October 27, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode, The Hot Topix Team discuss fruit farming in Africa then go into a discussioin on the political anxiety caused by daily updates on the Trump Administration's foreign and domestic policies and actions, its effects on the American people, and what can be done to remedy issues facing the U.S.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
You're listening to the Hot Topics Podcast with Cycle forty
eighty one, The Lovely Lady, Lamb Chop, and the Fabulous
Felonious Feather. Let's get into it. Welcome every one to
another episode of Hot Topics Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Why you silly already? We haven't even gotten started.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is Psycho forty eighty one, Lamb Chop, Hey, hey,
and where Saloni's.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Don't even start. Don't don't even.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The last episode I said that she might have been captured. No, stop,
stop it. She has another engagement, you know, So what's
wrong with you? Special pre recorded episode here. So we
(00:58):
were talking about, uh, talking about this three minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Three seconds ago, you were talking about your plant.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh, plants, you're talking about your plant. Yeah. For those
who don't know, if you travel overseas to another country,
certain things you can't bring or has to go through
certain inspections. So I wanted to bring various seeds over
to a country in Africa. And there's a guy who's
(01:25):
online and I forgot his name. He is a black guy,
but he has he grows all these different exotic fruits.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
In the United States.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I think he's in I want to say maybe Alabama
or Florida. He's obviously he's in the South because they
can grow, but he has some of the most fascinating produce.
And I wanted to, you know, before I left, I
(01:55):
wanted to order a whole bunch of seeds and then
do pots. Okay, and just because I want to grow
everything that I could possibly grow. And I thought about it,
and I said, let me see, and they said, well,
you have to get it inspected to make sure that
there's no parasites on it and stuff like that. And
then so basically they'll look at it, they'll probably they
(02:17):
may toss some some and they'll you know, do whatever
that has worked all that not really, I said, na,
And I was gonna sneak some candaloop seas that got
over there over there, but I'm pretty sure I can
get all that there. So one of the things I
was looking at I was looking at nurseries. Okay, so
(02:38):
they have this one nursery over there. They have about
fifty different varieties of fruit trees.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And I was doing the you know, calculations, how many
I can get for how much and all that type stuff,
and there's stuff. So I figured if I got all
fifty varieties they were. I think they came to about
an average of seven to eight dollars per tree, and
(03:07):
I was like, I'm getting twelve twelve per variety.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Who is doing all of this work?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I can hire people. I'll do out of work. So basically,
you know, when I when I look at this stuff,
they give you a description of what you need to
do and what type of soul is needed and stuff
like that. So basically, you dig this big hole, you know,
enough for the roots to go in, and depends on
what type of tree you have, you want to make
the soil softer. You might say loan me loa me,
(03:37):
louy whatever, like sometime they want some sandy soil and
there's a different pH bounces and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, it's work.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I have. Ah, we call it a a pH bounce
measuring stick. Okay, thank you, Timu.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Exhausting just the idea, I mean it, and it takes
years before it produced fruit, so it's not like so
you got to put some long term efforts and some.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Are fast growing, some take two to three years. So
and I would probably hire somebody to dig the holes.
You know, but because because of the cost of living
is pretty cheap and uh what was it? A friend
of mine over there and that's this one is in
Nigeria and I think she gave him what in our money,
(04:24):
like three dollars a day and they did the this
to make her field of rice. They you know, harvested whatever.
But for them it's okay because you know whatever. And
I was looking at, uh, well, somebody else I know
in Kenya because I'm not doing all this farm and
not you know, I hire people, you know, they and
I was looking at the cost of I was like, oh,
(04:45):
I can do that too, but I do want to
be hands on, but I'm not going to do everything
because I wanted to. I want things done kind of
quickly because it takes, you know, a while. And then
they'll tell you, you know, you can graft certain trees. Basically,
you take a tree, a young tree that doesn't produce fruit,
(05:05):
and you take a mature tree that does have fruit.
You take a kind of like a lego connection, and
then now you have yes. Yeah, so I looked into
that too, but yeah, I wanted to do an average
of twelve trees per per species. Now some of my
probably like I don't I don't know if I want
(05:26):
to grow tammering. What is that something that you get
that drink that you get from the Mexican or.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Latino?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, whatever you get that, you get that from that restaurants.
But it's really good. But I saw a video on
how you you know, harvest it and get it to
the juice thing.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I was like, that's way too much work.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So that's why I wouldn't get it. But they had
they had everything, not everything, but they had enough. One
thing I wanted to grow and I've never had it before,
but it looks good. Is you ever heard of a persimmon?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Have you ever had one?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No? They have them here?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh I know they haven't in the US, but I've
never seen it.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I bet you you could find it at Wegmans or
at the fruit market on Rice's Town that we go to. Really,
I bet you could.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I have to look it up. Ya. I do want
to try those. And then, uh, you ever heard of
Paul Paul?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Okay, Paul Paul is like, well not, I don't want
to describe it because I'm probably gonna be wrong, but
it seems like almost like a banana, and they got
a whole bunch of big seas in there and it
has a maybe a custody taste people.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
People you're not describing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But imagine if I look up something that says what
grows here, I'm going to grow it. Okay, So that's
what I'm looking at.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Fruits and vegetables, everything, So that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, sounds like you'll be busy. That's what it
sounds like to me.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Food secure, food security.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. We might need to start thinking
about that on a serious yeah level, very much.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So have you ever grown anything?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, I can't keep nothing alive. I kept my children alive.
I figured that was enough for me. I have a
bamboo that I've been struggling with, but he holding on.
Oh he's holding on.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Put that outside. That'll take over your whole.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I know. That's what I need to do. I don't
have to have a fence.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It'll grow out of control.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, if you planning, you have to actually put like
something a barrier.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So it won't like something like maybe concrete or something.
But it's invasive to some places. I don't know if
I'm using the right term, but it is uncontrolled in
some places, they kind of want to keep things.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So, yeah, I got a bamboo plant. I got the
plant that you gave me. So and Gracie is doing
fine and we're gonna break it off and make Frankie soon.
I killed the cactus, so I had I do not.
I killed the cactus. I forgot to water it, and
I know you could go months without water on it.
(08:20):
But I just happened to look over there one day
and it was like brown. I'm just like, oh my god, alo,
I can grow aloe.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But you know, go back toally a cactus that could
be resurrected. I have one cactus that I had at
my office. It was small that I got from somebody
or I don't know if I don't think I brought it.
I got it from somebody. And the reason why I
got rid of because I kept getting stuck by okay,
So I gave it to a lady down at one
of the government offices at the courthouse. And you know,
(08:46):
I was always popping in when I'm harassed people, and yes,
and she got that thing growing. Oh wow, it was
I was so proud. You did a good job.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean, some people just have that good that that
green thumb. I just wasn't one of those people. So
and I don't think that was a cactus. I think
it was a succulent because it didn't have pricklies. So
that makes a difference. Okay, right, succulents are different.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What what do you think the good thing about succulents?
What's a good thing about succulents?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It was pretty, That's all I cared about. I didn't
I didn't look into its history.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, if you plant those, the people out there who
don't know, if you plant those, it's kind of It
also gives a better barrier against forest fires. I did
not know that because it routines moisture and doesn't get dry.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Like, look at you smoking it bad?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They always look you.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
With the facts coming through with all the fat two
am rabbit hole, not sleep, but like what do you
do with Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Like I discovered why the moon in the sun looked
the same size. Okay, we not I'm not even letting
you go through that. I'm you know, put it's simple,
like all right, So the moon is one four hundredth
the distance from Earth to the sunk right, and the
(10:06):
so is it? The sun was one four hundredth or
the Earth is one four hundredth to the distance away
from you know, it was something like that, but it
was it was so funny because it was like it
was that same exact percentage that the you know, is
a distance like where the Earth right here is in
the most perfect zone. Okay, you know that you can
(10:29):
be in any type of soul system is in the
is in the habitable zone. It has the we call
it the perfect warmth, like if you move ten degrees
this way or ten degrees this way, it goes from
a barren planet to a frozen planet. You know, we're
actually literally in the middle of the perfect everything. And
(10:51):
and because of where Jupiter is, Jupiter, when we have
like you know, you see all the crazy movies the
scientific were the asteroids coming to destroy the Earth Jupiter
because of this position, it actually pulls things away from us. Okay,
So yeah, we're in like one of the perfect as
(11:13):
perfect can be.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay, So he can go down this rabbit hole. Family,
I'm telling y'all, we will be up all night. We
will listen. Somebody sent me this thing like if you
what friend would you call if you had to call
somebody at two o'clock in the morning. Who would you
think pick up? I was like, he woke, that would
be the person I would call psycho, because I know
(11:35):
he woke looking on that computer at some randomness. So yeah,
you would be the person I called because you would
you're up checking random facts.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And you know it filters in my dream sometimes too.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I imagine. So yeah, that's that's what happens. Especially like
a lot of that happens if I leave the TV
on too, like it'll filter into you know.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, like I've discovered that by look at vampire movies.
That was that good? That's good. I did have a dream.
I had a dream. I don't remember what the details was,
but I realized I was dreaming in the dream, and
I was trying to prove it to the people that
was in the dream. I said, look, this is just
(12:17):
gotta be a dream. This gott has been dreaming. Watched
this I'm a fly and I was actually flying. I'm like, see,
it's a dream. How is that happen?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Because when you realize something that is a dream, right
right right? Not me, that's all I'm rabbit, that's what
that is. Yeah, so that's freaking up.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So what's what's new, What's going on in the world today?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Listen, I have such an anxiety. What's the what's the
word everybody using? Over stimulated? Like that's the word everybody's using.
I'm over stimulated. But it's just given me a level
of anxiety that I don't ever remember having in life. Now,
I will say that they tell you that menopause will
(13:02):
make you anxious, like you know that that's a new
part of your life when you when you're in menopause.
But it's just like every day it's something and it's
just like, how how do you live at that level
of anxiety all the time? It is exhausting, It's exhausting,
(13:27):
and it's just like, how do a how do I
calm myself right and think that things are going to
get better? Like I have always been that person that
you know, even in my job, when people come to me,
I'm like, there is something that's better on the other side,
(13:49):
you know. I've always been that person. I've always can
see most people RUNNNA, it's gonna get better. But I
can't do that anymore. I don't feel that anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't feel it's gonna get better, not in the
short term. Yeah, maybe the long term.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I don't know, because I feel like things are happening
that's gonna have long term effects, agree with you know?
And it's not, don't I don't know. I don't know.
Like I like, I woke up there and I've tried.
I've never not been a person that watched the news.
I've always watched the news. I've always watched local, I've
always watched world, I've always watched some kind of news.
But now I found myself like, I don't want to
(14:28):
do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Because it stress.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It does. And I woke up to a bulldozer to
the White House the other morning, and I'm like, how
is this happening? Like how is this happening? And how
has this not been How is nobody stopping it? How
is it happening? How is nobody stopping it? And what
(14:51):
kind of person are you that this place that's been
here for hundreds of years is not good enough for ye?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right? So he justifies things by saying, and this is
this is the narcissistic personality disorder I think he has that.
He's like, well, everybody wants this, and everybody's been saying this.
He's a he's a pathological liar. But you know, they've
been wanting to do this for one hundred years, and
you know, but I'm going to get it done. And
(15:20):
but no, you want to do it because you want
to people see that I did this, I accomplished this,
and this is my showroom.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That But that's not okay, that's none of this is okay.
None of this is okay.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So I posted something on Facebook in regards to that,
not not so much the this this how much one
hundred million dollar ballroom whatever it is. But you know,
one of the things that's a reoccurring theme is that
or reply response that people say, nobody's doing anything about it.
(15:54):
And if nobody's doing anything about whatever, you're you're going
to do it. You're gonna keep doing things because you
know I'm stopping you.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So, now he's trying to get the the Justice Department
Department of Justice. I don't know if you heard that one, right,
I don't know. He's trying to get the Justice Apartment
because he's the head. He's going to try to order
them to pay him two hundred and thirty million dollars
because of what it cost him for the allegations they
(16:26):
had against him.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, I did hear and his I guess his.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Uh, he considers the theft of the election.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Of what election?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, the theft of what election? It's Biden. How they
stole the election with Biden.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh hate they think that he he thinks that the
election was stolen from him when Biden won.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, you know, that's he's been saying that. That's what
all this you know stuff was about the fact that
you know, he did that and then he got the
allegations against him because he was trying to find, right here,
do all this and I saw that, I saw the breakdown,
and it was it was when I saw how they
(17:13):
had the breakdown of the evidence, I was like, he's
getting convicted. He's going to prison.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But of course he did not exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So it's it's like the whole system is just breaking down,
and he's pressing that one way. They can think them
in one way because he's finding all the cracks and
the flaws in the system, and if they look at
that after his term is over or after whatever happens
with him, they can go and say, you know what,
(17:40):
let's fix this so this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, that's okay, Okay, that that makes That gives me
a little glimmer if they do it. If they do it,
that gives me a little glumm. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just like,
I'm so I can't even handle it. I cannot even
handle it. I can't talk to people about it because
I just I up like I feel like a puffer fish.
You know, if somebody mentions him, I'll just go like,
(18:08):
what are you talking about? You know? I feel like
poor people are just gonna die. I feel like people
are going to die and nobody cares. Like people need snap,
people need their damn medicine. I have a friend right
now who has so many medical problems, so many medical problems,
and they told her that she no longer qualifies for
(18:31):
medical assistance. She does not make enough money. Her last
she says, she charged her last batch of medication. It's
two thousand, five hundred dollars for her one month of medication.
So she's like, I got one more credit card. I'm
gonna get my next month of medication. I don't know
(18:52):
what else to do. Yes, she's got hard issues, she's
got blood pressure issues, She's got all of these things,
Like she's got this issue with her blood pressure that
can go it goes up to two hundred. Like her
top number can go up to two hundred. The bottom
number can go that far too. So they have not
been able to control it. And now what the doctor
(19:14):
is telling her that because her pressure is getting as
high is causing problems with her eyes and problems with
her heart and she can't sustain. You know, you can't.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's going to hit her kidneys.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Right, all of this stuff is gonna start happen, and
so all that that medication is to prevent all of
those things from happening. And I think she got a
two percent raise and it knocked her out of being
because he puts some new things into place and knocked
her out of being able to get medical assistance. And
where she works, the insurance is too high, Like the
(19:48):
insurance will be seven hundred dollars a month for her
out of pocket. Wow, So like people are going to
die like that That's where my anxiety is. People are
going to die. He's talking about taking uh snap benefits
away from people like people need food, Like what do
you do when well.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That was the thing that they quoted him, and I
didn't read the article. Again, I was trying to avoid
my early morning anxiety whatever. But he said that that
was going to end. He said medica was it, Medicare
and Social Security he said was going to end. And
I didn't. I didn't get into the whole you know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Why, right, because it's no reason why. It's no reason why,
like if all of those things are going to end,
stop taking this money out of my check.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, yes, and two, here's here's a thing. We can
go down a list of things that's causing anxiety for
the person. So all right, you mentioned the Medicaid Medicare
snap and they've been trying to do that for years,
I know. So let's let's get into why. He's what
we were talking about, like nobody's doing anything, you know,
to halt it, to halt it. Right, So this morning
(20:56):
we were talking about not you and I, but we
were talking about when I say, we talking online about
how they're changing the red states, are trying to change
the we call it the congressional districts to squeeze out
the Democrats. So they're trying to get more seats and
(21:18):
the reason why they want to do that so at
the mid terms, were typically that changes that that he
can maintain control over the House of Representatives, which controls
the money, which also starts an impeachment process, and it's
and it's blatant. This is latant Latan violation. And again
going back to nobody's doing anything about it. So you
(21:39):
have Texas that's doing it, Florida was looking into it,
so it was another state that kind of they didn't
have the votes to do it, but of course he
called everybody who that didn't give them the votes, and
he's pressuring them to do that. So he's blatantly trying
to cheat. Yeah, yeah, and nobody, again, nobody's doing anything
(22:04):
about it. So if he does that, then he gets
the opportunity to start cutting all the different things that
is against the law, so he can get rid of
certain programs that legally has to be done by Congress.
He can't just say I'm gonna get rid of it
and it. What he could do is he can snatch
(22:25):
the funds away from it so it can't do this.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It can't survive.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And that's what he's been doing him in elon Musk
before he left. So that's a that's a big thing
to worry about everybody, you know, and if you're concerned
about the environment, if you're concerned about just.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Food, like like you're getting rid of food and drug
and manistration like, so we're gonna be eating rotten food again.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And unsafe and and you know in this country, you know,
corporations only do the right thing because they're forced to
do it absolutely. If you take away that absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The whole uh Hulu Disney deal with you know, what's
the I can't even think of his name, Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah,
so it's just like everything. It's just like every day
is something different. It's uh measles outbreak in a state.
And I'm like, I thought we fixed this, like a
(23:26):
charge of half human services. Yeah, so it's just like
I thought we fixed this. I thought our kids were safe.
Didn't we do? Why are we here again? You know?
Why we even even something is innocuous? And I don't
think it really is. It's the whole Super Bowl Bad
Bunny thing. I don't even know who bad Bunny is. Well,
I won't say that. I've seen the face. I've seen
(23:48):
them around, I've heard the name. I couldn't know before this.
I couldn't tell you what songs he sang. Right, every
TV in my house is gonna have bad Bunny on
Super Bowl just because y'all don't want it, well, just
because they don't want.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It, right, you know, his two Trump's two Trumps, you
know support I'm gonna say, you know, whatever he did
say people you know he's from Puerto.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Rico, who's yeah, yeah, but he's.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, the thing is to Trump's you know benefit whatever.
He did say that the president of Puerto Rico and
the president of the Virgin Islands where bad people were
didn't know what they was doing.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
The projection, the projection.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I was like, okay, so he told the truth for once,
you know whatever, whatever you have that, and it's like
society is just they're jumping on board this train that
just just to me, like has so many parallels to
not see Germany, and people don't see that. They really
just don't see it, or they don't want to see
they don't want to see it, they don't want to
see it. But then you got I'm telling how lawless
(24:55):
this country is. Aside from them doing he's going to
know it the law. So whistleblower. They had this guy
who worked for the Department of Justice, right he worked
for Trump the first time, did a good job defending
his policies on immigration or whatever, and got to raise
this time he was he got fired because he wouldn't
(25:17):
sign on some document that said something that was not true,
and he became a whistleblower. So he said he couldn't
believe that there were lawyers the Department of Justice, lawyers
that wouldn't into court and basically flat out lied and
they purposely ignored court orders like he was. They said
(25:42):
it ahead of time, you know, if that you know,
we're not We're gonna do what we want to do.
So what happens when these checks and balances break down?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
There?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Exactly? So that's still alarming part and you can you
can see that in almost everything. Now, that's what bothered
me this morning. So it bothered me before, but this
this is a new one. They just they the Navy
shot up another boat in the Caribbean or around the
Caribbean and his alleged drug dealers from Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So how do they know that before they start shooting bingo?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
He says, intel? Intel, And I'm like, all right, So
even Ran Paul of all people gets on there. He says,
they don't have they don't make fentanol. Not even some
they have they don't make it. It's none. We are
fending comes from China, right, But that was his thing
that you know, they're they're bringing fentanyl and this and
that into the American cities. Whatever. Now the thing is,
(26:48):
you're you're just blowing up boats. And then when they
bring up the fact that these boats are motorized boats,
like motor boats that you would have to refuel twelve
times before you even reached the United States, so obviously
or fishing boasts that you know that won't make the trip.
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But you're saying they're they're coming to bring drugs into
the United States. That's one of the problems. It doesn't match,
it doesn't fit. Secondly, what happened to do process? What
happened to actually you know, and I know there has
to be some international laws of violating, but nobody's saying anything.
You When I was in the Navy so many years ago,
we had this thing we did call leo ops law
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enforcement operations. We worked with Coast Guard and stuff like that.
We captured people that were bringing were smuggling drugs and
stuff like that. And you know, we it was we
didn't blow them up, you captured them. You brought the evidence,
and you brought them into court like it's supposed to happen.
They decided that we're the United States, we could do
without what we want him, and that that white supremacist
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director or what's it called the War Department now the
Secretary of the is now the Secretary of War, decides
that they can do whatever they want. You're gonna start
blowing up boats coming from another country that's not even
in US waters. If your so called intelligence that's saying that,
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oh they're drug boats, that doesn't even doesn't even match.
Even if they are drug boats, they're not even able
to reach the US. They're not in the US waters.
How do you think that's legal?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh my god? So yeah, so it's people on these
boats who are currently dead, Yes, because of the United States,
for absolutely no reason.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yes, we are state sponsored terrorists.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah we are. Well we've been that for yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But now it's now it's more blatant and open, you know,
like we don't need It's like we don't care because
we feel I say we I'm talking about the government
feels this administration feels that nobody can touch us, nobody
can you know, they're not worried about you, right, but
yet the country is suffering. Let's go back to the
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to the farmers in the Midwest. Oh, yes, workers overwhelmingly
supported Trump. Right, they had no workers. I just saw
a video where they had this this farm. It must
have been it must have looked like it was one
hundred acres of just tomatoes and they were just sitting
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on the ground faulting rotten because they had no workers.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Which means we're paying more for tomatoes or we might
not even be able to get tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So the raids have chased off all the people. So
that's one. The second part was because of its tariffs.
All those farmers who were selling stuff overseas, I mean
the majority of their their products was going overseas and
getting all this money. Now China picked them up from
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another country, so they billions of dollars. They went from
not having not what he went from having customers buyers
to skip the the less money for the crops, to
no money or whatever. So now they're hurting, you know,
and they're vocal. But guess what, everybody knew it. You
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were told about it ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
People hear what they want to hear.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And guess what. I guarantee you the next election cycle,
they're still going to vote Grid. I guarantee it now.
Mind you, this is always put on Facebook. I don't
always blame Trump for everything that he does that that's
criminal or you know whatever, because Congress has the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Right power, right somebody should be stopping and the responsible absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Come election day, you know, hold the Congress responsible for
letting him do those things. If you're not letting him
do those things, then it doesn't happen, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
So I agree one hundred. I agree. Yeah, it's it's
a messy. It's messy, and I'm so uncomfortable all the time.
I'm trying not to take medication. But that's that's that's
our reality. But you know it's at some point I'm
concerned about my job. You know, we we help people
(31:15):
with Medicare and medicaid. Oh we're starting to it's starting
to trickle in where the people who have been coming
to us for years no longer have insurance. So it's
just like where they're gonna get their help, where they're
gonna get their medication, They're gonna be people out on
the street. It's just yeah, yeah, I have a level
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of anxiety that I don't think I've ever had in
my entire life.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So you don't think that he's America person.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Sure, as long as you're rich and white and male.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Now let me tell you this that I'm gonna tell
you this. This is all of the ironic things that
you know, you know, you want to say I told
you so, right, mm hmmm. So now we talked about
the farmers. Now the beef producers farmers, right, that's that's yes,
industry is going to Argentina. Now. The thing is he
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likes the president of Argentina because he gives some compliments
and you know he's you know whatever. So where these
guys are struggling with, you know, with their crops and
their the beef industry, you know that's high. They're gonna
allow the Argentinian beef producers to bring their food into
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the US. Right, and he bought I forgot what it was.
It was like some godly amount of money of Argentinian currency.
Basically you're giving them money away to support them, so
they don't you know whatever. But yeah, so now the
farmers are like, well, you giving them money and then
you're saying that we're gonna you're gonna uh give us
(32:56):
a bailout because of the problems that you called rights
and these guys was up this hand. We don't want
to hand out, right, We want.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
The way it was. We just want to be able
to make a living like everybody else. But yeah, this
is what you voted for. And like you said, people
hear what they want to hear.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, and again, guarantee you come next election cycle, they will.
I wish we could just fast forward. We'll come back
to this and next next serve.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I mean just even like I saw an article
where this this I want to say, Kentucky. I want
to say Kentucky. Kentucky's a red state. Yes, okay, one clinic,
rural clinic been open thirty years.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yes, closed down, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Close down because of all of these things that he's
putting in place. And they were seventy five percent Trump supporters, yep,
and now they don't have a clinic.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Now, speaking of how do you how do you purposely
say I'm going to cut all these different programs for
blue states.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, that's the other thing. Yes, how do you get
away with that? No, you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You're not pressing of the red states? How they call
them Internet dumb fucking stay in you know, you're not
the You're you know, it's just I agree with you.
This is a time where I think in our lifetime,
we've never seen anything like this, and I don't even
know it's ever done that ever in the history of
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this country. But I know, definitely not my life.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Not yeah, definitely not my life.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And again, Kamala Harris told him ahead of time this
is what he's going to do, and he's doing.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Every thing and every single thing in his project. I
kind of blew up at my coworker. She was like,
have you seen that twenty twenty project twenty twenty five
or whatever it was, And I was like, I don't
want to hear nothing else about it. I want to
hear people saying they go on to vote. That's what
I want to hear. I don't want to hear anything
about this thing. I'm over it because you will sit
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home and you will read this and you will pass
it around on the internet, but your ass will not
get up and go vote. So I'm over it. Don't
ask me about that. So the information was there, you
saw the information, you decided to do something else, And
this is where we are, and.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You saw the first four years support now all right,
so speaking of VOT I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Think it was that bad. I mean it was bad,
it was bad. I don't feel like it was as
bad as it is right now now exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
So it was so funny about that we said that
that we thought the world was going to end when
George Bush was in right, Yeah, George Bush gets out. Now,
let me say something about George Bush. Even though I
didn't like his policies, and I thought, you know, it
was he he favored the rich, as most Republicans does,
and he was worse than the whatever, but you know,
he wasn't a bad person, right, he was still a statesman.
(35:52):
He you know, you know his intent was he didn't
agree with him, but you knew his intent was not
to hurt people. Right now, we got a guy who
really is unfit to be in charge of anything anything, right,
and we're like, how could how could we actually get worse?
Right now, I'm gonna go on record and say we
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it's impossible for us to get anybody worse than him.
I'm gonna go on record and say that, like I said.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
With John's scared, I'm not saying it out my mouth.
I'm scared. I'm not putting that bad juju out. I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
What if she said she said he was he was
going to weaponize the Department of Justice, the same thing
that he accused them of doing. Ye with all the
evidence they had. Now he fired two federal district attorneys
right because they found out that there's no evidence to
indict the Attorney General of New York, James Right, nothing whatsoever.
(36:57):
And they tried, they tried, don't have anything.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
They're gonna keep trying.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
So what does he do. He fires him, and he
puts somebody in who's a loyalist that.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Was just gonna make up something else.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So he did that to attorney general. He did it
to who was the other one? He did Oh to James.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh, James coy Kane with receipts dismissed.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Come on, he he did it to uh former what
was he? He was Bolton? Yeah, it was what was he?
He was not c I A he was whatever he was,
he was, you know, whatever. All the people that he
considered enemies he's.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
He's trying to go after now, and is that a dictator?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I'm just asked, you know, I'm not a king. I'm
not you know, they keep saying him, I'm a king
in this net whatever in your child? Oh my god,
you got all these things to worry about yet, but
you're out here producing i AI.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Videos and tweeting like who has time to tweet?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
That's his that's his thing. He that is this is
this is the worst time. I think I can't recall
any leader, you know, but who's it was another person?
I think he was trying to go after Bolton. You
have Letitia James, you have oh, you know it's going
to be next. Oh you got James Comy. You know
(38:20):
it's gonna be next. Adam Shift Why Adam Schiff led
the impeachment process, So he's they tried before, but now
that he's now, he's right. And in that idiot Attorney
general that we have, uh, BONDI BONDI You know, I
don't know if you ever I don't know if you've
(38:41):
seen the the hearings what was the hearings on? But
it had her and they had cash Betel. Yeah. Yeah,
if that wasn't the most unprofessional response government leader. Literally,
they they tell you they're unfit, right, you clearly see
it that they are you're now. My My thing is
(39:02):
that the solution to this is you have to have
this is some of the changes that we have have.
You have to have the Department of Justice out from
the control of the executive because if that's if you
have the control of the executive, the executive have control
over you.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Who's gonna keep who's gonna check? Nobody's gonna have check
some balances.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
There should be independent. Maybe that department of the Department
of Justice should be under Congress, you know, at least
they have a chance, you know, but yeah, that definitely
has to and then the court systems aren't any better.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Supreme Court, Clarens Thomas should be gone. Clarens Thomas should
be gone. I'm sorry, he just should not.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Thomas and I saw an article that said they wanted
they should impeach John who's the who's the chief Justice?
God for got his name, But anyway, he's not that
he's not He's not the one that should be on.
It should be uh Alito and Thomas. Those are the
two that should be going. The other three were liars.
(40:07):
You know, maybe there's a there's a case for that too,
but those two are just the worst. And what's his name,
is it like Smith?
Speaker 2 (40:17):
It's something common Chief Justice though Supreme Court, Yes, John Roberts.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
John Roberts, yes, yes, And I thought out of those
conservative judges, he was probably the most reasonable one, right,
you know. But he's not controlling, he's I don't think
he's leading because they you know, but we have some
really uh bad institutionalized things that we have to do.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
And that's one of them. I don't think they should
have life lifetime appointment.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I don't think they should have lifetime appointment.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I understand why they did that, so you know, you
can't uh be controlled every single time by it. But
it's happening, right.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Right, it's happening. Yeah, they should not have lifetime appointments,
like because simply because I'm a different thinker in my
twenties than I am in my sixties. So hello, yeah,
like you know, and people tend to hold on to
some things that they shouldn't hold on to, and Clarence
Thomas is just I can't even I can't even tell
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you how much I feel like he is so disrespectful
of that position.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
And nobody's holding him accountable.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Nobody's holding him accountable.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
The money situations that they got.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Well, why would you if a country gives you a plane,
why would you say anything to him? Those little trips
are nothing compared to some of the things that I'm
getting over here. Oh lord, oh yes we could.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, all right, So one last thing, it's about this thing.
Hold this whole thing going back to you talking about
the voting. So we just had the No Kings protest,
right and I think they said something like six hundred
or six thousand cities different whatever it was. Yeah, but
it's like seven million people they estimate.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
They were out. I was thank you, thank you, everybody
who participated, thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
But one guy, when I was posting that, I was
just posting on on social media, one guy said, Okay,
that's that's all finding dandy and everything, but what counts
as votes?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yep, yep, he's not lying. My son said that was
a parade. He was like, ain't nobody get arrested, Ain't
nobody get tear gas. That's a parade, not a protest.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
So funny enough, they didn't have any disturbances outside of
the people that was arrested were guess what, but maga yep.
And you know, they kept calling over it's it's you know,
if they're anti American, they weren't even American flag. They
were fighting for democracy and anti fascism. But again to
what the guy said, we gotta translate that into voting.
(42:47):
You know, even we say this every time, is important.
It's important elections. It is important elections.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Please go. And it's got to be local too. It's
got to be local to you can't just vote for
the president. It's got to be local because that's where
your changes start. You know.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I saw I saw a chart that you know how
they say Republicans controlled this state. Yeah, you know, I
saw a chart during the election that said basically they
had the Democratic presidential candidate the Republican presidential candidate and
did not vote right and to see who controlled all
(43:23):
the states. Guess who won the election? Did not vote.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I believe it. I believe it, like you gotta vote.
And I emphasized that with everybody that I talk to,
young people, old people, everybody I made. I did not
know that my mother did not vote in tall Obama.
I never I never knew that. It just never occurred
to me. I don't think my sister votes either, And
I'm just like, what are you doing. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
That's and I think a lot of people have this
thing that my vote don't count yep. And you're right,
it doesn't count because you didn't vote, right, you know.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
And my whole thing to that is if it didn't count,
they wouldn't be trying.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
To stop you, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
And that's what I tell everybody who tells me that,
I tell them that exactly same thing. They wouldn't be
trying to stop you. They wouldn't be trying to jerry
rigg where you can vote and how you can vote
and what time you can vote. If it didn't matter,
you know, it'd be open, it'll be free. People wouldn't
been getting shot, had dogs set on them, all of
these things.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
So there was a study or maybe I read it
in a book before, but they did the studies and
they said if everybody who was eligible to come out
to vote actually voted, Republicans would never win the House
to Senate or the White House.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
And that's why they're trying to brig it now. Absolutely,
that's exactly why they're trying.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
To small to turnus Republicans, you know. And then I
you know, is this the fact that and I'm not
talking about the voters. I'm talking about the people who
were actually in the office. They know these things. Yeah, absolute,
it's not hitting. But if I had to ask you
a question like what give me three things did you
(45:05):
think could change for the better when it comes to
this situation that we're in. If you had to change
three things, what would it.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Be, Oh, I get rid of the president and.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
You know, I mean not including people. Okay, right, because
you know that usually change what what institutionalized things would
you say needs to change? Like like laws?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Yeah, definitely, some laws, definitely. Like I said, the Supreme Court,
I don't feel like they should have lifetime appointments.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Okay, the Court.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
I also think like you were saying that that certain
branches shouldn't be under the president. Okay, we need to
move some of those over to maybe Congress or figure
out a different kind of way. Because if the president
gets to say he can control the laws, you know,
what's that saying that he who holds a pen writes
the story something like that. So yeah, some of those
(46:05):
I don't know. A third thing, maybe, like you said,
the everybody who's capable of voting needs to vote, right, everybody,
And we got to figure out how we make this
a real thing, like how we can make it tangible
for people to know that this is important to do.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
What I would do. One of the first things is
the the congressional districts MM. I would have an independent
panel to write those things because one of the things
I didn't know is I looked up. You know, Texas
is always read right always Why Why did I look up?
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And it was like a million or two million more
Democrats in Texas than Republicans, but yet they have the
least amount of power.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
You're talking about millions, right, So I would I would
do that and make it fair. Make it fair.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Is it that they're not voting, or is it how
the lines are drawn? They can vote.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
All the lines are drawn is most of the profit
because they can they can how the civil rights access
You're not supposed to pack a district like you can like, uh,
let's say Houston. Houston's you know, pretty much more African
American blah blah blah. So if you took the Houston
area and you kind of made it a square, it
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would take all the other counties and you know, but
if you write a district that is just including Houston
and maybe some other minority communities. Now you got one
one electric called elector. So all those things I think
need to change to again, like you said, change that.
The Department of Justice, period needs to be from make
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it an elected a position. Make it an elected position,
and be independent because now you you know, when you
elect somebody, they have to go on their merits, right
and then and they're not holding to the president.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Right And if you're not doing what you don't, it's
supposed to you out of it, out of there, right.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
So that's that's two something. What was the first one?
You said?
Speaker 2 (48:12):
The Supreme Court?
Speaker 1 (48:14):
So okay, so I'm not sure about the.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
I don't think they should have life long appointment.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
I don't think they should either. But if I had
to pick three, that's not gonna be my top. Gotcha,
it was uh, it was definitely the Department of Justice. Oh,
I know, it was the we call it the uh.
The presidential powers needs to be he they have recently
(48:42):
given them too much. The president shouldn't be immune to prosecution.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree if.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
They are only in very small circumstances. That's one. And
when I talk about presidential powers the whole part of
powers of partning need to be curved because is how.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Do you how do you just pardon?
Speaker 1 (49:04):
And well, he parted all the January six people and
a lot of them got re arrested, a lot of
them more pedophiles. But so he one of the Republican Uh,
I don't know if he's a congressman and the Senate,
but the the guy from New York. He was supposed
to serve seven years and I think he he hasn't
even served a year yet. He got his his sentence
(49:25):
commuted Jesus. So that means the restitution everything, everything. So
that's kind of like, you didn't even do this crime. Now,
if I was a president and I wanted to, you know,
let's say I was conspiring with other people to do
certain things and they got caught up and whatever, and
I said, well, listen, go ahead and take that and
I'm gonna just go ahead and pardon you. So it
(49:47):
doesn't matter, but I pardon you that it's not just
the whole conviction exactly, but you know that whole that's
that's too much power. So those are the three things
that I would do. Yeah, curb the president powers, the
the Department of Justice. And what was the third thing?
Speaker 2 (50:07):
I said, the districts.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Oh yeah, the districts. And I think that would make
it fair anyway, because you know, like obviously Nebraska or
Oklahoma probably they're still going to have as many. Oh
let me throw this in there too. It needs to
have more parody, like they some of those smaller states
should not have the same power as some of the
other states, I think, and it was against our thing,
(50:31):
but like, I don't think the distribution is equal. You know,
when it comes to the smaller states, they get more
than what they're worth when it comes to representatives. Okay,
the calculations that they do, and I forgot what it
was like if you get over a certain amount of people,
you get a vote, You get a vote, right, But
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some of the some of the the states are getting
more than what I say. California, California gets a lot
of representatives because huge population. But it's still so.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
You're saying Nebraska shouldn't have the same as California.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
It shouldn't be the same ratio.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Gotcha, you know, gotcha? So how many people you have
in that state?
Speaker 1 (51:12):
If California has six hundred representatives and Nebraska has two,
so be it right. You know, you can't have the
small holding up everybody else. And I know they did
that just to give them parody.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Right, right, but to try to make it fair.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
So that needs to that needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, we could talk about this one whatever, but it'll
make my brain hurt. And yeah, my anxiety level can't
take it. It just cannot take it. I'm just like
every single day there's something else and it's just it's
wearing you down.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
You might need a therapist. And guess what, that's my
that's my part time job. Oh jeez, I could be
a therapist.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
No, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
We need a word of today, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Uh hm, I do not know?
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Corruption And we did not talk about what we did
talk about corruption.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
Everything that's been done is corruption. We didn't even talk
about the whole thing with Israel too. That's a that's
another one. But yeah, the word of the day is corruption.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Okay? Corruption?
Speaker 1 (52:19):
And what do you guys think about what we talked
about as far as what's going on? How does it
affect you know? You can catch us at www dot
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Speaker 2 (52:42):
You and what did you do with your anxiety or
if you have any because some people might not have any.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
No, I live all right, guys.
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Oh, plants, you're talking about your plant. Yeah. For those
who don't know, if you travel overseas to another country,
certain things you can't bring or has to go through
certain inspections. So I wanted to bring various seeds over
to a country in Africa. And there's a guy who's
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online and I forgot his name. He is a black guy,
but he has he grows all these different exotic fruits.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
In the United States.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I think he's in I want to say maybe Alabama
or Florida. He's obviously he's in the South because they
can grow, but he has some of the most fascinating produce.
And I wanted to, you know, before I left, I
(01:55):
wanted to order a whole bunch of seeds and then
do pots. Okay, and just because I want to grow
everything that I could possibly grow. And I thought about it,
and I said, let me see, and they said, well,
you have to get it inspected to make sure that
there's no parasites on it and stuff like that. And
then so basically they'll look at it, they'll probably they
(02:17):
may toss some some and they'll you know, do whatever
that has worked all that not really, I said, na,
And I was gonna sneak some candaloop seas that got
over there over there, but I'm pretty sure I can
get all that there. So one of the things I
was looking at I was looking at nurseries. Okay, so
(02:38):
they have this one nursery over there. They have about
fifty different varieties of fruit trees.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And I was doing the you know, calculations, how many
I can get for how much and all that type stuff,
and there's stuff. So I figured if I got all
fifty varieties they were. I think they came to about
an average of seven to eight dollars per tree, and
(03:07):
I was like, I'm getting twelve twelve per variety.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Who is doing all of this work?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I can hire people. I'll do out of work. So basically,
you know, when I when I look at this stuff,
they give you a description of what you need to
do and what type of soul is needed and stuff
like that. So basically, you dig this big hole, you know,
enough for the roots to go in, and depends on
what type of tree you have, you want to make
the soil softer. You might say loan me loa me,
(03:37):
louy whatever, like sometime they want some sandy soil and
there's a different pH bounces and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, it's work.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I have. Ah, we call it a a pH bounce
measuring stick. Okay, thank you, Timu.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Exhausting just the idea, I mean it, and it takes
years before it produced fruit, so it's not like so
you got to put some long term efforts and some.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Are fast growing, some take two to three years. So
and I would probably hire somebody to dig the holes.
You know, but because because of the cost of living
is pretty cheap and uh what was it? A friend
of mine over there and that's this one is in
Nigeria and I think she gave him what in our money,
(04:24):
like three dollars a day and they did the this
to make her field of rice. They you know, harvested whatever.
But for them it's okay because you know whatever. And
I was looking at, uh, well, somebody else I know
in Kenya because I'm not doing all this farm and
not you know, I hire people, you know, they and
I was looking at the cost of I was like, oh,
(04:45):
I can do that too, but I do want to
be hands on, but I'm not going to do everything
because I wanted to. I want things done kind of
quickly because it takes, you know, a while. And then
they'll tell you, you know, you can graft certain trees. Basically,
you take a tree, a young tree that doesn't produce fruit,
(05:05):
and you take a mature tree that does have fruit.
You take a kind of like a lego connection, and
then now you have yes. Yeah, so I looked into
that too, but yeah, I wanted to do an average
of twelve trees per per species. Now some of my
probably like I don't I don't know if I want
(05:26):
to grow tammering. What is that something that you get
that drink that you get from the Mexican or.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Latino?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, whatever you get that, you get that from that restaurants.
But it's really good. But I saw a video on
how you you know, harvest it and get it to
the juice thing.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I was like, that's way too much work.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So that's why I wouldn't get it. But they had
they had everything, not everything, but they had enough. One
thing I wanted to grow and I've never had it before,
but it looks good. Is you ever heard of a persimmon?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Have you ever had one?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No? They have them here?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh I know they haven't in the US, but I've
never seen it.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I bet you you could find it at Wegmans or
at the fruit market on Rice's Town that we go to. Really,
I bet you could.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I have to look it up. Ya. I do want
to try those. And then, uh, you ever heard of
Paul Paul?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Okay, Paul Paul is like, well not, I don't want
to describe it because I'm probably gonna be wrong, but
it seems like almost like a banana, and they got
a whole bunch of big seas in there and it
has a maybe a custody taste people.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
People you're not describing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But imagine if I look up something that says what
grows here, I'm going to grow it. Okay, So that's
what I'm looking at.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Fruits and vegetables, everything, So that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, sounds like you'll be busy. That's what it
sounds like to me.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Food secure, food security.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. We might need to start thinking
about that on a serious yeah level, very much.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So have you ever grown anything?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, I can't keep nothing alive. I kept my children alive.
I figured that was enough for me. I have a
bamboo that I've been struggling with, but he holding on.
Oh he's holding on.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Put that outside. That'll take over your whole.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I know. That's what I need to do. I don't
have to have a fence.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It'll grow out of control.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, if you planning, you have to actually put like
something a barrier.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So it won't like something like maybe concrete or something.
But it's invasive to some places. I don't know if
I'm using the right term, but it is uncontrolled in
some places, they kind of want to keep things.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So, yeah, I got a bamboo plant. I got the
plant that you gave me. So and Gracie is doing
fine and we're gonna break it off and make Frankie soon.
I killed the cactus, so I had I do not.
I killed the cactus. I forgot to water it, and
I know you could go months without water on it.
(08:20):
But I just happened to look over there one day
and it was like brown. I'm just like, oh my god, alo,
I can grow aloe.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But you know, go back toally a cactus that could
be resurrected. I have one cactus that I had at
my office. It was small that I got from somebody
or I don't know if I don't think I brought it.
I got it from somebody. And the reason why I
got rid of because I kept getting stuck by okay,
So I gave it to a lady down at one
of the government offices at the courthouse. And you know,
(08:46):
I was always popping in when I'm harassed people, and yes,
and she got that thing growing. Oh wow, it was
I was so proud. You did a good job.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean, some people just have that good that that
green thumb. I just wasn't one of those people. So
and I don't think that was a cactus. I think
it was a succulent because it didn't have pricklies. So
that makes a difference. Okay, right, succulents are different.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What what do you think the good thing about succulents?
What's a good thing about succulents?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It was pretty, That's all I cared about. I didn't
I didn't look into its history.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, if you plant those, the people out there who
don't know, if you plant those, it's kind of It
also gives a better barrier against forest fires. I did
not know that because it routines moisture and doesn't get dry.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Like, look at you smoking it bad?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They always look you.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
With the facts coming through with all the fat two
am rabbit hole, not sleep, but like what do you
do with Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Like I discovered why the moon in the sun looked
the same size. Okay, we not I'm not even letting
you go through that. I'm you know, put it's simple,
like all right, So the moon is one four hundredth
the distance from Earth to the sunk right, and the
(10:06):
so is it? The sun was one four hundredth or
the Earth is one four hundredth to the distance away
from you know, it was something like that, but it
was it was so funny because it was like it
was that same exact percentage that the you know, is
a distance like where the Earth right here is in
the most perfect zone. Okay, you know that you can
(10:29):
be in any type of soul system is in the
is in the habitable zone. It has the we call
it the perfect warmth, like if you move ten degrees
this way or ten degrees this way, it goes from
a barren planet to a frozen planet. You know, we're
actually literally in the middle of the perfect everything. And
(10:51):
and because of where Jupiter is, Jupiter, when we have
like you know, you see all the crazy movies the
scientific were the asteroids coming to destroy the Earth Jupiter
because of this position, it actually pulls things away from us. Okay,
So yeah, we're in like one of the perfect as
(11:13):
perfect can be.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay, So he can go down this rabbit hole. Family,
I'm telling y'all, we will be up all night. We
will listen. Somebody sent me this thing like if you
what friend would you call if you had to call
somebody at two o'clock in the morning. Who would you
think pick up? I was like, he woke, that would
be the person I would call psycho, because I know
(11:35):
he woke looking on that computer at some randomness. So yeah,
you would be the person I called because you would
you're up checking random facts.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And you know it filters in my dream sometimes too.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I imagine. So yeah, that's that's what happens. Especially like
a lot of that happens if I leave the TV
on too, like it'll filter into you know.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, like I've discovered that by look at vampire movies.
That was that good? That's good. I did have a dream.
I had a dream. I don't remember what the details was,
but I realized I was dreaming in the dream, and
I was trying to prove it to the people that
was in the dream. I said, look, this is just
(12:17):
gotta be a dream. This gott has been dreaming. Watched
this I'm a fly and I was actually flying. I'm like, see,
it's a dream. How is that happen?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Because when you realize something that is a dream, right
right right? Not me, that's all I'm rabbit, that's what
that is. Yeah, so that's freaking up.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So what's what's new, What's going on in the world today?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Listen, I have such an anxiety. What's the what's the
word everybody using? Over stimulated? Like that's the word everybody's using.
I'm over stimulated. But it's just given me a level
of anxiety that I don't ever remember having in life. Now,
I will say that they tell you that menopause will
(13:02):
make you anxious, like you know that that's a new
part of your life when you when you're in menopause.
But it's just like every day it's something and it's
just like, how how do you live at that level
of anxiety all the time? It is exhausting, It's exhausting,
(13:27):
and it's just like, how do a how do I
calm myself right and think that things are going to
get better? Like I have always been that person that
you know, even in my job, when people come to me,
I'm like, there is something that's better on the other side,
(13:49):
you know. I've always been that person. I've always can
see most people RUNNNA, it's gonna get better. But I
can't do that anymore. I don't feel that anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't feel it's gonna get better, not in the
short term. Yeah, maybe the long term.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I don't know, because I feel like things are happening
that's gonna have long term effects, agree with you know?
And it's not, don't I don't know. I don't know.
Like I like, I woke up there and I've tried.
I've never not been a person that watched the news.
I've always watched the news. I've always watched local, I've
always watched world, I've always watched some kind of news.
But now I found myself like, I don't want to
(14:28):
do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Because it stress.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It does. And I woke up to a bulldozer to
the White House the other morning, and I'm like, how
is this happening? Like how is this happening? And how
has this not been How is nobody stopping it? How
is it happening? How is nobody stopping it? And what
(14:51):
kind of person are you that this place that's been
here for hundreds of years is not good enough for ye?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right? So he justifies things by saying, and this is
this is the narcissistic personality disorder I think he has that.
He's like, well, everybody wants this, and everybody's been saying this.
He's a he's a pathological liar. But you know, they've
been wanting to do this for one hundred years, and
you know, but I'm going to get it done. And
(15:20):
but no, you want to do it because you want
to people see that I did this, I accomplished this,
and this is my showroom.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That But that's not okay, that's none of this is okay.
None of this is okay.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So I posted something on Facebook in regards to that,
not not so much the this this how much one
hundred million dollar ballroom whatever it is. But you know,
one of the things that's a reoccurring theme is that
or reply response that people say, nobody's doing anything about it.
(15:54):
And if nobody's doing anything about whatever, you're you're going
to do it. You're gonna keep doing things because you
know I'm stopping you.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So, now he's trying to get the the Justice Department
Department of Justice. I don't know if you heard that one, right,
I don't know. He's trying to get the Justice Apartment
because he's the head. He's going to try to order
them to pay him two hundred and thirty million dollars
because of what it cost him for the allegations they
(16:26):
had against him.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, I did hear and his I guess his.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Uh, he considers the theft of the election.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Of what election?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, the theft of what election? It's Biden. How they
stole the election with Biden.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh hate they think that he he thinks that the
election was stolen from him when Biden won.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, you know, that's he's been saying that. That's what
all this you know stuff was about the fact that
you know, he did that and then he got the
allegations against him because he was trying to find, right here,
do all this and I saw that, I saw the breakdown,
and it was it was when I saw how they
(17:13):
had the breakdown of the evidence, I was like, he's
getting convicted. He's going to prison.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But of course he did not exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So it's it's like the whole system is just breaking down,
and he's pressing that one way. They can think them
in one way because he's finding all the cracks and
the flaws in the system, and if they look at
that after his term is over or after whatever happens
with him, they can go and say, you know what,
(17:40):
let's fix this so this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, that's okay, Okay, that that makes That gives me
a little glimmer if they do it. If they do it,
that gives me a little glumm. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just like,
I'm so I can't even handle it. I cannot even
handle it. I can't talk to people about it because
I just I up like I feel like a puffer fish.
You know, if somebody mentions him, I'll just go like,
(18:08):
what are you talking about? You know? I feel like
poor people are just gonna die. I feel like people
are going to die and nobody cares. Like people need snap,
people need their damn medicine. I have a friend right
now who has so many medical problems, so many medical problems,
and they told her that she no longer qualifies for
(18:31):
medical assistance. She does not make enough money. Her last
she says, she charged her last batch of medication. It's
two thousand, five hundred dollars for her one month of medication.
So she's like, I got one more credit card. I'm
gonna get my next month of medication. I don't know
(18:52):
what else to do. Yes, she's got hard issues, she's
got blood pressure issues, She's got all of these things,
Like she's got this issue with her blood pressure that
can go it goes up to two hundred. Like her
top number can go up to two hundred. The bottom
number can go that far too. So they have not
been able to control it. And now what the doctor
(19:14):
is telling her that because her pressure is getting as
high is causing problems with her eyes and problems with
her heart and she can't sustain. You know, you can't.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's going to hit her kidneys.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Right, all of this stuff is gonna start happen, and
so all that that medication is to prevent all of
those things from happening. And I think she got a
two percent raise and it knocked her out of being
because he puts some new things into place and knocked
her out of being able to get medical assistance. And
where she works, the insurance is too high, Like the
(19:48):
insurance will be seven hundred dollars a month for her
out of pocket. Wow, So like people are going to
die like that That's where my anxiety is. People are
going to die. He's talking about taking uh snap benefits
away from people like people need food, Like what do
you do when well.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That was the thing that they quoted him, and I
didn't read the article. Again, I was trying to avoid
my early morning anxiety whatever. But he said that that
was going to end. He said medica was it, Medicare
and Social Security he said was going to end. And
I didn't. I didn't get into the whole you know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Why, right, because it's no reason why. It's no reason why,
like if all of those things are going to end,
stop taking this money out of my check.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, yes, and two, here's here's a thing. We can
go down a list of things that's causing anxiety for
the person. So all right, you mentioned the Medicaid Medicare
snap and they've been trying to do that for years,
I know. So let's let's get into why. He's what
we were talking about, like nobody's doing anything, you know,
to halt it, to halt it. Right, So this morning
(20:56):
we were talking about not you and I, but we
were talking about when I say, we talking online about
how they're changing the red states, are trying to change
the we call it the congressional districts to squeeze out
the Democrats. So they're trying to get more seats and
(21:18):
the reason why they want to do that so at
the mid terms, were typically that changes that that he
can maintain control over the House of Representatives, which controls
the money, which also starts an impeachment process, and it's
and it's blatant. This is latant Latan violation. And again
going back to nobody's doing anything about it. So you
(21:39):
have Texas that's doing it, Florida was looking into it,
so it was another state that kind of they didn't
have the votes to do it, but of course he
called everybody who that didn't give them the votes, and
he's pressuring them to do that. So he's blatantly trying
to cheat. Yeah, yeah, and nobody, again, nobody's doing anything
(22:04):
about it. So if he does that, then he gets
the opportunity to start cutting all the different things that
is against the law, so he can get rid of
certain programs that legally has to be done by Congress.
He can't just say I'm gonna get rid of it
and it. What he could do is he can snatch
(22:25):
the funds away from it so it can't do this.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It can't survive.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And that's what he's been doing him in elon Musk
before he left. So that's a that's a big thing
to worry about everybody, you know, and if you're concerned
about the environment, if you're concerned about just.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Food, like like you're getting rid of food and drug
and manistration like, so we're gonna be eating rotten food again.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And unsafe and and you know in this country, you know,
corporations only do the right thing because they're forced to
do it absolutely. If you take away that absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The whole uh Hulu Disney deal with you know, what's
the I can't even think of his name, Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah,
so it's just like everything. It's just like every day
is something different. It's uh measles outbreak in a state.
And I'm like, I thought we fixed this, like a
(23:26):
charge of half human services. Yeah, so it's just like
I thought we fixed this. I thought our kids were safe.
Didn't we do? Why are we here again? You know?
Why we even even something is innocuous? And I don't
think it really is. It's the whole Super Bowl Bad
Bunny thing. I don't even know who bad Bunny is. Well,
I won't say that. I've seen the face. I've seen
(23:48):
them around, I've heard the name. I couldn't know before this.
I couldn't tell you what songs he sang. Right, every
TV in my house is gonna have bad Bunny on
Super Bowl just because y'all don't want it, well, just
because they don't want.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It, right, you know, his two Trump's two Trumps, you
know support I'm gonna say, you know, whatever he did
say people you know he's from Puerto.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Rico, who's yeah, yeah, but he's.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, the thing is to Trump's you know benefit whatever.
He did say that the president of Puerto Rico and
the president of the Virgin Islands where bad people were
didn't know what they was doing.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
The projection, the projection.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I was like, okay, so he told the truth for once,
you know whatever, whatever you have that, and it's like
society is just they're jumping on board this train that
just just to me, like has so many parallels to
not see Germany, and people don't see that. They really
just don't see it, or they don't want to see
they don't want to see it, they don't want to
see it. But then you got I'm telling how lawless
(24:55):
this country is. Aside from them doing he's going to
know it the law. So whistleblower. They had this guy
who worked for the Department of Justice, right he worked
for Trump the first time, did a good job defending
his policies on immigration or whatever, and got to raise
this time he was he got fired because he wouldn't
(25:17):
sign on some document that said something that was not true,
and he became a whistleblower. So he said he couldn't
believe that there were lawyers the Department of Justice, lawyers
that wouldn't into court and basically flat out lied and
they purposely ignored court orders like he was. They said
(25:42):
it ahead of time, you know, if that you know,
we're not We're gonna do what we want to do.
So what happens when these checks and balances break down?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
There?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Exactly? So that's still alarming part and you can you
can see that in almost everything. Now, that's what bothered
me this morning. So it bothered me before, but this
this is a new one. They just they the Navy
shot up another boat in the Caribbean or around the
Caribbean and his alleged drug dealers from Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So how do they know that before they start shooting bingo?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
He says, intel? Intel, And I'm like, all right, So
even Ran Paul of all people gets on there. He says,
they don't have they don't make fentanol. Not even some
they have they don't make it. It's none. We are
fending comes from China, right, But that was his thing
that you know, they're they're bringing fentanyl and this and
that into the American cities. Whatever. Now the thing is,
(26:48):
you're you're just blowing up boats. And then when they
bring up the fact that these boats are motorized boats,
like motor boats that you would have to refuel twelve
times before you even reached the United States, so obviously
or fishing boasts that you know that won't make the trip.
(27:08):
But you're saying they're they're coming to bring drugs into
the United States. That's one of the problems. It doesn't match,
it doesn't fit. Secondly, what happened to do process? What
happened to actually you know, and I know there has
to be some international laws of violating, but nobody's saying anything.
You When I was in the Navy so many years ago,
we had this thing we did call leo ops law
(27:30):
enforcement operations. We worked with Coast Guard and stuff like that.
We captured people that were bringing were smuggling drugs and
stuff like that. And you know, we it was we
didn't blow them up, you captured them. You brought the evidence,
and you brought them into court like it's supposed to happen.
They decided that we're the United States, we could do
without what we want him, and that that white supremacist
(27:54):
director or what's it called the War Department now the
Secretary of the is now the Secretary of War, decides
that they can do whatever they want. You're gonna start
blowing up boats coming from another country that's not even
in US waters. If your so called intelligence that's saying that,
(28:15):
oh they're drug boats, that doesn't even doesn't even match.
Even if they are drug boats, they're not even able
to reach the US. They're not in the US waters.
How do you think that's legal?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh my god? So yeah, so it's people on these
boats who are currently dead, Yes, because of the United States,
for absolutely no reason.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yes, we are state sponsored terrorists.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah we are. Well we've been that for yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But now it's now it's more blatant and open, you know,
like we don't need It's like we don't care because
we feel I say we I'm talking about the government
feels this administration feels that nobody can touch us, nobody
can you know, they're not worried about you, right, but
yet the country is suffering. Let's go back to the
(29:02):
to the farmers in the Midwest. Oh, yes, workers overwhelmingly
supported Trump. Right, they had no workers. I just saw
a video where they had this this farm. It must
have been it must have looked like it was one
hundred acres of just tomatoes and they were just sitting
(29:23):
on the ground faulting rotten because they had no workers.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Which means we're paying more for tomatoes or we might
not even be able to get tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So the raids have chased off all the people. So
that's one. The second part was because of its tariffs.
All those farmers who were selling stuff overseas, I mean
the majority of their their products was going overseas and
getting all this money. Now China picked them up from
(29:54):
another country, so they billions of dollars. They went from
not having not what he went from having customers buyers
to skip the the less money for the crops, to
no money or whatever. So now they're hurting, you know,
and they're vocal. But guess what, everybody knew it. You
(30:16):
were told about it ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
People hear what they want to hear.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And guess what. I guarantee you the next election cycle,
they're still going to vote Grid. I guarantee it now.
Mind you, this is always put on Facebook. I don't
always blame Trump for everything that he does that that's
criminal or you know whatever, because Congress has the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Right power, right somebody should be stopping and the responsible absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Come election day, you know, hold the Congress responsible for
letting him do those things. If you're not letting him
do those things, then it doesn't happen, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
So I agree one hundred. I agree. Yeah, it's it's
a messy. It's messy, and I'm so uncomfortable all the time.
I'm trying not to take medication. But that's that's that's
our reality. But you know it's at some point I'm
concerned about my job. You know, we we help people
(31:15):
with Medicare and medicaid. Oh we're starting to it's starting
to trickle in where the people who have been coming
to us for years no longer have insurance. So it's
just like where they're gonna get their help, where they're
gonna get their medication, They're gonna be people out on
the street. It's just yeah, yeah, I have a level
(31:37):
of anxiety that I don't think I've ever had in
my entire life.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So you don't think that he's America person.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Sure, as long as you're rich and white and male.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Now let me tell you this that I'm gonna tell
you this. This is all of the ironic things that
you know, you know, you want to say I told
you so, right, mm hmmm. So now we talked about
the farmers. Now the beef producers farmers, right, that's that's yes,
industry is going to Argentina. Now. The thing is he
(32:11):
likes the president of Argentina because he gives some compliments
and you know he's you know whatever. So where these
guys are struggling with, you know, with their crops and
their the beef industry, you know that's high. They're gonna
allow the Argentinian beef producers to bring their food into
(32:33):
the US. Right, and he bought I forgot what it was.
It was like some godly amount of money of Argentinian currency.
Basically you're giving them money away to support them, so
they don't you know whatever. But yeah, so now the
farmers are like, well, you giving them money and then
you're saying that we're gonna you're gonna uh give us
(32:56):
a bailout because of the problems that you called rights
and these guys was up this hand. We don't want
to hand out, right, We want.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
The way it was. We just want to be able
to make a living like everybody else. But yeah, this
is what you voted for. And like you said, people
hear what they want to hear.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, and again, guarantee you come next election cycle, they will.
I wish we could just fast forward. We'll come back
to this and next next serve.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I mean just even like I saw an article
where this this I want to say, Kentucky. I want
to say Kentucky. Kentucky's a red state. Yes, okay, one clinic,
rural clinic been open thirty years.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yes, closed down, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Close down because of all of these things that he's
putting in place. And they were seventy five percent Trump supporters, yep,
and now they don't have a clinic.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Now, speaking of how do you how do you purposely
say I'm going to cut all these different programs for
blue states.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, that's the other thing. Yes, how do you get
away with that? No, you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You're not pressing of the red states? How they call
them Internet dumb fucking stay in you know, you're not
the You're you know, it's just I agree with you.
This is a time where I think in our lifetime,
we've never seen anything like this, and I don't even
know it's ever done that ever in the history of
(34:29):
this country. But I know, definitely not my life.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Not yeah, definitely not my life.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And again, Kamala Harris told him ahead of time this
is what he's going to do, and he's doing.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Every thing and every single thing in his project. I
kind of blew up at my coworker. She was like,
have you seen that twenty twenty project twenty twenty five
or whatever it was, And I was like, I don't
want to hear nothing else about it. I want to
hear people saying they go on to vote. That's what
I want to hear. I don't want to hear anything
about this thing. I'm over it because you will sit
(35:00):
home and you will read this and you will pass
it around on the internet, but your ass will not
get up and go vote. So I'm over it. Don't
ask me about that. So the information was there, you
saw the information, you decided to do something else, And
this is where we are, and.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You saw the first four years support now all right,
so speaking of VOT I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Think it was that bad. I mean it was bad,
it was bad. I don't feel like it was as
bad as it is right now now exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
So it was so funny about that we said that
that we thought the world was going to end when
George Bush was in right, Yeah, George Bush gets out. Now,
let me say something about George Bush. Even though I
didn't like his policies, and I thought, you know, it
was he he favored the rich, as most Republicans does,
and he was worse than the whatever, but you know,
he wasn't a bad person, right, he was still a statesman.
(35:52):
He you know, you know his intent was he didn't
agree with him, but you knew his intent was not
to hurt people. Right now, we got a guy who
really is unfit to be in charge of anything anything, right,
and we're like, how could how could we actually get worse?
Right now, I'm gonna go on record and say we
(36:15):
it's impossible for us to get anybody worse than him.
I'm gonna go on record and say that, like I said.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
With John's scared, I'm not saying it out my mouth.
I'm scared. I'm not putting that bad juju out. I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
What if she said she said he was he was
going to weaponize the Department of Justice, the same thing
that he accused them of doing. Ye with all the
evidence they had. Now he fired two federal district attorneys
right because they found out that there's no evidence to
indict the Attorney General of New York, James Right, nothing whatsoever.
(36:57):
And they tried, they tried, don't have anything.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
They're gonna keep trying.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
So what does he do. He fires him, and he
puts somebody in who's a loyalist that.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Was just gonna make up something else.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So he did that to attorney general. He did it
to who was the other one? He did Oh to James.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh, James coy Kane with receipts dismissed.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Come on, he he did it to uh former what
was he? He was Bolton? Yeah, it was what was he?
He was not c I A he was whatever he was,
he was, you know, whatever. All the people that he
considered enemies he's.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
He's trying to go after now, and is that a dictator?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I'm just asked, you know, I'm not a king. I'm
not you know, they keep saying him, I'm a king
in this net whatever in your child? Oh my god,
you got all these things to worry about yet, but
you're out here producing i AI.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Videos and tweeting like who has time to tweet?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
That's his that's his thing. He that is this is
this is the worst time. I think I can't recall
any leader, you know, but who's it was another person?
I think he was trying to go after Bolton. You
have Letitia James, you have oh, you know it's going
to be next. Oh you got James Comy. You know
(38:20):
it's gonna be next. Adam Shift Why Adam Schiff led
the impeachment process, So he's they tried before, but now
that he's now, he's right. And in that idiot Attorney
general that we have, uh, BONDI BONDI You know, I
don't know if you ever I don't know if you've
(38:41):
seen the the hearings what was the hearings on? But
it had her and they had cash Betel. Yeah. Yeah,
if that wasn't the most unprofessional response government leader. Literally,
they they tell you they're unfit, right, you clearly see
it that they are you're now. My My thing is
(39:02):
that the solution to this is you have to have
this is some of the changes that we have have.
You have to have the Department of Justice out from
the control of the executive because if that's if you
have the control of the executive, the executive have control
over you.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Who's gonna keep who's gonna check? Nobody's gonna have check
some balances.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
There should be independent. Maybe that department of the Department
of Justice should be under Congress, you know, at least
they have a chance, you know, but yeah, that definitely
has to and then the court systems aren't any better.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Supreme Court, Clarens Thomas should be gone. Clarens Thomas should
be gone. I'm sorry, he just should not.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Thomas and I saw an article that said they wanted
they should impeach John who's the who's the chief Justice?
God for got his name, But anyway, he's not that
he's not He's not the one that should be on.
It should be uh Alito and Thomas. Those are the
two that should be going. The other three were liars.
(40:07):
You know, maybe there's a there's a case for that too,
but those two are just the worst. And what's his name,
is it like Smith?
Speaker 2 (40:17):
It's something common Chief Justice though Supreme Court, Yes, John Roberts.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
John Roberts, yes, yes, And I thought out of those
conservative judges, he was probably the most reasonable one, right,
you know. But he's not controlling, he's I don't think
he's leading because they you know, but we have some
really uh bad institutionalized things that we have to do.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
And that's one of them. I don't think they should
have life lifetime appointment.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I don't think they should have lifetime appointment.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I understand why they did that, so you know, you
can't uh be controlled every single time by it. But
it's happening, right.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Right, it's happening. Yeah, they should not have lifetime appointments,
like because simply because I'm a different thinker in my
twenties than I am in my sixties. So hello, yeah,
like you know, and people tend to hold on to
some things that they shouldn't hold on to, and Clarence
Thomas is just I can't even I can't even tell
(41:17):
you how much I feel like he is so disrespectful
of that position.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
And nobody's holding him accountable.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Nobody's holding him accountable.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
The money situations that they got.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Well, why would you if a country gives you a plane,
why would you say anything to him? Those little trips
are nothing compared to some of the things that I'm
getting over here. Oh lord, oh yes we could.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, all right, So one last thing, it's about this thing.
Hold this whole thing going back to you talking about
the voting. So we just had the No Kings protest,
right and I think they said something like six hundred
or six thousand cities different whatever it was. Yeah, but
it's like seven million people they estimate.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
They were out. I was thank you, thank you, everybody
who participated, thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
But one guy, when I was posting that, I was
just posting on on social media, one guy said, Okay,
that's that's all finding dandy and everything, but what counts
as votes?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yep, yep, he's not lying. My son said that was
a parade. He was like, ain't nobody get arrested, Ain't
nobody get tear gas. That's a parade, not a protest.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
So funny enough, they didn't have any disturbances outside of
the people that was arrested were guess what, but maga yep.
And you know, they kept calling over it's it's you know,
if they're anti American, they weren't even American flag. They
were fighting for democracy and anti fascism. But again to
what the guy said, we gotta translate that into voting.
(42:47):
You know, even we say this every time, is important.
It's important elections. It is important elections.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Please go. And it's got to be local too. It's
got to be local to you can't just vote for
the president. It's got to be local because that's where
your changes start. You know.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I saw I saw a chart that you know how
they say Republicans controlled this state. Yeah, you know, I
saw a chart during the election that said basically they
had the Democratic presidential candidate the Republican presidential candidate and
did not vote right and to see who controlled all
(43:23):
the states. Guess who won the election? Did not vote.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I believe it. I believe it, like you gotta vote.
And I emphasized that with everybody that I talk to,
young people, old people, everybody I made. I did not
know that my mother did not vote in tall Obama.
I never I never knew that. It just never occurred
to me. I don't think my sister votes either, And
I'm just like, what are you doing. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
That's and I think a lot of people have this
thing that my vote don't count yep. And you're right,
it doesn't count because you didn't vote, right, you know.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
And my whole thing to that is if it didn't count,
they wouldn't be trying.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
To stop you, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
And that's what I tell everybody who tells me that,
I tell them that exactly same thing. They wouldn't be
trying to stop you. They wouldn't be trying to jerry
rigg where you can vote and how you can vote
and what time you can vote. If it didn't matter,
you know, it'd be open, it'll be free. People wouldn't
been getting shot, had dogs set on them, all of
these things.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
So there was a study or maybe I read it
in a book before, but they did the studies and
they said if everybody who was eligible to come out
to vote actually voted, Republicans would never win the House
to Senate or the White House.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
And that's why they're trying to brig it now. Absolutely,
that's exactly why they're trying.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
To small to turnus Republicans, you know. And then I
you know, is this the fact that and I'm not
talking about the voters. I'm talking about the people who
were actually in the office. They know these things. Yeah, absolute,
it's not hitting. But if I had to ask you
a question like what give me three things did you
(45:05):
think could change for the better when it comes to
this situation that we're in. If you had to change
three things, what would it.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Be, Oh, I get rid of the president and.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
You know, I mean not including people. Okay, right, because
you know that usually change what what institutionalized things would
you say needs to change? Like like laws?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Yeah, definitely, some laws, definitely. Like I said, the Supreme Court,
I don't feel like they should have lifetime appointments.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Okay, the Court.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
I also think like you were saying that that certain
branches shouldn't be under the president. Okay, we need to
move some of those over to maybe Congress or figure
out a different kind of way. Because if the president
gets to say he can control the laws, you know,
what's that saying that he who holds a pen writes
the story something like that. So yeah, some of those
(46:05):
I don't know. A third thing, maybe, like you said,
the everybody who's capable of voting needs to vote, right, everybody,
And we got to figure out how we make this
a real thing, like how we can make it tangible
for people to know that this is important to do.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
What I would do. One of the first things is
the the congressional districts MM. I would have an independent
panel to write those things because one of the things
I didn't know is I looked up. You know, Texas
is always read right always Why Why did I look up?
(46:45):
And it was like a million or two million more
Democrats in Texas than Republicans, but yet they have the
least amount of power.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
You're talking about millions, right, So I would I would
do that and make it fair. Make it fair.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Is it that they're not voting, or is it how
the lines are drawn? They can vote.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
All the lines are drawn is most of the profit
because they can they can how the civil rights access
You're not supposed to pack a district like you can like, uh,
let's say Houston. Houston's you know, pretty much more African
American blah blah blah. So if you took the Houston
area and you kind of made it a square, it
(47:27):
would take all the other counties and you know, but
if you write a district that is just including Houston
and maybe some other minority communities. Now you got one
one electric called elector. So all those things I think
need to change to again, like you said, change that.
The Department of Justice, period needs to be from make
(47:49):
it an elected a position. Make it an elected position,
and be independent because now you you know, when you
elect somebody, they have to go on their merits, right
and then and they're not holding to the president.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Right And if you're not doing what you don't, it's
supposed to you out of it, out of there, right.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
So that's that's two something. What was the first one?
You said?
Speaker 2 (48:12):
The Supreme Court?
Speaker 1 (48:14):
So okay, so I'm not sure about the.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
I don't think they should have life long appointment.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
I don't think they should either. But if I had
to pick three, that's not gonna be my top. Gotcha,
it was uh, it was definitely the Department of Justice. Oh,
I know, it was the we call it the uh.
The presidential powers needs to be he they have recently
(48:42):
given them too much. The president shouldn't be immune to prosecution.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree if.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
They are only in very small circumstances. That's one. And
when I talk about presidential powers the whole part of
powers of partning need to be curved because is how.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Do you how do you just pardon?
Speaker 1 (49:04):
And well, he parted all the January six people and
a lot of them got re arrested, a lot of
them more pedophiles. But so he one of the Republican Uh,
I don't know if he's a congressman and the Senate,
but the the guy from New York. He was supposed
to serve seven years and I think he he hasn't
even served a year yet. He got his his sentence
(49:25):
commuted Jesus. So that means the restitution everything, everything. So
that's kind of like, you didn't even do this crime. Now,
if I was a president and I wanted to, you know,
let's say I was conspiring with other people to do
certain things and they got caught up and whatever, and
I said, well, listen, go ahead and take that and
I'm gonna just go ahead and pardon you. So it
(49:47):
doesn't matter, but I pardon you that it's not just
the whole conviction exactly, but you know that whole that's
that's too much power. So those are the three things
that I would do. Yeah, curb the president powers, the
the Department of Justice. And what was the third thing?
Speaker 2 (50:07):
I said, the districts.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Oh yeah, the districts. And I think that would make
it fair anyway, because you know, like obviously Nebraska or
Oklahoma probably they're still going to have as many. Oh
let me throw this in there too. It needs to
have more parody, like they some of those smaller states
should not have the same power as some of the
other states, I think, and it was against our thing,
(50:31):
but like, I don't think the distribution is equal. You know,
when it comes to the smaller states, they get more
than what they're worth when it comes to representatives. Okay,
the calculations that they do, and I forgot what it
was like if you get over a certain amount of people,
you get a vote, You get a vote, right, But
(50:52):
some of the some of the the states are getting
more than what I say. California, California gets a lot
of representatives because huge population. But it's still so.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
You're saying Nebraska shouldn't have the same as California.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
It shouldn't be the same ratio.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Gotcha, you know, gotcha? So how many people you have
in that state?
Speaker 1 (51:12):
If California has six hundred representatives and Nebraska has two,
so be it right. You know, you can't have the
small holding up everybody else. And I know they did
that just to give them parody.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Right, right, but to try to make it fair.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
So that needs to that needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, we could talk about this one whatever, but it'll
make my brain hurt. And yeah, my anxiety level can't
take it. It just cannot take it. I'm just like
every single day there's something else and it's just it's
wearing you down.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
You might need a therapist. And guess what, that's my
that's my part time job. Oh jeez, I could be
a therapist.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
No, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
We need a word of today, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Uh hm, I do not know?
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Corruption And we did not talk about what we did
talk about corruption.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
Everything that's been done is corruption. We didn't even talk
about the whole thing with Israel too. That's a that's
another one. But yeah, the word of the day is corruption.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Okay? Corruption?
Speaker 1 (52:19):
And what do you guys think about what we talked
about as far as what's going on? How does it
affect you know? You can catch us at www dot
hot topics that's t O p i X podcast dot
com and give us your your feedback on that, or
you can email us at Hot Topics Podcasts at gmail
dot com let us know how you feel, how it's affecting.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
You and what did you do with your anxiety or
if you have any because some people might not have any.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
No, I live all right, guys.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
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