Love4oneanother episode 12

A rough morning, the buffet and Gaza

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back, y'all. This is Jeff Luna and the Love
for One Another Podcast, and I want to welcome you
back to music life and how we navigate through it
all together. No, we do not talk about hate here,
but we do not act like we are blind to
those filled with hate. So strap yourself in as we

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take this musical journey and learn to have love, love.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
For one another, One One Another.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Episode twelve. Welcome to the start of another week. This

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is Jeff would Love for One Another podcast and we're
off to another bad start. What turned out to be
a great weekend and quickly turned into a bad week
by the things that we witness and the things that
we see and what we do with it and how
we react. This morning, on my lovely way to work,

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not even a couple of miles from my home, not
even maybe a mile, I saw four vehicles pull off
to the side of the road and trying to figure
out what they're doing. And as I drove by, I
saw that it was none other than ice, all wrapped
up in their masks and hiding who they are and

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all that great stuff. And I noticed that they pulled
away shortly after I passed them, and then they passed me,
and I kind of backed off a little bit, and
then they pulled over again just at the next light.
So when I passed, I went and turned around to
go see what they were up to. And I came
back around, and when I was in the turnpocket with

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them across the street, I noticed that they had somebody
in there fighting with him trying to get them in
one of their vehicles. I think it seemed like they
were moving them from one to another. With that being said,
I noticed that the truck that was in the area
of where they had first probably picked them up from.

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There was a truck that would be those guys that
pick up your your trash and you're junk and your
metal and stuff like that, and it was off to
the side of the road, windows rolled down and just
sitting there and more than likely, you know, the best
way if you want to catch somebody is, you know,
get the guy that's getting up really early in the

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morning and trying to get to work and to provide
a service and not let live off the system, you know,
because those are the guys that are causing all the
problems and the ones that you want to go get right.
We knew this was all some bs to begin with,
and we're living it, you know, we're living it. And

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instead of people saying, you know, wait a minute, this
is wrong, there's a lot of people that still say,
this is exactly what I wanted, like, you know, it
doesn't matter, you know. And again, what we get back
to is the treatment of other people, how you're treating them,
and how you react to it, because I think that
says a lot. It takes us away from the excuse

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of law and order and what's right and wrong, and
it just becomes an emotion, and the emotion is the
pain of someone else, and you know how you feel
about it. Everybody reacts different, and there's a lot of
people that still react like this is something that's a

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great thing, and what can you do? I mean, what
can you do? You can't. Let's face it, when we're
talking about in this show, how we deal with this
kind of stuff, and now we get by what's right
and what's wrong. We can feel how we want to
feel all day long about what we feel is right

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or what we feel is wrong, or what I feel
is right and what's wrong. But you can't force other
people to feel the way that you feel. You can wish,
and you can pray, and you can say someday, I
would hope that we get back to some type of
what you might have thought was in the past, like
some emotion that we felt that was peace and harmony

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or just a nice life, like things were great before,
when in reality they probably really warn't. You know, A
lot of the stuff that's happening now, whether we want
to believe it or not, is the way people really
felt for a long time. Some people don't realize it.
They hold it in. Some people just say, oh, I

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can't say that, and they keep it into themselves until
they feel a comfort level of that this is okay now,
like like, this is the time we're going to stand
up and say what we feel, even if it doesn't
make any sense and it's completely wrong because it's not
how we should be treating each other or acting toward
each other, and but it's but it's okay now.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
For a long time, I think a lot of people
felt that they had whole things in and maybe not
say certain things, and you know, times are changing in
and felt very threatened by the change, you know, and
and it's almost like a fear. They get scared like
they're scared. Oh well, the ain't the way I grew
up and what happened to great family values? And to

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get back to family values, We're gonna crush whoever seems different.
We're gonna step on the people that we feel shouldn't
be here, and we're gonna very very aggressively being in
okay with the things that you feel should be norm

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And a lot of that is with with a hateful heart,
and maybe you feel it's not because I'll tell you
right now. I think from what I've witnessed is that
a lot of people just feel it's okay, like it's okay,
like they kind of want to tell you, like, yeah,
there was what movie was it? It was Armageddon? Or

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was it not Armageddon? It was the Other Army? And
you know, they always make two movies, Like for a
while there in the late in the nineties and the
two thousands, they kept on like if they made a
movie the Armageddon, they made what the heck was the
name of the movie where the asteroids coming to? And

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there's always two. So if you had what was it
with the president and they got to protect the president?
And I think that was, Oh my goodness, I'm running
on drawing blanks right now. But they always had two
of the same movie, like, you know, different stars and stuff.
So you had this movie where they knew already the

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guy was blind, he was going to come back or whatever.
And I think it was Morgan Freeman or something. Now
I wasn't Morgan Freeman. Who was it forgetting all these
people now? Anyway, it's just like the guy's like, no,
we can't do this. We can and the guy's like
it's okay, it's okay, and he's like no, no, no, we can't.
He's like it's okay. Because they want to make you
feel like there's nothing that you can do about it,

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got to just let it happen. And in their case,
they were in a space shuttle and really like it
was okay, there's nothing you're gonna do about it. But
here's see something can be done about it, something can happen,
and they want you to kind of just be complacent
and quiet and just to be like it's okay, it's okay,
Like it's gonna be okay, we'll get by, and that

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might you know what. Most of the time, I'll say
I will agree with that to a point and say,
you know what, no matter what happens, Tomorrow's gonna come
and you'll get by and we'll we'll live another day.
In the meantime, there's people's lives that are being torn apart.
There's people that are living in panic and fear. There's

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people that you say, oh, well, what are you worried about.
You're just getting deported. They don't know where they're going.
They don't A lot of these people are disappearing. Their
families can't figure out where they've gone to. They can't
figure out where they're going. They're getting taken to other
countries that they know nothing about by themselves, and then
some of them they're going with their family. They don't know.
What you know, if you have any like, what I
don't get is that most people in this country or

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in this world have kids. Like you got one, you
got three, five, whatever you have, you have children, and
somewhere along the way, you have compassion for your children.
Now many might say, oh, I don't think these people do,
but I believe that you truly do have some type
of thought, some type of carrying, some types of hopes
and dreams for your kids. And you're sitting there passing

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judgment on other people and wanting them, like literally saying,
take them and take their kids and get them out
of here. Knowing that they're taking they don't know where
they're going. Why are they screaming and crying and all that,
you know. So when I saw that today, back to

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my story of seeing what I did see, I was
very upset. I was very angry. It it's attention, it's anxiety.
You wonder why people are reacting the way they do
in the streets. This was just from my car across
the street. Now I feel a certain way about it. So, yeah,

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maybe I was more upset than somebody that just don't
give a damn might be. But I was very upset,
and there's nothing you can do. What can you do
When you have a group of people, you might have
more of a chance to get these people to leave
them alone, But now you're risking your future, your life.
You're you know, you rush up against one of these

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guys or they just make something up or tackle or whatever,
and now you're in trouble for impeding a federal agent.
And these people aren't messing around. They could care less
you think they would care, even like if you go
and plead your case, and you know they're already trying
to get rid of people as it is. And here's
the problem. A lot of people are saying, you're just overreacting.

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You know, you're just overreact, But yet you're watching it happen.
Not only now I've seeing it on TV and seeing
it all over LA. I'm seeing it right here by
my house, which I already knew they were taking people
around my neighborhood, but I was usually at work in
LA when that was happening. I come home. They're not
doing it at night now and doing it early. I mean,

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this is going to be about five twenty in the morning.
So how do we deal with this? It's very difficult.
I'll tell you something that this is not something where
I come on here and pretend to have some answer.
And I'm definitely not going to tell you, oh, just
it'll be fine and you'll go. Time will go by
and you'll get by and it doesn't matter. Because here's

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the thing. These people, and this is what I find funny,
the people that tell you, well, what is it, it's
not affecting you, just relax and it'll be fine. Weren't
relaxing and everything will be fine when it came to transsexuals,
or to or to gay people, or to Capernet taking
a knee or something you know, or this, And now

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you give any subject that they had such a problem
with that they wanted to vote for somebody to kick
everybody out, or to go against all those things. So
if you want right now they're saying, oh, it's okay,
don't worry about it'll be fine, But it wasn't fine
with you to have people just coexisting, not affecting your life,

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not doing anything, coexisting, And then you have people that
are actually working and you got a problem with them too, apparently,
So how do you come at people in town just
to relax and everything will be fine and just comply
and life will be peachying and you run off in
the sunset smiling, skipping. You know, that's not the way

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it works. It's just not. Let's live in reality, and
the reality is there's a lot going on. There's a
lot of lies being told, and there's a lot of
pressure and stress and anxiety and fear, fear being brought
on by the people that were in fear of just
being able to live with other races of people because

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that's all this is about, one sided or not, however
that might sound, when it comes down to it, people
felt that they were being overrun by different races and
reacted and wanted something back, whatever they felt they had before,
they wanted it back. This country wasn't born and wasn't

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created on the ideals of one race and one person
in one set of beliefs. It was created on many.
So what did you want back? We're getting to a
point in our lives where we're seeing a lot happen
and when do we stand up and say enough is enough?

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All through history people have stood up and said enough
as enough. When do we do that? Do we just
let it happen, watch it and say, well I would
have done something, but eh, there's nothing I can do.
And that's where I think we're headed, is that before
anything really happens, there's a lot more that's going to

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have to happen to create that situation. And if it
does happen, we just hope that nothing, people don't get
hurt or anything worse. Well, this is Jeffould love for
one another. I'm going to take a break and we'll
meet you on the other side of this wonderful show
talking about wonderful things. Talk to you in just a minute,

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and I am back. Sometimes I say we and sometimes
I say I. Either way, it's still me. I am
Jeff Luno with Love for one another podcast. We are
talking about the crazy things going on, how things are
getting worse and trying to deal with it. To be
honest with you, I know a lot of people that

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they just go through their day and they're like, everything's great, man,
what are you worried about? You know? And I could
easily do that. I could easily just switch it off. Well,
let me just say I could try to easily just
switch it off and just go blind man, just pretend
like nothing else matters but me and my life, and
that's it. And I'm going to cruise through my day,

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go to work and worry about that crap over there,
and then just mosey on through life and forget about
everybody else. And then hopefully someday when I'm old and gray,
which I'm already gray actually, and I am old, that
I can live in peace knowing that I did everything
I could do to worry about myself. And I can't

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do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. Anymore.
You know, we we've as we get older, you find
you're what what it is that kind of defines you,
whether you acknowledge it or not, or if you realize
it or not. Sometimes it takes a while to get there,
I'm gonna admit, and I just don't know, like, is
this is this? It is this where I was supposed

(16:19):
to be? Do I know how I'm gonna be, How
I'm gonna? Uh? What? What? What really defines you as
a person?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
You know?

Speaker 1 (16:29):
And maybe I do a lot of different things I do.
I do a lot of different things that involve people,
involve myself, involve artwork or music, and and through the
whole thing, everything comes back to the same thing for me.
I you know, no matter how you mess things up,
or how bad things get, or how how you look

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at your life and what's happening, and you kind of
go the one thing that still stays true, and that
has still stayed true to me for now for some years,
has been really coming back to what do you do?
How do you treat others? What have we done for
other people? Because that's all I'm telling you, if you
really sit and think about it. And there's some people

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that could think I'm just an idiot of things I say.
But just sit there and think for yourself. Even you
care less what I say, maybe just keep this one
little thought. What are you doing for other people? I mean,
what else is there? You know? You can say, well,
I got my family, and I got my job, and

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I got things I gotta do and everything. But when
you do those things, what are they involving? If you
spent your day and you said, all I gotta worry
about is work. I gotta work, man, what are you
talking about? We gotta work and these people don't want
to work, but I gotta work and that's what's important.
Then you look at it and you go, okay, that's fine.
I'm with you man, you gotta work, But why are
you working? Well, I need money. I got to keep

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a roof over my head. And actually, you know what,
I have a wife kids, I got to keep a
roof over their heads. And maybe they're you're older now,
so you just got to keep a roof over your
wife's head. And oh, but you're kind of trying to
help out with your kids tuitions or something, so you
got to pay for that, and uh, you know, maybe

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you know where you work. You take care of some people,
and because you're paying for the making sure they get
paid or that they do their job, some type of
supervisor in somewhere. Maybe you're just a regular guy and
you're doing the work, and your job entails laying bricks,
digging a trench, cleaning carpets, doing something. And if you

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break it all back down and you look at the
simple simplify it, right, everything you're doing is for somebody else,
yourself included, because you got to eat, sleep and do whatever. Right,
But ultimately, if you're cleaning those carpets for a probably

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for somebody else, or a business that includes other people,
if you're a police officer, or if you're pick anything,
you're usually doing it for other people, for their safety,
for their enjoyment, for their pleasure, for you know, whatever

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it might be. And then if you really could care
less about those people, you're probably doing it for your kids,
making sure they got health insurance and all this and that,
because you got paid for all that stuff, right, so
you're doing it for them. And then your kids might
get older, you're not around no more, but you do
have a significant other, whatever it might be, and you

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might be doing it for them, and then ultimately you
might be doing it for yourself. But if you don't
take care of yourself, then nobody else around you exists.
It's a weird feeling to know that your existence actually
reflects on somebody else in this world. You might not
even know, you might not even care, but your existence

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happens to reflect on their lives in one way or another.
So ultimately, everything you're doing is for someone else. And
if you really look at what your attitude is towards
the things that are happening to today's society and today's
news and today's tragedies that are happening around the world,

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and including in your backyard, there's somewhere in there. You've
got to have some concern and some care. And if
you don't, then that's where it all falls apart, because
once it starts with you, it goes to another into another.
And it's just like, if we want to show compassion

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and care for people and we want to share it
with the world so that way other people do it,
it can also work and reverse and you get that
hateful feeling going around because why you really don't care? Oh,
look at it, I got my lovely wife right here
we're just having the grand old time and a nice life,
but we can care less about everybody else. And that's

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where it falls short, you know, it falls short, because
how are you doing this? How are you functioning to go?
And maybe you're a church going person of any religion,
and you get up every Sunday, Thursday, Wednesday, whatever day
it is, to go to church, and you put on
your nice clothes and your shiny shoes, and you get
all dressed up, and you say, hey, let's go to church.

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And after church we're going to go and have some
breakfast or lunch, depends on how long your church is.
And you go in there and you go and hold
your Bible in your hand and sell all these wonderful
things and sit up, get down up and down, up
and down, and hold each other's hands and say the
Lord's prayer and this and that, and then as soon

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as you leave, you can't wait to get back on
the social media and tell about how much you hate
these people and want them kicked out, or that these
things are what I've voted for and I'm just having
a grand old time and can't wait to put my
red cat back on. You know, it's a tough situation

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because I could sit here and point fingers and make
accusations all day long of stuff that's going on, But
where does that get us. It doesn't get us anywhere.
We need to get back to Hey, we're here for
each other. We're supposed to be. Yeah, you know what, man,
we could go have a beer. Yeah we could. But

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you know where the problem lies now, and what's happening
is there's some people that were just like, man, yeah,
I think you're a great person, and I remember the
things we used to do. But now I've seen you
show who you are. Like given an opportunity to say

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right or left, up or down one or two, I
don't care what you pay, given the opportunity when something's
right in your face and people are telling you this
is wrong, man, this is just wrong. Do you not
see whatever your beliefs are, do you not see that
this is hurting people? Take the other stuff out. Even

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if you don't agree, and we don't have to agree
on laws and all this and that, but you can
agree on what has happening to other people. You can't
agree that what you're seeing is wrong. And you can
say you know what, this is wrong? This is wrong.
I you know, we need to come together somehow and
make sure that people are at least treated good. Yeah,

(23:39):
you might have to be deported because the law was
broken or something. Yeah, you might have to We might
have to figure something out because you overstage your visa.
We shouldn't be going after these people and saying and
being like, well it doesn't matter. Have you been here
for fifty eight years, here's the boot. No, there should

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be stuff that can be figured out to make this
work in some way. And I think that's the problem
where we right now. We're going after the easy answer,
and force is just the easy answer. And we just
got this idea that this is just going to take
us into some type of wonderland.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, let's talk about wonderland for a minute, because something
I heard today was how many we got like fifteen
trillion dollars or seventeen trillion dollars that we've made off
of tariffs. Okay, let's put that and say, thank oh man,
what a great thing that is. All right, go government,
go trump whatever. And we got all this extra money.

(24:38):
And then we look at situations like the government shut
down and whatever. The government always shuts down. We know
they're going to do that, So let's just take it
past that and say, right now, shut down. They're claiming
it's over healthcare. So we have Obamacare or the ACA
that's coming up, and the reason why it's surviving is

(24:59):
because of the subsidies that are given by the government
to make it work. And you know a lot of
people have insurance now that didn't have it before, and
you have pre existing and you have a lot of
things that are actually really good, and maybe it's not perfect.
So instead of trying to make it right or make
it better, we're just gonna tear it apart and shake

(25:21):
a fist at it. Again. We like to shake our
fists around here. So we have a situation because there's
tons of here's the thing. We have a budget that
just passed that continued the the tax cuts for the rich. Yeah. Yeah,

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it didn't add any but it continued it and it
had to continue because if it didn't, then our taxes
would go up. And why because that's the way they
set this thing up. Man. This is not for you
or I. This was made for the rich people. So
we have that situation there. Plus we have a bill
one hundred and sixty in total, about one hundred and

(26:02):
sixty billion dollars that was put aside for this whole
deep deportations with Ice and all these federal agencies. Then
you got the military, which we got all this money
that was put to the military, but yet they're using them,
they're trying to bring them back and use them for
against our own people. So we have a lot of

(26:23):
issues right there. That just was like three things, and
it's very heavy to unpack. But if we're talking about ACA, Obamacare,
whatever you want to call it, and we're finding that
it's a situation that's very people are saying, oh, it's terrible,
it's terrible, But if we get rid of it, your

(26:45):
premiums are going to go skyrocket. I mean they're just
going to go through the roof. So they're like, oh,
we got to get rid of it, but they don't
know how because they've never come up with a better option.
But yet, because they want to get rid of it,
they're playing this game with the shut down, and Good's
going to lose its subsidies. Well, funny thing that we're

(27:08):
so concerned about this, but yet there was one hundred
and sixty billion dollars for the to kick people out
of the country. Then there was about another twenty billion
that's going to Venezuela or something like that. Argentina. What
are we doing? I don't understand. I thought that we're
supposed to be for the people here, so we have

(27:29):
some issues with this. You know, do we have an answer?
And I don't have an answer. I just think that
some of the stuff we're doing is relevant to the
to the cause of actually helping people in this country,
because that's not what's going on. I don't care what
lies are being told. And you know, hey, talk about lies.

(27:51):
Let's talk about what's being said about what's going on
in Portland. It's very similar to what they said was
going on on and they said that LA they keep
calling it the LA riots. These were not riots, man,
you know we and it seems like it just gets
said and nobody says nothing. Nobody just like yeah, like

(28:12):
that's what happened, and when it never happened, we had
to call the military in for the LA riots. Well,
if it wasn't for us taking care of the LA riots, well,
you know, Ali was burning into the ground during the
LA riots. When you talk about nineteen ninety two, now
that it was a riot, you know. So now here
we are with Portland organ they're claiming that Trump is

(28:35):
claiming that there's a it's burning to the ground. And
I just sat here and watched what's her name, I
think it was Livetter or whatever, talking about item after
item after item of things that are going on in Portland,
talking about tipping over cars and burning buildings down and
smashing windows and attacking the cops and doing this and that.

(28:58):
And then when you talk to people, are you and
they're like, what are you talking about? That wasn't happening.
We're creating. They're creating the issue and then coming up
with a solution, which makes absolutely no sense, because how
does that work? If you create the problem, how are
you going to have the answer? You know? But if
you know what the problem is, then you can easily

(29:20):
have the answer and pretend like you're the you know,
wait ready for the Peace Prize. And that's what's going
on right now. We have a lot of creating the
problem and then having an answer so it looks like
something's being done when there was really never a problem
to begin with, and nobody would be even gathering around

(29:42):
these ice detention facilities. If you weren't snatching people off
the street, you know. So we have a lot of issues. Man,
there's a lot of problems with us. And like I said,
if it wasn't for what happened this morning, I would
be a really regular conversation. And I usually don't. I
like to talk about other things than just politics on here.

(30:05):
But like we said, we don't pretend to you know,
we don't want to talk about hey, but we're not
going to pretend like it's not out there. And that's
what we're doing by talking about this is we're not
pretending that it's not out there, because it definitely is
and it's growing. And I think it's only it's mainly
growing by the people causing it. It's not really the

(30:28):
people no more. You got a lot of people running
around enforcing these laws, but as a whole you don't see,
you know, we do. There's these groups, these the little
Nazi groups and stuff running around and white supremacist and stuff,
but you don't see you see a lot of people
actually standing up and saying this isn't right in all nationalities,

(30:50):
and maybe that's leading to something. Maybe that's leading to something.
And I think the closer we get to to the midterms,
We're going to really see what's going on inside this administration.
We're really going to know more, and hopefully by then
we'll be able to better assess and judge what we
want to do to make things right and if we

(31:11):
can ever make things right again. We're going deep, man,
We're going deeper than we've ever gone before. Usually, I
will say that it is something that's you know, hey,
it's just going to come and go and don't worry
about it, because that's the norm Like normally we see things,
even if you were to take an alien sighting, right,

(31:32):
let's take it extreme and alien and it gets raw
hot for a minute, and everybody's looking up and you
got all these people with their telescopes out and all
these conspiracy theories going around, and usually it just fades
away because normally there's no real great proof in whatever.
We just kind of go on with our day and

(31:53):
it doesn't really affect you. So it's like, well, you know,
it could happened or not. This particular thing that happened
that's happening right now is not only gonna affect you,
whether you think so or not. It's affecting everyone else.
It's affecting a lot of people, and a lot of
people's lives are being turned upside down, and we shouldn't
be complacent with that. It should but the hell out

(32:15):
of you. What is happening to another could easily be
you at any time, at any given day or time,
and to act like you got the shield around you
that nothing's ever gonna happen, like nothing bad will ever
happen because you're protected by some type of magic shield
that says not me, Oh okay, we just move on.

(32:38):
And that's not going to happen. When it lands, it's
gonna land. It's gonna hit right right at home. It's
already coming very close, so prepare for it.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Well, this is Jeffrey Love for one Another. I'm going
to take another break because I've been really long winded
on this one, and we'll be right back after this. Hey,

(33:12):
and we are back. This is jeff would love for
one another. We are coming across. Uh what are we
at midway point? Where's the time on this thing?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Man?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Sometimes I got it set right, sometimes I don't, but uh,
let's see time. Yeah, we are coming across at midway point.
And you know, one of the things that I had
wanted to talk about tonight was what's going on on
over and uh, Gaza is one thing. It's very difficult.

(33:50):
I'm gonna be honest with you, it's very difficult. I've
been watching this and uh try trying to really put
together how to feel about it. It can be an
easy feeling of it's just wrong. It's it's it's tears

(34:11):
you apart sometimes and it's easily forgotten about because it's
not happening here. Right we gotta worry about our own.
We got to why you're worried about over there, this
and that, and usually right about now, not too many
people are actually saying that, because I think it's sinking
in of just how horrible it is. I gotta say,

(34:33):
one of the worst feelings is not looking at your life, like,
for instance, going to a buffet and ordering some you know,
not even ordering, just going up and picking whatever you
want to eat and then bringing it back to your
table and going, I'm just gonna try a little bit
of this, a little bit of that, you know what.

(34:55):
I didn't care for this. I'm gonna put that plate
over there and let them come get that plate, maybe
cover it with a napkin and let them take that
plate away because I didn't care for that food. And
I'm going to go get back up and go make
myself another plate of some other stuff. Maybe I want
a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Go to the Mongolian barbecue and let them cook me

(35:17):
up some food. Maybe go get a big old slab
of that meat over there, slice of pizza. Then they
got a whole the dessert area, right, and you can
go pick all your desserts. And then you're like, man,
I really should need this, So you just leave the
whole plate of desserts there and just kind of pick
at one thing here and there, and then it just
starts to sink in. It starts to sink in. What

(35:40):
am I doing? What am I doing? This isn't right.
Wait a minute, Why am I thinking about this? I'm
here like I got to just live my life right
now because I can't do nothing about that. But then
you got those images in your head of people starving
and grasping for food and carrying an empty pot and

(36:01):
just hoping to get something poured into that pot so
they could take home food smashed on the floor and
grabbing what they can because they haven't eight water, simple things.
And you look down at your plate and like, man,
what am I doing? I'm about to I'm about to

(36:24):
throw away a whole bunch of food I just I
just put on my plate because I thought i'd try
something different and and I didn't care for it. So
why am I going to finish it? Maybe? You know,
maybe I'll go I'll finish that plate of food so

(36:46):
I could feel better. But wait a minute, I'm at
a buffet. I just came to a buffet, you know.
But but either way, I had to eat today, So
so how's that bad? How's that wrong? But then you
grab your phone and first thing you're opening, it's right
there in front of your face. And then you remember

(37:07):
what I posted about this, and I said this was
a bad thing, And yet here I am. I'm not
even starving. My god, I've gained weight. What am I doing?
Should I feel bad? Should I feel terrible? Should should
I hate the person that I am right now? But

(37:29):
wait a minute, I know I'm not terrible. I think
about this all the time. How can I help you know?
And all these thoughts are just going through you and
you're just thinking yourself, what am I doing as a person,
as a human being, How am I contributing to this world?

(37:51):
And then you go, man, well wait a minute. I
know for a fact that I do care, I do things.
I do things to try and make things better. But
yet I'm sitting here with this plate and there's actually
two plates, and there's an empty plate over there, and
there's some food just sitting there that you're watching them

(38:12):
just throw away, play after plate after plate of food.
You know, these things, these thoughts, this isn't the first
time to get talked about. People talk about them all
the time. There's people that feel deep concerned about themselves
and what you're doing as a person, as a human

(38:34):
being to make this world a better place. But yet
we take advantage here, especially here in this country where
there's so many options of stuff. So all those things
just don't seem real, right, Buildings being destroyed, people being
pulled out of rubble, blood splattered against the wall, and

(39:00):
those uh, places that don't even look like they should
be treating people for medical conditions and they're they're just
spread out all over the place. That can't be real.
That can't be real. Because I look at me where
I'm living, I just life is too good man, That
the grass is green, the sun is shining. I hear

(39:20):
great music and coming from somewhere. I don't know where,
but it sounds nice. And I and I got all
this food. There's so much, plenty of food. And even
on my worst day where I just don't have much
money at all, I'm still gonna eat somehow, So that
can't be real. I want to just pretend that it's
not well, wait a minute, I see it every day.

(39:44):
I just see it, and I get mad at people
that act like it's not happening. Why am I getting
mad at them? And look what I'm doing. These feelings
are real. I'm telling you. These feelings are real, and
we have them all the time. But some people don't
talk about them. They just want to pretend like they're
not there. They want to just pretend like, why am

(40:05):
I gonna worry about that? I got too many problems
here at home? I got too many issues. I got
problems I got I gotta make my payments, I gotta,
I gotta go to work. And at work, they don't
like me at work, and I don't like this guy
at work, and I gotta I gotta do this paperwork.
I gotta apply for something. I'm not making enough. They
only haven't paid me what they owe me, and I

(40:26):
gotta I gotta put gas in my car. And but
there's all this stuff that's happening that just seems like
it's not real. But what do we do? What can
we do? You know? Sometimes we gotta look at this
and say, you know what, I can't do nothing about that.

(40:49):
I really can't. And then you see like some people
putting together a food drive or saying, hey, I'm gonna
put together some donations and I'm going to send it
off in your little bit of donations, maybe it filled
up two bags, and you're like, what is that going
to do? But you know what, that little bit that

(41:10):
you did adds up. Oh yeah, maybe that's true. You
know what if I just kind of do a little
here and there, and maybe I go and put some
boxes at some stores, and the stores really you'd only
ask questions if you actually looked into it, and if
you said that you're with an organization, and you might
even be, or you can get with one, and you
can actually put a box out there and people can

(41:32):
donate in that box, and places like Target and Walmart
they won't tell you no. And you go and you
pick up the box and there's like five items in there,
and you're like, man, I'm going to leave it a
little bit longer and see if that makes a difference.
And you check the other stores and there's like a
little bit here, a little bit there. Before you know what,

(41:53):
you got some stuff. You're like, hey, how do I
get this stuff out there? It's only like maybe two
big boxes now I actually two big boxes together. Wow.
And you send it off and you feel better. I
feel a little bit better, you know. But you know what,
all that effort and all that time and all that

(42:15):
stuff spent, it may not seem like a lot. But
when you do a little and the next person does
a little, and the next person does a little, it'll
add up. It'll add up, I'm telling you. But here's
something else to think about. Sometimes those things are a
little bit for a little difficult. Let me just say.

(42:37):
The reason why I say is because I've done some
of these things, and yeah, they are a little difficult.
But if you put your mind to it, you can
do it. And people do it way more than I've
ever done. So let's look at what we can do now,
what can we do now that might make some change,

(42:58):
don't you know? It might not change the situation over there,
but you know what you can do. You can change
something right now right here. Cliche is it sounds you
can make a change and that will help somewhere along

(43:20):
the line. If you show somebody that you love them
and they show it and it just grows and grows,
it's the same thing, like we say, every time, it'll spread,
it'll spread. How does that make a difference? And somewhere
else where you see starving going on, and you're just like, man,
if I just showed a little bit of concern today,

(43:42):
like you said, and that's going to make a big difference.
Meanwhile there's people starving and buildings being crushed and all
this stuff going on. Well, you know, one of the
things we're going to look at as a people is
where we're at right now and how we got here
and why is it okay to fill okay with hate

(44:03):
being spread? And you might not might not feel that
it's being hating this and that, but if you really
get down to it, it's really kind of the thing
that's that's taking over right now is to just be
okay with whatever's going on when a lot of it
is against people, right, So how do we make that change?

(44:24):
I think is by making the change in ourselves. What
can I do on a daily basis that's going to
make a change. It might change the next person's life.
So if I make a change in myself to say,
maybe I'm just gonna be a nicer person, I'm not
going to be so negative. I think I want to

(44:46):
be a little bit more positive. Even though I see
all this going on, as bad as it is, as
bad as I feel, as bad as I felt about
going to the to the uh the buffet, I'm still
gonna try and I'm still going to be a pot
person because you know what, when I try and I
do something positive for somebody, I know one of these

(45:08):
times it's going to rub off on the next person.
And then you gotta hope, and you got to have
a belief and you got to pray that all that
is going to lead to them doing something good down
the way. And the more that you do it, the
more they're going to do it, the more the next
person's going to do it. We can get back to

(45:29):
somewhat of a good feeling about who we are as
people if we just give it a try. We can't
just give in and be like, this is just the
way it is. And you know what, once we get
rid of all these people and do this, all the
stuff that they're trying to do, that somehow that's going
to make a better life. You know, if what you

(45:52):
gain is off the backs of someone else, then I
don't foresee that being some great pomplishment. But if what
gets accomplished is off of the way you treat others
in a positive way, then I think anything can be accomplished.

(46:16):
You know, think about this, if we all just kept
promoting it and saying, you know, we need to get
back to loving each other. We have to get back
to helping each other. That's all we're here for. That's
all we're here for. All this stuff about you know,
I'm going to get this and get that. Remember that
simple saying that everybody says, you can't take it with you.

(46:36):
Look at situations where people know that this is it,
they're just going to die. Nobody really grabs for their stuff,
right If you've ever been around somebody that's passing away,
and unfortunately some of us have, they're not grabbing for
a material item they're not grabbing and clutching for their money.

(47:00):
Maybe there are some that do that, but they I
haven't seen it yet. Most of the time they're grabbing
for a loved one. They're wanting a hug from somebody.
They're wondering how asking for them to hold them, and
if they can't talk no more, they're trying to reach
for them. And if you've ever held on to somebody
as they're passing, they grab auntie really tight. They don't

(47:21):
want to let go. So all of this things for
money and things for gain and we're the richest we've
ever been, and trillions of dollars and oh we're going
to get more money, and they're taking this job and
they're making more than me. Where does that leave you
when it's time, when it's your time to go, Where
does that leave you? And if you're like, well, I

(47:43):
want to have stuff before you know, I want to
live a good life, well you can. You can live
a good life. You can live a very meaningful, prosperous
life by being there for other people. You'd be amazed
at the things happened by just trying to do stuff
for other people. It brings around a good positive energy

(48:06):
and things will start to happen. You'll be like, wait
a minute, I thought, man, I gave up a lot
and I chose this other way of living because I
just figured, well, I'm going to do some good things
and I wasn't really expecting nothing in return. But then
things started happening, Like I started being around more positive
people and this led to this, and it led to that,
and before you know it, it's like, wow, I'm you know,

(48:30):
like I'm happy. I'm actually happy. I feel good about myself.
I'm not really kind of going after material things no more,
but they kind of come in a reasonable way to
where while I'm living a decent life and I'm doing
things for other people, things are good. I didn't have
to go the greedy route and just be stepping on
everybody just so I can have some financial gain. Because,

(48:53):
like I said, in the end, what are you going
to grab for when it's your time to go. You're
going to reach and grab for that Nobel Peace Prize,
or you're going to be grabbing for somebody that was
close to you, a family member, a loved one, maybe
somebody that's not even there anymore, but you might see them,

(49:17):
and that's who you're grabbing for. You know, sometimes you've
got to look at what are the simple things? But
what if you simplify everything? Man, what am I looking
for in life? And after thinking about that plate of
food and all those things that you couldn't do nothing about,
find yourself just stuck like I can't can't do nothing.

(49:41):
But in reality, you can do a lot. It just
might not be for that particular thing that you see.
It's just that you know, you can't can't always get
everything you want, You can't always help everybody you want neither,
but you can help somebody that maybe you didn't realize
they needed the help. I might not be able to
go save a whole other country, but I sure as

(50:01):
hell might be able to save somebody here that I
didn't even know needed saving. I might be able to
help them with a plate of food that I didn't
know that just that one little plate of food saved
their life when hero was trying to think of how
do I save a whole country? Sometimes you got to
look at those simple things and simplify it a little
bit and the answer will come to you, you know,

(50:25):
because let's face it, we we look for the answer
all the time. We're always trying to find something, and
how do I get there? Give me somebody, give me
the answer, and it doesn't come because you know, let's
face it, not everybody has the answer. I didn't get
the answer. All I know is that whenever I look

(50:45):
at what's really happening and why things are happening, and
ultimately when you get back to helping people, that's the
answer kind of comes. Might not be the answer you wanted,
but it's the answer to get you by the moment.
And sometimes that's all we need is just get by
the moment, right like, just give me by this moment

(51:09):
right now in time, man, because things aren't right, things
are terrible. Just getting up for work in the morning,
and you see people being their whole life just got that.
One person's life just got turned upside down. All he
was doing was going to work. All I was doing
was going to work. I'm never going to forget it now.

(51:32):
And I see these people that see it a lot
more than that, you know. And in downtown LA, there's
been lots of incidents, and this was the first one
that was this close in this personal and you know,
it's one of those things now that you realize like

(51:55):
I went to work and I did what I had
to do for the day. I came home to my home,
you know, did a little bit of yard work and
ate some good food. And then I'm looking at well, Okay,
I'm gonna lay down a bed tonight. I'm thinking about
this guy that is probably in some detention center somewhere today. Tonight,

(52:22):
again we're back to couldn't do nothing about it. Nothing's
going to change what he's going through tonight until you know,
they figure it out or whatever. And you know, we
just keep on going. And it's not right. You know
it's not right. But this is where we live in

(52:46):
today and we're here like, we ain't gonna change it.
I tell you right now. As much as we're gonna
change it, we've got to get to the voting boosts
and all that stuff, and hopefully we change that. But
as far as exactly what's going on, and we're just
along for the ryan now, I don't think there is
any nobody's gonna stop it. So we're gonna see where

(53:08):
this leads us. And along the way, we just got
to help each other man with whatever we can. Not
everything's gonna be the perfect answer. So I just do
it for what we can. This is Jeff would Love
for one Another. We are coming up on fifty four
minute fifty five minutes, and I think I'm gonna see

(53:29):
if there's something I could play at the end of this,
because I think we need it just to kind of
chill out and write out the rest of this show
with some good music. So we'll talk to you next time.
This is Jeff would Love for one Another. Don't forget.
Oh wait a minute, let me say that again. This
is Jeff would Love for one Another. Sometimes my words
get mixed up. Huh, don't forget. It's it's not that

(53:54):
hard to do. All you gotta do is look at
the next person next to you and let them know.
You know, hey, I love you. It's all right, it's
okay to say it, but you got to feel it too,
you know. I think once you feel it, it will make
it easier to say, and then you'll feel good about it.
So till the next time, take care of each other

(54:15):
and take care of yourself. Well we show love for
one another.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Piece and.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Say against it and then any kind and then and then.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Anything anything anything that any.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Anything else.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Do