May 30, 2024 • 31 mins
In this episode, Tudor and the team cover a wide range of topics, including generational differences, work ethic, political figures, raccoons, and historical anecdotes. It delves into the challenges of managing different generations in the workplace, the evolving work culture, and the impact of societal changes on attitudes towards work. The discussion also touches on the political dynamics of prominent figures like Hillary Clinton and AOC, as well as the historical context of President Coolidge. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is our group
podcast with the whole crew. Here at the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
We have Esteban, who is I love our group because
our group is all different generations. So Esteban is our
youngest generation. He's a gen Xer, I mean a gen Z.
I always screw that up, gen Z. Sarah is a millennial,
and Kyle and I are both gen Xers, even though
(00:24):
sometimes Kyle axeca millennial.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm wondering the same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
What does that mean? You said it?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I mean, you know, millennials are a little bit difficult
and sometimes you give me grief. And but apparently so
this is I bring this up because gen Xers are
apparently even more difficult and they are becoming very difficult
in the workplace.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So you didn't know how good you had it with
me until we brought a gen x er. Whatever now,
gen Z, gen Z can't even.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Did I say gen x again? Okay, gen Z, you
guys you're the ones, Yes, but we don't. This is
not the case with Esteban at all, and I've never
found this with you. However, we over the years of
employing people of different ages. I will say the most
challenging generation that I've ever dealt with is the millennial generation.
(01:16):
And that's why I gave you grief about that, to
be honest, because we had a person one time who
told me that they were going to have to work
from home. Came to my office and was like, I'm
gonna have to work from home, which was totally foreign
to me because I come from the generation of like,
you're gonna bust your tail and you're going to stay
and put FaceTime in just because you have to prove yourself.
(01:36):
This is pre COVID too, yeah, oh yeah, yes, yes, yes.
And the reasoning was because the wall in front of
the desk was very blank and it was hard to
be creative. So this person was gonna have to work
from home. That was the kind of thing that like
shocked me. So when I got out of college, I
worked in Chicago and I worked at a PR firm,
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and so I took the train downtown. I was in
the suburbs, took the train downtown, and you would put
in as many hours as your boss did. So it
was just about if your boss was there, you were
going to be there. And I had this amazing woman
as my boss. But she was a super hard worker
and she that was like her deal. No, she didn't
she wasn't married, she didn't have kids, so she stayed
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at work super late. And then I remember I would
always be like, there's one express train back, and if
I don't make the express train, I'm going to be
getting back after eleven o'clock and then I have to
be back here at you know, seven thirty eight o'clock.
It didn't matter, that was just what you did. But
now like this new gen Z generation, they are like
(02:42):
this new study just came up. They're like, we want
four day work weeks. Like I can't even imagine doing this.
When I was yeahing like, oh, I'll only work for
day workers and they want to be able to come
in at ten thirty and then I don't know, did
you guys see that recent study where or a recent
report I guess. Quiet vacationing. Have you heard of quiet vacation?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I have so.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Quiet vacationing is like these people that work from home
but they're actually on vacation and they never tell anybody.
They just like check in with work, but they're actually
on vacation, which I think is terrible. What do you
think about it?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
As I'm taking notes, I'm going to use some of
this stuff later when he's organized. I'm gonna need to
take a mental health day for the next five weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's another thing. They want.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Unlimited paid time off. That was another thing in the
in the survey, they're asking for one and four are
asking on.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Top of only a four day work week.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yes, unlimited. Can you imagine, like what unlimited paid time off?
Who thinks that way?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I will say, I'm not defending them, but there are
studies that show that if you have unlimited paid time off,
you actually take less vacation.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Than you do if you have like eight weeks or
whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I don't even know when you standard you have to
force yourself to take those.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Eight weeks because there's like your pressure then associated with it,
because I think you're like, well, it's unlimited, but I
don't want to be the one that takes the.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Most, and so you end up actually not you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But then if it's all unlimited and people are just
vacationing all the time, I just think it's danger.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I think it's the mentality of the people that have
the unlimited.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
For sure, yeah, I think it's the because that's our
policy is we don't have a I mean.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Are people.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think everybody knows that most of the people are
sitting in this room. But yeah, so I think it
comes down to the personalities that you have on your team.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
When you have a small team, you can do that.
When you have a manufacturing company and you're relying on
people and there's just I'm not coming in today and
I get to take a paid time off day, it's
just a mess.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And it's the type of job too, because I think
these are I mean, these are all office jobs. Clearly,
I would hope that that's what these people are asking for,
but they have no concept of what a job that is. Hey,
it's required to be here every day. If you take
a break, production stops, Like they just don't have an
understanding of what that type of job is. So they
want everyone to have a four day work week, but
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that's just not possible in every industry.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But I do think that there's this new attitude of like,
you are privileged as an employer to have me, Whereas
when I was getting involved in business, I felt privileged
to have a job. And I know it's an employees
market where these employees are coming out and demanding things.
But we were at a chamber meeting a few months back,
and then graduates from the local community college were like,
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here's the deal. We don't want to have to be
at work at eight o'clock. We want to come in
when we want, we want to leave when we want.
And there's the community college and all the professors all clapped,
and I looked around the room and all the businesses
were like, what is going to happen? And honestly, how
do you run a business that way? I mean, we
are respectful of each other, but like I said, we
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were a small group. If you were trying to run
a business and people were just coming in at all
hours or just saying I'm not coming in, how do
you do that? And it's not this isn't really reality.
So anyway, I think it's very frustrating. I don't see
how we end up with people that are true doctors
and attorneys, and how do you end up with people
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who are of these, you know, great skilled positions if
the attitude is I'll come and go when I please.
I think it's a mess, and and a lot of
it is blamed on parenting and parents that just wanted
to be friends with their kids. And I see that,
and sometimes I'm like, am I too lax with my
own kids? Because you know, you see all these influences
(06:37):
of let's give them their choices and give you know,
kids need choices. That's a big thing when my kids
were really little, was kids need choices. So instead of
telling them what to do, tell them, these are your
two choices, and see what they want to do. And
I'm like, oh my gosh, why did I ever give
them choices?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I don't think I ever want a choice. I don't
think I know it was get in the car or
be left home, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, I'm not that big of a choice. No, Still
it's like do you want to wear green or blue?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But what I guess what is the root of that
sort of attitude where like I'm just not you can't
make me conform to the way your your society, or
your economy or your business works. And you're so the
story that you told about the graduates, and it was
like they go into that environment and they tell the
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business this is the way it's going to be. I
guess I struggle to understand the mentality that goes into
that and is that and it is that a cultural thing?
Is that an individual thing?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Have you ever read the book If You give a
Mouse a Cookie?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yes, I think it started with that. I think I think,
you know, you give somebody an inn, they take a mile,
and then they you know, they see that they can
get more, and they'll just keep wanting more and more.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And is that combined with sort of this coddling mentality, like, yeah,
there's no right and wrong, there's there's no black and white.
And so if someone you know has that sort of
attitude that you can't tell me what to do, then
the teacher or the professor or the boss just conforms
(08:23):
to that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Didn't you say you didn't have grades?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I I yeah, well I had, I had grades. I
had like a different system than most schools though I had.
I had proficient and not yet proficient, and I don't
remember what the third one was, but there was a
third one, and then we'd also didn't have really hard deadlines.
(08:46):
But I don't think that's necessarily comparable, because I think
that system actually works. I think it worked really well
for students, especially students who don't all learn like a
similar way. You can you can have a school where
students can't all learn the same way and having something
that gives them a little more leeway works. But in
terms of an how well are yeah, In terms of
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an environment where you're working for somebody and you have
money on the line, you have productivity on the line,
you can't really get that same leeway.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a Tutor Dixon podcast. You say that system worked, and
you are a few years out of that system, But
I would love to see how the kids who got
out of that system and went to a really challenging
university where it was like, your deadlines are hard. Was
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that a huge Was that hard for them to conform too?
Because like I even look at we have multiple schools
that come into our high school and one middle school
doesn't give homework and the other middle school does give homework.
The kids that didn't have homework really struggle when they
get to freshman year. So it's like, if life isn't
like that where deadlines aren't hard, because in life, deadlines
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are hard. Is that chipping away at productivity and society?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't think so. I think that there's you know,
young people are smart enough to realize that the world's
not always going to bend to their wishes. Some people
are egotistical enough to expect that, but most young people
are smart enough to realize, I'm applying for a job
that has certain requirements, and if I don't meet those requirements,
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then I'm not going to have a job anymore. I
think that there's a few examples of very loud people
who expect the world to listen to them, and there's
just as many examples of people who are willing to
give those people a platform. Yeah, and that's where this
is well.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And we have much easier access to platforms now.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah, and that's where this kind of expectation of more
leeway and more give from employers comes from. But I
think most people, most of the people that I know
in my generation, are smart enough to realize that there's
going to be hardships in life. Gotta, you know, put
on your big boy boots and go to work.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, and my oldest is from that general is it
the general what is it the gen z ors? Yes,
the gen Z generation. And I think for her, there's
some weird things that happened with COVID where all of
a sudden rules were changed, and it took us a
while to get back to No. No, there are hard
deadlines and it was just a learning curve. And she
gets it now. Her sister maybe not so much. We're
(11:26):
still working on missing assignments. But I do think that
you have to. It is a maturity thing too, and
you grow over time. One person who I don't think
has ever grown out of this is Hillary Clinton. She
still thinks she's privileged.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Right, Good, that that's a transition. Yeah, so she Hillary
Clinton recently gave an interview to the New York Times
where she continued her her excuse to her which has
now been going on for eight years.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
What wait, excuse of what? Did she deny an election?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yes, she is some some would say she is the
original election denier, the original.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The oed No, no, that's Bill.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So anyway, so she causes that anyway, let's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Try to maybe she lost the mail vote.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So anyway, So she did an interview with New York
Times and she is now saying women are the reason
that she didn't win the twenty sixteen election because her
argument is that James Comi, when he was head of
the FBI, reopened the email investigation into her emails and
(12:46):
said that she was extremely careless with how she handled
classified information. And her quote to the New York Times was,
but once he did that to me, the people, the
voters who left me were women. And so she has
blamed Vladimir Putin, she's blamed the Russians, she's blamed bought farms,
(13:09):
she's blamed women, she's blamed all kinds of people. And
what she's never done is taken responsibility for her own actions,
her lack of campaigning in Michigan and Wisconsin because she
thought she had those states locked up, and she just
she's just a very good example of a politician who
(13:30):
refuses to take example for what responsibility I should say,
for what she did to lose.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
The what she's probably one of the loudest feminists is
going out and blaming all of the women I think in.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The whole play about this now play.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, she has a play, yeah some Broadway or is
it off Broadway?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It's on Broadway at you, I don't know, I'm like,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
She has a play.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
It's called It's It's not necessarily it's about the women's
suffrage movement. And it's called selfs I think it's called.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, but like feminine. I mean, like really it's female empowerment.
So for her to have this play, which is suffering
itself on Broadway, to be honest, it's not doing well.
But for her to come after women, now, she's probably
like and it's women who aren't watching my play making
it successful. I mean, she's just a blamer. She's unappealing,
and that's why she lost. And so these this is
(14:27):
no surprise because she continues to say things like this
which make her more unappealing. And she comes from this
generation of Democrats who they can say something but and
they can attack the other side, but they can never
be attacked. You look like you're gonna say, there's.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I don't know, there's there's This is more of like
an opinion on most people who run for president. But
there's like a certain expectation that you are a part
of a certain class, so you are going to vote
for me. And that's where like that's where this label
of a spoiler candidate for third party candidates comes in.
And that's where there's I mean, there are people who
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have been coddled so much by people lifting them up
that they just expect people to support them no matter what.
And Hillary Clinton was not a charismatic candidate. She wasn't
a fun candidate to be around. I mean, I can't
imagine working for her. I think that that's just a
reflection of Hillary Clinton as a person. She's just you know,
(15:28):
she's awkward. She's an horrible person. And yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Can say horrible, I'll leave you. But but go back
to that time and the media coverage and the narrative
in her campaign was she was going to be the
first woman president.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And fight song at every event.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And so the expectation was that that's what women wanted
for her. She was going she was the symbol of
you know, feminism and all of that, and so the
expectation was that women were going to vote for her.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But I think that Esteban makes a good point, because
you wanted to talk about AOC. It's a very similar situation.
This woman has been like the symbol for socialists and
now there's discussion as to whether or not they even
endorse her. It's the fall from grace in politics is
now so fast, and I think that when it happens
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for these people who were unappealing, like like Hillary Clinton.
But also I would say to the majority of people,
AOC is very unappealing the way she talks, the silly
thing she says. She has a small niche group that
is very strong, and she's in Congress. In Congress, you
only have to have a small niche group. And that's
(16:44):
what people, I don't think understand when they're like, oh
my gosh, Marjorie Hiller Green. I'm like, Hey, all she
cares about is are the people who vote for her,
and that works for her on her district. And this
has always worked for AOC in her district because all
she has to care about are the few people that
come out for her. But now the tables are turning
on her. And I find this fascinating because, like Hillary,
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once that happens, you kind of see the person unravel
and I think she's been unraveling lately on the streets
of New York. But you can share with us your
story on the Socialists.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
See.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, So there's a guy named Grayson Lanza and he's
from the Red Star as he calls himself, but he's
a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and he
has a peace out called endorsing AOC is a bridge
to nowhere, and I guess the DSA has been rife
with discussion about whether or not they should even endorse AOC. Again,
I mean, some of those things are your typical. What
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she would expect of them. Is she supported Israel because
she voted present on the Iron Dome funding, So to
them that was a support for Israel. They don't like
that she was standing by and endorsing Biden. But what's interesting, though,
is they talk about how they wanted to have regular
meetings with her and open up a line of dialogue
and that was one of their goals with just their
political arm in general. But AOC's only met with them once.
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So to your point, I mean, she is totally She's
come to them and asked, she requested to receive their endorsement,
but they don't feel like they've been heard. And so
now they're saying if they want her to reindorse them,
they have a list of demands for her, and you know,
it's publicly opposing any and all US government spending on
Israel and her support for Biden.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But there's other things on there.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No support for Biden.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, so they they want her to withdraw her endorsement
of Biden for president due to his active support of
the genocide in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What did he say about her? She's a pretty smart
chicken and good person to talk to.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yep, So they are it's kind of like the the
glass what was it rose colored glasses they had on
AOC And now they're realizing she's just like any other politician.
She's catering to her middle or to her extreme to
get what she needs whenever.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's I think it's hard when you run and you're
so extreme. And I don't know that her district is
as extreme as she came off, but I think it was.
She was marketed really well, what are your thoughts on AOC?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, she uh, she's a very inspiring woman. Who went like,
I want to say this, I don't agree with her.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, what you're talking points, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't agree with her anything, but it's it's pretty
impressive to go from in a span of five years
from being a bartender to being a member of Congress.
That's impressive and that's something that you gotta fight for,
and she's fought really hard to.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Love how they like, I are totally like, yeah, that's
I mean to me, I think it's a total farce.
Like I don't think for a minute that she just
happened to go from a bartender to a member of Congress.
I think she was like chosen and groomed and they
created this congresswoman out of her.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I agree with that, but I don't think that. I
do think while she was running she did put work in.
I mean she did go and knock what were those like?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
But in a primary she beaten the Yeah, I think at.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
The beginning she did, like actually try to work whether
or not. I mean, she had a ton of support
on the back end from groups like this for.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Sure, who she doesn't want to come out.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
But I actually she's now gone and she likes her
cush life as a politician, and she's not doing that anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm sorry, because isn't there there's a difference between you know,
campaigning in your district and going to Washington, D C.
And trying to be a part of that ecosystem. In
your district, you can be as radical and as ridiculous
as you want to be, but if you want to
go to Washington, D C. And actually be on the
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committees that you want to be on and you know,
get bills passed and do and sort of be a
player in Washington, d C. You have to play their game.
And so what's happening, I think, and this is obviously
not the first time this has happened, is she's playing
the DC game. Her local people don't like that she's
playing the DC game, and so she's got this problem
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on her hand.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Eventually, everybody becomes the swamp of Washington,
and they are all giving each other this information for
that information, and there's favors behind the scenes, and everybody
has their friends and their enemies. But to me, she's
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the worst kind because she ran on a fake message
that I don't believe she believed. I think she knew
that this was all a game, and I don't think
she really even understood what Congress was. I think she
was just like romanced by the idea. I like I've
said this before when I ran for office, I had
one of our elected officials here say as I walked
out of his office, don't let it seduce you. And
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I think that's what happened with her. I think she
loved the fame. It was instant fame, and it was
so alluring that she was willing to spout this stuff
that she really didn't understand or care for what the
meaning was, because the goal was just to win. And
I think it was one of those situations where it's like, oh, shoot,
now we were actually I'm actually a congresswoman. And when
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it comes down to it, you are held to account
by the people around you in Congress, you have you're
a member of a group, and you can't actually do
the things that you say. And now what happens to her,
Now she's just a phony.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Well I'm curious, though, is a non endorsement by the
socialists just as good as an endorsement.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
By a legit group potentially.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Like our moderates now kind of like, oh, AOC is
not a Socialist. Maybe I don't know. I don't know
if I think endorsements matter altogether. But is are the
socialists coming out and saying she's not one of us?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Is that actually a plus for her? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, I don't know if her district is that heavily
If she, like I said, she might have just been
a star at the moment, and who knows what will
happen now, but we'll see. Apparently raccoons are a bigger
deal for we now. I want to say, first of all,
Esteban has a love for raccoons, and I want to
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bring the raccoons story yet because I don't know if
you've recently seen that. I think it's like a tweet
that's going around, the video of the mom who saves
her daughter from this crazy raccoon that is chewing on
her foot.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
That's slander. And you know that's one example. It's they're
only thirty percent of raccoons have rabies.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh my god, thirty percent.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
The odds are in my favor, is what I'm hearing
from that.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Do you know the protocol for preventing rabies? If you
think you've gotten it, I hear it's awful.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I think you have to, like within twenty four hours,
do a bunch of stuff. But I haven't done that
much research because again the majority of raccoons don't have rabies.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So the majority being.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Like I went to public school, I can't do math.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You're talking about, like, we we have a very big
amount of people are for a big amount of raccoons
that have raybies and you're willing to take the shots
are in your belly. And I feel like we talked
about this the other day and you were not a
fan of belly shots.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
But the raby shots are in your belly, is what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah, again, if you get it, if you contract, is
it contracting rabies?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I don't know how you call it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, I think it's more of So to get back
to the story itself again, thirty percent. I'm gonna sound
like a broken record here, a thirty percent. There's There
was an anime in the seventies called Rascal the Raccoon.
Have you ever seen the movie Rascal That There was
a Disney movie. They were based on the same book
(24:35):
about Yeah. It was a very popular anime and in
Japan in the seventies or eighties, a bunch of people
bought an imported pet raccoons, which is not that uncommon.
We've had a raccoon in the White House. It was
Bill Clinton. I'm just kidding it was it was. It
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was Rebecca the Raccoon. Who was who was a White
House pet?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
What for? Who?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I don't know, somebody it was supposed to be eating
on Thanksgiving. But it was so dark cute.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You threw a lot of things out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Who would eat a raccoon? Do people eat raccoons Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
This was a while ago. Oh my gosh, we're going
to a completely different angle.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Looks like it was. President Coolidge's favorite pet was a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh my gosh, and he was going to eat it.
I feel like that's hard for you.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
A farmer sent it to Coolidge for Thanksgiving to eat,
and Coolidge did not want to eat it and instead
made it a cat or a pet. He had a
bunch of other animals too. It wasn't like it was
like basically back to Japan. A bunch of people bought
these raccoons and imported them, and then they got rid
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of them when they realized raccoons take a lot of
work to maintain. They're not they're they're mischievous, they make
they cause a lot of damage. And so these raccoons
kind of flourished in the wild, and the raccoon population
in Japan, specifically Tokyo, has skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
How weird. It's like Concrete City.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Well, but it's like the rats of New York City though, like, oh,
their Japan's raccoons are cuter.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Raccoons are cuter, but you know what rats are? Rats
are cute too.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, what, okay, that's all totally.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Of over a thousand raccoons were caught in Tokyo in
twenty twenty three. A decade earlier, only two hundred and
fifty nine raccoons were caught in Tokyo. This thing is
like they're ballooning out of proportion now and unfortunately, So
this is my plan. I'm going to fly to Japan
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and I'm going to bring them back over here, bring
them home, because Tokyo has has executed.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Clair fruit, hell alone raccoons.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Well, but Tokyo's killing them. Tokyo is murdering every single No,
that's not good, not good, it's not good. I'm gonna
fly over there. I'm gonna bring them back because I'll
tell you one thing. I saw two baby raccoons over
the weekend, two baby raccoons. I got close enough to
touch them, but I didn't because because statistically speaking, the
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odds were not in my favor that one of them
may have rabies.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, but I agree to that.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I think that murdering raccoons is a bit extreme. I mean,
this is Japan. They've got space, they can do stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
They really don't Japan is small.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
They give them houses, give like raccoon houses. You know what,
There was that one TV show this is a documentary, now,
there was that one TV show. They love reality TV. There,
they could just make that a show, raccoon house. I
would watch that.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
What was that one zaboomafoo. Did you guys ever watch
that over the weekends?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh my gosh, no, yes, yes, where it.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Was like the live animal. Yeah, they could do that
with the raccoons.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah. See, I think that we should. I don't know,
do you have any connections to Japan? Do you know anything?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I've never in hope. You bring a bunch of raccoons
over here, like you are on your own eye mind,
but keep them over there. But speaking of I want
to go back to President Coolidge for a second, because
he is an interesting president. He was a guy who
really did not intend to become president, but was sort
of like worked his way through the political system. But
his son, who I think was sixteen at the time
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when he was in the overall office, he might have
been a little older. He was playing tennis on the
tennis courts and he ended up with a blister from
playing tennis, and then I think it was sepsis that
killed him from the blister, which is incredibly sad. And
it's believed that that's why he never ran for another term,
because he was so devastated by the death of his son.
And he was very faithful, and he said, you know,
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I just I'm glad I got to serve the people.
I just don't understand why God chose that I had
to give up my son to do it. It's like
such a sad story. Anyway, that's a real bummer.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
But you knew all this, but you didn't know he
had a raccoon. I know.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's why I was like, how do I not know
about his raccoon? Maybe I blocked that part out because
of the whole thirty percent rabis thing.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I almost hit a raccoon Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
If you if I find out any of you kill
raccoons intentionally or unintentionally, I'm quitting.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh, I would hate for you to unintentionally kill a raccoon.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yeah. If I unintentionally kill raccoon, that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's what.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm driving. And I'm living in the woods.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So is this your gen Z work demand.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah, we have to have. We have to have like
a quota of raccoons rescued a month from Japan.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, I'll just tell my story. So basically, I was driving.
I was a two lane road driving home from the raceway,
and I'm you know, it's like a curving sort of street,
and all of a sudden I see this these green
eyes or a green light moving across the street and
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I went, oh, that's a raccoon. And I realized I
was going to hit it because it was too close
and it was moving too fast. So I honked and
it stopped and it was like this as I drove by.
It was very frightening, but he lived.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I didn't save it's life.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It did.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yes, you're young. There's time for you to accidentally hit
a raccoon. And then let me tell you. When you
accidentally hit an animal, it is terrible, but it can happen.
Have you ever hit an animal?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
No, I'm a good driver. I'm a driver.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, well good drivers run them right over because you.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Don't say I don't think that's a stipulation.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's the plan. If the driver said you see an animal,
did you get away with that what he's like. I'm
gen z. I don't need to do it.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Took a sick day and then I had because I
wasn't feeling well. That's how my life. If you look
at my license, it's actually just a picture of my friend.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's scary, lovely. Well, it's been an enjoy talking to
you all about raccoons and everything else. So we will
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blessed day.
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is our group
podcast with the whole crew. Here at the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
We have Esteban, who is I love our group because
our group is all different generations. So Esteban is our
youngest generation. He's a gen Xer, I mean a gen Z.
I always screw that up, gen Z. Sarah is a millennial,
and Kyle and I are both gen Xers, even though
(00:24):
sometimes Kyle axeca millennial.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm wondering the same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
What does that mean? You said it?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I mean, you know, millennials are a little bit difficult
and sometimes you give me grief. And but apparently so
this is I bring this up because gen Xers are
apparently even more difficult and they are becoming very difficult
in the workplace.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So you didn't know how good you had it with
me until we brought a gen x er. Whatever now,
gen Z, gen Z can't even.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Did I say gen x again? Okay, gen Z, you
guys you're the ones, Yes, but we don't. This is
not the case with Esteban at all, and I've never
found this with you. However, we over the years of
employing people of different ages. I will say the most
challenging generation that I've ever dealt with is the millennial generation.
(01:16):
And that's why I gave you grief about that, to
be honest, because we had a person one time who
told me that they were going to have to work
from home. Came to my office and was like, I'm
gonna have to work from home, which was totally foreign
to me because I come from the generation of like,
you're gonna bust your tail and you're going to stay
and put FaceTime in just because you have to prove yourself.
(01:36):
This is pre COVID too, yeah, oh yeah, yes, yes, yes.
And the reasoning was because the wall in front of
the desk was very blank and it was hard to
be creative. So this person was gonna have to work
from home. That was the kind of thing that like
shocked me. So when I got out of college, I
worked in Chicago and I worked at a PR firm,
(01:58):
and so I took the train downtown. I was in
the suburbs, took the train downtown, and you would put
in as many hours as your boss did. So it
was just about if your boss was there, you were
going to be there. And I had this amazing woman
as my boss. But she was a super hard worker
and she that was like her deal. No, she didn't
she wasn't married, she didn't have kids, so she stayed
(02:19):
at work super late. And then I remember I would
always be like, there's one express train back, and if
I don't make the express train, I'm going to be
getting back after eleven o'clock and then I have to
be back here at you know, seven thirty eight o'clock.
It didn't matter, that was just what you did. But
now like this new gen Z generation, they are like
(02:42):
this new study just came up. They're like, we want
four day work weeks. Like I can't even imagine doing this.
When I was yeahing like, oh, I'll only work for
day workers and they want to be able to come
in at ten thirty and then I don't know, did
you guys see that recent study where or a recent
report I guess. Quiet vacationing. Have you heard of quiet vacation?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I have so.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Quiet vacationing is like these people that work from home
but they're actually on vacation and they never tell anybody.
They just like check in with work, but they're actually
on vacation, which I think is terrible. What do you
think about it?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
As I'm taking notes, I'm going to use some of
this stuff later when he's organized. I'm gonna need to
take a mental health day for the next five weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's another thing. They want.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Unlimited paid time off. That was another thing in the
in the survey, they're asking for one and four are
asking on.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Top of only a four day work week.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yes, unlimited. Can you imagine, like what unlimited paid time off?
Who thinks that way?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I will say, I'm not defending them, but there are
studies that show that if you have unlimited paid time off,
you actually take less vacation.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Than you do if you have like eight weeks or
whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I don't even know when you standard you have to
force yourself to take those.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Eight weeks because there's like your pressure then associated with it,
because I think you're like, well, it's unlimited, but I
don't want to be the one that takes the.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Most, and so you end up actually not you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But then if it's all unlimited and people are just
vacationing all the time, I just think it's danger.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I think it's the mentality of the people that have
the unlimited.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
For sure, yeah, I think it's the because that's our
policy is we don't have a I mean.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Are people.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think everybody knows that most of the people are
sitting in this room. But yeah, so I think it
comes down to the personalities that you have on your team.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
When you have a small team, you can do that.
When you have a manufacturing company and you're relying on
people and there's just I'm not coming in today and
I get to take a paid time off day, it's
just a mess.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And it's the type of job too, because I think
these are I mean, these are all office jobs. Clearly,
I would hope that that's what these people are asking for,
but they have no concept of what a job that is. Hey,
it's required to be here every day. If you take
a break, production stops, Like they just don't have an
understanding of what that type of job is. So they
want everyone to have a four day work week, but
(05:10):
that's just not possible in every industry.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But I do think that there's this new attitude of like,
you are privileged as an employer to have me, Whereas
when I was getting involved in business, I felt privileged
to have a job. And I know it's an employees
market where these employees are coming out and demanding things.
But we were at a chamber meeting a few months back,
and then graduates from the local community college were like,
(05:36):
here's the deal. We don't want to have to be
at work at eight o'clock. We want to come in
when we want, we want to leave when we want.
And there's the community college and all the professors all clapped,
and I looked around the room and all the businesses
were like, what is going to happen? And honestly, how
do you run a business that way? I mean, we
are respectful of each other, but like I said, we
(05:56):
were a small group. If you were trying to run
a business and people were just coming in at all
hours or just saying I'm not coming in, how do
you do that? And it's not this isn't really reality.
So anyway, I think it's very frustrating. I don't see
how we end up with people that are true doctors
and attorneys, and how do you end up with people
(06:17):
who are of these, you know, great skilled positions if
the attitude is I'll come and go when I please.
I think it's a mess, and and a lot of
it is blamed on parenting and parents that just wanted
to be friends with their kids. And I see that,
and sometimes I'm like, am I too lax with my
own kids? Because you know, you see all these influences
(06:37):
of let's give them their choices and give you know,
kids need choices. That's a big thing when my kids
were really little, was kids need choices. So instead of
telling them what to do, tell them, these are your
two choices, and see what they want to do. And
I'm like, oh my gosh, why did I ever give
them choices?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I don't think I ever want a choice. I don't
think I know it was get in the car or
be left home, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, I'm not that big of a choice. No, Still
it's like do you want to wear green or blue?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But what I guess what is the root of that
sort of attitude where like I'm just not you can't
make me conform to the way your your society, or
your economy or your business works. And you're so the
story that you told about the graduates, and it was
like they go into that environment and they tell the
(07:29):
business this is the way it's going to be. I
guess I struggle to understand the mentality that goes into
that and is that and it is that a cultural thing?
Is that an individual thing?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Have you ever read the book If You give a
Mouse a Cookie?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yes, I think it started with that. I think I think,
you know, you give somebody an inn, they take a mile,
and then they you know, they see that they can
get more, and they'll just keep wanting more and more.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And is that combined with sort of this coddling mentality, like, yeah,
there's no right and wrong, there's there's no black and white.
And so if someone you know has that sort of
attitude that you can't tell me what to do, then
the teacher or the professor or the boss just conforms
(08:23):
to that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Didn't you say you didn't have grades?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I I yeah, well I had, I had grades. I
had like a different system than most schools though I had.
I had proficient and not yet proficient, and I don't
remember what the third one was, but there was a
third one, and then we'd also didn't have really hard deadlines.
(08:46):
But I don't think that's necessarily comparable, because I think
that system actually works. I think it worked really well
for students, especially students who don't all learn like a
similar way. You can you can have a school where
students can't all learn the same way and having something
that gives them a little more leeway works. But in
terms of an how well are yeah, In terms of
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an environment where you're working for somebody and you have
money on the line, you have productivity on the line,
you can't really get that same leeway.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a Tutor Dixon podcast. You say that system worked, and
you are a few years out of that system, But
I would love to see how the kids who got
out of that system and went to a really challenging
university where it was like, your deadlines are hard. Was
(09:37):
that a huge Was that hard for them to conform too?
Because like I even look at we have multiple schools
that come into our high school and one middle school
doesn't give homework and the other middle school does give homework.
The kids that didn't have homework really struggle when they
get to freshman year. So it's like, if life isn't
like that where deadlines aren't hard, because in life, deadlines
(09:59):
are hard. Is that chipping away at productivity and society?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't think so. I think that there's you know,
young people are smart enough to realize that the world's
not always going to bend to their wishes. Some people
are egotistical enough to expect that, but most young people
are smart enough to realize, I'm applying for a job
that has certain requirements, and if I don't meet those requirements,
(10:25):
then I'm not going to have a job anymore. I
think that there's a few examples of very loud people
who expect the world to listen to them, and there's
just as many examples of people who are willing to
give those people a platform. Yeah, and that's where this
is well.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And we have much easier access to platforms now.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah, and that's where this kind of expectation of more
leeway and more give from employers comes from. But I
think most people, most of the people that I know
in my generation, are smart enough to realize that there's
going to be hardships in life. Gotta, you know, put
on your big boy boots and go to work.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, and my oldest is from that general is it
the general what is it the gen z ors? Yes,
the gen Z generation. And I think for her, there's
some weird things that happened with COVID where all of
a sudden rules were changed, and it took us a
while to get back to No. No, there are hard
deadlines and it was just a learning curve. And she
gets it now. Her sister maybe not so much. We're
(11:26):
still working on missing assignments. But I do think that
you have to. It is a maturity thing too, and
you grow over time. One person who I don't think
has ever grown out of this is Hillary Clinton. She
still thinks she's privileged.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Right, Good, that that's a transition. Yeah, so she Hillary
Clinton recently gave an interview to the New York Times
where she continued her her excuse to her which has
now been going on for eight years.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
What wait, excuse of what? Did she deny an election?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yes, she is some some would say she is the
original election denier, the original.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The oed No, no, that's Bill.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So anyway, so she causes that anyway, let's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Try to maybe she lost the mail vote.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So anyway, So she did an interview with New York
Times and she is now saying women are the reason
that she didn't win the twenty sixteen election because her
argument is that James Comi, when he was head of
the FBI, reopened the email investigation into her emails and
(12:46):
said that she was extremely careless with how she handled
classified information. And her quote to the New York Times was,
but once he did that to me, the people, the
voters who left me were women. And so she has
blamed Vladimir Putin, she's blamed the Russians, she's blamed bought farms,
(13:09):
she's blamed women, she's blamed all kinds of people. And
what she's never done is taken responsibility for her own actions,
her lack of campaigning in Michigan and Wisconsin because she
thought she had those states locked up, and she just
she's just a very good example of a politician who
(13:30):
refuses to take example for what responsibility I should say,
for what she did to lose.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
The what she's probably one of the loudest feminists is
going out and blaming all of the women I think in.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The whole play about this now play.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, she has a play, yeah some Broadway or is
it off Broadway?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It's on Broadway at you, I don't know, I'm like,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
She has a play.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
It's called It's It's not necessarily it's about the women's
suffrage movement. And it's called selfs I think it's called.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, but like feminine. I mean, like really it's female empowerment.
So for her to have this play, which is suffering
itself on Broadway, to be honest, it's not doing well.
But for her to come after women, now, she's probably
like and it's women who aren't watching my play making
it successful. I mean, she's just a blamer. She's unappealing,
and that's why she lost. And so these this is
(14:27):
no surprise because she continues to say things like this
which make her more unappealing. And she comes from this
generation of Democrats who they can say something but and
they can attack the other side, but they can never
be attacked. You look like you're gonna say, there's.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I don't know, there's there's This is more of like
an opinion on most people who run for president. But
there's like a certain expectation that you are a part
of a certain class, so you are going to vote
for me. And that's where like that's where this label
of a spoiler candidate for third party candidates comes in.
And that's where there's I mean, there are people who
(15:08):
have been coddled so much by people lifting them up
that they just expect people to support them no matter what.
And Hillary Clinton was not a charismatic candidate. She wasn't
a fun candidate to be around. I mean, I can't
imagine working for her. I think that that's just a
reflection of Hillary Clinton as a person. She's just you know,
(15:28):
she's awkward. She's an horrible person. And yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Can say horrible, I'll leave you. But but go back
to that time and the media coverage and the narrative
in her campaign was she was going to be the
first woman president.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And fight song at every event.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And so the expectation was that that's what women wanted
for her. She was going she was the symbol of
you know, feminism and all of that, and so the
expectation was that women were going to vote for her.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But I think that Esteban makes a good point, because
you wanted to talk about AOC. It's a very similar situation.
This woman has been like the symbol for socialists and
now there's discussion as to whether or not they even
endorse her. It's the fall from grace in politics is
now so fast, and I think that when it happens
(16:24):
for these people who were unappealing, like like Hillary Clinton.
But also I would say to the majority of people,
AOC is very unappealing the way she talks, the silly
thing she says. She has a small niche group that
is very strong, and she's in Congress. In Congress, you
only have to have a small niche group. And that's
(16:44):
what people, I don't think understand when they're like, oh
my gosh, Marjorie Hiller Green. I'm like, Hey, all she
cares about is are the people who vote for her,
and that works for her on her district. And this
has always worked for AOC in her district because all
she has to care about are the few people that
come out for her. But now the tables are turning
on her. And I find this fascinating because, like Hillary,
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once that happens, you kind of see the person unravel
and I think she's been unraveling lately on the streets
of New York. But you can share with us your
story on the Socialists.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
See.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, So there's a guy named Grayson Lanza and he's
from the Red Star as he calls himself, but he's
a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and he
has a peace out called endorsing AOC is a bridge
to nowhere, and I guess the DSA has been rife
with discussion about whether or not they should even endorse AOC. Again,
I mean, some of those things are your typical. What
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she would expect of them. Is she supported Israel because
she voted present on the Iron Dome funding, So to
them that was a support for Israel. They don't like
that she was standing by and endorsing Biden. But what's interesting, though,
is they talk about how they wanted to have regular
meetings with her and open up a line of dialogue
and that was one of their goals with just their
political arm in general. But AOC's only met with them once.
(18:00):
So to your point, I mean, she is totally She's
come to them and asked, she requested to receive their endorsement,
but they don't feel like they've been heard. And so
now they're saying if they want her to reindorse them,
they have a list of demands for her, and you know,
it's publicly opposing any and all US government spending on
Israel and her support for Biden.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But there's other things on there.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No support for Biden.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, so they they want her to withdraw her endorsement
of Biden for president due to his active support of
the genocide in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What did he say about her? She's a pretty smart
chicken and good person to talk to.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yep, So they are it's kind of like the the
glass what was it rose colored glasses they had on
AOC And now they're realizing she's just like any other politician.
She's catering to her middle or to her extreme to
get what she needs whenever.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's I think it's hard when you run and you're
so extreme. And I don't know that her district is
as extreme as she came off, but I think it was.
She was marketed really well, what are your thoughts on AOC?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, she uh, she's a very inspiring woman. Who went like,
I want to say this, I don't agree with her.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, what you're talking points, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't agree with her anything, but it's it's pretty
impressive to go from in a span of five years
from being a bartender to being a member of Congress.
That's impressive and that's something that you gotta fight for,
and she's fought really hard to.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Love how they like, I are totally like, yeah, that's
I mean to me, I think it's a total farce.
Like I don't think for a minute that she just
happened to go from a bartender to a member of Congress.
I think she was like chosen and groomed and they
created this congresswoman out of her.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I agree with that, but I don't think that. I
do think while she was running she did put work in.
I mean she did go and knock what were those like?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
But in a primary she beaten the Yeah, I think at.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
The beginning she did, like actually try to work whether
or not. I mean, she had a ton of support
on the back end from groups like this for.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Sure, who she doesn't want to come out.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
But I actually she's now gone and she likes her
cush life as a politician, and she's not doing that anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm sorry, because isn't there there's a difference between you know,
campaigning in your district and going to Washington, D C.
And trying to be a part of that ecosystem. In
your district, you can be as radical and as ridiculous
as you want to be, but if you want to
go to Washington, D C. And actually be on the
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committees that you want to be on and you know,
get bills passed and do and sort of be a
player in Washington, d C. You have to play their game.
And so what's happening, I think, and this is obviously
not the first time this has happened, is she's playing
the DC game. Her local people don't like that she's
playing the DC game, and so she's got this problem
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on her hand.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Eventually, everybody becomes the swamp of Washington,
and they are all giving each other this information for
that information, and there's favors behind the scenes, and everybody
has their friends and their enemies. But to me, she's
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the worst kind because she ran on a fake message
that I don't believe she believed. I think she knew
that this was all a game, and I don't think
she really even understood what Congress was. I think she
was just like romanced by the idea. I like I've
said this before when I ran for office, I had
one of our elected officials here say as I walked
out of his office, don't let it seduce you. And
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I think that's what happened with her. I think she
loved the fame. It was instant fame, and it was
so alluring that she was willing to spout this stuff
that she really didn't understand or care for what the
meaning was, because the goal was just to win. And
I think it was one of those situations where it's like, oh, shoot,
now we were actually I'm actually a congresswoman. And when
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it comes down to it, you are held to account
by the people around you in Congress, you have you're
a member of a group, and you can't actually do
the things that you say. And now what happens to her,
Now she's just a phony.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Well I'm curious, though, is a non endorsement by the
socialists just as good as an endorsement.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
By a legit group potentially.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Like our moderates now kind of like, oh, AOC is
not a Socialist. Maybe I don't know. I don't know
if I think endorsements matter altogether. But is are the
socialists coming out and saying she's not one of us?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Is that actually a plus for her? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, I don't know if her district is that heavily
If she, like I said, she might have just been
a star at the moment, and who knows what will
happen now, but we'll see. Apparently raccoons are a bigger
deal for we now. I want to say, first of all,
Esteban has a love for raccoons, and I want to
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bring the raccoons story yet because I don't know if
you've recently seen that. I think it's like a tweet
that's going around, the video of the mom who saves
her daughter from this crazy raccoon that is chewing on
her foot.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
That's slander. And you know that's one example. It's they're
only thirty percent of raccoons have rabies.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh my god, thirty percent.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
The odds are in my favor, is what I'm hearing
from that.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Do you know the protocol for preventing rabies? If you
think you've gotten it, I hear it's awful.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I think you have to, like within twenty four hours,
do a bunch of stuff. But I haven't done that
much research because again the majority of raccoons don't have rabies.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So the majority being.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Like I went to public school, I can't do math.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You're talking about, like, we we have a very big
amount of people are for a big amount of raccoons
that have raybies and you're willing to take the shots
are in your belly. And I feel like we talked
about this the other day and you were not a
fan of belly shots.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
But the raby shots are in your belly, is what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah, again, if you get it, if you contract, is
it contracting rabies?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I don't know how you call it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, I think it's more of So to get back
to the story itself again, thirty percent. I'm gonna sound
like a broken record here, a thirty percent. There's There
was an anime in the seventies called Rascal the Raccoon.
Have you ever seen the movie Rascal That There was
a Disney movie. They were based on the same book
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about Yeah. It was a very popular anime and in
Japan in the seventies or eighties, a bunch of people
bought an imported pet raccoons, which is not that uncommon.
We've had a raccoon in the White House. It was
Bill Clinton. I'm just kidding it was it was. It
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was Rebecca the Raccoon. Who was who was a White
House pet?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
What for? Who?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I don't know, somebody it was supposed to be eating
on Thanksgiving. But it was so dark cute.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You threw a lot of things out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Who would eat a raccoon? Do people eat raccoons Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
This was a while ago. Oh my gosh, we're going
to a completely different angle.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Looks like it was. President Coolidge's favorite pet was a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh my gosh, and he was going to eat it.
I feel like that's hard for you.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
A farmer sent it to Coolidge for Thanksgiving to eat,
and Coolidge did not want to eat it and instead
made it a cat or a pet. He had a
bunch of other animals too. It wasn't like it was
like basically back to Japan. A bunch of people bought
these raccoons and imported them, and then they got rid
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of them when they realized raccoons take a lot of
work to maintain. They're not they're they're mischievous, they make
they cause a lot of damage. And so these raccoons
kind of flourished in the wild, and the raccoon population
in Japan, specifically Tokyo, has skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
How weird. It's like Concrete City.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Well, but it's like the rats of New York City though, like, oh,
their Japan's raccoons are cuter.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Raccoons are cuter, but you know what rats are? Rats
are cute too.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, what, okay, that's all totally.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Of over a thousand raccoons were caught in Tokyo in
twenty twenty three. A decade earlier, only two hundred and
fifty nine raccoons were caught in Tokyo. This thing is
like they're ballooning out of proportion now and unfortunately, So
this is my plan. I'm going to fly to Japan
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and I'm going to bring them back over here, bring
them home, because Tokyo has has executed.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Clair fruit, hell alone raccoons.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Well, but Tokyo's killing them. Tokyo is murdering every single No,
that's not good, not good, it's not good. I'm gonna
fly over there. I'm gonna bring them back because I'll
tell you one thing. I saw two baby raccoons over
the weekend, two baby raccoons. I got close enough to
touch them, but I didn't because because statistically speaking, the
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odds were not in my favor that one of them
may have rabies.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, but I agree to that.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I think that murdering raccoons is a bit extreme. I mean,
this is Japan. They've got space, they can do stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
They really don't Japan is small.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
They give them houses, give like raccoon houses. You know what,
There was that one TV show this is a documentary, now,
there was that one TV show. They love reality TV. There,
they could just make that a show, raccoon house. I
would watch that.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
What was that one zaboomafoo. Did you guys ever watch
that over the weekends?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh my gosh, no, yes, yes, where it.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Was like the live animal. Yeah, they could do that
with the raccoons.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah. See, I think that we should. I don't know,
do you have any connections to Japan? Do you know anything?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I've never in hope. You bring a bunch of raccoons
over here, like you are on your own eye mind,
but keep them over there. But speaking of I want
to go back to President Coolidge for a second, because
he is an interesting president. He was a guy who
really did not intend to become president, but was sort
of like worked his way through the political system. But
his son, who I think was sixteen at the time
(28:28):
when he was in the overall office, he might have
been a little older. He was playing tennis on the
tennis courts and he ended up with a blister from
playing tennis, and then I think it was sepsis that
killed him from the blister, which is incredibly sad. And
it's believed that that's why he never ran for another term,
because he was so devastated by the death of his son.
And he was very faithful, and he said, you know,
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I just I'm glad I got to serve the people.
I just don't understand why God chose that I had
to give up my son to do it. It's like
such a sad story. Anyway, that's a real bummer.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
But you knew all this, but you didn't know he
had a raccoon. I know.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's why I was like, how do I not know
about his raccoon? Maybe I blocked that part out because
of the whole thirty percent rabis thing.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I almost hit a raccoon Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
If you if I find out any of you kill
raccoons intentionally or unintentionally, I'm quitting.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh, I would hate for you to unintentionally kill a raccoon.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yeah. If I unintentionally kill raccoon, that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's what.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm driving. And I'm living in the woods.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So is this your gen Z work demand.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah, we have to have. We have to have like
a quota of raccoons rescued a month from Japan.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, I'll just tell my story. So basically, I was driving.
I was a two lane road driving home from the raceway,
and I'm you know, it's like a curving sort of street,
and all of a sudden I see this these green
eyes or a green light moving across the street and
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I went, oh, that's a raccoon. And I realized I
was going to hit it because it was too close
and it was moving too fast. So I honked and
it stopped and it was like this as I drove by.
It was very frightening, but he lived.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I didn't save it's life.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It did.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yes, you're young. There's time for you to accidentally hit
a raccoon. And then let me tell you. When you
accidentally hit an animal, it is terrible, but it can happen.
Have you ever hit an animal?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
No, I'm a good driver. I'm a driver.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, well good drivers run them right over because you.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Don't say I don't think that's a stipulation.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's the plan. If the driver said you see an animal,
did you get away with that what he's like. I'm
gen z. I don't need to do it.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Took a sick day and then I had because I
wasn't feeling well. That's how my life. If you look
at my license, it's actually just a picture of my friend.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's scary, lovely. Well, it's been an enjoy talking to
you all about raccoons and everything else. So we will
continue to do these episodes every Thursday. If you guys
like them, you know what, send us a note, talk
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we want to hear about it, and we'll keep doing it.
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