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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Gordes.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Sometimes after an election, it seems like half, roughly half
the country, or half of a state or city or whatever,
looked at the other half and says, well, I guess
I feel more alone than ever before. Look at what
my city just did. Look at what my state just did,
Look at what my nation just did, Look at what

(00:23):
my political party just did. They divided up this vote here,
and now we have this, and it seems like half
of the country after any election, and this in an
off year election where most states were I don't know
about most, but there are a lot of states that
weren't doing anything. Still, there are people here in Nebraska

(00:48):
looking at this, going wow, what a referendum against whether
it's mega Trump, republicanism, capitalism, ris gianity. I mean, there
are people looking at this and saying, wow, I feel
really alone. And certainly after the twenty twenty four presidential

(01:10):
election where the Republicans took control of all three branches
and then I won't do anything about it to end
a government shutdown, there were certainly half the country that
looked and thought, oh my gosh, he's back. What is
this a horror movie? He can't just go away? Trump
is back. He's going in the White House. It's gonna

(01:31):
be worse than ever. And half the same half the
people who are elated this morning were completely despondent a
year ago, completely despondent. And the same people who a
year ago were all happy, Hey, all right, make America
great again. Trump? All right, Trump Trump, Trump Trump Trump.

(01:54):
Today are like, oh no, it's all over. What happened?
Do we have suddenly an infusion of new voters? Did
people change their minds or did America show once again
that we can't be trusted with elections? We can't, we can't. Look,

(02:16):
I'll do it if you want, If you want this
to fall on me, you can trust me to be
a fair and benevolent dictator. I'll just decide who does
what win because you people talking about Americans you can't
be trusted with elections. The thing that always gets me

(02:37):
about elections is they look at, you know, whoever they
just beat or whatever they felt like they were running against.
Usually that name Trump comes up on so many times
and any election anywhere in the country since about twenty fifteen,
and it's not about Trump, it really isn't. It's the

(03:01):
same thing when I look at the presidential election of
a year ago. Some of the estate and local races
across the country last night. These were all decided upon
by your friends, neighbors, family members, co workers. These people
not paying attention as you drive around traffic. These people

(03:24):
that you say, hey, go big rhand when you see
them at football games. I mean, these are the kind
of people who decide elections. It's not done by some
shadowy dictator or triumvirent or whatever somewhere on High. Lucy
Chapman's looking at me like, I don't oh, Scott doesn't
know what's going on. Tom Hanks is deciding all of
these elections. Well whatever. People people make these decisions. People

(03:49):
make these decisions, the same people who you were living
around and in the same country where or visiting on
vacation and going into a little coffee shop and one
of New York City's Burroughs and someone said, hey, yeah,

(04:11):
thanks a lot for coming in. What can I make
for you? And whether it's a barista or a bartender,
you get your drink, they make it for you. You're like, well,
this is really good. I like this place. Yeah, those
same people just voted for an absolute comedy in New
York City, you go to Virginia, you go to New Jersey,

(04:31):
cause who doesn't want to go on vacation in New Jersey.
You go to these places here and the same people
that you're kind of hustling around in the airport and
someone said, I'm sorry, was this your bag? And they
give it to you. You're like, hey, thanks, total stranger, Hey,
don't mention it. Have fun in the Garden State. These
are the same people who make these votes. Yet we

(04:51):
all put this like identity, this name on whoever it
is that wins or whatever they think they're running against Trump,
and we feel like, all right, well, we just defeated
Trump and now we're coming Now. There was a comment
made by Zorn Mamdani, the new mayor elect of New
York City, that really really got me last night. Let's

(05:15):
see if it's part of this little uh collection of
comments from the victory speech last night. Here's your new
mayor of America Town, Zoran Mamdanni.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Do we have toppled a political dynasty in this new
age we make for oursel?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, time on what dynasty? What dynasty? The being the
mayor of New York City. Let's see the last Mayor
of New York City Eric Adams Democrat. Before that was it?
Was it Bloomberg before that was there? Or is Blasio
in the Democrat Democrat? Giuliani Democrat Democrat Democrat? What what?

(05:54):
What dynasty? We have toppled? We have toppled a political dynasty.
New York doesn't like Donald Trump. We knew that. We
knew that in the last election. We knew that in
the election before that. Yeah, New York City has moved
hard left, which is really really weird because this is
the same city that looked at all of the illegal

(06:15):
immigrants being put up in luxury hotels and apartment living like, hey,
we got clear out space, and people are like, wait
a second, this hotel down the street here, I can't
afford a room in there. But now we're putting up
illegal immigrants in there because Texas just shipped them up
to New York City. Why we got to take care
of these people? How about us? How about And maybe

(06:39):
that's part of the reason why mom Donnie won. So
all right, I lasted about five seconds into that. Let's
see if we can get back through it.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
We have toppled a political dynasty. In this new age,
we make for ourselves. We will refuse to allow those
who traffic in division and hate to pit us against
one another.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
He stood up for Hummas, a recognized terrorist organization. Yeah,
those who try and divide and hate us, we are
going to stand united against them, and we call them
the Jews. I don't think that's exactly what he said

(07:23):
last night. Let's keep going in this.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Moment of political darkness.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
New York will be the light care we believe in
standing up for.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Those we love.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And
if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing
from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with
the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all,
if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump

(07:55):
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. And if there is anyway to terrify
a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that
allowed him to accumulate power.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have
four words for you. Turn the volume up.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city
built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Of tonight, led by an immigrant.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
So hear me, President Trump, when I say this, to
get to any of us, you will have to get
through all of us.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
We didn't need to turn the volume up. You're yelling
at us. Yeah, yeah, I know. But that's how these
things go. Everyone yells.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
If he wants to get rid of what gave rise
to Trump, then he wants to get rid of capitalism.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
He just told you that right now, Yes, yeah, oh
he does, Yeah he did, But I mean you just
said it. Yeah. The chance last night at this victory
party were not USSA or even NYC. They were d
Essay Democratic Socialists of America. People were chanting DSAD. And
he is not the only one in Minneapolis. We don't

(09:24):
have a mayor of Minneapolis Minneapolis yet, but one of
the people who could be the next mayor of Minneapolis,
Omar Fatah, is one of several Mom Donnie like candidates
throughout the country. This is another socialist in Virginia they elected.

(09:48):
Was this the attorney general who, yeah, the the attorney
general who had fantasized via text message to a rap
publican colleague about murdering a fellow member of the legislature
a Republican and then saying, and to really send a message,

(10:11):
kill the entire family. He's talking about murdering someone and
their kids, just so everyone really pays attention. And he's like,
I'm joking. The people of Virginia said, we think that
he's okay, this guy seems stable. Let's make him the

(10:31):
attorney general of Virginia. We've got socialism winning. We've got
someone who is I guess fantasizes about political murder of children,
who's now in charge of the law in Virginia. Virginia

(10:52):
is for lovers and that guy. And there was one
thing that that mom Dommie said last night that wasn't
a part of that clip because he said, this wasn't
about Trump, It's also about the next one, which goes

(11:13):
into something I've been telling you for years. Whether it
was George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, whoever it was, who
suddenly had the audacity to be a Republican and want
to run for anything. Suddenly that person was the worst
thing that's ever been. Then they get to Trump and

(11:34):
they got a lot of people, you know, led to believe, well,
he's for real. I know, we told you George W.
Bush and Mitt Romney were terrible, but you know they're
they're kind of okay. Now they say some things against
Trump and they're kind of fun. But Trump, oh, this guy,
he is the worst thing that's ever been. Mike Pence
was the worst thing that's ever been. And then he

(11:54):
kind of started citing against Trump and like Pence is okay,
Trump's the worst thing has ever been. And Mom Donnie
said that quiet part out loud. It's not about Trump.
It's not even about a Republican that wants to run
for office or has the audacity to even be elected
to a nationwide office. It's about you, Mom Donnie said,

(12:17):
this isn't about Trump, it's about the next one. They
see anyone who wants to be a Republican, anyone who
wants to galvanize a conservative movement into whether it's a statewide, citywide,
or nationwide race, they see you as the real problem.
You are the ones voting for them. Now they'll try

(12:39):
and give you an out. Oh Trump duped these people.
He sold them a false bill of goods. He hypnotized
them with these words about being there for the working man.
But we know he's a liar. Vote for me, I'm
the socialistic working man candidate. We'll see how that goes
in New York City. More on that in a moment.
But Mom Donnie said last night, this isn't about Trump.

(13:01):
It's about the next one. Is that the next Republican
who runs for president of the United States in twenty
twenty eight. I thought that was supposed to be Trump
third term. Is it going to be advanced? Is it
going to be Rubio? It doesn't matter. They've already decided

(13:21):
that next person, that's Hitler. That's the threat to America,
not the socialist who sympathizes with a terrorist organization in
the Middle East, who just became the new mayor of
the biggest city in America, New York. There are some, though,

(13:44):
who say, well, hold on here, before you think everyone's
just fallen in love with socialism, let's take a look
at that claim. Interesting piece here, I'll relate it to
you next. Scott Ford San has an excellent assessment here
in the Zonker's custom with inbox scottikfab dot com. It says,

(14:05):
even though the results of yesterday suck, it's not a shocker.
All these elections took place in places Trump didn't win
In twenty twenty four. The media is portraying this as
a rebuke of MAGA. But it's not like democrats or
comedies won Florida or Texas. Blue districts will vote blue.
Nobody votes for ideas or policies anymore. It's a team sport. Now.

(14:29):
That's from Dan, which is a great point. It's not
like you had a place that was all trumpy. Suddenly
look at some of the things he's done. So I
didn't know he was gonna do these. I know he
said he was gonna do all these things, but I
didn't know he's actually gonna do him and I do
not like it. And then they all just said, who's
the socialist, we'll vote for him anything other than anything trumpy.

(14:51):
None of that happened last night. Besides that, Lee Hartley
Carter is a think tanker who has written a piece
on Fox News, and here's what she says. Paraphrasing this
article on the Fox News website today says, Mom, Donnie
didn't win because New York City suddenly fell in love

(15:14):
with socialism. He won, she says, because he captured something
every politician should be listening to right now, a deep
frustration that the system doesn't feel fair. The frustration struggling families,
low income voters spreading among people who are doing fine, educated, ambitious,

(15:35):
upwardly mobile professionals who are supposed to be living the
dream but can't shake the feeling that they're falling behind.
They feel like they've done everything right, schools, hours, hustle,
but yet they still feel stuck. Rents climb faster than salaries,
Taxes eat away their paychecks. It feels like other people
are gaming the system and getting anything they want. Buying

(15:56):
a home feels impossible, especially for this next generation. They're
not broke, they're frustrated. They don't want handouts, they want honesty,
and Mom Donnie says, I understand your frustration. He says,
the deal's been broken, let's fix it. He didn't offer
a revolution, she says. He offered recognition. And it's the

(16:19):
same emotion, different side of the capitalistic coin, but it's
the same emotion that powered the rise of MAGA and
specifically Trump. He gave voice to working class Americans who
felt forgotten by elites. Mom Donnie gave voice to affluent
New Yorkers who feel abandoned by opportunity. Both men understood

(16:43):
the most powerful message in politics, and that is the
system is rigged. I'm the one who will unrig it.
They just offer different answers. I don't I don't like
what New York City just did in electing a socialist
to be mayor, but I can't say I terribly mind it.

(17:08):
I've said this after elections where you know, you've got
these real progressive whether it's politicians or the party, and
suddenly they have power of this and that I'm like, fine,
do it, do everything you wanted to do. I said

(17:28):
this after John Ewing won mayor of Omaha, because there
were a lot of blue daughters that were like, this
is the guy. He's going to be like, all right, fine,
do it. Do everything you want to do. Here in Omaha,
we got a Democrat as mayor and a Democrat majority
city council. What do you want to do? Go ahead,
do it, show us why your way is better, and

(17:50):
then let's take a look. I say the same thing
when Republicans win. Hey, Republicans just won the presidency and
they have majorities in the Senate and House. What do
you guys want to do? Do it? Let's go give
something to the American people to show them here when
you put us in power like you just did when
we said we're going to do stuff. Here are the

(18:10):
things we want to do, and let's judge it based
on how it goes, how it works, how it's received.
Let's go, let's do it. But they never, none of
them ever seem to do that. It's always like, well, we're
gonna do a little bit of this, a piecemel of that.
We're going to try and get some sort of bipartisan
agreement on this. Nothing ever really changes in terms of

(18:33):
who's elected the people electing them, that changes. And I
think Lee Hartley Carter and that piece I just provided
for you from Fox, I think she gets it. And
that is a lot of people, whether they lean left, right, center, socialist, strong, mega, whatever,

(18:55):
they feel frustrated and angry and they feel like the
system is rigged. When suddenly we realize that, we all
look at each other and go, hey, you think things
are unfair. I think things are unfair. Maybe what happened
with these elections yesterday might actually serve to galvanize the

(19:18):
people of America. We all kind of look at each
other and go, oh, yeah, I didn't like the way
things were going either. There's different ways of getting there.
But yeah, I'm frustrated. I feel like I'm trying to
do the best I can and it's not working. Maybe
there's a maybe there's a better way forward. That's my

(19:40):
Pollyannic positive spin on the election yesterday. Do I truly
believe what I just said? I don't know. That's up
to you. We'll see how it goes. We'll see if
we can be decent to each other. Oh, I never
care who you vote for. I really don't I care
how you treat people who vote differently than you. Fox

(20:00):
News update.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Next Scott Boyes News Radio of Levin KFAB.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Here's the latest email sent to Scott at kfab dot
com via the Zonkers custom Woods inbox comes from Richard
that says I would normally agree with you. Well, then
then think about if you feel like you need to
disagree with me, think about do you want to be
that dead wrong today? I don't even want to read

(20:29):
the rest of this email, just to save him the embarrassment.
All right, I'll read it. Richard says Scott, I would
normally agree with you that the election of a communist
is not a big deal. They'll get what they deserve
I E F A FO. Do you know that acronym?

(20:50):
Do we know the acronym? It's it's about messing around
and finding out find out. Yeah, but says Richard, this
has less to do with communism and more to do
with Muslim culture creeping into and taking root American culture.
I don't know. I got a number of people who've

(21:11):
emailed anytime that Zoran Mamdani comes up, and they're like,
there's someone who's gonna look. I think it's troubling, if
not outright disqualifying, that they basically went to him and said,
Hamas probably shouldn't have killed all those hundreds of innocent

(21:32):
Jews just for being Jews in October seventh, right, And
he's like, like, really, this guy sympathizes with a known
terrorist organization, Hamas, And you can say, well, he's more
standing up for Palestine. All right, let's take a look
at Palestine. Palestine is run by a political organization that
also happens to be a military installation and the aforementioned

(21:56):
recognized terrorist organization that's Hamas. And you can any time
you say from the River to the Sea, you're talking
about eliminating Israel, as we know it as they know it,
And the reason for that is they're Jews and he's

(22:16):
not I and people are like this, just I can't
believe it. Here we are twenty four years after September
eleventh in that city. Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Imagine if somebody would have told you this twenty even
twenty three years ago or twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
I would like to answer that question two ways. One,
could you have imagined at any period after Pearl Harbor
and World War Two that America would have a great
relationship with Japan and depending on you know who the

(23:05):
leaders are a pretty good relationship with Germany. Right, So,
if you would have told me in the days after
September eleventh, two thousand and one, that here in the
next quarter century, New York City will elect a Muslim

(23:25):
as mayor, I probably at that time would have welcomed
that as a good sign. Because maybe I'm going to
answer this two and a half ways before anyone starts
yelling and screaming at me. I don't know. You're a
circle of those with whom you communicate, friends, family, whatever,

(23:48):
But you know, I know people who are of the
Muslim faith. They're not terrorists, but they would Yeah, yes,
they have a different belief system than do I for certain,
But in talking to some of these people, especially after
nine to eleven, let's see so that I was pretty

(24:09):
well fresh out of college. I still had some college
friends with whom I was checking in and other friends
who are of the Muslim persuasion. People I would talk
to on the radio in those days, weeks months that followed,
and every single one of them who are Muslim, felt

(24:35):
absolutely despair after what happened to this country on nine
to eleven. So anyone who tries to say, hey, all
Muslims are terrorists, no they're not. So if you would
have told me to answer your question, Lucy, after nine
to eleven, two thousand and one, New York City will

(24:56):
elect a Muslim, I would immediately think someone like my friends,
someone like these numbers of American Islamic faith, having individuals
who say, this is not our faith. Let's teach you
about who we are and what we believe, and how

(25:17):
awful it was that this happened. I would have said,
that's amazing. I can't believe we'll get there, but that'd
be great. Now, Zoran, Mom, Donnie does not I do
not believe he is that guy. So what did New
York City just do? I think they were apparently inclined

(25:41):
to ignore the religious aspect of it and just go
straight socialist, Like, who's the guy who's most not Trump?
When Trump comes out and says vote for Cuomo, Democrat
leaning people moderate in New York City, they weren't going
to do anything Trump said. They hate President Trump. So

(26:05):
Trump just basically and it was probably gonna happen anyway,
but he didn't exactly do Cuomo any favors. Meanwhile, you
got a Republican in that race going really, but I
don't think mom, Donnie, is that is that guy? Do
I think he's a full blown terrorist? I certainly hope not.

(26:28):
I think he is a full blown socialist and skyrocketing
taxes and wealth redistribution. If this is what the people
in New York City want, have at it, let's see
how that works out for you to you know my
point here with Richard's email where he says, hey, FAFO
mess around and find out. It makes me sick. The

(26:54):
thought that suddenly will have a government run health care
and growth stores and anything else you might see makes
me sick. But hey, have at it. Let's let's see,
let's see how it goes.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
I'm glad you clarified the Muslim versus socialists aspect of that,
because that's really not where I was going. Every single
religion has crazy fanatical people. Christians do too. I've seen
Christians that think falling on the floor and laughing is
being slain in the spirit. I've seen Christians who think

(27:31):
that handling snakes is going to be the thing that
connects them to God. There are fanatics and people who
get the religion wrong, and every single religion. That's not
what I was talking about. If somebody would have told
you twenty years ago that a socialist that also happens
to be Muslim would be elected in New York City,

(27:53):
I would have believed that a socialist.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh yeah, I would have believed that.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
Well, you are more advanced than I was, because twenty
years ago I would not have believed that.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh yeah, well, you don't even have to go twenty years.
Let's just go like twenty days. How long ago was
it that des Moines get to some of these local elections. Yeah,
but des Moines right.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Twenty years and ten years. You're right, because if you
asked me twenty years ago. I wouldn't have been if
you asked me ten years ago, I might have said, yeah,
I can see it at this point.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
So about twenty days ago, we found out that the
Des Moines school board had installed as their superintendent someone
who was an illegal immigrant, felon who illegally possesses weapons,
lied about his academic background, failed to disclose previous drug

(28:43):
and weapons charges, and as I said, not in the
country legally. And the school board is like, I think
this is probably the best direction to go, and they
made that guy, Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines'
schools up to the point he started running from the
Feds with guns in his car. And then they're like,

(29:05):
maybe it's time for Ian's to step down. Well, that's
the same school board still there, and they said, hey,
never mind the fact that we we just you know,
caught totally lying here about this superintendent. Hey, here's what
we really want. Do you think you people in the
school district here in Des Moines could pass a two
hundred and sixty five million dollars bond proposal for our

(29:28):
school district. It's called the Reimagining Education Plan, and you
know it's it's gonna be great. The same people who
put this nut job as the superintendent of schools now
went to the voters and said, hey, I hope you're
inclined to look past that. Can you give us a

(29:49):
lot more of your tax dollars? We're gonna do great
for these kids. And the people are des Moines are like, okay,
this is your last chance. And they voted it with
seventy four percent of the vote. Oh yeah, they passed it.
You know it would happen here too. Wasn't even close.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
That would happen here too.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
These thieves, criminals on the new the des Moines school
board said, I know, we're the same people who made
this decision. Kind of blew up on our face, didn't it.
Who would have seen that coming? Can we have a
whole bunch of your money? And the people are like absolutely, Hey,
I signed the check right, Yeah, don't don't even worry

(30:27):
about it.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
I'll give it to you.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Blank.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
You've bill in the So.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
You're asking like, could you have believed twenty years ago
that New York would twenty days ago? The voters in
des Moines were.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Shown were shown twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
That their school board were not to be trusted and
they just gave them two hundred and sixty five million
dollars to educate their children the future of Des Moines.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Well, to be fair, they do need to spend some
money to find an superintendent.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Council member and Council Bluffs Jill Shutack, who's defeated incumbent
Mayor Matt Walsh, longtime incumbent mayor, took over for a
longer time incumbent Mayor Tom hannafin years ago, and now
it's the shoot Ack administration in Council Bluffs. Who is
this person? What does she believe? I already got people saying, oh, yeah,

(31:25):
beware crime and homelessness coming to Council Bluffs. I haven't
seen any of that from her. What does she say?
She says on Facebook after this, deeply honored to be
elected the next mayor of Council Bluffs. We made history,
became the first woman ever elected to lead our great city.
Oh we've got another first. People say we already had

(31:47):
a woman mayor. Well yeah, but that's when council rotated
during a time when there wasn't a mayor and Council
Bluffs in the seventies. It wasn't elected, so she's the
first woman elected mayor, first openly female mayor of Council Bluffs.
She says, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to
Mayor Walsh for his years of service and dedication to

(32:10):
our community. Look forward to working closely with him during
this transition to ensure a smooth handoff and continued progress
for our city. As a proud friend of labor, I'm
incredibly grateful for the support of our working families, the
backbone of Council Bluffs. Together will build a future rooted
and fairness, opportunity and unity. Let's get to work. She

(32:32):
doesn't seem crazy. I don't think Council Bluffs A Let
her get crazy.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Scott borhees, where are you're going? News radio eleven to
ten Kfabdinks.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
We have a lot of danks, double income, no kids.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's it in the movie Spaceballs. It's the jahwas, except
they're known as dinks because they walk around going DNK
dink dink ding ding ding ding d See what a
funny movie. But back to the news. Here the number
of married couples who are dinks DNK dual income no
kids now make up more than twelve percent of married

(33:08):
couples or at least one partner is in their thirties
or forties. That's a jump from eight percent twelve years ago.
Sad he focused on married couples with both spouses working
and no kids, defining the age range to capture those
older than the average first time parent, which was twenty

(33:29):
seven point five years for women at last plant. That's
the average age where you'd have your first kid twenty
seven and a half years old. But there are a
lot of them that are just blowing right past it.
They're getting into theirty thirties, they're getting into their forties
and they're like, you know what, don't want kids? And
the dinks report they have more money. They feel like

(33:53):
they can do what they want when they want, and
that's great. I there. Emory Songer is a current dink.
He and his wife dual income, no kids, and he
talks about this on a show and I've heard him
talk about this afternoons here on eleven ten KFAB and
suddenly gets really really defensive about it, like, you know,

(34:17):
people look down on them for not having kids. I'm like,
who are you hanging out with? This sounds like maybe
you need to have a conversation with your friends with
your Mom's what I'm probably thinking, but I don't. I
don't know, but it is. It is weird though, when
you grow up and you have a group of friends
or you have a friend, and you will find whence

(34:41):
once you like, it's okay when you get married, because
when you get married, you have a wedding, and a
wedding's a great party, and your friends come and they
get to drink all of your booze and try and
hit on your members of your wedding party. It's it's
a fun time. You know, you're in your twenties. Every
other weekend it's a big wedding. Your dry around. You're
flying around and you're going sometimes to exotic locations. You're

(35:04):
renting tuxedos. And after you've rented seven tuxedos in a row,
you thought, why didn't I just buy a tuxedo? Why?
And women are going, why didn't I just buy an
ugly lime green bridesmaid dress that you.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
Can never wear again?

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Right?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Well, just get I think all friends should just get
together and say, Okay, we're all gonna be bridesmaids in
each other's wedding. Let's make it easy on ourselves. We'll
all do the same color scheme. I'll wait for that
is genius, I know, but I'll wait for the women
to suddenly go I don't want the same color scheme
in her. She has horrible taste. She's terrible, but she's

(35:41):
fun to hang out with. And I'm gonna have my
own wedding with my own theme and my own colors,
and you're all gonna come and you're gonna you're gonna
get a bridesmaid dress and all give me gifts. Guys
are like, we'll just rent a tux, right, Okay, we'll
rented tux.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Can you rent dresses? I wonder if you could rent dresses?

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (35:59):
Sure, like bridesmaid's dresses.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Yeah, well, let's just do that.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I know, But then I think that the bride would
probably assume that her bridesmaids would all be wearing the
exact same dress.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Right right, Well, I mean the trend has kind of
gone to the same color but different styles.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
See that a lot anyway. I was like, what does
I So you get past that time when you're getting
married and you're having weddings receptions just a lot of
fun and then things get serious. That's when your friends
start having babys and you're not having a baby, and

(36:41):
you don't want to have a baby, and maybe baby
you are not even interested in getting married or whatever.
And suddenly it's you realize like, oh, this friend who
we used to have a great time hanging out with
back in our single days, and I got married and
that got a little weird, and now I got a
baby and she won't even return my phone calls anymore.

(37:05):
That's when you realize, like, oh, I guess somehow I
have an alienation with a friend. I suppose these things happen.
I don't know. I'm happy to judge these things on
a case by case basis.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
You never lost friends when you guys started having kids.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Oh, I'm definitely thinking of someone. This was one of
my wife's friends and someone that the two of us
loved hanging out with when we were In fact, she
was the first one who I told I was gonna
ask her friend now my wife to marry me. I mean,
we were, we were all close friends. And then she

(37:51):
made a comment about like, are you just gonna, you know,
just send us pictures of your baby, you know, or
something like that.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
That wife, it was like, well, she's out, and I, well,
if that friend is looking for a friend, I'll be
your friend.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I just I don't understand where you get some people
who we like. Okay, so we get married, we have kids,
or we get married, don't have kids, or I'm still
saying single. I don't know why any of those factors
have to do with anything. But I also, on a
regular basis, don't know what makes people tick. How about this.

(38:29):
I saw this story here about dinks. The only reason
that even entered into my brain because I like the
phrase DNK dual income, no kid d I NK dink.
And the number of dinks in the United States is
on the rise. It's at the highest point it's been
and on the rise.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
So we already knew this was going to happen. Birthrate.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
I look at this and I think, Okay, I get
I don't care. I mean, you do what you want
to do. I hope you're happy doing it. You're probably
not going to be happy all the time. I imagine
there are people who decided I didn't want to have kids,
and then they get into a certain age and they think,
maybe I should have had a kid. And then there
are certainly people who have kids, and then their kids

(39:15):
get to a certain age and they look at that
kid and go, I shouldn't have had a kid. There's
any number of things that could happen. I just wonder
how much this cultural rise also aligns with things like
we saw in New York City and Minneapolis and other

(39:39):
parts of the country where you've got people who are
now just avowed socialists, and you think, wait a second,
is one election yesterday?

Speaker 4 (39:46):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:46):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Bernie Sanders major factor in these elections led to Trump's
first election because he ran against Hillary. People were all
in on Bernie, didn't like Hillary, and then didn't vote
for her because they were full Bernie. And that's what
got Trump elected the first time. So Bernie has had

(40:09):
a major impact. There are young people, and when Bernie
Sanders ran for the presidency in that Democratic primary back
in twenty sixteen, and there were a lot of you know,
would be voters who were about eighteen nineteen years old. Okay,
so here we are nine years later. These same people
are now that twenty seven, twenty eight, these would be

(40:30):
the age of people who would be getting married and
having kids based on the average age twenty seven point
five years for women, is the average first time parent
range for women, but they're not doing that. So we
had more and more young people who were choosing socialism,
and not only that, because I think there's another factor

(40:52):
that doesn't lead to wanting to bring a kid into
this world, and that is they think this world's terrible.
They think the world's terrible. They think this country is terrible.
They think Trump is terrible. They think Trump's supporters are
terrible and all around them, and they think cops are terrible,
military is terrible, laws are terrible, the flag is terrible.

(41:15):
They think all this stuff is awful. Then global warming
is gonna kill us all before Greta Tunberg even turns thirty.
Why in the world would you bring a child into
this flaming dumpster fire called America or Earth or whatever.
That group of young people led to believe all of

(41:37):
those things now are not having kids, which I think
is too bad because a lot of kids politically end
up being the opposite of their parents.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Maybe that's why there's not well, maybe they know that too.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, we could have had, you know, people who are
all excited to go vote for Baron Trump at some point.
So yeah, it's it's weird. So I think this dink
thing is more than just a choice. I think with
a lot of young people, they felt like they had
to do this.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
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