Latest / The Sense and Senseless Podcast / Ep: 54 Why the World Hates Us: Iran Funeral, IDF Atrocities, $8T Wars
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- Bryan: Ain't no shit. you ready? You wrecked ⁓ Jason: Yeah, run that. Bryan: All right. Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I'm Brian. He is Jason. We're just two regular guys trying to make sense of a world that's lost his damn mind. Aren't you proud of me? I didn't say the GD. I said damn. How about that? How about that? See, I'm getting so much better. Jason: Nah, I'm Jason. Yeah. Why so foul, Brian? Why so foul? Bryan: I don't know. I'm just foul. I'm I'm an acquired taste. Jason: Yeah, you are. People are gonna learn that about you, so Bryan: Yeah. So tonight we're discussing Trump. Trump saying the ceasefire is over and ⁓ handing Ukraine the keys to build their own Patriot missiles. while that was happening, he cut a deal at the NATO summit in Turkey that pissed Israel off. then we're to Iran where millions showed up for the Supreme Leader's funeral, complete with death to America chants. And we're asking. What that really tells us about the cost of all these endless wars. We'll go over some disturbing clips of IDF soldiers throwing flashbangs at civilians, as well as how they are using kids for target practice. We'll also discuss the staggering human and financial toll of America's forever wars. We're questioning everything because loving our country sometimes means calling out the bullshit. Please like, share, follow, and subscribe. We appreciate every single one of you. Jason, you got anything? Jason: No, rubble her up. Bryan: All right, I'm not sure if you knew, but there was the NATO summit this week, ⁓ this past week in Turkey. And Trump had made some deals. was to allow Turkey to get back in the purchase of the F ⁓ thirty five fighters, and also we're gonna sell them engines for their own fighters. So they built their own fighters and they were just missing some state of the art engines, you know, like we bought. So now we're talking about selling them that. And yeah. ⁓ Jason: Is it like Jasper Motors? Here's some rebuilds. We'll send them over there. Bryan: There you go. Yeah. just drop in, you know, just just swap it out. We n we need a court as a court charge on that, so we get it. ⁓ Jason: Yeah, cool. quick, that's like going on. They us, hey, we need some engines of what year and make and model. ⁓ And tell them, is it full-wheel driver too? What the hell's that matter? ⁓ I'm needing a damn windshield wiper. What's the matter if I got a full-wheel drive? Bryan: Yeah. That's right. That's right. Well, yeah, this deal pissed off Israel because they're losing the edge. Yeah, because they're losing the edge in the region. ⁓ so right now, from what I've s gathered, it's like they're they're superior in all technology as far as weaponry. And with Turkey getting this, that brings them up in air power. So there's some pushback on this as as some say that it's the sales can only be approved by Congress. Jason: All right. ⁓ I'm sure it did. Bryan: You know, the deals that Trump's making, he can't really make those. But we all know Trump does what he wants, so Well, here's Trump in Turkey on the ceasefire. Do you does he like these people? Jason: There's gum. Bryan: They're scum. evil people. I'm I'm not gonna argue with them. I Jason: Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but you remember in the in the our or whatever, the stories and hustlers, not the pictures, but the stories that ne that never happened. Yeah, you know people are making them up. I'd love for him to read one of those. I just loud. I would just be like, not nasty. I just would like to see how he adjected he's got his own adjectives. Bryan: Yeah, d yeah, hustl. Yeah. What you mean? People don't use scum? Jason: No, it's just the way he talks. It's like it's never just straight It's I mean, everybody imitates him. They can do his voice a little bit because of the way he just adds like he adds a little lot of seasoning to his his sentences, huh? Bryan: ⁓ yeah, he He's creative. He has a c he has a creative sp speech. He he Jason: Yeah, he's he's g he was real good in creative writing. Yeah. Bryan: Creative writing. Yeah, so I don't know. Are we at war? Are we not at war? ⁓ know last week they s Iran had said that they they shot at some vessels. I think one of them was actually a carrying LNG or something. I don't know if it was what gas it was, but it was a fuel vessel from what I seen. So they were shooting at ⁓ and they said they were shooting at them because they wasn't basically checking in with Iran. So Jason: I don't know, man. Bryan: Yes, they can pass all day long, but they have to check in with them because I guess they they want their environmental fee when all this is over with, and that's how it's gonna be ran. And so we we bomb Iran, which I don't know who agrees with what and who's breaking what, and but it doesn't look like our moo, our whatever the damn of understanding, memorandum of understanding is actually working well. So Jason: Yeah, some of you ain't understand it. Bryan: Yeah, that's the probably the worst ceasefire. know, next to Israel having a ceasefire, this is probably the second worst ceasefire. ⁓ and then the the Ukraine are Russians ceasefire. Jason: It's Bryan: I don't know, maybe ceasefire is not the right term anymore. You know? they're not in in no case have they ever ceased to fire, it seems like lately. So maybe it's not an actual ceasefire. We'll do l Yeah, we're gonna do a less fire. We're not gonna a less fire. We're gonna do go to a less fire. Only because look, I don't have enough weapons to keep shooting at you the way I was. All right. Yeah, let me build my so we're gonna go we're gonna go to a less fire. Jason: Is it like a tone down or something? Like a less fire? I need to build my ship back up, so we're gonna trim it down. Fire. Bryan: Ha ha ha Jason: We joke, but it's getting old, man. Geez. Shitter get off the pot. Bryan: It is a Yeah, I think both parties, you know, they just puffing their chest out Iran and us, you know, and I don't think there's a good answer to this. I just don't. I don't I don't know how you walk away. We can't walk away and allow Iran to look like they've done better. We just can't. It's just not gonna look good, you know, to the world. What's gonna make us look weak. And I agree with Trump. I mean, we we have to push. I'm not arguing that. We put ourselves in that position. Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: I don't agree with it. But if you're gonna be the big man on campus, you know, you sometimes you gotta do some shit that other people are not gonna do. Jason: If yeah, you can't be over there doing that stuff and then just back out because then we look weak for doing it and they're gonna get in their mind. And it it's I don't want it getting in their mind that, ⁓ well, we can do whatever the hell we want to now. They everybody just needs to settle the hell down over there is what needs to happen. Bryan: Well, me is not even Iran thinking they can do whatever they have to. Other countries, you know, start second guessing the power of the United States. Jason: ⁓ yeah. Yeah, you're right. Everybody else. Bryan: So that's what I look at. Well anyway, I I guess since we can't build weapons fast enough to to help Ukraine, Trump said he's gonna allow Ukraine to build their own fucking missiles. So ⁓ he's supposed to give them a license to build their own patriots. Check this one out. So I guess they're gonna build their own patriot missiles? Jason: Yeah, he hasn't told the the company that that makes ⁓ that just gonna give away your plans and your shit. Bryan: Yeah. Sorry, yeah. we're gonna give it to Ukraine. 'Cause we can trust Ukraine. Ukraine doesn't do anything, you know, bad, you know, that they're not corrupt or anything. We c we can trust them with Jason: I thought he didn't like Zelensky or whoever the Ukrainian dude is. I d I thought remember when he first got in there and the dude show kept showing up in freaking running outfits like look like jogging suits and shit, like he was going to the gym. He kept leaving mad. Who? Trump? Bryan: I don't know if he dislikes anybody. I don't yeah, I think it like I think e every now and then, you know, like if you on his bad side, but if you're kissing his ass, he likes you. So Zelensky was probably over there licking his asshole at you know, at this fucking summit. Jason: Dude he He had to have been doing it here lately 'cause at the first they he didn't he'd shut him down. He said, We're not giving y'all no more damn money. This is getting stupid. That was one of his biggest things was to shut that thing down. Bryan: Well I'm thinking Maybe Trump got a rim job. I don't know. Jason: Dude, I Bryan: But does he he criticizes people then the next day he's friends with them? I I don't know if that's part of the wrestling ploy, you know, that you talk about. I don't I don't know what that is. Jason: I never know where we stand with anybody anymore. Bryan: You can't because they all fucking all a piece of shit. Every one of them's a for themselves. You can see ⁓ flip flop all the time. You know? And and you're supposed to follow that. It's like, how the fuck you follow that? I don't know. Jason: ⁓ geez. It's crazy. Yeah. That's how tainted the government is, is like I've said a hundred times on this podcast since we've been doing it. You we finally got a guy in there that we thought wasn't going to be bought off and would do all this stuff. And it it gets to everybody. It's like a damn disease, like a virus that just hangs out in that place. Eventually you're gonna get bought. Bryan: Even if you don't get bought, you're gonna be told what the fuck to do. Yeah. And they're like, hold on, whoa, whoa. Jason: And you're right, we need to stop his ten D chess bullshit. pe ⁓ he's playing five D, six D chess. Like no ain't nobody up there playing that shit. Bryan: Y y you know what that is? Again, you know, and and ⁓ you know what that is? Every year No, well I'm gonna explain it to you a little easy. Every year you you in the hunt for the playoffs. When your team comes out out of fucking preseason, you're gonna win the Super Bowl. I don't give a shit what fan you are. Your team could have sucked last year, you gonna win the Super Bowl. You know, you think your team's the greatest. And then you you know, you at the end of the season, you need one game. Jason: People that don't want to admit. Mm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: You know, to make it to the playoffs and you just making every excuse on why they need to do this and what they need, you know, where we're at. We're we're at the end of the season. And we just constantly, well, you know, they did this, it's like, no, take a step back and fully analyze the situation. Take your emotions out of it and look at the situation. And now tell me what you believe. And a lot of people just can't take the emotions out of it. One is because they got so heavily invested in him and arguing with everyone else about him. Jason: Right. Right. Right. Bryan: That they can't eat crow. You know what I'm saying? But I don't even look at it like that. The way I look at it is he is still the better portion of Washington, D.C. And that's sad. You know what I'm gonna though he, you know, he might might be bought or whatever. And I don't really like what he's doing with his financial shit and his family and all, whether it's legal or not, I don't know, but it looks really bad. But Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: He is still the best portion that I know in in Washington, DC. They all suck. I mean, so he is the the best of the worst. Jason: Yeah, it's he's the best turd up there. They're all turds, but he's the best one. Bryan: Yeah, so well, this past weekend while we were all celebrating the fourth of July, two hundred and fifty years. Iran was having a funeral for its leaders that were killed at the beginning of the war. And that was what, like four fucking months ago. mean, were these people mummies? Not mean, but when I s ⁓ God ⁓ man, yeah, like four months. I mean I I I I was Jason: Boy, I bet you they smelt a little probably smelt like them chickens I was cutting today. Ugh. Bryan: I'd always joke how they'd parade like the presidents around the country and shit when they do it over here. This guy had his funeral in Iran, and then I think they brought him to Iraq. And then he toured Iraq. he did more Yeah, he went on tour. He probably been ⁓ more miles on him since he died than a lot of people have in their whole life, you know? And they it was a huge event and it was like Jason: Yeah. He went on tour, huh? Bryan: They say there was like millions that attended. And some were shocked at the amount of people that attended the funeral because they say that that country hates the regime. So I looked into that, and it and it's true. From what I found, like 20 to 30 percent that was at the funeral actually that's the support ⁓ of the regime. So 20 30 percent of the population, that's what trying to say, is what supports the regime, but it still was millions of people there. Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was huge. Bryan: And then they said there were some people that just went there just to see what's going on. But there's still a lot of people that hate us. And were there was a lot of stuff on the news talking about them, you know, chance death to America and and signs showing Trump the crosshairs and also had ⁓ O'Bibi in the crosshairs. And I it, you know, we'd be the same way. If they came over here, yeah. But to see that amount of people all in one place for the same reason. Jason: Right. Bryan: Supporting each other to me. And again, I'm not, I don't support Iran or any of the shit, but it was amazing to see all those people together. Because if we did the same thing here in the United States, there would have been a mass shooting or fights or something. You put a million people together like that, it just doesn't work out. No, it's sad. You know, you would have protest and counter protest and shootings, it just it wouldn't have gone well. And I'm not saying the Iranians are better than us, but in this instance. Jason: ⁓ yeah. It wouldn't have went well. Bryan: I think they I think they behave better than us. Well here's a little taste of the funeral. Jason: They came together. Yeah. Bryan: A lot of people. Jason: Yeah, it was, but Why would you be over there if they're chanting death to America and you're an American? Bryan: Well, hold on. I'm I'm glad you said that because I'm about to show you another son of a bitch that pissed me off. But that right there and and I don't and I don't want to be mean, but if we we were really as bad as they think we are, we would have just hit that site that funeral. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I went there. And I'm not saying we should have done that. I'm just when when you think that we're that evil. Jason: It's okay. Damn, dude, you went that way. would have had a thing a re a reef or whatever they send to funerals tied to that damn missile. Special delivery mo special delivery for Mongo. ⁓ ⁓ you just put some ⁓ Yeah, we we pretty well took out everybody that supported them. All right, we're good to go. Bryan: Ha ha ha. I mean I I d I don't agree with it, but it would have ended that war. It would have started other wars, but it ended that one. Jason: Geez, I wouldn't even told you were going there. I thought you were gonna crack on I mean, but it I don't think it's debt to America. I think it's debt to gov America's government that keeps messing with them because they you look what Iraq over in Iraq what they did to those contractors and hung them from a bridge over in Fallujah. You see what I'm saying? And those weren't military guys. Those were just contractors. Those were like that were out there trying to help build stuff. They snatched them dudes up and hung them from a bridge. You'd think they would have hung that damn reporter. Bryan: They were making a point. You would think I I who's to say that reporters doesn't have might have an agent with him that's maybe keeping him safe or shit, he he might be supporting Iran. I don't fucking know. But this son bitch I'm about to show you, I mean, so this next guy I'm about to show you, for I agree that reporter over there, you you need to report things you would think you would have somebody from Iran that can give you. I don't know how all that shit works. But for an American to go to Iran Jason: Yeah, I meant. Bryan: And basically denounce the USA. That right there is just fucking wrong on every fucking level. now I might talk shit about our government. And I firmly stand by what I say about our government. I love this fucking country deeply, you know. And you would never, ever get me do shit like this motherfucker. That that I don't know. But for those of y'all that you know will listen and y Jason: They when he tries to come back here they need to they need to shut him down. Bryan: You would think. But again, I mean he has freedom of speech. So I I can't I can't say that he shouldn't be able to say that. Having said that, yeah, I I think they definitely need to keep tabs on this summer bit. Four million people follow him. Yeah, and and he's a what they said he was a MAGA, what, communists or MAGA Jason: Communists? I didn't understand some of that. It almost sounded like that he supported Trump or something. I don't, I don't know. Bryan: He does. That doesn't mean I mean, I don't know why he supports Iran. Yeah, from what it said, it was a MAGA commune. I don't know what that means. I I don't know how you go over there. How how is he so comfortable going over there? You know what what just like you said with the other guy, you know, stringing up. I I don't know. I I don't agree with what this whole war. I don't. I damn sure don't agree with somebody going over there Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Though all those people in Iran in a chant basically telling the US to go fuck themselves. You know, and that's an American citizen. I I don't agree with that at all. That that just that pisses me off to no end. Jason: Yes, sir. Bryan: And I can understand that he might be mad and he might, you know, feel ⁓ certain way about what's going on over there. But at some point you you have to choose a side. And he chose a side. And unfortunately, again, we have freedom of speech. So I can't say that, you know, he did anything wrong, but morally, in my opinion, that was that was fucked up. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: now I can understand why people would be upset with what's happening in the world. According to the Cost of War Project from the Watson School of Public Affairs, since 9 11, they estimate over 940,000 people were killed by direct post 911 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001 and 2023. Of these, more than 432,000. thousand were civilians. The number of people wounded as a result of the conflict is far high. An estimated 3.6 to 3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9-11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5 to 4.7 million in county. This could be from famine, lack of shelter or shit, even shelter collapsing on them. Right. And when you look back at a broader global conflicts, including all wars that include non US involved, like parts of Africa, Myanmar, Ukraine, et cetera. According to our our world data, likely several million more direct deaths since two thousand one, pushing the worldwide total direct and indirect deaths of these wars well above six to ten million people. Jason: Faith. Bryan: Battle related deaths have fluctuated but spiked in recent years, due to the battles in Ethiopia, Ukraine, and Syria. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there were roughly 118 people displaced in 2025. And this was a drop from 123 million in 2024. But it's still, yeah, we got better. We'll prove it. But it's still greatly higher higher. Jason: Well, we got better, Brian. Bryan: than the roughly forty million when they first started recording this back in two thousand six. Nah, I'm not that's that's right. mean Jason: We're some spoiled ass people, are are we not? I I mean seriously, dude. I and I ⁓ I'm I'm one of those that complains about bullshit that I don't need to complain about because I haven't never been displaced yet. That's crazy, man. And these people didn't have shit to begin with and they're displaced. Bryan: No. yeah, not an Jason: I mean, it's like going to a homeless camp and busting it up for some of these people. And and we can't even leave that alone. Bryan: Yeah, just It's basically what they have. And not saying all this what's that? Yeah. Jason: You seen them camp cities these people live in? These refugee camps? Have you ever seen ⁓ dude it's crazy. Bryan: Yeah, and I'm not saying all this is due to the US. I mean, all these issues in the world on ours, but I just want to show there's a lot of issues in the world. And this is this is the other part. So the U.S. could be helping a lot more, you know, on this, yet we're profiting from it. We're profiting from all the wars and shit. And our US companies are profiting from this shit. we went over this military industrial complex, what it was last week, a week before last. Jason: Mm-hmm. L last week, yeah, you were talking about the top five that were benefiting. Bryan: Yeah, and on all the money spent on it, and we also discussed that the US alone has spent roughly eight trillion of your hard earned tax money on the war on terror. And what has that got us? Jason: No wor Bryan: Yeah. The defense like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrid Grumman, General Dynamics, they made a fuck ton of money off these wars. And and shit, all while the people of these war torn areas suffer. But we're told that we're doing this to make it better for them. We're told that without us, those countries would be worse off. Yeah. Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I would. Bryan: Kinda like they're telling us now that without Israel the US would fall. Now, Israel, we we're supposed to support a country like Israel that has killed seventy three thousand to seventy five thousand Palestinians and injured another hundred and seventy three thousand more since October twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, with roughly eighty percent of these fucking casualties being civilians. Nearly an entire population of Gaza, roughly two million people have been displaced at least once. Many have been displaced multiple times, with some reports citing the people of Gaza have been displaced on average five to ten times per person. Jason: He's Bryan: Yeah, just like he was saying earlier, just they put up a fucking homeless camp, they blow it over. And then this year Israel turns around and they kill four thousand people in Lebanon by injuring another twelve thousand people. And the reports from Lebanon are that at least a million people have been displaced. Our fucking holy land. You know, I I can't say that enough. And We got the IDF doing shit like this and I and I guess this is for their God. Jason, for our listeners, go ahead and describe what you just saw. Jason: I seen a dude talking or a soldier talking to people in a car and he throws a it look that looks like a flashbang. So I mean you can Google that if you want to. That that that grenade is made to go into a room. And to stun people? To be able to info he he he threw that into a compact vehicle and held the door closed on them people. And and it the sound and the flash it puts off, I mean, it'll blind people temporarily, it's supposed to, but I could only imagine in, you know, that's like throwing it in a closet versus a full room. ⁓ it's Bryan: Yeah, and he held the door closed. It then they get out and they fire a couple of shots and just walk away. Jason: Yes, it's it's not designed for that the dude already knows what's in the car. It's designed for like SWAT or or even military personnel that are rushing a house to be able to get inside without getting shot, like clear shots. The people are disoriented. It's the disoriented, but it will very injure somebody when it's done like I mean, dude, it if it hits somebody. It's like a regular grenade just not as potent going off, right? It explodes. I mean, that's malicious, dude. I think I'd rather had a regular grenade chucked in there and be taken out than y that's torture. Bryan: It it's pretty sad. I mean it that is it that's a war crime. I don't care how you look at it. Jason: That's that's inhumane. That's not yes. And that nothing o yeah if the United States did that, if if that was videotaped of a US soldier doing that dude would ha would be on trial. They just do what the hell they want to over there. They don't care. Bryan: Well, we ain't we ain't yeah, we ain't done with them people yet. So how about this shit? This is former CI Jason: I love how you said their God. That's not my God. That's not the God we serve. It's their God. The one they think they still serve that Yeah, whatever. Bryan: Yeah, it's their God. It's their God. Yeah, I'm trying to make sure I I I preface that because I don't think that their God is our God. It's definitely not my God. You know? Whatever they serve is not my God. Now this shit right here, and this is a little fucked up. And I had a video of this, but I couldn't find the video I actually had, so I found. the CIA guy, John Kiraku. He was on Theo Bond ⁓ talking about this media lady that gets shot. I wanted I wanted to go over this with you a few weeks ago, but watch check this shit Jason: I never that's how how does that happen and that's not all over Facebook, TikTok, any like I said, I don't watch the news all I I guess I I just don't know who to trust anymore. That's why I don't watch ⁓ They're awful as shit. And what do we say with AI and all that stuff? We ⁓ it a lot of stuff could be AI generated just to get us pissed off or somewhere else. I mean Bryan: Exactly. They are. But I seen the actual video. When that first happened, there was an actual video and I thought I had saved it, but I couldn't find it. So I I wanted it for this show, and that's all I could find. I'm I I guess they scrubbed the actual video. But yeah, that that's fuck and we're not done yet. ⁓ yeah, that's I lies. Well well hold on. We're not d now we're we're gonna move on to a little more sicker shit. Not that these guys could get any fucking worse. Jason: Jace. That's our allies. Bryan: That was from Australia. Just ten days ago, July first. Jason: Okay. I understand we're probably the big powerhouse, right? So why are we not doing something about this? I I totally understand this, but why aren't these other countries stepping in? Bryan: Well, here's the what I think. The only reason Israel has this power is because we stand behind them. And if someone goes against them, then they just like we talked about before, they might be worried about the hand of Big Brother, which is us, going against them. Now, I'm about to show you a video from the UN also talking about this. So the UN knows also. So does the UN step in and do something? I don't know. But that's the only thing I can think of, dude. I I think, yes, somebody needs to step in and say, what the fuck? Jason: Okay. Bryan: 'Cause right now all these other countries well, all the other countries hate us because they think we support this shit. You know? Think about that. We're not stopping it. So we must support it. Jason: We're not doing it. Yeah. It's kinda like your parents said, even though you're might not doing what your friends are doing, you're guilty by association is what they always told you, right? If your friend. Bryan: Yep. Yeah. So if we're not if we're the biggest bad motherfucker on the earth, right? And why yeah, why aren't we shutting that down? And why are we not hearing about it? know, why is this not a biggest story? Jason: Why aren't we shutting this shit down? I stay. Why is it like CNN running this stuff trying you know what I'm saying? The TMZ, well they're all they're all bought off. Sorry. Bryan: Well, we know why, but yeah. But we're the crazy ones. Jason: Yeah. We well like what we say, we gotta have a two party divide, right, to keep us divided in this country. But they're they all report to the same damn person, guarantee it. Bryan: ⁓ no doubt. That's the whole reason why it's a two party. That's why your party's stupid and your party's stupid, you know? no matter what my party does, my my party's right. Your party's wrong. Jason: We can never let these people come together. Don't ever give them something they can all agree on. Bryan: No, we we no. I I was listening to one of the jackasses today talking about midterms. Well, you know, we have to vote all Republican midterms because God be if we get Democrat in there. No, get me wrong. I think there's bad on both sides. They ball suck. So all they try to do is just put something in your head to make you root the other team. That's all they're trying to do. They're not doing anything to help you. There's no one Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Well, I can't say no one, but majority of people cannot say that their life's gotten better because of the government since they've been alive. You know, because of the way they've been voting. Their life has got slightly less worse, but it hasn't gotten better. That makes sense? Jason: The government's gotten better. No, no. It's horrible, dude. What did I tell you? The money, me and them guys I was talking about the when I was telling you about the VA disability or whatever, we we were talking about that and we were talking about where like where I started, but when I first started my career 26 years ago at 9.50 an hour, $9.50 an hour, dude. And I thought I was making something back in 2000, 2000, yeah, June 5th, 2000. And I make like a ton more money now, Brian, but I don't feel like I make a ton more money. Bryan: But when when you just look at the amount of taxes, and I put a whole s episode together for that, but I had to wipe it for this week because we got way too much shit talk about. But when you we'll get to it maybe next week, but when you look at the taxes that we spend at the middle class ⁓ versus you make the percentage wise, you in a bad position. The middle class is not the place to be. You know, the when you're the middle class, you can get government help. And when you at the top, you got a way to write everything off. Jason: Well, we'll get to it. Mm-hmm. Bryan: In the middle class, you're just working day to day, just paycheck to paycheck. And that's just what the cycle moves. You just a cog in the machine. You don't get any help. You make a little too much money to get government assistance and you don't have enough money to invest. You know? So you stay in this fucking rap person. Jason: Mm. That's right. You don't have enough money to be comfortable. They put that carrot in front of you, dude, like a donkey. Bryan: And don't get me wrong, I wanna I wanna earn my way. I do, you know, I don't want nobody to give me shit. But don't make it so fucking hard I can't fucking enjoy life. You know what I'm saying? Especially whenever we send in all our money overseas and they're not helping the way they're supposed to be helping. You know, we we're spending our money, just like we were showing earlier, eight trillion dollars since nine eleven. Jason: Right. No. Yeah. Right. Bryan: How how much better are your roads? You know, how how about our school systems? You see what I'm getting at? $8 trillion could have done a lot. I mean, we bridges. infrastructure in a lot of places, like people, you listen to, we live in the greatest country. Don't get me wrong. I'm not shitting this country. But the amount of money that we spend everywhere else is ridiculous when we still have needs here. Jason: Yeah. It's falling apart. And people need to understand, stop being well, these other countries have it worse than us, Brian. These Somalians and and Mogadishu and all that. They need food and all that. Man, they ain't getting shit. They're not getting that money that goes over there, it's laundered. It's going to other people, like bigger people, is it not? Bryan: I can tell you a story. ⁓ I worked with a guy named Mick and I'm I've brought up Mick before, but Miguel was from Guatemala. there was, I don't remember if it was a hurricane, something happened in Guatemala, earthquake or something. And the US sent all kind of support over there, he told me. ⁓ he said, When in Guatemala's like a big mountain, and the richer you are, the higher up the mountain you live, right? And he's seen you can see all this stuff coming in from the US. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And none of it made it down the mountain. All the, you know, all the mean ⁓ like the ⁓ food and the shelter and all that. That they didn't get any of that. All that shit just got taken. So no, I mean w yes, we're sending money, but it's not doing what it needs to do. Hell, our money that we use here in the United States ain't doing what it needs to do. Do you really expect it to go overseas? Jason: So That's what we're getting at. That's yeah. Well it people play into that. Well, they don't want us to help other people overseas that are struggling worse. You just said we're the greatest country. If we're so great, why do we need it? We're falling apart. We're becoming a third world country, are we not? Look at some of our places. It looks like third world countries. Bryan: I I had I seen a a ⁓ a video the other day a girl when they were talking about the US being a third world country and this girl said there's multiple world countries that have less shit on the streets, like human shit on the streets than a lot of our big cities. That's fucked up when you think about it like that. Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. No, yeah. Like when we went to New Orleans, I'm not gonna lie, I had a good time. I loved the culture. I love the s the music, going bar to bar, listening to those bands and the food. I love well, I mean, look at me. I love the food. But br it stunk. It had this weird ass smell that you couldn't get out of your nose. Bryan: I'm gonna tell anyone that has never been to New Orleans, first of all, you need to come to New Orleans. You need to come to New Orleans and experience it and enjoy the fuck out of it. Second, do not go in the summertime. You wanna go in the winter, you know, early spring, you know, late fall. Yeah, you do not want to go into some not because it's hot. Well, it is because it's hot. It's hot as fuck, but the stink is so fucking bad because it's hot. Jason: Yes. Cooler, right to cooler time, yeah. Bryan: Just like it just takes it up a few notches. So it's like it's cooking the stink. So I'm just being real with you. If you Jason: Yeah. And we went in f both times in February, or no, the one time we did go in the summer, the very first time that we went there. ⁓ but ⁓ Bryan: It's a lot worse in the summer. It's like fermenting in the summer. Jason: ⁓ it is. It's like pickling. Bryan: Alright, so let's ⁓ see what the UN has to say about the IDF. Fucked Jason: Yes it is. Bryan: I'm and I'm gonna say again, in in the eyes of the people around the world, they think we all support that shit. so in their eyes, we're no different than what those IDF soldiers are doing. They see we as the American people support that. And some of them do. Some of people fucking jump up and down for Israel. I don't think they understand exactly what they're doing. You know. Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm. Bryan: And I would assume that most of us don't support this. You know, but we we're a group of those those Israel people because we're United States of America. We're Americans. And we're gonna continue doing this shit because our government supports Israel to no end. And the rest of the world knows that without the US support, Israel couldn't do this shit without severe repercussions. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: We are constantly being sold on a bill of goods and we buy into it because we aren't living in the chaos that all this shit causes. We aren't the ones being displaced. We don't have to live that life. You know, I that's a hard fucking life, like we was talking earlier. And just like I'm sure you do, I love this country. ⁓ I love the United States to no end. But our government does not have our best interests at heart. So therefore I have disdain for our government officials. I mean, I just do. I believe that you can love your country and not like the way your country's being run. I think the human mind is strong enough to hold different opinions that don't align with everyone else, but still wants a good outcome or the best outcome for the country. You know, I I don't don't think people should let tell you otherwise. Jason: Yeah. the difference that I see. I don't want to leave where I'm at. I don't wanna s seek out in another country like Taiwan or wherever they say is awesome to go live at because I love my country. I just don't like my government. That's I'm not leaving here. It's not theirs, it's ours. It's the American people's. They make up a very I I don't know, damn it, I'm gonna ask freaking good old chat GPT. ⁓ Bryan: ⁓ no. It's ours. Jason: You can keep talking, but I'm gonna find out what what the government makes up of the US population. Bryan: yeah, little to nothing. It's like three hundred and forty million people in the US on average for population. And talking about politicians, there's what, three hundred and fifty three or some shit like that in Congress. Or maybe a little more. And then president and shit like that. Depending on how many people you're looking at as far as government. If you're looking at all government federal employees, there's a lot more than that. But what I was getting at, just because you question something something doesn't mean that you hate what you're questioning. You know, questioning things gives you a better understanding of the issue. So you should question shit. And I question our government because I love this country and I want what's best for the people of this country. You find your your numbers up. Jason: Yeah, I think it th I think it wanted to go a little bit deeper. It's it's telling me all the different branches. I don't give a gr what's what is the percentage. Bryan: If you ask them the government it's probably doing all the federal workers and shit. All right. I'm gonna go to Andy. Andy, this is Andy on I voted for Trump three times. I think a lot of us don't agree with what Trump's doing. I think a lot of us feel like we're let down by Trump. Jason: No. And we're let down by and I'm not taking up for Trump, but it's the same dancing song. Every one of them assholes tells us they're gonna do something and get in there and don't do it. Bryan: The only difference again I'll say about Trump is he was supposed to be different. That's the whole reason he was he w he was the different. Jason: He was. He wasn't supposed to be able to be bought off because he didn't he he took the Republican affiliation because I think he understood you're not going to win as an independent. You know what I'm saying? But at the same time, he promised the first election and then the second, we're going to drain that swamp. There ain't no plug been pulled. Bryan: No he Jason: The g hey, all the government makes up six point eight percent of our population. Six point eight. Yeah, that's twenty-three point something mil or twenty-three point thirty seven million government workers. Bryan: And I think I think Yeah, but that's all the government. And when you say an all That's what I'm saying. The government workers. Those government workers aren't what's driving policy. So that's even less than that. Jason: No, but it's probably percent or point six percent if you put the Congress and the Senate and the the idiots that screw us over. Bryan: If if you put all the bureaucrats and shit like that into it, I yeah, I would say it's it's than five percent of the country that we're being run by. Jason: Yeah, th it's not their it is their country too, but it's a majority of us people just ⁓ we're the majority. Bryan: No, no. It's I'm not gonna say it's not their country, but they're there to serve us, to do what's best for us, and that's the problem. They're not doing what's best for the people. I'm not saying that we all need to be taken care of and patted on the butt and all this other shit, but at the same time you need to do what's best for us, not what's best for you, not what's best for the fucking other country. You know, that's the whole problem, is we became a fucking a place for everybody just to get rich off the backs of us. You know what I'm saying? Jason: Yes, yes. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: And at this point, I I don't even know if they even give a shit about our taxes. I know they need it, but they're so far in debt and they they just print money anytime they fucking need it. So do they I don't even know if they think they need us anymore, other than the fact that they maybe borrow money off of ⁓ or here's the other question. If we just print money, why do we borrow money? I don't know either. I don't know. I mean, I'm not a financial person and maybe somebody can answer that. I don't fucking know, but it don't make any sense. You know, if I can just Jason: Okay, so you know how that don't make sense? Is that part of the ploy to keep us poor? Bryan: I think everything's a poor to keep us poor from what it looks like. Jason: You see what I'm saying, taxing the shit out of us. I mean, do they need that money? Like you said, just print it. Bryan: I I don't know. Jason: It's like having a checkbook. That old joke of ⁓ who was it? One ⁓ one of the blue comedy tour guys, Jeff Foxworthy or something. Hey, Mr. Foxworthy, your truck payments late. man, I don't have the money. You got a check? you'll take a check? Yeah, well I'll just write I'll just pay the whole damn thing off. Bryan: Yeah, I got checks. That's right. Jason: And when we were younger, my we kinda had that mentality. If we had checks, we had money. Bryan: Well why not? Jason: We bounced a couple, I'm not gonna lie, but I'm just saying it they're dangerous. So why if you can print This we talked about that too. I know it goes a lot, it's not as simple as I make it sound, but why can't we have our own value of of money? Why does it have to go against oil? Why can't we just, like I said, just shut everything down, be self sufficient, and not we have our own economy. Bryan: And we do have our own value. Our our money is is valued is our own value. All right. Jason: But you said it's valued off the price ⁓ oil. The petrol dollar. Like if that went away, our damn dollar wouldn't have any value at all. Bryan: The petrol dollar, yes. Yes. It would have very little value, yes. But that doesn't mean that yeah. Okay, I see what you're saying. ⁓ Jason: That's what I'm getting at. What what's our what's our debt? National debt? Bryan: We don't thirty nine trillion. Jason: Okay, so just print the money off and pay it off. Bryan: We don't produce anything it enough to without oil, I don't know if we produce enough shit to really make money in this country. 'Cause we we're just a w we're we do have a means, but you gotta get that up and going. So you you have to start bringing the manufacturing back and getting all the stuff back, which I think Trump was trying to do, but I d I haven't seen anything. I mean, these people can say, Hey, look, I'm investing ten trillion dollars into your country. Jason: But I think we had the means. Bryan: And then all they gotta do is wait to the next president and say, Psych, you know, I'm just joking. Until you start building factories and they might be building factories, I don't fucking know. But until you start building factories and we start seeing jobs, I don't give a shit what you said you were gonna invest in this country. Jason: And when the next president gets in, what is the first thing that they do? The first two weeks, they sit there and unwrite everything the president before them did. And it's like you can't even get excited from the president you're with that he signed this into action because the next guy that comes in is gonna undo it. Bryan: Well, i is that by design? Jason: It's Bryan: Think about it. Jason: It drives you bad shit crazy, dude. It's like it's like being married to Sybil. Bryan: I don't know what that means. Jason: The Sybil, you never had to watch that in school. I d I know you said you didn't get in school much, but it's the the woman that had like thirty something personalities. It was like the worst case in the United States. Bryan: No. I might I might a da I might have dated her in high school, but I don't know I Jason: No, everyb yeah, when you bring ⁓ a lot of people you just throw that out and they're like, they start like, you gotta watch that too. We had to watch it in health class. It was like the worst case of multiple personalities recorded in U US history. And and they played it like in health class every year. And it was like that's like Bryan: I think I got better examples than that. But I've never seen that. Jason: Sorry. I mean I'm sure somebody watching will will catch the drift on that. But I'm just saying it's so back and forth. You just like, I'm tired of it. Okay, whatever. I'm not even paying attention no more. Bryan: And that's and that's what they want us to get back to. They're they I think they upset that we woke up, that Generation X woke up to this dumb shit. And we you know, and they just waiting for us to say fuck it, we don't want to deal with it no more. You know, we'll we'll just go back to our hole or just waiting for us to die. But I don't know. Well and and looking at all this shit, I ran across Trump's spiritual advisor, Paula White. I don't know if you ever heard of Paula White. this me think, does Trump really think he is God? Yeah. So just give you a little background. According to Google, Paula White is a prominent American, Pentecostal televangelist, and Donald Trump's longtime personal spiritual advisor. She led the Evangelical Advisory Board for his 2016 campaign and currently serves as the director of the White House faith office. So here is a little something on Paula White. What do you think about that? Jason: I got Bible foretells a lot of stuff that's happening right now. So ⁓ Bryan: I I don't don't agree with the tele any televangelist. I just I just never did. I I and I'ma tell you I'ma tell you a quick story. I just thought about this. You when I was a kid, the when you had a satellite dish, and you probably remember this. When you had a satellite dish, I mean it was the size of a fucking swimming pool. You know, when somebody had a satellite and it it it took up like a whole nother lot, you know. So my my uncle Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: He had a double wide trailer. Yeah, I am trailer. I don't give a fuck. I'm trailer trailer. You know, my all my family, it seems like grew up in trailers. All right. But my uncle had a double wide trailer. He he had a mansion, you know, compared to the rest of us. ⁓ and had a big ass radar outside. ⁓ So go over there and we'd visit, and you know, he'd he'd dial in the radar and shit. And they'd be a televangelist on. He would always put them on. I remember this as a kid all the time. Jason: Is a radio. Bryan: Because he would put him on as a joke, because the guy would come on and I wish I could remember his name and talk about, I don't care if you have to sell your car, if you have to sell this, just send me your money. I mean, that's the kind of shit he was saying. And then I a kid, I'm like, there's no way God wants you to do that. You know, so since then I've always looked at all televangelists in the same way. So even the guy afterwards, you know, I I don't know him or what his name is or if I agree with him. Having said that. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: That Paula White chick looks crazy. You know, and if that if that is your spiritual advisor, you know, that's a little fucked up. But I I I Jason: Mm-hmm. I'm telling you the crap coming out of her mouth just from what you shown in the clip, and it's not taking it out of context. She ⁓ she she said what she said. Like when when when you make a comment, yeah, okay, what was the beginning, what was the end, is usually how I like to hear that. But dude, you you can't quit you could snip at that woman and she that's not of God. That's not biblical. She making her own shit up. Bryan: Yeah, well book got Jason: I need a hundred thousand dollars. There's ten of y'all that can give ten thousand or there's a hundred of y'all that can get get your checkbooks out and and write it off to the Paula White Ministries. Bryan: That's right. Or better yet, ten of y'all give me ten thousand and a hundred of y'all give me a thousand and I'll give y'all all a hot dog at the end of this thing. We'll call it good. Yeah. Jason: Yeah. I'll give you all the blessings. You're not gonna get it. I mean, Benny Hinn was a big Bryan: Well, did you see the people falling like the ground behind ⁓ I don't know what that's called, ⁓ they were ⁓ spasms or some shit? Jason: ⁓ yeah. Being slain no it's be it's called being slain in the spirit. And that happens. Bryan: Well, then she was doing it then. So you saying they were all epileptic? No. ⁓ Jason: No, she wasn't. That no, she wasn't. That wasn't happening there, guarantee it. No, they all putting on a show, dude. Bryan: All right. I'm I'm a quit beating them up. I just I just found that interesting when I seen that 'cause I didn't know Jason: Don't mock God. That's all I'm gonna say. These people need to watch mocking God. Like, I mean, dang, look, he took Sodom and Gomorrah, he took these areas out, just just them into salt. No pepper though. Bryan: Guys, this this whole episode is is meant be because I I think we have to stick together. I don't think. I mean, I know we have to stick together. No one no one's coming to save you. If you think the government has your best interest in mind, you you've wrong. I I don't care what party you in. I don't care what party you are in. If you think the government has your best interest in mind, you are wrong. We're better together and we need people to start pulling their heads out of their asses and understand this. Yeah. no one's coming to save you. If you think the government has your best interest in mind, you wrong. I I don't care what party you in. I don't care what party you are If you think the government has your best interest in mind, you are wrong. We're better together and we need people to start pulling their heads out of their asses Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: Now, here's Andy again. This be the last video before we get out for the night, but Let me see if I can find a motherfucker. Here it is. Yep. passive. Gotta pull our heads out of our ass. Well, Jason, you got anything? Jason: Yep. Nope. Mm-hmm. Bryan: No. All right. Well, thanks everyone for joining us. appreciate y'all spending your time with us. Until next time, this is the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I am Brian. He is Jason. Peace. Jason: And I'm Jason. Peace.