Trump’s first 48 hours. TikTok bans. DEI drama. And falling iguanas? Welcome to Stay in the Gray—where politics meets absurdity, and nuance refuses to die.
In this episode, Ryan dissects the messy middle of America’s biggest controversies. From the Paris Climate Accord and January 6 pardons to viral celebrity backlash and jawbreaker injuries in Canada, nothing is off-limits.
You’ll get heat, humor, and a full buffet of topics no one else wants to touch. It’s chaotic. It’s cultural. It’s deeply unserious—until it’s not.
🎙 Chapters:
00:00 - Paris Accord & Climate Hypocrisy
00:32 - TikTok Ban + National Security
06:21 - Listener Feedback & Celebrity Drama
21:08 - Trump’s First 48 Hours + Immigration Fallout
31:27 - DEI, Civil Rights & Corporate Compliance
42:08 - Foreign Aid + Election Controversy
45:00 - Wrap-Up
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$0.00, China and India, why are we paying in this Paris accord
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needs $2.5 billion or something to be in it each year.
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Maybe we're paying this not something.
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We're not benefiting from it. Other people aren't contributing
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and they're the ones that pollute the most.
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This is supposed to be a pollution solution.
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The guy did that. The court, he's out.
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We're not doing it anymore. We're not footing the bill.
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We can do our own research on climate.
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We can do our own programs. TikTok was going to be banned
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and within 24 hours of the ban in the United States, within 24
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hours, Donald Trump came in and and said, hey, let me get into
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office and we'll figure it out. And he basically got the ban to
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be delayed for 90 days. I think I somewhere I read 75.
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But either way, it was a couple month delay so that he can get
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in there and kind of investigate, try and get it
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sold. Who Americans where we didn't
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have a concern of a security breach to the Chinese.
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And now I'm hearing a rumor that he's going to go back on that
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and that unless he can get a buyer, he has to just let this
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go because he's not willing to sacrifice national security.
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Welcome to stay in the great podcast.
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We explore news that gets people talking by blending comedy and
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controversy. I'm Ryan and I'm Trey.
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Together, we dive into tough topics with a combination of
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humor and some insight to join us as we navigate the Gray areas
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of the world and we're engaging in real conversation.
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Come get to know us. All right.
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Good afternoon, January the 23rd, 2025 and off we go.
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I'm not even going to hesitate. I'm going to jump right into
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this and this is serious and I'm getting tired of it.
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The band Silversun Pickups, I I love their music a lot.
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I mean, I think the guy, you know, probably gets a hard time
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about sounding like Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins,
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which he does. But something about that voice
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apparently gets people liking them because they've done fairly
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well. Well on their social media post,
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I believe it was Facebook, Silverstone pickups posted the
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following on the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated.
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They said, quote, if any of you, let me preface, this was a Kurt
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Cobain quote from way back in the day.
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So this Kurt Cobain and it had nothing to do with this, but
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they're using it on Inauguration Day.
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It says if any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a
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different colour. Or women, please do this one
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favor for us. Leave us the fuck alone.
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Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.
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And it was Kurt Cobain that was his quote on the inside of an
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album called Incesticide, I believe.
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I don't understand why this narrative is continuing to be
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pushed. I miss doing a show that had
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nothing to do with all of this bullshit.
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I miss having my Co host Trey here to talk about funny crazy
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stories, to talk about crazy deaths, fun facts, things like
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that. Humanity as a whole rather than
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this spitfest that's happening and shit like this from the
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Silversun Pickups is going to continue to divide it and to
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divide us, people who voted for Donald Trump, which is what this
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is. Don't tell me that it was a
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coincidence. It was on Inauguration Day.
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People like this or the problem. I voted for Donald Trump, as did
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a lot of people that I know. And not one of us has any
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problem with the people mentioned here, homosexuals,
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people of a different color, and women.
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To continue to spout this and to spew this nonsense, it's
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insulting. These people are clearly
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misinformed. They have taken a narrative that
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celebrities, if you will, musicians and Hollywood has
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taken for years now. Fortunately, a lot of them are
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coming out and understanding that it's a bunch of bullshit.
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These guys haven't yet and I I think they're irrelevant
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anymore. I haven't, I haven't heard any
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of them do anything. But I'm not trying to bash them.
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I'm just telling you like it is. It's first thing I've seen from
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them. So anybody that has this notion,
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give me an example. If you believe what the
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Silversun Pickups are saying and that that people that voted for
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Donald Trump and Trump himself or racist don't like homosexuals
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and don't like women, tell me why you think that.
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Give me an example. Nobody can do it.
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Tell me why. How using an example why Donald
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Trump or his followers are racist is every single person
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out of the however many 10s of millions who voted for him.
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Maybe there is in there somewhere, I don't know.
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But to lump us all together like that is insulting and it's just
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wrong. And everybody's going to listen
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to you and they're going to go, Oh yeah, fuck, fuck these guys.
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And we're going to continue to have the division.
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You're just wrong about it. Give me an example and and I'll
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be quiet. Just one.
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Nobody can do it. I'm done talking about that.
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I just wanted to get that out of the way really fast because it's
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infuriating. It's infuriating to want what's
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best for this country, wants what?
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What's best for my family. And to come to to conclusion on
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what that is, to exercise my right to vote as an American and
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to have people with the platform falsely accuse you of being a
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certain way is just unbelievable to me.
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So hopefully everybody starts to kind of push these this this
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notion out, you know, be frustrated with me.
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There's nothing wrong with that. These people need to know that.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and just listen to it anyway.
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Let's let's go to butt her comments to the show real fast.
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I, I was pushing this to the end, but this one's really good.
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And, and, and it's, it's some foreigner, no picture Stormy
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something. And she's, she didn't tell me
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where she's from. It's not on her page.
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She's, you know, one of these behind the screen, you know, big
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shots that comes out. And, and she got really
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frustrated because I was talking about the idea of Greenland, the
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idea that Donald has to go at least investigate the Panama
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Canal. And man, she let me have it.
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So I'm going to this is just silly.
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So has America gone more insane than it previously was for the
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past 70 years of warmongering and destruction?
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I can't spell because she's doing the coded words I couldn't
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read. Would you like the rest of the
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world to just stop breathing so you can have the planet all to
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yourself with I can't even read it.
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Would that just about solve your insecurity issues?
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I didn't know an actual country could have insecurity issues but
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maybe the people in it. But you could then have a civil
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war fight amongst. Reserves till there's nothing
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left. Riddle me this, every country
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that has a long range of missile is a threat to every other
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country who either does or does not have a missile.
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So what's the point? The point is we are verging on
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nuclear war. First one to fire one will be
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their last. America doesn't have a security
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issue. America is the world security
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issue. Your country is nearly
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$38 in debt, which I think they meant trillion.
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I know somebody has 38 million in their bank trillion.
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I'm going to go ahead and say in debt, whole states are
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absolutely broken. The country has more issues like
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homelessness, uncontrolled borders and a den of inequity
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with sex trafficking, drugs, cartels, etcetera, etcetera.
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I don't I don't disagree with you.
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We'll get back to that. So bug off America, leave other
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countries alone. We're all sick to death of
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America and it's going to fall. Well, Stormy, I don't agree with
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you on pretty much everything. The only thing I agree on is
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that we do have some some domestic issues here, like the
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borders, like sex trafficking, like drugs, probably from
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foreign countries. That's our issue.
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So you can sit there in your other country and start thinking
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about it all you want, but until we keep this just Americans, we
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do have these issues. And it's not just legal
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immigrants, people. It's we have the issues here,
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but why add to it? This is just silly and I, and I
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read it because it's silly. Yes, we've been involved in
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wars, but we've also been involved in in protecting other
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countries, in defending them. We've also paid for all your
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shit. That's one of the things that
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we're not doing anymore. We're getting out of things that
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the countries will pair the pay their fair share or they'll be
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tariffed, sanctions, tariffs, all these things and they will
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pay. People go, oh, they're not going
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to pay and then we get hit. No, they'll pay.
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They need us as much as this person doesn't like it.
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They need us and and the United States has has in our short
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time. Do we over police the world?
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Perhaps, but you know what you take the good with the bad.
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And now we're going to pull our how about we pull everybody out
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and see how you do. Maybe you'll do great.
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Some of you might, some of you might not, but this you're all
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sick to of America. Don't watch our movies, don't
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listen to our music. Don't do anything.
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If you're sick of married, just don't.
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And of course you get people. Oh fun.
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That's easy bullshit. You you use our innovations
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everyday. Stop with the anti America
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stuff. We have issues here like
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everybody else does, but the world isn't helping.
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The world's a pain in the ass. It's like a bunch of little step
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brothers who just annoy the shit out of you.
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We love you all. I hope you're listening, but
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it's not going to fall. We're not going to fall.
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In fact, I'm I'm encouraged that we're going back in the right
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direction finally. But this is just with everything
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we have going on in this country, to hear anti American
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rhetoric, it's just it this makes me laugh.
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You're unfamiliar with American politics.
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You're somewhere else. You just don't know.
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Yeah, If anything, right now, if you to character research, you
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care to listen to the current commander in chief, you would
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know that he's against the wars. He wants to stop the wars.
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Perhaps our other administration didn't.
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I'm not going to argue with you there.
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We funded a lot of these these countries.
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We've helped them. We've given aid to them,
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including Ukraine. So if you're going to sit here
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and tell me that we're like this, then you need to condemn
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us for giving money to Ukraine. Or when it gets to that point,
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are you unwilling to do that because poor Ukraine?
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So there's a bit of. Hypocrisy when we talk about
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these issues, but that I I just had to read this to everybody
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and you know I responded right below it just to make this light
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hearted it is. What kind of a moron is this
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idiot talking about me lies on top of lies.
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Well douche, guess what? I didn't say anything that I
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claimed to be fact in that clip that you commented to.
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There's no lie. All I said was we should
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probably check this out. If China's has anything to do
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with Panama Canal, if there's something that the US has every
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right to based on the agreements is happening, we need to check
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it out. What's that?
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How is that a lie? I'm a moron and an idiot in one
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sentence. So, you know, laugh if you
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agree, laugh if you don't. Yeah, these people are are
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funny. I just don't know why you
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stopped by and just to just to tell me that you took time out
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of your day and your life that you can't get back to tell
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somebody this and somebody that doesn't give a shit.
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So good luck to you. All right, let's go on.
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Let's have some fun. I haven't done this in a while
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and this is going to be crazy news.
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Excuse me, I miss crazy news. I, I hadn't done it in a while
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because I've been focused so much on these ceasefires in Gaza
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and Ukraine war and Trump's inauguration and things like
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that, that, you know, there's stuff happening around, you
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know, we're not a news channel. We, I like to tell you stories
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about humanity. And what I mean by that is I'm
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fascinated by our species. There's always something going
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on that you don't hear, you're not going to hear because it's
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not pop culture or it's not politics or it's not a news
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story from down the road on your local news.
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So when I research and I find these stories, I want to share
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them with you and I hope you hope you like them.
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So there's a Canadian business student.
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Kudos for being a business student.
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We need more of that. Although she's in Canada, which
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much to some people's chagrin, might be part of the United
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States pretty soon. Her name is Javeria Wassam,
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She's 19. She's in Toronto.
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This genius got the bright idea to bite into a three inch
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jawbreaker, claiming it wouldn't be as hard as people thought and
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that it would be. The name was misleading of the
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candy. She immediately felt her jaw
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began to hurt and a tooth became loose.
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X-rays show she had two fractures, 2 fractures in her
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jaw. She required surgery to wire it
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shut for six weeks before the surgery.
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She said I'll probably never try jawbreaker again.
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All my bottom teeth are messed up.
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It wasn't a smart decision. If this is Gen.
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ZI don't have they already switched to a different 1?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Gen.
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Z or this generation, man, we're in trouble.
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It's a it's a it's a jawbreaker. It's 3 inches.
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I don't even know they had that. Don't bite into 3 inch
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jawbreakers, people. Good luck to you Javeria, and
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enjoy your liquid diet for the next six weeks in Pataskala, OH,
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I think that's how you say it. People in Ohio correct me if I'm
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wrong. There's a Christmas Day incident
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where family members call to check on their 75 year old
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family member. Grandmother to some, mother to
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some, likely a sister to some. But her name was Rebecca
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Westergard and police found her dead on her property.
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Apparently she was mauled and eaten by two pigs.
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And again, reminiscing in the old days when people used to
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laugh people used to yell at me for laughing at these things
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loud. Trey and I would you just you
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can't make it up. A lady was eaten by pigs.
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Apparently they were the neighbors pigs and authorities
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are not sure if charges are going to be filed yet because
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they're livestock. They're not pets.
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So the quote was this is not something we've ever dealt with
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before. Well, sure, you live in town of
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Ohio. You don't anticipate pigs eating
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you. Only two of them.
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She was 75 years old. So I don't know, maybe they were
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big pigs, but just I don't know. I, I just a woman was eaten by
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pigs on Christmas Day. You can't make it up now.
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In honor of my esteemed Co host Trey.
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So this one, we're going to go to Florida and his favorite
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state. He thinks everything weird
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happens in Florida. I don't disagree because this is
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what's called falling iguana season.
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In Florida. They've named it as the
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temperatures drop and in Florida it doesn't get that cold.
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But for iguanas, apparently it does is it drops along the Gulf
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Coast. The cold stuns the iguanas, and
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they're likely to lose their grip and fall.
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From the trees. Well, these iguana, let me tell
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you, can get up to be 5 feet and up to 25 to 30 lbs might not
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sound like a lot, but if it's falling from a tree and it lands
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on you, it's not going to feel good likely.
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But they're, they said be careful because they appear to
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be dead, but they're just sleeping.
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So that's the warning that it says they can be very defensive
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when they wake up and warm up. Plus their poop can contain
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salmonella. Look, stay away from trees
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overhead in Florida in case folly iguanas defecate on you
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and give you salmonella. That's the story.
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All right, here's here's the last story.
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And this one is in Finsbury Park in north London.
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This is a disabled man. And this is kind of sad for this
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guy. So let's turn off the funny pigs
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eating women, things like that. Iguanas falling.
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This poor guy is a disabled man. He's 56 and he has something
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called nail Patella syndrome which is joints and he can't
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bend his arms out and it causes them to kind of, I guess lock up
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in place was my understanding. And his neighbors saw him
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arrested at his front door by 6 London police officers.
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There's some stuff going on in London right now with police
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officers arresting people for Facebook posts.
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I don't know what's going on in London and and in England as a
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whole, but this is a this is a different deal.
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Apparently he was wrongfully accused of masturbating at a
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woman, they call it on a bus, Wrongfully accused.
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So I'll jump to the end and tell you he was wrongfully accused.
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But his neighbors saw him being arrested and they heard what it
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was and why. Guess what he was as he's been
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assaulted, he's been teased, he's been attacked, he's lost
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his job, he was evicted from his home, and most importantly, he
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was banned from his favorite pub.
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All for this mistake by the police.
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He said the following they did no investigating.
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The description of the guy was 6 feet tall.
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I'm 5 feet 5 foot 8. He was fat.
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I am the slimmest person alive. These police are horrible
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people. I would be upset too, I'm not
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going to lie. Anyway, he he said at some point
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he he's been a harass attack. Like I said, he was actually
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struck over there with a bottle. They showed pictures of his
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scars and not only that, but the handcuffs that were on him for
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seven hours really had him in pain because of his condition,
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because of this nail, nail Patella syndrome that he has.
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I tell you what. And what was the last?
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Is he 7 hours like I said? And it wasn't long before the
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senior police chief or police officer, senior officer said, I
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don't think this is the guy. He doesn't look anything like
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the perpetrator. Like it.
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I don't understand how this many police officers until you get
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them. And did it take getting to the
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senior officer for there to be common sense?
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I don't know. But let me tell you what, if I
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went through all that, I would be pissed and I I would
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definitely press charges against this Police Department.
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I mean, this guy's life was turned upside down.
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So he won a case. He had an attorney.
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He got 5000 lbs which is about 6100 and some odd dollars.
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That's nothing these days, especially usually I don't like
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these frivolous, these lawsuits where people are trying to get
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money out of others just because and they try and milk it.
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However, I didn't milk it. I don't know what that was, but
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but this guy, I mean 5 dot that is low.
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He deserves more. So I don't know whether he
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claimed he, he said it in an interview.
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He said it's not about the money, it's about the principal
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blah, blah, blah. But man, what I mean, your whole
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life is like getting turned over and you need to live.
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You need rent, you need this, you need whatever.
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I just feel like five 5000 lbs was not not going to cut it
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here. So I hope he's doing better.
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But he says he still, he still gets heckled.
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He still walks down the street that and gets yelled at.
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It's like people, even though they know that he was the wrong
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guy, it doesn't matter. And then that sucks for this
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guy. So Brett Naylor, man, I hope, I
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hope it fades away and soon things will be better.
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All right, I didn't want to do this, but I'm going to do this
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because I, I feel like people need to know right now and I'm
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going to try and ease back out of politics.
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I, this isn't going to be just me talking politics.
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This is just me letting you know what Trump is doing right away.
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Some of it'll be me going, this is exactly what I was hoping
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for. And some of it will be calling
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him out and saying, Hey, this isn't I don't, I'm not a fan of
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this. Apparently, in case we haven't
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talked about it, TikTok was going to be banned.
00:21:47
And within 24 hours of the ban in the United States, within 24
00:21:51
hours, Donald Trump came in and and said, hey, let's let me get
00:21:55
into office and we'll figure it out.
00:21:56
And he basically got the ban to be delayed for 90 days.
00:22:01
I think I somewhere I read 75. But either way, it was a couple
00:22:03
month delay so that he can get in there and kind of
00:22:06
investigate, try and get it sold to Americans to where we didn't
00:22:11
have a secure concern of a security breach to the Chinese.
00:22:14
And now I'm hearing a rumor that he's going to go back on that
00:22:17
and that unless he can get a buyer, he has to just let this
00:22:20
go because he's not willing to sacrifice national security for
00:22:24
this app. And I don't disagree if there's
00:22:27
a legitimate national security issue, but at the same time, is
00:22:31
he going against what he said he would do?
00:22:33
And, and, and you get into some of this stuff.
00:22:35
And so, you know, I hope this this is not boring to you.
00:22:39
I hope this is basically a summary of, of what he's done
00:22:43
already in a couple of days. And it and so that you don't
00:22:46
have to go in there and go detail by detail.
00:22:48
This is not every executive order that he signed.
00:22:51
This is not every single piece of legislative that's, you know,
00:22:54
going through. This is the basic stuff on the
00:22:58
main issues. And I promise you I'm going to
00:23:01
slowly kind of ease out of this and we'll case by case as things
00:23:04
happen in in our world. Today's show, I just wanted to
00:23:08
give you some fun news, let you know what Donald's doing, bitch
00:23:12
about these people that continue to lump us all together, play
00:23:15
the race card and play the victim card and just kind of
00:23:17
take a step back. Manny, the, the last show with
00:23:20
Manny was fun. It's always good to to talk with
00:23:22
somebody with a different perspective, especially a
00:23:25
veteran like that who I respect, you know, 100%.
00:23:30
And now he works protecting children and churchgoers and
00:23:34
just a good dude. So we're back to me giving you
00:23:41
my thoughts on this. And so let's let's talk about it
00:23:43
real quick and we'll go from there.
00:23:46
So in his first 48 hours, this is what we've got.
00:23:49
So immigration, which is the big issue that he ran on the border,
00:23:54
is now protected by the military.
00:23:56
I think I read somewhere that he deployed 1500 more military
00:24:01
people down there. They're they're not messing
00:24:04
around. They're at the checkpoints.
00:24:06
They're this to that. He's not going to allow catch
00:24:08
and release anymore until your trial or anything like that.
00:24:12
He's not doing that. You're being held.
00:24:15
Of course, the big one was the deportation of illegal
00:24:17
immigrants. And there will be sanctions and
00:24:19
tariffs put on countries that are unwilling to take their
00:24:23
people back. And he just wants cooperation in
00:24:27
that regard. And then to continue the wall,
00:24:30
the one that's getting everybody riled up.
00:24:32
And this is the one that I think just maybe we should take a
00:24:35
little more time on is the idea of, you know, the Dreamers.
00:24:39
I think, I think this is the same people, but it's children
00:24:41
that are born here, but their parents are illegal here
00:24:45
illegally. And he's basically saying, Hey,
00:24:49
look, if if mom and dad aren't legal, then you're not legal,
00:24:53
That's that's going to cause an uproar.
00:24:54
I honestly stayed away 'cause I just, I knew what, what the
00:24:58
other side was going to say. They're looking for every little
00:25:01
thing he does and he's going to have to be under that microscope
00:25:03
as would Kamala or whoever from our end.
00:25:07
And but man, that one's tough because, you know, it's not the
00:25:12
child's fault. It is the parents fault for
00:25:15
coming here illegally. So a lot of people think, you
00:25:18
know, don't break the families up.
00:25:21
Who's priority here? So I'm not going to tell you
00:25:25
what I think because I I don't both sides.
00:25:28
I can see I can see the point because I am considerate I'm
00:25:32
compassionate. I I do care about people
00:25:36
contrary to what anti Trump people will say about us and
00:25:41
it's hard it's a hard decision. And so it these these laws are
00:25:47
not hard to implement and to to carry out.
00:25:51
I don't think anybody is like, screw these people.
00:25:56
I hope, I hope they suffer going back.
00:25:58
Like, no, keep the families together, come back and do it
00:26:02
the right way. Unless you've committed crimes
00:26:06
and then you can stay out further crimes.
00:26:08
You've already committed one by being here legally.
00:26:10
But if you've done more than that, then you need to stay
00:26:13
away. But that's tough because we've
00:26:15
always had that law. If you're born here, you're an
00:26:17
American and people, the problem is it's taken advantage of.
00:26:20
People will find a way here and and have a baby as ASAP.
00:26:26
So take that for what it is. And you know, it's definitely a
00:26:30
conversation to have and we'll see.
00:26:31
Well, I'll keep in mind, you know, we'll see what happens
00:26:33
and, and hopefully I can get somebody in here to debate me on
00:26:37
it and we can talk. So let's talk about
00:26:40
international trade. This is a big one for me.
00:26:43
There's no more being taken advantage of and that's this is
00:26:46
big to me. I this whole idea that the world
00:26:48
doesn't like us is the only reason they they wouldn't like
00:26:52
us with Donald Trump is because he's not let he's not taking
00:26:55
anybody's shit. And of course governments of our
00:26:59
quote UN quote allies are going to be pissed.
00:27:01
He's no longer footing your bill.
00:27:04
When I say that I about a lot of European countries who are not
00:27:09
paying their fair share, whether it's NATO, whether it's
00:27:12
whatever, and yet there's still defense.
00:27:15
We're paying for these things. And Donald said, Nope, not
00:27:19
anymore. Everybody needs to pay their
00:27:22
fair share. And if he has to impose tariffs
00:27:25
and sanctions, he will. And again, people will put these
00:27:29
countries will pay them. They need the United States.
00:27:33
I don't know why, you know, I root it down here.
00:27:36
Why would people want it to be anything different?
00:27:39
Why would people want us to be taken advantage of?
00:27:41
Why would people want us to give hundreds of billions of dollars
00:27:46
to another country just because I tell you why, It's because
00:27:51
it's not their money. It's the same reason they want
00:27:53
free this and free that and free this and free that.
00:27:56
It's not their money. They don't understand all these
00:27:58
things that they're crying for could be aided by government
00:28:02
money that's going elsewhere. So you can't have it all.
00:28:07
That's why when AOC came out with our green plan, it was
00:28:10
like, it's only going to cost 1/4 a trillion billion gajillion
00:28:14
dollars. And everyone's like, is that a
00:28:16
real number? Like not the one I just said her
00:28:19
number. It was still ridiculous.
00:28:20
It sounded like what I just did. And and it's just you, you just
00:28:24
can't pull up a number and and spend it.
00:28:28
You got to have the money somewhere and you can't attack
00:28:30
our wealthy. I won't get back into that.
00:28:32
So I just don't understand why people are like, yeah, I want to
00:28:35
be bent over by by all these countries.
00:28:37
You know, this is great. I just don't get it.
00:28:40
So he also created an external Revenue Service instead of, you
00:28:44
know, in addition to Internal Revenue Service.
00:28:47
This external Revenue Service is going to collect all of this
00:28:50
money from other countries, all these, whether it's the tariffs
00:28:53
and sanctions, whether it's payments for whatever.
00:28:56
And that he feels that's going to be needed.
00:28:59
And that's a good sign. And that's a good sign.
00:29:01
Everyone's like, Oh my gosh, this is good.
00:29:04
You start caring about our country again.
00:29:07
It it should be your family, your friends, your community,
00:29:12
your state, your country, and then the world, not world first,
00:29:17
world last, OK. It just it needs to be that way
00:29:22
that should that should get everybody riled up.
00:29:24
So he left a horrible groups, which gets gets me to climate
00:29:27
this Paris accord. I don't know the exact numbers.
00:29:32
I apologize. I don't I didn't memorize them.
00:29:34
But all you need to know is we're paying a shit load of
00:29:36
money and the number one and two polluters in this world are
00:29:39
paying zero money, $0.00 China and India.
00:29:46
Why are we paying in this Paris accord?
00:29:48
I think it's $2.5 billion or something to be in it each year.
00:29:52
Maybe we're paying this and and it's it's not something we're
00:29:57
not benefiting from it. Other people aren't contributing
00:30:02
and they're the ones that pollute the most.
00:30:04
This is supposed to be a pollution solution.
00:30:08
Like I did that a court. He's out.
00:30:11
We're not doing anymore. We're not footing the bill.
00:30:14
We can do our own research on climate.
00:30:16
We can do our own programs. Everybody said, oh, see, he, he
00:30:20
doesn't care about climate. That's not true.
00:30:23
He might not care about it as much as you do, but we can still
00:30:26
research with our own less frivolous spending anyway.
00:30:31
He wants to be energy independent.
00:30:33
He wants to drill, he wants to use the natural resources that
00:30:35
we have and be resource independent basically.
00:30:40
And you know, the other, I'm sorry, energy independent.
00:30:44
The other thing he wants to do in this regard is to get rid of
00:30:46
the windmills, those really big, ugly windmills.
00:30:51
And he gets so animated when when he talks about them.
00:30:55
They don't work very well. They're super expensive and
00:30:59
they're an eyesore. You go to this beautiful area
00:31:01
and all it is, are these these fucking windmills?
00:31:05
And it's just, it looks, it looks terrible.
00:31:08
It'd be different if they were just like super efficient and
00:31:11
inexpensive, but they're not either.
00:31:13
So, So these are the types of things that he's doing.
00:31:15
He wants to kind of clean things up.
00:31:17
He wants to get us energy independent.
00:31:18
He wants to get all these things.
00:31:20
He doesn't believe that we should go 100% away from our our
00:31:24
natural resources as of now. So here's another big one that
00:31:29
everybody's talking about these days and diversity.
00:31:33
We just talked about it with the fires DI hires, how they let not
00:31:38
them personally, because I don't believe it's their fault.
00:31:42
I believe these programs are at fault, but the hires they're
00:31:46
just being hired. What are they supposed to do?
00:31:48
Say no, I'm not going to do it because I'm only ADEI.
00:31:52
That's a whole different conversation.
00:31:54
But the diversity trends and civil rights.
00:31:56
So he's getting rid of the DEI programs, which it needs to
00:31:59
happen. This is, this needs to be merit
00:32:02
based, everything. Why would it be anything else?
00:32:06
I've given the plane the pilot example, I've given the
00:32:09
firefighter example. Why would you want somebody to
00:32:11
do a job they're less qualified to do than somebody else?
00:32:16
Make the programs part of training.
00:32:18
Make the programs part of education.
00:32:21
Make the programs for for these children that come up in
00:32:25
minority groups or less fortunate groups.
00:32:30
But when you're at a certain point, it's got to be merit
00:32:33
based. I just don't under everybody's
00:32:35
so wants to is so worried about offending and and this and that.
00:32:39
And it's not about that. We have to live.
00:32:42
We have to be safe. I hope some people are starting
00:32:44
to see it. I hope, I hope and and it's and
00:32:47
again, it's not because I have any problem with any of the
00:32:49
people listed. I have no problem with with
00:32:52
trans adults. We'll get into the topic of our
00:32:54
children if you want, but when it comes to being an adult, be
00:32:58
happy, do your thing, but that doesn't mean you're going to
00:33:01
jump to the head of the line over somebody who's more
00:33:03
qualified than you. I don't need you putting out my
00:33:07
fire of my house if you don't know how to do it as well as the
00:33:11
other person just because it happens to be a white dude.
00:33:15
I'm, I'm, I'm tired of this. It's stupid.
00:33:19
Somebody that can't carry a damn hose and can't do anything, but
00:33:23
at least they're a woman. At least they're a lesbian.
00:33:25
Come on. And I say that with much respect
00:33:29
for any lesbian. Get good train, be as good, be
00:33:35
as good, and I'll, I'll be all for it.
00:33:40
Excuse me. You know, he also doesn't want,
00:33:44
you know, this is the trans issue.
00:33:45
He doesn't want males to be in women prisons.
00:33:48
What do you think about that? He doesn't want males.
00:33:51
And it's similar to the bathroom issue, but he hasn't addressed
00:33:55
that yet as far as I as far as I know.
00:33:57
But prisons, detention centers, I mean, there's stories about
00:34:01
men that will go in there and they knock all these girls up
00:34:05
just because they, they identified it.
00:34:07
I mean, it might be, it sounds like a plan of just a horny
00:34:10
straight guy. I identify as a woman, I'm going
00:34:13
to go in there and bang all these girls.
00:34:15
It may that's the problem. Anybody can say they identify as
00:34:18
a woman and people are just like, oh, sure, we got to
00:34:21
respect that. You don't know these people and
00:34:23
how they're how, whether they're true or whether they're telling
00:34:26
a lie. So these types of things, this
00:34:29
is what Donald's cleaning up. It's not, it's not hate, it's
00:34:33
not he doesn't care about these people.
00:34:34
It's that you have to do it a certain way because you're you
00:34:38
care about everybody. The, the point 6.06, whatever it
00:34:44
is .6 of trans people. What about the other 99 point?
00:34:48
Whatever percent of people, you have to look after them too.
00:34:52
You can't look after them and forget about everybody else.
00:34:56
In case they are, they're offended.
00:34:57
They have to work together. And then of course, the big one
00:35:02
is recognizing 2 genders. That got everybody fired up.
00:35:05
I don't see a problem with it because it's mainly on passports
00:35:08
identification. Don't sit here and tell me
00:35:11
you're going to be that #17 gender that you've made-up and
00:35:14
we're going to do all these on the IDs.
00:35:17
Makes no sense. It would complicate passports.
00:35:19
It makes things fucking crazy on forms, on official documents.
00:35:23
No, we're all about the science people on that side until this
00:35:27
issue. This is science.
00:35:29
If you have a penis, you check mark male.
00:35:31
If you don't and you have a vagina and you check mark
00:35:33
female. There are extenuating
00:35:35
circumstances. I get that.
00:35:36
I understand there can be conditions where you have both,
00:35:40
I get it. But that's a case by case.
00:35:43
And it's so minor that there will be exceptions, exemptions,
00:35:46
however you want to do it. I'm sure there are are ways to,
00:35:50
to, to handle that. But just because I sit here and
00:35:52
say I'm going to be this, this gender over here doesn't mean
00:35:57
that everybody is going to rewrite all these forms and all
00:35:59
the how to keep track of our, of our citizens.
00:36:03
It just doesn't make any sense. And I don't understand why
00:36:05
saying that means that people don't like or don't support the
00:36:10
trans movement. That's not it.
00:36:12
Foreign aid in wars. Here's a big one.
00:36:14
Obviously stop the aid pending some reviews, of course, no more
00:36:19
aid. I just talked about it.
00:36:22
Zelensky's gravy train's over. The big one is Israel.
00:36:25
People are so angry here about our aid to Israel, except
00:36:28
Israelis. Israel needs to to act on their
00:36:30
own. They do.
00:36:31
And I think Donald's made that clear.
00:36:33
He already got a peace treaties pushed through.
00:36:35
He's trying to get one through for, for Ukraine.
00:36:38
He he posted the other day basically saying, come on, guys,
00:36:42
Putin is Zelensky. I'm going to have to act here.
00:36:45
I'm going to have to put sanctions on.
00:36:46
I'm going to have to do these things and, and you're not going
00:36:48
to like it. We'll see what happens there.
00:36:50
Something to keep our eye on. But the ceasefire, of course, he
00:36:54
already pushed the one in Gaza. And then then of course, the
00:36:57
he's always about China. He always wants to look at China
00:37:00
and make sure that if they need sanctions and tariffs as well.
00:37:05
And that's going to be the interesting one because I don't
00:37:08
know that they do. I think they do because and
00:37:12
everything you look at is made in China.
00:37:14
And I think that's, it's huge to be able to sell here and a ship
00:37:18
here. And so we'll see what happens
00:37:20
there as well. Nationalism, this is a small
00:37:25
one, but it's something that that I appreciate him doing.
00:37:29
He's he's going to rename and change the name back of a
00:37:32
mountain used to be called Mount McKinley.
00:37:35
And they changed it to Mount Denali.
00:37:37
This is in Washington, I believe, Washington state.
00:37:41
And it was named after McKinley, who was the 25th president.
00:37:43
And for whatever reason, I don't know exactly why, I can only
00:37:47
guess that this president said something or did something that
00:37:53
was very offensive to a group of people, likely white liberals,
00:37:59
but they renamed it. And so Donald said this is no,
00:38:02
McKinley was a great president. He Donald admired some of the
00:38:06
economic things he did. And it was named, why are we why
00:38:09
are we changing our history now? He left the the forest and the
00:38:14
park named Denali, which apparently is what the natives
00:38:18
used to call that that region. So it's a decent that's a fair
00:38:22
trade right there mountain for park and region.
00:38:27
So the death penalty. This is always an interesting
00:38:31
one, but but what Donald wants to do is similar to what he
00:38:33
wanted to do with Roe V Wade. He just wants to give it back to
00:38:35
the states. That's the main thing.
00:38:38
He is pushing the states to look into it, to make sure that
00:38:43
people aren't the inmates that have been sentenced to this,
00:38:47
aren't getting loopholes, getting off, getting out, which
00:38:51
is happening. And that if it's necessary that
00:38:55
a state wants to reimplement death penalty, that, you know,
00:38:58
there's some limits. Now, a state can only do so many
00:39:01
per year. Well, if you have more people
00:39:04
that are on death row, then you need to be able to, you know,
00:39:07
does that something you need to cap?
00:39:11
And as long as you're doing it the right way, then I don't
00:39:14
think so. And he agrees.
00:39:16
Some of you definitely don't. And that's that's fine.
00:39:19
Trey and I used to debate this one all the time.
00:39:23
And both of us kind of, I was for death penalty.
00:39:25
He wasn't. The only reason he wasn't was
00:39:26
because he felt like it was the easy way out.
00:39:28
He wanted them to have to supper for a while.
00:39:31
And I respect that. I respect that opinion as well.
00:39:35
And so you know that that's a good topic to to discuss the
00:39:38
death penalty. But I'm just again letting you
00:39:40
know some of the things he's doing.
00:39:41
The big thing, which this is the huge one.
00:39:43
This is the big one that everyone's freaking out about.
00:39:46
He freed hundreds of I say freed make should make you happy
00:39:51
because to me it's pardoned hundreds of the January 6th
00:39:55
people. Some are already in prison, some
00:39:58
are still being prosecuted. And he's claiming that it was a
00:40:02
weaponization of the federal government against its citizens,
00:40:06
the opposition, political, politically citizens, if you
00:40:10
will. And I'm, I don't know about this
00:40:14
and I'm going to admit it to you.
00:40:16
January 6th was not an insurrection in my opinion.
00:40:19
I it just wasn't, It would have been a lot grander.
00:40:21
I've said this. It would have been a lot more
00:40:24
intense. People would have brought a lot
00:40:25
more weapons. There would have been a lot more
00:40:27
death. This was just something that now
00:40:30
we're seeing doors were open for these people and and you get
00:40:33
people that are a little crazy. I'm not sitting here defending
00:40:36
what exactly what they did. What I'm defending is the people
00:40:40
that were in there and weren't doing anything.
00:40:42
They were just in there, OK, Find them, slap them on the
00:40:46
wrist and go. If there were people that had
00:40:49
different circumstances, then I think that needs to be
00:40:52
investigated a bit more than just a full pardon.
00:40:55
Some people aren't going to like me saying that, but come on.
00:40:57
I mean, there's nothing wrong with saying, all right, this guy
00:41:00
was threatening people or this guy was doing this or whatever.
00:41:04
If there was any kind of physicality used, if someone was
00:41:07
assaulted, I wasn't in there. I don't know.
00:41:11
But if, if, if the people were walking around and I so I can
00:41:14
someone were just taking pictures and just having a good
00:41:16
time really, you know, lock them up.
00:41:21
You want to because you want to believe this is like Trump thing
00:41:23
and you wanted to because it's Trump voters.
00:41:26
But no. So he let them all out.
00:41:29
And look, there's a response. I mean, Joe Biden pardoned all
00:41:32
these people before he left. I'll get into that maybe down
00:41:36
the road a little bit. But you know, Liz Cheney, these
00:41:38
are pre emptive pardons. Dr. Fauci, that's the big one.
00:41:42
If you pre emptive pardon people, to me that's a sign of
00:41:46
guilt and it should be to anybody.
00:41:49
Why is there a need to, to pre emptively pardon these people if
00:41:54
they're not guilty? And don't give me the BS that
00:41:57
Trump's after them. Because if they're guilty, if
00:42:00
they're not guilty, they're fine.
00:42:02
They'll be fine. If they are, well, they need a
00:42:05
pre emptive pardon. So lastly, he wants to, he wants
00:42:14
to look into people that were inappropriately influencing the
00:42:17
election and whether that's directly with 2020 or in
00:42:21
general. I think there are people that
00:42:23
have shown concern in our election process in general, the
00:42:26
last couple of them. And there, you know, you talk to
00:42:29
people who don't believe there was a lot of of election fraud,
00:42:34
but everyone seems to say, of course, there's a little bit it,
00:42:36
it happens all the time. Is it enough to sway an
00:42:38
election? I don't know.
00:42:40
I would argue that 2020 it, it could have been enough without
00:42:44
being very much this one. It seemed that Donald kind of
00:42:47
ran away with it a little bit if you take away the illegal votes.
00:42:52
So he, he's, he's adamant about it.
00:42:54
And there's a lot of stuff that he's doing.
00:42:55
He's, I read here today that he declassified and some of these
00:42:59
John, the John F Kennedy files, the Martin Luther King files.
00:43:02
He wants the American people to know things.
00:43:04
He wants us to know what's what's going on.
00:43:06
Things have been hidden from everybody.
00:43:09
This is supposed to be a constitutional Republic run by
00:43:13
the people. And as much as people want to
00:43:15
use the word fascist for Donald Trump, he is doing the opposite
00:43:21
of that. He's letting the people decide
00:43:23
he or see things. He's letting everybody see
00:43:26
everything. So I will stop there.
00:43:29
I'm giving you an idea of the things he's doing.
00:43:32
And I think he's cleaning up the mess that's sitting there right
00:43:35
now in Washington, DC. He's cleaning up the frivolous
00:43:39
money that's just being tossed around worldwide.
00:43:42
He's going back to reality. You don't have to like that.
00:43:46
We're using fossil fuels, but we're not ready to completely
00:43:48
wipe them out. Let's let's head that direction.
00:43:51
And he stated that's his goal. Regardless of what you believe,
00:43:56
all you can do is is hope that he he falls through what he
00:43:59
said. But from his first term, that's
00:44:01
the one thing we can guarantee with this man is he's going to
00:44:04
do what he says. You know, 99% of it.
00:44:08
The Tiktok thing will be interesting.
00:44:09
Let's keep an eye on that because I use it.
00:44:12
Some of you watching may have found us through Tiktok, but
00:44:15
we're growing there pretty fast. Pretty fast.
00:44:19
But keep going there until it's banned.
00:44:22
I don't know. I don't know what's going to
00:44:23
happen. I don't know if Elon wants to
00:44:24
step up and buy it. That's been a rumor.
00:44:27
He has a lot on his plate. You know, I suppose if he buys
00:44:30
it, he can delegate responsibility.
00:44:34
Hopefully. I think that if it gets to that
00:44:36
point where there's no buyer and there's going to be a big band,
00:44:41
I think I think you'll see a guy like Elon step in him and buy
00:44:44
it. I think it's too valuable to
00:44:46
have these platforms and hopefully can turn Tiktok into
00:44:50
more of a free speech platform. Right now, they're pretty
00:44:52
stingy. So don't ban me for saying that
00:44:56
Tiktok when this short is likely going to be out there.
00:45:00
So that's it. That's what Donald's doing.
00:45:02
I'm not going to I'm not going to update you every show with
00:45:04
what Donald Trump is doing. You can go and you can read if
00:45:08
you want more details. It's right there.
00:45:10
I mean, there are a lot of them are are liberal sites and they
00:45:13
give their own spin on it. So keep that in mind.
00:45:18
Some of them attempt to be neutral, but you can still find
00:45:20
out what his all the detailed executive orders that he's he's
00:45:25
doing. I just didn't want to bore you
00:45:26
with all of them. I'm not going to sit here and
00:45:28
read them to you, but these are the basics.
00:45:31
These are the a lot of the reasons why people like myself
00:45:34
are encouraged and there's a lot here to talk about.
00:45:37
I just want people to talk again, Let's let's figure out
00:45:41
the best way. Stay in the Gray areas and talk
00:45:43
about something like the death penalty, talk about immigration
00:45:47
and and the deportation of, of children that were born here,
00:45:51
stay with their families, things like that.
00:45:52
We can go through and talk about it.
00:45:55
We don't have to act rashly, but it's something to discuss and
00:46:00
it's something to look into. So I hope that helped.
00:46:03
Hopefully there's some of you that didn't know all this yet.
00:46:07
But he is on a rampage whether you like it or not.
00:46:11
So I'm going to go in in tonight with a quote and we'll be back
00:46:18
soon. I like this one.
00:46:20
It's not that serious, but I just think it's interesting.
00:46:23
We are the middle children in all of history, born too late to
00:46:28
explore Earth, already been done for the most part, but born too
00:46:32
early to explore space. So with that, love you guys,
00:46:37
I'll see you next time. Find the colors and find the
00:46:40
light in the prey. We'll find our sight.