Are We Being Served Truth? Stories of Pilots, Schools, and Suspicious Steaks

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Something doesn't add up with the Delta pilot arrest story. When ICE agents stormed a commercial aircraft after landing in San Francisco, they headed straight for the cockpit, handcuffed the co-pilot, and led him down the aisle in front of shocked passengers. The official explanation involves child sexual abuse material charges, but why would immigration enforcement be handling this case? And why target just one individual with such a dramatic operation? The questions surrounding this bizarre incident deserve closer scrutiny.

Meanwhile, Tennessee schools are implementing a head-scratching attendance policy where doctor's notes no longer exempt students from being counted as absent. After just eight missed days, children could face juvenile court proceedings. The stark contrast between this approach and recent pandemic policies—where schools insisted sick children stay home—highlights a troubling inconsistency in how we balance education and health concerns. 

Perhaps most revealing is a cattle rancher's social media exposé about "fake steaks" being served at restaurants. Though not plant-based alternatives, these deceptive offerings consist of lower-quality meat cuts glued together to mimic premium filet mignon. The telltale signs? Perfect round shape, unusually large size for a true filet, and suspiciously low prices. As consumers, knowing what's actually on our plates matters more than ever.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, good morning, welcome.
One and all Hope you had agreat weekend.
We had a wonderful weekend.
We had the grand cam onSaturday, spent some of the day
outside in the little kiddiepool.
It was so much fun watching himand having him with us.
It's oh, I just love him somuch.
He is a one little personality,I tell you that, but we also.

(00:30):
We also are watching the Hobbitmovies, actually all of the Lord
of the Rings, but you guyssuggested that we have to watch
the Hobbit movies first.
Now, we did not know when wefirst started this venture that
each movie was three hours long.
That's a long time.
However, the first one that wewatched didn't seem like it was
three hours now.
It kind of started off slow,but it got better real quick,
and we watched the second oneyesterday.
So the third one's coming up,but this is the way the second

(00:52):
one.
The way the second one ended islike, oh my gosh, such a, such
a cliffhanger.
All right, we need to move on tothe stories of the day that I
have chosen to uh, talk about orread.
All right, let me go over hereto the new york post.
This is where I'm getting mostof the stories.
The first one I want to talkabout is this delta airline
pilot who, uh ice agents tookinto custody as soon as it

(01:16):
landed at a california airport.
The pilot was arrested on boarddelta flight 2809 around 9 30
pm Saturday, just as theaircraft touched down into San
Francisco from Minneapolis andwas preparing to deplane.
According to a local report, orHSI boarded the full plane,
then stormed the cockpit, cuffedthe co-pilot, arrested him,

(01:49):
walked him down the aisle andushered him off the plane.
One alarmed passenger who sawthe whole ordeal said and this
she kills me with what she saida group of people with badges,
guns and different agency vestsmarkings were pushing their way
up the through the aisle to thecockpit.

(02:09):
Passenger sarah christiansentold the san francisco chronicle
oh, she goes on.
After the pilot was led away bythe entourage of officers,
another group came to cart hisbags away at the flight.
Crew had apparently no ideawhat was happening with the
other pilot, telling passengersthat he was baffled as they were

(02:31):
by the arrest.
Christensen said the arrest wason charges of child sexual
abuse material.
Fox News reported HSI is adivision of Department of
Homeland Security's Immigrationand Customs Enforcement, ice,
and has helped lead many of theimmigration raids and arrests

(02:53):
since President Trump beganrolling out a mass crackdown on
illegal immigrants.
So was this guy an illegal?
Apparently?
I mean, he had to have been.
How is he flying a freakingcommercial plane being an
illegal?
So I think there's a whole lotmore to this story.
Christiansen called the incidentshocking and unnerving.

(03:14):
Oh, listen to what she says.
Next, ready, it was rageinducing to see someone being
disappeared right in front of me.
She said, borrowing languagefrequently used by critics to
describe ICE arrests of illegalimmigrants.
Ma'am, this is what I voted for, so just stuff it where the sun

(03:37):
doesn't shine.
Okay, sweetheart, because thisis what I voted for.
Now there has to be more to thisstory, because why would they?
I mean and it's weird, becauseit's ICE immigration and they
stormed this plane to get thisone man off?
I mean what?
Normally they're not invading?

(03:57):
Normally they are going intoplaces that have multiple people
.
So this is a strange story tome.
I need to keep an eye on it.
Definitely, this is just aweird, weird story with just
going to get one particularpilot.
It's just, I don't know.

(04:17):
It's weird and I need yourthoughts on that.
Okay, we need to move on to thenext story, which is your
thoughts on that.
Okay, we need to move on to thenext story, which is a doctor's
note.
Is won't save sick kids fromcourt under new tennessee school
policy.
You know, back when our kidswere growing up and going to
school, back in the normal days,before all hell broke loose on

(04:41):
earth, when we were living innormal times.
Yes, there was such a time,people, when we lived in normal
times, when our kids were inschool and they woke up with a
cough or sniffles or whatever,we sent their asses to school
because we, we were like you gotto be tough, you got to go to
school because you, when you getout in the real world, you're

(05:02):
going to have to go to work whenyou don't feel good, either,
you know, unless you're justdying with a temperature of high
fever on your deathbed or noton your deathbed, but you know
when you're there's a differencebetween having some sniffles,
having a cough or whatevercompared to having that real,
real, a real illness.
So, anyway, we would send ourkids to school.

(05:23):
But now you know, and thenCOVID came along and the school,
the government, everybody madethem stay home, masked the
children, made them stay home todo Zoom schooling and now that
we're trying to get back tonormal, now they have the nerve

(05:46):
to say look, you need to come toschool with the sniffles and a
doctor's note will no longersuffice for your excuse of being
not being in school.
So let's go read about it alittle bit.
This is in tennessee, by theway.
Doctor's note won't save sickkids from court, from court
under new tennessee's.

(06:07):
What?
What?
Doctor's note won't save sickkids from court?
What we mean from court?
An overly strict new attendancepolicy for a tennessee school
district says a doctor's note nolonger excuses a student's
absence and threatens to sendkids to juvenile court after
just eight missed days.

(06:27):
Do they mean in a row or eighttotal?
That is kind of excessive.
Under the new rules, uh, allabsences are treated the same,
whether a student is out withstrep throat or just skipping
class.
Oh, that's not right.
If your child is sick and has adoctor's excuse, you will take

(06:48):
it.
Yes, you will From me.
Yes, you will F you.
Thankfully, I don't live inTennessee and my kids are
already grown out of school, butI think this is wrong.
Doctor's notes are stillaccepted under the new policy.
Wait, what?
So I'm confused.
I skipped a bunch of stuff.
It says if you have thesniffles, that is fine.
Michael atkins, lawrencecounty's director, said during a

(07:10):
june school board meeting youare going to have them when you
go to work one day.
We have all gone to work sickand hurt and beat up.
Yes, we have.
Yes, but do you not remembernot too long ago that you are
the ones that made the kids stayhome from school and made them
get vaccines?
Do you remember that?

(07:30):
Yeah, don't try to come at mewith this new stuff now.
No, doctor's notes are stillaccepted under the new policy,
he told the post, but they donot remove an absence or exempt
students from being counted andfederally required.
See, that's just wrong.
You can go finish reading that.
We need to move on.

(07:51):
There's this other story I'm notgoing to get into right now.
It's on my X-File I hope you goread it and it's called Muslim
Brotherhood's Grand Jihad isGrowing Just Over the US Border.
Please go read that.
It's in the New York Post.
Please go read it.
It's scary.
All right, cattle rancher claimsrestaurant serves fake steak.

(08:13):
Here's how they get away withit by scamming customers.
All right, I read this.
Oh, so it's not really.
It's a fake steak, but it's, Idon't know.
With the way, the way I read it, I thought well, what do you
mean?
Fake steak?
You mean it's not really meat,it is meat, it's just a
different kind of the cut.
All right, cattle rancherclaims restaurant serves fake

(08:35):
steak.
Here's how they get away withscamming customers.
So in the world of variouskinds of meat alternatives, it
can be hard to tell what's realand not.
These days.
A cattle rancher recently tookto social media to share what he
discovered to be a glued meatproduct.
Now, what he means by that isthat he ordered a filet, but he

(08:55):
could tell when it was served itwas too big and it was too
perfect.
So what he said is they tookcuts and scraps from the
different part of the filet ofthe beef and, I guess, glued it
all together with something Idon't know.
So let's read on.
The Rockin W Ranch CattleCompany is a family-owned Angus

(09:17):
beef ranch that prides itself.
Okay, blah, blah, blah.
In an Instagram post that he hasthat has sent waves across the
meat loving community, one ofthe company's cattle ranchers is
seen picking apart aneight-ounce steak filet he
ordered at a steakhouse inRutherford, oklahoma.
He said I should have known atfirst because it's really hard

(09:39):
to get an eight-ounce filet.
That's truly a filet, becausethey don't get that big in
animals very often.
The expert is heard explainingin the video.
When it came perfectly round Ishould have suspected something.
I ate a little bit and excuseme.
I ate a little bit of it andthought, man, something's not
right.
So you can definitely tell thisis a glued together, probably a

(10:04):
sirloin that's been tenderizedand glued together to look like
a filet.
So it's still meat.
It's not like fake stuff.
Glued together to look like afillet, so it's still meat.
It's not like fake stuff, butyou get it.
So since I raise and processaround 100 cattle per year, I
know it is rare to get a filletthat big off of an animal.

(10:24):
Two fillets when cut off ananimal are never perfectly round
.
And three the price is anothergiveaway.
When you can get an eight ouncefillet prepared in a restaurant
for 28, you should besuspicious.
He said I'm not proud of whatthe beef industry does but
honestly, the manipulation isnot the ranchers, it's the

(10:44):
corporations that buy cattlefrom sale barns where the
ranchers sell their cattle.
So yeah, we get that.
So there you go.
Be beware when you go order asteak.
Make sure you know what you'regetting.
All right, we need to move on tothe question of the day.
Okay, this is going to bepretty easy.
What is your ideal pizzatoppings, your idea?

(11:06):
I'm sure I've asked this before, but what is your ideal pizza
toppings?
And do you eat the crust?
All right, the l, and you do,is also.
Is it deep dish?
Is it, uh, thin crust?
Is you know what?
What is what's what's whatwould be your perfect pizza?
All right, gotta go.

(11:27):
Thanks for listening.
Bye.