my big question. Or Pam Bondi's doing basically nothing. I am so disappointed with this woman. You have. Well, you do have an idea. And because they kept saying we're gonna, you know, lock them up. Well, nobody's gotten locked up yet, to my knowledge, other than some fringe, you know, people.

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We've gone on with the never ending Epstein files. Right.

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That's still.

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So is the Epstein files just a way to keep us busy so we don't look into this other stuff or, I don't know, vice versa? It's like.

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Well, the big thing is, is this Trey Gatti 2.0 where the gums flap and nothing happens?

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Well, that's what it looks like. It's happened. Yeah.

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I think I used to love Trey Gowdy, right. And he'd sit there in these Senate hearings and, and he would just rip these guys apart and then nothing happened. 

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Strong letters.

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Yeah. Who cares? I want to see. I want to see perp walks. So what I want to see, I.

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Think the nation is very. It's been kind of quiet, I think, because everybody actually sees what's going on and the level of frustration is growing. And when you tell somebody so many times that don't do this or don't do that or. And then they keep doing it. When a person starts, like, just getting quiet, that means they've basically had enough, like, you're not getting it and there's going to be consequences now and you better start getting it. I'm going to give you, you know, this amount of time in my own time frame for you to understand that I'm not joking. This is. This needs to get done. And I think, you know, all this flap about, you know, we got the whole fricking country fricking having to choose between Muslims and Jews. What is going on? What happened to America? First it's like, what are we doing? This is stupid. I'm not. I'm not paying taxes for another country. Paying taxes so vets don't live under a bridge.

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Oh, I'm. I'm right there with you.

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So what's all the games? And I really think the games are. Because everything is so corrupt, it's just so broken that if the people start realizing what is going on, and this is part of it, this is only the tip of the iceberg. You've got, you know, learning centers, you got the education system.

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I read it. Yeah. Read another thing about. About the Medicare for,

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know, you got medical.

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You know, all this medical stuff. You've got resources for everybody and their uncle.

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No, no, go back to the medical thing. I just. Within this article that I read about Nick. What's his name?

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Shirley.

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Right, Shirley. Nick. Shirley. There a couple husband and wife Somalians, again in Minnesota, got prosecuted for Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud. The guy owns a delicatessen. They wound up pleading guilty, and it was like $2.3 million that they rerouted in Medicare fraud. Now, how does a delicatessen do that? They had all these holding companies, and they were transferring money from this account to that account to this account. It was like a. A, not a Ponzi scheme, but like a shell game almost.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just moving around in circles. That's what these NGOs do. That's what all the money goes out, goes back into the coffers for the elections, get people elected, and we keep electing the same people over and over and over again, and nothing's getting done. Just. Just getting worse. Now, the Somalians, I don't. I don't know whether they're just too arrogant or stupid, but they are just the example of.

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Well, if you can't spell learning.

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But my point is this is happening even with Americans.

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Oh, absolutely. Look at some of the crap that goes on around here,

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up around.

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Here, you know, somebody living in the projects, driving a Escalade. There's only a couple ways to do that.

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Don't get me started on that.

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So we know what's going on.

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Okay.

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It's just that we've been lulled into the Fictional story that if you work hard and you pay your taxes, or if you don't pay your taxes, you get cash and you hoard the cash, you'll be fine. Screw the government.

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the cash.

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The cash don't mean nothing. It's zero. Like, I gotta do it. I gotta do it.

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You gotta do it. What are you doing?

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I gotta do it. It's like.

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Oh, here we go. He's pulling out his busted wallet. Oh, he's. He did this to me earlier.

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This.

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It's a dollar bill

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there.

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1913, Federal Reserve Bank.

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No, no, Federal Reserve didn't come in until, what, 19. It's right here. Whatever it was, whatever year it was, there was no Federal Reserve in 1913.

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Central bank took control. 1913.

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Okay, I stand corrected. Even though I printed the article out.

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That paper is worth more than this. So as of today, I looked on before we came on. Today, U.S. debt is $38,380,536,146,996.03.

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My calculator doesn't even go that high.

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That's as of 12/30, 2025. So when you pay for something with this, you need 38,380,536,146,995 more of these to break even. That's nuts. It's nuts. And I just happened to look up the Federal Reserve, what their assets are worth because the Federal Reserve prints our money or not prints our money. I guess the government prints our money, but the Fed regulates it, which is a private entity. It's not. The Federal Reserve doesn't meet anything as far as being their assets are worth in 2025, $6.6 trillion. So they're lending money to our government.

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What's the interest?

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And the government is in debt to.

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bank,

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Which is a private entity.

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Trillion dollars.

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And who owns the bank

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the bank?

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The bank's assets are only 6.6 trillion. So the bank's under.

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Everybody's underwater.

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$31 trillion.

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Yeah, right.

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So it's a game. It's all a game. The Somalians with the $8 billion. You've been screwed. You've been screwed. I'm sorry, but leering that extra N may to save you a couple Federal Reserve notes. But they're screwed. We're screwed. The only thing you have of value is something. And that's what all the people with fake money, they have assets which, you know, houses, land, whatever. So for the young kids coming up that are Basically screwed because the education system's dog crap.

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I don't know. I don't know how my. My grandson's gonna.

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Degrees. Degrees or, or, you know, like I said, this is. You're paying with this stuff for a degree and it means nothing. There's. It's just nothing. So you need some kind of trade or something that you have a value that you can trade for your services. In other words, if you bake bread, well, somebody grows tomatoes, so you swap it. I mean, that's really the only thing of value that's really ever been really worth anything. And they've created a system and I think it's to hide this. I think it's a Hide that this isn't worth nothing.

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Well, that.72. Nixon ended the gold standard.

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But even before that, the. The Federal Reserve bank was, you know, in charge of the money distribution.

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But they didn't.

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Now, you also looked up, or I looked up. You asked me to look something up about the inflation rate.

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So, you know, part of the question I had was the inflation rate. And between the General average between 1790 and 1913 was about 0.04% per year. Now, there were some volatile periods during the Civil War. An income tax was implemented. Everything else was based on basically trade and tariffs. So anything that came in the comp. Or country that was bringing the stuff in was tariffed. And what did they do? They created doubloons or coins or

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Silver.

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Right. So that's, that's the monetary value that was traded. I'm sure they probably traded in goods too. Maybe they built ships for.

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You know what I mean? Stuff going on, you know, stuff like that.

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My question is about the silver prices going crazy now. I don't know if you've noticed, but

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another thing that

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The silver is going wacko.

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If you have, if you have, you know,

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silver.

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Yeah.

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Hang on to it.

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Silverware  set the punch bowls with the. The cups, you know, your grandmother always put out at Christmas time or. Excuse me. And this is. This is just an example of, I think all the inflation, the deflation. All this is, was just created to hide the fact that really this means nothing. It's just we take our time and, and energy and our trade. Whatever it is, whatever it is, Music or building a house or whatever it is, you take your skill and you put in the time, and in that time you're given this as a re. Not reward, but as a part of saying this is what your time or energy is worth, that you can Go and trade this for something. Now you don't have to build a house for somebody or you don't have to trade a loaf of bread for a bag of tomatoes. And they've built everything on this. Like I understand they're bringing back all the they would, they want. They're talking about bringing back jobs and cars and all. What about clothing factories or.

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Well, we had, we had. The lady garment workers union had a place, a resort up in Bushkill. It was huge. It was great resort. I played many a gig there and over the years and they used to bring big bands in and whatnot. I mean it was unbelievable where the garment.

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It all went overseas.

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Right.

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And we all traded it for

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Well, we traded it for being able to. I guess we changed our system from a goods and services system to strictly monetary. I mean they're not building factories here. They're building those stupid stores up. Warehouses.

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Hold the stuff to go into the big box stores. But nobody's building the factories that makes the stuff that goes in there. And we've built, you know, probably since the late, well mid-70s to. Especially in the 80s, and we've changed our, our goods and services or traded them off to other countries. And we worked on putting our cotton pieces of paper with pictures on it into our 401ks and all that stuff. And that was the big push is the Wall street and you know what you can save and cash and you know, taxes. Save taxes. Any way you can do about. Well, it's all nonsense. You're getting paid with a piece of paper that is worth under underwater 38 + trillion dollars.

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I mean look at our pennies.

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They stop making pennies because it's too expensive. Yeah, well, that's part of that $0.03. Where the heck are we going to get that 3 cents?

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They're going to round it up, not round it down. They're going to round it up.

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Got to have a nickel now.

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It's pretty wacky.

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So it's like when you see that and you just sit back and realize. And that's another thing with people with cash. Taxes were put in place. You can say whether they were legal or not. They implemented the 16th amendment and then this was created the Fed.

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But there's Woodrow Wilson, wasn't it?

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Yeah. Anybody that believes cash is king, it's all part of the same scheme. Now you're getting away with it until it gets so big that it's not going to matter. Because once the government or another government conquers our government and says that this is no longer legal or it's going.

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To be the yen.

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Yeah.

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So that's what the whole silver thing was about.

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You're. Everybody's going to be knocked down to being equal. Doesn't matter what your condo, where your condo is where you vacation. You've all been lied to. Basically that this actually means something. And it only means something when the people keep believing in it.

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Let's just back up to the silver thing. In case you haven't heard, we're alluding to this silver thing, like hoarding silver. Not hoarding, but if you have silver, keep it. Is that the Chinese are the sort pretty much the sole source for silver for the electronics industry and all electronics. Cell phones, microphones, you know, lights, wherever, chips. Chips. They use silver as a conductor and

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in  cars.

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Right. So if they decide to pull the plug on us for supplying us, we're screwed.

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Yep.

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What happened, I said to Bruce earlier, it's like, what happened to all the silver mines that were in this country? Like, where did it all go? How is it that the Chinese have become the sole source of silver on the planet?

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Makes you wonder. It's probably all these green regulations that are going to kill us.

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Right?

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You know, the global warming crowd that's talked us into believing that, you know, all the oceans are going to overflow by whatever data. Just saw it 10 years ago.

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I just recently saw a picture of. I'm trying to remember where it was. It was an island somewhere and it had a building on it. It wasn't the Statue of Liberty, but I've seen those pictures, too. But anyhow, they show a picture from like 1890 of this building on this little island, and then they show one from like last year. And the. The water level's exactly the same.

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Well, that's the whole point is like the insurance companies would they.

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It cracks me up.

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Would they allow anybody to buy any kind of house anywhere near the coastline? Not, not even on the coastline that might get flooded, but a mile away from the coast.

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So check this out, all right? My house is in a floodplain. It never was. So the Army Corps of Engineers, we have a lake across the street, literally 150 yards away. There's a stream 300 yards away that feeds the lake. And then there's another stream maybe quarter of a mile down the road that feeds the lake from the other side. Now, for all these years, no problem. Army Corps of Engineers redoes all the flood zones. All of a sudden, the flood zone goes right through the middle of my property. And it's not even on the part where the house is. It's like on this one little corner of the yard. Right. I now have to have flood insurance. We've never had a flood ever since the house has been there.

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But it's mandated?

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I  have to have it.

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You have to have it? Yeah.

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Well, if I didn't, why. I still have a mortgage, so the mortgage makes me have flood insurance, which is, it's obscene, like how much you have to pay for that.

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And that's another thing. It's, it's still the, the same thing with the insurance or, or drugs or, you know, you see the cost of the, the medication out there compared to some of these other countries and it's all this crap. That's all it is. It's, it's a joke. It's, you know, what do you, what are you going to do, charge somebody 2,000 of these things here to get life saving drugs when this is $38 trillion underwater?

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I mean, I just had a conversation with a doctor about this because you look at, you look at some of these drug prices and it's insane. I mean, seriously insane.

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Right?

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So there was a, I had, I had a really bad bronchial infection like a month and a half ago. So the doctor prescribed a drug for me and I went to pick it up and it was like $180 for like a month supply, right? It's like, you got to be kidding me. I mean, I paid and my insurance wouldn't pay for it, so. Or they paid a portion of it. So I'm thinking to myself, so I said something, and then I talked to a doctor friend of mine and he said, well, the, you know, there's no money in healing people or having healthy people because why Big pharma wants everybody to be sick so they can keep selling them drugs, right?

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But when you really look at the monetary value of everything,

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a joke.

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What is the real. In other words, if they really sit back and realize that this is worth nothing, so the billions of billions of trillions of dollars that they're making doesn't mean anything, Then what's behind all the drugs? What's, what's the concept behind all the drugs other than is it some kind of control? It all boils down to like a, a magic trick or, you know, you know, you hear the old, old term snake oil salesman. It's all a magic trick. It's like, watch this hand while this hand does the.

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You know the trick.

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Absolutely. But if you think about it Though our entire economy is pretty. Not the entire economy, but big pharma with all these drugs runs our country.

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Right. But it's based on what they're. They're. They're not building anything. They're not the same with insurance companies. So they're not. They're not producing anything that really has anything that will sustain a society. It's not housing, it's not electricity. It's not. Yes, it. Some of the drugs help people. But now we got, like, armies. It's. It's an army. I'd like to know how many psychologists, psychiatrists are out there.

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There's a zillion of them.

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Probably multiple times as many as our service members there.

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Oh, absolutely.

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But.

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All right, I was thinking about this when I went to go pick that prescription up at the pharmacy, right. I walk into the pharmacy, I go up to the counter, and there's like five people milling around like little worker bees. And then a pharmacist is there, you know, playing the great, powerful wizard of Oz, doing whatever he does in the middle of the room. And I see on the side, everybody's orders, right? I mean, we're talking like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of little bags for people to pick their drugs up. And I'm thinking to myself, wow, this is sad. I mean, I remember being a kid and going to the local pharmacy. It was a mom and pop thing. It was Livingston Pharmacy in Livingston, New Jersey. Bob Fine was the pharmacist. Everybody in town knew the guy. You'd go in, he'd have to order something. You didn't see, like thousands of bags sitting there waiting to be picked up.

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Right? Yeah, that's.

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So where. And that was in the 60s. So how did it change from then till now?

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Right.

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Like,

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Are we being drugged into

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Stupidity. Submission. What is it? Because this. This doesn't mean anything.

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Absolutely. I mean, just look at all the pot. The pot places now, like New Jersey. This friend of ours happened to. He was shooting a match. He's a competition shooter. So he was going to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, goes over to Bridge, and he said there's this pot dispensary there, and it's legal, Right. He said there was a line around the block waiting to get into this place.

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All the eating Doritos.

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Yeah, Right. But the funny thing is, like, in Pennsylvania, it's still illegal for recreational use, I believe. I'm not sure because I don't do this stuff, so.

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Right.

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But the cops are sitting here at the bridge waiting for the people. They watch them Come out and then boom. Busted. I think it's pretty funny. Yeah, but I mean, what's that all about? It's like the dumbing down of America.

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It's the same thing with all the regulations and the licenses and all this other stuff. It's just almost like a way to keep us preoccupied from what's really going on.

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No, I don't even think keeping people preoccupied.

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People just want power.

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I don't even think it's.

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And a king doesn't have any clothes on.

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But I don't think it's a matter of keeping us distracted or I really think that it's a way of putting their thumb on us to hold us down,

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Because if that doesn't mean anything, then whoever's eating out at, you know, whatever most expensive restaurant versus somebody thinking that they have to go to McDonald's. It's. It's all. It's all crap,

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it's all just perception. That's all it is.

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You heard

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You heard this, too today, I think the new mayor of New York with the free buses, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, the free bus fare just went up.

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$3

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plus 3.

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I laughed so hard.

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Yeah, and it's like

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guy's got.

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His head so far up his ass, it's coming out of his mouth.

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He just talks a good game. He's a snake oil salesman just like the rest of them.

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Yes, but all these people voted for him.

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And the sad part is we got people living under bridges that fought for our country or served in our country that they can't have a house. You got these idiots stealing money. That doesn't mean anything. But we don't have money. That doesn't mean anything. To give these people a place to live.

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Oh, it's disgusting.

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And it's. It's disgusting, actually. Just humanity.

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I read an article, the town I grew up in, Livingston, New Jersey. I keep bringing that up. The shopping mall there, which was like this huge mall on the other side of town from where I lived. It was great. Well, it is now a ghost town. There's nothing left. They shut it down. And they're gonna build condos, I believe. But somebody said what they should do is the township or the government should take over the malls. These ones that are all, you know, vacant. And turn them into either senior housing or housing for veterans.

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Absolutely, that'd be great.

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You know, they've got, like, all this stuff already built in. Yeah, that.

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But lighting. There's electricity. There's.

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Yeah, but make it a part. Make Them into.

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No, that's what I'm saying. Right. You know, they got, then you got.

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A food court, you got.

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Right.

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You know, all this stuff

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Right. No, that's a good idea.

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But nobody wants to do that.

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Yeah, that might take some of the money away. That doesn't mean anything from somebody's pocket. So back to cash, the people that are paying cash. Now the concept is people you are given a monetary stipend, I guess you would say, for your services based on whoever you work for or whatever you do. So if you're self employed or work for somebody, this is how we're, we've put in place that you're going to be able to trade other than having to go to the store and we'll. Or go to a restaurant, wash the dishes.

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But it used to be backed by gold.

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Yes. Right.

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So it actually had value.

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Yes. Now there's nothing. It's just the government.

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I still want to know why.

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With what is it? The securities and treasuries and fricking $38 trillion in debt. How good is.

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There's three frickings tonight so far.

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How good is the, the treasuries and securities?

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No, but I mean my big question though is why did Nixon get rid of the gold standard?

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I,

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I have not gotten a good answer from anybody, including banker friends.

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No, because I, I don't know whether it was supposed to wake people up earlier. I, I don't know, I don't know what it was. But back, back to cash. You know, the concept is you're supposed to be paid with this and then you give back a percentage to the community through taxes. I mean that's what the concept, concept was. So started out just like the parkway. Oh, we're only going to charge a toll until we pay for the parkway.

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Yeah, right.

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Still going on as far as I know.

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When was the parkway built? Yeah, you were talking about Garden State Parkway.

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We're only going to pay for crossing the bridge until we get paid for it, until we pay for what it costs. So the concept is that, so that you get paid this and then a percentage of that goes back into the government and they work on the roads and which doesn't happen schooling and all this stuff. So people are basically told that's how it's supposed to be. And then you have people that work only in cash. So they pay for everything in cash. They destroy other people for to be able to hoard cash and they pay for cash. They use cash and then they use the same services that other people are using, schooling, the roads, but they don't contribute to it because they're paying for cash. So they skirt all that. And they're using what I'm paying for in taxes with useless money on top of that, they're using my time and services to what I'm supposed to be paying for to maintain. So they're thieves as well?

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Oh, absolutely. I saw a guy recently, I was at the.

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And I don't think they're any different from the Somalis, to be honest with you.

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No, No. I was. I was at a supermarket recently, and I walked in, and the guy pulls out an EBT card and. But he had to pull out a wad of hundreds like this first before he pulled out the EBT card. And I just stood there and I was thinking about it. It's like, wow, is this wrong? Like, what is he doing for that wad of cash, number one? And then why has he got an.

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card

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If he has a lot of cash?

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Right?

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i don't get it.

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But that's what society's plummeted itself into. This is the God that you sold your soul for. And that tax was part of the.

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Kind of waking up this morning and saying, you know, this is what our country has sold its soul for right there. And it means nothing because.

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No, it means  somehing.

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There's nothing backing it.

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Josh Shapiro just gave himself a raise.

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Yeah.

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Wow. And our tax dollars are paying for his private residence.

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As you can see, his raise is worth about as much as what he's doing for this state.

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Oh, true.

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For its constituents.

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Now, what's funny? You're talking about taxes, right? So when I first moved here a million years ago, I came from New Jersey and I, I. I don't know, I went a couple years, you know, I was paying my income tax and all that stuff, and then I went to get a concealed carry permit for my handgun. So they said to me when I went to apply. This one. You applied in person. We need a copy of your Berkheimer. You need a letter from Berkheimer. It's like, what's that? I had no idea. Like, nobody ever. But my accountant never even said anything. Well, I was still using the guy in Jersey, so my accountant in Jersey. So he didn't know anything about it.

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Another school tax in our area.

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Yeah.

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So ready for this one? Talk about a scam.

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Oh, yeah.

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It's a 1% of your gross income.

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I think it might have went up.

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Did it? I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Anyhow, it was 1% of your gross. And nobody knows about this tax. And Berkheimer is like the separate corporation that has nothing to do with the government.

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And then if you move here and you don't know about it,

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You can. Get whacked big time.

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In three years, they'll do an audit and then charge you interest.

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And penalties.

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And penalties.

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That's what happened to me. Because I didn't know about it.

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.  yep.

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.  yep. That's a scam, too. Yeah.

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Total scam.

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Where's the money go?

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Nobody knows.

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Ask any township around here.

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Nobody knows, Right? It's amazing. Berkheimer tax. It's like, I want to find out.

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It'S going to the magic debt.

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But no, I want to find out.

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The magic debt fairy.

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Is there a Mr. Berkheimer real?

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Because. Yeah, it's probably got to be important because you wouldn't want to print fake money taking place of the fake money that we're using.

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That's right. Damn it. Let's go back. Remember when quarters were made of real silver?

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Yeah. And now I don't remember, but I remember getting you.

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Not that old when we were kids.

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No, no. Yeah.

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They were silver.

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Yes.

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And same thing with, like, silver dollars right now. So now it's like steel, like, plated.

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Back to the silver thing. People have bought into purchasing silver on the stock market and securities or whatever they are through the banks or you.

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Can go to, like, one of these brokers.

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Right.

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But they only give you a certificate.

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But the secret is supposedly. Now, this is allegedly the banks have nowhere near the amount of silver.

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That they do have in certificates. And the silver price keeps moving up. So that means it takes more silver to pay for that dollar's worth. It's really not worth anything. But that dollar's worth of silver is. Is growing as.

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Yeah. So if you're gonna buy. If you're gonna get into, like, buying, you know, precious metals, get the precious metals in your possession,

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Don't get a certificate.

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Get a certificate. And even. Even that in World War II, they made it illegal to own. To own gold,

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They had to get, you know, all the gold coins. They. They made it illegal and actually threatened to put people in prison if they didn't turn it in. And so the government can do that. You know, they. So don't think that even if you got a bar of gold or silver or you're going to come and take it.

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Well, here's. I found. I found a box in the attic from when I was a Little kid, I mean little kid, like before school, you know, like little kid, you know, birthday presents and stuff. And like I had this aunt or aunt who would always give me two bucks until, I mean until the day she died. I mean I was in my 30s and I would still get two dollars on my birthday. Right. It was a two dollar silver.

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Yeah, yeah. Said silver certificate right up here.

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Yeah. So I got a stack of these things. I wonder if I could go cash.

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You're supposed to be able to.

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Yeah, but if I go to the bank, are they going to actually give me something?

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I don't think you can go to the bank. I think it has to be from the government to be honest. Because that was a government note, I think. I'm not.

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I'm gonna have to check this out because I got a stack of these.

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Things because that was probably before the gold standard was eliminated, so.

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Yeah, this is all 60s and early 70s actually. 50s, 60s and early.

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And before that time, before that was eliminated, you were supposed to be able to go with that piece of paper that said a dollar worth of silver was supposed to be traded for that.

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Should be interesting. I'm going to look into that one because if anybody knows in the comments about the silver certificates.

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Yeah. So the whole story behind this basically is our representatives are paid a good amount of useless money to go and put in laws and regulations or whatever that's supposed to benefit our country. And since this is worth nothing, then really all they have is what they're able to do. Their time  in  power of making our lives better.

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But they're making our lives miserable.

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Think about some of these laws.

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They are doing exactly the same as what this is worth as far as I'm concerned. We've seen corruption, we've seen people being let into this country, without being vetted, without being background checked, whatever you want to call it, just hordes of people walking across the border. We've allowed other countries to come in here, basically buy up farmland, housing, all this stuff. And if this isn't worth anything, and if I'm paying somebody 174,000 of these a year and it's not worth anything, then damn it, they better back what they're doing with their actual services.

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they're not

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That they need to produce and they're not.

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Well, we go back to what I said the last episode. I think it was the last episode. These bozos that we elected, it should be a part time job, come to town, come to dc, do your thing and then go Back to your farm, your law practice, whatever it is. And it should just be a part time job the way the founding fathers did it.

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Right.

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But, but now it's a career. I mean, look at Chuck Schumer. The guy's been there forever.

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Go there and do nothing. Basically they put in more regulations, more.

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Yeah, but they don't, they're  in DC.

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More taxes.

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They don't even put in a full work week. I mean they're there like two or three days and then,

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the whole.

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Thing is we're getting paid this and we're told that means nothing. It's like I said, you need 38 trillion more, almost 39 trillion more of these to break even. You know, if we don't give a portion of this useless piece of paper and it's actually cotton, not paper, if, if we don't give a portion of that back to the government to pay for them to do nothing, they're going to throw you in prison.

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Right.

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So at what point are people going to stop playing the game? And I think this year coming up is going to be the telltale sign. And again, you know, I, I've said many times personally, what's the big deal about choosing two religions? Why, why do we have to, as Americans choose which side of a religion we're on? That is not our religious bedrock here. Why do I have to pick between Jewish and Muslim? Why am I forced by my government?

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What if you're Catholic or Protestant

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pick?

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Well, that's, that's exactly. So why am I being forced to do this? Is, is, is it a charade? Is it just a game to keep the populations just keep going on? Because obviously this doesn't mean anything. People going to Washington obviously doesn't mean anything. Writing strong letters. I mean, this paper is probably worth more than the 38 trillion of these.

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Well, if you figure in the actual paper plus the ink.

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Oh, right, yeah. Well, we might be in the red.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Or in the black. I'm sorry, in the black.

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Well, it is black ink.

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Yeah. So, so the, my frustration this morning.

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I know you were very frustrated.

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I'm done. I'm taking a break from the rah rah because I think there was a good plan as far as trying to get the country back on its feet. And it started out that way and.

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Somewhere a wrench got thrown into  it

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And then the people who are supposed to be supporting those ideas have not held up their part. And I'm taking useless pieces of paper out of my check every week and Giving these useless people pieces of paper to basically useless people in our government. And it gets frustrating.  So

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I hear you, like, why did Dan Bongino quit?

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Yeah. So why did Elon Musk say it's there's no hope, there's no hope for. You can't fix the government. He said that you can't fix it. You can only try and band aid it. You have to alt. You have to start something else to take over what was there. Because it's so corrupt and so broken that it can't be fixed.

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That's pretty sad.

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Yeah. So, you know, at what point does the population say, all right, we got to.

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Well, are we now, are we now moving in the direction or getting closer to what all the preppers say? You know, all these people who are, are prepping for like when the hits the fan and like doomsday.

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I, I don't know if that's going to be the outcome or if people just get to the realization that government is just so broken and it's just all a shell game that we're going to have to start over. You know, I think, you know, if you, if you're going to vote, I think one of the, the, the most important thing you can do is vote in a primary.

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Oh, absolutely.

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And unfortunately, the way the system has been set up, you can only pick a Democrat or Republican.

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Some states are different.

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Well, in this state, no.

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But some states are different where you can be independent and vote in a primary.

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Right, but I'm talking here. So it's like now we're going to have to start concentrating on. Even before everybody talks about the election.

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No, the primaries.

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If we had people showing up at primaries and voting for people that actually want to help the system and if we had half the people show up for primaries that they show in the general election.

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Yeah, awesome. It would be awesome.

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The country would change overnight.

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But people are lazy, right? And they, they are uneducated to, they're ignorant to the facts of how the election electoral process works. So they don't look at the primaries as the important one. But if you don't pick the candidates, right, you know, in the primary, what do you get in the general.

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Right.

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A bunch of idiots.

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But they're then also they're lulled into ignorance by the drugs, by, you know, the EBT cards and money. That doesn't, you know, that's, that's why I keep saying the digital currency. What does it matter? It doesn't, it doesn't matter, you know, because it doesn't. Mean anything now. So what's. What's a digital currency going to matter other than the government can go now, completely control you, but they control us now with this anyway, because they make us pay them with this. And they're supposed to be doing a job, and their job is about as worth as this. So that was my frustration this morning.

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No, I hear you, but we can't give up hope, though. No, no, I don't like the word hope, because hope turns into hopeless.

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Right. So hope is the strongest thing in the universe. I believe.

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So.

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I'm. I'm not giving up, but I'm not gonna play the game. And, like, no, you know, I started. Started, you know, a couple episodes ago, I said, I'm done. I'm done.

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But look. Look at me. I mean, with the music industry, have I. Have I played the game? No, I did for 50 years. And I finally said, yeah, screw it.

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Yeah.

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You know, and look where I am.

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You know, I'm hated. I mean, I'm playing. I'm still playing, but.

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And it's all over this. It's all over this.

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Absolutely.

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This is your God.

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I mean, just. Just to think about this. The. The Kennedy Center. That actually. Good segue, right?

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Yeah.

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The Kennedy Center. Where is it?  No, that's not it. Here it is. Big thing with the Kennedy Center. So the board of directors of the Kennedy center renamed it from the Kennedy center to the Trump Kennedy Center.

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Because the thing was. And it was falling apart, and he raised all this money to renovate the place. So the board thought, wow, this is cool. Let's stick his name on it, too, because he did all this stuff without using government funds. Right. Well, all the lefty musicians lost their collective  crap  and started canceling gigs left and right, but half of them you've never even heard of.

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Right?

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So, like, who really cares? My feeling on this is it's a gig. Somebody's gonna pay you regardless of what the name is on the building. Who gives? Grow up and play the gig.

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Exactly.

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Pardon my mouth, but that's where I'm at.

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Yeah.

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It's like, grow up. I'm over it.

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Yeah.

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And they're just a bunch of babies. They're whining, sniveling little brats.

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And you're playing for this, and it's nothing.

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Yeah, but they're giving that up because they're trying to make a point. Well, I'm not going to play because he's a. He's a Hitler.

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No, but I'm saying this. This doesn't mean anything. So they. They think they're all that they have. A mansion. I have a $30 million mansion. Well, no, you don't. You have a negative $38 trillion. $380 billion, $506,147,996. An O3 cent mansion.

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There you go. Anyhow, getting back to these artists. Artists?

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Artists.

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They're musicians. It's a gig. Who cares? You know what I mean? Like, really. Who really cares?

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Right?

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Nobody.

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Right.

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You're just hurting yourself and looking like an idiot for canceling a gig, and nobody's ever heard of you anyhow, so.

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And it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what. What party is in there?

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No, it doesn't.

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This doesn't go down. This is. Just keeps going up.

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So it's unbelievable.

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Your party that you're canceling that gig for helped us get there.

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Yeah. So they're. They're losing their minds over this.

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Yeah.

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Which is just absurd.

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Yeah.

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Then I. I said to Bruce, it's like right before we came on. Let me. Should I print some stuff out? He goes, nah, we'll just. We'll just talk about the year. And it's like, well, there's a whole lot going on, you know, so you remember a couple of years ago, this little thing from China, this virus?

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Yes.

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That kind of changed the world.

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Came from a bat, didn't it?

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Yeah. At a wet market.

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Oh, yeah. Yes.

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So now the headline was world's most contagious virus detected at two major US Airports amid holiday traffic. They're trying to scare the world, Right? It's the measles.

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You know,

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no, it's a way.

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I had the measles 

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years before me, Right.

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Didn't they used to have, like, chickenpox parties and.

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Yes. To get. Everybody can. You know, so you would get it.

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you would then

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Get it over with. Right?

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Get it over with and then you'd have immunity.

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Right.

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But the way this was. I saw the headline. It's like, wow, here we go again.

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So one of the most infectious diseases was detected at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. One guy, one case of measles was identified in a passenger at terminal B and C. Now, how could you be in B and C at the same time? I mean, it's in the same building, but.

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Yeah. Well, maybe they moved from maybe or something contaminated.

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Both. So this is according to New Jersey Department of Health. Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and A rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin. And then God forbid, another one on Christmas Eve was some guy from Texas at Boston's Logan Airport. Had the measles. God forbid somebody gets the measles. But the way it's like world's most contagious virus. Unbelievable.

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The kids these days, what is it like 72 vaccines or.

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Yeah, right. So they're now they're pushing this measles vaccine thing.

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Oh man.

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No way. There was a, a guy I met recently, this is actually his last week. I'd say he was maybe late 50s, early 60s. And he literally shook like he had Parkinson's. And I don't know, we started talking. We stand in a line at this store and the guy, the poor guy was like shaking. And he said to me that the shaking, it's like almost like a palsy, Parkinson's kind of thing. It came from a, a side effect of a drug for diabetes. And it's not a temporary thing. This is now permanent. But they didn't warn him about this and he said if I had known I never would have done this.

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Well, it's the same with the vaccine. I remember seeing tons and tons of videos of people after taking the jab, you know, having side effects.

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Oh, big time side effects. I know two guys with really bad heart problems because of it and their doctors told them that's what it was.

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But we all had to keep it quiet.

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God forbid say anything.

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We were get kicked off of Facebook.

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Not just that, but people lost jobs over not getting vaccinated, got kicked out of the military. It's disgusting. Well, Trump said that he was going. Or Pete Hegseth, one of them said that they were going to start bringing these guys back with back pay.

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Right.

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Which I think they should do.

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So the same people that did all that, they created this too. So just so you know.

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And then there's a ground beef recall. E. Coli 2,800 pounds of raw 9,010 ground beef may be contaminated with E.

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O2 6

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Maybe, maybe.

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Well

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know what?

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All this stuff is probably

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It's fear and it's to try to get these lab grown fricking meats.

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Frickin. That's four times that he said. Frickin. Four times I said the other one. But no filters, remember? No filters. Well, according to this thing forward farms grass fed ground beef items.

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If you cook it enough.

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I don't know, does it, does heat kill E. Coli? I don't know.

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I don't know. Don't they do that to the. Treat the water, don't they? Heat it up or treat the milk. And you got pasteurized and.

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Yeah, but is that from E. Coli or is that from something else for everything.

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Be honest with you. That's why they don't want you to drink raw milk, because you can get sick. Really sick. Well, supposedly.

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Well, this stuff was shipped to distributors in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. And then it went out to all the different, you know, supermarkets. So it's big, big recall. But, hey, it happens.

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That's why this buddy and I, we're. We're splitting a cow. He texted me today and he said the cow's going to be ready Saturday, so we're going to go pick it up.

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Cool.

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I don't know where I'm going to put it, you know, half a cow. I mean, it's all butchered up already. Yeah, right. I think we may. We may need another freezer. Want some meat?

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Maybe.

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And then 20 25, as we're doing a recap. But we kind of like went off on this tangent because Bruce was upset this morning.

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I wasn't upset. I was just

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Yeah. And I'm not. I'm not like end of the world. Once you see the truth, once the truth exposes itself.

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s.  There's

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s.  There's just like. You don't need anything else. It's gonna go this way or this way.

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Well, you have a choice.

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You know what I mean?

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You have a choice. You can either react to it or you choose not to.

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Right. But the truth is always the best. So there's a calm. I. I'm very calm. I. I don't have any stress towards all this or whatever, because

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nothing.

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You can do about it.

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One,

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stuff you can do.

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But the whole reality of the matter is if I go, everybody's going with me.

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right,

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Because we're all going together. Because this means nothing. Government can take away your house, can take away anything. They can put you in jail. And unless you smarten up. And what we've been talking about here for the last eight months,

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a lot of it's coming true,

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It's to help everybody. It's not to help one side. This is to help the country. We want the country to be better. And it doesn't matter if you have purple hair, a nose ring, or if you're, you know, in a black tie tuxedo, it doesn't matter. We're for everybody come in here legally. We're for you?

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Absolutely.

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What we're saying is that is gonna help everybody. And when I say this is useless and everybody's going down, we're all going together. So you better start waking up to the fact that it doesn't matter what symbol your political party has. It's like we're all going together, so it doesn't matter. We can all go up together, we can all go down together. Doesn't matter.

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It's unbelievable. It really. Yeah, absolutely. And then the 20 25, there's, there's this big push now for gun banning. And as everybody knows, over the past umpteen months, there's been a rash of like, shootings. But on A positive note, 25, 2025's most gripping self defense shootings. Self defense. Across the country, people are actually fighting back for a change. And like a church security guard, a donut shop owner, homeowners who were. Their house was getting broken into and they were getting attacked. They actually pulled out their handguns and shot the assailant. But that doesn't get reported. Only the bad stuff gets reported.

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Absolutely. That's how they keep everybody in fear and control because that's all they got. This doesn't mean anything. That's all they got. They got to make you afraid.

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The thing about this gun ban thing.

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Same with the pandemic. Everybody made it through. What was the mortality rate? Oh, yeah, 0.7%. Whatever it was.

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Oh, yeah. But they blew it way out of proportion.

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Yeah.

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As we all know. I mean, I got it and I was scared to death. I really was, because I got it bad. But I got it when it first came out and nobody knew anything about it.

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Right.

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And I was sick, man. I mean, it was. I don't want to ever go through that again.

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See, I had a very. I wish I was that sick. Every time I was sick. I slept for three days. I lost my taste and smell. And that was  it. I didn't have really. I didn't have a fever.

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Oh, man. We were, we were like down for the count for like a month.

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It was bad. I just got tired.

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That was.

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I didn't even have a sniffle. Wow. My nose was clear. Matter of fact, like I told you, it felt like whenever you dive in a pool and all the water shoots up your nose and you got that feeling.

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That's what it felt like.

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That's what it felt like.

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This was like gasping for air, coughing my brains out. 103ft fever, right. For like weeks.

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Maybe you really had the flu.

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Maybe. Well, yeah, probably because that went away. Yeah. Flu just disappeared, didn't it? No, no. This year, epidemic proportions. And they want everybody to get a flu shot, right? Yeah. Not new. You know what's interesting? I never get a flu shot and I never get the flu.

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Yeah. I've gotten. First time I ever get a flu shot. I was sicker than a dog with the flu and then I didn't get it. Didn't get it. And then I was talked into getting it.

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And you got sick.

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No. Next. I think I got it twice, two or three times. And I didn't get sick after that. But I haven't really had the flu, so I only took it a couple times. I don't even know if I've gotten it a dozen times in my life. But yeah, I do. I do get sinus infections and stuff like that. But as far as the flu, just after the flu shot.

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Interesting. Well, getting. I want to finish up with this gun band. So the, the anti gun crowd, they keep talking about these school shootings, mass shootings this, that and the other thing. What I want you to do to get the real statistics is go on the FBI's crime statistics website and it's all laid out. And it's nothing like what these people are talking about. Not even close.

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Yep. It's. And there is no database, I believe yet. Unless I created one for self defense.

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No, there. Not to my knowledge.

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Right. I. I believe there was something that was documented. Don't quote me, but I believe it was the Obama administration that. Nix that.

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Well, they didn't want anybody. They.

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But God forbid.

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Right.

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You know, you know, people are actually protecting themselves. Horrors.

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Right.

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I mean, somebody breaks in my house and threatens my life, they're not getting out. Well, first they got to get through, you know, past the dogs.

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No.

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Yep.

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It's kind of sad that we're down to that now.

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Well, you know, let's see what happens with the Supreme Court case with the. Was a concealed carry or the constitutional carry or so that's supposed to go into effect. I believe the first. We'll look into that. We'll come back on that for the next episode. But.

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Well, the $200 tax stamp for silencers and machine guns is going away on the first.

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Right.

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Still got to do all the, you know, the paperwork. But the $200 tax stamp is gone.

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Right.

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So I can't believe they're actually giving up a tax.

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Yeah. Believe that. Yeah. Well.

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And that's been in effect since 1934. The National Firearms act of 1934. Put that $200 tax stamp on silencers, machine guns, sawed off shotguns, short barrel rifles and other weapons of destruction.

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The tax on money, that means nothing. To keep you unarmed. So listen, before they smarten up and they realize we figured out that this means nothing, use as much of this as possible and go out and buy, I don't know them, cans of food and

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Ammunition, guns. A new car, just 

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car.

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Go use it. Before they realize we realize that it means nothing. That's what I'm saying. Right,

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Get the economy going again.

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Absolutely.

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Although gas prices came down this year.

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Yeah.

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Thank God it's  $2.89 here.

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They're getting there.

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I paid well, I had, I had points from where was it one of the supermarkets. They sell gasoline too. So I had enough points and it was  $2.89. I got it for  $2.79. I got  $0.10 cents. No,  $2.39.

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Yeah, 239.

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Yeah. It was 50 cents off. 50 cents off a gallon?

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Yep.

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Which is kind of cool.

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I think it was  $2.82 regular price.

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But I want to go back to like the 70s prices.

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Oh yeah, man.

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.25 cents for a gallon of gas. You know,  .40 cents, whatever.

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But then too, you could, you know, sit on the fender, change the spark.

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you know,

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You can't do that anymore.

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Take out the engine to change oil filter.

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And now it's just, it's insane.

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Yeah, it's crazy.

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Well, what do you say there, Brucey?

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Yeah. So for 20 26, save your silver, right?

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Absolutely.

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We hope everybody.

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Yeah. Just be nice to everybody.

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Yeah.

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There's so much anger going on.

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Well, that's the thing. And that was my point. We're all going up or we're all going down. Doesn't matter.

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It doesn't, it doesn't hurt anybody to like say hi, thank you, goodbye.

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Right, Exactly. Don't park on the sidewalk.

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Right.

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Don't park in a handicap.

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Oh, and, and okay, let's real quick. Pet peeves for 20 25.

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Right?

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Dunkin Donuts. They actually I stopped. I had to go home to feed the dogs, right. And because my wife is out, so she called me and said, can you go home and I'm not going to get home in time. Can you go home and feed the dogs? Okay, great. So Bruce says to me, do me a favor, stop at Dunkin, get some coffee and some donuts, right? So once again, I go to Dunkin Donuts and I said, two large coffees, cream and sugar, and you Got any jelly donuts? No, we're all out of donuts. I said, what do you mean you're all out of donuts? You're Dunkin Donuts. How could you run out of donuts? They ran out of donuts. So the guy said, well we have some chocolate chip muffins left. Okay, give me two of those. I'm surprised they had two. So that's pet peeve number one is Dunkin Donuts. They should just like never run out of donuts.

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Right. What happened to a guy that got up at 2am and made the donuts?

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Yeah, he's gone. Well, they don't even make them in the stores anymore.

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I know.

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Which sucks.

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Yeah.

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Because by the time you get it, it's stale. Nothing like a stale jelly donut, you.

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Know, Especially this, this time of year. Put in a frozen truck and yeah.

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It'S, it's, it sucks. I don't know if they heat them up there or they bake them there, you know?

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Yeah.

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Do they get the pre made things and then just heat them up or. Yeah, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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We should, we should find out anyhow. Dunkin Donuts. I'm not a big fan anymore but everybody knew that. The big one for me, people driving at night with their brights on the high beams. What is that all about? And you flash them and they just don't, they ignore you.

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Right.

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So that's number two. Number three, the big one. People are doing like 50 miles an hour and then they come to a complete stop to make a turn. What is that?

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Gotta look both ways.

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Seriously, what is that? They'll stop right in the middle of the road to make a turn where they don't have to. You know, it's like you just turn.

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I, I, I told you. I think it's, it's rmna P Q R S T that they stupid in the people

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pill.

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Starting to make people nuts.

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It's just wow. And, and the anger of people, you know.

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Like I know what we need.

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What do we need?

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We need a learing center.

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Is that, is that like a jet thing? A Lear, a Lear jet learing. Yeah. I, I really can't wait to see what happens learn. I really can't wait to see what happens in Minnesota.

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Yeah. Yeah. And it's just going to, it is going to spread though. People are talking in Texas. It does. It's not going to be just blue shit. Blue states going to be across the country and that is going to lead into like you said the medical.

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Well, this whole medical thing is crazy. And doctors. Doctors are afraid. Doctors are actually afraid of treating people the way they should be treated because of insurance companies and big pharma.

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Yeah.

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It's like they have this protocol of what they have to do.

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Big pharma on one side and they got attorneys on the other getting sued, so they're stuck right in the middle.

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Right. But think about this. I had to go for a test. I had to do all this other stuff first before they would schedule this test.

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Right.

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It was like a breathing test because I had the bronchitis, but I had to do all this other nonsense first before they would schedule this test. Why don't you just send me for the test and like, let's get rid of the drugs and stuff, right? No, no.

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Gotta make sure you're healthy.

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It's crazy.

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Can't execute the guy unless he's healthy.

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Which is true.

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Right?

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Yeah, that's. That's actually. That's nuts.

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Yeah.

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But we're living in a crazy place that makes down world. What happened to just logic, common sense?

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It's gone.

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Just like common sense. Like to me, there's no gray area. It's either black or white. You know, it's like this is a piece of paper. It's not a piece of parchment. It's paper. You know what I mean?

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No, no, I get it. I get it. It's. But again, everybody's got to be know reality TV star, make everything a big drama. So.

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I'm sick of drama.

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Yeah.

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If I want to see drama, like watch General Hospital if it's still on.

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You know, Luke and Laura.

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He just died.

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Did he?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Yep.

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Anthony Geary. When I. There's one band I was on on the road, like the whole band was into General Hospital.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.  It was crazy.

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minutes to Wapner.  Y

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Wapner.  Y

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Is that what it was like?

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Absolutely. And what's funny is I had. I had a. This battery powered tv, right. And I had it in the bus and I. The bus driver ran a wire outside and we had one of those, like, stick on magnetic antennas. I mean, it's in the 70s and you know, whatever time zone we were in, it, you know, when it came on, everybody's like, around my bus seat, you know, like, looking, Watching Luke and Laura.

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Right, right.

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That was a ride.

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Well, that was.

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That was huge.

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Yeah.

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It was really. They had a whole band was into soap operas.

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Some great times, right? Yeah.

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Oh, yeah. It was a riot.

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Yeah.

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To go back to those days.

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Oh, yeah.

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D. A Z E. But. Oh, well.

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So let's see what 2026 brings. Yeah.

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So I guess we'll see you next year.

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Yeah. Hope you guys have a good one. And we'll see you on the flip side of 26, right?

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Yes.

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All right, take care. 

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