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Local Politics and Daily Stress · Unscripted After 40

• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, family.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: This week we're gonna talk about something a little different.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is a topic suggestion from one of the listeners, so thank you.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they told me not to put their name out there because I I I totally understand.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um the topic we're about to talk about this week is it's not really sensitive, but if you don't have a room of intelligent people that understand that you have to be able to agree to disagree with each other, sometimes it causes problems.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: As we all know in this day and time, um we got a right and a left side, especially when it comes to politics.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: And that should give you an indicator why um I'm trying to take my time and make sure that I say it correctly so that you know I don't get attacked next, you know, by whoever.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: What whatever side you can't you can come on.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: But the it's really not a politics question.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll read a question to you.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Damien, love the podcast.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: I do got a topic suggestion.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: How local politics quietly shapes our daily stressors, such as roads, schools, and safety.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um in my opinion, that that is a good question.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, we expect the government to work for us and then provide services to us so that we can, you know, live our daily lives.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Most of us don't even keep up politics.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I I would say that that a lot of people that I do talk to about politics don't really keep up with politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: And me personally, I'm not trying to get you to go to one side or another side.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but I am trying to get you informed so that whatever you choose to do when it comes to politics, that you know the decision that you're making will support your mind frame and support your family.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: And and and that's what the really key is.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: No matter if you're um Democrat, Republican, or independent, as long as the candidate that you pick actually going forward and you know taking the values that you and your community has pushed for it as a collective.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like a rule, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We think about speed limit, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We as a society have collectively agreed to go 35 round town.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we made that rule for a reason for our public safety, you know, make sure we as a collective society have agreed that, you know, we need to fund public schools because, you know, we want our kids, and shoot, I'm glad I went to public school, you know, even private school, but you can you have that choice to do that because we as a society have collectively agreed to do that.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why sometimes, you know, even with politics or any other subject, religion, those, you know, no-no subjects that you shouldn't talk to with a group of people in the room.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we as a society should be educated enough to agree to disagree with people and maybe see their point and understand where they're coming from.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: That don't mean you have to agree with them.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying agree with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm understanding, like say, hey, actually see their point and understand that, hey, they see it different from you.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: And it's okay.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's why, you know, like I tell people I like working out.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's a million million different workouts that you can do, a million different ways you can lose weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: It don't mean that the other ways that are wrong or the weight that you take it is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just means that what is good for them might be not good for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or what might be good for you is not good for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that that's I'm gonna leave it like that.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna answer the question, okay?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we said daily stresses.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like I say, politics can be very stressful.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: And the three things they talk about was the roads, the schools, and the safety, okay?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we all know it's different types of politics at different levels.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Most of us know federal, but the most of the, believe it or not, of decisions that goes into politics actually happen at your local level.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: So although federal gives them the money and it comes from higher or comes from your state, you ever say people talking about a state budget.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, your state got a budget.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't willy-nilly just spend money out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your state actually got a budget that they can work on.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: And each county actually has a budget that they have to work within that they have to pay for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're tracking, like for even those three things, depending on your neighborhood or how much your property tax around your neighborhood, it might be better than other neighborhoods.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's why, you know, the collective grouping that the people grew, like property tax that we pay for in most states.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: I know some states might be different.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know Florida, you know, Florida don't have no state taxes, you know.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think Texas is another one.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: I might have to be corrected, look that up.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: But I know it's states out there that don't have no state taxes, so but they do have taxes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like right now, I have to pay um taxes on my motorcycle, um, property tax.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: Property tax is a big one, you know, um, for the car, like you pay your tax.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some property states' property taxes are high.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know North Carolina and Soccerline property taxes are high.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but in Alabama, God bless they sold.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: I love Alabama.
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  SPEAKER_00: They property taxes a little low, and I liked it.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: But unfortunately, I stay in North Carolina now, and they property taxes.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: I every year I get those property, like I said, I'm paying for my tags now, and they they're gonna cost me an arm and a leg all because I wanna drive instead of walk.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: But that's here nor there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the roads, um, everybody have rolled down a bad road that had a pothole or that had some issues, or the road wasn't, you know, up to standard the way it's supposed to be.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you the rest of sure, they are doing a lot of road work around your areas.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: I know in North Carolina they are.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if I'm if you've been on 95, they've been doing um freaking um working on 95 since 1985.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: And they always continue to approve 95 and make it bigger and make sure that they actually got the needs to be successful to roll the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the roads can be stressful, especially when you're out there, you know, you work real hard to pay for your car, and now you hit a pothole, you not only mess your tire up, you mess your rim up, and you mess the frame up.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: Now you got a dent in your car that you have to pay for.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: That and if you do it too many times, insurance people, they just drop you.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: The insurance company will drop you just because I thought insurance was for that reason, but I I I guess it's insurance is not to be used just to be seen or just to have.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't on the call on insurance, okay.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then we move on to schools.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: You need, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government is designed to make sure, especially with public schools, you designed to take the same property tax that you have to pay for the roles and allocate that money to improving the schools and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Me personally, I I think teachers get underpaid, period.
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  SPEAKER_00: All teachers deserve a raise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because without a teacher in the beginning, none of us will know how to read or be successful like we are now today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our success is off the backs of those underpaid teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know people always say, well, teachers get perps and stuff like that, but not all schools are the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that does cause an issue, especially in public school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if private schools, they mostly are funded very well, depending on where they are and stuff like that.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: But most kids in America do go to public school.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I I sent my kids to public school.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm happy that they went to public school because in my mind, it builds character and it helps you understand people.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Just like I went back earlier when I talk about we as a society should be able to talk to each other and disagree, but not disagree to the point we fist the cuffs on the ground.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: There are reasons to disagree with people, but not over, you know, something you don't understand or something you don't agree with.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if somebody spit on you, yeah, I got that.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need to get stopped.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: But just to disagree because, you know, they got different politics, you know, that that in my mind doesn't make sense.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh even if you disagree with what they think, you know, what they're saying, um, it just it don't make sense.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: But schools, like I said, already give it up to teachers again.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Because like I say, teachers, first of all, are getting underpaid horribly, getting underpaid.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: They should get paid more.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care what purpose they get, they should get paid more.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then the schools need to get better funded.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now, they are doing a better job with inside the neighborhoods, from what I'm seeing from North Carolina.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I can't speak for other states.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: I can speak for what I see here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're trying to improve the schools every year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I go to city council meetings and listen to what the improvements they're trying to do to make sure that the schools get the money they need to be successful for for the students.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because without the teachers and without the kids they're training now, there's no future for us older generation to make sure that the world keeps going the way it goes.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because in my mind, and most people's minds, I don't think nobody will disagree with.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you need education.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even if you just got up to high school and you went to a trade school, that's still education.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: You still learn a trade to be a productive member of society.
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  SPEAKER_00: So education, hands down, it is important.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you learn stuff off YouTube, I love YouTube University, but you getting out of high school is a big achievement.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, getting any type of college degree or any type of certification is a big achievement.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in the end, you still need schools.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of the schools even go to college, you know, they have to get funded by federal and state funding.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the community colleges, you know, same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need more community colleges out there in the community, teaching, you know, the community how to better things.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's how we get people to actually go out and fix the roads, those engineers, you know, to make sure that they actually do the right job.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: But like I say, it starts with teachers that I still, and I'm gonna keep, I'm gonna die on that horse that teachers get underpaid and they should get paid more because teachers are extremely important in our society that we have them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then lastly, safety.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um say what you want to say about the cops, but it is bad and good in every organization.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I am friends with a lot of cops.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most cops are out there trying to do the right thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we as a society have to look at it both ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: That cop is still a human being that has got to go home to their wife and their kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they want to go home to their wife and kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes we do have ignorant people out there causing problems.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: And you got ignorant cops.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like I say, I said it earlier, on both sides, you got issues that we need to correct as a society to ensure that we are safe within our neighborhood.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Because nobody wants to be in their neighborhood or in their house and feel unsafe.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody wants to go to the grocery store and buy groceries and come out of the grocery store and not have to worry about getting, you know, mugged shot or hit or beat up outside a grocery store or take their kids to the movies and nothing happened to them, or even a playground.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you would think a playground would be a safe place.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Playground school would be a safe place, but you need, you know, unfortunately, law enforcement to keep people safe, which I don't agree with all the tactics.
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  SPEAKER_00: I, you know, not all of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said earlier, not all law enforcement are bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are bad apples out there, but they're not all bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's another group of people that unfortunately are public servants that are underpaid and undertrained in some cases.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need to be, you know, scanned a little bit, or I don't know what they call it, the mental thing, like they do with the military.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they scan us to make sure we ain't 100% crazy or do something jacked up.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: But it it all goes back to funding.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, roles, schools, and police departments, they all are underfunded.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: And they they all need, you know, support from society.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: But like I said, it starts at your local level.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I understand what the stresses they're talking about, because that stuff can stress you out, you know.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll wrap it up and go around the circle.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like I say, if you're driving on bad roads that is um causing problems with your cars, you know, you hit a pothole and you damage your car that that could either make you late for work or cause another accident, or it multiple things can happen.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, hitting a pothole or on a bad road, or a road is being worked on, you got to go a different route that you never went to before.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: And for some of us, I don't know about y'all, GPS, but Siri be fucking up sometimes.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know, most of the time, Siri got me, and Siri takes me and reroute me around, but sometimes Siri be fucking up and it fucks up horribly.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: But um, and it goes up to the school.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: The school's got to be better funded.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: And when the better funded schools get better teachers, because you better fund them, and it it all goes back to education, where it helps out society as a whole and keeps safe.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: An educated society, a well-informed society, will have less problems in my mind.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: If people are willing to listen to other people's sides and settle agreements like civilized people, like most of us are, the world will be a lot better.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we have to get there.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And like I say, with those stressors, we talk about politics and stuff like that, it starts local.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: So my advice to all of you is get involved with your local politics and go out there and make sure that you volunteer with the schools and understand like go in your neighborhoods with your police officer, invite them in the neighborhood and show them it's not a threat to the neighborhood for them to be in.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because if any person thinks they're being threatened, they just won't go home just like you want to go home.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: But they have to understand where you come from, just like you understand where they come from.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are trying to keep you safe and the neighborhood safe around you.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: But it takes us as well as a village to make sure that we are doing what's right to ensure that our neighborhood is safe as well.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: So, my advice, um, I understand the stress, and I'm glad that you asked me that question, and that you understand that politics, it you gotta be involved.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: We have to be involved.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: And this is the year to be involved, where if you feel that you need to change something, help change it.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, be involved.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Get out there and give it your local politicians and give it your local city council.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, city council, I was trying to think of that.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: It kind of eluded me for a minute.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: Give it your city council and actually get involved so that we can fix those three simple problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are problems, but there are problems that we as a society, we as educated people, can come together and fix.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, we can fix the roles by allocating money, make sure the money goes to the right place at the right time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same thing with the school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right place, right place at the right time.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then with safety, we have to go down to the police station and invite the cops into our neighborhood and integrate them with inside our neighborhood so that we know them and they know us and they will feel safe as well.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: But we have society had to police call ourselves.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: So, until next time, um, go out there and volunteer and get involved with your city council.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I guarantee you, you won't regret it.