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Speaker 1 (00:31):
The following program contains course language and adult themes. Listener
discretion is advised and Welcome to another episode of The

(01:08):
Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with a moss Aggie
and with me as always is the episwave full and quaffable.
Co host Brat Slager. How are you doing this evening, Brad?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
We are doing good. We're doing very good. It's man,
there's just so much going on. There's so much activities,
there's so much fun to be had. And EA Sports
has just come out with their the release of the
cover for the upcoming NHL video game, and right there
on the cover is our own Matthew Goodchuck hoisting the

(01:44):
Stanley Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Which still does not belong to Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Now, I I'm still reveling. Yes, somebody last night I
don't know who, was a response to something political, but
they were like post something I think Canadian. You know
when people are putting up pictures of poutine rush, I
just sent them the headline where it said Edmonton Oilers
lose for the second time in the Stanley Cup to

(02:11):
the Florida Panthers. Yes, I'm being that guy, but it
ain't bragging if it's true that's what I like to say.
How's everything your way? How's Texas treating you these days?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Texas is treating me? Okay, Mom, however.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yes you would you do have mother under the roof still,
so that it makes sense you're hesitation. I get it.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, you know, it's it's it's kind of like it's
kind of like it's kind of like like like purgatory. Actually,
it's not even wrong, that's not true. Mom has been

(03:03):
a trooper here, y'all. She's seventy nine and a half
years old and hastiken upon herself to actually revive my
entire garden. So she has been leading. She has been digging,
she has been planting new stuff. She has been reviving
things that I thought were dead. Imagine my surprise. It

(03:24):
was a stick with a leaf on it when I
left and I come back and the leaf is like
really withered and like it's dead. It's dead. And Mom says,
what was in here? I said, I have no idea
what it was, but yeah, it's dead. We can toss
it out. She's like, I know I can bring it
back to life. Don't worry about it. It has eight

(03:45):
leaves now, and it's starting to like really get full,
and I'm like, how I don't understand. She says, well,
one thing you can do is water it. I'm like,
I was gone, literally gone for weeks at your house.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
The part I enjoyed. She's given you grief for not
tending your garden while you were with her for three weeks.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
But you know, she's she's she's a dynamo, she is
a hurricane. She's a force of nature. She's an unmovable
of course, you name every every physics thing you can name,
that's my mom. So yes, and she's She's staying with

(04:33):
me an extra week. So I'm kind of jazzed about that.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Very cool, very cool. Yeah, well, it's just been fun.
On my side of things. We just have, you know,
the media continuing to melt down on a regular basis,
losing their nuts in their minds. Did you see what
had the White House Press Corps kind of wound up today?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
But the fact that our president was on the roof, Yeah,
the President, what are you doing up there? I'm taking
a walk.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I just love the fact that he starts doing an
impromptu news conference from the roof, like chef interested. I'm
just not there hanging around.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
It was it was well for me, it was hilarious,
and I just thought that it was on brand for
this man. He's just he's he's very spontaneous and honestly,
I don't remember a president that had so much fun
being a president. I mean, Ronald Reagan had fun, but

(05:38):
his was more subtle, and his trolling was on a
more you know, solid subtle basis not Trump. Trump is
like in your face, you know. Once He's like, I'm
going to get under your skin watch me, and he does.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
You know, I get accused of being maga all the time,
and it's like, you know, there's things I disagree with
Trump about. I have no forms about that, but definitely
appreciate about the guy is he is not a political animal,
and so things that people consider to be norms or

(06:20):
you just don't do that, He's like, why the hell not,
I'm gonna do it. Like when is anybody seeing a
president on the roof of the White House for any reason,
let alone just ambling around. I can pretty much imagine
the conversation. Somebody probably brought it up if it wasn't him.
It was like, yeah, you know what is on the roof?

(06:41):
By way? I have so these things of movies and
it's like, oh, you don't want to go up there,
miss the President. Now we should go up there. Let's
do it. Come on, let's go when the Secret Service
is probably saying shit.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I know they're probably losing their ever loving minds, going
what the hell we call back up? We need people
on the roof.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Sat like, I'm the president if I want to go
on the roof, going on the he's pretty much that
guy that the you know, last thing you want to
tell him is he can't do something because it's going
to then be done, because.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Then it's like watch me. But it was funny to
see that everybody's like freaking out that the president was
on the roof like he was alone.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, I'm not sure if anybody recalls, but there
is obviously there's easy there's access to the roof for
security reasons.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
But the roof is relatively I mean, it's not like
he was on the the gutter, you know, I mean
there's like a little like widows walk around it. You know,
there's there's there's a legend there, yes, and so it's
like he's gonna.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Go over But well, I just when I found so
funny is most of the shots, you know, they're from
the ground up, and you just see him. You don't
see the entourage around him or security. It's just him
on the roof of the White House.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I was.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I was just like, it's okay, people, there's there's people
wherever he goes. He's got you know, Secret Service protection.
And he wasn't doing this all by himself. There was
he wanted to see the progress being done on the
renovations that are going on in the White House. It's
and he just wanted to do it so he could

(08:26):
look down on it. I don't blame him. I'd be honestly,
I'd be all about that and if and if I
were president, I would take the opportunity to have picnics
up there.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
And just you know, yeah, if I was you know,
in the White House, I'd be on the roof smoking cigars.
You know that would happen mm hmm. It's yeah, just
another you know, chalk up another one of those things
that you would never imagine a president the doing of
Gorzi's doing it.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
I just I was like, it's and Stephen makes an
excellent point. It's not like his background isn't in construction,
Like this is not his first rodeo.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
People, he's probably been a roof before.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I just I was, I was just screaming at the way,
you know, and uh they were. The way the media
was acting was more fun, was far more fun. I
was like, they really need saying at I mean, they
should hand that out with every cup of coffee at
the press, you know when the press gets together, because

(09:36):
this is it's it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
How I mean, what makes my job so weazy anymore
is that they they just operate in reactionary fashion anymore.
If Trump does something, it's clearly wrong and we have
to spell out why not explain why in coaching terms,
or come up with evidence or just no, he's he

(10:01):
can't do that. And they get screwing themselves all the
time by doing this.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Did you did you catch racial matter and what she
said about the dictatorship?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh yeah, I covered up my column today where I mean,
she I love when she just gets into that histrionic
mode where the her facial expressions are just like she's
playing to the back of the house, you know, and
just yeah, we have to gird ourselves because we just
know where we're at. And you know, I said, she's

(10:37):
she would be looked at embarrassingly by an understudy a
dinner theater production.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's just for me. It's really interesting because growing up
we learned about certain dictatorships in the world. We witnessed
several dictatorships, uh, actually being overthrown. You know, this was
before the age of social media. You and I are

(11:05):
the age of you know, the the Philippines.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Huh, what would you say about age.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Just because you're just a couple of days older than
I am. Anyway, But She's sitting there going, we're living
in a dictatorship right now. Imagine every you know, caricature
of a dictatorship. That's what we're living in. And I'm going,
you honestly do not see the irony of you taking

(11:37):
to the airwaves to say that we're living in a
dictatorship and being free to say it. If it were true,
stormtroopers would have actually broken in there and dragged you
away live on camera. If not, our right shot you
to make.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
The studio.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
This is what I don't understand. She, you know, we
we have seen this. To Tesca comes to mind. You
know all of these you know, dictatorships that have fallen
throughout you know, the past few decades, we've seen it,
and it's almost like, you know, yeah, that's that doesn't count.
That's not a real dictatorship. The real dictatorship is Trump.

(12:21):
And I'm like, then you're changing the definition of what
a dictatorship is because you're still free to say it.
You're free to leave the country whenever you want to.
Let just as Rosie did, just like Ellen DeGeneres did
and portioned the ROSSI they all left. A dictatorship would
not have allowed you to leave exactly, No, I don't
think so. And they would have taken all of your assets.

(12:45):
So I don't understand why you can sit there and
say this stuff with a straight face when the truth
is the fact that you're still free to say stupid
shit like that is a test and to how free
you are.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, stupid shit she did say. Did you catch, like
about three minutes into this monologue what she said that
Republicans want to feed illegal immigrants to alligators?

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yes, yeah, that's right. That we have this mob of
people breaking into cars fa you know, masked you know,
stormtroopers breaking into cars and all this stuff. And I'm like, yeah,
that's not what's happening. And I don't know what you're
looking at, but yeah, that's not what's happening.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, this was one of the big stories, not big story,
but revealing stories from last week. This one flashed across
the news sphere for about half a day that ice
agents had picked up an eighty two year old man
in Allentown, Pennsylvania and he died while in custody. Mm
HM flashed everywhere for a while, and then people are like, wait,

(14:00):
something may stop it. No, what really come on? And
my radar was up instantly because I'm so inured anymore
to these stories coming. Every time one of these sympathetic
immigrant ice stories comes out, it's okay, give it about
thirty minutes. The real truth is going to come out.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
So yeah, I always give twenty four hours always, so.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
This one, you're waiting for it to happen. And then
this is from like a local outlet, I think it
was called Morning Call, and they say, you know, the
family says that he had severe medical conditions and needed
medication and the ice ages didn't allow him to take
it with him and he died in their care. And
then a follow up story, Oh no, we found him,

(14:45):
Uh he was actually he went they reported him to
Guatemala and we found him there and he was in
a hospital for a while because of his condition, says
the granddaughter. Oh okay, so that clears things up, got it?

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Except wasn't gone.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh no, it's I'm far from finished on this story.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Who wasn't that? Okay?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
DHS comes out now finally with the statement, It says,
yet we never picked up anybody like that. We don't
have this name. There's got any more of us. So
they talked to Guatemalan official. They were like, now we no,
never gotta never got a prisoner of this sort. And

(15:28):
then the hospital in Guatemala was like, we just checked
our records. We don't have Anyboddy by that name here.
Well what what? Finally came to light authorities in Chile said,
oh the photograph in that story, Yeah, that was a

(15:49):
guy that died back in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
What the hell?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
The family completely made up this whole story. The family disappeared.
Morning Call had to erase like two or three of
their articles covering this fiasco before they finally admitted something
screwing like, they never confirmed any of this. They just
ran with the store ice killed a nady tell year

(16:17):
old man. Yeah, did you maybe, I don't know, get
anything like a long evidence records official word. Now we're
just gonna run it. And then the media ran with that.
So this guy's picture is flashing across the internet as
having been killed by ice when he's been dead for
three years, four years. Maybe you don't want to blame Ice.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, so if they still want to blame Ice for
it would have to be the Biden administration's fault.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, this is you know, I think I'm gonna cover
this extensively my podcast tomorrow. But Jacob sober Off, he's
a kind of this mousey little expert over at NBC News.
He pays himself as the border expert for them.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh yeah, that guy.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
He just put out like a documentary in January about
the crisis at our border, what's going on with immigration
and all this stuff. And he's talking to Stephen Colbert
about how horrible Donald Trump is and even Colbert said, now,
you had to have shot this before Trump was president, right,
He's like, well, yeah, well, you know, we filmed this
over the last year or so. It's like great, So
all the bitch and you're doing and stuff on tape
is under the Biden administration. Right, But I'm only bringing

(17:31):
all this up because in this monologue he's talking authoritators. Look,
let me tell you the administration thing stat by acting
out in this police like fashioned elect as a deterrent.
And I'm here to tell you, Steven that this never works.
Last week, it was just confirmed that immigration is at

(17:54):
a net zero now, which more people are fleeing the
country than entering the country, and like border crossings have
whittled down to about one percent of what they were
last year. Like there's how how do I put it
and secured the border? They've done it, and now more

(18:17):
people are self deporting than arriving here. So and that
was in a span of six months that Jacob Silberoff
has been proven incorrect.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Well, that was you know, one thing that I noticed
when I went down before my dad died. I was
down while he was in the hospital. But one of
the things that they were talking about in the local
news was that a lot of the people there were
actually trying to incentivize the illegal immigrants to actually self deport,

(18:49):
because it would be a lot easier for them to
come back if they left, and they get money for leaving.
And one of the you know news networks I was
watching down there, was actually covering the fact that there
were a lot of people that were willing to leave
because they're being paid to leave for wine, and that
the American dollar goes a lot farther in Mexico, so

(19:14):
they could go and keep that wait for a while
and everything, and then began the process to come back here.
And so they a lot of them were actually aware
of the incentive. But looking at the national news, you
would not hear a peep about that at all. It

(19:36):
was so strange. I was there. I was there, literally
twenty miles from the southern border, the tip of Texas,
and I saw it on the evening news, but I
could never I never saw it in the national news.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You know. Yeah, they don't want to do that because
they didn't be considered positive and good news. We can't
we can't have that Trumpet administration. Sorry, So you're probably
gonna have to go to a Spanish language paper for
that detail. But I think we saw one of the
lowest forms of journalism just take place, which is a

(20:17):
remarkable just to say in general. But be once I
mentioned the name involved, it's going to become quite clear
Jim Acosta. God, just interview. Do you need a moment.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
I have my finger up while I'm drinking. I'm gonna
need vodka for this.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Go ahead, Jim Acosta just conducted an interview with a
dead person.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
You have no idea how angry I am about the thing.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh sure I do. That's why I brought it up.
This is Brad bending over to place a ball on
the hitting tea.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
I am so angry.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
The details here for this what has to only be
described as a wija board interview, revolves around a Parkland
student and his parents, activists that they are have for
reasons that makes sense only to them. And listen, it's them,

(21:26):
their kid. They're grieving. I suppose after seven years they
can do what they want, but they have come up
with a functional artificial intelligence version of their son. That
you see him, you know, he is a bust figure

(21:47):
of him from the like his shoulders up, facial movement
is everything. Interacting and speaking, and Jim Acosta interviewed the
student who perished seven year years ago. The disturbing aspects
of this are off the charts. I'm sorry, Bud, I'm

(22:13):
I'm still trying to wrap my head around it's like
they did this, like they did it, and he did it.
I mean, toget like nobody in this is ungullable and
what Joe Blazer. This is as disturbing and disgusting as
it gets. Their dead son, they're using him for activism purposes.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's it's beyond egregious and my humble opinion, and I'm
just speaking as somebody who is very in tune with
her Catholicism, because this just smacks of necromancy to me,
and but putting that aside, taking the religious aspect out

(22:51):
of it, and just going with the actual logic of
the whole situation. You have parents that actually decided to
do an AI of their son. Then they claim that
these are their son's words. Their son died eight years ago.
There is no way on Hell or Heaven that these

(23:13):
are his words. I don't know about you, but I
did not find any mention of his anti gun control
activity on you know, on any news outlets. You know.
I did a cursor research. I didn't go too deep,
but he was not associated with like every Town, USA,

(23:37):
he was not assasiated with anything before the Parkland shooting happened.
And for the parents to say these are their son's
words that that's mental illness. To me, that's just you're
doing something that's egregiously wrong. And then you have a

(24:01):
coming over here, going, hey, I would like to interview him,
and apparently he's friends with the parents, and so then
he interviews this AI thing I don't even know what
to call it, and asks questions when I'm going, well,

(24:22):
if you're asking questions, were the questions fed to the
AI before you ask them? I mean, or are these
off the cuff, because if these are off the cuff,
then they're definitely not his words at all. So I
get tired.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's kind of what I was going to drive at here.
Either these were approved questions or whatever response has been programmed,
and therefore you can hardly say it's anything that belonged
to this kid unless all they did was read verbatim
any school papers that he maybe had written in the past.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Right, right, And so I'm just like, this is that's
not it, that's not it. And I'm at the point
where these parents are actually using the death of their
son for their activism. I understand the trauma the parents

(25:21):
have gone through in the loss of the son, I
cannot sympathize with it, because I've never actually had to
dealt with something like that. But I understand what loss is,
so I can give them some grace. But when you
actually decide to take the death of your son and

(25:42):
use it to advance your own agenda, that's beyond egregious
to me.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I mean, look, I mean there's plenty of parents out
there that are running foundations or doing other things in
honor of their deceased children, you know, whatever their personal
pet cause.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, and that's fine. If if, like say, if he
had been he had volunteered at the ASPCA and they
wanted to actually make a foundation for you know, for
rescue animals, that would make sense to me. But I don't.
I've never found a connection to this whole gun control

(26:27):
thing and that young man, and it's it's it's sick.
And then you have you know, like you said, those
questions were already predetermined, they were already given to the
parents so that they could determine the answers. This is
not an interview. This is agenda. This is establishing a narrative.

(26:50):
They're wanting to make this person who was regrettably killed
obviously eight years ago, make them into a living thing
again to push this particular narrative that's I mean, it is.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
There's just so much about this that's not healthy at all,
because again you're you know, donate in their name, do
something in their honor. That makes sense. This is a
far right. Now. I'm somewhat familiar with the parents. I'm
not going to pretend that I've ever met him, but

(27:30):
I've been to a couple events down here where they
were present in speaking actually, and you just get that
full activist vibe off of them. Meaning even if their
son hadn't expired, they would be this way in another capacity.
In other words, so it's not out of their character.
I'll say, like I was at an election event a

(27:52):
couple of years after the shooting, was in a local bar.
Because anybody doesn't know, I'm like just a couple of
miles away from Parkland High School. I'm in that area,
and I've seen David hog live and everything else. It's
I'm very familiar with this. So these are folks that
are just inactive, ast bent and they're taking this to
an unhealthy level, and just to encourage it in this

(28:16):
fashion is kind of upsetting, just on the point of decency. Again,
as their child, they probably have right to do this
kind of thing, but it doesn't make it proper. It's just.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm not saying they don't have the right. Yeah, I'm
definitely not saying they don't have the right to do this.
I'm saying they don't have the good the goodness what
I can't find that word. I know it in Spanish,
but I can't find it in English.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
It's not coming from a good riety is one of
the words.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
No, it's not proper at all. I mean, can you
imagine if I were to do something like that for
my mom, if I didn't ai of my dad and
I feed it phrases to sway my mom to do something.
I honestly, I think Satan would be very happy with
me and already clearing out a ring for me in hell,

(29:16):
if I did something like that, honestly.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well, let's just approach this from a journalistic standpoint. What
did Jim Acosta accomplish with this?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
He got clicks, this is all it was. It was
a method by which he could get noticed and get clicks.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
But people are not going to be quoting this interview
if they're of any reputable journalistic level at all, because
you can't quote the kid's name that passed away, Joaquin Oliver.
You can't quote him. He didn't say this. I mean,

(29:53):
the best you can do is like, well the computer
version of Joaquin said and it's completely baseless. So I'm
asking what was accomplished here, you know, outside of your
anti gun adjit prop, what was accomplished because nothing of

(30:16):
merit took place, nothing of consequence resulted from this quote
interview one quote it. The entire thing is a stunt.
It's just for attention and cheap pr And that's where
you get to the indecent aspect of this, because you're
sullying an expired individual for political gain. And yes it's

(30:39):
the parents, but they're the ones doing it.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's disturbing, it's extremely sad at that they opted to
have something like this. And this is the thing is,
this is I'm not going to remember this kid as
being courageous and you know, good and anyway, I'm gonna

(31:08):
remember this as being such an atrocious thing. His memory
has now been tarnished by this act. They could have
done so much better, They could have furthered things, you know,
in a good positive direction. But they chose to do
something that was that a lot of people felt was

(31:29):
beyond egregious. And I'm still stunned that's that parents did this.
How had it been some asshole on the internet doing it,
I would have just been righteously pissed. But this, this
goes beyond anger for me. This is like you've crossed

(31:50):
such a big red line. I don't think there's anything
coming back from this. I honestly don't.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, it's pretty disturbing, pretty disturbing. Well, I mean this
took place in Florida. We are disturbing, upsetting race of
people down here. I mean, this makes perfect sense for it.
What about your state, Aggie, try to explain yourself the
hell's going on with the Democrats in Texas.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Listen, I never said that we did not have crazy
people in Texas. I said that everything was bigger in Texas,
including the crazy people. So apparently the Democrats are really
throwing a little tantrum again. They decided to flee so

(32:40):
that there would not be a quorum, so that there
would not be a vote on redistricting measures. Now keep
in mind, this is not the only vote that they're
supposed to be voting on. Part of it is a redistricting,
but there are also other votes that they're supposed to
be taking, which include the response measures that they want

(33:04):
to pass for flash flooding, the flood victims, helping help stuff.
All of that stuff is still waiting for them. They're
making this about the redistricting, and yet that is only
one of the things that are in there. Keep in
mind that if they were to redistrict, it actually would

(33:26):
be less complicated and more fair to redistrict the state
of Texas from what it is right now. And what
I found interesting was that they fled to Illinois. Now,
in their defense, they were invited Pype Pritzker. Okay, so
they took advantage of that. They're living on the high

(33:48):
hog over there. I don't know who's paying for this,
and if it turns out that it's a Texas taxpayers,
I'm going to be righteously pissed again. But yere's a
situation where they think that they have the high ground
and they don't. Obviously, because they left, they should have
been here to vote for this. Our legislature is really

(34:11):
really laid back. We only meet twice a year, I think,
or once every two years, once every two years. And
on top of that, most of our work is done
in our district, so you know, you stayed pretty much
in your district. I could walk over to Lance Gooden's office,
you know, at any time, because he's mostly there most

(34:32):
of the time anyway. But when you're in the capital
for the express purpose of passing, passing legislation and everything,
you're supposed to do that job. That's what you were
voted to do. These people decided, no, we're leaving because
we believe in saving democracy. So they're saving democracy by

(34:54):
not voting and preventing our votes from being heard. Okay,
that's how they're prevented. That's how they're protecting democracy. Second,
one of the things that a lot of people don't
understand about the State of Texas is that we do
we did make certain rules should this happen again. First

(35:16):
time that it happened, Uh, they left for New Mexico.
They took a bus to New Mexico and Willie Nelson
sent them a case of bourbon. It was like it
made you know, it made the news and everything. But
when they came back, you know, they legislation was actually

(35:40):
put on the floor and it became a House rule.
That you cannot shirk your position, you cannot leave during
open you know session. This is one of the reasons
why we have emergency sessions because we only meet once
ever two years, and the times we do need to

(36:00):
have an emergency session in order to pass legislation because
something comes up. Our legislators do not get paid a
lot of money. That's on purpose. That's why they have
the real jobs legislators. Being legislators in the in the
House of Representatives or the Senate is secondary. So it's
not like they get paid a lot and they're trying

(36:23):
to save that, but it does come with a lot
of power. With the passing of Sheila Jackson Lee, we
have now Jasmine Crockett. Nature abhors a vacuum and so
of course she had to step in there. And i'm
I'm she is the loudest, loudest wheel right now. She

(36:43):
and al Green because their districts are the ones that
we would would go away, and a lot of people
don't know that her district is actually in play to
be redistricted, to be completely redone to where she would actually,
you know, the next session, she'd be gone. So that
is one of the reasons why she is out there

(37:05):
screaming about saving democracy. Now, these people want to save
their power. What doesn't seem to make any sense to
a lot of people is why are they doing this
when any kind of whenever there's you know, any committee
or anything, it has to be equally represented. So it's

(37:26):
not like even if we have, say, out of one hundred,
we have sixty seven Republicans and thirty three Democrats, you
get a committee set up, it's going to be five
and five. So it's always going to be an equal representation. Anyway,
It's not that it's just that they want the power

(37:48):
they need to stay in power. Without that, things shift
and Texas has been fighting and a lot of people, oh,
it's a losing that don't know actually being gaining. And
that is what that's what makes them afraid. They wanted
Texas to go purple in twenty twenty, and they thought

(38:10):
that they could manage it. There was supposed to be
this big blue wave or whatever, and it never manifested itself.
As a matter of fact, certain areas actually went pink.
Places that were light blue went like pink. My district
that I grew up in had been Democrat for one
hundred and fifty years it went red. I don't mean pink.

(38:33):
It went red, and yeah it was. It was amazing.
And the district next to it it's light blue. It's
no longer solid blue. So there's you know, there's a shift.
They don't know how to stop it, and redistricting would
actually completely destroy that dream. For the next twenty twenty

(38:54):
five years, Texas would not go blue whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Finding it a musing though, that the Democrats are losing
their minds over this because they have been rather infamous
with their redistrict I mean the fact that they're going
to Illinois. Look at their districts. They got one that
sneaks its way on like a forty five degree angle
about three quarters of the way through the state. It's tiny,

(39:20):
it's narrow. You've got Governor Fred Flintstone up there telling them,
I'm gonna protect you people. He won't get arrested on
my watch, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Well, if he stands in front of them, he could
protect all of them exactly.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
But there's like, go to Maryland. There's one district. You
look at it and it's it looks like a Jackson
Pollock painting. I mean, there's like sections that aren't even connected,
but they call that a district.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
I remember when Maryland was it had eight districts, and
it had seven Republicans and one Democrat. And then the
next time around it had five Republicans and then three Democrats.
The next time around it kept losing. Now they only
have one Republican district and seven Democratic districts, and yet

(40:11):
the representation for Republicans is far higher than would you know,
justify one district.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Well, just how about this, they're going to Illinois.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Illinois is even worse.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Why do you think that the famous Democrat and Republican
clothing Adam Kinsinger is not in office. They redistrict him
two years ago.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh yeah, and he was. I remember when he was
just like never trumper, trying to save his seat and everything,
and they still. You know, the scorpion and the frog
have a situation and it's their nature. So he packed
up his bags and came to my fucking state, carpet
bagging son of a bitch, and he's now waiting. Oh yeah,

(41:02):
he lives in Spring.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
That cracks me up is he's counting himself as a Texan, Like,
since when is.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
He He's not? He's a tick well, okay, so he is.
I think he's trying to gain momentum. Dan Crenshaw is,
He's still pretty popular, but his popularity has waned because
he is not as solid Republican as people wanted.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, he's shown himself to be a little bit of
a swamp creature.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah, and so Kitsinger. Kitsinger actually sees, uh, the possibility
of actually getting into, you know, moving in that. The
thing is you have to actually have been in Texas
for a while before you can even declare to It's
not like New York where you could be there, you know,
a week or what is it a month or three

(41:55):
months or something whatever it was like happened with Hillary Clinton.
But yeah, I do think that he is positioning himself
to try, if not for a federal election, then definitely
a state one.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
But it's just it's it cracks me up that I
saw somebody like today too. It is like that's it. Uh,
Democrat's gotta stop capitulating this. And dude, you're the ones
that created this. How are you going to be more
jerry mandered than you already are in some areas? I mean,
give me a break. The level of outrage cracks me

(42:37):
up is what it is, like, how dare you do
what we do? But I'm glad you said something about
the vote that they're missing because that's the key here.
Did you see what came out of the Houston Chronicle?
What happened? I put this up in my newseum art

(42:58):
piece here. Texas Democrats aren't abandoning their jobs already. You're
off the reservation as a news outlet. They're in Illinois
refusing to do their jobs. But they go on, Abbot
abandon flood victims. I'm sorry, I'm going to need a

(43:23):
lot more information on that. How how did he abandon
flood victims? Exactly? But then they close this way how
many children must die to make disaster recovery a priority

(43:43):
over power plays? They can't vote for flood assistance because
these assholes are up in another state. And the Houston
Chronicle is trying to blame this on Greg Abbott.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, they're they're They're doing the whole This is Abbot's
fault and I'm going not here. We can't vote without
them here. So a lot of the House rules that
they implemented, and some of the things that I find
are really cool and in play was that they can

(44:16):
be assessed fines for not showing up to work.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Now they're not going to pay.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Oh no, no, I'm just going one by one. So
they can be fined up to five hundred dollars a
day for not showing up to work. Now, chances are
they're not going to pay because it's not a law,
it's a rule. Okay, but the optics are really bad.
This is what Democrats don't understand. People who actually do

(44:47):
go to work and do get docked pay if they
don't show up for work. They understand the value of
that dollar a lot more than they do than the
Democrats do. The Democrats have fled, so this is not
making them look good. Another thing that another one of
the House rules is that they can be arrested. So

(45:12):
actually that became a law because our ag actually made
notes about how legislators must answer the call by the governor.
They have to. There was a time when legislators, like

(45:34):
I said, they lived all over Texas. It was very
difficult to convene. That's one of the reasons they only
convene once every two years and why their pay is
so low. But in order to actually incentivize people to
show up, you know, it is in the law that

(45:56):
if the governor calls you to come in for a
special session or for you know, to pass a lout
or whatever, you must come in. That is part of
your job. It's in your job description as a legislator.
So the governor did call, they decided to leave. So
now the Texas Rangers are on the case. And honestly,

(46:18):
I would pay bank to see a Texas Ranger actually
use a lot so to actually get one, I would
honestly pay bank to see that. It's not going to happen.
But yeah, the Texas Rangers are now investigating and they
there are warrants for their arrest. Now the Democrats want
to be arrested. They want to be arrested because this

(46:38):
looks really good for them. Look what I have done.
I'm a fighter for the people. I'm being arrested, blah
blah blah blah. But the thing is, you know, to
be arrested, they have to be in Texas. And if
they're in Texas and they're not in the let and
they're not at the Capitol, then it gets really bad
for them. So that's why you know, it's a catch

(46:59):
twenty two. I want to be arrested. You have to
come here. Oh you you can't come here because you
don't want to vote. And if you're here and you
then technically you're absent, so it goes against you. You see.
So either way, they're they're kind of trapped. Come Friday,
that is the last day that they have any hope.

(47:19):
If you just don't come in, Abbot is going to
move to have their seats declared vacated. If the seats
are declared vacated, and the Supreme Court is pretty right
leaning in the state of Texas, then that means that
Abbot can actually appoint people to fill those seats. That

(47:42):
is not something that the Democrats want to happen. So
in my opinion, I think they're going to show up
Thursday and at noon, at noon or midnight, one of
the two.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Yeah, it's just it's kind of remarkable that they continually
pull this. I mean, remember they did it for that
extended period of time in DC for a while too.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yes, they have, and this is why it's This is
why they keep saying it's not a law, it's a
House rule, because it was the Republicans that actually instituted
that House rule. Well, what nobody remembers is that the
House rule previous to that was established by the Democrats
where nobody should be leaving. That was under Anne Richard's tenure.

(48:28):
The Democrats had control the House and Senate and they
passed the rule that during session nobody could leave town.
Now they forced it on the Republicans. The Republicans actually
had to stay in town during legislation, during legislator legislature,

(48:52):
and so you know, they obeyed it because it was
a house rule, but it only applies to the Republicans
nether Democrats. That's why the Democrats have gone three times.
And Abbott has had his fill of this. He's like,
you're acting like children. You need to be here. Take
the vote. You're supposed to. You're supposed to protect democracy,

(49:14):
but you're not voting to protect the democracy. So you know,
it just it's it's a shit show, it really is.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I mean, the thing is that this gets the media
backs this up. You know, they always hailed them as
heroes as such when they went on that one bender
in DC that was going on for like what like
fifty days or something. Stupid, yes, and like they first
showed up in the town and all the Democrats flocked
around them in the media, herald of these heroes and

(49:44):
they're fighting for the people and all this nonsense. And
then after like week two of this, everybody in Washington
was like, you're still here, Oh okay, And then they
started running out of money, and then they became a pest.
And after a while people just got tired of it.

(50:05):
Go do your job, finally get what it came down,
accomplished nothing, stopped nothing. And yet you know, for two
weeks they were heroes. For the remaining three weeks they
were the uncle down the sofa that would never leave.
You never hear that end story in the media, how oh.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
No, no, no, So this is just a I'm just
I'm like, I'm so fed up. And the thing is,
you know, Dallas, I'm not sure if anybody is familiar
with this, but the Dallas mayor was a longtime Democrat.
I mean, I think he'd been a Democrat since the
day he was born. And he won as a Democrat,

(50:51):
and for the first term he served as a Democrat.
But towards the end of the term, during the Lament administration,
he couldn't deal with the rioting. He couldn't deal with
the destruction of statutes. He couldn't deal with the COVID mandates,
He couldn't deal with all of that stuff. And he

(51:13):
actually switched parties. When he switched parties, he didn't lose
votes the second term. He won with even a bigger
margin than before. And this is what has Jasmine scared
because with the redistricting, this whole seat issue is going

(51:36):
to be some of it for a long time. You
see it now that they are pushing for federalizing the
gerry mandering process. I am not a fan of that
because gerrymandering is a state issue, not a federal issue.
So I don't know what's to become of that.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Well, here's the other thing too. You hear this being
forwarded by Democrats, Well, you know, the federal step in
and oversee you this Now, it's like, no, if you
really mean what you're saying, start by fixing your shit now.
You don't need the federal government. This is a state run.
If your state has a rigged redistricting, then fix it.

(52:15):
Until then, shut the hell up, because you're just blathering
now because you've already done it. Okay, from this day forward,
we have to manage it differently. Oh, Yeah, after you've
screwed the system. No, unscrew it is the answer to that.
But that tells you how baseless all of their claims are. Anyway, Well,

(52:35):
how dare they do what we've been doing? Okay, well
undo what you've been doing. Well, that's not what we're
doing from this day forward. We shouldn't do this any longer.
It explains it right there. Shut up. I don't want
to hear it unless you're going to take care of
it now, because that's the thing is. It needs constitutional amendment,

(53:01):
which means you gotta get thirty two on board. That's
going to be a while, yeah, and a couple of
elections will probably take place before that gets resolved. So
it's a state issue now, so let the state fix it.
They don't want to.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
No, they're afraid that if the state actually fixes it,
it's not going to be in their favor. This is why,
this is why you have Kathy Hochel and Grease Baull
over there, what's his name, governor. Yes, that's what they're saying.
You know that we need to protect the gerryman and

(53:38):
you know the whole gerrymandering thing that they're they're saying
that I loved Hockel saying what they're doing is legal
but not legal. I'm like, what, bitch Picolane talking.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
About unethical Kathy, that's what you're looking for and that's
just to help you out there.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
And I was just like what, Like but you know,
I'm like, what is she talking about? And somebody said,
letter letter, let her cook.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
It's like, okay, well, I gotta tell you. I've been
sitting here, uh tossing back the rum and I'm doing
pretty good. Do you want to know why?

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Why?

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Because I'm a mutant.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Okay, what's the breaking news.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
That's not me. That's science talking right there. Science, And
as you know, as well as anybody out there, I
follow the science.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Yeah you do, you do?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
And h stick around because I'm gonna do that in
about ten minutes and blow everybody's mind. But right now,
here's what science has to say. Science may finally have
discovered why humans are so good at drinking booze the

(54:57):
uh so it's like, you know, I don't have a problem.
This is science. Basically. It comes down to this. Millions
of years ago, the Big Dame gorillas were eating fermented
fruit that fell on the ground and turns out. They
are able to process it a little bit better because

(55:18):
of a mutation in a gene that's actually called alcohol
dehydrogenase number four, and that means we're better than the
other simians like orangutangs and mother primates. So it's a

(55:38):
mutated gene that makes us good drinkers.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
I think it's kind of funny. I mean, we, you know,
we were talking about this and I said, well, yeah,
there's the reason why if they eat fermented fruit, their
buzz lasts a long time. And I mean I've seen
I've seen drunk chimpanzees and gorillas and it's actually kind

(56:13):
of fun to watch and they're they're so sweet and
I cannot stress how much I love gorillas. But that was,
you know, one of the things that we had to observe,
you know. And I don't remember the fruit or anything
that they they had to eat, but the silver back

(56:37):
only had one and he was like out and he
was woozy, and he just finally laid on his back,
spready gold just like I can't even move it hurts
to move, you know. I mean it was just like
I was looking him, going, dude, I feel you.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Yeah, they're basically suggesting that they started eating these to
get eaten more caloric intake. And then I guess if
you pass out, then you're not working off the calories,
so that's even better. But I just find it pretty
amusing that in this era, meaning last week, where everybody's
talking about good jeans, turns out we can drink a

(57:22):
lot because of bad jeans. Is that the way it works?

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Well? No, No, I think it's good genes because the
mutation actually works in your favor. Some mutations are good,
some mutations are bad, but there there are good mutations too.
It's just like there are good recessive genes that I
tend to be dominant more than the dominant gens. But

(57:48):
you know, I think you're okay, You're okay.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
People start talking about my mutated jeans. I get a little,
you know, in temperate at times part so it's like,
what are you talking about? Did you say about my jeans?
You're some ditchum, But okay, you look good in your jeans,
thank you. I credit that to eugenics. You what, No,

(58:18):
is that? Cause That's what I've been reading in the media.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Lord that has been so that's been a crazy week
with that ship.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Well, I just love. Now have you seen the last
couple of days, The new talking point is Democrats aren't
talking about this. This is a Republican ding where you're
getting nobody cares about this commercial on the left, where
you getting this from.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Their gaslining, is just not going to work. I'm sorry,
not sorry.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Like John Favro, you know from the what do they
call them, the Democrat Boys or whatever the hell their
podcast pod Save America. Yeah, he's like nobody had left it,
like a couple all accounts on the lap. Dude, it
was every fricking day for a week or dozens of
these blue haired, nose ring idiots screeching about Nazis. Eh,

(59:11):
here's a couple. I had to finally flood his inbox
with all the headlines from media covering this. John. Oh,
and by the way, I found the what's the name
Alicia Allison? I think she's a former Biden administration official.
I'm thinking John may have run into her at some
point in time, being a former o'biden Obama administration official himself. Yeah,

(59:35):
there she was on CNN barking about it. Not some
rando left wing account, you know, AA sixty seven underscore
heart No, but that's that's what cracks me up. Like, no, nobody,
come on, you Republicans are making this up. Uhh yeah,

(59:56):
just like eating bugs. We made that up too, didn't we, dumbass.
I just cracked up about this though. Yeah, that's it. Oh,
Republicans won't lose in their mind's like, no, we're all
saying she looks damned hot and we're applauding. You people
are the ones coming up with Nazi eugenics, so save it.

(01:00:19):
It is so cute when they try to act like
there's not evidence out there. But stick with drinking. Here's
something that I don't know that anybody asked for, and
yes it's a thing. I put this kind of on
the same shelf as the mayonnaise cologne that came out

(01:00:39):
about a year or so ago. Are you familiar with
Dura chill.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Uh baku? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Yeah, it's a rocky mountain breeze scented deodorant released by
Cores Brewing. Now, anybody out there listening saying I don't

(01:01:11):
know that I want to smell like a cat of Cores,
calm down, relax, don't worry about it. It doesn't okay.
So it's literally rocky mountain breeze cent or whatever they
call it. But here, what does it have to do
with corese then, besides rocky mountains? Well, this is it.

(01:01:32):
It's cores Lights signature cold activated mountain imagery that takes
on a fresh new meaning with this release the sustainable
beauty product brand Dura Dry. I'm so glad they're sustainable,
you know, as opposed to are they out their strip

(01:01:56):
mining to make the odor What is going on here? What? No, No,
we use only organic, naturally repurposed, recycled deodorant ingredients. Uh huh,
got it. They've come out with Durrichill deodorant, which is

(01:02:17):
cold activated. You're meant to keep this in your refrigerator?

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Well, I guess it'll keep you cool.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
I mean, I remember back in my formative years when
you're just being introduced to deodorance, and you know, right
guard was kind of the go to for any burgeoning
young male, and that first blast in the morning of
aerosol under the arms, especially in winter times, was not

(01:02:51):
always so welcome. A little bit bracing that'll wake you
up before the coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
But now we're keeping deodorant in the refrigerator.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Listen, a lot of women. Actually, I'm not even joking
when I say this. They buy many refrigerators, the kinds
that would maybe fit a six pack, and they put
it in their bathroom so that they can put their
eye gel in it, their moisturizer in it, their alo
Vera in it, their whatever roast water sprits they want

(01:03:26):
to put on their face before moisturizing, their eye gel patches,
all sorts of stuff. And how do I know this
because I'm seriously thinking about Anny one. So the idea
of putting a deodorant tener refrigerator is not as far
fetched as most people would think.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Okay, so this list that you just gave is that
because it like tightens the pores, it constricts them and
does no it just.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Feels nice on the face. I mean, I've always I've
always put the ala Vera gel in the refrigerator. So
whenever one of the kids had a sunburn, I took
that out, put it on, and it was immediate relief
and they loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Okay, that makes sense, So you know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
That's what I'm talking about. The ala Vera gel I
would put in there. I would, you know, the ie
gel patches, you know, for I don't know. For whenever
I have a spa day, I will do all sorts
of ridiculous shit just to make my fail, just to
make myself feel good. Okay, it does nothing, but it
makes me feel good. One of those is I, you know,

(01:04:32):
things for the underreyes and putting them in the refrigerator.
It cools them off and it feels nice on the skin.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
So all right, well, I can see. I'll give you
one life hack here that I use, especially like if
I go out, it's like if I was diving a
lot in the ocean, or even swim in the pool
or lot, your eyes are burning. Visine in the fridge
is a great feeling. Ooh see, I.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Would totally put vizine in a fridge too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
When that hits eyes for the first time, you're like,
oh oh yeah, that's a good feeling. So I can
probably see deodorant though, Like the entire purpose of this
is just because they put the same label on the
deodor like on the bottle where the mountain turns blue when.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
It's the Yeah, I and I totally get it. I
get that. It's like a you're trying to tie end.
But the thing is, once you put that on your
and you spread it underneath your arm, the coolness goes away,
that cold feeling goes away, unless you keep the stick
touching your skin, in which case, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
My thought is, okay, you put deodor on body temperature
is going to raise the temperature damn deodor you put on.
So does that mean it's no longer effective? What's going
on here?

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
I don't know, I don't look. I you know what.
It's a selling gimmick, and I'm sure people are gonna
they're going to fall for it, just as they fall
for those tiny little refrigerators so they can put their
face sh it in it. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
I just went on sale like about a week or
so ago, and it's already sold out, just like the
Mannai's Colonne. I still can't get my hands on.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
Holy crap, seriously, already it stilled out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Oh yeah, wow, stuff went like well, I can't say
hotcakes because it's cold activated. Going back to science, however,
got some bad news for everybody, and I mean every
single person on the planet Earth is running out of
oxygen sooner than expected.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Oh no, anyway, and listen to you so cavalier.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Okay, I'll have you know as an oxygen user myself,
I'm offended. Whatever, But NASA has actually set a date
for the end of life, as they're calling it as
implied according to a new study where NASA scientists believe
the earth atmosphere will collapse within the next billion years.

(01:07:05):
But you might think, okay, yeah, a billion years, I
could probably be comfortable with that. Before that complete collapse,
the experts reckon the decline, we'll first begin only ten
thousand years from now. See see you were so flipping
a little while ago, and now you're falling silent, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
I'm pretty flat. My gasters are flabbered.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Okay, good, I got it in. I usually like it
when you're gobsmacked. What this will work?

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
My smacks are gobbed, flappers are gasted.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Yes, okay, stop it. It's the family show. As we
all know, the Earth's climbing is set to get hotter.
But what you might not know is that the Sun's
luminosity is also anticipated to increase, which is going to
have an adverse effect on this is where all right,

(01:08:08):
so that's going to affect our atmosphere. I'm just going
to this. It's like, okay, how is the Sun's increasing
luminosity going to be blamed on us like I'm driving
a truck. That's so, yes, this is all harsh news.
Here's the part, here's the poll quote. This is the
thing that I'm hanging my head on. And I reiterate,

(01:08:33):
I'm following the science. This is coming from NASA. So
they say, what this means the increased luminosity is that
the Earth is getting warmer, which will cause carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere to break down, and so in those conditions,

(01:08:57):
the planet will struggle to grow as it requires carbon
dioxide for photosynthesis, and if plants can't survive, then we're
in trouble because that's the Earth's main source of oxygen.
I'm sorry, isn't this what we've been saying for the
last thirty years? And they follow the science, and it's

(01:09:18):
just the scientists have all great followed science.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
The consensus told us that we needed to cut back
on carbon dioxide because that was, you know, that was
killing the planet. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
I swear, these dumb suns of bitches, they can't. This
is science. And if I bring this up, then I'm
gonna be considered anti science by citing scientific data. It
says right here Yeah, it breaks down carbon dioxide, which
I think you people want. Oh wait, we need the
carbon dioxide because then that's going to the plants and
that's going to make the oxygen that we need because

(01:09:54):
we're not gonna have enough dum. I've been saying this
for decades. It's like, coh to me, more plants, that's
what you want.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Well, you know, we're still trying to figure out why
it is that we cannot eat meat but we cannot
let the cows live. I'm like pick alane.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Well there was. It cracked me up too. It was
one of the early crossover vehicles, you know, Slash EV
or whatever, and it had on the dashboard an electronic
vine I guess, and it would either grow or decrease
depending on your driving style. And so if you were

(01:10:36):
driving at the optimum speed and putting out less CO two,
the leaves would grow, which is completely the opposite of science.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
The leaves would grow if there was less CO.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Two, right, So like if you were at you know,
cruising speed of forty five instead of fifty five and more,
and then if it switched over to EV, then the
whole thing up.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
It makes some sense.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
It's like, oh, I'm I'm saving the environment. I'm not
putting out CEO too. Look at my play growing. It's like, dude,
plants need see you too. I mean, this is what
I'm saying. Environmentalists hate me because I make sense. But
you said something about cows and eating cows, didn't you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
That seems to be how do we fix address that issue?

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Well, it's really interesting, but apparently there is a pair
of academics out of I want to say it's Michigan
State maybe, or but basically they're claiming that it is

(01:11:50):
morally obligatory to buy an engineer ticks so that you
stop eating meat. Well, they start off with the you know,
the whole argument that said that, the widest accepted argument
is that eating meat is morally wrong. We're omnivores. We've

(01:12:13):
been omnivorre since before we were almost sapient sapiens, I mean,
we were omnivores in the end of talls that everybody,
I mean, we all ate meat. So I don't understand
where they think it's morally wrong. And on top of that,
they never defined whose morality they're talking about, so I'm

(01:12:34):
assuming it's their morality, you know, them it's wrong. But basically,
the long start tick is the tick that they're talking about.
It spreads a condition that actually prevents you from eating meat.

(01:12:55):
It causes you to have a meat allergy. So a
lot of scientists have been working towards an inoculation to
it because it could be really, really bad. Keep in mind,
getting this particular syndrome can cause you to have fears.

(01:13:22):
You can die from anaphylaxis. You know it can be bad.
I mean, on one side of the spectrum you might
just vomit and have cramping and all that. On the
other side of the worst end of the deal, you
could die. These two happen to think that it is

(01:13:45):
morally reprehensible to bioengineer the tick because the tick is
actually what is saving us from eating meat. So they
are against bioengineering the tick for the express purpose of
keeping people from eating meat. And I'm like, this is

(01:14:11):
just another step to trying to get us to eat bugs.
And again, if you want to eat bugs, fine, but
you have to prepare the bugs correctly. When I had
Chinese beetles, I only ate the thorax. You could not
eat the wings. You could not eat it because that
has Kitan.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
And the bud probably save you right here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Don't eat bugs.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
You don't need to give us any kind of food
network guidance on how to I ain't eating bugs.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
I mean basically, their conclusion is that they need to
promote that people should promote promote a particular tickborn syndrome
in order to actually stop people from eating meat. It
is that important. It is so important to these two

(01:15:05):
to have people stop eating meat that they're willing willing
to infect vast populations with this tech.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
But I'm relatively confident we will have a vaccine courtesy
of the US Beef Council funding.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
You know, sometimes I'm wondering, you know, why would you
put a paper, put forth a paper for the express
purpose of it being published in a scientific journal promoting
something like this. Well, admittedly, scientists do need to have
certain amount of you know, they have to reach a
quota of papers that have been published in order to

(01:15:41):
further acquire grants and further acquire studies. But if you
want to acquire grants to further your studies, to further
your research or whatever, you've got to put something solid
out there that people would be interested in it. This
is not it. This is not it, This is actually made.
Can you look not just stupid, not just dangerous, but

(01:16:03):
downright crazy? And there's no there's there's just no need
for this. This is like so basically when you're saying
I should contract polio because you know, it's easier to
get around in a wheelchair than it is to walk everywhere. Okay,
that's pretty much that's where they're at.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Well, I've also got a question for these scientists quotation marks.
How come they're not happy at the fact that the
birth rate in this country has been plunging. I thought
that was the kind of thing they wanted, So wouldn't
wouldn't they back off of this kind of nonsense?

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
I don't. I just can't with these people. It's just me.
You know, when you start your premise with it's you know,
it's widely agreed that it is morally reprehensible to blank. Okay,
if the next word is, you know, promote cannibalism, yeah,

(01:17:11):
I'll give you that one. If the next word is pedophilia,
I'll give you that one. If the next word is
eat something that we've eaten forever, I'm not going to
give it to you. This is just like telling me, yeah,
you know what, you can't have milk anymore, so we're
going to inject you with something that makes you violently

(01:17:32):
sick when you drink milk.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
But noant.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
And this goes back to the whole premise. People are
trying to dictate what you should eat, not what you
want to eat, what you should eat, and a lot
of people have issues with the whole JFK thing. I
get it. I get what he's trying to do, and
I also understand that people, Hey, I want to eat
what I want to eat. I get too. Trust me,

(01:18:01):
I get it completely. But if you remove the sugars
from frosted flakes, you can always add a ton more
on your own. Trust me on this. I know I've
done it when I was young, even sugar frosted flakes
for Dottio. I used to pour sugar in there too. Okay,

(01:18:23):
you can actually add the stuff on your own. You
can do that for yourself. These people are taking that
away from you. They want to take that choice completely
away because to them, it's the morally right thing to do.
And this is it drives me crazy. But those that

(01:18:45):
actually try to do things for the greater good do
it continually and they keep going and they keep going
and they never rest. And those are the ones that
are that need to be stopped, in my opinion, Like
with legislation, not nothing, you know, untorn.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
But when you operate for the common good, that's when
always the most nefarious things take place.

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Well, it's it's and it's always the same, it's always
the same people. It's like, I was in an argument
with my niece, and yes it was. It was not
a discussion, it was an argument. She was arguing with me.
But you know, she had a T shirt that said
one World, One Voice. So I asked her straight up,
it's like whose voice. She's like, what do you mean?

(01:19:29):
I said, one world, one voice? We have one world?
Whose voice? And she's like, I don't understand what you're
talking about. I said, you're literally wearing a shirt that
says one world, one voice. Whose voice is it? And
she was like, I don't want to get into a
debate with you. This is not a debate. I just

(01:19:49):
want to know whose voice you want to obey. She's like,
oh obey. I'm like, well, that's what that means. Once
there's only one voice, that means that you're obeying that
one voice. There's no room for any other voices. And
she's like, that is not what that means. She she

(01:20:10):
got livid, She was very upset. But she never answered
whose voice? Not once, And that's because.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
They can't common trade too. Among the people that have
a coexist, bumper Sticker are usually the most intolerant on
the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Oh yeah, every time.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Well. One of the ethical problems with their little meat
eating excursion is that how do they apply the morality
to animals that strictly eat meat? Oh no, maybe like
those housed in a zoo in Denmark.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
Oh my god, see this they might not be okay
with because they're okay if a lower animal on the
food chain eats one from the higher end of the
food chain, but not a higher end eating a lower end.
That was another thing that I found interesting from that paper.

(01:21:08):
They were okay, yeah, if there was a carcass and
a crab came along and ate it, that was okay.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
But if if gets hit by a car, you can
eat it, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
But if you know, but if like the lion came
across the carcass, then it wasn't okay for the lion
to eat it because the lion is further up at
the food chain than the carcass. So I don't know.
These people are, like I said, wacko.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
So they have a predatory caste system. I guess so. Well.
In ala Borg Zoo in Denmark, they're requesting donations. However,
this isn't a pledge drive. They're not giving out tote bags.
You might need to provide your own actually, because they're

(01:21:55):
not looking for monetary donations. They're asking people to donate
small pets like guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens in order to
feed its predators because the zoo animals to mimic their
natural diet for animal welfare. So yeah, if you got

(01:22:21):
petsiling around the house, you don't need anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
I just can't win these people. The base the concept
of actually returning the animals back to either donating them
to another zoo or putting them back in a while,
that's out of the question. You know, there are options
that they did not They decided not to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Well. I mean they got you know, residents there like
the European lynx, lions, tigers, and the zoo emphasizes that
these animals require whole prey to maintain their natural hunting behaviors. Sure,
I'm a guinea pig is going to turn that right around.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
I'm certain really, because I you know, the San Antonios
never had a problem with just you know, a chicken
that you buy at HV, cut up parts and just
throwing those in there. They never had a problem with

(01:23:25):
processed meat. So if they and again, if they want
to adhere to that, then they need to either find
another zoo that actually has the resources to do so,
or return them to the wild so that they can
remain wild. But one of the one of the things
about a zoo is that you want the animal not

(01:23:47):
to be as wild as possible because you have human
beings coming in there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
I mean, you've got them pretty much hemmed into a location.
I mean, granted, if they're rearranging stuff too, but I mean,
I if you're feeding them whole meat every single day,
I'm cool with that. I don't think we need them
prowling and drooling on a twenty four hour basis, you know,
unless you gotta wait for a whole crowd of people

(01:24:15):
to gather around the fence and then you start dragging
a steak on a string, let him go chase it
or something like that. But other than that, do you
think people want to see live animals being hunted right
in front of them? I don't think so. Whow I
think a steak on a bamboo stick is pretty cool enough?

(01:24:35):
I don't. I don't think Timmy needs to watch him
chase down a chicken and eviscerat it right in front
of him. But then again, I'm not Danish. Well I know, well,
we're about to close out here, so I've got little.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Well, no we need. It's a hard clothes You're done
five minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
It takes you four minutes to tell us where you're at.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
I got that down to a forty second clip, and
you know it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
You are so not new. I've actually watched the car before.
All right, make it fast. You got ninety seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
It's fine. I'll waive my credits for the basis of
this story. We're all familiar with stories of people getting
upset about their food order, you know, and then getting
into a fight, and such happens all the time. Right,
it's the point now where it's hardly a news item. Well,
got another news item from Jersey where at a deli

(01:25:40):
guy came in and started barking and moaning with the
girl behind the counter. So I'm arguing about a hot
dog to the point she's like, you know what, sir,
just take the hot dog and your money. I don't
need the three dollars. If you'll just leave, we'll be
fine with it. And he got angry and said no
because I got a sandwich latlast time and they gave

(01:26:01):
me some eggplant, and I don't like eggplant.

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
They kept trying to get him to leave. Things escalated
when the owners got involved, and he ends up slicing
both of them with a box cutter. This is how
upset he was about the eggplant that was on his sandwich.
Holy crap, that occurred four years ago. Four years ago,

(01:26:33):
this cat don't like eggplant. Apparently not that kind of
stuck with him. I mean, when you're this irate about
a sandwich from years out, to the point that I'm thinking,
if you're that upset, why would you even go back
to that location? You know, like this would be the

(01:26:55):
kind of thing where I'm never going back there again.
Freaking Goomba's put eggplant much samish? Hey, you folk, then
I ain't going back either. Fuck them. No, he goes
in there and starts up a mess. And actually so
now he's cooling his heels in the gray bar, and
after stabbing two different owners of the place four years,

(01:27:15):
I do appreciate this though. According to NBC New York,
the New Jersey man has a long memory but a
short temper.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Apparently, Holy crap. All right, now that don't go tell
us where we can find you the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
How about yourself, Aggie? Where can people find more of
your magnificence?

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
You can find me at Aggie Reekin and at Aguita barkeep.
We we're on X. You can find me a thirty
pm Eastern Tuesday nights in the Cocktail Lounge with you
a thirty pm Eastern Friday nights doing he said, she
said with Roddy Rick. Tomorrow find us doing Toxic Masculine
at eight pm Eastern. And last, but not least, we're

(01:28:05):
going to reschedule our Spirited Book Books podcast. We should
have been yesterday, but our beloved Jeff was feeling under
the weather. So watch for that sometime this month. And
that's it. Thanks for joining us, everyone

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
Two three seconds, and go ahead and raise a glass
and look at the ceiling.
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