November 2, 2025 • 9 mins
Mindy and Boots discuss the government shutdown and who's to blame!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gosh, we're back, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We are on the air after being off for a week,
and we were so bummed out. I was really bummed
out because it was, you know, a few days before Halloween,
and I always love Halloween.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I think it's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I know people say, oh, but it's the evil spirits
and this and that or but it's a chance just
to let kids be kids, be anything they want to be, candy.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's fun. So what am I wearing today?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Skeleton?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, because I had all ready for.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Last week cancel the shows last week, and we were
crushed to have to cancel them.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We've never had to do that before.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I tried everything to say, but I swear we had.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
To call sponsors we had. It was embarrassing and it
was disheartening. But we're back now. So we apologize to
you ladies of the Avenue. You were supposed to be
with us last week, but you're back, and for you guys,
this actually works out better this week than last week.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Well actually, if you'd had had your producer come see this,
we might have been able to have fixed her before
the show.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Ashley is our producer. Are you listening to that? Ashley?
If you ever fell under the weather again.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Call the ladies at the Avenue Wellness Center and you'll
never have to cancel again. You got that, Ashley, she's
back at the CUDO. But we're glad. We're so glad
to be back. It's it's always fun to have a
Sunday off, but we always enjoy talking to our people,
don't we.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Boots, Yes, we.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Turn on her Mike, please thank you, and it's say
its Courtney.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You can say her name.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's I'm trying not to call anybody out here forget
who I'm with.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Happy Sunday, Happy Sundays.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So so many things to talk about. First of all,
the government shut down. It is now one of the
longest in US history. Has it affected you ladies at
the Avenue at all?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No, not really no. In fact, I went out on
Saturday wondering if stores and things were going to be impacted,
and they were packed.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Packed.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I was doing clinicals and an ambulance yesterday and all
day long. But we didn't. We didn't see any impact
of it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
New York, in LA and the bigger cities where they're
planning on rioting, going in stealing food. They they're threatening
to take over people's shopping carts as they come out.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But the good thing is talking about the snap benefits.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The snap benefits.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
People are losing their you know, freebies.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And it's basically food snap benefits or food stamps.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So there was two your Hershey Bars and your pop
and everything else you probably shouldn't have as far as
you get good.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I think there are a lot of organizations now trying
to come together with the community is to bring forth
healthy food for people. And you know what, maybe that's
the best solution, not relying on the government and relying
on our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Exactly you know what it's really I want to say it.
It's not a good thing. If you are one hundred
percent dependent and reliant on the government.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's not as supposed to be set up.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
It's not a good thing for us to expect our
neighbors to be reliant on the government.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And when you get angry because your food stamps are
taken away and you're threatening to loute and steal from others,
if you're healthy enough to do that, then aren't you
healthy enough to go and get a decent paying Job's.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
One way to create diversity against the people to have
people rely on a government that is either left or right.
We are of the people, by the people, for the people.
We need to get back to that now.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No, I want to throw this out there. If I
know some people I grew up with an Appalachia, they
were very, very poor. When the coal mines and mills
shut down, they applied for food stamps, and then when
they went back to work, they went off food stamps.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And that's how have you even donated a lot of
times if you're the one being helped and then you
get back on your feet, you're one of the first
willing to go and help others. I'm not saying that
people don't get down and out and they need help
every once in a while. That is supposed to be
how the government is run's and.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
To help when you need it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's why we do a temporatary basis, but on a
temporary basis.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Single moms, right, correct, you.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
When I got married and now my husband's to say so.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
But tout jobs and made sure you provided right.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Absolutely, I had no child support.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, I've never ever ever, I'm sorry, I've never had
food stamps. I've never had unemployment. There have been on unemployment. Never.
I've been fired a few times deservingly, but I've never ever.
I don't want someone who can't fix potholes in the BMV,
in the post office, work on that, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I think most of us have been in those situations.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When Randy had worked at Hartley for twenty four years,
and out of the blue, for no rhyme or reason, they.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Got rid of him. He was without a job. That's
a hard thing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
To handle when you're in your fifties and all of
a sudden, no job. But you know what he did,
went found another job and went back to work.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You know, I mean there are other things. So like
with food, if you think about this, you think back,
let's say one hundred years ago to nineteen twenty, let's
say nineteen ten. There were grocery stores, you know, there
were some, There was some supply stores like that. But
people still had gardens, they still produced their own foods.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So fruit.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
This is the first time in the history of humanity
that we cannot produce food on our own, that the
bulk of people are totally inept even in their backyard
of growing some tomatoes, of having an apple tree, a
cherry tree, having a fruit tree in the back, having
some asparagus planted, some rhubarb that comes up every year.
(05:28):
We don't do things like that. We are totally dependent
upon the grocery stores. Now, what happens if our supply
chain gets disrupted not because well, I mean like with
COVID or something, when you couldn't bring strawberries from Brazil
and in January when you couldn't bring bananas from Columbia
in We don't have a mechanism any longer where people
(05:51):
in there. You know, like during World War two they
had victory gardens and people we didn't. The farmers were gone.
A lot of those people were over in the war,
and so they had victory gardens. They had ten by
ten squares and they grew potatoes, and they grew sweet potatoes,
and they grew, you know, different things to tide them
through to be able to supplement what they weren't able
(06:12):
to get. Now, maybe they couldn't grow their own flour,
but you know, there were things that they could grow
to feed their families.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We don't do that, and so Kimberly harriers are probably
burning right now. I want to say something because you
do you believe that with food stamps for EBT cards
that there should be all healthy foods, no available chocolates
and other things that kill people.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And what Kimberly you told Boots and I right before
we went on the air before the show started, was
the number one thing to Boots his point that people
buy from Snap and food benefits episoda.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
See that's crazy to move.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I love pop and you guys hate that. I drank it,
but I don't think if you're on the system you
should get it.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
They actually have. There has been a resolution and a
couple I'm not sure if it's on a state by
state basis, but there has been a resolution to ban
the purchase of sodas, and people were going ballistic.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Kimberly to here.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I know you wanted to say something, Well, I do,
because not only is it empty calories, but those chemicals
are so damaging to our body. And okay, have a
soda every once in a while, but the daily intake
of those of those chemicals is so detrimental to our bodies,
and it's replacing the intake of water, and so very
very slowly people are being dehydrated and all sorts of
(07:27):
issues come from being dehydrated. And not only that, but
the carbonation actually slows down the absorption of nutrients in
your body. So if you drink soda with a meal,
you're not going to absorb and process those foods as
if you would.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
If you were just taking water from it.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
No, I was gonna say, wait, let me add one
other thing on here. You're a carman, yeah, okay, and
you just call it carben, No, your car guy. Okay.
So if you have corrosion on your battery, what do
people pour on it if they don't have access.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Coca cola, not pepsi, coke, coke.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And that's what people are putting into their system.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yes, because it eats the corrosion off.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
When we were kids were left out in the dewey,
whether you took it am foil and coke, Coca col
and you scrubbed it off.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Good to know. What about diet coke?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh, it's even worse.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's even worse. It's even worse to see that. Really.
I mean, let's face it.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Food is a chemical messenger to our bodies, and the
chemical message that we're sending to our bodies is either
positive or negative.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
And the chemical message that so toa sends is hands
down one of the worst messages you can send to
your body.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, and that's the number one thing being purchased through
Snap Benefits.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So before we go to break, I want to say
one thing. If if there's a single mom out there
that has two children and the dad's a total deadbeat
and she does lose her job or she makes minimum
wage trying to better herself because he was a provider
and he turned into garbage. I don't want to pick
on those people. I just don't want them to stay
on the system.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't want them to have a third child either.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
It has to be a temporary help.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Contemporary is the key word. That's right. All right, we're
geting to break. To listen to we will continue.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
This conversation if you want to join in on this
conversation six one four eight two one nine eight eight
six six one four eight two one nine eight eighty six.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And there's been some debate who do you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Blame for the government shut down, the Republicans or the
Democrats sixty one four eight two one nine eighty
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Six pro allmendime boots On News radio six, ten, WTVN,
Gosh, we're back, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We are on the air after being off for a week,
and we were so bummed out. I was really bummed
out because it was, you know, a few days before Halloween,
and I always love Halloween.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I think it's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I know people say, oh, but it's the evil spirits
and this and that or but it's a chance just
to let kids be kids, be anything they want to be, candy.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's fun. So what am I wearing today?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Skeleton?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, because I had all ready for.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Last week cancel the shows last week, and we were
crushed to have to cancel them.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We've never had to do that before.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I tried everything to say, but I swear we had.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
To call sponsors we had. It was embarrassing and it
was disheartening. But we're back now. So we apologize to
you ladies of the Avenue. You were supposed to be
with us last week, but you're back, and for you guys,
this actually works out better this week than last week.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Well actually, if you'd had had your producer come see this,
we might have been able to have fixed her before
the show.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Ashley is our producer. Are you listening to that? Ashley?
If you ever fell under the weather again.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Call the ladies at the Avenue Wellness Center and you'll
never have to cancel again. You got that, Ashley, she's
back at the CUDO. But we're glad. We're so glad
to be back. It's it's always fun to have a
Sunday off, but we always enjoy talking to our people,
don't we.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Boots, Yes, we.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Turn on her Mike, please thank you, and it's say
its Courtney.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You can say her name.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's I'm trying not to call anybody out here forget
who I'm with.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Happy Sunday, Happy Sundays.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So so many things to talk about. First of all,
the government shut down. It is now one of the
longest in US history. Has it affected you ladies at
the Avenue at all?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No, not really no. In fact, I went out on
Saturday wondering if stores and things were going to be impacted,
and they were packed.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Packed.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I was doing clinicals and an ambulance yesterday and all
day long. But we didn't. We didn't see any impact
of it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
New York, in LA and the bigger cities where they're
planning on rioting, going in stealing food. They they're threatening
to take over people's shopping carts as they come out.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But the good thing is talking about the snap benefits.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The snap benefits.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
People are losing their you know, freebies.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And it's basically food snap benefits or food stamps.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So there was two your Hershey Bars and your pop
and everything else you probably shouldn't have as far as
you get good.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I think there are a lot of organizations now trying
to come together with the community is to bring forth
healthy food for people. And you know what, maybe that's
the best solution, not relying on the government and relying
on our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Exactly you know what it's really I want to say it.
It's not a good thing. If you are one hundred
percent dependent and reliant on the government.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's not as supposed to be set up.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
It's not a good thing for us to expect our
neighbors to be reliant on the government.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And when you get angry because your food stamps are
taken away and you're threatening to loute and steal from others,
if you're healthy enough to do that, then aren't you
healthy enough to go and get a decent paying Job's.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
One way to create diversity against the people to have
people rely on a government that is either left or right.
We are of the people, by the people, for the people.
We need to get back to that now.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No, I want to throw this out there. If I
know some people I grew up with an Appalachia, they
were very, very poor. When the coal mines and mills
shut down, they applied for food stamps, and then when
they went back to work, they went off food stamps.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And that's how have you even donated a lot of
times if you're the one being helped and then you
get back on your feet, you're one of the first
willing to go and help others. I'm not saying that
people don't get down and out and they need help
every once in a while. That is supposed to be
how the government is run's and.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
To help when you need it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's why we do a temporatary basis, but on a
temporary basis.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Single moms, right, correct, you.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
When I got married and now my husband's to say so.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
But tout jobs and made sure you provided right.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Absolutely, I had no child support.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, I've never ever ever, I'm sorry, I've never had
food stamps. I've never had unemployment. There have been on unemployment. Never.
I've been fired a few times deservingly, but I've never ever.
I don't want someone who can't fix potholes in the BMV,
in the post office, work on that, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I think most of us have been in those situations.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When Randy had worked at Hartley for twenty four years,
and out of the blue, for no rhyme or reason, they.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Got rid of him. He was without a job. That's
a hard thing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
To handle when you're in your fifties and all of
a sudden, no job. But you know what he did,
went found another job and went back to work.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You know, I mean there are other things. So like
with food, if you think about this, you think back,
let's say one hundred years ago to nineteen twenty, let's
say nineteen ten. There were grocery stores, you know, there
were some, There was some supply stores like that. But
people still had gardens, they still produced their own foods.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So fruit.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
This is the first time in the history of humanity
that we cannot produce food on our own, that the
bulk of people are totally inept even in their backyard
of growing some tomatoes, of having an apple tree, a
cherry tree, having a fruit tree in the back, having
some asparagus planted, some rhubarb that comes up every year.
(05:28):
We don't do things like that. We are totally dependent
upon the grocery stores. Now, what happens if our supply
chain gets disrupted not because well, I mean like with
COVID or something, when you couldn't bring strawberries from Brazil
and in January when you couldn't bring bananas from Columbia
in We don't have a mechanism any longer where people
(05:51):
in there. You know, like during World War two they
had victory gardens and people we didn't. The farmers were gone.
A lot of those people were over in the war,
and so they had victory gardens. They had ten by
ten squares and they grew potatoes, and they grew sweet potatoes,
and they grew, you know, different things to tide them
through to be able to supplement what they weren't able
(06:12):
to get. Now, maybe they couldn't grow their own flour,
but you know, there were things that they could grow
to feed their families.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We don't do that, and so Kimberly harriers are probably
burning right now. I want to say something because you
do you believe that with food stamps for EBT cards
that there should be all healthy foods, no available chocolates
and other things that kill people.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And what Kimberly you told Boots and I right before
we went on the air before the show started, was
the number one thing to Boots his point that people
buy from Snap and food benefits episoda.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
See that's crazy to move.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I love pop and you guys hate that. I drank it,
but I don't think if you're on the system you
should get it.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
They actually have. There has been a resolution and a
couple I'm not sure if it's on a state by
state basis, but there has been a resolution to ban
the purchase of sodas, and people were going ballistic.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Kimberly to here.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I know you wanted to say something, Well, I do,
because not only is it empty calories, but those chemicals
are so damaging to our body. And okay, have a
soda every once in a while, but the daily intake
of those of those chemicals is so detrimental to our bodies,
and it's replacing the intake of water, and so very
very slowly people are being dehydrated and all sorts of
(07:27):
issues come from being dehydrated. And not only that, but
the carbonation actually slows down the absorption of nutrients in
your body. So if you drink soda with a meal,
you're not going to absorb and process those foods as
if you would.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
If you were just taking water from it.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
No, I was gonna say, wait, let me add one
other thing on here. You're a carman, yeah, okay, and
you just call it carben, No, your car guy. Okay.
So if you have corrosion on your battery, what do
people pour on it if they don't have access.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Coca cola, not pepsi, coke, coke.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And that's what people are putting into their system.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yes, because it eats the corrosion off.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
When we were kids were left out in the dewey,
whether you took it am foil and coke, Coca col
and you scrubbed it off.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Good to know. What about diet coke?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh, it's even worse.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's even worse. It's even worse to see that. Really.
I mean, let's face it.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Food is a chemical messenger to our bodies, and the
chemical message that we're sending to our bodies is either
positive or negative.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
And the chemical message that so toa sends is hands
down one of the worst messages you can send to
your body.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, and that's the number one thing being purchased through
Snap Benefits.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So before we go to break, I want to say
one thing. If if there's a single mom out there
that has two children and the dad's a total deadbeat
and she does lose her job or she makes minimum
wage trying to better herself because he was a provider
and he turned into garbage. I don't want to pick
on those people. I just don't want them to stay
on the system.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't want them to have a third child either.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
It has to be a temporary help.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Contemporary is the key word. That's right. All right, we're
geting to break. To listen to we will continue.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
This conversation if you want to join in on this
conversation six one four eight two one nine eight eight
six six one four eight two one nine eight eighty six.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And there's been some debate who do you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Blame for the government shut down, the Republicans or the
Democrats sixty one four eight two one nine eighty
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Six pro allmendime boots On News radio six, ten, WTVN,
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