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Midterms, Economy, and America's Future (John Jamingo of Boomer Bunker Podcast) · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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  Welcome to another World Ablaze.
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  Today, I have a fellow podcaster friend, and his name is, well, he's known as John Jamingo.
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  I'm not sure Jamingo is his real name, but that's what he goes by.
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  That's what we all know him as.
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  John is literally the best kept secret in podcasting.
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  He's been around a long time.
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  The guy has done it all.
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  And the reason I wanted John on here is because he is one of the hosts of Boomer Bunker.
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  A little more fun than my show, to be honest.
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  A lot more jokes and whatnot.
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  But what they do do is they go over all the news and current events of the week, and they break it down.
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  And they have real discussions about it.
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  Whether you like it or not, love, hate, whatever, John's unfiltered.
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  He's going to tell you like it is.
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  And that's what I like about John.
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  John, I see him as a blue-collar guy, a guy that just did everything he had to do to make a living, did the American thing like we all have to do.
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  And I think he comes from real-world lived experiences.
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  And that's why John is here.
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  We're going to have a conversation with John, get his opinion on what's going on, just two
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  guys talking.
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  I hope you all enjoy this because, again, it's a little different than usual.
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  And for anybody that is here, the best way to interact on the chat will be on YouTube
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  and Rumble.
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  I'm not really monitoring the other feeds, which will be on Kick and X and etc., but
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  even though they're going there.
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  But if you want to interact, please hit us up on the YouTube and the Rumble.
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  And I don't want to keep John waiting too much longer.
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  So let's bring John in.
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  And how are we doing, John?
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  How is Mr. Jamingo?
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  Oh, if I was living any better, it would be against the law.
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  Right?
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  So, John, John, I got to talk about America with you.
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  And as you heard in the intro, man, I just see you as one of the guys, you know, blue collar did your thing.
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  I mean, you worked yourself the bone to make a living, paid for your family, to get along in life, etc.
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  And here you are, your podcast host.
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  You're very similar to kind of what I do.
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  But again, as I said, I think you're a little more fun than me.
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  I get a little serious sometimes, a little too much.
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  But all that aside, man, like I said earlier, you're unfiltered.
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  And that's what I want today.
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  Because, look, midterms are a few weeks away.
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  For one, we have also what seems to be a shift in the American culture,
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  or it looks like it's going to be shifting in an entirely different direction
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  within a few decades for sure.
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  And then the future of America is very much in question,
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  or at least as we know it.
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  So, first off, let me give you the opportunity to tell everyone else a little bit more about you outside of what I said.
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  Because, you know, I was pretty vague.
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  I guess I wasn't as detailed as I could be.
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  But give everyone the opportunity to know who you are.
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  So, I worked as an elevator mechanic for 24 years.
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  And then in 2007, I had an accident.
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  So, I took out my knees and my lower back.
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  And I tried the whole trying to do management stuff.
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  And it wasn't me because you're right.
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  I'm a guy.
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  I want to put my hands on tools.
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  I want to be hands-on.
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  So in 2012, I tried to get back into the work and just couldn't do it.
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  So I ended up out.
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  So I basically retired then in 2012.
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  And I just fell into podcasting.
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  And I loved it.
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  I just love the whole art of podcasting.
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  So I started doing that, started doing a show with my buddy from college,
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  and it just kind of basically morphed into there.
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  And what I see now is, and I'm fighting now,
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  is how everybody tries to be polite now.
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  And I don't think this is time for politeness.
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  I think this is time for a discussion,
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  and let's throw down, and if feelings get hurt,
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  feelings get hurt.
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  so that you know that's how i feel about the show i'm not i don't apologize uh my my opinions are my
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  own and and i'm small potatoes to be honest with you but we still have a good time doing it
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  well i mean you call yourself small potatoes but i gotta be honest man um a lot of people in the
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  independent podcasting scene such as myself a lot of people look up to you a lot of people ask for
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  your advice because you've been doing it for so long uh you've got a lot of great insight and as
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  as far as your opinions and whatnot,
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  when it comes to politics and current events,
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  I mean,
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  that's whatever.
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  It's basically like what you see is what you get.
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  And what you said is very true.
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  It's what we're missing today.
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  We need people to cut to the chase,
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  filter to the bullshit,
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  and just say it like it is.
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  Let's forget about hurting people's feelings for once.
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  Toughen the fuck up, right?
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  Toughen up.
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  Just deal with it.
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  Life moves on and so will you.
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  And you'll be better for it.
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  But they get so hung up on these trivial little things
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  that really in the long run don't matter whatsoever.
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  So with that being said,
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  I want to go ahead and talk about midterms
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  because that's on everyone's mind at the moment.
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  Well, not just the only thing,
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  but it's one of the major things for sure.
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  So midterms, I want to ask you this
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  because you consider yourself,
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  you're a Republican conservative.
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  Is that correct?
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  I'd be honest with you.
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  I consider myself an independent,
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  but the left is what,
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  like the Democrats went crazy.
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  And so I am in the middle
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  because there's some stuff I don't agree with the Republicans for.
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  So I consider myself an independent.
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  Right-leaning, of course.
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  Okay.
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  And that seems to be what a lot of people say these days.
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  Whether it's right-leaning or left-leaning,
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  more people are distancing themselves from both parties
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  and just trying to stay more neutral as possible.
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  But I think when push comes to shove,
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  you're always going to find out who someone really is, right?
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  But that being said, it doesn't even matter.
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  So let me get your opinion on how you see the Republican Party
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  at the moment versus the Democratic Party.
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  Because one thing that we're seeing with the Republican Party at the moment is, if we're being honest, they are failing in the midterms.
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  Okay?
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  They're in danger of basically losing Congress, both House and Senate.
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  And states that were red are probably going to turn blue, especially if we're looking at the race in Texas, when we're looking at Paxson, Tallarico over there.
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  And so, in your mind, I want to ask you this.
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  I have an opinion on this, but do you think the Republicans, are they losing because they're just simply conservative and people are tired of the Republican Party?
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  Or is it really a messaging problem?
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  Is it the same old bullshit that just doesn't work, the old playbook that they need to get away from?
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  So is it a messaging problem?
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  Or is it really like people are just tired of the Republican Party at this point and everything they've done?
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  They're pussies.
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  They're all talk and no action.
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  So in other words, give me the power, give us the, you know, they have, in my opinion,
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  they have the better ideas of the two parties.
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  So now we gave them the House, we gave them the presidency, we gave them the Senate.
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  And for two years, they just jerked around.
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  Now, don't get me wrong.
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  They did things.
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  They did do some things as far as shutting down the border and deporting.
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  But what happens is, and trust me when I say there's another problem that the Republicans have,
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  and it's with messaging and it's because of the media.
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  The media will, everything they do is a big giant problem.
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  Meanwhile, when Obama did this, not a word, not a peep, no one said a word.
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  And so when Democrats do something like all the fraud and waste that's going on
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  in California, in Minnesota, in New Jersey, in all these areas,
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  mums the word from the media.
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  But if it turns around and if there was a Republican doing that,
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  it would be 24-7.
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  So they have a lot against them.
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  It's like the refs are against them
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  and everybody else is against them also.
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  So do you think the messaging problem
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  is really the media
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  and how they're presenting the Republican Party
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  or is the messaging within the Republican Party itself?
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  I believe it's the messaging from the media.
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  I say you don't care.
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  Go in, we elected you to go do something, go do it.
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  And when the media starts crying,
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  just say, hey, don't talk to us.
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  We're just doing what the voters,
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  We told the voters we were going to do this and we're doing it.
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  And I'm sorry you don't like it, but you're not the voters.
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  You're not the people that put us in office.
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  And this is what we're going to do.
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  Again, taco Trump always chickens out.
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  He has done it several times.
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  I dealt with Trump in the elevator business in Atlantic City.
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  And he wasn't a really good businessman at the time.
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  He bankrupted a lot of people.
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  He was a nasty businessman.
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  And when he started, I was really against Trump.
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  But the situation now is different because the left has went insane.
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  And Trump is really, I mean, if you had a choice between Trump and Kamala, it's not even really a choice, in my opinion.
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  So, and at least he's somewhat trying.
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  But here's the thing with Trump.
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  He, if it's something that's good, he takes all the credit.
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  If it's something bad, he passes it off.
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  Now it's not that the diesel prices aren't because of what he did over in Iran.
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  And the diesel prices are because of Russia and Ukraine are bombing each other's infrastructure.
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  I think with the messaging, I'm going to be stuck on this for just a bit, John.
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  I think the messaging really, from what I can tell, is coming from the Republican Party themselves.
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  And let me explain my position on this.
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  Because what I'm seeing in the race for the midterms here, for the general election in November here,
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  is you're seeing candidates being pitted against each other,
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  but it's the Republican Party that we're seeing doing the same old thing.
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  They're basically going ahead and trying to or attempting to commit character assassinations
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  and making fun of their rivals.
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  And the problem I see is I think people are checked out on that.
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  They don't want to hear you're a poo-poo head, whatever.
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  They don't want to have this stupid back and forth kindergarten schoolyard fight.
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  I think people are ready to see what it is that they're going to do based on real issues
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  in America, which this is my opinion, John, it's going to be based on affordability basically
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  is the big thing.
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  The Iran war, sure.
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  A lot of people don't like it.
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  But in the end, I think a lot of people tolerate conflicts as long as it doesn't hit their
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  pocketbook.
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  And unfortunately, we're in a situation where everyone's pocketbook is stretched thin, empty,
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  moths are flying out, et cetera. And so in my opinion, I think the Republicans got this wrong
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  in this race where with the Democrat party, whether it's a DSA back candidate or not,
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  they're coming out and saying, I know you're hurting. I know that everything's not affordable
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  right now. Some of them are attacking just like the Republicans. Some of them are. And the first
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  word out of their mouth is Trump half the time. And Trump's not a policy that you fight. It's not
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  a policy in general. That's just hate and Trump doesn't work. But the ones that are winning are
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  the ones that are addressing affordability, they're addressing job opportunities, and
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  they're sticking to that.
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  Where with the Republicans right now, they're just attacking people's characters.
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  And again, I think people are done with that.
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  I think they're over it.
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  And that's kind of what I'm seeing.
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  That's what I saw in Texas, like John Telefrico, all these things.
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  It's like, it's not working anymore.
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  And with that, TeleRico just gained another two points or so in the polls.
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  It's like that old playbook isn't working.
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  And so I think you're correct for sure.
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  The Republicans didn't come through, but they got to own up to it.
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  And they got to reassure people as to how they're going to move forward.
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  But pointing fingers and basically being school yard children on the main stage right now is not helping them either.
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  I don't know if you have anything to add to that, but that's kind of what I've been seeing more than anything right now.
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  I have some stuff to add.
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  First of all, California people, there was a bunch of people from California that migrated into Texas.
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  So now they're going there and they're bringing their Democratic voting with them.
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  Right.
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  That's number one.
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  Number two, you've got Ken Paxton.
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  You can't find a better person to run for senator than Ken Paxton.
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  Look, I didn't like the Texas, the senator that lost in the primary, Corrin.
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  I think his name's Corrin.
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  I didn't like him.
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  All right.
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  But when you take a guy, you can't get anybody better than Ken Paxton.
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  He has his own problems.
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  And a lot of them.
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  A lot of people in Texas don't like him.
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  So here, if you can't beat Howdy Doody,
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  Teller Freako from Texas with all,
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  I mean, he is a walking freak show in my opinion,
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  just the way he looks and he talks and everything he says it you know you take one look at this guy and you say how can you not beat him And what it is is you running weak candidates Let me ask you this
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  There's a big Senate race also in Minnesota,
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  or is it Michigan?
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  Michigan.
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  Who's the other guy?
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  It's not Syed.
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  Who is that?
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  You know who it is?
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  I don't know.
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  So you don't even know the other guys.
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  Cory Booker is running against a guy.
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  He's in my home state.
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  I don't know who the other guy was.
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  Had an excellent debate against Cory Booker.
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  They do not put their people out in front.
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  So you don't know who they are, but you know who Cory Booker are.
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  People go into the voting booth.
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  They go, who are these two guys?
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  Well, I don't know him, but I know Cory Booker.
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  Spartacus.
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  He's the guy in the pink shorts.
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  He's that guy.
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  All right.
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  So we'll do that.
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  Also in New Jersey, we had a governor's race last year, and she ran on affordability.
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  The first thing she did when she got in here was she raised the budget and raised taxes over a billion dollars.
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  She went one billion, one point something billion dollars in debt in the state of New Jersey.
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  And I'm like, well, where's the affordability?
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  You know, we have the highest, some of the highest energy costs in the area.
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  They're shutting down plants because they think it's going to work.
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  We're going to be able to use wind and solar.
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  That's not going to happen.
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  They already just caused a, they just created a national emergency because of the grid in this whole area, in the whole East Coast area.
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  And they're shutting down nuclear plants and they're shutting down coal plants because of climate change.
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  Well, good.
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  I want to see how you guys work out when we have no electricity.
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  See how that works out for you.
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  I think there's some valid points, but let's also not ignore the fact that the legacy media is still largely controlled by the left.
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  Everything from public radio to mainstream news.
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  You have a few that are conservative, but even those are considered fringe sometimes, or they're not even on mainstream cable networks, for example.
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  If we're talking about Newsmax and all that, they're on other streaming platforms, as far as I know anyway.
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  I really don't go out looking for them either, to be quite honest.
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  But the left has a leg up when it comes to media.
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  This is something they've always been good at.
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  So I would expect that they would always be able to push their people forward.
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  The problem with the Republican Party, I don't think it's not that they're necessarily pushing their people.
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  I think Trump just continues to overshadow them.
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  And it looks like the Democrat, part of the Democrats playbook here is to keep pushing Trump in front of everybody's faces, regardless of who the candidate is, because they know that people are disappointed with him, largely.
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  And that seems to be the talking point and the debate they're trying to have.
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  For example, the run for governor in California, Becerra versus Hilton, when they had a debate recently, the dominant subject was Trump.
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  And it seemed like all they wanted to debate is what Donald Trump is doing and what they're going to do.
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  And Hilton was getting frustrated.
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  And it's like, well, who the hell is going to actually run the state?
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  Is it going to be Donald Trump or is it going to be Steve Hilton if he's elected or Becerra?
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  and I think that's what I see on the Democrat side is like they know they can keep using Trump
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  as a way to push their candidate up into the into the spotlight because again a lot of people are
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  frustrated with Trump we got high gas we got wars we got etc people don't like how he talks
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  tariffs you name it whether you and I like any of that doesn't matter it's just that's the sentiment
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  and so we're looking at the Democrats just capitalizing on that you're correct that the
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  Republicans are not doing good at messaging.
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  And I think to me, the messaging is the issue they're having.
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  They're not addressing issues, which is why we have 20 DSA candidates on the general election.
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  Well, 19 technically to be on the general election for Congress in November.
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  Like that should not happen.
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  That we shouldn't even be here because again, Republicans right now, it's an old playbook.
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  They're not really addressing the real issues.
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  They're not saying how they're going to lower gas or help Trump lower gas, for example.
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  they're not given a real position on the iran war aside from that one fellow you were talking
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  about new jersey when he was asked on against booker which was an amazing response i forgot his
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  name i wish i knew see i don't know yeah but but it was the video is all over x like anyone can
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  look that up just just look up that booker debate and the iran war question that guy and i'm nail
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  in the head like get it done right this is this has to be what the republicans are doing and the
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  other thing i see is democrats have always been united whether it's a good or bad message where
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  The Republicans right now, they're just all over the place.
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  We don't have a unified message.
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  So as much as lately, John, I've been kind of moving back to center as you did.
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  And it's like, for me, the midterms is I don't care if it's going to be a Democrat or Republican at this point.
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  Opinion.
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  I just want someone who actually cares about America and cares about the Constitution still.
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  Because between Democrats and Republicans, real Democrats, by the way, old school,
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  So there's not a whole lot that separates us.
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  There's some things where they're always going to be sticking points.
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  But I want someone who cares about America to move forward in Congress to help keep America on track versus seeing 20 DSA elected agents in Congress to continue to add to the five idiots we already have in Congress and continue to tilt the balance towards socialism.
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  That's what I don't want.
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  But yeah, I don't know.
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  I think you're correct in a lot of things you said for sure.
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  But either way, I think we can both agree that the Republican Party has a huge marketing and media problem.
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  And also, Trump needs to shut up.
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  Well, okay, that's part of it.
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  But here's the other thing.
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  Let's take California.
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  I'm going to go back to that.
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  All right, let's take California for a second.
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  All right, so you have Gavin Newsom, and you've chased how many people out of California?
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  You have the highest gas tax.
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  You have the highest gas prices.
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  Home prices are through the roof.
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  They burnt half of Los Angeles down.
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  All that's going on.
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  How are they supposed to respond to that?
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  They have to talk about something else.
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  It's the whole magician.
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  Hey, don't look at this hand.
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  Look at this guy over here.
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  This guy's your problem.
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  This is Trump.
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  And then Trump's over there, you know, and he's the king of memes.
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  He's from the Northeast.
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  Of course, he's going to break your stones.
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  So he, you know, he's got different nicknames for everybody.
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  And he, again, shut up.
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  You come in and you say, all right, Iran's going to sign a deal.
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  And then two days later, they're bombing ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  And you're like, how did you shut up?
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  Nothing's happened yet.
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  You stop running out there like, look what I did.
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  And then something happens and you look like a dope.
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  I know.
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  I was like, how do we go from peace plan to bombing within less than 24 hours?
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  Right.
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  He says, me and Vlad, we're going to get, he's going to bring all this diesel in there.
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  And they didn't say anything to Zawinski.
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  And he says, oh, by the way, if they try to send diesel, we're bombing the ships.
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  And Trump's like, what?
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  So, again, he's half-assed in this stuff.
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  Look, what did he say when he was running?
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  I will end that war day one.
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  What day is it?
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  He's not the, he's not, he's all talk in a certain way.
• 20:24
  Like some things he's good at and some things he's not.
• 20:26
  Yeah, no, definitely.
• 20:30
  So all of that is very true.
• 20:33
  What I'm going to be getting at in terms of him shutting his mouth is with the midterms.
• 20:41
  When you have Republican candidates up there running and Trump shows up to your rally to back you, Trump makes it about him.
• 20:49
  Yeah.
• 20:49
  Trump wants to do a three-hour speech when everybody is there to support the candidate
• 20:54
  who's going to be running their community or their state.
• 20:57
  And it's like Trump needs to be punchy to the point, 15, 20 minutes max, get off the
• 21:02
  stage and give the candidate the spotlight.
• 21:06
  And so the question I would have for you, what I was going to get to after you said
• 21:10
  all that, I'm like, well, do you think Trump is helping any candidates in the midterms with
• 21:15
  his endorsement to our speeches?
• 21:16
  I think he's still bringing people out there
• 21:19
  He's still, look
• 21:20
  The media say what they want, they're still going to cover him
• 21:23
  Although when he gets up there
• 21:25
  I don't know where he was, but he's like
• 21:27
  Did you see that guy's ass?
• 21:28
  I tell you what, I've never seen a more muscular ass
• 21:30
  Get over here, come on
• 21:32
  Turn around, give those people a show
• 21:34
  It's like, what are we doing?
• 21:37
  Are you kidding me?
• 21:38
  This is what we're talking about right now
• 21:39
  I didn't realize, listen, I'm no homo
• 21:42
  But this guy's an attractive man
• 21:44
  You're like, what?
• 21:46
  Shut up.
• 21:48
  Exactly.
• 21:48
  What are we doing?
• 21:51
  I mean, it's funny, right?
• 21:53
  I get it's funny.
• 21:54
  But I think people...
• 21:57
  Here's the thing.
• 21:58
  If he's the leader of the Republican Party
• 22:00
  and people are kind of over the antics,
• 22:03
  you're not helping the future of the Republican Party
• 22:06
  at this point.
• 22:07
  Trump is done.
• 22:08
  2028, whatever happens,
• 22:09
  he's going to do whatever the hell he has to do
• 22:11
  until that time to get done what he wants done.
• 22:13
  but and again this isn't me trying to have a bash trump session i'm just thinking that
• 22:19
  he needs to realize he needs to shift gears in how he presents himself and how he helps
• 22:24
  the republican candidates right now because to me a lot of people are trying to gloss over this
• 22:29
  midterm like it's not important but now i disagree i think it's a very important midterm right now
• 22:33
  i think this is gonna open the door to shifting the tide of how we run things in america if we let
• 22:42
  it. And right now, we're kind of on that tipping point, I believe.
• 22:48
  Well, you have Russia, China, Iran. What's it? I'm trying to think of that axis that they were
• 22:55
  trying to do. So if you're Russia, do you want Trump to hold on to power? No. China? No. Iran?
• 23:03
  Definitely not. So every one of our enemies are against us and they have a lot of power. Look,
• 23:11
  Right now, Iran's just rocky.
• 23:14
  They're just taking the beating and hoping that this midterm will go Democrat.
• 23:19
  And then the Democrats will stop him from, you know, they'll defund it.
• 23:22
  So he can't do this anymore.
• 23:24
  He had a chance to do this.
• 23:26
  He went in there.
• 23:28
  And it just goes to show you that even if you're a bigger, more powerful person,
• 23:33
  if the little guy was able to grab you by the nutsack and squeeze,
• 23:38
  there's nothing you can do no matter how strong you are.
• 23:41
  And that's what they're doing to Trump right now.
• 23:43
  Yeah.
• 23:44
  They're basically doing everything they can to hold on.
• 23:48
  They just got to hold.
• 23:49
  And if they can make it through the midterms and Trump loses the House and the Senate,
• 23:54
  well, now he's got a different problem.
• 23:56
  Now he's got a different war at home.
• 23:59
  Yeah, he does.
• 24:01
  So Trump aside, we're going to get back to Trump because how can we not talk about him?
• 24:05
  Everyone else does.
• 24:06
  my favorite topic right exactly but trump aside getting back to the midterms here
• 24:14
  we're only a few weeks away so what in your mind does the republican party need to do right now to
• 24:20
  stand out reach voters and win them over i would just say that if you don't want crazy in congress
• 24:32
  and you don't want these policies.
• 24:34
  Remember, when Biden was in office,
• 24:37
  we had censorship.
• 24:39
  We had high inflation,
• 24:43
  everything, the Anti-Inflation Act.
• 24:45
  We had 9% month over month inflation.
• 24:48
  We had all that.
• 24:49
  You guys see what happens with us
• 24:50
  is we have very short memories.
• 24:52
  We're like goldfish.
• 24:53
  If you want to go back to that nonsense,
• 24:55
  DEI and social issues,
• 24:59
  that's what we're going to have.
• 25:00
  if you open the borders up again,
• 25:03
  is this going to be a nightmare?
• 25:05
  Or do you want to hold
• 25:07
  and hopefully once Trump gets out of here,
• 25:09
  maybe we can get someone again?
• 25:11
  I mean, who is,
• 25:13
  when Trump leaves,
• 25:14
  who's the leader of the Republican Party?
• 25:17
  Who knows, man?
• 25:18
  I mean, obviously,
• 25:19
  they're going to fall back to Vance,
• 25:20
  but I'm not sure that he is,
• 25:23
  in my opinion.
• 25:24
  I like him and I don't like him.
• 25:26
  I'll be honest.
• 25:27
  We're two guys here.
• 25:28
  There's no one watching.
• 25:29
  Who do you think should run the Republican Party after Trump?
• 25:34
  If we're talking about president, I'd want Rubio personally.
• 25:37
  Exactly.
• 25:38
  Exactly.
• 25:39
  Marco Rubio should be the guy that runs the Republican Party.
• 25:44
  And unfortunately, you have J.D. Vance there.
• 25:48
  And I don't think Marco Rubio is going to step on his toes.
• 25:51
  So here we are.
• 25:52
  And I don think J Vance will be able to beat a Democratic opponent in 2028 even Bruce says Rubio Rubio Everybody says it They do Except the media
• 26:06
  Right. If I was
• 26:08
  JD, I'd say, you know what? Why don't you run for president?
• 26:10
  I'll be your vice president. I'm pretty good
• 26:12
  at vice president. I'll stay the vice
• 26:14
  president and you do your thing for
• 26:16
  eight years and then maybe I'll
• 26:18
  take the presidency or maybe I won't.
• 26:20
  Maybe I'll go off into the sunset.
• 26:22
  But
• 26:22
  I believe, look, I like
• 26:26
  a lot of stuff that JD does, but he makes me nervous. I feel like he's a globalist. I really
• 26:31
  do believe, you know, with all of the connections he has with Silicon Valley and where he came from,
• 26:39
  he makes me nervous. And he's a great talker. There's something about him that,
• 26:45
  you know, even when he was the vice presidential pick, I wasn't forward. I was like,
• 26:49
  where does this guy come from? Like his entire background, everything to me was a bit suspect.
• 26:55
  and then suddenly here's the VP pick.
• 26:59
  I'm like, what was behind all of that?
• 27:03
  Now, I will say he's a great counter to Trump
• 27:08
  in terms of how he's represented
• 27:09
  or represents himself behind the camera,
• 27:12
  on the camera.
• 27:13
  He knows how to talk.
• 27:15
  He does deliver the message.
• 27:16
  He's concise, precise and eloquent
• 27:18
  when he wants to be.
• 27:19
  Definitely more than Trump.
• 27:21
  So I see that contrast,
• 27:23
  but realistically,
• 27:25
  if we're looking at
• 27:25
  who's really getting shit done
• 27:27
  and like even with the speeches
• 27:29
  that he just gave in Greece
• 27:30
  and on his tour through Europe,
• 27:32
  Rubio seems to me to be the guy.
• 27:34
  Rubio says he doesn't want it,
• 27:35
  but I'm with you.
• 27:36
  I think Rubio should be the guy.
• 27:38
  You know, I really do.
• 27:40
  If we're going to save this country,
• 27:42
  he has to be the guy.
• 27:44
  He really does.
• 27:45
  How about him and Holman
• 27:46
  for vice president?
• 27:48
  I think Holman's a little long on the tooth.
• 27:50
  We need younger.
• 27:51
  He is long on the tooth.
• 27:52
  I was just throwing that out there.
• 27:53
  Yeah, we need people.
• 27:55
  Listen, you know, I'm long in a tooth.
• 27:57
  We need people that are going to be around for another 40 years.
• 28:00
  This is the country that they're going to leave to their kids.
• 28:03
  Absolutely.
• 28:03
  They've got some skin in the game.
• 28:05
  Old people, you know, we got a couple more years and then we're checking out.
• 28:09
  And so we want to make it all about us and make our, you know, senior lives comfortable.
• 28:16
  All right?
• 28:17
  We really don't have, like, what do we care what happens in 50 years?
• 28:21
  You know, we're going to be fertilizer in 50 years.
• 28:23
  so it doesn't really matter to us.
• 28:24
  You need younger people in there.
• 28:26
  And it starts,
• 28:28
  listen, Ken from the Road Rage 101,
• 28:30
  he says it all the time.
• 28:31
  It's got to start at grassroots locally
• 28:34
  and then go all the way up through the states.
• 28:36
  That's where it has to come from,
• 28:37
  but we're not going to have that.
• 28:39
  We don't have that right now.
• 28:41
  Right, but let's address that.
• 28:44
  Grassroots, yes,
• 28:45
  but how are we going to get that
• 28:46
  if the Republican Party
• 28:48
  currently can't get their messaging straight?
• 28:51
  They can't give a unified message.
• 28:52
  They can't address the real issues.
• 28:54
  They just want to point fingers and make fun of everybody right now.
• 28:57
  I think,
• 28:57
  I think they've got this rockstar syndrome going right now because they got
• 29:00
  used to getting the adulation and getting the country behind them when Trump
• 29:03
  was going out there,
• 29:04
  you know,
• 29:05
  and just making fun of Biden all day and,
• 29:08
  and Kamala and her word salads in a sat room.
• 29:10
  And that's great.
• 29:11
  It got you over the edge.
• 29:12
  And I do like it.
• 29:13
  It's funny,
• 29:14
  but when it comes down to it,
• 29:16
  people don't want to just keep hearing a comedian and they don't,
• 29:20
  again,
• 29:20
  I don't think they want to see these stupid little schoolyard fights like where they got to get back to addressing policy and what they're going to introduce.
• 29:26
  It's going to make America's lives better.
• 29:28
  I'm not saying Trump hasn't done some of that, but it's not being pushed front and center.
• 29:33
  So everybody realizes what's happening either.
• 29:36
  So are we going to talk about the fly in the ointment?
• 29:38
  That is Tucker Carlson.
• 29:39
  That is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• 29:43
  We can.
• 29:43
  Yeah, we can.
• 29:44
  If we want to talk about media personalities.
• 29:46
  Yeah.
• 29:46
  Well, again, these were guys that were Republicans,
• 29:49
  and now they're basically saying that they're going to vote for Democrats
• 29:52
  and communism isn't really that bad.
• 29:54
  I mean, I don't know what happened to Tucker Carlson.
• 29:57
  I swear to God, I think he was taken over by an alien.
• 30:00
  Yeah, pretty much.
• 30:01
  Yeah, that makes more sense than anything else that I can think of.
• 30:05
  Right?
• 30:05
  And then so you have, and see, he's going to be an anchor around J.D. Vance's neck
• 30:09
  because J.D. Vance won't denounce him.
• 30:12
  And I can understand that to a certain extent.
• 30:15
  But every once in a while, you know, if that, okay.
• 30:18
  If I was really a friend of Tucker Carlson, I would drive up to Maine and I would shake him and say, I don't know what the fuck you're doing here, but this ends now.
• 30:29
  And if this doesn't come around or I don't find out what's going on here, if I don't walk out of here with an explanation why you're insane right now, I'm burying you.
• 30:39
  All right.
• 30:40
  We're done here.
• 30:41
  All right.
• 30:41
  because not only, look, I understand it's my friendship,
• 30:45
  but I have a country that supposedly may be run
• 30:48
  and my kids are here.
• 30:49
  And you're talking about communism isn't that bad
• 30:51
  and you think Sharia law is great.
• 30:54
  What?
• 30:55
  What are we doing here?
• 30:58
  So, I mean, that's part of it.
• 31:00
  The Democrats, they're all locked together, man.
• 31:02
  No one steps out of line over on the Democratic side.
• 31:05
  Exactly.
• 31:05
  They get told what to vote.
• 31:07
  Even Fetterman.
• 31:09
  Fetterman, he's the most, again, he's the most sane Democrat there is right now.
• 31:16
  And he still votes 90% Democrat with what's going on here.
• 31:20
  And even if he didn't, he's just one vote.
• 31:24
  Yeah, very true.
• 31:25
  So we can talk about Trump policies, media personalities.
• 31:30
  We can talk about all day too.
• 31:31
  I mean, a lot of people made their living off the back of Trump being who he is as a personality.
• 31:36
  and I wonder what all these guys are going to do once he's done.
• 31:40
  What's going to be next?
• 31:41
  What's going to be next for these people?
• 31:42
  I mean, I think a lot of people get laid off within the media
• 31:45
  or in the news industry for sure
• 31:46
  because they really don't talk about anything else except Trump.
• 31:51
  They'll have...
• 31:51
  They just don't.
• 31:52
  Look, they'll find something as they always do.
• 31:55
  When we get 24-hour news coverage
• 31:57
  and we have to have 24-hour news coverage,
• 32:00
  there has to be something that makes us upset.
• 32:04
  We have to be in fear.
• 32:05
  We've been living in fear now since, what, 1980, 86 is when this whole cable news thing started.
• 32:14
  So in my humble opinion, the one thing that we all have to do is we have to get back to the core values.
• 32:23
  And we have a lot of people in this country that have grown up and they just don't have the ability.
• 32:30
  Like, in other words, they can't get help.
• 32:31
  you can't find a job that gives you healthcare anymore,
• 32:34
  that pays your healthcare.
• 32:35
  It's very, very hard to do.
• 32:37
  You can't find a job.
• 32:38
  It's very hard to buy a house right now.
• 32:39
  I have two daughters.
• 32:41
  They're out.
• 32:41
  They're trying to buy a house right now.
• 32:43
  It's ridiculous.
• 32:43
  The prices that you get for houses out there is insane.
• 32:47
  And it's because they're devaluing the money.
• 32:49
  They're going to do it again.
• 32:50
  They have to.
• 32:51
  They have to with this thing.
• 32:53
  Well, so I guess we're going to take that
• 32:55
  as a way to pivot away from the midterms because...
• 32:58
  I didn't mean to pivot away from the midterms,
• 33:00
  But I mean, it's all part of it.
• 33:02
  These kids, they're like, you boomers, you're ruining everything and we need something different.
• 33:07
  How about communism or socialism?
• 33:10
  Right, right.
• 33:10
  Communism light.
• 33:11
  So then let's talk about affordability because that's one of the issues that the Republicans don't seem to be really addressing.
• 33:19
  They're kind of glossing over it.
• 33:21
  They're very proud to tell everybody the economy is amazing just because the markets seem to be up.
• 33:26
  But in what sectors?
• 33:27
  They never really narrow in on that either.
• 33:28
  so with that being said
• 33:32
  I think there's also a misconception of where we're at
• 33:34
  so everyone's pissed about gas prices
• 33:37
  right
• 33:37
  and let's just be honest
• 33:40
  we can put that on Trump right now
• 33:42
  because if we didn't get into this war of Iran
• 33:44
  we probably wouldn't have this issue
• 33:45
  but
• 33:47
  I personally can care less about the Islamic regime
• 33:50
  they should have been wiped out a long time ago
• 33:52
  in my opinion
• 33:53
  and we've given them over 50 years
• 33:55
  to just antagonize and add nothing of value
• 33:57
  to the Middle East, except just constant strife and terror.
• 34:02
  And that's just the truth.
• 34:03
  So the unfortunate thing I always say about this,
• 34:05
  and I don't care who disagrees with me,
• 34:07
  but this is the truth,
• 34:09
  is if Trump didn't deal with it,
• 34:11
  the next president or the president after
• 34:12
  was going to have to,
• 34:13
  because we've been kicking that can
• 34:14
  down the road for years.
• 34:16
  It's unfortunate it happened now,
• 34:17
  but that's where we're at.
• 34:19
  So gas prices, let's talk about that
• 34:23
  because everyone says everything's expensive
• 34:26
  because of Trump, but they don't talk about where we were under Biden when we didn't have that war.
• 34:32
  We had the Russia-Ukraine war, but peak gas prices were $5.02 under Biden.
• 34:37
  And at Trump right now, we're at $4.50.
• 34:40
  Now, the current big thing is diesel, right?
• 34:44
  And what he did with Russia, that's questionable for sure.
• 34:48
  I don't know how far you want to get into that, but we can definitely touch on that in a bit.
• 34:50
  But if we look at the four-year term average under Biden here is only $3.46 and we're at $3.35 per gallon.
• 34:59
  So if we're going to be realistic, it's fairly even still.
• 35:02
  But the timing of the peaks and valleys of gas prices, it's what's hurting people.
• 35:08
  Cost of diesel right now is really hurting people because it's definitely higher than it has ever been for a long time.
• 35:14
  And that's really what's contributing to the cost of other items, right?
• 35:17
  so and then we can look at grocery prices the other thing everybody talks about okay well let's
• 35:24
  look at that trump first term 533 a pound for ground beef we're looking at under biden and
• 35:29
  jump to 564 but right now we're at 698 under trump 208 for eggs under trump first term we went to
• 35:39
  495 per dozen under biden now we're at 623 per dozen all-time record peak but milk that didn't
• 35:46
  seem to be too bad compared to between Biden and Trump's second term.
• 35:50
  But at the same time, we could also argue that some of these costs are attributed to
• 35:54
  the high price of diesel and whatnot.
• 35:56
  Because again, these are peak prices.
• 35:58
  So a lot of this is going to be dependent on where the peak price of diesel and cost
• 36:03
  of doing business is going to be at, right?
• 36:05
  And then we got to look at the rising cost of energy too.
• 36:09
  So there's a lot of hidden drivers to energy, which we can't put all on Trump, by the way.
• 36:13
  And that's the other thing people don't discuss.
• 36:14
  A lot of this were policies put in place by oversight committees and citizens really not understanding what goes on that contributes to their high utilities and not getting involved in speaking out themselves.
• 36:26
  So this is partially to do with gas, but not entirely at all.
• 36:30
  A lot of this has to do with regulations and policies that really benefited the utilities commissions and utility companies.
• 36:38
  And so I think we have a situation where right now in 2026, it's been the least affordable in America for a long time.
• 36:48
  Dollar has only 5% of its value that it had in 1930s, as you know.
• 36:53
  And the housing is insane right now.
• 36:55
  It's insane.
• 36:56
  No matter how much you make, we have a high average pay in America, but yet it costs you five times your pay to buy a house now.
• 37:04
  Like who has $100,000 to $200,000 laying around just put down as a down payment to make your mortgage affordable?
• 37:11
  None of that makes sense, John.
• 37:13
  None of it.
• 37:13
  So one of the issues is we have to get back to manufacturing.
• 37:19
  The reason why the gas prices are so high is because we have stopped manufacturing fuel here.
• 37:26
  There's a lot of plants out there that are shut down that could be brought back.
• 37:31
  if that should be the major first thing that we do right now
• 37:36
  is put everybody that we can to get these other plants
• 37:39
  that can be brought back online, back online,
• 37:42
  so we can start making fuel.
• 37:44
  And the other thing I would do is I would not,
• 37:46
  I wouldn't send a gallon of diesel out of this country.
• 37:49
  I would say, you know what?
• 37:50
  We're not exporting anything.
• 37:52
  We're going to keep this for ourselves.
• 37:53
  We're going to keep our gas for ourselves.
• 37:55
  We're going to drive the prices down here.
• 37:56
  You guys over there in Europe and all,
• 37:59
  you want to sit there and let Iran, you know, squeeze you.
• 38:02
  We don't need their oil.
• 38:04
  We got Venezuela.
• 38:05
  We, you know, where there's enough oil here on, and we get,
• 38:08
  if we can ever make up with Canada,
• 38:10
  but I don't believe we can because Barney's another globalist and he's here
• 38:14
  to put a wrench in the works.
• 38:16
  So, but I'm saying we have enough of resources here that if we manufacture,
• 38:21
  we would be fine, but we're not doing that.
• 38:23
  And why, why aren't we doing that?
• 38:26
  Yeah.
• 38:26
  Yeah, and the Iran war definitely contributed to high gas prices, but there have been other factors in the background that have led to the increase in gas over the years regardless.
• 38:39
  And you're right.
• 38:40
  A lot of people aren't even addressing what happened under Biden.
• 38:44
  He closed three refineries.
• 38:45
  He killed the pipelines.
• 38:47
  We couldn't drill for oil anymore.
• 38:50
  Right.
• 38:50
  All of this under Biden's watch, right?
• 38:53
  Some of it under Obama towards the tail end, but most of this was under Biden's watch.
• 38:57
  You got to scratch your head and go why Why would you do this And then being in the situation we in right now with diesel you correct Why are we exporting I get it Okay to get more money to add to our GDP overall and whatnot
• 39:10
  But we need the diesel here to run our own infrastructure and do everything we need to do here.
• 39:16
  So why are we not keeping that here in the United States?
• 39:19
  And the other question is, what happened to the Venezuela deal?
• 39:22
  I thought we had...
• 39:24
  See, that's what's interesting.
• 39:25
  We have the facilities to process their oil.
• 39:28
  What's going on with that?
• 39:30
  So I know a little bit about this because I worked in a refinery.
• 39:34
  And the problem with Venezuelan crude is it's got a high, high sulfur content.
• 39:40
  And not a lot of factories can do that.
• 39:41
  There's some in Texas.
• 39:42
  There's one in Delaware.
• 39:43
  I don't even know if it's still running right now.
• 39:45
  But there was one in Delaware that would also be able to crack the sulfur out of this to make gasoline and to make diesel.
• 39:53
  Now, what we would need to do is make some more refineries that can handle that.
• 40:00
  And that doesn't happen overnight.
• 40:02
  This is in China.
• 40:03
  You just don't send like a couple thousand people in there and build something overnight like they do in China.
• 40:09
  This takes long years, years and years and years.
• 40:11
  EPA and all that other stuff.
• 40:13
  I don't want this in my neighborhood.
• 40:15
  Here we go again.
• 40:17
  So it's going to take, but I mean, we let this go.
• 40:20
  We said, oh, we can make more profit by letting another country do this, and then we'll just import it.
• 40:26
  Well, now we can't.
• 40:29
  We did let it go, but we were let go by Venezuela.
• 40:34
  I mean, we got a 100-year history of oil relations with Venezuela, and I keep forgetting which company.
• 40:40
  I think it was Chevron.
• 40:40
  It was one of the originals there.
• 40:41
  I think it was EmmerMobile.
• 40:42
  But we have facilities there now.
• 40:45
  Now, they're probably dilapidated now, but we've already had facilities because we specifically built refineries to process their oil.
• 40:52
  But when Venezuela further fell under an authoritarian rule and nationalized the oil, they kicked the U.S. out of the relationship.
• 41:00
  So we're not in a position to totally take advantage of our current relationship, as you say, but we're still not hearing about what is actually going on.
• 41:08
  What is the processing?
• 41:08
  What's happening?
• 41:10
  Venezuela just recently had one of their major refineries catch on fire.
• 41:14
  Not that long.
• 41:14
  a week or two yeah right all of a sudden and so i think oil wise north america and south america
• 41:21
  are very rich in it and if we had our shit together and we didn't close down refineries
• 41:26
  and pipelines and add all this you know ridiculous uh environmental fees and also we don't discuss
• 41:32
  the infrastructure in america like what does it cost to transport our own refined oil to our own
• 41:37
  states like we don't have any pipelines really connecting east to the west in california everything
• 41:42
  has to be trucked, which also adds to that cost, which makes it to where shipping or importing oil
• 41:49
  becomes more affordable than actually trucking our own oil, which is another thing we don't discuss.
• 41:53
  And it's all these regulations and taxes and fees and oversight committees and all this bullshit
• 41:57
  that adds to this exponential cost that ultimately screws us. And so this deal with Russia,
• 42:07
  I want you to expand on what you think of this because I have an opinion, but I'm not sure
• 42:12
  I know what I think of this either, John, to be honest.
• 42:14
  I just don't know where I sit with this.
• 42:17
  What do you think of this play by Trump to bring this diesel over into the US?
• 42:24
  I know I'm going to catch some crap for my opinion on this,
• 42:27
  but sometimes I feel like we're the bad guys in the world right now.
• 42:32
  And I have a feeling that if we went to Russia with a good faith effort,
• 42:37
  now listen, I'm not sure that they would believe us at first
• 42:40
  because we've been doing this dance for a long, long time since World War II.
• 42:45
  But they could use the cash.
• 42:49
  We could use the diesel.
• 42:52
  This would lower prices here.
• 42:53
  This would make things more affordable.
• 42:55
  So that's what Trump's doing right now.
• 42:56
  He's trying to do something quick that will make a difference.
• 43:00
  Remember, when he took office, gas prices dropped almost a dollar a gallon.
• 43:05
  So the fact that they just went up, that hurts that much more
• 43:08
  because they were lower when he first got into office.
• 43:11
  And then they climbed again.
• 43:13
  So that even hurts more.
• 43:15
  And again, short memories.
• 43:17
  So I would like to see them bring diesel over here.
• 43:22
  I think we could use it and it would go a long way.
• 43:26
  Now, as far as what's going on in Ukraine,
• 43:31
  these guys got to knock their nonsense off.
• 43:33
  And it doesn't seem like either side wants to.
• 43:35
  I mean, you and I could go over there and straighten this out in five seconds.
• 43:39
  We would go over there.
• 43:40
  We'd put a demilitarized zone down the center of it, and it would be done.
• 43:44
  And everybody goes home, and all the killing stops.
• 43:47
  And then we start rebuilding Ukraine and rebuilding Russia, and life goes on again.
• 43:53
  Now, as far as Iran, that's a whole different ballgame because they are 100% insane, and
• 43:59
  they don't care about dying where Europeans do.
• 44:03
  So I think that's, but if we made Iran and the Middle East less of a profit center and we started taking oil from other places and we don't buy their oil, then maybe they'll come around too.
• 44:18
  Because remember, it's all about money.
• 44:21
  It's all about the dollar.
• 44:22
  It's all about making money.
• 44:24
  And that's what it has to be about.
• 44:27
  And I don't, like I said, I think Trump, he thinks he's a great negotiator.
• 44:32
  I don't believe he is.
• 44:33
  And I think that he, like in other words, he had his foot on Iran's neck several times and he let it up.
• 44:43
  Yeah, he did.
• 44:45
  And hence, you know, why that response, we're going to keep saying that guy in New Jersey, but that response from him was beautiful.
• 44:52
  He said what needed to be said.
• 44:54
  You're either going to go on and finish this or figure something else out because this isn't working for anybody right now.
• 44:59
  Well, have you ever seen a fist fight
• 45:02
  and the guy's beating this guy to death
• 45:05
  and he's like, okay, all right, all right, I'm done.
• 45:07
  And he let him up.
• 45:09
  And then the guy walks around a little bit,
• 45:11
  takes it, cleans himself up,
• 45:12
  and then attacks him again.
• 45:13
  Yeah, just goes right at it.
• 45:14
  What's going on?
• 45:14
  And this is what Iran's doing to us.
• 45:18
  We keep beating them down.
• 45:19
  And then as soon as you let up on them,
• 45:22
  they get their breath back
• 45:24
  and they come after you again.
• 45:25
  So what he said was,
• 45:27
  put your cowboy hat on,
• 45:28
  cowboy up and get over there and finish this.
• 45:30
  Stop screwing around.
• 45:33
  Agreed. I want to share something with you because
• 45:34
  when you're talking about
• 45:36
  the Russia diesel
• 45:38
  deal and Ukraine,
• 45:40
  I had some
• 45:42
  facts that I heard from
• 45:43
  another, not really a podcaster,
• 45:46
  but he's more of an intel guy
• 45:48
  who makes videos, etc.
• 45:50
  And I heard what you had to say
• 45:52
  and I was like, you know, that makes a lot of sense
• 45:54
  as to why it's not an
• 45:56
  effective play. So
• 45:58
  the Russian diesel supply schedule, right?
• 46:02
  So we're looking at a total of 36 million barrels
• 46:04
  over the course of this deal,
• 46:06
  starting with 2.5 in October,
• 46:08
  3.75 November, 7.5 December,
• 46:10
  subsequent trenches,
• 46:12
  22.5 million barrels, blah, blah, blah.
• 46:14
  So anyway, total 36.
• 46:16
  But if we look at the rate of consumption,
• 46:18
  we're doing, I mean,
• 46:19
  we're consuming 3.6 to 3.7 million barrels a day
• 46:22
  just in the US.
• 46:24
  And when you add it all up,
• 46:26
  if you add all that up,
• 46:27
  The combined total of all phases, all 36 million barrels, represents roughly 10 days of total U.S. consumption.
• 46:33
  Just 10 days.
• 46:35
  So it starts to make you wonder, for one, we're doing something we're not supposed to do.
• 46:42
  We sanctioned Russia, but we're going to give them money.
• 46:45
  They were being drained financially to where they were not going to be able to continue this war with Ukraine.
• 46:49
  And then Trump just gave them money to continue, which is questionable for sure.
• 46:52
  And then you only have 10 days worth of diesel that you're making this deal for as far as the rate of consumption in the US.
• 47:02
  It's like what I see is, is this a possible midterm push to artificially just lower the cost of diesel for a while?
• 47:11
  Yes.
• 47:11
  It's like when Biden did the same thing when he loosened up the reserves to drop the price during the last election, last midterm election.
• 47:22
  He did the same thing.
• 47:23
  So yeah, that's exactly what it is because we all have short memories.
• 47:26
  Okay.
• 47:27
  So it's only a couple of days.
• 47:28
  True.
• 47:28
  All right.
• 47:29
  So where, okay, where are we getting our diesel fuel from?
• 47:35
  Who's manufacturing it?
• 47:36
  Who's refining this?
• 47:38
  If what we need is crude, then where is this all coming from?
• 47:42
  If it wasn't coming from Russia and Iran definitely wasn't refining it,
• 47:48
  they're just pumping out crude to everybody.
• 47:49
  Where is this being refined from?
• 47:52
  Yeah, good question, right?
• 47:54
  And if we still have the capability to make it to, I'm sorry, I definitely believe this is a money grab by the oil companies.
• 48:03
  They're like, hey, man, there's word out and there's this and we can make a Brazilian dollars in profit.
• 48:09
  I would love to see what the profit centers of Exxon, Texaco, Chevron, Mobil, all these oil companies, I would love to see what their profit is for this past year.
• 48:20
  They'll never report that.
• 48:21
  Because they're making a killing.
• 48:21
  No, they will not.
• 48:23
  So they're basically, they have a way,
• 48:25
  they can just blame it on everything else.
• 48:27
  Meanwhile, they're bending this over
• 48:28
  and giving it to us in the keister.
• 48:31
  And we have no way of, what are we going to do?
• 48:34
  We're going to stop using it?
• 48:36
  We're not going to stop using it.
• 48:37
  They could make it $10 a gallon, we'd still use it.
• 48:40
  I went the other day to get gas
• 48:41
  and there was a guy next to me in a diesel car.
• 48:45
  Maybe, what's his tank, $15?
• 48:47
  he was like
• 48:49
  I've never paid so much for fuel in my entire
• 48:51
  life this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
• 48:53
  and he was like he was pissed he's like
• 48:55
  cursing and screaming and the thing's
• 48:57
  still going and
• 48:59
  again a lot of this
• 49:01
  asshole Trump that did this and
• 49:03
  and I'm like
• 49:05
  I don't believe it I really don't believe it
• 49:07
  I feel like this is a game
• 49:10
  I think it's partially true
• 49:11
  it's partially true because you know the
• 49:13
  oil
• 49:13
  oil is tied to the markets but
• 49:17
  But again, you're right.
• 49:19
  It's like, who's refining this?
• 49:20
  We're bringing in crude.
• 49:21
  Who's refining it?
• 49:21
  What are the actual costs that are really contributing to this?
• 49:25
  Especially with our relationships we have outside of Iran.
• 49:29
  We ourselves were not necessarily relying on Iran as it was.
• 49:35
  It's just the markets have said, oh, well, we think oil is going to be costing everybody $107 a barrel or $99 or whatever it is.
• 49:44
  But in reality, the US was not relying on it.
• 49:47
  So why are we being affected to that degree?
• 49:50
  I mean, I know you already gave some of the answers.
• 49:53
  While we did kill our own refineries and our pipelines, we don't have any...
• 49:56
  Again, we also discussed no internal infrastructure to truck our own stuff around.
• 50:00
  But then we're slow to respond to what we need to do with Venezuela with that relationship.
• 50:04
  And then we're pissing Canada off.
• 50:05
  It's like, it's all these little things that are adding to the fire here.
• 50:10
  But as far as this diesel deal, yeah, I think it is a midterm push too.
• 50:17
  I think we'd agree with you.
• 50:17
  I mean, I had the question, but I also see this as basically a distraction from what's
• 50:24
  happening with Iran.
• 50:26
  Because maybe this is also a way for Trump to try to go, hey, Putin, look, I know we're
• 50:34
  technically enemies, but I'm going to help you out here.
• 50:37
  And maybe you don't help Iran a little with the intel.
• 50:41
  How about we don't do that?
• 50:42
  I don't give him targeting.
• 50:44
  Who knows what was said behind the scenes here?
• 50:46
  I'm probably stretching for sure, but I'm just saying, you know, Trump has a way of misdirecting and catching people's attention in a way that you don't realize.
• 50:53
  And I don't know if he's playing a 5D plan here as far as, you know, whatever's on the table.
• 50:58
  But yeah, it's very bizarre.
• 51:01
  It's a very bizarre move at this time outside of the midterms and maybe just distracting from what's going on in Iran right now.
• 51:08
  Maybe.
• 51:09
  I would love to know where it would be fun to go check to see where they are refining diesel fuel.
• 51:16
  And was there a difference before the war, during the war?
• 51:21
  Are they having a problem getting oil?
• 51:23
  Why are these prices?
• 51:24
  And if you can't explain that, they were being ripped off.
• 51:28
  Well, you know, they're not going to explain it.
• 51:31
  But as you said, people have short memories.
• 51:33
  Every wartime economy, our utilities and our gas went up.
• 51:38
  It just went up. Even if it wasn't a war that had a specific oil issue, gas went up.
• 51:47
  They just take advantage of the situation. And I think, yeah, maybe we need to hold the
• 51:53
  companies accountable, but we can't nationalize it. I mean, if we do, we're no better than the
• 51:58
  communists, I guess. But at the same time, it feels like it already is. It's like they're all
• 52:01
  just playing this big game. They all talk to each other at the...
• 52:03
  table with their damn T-bone steaks and their
• 52:05
  Tomahawk steaks and go, okay, what do we get charged
• 52:07
  Americans today? How much money we want to make?
• 52:09
  Cool. We agree on that. And then
• 52:11
  every supplier, that's
• 52:13
  the price. You know they're having these
• 52:15
  damn secret deals. It's like, why is
• 52:17
  oil in... I think it was
• 52:19
  Sarah Adams, if you know who she is.
• 52:22
  She, I think
• 52:23
  she said that in Lebanon when
• 52:25
  she was there that
• 52:27
  gas was like
• 52:29
  60 cents a gallon or something like that
• 52:31
  or less, but yet in the USA, we're paying like how much?
• 52:36
  Was it like seven for diesel now?
• 52:38
  Is that what it is?
• 52:39
  It's very close to, well, I know here it's like 650.
• 52:41
  It's between 650 and 675.
• 52:43
  Yeah.
• 52:44
  Which is outrageous.
• 52:45
  I've never seen.
• 52:45
  When I was a kid, everybody bought diesel cars because diesel was cheaper than gas.
• 52:51
  Absolutely.
• 52:52
  Gas was $1.50.
• 52:54
  You could get diesel for a dollar a gallon.
• 52:55
  Yeah, diesel was always cheaper.
• 52:57
  And now it's like.
• 52:57
  Always cheaper.
• 52:58
  What happened?
• 52:58
  Now it's not.
• 52:59
  Good question.
• 53:00
  Because they figured it could hurt us.
• 53:02
  I don't know.
• 53:03
  Nobody's asking these questions and nobody has the answer.
• 53:06
  Well, we're not asking the questions and we're not trying to figure out the answers.
• 53:10
  But you're right.
• 53:11
  No one brought that up.
• 53:12
  Diesel was always traditionally less than gas, period.
• 53:17
  And I think people got wise to it and realized we could hurt Americans because they rely on it to move their products, goods, and services across their country.
• 53:25
  Hence, let's attack the cost of diesel.
• 53:28
  Right?
• 53:28
  that makes sense to me
• 53:30
  I'm not saying that is happening but
• 53:32
  damn it's kind of hard to ignore that
• 53:34
  fact that no one's talking about
• 53:36
  yeah they don't want Trump
• 53:39
  in office they want to hurt Trump they don't want
• 53:40
  his policies he is
• 53:42
  he has thrown a wrench in he was never
• 53:45
  supposed to be president in 2024
• 53:46
  they were they did
• 53:49
  everything they could to
• 53:50
  not have him president in 2024
• 53:53
  and he snuck in anyhow now they got another
• 53:54
  four years and they got to throw all these
• 53:56
  landmines in front of him
• 53:58
  to slow him down.
• 54:00
  Right.
• 54:01
  They have to.
• 54:02
  So again,
• 54:03
  and then what's going to happen in 2028?
• 54:06
  Let's,
• 54:07
  I hate being this way.
• 54:09
  Let's say they even have Rubio run
• 54:11
  and he goes in in 2028.
• 54:12
  Then the back door deals
• 54:14
  and all these other deals.
• 54:15
  And again,
• 54:16
  they will placate it
• 54:18
  where they keep us happy.
• 54:20
  As long as we're happy,
• 54:22
  we won't care.
• 54:24
  Trump was a disruption
• 54:25
  and he has to be treated
• 54:27
  as such. And the people that he is disrupting have to make it as painful for the population
• 54:34
  as possible. So we all hate them together. Instead of hating the policymakers, because
• 54:41
  they're the real ones. Trump really isn't a policymaker. Again, all these executive orders
• 54:47
  he's signing, as soon as he's out of office, they're going to turn and they're going to,
• 54:52
  you know, same thing he did to Obama and Biden. He just went back and reversed them. It's a big
• 54:55
  joke. So again, we do, you know, every four years we, we do the same thing. Yeah. But in this case,
• 55:02
  you know, we, we have a Congress on either side that's controlled by the Republicans. And it's
• 55:07
  like, why have they not codified any of these EOs? I mean, many of them made a lot of sense and did
• 55:13
  actually help Americans, but they're not law. Why? Two wings of the same bird. This is a joke.
• 55:21
  It really is.
• 55:22
  Yeah.
• 55:23
  They want to get back to the good old boy ways of doing things, I guess.
• 55:27
  Right?
• 55:28
  Yeah, because no one was paying attention to them.
• 55:30
  They were raping and pillaging, and nobody was paying attention because everything was fine.
• 55:36
  We were making money.
• 55:36
  We had cable TV.
• 55:38
  We have cell phones.
• 55:39
  We're buying houses and new cars, and the population was happy, and we were consuming.
• 55:44
  And now we can't consume anymore, and now we're grumbling.
• 55:49
  and they have to figure out how to stop that.
• 55:52
  I don't know if they can.
• 55:54
  I really do believe that we are past the point of no return
• 55:57
  and we are going to end up in some kind of big giant crash.
• 56:00
  I hope I'm wrong.
• 56:01
  I don't see how we can get out of it.
• 56:03
  I don't see how you can turn around
• 56:04
  40 something trillion dollars in debt
• 56:06
  where every year or half a year,
• 56:09
  we add another trillion to the debt.
• 56:11
  At least.
• 56:13
  Yeah.
• 56:13
  Right?
• 56:14
  So I don't know how you turn that around.
• 56:16
  How do you stop that?
• 56:17
  The only way to stop it is to cut costs.
• 56:20
  And then governments don't have to cut costs.
• 56:22
  I can't remember who said it, but they used to say,
• 56:24
  you can never get the person that created the problem to solve the problem.
• 56:28
  It just will never happen.
• 56:30
  I mean, that's what's going on in Congress right now.
• 56:32
  Yeah.
• 56:33
  They're the ones that caused this.
• 56:35
  You want to fix healthcare?
• 56:36
  Make it where they have to have the same healthcare as everybody else has.
• 56:40
  That'll fix healthcare.
• 56:41
  There you go.
• 56:42
  Yeah.
• 56:42
  And maybe we shouldn't allow the Obamacare,
• 56:45
  which was really just a price fixing scheme
• 56:47
  for the insurance companies
• 56:48
  to make a shit ton of money
• 56:49
  and charge the same
• 56:50
  no matter where you live in your circumstance.
• 56:52
  Let's be honest, there's tears,
• 56:53
  but no matter where you go,
• 56:55
  it's the same damn price.
• 56:56
  Nothing has really changed.
• 56:57
  It helps some people
• 56:58
  with previous conditions and whatnot.
• 57:01
  But overall, I mean,
• 57:02
  mine went up once that kicked in.
• 57:05
  Everybody's did.
• 57:06
  Yeah, it's like, it's the truth,
• 57:08
  but Democrats just want to sweep another rug.
• 57:11
  And let's be honest,
• 57:12
  a lot of Republicans were behind that too at that time.
• 57:14
  Sure.
• 57:14
  You know, they all signed it.
• 57:16
  Everybody was complaining about Obamacare.
• 57:18
  And I said, well, okay, what's your plan?
• 57:20
  Well, so we're going to repeal Obamacare.
• 57:22
  All right, well, what's your plan?
• 57:24
  We're going to repeal Obamacare.
• 57:26
  Yeah, I got that, Art.
• 57:27
  What are you going to do to make it better?
• 57:30
  Yeah, what are you going to do for the affordability of healthcare?
• 57:33
  What's the plan after that?
• 57:35
  Well, the rich are going to be able to afford it.
• 57:37
  And you peons, I guess you're going to die.
• 57:40
  Right.
• 57:40
  Well, let's move on, John, because that was a lot of doom and gloom for the economy.
• 57:49
  But I mean, this unfortunate realities right now.
• 57:53
  Let's talk about the future of America, because you were just talking about future generations earlier in the beginning.
• 57:58
  Like, what are we going to leave them?
• 58:00
  But I want to start with something that I see happening that other people are not talking about.
• 58:04
  And I'm just going to let everybody know, go ahead.
• 58:08
  You can throw the racist slurs and everything at me all you want, but I can care less because I'm just going to go over some facts and data here.
• 58:14
  So it looks like the future of America culturally is going to be shifting here.
• 58:18
  And a lot of people like to attribute culture to race.
• 58:21
  Fine.
• 58:22
  And I'm going to bring some stuff up just to set the precedent of the argument here and what's going on.
• 58:28
  So if we look at white Americans, we're projected to become a numerical minority by around 2045.
• 58:36
  okay and so the current majority right now non-hispanic whites and i don't know why they
• 58:43
  always do this they say non-hispanic whites if you look at uh how they can how the u.s census
• 58:48
  bureau and everybody counts whites at the moment until i think recently it's changed they were
• 58:52
  counting middle easterns as white they were counting people from spain as white okay but
• 58:57
  all that aside all that aside it says non-hispanic whites are at 60 of the population at the moment
• 59:05
  Okay.
• 59:06
  Among children under the age of 18,
• 59:08
  though,
• 59:08
  racial minorities already outnumber white youth.
• 59:12
  Seniors age 60 and older still going to be projected to remain predominantly
• 59:16
  white past 2060.
• 59:17
  But the shift here,
• 59:19
  demographers estimate the total U.S.
• 59:20
  population will reach a majority minority status around 2045 when non-Hispanic
• 59:26
  whites are projected to make up roughly 49.7% of the population.
• 59:30
  And I argue it's going to be even less than that.
• 59:32
  And then I also looked at black Americans and,
• 59:35
  And the problem is with a lot of these searches, they wanted to group all blacks as in while immigrants, whatever.
• 59:40
  But no, I'm talking about U.S. blacks, like black Americans, people born here, people whose culture and history is here in the U.S. for the last 250 years.
• 59:48
  and even among black Americans,
• 59:52
  it says that Pew Research Center here
• 59:56
  projects that while the overall
• 59:58
  and immigrant-driven black population
• 1:00:01
  will continue to expand through 2060,
• 1:00:03
  the U.S.-born non-immigrant black population
• 1:00:05
  is growing at a slower rate,
• 1:00:08
  although still steady.
• 1:00:10
  And then let's talk about the Middle Easterns
• 1:00:12
  at the moment,
• 1:00:14
  just everyone from the Middle East.
• 1:00:17
  All right.
• 1:00:17
  So here's where we're at.
• 1:00:19
  The U.S. Census Bureau and research organizations estimate the current Middle Eastern and Northern African and Arab American population in the United States at roughly only 3.5 million to 3.7.
• 1:00:31
  So they're only about 1%, but they're growing continuously.
• 1:00:35
  Okay, so projections for subgroup Muslim populations.
• 1:00:39
  While the U.S. census does not track religion, for example, demographic models from the Pew Research Center provide clear trajectories for the U.S. Muslim population, which is a significant portion of which is of the Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian descent.
• 1:00:53
  So current recent size estimated at roughly 3.45 million, but the projected growth is expected to reach 8.1, which is about 2.1% of the population by 2050.
• 1:01:02
  But the milestone here, projections indicate the U.S. Muslim population will surpass the Jewish population by 2040 to become the second largest religious group in the U.S. behind Christians.
• 1:01:13
  Now, physical population of actual Muslims aside, what we're looking at is a cultural shift.
• 1:01:20
  okay so if we take white ethnics uh black born u.s blacks we're slowly shifting to be overpopulated
• 1:01:30
  by not just middle eastern i only brought the middle eastern thing up because if you look at
• 1:01:34
  culture and you look at the religion like pretty soon we're going to have islam being represented
• 1:01:40
  the second largest religion in the united states of america and where i live for example if we're
• 1:01:45
  talking about mexicans okay go ahead you know throw your race stuff at me guys go ahead i can
• 1:01:50
  give a shit less. But we're talking about Mexicans
• 1:01:52
  coming from a purely data-driven
• 1:01:54
  point here. Where I live,
• 1:01:56
  Mexicans, Hispanics, Latinos,
• 1:01:58
  whatever you want to call yourselves, they actually
• 1:02:00
  outnumber whites.
• 1:02:02
  They are a 60%. They're the majority.
• 1:02:04
  And in many places in California,
• 1:02:06
  that is the truth. And we're also
• 1:02:08
  seeing that in other states. And nothing
• 1:02:10
  against Mexicans, man. I just want to throw that out there.
• 1:02:12
  I have no problem. I'm just using this as
• 1:02:14
  facts and data for us to have a conversation
• 1:02:16
  about. This isn't about race. It's not
• 1:02:18
  about, I hate this race or that race.
• 1:02:20
  It's about facts.
• 1:02:21
  Whites are not producing.
• 1:02:22
  They're not having babies like they used to.
• 1:02:24
  They're not getting married like they used to.
• 1:02:26
  Gen Z is starting to turn the corner on that a little bit, but it's not enough.
• 1:02:30
  And so if you look at the projections, the culture in the United States, not necessarily
• 1:02:33
  about ethnicity, but the culture and what we are, seems to be predominantly leading
• 1:02:38
  towards a Latin or Hispanic culture and Middle Eastern culture, if you're just looking at
• 1:02:44
  the projections.
• 1:02:45
  So what is the US going to become down the road?
• 1:02:48
  like how are we going to preserve the culture that we have?
• 1:02:51
  Is there any concerns from your part on any of this?
• 1:02:53
  Or do you just say,
• 1:02:54
  Hey,
• 1:02:54
  I'm not going to be alive then.
• 1:02:55
  So who cares?
• 1:02:57
  No,
• 1:02:57
  because I have kids and grandkids that I,
• 1:03:00
  you know,
• 1:03:00
  that are going to be living in this country.
• 1:03:01
  So I care deeply about this,
• 1:03:03
  but I don't want to make this about race.
• 1:03:06
  I understand.
• 1:03:07
  Right.
• 1:03:07
  Right.
• 1:03:07
  We have black,
• 1:03:08
  we have,
• 1:03:08
  but what I want to do is I want to make it about culture.
• 1:03:12
  So,
• 1:03:13
  you know,
• 1:03:14
  I don't care if we have more Mexicans or,
• 1:03:17
  you know,
• 1:03:17
  Hispanic,
• 1:03:18
  Hispanics or Blacks. I want the culture of the United States to be the same. I want it to be
• 1:03:25
  a Judeo-Christian country that lives up and is governed by the Constitution. What I don't want
• 1:03:34
  is Syria law and Muslim run because you tell me one country that is better now that Muslims
• 1:03:42
  have taken over that they were before they were taken over.
• 1:03:46
  Look at Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
• 1:03:51
  all these countries before they were run by Muslim law
• 1:03:54
  and Sharia law the way they were before.
• 1:03:58
  I don't want that happening here.
• 1:04:00
  The problem we have now is we have a educational system that for some reason and I have no idea why they are basically I don want to say denouncing but they not really teaching Western values and Western culture
• 1:04:19
  They want it to be a big melting pot. Well, when you came over here, you were supposed to assimilate
• 1:04:23
  into the United States, United States way of living. They're not doing that anymore. They're
• 1:04:29
  coming over here and they're deciding, I mean, even when, you know, back when there was a lot of
• 1:04:33
  immigration and you had, you know, Chinatown and you had, you know, the Italians that wanted
• 1:04:39
  Germantown and all these people that were living in little pockets, they were still becoming
• 1:04:42
  Americans. They were still learning English. They were still doing that. They're not doing that
• 1:04:46
  anymore. So, and if, you know, and I have daughters right now and they don't want to have kids. They
• 1:04:51
  like, I don't want to bring kids into this world. I don't want to bring, cause I don't know what's
• 1:04:54
  going to happen here. And I don't want that to happen. So I have two daughters that don't want
• 1:04:58
  kids right now.
• 1:04:59
  So, and you know, they say, you know, for the whites, we got to.
• 1:05:03
  We need to get back to fucking.
• 1:05:05
  And it's not happening.
• 1:05:06
  So basically.
• 1:05:07
  That's true though.
• 1:05:09
  You know, basically you're not having a, and even in the black population right now, they're
• 1:05:14
  not having as many children as they used to.
• 1:05:17
  Yeah, that's true.
• 1:05:19
  The Muslims.
• 1:05:19
  But they're still outpacing ethnic whites.
• 1:05:22
  Yes.
• 1:05:22
  Yeah.
• 1:05:23
  I don't have a problem with it as long as we keep the culture, as long as we keep the
• 1:05:28
  United States is a Judeo-Christian
• 1:05:30
  country. I don't
• 1:05:32
  really see the issue.
• 1:05:34
  Remember, I grew up in
• 1:05:36
  the 80s, late 80s and early 90s.
• 1:05:38
  This whole racism thing was basically
• 1:05:40
  behind us in the 2000s.
• 1:05:43
  And then Obama came
• 1:05:44
  in and started a shitstorm
• 1:05:46
  of all this racism and
• 1:05:48
  systemic racism
• 1:05:50
  and he started this.
• 1:05:52
  And then he got a bunch of people to
• 1:05:54
  buy into this bullshit and then
• 1:05:56
  here we are.
• 1:05:56
  I yeah and then here's the thing
• 1:06:00
  we're talking culture I don't make it about race but
• 1:06:02
  you know you brought up a few things though
• 1:06:03
  and I'm going to address one
• 1:06:06
  of the major things we I don't think we've seen
• 1:06:08
  a more concertant
• 1:06:10
  concerted message and attempt
• 1:06:12
  to attack whiteness
• 1:06:14
  and any
• 1:06:16
  decade as we have recently
• 1:06:17
  and we've seen everything
• 1:06:20
  that started with
• 1:06:22
  DEI
• 1:06:24
  actually before that it was affirmative
• 1:06:26
  of action. And we got to the point where being white is basically a good way for you to get
• 1:06:34
  dismissed for most things and not get any opportunities or assistance. Because it's
• 1:06:39
  assumed that if you're white, you're privileged and you have access, the banks roll the red carpet
• 1:06:44
  out for you and they just go, here's your fucking money. And that's just not how it works. As a
• 1:06:48
  business owner, I had six businesses. I'm telling you right now, that's not how it fucking works.
• 1:06:52
  It's not how it works at all.
• 1:06:54
  And so I have a concern with the rise of racism and who's behind it.
• 1:07:00
  Because again, myself included, 80s, 90s, we thought we were done with this shit.
• 1:07:07
  I thought we were just Americans and we were appreciating each other and what we had to offer in our perspectives.
• 1:07:13
  But now in 2026, it's like we regressed back to making it about race, which is ridiculous.
• 1:07:18
  this and when i'm talking about culture and i'm talking about these ethnicities for example john
• 1:07:23
  because with those ethnicities if we're being honest they have their own culture depending on
• 1:07:27
  where they originate from right okay and i think the problem with a lot of white people and how
• 1:07:34
  they see whites is they see white people as one giant culture and it's not germans do things that
• 1:07:40
  i do not portuguese do things that people in britain do not like we have our own origin stories
• 1:07:47
  we have our own cultures that were created to keep us together and survive as a peoples.
• 1:07:52
  But they look at us as just white on the globe.
• 1:07:54
  You're white.
• 1:07:55
  You have nothing.
• 1:07:56
  You just have white skin.
• 1:07:57
  And we're seeing a point even in America where accepting what white cultures have to contribute
• 1:08:04
  now is no longer acceptable.
• 1:08:06
  It's just about whatever a brown person's culture is or a black person's culture has
• 1:08:11
  to offer is what America is supposed to be only.
• 1:08:13
  And I believe we need all of it because it's all good.
• 1:08:15
  I love Mexican food, man.
• 1:08:16
  I like Asian food.
• 1:08:17
  I don't give a damn.
• 1:08:18
  I like Mexican music too.
• 1:08:20
  You can say you hate it,
• 1:08:21
  but I swear to God,
• 1:08:22
  you got a few beers
• 1:08:23
  and that shit's going
• 1:08:24
  and you hear that tuba
• 1:08:25
  and everything going.
• 1:08:25
  You're going to move your feet.
• 1:08:26
  It's just what it is.
• 1:08:28
  So I think we should appreciate all of it,
• 1:08:30
  but I think you're correct
• 1:08:31
  in the cultural aspect
• 1:08:32
  and the problem we have
• 1:08:33
  is defining it.
• 1:08:34
  What is American culture?
• 1:08:36
  What is it?
• 1:08:36
  Nobody really can give a straight answer.
• 1:08:39
  And I think part of that
• 1:08:40
  has to do with what you said earlier.
• 1:08:41
  It's based on Judeo-Christian values
• 1:08:44
  and constitutional principles,
• 1:08:45
  but maybe like can we really really define it or is it just a feeling well right now we're fighting
• 1:08:52
  the people that that believe in the oppressed and the oppressors so if you're the oppressed
• 1:08:58
  then you get marxism right so now and if you're the oppressor which is your white people
• 1:09:03
  uh then you don't get any of it i love the the theme the white liberal women that are like
• 1:09:09
  I'm a non-practicing white.
• 1:09:12
  Excuse me?
• 1:09:13
  What does that even mean?
• 1:09:14
  I'm a non-practicing white.
• 1:09:17
  I was like, well, there's a new one.
• 1:09:21
  And they get this all from school because, look,
• 1:09:25
  I believe that people that have been here, you know, fifth generation,
• 1:09:30
  they've been here for five generations, they have all become Americanized.
• 1:09:35
  But what we have right now is we have an influx of people
• 1:09:38
  that just came into this country
• 1:09:39
  and they are first generation.
• 1:09:41
  So they're bringing all their culture
• 1:09:43
  and everything with them.
• 1:09:47
  I, you see some of these.
• 1:09:50
  Okay, so I will look at like the cities.
• 1:09:52
  You go to these big cities,
• 1:09:54
  Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia,
• 1:09:56
  and all, and Los Angeles,
• 1:09:57
  and how they have just fallen into disrepair.
• 1:10:01
  And you're like, why?
• 1:10:03
  I mean, there's no reason why this should happen.
• 1:10:05
  If you have any pride in where you live,
• 1:10:07
  you know I remember a friend of mine said
• 1:10:09
  poor doesn't necessarily have to mean
• 1:10:11
  dirty so you know that you can
• 1:10:13
  go out and clean your you know
• 1:10:15
  I remember being in Philadelphia in the early 60s
• 1:10:17
  and then you could walk down the street and there wasn't
• 1:10:19
  even a cigarette butt on the street the women were
• 1:10:21
  out there sweeping that stuff up and the
• 1:10:23
  front of their house looked immaculate you go
• 1:10:25
  there now there's trash all the way you know
• 1:10:27
  there's trash all the way up to the
• 1:10:29
  door and it doesn't need to be
• 1:10:31
  that way and I think it's culture
• 1:10:33
  and the way that we teach people something there's got
• 1:10:35
  to be some kind of pride you don't
• 1:10:37
  see Asians living like that. You don't see that happening. They have pride in what they do. They
• 1:10:45
  believe in education. They believe in hard work. They believe in working hard and running businesses
• 1:10:50
  and being, I guess frugal is the word I'm looking for, and saving your money and using your money
• 1:10:58
  to help other Asians build up their companies and stuff like that. You don't see white people
• 1:11:07
  doing that. You don't see black people doing that. I do believe that Hispanic, black, white,
• 1:11:14
  there's a certain population that we all believe in the same thing. That's why I don't really want
• 1:11:18
  to make it more about race than culture. I think the culture is where it really should be.
• 1:11:26
  I mean, look at the military. That's been a melting pot since World War I or World War II.
• 1:11:32
  and there's no such, you know, there was no such thing as race and, you know, that, what's the word I'm looking for?
• 1:11:41
  Chaos system like they have in other countries.
• 1:11:43
  We don't have that here.
• 1:11:44
  And we really shouldn't.
• 1:11:46
  So.
• 1:11:47
  And I'm not disagreeing with you at all.
• 1:11:49
  I think it's just important to highlight some of these things because, you know, we got to look at the root causes and issues
• 1:11:53
  and we can't just keep ignoring the problems.
• 1:11:57
  Like, I think white people need to stop being silent and just call shit out.
• 1:12:01
  for both things though
• 1:12:04
  not for just being attacked for being white
• 1:12:06
  but at the same time for also sticking up for the
• 1:12:08
  good things that other people do have to contribute that make
• 1:12:10
  America great and
• 1:12:11
  staying on that course
• 1:12:13
  because part of the culture we have is
• 1:12:15
  literally accepting others
• 1:12:18
  and but the difference
• 1:12:20
  is like you said people were integrating
• 1:12:22
  and they were like presenting some of what
• 1:12:24
  they had that was really good like hey
• 1:12:26
  we do things this way I love America
• 1:12:28
  but what if we did a little bit of this
• 1:12:30
  but they did it while still adhering to the principles of freedom and liberty and the
• 1:12:34
  constitutional system that we have in place. It wasn't creating your own communities and
• 1:12:38
  creating a nation state within a state. That's what we're starting to see slowly right now.
• 1:12:43
  And that's what it is. It's like we're seeing a drift and separation of culture,
• 1:12:46
  American culture anyway, from those who are coming into the United States of America.
• 1:12:51
  And it's like, what do we got to do to keep like, before, as you said, there was a message of,
• 1:12:58
  you know, hey, have some pride.
• 1:13:01
  Sweep up the cigarette butts, for example.
• 1:13:02
  You know, cut your grass.
• 1:13:03
  Like those little things that shouldn't even be an issue.
• 1:13:06
  That, like you said, just because you're poor doesn't mean you have to live dirty or be dirty.
• 1:13:10
  It's just we don't seem to be really preaching or instilling those values anymore.
• 1:13:16
  And we're kind of losing that.
• 1:13:18
  Well, again, I would...
• 1:13:20
  Listen, if I was going to straighten this country out, the first thing I'd do is start with education.
• 1:13:24
  I would start with education and then I would start weaning the welfare state down.
• 1:13:28
  In other words, it would be harder and harder.
• 1:13:30
  I'm not saying that there shouldn't be any welfare for people to get it, but it shouldn't be as easy as it is right now.
• 1:13:36
  And then you wean that down and then you teach hard work and you teach education and being smarter.
• 1:13:44
  When I was going to school, again, I hate saying this, but we knew how to do everything.
• 1:13:50
  We could weld.
• 1:13:51
  We could build.
• 1:13:51
  We could do.
• 1:13:52
  You get kids today.
• 1:13:53
  They don't know how to do it.
• 1:13:54
  I saw the other day they were playing a game.
• 1:13:57
  they were playing a leaf blower,
• 1:13:59
  a video game.
• 1:14:00
  I'm like, dude, go get a leaf blower.
• 1:14:02
  Get out there and play some,
• 1:14:03
  want to play leaf blower,
• 1:14:04
  get one and go out there
• 1:14:05
  and blow some leaves around
• 1:14:06
  for goodness sake.
• 1:14:07
  I mean, I believe that we need
• 1:14:10
  the work ethic that we had
• 1:14:12
  in the 70s and 80s.
• 1:14:14
  I need that to come back.
• 1:14:16
  And I don't,
• 1:14:17
  and I see if we do that
• 1:14:19
  and we educate people
• 1:14:20
  instead of indoctrinate these kids,
• 1:14:23
  then this country will,
• 1:14:25
  it will turn around.
• 1:14:27
  But if we don't, we're going to lose it.
• 1:14:31
  And I think George locked up.
• 1:14:34
  Am I talking about it?
• 1:14:34
  It's either he locked up or I locked up, one or the other.
• 1:14:37
  Oh, no.
• 1:14:39
  Am I here by myself?
• 1:14:44
  Why not?
• 1:14:47
  All right.
• 1:14:48
  Hey, there you are.
• 1:14:49
  Yeah, man, that was weird.
• 1:14:50
  Hey, it's live, whatever.
• 1:14:51
  If anybody's still watching or will watch whatever, we'll all splice this together.
• 1:14:55
  I'll put the concise edited episode together.
• 1:14:58
  But regardless, I mean, we should continue.
• 1:15:02
  Computer crashed all of a sudden.
• 1:15:03
  I haven't had that happen, shoot, in a long time.
• 1:15:06
  I don't know what caused that.
• 1:15:07
  It was really strange.
• 1:15:08
  It was funny because I started to throw it back to you.
• 1:15:11
  And then I looked over and you didn't blink for like 30 seconds.
• 1:15:14
  And I was like, uh-oh, he's locked up.
• 1:15:17
  And then all of a sudden I go, I think George is locked up.
• 1:15:19
  And then you went bloop.
• 1:15:20
  And I'm like, oh, no, I can't even end this thing.
• 1:15:23
  Yeah, I don't even know what happened.
• 1:15:24
  That was really, really weird.
• 1:15:27
  I think if you go back to the, it's like we,
• 1:15:30
  you kind of blipped out about one hour, 14 minutes in.
• 1:15:35
  That's okay.
• 1:15:35
  I mean, I'll do my best to put it together,
• 1:15:38
  but we're just basically trying to discuss
• 1:15:40
  keeping things about culture versus race.
• 1:15:43
  Basically, you know, how, unfortunately,
• 1:15:45
  we still see a rise in racism
• 1:15:47
  when we should be focusing on culture
• 1:15:49
  and what makes American culture great
• 1:15:53
  And keeping that train going, right?
• 1:15:56
  Just absorbing the best of what people have to offer
• 1:15:59
  while still adhering to Judeo-Christian principles
• 1:16:01
  and constitutional principles as well.
• 1:16:04
  Just America being America, right?
• 1:16:06
  Welcoming it all and not seeing people branch off integrating their own nation states within a nation which is what we starting to see with some of these other cultures air quotes But regardless of that let get to the other parts
• 1:16:25
  which is the sentiment of the youth.
• 1:16:29
  Because at one time you're like, well, what are we going to believe in the youth?
• 1:16:32
  What's America going to look like for the youth?
• 1:16:34
  and the Gen Z sentiment right now,
• 1:16:38
  which you've seen the rise of provocative people
• 1:16:42
  like Nick Fuentes and others
• 1:16:44
  who suddenly have a
• 1:16:46
  the Jews run the world attitude,
• 1:16:51
  screw the boomers,
• 1:16:53
  everything's our fault, not theirs.
• 1:16:56
  And I get it.
• 1:16:57
  I mean, you were told and you were preached to that,
• 1:17:01
  hey, everything's going to be good.
• 1:17:02
  We have these systems in place.
• 1:17:04
  If you do this, you're going to get that.
• 1:17:06
  And when COVID hit, pandemic, we saw all those systems fail.
• 1:17:11
  And they did not come back.
• 1:17:14
  They're still failing at an exponential rate, unfortunately.
• 1:17:17
  So what can we do to help Gen Z and Gen Alpha and all these other generations to come with trying to actually have an America they can look forward to?
• 1:17:30
  Stop gentle parenting.
• 1:17:32
  Stop gentle parenting.
• 1:17:33
  start parenting like our parents were parenting us.
• 1:17:37
  I mean, it was, you know what?
• 1:17:38
  You had to work for what you wanted.
• 1:17:40
  You just didn't get things handed to you.
• 1:17:42
  You didn't get, you know, for me, I'll never forget when I was, I guess I was 14,
• 1:17:48
  I was able to go buy myself a pair of suede, blue suede pumas.
• 1:17:52
  And they were the, and they cost me 25 hours.
• 1:17:55
  And my father, and I used to say, well, listen, if you're going to give me $10 to buy the
• 1:17:59
  Bobo sneakers, give me the $10 I can put for these.
• 1:18:02
  He goes, no, you're a big man now.
• 1:18:04
  You can go buy your sneakers.
• 1:18:04
  Go buy your sneakers.
• 1:18:07
  And we, at the time, I had a phone and it was $15 a month.
• 1:18:10
  And if I didn't give him $15 a month, he would go up there and take the phone out of the wall.
• 1:18:14
  I mean, these are the things that you were taught.
• 1:18:18
  You know, life was hard.
• 1:18:19
  You had to go work for things.
• 1:18:20
  You did just to get it.
• 1:18:21
  When it snowed, we didn't go sledding.
• 1:18:23
  We grabbed a shovel and we went around the neighborhood and we made a bunch of money.
• 1:18:27
  Then we went sledding because there was money to be made.
• 1:18:29
  Same thing within the summertime.
• 1:18:30
  You know, when you'd find a lawnmower, you'd fix it up, you'd go around and you'd mow everybody's lawn and you would make money.
• 1:18:36
  I mean, that's what you did when you were a kid.
• 1:18:38
  You figured out a way.
• 1:18:39
  You'd find a bike in the trash can and you would go and you'd fix it up and you'd have a bicycle.
• 1:18:43
  I mean, this is what we have to do now.
• 1:18:45
  Everything is given to these kids, video games and all this other nonsense.
• 1:18:49
  Yeah.
• 1:18:49
  So you think part of it is parenting and then the other maybe just the level of expectation?
• 1:18:56
  well i mean you don't see kids being left back anymore uh you see kids being pushed you
• 1:19:05
  no testing uh how does that help anybody out how do they how do you know if they are
• 1:19:12
  you know learning what you're teaching them if you if they you don't have a test uh to turn to
• 1:19:19
  learn to teach them and if they're not getting it you just push them ahead you're really doing
• 1:19:23
  them a disservice. So I do believe that the educational system definitely needs to be revamped.
• 1:19:31
  We got to get back to teaching phonics. We get to get back to teaching the old math. A lot of
• 1:19:36
  these new systems I don't see working. But then again, we got to hold kids accountable and
• 1:19:41
  responsible. When they get out of school, all that coddling stops. So might as well learn as a young
• 1:19:49
  kid. So let's look at the other things though. All those I agree with. I really do. The soft
• 1:19:56
  parenting movement is really what screwed a lot of younger generations, literally.
• 1:20:02
  But let's talk about rising interest costs. Again, we brought this up before. The value of
• 1:20:10
  the dollar just declining. Young people not ever going to possibly afford a house. And then we have
• 1:20:18
  the shift of like for how long,
• 1:20:21
  how much longer are we going to have jobs
• 1:20:23
  that are going to need actual human beings?
• 1:20:25
  You know, blue collar jobs
• 1:20:27
  are being devalued exponentially.
• 1:20:29
  And we're putting more value in,
• 1:20:31
  I think so.
• 1:20:31
  And I think we're putting more value in jobs
• 1:20:33
  where it's more cerebral, maybe,
• 1:20:35
  maybe more administrative, you know,
• 1:20:38
  people are more willing to pay the next,
• 1:20:41
  you know, programmer, AI engineer, whatever.
• 1:20:45
  And so, and what I mean by blue collar jobs
• 1:20:48
  being devalued.
• 1:20:48
  I mean, honestly,
• 1:20:49
  it happened in the 90s,
• 1:20:52
  I believe, 80s, 90s,
• 1:20:53
  when blue-collar jobs,
• 1:20:54
  literally the wages fell by over 22%.
• 1:20:57
  If we're looking at the rate
• 1:20:59
  of raise and pay for blue-collar
• 1:21:00
  today versus what it has been
• 1:21:03
  over the decades,
• 1:21:04
  it only went up about
• 1:21:05
  between 6% and 8% comparatively.
• 1:21:10
  I'll be honest with you.
• 1:21:11
  With AI right now
• 1:21:12
  or SI, super intelligence right now,
• 1:21:14
  I see it the other way around.
• 1:21:15
  I see white-collar jobs going away.
• 1:21:18
  And I see blue collar jobs or trades where I see them being more popular or more needed and more valued.
• 1:21:29
  Right now, if you were a refinery worker or a tradesman that would work in refineries,
• 1:21:37
  you could probably write your own ticket right now because that's what's needed.
• 1:21:43
  As far as middle management, they're doing away with that.
• 1:21:46
  I mean, I don't know about you, but I've been diving into AI and what it can do is crazy amazing, especially for podcasting.
• 1:21:55
  It's helped me research and show notes and all images.
• 1:22:01
  And there's stuff that I haven't even thought about what I might be able to do with it yet.
• 1:22:06
  So it's coming.
• 1:22:07
  Whether you like it or not, it's coming.
• 1:22:09
  and I think it's going to shift
• 1:22:11
  where you're going to have to do more manual labor,
• 1:22:14
  more tradesmen, back to that kind of thing.
• 1:22:16
  Yeah, I want to believe that
• 1:22:17
  because I believe in using your hands.
• 1:22:20
  Like I'm basically like, I don't know,
• 1:22:23
  you call me what a jack of all trades,
• 1:22:25
  master of none guy, I guess.
• 1:22:27
  I mean, I have one that I'm very much a master of,
• 1:22:30
  but still, I love getting out there using my hands
• 1:22:33
  and doing the thing like what men used to do.
• 1:22:36
  I believe in that.
• 1:22:37
  But I got to also look at where we're heading, like the rise of the robots.
• 1:22:42
  You could 3D print a damn house.
• 1:22:44
  I'm just saying you could 3D print a house.
• 1:22:46
  You're going to need some people, but maybe not to the degree we used to.
• 1:22:50
  Maybe those workforces are going to be depleted or at least downsized.
• 1:22:53
  But I can't say we're going to completely not need the human or the blue collar worker.
• 1:22:59
  But I don't know if it's going to be to the level of abundance as it was.
• 1:23:04
  The amount of workers may not be needed.
• 1:23:06
  So it's leaving a lot of people thinking about the future.
• 1:23:10
  Like, where are they going to go?
• 1:23:11
  What are we going to do?
• 1:23:13
  If we're talking about America specifically, because you were just talking about AI, beautiful thing.
• 1:23:18
  Great.
• 1:23:18
  It should be a tool to help us.
• 1:23:20
  It shouldn't be taking over our opportunities.
• 1:23:23
  But the reality is we have so many graduates coming out of university that we're told this is the future, and they're getting replaced by each H-1B candidate.
• 1:23:31
  So we're not even hiring young Gen Z or even younger graduates into these positions that they were told was the future.
• 1:23:40
  It's being offered to people who are not even American citizens or even live here.
• 1:23:45
  Well, that's got to stop.
• 1:23:46
  I mean, we got to put a stop to those H-1B visas that are going on right now.
• 1:23:51
  You can't just use them because they're cheaper labor.
• 1:23:55
  That's nonsense right now.
• 1:23:57
  That should have been stopped a long time ago.
• 1:24:00
  And here's one of those things that sneaks in
• 1:24:02
  and you don't even know what's going on
• 1:24:03
  until it becomes a problem.
• 1:24:06
  At first it was like, okay, we could,
• 1:24:08
  I'm not saying there's not a use for it.
• 1:24:10
  There's some people that,
• 1:24:12
  the skills that they have,
• 1:24:14
  that they can come over here
• 1:24:15
  and they would fit right into a company,
• 1:24:17
  but not your basic workers
• 1:24:21
  that Americans could do the job.
• 1:24:23
  If you have someone that's specialized,
• 1:24:25
  that's a different story.
• 1:24:26
  they're janitors, office workers.
• 1:24:31
  There's some people in this country that can do that.
• 1:24:34
  And that's the way it should be.
• 1:24:35
  If a person in this country can do that job,
• 1:24:38
  then you can't get an H-1B visa for a person to come over here and do that.
• 1:24:43
  Yeah.
• 1:24:43
  And there's a lot of tech jobs that we shouldn't be, you know,
• 1:24:47
  farming out to H-1B visa candidates at all.
• 1:24:50
  Just should not even happen.
• 1:24:52
  So I remember my grandmother, she said that their kids lived with their parents up until they were like 25.
• 1:25:03
  And they were able to go out and get a job.
• 1:25:06
  And then he would take a couple of their brothers and sisters with them so they could get jobs.
• 1:25:10
  And we might get back to that where the family gets back to a nucleus where there's three or four generations in one house.
• 1:25:19
  I don't know if that's ever going to be that way.
• 1:25:21
  It might be for a while or a generation or two until things turn around.
• 1:25:25
  I don't know.
• 1:25:26
  Could be.
• 1:25:26
  I mean, that's how many other ethnic, you know, other ethnicities, other generations from other cultures have done it, you know, which include Hispanic people from India who actually moved here to integrate into the culture.
• 1:25:41
  There are those people.
• 1:25:43
  They all have that kind of mindset to where, you know, Asians, a lot of Asian cultures like that too.
• 1:25:50
  They realize, hey, we're going to do this together as a family.
• 1:25:53
  We're going to build wealth.
• 1:25:53
  We're going to invest.
• 1:25:54
  And then I'm going to let my son or daughter run it.
• 1:25:56
  And then we're going to help them.
• 1:25:57
  And then they're going to build.
• 1:25:58
  And then they're going to just keep growing their wealth exponentially.
• 1:26:02
  But for some reason, we don't have that in traditional American culture.
• 1:26:08
  For whatever reason, which is really strange to me that we don't do that.
• 1:26:12
  Well, because we didn't have to.
• 1:26:14
  Because everybody could go out and they could get a house or they could rent a house.
• 1:26:19
  Yeah.
• 1:26:19
  And then they started with these McMansions that they would buy at the time.
• 1:26:25
  And I remember they were like $150,000.
• 1:26:27
  Those houses right now are going for a million.
• 1:26:29
  Damn right, man.
• 1:26:30
  Or more.
• 1:26:31
  Jeez.
• 1:26:31
  Right.
• 1:26:32
  So, I mean, I had a friend of mine who bought a house.
• 1:26:36
  And when he bought it, it was $125,000.
• 1:26:39
  He bought it brand new.
• 1:26:40
  And it's worth over $600,000 right now.
• 1:26:42
  And I remember when he bought that house, he said,
• 1:26:44
  I don't know how you sleep at night with a mortgage on $125,000 house.
• 1:26:48
  And then like three years later,
• 1:26:50
  I bought a house that was a piece of crap
• 1:26:52
  for like $100,000.
• 1:26:54
  I had to rip it all apart inside and redo it.
• 1:26:57
  And he's sitting in there in a brand new house.
• 1:26:59
  So who's the dummy?
• 1:27:02
  But here's what I do know.
• 1:27:05
  Humans will adapt.
• 1:27:06
  We will adapt to whatever it is.
• 1:27:08
  And sooner or later, I guess we'll smarten up.
• 1:27:11
  I don't know.
• 1:27:12
  It's going to be an interesting,
• 1:27:14
  like George Carlin said,
• 1:27:15
  I don't have a, you know, I don't care about the outcome anymore.
• 1:27:19
  I just want to watch the show.
• 1:27:24
  Yeah.
• 1:27:25
  Well, I mean, we could choose to do that and sit in the sidelines.
• 1:27:29
  We can argue that humans will figure it out.
• 1:27:32
  We can also argue that evolution has been unkind as well.
• 1:27:37
  We as a species can definitely go away based on our stupid decisions.
• 1:27:40
  Yep.
• 1:27:40
  And our will to fight each other at a drop of a hat for no apparent reason other than, you know, our politicians making decisions to fight when the average person living in their community is like, why are we doing this?
• 1:27:53
  Like, what's the point?
• 1:27:55
  You know, it's just a crazy world we live in for sure, John.
• 1:27:59
  Question here that I got to go into.
• 1:28:06
  I don't know what this comment was about.
• 1:28:09
  I would like to join your next stream with a few friends.
• 1:28:13
  Not sure what I looking at here Don know if you know that person I don I don know that person but it looks like a Gen Z But yeah thanks for tuning in regardless Appreciate it So I don have a
• 1:28:29
  discord, but you could join the Boomer Bunker discord. Boomerbunker.com slash discord. Jump in.
• 1:28:35
  Definitely. So the question I was going to ask is this. It's one thing that we always talk about,
• 1:28:42
  but we don't really go into too much detail because I guess it's hard.
• 1:28:46
  It's kind of abstract.
• 1:28:48
  The American dream.
• 1:28:50
  We're talking about younger generations,
• 1:28:51
  what they're going to look,
• 1:28:52
  look at moving into the future.
• 1:28:54
  What do you think though?
• 1:28:56
  What do you think the American dream is going to look like moving forward?
• 1:29:00
  And will that even that be attainable?
• 1:29:03
  Because it's definitely changed.
• 1:29:04
  It doesn't seem to be the same.
• 1:29:07
  It's like there's,
• 1:29:08
  there's been emphasis put on different pathways to get to where you got to go.
• 1:29:13
  I mean,
• 1:29:13
  it went from the days of like,
• 1:29:16
  Hey,
• 1:29:16
  run to the Hills,
• 1:29:18
  dig a trench,
• 1:29:19
  find gold,
• 1:29:20
  become rich,
• 1:29:21
  strike oil,
• 1:29:21
  whatever to be a tech bro.
• 1:29:23
  Yeah.
• 1:29:24
  Invest in AI or an influence.
• 1:29:27
  Yes.
• 1:29:27
  All these,
• 1:29:28
  all these other things.
• 1:29:29
  What do you think that future is going to look like?
• 1:29:32
  You're always going to have your haves and have nots.
• 1:29:34
  So you're always going to have these people,
• 1:29:37
  your influencers.
• 1:29:38
  I mean,
• 1:29:38
  we had movie stars and rock stars and TV stars.
• 1:29:42
  You're not going to have that anymore.
• 1:29:43
  You're going to have influencers.
• 1:29:45
  You're Kardashians.
• 1:29:47
  You're the whatever, Kovicler or whatever that one dude's name is.
• 1:29:52
  Kovicler?
• 1:29:53
  Yeah, that him.
• 1:29:54
  And then you've got other people that are out there that are influencers
• 1:29:58
  that are running around.
• 1:29:59
  There's this one girl that's dating a NASCAR driver.
• 1:30:02
  I never even heard of her before, but she's like this big influencer
• 1:30:04
  and everybody follows her and she's making money just doing that.
• 1:30:07
  And you know what?
• 1:30:08
  that's fantastic. That's great. I, I, but is, how long is that sustainable?
• 1:30:13
  You know, what kind of life will that give you?
• 1:30:16
  I would say bank your money because you're going to need it.
• 1:30:19
  And then where do you go from there? But then you're always going to look,
• 1:30:23
  you, there's always going to be that blue collar person that needs to come in
• 1:30:28
  and work with his hands and fix things and build things.
• 1:30:32
  You're always going to need those people. I don't, you know,
• 1:30:36
  I think the American dream for these younger people today is to be able to go on vacation,
• 1:30:42
  to go hang out, to play video games, to go to dinner and all that.
• 1:30:47
  It's all materialistic things.
• 1:30:49
  Will they be able to obtain that?
• 1:30:51
  I don't know.
• 1:30:52
  I don't know if it'll be there for them.
• 1:30:55
  I'm hoping maybe that the American dream comes less about materialism and more about quality
• 1:31:00
  of life.
• 1:31:01
  Maybe.
• 1:31:02
  Like we got away from that.
• 1:31:03
  we got away from feeling good using our hands.
• 1:31:07
  And even if it's not your job,
• 1:31:09
  build something for yourself.
• 1:31:11
  Build a piece of furniture.
• 1:31:12
  If you have a backyard and you're fortunate enough to have that,
• 1:31:14
  do some gardening.
• 1:31:15
  Build a structure.
• 1:31:16
  You could have some shade.
• 1:31:18
  Just these little things that you can do.
• 1:31:20
  These hobbies that actually involve your mind and your hands.
• 1:31:24
  But maybe, hopefully, the shift is towards quality of life
• 1:31:27
  and not chasing the dream of being an influencer or podcaster
• 1:31:31
  or whatever it is.
• 1:31:32
  you know like be grounded and more real about the opportunities but but the opportunities there john
• 1:31:37
  i i fear is like we kept talking about housing affordability will that ever come back or will
• 1:31:43
  it be you know chasing the the dream of buying a small apartment or studio because it seems like
• 1:31:49
  we're trying to push towards that and maximizing how much space we have to build and implementing
• 1:31:53
  15-minute cities and all this if that ever even comes to fruition it's like what is that american
• 1:31:58
  dream could look like though because i think what we have we're chasing now i don't know if it's
• 1:32:02
  going to last i don't know if it's going to be here well when i was growing up buying houses you
• 1:32:07
  would buy a piece of crap house you would gut it and then you would fix it up all right now there
• 1:32:13
  is business there's businesses that's all they do is they grab an old house and they flip it all
• 1:32:19
  right so now if you're going to go in and you're trying to buy your own house now you have to
• 1:32:23
  compete with those house flippers to get that kind of, to get those houses.
• 1:32:28
  And it's hard.
• 1:32:29
  It's hard.
• 1:32:30
  Like I said, I got two daughters right now that are looking houses.
• 1:32:32
  And the amount of money they were getting for garbage, I was like, you got to be kidding
• 1:32:36
  me.
• 1:32:37
  This thing needs a whole gut.
• 1:32:38
  And guys were buying them right up because they're going to flip them.
• 1:32:41
  And if they can't sell them, they'll rent them.
• 1:32:44
  So they're making a whole business out of it.
• 1:32:47
  They are.
• 1:32:47
  And then that's another thing to address is like, they never should have allowed corporations,
• 1:32:51
  LLCs to get together and form this conglomerate and start buying up real estate for the sole
• 1:32:56
  purpose of just renting.
• 1:32:58
  They should have not allowed that.
• 1:33:01
  And maybe I'm wrong on that, or maybe they should have regulated it.
• 1:33:04
  They didn't really regulate it.
• 1:33:05
  They're just able to do whatever they want.
• 1:33:07
  And they're going to these neighborhoods and they're artificially inflating the cost of
• 1:33:10
  housing by buying eight to 10 and saying, hey, we'll sell one for above value.
• 1:33:15
  And we're going to sell it to ourselves through the shell company.
• 1:33:17
  and now the housing in this neighborhood
• 1:33:20
  is unattainable for anybody who lives there.
• 1:33:23
  It's just a really screwed up situation.
• 1:33:26
  It just really is.
• 1:33:27
  That never should have been allowed to happen.
• 1:33:29
  Right now in my area,
• 1:33:31
  they're building what they call low-income housing
• 1:33:33
  and low-income housing is just row homes.
• 1:33:36
  They're basically building rows and rows
• 1:33:39
  of three-story row homes.
• 1:33:41
  And even those houses,
• 1:33:43
  I wouldn't consider affordable.
• 1:33:45
  But I mean, they have over 55 houses over here right now.
• 1:33:48
  They're going $600,000.
• 1:33:50
  They're two bedroom, two bathroom, little tiny ranchers.
• 1:33:53
  $600,000.
• 1:33:54
  Ridiculous.
• 1:33:56
  Nuts, man.
• 1:33:58
  So jobs, opportunities, we don't know.
• 1:34:02
  Hopefully, we have some need for human beings and not just robots doing things for us.
• 1:34:08
  I always go back to that.
• 1:34:09
  There was in Georgia, they had these tablets.
• 1:34:12
  They were kind of arranged like Headstone and they destroyed them.
• 1:34:18
  And they had in different languages.
• 1:34:20
  And they said, one of the things was keep the population of humans on Earth to 550 million people.
• 1:34:26
  And I'm like, well, if that's the way it's got to go, a lot of people have to leave this planet because there's a lot more than that.
• 1:34:34
  So if you think that with the technology that we have, this planet can only support 550 million people, where are the rest of us going?
• 1:34:48
  We're going to be destined to be reduced and disposed, I guess.
• 1:34:52
  I don't know.
• 1:34:54
  If you let the WEF or whatever nefarious organization have their way.
• 1:34:59
  We're like mail worker bees.
• 1:35:01
  you know as soon as we get done what we're supposed to do
• 1:35:04
  they take us outside and throw us out of the hive
• 1:35:06
  and that's it we're done
• 1:35:07
  yeah absolutely
• 1:35:08
  oh look who showed up
• 1:35:13
  yeah
• 1:35:14
  oh
• 1:35:15
  for those that don't know this is John's co-host
• 1:35:19
  this is the Duchess of New Jersey
• 1:35:21
  yeah I know that's a movie
• 1:35:22
  I've never seen it before so I really don't know what that means
• 1:35:25
  but I would imagine it has something to do
• 1:35:27
  with what we're talking about
• 1:35:28
  I guess I have to go look into that
• 1:35:30
  yeah i i don't i never saw it i i didn't see it but um what i understand is a group of people
• 1:35:38
  find an undiscovered civilization allegedly or something like that and then they ended up
• 1:35:45
  not even realizing that they're in a um civilization that are all cannibals oh geez okay so the guests
• 1:35:51
  become the meal and uh do things oh i would be wagyu beef if i
• 1:35:57
  That'd be one of the tenderest humans you've ever had in your entire life.
• 1:36:04
  The Japanese Waikyu?
• 1:36:05
  The ones that are fed all the beard, massaged, and tender?
• 1:36:09
  That's me.
• 1:36:09
  Yeah, not stressed.
• 1:36:11
  Hopefully you're not stressed.
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  No.
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  Trying to.
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  Trying to become stringy.
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  That's funny as hell.
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  John, so, man, Dutch, I'm sorry you just arrived, but we're about to wrap up.
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  unfortunately.
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  Do you have any more thoughts as far as the future of America though?
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  Anything else you want to go off your chest or any,
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  any other things that you want to bring up?
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  I believe the only thing that can save the population,
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  this country and the world is education.
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  I believe that we have to go back and start educating our children.
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  I believe that if we do that and we can save,
• 1:36:50
  save the world.
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  But if we have a bunch of people that are just being led around like
• 1:36:56
  sheep, then we're in trouble. And I do my best. I always tell my children, you have to be a skeptic
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  about everything. Be skeptical about everything. Prove everything. And I try to do the same thing
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  in my life too. I can't disagree with that. I think education is definitely going to be key.
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  And maybe we stop letting the elites just take the opportunities. I'm not saying tax the rich
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  and all that.
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  I'm being realistic.
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  I guess what I'm trying to say
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  is more like the example
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  of what we were talking about earlier
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  where these corporations
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  were allowed to purchase up housing
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  and artificially inflate
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  the cost of housing
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  and then just literally
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  turn them into nothing but rentals,
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  forcing everybody to become
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  nothing but slaves
• 1:37:44
  to the housing market
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  in terms of being a renter.
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  And we need to do a better job
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  of regulating,
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  not destroying industry,
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  but some kind of regulation
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  to where it's more of an even playing field.
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  There's always going to be smarter people
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  who know how to use money and manipulate business.
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  We're never going to get rid of that.
• 1:38:02
  It's always going to be manipulation,
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  but you're always going to have successors.
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  There's always going to be people who are successful
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  because they're smart and they know how to bend the rules.
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  But I don't think we should be in a position
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  where we are now to where that gap is so wide
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  because we let it happen.
• 1:38:16
  We let it happen.
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  We really did.
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  Listen to people because when they tell you
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  what they're going to do, they mean it.
• 1:38:22
  They're not kidding around.
• 1:38:24
  I forget who said this,
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  but they said,
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  you know,
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  you'll own nothing
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  and be happy.
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  Yeah, it's Klaus Schwab.
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  Yeah.
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  So you'll own nothing
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  and be happy.
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  I don't think that's the way
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  it's going to work.
• 1:38:34
  I mean,
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  I think that's what they want,
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  but,
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  so yeah,
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  you have to pay attention.
• 1:38:41
  We do have to pay attention.
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  Yeah.
• 1:38:42
  Here's the thing.
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  Most people have a job.
• 1:38:44
  They got kids.
• 1:38:45
  They got all this stuff.
• 1:38:46
  They don't have time to go
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  and pay attention
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  to what's going on.
• 1:38:49
  And that is half the problem too.
• 1:38:51
  All right.
• 1:38:52
  Well,
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  Well, let's just wrap it up, John, with all the technical snafu and everything.
• 1:38:57
  It didn't matter because we powered through and had a really good conversation.
• 1:39:00
  John, appreciate all your insight and your thoughts.
• 1:39:02
  I want everybody to check out the Boomer Bunker podcast.
• 1:39:05
  John, tell everybody where the hell they can find you.
• 1:39:08
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• 1:39:14
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• 1:39:16
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• 1:39:19
  Go to our Discord and everything.
• 1:39:20
  You can go find all those links over at boomerbunker.com.
• 1:39:23
  there you go.
• 1:39:25
  Boomerbunker.com.
• 1:39:27
  Look, we had some people in the chat.
• 1:39:28
  I had some people look like they're a first time.
• 1:39:31
  Appreciate all of you for chiming in when you can.
• 1:39:34
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• 1:39:38
  Support John.
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  Support the Boomer Bunker.
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  Let's be positive about America.
• 1:39:42
  Let's move this damn thing forward.
• 1:39:43
  Keep the train on the tracks, man.
• 1:39:47
  And let's...
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  I mean, hell, look.
• 1:39:50
  To a better future, right?
• 1:39:51
  I got my cup.
• 1:39:52
  John, I don't know if you have yours.
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  I don't have anyone here, but I appreciate it.
• 1:39:55
  Cheers.
• 1:39:55
  I'm doing it for you.
• 1:39:56
  I'm doing it for you.
• 1:39:57
  So how's that?
• 1:39:58
  Thank you for having me on.
• 1:39:59
  It was a lot of fun.
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  Yes, sir.
• 1:40:01
  With that being said, have yourselves a great day, evening, and we'll see you later.
• 1:40:22
  you