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Ep: 74 “If It’s Always the Most Important Election, Who Is Winning While We Fight?” · The Sense and Senseless Podcast

• Bryan: How often do I talk about binary decisions? Jason: A lot. Bryan: This is what it is. This is why I talk about it. It's because everyone, what I'm gonna say, everyone, a lot of people, and especially what I'm seeing on social media now, only believe in binary decisions, except for when it comes to gender. So you either all the way for the left or you all the way for the right. If you fall in the middle, if you fall in the middle, you are on an island and Jason: Bullshit. You get busted on. Yes. Bryan: they don't want you there. That's why I was saying earlier. It it creates a problem because if you put enough pressure on somebody on why you think this, why that's gonna force them into one lane, right? If you're not if you don't have a strong enough mind. And is that by design? I don't know. But it could well be. It's almost like they built a system just to control us without controlling us. Jason: Yeah, we talked about that. The elite families did this. Bryan: Can't be possible. They would never do that to you, Jason. Why would they do that to you? You know who Trump is? You know how good he is to the people? Do you know Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: that he has your best life on his mind at all times? He wants what's best for you, Jason. Your well being Jason: Yes, yes, that's right. Bryan: is at his top priority. He said that in his last speech. He said, Jason Hedrick, your well being is my top priority. Jason: Yep, he did. He did. He called me out by name. Bryan: Called you out by name, just like Ropper Room. I see Jason and Brian. That bitch never said my name. She ain't never seen me. Yeah. Jason: I know. Bryan: You ever watch Robar Room? Yeah. Yeah, back in the Jason: Romper room? Yeah, back in the day when I was a kid. Bryan: day. Yeah, and they had the mirror, the magic mirror, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: and the bitch would say everybody's name. She ain't never said my name. She ain't never seen me. I'd sit in front of that fucking television every morning waiting for her to say my name. She ain't never said Brian. And Brian's a common name. Jason: Damn. You were let down. I know. Did she say Jason? Bryan: No well I wasn't listening for your name. I was listening for Jason: Man, Bryan: my name. Jason: I don't know if she ever said my name or not. Bryan: I used to every morning listen to that. I believed in Rapper Room Lady. And she let me down. That was my Jason: know. See you Bryan: yeah, that was the first woman to let me down, probably in my life was rapper room lady. Fucking bullshit. There we is. Hey, welcome back to the Sense and Sinceless podcast. I am Brian. Jason: and I am Jason Moon. Bryan: He is Jason. If this is your first time joining us, welcome to the family. We're just two guys talking shit in a way that everyone can hopefully understand. Last week we discussed how Gen X didn't escape the brainwashing. we were all conditioned in some way. We received a lot of comments on this and we greatly appreciate it. Tonight we're gonna zoom out and discuss how we are all in a feedback loop. Algorithms feed you what keeps you scrolling. While confirming you are right, we're gonna talk about control, confirmation bias, and politics as religion. People cutting off family members for a politician they don't even know. Then we'll discuss the three-day war in Iran. Does Trump want to pause the war until after the midterms? Hmm. But be happy everyone. We'll have some cheap imported beef coming soon for a hamburger helper. Jason: That's just in chief importance. Bryan: And Venezuela, we got an oil deal with them that looks a lot like nineteen fifty three. Like, share, follow, subscribe. We appreciate every one of you. Jason. Okay, then. Jason: Yeah, I'm just dying for some cheap imported beef. Bryan: Gotta get that cheap and poor. There's a fuck ton of it too. All right. So let's talk about control. Last week I talked about how we as Gen X were also likely brainwashed. The rebellious generation, the kids with no direction, the fuck the man generation was likely brainwashed. Just us. We got a lot of comments on this. Most agreed to some point that this is likely true. Some said this is bullshit, and most of the younger people were just happy that. Gen X acknowledged that we were the problem with the world. Truth be told, we're all brainwashed, or at least at the very least, conditioned to believe some narrative during our lifetime. Especially today, there's so much information coming at you and very little discussion about this information. We watch people tell us what the news of the day is, what is correct, and what is going to help our country and our lives. Yet we don't listen to the counter arguments to the same. We live in a world of confirmation bias. And most people don't question their own beliefs. Most people just want to be right. And the algorithm on all these platforms will do its best to put that information in front of you to confirm that you are absolutely correct. Why? Because it's designed to keep you in front of the screen. Social media platforms are no different than what TV was. It makes money off of you. Where TV makes money mostly through generalized advertisement, social media platforms make money from targeted advertisement. Social media using your personal information that it collects to personalize every interaction to keep you scrolling while feeding you more garbage. This creates a feedback loop that gives you the idea that everything you see and read is correct and the other person is wrong. This is a huge problem. And through this podcast, I'm realizing just how strong the confirmation bias is on social media. Now, this affects all of us. No one is immune to this. No one. You have to actively go out and search for counterarguments to your beliefs and listen to those arguments with an open mind. Got anything before I play cut one? Jason: No, this is gonna be a fun show. Bryan: No, so here's a way to control humans. Fucked up. It's almost like they built a system just to control us without controlling us. Jason: Yeah, we talked about that. The elite families did this. Bryan: Can't be possible. They would never do that to you, Jason. Why would they do that to you? You know who Trump is? You know how good he is to the people? Do you know Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: that he has your best life on his mind at all times? He wants what's best for you, Jason. Your well being Jason: Yes, yes, that's right. Bryan: is at his top priority. He said that in his last speech. He said, Jason Hedrick, your well being is my top priority. Jason: Yep, he did. He did. He called me out by name. Bryan: Called you out by name, just like Ropper Room. I see Jason and Brian. That bitch never said my name. She ain't never seen me. Yeah. Jason: I know. Bryan: You ever watch Robar Room? Yeah. Yeah, back in the Jason: Romper room? Yeah, back in the day when I was a kid. Bryan: day. Yeah, and they had the mirror, the magic mirror, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: and the bitch would say everybody's name. She ain't never said my name. She ain't never seen me. I'd sit in front of that fucking television every morning waiting for her to say my name. She ain't never said Brian. And Brian's a common name. Jason: Damn. You were let down. I know. Did she say Jason? Bryan: No well I wasn't listening for your name. I was listening for Jason: Man, Bryan: my name. Jason: I don't know if she ever said my name or not. Bryan: I used to every morning listen to that. I believed in Rapper Room Lady. And she let me down. That was my Jason: know. See you Bryan: yeah, that was the first woman to let me down, probably in my life was rapper room lady. Fucking bullshit. All right. So how did I get here? So we had some comments this week. And if you don't agree with Trump, then you're an asshole. If you agree with Trump, you're an asshole. And I I just couldn't understand them. You know, in and doing this podcast, I'm seeing just how rabbit people can be. shit. Wasn't trying to play that. Jason: He just pops up, doesn't he? Bryan: Yeah. Well everywhere he heard his name. It's like fucking Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Jason: Yeah. I don't think Brian and Jason know that we, yeah, that we control the harm you straight. I'm going to tell them again. Bryan: Let me let me let him know again. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Well, in doing this podcast, I'm seeing just how rabid people can be. People are taking their political stance above all else as gospel. And it's just weird to me to see this shit. It just is. I I'm I have to admit, I've never read comments prior to a couple months ago. So I'd never really looked at how people see shit. And now that we're doing a podcast and we're getting these comments, it's just weird for me to see how rabbit someone can be towards someone else. They have no idea who they are. They seen a one or two minute clip of and they just wanna kill It's mind boggling that your mind is so fucking weak. That's what you think. You're the devil. Jason: Well, what happened? Yeah. But what happened? Just, like if you don't agree with something, just scroll right past it. Why do you feel like you have to put. Like hateful comments. I'm fine Bryan: I don't know. I Jason: with a little, with like showing another side or whatever, but gosh, dang. Bryan: yeah, it's just straight attacks. It's nothing about Jason: Like telling us that you need to take that down. You need to take that down. Like I'm not taking shit down, woman. Bryan: yeah, you're divisive. You d I didn't say anything divisive. I might have said something you didn't like, Jason: No... Yeah. Bryan: but that doesn't mean it's divisive. Jason: We're just giving you another thing to look at. Bryan: And you know, they call you idiots and it just it's just I have no problem with criticism. I don't. I just mind blown about how rabid people are. And years ago when people started doing Yelp and all these re you know, what you call that shit, not reporting, but Jason: yeah, they, reviews. Yeah. When they do reviews on stuff. Yeah. Bryan: A review when you're giving reviews and and people were worried up, yeah, people were worried about man, they go give me a bad review. I'm like, why do you give a fuck? I didn't realize how people were. I just I Jason: Yeah. Right. Bryan: didn't realize people were so fucking hateful. It's it's like, would you really tell somebody that to their face? And the Jason: No. Bryan: answer most of the time is no. You know, you would not say that to somebody's face. So why would you s just put online that you know all this dumb shit? So Let's go through this. And so depending on what we say, we're either extreme leftists or we're Trump worshippers. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: That that's the two areas that they put you in. It is no middle ground. You're either a Trump worshipper or you're extreme leftist. If you aren't all in for Trump, you're the devil on to the Trump supporters. And if you mention that Trump is not who you thought that you were vo voting for, you shout it down because Now you need to reap what you sowed. You know, it's your fault he is in office. The Dems tried to tell you he was the devil. I can't tell you how it works on the other side, but I'm assuming that if you're a Democrat and you have split beliefs between the Democrat and Republican Party, like normal people, it's probably the same, all or nothing bullshit. And this shit right here can easily sway somebody to choose a side and not speak about what they really believe. Because most people don't want to be isolated. You know, they don't want to stand alone. So they'll either say nothing or conform to what is going on around them. Me personally, I don't give a fuck. I I I don't have any friends. I I don't have no problem being on the island. I'm used to being in my fucked up thoughts and opinions by myself anyway. It's not a strange place for me to be. It doesn't bother me at all. However, I can see how that shit would affect some people. I just do. You know? Now I have to admit Seeing how invested most people are in their political beliefs is rather eye-opening for me. I didn't you can call me naive on this, and I didn't believe people were that convicted into who they followed politically. I think that is just a bit weird. Jason: Yeah Bryan: yeah, I've I've seen some extremists. I have, you know, don't get me wrong. I've seen some extremists from both sides of the aisle. And I would have thought that would have been a minority of people. But I'm starting to think that's not the case. I'm starting to think that we have a divide of people that hate each other and and we're like in the middle of it. It's weird. It is man. Now maybe Jason: That's why I didn't like politics for the longest time because I'd just seen it just people get stupid about it. Bryan: It's weird. I I I'm I'm really having trouble understanding it. I really am. And it it's interesting to me because I'm very interested in how people think. And some people, when they have bad comments, I can, you know, explain to them that, you know, I'm I I'm not gonna get in this back and forth with them, but you can a couple times you can actually talk to them. It's it's a nice it's not I'm gonna say it's a pleasant conversation, but it's nice to have a discussion with somebody and listen to their what they're saying. And some of it makes sense and it makes me think in their perspective, which is good. That's what you want to do. That's what you want to accomplish. You don't get anywhere, man, fuck you. You don't know what you're talking about. It's like, all right, so what did I say that's wrong? Explain to me what's wrong, you know, and then why you see it in a different way, and try to convince me otherwise. And then that's how you dialogue. You know, you just this is like they. Jason: Yeah, I know. And they never do have, they never do. They never tell us. Bryan: This is I just thought this is like the same guys that sit there and cat gall catgall girls from the road and think that they got a shot with the chick. Hey girl, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: what you got? You what's up, girl? You know what I'm saying? And think that's the same dudes. It's it makes no sense. They don't know how to have dialogue. They just stuck in what they think is a dialogue. It Daron. Where was I? All right, so to me, I'm starting to see that both sides are taking their political beliefs into a realm of a religion. And that is that's scary to me. That's fucking scary. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: The people that I'm seeing that support Trump will die supporting him. Yet they'll turn on their family and friends who don't fully support Trump. Think about that. They are rabid enough to, you know, go after you because you said Trump's hair's fake or something. You know, something stupid. And they don't know this man. They put in all their worth into someone they don't know. And then they'll cut their family and friends off because they don't show the support. That to me that's the deg degration of a society, in my opinion. Jason: Yeah. But then what happens when like he's only serving four more years, people are not for four years total. What happens when he's gone? Now you don't have any family or friends over something stupid. Where's it stop, man? mean, I'm telling you, geez. It's about as dumb as this one time I was at work back when I was in the field and not a supervisor and I was over in Illinois and I was working on somebody's stuff that the job I do, I try not to get my job too much because I don't, you know what I'm saying? This is my podcast. I'm not trying to bring work up into this, but anyways, these, these two big old dudes at a trailer. During working hours, they didn't have jobs. We'll just put it that way. Grown ass men. Sitting outside talking about the undertaker and stone cold Steve Austin going at it. Like that Bryan: So I'm talking about. Jason: shit was real. And they were arguing with one another. Like fixing to go fist to cuffs over Steve Austin and the undertaker. Bryan: I'm laughing because I you Jason: You see what I'm saying? It's the same damn shit. Or like me and you going ham bone at each other about the Saints and the Bears playing. We ain't, we ain't got no money in that. We're not making money off them teams. We don't have any buy into that other than watching them. Bryan: I I was telling Jennifer the other night, I said, Some of these people are are just like wrestling fans. I mean, they wanna fight over their favorite wrestler, knowing that their wrestler is fake. Jason: Yes. Bryan: They wanna fight over these politicians. These people are just telling you what d I I would assume that the definition of a politician is pretty much telling you what the fuck you want to hear to put me in office. If that isn't the definition, that's what it should be. Because that's all they fucking do. You know, I Can't say all of majority of them. We discussed that before. A lot of them probably go into office under good intentions. You can't stay in office on Yeah, you can't stay in office and under good intentions. Jason: Once they get in there, they get bought, man. You played that clip of Sean Ryan talking to that one guy. And he said that he had a friend that was going into politics and wanted the dude to donate money to help him out with his campaign. And he said, I can't do it because I know as soon as you get in there, you're going to get bought off. Bryan: But everybody wanted to believe that their man is gonna do right. Their man is the one. And we thought that of Trump. So that's why we're so critical of the man. Everyone knows why the that's why I'm critical of him. Because he was supposed to be different. You can compare him to any other politician. I don't give a fuck. He wasn't supposed to be compared to any of them. He was supposed to be different. Now, more people, like we were saying, will side with Trump over family and friends that may disagree with Trump. In their mind, Trump is doing everything for your well being, but your family and friends that may question what he is doing are traitors. People are choosing someone they don't know over people they've grown up with, spent most holidays with, people they have celebrated weddings and birthdays with, people they have sweat equity and grow going through life with. They're choosing a politician over these people. This doesn't make sense to me. It just doesn't. No, know how I am. Let's we're gonna put some numbers behind this. According to Pew Research, fifteen to twenty five percent of US adults have cut off at least one family member or friend over politics. A 2022 New York Times Siena poll found nineteen percent of voters said that politics hurt relationshi relationships in their life. According to another few research, in 2025, 56% of people stopped talking about politics with family and friends to save relationships. It was also stated in that that it that was mostly liberal families. Also from the Pew research, 80 to 90% of voters vote their party line no matter what. In twenty twenty four, ninety-five percent Republican and ninety-five percent Democrat voters backed their party presidential nominees. This is a huge fucking problem. I mean, we we tend to agree with politicians over our family friends. Everybody thinks they're right no matter what, both parties. It's not possible for them, for all of them to be right, all of their beliefs to be right. Someone has to be wrong. No one's willing to accept that they're wrong. They're so convinced that their party is the savior that they double down on their policies. They fall in line, push narratives while shouting down any opposition to the narrative, not with logic, but with talking points, they heard someone say. And I'm the dumb fuck. I'm the extreme leftist. I'm the reason that Trump is who he is and should should be struck down for supporting him. I am the sheep for not getting in line behind a political party. Make that make sense. Jason: No, I just expect whoever I voted in, expect them to do what they said they were going to do. I'd like to hold people to their word. Bryan: You should get what you voted for. They're there to serve you, the fucking voter. That's the way it goes. Jason: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: If you think otherwise, you're wrong. Period. I don't understand. Jason: And then he gets, dude, he gets on Truth Social and post his damn Twitter thing saying that if you can't handle paying high gas prices and high grocery prices to keep Iran from getting a nuke, then go kick rocks. Bryan: He didn't say that, did he? Jason: Yes! Bryan: Not like that. That had to be like a a no, I'm I'm being serious. That had to be like par paraphrasing 'cause I don't think he would Okay, all right. I'm just making Jason: Well, yeah, no, no, he didn't say go kick rocks, but he said that it. Bryan: sure because somebody's gonna say he didn't say kick rocks You know what I'm getting? He said to get your ass out of the country or some dumb shit like that. Jason: Yeah, hold on. Bryan: Well, you remember what they were saying? A a short-term gain for a small short-term pain for a long-term gain. Short-term pain for long-term. Short-term pain. Like everybody was fucking saying it. They don't understand the short term pain for some of us is a lot. You know, we we don't have the money that these people have. No, we don't have fractions of the summon of money that these these people have. It's unbelievable. Jason: Keep going. No, I'm Bryan: You found it? All right. Jason: fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. And so I can say exactly what it was. Bryan: Alright, yeah, do that because I I I don't need anyone, you know, coming at me again about how stupid we are because we can't even read a post. So they pit us against each other all the time. You have to be part of a party, you have to vote with the fucking party. Why? Because if you don't, do you know what'll happen if the other party gets into office? Do you know? It's all over for us. I mean, both sides say that. That is what they always tell. All of us yet no matter who is in the fucking office, it's the same shit for us. The only thing that seems to change is who is getting rich from stealing our money. The they themes benefit from our fighting and we act like we won some fucking prize. Think about it. When has your life gotten any fucking better because someone went in office? Now yes, there may be some small changes, but where have we gotten better? They them want you to look at the new shiny thing they're talking about. But we have measurables that we can easily look at. Crime, poverty, drugs, education, your roads are just a few. How's any of that shit got better in your lifetime? Now here's what they don't want. If we all stop buying into this bullshit, it's over. It is over for they them and they can't afford that. That is why they them have us fighting and constantly reminding us that every election is the biggest one. The big talk now is don't talk bad about Trump. It's gonna hurt the midterms. If we love the mid, if we lose the midterms, we are done. Who the fuck? I mean, fuck you in the midterms. I really don't care. At this point, what does it matter? And I even hate to say this. Everyone believes that the well, everybody on the right believes that the Democrats in office, they're gonna blow this country up. Right? It is gonna tear this country down. If you're on the Republican side, you think that you're saving the country. That's the view from being a mostly conservative person. We're saving the country. If you look at it this way, you see the country as being slowly taken down by the Democrats and you working your ass off to try to save it. Right. So you had a slow burn while we're tearing this country down. At some point, should we not just say, just let the Democrats burn it down? And if they burn it down, we'll rebuild it? Jason: Right. Bryan: Or the Democrats be the same way. Look, we think the Republic is going to destroy it. Fuck it. Why we keep fighting something we can't win? Just let them burn down and then they lose all their power. I know it sounds stupid, but when they give you hope, you know, that something can change, that keeps you pushing for something that you can't fucking change. You know, it's kind of like at work. As long as I say this a lot at work, you have to fail to get what the fuck you need. They will not give you what you need until something starts failing. As long as you're making it work with what you have, you're gonna keep what you have and maybe less. As long as you can find a way to fucking figure it out. When you start failing, you start getting what you need. That's why people that do the less least amount of work are able to get everything they fucking want because they're not efficient. So they're getting them what they need to be efficient. When you efficient, they expect that shit out of you. Right? So you have to fail as a country to get what the fuck we need is basically where we're at right now. It's pretty fucking sad, but it's almost where we're at. All right. You found what you want. If not, I'm gonna go to cut two. Jason: No, no. Yeah. I keep going. I like, need to start saving this shit when I see it. Cause I don't want to misquote, but like he was just saying you're either in this with me no matter what. Like you're either a hundred percent on board with me or, or I don't care about you no more. Go. You're, you're not a true supporter. Bryan: it's weird, dude. Weird. All right. So I'm gonna go to cut to. Check this guy out. Added to Jason: Yes. Bryan: I don't see why we can't work together. It just don't make sense to me. Jason: Yeah, and I don't understand why we all can't have different opinions about stuff and still be respectful of one Bryan: Yeah. Jason: another. Bryan: I that's what makes you individual. And that's that's what I don't understand is people today people really think that they're they're leading and and they're doing something. And are they doing is following the trend? Are they following, you know, what the mass is doing? And I never understood that. But that gives them power because they don't want to be isolated, you know, they don't want to be that gazelles, you know, sitting over there. Not running with the pack. Jason: Well, you talk about walking around with blinders on. I mean, I can imagine following you. Like you're like, Hey, we're going to go over here. Okay. And I just follow you. And I start seeing stuff around us and I'm And I'm like, hold up now. I don't know if I'm down with this and stop. And we, we have a discussion. There's nothing wrong with that. That's how it should be. But you get people Bryan: Yeah, I might Jason: that just follow somebody and just totally ignore everything around them and just keep going straight. Next thing you know, you're in something that you don't want to be in. Bryan: Well, I I might know the area and I might be hey, look, you know, I'll come there all the time, you know, and and I can explain. And if you trust me enough, then you'll keep following me. If you don't have the trust, no, yeah. Jason: Right. Yeah, but if you don't say shit and I don't say nothing, then I'm just blindly being led, man. And I don't want to be like that because hell, Bryan: Exactly. No. No. I mean Jason: you could be blind too. The blind leading Bryan: Exactly. Jason: the blind. That's what we say. Bryan: Or, and this happens a lot, and this is why I ask a lot of questions. I might not realize what I'm doing wrong. I I might not see, it's not so much I'm blind. It's just all this became white noise to me, and I just want to get to this position. And you might see the danger in that position, and now you stop at me and questioning it. That's what you need in life. That's how you survive, that's how you get stronger. Jason: Yeah, right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Yeah, I don't know. Know what you're gonna All right, so now it is reported by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that Trump wants to declare that the war is over to protect the midterm. If you're new to this world and not sure what we're talking about, here's a quick summary. There was a war between the United States and Iran that started in late February 2026. This war was supposed to be short. Trump said it would be over in two to three days. Well, guess what? It wasn't. Jason: Seven months later. Bryan: We're going into month seven of this three-day war operation conflict, whatever you want to call it. Ships in the Strait of Hormoose keep getting hit. All prices went up. Gas at the pump costs more, and most Americans don't like the war. Polls showed that roughly 31% of Americans approved the war and 63% disapprove. And the midterm elections are November 3rd, 2026. Republicans hold thin. Majorities in Congress and are nervous this unpopular war plus higher energy prices will cost them seats. According to reporting from the Wall Street Journal and Rutter in this past week, Trump had privately talked with AIDS about just declaring the war being over. He likes the idea, especially before the election, because it could take the issue off the front page and maybe ease pressure on gas prices. His team wants to keep the fighting quiet until after November so it doesn't wreck Republican campaigns. After the election, they might turn the military pressure back up, one official said. Basically, we're still squeezing Iran, but November comes first. You can't make this shit up. Jason: I Bryan: Trump himself says out loud that the elections isn't affecting him. He keeps saying Iran can't have a nuclear weapon and that he's not changing course because of politics. This is a weird war that we have going on. It's almost as if most both major countries in this war don't want to fight. But it just keeps going on tit for tat. It's like your your older brother hit you. So you hit him back. Well, he can't let you have the last lick, so he hit you again. So you hit him back. You know, back in the day, you you might have let your older brother get away with it because you know he could hurt you. But now you don't give a fuck. So we're gonna do this shit to we both felt enough pain and one of us quits. And that's basically where we're at. It's I d I don't understand. I'm again, I'm not supposed to understand it. I'm not in the Department of War, I understand all that shit. Well, you don't know what's going on. I I get all that. It don't make sense. Somebody explain to me exactly what we're doing. Well, they can't have a nuclear bomb. Okay, explain to me what we're doing. Just explain to me what we're doing right now that makes our lives better in the United States. That's all I need know. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And I don't know of anything, even a nuclear bomb. We saw earlier what Trump said, Well They would destroy Iran and after Iran they would destroy the Middle East and then they would destroy Europe and then they might destroy a couple of our cities, but then we'll take them out. Okay. Will we really let it get that far? Or Jason: No. Bryan: is it the whole problem is because with the fuck the first thing he said, they would destroy Israel, then they would destroy the Middle East. The first one he said is the problem. It because you can't make me believe that Iran would just nuke Israel tomorrow and then we wouldn't do anything. And then they would nuke and destroy the Middle East and we wouldn't do anything. We'd just sit back. And then they Jason: Yeah, like Bryan: would destroy Europe and we still wouldn't do anything. We would wait for them to come to the United States and bomb the United States, two cities in the United States, before we decide to do anything. And that's supposed to s Jason: Yeah, we'll give them two cities. Bryan: if we're gonna give two cities. That is some of the stupidest shit. For someone to even fucking say, yet alone hold their hat on and say, Yeah, that's why we need to be there. That's what Jehovah Trump said. That's why we it's stupid. It is just stupid. Sorry about that, I got Yes, they they they tell us this war is so Iran can't have nuclear weapons. And that might be the reason. But if that is the reason and it is so important for us to go to war, then why do the midterms matter? Wouldn't the Iranian threat that brought us to war be more important than an election? Right? Is that is Jason: Yeah. Bryan: that the logical sense? Jason: Yes. Bryan: So basically, they're gonna stop the war, let us vote, give us some cheaper gas. Jason: And then continue. Bryan: Yeah. They're gonna give us some cheaper gas by using Venezuelan oil and some cheap ground meat by getting us this new meat from somewhere all to help you. All for the betterment of you. This is all for you. Remember that. All of this is for the betterment of your life. None of this is to help the midterms. None of this is to help Israel. None of this to help anybody but you. Remember that at the polls, they're doing this for you. Jason: That's... They're just trying to get votes, Like it's... Bryan: No they're not, Jason. They love you. They love you. Yeah. Jason: next. I'm a dude there. And people are going to be like, God, look at them. Bryan: You're so stupid, you fucking idiots. Yeah. I told you Jason: I you, I told you, I told you. Bryan: I told you what trouble you you don't know. I ain't guys. It's all of That's the problem. It's all all politicians. Jason: Dude, I, I, no, hold on, hold on. Hold on. I could understand if we were a couple far left liberal, we don't give a shit who they put in there. Kamala, sleepy Joe. don't give Hillary. We don't care. We're voting for them just because I can understand people coming at us for dogging on Trump, but we voted for this dude. Bryan: That's the problem. Jason: How many times can people not understand? I voted for the guy three fucking times. Not Bryan: That's the problem. Jason: once. then all of sudden I'm having buyer's remorse. I voted for him all three damn times. Bryan: Problem. You are no longer Jason: You're allowed to complain when you voted for somebody and they got in office and they didn't do what they're supposed to do. You're allowed to complain about that. Bryan: How often do I talk about binary decisions? Jason: A lot. Bryan: This is what it is. This is why I talk about it. It's because everyone, what I'm gonna say, everyone, a lot of people, and especially what I'm seeing on social media now, only believe in binary decisions, except for when it comes to gender. So you either all the way for the left or you all the way for the right. If you fall in the middle, if you fall in the middle, you are on an island and Jason: Bullshit. You get busted on. Yes. Bryan: they don't want you there. That's why I was saying earlier. It it creates a problem because if you put enough pressure on somebody on why you think this, why that's gonna force them into one lane, right? If you're not if you don't have a strong enough mind. And is that by design? I don't know. But it could well be. I don't know, dude. I agree with you. I I I Jason: I'm just, yeah, I'm a... Bryan: agree with you. This was eye-opening as fuck to me to be in the middle and get so much shit from two different parties that I'm not I'm an independent. I'm not even a Republican. I've never been a Republican or Democrat. As 18 years old, whenever I registered to vote, I've registered as independent. I've always hated politics. The only reason I talk about politics now is because I see shit that I don't like. And people Are just blind to what it because they they put their blindness on because they can't be wrong. And I just if I can just reach one person, I'm not saying I'm always right, and that person reaches out back out to me and explains to me why they're right. And then you can start seeing you can both be right. You can. You don't have to be wrong just because I'm right, but that's what they want you to think. That's how they want Jason: Well, Bryan: to keep this. Jason: to me, if you're a, if, if I don't know what your circumstances, I know what my circumstances, but I don't know yours. And that's what you were getting at. This person might appeal to your circumstance more than he does mine. So you're not wrong. And I'm not wrong. And I never cared about politics because I didn't think it affected me. I just thought it was a bunch of dudes like on the Patriot with Mel Gibson, where they were in that thing right before they went to war and they're just screaming back and forth at one another and they weren't accomplishing shit. He got up and left. You know what I'm saying? You're not going to accomplish nothing sitting there yelling and screaming at one another. Can we not put our differences aside and come together and say, this shit ain't right? Bryan: The other thing I think that and I just thought about this, while politics might not have affected us as early as it did some people. We didn't have much of anything when we were younger. I mean, remember when we was in the car, we didn't have much of any so Jason: Yeah. Bryan: there wasn't really much that they could take from us. Right? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: We didn't have nothing invested in anything. We had nothing. What we lived for was for the day. We didn't Jason: Yeah. Bryan: have time to worry about what the fuck else was going on. Jason: No! Bryan: You know what I'm saying? We didn't care, but we didn't have time to care either. You know, when you really think about it, and what are you gonna take from us? We didn't have anything. Jason: mean, yeah, back then you'd be like, or if I said, Hey, Brian, what are we doing this weekend? You're like, dude, I'm worried about tomorrow. Not five days from now. mean, damn. Bryan: Yeah. And now you have a little something. It's not a lot, but it it's something Jason: No. Bryan: to you, but you don't want them to take it from you. You start to see why it matters. Jason: We didn't take vacations in the Corps. I mean, I went home on leave, but it wasn't a vacation. Bryan: Fuck yeah there was no such thing as I couldn't even afford to go to the fucking beach and we live by the beach. The fuck? Jason: Yeah. Yeah, we were 20 minutes from the beach and couldn't afford that shit. Bryan: Big Bear Mountain. What what what an hour and a half from us? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I never went to Big Bear Mountain. I just didn't have any money. You know what I'm saying? So Jason: I mean, you had to go, and I don't mind a dog on myself in my, my financial situation back then, but you had to go talk to the damn CEO about me going to fricking San Francisco with you. Bryan: Yeah. Then you didn't have to pay. Jason: No. It's like, yeah, I mean, we didn't have shit. Bryan: Yeah, it was it was it was ridiculous. And then that was a quick di And then just so everyone don't get it twisted and act like that was a good fucking it was an awesome trip. We went to watch the Saints play for Labor Day. But we went up there, we got a room, the next day we went and watched the Saints play, and then we drove all the way back. What it was like an eight hour drive, so we drove there Jason: Yeah. Bryan: eight hours, got a fucking room, slept, got a fucking watched the game and just drove straight back. That's how our weekend Jason: Yeah. Bryan: was. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: So it wasn't like we got out there and we went to explore San Francisco. Yeah. We didn't have money to do all that. And we stayed in the Jason: No. Yeah. Bryan: same room with our wives. And but we enjoyed ourselves. I'm not going to say we didn't enjoy ourselves at all. But the my point is, is when you Jason: Right. It wasn't a vacation. Bryan: yeah, when you don't have anything and you're really not getting anything from the government, the politics don't really mean anything to you. Jason: No. Bryan: It just don't. All right. Tomato tomato. If you haven't heard, we're getting some beef from other countries to help us with grocery prices. Jason: Mmm. Bryan: We're getting three hundred thousand tons of beef over the next three months. Over the next three months. What's three months from now, Jason? Jason: Holy shit, December? Or no, Bryan: I was gonna be Jason: no, no, it's September, October, November. Yeah. Bryan: November. What's in November? Jason: the primaries. Bryan: The midterms. Jason: Or midterm primaries. Yeah. Bryan: So we're getting the midterms of November and we're getting just enough beef to last us for three months to get us through the midterms. Again, this is for you. This is to make sure that your hamburger helper can be cooked. All right. We're looking at getting 661 million pounds of beef from other countries. For what I found, some people say Argentina, but I found I can't find exactly from Argentina. What I did find is we don't know which countries because it's an open market, first come, first served. And I and this is something else I found out by looking into this shit. And I was gonna talk about it last week, but I have enough information. Is that I don't know if you knew this. Beef and pork do not have to put the country of or origin on their labels labels when it's packaged. Did you know that? I didn't Jason: Yeah, I did know that, no. Bryan: know that either. Now in in the here in the state of Louisiana, there's a requirement for that. So if you get seafood or something, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: is a s you know, country of origin. And it helps our fishermen. I think our fishermen appreciate it. I Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: assume. assume that the farmers would appreciate that too. I don't know any farmers, but I assume that cattle ranchers would appreciate the same that put the country of origin on it and it might help them pick up on, you know, some of their beef being sold. Now it's also stated that the imported beef is supposed to be sold 25% below the market price. Ground beef was averaging $6.89 a pound in July. I remember when ground beef was like 89 cents a pound and 99 cents a pound. I'm old. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: $6.89 a pound. Jason: We'd see it for like over a dollar, we'd be like, damn man, that's expensive. Shit, we'll have to eat tuna fish Bryan: Damn like smoky. Damn. Jason: this week, damn. Bryan: We're getting that it i i so I just told you we're getting six hundred and sixty one million pounds of beef, right? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: We're not exactly getting the prime beef. We're getting six hundred and sixty one million pounds of extra lean beef trimmings. Beef trimming. Jason: Extra lean trimmings. Bryan: They expected most of it to come from Brazil starting now through November, advertised as twenty-five percent cheaper. According to most economists and ranch industry analysts, there will likely be only a modest drop at the meat counter. Also, I read ranchers hate it because it hits cattle prices right when they're trying to rebuild their herds. You got a friend that's a cattle rancher. He said anything about this? Jason: Yeah. he told me the biggest thing is, is you can't get your, the younger generation isn't wanting to take up in the cattle farming. That's what the problem is. That's what he's telling me. But he hasn't Bryan: But you haven't Okay, 'cause I was reading Jason: told me anything about that. haven't out. I'll talk to him probably next Friday and I'll try to, if I remember when we do our podcast next week, I'll. bring it up and just say, for an update, I talked to my cattle buddy and he said this. Like Bryan: Yeah, I could Jason: with them import and all this stuff. And I'd like to know how they import that. Is it already processed and they got it in freezer containers? Is it? Bryan: It it I I got a guy is gonna explain some of this shit. 'Cause I don't know anything about ranching. Having said that, I have to ask this question. Does this look like America first? Jason: Now. Bryan: Okay. I didn't think it did either. But he's gonna give you this is what it looks like to me. I I hate to even say this, but this is what it looks like to me. This is looks like he's he's pandering to us poor people. If he can get us some cheap ground meat, you know, to drop Jason: Wubba Wubba Bryan: up this so we can have our hamburger helper, we might go out and vote for him. You know. We might not be able to afford steaks and shit, but if we can get some cheap ass ground meat so we can have our spaghetti, not a hamburger helper. You know, that that that's all we need as you know, as white trash people. And we'll go out and vote for Jason: Well this white trash had bacon, eggs, and toast for dinner tonight before we got on here, so I had breakfast for dinner. Bryan: So you don't need to ground me? Jason: We haven't been, we used to buy Bryan: I don't eat Jason: a cow. We used to go quarter, we'd go half a cow with another guy because then you get all the steaks and then we split it up between the two of us. Because if you do a front or a back half, you only get certain cuts. So we would get the whole half and then split all the steaks up and the hamburger and all that. And the burgers are excellent. Bryan: I like the back ass. Jason: Yeah. The back half. Yeah. So the burgers excellent. When you buy fresh butchered hamburger process, you know, right there at that place you're getting it at, it's good stuff. But it's Bryan: So you you Jason: better than Walmart and all that other stuff. Yeah. And you could notice Bryan: You don't think this Jason: a big difference. Bryan: this beef trimming that we get, you don't think there's gonna be some good stuff? Jason: I don't... I... Bryan: You what I'm thinking of when I hear this beef chimney? You know them big old tubes of fucking ground meat that you see. Jason: yeah. Bryan: That's what I think of when I hear that. It's like Jason: or Taco Bell meat. Bryan: that's not even meat. I mean, we're not even gonna go with that. I mean, that that's not that's not even close. I can't Jason: I know. Bryan: eat Taco Bell anymore. Taco Bell used to be the thing for me. Now I love Taco Bell. What they have today isn't that's that's not even close to being meat. Here's a rancher talking about the emulsified meat. This is from Tucker. But yeah, throwing some emulsified meat in a bat, mixing it all up, churning it up. There you go. There's your cheap meat. Jason: There you go. It's like government cheese. Now it's government beef. Bryan: Yeah, I think I'd take a chance with government cheese. It used to be. That's Jason: They say government cheese is good as hell, but yeah. Bryan: the only thing that's the only cheese you can throw in a skillet and fry it without fucking worrying about it. You can actually fry the cheese. Jason: Yeah. Burning it. Yeah. You fry it to cheese. You don't even burn it. No, I just chadgbt'd Bryan: It was hard to cut that cheese. Jason: how we import it and it is, so supposedly it says it's processed over in that country that we import it from. And it's, it's supposedly heavily inspected knowing it's going to go to the U S so it's almost inspected like RFDA would inspect it. And then it's packaged and frozen and shipped over. and refrigerated or frozen containers. And then once it hits the United States, it's inspected again by the FDA. Then it goes to the stores. And it is, Bryan: I don't know, but Jason: is leaner beef because it's grass finished and not grain finished. America does more grain finished beef, which produces more fat and marbling. So, but they said hamburger, you don't notice the taste as much, but on a steak, you're probably going to notice a taste difference. Bryan: But we're not getting any steak. We're getting ground meat. We'll do the brown chicken and I I like some brown chicken now. See y'all y'all keep knocking Jason: Cause it's leaner. Yeah. We're doing that brown chicken. We're doing the brown chicken and the ground beef. Yeah. And some ground beef. Bryan: on chicken down. Y'all can't knock on chicken chicken's good, man. Jason: Well, I guess I'll just get my meat grinder thing out and throw chicken in the meat. I got all that damn chicken we killed. Bryan: Tell you man, you take especially Jason: that's good stuff too, man. I've had some of that already. Had chicken pot pie with it. I think I told you that I made a chicken pot pie with that chicken. It was good. You can tell the difference between that, that Bryan: The yard bird boy? Jason: yard bird baby, that yard pimp. Bryan: All right, so now let's let's look at something else they're gonna give us. we're gonna be getting more oil from Venezuela. I don't know if you knew that. This one. Jason: Well, I thought that was the whole point of us doing what we did Bryan: No, Jason: over there. Bryan: well, that w might have been the whole point, but we didn't actually have what this is what we have now. This is this let me explain this. US government is taking a thirty-five percent claim in the North American Blue Energy Partners oil production in Venezuela. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Right? So the US government is. The stake sits at the Department, the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital, an investment arm of the Department of War, which I had no idea what this shit was. So the White House says that the OSC, the Office of Strategic Capital, gets a 35% interest in that North American Blue Energy Partners Oil Ship. Plus, they get veto power overboard appointments and a rule that a majority of directors must be U.S. citizens. The State Department separately gets the right to buy twenty percent of oil at cost. This is something else I just don't make sense to me. I don't understand how the government owns stake in oil fields. I I tried to read it and I tried it just I no matter how I read it, it just don't make sense to me. Not that I can't understand it. I don't understand how a fucking government, our government owns all rights in another motherfucking country. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: We signed a we signed off on a hundred year rights deal. to seventeen oil fields with about sixty five billion barrels of proven reserves in these oil fields. That in another motherfucking country. The only thing I can think of It's back in Iran in nineteen fifty three. And you might remember, but just in case any of our listeners don't remember, I'm gonna explain that real quick and tell me if this don't sound the same. Britain, I'm gonna do this real quick. Britain had Iran all rights. And Iran took them back in 1951. Then in 1953, the CIA and MI6 created a coup that took the oil rights back from Iran and put their puppet in charge of Iran. Then the Iranian people in 1979 overthrew their Western implant government and took Iran and its oil back for the Iranian people. And the U.S. has been punishing Iran ever since. This to me sounds very similar to what we did to Iran back in 1953. We went in there and we we took Maduro out. I'm not saying Maduro was a good person. I don't know Maduro. I don't know what the fuck he did. I'm just saying we went over there and we took the son bitch out. We put somebody in there that we wanted. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And now we worked a deal with the person that we wanted to get the all Jason: to get that oil. Bryan: rights of Venezuela given to us. I'm going to play a couple videos. I'm going to show you opposing sides just because this it I'm conflicted in my mind with this. Yes, I want us to be able to help the United States. First of all, I don't know why we're not drilling more in the United States. that just don't make sense to me why we got to go to another country to get this oil. especially oil that they said is hard to process because it's heavier. again, I'm not privy to the information. I get all that. It don't make any sense to me. But I'm gonna show you two different ways on how this is being spun. The first was Al Jazeera on Venezuelano. So I'm sure they had the Venezuelan people's best interest in mind, just like they have ours, right? They're doing it for them. I don't Jason: Yep. They are. Bryan: I don't think they're doing it for anyone else. And Jason: It's all for the people. Bryan: I think it's great if they if they build up Venezuela and those people can make money with using their own all and it they become a rich country and shit. More power to it. That's good. Jason: Yeah. Yep. Bryan: It don't look like that's what we're doing. But here's the Nest D'Souza. He's gonna give you a defense for Trump. You sold now? No. Nas soul. Jason: No, no. Bryan: I watched a few videos, I read a lot, and it honestly, not only the oil is a big win for the United States, many of those fields used to belong to Chinese and Russian operators. So we're also taking oil away from them. I don't know if Russia needs them, but I know China would need them. So I had no idea that we can just take an oil field on another country. I just Jason: We just take shit, dude. Bryan: Yeah. And again, it it was a good idea 'cause China, at least China and Russia is not gonna get them all. And that's one way to look at it. Jason: Is that a good thing? Bryan: I don't know. I I think, in my opinion, and I don't know all the details, just basically know what us just showed you and what we talked about, is if we worked with the Venezuelan people, helped them get on their own feet, and you know, they started working back with us and they were prosperous, I think we would look great to the rest of the world because we're helping someone. I Jason: Right. Yeah, if we're helping them expand and flourish, that's fun, but we're getting a lot out of this too. Bryan: yeah. But we're helping It's for it's all for their better good. You know, all for it's all for the best. This looks like the fucking Iranian coup in nineteen fifty three is what it looked like. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Be it maar. Jason: Maybe we learned our error of what happened in Iran with that, so we can make sure this time it don't happen. Bryan: I don't know. As long as that lady stays in power, they have somebody in power that, you know, it works with us, it's gonna be fine, at least for us. I don't know how well it's gonna work for the Venezuelan people. I I I don't know any Venezuelan people to actually be able to go ask them and say, How is this working out? I would assume that their life is maybe a little better now. That we took Moderno out since he was such a bad person. I would assume that if he was that bad of a person, we pull him out of their their life had to get better. Is it going to continue getting better now that we're going to be taking their oil? I I don't know. Are we really taking it? Are we just investing it in their country? Jason: taking their manhood. Bryan: Yeah. And we're clipping their nuts. Well, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I guess we did when we took Maduro out and put a woman in. Not that a woman can't leave, but I guess it would be technically you're clipping his nuts. You you took him out and put her in. Jason: Yeah, no kidding. Bryan: All right. You got anything else? I think that's about all I got on this one. All right. Well, thanks everyone Jason: Nope. I'm good. Bryan: for joining us tonight. It was a pleasure spending time with you until next time. This is the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I'm Brian. Jason: Nah, I'm Jason. Bryan: He's Jason. Peace.