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February 3, 2025 • 42 mins

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Join the crew as they navigate a whirlwind of kidney stones, ice storms in Florida, and the desperate search for a good boba shop while comparing pain levels from kidney stones to childbirth. Meanwhile, listeners are whisked away on a world tour of conspiracy theories, from suspicious wildfires setting the stage for smart cities to airplane antics potentially linked to "killware." As if life weren't dramatic enough, the episode wraps with impassioned debates about sipping through Starbucks lids and the relentless quest for the next thrilling TV series.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the Unfiltered Union.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Here is this week's episode, Wisdom Kidney Stones. We're fucking mess.
I've got a feeling this one's gonna be very explicit,
so just warning.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now friendly Yeah NSFW not safe for Okay, good job.
I just had to make.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sure I got it right through your Viking and fog.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh yeah, yeah. Borderline took two at the same time
again today because it burns. It's just kind of like
the pee whole Burns's trying to come out very explicit.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
To them, warning ahead of time. There's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's why it's been what a month, a month before
a month since we've done a podcast episode.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, it's been a month. So I got my wisdom
teeth out and it was Martin Luther King Day and
it was kind of a week We planned a week
out to have mine done.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yes, we planned a week out. We had set up
everything around here to essentially have me take care of
you as best I can, which is I'll be honest
with you. Is not great. I can't even take care
of myself, so but we were making it through Monday.
Tuesday was fine, I think, and then Wednesday came around

(01:36):
nine am on Wednesday, dropped the kiddo off at school
and I'm in dire death pain. Ye want to die.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And if you know anything about wisdom teeth removal. And
on the third day, you are your most swollen, yes,
and you look like a chipmunk on the brink of winter,
huge cheeks. So had to take Russ to the hospital,
went to the er and they did all the tests,
and the cats sin and make you feel like you

(02:07):
peek your pants when they put the die in, and
oh that.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Was so weird. It was almost kind of nice though,
because I felt like I had to pee real bad,
and then that feeling, I was like, it's finally coming out,
but nothing's coming out. It's just that you just feel hot.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So go to the er, find out you have kidney stones.
And so the poor nurse she was trying so hard
to make me smile and laugh, but I was just
so so.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And then you couldn't really talk out of your whole mouth.
So you're like this funny, right.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I felt like I had resting bitch face the whole
time we were there.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Nurses ladies like, man, why it was bad? Why are
you so mean?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
It was bad?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
It was interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
So we're on what almost week three for me for
my wisdom teeth removal, So the you know.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Recovery week in half, right, okay, right, I don't know days.
It's all a blur. Yep.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think we're going into week three. Monday will be
the beginning of week three, whereas.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I feel like it's week two.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, yes, all the Monday next Monday coming up starts
week there. Okay, see, so week three will be for
you starting week three on Wednesday for you.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
And I still haven't passed it. Yeah, I feel like
I'm in the I'm trending in the right direction because
I feel like it's moved down a little bit. Like Friday,
I had another attack and it was not good. Kidney
stones are the worst. I'm seriously this this experience has

(03:55):
made me quit soda because I am an avid soda drinker.
Was an avid soda drinker, like at least one a day.
I love coke, not the bad coke. Well they're both bad,
oh lah, they're both bad. But yeah that I was
an avid coke drinker. And it's just seriously, the worst

(04:18):
pain I've ever felt, worst physical pain I've ever felt a.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Long time ago in my twenties, early twenties. I had
kienney stones too. And if you people say all the
time it's as close as a man can get to childbirth, Well,
I've done both, right.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Which hurt worse?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't know? Well, you should be honest.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah you can't. You can't really say your birth hurt worse,
because first off, you were put on potoasin to induce labor.
That was horrible, which to me, that's not really birth.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's like forcing me into it.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, whoa.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
But then I did get an epidural, but I was
really far along. I don't think that sucker kicked in
until the transition, if you will.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
So I'm transition.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, you go from act or what are they call it,
the laboring to delivering a transition anyways, But regardless, I
honestly don't know if I can answer that question which
one hurt worse, because one was more, one was over weeks,
and then the other, you know, happened within twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
So one was over the kidney stones.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Okay, kidney stones over weeks. Yeah, yeah, our daughter was
less than twenty four hours. But anyways, I'm dying for boba.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Me too.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I could have boba.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I just well, what pisses me off as our favorite
boba place was right next to a hospital, and our
favorite taco place is right next to the hospital. So
I'm looking over there like you're not open yet. This
is sad.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
We went to the er that morning. Yeah, yeah, but
we did do a one point five hour trip trying
to find boba a couple of weeks ago before all
this happened.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was so stupid.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Looked at Google Maps and there's two places with boba nearby.
We tried and both were closed.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah are our local one, which wasn't ever the best,
but it was close. It was close, so we just
went there. Anyway, they closed, like closed up shop for good.
So we tried to find another one. Went to that one.
We're closed for renovations. I'm like, how do you renovate
a boba place? I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, And then finally we just went to the old
stomping Grounds, the one we love, then a little further out.
Took us an hour and a half trip, but you know,
I would do it again right now if I.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Could, I would too. But to make it worth it,
we all got to boba's each we did.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
That was good.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I think we spent like fifty bucks.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
But because of wisd teeth removal, they recommend not stepping
through a straw, and honestly, it's not comfortable spitting or
snipping right now. But I have a question for you
when you drink, because we had this discussion. You were like, well,
let's just go to Starbucks. We can get a coffee.
I'm like, well, I can't drink things hot because it's

(07:00):
also uncomfortable, and you said, well, get a nice one.
I can't drink out of a straw and the little
sippy tops that they have on Starbucks cups now because
we're trying to encourage no straws, right, do you sip
as in, dump it into your mouth through that little
sippy hole if you don't have a straw, or do
you suck on the sippy hole to get the drink out?

(07:23):
Which one do you do?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Do you dump it?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You dump?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, because I don't. To me, there's no real way
to sippy straw out of it. You dump yeah. No,
you don't yeh on those things you have to do.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Alternative you suck, that is the alternative.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I will not suck.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay, So it doesn't come to a masculinity thing or
are you being serious?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
No, it just I don't know how you can suck
out of that hole.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well you wish would happen with your kidney stone.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Right, but yeah, can you try it?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
No, not right now.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
This is not it. This is a bad one.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah already okay, but no, like anytime I, you know, suck,
it hurts so to me. I can't even use those
right now because typically I do I try to suck
the liquid out of the sippy hole.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know. I feel like you're lying.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
I not Why would I owt Why would I lie?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Because I don't know. I really don't understand how you
can suck out of the sippy hole. This is science here.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
We really need Starbucks and put a trademark on the sippy.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Hole suck out of the hole.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'm serious though, the little hole instead of just because
ice gets in there. You can't just let it dumb
best trickle so if you suck, it comes off faster.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
What this is not appropriate? And we're talking about Starbucks. Yeah,
I don't know. I feel like I just dump. I'm not.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I need to know if I'm normal. But well, we
already determined that I'm not. Normal because of the KFC's thing.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
But right, I need to know, no sucking out of
the sippy hole for me. Whatever, no, whatever, it's not happening.
So you're telling me that when you get a hot
coffee from there, you suck it out of there, because
it's the same.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Not initially, normally, I take the top off for hot
because I can't stand overly hot things. I can't drink it.
It hurts, and I left. I like to drink things fast.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
You like to suck out of the sippy hole fast. Well,
that makes sense though, That's why you suck out of
the sippy hole because it is faster. Right, I'm just
trying to suck that liquid right there.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I need the caffeine and I need it now.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh yeah, my god, it's dirty.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
But this whole time that I've kind of been going
through the wisdom teeth recovery, I've tried working, but in
the times where I just need to break because everything hurts,
I've been reading on a storm fourth Wing.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Series, Yes, which is scheduled to become a TV show
by Amazon.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I can't wait, Like I really hope they do a
good job, but I'm dying. I need you to read this.
I need you to talk to about this. I have
nobody who has read it yet. I need somebody to
talk to about this. I've read that shit in two weeks,
from Fourth Wing all the way through on Extraors.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
I know, but with wait, you're saying you read all
the books in two weeks. Yeah, I don't know. It
took you like a week to read this one final
one right.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
The other two I've read before. I wasn't skimming, but
it was a little faster because i've read it before.
I'm not trying to absorb it all.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
But the fact that you said you were you cried,
I did. I can't. I'm not reading that. I don't
want to cry, man, I want to. I want a
happy book.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
But I know you don't. You have all those fantasy
war books and those kind of things. It wouldn't probably
make you cry. It makes me cry because I have
the jeen in my bloodline.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
That is true. You look at a horse given birth,
you would cry.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's kind of gross, but you'd be like, eh, so
beautiful life.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I have military return homes makes me cry or don't.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh that kind of gets me in the fields too.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
But I don't cry, see, it would get you in
the fields. There you go. Read it please, so I
have somebody to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
How about you just ask the people?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Okay, fine, somebody read it with me. Somebody needs somebody
to talk to you about it. Love me because my
heart is breaking. It is just ugh.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
You just said your heart's breaking, so it's it's heartbreaking.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's so good.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh my goodness, it's so good. I don't want to
put myself in that.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
But there's a lot of new stuff out so we
just had on ex Storm that released. But we have
Lady Bugs season.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Six, which we've watched.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Kiddo is so happy. Me too, Well, I'm us too, yes,
but she's so happy. She loves that show.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
So, now that you've seen it full episodes, what do
you think of the animation style?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's not my favorite.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I don't think I like it either.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
I kind of miss the old style they got.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think they squished their faces too much. They all
look like they look like Gerbils.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's a good thing, like it fits with the daydream
of hamsters.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I don't know. I don't like it, though. I think
it would be fine if they kept their proportions right.
Like their faces.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, I feel like they're just trying to make them
look really young, you know, like round face makes you
look younger.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
This season six, So there's it's been six years.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, not necessarily, it's been more than six years. Less
then it's probably been like two or three of their time.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I know. But that's the problem. Why, because it's been
six years our time. They need to grow the hell up.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, let's not wish this away.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Okay, it's like Stranger Things. It's going to be Stranger
Geriatric Things this this year because.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
The animation versus real people.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's real. Ladybug is real.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
I can't wait for the new season and Stranger Things
out though.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'm supposed to be this year, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Oh and I did read something. I think squid games too.
Second half.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
I hate that they keep doing this.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Or not second half. They're actually claiming it's another season,
which is full. Yeah, we already we talked about this
last time, but it's a lot sooner than everybody thought.
I think like there's a leak. I think it's supposed
to be in June. Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, they keep doing this with everything they're gonna They've
already said that they're gonna do it with Stranger Things.
They're gonna do it with Wednesday. Yeah, they're gonna split
the seasons in half, just like they're doing Bridgerton.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
It's yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's like you have it already done.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Just what does that do? I know? They just it
pumps the numbers, that's all it is.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, it's a money making numbers, money making it. It
gives you less of a break in between or what
you think. Right, Oh, well I get this and then
I get this and oh if I wait, a whole
nother year from the second.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Part, Dopamine hit. It's just like what Twilight, Harry Potter,
Hunger Games, all those, all those movies were split into
two parts at the end, and they could have been
one exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
But then we also we recently watched Gladiator.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
That was good. I enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
You were very happy with that.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was really concerned about how they
were going to play off of the first one, but
I think they did a good job.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Daddy Pascal was amazing.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, yeah, don't yeah, or fell he's good spoilers too late,
said No, it was good though. I enjoyed it. I was,
like I said, I was concerned with like it's just
another one of those cash grab movies, but I don't
think it was. They did a really good job.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. Well then me and Kiddo just recently watched Muana two.
She was really happy to see that.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
But what do you think better?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
So much better?

Speaker 1 (14:57):
I mean, I will say that about Gladiator too. That
Haider one was way better, but it stood on its own.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, I mean, I yeah, it has its own merit,
I guess, but I don't know. I just feel like
the music was better than one. I feel like there
was like real moments that you would carry throughout. It
just didn't feel like I really carried much from Ma
Wana too. But Kiddo said she like Mano two better
than Wana one, and I said, ask her why, and
she goes, it's just awesome. We just watched it. It's great.

(15:26):
So she's very in the now person. Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
And I get that she just watched it. But I
bet if she watched ma Wana one right now, she
would say that one was better. Maybe let's try it.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
We still need to watch Sony three though.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah. I want to watch that real Bad Me too.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's that's the next thing for sure.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Are we getting into the hot and heavy?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, so we talked about all kinds.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Of kind of sucking out of the sippy hole.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right, we're moving on, We're moving on. You talked about
fire for a second there I did. Yeah, you said
it burned.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Oh no, man, pp hole. That's kidney stone brought.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
The twenty twenty five. What's the return policy at this point? Like,
can we return it? I'm so over it already. There's
so much that has happened in a month.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, I know it just what is today to date?
The second Yeah, so it we just now.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Ended, just started this year, and it is already a
shit show, starting with the.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Fires, California fires. Well fire, let's.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Take it back a second. Right, we had the Hawaii fire, yeah,
one or two.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Years ago now direct energy weapons.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
And now we're on the California fire, which a few
months before the California fire happened, the insurance companies pulled out,
pulled out. Uh, there was a risk, a known risk
of that Debrice, right, that was debris that was everywhere
that the what do they call them, the fire people,

(17:02):
forestry people, fire anyways that they knew like We've got
to do something with this. It could cause a fire.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, you have to maintain a forest to make sure
it doesn't catch fire by removing dead stuff that dries
out and turns into kindling and burns easy. Yep. A
living tree that stood up as hard as hell to burn.
People don't understand that, right, It doesn't just catch on
fire because there's a lot of moisture. Yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
But then you look at what's in the plans for
these cities. Now you know us, right, if you've listened
to us before, we talk about conspiracy theories, not that
we dive into them and believe them half the time,
but these cities that recently have had these huge fires
are in plans. The city council has approved plans for

(17:53):
smart cities.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, it's strange and didn't make condemn all the land
in Hawaii, like people that owned land there. I don't
think they can move back. They can't rebuild there.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I don't know for sure, but I I feel like
I read that somewhere.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
But once I saw this on I think it was
TikTok her Instagram that you know, smart city conspiracy idea
here Tampa's one too, no goody Yeah, and we live
near Tampa, so this.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Is this It's gonna be hard as hell to start
fire in Tampa though. True, it rains every five seconds.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
It rains a lot. There's a lot of water. Yeah,
high water table. But it just when do we get
to a point where coincidences.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Aren't well, conspiracies theories have a really good track record
of becoming true.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's crazy. I mean, then we have the Martin Luther
King Uh, doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Uh and get
all the Kennedy assassination.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, they're going to release the documents on those. Trump
just in an executive order to release them.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's like, what when do we get to a point
where we don't believe in coincidence anymore? That don't shit
is happening that we have to start believing because.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well, everybody said the COVID lab thing was a was
a conspiracy, was released from a lab. It's it's it
was released from a lab. The CIA said the most
likely origin of the COVID nineteen virus was from a
fucking lab.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
It's insane to me, like, at what point do It's
almost like woke, except the definition of Wolke needs to
change to that you start believing what is right in
freak in front of us.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, I think. I think people have gotten complacent and
they just accept what they see at face value instead
of questioning everything. Right where we are, our people are
fully embedded into the matrix. They believe it, they believe
what they see. They just go with it. Yep. It's

(20:07):
almost like it's fun. It's uncomfortable to start asking these questions, right.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Because I think we might start getting people to ask questions,
I hope. So about all of these airplane crashes, the
other big thing that's happening right now in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Five, did you see the video of the most recent
one where the plane went down in the Potomac because
it hit a black Hawk helicopter.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, that's the big one right now, I know, the
most deadly in X amount of years.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
But the in the US, it wasn't it if you
if from what I saw, whoever was piloting the black Hawk,
it looked like it was on purpose, right.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
And you can actually watch the flight path and there
were collisions at least three or four.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Times, Yeah, with other planes that were coming in for landings.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
That's insane.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's like it was trying and then it veered off again, like, oh,
I missed that one, let me go try this one now,
veered off again, I missed that one. Let me try
this one now. And finally they connected and killed what say,
sixty five people or something like that. I don't know.
I don't know why somebody would do that, but the
the gist of what I'm reading online is it was

(21:19):
a higher in the Biden administration and they were supposedly
big time Biden supporters. I don't what does that mean though,
I don't because what are you doing? It doesn't I
don't how does that hurt corre if? Well, yeah, but
it's it's a fact that they were. They spent hours

(21:41):
upon hours over the past couple of months that they
were buddy buddies with that administration.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I don't see how that correlates at all.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
But I don't either. I don't know if there's anger
built because Trump won, I don't know. I'm not I'm
not leaning either way.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Regardless. We're point now this year, in twenty twenty five,
I'm talking just the month of January, you have forty
five incidences of near collision crash and or mechanical malfunction
of a plane. You can go on the FAA website
and literally count them that it's forty five.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right now, I less believe hold on, okay.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
And then as far as actual near and or collisions,
we're at fifteen. And then for actual crashes in the US,
we're at two, meaning one for the Potomac incident and
then the most recent Philadelphia incident. Right, so it's escalating.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well, you had the South Korea one, the one over
there in what Russia or whatever, Kazakhstan. I can't remember.
That was another big jet that fell.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
So again, why somebody needs to ask the question, what
the fuck is going on?

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I think so I And it's not just Boeing.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
You can't point to just Boeing planes right now.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, I believe less of the whole conspiracy that it
was a Biden burst in Da Dad. I don't. I
don't believe that at all, because, like you said, like,
how do you how does that correlate? Why would somebody
be so mad to just murder sixty five people? You
know what I mean? I mean, it happens, it does happen,
But I don't see that coation there but I'm more

(23:26):
leaning towards killwear.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Me too, because if we're talking about all these drones
that have been happening for months, right, and then you
have all of these all of a sudden malfunctions, mechanical issues,
plane crashes, What the fuck is going on?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
I don't know. A lot of people think there's software
and well some people said.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's because Trump laid off a bunch of FAA people.
I'm like, you guys aren't correlating the right thing.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
What does that happen? I know that they're doing traffic control,
but the pilot of the Blackhawk also has eyeballs.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, in pilot of the plane like the I don't
I don't understand the correlation that people are trying to
make it with all this political bullshit. To me, there's
something bigger going on, and we always talk about this, right,
they try to distract us from something else. What is
happening that they are trying to distract us from. Putin

(24:24):
just went on some interview and said all of Europe
is going to bow at Trump's feet? What what is
happening right now?

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah? I don't like that, right?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
What is happening right now?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I don't know I don't like it. I I am not.
I already have a major flight phobia.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Me too, and I have to fly on a plane
here in the next couple of weeks for work.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I already have major flight phobia. And I just the
conspiracy that there's some kind of kill where within these
aircraft systems causing them to malfunction. I mean, I don't know,
is it.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
They're still trying to find the black box for that
Potomac incident?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
How the hell do you lose that when the Potomac
it's not that big, not to not to be not
to switch the subject, but Trump was it being interviewed
by a reporter about the incident, the Potomac crash, and
the reporter said, are you going to visit the crash light?
He said, what do you want me to do? Swim?

(25:35):
I did laugh at that. Now, it's unfortunate what happened.
But his response, because he's right, how do you visit
a crash site? Do you want him to suit up
in full scuba gear and swim deep down into the
water and visit the crash site? I don't understand. Insane,
but yeah, I don't. It seems it seems strange how
all these just started popping up around the same time.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Well, all of this right was a shit show right now,
and I am dropping bombs just not his top. I'm sorry,
but it is a complete and utter catastrophe right now
in twenty twenty five. And I get that there could
be something political at play, but what are they distracting
us from? Like what what is actually happening? I don't

(26:21):
know because there is so much going on insanity. But
TikTok came.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Back, yay, yay. I don't even care, right.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Like, I whoa glad we still have TikTok? It did?

Speaker 1 (26:36):
It did open up a lot of thoughts in my head, though.
Should all these people that make money off TikTok? There's
a lot obviously they make millions of dollars off take
I mean we're on TikTok, yeah, but we didn't make
any money off thing TikTok. Come on, bro, right where
you act? Well, we don't, but but a lot of
people do. They make a lot of money off of
it as creators. And they were in a full blown

(26:59):
panic because of the ban and TikTok getting shut off
that day.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
How do they make money?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
I get it, I get it. Too, but that is
why you never put all your eggs in one basket.
There should be some kind of social network that's decentralized
and the company itself can't go out of business. I e. Bitcoin,
it's not a social network, but you we're gonna.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Base bitcoin off or a social media off of Bitcoin.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Noster m I'm one hundred percent saying Noster because it's decentralized.
Anybody can run a relay and post stuff everywhere. There's
also the Mastodon, which is kind of similar, which is
it's federated to where you can run your own server.
But Noster is it's got big backers like Jack from Twitter,

(27:50):
like he's building on it, he's paying people to build
on it. It's I think that's the future because a
government can't ban Noster mm hmm, because somebody else will
just pop up a relay or pop up another app
that runs on Noster. It's it's pretty cool stuff. If
you're a TikTok creator, go on Noster.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Not an ad though.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I mean, there's there's no company that I can advertise for,
and so that's what's weird about it. It's just it's
owned by the people, and what's the government going to
ban people. I mean, they've tried before, but then they
get wrecked, right, love you. Well.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
While the world doesn't seem to be getting bigger, it
seems like the United States might be.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, I think we're gonna We're gonna be the United States.
Is that gonna end up being North America? I think.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
I would say other than Central America.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I think that's gonna come over too.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
That would be interesting. But it's like twenty twenty five,
Where to start? Where do you start in all of bullshit?
So Golf of America is one thing that's going around
right now, Like, why is this the biggest topic that
we're talking about? Please keep distracting us? Gulf of America.

(29:12):
Possibly Canada becoming state number fifty one, right, Greenland? We
might buy Greenland? What else?

Speaker 1 (29:22):
What else? Well? I do think that Canada, with these tariffs,
is probably gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I don't understand how that what Like, how can we
just absorb Canada with all of the social policies that
they have in place for healthcare and other type of things.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Supposedly from what I hear and see is that they
their people are even more disgusted with their government than
we are.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
And that I don't know how that.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, I know, I'm just saying, like the past x
amount of years with the Trudeau as the prime minister,
people are sick of it, and maybe they'll both to
get absorbed.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I don't even know what that means. Like it breaks
my brain to think about, like you speechless, Right, it's
like expansion, right, the idea of conquest, the idea of
continued expansion. I thought we were over that, but I
guess everybody does it, right, Russia's trying to do it still,

(30:28):
and I.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
It's too much. There's so much going.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
On, and I do think Canada is going to get
messed up by twenty five percent tariff.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Though well in supposedly other countries too, right, Like you've
got I think it's what ten percent on China or something,
which I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
There are our biggest importer in the percentages.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
But it's all to try and get people to come
back and manufacture in.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
The US, right, Well, that or import from another more
allied country, which that doesn't make sense either because Canada
is an ally right.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Maybe it's a strategic play for the land, but.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Anyways, probably I think it's probably the biggest part of it.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
But still like the idea of trying to bring manufacturing
back to the US the ultimate.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Way.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I'm trying to figure out how to voice this.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
So corporations will just have to hold out for four years, right,
because after four years Trump's gone and new administration comes in,
they're gonna roll back everything, like depending on who gets in,
I guess, but the idea is hold out for four years, right,
So you're gonna have a lot of companies go out
of business if they can't find cheaper imports, right, and

(31:44):
or you're gonna have corporations extend the cost of the
terrorists to people. I feel like four years is not
enough to do this type of strategy, So someone who
is going to keep the strategy would have to come
in after four years in order for it to be
beneficial for anyone. I don't know, Well, I don't see
it being this short term strategy that's going to work.

(32:05):
I'm hoping I'm wrong because I am not in an
economists store whatever that's called strategy person, But I can't
see in four years that it works.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I think we need to incentivize people to buy and
work within the United States.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I agree with you, But can that be accomplished in
four years and not break the bank of the middle class.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
You're going to do your I think we're going to
feel an immediate effect when you slap a twenty five percent.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
What we are going to feel immedia effects.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
The country to the country, like as in we have to.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Pay more prices, or you think that things are going
to come down.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
I think what I'm trying to say is an immediate
effect on people starting to hire and buy American.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I disagree with that, how because corporations they have the
money to withstand four years.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, but they're not gonna So you're saying they're just
gonna pay.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
The tariff for four years.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Our corporations aren't gonna pay the tariff. Well, the thing
pays the ten percent, Canada pays the twenty five percent,
Mexico pays the twenty five percent.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Which they extend on their products. Okay, and then corporations buy.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Them, right, But will they buy it then.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Push it over to people to pay the extra fees?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
But will they buy them?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I think for four years they can probably withstand it.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I don't know, I don't know. See, that's the thing.
We'll we'll have to wait and see. But I think
that incentivizing by American and higher American is important. And
I think combining this with the immigration policies and not
letting people in will probably help out the higher American

(33:52):
part of our economy to an extent.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I feel like over a decade maybe that would be true.
For years, I don't think it's gonna work.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
We'll see, we shall see, we shall see.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
I do think that we need to be this country.
America needs to chart its own course with a lot
of products. Like I take medicine for OCD. It comes
from China. That's weird. That's so crazy to me.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's weird.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
It's manufactured and shipped from China, And I'm like, what
that's so Think about it. If insulin or something is
something mine isn't life saving, But what if a life
saving drug that I don't know twenty percent of the
population uses. I don't know, Probably a blood pressure medication

(34:43):
is probably a good one. If it's manufactured in China
and they say we're not going to send you anymore
of that, We're screwed. That's messed up. And then the
other thing, though, is make America healthy again.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh, I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm excited for that.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Those are changes that can go into effect quickly and
be effective quickly.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I think that the tariffs are too.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I don't agree day one. I hope I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
I hope day one gonna we're gonna start seeing stuff,
and I think you're probably gonna start seeing people hiring
more in America than But.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
They would have to then build factories and things to
manufacture in America, and they don't have those now they do.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
They have to up there. They're gonna have to up their.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Agreed. But I which is investing in America happening in
four years? It's it's not, in my opinion, not a
lot of time.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
It's not. No, four years is not a lot of time.
But hopefully when it comes to economy, hopefully we see
a good positive spin in the future and the near
future on this, because the last four years have been
shite with the economy. Agreed.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I would say since what two thousand and eight, it's
been ship Yeah, we've like we've ever recovered.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Millennials are We're the brokest fucking generation out there?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yep, all these gen zs with their tiktoks.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, man, man band TikTok. Y'all gen zs need to
get that bad feeling that we have our whole lives.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Well, it snowed in Florida.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
It did, which was the funniest, most comical thing I've
ever seen. The state, the state employees and the local
government employees were out there salting the roads. Mortons with
the scoop. Yeah, they had a like an ice cream
scoop and they were doing They would stick it in

(36:44):
their little bag of Morton's and sprinkle it on the road.
I'm like, you're doing nothing.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Literally me up because we're from DC, right, we know
what they do when it's time to salt the road.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
You got the Dagon convoys out there with sand and
salt machinery. That's screen while.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Florida went grabbed little shakers out there.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, so it makes me wonder. Obviously they don't have plows,
what do they do with that they got the Do
they have the dudes out there shoveling with regular shovels?

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well, listen to this. So a former National Weather Service
employee recorded up to ten inches of snow in Milton, Florida,
while Pensacola International Airport recorded eight point nine inches of snow.
That's a lot, doubling the record of the most snowfall
ever recorded in the state with the previous record set
in nineteen fifty four.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Holy crap, So we doubled that.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Double the nineteen fifty four records. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
So global warming's working out for you.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Ten inches is a lot, though, That's that's what she said,
A lot for the kidney stone to travel.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
She just gave me tens. That's nice.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
It's new. But yeah, watching them out there with their
But then people, if you've ever seen Florida to tiktoks
from the hurricane, a lot of people do a lot
of body surfing in the flood water. Yeah, don't recommend it,
but a lot of people do it.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
But one of them damn floating ant hills.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
That's the least of your problems. You got gators, you.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Got I don't know. I think I think I would
rather get eaten by a gator than tore up by
them damn ant hills. It's happened to me before. Oh
my god.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, they'll wreck your for sure.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
And they float. It's an island of death, that's all
it is. Makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
But it was fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh yeah, it's comical because we clearly Florida clearly has
no idea how to handle it.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Georgia got a lot of snow too, and they didn't
know what to do either, poor things. But last thing
here you ready, Yes, who's gonna win the super Bowl?
Eagles versus Chiefs?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Okay, let me tell you this. Who I want to
win the super Bowl versus who's gonna win the super
Bowl is different. Who I want to win.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is none, how is that possible?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And who I think is gonna win is the Chiefs
because first off, the NFL loves that Tayte.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Oh yeah, to give them all the viewership.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Gotta have Tayte up.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
There in the speculation whether or not she'll be in
the halftime show.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Two, but you gotta have Tayte. And then plus, you
gotta you gotta protect what's his name, Mahomes, You gotta
protect him, right. So I'm pretty sure the Chiefs are
gonna win. Do I want them to win? No? Do
I want the Eagles to win? No, But I do
think that the Chiefs are gonna win.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Our neighbor's going to be unlivable with Eagles win. He's
a big Eagles fan.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Well, he didn't. They play the Chiefs last Super Bowl
that they were.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
In two years ago.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
They lost, all right, Yeah that sucks.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, but I think it's gonna be the Chiefs too.
Do I want them to win?

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I really don't care. I don't care. Where's the hockey?
I need hockey?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, just give me hockey. I don't know. I'm good.
I've never been a big football fan. Yeah, it's not.
It's not my favorite sports. Boring.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, there's a lot of delay and action.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
There's good like highlight reel. Football is fun, uh huh,
but watching a game is no fun. Hockey, on the
other hand, Constant is constant other than your stupid twenty
minutes of resurfacing the ice. Right, if they could get
that down to like a couple of minutes and keep
the players out.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Well, you got to give the players a break though
they're sitting.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Sit your ass on the bench, drink your water.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Remember like a hole bee when we were avid fans,
still are, but of the Capital Washington Capitals. He was
their goalie at one point, and he said that he
loses like twenty pounds a game because of all yep,
all his water weight and all the patting and everything.
So imagine if he didn't have breaks. I think skeleton
at the end.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I think they should do maybe like a halftime break,
which is what they do, and you can't really do
halftime with three, but they should do like something along
the lines of that. But twenty minutes in between each
quarter is a pain in the ass, right is a
quarter period?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Period?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Yeah, twenty minutes in between each period is annoying because
then I know you can get up and walk away,
but it's just drags on. You got a freaking announcers
or like it's like already watch what you said, shut off.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
But it's a good analysis.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, think you are so smart Italian? You
get paid five hundred grand a year to explain what
just happened when I just watched it. Sports announcers are dumb,
not not sports its announcers, says the podcaster. The failing podcaster,

(42:04):
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