January 23, 2021 • 30 mins
Assault on the capital, our country not getting along. What a mess! Do I need to say more?
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Tony Randazzo (00:00):
Hey, everybody, this is a little different intro
(00:02):
than I normally do this, forlack of a better term will be a
disclaimer, before you get intothe episode and listen to it. I
was going to delete this episodeand never put it out there. I
recorded it right after theassault on the Capitol, and was
(00:23):
kind of really torn on if Ishould even put it out there or
not, or, or what to do. And Iwas talking to a new friend of
mine, Trish over a Gen X voicepodcast and she said screw it,
just put the damn thing outthere. So your perspective, it's
your jennex perspective, just doit. So I've decided to do that.
But I wanted to just kind ofreiterate, it's, it's pretty
(00:47):
emotional. I wouldn't call itinappropriate by any means. But
if if you're over localpolitics, or national politics
and just don't want to hear it,I totally get it. It's not a
good way to promote my podcast,but you know what? It is what it
is, but enjoy. Give me yourfeedback. And let me know what
(01:08):
you think. And I look forward totalking to you guys more here in
the future. Enjoy.
It's hard to speak your mindthese days. voicing your opinion
(01:31):
is tough and a climate whereyou're either seen as an ultra
conservative or a bleeding heartliberal. But what about our
perspective? What about the GenX perspective? Hi, I'm Tony a
latchkey kid from the 80s and90s. Now I'm in my 40s wearing
cargo shorts, collecting StarWars figures and reminiscing
about the days before my firstcell phone. The Gen X
(01:52):
perspective is for us cutsomewhere in between boomers and
Millennials are we see things abit differently. I'm tired of
staying silent. It's time torant, discuss, unload and
debate. Join Tony and his guestsas they tackle the topics of Pop
Culture, Sports, religion, andyes, even politics. If life's a
Rubik's Cube, we've got theexperience to tackle it. Welcome
(02:15):
to the Gen X perspective withTony Randazzo.
Hey, how's everybody doing? Wow.
So it's been a number of weekshere since I put a new episode
out. And every time I sit downor get ready to I get shanghaied
(02:38):
by what's going on in the news.
And so far, I've been strugglingwith the idea of how to do this
podcast about what I'minterested in, and what's going
on in the world, in my life,etc. But what happens is, every
(03:03):
time something crazy goes on inthe DM news. And all I can think
about or focus on is worry. Andthis isn't healthy, of course,
and which kind of led me to talkabout that a little bit today is
so a couple episodes ago, Italked about the elections and
(03:23):
politics and growing up leadingup to elections, I would always
get this anxiety. And then thenext day you would wake up and
life would continue on likenormal. Well, for anybody that
hasn't been paying attention,that surely didn't happen this
year. And some pretty disturbingstuff was in the news and and we
(03:50):
all watched it unfold on ourtelevision screens. And it was
crazy and unexpected, but maybeexpected by some people. Fuck I
don't know, I just know that itis literally been all consuming.
So I run a business. I haveemployees, I have to, you know,
(04:13):
run that business successfullyduring the time of COVID which
is, you know, interesting initself and seems to in the last
week taken a backseat like itsomehow is not newsworthy enough
in some cases. And it's beenreally crazy on how especially
our news media shifts theirfocus based on you know, the
(04:35):
topics of the day and what'sactually really going on out
there. So we got COVID raging,and we have people raging and,
and the rest of us are normalpeople all say are kind of
caught in the middle. For themost part, people don't want to
talk about their politicalbeliefs at all, because they're
(04:56):
afraid of losing friends gettingin arguments or shifts. In some
cases, somebody pulling out adamn gun and shooting you in the
face. I mean, nobody knows it'scrazy. So we're all kind of, on
defense almost and nervous,because you don't know what
people are thinking you don'twant to as a business owner,
especially, I don't want tooffend anybody, I want them to
(05:16):
come to my business for thebusiness, not for politics, of
course, or my personal opinion,which is my personal opinion, it
doesn't mean anything. And, andwe're kind of stuck in this
craziness. And I have a hardtime focusing on anything else
in respect to it. So it's like,Alright, here we go, you know,
(05:41):
now. It looks like they'regonna, you know, try to impeach
or kick out the president,President Trump, and how that
works exactly in his last week,if that's something they can do
that fast. I mean, we're talkingabout stuff that's never been
done. So people far smarter thanme can talk on those subjects
(06:06):
and, and deal with it. But Iknow that as a normal American
sitting in upstate New York,watching this whole thing unfold
his, as a business owner, as afather, as a husband, as a son,
I just want things to freakingcalm down and people to get on
(06:29):
with it. Get the vaccine, if youwant to get the vaccine don't if
you don't, we've elected a newpresident, let's move on with
that. And if you believe thatthe election was not right, then
vote in four years and get a newguy in there or gal. And, and
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that's just what it is. That'show democracy works. And, you
know, the conspiracy theoriesand all the BS about what's
going on behind the scenes. Ifthere is or isn't, we'll never
know really the truth. So tofocus on something that you
can't prove, you're just wastingyour time, I guess. So I'm doing
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this podcast today, and puttingit out. Because I feel like I
got to get this off my chest sothat I can start doing other
things, not only with thepodcast, but with my life, my
business, my brain. You know,this morning, my wife gets a
phone call thata family friend, and a friend of
our business, lost their life toCOVID. And and, you know, kind
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of reality swings back aroundand smacked in the face. And we
got to be able to deal with thisstuff that's coming at us in a
million different directions. Ontop of that, in upstate New
York, here, we're dealing withwinter, and no vitamin D,
meaning the sun, we've beenovercast for what feels like a
(08:00):
month. And, you know, it's canbe a struggle to function every
day and be healthy, and not onlymentally and physically. And to
do what you got to do, and Ifeel for, there's so many of you
out there that I know feel thesame way. We feel like we want
to talk about it. But we want toalso get on with it. We want to
(08:23):
get past it, we want things tobe normal, in whatever normal is
in your circle in your world.
But I just feel like we got totalk this out. I mean, there's
got to be a middle ground, I'vealways talked and felt like
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there can be a balance betweenyour beliefs and your neighbors.
And that's what makes ourcountry amazing and diverse. And
and what makes us America. Imean, I'm my voice is getting a
little shaky, because it's soupsetting to me, that this is
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happening, you know, neighborsfighting against neighbors, I
mean, people stormed theCapitol. And they squared off
against the Capitol Police. Andthose are their neighbors. those
are those are their, you know,fellow Americans and friends,
they're not some, you know,demigod, whatever that you want
(09:32):
to take all your anger out on,these are guys and gals that are
just working for a paycheck, andthey're in law enforcement, and
they chose a fairly nobleprofession, you know, securing
the Capitol and our lawmakersand some people may say, Well,
you know, that's not very noble.
But you know, I'm not talkingabout, you know, more
divisiveness, I'm talking aboutthese people. Were just doing
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their jobs and they wereattacked. Our government and our
military leaders actually had toput out a memo or a note, which
I have not seen personally. Butthat says, you know, your job is
to follow the Constitution andthe laws of our country, which
means try to figure out how todeal with corralling arresting,
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you know, defending againstother Americans on American soil
at home, potentially in all 50states and our capitals, because
armed insurgents, armedAmericans will call them could
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potentially be storming thesegovernment facilities to do harm
to other other Americans, otherpeople within our country are
our neighbors, our brothers andsisters, our mothers and
fathers. I mean, seriously, whatthe hell? Why are people doing
(11:05):
this, I get being upset. Butthat's why you elect people to
represent you. Now, if youdidn't, if you don't feel like
you're being represented, thenrun for office, find somebody
that aligns with your beliefstructure and have them run for
office. If you really wantsomebody there to represent you
(11:26):
in there, I mean, localgovernment, in my little itty
bitty village of Clayton, NewYork, I sat on the village
board. I participated in localgovernment. And it's not an easy
thing to do. You know, you dealwith rhetoric and divisiveness,
and people with opposingopinions, and you have to work
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through that. And that's, that'sthe nature of it. That's the joy
in it. That's what makes itunique is differing opinions,
all coming together, you know,sometimes this opinion gets
picked, and sometimes anotherone gets picked. And you don't
always get your way. You know,we were all kind of brought up
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the same way with mom and dad,when we were little kids about
getting your way or not gettingyour way, and you don't always
get your way.
And that's okay. And we need tofind a way on all levels. And
I've seen it locally. We, youknow, within the last four
years, I was involved with localpolitics. And I saw it on our
(12:37):
level in our little village ofClayton, New York. And found
myself on the you know, peoplenot physically attacking me but
verbally attacking me. And, andwe all need to tone it down and
(13:00):
talk to each other, I'm far morewilling to listen to somebody
in, in consider their opinion.
If they're talking to me notyelling at me, or towards me, or
threatening me, I think we areall as well adjusted. Adults and
humans on the planet tend toreact far better to conversation
(13:21):
than to yelling on any level,about any topic about anything
ever. And I know I don't have amillion freakin followers. And,
you know, the general public isgoing to hear me at large, but
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so many of you know me and and,and I have seen me go through
these politics and the stuff ona local level, but I you know,
please take a minute, thinkabout it. You we see what people
would consider radicals or crazypeople on television yelling,
(14:05):
you know, you know, to reelectTrump or that the stupid
election was fake or whatever.
But there's people in all of ourcommunities that feel that way,
for whatever reason, that's howthey feel. And they need to be
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heard in an appropriate way. Andthey may be mad for the next
four years. And maybe there'llbe mad enough that in four
years, they'll elect anotherrepublican or somebody that
aligns better with their beliefsthan than Joe Biden in and
that's okay. That's what ourcountry is all about. But I also
(14:54):
have people that live next doorto me that are as my interest as
you know, bleeding heartliberals. You know, tried and
true Democrats. And that's okayto some of my best friends are
Democrats to the core to the teato the definition. And and I
(15:15):
love them just the same and cando you know, I can have a
barbecue in the backyard withthem I can, I can talk to them
about politics and it's okay tohave a different opinion. But
more and more Nowadays, peopletake these extreme stances where
if you don't believe what Ibelieve, then I can't be in your
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circle or your friend anymore.
And that, to me is justinsanity. I would rather have
all friends have differingopinions so that I could
actually grow and learnsomething because I may not be
right all the time. I mean, Itell my wife, I'm right all the
time. And she just rolls hereyes, because she already knows
that I'm not. But the realityis, the more people you expose
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yourself to, the more diverseyour thinking is, and you change
your mind, we all change ourminds over time on many
different subjects every day,I'm forced with changing my
beliefs about something in someway. And I wish I only wish that
this podcast reached millions ofpeople to be able to just get
(16:25):
the word out. You know, I'm notgoing to say you know, love your
neighbor and love everybody, orany kind of bullshit like that.
But what I am going to say andwish that people wouldn't
freakin listen. Take 10 secondsand take a deep breath. And
consider, just consider for halfa second, that that other person
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that you're interacting with,may be right. Maybe not about
everything. But they may beright. And that's okay. Take a
deep breath. Listen to yourfriends and your neighbors and
your opposing opinions, youmight actually learn something.
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Now. I've gone on for 16 minutesin five seconds. And it feels
preachy. And that's part of theproblem, right? So is my way the
right way I'm probably not, issome of what I said. A good way
(17:32):
to think about it, maybe forsome people. But that, again, is
what makes our country reallycool and really great is we're
full of a lot of differentopinions. And our freedoms allow
us to be able to express thoseopinions. And things have gotten
(17:56):
so out of whack that now socialmedia is flexing their muscles,
right or wrong. I mean, I'm notone to say. But it's getting
nuts. And now they're talkingabout, you know, we're all
holding our breath for the nextweek for the election or for the
inauguration. And you know,nobody knows what to expect
(18:21):
other than we see our countryturning into an armed state,
putting barricades and walls upboarding up windows all over the
place. I mean, in some casesthat started this summer when
you know, the isolated riots indifferent cities were going on
and windows are getting bashedout and people are throwing
Molotov cocktails and being nutsand being angry. It it's just
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continuing. And it's differenttopics. But it's like, we pick a
topic to be insanely angry aboutand we incite violence and burn
shit and go crazy. At least whatwe're being shown. And, you
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know, it's like everybody'staking everything to the
extreme. people stop talkingwith each other, and they just
talk at each other. And in mygeneration, the Gen Xers You
know, this is really hard,because we've been around long
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enough to see a lot of crazystuff happen. You know. We were
all born on the waning years ofthe Vietnam War, and went
through Desert Storm and 911 Andnow, four years of Donald Trump
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you know, the Monica Lewinskyscandal with Huawei Clinton
there back a couple presidentsago, you know, in that at the
time, we can kind of laugh at itnow, you know, sex in the, in
(20:09):
the White House and in the OvalOffice. I'm generalizing because
we don't need to get intodetails over that. But, you
know, in at the time, that wasthe end of the world, and you
know, disgracing that office?
Well, you can, there's many waysto disgrace the office of the
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presidency, trust me. And, andthat is just chalk it up on a
list of bad decisions otherpeople have made that get to be
publicized. And and now even thecommon man is getting publicized
for the decisions they'remaking, you know, I mean, it
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just, it's crazy. And I justwish that the right people would
actually hear what so many of usare saying, which is, please
take a deep breath, listen towhat other people are saying,
consider for just a second, thatthere might be a different
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opinion, and a different way todo things than the way you're
doing them. You know, ourgovernor is Beloved, actually,
in this country, and in somecases more outside of our state
than in it for many differentreasons. And you can always
trust me and pick out somethingthat a politician has done
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wrong. And what they've done,right, so Governor Cuomo has,
you know, done what he's done inregards to the pandemic, and try
to keep New York together. Inthe only way, he knows how I
guess, and you may agree ordisagree with him, but what I
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have seen is businessessuffering, and that may be
because of his policies or not,but
we're all suffering horribly,because of this pandemic. And
now politics. So people aregetting torn up beat up every
day, the common man, the commonbusiness owner, you know, my
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colleagues and friends that ownrestaurants are, you know, holy
crap. I mean, they're theirlivelihood, livelihood of so
many businesses, locally, and,and not locally, have just been
decimated. I mean, for me, andI'm trying to stay close to home
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these days, and not travel awhole bunch, but even a couple
hours south down to Syracuse,and you start driving around and
businesses are closed, boardedup, people have lost their, you
know, their savings, all theirmoney, and they're struggling,
we're all struggling. And somepeople say, well, the government
should you know, if they'regoing to close their businesses,
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they should pay us to sit athome. Okay, I get it, I
understand it. And in somecases, I totally agree with it.
And then other people say, Letus open up and take a risk.
Well, that you, for me,personally, you really got a
second guessed that when a guymy age, that I've known for
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years, not close friends withmore of a professional
acquaintance, dies from COVID-19in most cases was pretty damn
healthy before he got it. Youreally got to take a deep breath
and step back and think aboutit, again, changing your
opinions on subjects based onyour experiences, and in the
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experiences of others around youand different people's opinions.
There's no easy answer, folks.
And and it's a really hard scarytime. So I I implore you to be
patient with other people. Youknow, be considerate the best
you can. You know, people arejust at the ragged edge right
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now. You know, I mean, I was inthe I was in a store a couple
days ago, and someone wasscreaming at this poor guy that
work there because she bought itonline. And it said that they
had it, and she had to come intothe store because they didn't
have it. And what's wrong withthem? And how can they can't get
their website, right? Seriously.
(24:37):
Calm down, people, you know that$15 an hour employee or whatever
they get paid an hour is justtrying, you know, they're
thankful that they're working,and they're not thankful that
you're screaming at him oversome stupid thing that you're
trying to buy that reallydoesn't matter in the whole
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scheme of things. And we need tojust be kind, and, and
considerate of other people andwhat they got going on. I'm
really struggling with trying totalk about fun and exciting and
neat things about my generationand there is so much cool stuff
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I got invited to, to be on a bea guest on another podcast. And
I will announce that once we getthrough the interview, and, and
get it out there on social mediaso that you guys can listen to
it should be a really excitingand kind of fun time to be on
the other side of themicrophone. And, and I'm working
(25:44):
on trying to get some people tocome in to interview as well to
change the format around alittle bit. And, and get back to
talking about really interestingand fun things and educational
and insightful. Instead of justbeing consumed with what's going
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on commercially around us everyday, that's really not too damn
healthy. And hope to have somefun. Not that talking about this
stuff isn't fun, this isincredibly helpful for me to
kind of get it off my chest andmaybe get it in perspective by
speaking it out loud, andhopefully have imparted
(26:29):
something to you. Or maybe thistouched a nerve where you want
to share the podcast withsomebody else. That may be that
you think it might help or thatthey'll find entertaining or
helpful in some way. And thatwould be awesome, too. This
one's going to be a little onthe short side. You know, we're
(26:50):
going on 2530 minutes now. And Iwant to thank you guys for
listening. And hopefully, I canhave some cool guests.
I'm lining up right now. One isjust drop a little teaser, a
local Coleman kid because he iscompared to me. He kind of a
(27:14):
prodigy this this kid was whenwe were playing video games. You
know, our freshmen sophomoreyears in high school, this
gentleman was figuring out howto buy stocks and start his own
internet business buildingwebpages and working with
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municipalities on their websitesand found himself scholarships
and all sorts of cool stuff. Andwe'll hopefully have him on in
the next week or two. And we'llannounce that probably on the
next podcast, when that's goingto happen and when to expect
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that which I'm really excitedabout. And I got some other cool
folks lined up that can maybebring us some interesting
perspectives, not only in thegenomics realm, but just in
general. And we'll have some funwith it. Again, you guys got
some suggestions or comments,please. You know, if you liked
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Leave. Leave a review would beawesome. Or you can email me
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It'll explain how to get me onTwitter and Facebook, my website
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sign up for a newsletter if Icould ever get around to getting
that thing working right and getsomething cool out there. But
please stay strong out therefolks. And I love you and enjoy
your day. And this is Tony fromGen X perspective. And I hope
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you have a fabulous day whereveryou're at and hopefully it's
somewhere sunny where it'sbetter weather than then what I
got up here which is horrible,horrible, overcast, cold,
upstate New York winter. So Godbless you. Have a great day
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Hey, everybody, this is a little different intro
(00:02):
than I normally do this, forlack of a better term will be a
disclaimer, before you get intothe episode and listen to it. I
was going to delete this episodeand never put it out there. I
recorded it right after theassault on the Capitol, and was
(00:23):
kind of really torn on if Ishould even put it out there or
not, or, or what to do. And Iwas talking to a new friend of
mine, Trish over a Gen X voicepodcast and she said screw it,
just put the damn thing outthere. So your perspective, it's
your jennex perspective, just doit. So I've decided to do that.
But I wanted to just kind ofreiterate, it's, it's pretty
(00:47):
emotional. I wouldn't call itinappropriate by any means. But
if if you're over localpolitics, or national politics
and just don't want to hear it,I totally get it. It's not a
good way to promote my podcast,but you know what? It is what it
is, but enjoy. Give me yourfeedback. And let me know what
(01:08):
you think. And I look forward totalking to you guys more here in
the future. Enjoy.
It's hard to speak your mindthese days. voicing your opinion
(01:31):
is tough and a climate whereyou're either seen as an ultra
conservative or a bleeding heartliberal. But what about our
perspective? What about the GenX perspective? Hi, I'm Tony a
latchkey kid from the 80s and90s. Now I'm in my 40s wearing
cargo shorts, collecting StarWars figures and reminiscing
about the days before my firstcell phone. The Gen X
(01:52):
perspective is for us cutsomewhere in between boomers and
Millennials are we see things abit differently. I'm tired of
staying silent. It's time torant, discuss, unload and
debate. Join Tony and his guestsas they tackle the topics of Pop
Culture, Sports, religion, andyes, even politics. If life's a
Rubik's Cube, we've got theexperience to tackle it. Welcome
(02:15):
to the Gen X perspective withTony Randazzo.
Hey, how's everybody doing? Wow.
So it's been a number of weekshere since I put a new episode
out. And every time I sit downor get ready to I get shanghaied
(02:38):
by what's going on in the news.
And so far, I've been strugglingwith the idea of how to do this
podcast about what I'minterested in, and what's going
on in the world, in my life,etc. But what happens is, every
(03:03):
time something crazy goes on inthe DM news. And all I can think
about or focus on is worry. Andthis isn't healthy, of course,
and which kind of led me to talkabout that a little bit today is
so a couple episodes ago, Italked about the elections and
(03:23):
politics and growing up leadingup to elections, I would always
get this anxiety. And then thenext day you would wake up and
life would continue on likenormal. Well, for anybody that
hasn't been paying attention,that surely didn't happen this
year. And some pretty disturbingstuff was in the news and and we
(03:50):
all watched it unfold on ourtelevision screens. And it was
crazy and unexpected, but maybeexpected by some people. Fuck I
don't know, I just know that itis literally been all consuming.
So I run a business. I haveemployees, I have to, you know,
(04:13):
run that business successfullyduring the time of COVID which
is, you know, interesting initself and seems to in the last
week taken a backseat like itsomehow is not newsworthy enough
in some cases. And it's beenreally crazy on how especially
our news media shifts theirfocus based on you know, the
(04:35):
topics of the day and what'sactually really going on out
there. So we got COVID raging,and we have people raging and,
and the rest of us are normalpeople all say are kind of
caught in the middle. For themost part, people don't want to
talk about their politicalbeliefs at all, because they're
(04:56):
afraid of losing friends gettingin arguments or shifts. In some
cases, somebody pulling out adamn gun and shooting you in the
face. I mean, nobody knows it'scrazy. So we're all kind of, on
defense almost and nervous,because you don't know what
people are thinking you don'twant to as a business owner,
especially, I don't want tooffend anybody, I want them to
(05:16):
come to my business for thebusiness, not for politics, of
course, or my personal opinion,which is my personal opinion, it
doesn't mean anything. And, andwe're kind of stuck in this
craziness. And I have a hardtime focusing on anything else
in respect to it. So it's like,Alright, here we go, you know,
(05:41):
now. It looks like they'regonna, you know, try to impeach
or kick out the president,President Trump, and how that
works exactly in his last week,if that's something they can do
that fast. I mean, we're talkingabout stuff that's never been
done. So people far smarter thanme can talk on those subjects
(06:06):
and, and deal with it. But Iknow that as a normal American
sitting in upstate New York,watching this whole thing unfold
his, as a business owner, as afather, as a husband, as a son,
I just want things to freakingcalm down and people to get on
(06:29):
with it. Get the vaccine, if youwant to get the vaccine don't if
you don't, we've elected a newpresident, let's move on with
that. And if you believe thatthe election was not right, then
vote in four years and get a newguy in there or gal. And, and
(06:50):
that's just what it is. That'show democracy works. And, you
know, the conspiracy theoriesand all the BS about what's
going on behind the scenes. Ifthere is or isn't, we'll never
know really the truth. So tofocus on something that you
can't prove, you're just wastingyour time, I guess. So I'm doing
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this podcast today, and puttingit out. Because I feel like I
got to get this off my chest sothat I can start doing other
things, not only with thepodcast, but with my life, my
business, my brain. You know,this morning, my wife gets a
phone call thata family friend, and a friend of
our business, lost their life toCOVID. And and, you know, kind
(07:36):
of reality swings back aroundand smacked in the face. And we
got to be able to deal with thisstuff that's coming at us in a
million different directions. Ontop of that, in upstate New
York, here, we're dealing withwinter, and no vitamin D,
meaning the sun, we've beenovercast for what feels like a
(08:00):
month. And, you know, it's canbe a struggle to function every
day and be healthy, and not onlymentally and physically. And to
do what you got to do, and Ifeel for, there's so many of you
out there that I know feel thesame way. We feel like we want
to talk about it. But we want toalso get on with it. We want to
(08:23):
get past it, we want things tobe normal, in whatever normal is
in your circle in your world.
But I just feel like we got totalk this out. I mean, there's
got to be a middle ground, I'vealways talked and felt like
(08:45):
there can be a balance betweenyour beliefs and your neighbors.
And that's what makes ourcountry amazing and diverse. And
and what makes us America. Imean, I'm my voice is getting a
little shaky, because it's soupsetting to me, that this is
(09:09):
happening, you know, neighborsfighting against neighbors, I
mean, people stormed theCapitol. And they squared off
against the Capitol Police. Andthose are their neighbors. those
are those are their, you know,fellow Americans and friends,
they're not some, you know,demigod, whatever that you want
(09:32):
to take all your anger out on,these are guys and gals that are
just working for a paycheck, andthey're in law enforcement, and
they chose a fairly nobleprofession, you know, securing
the Capitol and our lawmakersand some people may say, Well,
you know, that's not very noble.
But you know, I'm not talkingabout, you know, more
divisiveness, I'm talking aboutthese people. Were just doing
(09:55):
their jobs and they wereattacked. Our government and our
military leaders actually had toput out a memo or a note, which
I have not seen personally. Butthat says, you know, your job is
to follow the Constitution andthe laws of our country, which
means try to figure out how todeal with corralling arresting,
(10:18):
you know, defending againstother Americans on American soil
at home, potentially in all 50states and our capitals, because
armed insurgents, armedAmericans will call them could
(10:42):
potentially be storming thesegovernment facilities to do harm
to other other Americans, otherpeople within our country are
our neighbors, our brothers andsisters, our mothers and
fathers. I mean, seriously, whatthe hell? Why are people doing
(11:05):
this, I get being upset. Butthat's why you elect people to
represent you. Now, if youdidn't, if you don't feel like
you're being represented, thenrun for office, find somebody
that aligns with your beliefstructure and have them run for
office. If you really wantsomebody there to represent you
(11:26):
in there, I mean, localgovernment, in my little itty
bitty village of Clayton, NewYork, I sat on the village
board. I participated in localgovernment. And it's not an easy
thing to do. You know, you dealwith rhetoric and divisiveness,
and people with opposingopinions, and you have to work
(11:49):
through that. And that's, that'sthe nature of it. That's the joy
in it. That's what makes itunique is differing opinions,
all coming together, you know,sometimes this opinion gets
picked, and sometimes anotherone gets picked. And you don't
always get your way. You know,we were all kind of brought up
(12:12):
the same way with mom and dad,when we were little kids about
getting your way or not gettingyour way, and you don't always
get your way.
And that's okay. And we need tofind a way on all levels. And
I've seen it locally. We, youknow, within the last four
years, I was involved with localpolitics. And I saw it on our
(12:37):
level in our little village ofClayton, New York. And found
myself on the you know, peoplenot physically attacking me but
verbally attacking me. And, andwe all need to tone it down and
(13:00):
talk to each other, I'm far morewilling to listen to somebody
in, in consider their opinion.
If they're talking to me notyelling at me, or towards me, or
threatening me, I think we areall as well adjusted. Adults and
humans on the planet tend toreact far better to conversation
(13:21):
than to yelling on any level,about any topic about anything
ever. And I know I don't have amillion freakin followers. And,
you know, the general public isgoing to hear me at large, but
(13:42):
so many of you know me and and,and I have seen me go through
these politics and the stuff ona local level, but I you know,
please take a minute, thinkabout it. You we see what people
would consider radicals or crazypeople on television yelling,
(14:05):
you know, you know, to reelectTrump or that the stupid
election was fake or whatever.
But there's people in all of ourcommunities that feel that way,
for whatever reason, that's howthey feel. And they need to be
(14:28):
heard in an appropriate way. Andthey may be mad for the next
four years. And maybe there'llbe mad enough that in four
years, they'll elect anotherrepublican or somebody that
aligns better with their beliefsthan than Joe Biden in and
that's okay. That's what ourcountry is all about. But I also
(14:54):
have people that live next doorto me that are as my interest as
you know, bleeding heartliberals. You know, tried and
true Democrats. And that's okayto some of my best friends are
Democrats to the core to the teato the definition. And and I
(15:15):
love them just the same and cando you know, I can have a
barbecue in the backyard withthem I can, I can talk to them
about politics and it's okay tohave a different opinion. But
more and more Nowadays, peopletake these extreme stances where
if you don't believe what Ibelieve, then I can't be in your
(15:40):
circle or your friend anymore.
And that, to me is justinsanity. I would rather have
all friends have differingopinions so that I could
actually grow and learnsomething because I may not be
right all the time. I mean, Itell my wife, I'm right all the
time. And she just rolls hereyes, because she already knows
that I'm not. But the realityis, the more people you expose
(16:02):
yourself to, the more diverseyour thinking is, and you change
your mind, we all change ourminds over time on many
different subjects every day,I'm forced with changing my
beliefs about something in someway. And I wish I only wish that
this podcast reached millions ofpeople to be able to just get
(16:25):
the word out. You know, I'm notgoing to say you know, love your
neighbor and love everybody, orany kind of bullshit like that.
But what I am going to say andwish that people wouldn't
freakin listen. Take 10 secondsand take a deep breath. And
consider, just consider for halfa second, that that other person
(16:47):
that you're interacting with,may be right. Maybe not about
everything. But they may beright. And that's okay. Take a
deep breath. Listen to yourfriends and your neighbors and
your opposing opinions, youmight actually learn something.
(17:11):
Now. I've gone on for 16 minutesin five seconds. And it feels
preachy. And that's part of theproblem, right? So is my way the
right way I'm probably not, issome of what I said. A good way
(17:32):
to think about it, maybe forsome people. But that, again, is
what makes our country reallycool and really great is we're
full of a lot of differentopinions. And our freedoms allow
us to be able to express thoseopinions. And things have gotten
(17:56):
so out of whack that now socialmedia is flexing their muscles,
right or wrong. I mean, I'm notone to say. But it's getting
nuts. And now they're talkingabout, you know, we're all
holding our breath for the nextweek for the election or for the
inauguration. And you know,nobody knows what to expect
(18:21):
other than we see our countryturning into an armed state,
putting barricades and walls upboarding up windows all over the
place. I mean, in some casesthat started this summer when
you know, the isolated riots indifferent cities were going on
and windows are getting bashedout and people are throwing
Molotov cocktails and being nutsand being angry. It it's just
(18:42):
continuing. And it's differenttopics. But it's like, we pick a
topic to be insanely angry aboutand we incite violence and burn
shit and go crazy. At least whatwe're being shown. And, you
(19:03):
know, it's like everybody'staking everything to the
extreme. people stop talkingwith each other, and they just
talk at each other. And in mygeneration, the Gen Xers You
know, this is really hard,because we've been around long
(19:24):
enough to see a lot of crazystuff happen. You know. We were
all born on the waning years ofthe Vietnam War, and went
through Desert Storm and 911 Andnow, four years of Donald Trump
(19:46):
you know, the Monica Lewinskyscandal with Huawei Clinton
there back a couple presidentsago, you know, in that at the
time, we can kind of laugh at itnow, you know, sex in the, in
(20:09):
the White House and in the OvalOffice. I'm generalizing because
we don't need to get intodetails over that. But, you
know, in at the time, that wasthe end of the world, and you
know, disgracing that office?
Well, you can, there's many waysto disgrace the office of the
(20:31):
presidency, trust me. And, andthat is just chalk it up on a
list of bad decisions otherpeople have made that get to be
publicized. And and now even thecommon man is getting publicized
for the decisions they'remaking, you know, I mean, it
(20:52):
just, it's crazy. And I justwish that the right people would
actually hear what so many of usare saying, which is, please
take a deep breath, listen towhat other people are saying,
consider for just a second, thatthere might be a different
(21:15):
opinion, and a different way todo things than the way you're
doing them. You know, ourgovernor is Beloved, actually,
in this country, and in somecases more outside of our state
than in it for many differentreasons. And you can always
trust me and pick out somethingthat a politician has done
(21:35):
wrong. And what they've done,right, so Governor Cuomo has,
you know, done what he's done inregards to the pandemic, and try
to keep New York together. Inthe only way, he knows how I
guess, and you may agree ordisagree with him, but what I
(21:56):
have seen is businessessuffering, and that may be
because of his policies or not,but
we're all suffering horribly,because of this pandemic. And
now politics. So people aregetting torn up beat up every
day, the common man, the commonbusiness owner, you know, my
(22:16):
colleagues and friends that ownrestaurants are, you know, holy
crap. I mean, they're theirlivelihood, livelihood of so
many businesses, locally, and,and not locally, have just been
decimated. I mean, for me, andI'm trying to stay close to home
(22:41):
these days, and not travel awhole bunch, but even a couple
hours south down to Syracuse,and you start driving around and
businesses are closed, boardedup, people have lost their, you
know, their savings, all theirmoney, and they're struggling,
we're all struggling. And somepeople say, well, the government
should you know, if they'regoing to close their businesses,
(23:02):
they should pay us to sit athome. Okay, I get it, I
understand it. And in somecases, I totally agree with it.
And then other people say, Letus open up and take a risk.
Well, that you, for me,personally, you really got a
second guessed that when a guymy age, that I've known for
(23:24):
years, not close friends withmore of a professional
acquaintance, dies from COVID-19in most cases was pretty damn
healthy before he got it. Youreally got to take a deep breath
and step back and think aboutit, again, changing your
opinions on subjects based onyour experiences, and in the
(23:48):
experiences of others around youand different people's opinions.
There's no easy answer, folks.
And and it's a really hard scarytime. So I I implore you to be
patient with other people. Youknow, be considerate the best
you can. You know, people arejust at the ragged edge right
(24:12):
now. You know, I mean, I was inthe I was in a store a couple
days ago, and someone wasscreaming at this poor guy that
work there because she bought itonline. And it said that they
had it, and she had to come intothe store because they didn't
have it. And what's wrong withthem? And how can they can't get
their website, right? Seriously.
(24:37):
Calm down, people, you know that$15 an hour employee or whatever
they get paid an hour is justtrying, you know, they're
thankful that they're working,and they're not thankful that
you're screaming at him oversome stupid thing that you're
trying to buy that reallydoesn't matter in the whole
(24:57):
scheme of things. And we need tojust be kind, and, and
considerate of other people andwhat they got going on. I'm
really struggling with trying totalk about fun and exciting and
neat things about my generationand there is so much cool stuff
(25:21):
I got invited to, to be on a bea guest on another podcast. And
I will announce that once we getthrough the interview, and, and
get it out there on social mediaso that you guys can listen to
it should be a really excitingand kind of fun time to be on
the other side of themicrophone. And, and I'm working
(25:44):
on trying to get some people tocome in to interview as well to
change the format around alittle bit. And, and get back to
talking about really interestingand fun things and educational
and insightful. Instead of justbeing consumed with what's going
(26:06):
on commercially around us everyday, that's really not too damn
healthy. And hope to have somefun. Not that talking about this
stuff isn't fun, this isincredibly helpful for me to
kind of get it off my chest andmaybe get it in perspective by
speaking it out loud, andhopefully have imparted
(26:29):
something to you. Or maybe thistouched a nerve where you want
to share the podcast withsomebody else. That may be that
you think it might help or thatthey'll find entertaining or
helpful in some way. And thatwould be awesome, too. This
one's going to be a little onthe short side. You know, we're
(26:50):
going on 2530 minutes now. And Iwant to thank you guys for
listening. And hopefully, I canhave some cool guests.
I'm lining up right now. One isjust drop a little teaser, a
local Coleman kid because he iscompared to me. He kind of a
(27:14):
prodigy this this kid was whenwe were playing video games. You
know, our freshmen sophomoreyears in high school, this
gentleman was figuring out howto buy stocks and start his own
internet business buildingwebpages and working with
(27:35):
municipalities on their websitesand found himself scholarships
and all sorts of cool stuff. Andwe'll hopefully have him on in
the next week or two. And we'llannounce that probably on the
next podcast, when that's goingto happen and when to expect
(27:55):
that which I'm really excitedabout. And I got some other cool
folks lined up that can maybebring us some interesting
perspectives, not only in thegenomics realm, but just in
general. And we'll have some funwith it. Again, you guys got
some suggestions or comments,please. You know, if you liked
(28:19):
the podcast, and you like whatyou've heard, please follow me
Leave. Leave a review would beawesome. Or you can email me
directly. Tony at Gen Xperspective, calm at the end of
the podcast. And my closing.
It'll explain how to get me onTwitter and Facebook, my website
(28:41):
Gen X perspective.com as wellwhere you can leave comments or
sign up for a newsletter if Icould ever get around to getting
that thing working right and getsomething cool out there. But
please stay strong out therefolks. And I love you and enjoy
your day. And this is Tony fromGen X perspective. And I hope
(29:09):
you have a fabulous day whereveryou're at and hopefully it's
somewhere sunny where it'sbetter weather than then what I
got up here which is horrible,horrible, overcast, cold,
upstate New York winter. So Godbless you. Have a great day
peace. Thanks for listening tothe Gen X perspective with Tony
(29:36):
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