December 27, 2024 • 23 mins
The cops that don't know what a two-dollar bill looks like; Trump’s plans to control Greenland in addition to banning women's boxing and other assorted merriment for me to rant about
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Greetings, and welcome to the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let me start off this episode by presenting you with
a stellar example of absolute, unmitigated general stupidity. Now you
all know how much I love general stupidity, and this
is a classic case of such. Let me take you
to Houston, Texas. Were a school student by the name
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of Denicia Neil and I'm hoping I'm pronouncing that first
name correctly went to the cafeteria to I guess buy
her lunch.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And she attempted to pay with a two dollars bill. Well,
apparently the.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nimrods working in the cafeteria and have never seen a
two dollars bill before because they thought it was fake.
They thought it was a counterfeit, so they sent this girl.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
To the school police office.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It would seem that the school district has its own
police department, and she was detained there as the police
officer threatened her and told her what the penalties are
for passing a counterfeit bill and that she was going to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
These school officials were then consulted, consulted, and they got involved.
It was then decided that the school police should take
the bill to the convenience store where this girl got
the two dollar bill.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Apparently her grandmother gave it to her, and.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Then they took the bill to a local bank, and
the good folks at the bank told the cops, hey, this.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Is a real bill, what's the problem. So then the
entire matter was.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Dropped and this kid is not facing any further legal hassles.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But here's my question, why doesn't anybody in.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The school, or the school cops or anybody know what
the fuck a two dollar bill is?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Get serious?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Are there that many stupid people in the world. I
guess even the school officials didn't know. And these are
people who are supposed to hold degrees in education. Really,
this had to go to the point of going to
the bank and having confirmed by people with the bank.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
This actually should never have gone any further than the police.
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I can understand that there are a couple of dummies
working in the school cafeteria who don't know their asses
from a.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Hole in the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay, that's acceptable, Yeah, but the police should have known better.
It's like I point out, we are gradually becoming a
police state. There are some cops out there who are
modern day disciples of Heinrich Himmler, and to make matters worse,
apparently some of them are low on the intelligence scale too.
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So I can tell you that as a citizen, it
is pretty damn scary.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
When those who are handling law enforcement don't know what
the fuck a two dollar bill is.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
These are the people who can put you in handcuffs
and take you away, and they are definitely lacking in
the basic intelligence area. Because I remember in elementary school,
going back to like I think it was what the
third grade, they actually gave us assignments where they gave
us pictures of all the denominations of American currency and you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Had to understand it and know it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So at ten years old, I knew what a two
dollar bill was and what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's like I say, those of us who actually do
have some brains in this world need to be ever
vigilant and keep watching because sooner or later the dummies
are going to take over completely and then we're all screwed.
But while I'm on the subject of stupid people, let
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us go to New Jersey where a porch pirate stopped
off at a home to steal some packages, and as
he did, this, he decided to do some twerking for
the ring camera that was recording video of his criminal behavior. Anyways,
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the family that were the victims of this crime decided
to take the video of the twerking criminal and post
it online, and sure enough, a few days later, the
criminal shows up on the porch to whine and complain
to the ring camera that the people should not have
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posted his ass on the internet. He was quoted as saying, oh,
that's not cool, you can't do that, or something to
that effect.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I hate to offend the sensibilities of the criminal, but
yes they can do that because you're trying to get
somebody to identify you even though you're wearing a mask,
and hopefully you will be apprehended and caught. So the
victims can indeed post whatever video they want in this case.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because we have a sense of entitlement here on the
part of the criminal. Because he thinks him and his
little buddy who was with him that night, he thinks
he's actually entitled to come and steal stuff that doesn't
belong to him. It's perfectly okay for him to trespass
on prior property where he does not belong and take
goods and merchandise that he did not pay for. He
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sees no problem with that, and he does not understand
why somebody would actually post a video of him tworking
his ass online. But this is the mentality of these
modern day crooks who think that everything is there is
to steal. Why in the world should I have to
work and earn money to pay for something when I
can just take it the world is my oyster?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But what would be really cool is if he were
to get caught doing something like this in Saudi Arabia
where they would cut off his right hand as punishment.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Now that would be a really cool video.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Let let's see you twerk your ass then your little
cocksucking worthless piece a shit. But anyways, now, now here's
what's gonna Here's what's gonna probably happen in all of
this situation is that this this jerk who stole the
stuff off the porch and did his little twirk dance.
He looks like he's kind of young, so probably what's
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gonna happen if and when they do apprehend him, then
the the jerks defense lawyer is probably gonna make a
case for exploitation of a miner against the victim for
posting the video online. That's probably exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You watch, this will.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Get turned around and the poor guy who had his
shit stolen is gonna wind up getting in trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yes, it's all part of the rich world that we
live in these days. So let me continue rambling here.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was just looking, just looking at my phone, and
I get the headlines that pop up every now and again.
I just saw a headline that came up where a
passenger on Delta Airlines was fuming angry because this passenger
had to give up their first class seat for a dog.
So I'm not really going any further into this article
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at the moment. I don't know if this was a
comfort dog or what the situation was, but I don't
see the problem. If it were me, I would gladly
give up my seat for a dog.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I would.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I would more so give up my seat for a
dog than I would for the human, definitely, Because I
don't like people.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I like dogs, I don't like people, So what's the
big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't care as long as I get another seat
on the plane and I get to where I'm going,
especially if it's a tropical paradise and the dead of winter.
By all means, I don't care. I'll sit in the
wing for christ sakes. The dogging on my seat, don't
skin off my teeth. It's actually really sitting in first
class is not what you call an experience. You're surrounded
by a bunch of snobs who think they're highly important,
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and they believe that their shit does not stink.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So whatever, But moving right along, so it would.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It appears that Donald Trump, in his effort to make
America great again, has stated that when he gets into office,
he will change the name of the highest mountain in
North America from Denali back to McKinley, which it was before.
So let me give you a little background here on
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this momentous decision, in that the mountain was first named
after President McKinley in nineteen seventeen. McKinley was the twenty
fifth president of the United States, and he was assassinated
in nineteen oh one. In twenty fifteen, President Obama signed
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in order that changed the name of Mount McKinley back
to Jenali, which is what the Native Alaskans had referred
to the mountain as In fact, there was a decades
long battle for the state of Alaska pushing the federal
government to get the name changed back to Jenali, which
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is what they referred to it as it is a
word meaning the high one, which Mount McKinley is like
twenty thousand feet high. So now we have Donald Trump
who has vowed to change the name of the mountain
back to McKinley because he states that McKinley was a great,
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great president and his name should be on the mountain,
even though McKinley never visited Mount McKinley, or for that matter,
I don't think he ever went to Alaska. McKinley, however,
did put the country on the gold standard, and he
initiated tariffs against other countries to increase US manufacturing production.
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Sounds familiar, doesn't it. In a way, Trump and McKinley
are actually kindred spirits, so I can see why he'd
be so obsessed with changing the name back to McKinley.
Of course, this all fits in nicely with the way
Donald Trump does things. He doesn't care whose sensibilities he offends,
as long as he gets his objectives and his agenda
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taken care of. He doesn't care about the Native Alaskans
or anything else for that matter, as long as he
gets it taken care of. The American way the news,
happy camper. But I would like to know is how
in the hell is this making America great? How is
this gonna take care of some of the pressing issues
we have right now before us? You know, instead of
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changing the names of geographic locations to fit his Caucasian sensibilities,
don't we why don't we have a discussion on what
he's gonna do about the issue of higher prices that
consumers are gonna have to pay because of his tariffs
to China and other countries. But as far as Denali
is concerned, here's the irony in that Trump doesn't give
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a rats ass about the natural wonders of the world.
If they were to discover oil under Denali, I guarantee
that within forty eight hours, Trump would be signing an
executive order that he'd hold up for all of us
see that would put at least a dozen oil wells
in place on that mountain.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I have absolutely no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So if the issue with the name changing of Denali
isn't enough. Trump recently announced that he would like to
take control of Greenland in the interest of the strategic
interests of the United States. I believe that Greenland has
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its own independent government, but it is also a territory
of Denmark. It would seem that Trump is even hinting
at making an offer of perhaps buying Greenland from Denmark,
which the people in Denmark have basically told Trump to
go get stuffed. So would that leave the option of
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Trump actually taking Greenland by force?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I can just I can just picture it now, the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Invasion force arriving on the shores at Greenland, led by Trump,
who was wearing a steel helmet and carrying two ivory
handled pistols, just like General Patton.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
God.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yes, yes, my fellow Americans, this is the greatness that
awaits us under the new Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Oh God, we're all screwed.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's like, you don't you don't go taking territory from
an ally.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, that's something you don't do.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's all slightly reminiscent of Poland in nineteen thirty nine.
But then again, what does Trump know about diplomacy?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Right? Why bother? Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh, Christ, but hold on to your bootstraps. Yes, ladies
and gentlemen, because it only gets better. Trump has also
announced that he is also planning on banning women's boxing.
That's right, he says, he's gonna put an end to
it very very quickly, very quickly, As the Donald said,
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who can stand to watch women getting beat up? Well,
first of all, that's that's why they're doing that sort
of thing. That's why they go in in the boxing ring,
is to kind of get beat up.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But what do I know? Personally?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I like nothing better than a good chick fight. Okay,
throwing some bikinis and some baby oil. Well, actually there's
no baby oil lefter to p Diddy, But anyways, you
get the point. But nonetheless, Trump is going to eliminate
the scourge of women's boxing from the world. Of course,
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why bother focusing on the innocent Ukrainians who are being
slopped daily by his good buddy putin.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
No, let us let.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Us worry about two women beating the shit out of
each other in a boxing ring.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Priorities, priorities, priorities.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And when Trump made this glorious proclamation, he was at
some goddamn event somewhere and he kept mentioning that there
was gonna be a new golden age for America.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Now that we've eliminated women's boxing, it's gonna help usher
in that golden age. We all have something to look
forward to now. Jesus Christ, I can barely stand the excitement.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I can't believe. I haven't shpit my pants over all
of this.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But moving right along to the wonderful, joyous world in
which we live.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Walmart.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Walmart has been a while, It's been a while since
I last mentioned Walmart, but let me let me do
that here has recently announced that they're going to test
out a program to start having some of their employees
wear body cameras. You know, it's just like those cameras
that the cops wear, and when the cop pulls, jury
comes up and he tells you, well, I want to
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let you know you're being video and audio recorded by
a body camera.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, isn't that good for you? You? God damn.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Anyways, So Walmart is doing this. They're claiming as an
effort to deter retail theft shoplifting. I don't quite understand
that line of logic, but I very seldom understand the
logic of wally World.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
To begin with.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Now many people are upper and arms over this, claiming
that it's like an invasion of privacy and it's not necessary,
and YadA, YadA, YadA. Some are saying that this might
actually put the Walmart employees at risk for being violently
attacked and whatnot. Who knows anything's possible Walmart these days.
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But the downside is this is part of the world
in which we live, as part of the world that
we've created that we've allowed to come into fruition where
there's camera is everywhere. It is just like the book
nineteen eighty four by George Orwell, every single move we
make is being watched. And to cite an example of
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my own experience not that long ago, I was doing
some hiking up in the area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on
a wooded trail in the woods, and I sat down
to cast my breath and drink some water, and I
had this feeling that I was being watched.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I look up and sure enough.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
There's a security surveillance camera up in the tree next
to me. No, it wasn't a trail cam designed to
capture wildlife. This was a security camera designed to capture
God only knows.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
What all I can say.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's a good thing I didn't start jacking or something
otherwise I could have found myself in some hot water,
or maybe got a new start in a career in porn.
Who knows, but yes, and folks, unless we smarten up,
I've lectured this before. I m as we've talked to
the wall some days. But it's gonna get a lot worse. Okay,
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there's gonna be cameras everywhere, so unless we make some changes,
eventually we're gonna have no freedom or personal space or nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That's what it's coming down to.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And the fact that Walmart is putting cameras on its employees,
I'm surprised they're not putting a camera on the front
and the back of each employee.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But when I read this, I did have a thought.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What happens if, let's say the employee with the body
camera has to go to the bathroom. Does the camera
go off automatic? Is the employee responsible for turning it off?
Or what if for some reason the camera stays running
while set employees in the bathroom doing their business, such
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as a guy taking a piss at the urinal. That's
gonna result in some very interesting video, not to mention
the spread of some wild rumors within the store. I'm
guessing now again, this is a pilot program they're gonna
try out in a certain market area. I'm guessing this
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may not fly for a number of reasons which I
just mentioned, but for others as well. We'll see, because
probably what's gonna happen is to be a lawsuit out
of all of this, and I'll put the quick kibosh
on it right then and there.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So in the remaining few minutes of this episode. As
I'm recording this episode, it is not long after Christmas.
Hopefully all of you had a very happy Christmas. Merry Christmas.
Hopefully Santa Claus brought you everything that you wanted and
not a bag of coal. I pretty much got what
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I wanted, well close to what I wanted, which I
guess is better than nothing at all. Right, the new
year is fast approaching. Twenty twenty five is right around
the corner, which means I'll be writing down twenty twenty
four for the next six months. Hopefully it will be
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a good new year for you. Hopefully be a prosperous
new year and a happy new year. Despite the fact
that you know who is coming back to the White House.
I don't have any momentous plans for this upcoming year,
because every time I make momentous plans they never come
to pass. My birthday is actually coming up in February,
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and I'll be hitting the big six. Oh can I
believe I'll be turning sixty. It seems like just yesterday
I turned thirty. I had an uncle who stayed at
thirty five for years, and he actually looked like he
was thirty five, which is the really aggravating part of
it all. But anyways, I want to touch on the
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podcast here for a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We are coming up on the one.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Hundredth episode very very soon. It's gonna happen this year,
I'm sure, at least I hope it will. And I
don't know what sort of momentous occasion it's gonna be.
Maybe I'll buy a cake from the grocery store or
something with happy one hundred written on it and I'll
eat the whole damn thing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So whatever, But just so you know, I'd like to
thank all.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Five of you out there who'll listen for making one
hundred episodes possible. Doesn't seem like it's been quite that long.
Seems like just yesterday I started recording this regular Recession
of Joy and Happiness.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I've had some people actually tell me that I.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Appear to be rather a crass on this podcast, rude
or whatever, and I don't really agree with that.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I just tell it like I see it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Good friend of mine by the name of April, who
was also a coworker from a job that I work,
she recently told me that I'm a bold person. I've
never really seen myself as a bold person, but I
guess she's right. I just kind of say it like
it is and really don't much care about what happens.
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So in that regard, I guess maybe I am bold,
maybe I'm on the cutting edge or something like that.
But yeah, yeah, So hopefully this will be a bolder
year for me and for the rest of you as well.
And with all that being said, it is now time
for me to wrap up this episode. Thank you for
taking the time to listen. Please please feel free.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I can't talk all of a sudden again.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Please feel free to subscribe to this podcast, because I
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Until next time, you have a good one, Be happy,
be safe, Bye bye for now so long,
Greetings, and welcome to the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let me start off this episode by presenting you with
a stellar example of absolute, unmitigated general stupidity. Now you
all know how much I love general stupidity, and this
is a classic case of such. Let me take you
to Houston, Texas. Were a school student by the name
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of Denicia Neil and I'm hoping I'm pronouncing that first
name correctly went to the cafeteria to I guess buy
her lunch.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And she attempted to pay with a two dollars bill. Well,
apparently the.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nimrods working in the cafeteria and have never seen a
two dollars bill before because they thought it was fake.
They thought it was a counterfeit, so they sent this girl.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
To the school police office.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It would seem that the school district has its own
police department, and she was detained there as the police
officer threatened her and told her what the penalties are
for passing a counterfeit bill and that she was going to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
These school officials were then consulted, consulted, and they got involved.
It was then decided that the school police should take
the bill to the convenience store where this girl got
the two dollar bill.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Apparently her grandmother gave it to her, and.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Then they took the bill to a local bank, and
the good folks at the bank told the cops, hey, this.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Is a real bill, what's the problem. So then the
entire matter was.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Dropped and this kid is not facing any further legal hassles.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But here's my question, why doesn't anybody in.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The school, or the school cops or anybody know what
the fuck a two dollar bill is?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Get serious?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Are there that many stupid people in the world. I
guess even the school officials didn't know. And these are
people who are supposed to hold degrees in education. Really,
this had to go to the point of going to
the bank and having confirmed by people with the bank.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
This actually should never have gone any further than the police.
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I can understand that there are a couple of dummies
working in the school cafeteria who don't know their asses
from a.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Hole in the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay, that's acceptable, Yeah, but the police should have known better.
It's like I point out, we are gradually becoming a
police state. There are some cops out there who are
modern day disciples of Heinrich Himmler, and to make matters worse,
apparently some of them are low on the intelligence scale too.
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So I can tell you that as a citizen, it
is pretty damn scary.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
When those who are handling law enforcement don't know what
the fuck a two dollar bill is.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
These are the people who can put you in handcuffs
and take you away, and they are definitely lacking in
the basic intelligence area. Because I remember in elementary school,
going back to like I think it was what the
third grade, they actually gave us assignments where they gave
us pictures of all the denominations of American currency and you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Had to understand it and know it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So at ten years old, I knew what a two
dollar bill was and what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's like I say, those of us who actually do
have some brains in this world need to be ever
vigilant and keep watching because sooner or later the dummies
are going to take over completely and then we're all screwed.
But while I'm on the subject of stupid people, let
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us go to New Jersey where a porch pirate stopped
off at a home to steal some packages, and as
he did, this, he decided to do some twerking for
the ring camera that was recording video of his criminal behavior. Anyways,
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the family that were the victims of this crime decided
to take the video of the twerking criminal and post
it online, and sure enough, a few days later, the
criminal shows up on the porch to whine and complain
to the ring camera that the people should not have
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posted his ass on the internet. He was quoted as saying, oh,
that's not cool, you can't do that, or something to
that effect.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I hate to offend the sensibilities of the criminal, but
yes they can do that because you're trying to get
somebody to identify you even though you're wearing a mask,
and hopefully you will be apprehended and caught. So the
victims can indeed post whatever video they want in this case.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because we have a sense of entitlement here on the
part of the criminal. Because he thinks him and his
little buddy who was with him that night, he thinks
he's actually entitled to come and steal stuff that doesn't
belong to him. It's perfectly okay for him to trespass
on prior property where he does not belong and take
goods and merchandise that he did not pay for. He
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sees no problem with that, and he does not understand
why somebody would actually post a video of him tworking
his ass online. But this is the mentality of these
modern day crooks who think that everything is there is
to steal. Why in the world should I have to
work and earn money to pay for something when I
can just take it the world is my oyster?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But what would be really cool is if he were
to get caught doing something like this in Saudi Arabia
where they would cut off his right hand as punishment.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Now that would be a really cool video.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Let let's see you twerk your ass then your little
cocksucking worthless piece a shit. But anyways, now, now here's
what's gonna Here's what's gonna probably happen in all of
this situation is that this this jerk who stole the
stuff off the porch and did his little twirk dance.
He looks like he's kind of young, so probably what's
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gonna happen if and when they do apprehend him, then
the the jerks defense lawyer is probably gonna make a
case for exploitation of a miner against the victim for
posting the video online. That's probably exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You watch, this will.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Get turned around and the poor guy who had his
shit stolen is gonna wind up getting in trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yes, it's all part of the rich world that we
live in these days. So let me continue rambling here.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was just looking, just looking at my phone, and
I get the headlines that pop up every now and again.
I just saw a headline that came up where a
passenger on Delta Airlines was fuming angry because this passenger
had to give up their first class seat for a dog.
So I'm not really going any further into this article
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at the moment. I don't know if this was a
comfort dog or what the situation was, but I don't
see the problem. If it were me, I would gladly
give up my seat for a dog.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I would.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I would more so give up my seat for a
dog than I would for the human, definitely, Because I
don't like people.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I like dogs, I don't like people, So what's the
big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't care as long as I get another seat
on the plane and I get to where I'm going,
especially if it's a tropical paradise and the dead of winter.
By all means, I don't care. I'll sit in the
wing for christ sakes. The dogging on my seat, don't
skin off my teeth. It's actually really sitting in first
class is not what you call an experience. You're surrounded
by a bunch of snobs who think they're highly important,
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and they believe that their shit does not stink.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So whatever, But moving right along, so it would.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It appears that Donald Trump, in his effort to make
America great again, has stated that when he gets into office,
he will change the name of the highest mountain in
North America from Denali back to McKinley, which it was before.
So let me give you a little background here on
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this momentous decision, in that the mountain was first named
after President McKinley in nineteen seventeen. McKinley was the twenty
fifth president of the United States, and he was assassinated
in nineteen oh one. In twenty fifteen, President Obama signed
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in order that changed the name of Mount McKinley back
to Jenali, which is what the Native Alaskans had referred
to the mountain as In fact, there was a decades
long battle for the state of Alaska pushing the federal
government to get the name changed back to Jenali, which
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is what they referred to it as it is a
word meaning the high one, which Mount McKinley is like
twenty thousand feet high. So now we have Donald Trump
who has vowed to change the name of the mountain
back to McKinley because he states that McKinley was a great,
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great president and his name should be on the mountain,
even though McKinley never visited Mount McKinley, or for that matter,
I don't think he ever went to Alaska. McKinley, however,
did put the country on the gold standard, and he
initiated tariffs against other countries to increase US manufacturing production.
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Sounds familiar, doesn't it. In a way, Trump and McKinley
are actually kindred spirits, so I can see why he'd
be so obsessed with changing the name back to McKinley.
Of course, this all fits in nicely with the way
Donald Trump does things. He doesn't care whose sensibilities he offends,
as long as he gets his objectives and his agenda
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taken care of. He doesn't care about the Native Alaskans
or anything else for that matter, as long as he
gets it taken care of. The American way the news,
happy camper. But I would like to know is how
in the hell is this making America great? How is
this gonna take care of some of the pressing issues
we have right now before us? You know, instead of
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changing the names of geographic locations to fit his Caucasian sensibilities,
don't we why don't we have a discussion on what
he's gonna do about the issue of higher prices that
consumers are gonna have to pay because of his tariffs
to China and other countries. But as far as Denali
is concerned, here's the irony in that Trump doesn't give
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a rats ass about the natural wonders of the world.
If they were to discover oil under Denali, I guarantee
that within forty eight hours, Trump would be signing an
executive order that he'd hold up for all of us
see that would put at least a dozen oil wells
in place on that mountain.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I have absolutely no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So if the issue with the name changing of Denali
isn't enough. Trump recently announced that he would like to
take control of Greenland in the interest of the strategic
interests of the United States. I believe that Greenland has
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its own independent government, but it is also a territory
of Denmark. It would seem that Trump is even hinting
at making an offer of perhaps buying Greenland from Denmark,
which the people in Denmark have basically told Trump to
go get stuffed. So would that leave the option of
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Trump actually taking Greenland by force?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I can just I can just picture it now, the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Invasion force arriving on the shores at Greenland, led by Trump,
who was wearing a steel helmet and carrying two ivory
handled pistols, just like General Patton.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
God.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yes, yes, my fellow Americans, this is the greatness that
awaits us under the new Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Oh God, we're all screwed.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's like, you don't you don't go taking territory from
an ally.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, that's something you don't do.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's all slightly reminiscent of Poland in nineteen thirty nine.
But then again, what does Trump know about diplomacy?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Right? Why bother? Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh, Christ, but hold on to your bootstraps. Yes, ladies
and gentlemen, because it only gets better. Trump has also
announced that he is also planning on banning women's boxing.
That's right, he says, he's gonna put an end to
it very very quickly, very quickly, As the Donald said,
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who can stand to watch women getting beat up? Well,
first of all, that's that's why they're doing that sort
of thing. That's why they go in in the boxing ring,
is to kind of get beat up.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But what do I know? Personally?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I like nothing better than a good chick fight. Okay,
throwing some bikinis and some baby oil. Well, actually there's
no baby oil lefter to p Diddy, But anyways, you
get the point. But nonetheless, Trump is going to eliminate
the scourge of women's boxing from the world. Of course,
(14:55):
why bother focusing on the innocent Ukrainians who are being
slopped daily by his good buddy putin.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
No, let us let.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Us worry about two women beating the shit out of
each other in a boxing ring.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Priorities, priorities, priorities.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And when Trump made this glorious proclamation, he was at
some goddamn event somewhere and he kept mentioning that there
was gonna be a new golden age for America.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Now that we've eliminated women's boxing, it's gonna help usher
in that golden age. We all have something to look
forward to now. Jesus Christ, I can barely stand the excitement.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I can't believe. I haven't shpit my pants over all
of this.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But moving right along to the wonderful, joyous world in
which we live.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Walmart.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Walmart has been a while, It's been a while since
I last mentioned Walmart, but let me let me do
that here has recently announced that they're going to test
out a program to start having some of their employees
wear body cameras. You know, it's just like those cameras
that the cops wear, and when the cop pulls, jury
comes up and he tells you, well, I want to
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let you know you're being video and audio recorded by
a body camera.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, isn't that good for you? You? God damn.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Anyways, So Walmart is doing this. They're claiming as an
effort to deter retail theft shoplifting. I don't quite understand
that line of logic, but I very seldom understand the
logic of wally World.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
To begin with.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Now many people are upper and arms over this, claiming
that it's like an invasion of privacy and it's not necessary,
and YadA, YadA, YadA. Some are saying that this might
actually put the Walmart employees at risk for being violently
attacked and whatnot. Who knows anything's possible Walmart these days.
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But the downside is this is part of the world
in which we live, as part of the world that
we've created that we've allowed to come into fruition where
there's camera is everywhere. It is just like the book
nineteen eighty four by George Orwell, every single move we
make is being watched. And to cite an example of
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my own experience not that long ago, I was doing
some hiking up in the area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on
a wooded trail in the woods, and I sat down
to cast my breath and drink some water, and I
had this feeling that I was being watched.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I look up and sure enough.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
There's a security surveillance camera up in the tree next
to me. No, it wasn't a trail cam designed to
capture wildlife. This was a security camera designed to capture
God only knows.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
What all I can say.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's a good thing I didn't start jacking or something
otherwise I could have found myself in some hot water,
or maybe got a new start in a career in porn.
Who knows, but yes, and folks, unless we smarten up,
I've lectured this before. I m as we've talked to
the wall some days. But it's gonna get a lot worse. Okay,
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there's gonna be cameras everywhere, so unless we make some changes,
eventually we're gonna have no freedom or personal space or nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That's what it's coming down to.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And the fact that Walmart is putting cameras on its employees,
I'm surprised they're not putting a camera on the front
and the back of each employee.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But when I read this, I did have a thought.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What happens if, let's say the employee with the body
camera has to go to the bathroom. Does the camera
go off automatic? Is the employee responsible for turning it off?
Or what if for some reason the camera stays running
while set employees in the bathroom doing their business, such
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as a guy taking a piss at the urinal. That's
gonna result in some very interesting video, not to mention
the spread of some wild rumors within the store. I'm
guessing now again, this is a pilot program they're gonna
try out in a certain market area. I'm guessing this
(19:26):
may not fly for a number of reasons which I
just mentioned, but for others as well. We'll see, because
probably what's gonna happen is to be a lawsuit out
of all of this, and I'll put the quick kibosh
on it right then and there.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So in the remaining few minutes of this episode. As
I'm recording this episode, it is not long after Christmas.
Hopefully all of you had a very happy Christmas. Merry Christmas.
Hopefully Santa Claus brought you everything that you wanted and
not a bag of coal. I pretty much got what
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I wanted, well close to what I wanted, which I
guess is better than nothing at all. Right, the new
year is fast approaching. Twenty twenty five is right around
the corner, which means I'll be writing down twenty twenty
four for the next six months. Hopefully it will be
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a good new year for you. Hopefully be a prosperous
new year and a happy new year. Despite the fact
that you know who is coming back to the White House.
I don't have any momentous plans for this upcoming year,
because every time I make momentous plans they never come
to pass. My birthday is actually coming up in February,
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and I'll be hitting the big six. Oh can I
believe I'll be turning sixty. It seems like just yesterday
I turned thirty. I had an uncle who stayed at
thirty five for years, and he actually looked like he
was thirty five, which is the really aggravating part of
it all. But anyways, I want to touch on the
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podcast here for a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We are coming up on the one.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Hundredth episode very very soon. It's gonna happen this year,
I'm sure, at least I hope it will. And I
don't know what sort of momentous occasion it's gonna be.
Maybe I'll buy a cake from the grocery store or
something with happy one hundred written on it and I'll
eat the whole damn thing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So whatever, But just so you know, I'd like to
thank all.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Five of you out there who'll listen for making one
hundred episodes possible. Doesn't seem like it's been quite that long.
Seems like just yesterday I started recording this regular Recession
of Joy and Happiness.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I've had some people actually tell me that I.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Appear to be rather a crass on this podcast, rude
or whatever, and I don't really agree with that.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I just tell it like I see it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Good friend of mine by the name of April, who
was also a coworker from a job that I work,
she recently told me that I'm a bold person. I've
never really seen myself as a bold person, but I
guess she's right. I just kind of say it like
it is and really don't much care about what happens.
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So in that regard, I guess maybe I am bold,
maybe I'm on the cutting edge or something like that.
But yeah, yeah, So hopefully this will be a bolder
year for me and for the rest of you as well.
And with all that being said, it is now time
for me to wrap up this episode. Thank you for
taking the time to listen. Please please feel free.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I can't talk all of a sudden again.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Please feel free to subscribe to this podcast, because I
like to remind you is free and nothing is free anymore.
Until next time, you have a good one, Be happy,
be safe, Bye bye for now so long,
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