August 22, 2025 • 59 mins
Jenn and Rick are back with topics to include Jenn's summer fun, the Texas Redistricting fight, and Gavin Newsom becoming the laughingstock of America but embracing it.
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Speaker 1 (06:13):
Good evening, America. It's been a minute. It's been more
than a minute. I'm Rick, She's Jen. This is you
know Rick, And we're back, bitches. It's been a minute
since I've done that intro. How you doing, man? How doing?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I'm good. We are back.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It has been a long, crazy, fun but completely discombobulated summer.
So I'm glad to get back into routine and get
back with you talking about all the nonsense we love
to go up about.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, I have to admit I was living vicariously through
a lot of your posts and said because I was like,
she's off doing fun stuff and I'm still sitting at
my desk.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
There's a lot of it that's fun, but it's also
like its own kind of work, Like there's just and
I'm I mean, well, you know me, like I'm kind
of like the family planner, event person, an organizer of
all the things. So it's like I'm making the grocery list,
I'm cooking most of the food. I'm you know, organizing
(07:15):
this and that. My mom definitely does, like if we
have to go anywhere that's the flight or if it's
like hotels and stuff and we're going with my parents,
and she's like a little miss savvy on her Expedia
or whatever doing all that stuff. But I do so
much of the other stuff. And you know how it
gets with like family, particularly siblings, that when that kind
(07:36):
of thing is going on, and they're just so used
to you being in that role that they just sit
back and always.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Let you do it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And yeah, even when you try to like get it,
they're like, well, if you want me to help, just ask.
And even if you try to do that, like first
of all, there it's half hearted. Second of all, like
it just never really works and you might as well just.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Have done it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, no, I get it, but yeah, trust me, after
you know, in the last five years, realizing that because
you know, even though I have adult children in my house,
they are not functioning at the same level of other adults.
I'm the one that has to play in meals every day.
I'm the one that has to figure out what we're eating.
I'm the one that has to do all of this,
all of that and everything else that I do. So yeah,
I saw. I kind of get it. I kind of
(08:21):
get it. Not on the same level of you know,
you having to like do everything for like your entire
ended family for most of the summer, but but I
do get it because there they one just one of
you for dinner, just once.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So but what happens is is like so my sister,
I've kind of talked about this before, like my brother,
my sister, my sister's family, like her husband and I
live in Nashville, so they a lot of times during
the summer. Like her husband's a songwriter in Nashville. He's
signed to a label, it's a whole thing, and so
a lot of times he'll have different retreats and stuff
(08:55):
in the summer. All these the labels and then sometimes
other prominant people in the music and industry will host
these like songwriting rotreats or workshops and things, and so
he ends up being gone quite a bit of the summer,
and so they just come here usually intending that comes
for like a visit and stay for like three weeks
through fourth of July, and then a lot of times
(09:17):
it just turns into them staying all summer and now
she goes back a little bit, but and he comes
here because he's actually originally from Austin, even though they
met in Nashville, which is crazy, which I'm very convenient,
but so yeah, my niece and my sister stay here
at my parents' house the majority of the time, and
uh so we just kind of are always in host mode.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, no, wonderful, don't get me wrong, it's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
So uh but it you know, it doesn't allow for
like normal.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Routines because it's constantly like, Okay, my kid wants to
be over there with her all the time. And then
it's like, oh and my sister's Sarah doesn't have a
car here because she flew here, so then I'm having
to you know, we're going shopping together and doing all
those kinds of things, and it just ends up being
a lot after you know, two months of it, so
then you're kind of like, oh man, you know, what's
nice getting up early, taking like a kid to school,
(10:13):
doing the things I need to do. It's kind of
You don't realize how much you like the routine until
you're out of it for too long.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh yeah, trust me, I get it. Lots of things
have happened while you've been away, Like my house tried
to kill me twice, So for like six weeks, I
was barely able to do anything. So now that I'm
getting back and in between coming down with some crod
that had me down for two weeks barely being able
to do anything, and then my house started having electrical
issues and at one point it nearly tried to kill me.
(10:42):
So yeah, for like six weeks, I was barely able
to do anything. So this is, this is, And then
last couple of weeks I've been trying to get back
up to speed and not getting there. And this week's
the first time that I've done about ninety percent of
what I used to do. And I don't understand or
remember now how I used to do everything that I
used to do, because even today only about eighty percent
(11:03):
done with everything I was trying to do. There's just
not enough hours in the day. I think it was
because I used to sleep a lot less. I haven't
saw I've always had insomnia, but it kind of comes
and goes, like there's times when I can actually get five, six,
seven hours of sleep randomly, and then there's times when
I get none. And lately I've been getting more sleep
(11:25):
than the non sleep things. So I'm waking up going
damn it. I was hoping I was gonna be up
three hours ago and a half this shit done already,
and I'm not. It's like, so yeah, other life.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I feel like it's also that kind of thing that like,
like for people like guests that are like go, go go,
Then when you do, like kind of finally stuff, there
comes a point and so like when you crash, you crash,
and then you're kind of screwed.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
A little bit because your body's like.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, please, now I'll catch up when I not when
you wanted to yesterday or the day before, when you
really should have two weeks ago, but now I'm going
to catch up.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
No exactly. And I think that's kind of what I
fell into, because, like I said, for almost it was
almost three weeks. I mean, it got so bad that
at one point we didn't actually have power in the
house because I was able to Jerry rig it for
a while and I was in the middle of doing
what I was doing to make stuff work, and it
blew up with my hand in the panels. So yeah,
(12:24):
needless to say, I kind of considered it a miracle
that I'm still here. But it was bad enough that
we didn't have power at all. So for like three weeks,
my kids were at my aunts and I was living
off of extension cords from my separate garage that had
its own breaker So by the time I got up
got the little bit of things than done that I
could do, like moving chords around so I could make coffee,
moving chords around so I could hook up computers and
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hook up the internet long enough to get some things done.
It was exhausting, So I did about twenty five, maybe
thirty percent of what I normally do, and then that
went on for much longer than I thought it was
gonna because here's another thing I found out, like even
for like emergency situations like hey, I have no power
and I need an entirely new breaker panel. Oh, we're
going to have to order that, so it'll be days
(13:07):
before he gets here. Are you kidding me? When when
did contract or inventory become on demand? I need to
know the answer to this question. Oh, I think we
lost in for a moment. I was wondering why I
was talking for so long. She wasn't saying anything, But
she's back now, okay.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
So remember how we were like, okay, we're gonna get
on early.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You send me the link early because I was like,
we haven't done this in a while, want to make
sure I work out all the kinks. Well, it's been
fine for what like the last like twenty five minutes,
and it just force closed, like it just all of
a sudden.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Just force closed.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh nice.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
I thought we beat the demons, but apparently not. Oh well,
well it's okay. I'm back.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Kind I'm kind of bad. I'm kind of bad luck
when it comes to those things problems. See what I
was just explaining.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
So oh man, that's crazy though. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, it's been insane, but luckily everything's been up and
running out for two weeks. We actually had it running
for about a week and then I had something fail
and so good thing is everything was stolen or worrity.
So dude was like, yeah, come out and look, it
turns out one of the breakers was bad. And then
because it was being cranky, he went ahead and split
everything off into a second leg and put it an
(14:23):
extra breaker because there was more room. He's like, this
should take care of it for you for quite some time,
and I'm like, I hope, so, I hope so. But yeah,
so it's been fun. But yeah, finally back to writing again.
Got caught up on all the archives I've been behind on.
We're doing this show again, got the notes put together
for Juxtaposition today. It was Saturday. So I feel like
(14:45):
I've accomplished a lot, but at the same time, I
just feel like I'm still kind of standing still.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But yeah, I know that feeling is, particularly when you've
gotten behind and you have so much to catch up on,
it can be can feel like you're just treading water.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But yeah, no, Kevin, I'm still waiting on a replacement
window for my car broken June. Might be available in
September something.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, see that's what I'm talking about. When did when
did that become the new hormal?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I know, we just had our car has been in
the shop and it's like, yeah, something I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Like initially it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Was like, yeah, well we don't have that, we'll have
to order it, and so oh yeah, it looks like
it's going to be about six to nine weeks.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
What and like it's not driveable, like it has to
be fixed before.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's like it's not one of those things where you
can be like, Okay, let me know when the park
comes in, I'll just deal with whatever BS is going
on six to nine weeks. And then it was like
it could be up to twelve. You're like, I'm sorry,
what three months?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
What are we doing? It's insanity.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I mean, it's just like, in so many ways we
are not a twenty first century Trea anyone.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, it feels like there's been a lot of backsliding
on kind of basic stuff. You know what I'm still
mad about.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I am still.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Mad, and this doesn't have anything to do with that,
but just things that have not gone back to the
way they should or out of sorts. I am still
mad that almost none of the twenty four hour places
have returned to twenty four hours and it is twenty.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Twenty five, right. I mean, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Sometimes I needed that one thirty am Walmart run and
I certainly needed I don't know, sometimes two thirty you.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Know, Jack in the Box Tacos, like it happens. Things
happen like, what the hell happened.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
To these places? Even some of our like places that
were open in the nineties twenty four hours before it
was cool.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Like there's a.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Chain of of diners down here called Gems. They're in
a few in Austin and mostly in San Antonio. And
there was one like kind of close to my home
growing up that everyone went to after football games and
stuff because they stayed open twenty four hours because they
were open for truckers.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Even though there's not really truckers that go through there,
but that's the idea behind it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And even they are closing at eight pm or ten pm,
eight pm.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
That's not even dinner.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, it's nuts. I mean, I will say that some
stuff around here has has kept twenty four hours, like
a lot of the niners and stuff still are around here.
The one that I thought was interesting though, is there.
It is like I Norman, which is of course college town,
still wearing masks and all the restaurants. There's a Denny's
that has a bar in the middle of it, and
the bar used to close down at two and then
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the rest of the restaurant would stay open twenty four
hours like it always did. Now all of it closes
at one am, and they still haven't gone back to
normal schedule yet.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now, I will say, like our water Burgers are twenty
four hours, like that's not they they they pretty much
stayed there after, like staffing wasn't an issue anymore.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
They went back to full time schedule.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You maybe couldn't go in the restaurant and by and
like you couldn't go to restaurant after usually ten pm
at most locations anyways, but you could order drive through
all night long. So thankfully we still got our trust
you Waterburger. But pretty much everything else is letting me down,
including you know, even around Christmas time and stuff, and
like my family, you know, we go all out and
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it's the whole thing, and it's always kind of fun,
like with my cousins and my siblings, like we'll do
some last minute runs on like Christmas Evve or whatever.
And like the department store is like Macy's and Dillers
and stuff. They used to stay open until midnight or
even one am, trying to get out your last minute
shopping as long as possible, staying open and they're like, yeah,
we'll close it six you're like what, I can't even
(18:38):
get off work and get there in time, Like you
don't want our money.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I guess it's just weird. It's just the fu.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's just it. All of it's just gotten weird since COVID,
and some of it's not getting any better, and it's disturbing.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I saw someone lamenting today that she wasn't eligible for
a COVID vaccine and I was like, we're still doing that.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
You're still doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, that's like Robert F. Kennedy Junior just you know,
tried to update the medical procedure stuff and be like,
you know what, infants and babies really don't need a
COVID vaccine, and now there's like a major medical group
that's fighting him on it. I'm like, why the hell
would you give this to babies?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
No, they need protessis and that's kind of it.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And hey by, but that's coming straight out in vitamin
K when they come straight out but like it's a
vitamin they're like, no, they don't, they don't need good
like six not little babies don't need COVID shots.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But it was just weird that this was like a
twenty four year old. It's like, I'm not eligible for
the coach time. People are like, why aren't you eligible eligible?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
And she's like, well, because they're.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Reserving it for amino compromise and elderly. And then then
I don't fit the demographic that they're giving the vaccine to.
And it's like, yeah, because you're healthy and you're gonna
get over it, Like why are you crying?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And she was like, this is.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The first time in five years I have a been
able to get my shot in at least two boosters.
And I'm like, oh lord, it's affecting your brain. That
is a bunch of brain rot going on.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Dude, your DNA has been completely reprogrammed in your NOF.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I mean, yeah, anyways, well and kind of there's just
I've seen a little bit more. And of course this
always happens as we go into fall, right, like they
start to ramp up the COVID scare again. Oh yeah,
it's always the new strain and this one is deadly
and this one is blah blah blah, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
My gosh, it's it's really it's it's really.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Not I like, how are people still falling for it
to that degree, like it's one thing I want to
be careful and be like, oky, I'm gonna watch be
better about washing my hands. You know, if I do
get a cough or something, I want to be considered
of other people and I'm personally gonna mask for that
reason or whatever. You know, people do what you want
to do to try to, you know, limit your sickness,
(21:01):
because none of us want to get sick. I mean,
it's not like we're out here like hey, I can't
wait to get the cold and the flu and the
COVID and everything, but like, you know, so taking a
little extra measure like during the fall season and as
it gets cold and all of that, okay, but like
this complete panic that ramps up every fall trying to
(21:21):
be like, oh no, we're all going to get the
COVID wave and everybody's gonna die.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
It's just like, it's how are people still falling for that?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, most people aren't. The ones that are the ones
that have had so many COVID vaccines and posters that
their brain has rotted all out of the example we
were talking about a moment ago. I mean seriously, because
most of us have completely moved past it. I mean,
I just I just saw some.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Hallo. Okay, I lost you. Yeah, oh I lost thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
For a second. Okay, but you can know right, yes
I can. Okay, Yeah I was. There was a friend
who texted me the other day and they was like,
I have COVID. I'm like, I didn't even know that
was the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah. I know someone that recently got tested. But the
only reason.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They did was because they do have a daughter in
law that's about to give birth, and so they didn't
want to go stay with her and give her COVID
while she was like on the verge of birth and
her child. So it's like I understand that, but everybody
else I know, like, I don't think people are like, yeah,
I'm pretty sure I had COVID last week, but nobody tested.
Nobody's like doing anything, you know what I mean. They're
(22:37):
just like, I mean what, they can't do anything. Okay,
I guess packs Loavid, But you know, if they're not
eighty and you're not like in a really vulnerable position.
I mean, these strains, as much as they keep saying
we're going to have the next demon strain, they've just
not proven to be that they've only proven to be
more mild.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
So hey, anyways, what do.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You what are you gonna do? They're they're gonna come
up with something new to try to kill us every year,
every year from hell on anyway, because it didn't work
the first time, so now they're just going to keep trying.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, it's it's the I think it's also the need,
particularly by progressives and the Democrats, that you know, to
keep everybody in perpetual fear. And it's like, and if
you look to us to guide you, we can do it,
if you just listen to me, if we can have
the authority over you, and if we can, we will
(23:28):
keep you safe and we will be better, you know
what I mean. It's that it's that overall uh nanny
state bullshit. And once they saw that come in a
little bit with with COVID, they were like, oh man,
this is the good ship, this is it, this is
the way to do it.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
So they just can't let it go.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You know, they got to keep pumping that fear down
because otherwise they they you know, they've lost so many already,
like in all of gen Z.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
But whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, yeah, I mean, so there's new numbers coming out today,
and I'm kind of understanding why they're trying to go
them on of the fear stuff as much as they
can still because for the thirty states that track voter registration,
there has been a three million count drop in Democratic
voters registering. There's been a three point four million increase
in Republican voters. So we're talking about a full swing
(24:19):
plus four hundred thousand in the last four years. So
I kind of understand why the people that are still
trying to make the fear porn work are drastically and
so seriously trying to make the fear porn work. But
I think it may be too late for them, because
not only was one of the topics you wanted to
talk about today, you know, the fact that gen z
(24:39):
is swinging widely conservative, and they are, but there's proof
of that because I don't know if you've noticed it.
I don't see it that often because I live in
the middle of nowhere now. But the last time I
went into the city, I was driving through a neighborhood
and kids were playing outside again, like seriously, like riding
bikes and doing all the things that we used to
do for like an entire generation. They weren't doing they're
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doing it. And I think part of it's because the
parents were like, oh my god, you were cooped up
with me for over a year. Get the hell out
of my house, okay.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I also I also have another theory about it as
far as the demographic that's raising these kids. Now, it's
the younger It's like the youngest of gen X and
the eldest of Millennials, and that Zennial group, the kind
of last you know, five to eight years of Gen X,
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and then the first five to eight years of Millennials
are the ones that largely have kids in middle school
in high school right now, and and younger too. But
you know, they have kids that are approaching this coming
of age right And I just feel like, and just
from my group, my cousins that are the kind of
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the younger gen X, you know, you're kind of that
younger gen X.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I'm the elder Millennial.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
There's just I know that Gen X likes to be
the real like we're the only ones that don't give
a fuck, blah blah blah blah blah. But I think
that extends further into that zenial, that zenial grouping to
where we saw the in between, we saw the over
compensation and the complete flip around to try to make
everything soft and comfy for kids and to do participation
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trophies and to make everything fair and have safe faces
and all that shit. And so we got to kind
of experience that as like young to middle adults, and
then now having the kids those ages are like, oh
fuck no, that didn't work. That our older cousins, not
the boomers, but the older gen xers did right to
try to overcorrect their lack of affection during high during uh,
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during their childhoods or or lack of attention or whatever.
So there's like a balance of still having that kind
of like yeah, go outside and play. And we grew
up that way too, but we also kind of grew
into technology during like maybe high school, college, early mid twenties,
and then that started coming around and then so we
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kind of had a like we're in between these worlds
and we got foocked over by everybody. So there's a
whole lot of like, no, that's not what we're doing,
and that's not how We've seen this party get destroyed.
We've seen y'all destroy other people, and there's just this
sweet spot of about ten to twelve, maybe even as
many as fifteen years of parents raising kids that are
(27:30):
kind of going back a little old school. They're the
ones that aren't as big on having phones and devices
in their hands all the time, not because they're helicopter parenting,
but because they're like, literally, go the fuck outside, go outside,
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Go outside?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You know, they're taking their kids fishing and hiking and
teaching them, you know, all kinds of skills. There's more,
there's a higher rate from the demographic of thirty five
to fifty that is the largest amount of teaching firearmt
like learning and teaching firearm use, proper firearm use two
children to their children. It's the highest demographic right now.
(28:09):
So I just think that there's like the sweet spot
of people. So what you're kind of seeing with these
Gen Z kids that they really don't give a fuck,
you know what, They're like, cancel me.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I'm already canceled. I don't care. There's nothing to cancel.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You can't even So that's the thing, you can't cancel
them because they literally don't give a shit. And it's
kind of adapted that attitude from that young gen ex
elder millennial that kind of got the best of multiple
worlds and the worst of multiple worlds. Raising these kids
in a different way and enabling them and talking to
them about politics and not letting them become commies, like,
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you know, having those conversations and not hoping to kind
of get enough in them before they go get brainwashed,
which sometimes you can't help. It's what happens, we all know.
But yeah, I just think that there's just a little
bit different happening with these kids that are from like
mid to late elementary school to high school right now,
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and the different approach from their parents, watching their grandparents
and their parents and then their older siblings or cousins
or neighbors or whatever, and then deciding what to do
with theirs. And I think it's having a real effect
in addition to the overall then culture shift with the
likes of Trump and you.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Know, the onslaught.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Of Republican media, right wing influencers, all of that of
course comes into play as well, but it's because they
have a base to start from.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, good point. Good point. Oh so, how are you
feeling about this whole Texas redistrict?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
So like people have lost their minds?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Of course, we knew they would, right, Like I knew
that Dums were gonna go absolutely blonkers. But when it
all started, like we're at the beach when the dams
flood the state. And it always cuts me out because
they do the every few years. Anybody that like pays attention.
Usually it makes national headlines because everybody's.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Like, oh, they're sitting Texas and.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It's always the Democrats and uh they flee to try
to avoid you know, a quorum, and so uh always
puts me up though, because they it's always some sort
of protest about those mean Republicans trying to bully us
and not compromising and you know, it's corrupt and they're
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Nazis and they're fascist.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
And then they flee to Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Ah yeah right, Ah.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
What I'm sorry, Yes, let's go to the bastion of
political corruption. Let's let's let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
But they yeah, I so it always corrects me up
when they did that. So they've they did that, and
then they stalled by trying to amend the bill. They
finally reluctantly came home. You know, Abbot kind of had
a strong hand in that. There were some clever tactics
there and then they stalled by trying to I'm into
like twelve times, they tabled it seven times, and they
just really were dragon afe trying not to make this
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aboute of course they get defeated eighty eight to fifty two.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
That was a no brainer there.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
But everybody seems to not be understanding first of all,
that this is completely within the rights under the Texas constitution,
like it's in the state constitution, and it's they keep
trying to make it seem like this is some shady,
underhanded thing. No, this has been done multiple times throughout
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the state's history, including after Texas which people conveniently forget
how freaking democrat Texas was for decades. So seventies, eighties,
leading into the nineties, Texas was blue and.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
District yeah and daily district.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And I know it's a different branded Democrat at that time,
but still they it was blue and no one ever
saw it going fully red, like it's crazy to think
back on that.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
And but they you.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Know, they read a strict in ninety one to try
to keep even to get even more seats too, like
this is something that only that usually like super politicals.
And then of course like Texas nerds have even looked
back far enough to see what this is. And then
in addition to that, I think that I think that
it's shortsighted not to acknowledge the absolute like influx that
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Texas has had for the better well, I mean really
for ten to fifteen years, but specifically the last five.
I mean there were over five hundred thousand, half a
million that came to Texas, mostly from blue states in
twenty twenty, and that continued for the next four years,
adding five, six, seven, even one estimation for twenty twenty
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four is over eight hundred thousand, so almost another million
people coming to text says, you know, coming in in the.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Last five years.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
So you're talking about four to five million people coming
in in the last five years. And yeah, there's ever
a time to redistrict. Now, of course Republicans want in
more seats. I'm not gonna lie and say that's not
the case, but as well within their rights to do so.
They control the Texas Congress right now, and they absolutely
had the right to redistrict it. But if you do
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look at it on the logical level of how much
we've added people people fleeing from blue states, which by
the way, a whole lot of them fled because they
were flaying blue policies. So you can kind of bet
that a decent chunk will be leaning right at least
a decent amount of time. So you know, you need
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to reevaluate what those districts are. But again they go
to Chicago, the most gerrymannered state in the fucking country,
and cry about it like hello, and you got Barack Obama.
You know, shouldn't have Geremane, we should not have got
in politics, it's not right or fair. But since it is,
really glad Newsom is going to retaliate because he's five,
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because that's how this works, so dude.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So so it passed. It passed the California legislature today,
by the way, So I would like to point out
that none of the California Republicans absconded to like Texas
or anywhere to try to stop the vote from going forward.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Is that interesting?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Also, I think it was funny that you know, they've
been like this is all about like leveling the playing
field because of what Texas did, right, even though like
California already has more but they already have more population,
higher population, Okay, whatever, But after all of this, and
they were like saying that it was you know, it
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was so that they could do this to retaliate, and
they would only be they were only doing this because
of if other states do this, because they assume and
it it's kind of been hinted that other states are
going to follow suit with Texas other red states, so like,
we won't do it if y'all will stop, if you
won't put yours forward, then we won't do it too well.
And guess what they did today, quietly without any announcement,
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they removed and completely removed the provision that said the
scheme would only take a vent if other states engaged
in redistricting. So now they have passed it and they
removed vas so that they will redistrict regardless because they
are just as you know, power hungry, vote hungry, and
actually more so, they're more desperate than I think Texas
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Republicans are at this point in time. And of course
for Newsome, it's just another little on his resume, on
his Cutler resume. He's he's compiling leading up to the
next election. The other thing they kept being really upset
about is this.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Mid decade, This mid decade redistricting.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
They keep saying that in the media, like it's like
don't don't, like you're not allowed to do it, and
like mid presidential term in mid decade, We're like, yeah, yeah,
before the mid terms, this isn't hard. Yeah, but they
keep saying it with this like tone like it's like
that makes.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
It super shady, like well, when is a good time
to do it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Their whole argument is that it's unconstitutional because it's only
supposed to be done after the census, and I'm like,
that's not actually what it says.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
It's also not what it says in the Texas state constitutions,
so they can go get sucked with that.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh I know. The thing about it is what what
California is trying to do does actually violate their constitution,
which is why they have.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
To propose an amendment they have to put it through.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It's just hilarious watching all this, And now, of course
the new shtick is, oh my god, Gavin Newsom's amazing
because he's copying. I'm like, yeah, you have if you
have to explain that he's trolling, Oh that account.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Okay, Like I could read like one or two of
those and be like, oh, Okay, that's kind of fun.
But that's all they're doing now is so stupid. But
by the way, I have to tell you one funny
thing that happened during this vote.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Sure, so.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Representative Nicole Collier was trying to.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Was trying to make a whole thing about you know,
Newsom supporting the Texas Democrats or whatever.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
So she tried to go FaceTime Newsom in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Like she left the floor and went to the bathroom
that adjoins the House floor and the Congress floor Congression
floor in Texas, and she left and went into the
bathroom to FaceTime Newsom to make you know, some point
and to be like and then so that way she
wasn't on the floor quite yet for the vote and
then maybe it could stall more.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
But also to get Newsom.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
On and to film that and use it as you know,
motivation and get her pots on the back, I guess,
and get his face in part of death in Congress.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
And she ended up getting.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
They ended up coming to find her, and she got
in trouble because it's a felony to.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Call from the floor or the bathroom that adjoins the floor.
Wild confession.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
So she had to duck out and had to hang
up on Newsom real quick in her little stun like
y'all should have discharged her, not to actually go through
with the prosecution, just to scare the ship out of her.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Dude, I as soon as they all started throwing a
fit about not signed information slips and all that ship,
I'd just been like, fine, we're gonna throw you in
jails with the boat then, Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, I mean, you know, at the end there before
they finally came out, which is what happens every time.
You know that they really they really did a good
job of reining them in after after threatening quite a few,
quite a few meaningful things and knowing that Abbott will
fall through on it, you know, hander he'd have them
(39:10):
all aristed, but especially as he's you know, winding down
in this which also reminds me some good news and
even though it's like not great for his district, hopefully
there's a good replacement.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
But chip Roy is running for Texas AG which I
think is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, I saw that today. Yeah, I would also I
would also like to point out there's a good chance
Slavey Crockett might be having to start an only fans
channel soon because she probably won't have a district anymore.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
She's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
She's probably gonna go to California. She'd been she'd been
sucking that dick pretty hard, so it wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And she loaded up the truck and went.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
And by the way, did you see the kammulator?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Oh, bits and pieces of it. I have to admit
I usually try to tune it out now that she's
back in the news again.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
But like what, she's literally going on tour to celebrate
her failed presidential run.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
The fake swearing inn was kind of cute.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
It's just like, wait, what it's like? Sort of presidential
campaign in history as a tagline for.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
It, and most expensive that went nowhere in.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Which I lost and some funds are still unaccounted for.
But sure she's sharing her lessons.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Learn girl.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
She's gonna sit up there and she's gonna tell her
little stories and a bunch of world salid about, you know,
and the hope and the peace and the love and
the things, and how we aren't empowered and we're going
to have to come together and everything that was good
can be great again.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
And oh and did I mention I brought you my
ven diagram about how I like yellow school buses.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Just thought I was like, what, who is buying these
tickets to go see this?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
This is so weird.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
It's just so gree to do.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I mean, at least Hillary was embarrassed and her ego
was bruised and she had some shame.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
But so so there's something speaking of Hillary that's kind
of completely flown under the radar that I love to
point out to the left every so often, because remember,
Donald Trump is the devil, He's Hitler, He's Satan incarnate.
But even she did it on a podcast the other
day with Jessica Tarlov, if he could bring peace between
Ukraine and Russia, she would submit him for the Nobel
(41:29):
peace price. You're gonna put Hitler up for the peace price? Really,
you fucking bitch?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Really, really, that's wild. Like you've been You've spent ten
years tearing this man apart. You had the CIA and
the FBI going after him when he was campaigning and
trying to see what you could what you could do
to have him tear tore down. Then you did everything
you could with Barack Obama to to hinder his transition,
(41:55):
and you've called him every name under the sun. You
you you you can see, and then took it back
and then did a four year tour about how Russia
robbed you of an election, and now you want to
give the man the Nobel Peace Prize if you can
bring peace between these two countries. You're a fucking slunt.
Speaker 6 (42:14):
Why don't you slunt? In a long time, I love
that word. Well, that's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It's like, yeah, it's almost like they don't believe anything
that they say.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, well, they've kind of proven that over and over again.
Because again, even if it was for the purpose of trolling,
why would you be mimicking Hitler on social media?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Right?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
People?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Okay, well there is uh one other main thing and
then like a couple of little things.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
But one other main thing is the.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Uh the announcement about how they're going to reassess the
fifty five million visas.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, we probably should have done that a while ago.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Fifty five million, fifty.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Five million visas? Am I the only one that was gues.
I guess you're from the Tony voice on population what Yeah, so,
I guess by the Tony Tony of your voice, you
weren't the only one that was extremely surprised by that number.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
I mean, I did think visa wise think, I know,
it probably includes tourist visas, which can be various degrees
of time lengths, and then they also might be reported
even if there are people that aren't even here right
now that are coming up. They have approved visas for
two weeks from now or whatever, or for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
You know, when I had.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
To do some study abrosive and some traveling to certain places,
you know, I had to get my visa preapproved like
way in advance.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
But it not fifteen million worth, Like oh, I was
like twenty million, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I would have even maybe went thirty, but fifty yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:02):
Yeah, maybe thirty.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
No really, And I love it because they're still hanging us.
So it's like fifty five million visas and there's still
somehow stuck on the same number they've given us since
like nineteen ninety five, of like eleven to fourteen million illegals.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
I'm like, it's now, that's that's just fifty. That's just fifty.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
And then and then you add into that there's twelve
point eight million Green card holders last year, and then
these are the the.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Mostly the main visas.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Then there was three point six million tenth visas outside
of this visa number last year. So I tell you
that's another sixteen million people.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
So what you're telling me is like seventy percent of
our population as foreigners right now? Like, I don't know
how I feel about this?
Speaker 6 (44:54):
What now? So? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:59):
So then on top of the did you see it
was announced later this evening that RIDO is causing all
issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Well, yeah, I mean it kind of seems important when
you know you've got somebody that never should have gotten
one in the first place, couldn't pass the oral test,
couldn't read more than one out of twelve road signs, right,
got one question, right, understood one of four road signs,
and still managed to get not only a temporary CDL
out of California, but a permanent one out of Washington State.
(45:30):
What yeah?
Speaker 6 (45:31):
How did he even pass the test? Perfectly?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Confident and qualified people are denied these on a regular basis,
Like what the.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
It's just all scam, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Whenever that terrible accident happened here on thirty five and
often that killed like four people, similar thing the guy
got out nobody.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
He was like dazed and confused. He acted like he didn't.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
He's like, oh what and he was like, oh, they're
dead and they're like yeah, bro, you just rammed into
them going sixteen miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (46:02):
They're dead.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
And he's like oh man, oh and he just stands
there like whatever. And even after like that happened, when
people really dug into that, and I tried to a
little bit, but it got to become too much.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Of a rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
It goes to this place that's this building that oh
doesn't actually have a company, it's just an address for
this one that's actually over here here, and they all
lead back to fucking California. It's shell on shell on
shell on shell, and they like go to apartment buildings
to another approach. So it's like you go to one,
you go to one actual business that's just basically no
(46:46):
more than like a little rented space to have a
basically a po box, and then that's like the business address.
And then it's like, oh, their parent company is actually
housed out of these apartments in Arlington and Texas, Arlington, Texas,
not even forwards of Dallas, Arlington. And then on top
of that, that company's parent company is based out of
like it would go even something more obscure, like uh,
(47:08):
go to like an Amarillo, and then it'd be like okay,
and then that one is based out of this place
in Arizona town I've never heard of. Then that place
is based out of and it all would lead back
to California, and that's where these CDLs are coming from.
Speaker 6 (47:24):
So there are some major fucking scam going on.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, anybody and everybody who can investigate this shit needs
to investigate it because there's there's absolutely no reason this
idiot should have ever gotten a cdo. And then of course,
as soon as they made the announcement that they were
suspending the visas for that kind of stuff, they're like, oh,
look here comes more inflation. I'm like, you don't think
American workers would like jump at the chance to do that.
(47:48):
I mean, my son is one of my kids is
a truck driver. He loves it. Yeah, he's stepping away
now because his kids are older and he doesn't want
to be on the road all the time while while
they're in school and all kinds fun stuff. So he's
taking the job at the yard and then probably go
back to it. But he absolutely loves being on the road.
I mean, now one of the guys, this is almost
every single show we put out is constantly on the room.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's a really great option for
a lot of people and in a way to make
a decent chunk of money, and especially for younger people
starting out, like young men, Like it's kind of like
doing some of those others, but like not as dangerous
as doing like oil rig work or something like that.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
Like go while you're young, while you're not attached, while
you don't.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Have kids, and go make your money, yeah, and then
get that experience. It's always on your resume. It's a
lot of cash in the bank, you know, because of
your expenditure. Is not crazy going out, especially like I
mean I had friends that did stuff like this, and
it's like yeah, because then you you have an apartment
with like three bedrooms, you get like five or six guys,
(48:51):
and y'all are always rotating in and out because you're
all on the road or you're all on the ship. Yeah,
so you're splitting you know, eighteen hundred dollars rent six ways,
Like you're not that you're paying pennies.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
It's not it's not.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I mean, I think it's a great option for some people,
and but I do know that they're they're parts of
this country where it's very hard to get one.
Speaker 6 (49:16):
Oh we're not getting them out.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Well, I mean that's gonna be something that's gonna have
to be looked at too. But with it, what doesn't
make any sense to me is what as difficult that
as it is to get them in some places? And
they hand them out like like can yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
This is happening over there right, It's almost like they're
all pre rubber stamped and they just hand them to
the guy that's paid whatever he's paid for them, and
then he gets to hand them whatever forener he wants.
Speaker 6 (49:39):
I don't know, it's so crazy, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I hate to bring this up, but historically speaking, you know,
back when the Hell's Angels were a big deal and
all these guys were trying to keep their licenses current
with all the crap that they were doing, and they
they would always put their lady friends to work in
the DMV before background checks got relea severe. So I
have a feeling something like that might be happening here. Oh,
(50:03):
somebody's making money off of this somewhere.
Speaker 6 (50:06):
Yeah, I have no no doubt.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Well, anyways, back to the overall visays, So yeah, that's
just such a ridiculous chunk. So I was trying to
read more about like because they're like, they're gonna thoroughly
vet you know, they're gonna do this, They're going to
do that, And I'm like, okay, but some of that's
been done before. Some of that has been already going
(50:29):
on since this administration took office. There are departments that
look at this stuff on a regular basis, no matter
who's in office. It's just how diligent do they or
how much incentive do they have to actually produce anything.
But I was looking at it and basically everything's really vague.
It's like we're gonna look to see if they've been
(50:50):
in violation of any US laws, you know, all that,
and then they're gonna go try to get their records
from their country of origin, which I guess for decent
tonks of time during Obama and Biden that was it's
been admitted was all but suspended. So even though like, yeah,
they might have done a terse research, so it was
(51:12):
like they didn't they haven't committed murder, they haven't been
convicted of murder. They didn't really look very hard or
and they didn't follow up, like if countries just didn't
send them the records. A lot of times these people
would still get their visas approved even though like they
hadn't heard back, and so they'd wait and wait and wait.
And I actually used to work We've talked about this
(51:32):
a little bit before, when I was working for Broadway
Dancer in New York City. Actually worked in their student
visa department, in the department that handled immigration and visas.
Because it was an accredited program, you know, we could
give student visas to foreign students, and so, you know,
I learned a lot about doing all of that process
(51:53):
and paperwork and everything. And I mean there were a
councelhre like it sucked that kid had gotten there and
had planned everything, and their country would not sit in
the appropriate paperwork, They would not answer the questions, they
would not give me the background checks that I needed
from their records, and I had to halm them and
halm them and helm them. And there were times where
(52:13):
there was a kid standing in front of me so
nights older than I was. I was eighteen, nineteen, twenty
years old. S Day's older than I was, and I'd
have to tell them that, like now their tenth visa
is running out and their full visa can't be filed
because their country won't cooperate, and so Nomes I don't
even think.
Speaker 6 (52:28):
They have the resources too. You know, there's a lot
of that.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
I ran into that a lot with people from the
Philippines and like Indonesia. I like people I actually was
able to converse with. They're like, I don't even know
if we have those records, Like they're not filed anywhere,
they're not digitized. They he'd have to go to his province,
like all kinds of things. So anyways, the point is
(52:52):
is that I that it wouldn't surprise me if there's
a ton of people that possibly have fled their country
and do have records there that we're going to find
out because they just waited them out and went, oh, well,
I never heard back and it's been three months, so
I'm just going to stamp it say it's fine. I
don't say anything bad, so I guess it's fine. So
I think there will be some of that. But the
(53:13):
other thing that is being stated in every article, is
they are going to look at their social media.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Oh it's all crazy. All of this is craziness. Sorry,
I got distracted. I got distracted by two things. One,
I just realized the Democrats put the Democrats account actually
put out a post a few hours ago that said,
we think the cracker barrel logo soaks too.
Speaker 6 (53:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
I was like, I was wondering why corn had posted
about who would have thought the one thing that could
unite the left and the right is how bad the
new or how lame the new cracker brel logo is.
Then I saw that, I was like, oh damn, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Will say the cracker barrel thing. I mean, it's stupid,
it's stupid. I think it's dumb. I don't like it,
but I don't wouldn't call going. Look, it's just modernizing
and trying to rebrand and listening to some idiot who
probably is a leftist. But I don't know that they're
doing all of this because of some sort of leftist ideology.
(54:13):
They're doing it because they're trying to be trendy and
they're trying to be upsteal like.
Speaker 6 (54:19):
Stressed it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Yeah, Well, I mean it's because they've lost track of
what their brand is supposed to be. But this isn't
anything new. Does anybody, I mean, anybody been to McDonald's lately.
It looks it looks like it looks like a fifty
year old man going through a midlife crisis. When you
walk in, it's dark, dreary, drab. No nothing I saw.
I saw somebody put a real up of a play
place the other day in a newly built McDonald's with
(54:42):
this new've been doing for a while, and it's like
two screens and some little pool looking thing yep, And like,
what the hell?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah no around here. You got to go to Chick
fil A if you want a good playscape. It's still
two story, nice indoors hot. See.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
I'm for a time when Chick fil A was only
in malls, so I'm still not used to having standalone locations.
Speaker 6 (55:08):
Yeah no, I mean growing up, that's how it was.
That's absolutely how it was.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
But I I thought it was funny though that the
feet was like, uh, customer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive,
and I was like, what, there's no way that's either
like waitresses being forced to ask their customers to their
face as they're handing them their bill and they're.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
Like, oh, yeah, that's great, looks great, or you're lying.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
Oh, I mean if.
Speaker 6 (55:42):
See that kid, to see them like serving.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
I mean because we sometimes do this for like, hey,
get feedback on these appetizers or get feedback on this,
and so when it's terrible, they're like, oh, yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 6 (55:55):
We want to ask you how you like the remodel.
You know, everything's net a little bit and so that
is known, and they're like, yes, it's put on the
spot like that. Absolutely, people will say yes just because
they want you to go away.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yeah, no, exactly, because there's just like just shut up
and leave me, that's just it.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
They also pulled h oh h loyal Cracker Barrel customers
and also people that had never been to Crater Barrel.
Speaker 1 (56:26):
Nice. I mean, up, it's been probably two or three
years since I've bothered to eat there because the last
time I ate there, their portion sizes weren't what they
were before. They'd cut down on the amount of meat
that they served and put an extra vegetable on the
plate instead, and I'm just like, that's not why I
come here on my Sunday.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Thick and is still the same, and it is delicious,
and it is like the hangover drive home food. When
we come back from DFW after like nice cotton cotton
ball or saying my brother play or whatever we like
get We.
Speaker 6 (56:59):
Don't go to the one right outside.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
You don't go to the one, you know, just south
of Fort Worth and Burlison. You go on down a
little bit. You don't go on the one in Alvarado.
You go a little bit farther down to where you're
north of wake Goo but so far south enough from
DFW that's not as busy and crowded, and you hop
off thirty five on that one. It's amazing. Just make
sure that the church crowd has passed nice.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
Yeah, no, I mean I don't know if maybe some
of them are like you know, maybe franchises or what.
But yeah, it's definitely different up here. But like I said,
it's been a couple of years because I hadn't been back,
so I don't know if I will be now, because
if it's going to be all drabbing depressing when I go,
and I don't really care anymore. But we are out
of time because we have somebody else spinning up about
our mendors. So where can folks find you?
Speaker 6 (57:46):
Mostly on Twitter, X whatever.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
I always love it when my phone dings and it
says you know your mom's an article from X formerly
known as Twitter.
Speaker 6 (58:00):
Every single time it says it, it still says it.
Speaker 2 (58:03):
So yeah, here at jay Holmestead and h then as
always follow Missfits politics and hang out for miss Fit
mischeff on Friday nights.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
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Hang out for the saloon. You can hang over, sit
down at the bar, grab a drink, get ready for
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We I have missed doing the show and I've missed
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Speaker 1 (06:13):
Good evening, America. It's been a minute. It's been more
than a minute. I'm Rick, She's Jen. This is you
know Rick, And we're back, bitches. It's been a minute
since I've done that intro. How you doing, man? How doing?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I'm good. We are back.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It has been a long, crazy, fun but completely discombobulated summer.
So I'm glad to get back into routine and get
back with you talking about all the nonsense we love
to go up about.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, I have to admit I was living vicariously through
a lot of your posts and said because I was like,
she's off doing fun stuff and I'm still sitting at
my desk.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
There's a lot of it that's fun, but it's also
like its own kind of work, Like there's just and
I'm I mean, well, you know me, like I'm kind
of like the family planner, event person, an organizer of
all the things. So it's like I'm making the grocery list,
I'm cooking most of the food. I'm you know, organizing
(07:15):
this and that. My mom definitely does, like if we
have to go anywhere that's the flight or if it's
like hotels and stuff and we're going with my parents,
and she's like a little miss savvy on her Expedia
or whatever doing all that stuff. But I do so
much of the other stuff. And you know how it
gets with like family, particularly siblings, that when that kind
(07:36):
of thing is going on, and they're just so used
to you being in that role that they just sit
back and always.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Let you do it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And yeah, even when you try to like get it,
they're like, well, if you want me to help, just ask.
And even if you try to do that, like first
of all, there it's half hearted. Second of all, like
it just never really works and you might as well just.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Have done it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, no, I get it, but yeah, trust me, after
you know, in the last five years, realizing that because
you know, even though I have adult children in my house,
they are not functioning at the same level of other adults.
I'm the one that has to play in meals every day.
I'm the one that has to figure out what we're eating.
I'm the one that has to do all of this,
all of that and everything else that I do. So yeah,
I saw. I kind of get it. I kind of
(08:21):
get it. Not on the same level of you know,
you having to like do everything for like your entire
ended family for most of the summer, but but I
do get it because there they one just one of
you for dinner, just once.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So but what happens is is like so my sister,
I've kind of talked about this before, like my brother,
my sister, my sister's family, like her husband and I
live in Nashville, so they a lot of times during
the summer. Like her husband's a songwriter in Nashville. He's
signed to a label, it's a whole thing, and so
a lot of times he'll have different retreats and stuff
(08:55):
in the summer. All these the labels and then sometimes
other prominant people in the music and industry will host
these like songwriting rotreats or workshops and things, and so
he ends up being gone quite a bit of the summer,
and so they just come here usually intending that comes
for like a visit and stay for like three weeks
through fourth of July, and then a lot of times
(09:17):
it just turns into them staying all summer and now
she goes back a little bit, but and he comes
here because he's actually originally from Austin, even though they
met in Nashville, which is crazy, which I'm very convenient,
but so yeah, my niece and my sister stay here
at my parents' house the majority of the time, and
uh so we just kind of are always in host mode.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, no, wonderful, don't get me wrong, it's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
So uh but it you know, it doesn't allow for
like normal.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Routines because it's constantly like, Okay, my kid wants to
be over there with her all the time. And then
it's like, oh and my sister's Sarah doesn't have a
car here because she flew here, so then I'm having
to you know, we're going shopping together and doing all
those kinds of things, and it just ends up being
a lot after you know, two months of it, so
then you're kind of like, oh man, you know, what's
nice getting up early, taking like a kid to school,
(10:13):
doing the things I need to do. It's kind of
You don't realize how much you like the routine until
you're out of it for too long.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh yeah, trust me, I get it. Lots of things
have happened while you've been away, Like my house tried
to kill me twice, So for like six weeks, I
was barely able to do anything. So now that I'm
getting back and in between coming down with some crod
that had me down for two weeks barely being able
to do anything, and then my house started having electrical
issues and at one point it nearly tried to kill me.
(10:42):
So yeah, for like six weeks, I was barely able
to do anything. So this is, this is, And then
last couple of weeks I've been trying to get back
up to speed and not getting there. And this week's
the first time that I've done about ninety percent of
what I used to do. And I don't understand or
remember now how I used to do everything that I
used to do, because even today only about eighty percent
(11:03):
done with everything I was trying to do. There's just
not enough hours in the day. I think it was
because I used to sleep a lot less. I haven't
saw I've always had insomnia, but it kind of comes
and goes, like there's times when I can actually get five, six,
seven hours of sleep randomly, and then there's times when
I get none. And lately I've been getting more sleep
(11:25):
than the non sleep things. So I'm waking up going
damn it. I was hoping I was gonna be up
three hours ago and a half this shit done already,
and I'm not. It's like, so yeah, other life.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I feel like it's also that kind of thing that like,
like for people like guests that are like go, go go,
Then when you do, like kind of finally stuff, there
comes a point and so like when you crash, you crash,
and then you're kind of screwed.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
A little bit because your body's like.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, please, now I'll catch up when I not when
you wanted to yesterday or the day before, when you
really should have two weeks ago, but now I'm going
to catch up.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
No exactly. And I think that's kind of what I
fell into, because, like I said, for almost it was
almost three weeks. I mean, it got so bad that
at one point we didn't actually have power in the
house because I was able to Jerry rig it for
a while and I was in the middle of doing
what I was doing to make stuff work, and it
blew up with my hand in the panels. So yeah,
(12:24):
needless to say, I kind of considered it a miracle
that I'm still here. But it was bad enough that
we didn't have power at all. So for like three weeks,
my kids were at my aunts and I was living
off of extension cords from my separate garage that had
its own breaker So by the time I got up
got the little bit of things than done that I
could do, like moving chords around so I could make coffee,
moving chords around so I could hook up computers and
(12:45):
hook up the internet long enough to get some things done.
It was exhausting, So I did about twenty five, maybe
thirty percent of what I normally do, and then that
went on for much longer than I thought it was
gonna because here's another thing I found out, like even
for like emergency situations like hey, I have no power
and I need an entirely new breaker panel. Oh, we're
going to have to order that, so it'll be days
(13:07):
before he gets here. Are you kidding me? When when
did contract or inventory become on demand? I need to
know the answer to this question. Oh, I think we
lost in for a moment. I was wondering why I
was talking for so long. She wasn't saying anything, But
she's back now, okay.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
So remember how we were like, okay, we're gonna get
on early.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You send me the link early because I was like,
we haven't done this in a while, want to make
sure I work out all the kinks. Well, it's been
fine for what like the last like twenty five minutes,
and it just force closed, like it just all of
a sudden.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Just force closed.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh nice.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
I thought we beat the demons, but apparently not. Oh well,
well it's okay. I'm back.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Kind I'm kind of bad. I'm kind of bad luck
when it comes to those things problems. See what I
was just explaining.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
So oh man, that's crazy though. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, it's been insane, but luckily everything's been up and
running out for two weeks. We actually had it running
for about a week and then I had something fail
and so good thing is everything was stolen or worrity.
So dude was like, yeah, come out and look, it
turns out one of the breakers was bad. And then
because it was being cranky, he went ahead and split
everything off into a second leg and put it an
(14:23):
extra breaker because there was more room. He's like, this
should take care of it for you for quite some time,
and I'm like, I hope, so, I hope so. But yeah,
so it's been fun. But yeah, finally back to writing again.
Got caught up on all the archives I've been behind on.
We're doing this show again, got the notes put together
for Juxtaposition today. It was Saturday. So I feel like
(14:45):
I've accomplished a lot, but at the same time, I
just feel like I'm still kind of standing still.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But yeah, I know that feeling is, particularly when you've
gotten behind and you have so much to catch up on,
it can be can feel like you're just treading water.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But yeah, no, Kevin, I'm still waiting on a replacement
window for my car broken June. Might be available in
September something.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, see that's what I'm talking about. When did when
did that become the new hormal?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I know, we just had our car has been in
the shop and it's like, yeah, something I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Like initially it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Was like, yeah, well we don't have that, we'll have
to order it, and so oh yeah, it looks like
it's going to be about six to nine weeks.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
What and like it's not driveable, like it has to
be fixed before.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's like it's not one of those things where you
can be like, Okay, let me know when the park
comes in, I'll just deal with whatever BS is going
on six to nine weeks. And then it was like
it could be up to twelve. You're like, I'm sorry,
what three months?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
What are we doing? It's insanity.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I mean, it's just like, in so many ways we
are not a twenty first century Trea anyone.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, it feels like there's been a lot of backsliding
on kind of basic stuff. You know what I'm still
mad about.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I am still.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Mad, and this doesn't have anything to do with that,
but just things that have not gone back to the
way they should or out of sorts. I am still
mad that almost none of the twenty four hour places
have returned to twenty four hours and it is twenty.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Twenty five, right. I mean, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Sometimes I needed that one thirty am Walmart run and
I certainly needed I don't know, sometimes two thirty you.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Know, Jack in the Box Tacos, like it happens. Things
happen like, what the hell happened.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
To these places? Even some of our like places that
were open in the nineties twenty four hours before it
was cool.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Like there's a.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Chain of of diners down here called Gems. They're in
a few in Austin and mostly in San Antonio. And
there was one like kind of close to my home
growing up that everyone went to after football games and
stuff because they stayed open twenty four hours because they
were open for truckers.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Even though there's not really truckers that go through there,
but that's the idea behind it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And even they are closing at eight pm or ten pm,
eight pm.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
That's not even dinner.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, it's nuts. I mean, I will say that some
stuff around here has has kept twenty four hours, like
a lot of the niners and stuff still are around here.
The one that I thought was interesting though, is there.
It is like I Norman, which is of course college town,
still wearing masks and all the restaurants. There's a Denny's
that has a bar in the middle of it, and
the bar used to close down at two and then
(17:34):
the rest of the restaurant would stay open twenty four
hours like it always did. Now all of it closes
at one am, and they still haven't gone back to
normal schedule yet.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now, I will say, like our water Burgers are twenty
four hours, like that's not they they they pretty much
stayed there after, like staffing wasn't an issue anymore.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
They went back to full time schedule.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You maybe couldn't go in the restaurant and by and
like you couldn't go to restaurant after usually ten pm
at most locations anyways, but you could order drive through
all night long. So thankfully we still got our trust
you Waterburger. But pretty much everything else is letting me down,
including you know, even around Christmas time and stuff, and
like my family, you know, we go all out and
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it's the whole thing, and it's always kind of fun,
like with my cousins and my siblings, like we'll do
some last minute runs on like Christmas Evve or whatever.
And like the department store is like Macy's and Dillers
and stuff. They used to stay open until midnight or
even one am, trying to get out your last minute
shopping as long as possible, staying open and they're like, yeah,
we'll close it six you're like what, I can't even
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get off work and get there in time, Like you
don't want our money.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I guess it's just weird. It's just the fu.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's just it. All of it's just gotten weird since COVID,
and some of it's not getting any better, and it's disturbing.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I saw someone lamenting today that she wasn't eligible for
a COVID vaccine and I was like, we're still doing that.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
You're still doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, that's like Robert F. Kennedy Junior just you know,
tried to update the medical procedure stuff and be like,
you know what, infants and babies really don't need a
COVID vaccine, and now there's like a major medical group
that's fighting him on it. I'm like, why the hell
would you give this to babies?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
No, they need protessis and that's kind of it.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And hey by, but that's coming straight out in vitamin
K when they come straight out but like it's a
vitamin they're like, no, they don't, they don't need good
like six not little babies don't need COVID shots.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But it was just weird that this was like a
twenty four year old. It's like, I'm not eligible for
the coach time. People are like, why aren't you eligible eligible?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
And she's like, well, because they're.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Reserving it for amino compromise and elderly. And then then
I don't fit the demographic that they're giving the vaccine to.
And it's like, yeah, because you're healthy and you're gonna
get over it, Like why are you crying?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And she was like, this is.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The first time in five years I have a been
able to get my shot in at least two boosters.
And I'm like, oh lord, it's affecting your brain. That
is a bunch of brain rot going on.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Dude, your DNA has been completely reprogrammed in your NOF.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I mean, yeah, anyways, well and kind of there's just
I've seen a little bit more. And of course this
always happens as we go into fall, right, like they
start to ramp up the COVID scare again. Oh yeah,
it's always the new strain and this one is deadly
and this one is blah blah blah, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
My gosh, it's it's really it's it's really.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Not I like, how are people still falling for it
to that degree, like it's one thing I want to
be careful and be like, oky, I'm gonna watch be
better about washing my hands. You know, if I do
get a cough or something, I want to be considered
of other people and I'm personally gonna mask for that
reason or whatever. You know, people do what you want
to do to try to, you know, limit your sickness,
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because none of us want to get sick. I mean,
it's not like we're out here like hey, I can't
wait to get the cold and the flu and the
COVID and everything, but like, you know, so taking a
little extra measure like during the fall season and as
it gets cold and all of that, okay, but like
this complete panic that ramps up every fall trying to
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be like, oh no, we're all going to get the
COVID wave and everybody's gonna die.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
It's just like, it's how are people still falling for that?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, most people aren't. The ones that are the ones
that have had so many COVID vaccines and posters that
their brain has rotted all out of the example we
were talking about a moment ago. I mean seriously, because
most of us have completely moved past it. I mean,
I just I just saw some.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Hallo. Okay, I lost you. Yeah, oh I lost thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
For a second. Okay, but you can know right, yes
I can. Okay, Yeah I was. There was a friend
who texted me the other day and they was like,
I have COVID. I'm like, I didn't even know that
was the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah. I know someone that recently got tested. But the
only reason.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They did was because they do have a daughter in
law that's about to give birth, and so they didn't
want to go stay with her and give her COVID
while she was like on the verge of birth and
her child. So it's like I understand that, but everybody
else I know, like, I don't think people are like, yeah,
I'm pretty sure I had COVID last week, but nobody tested.
Nobody's like doing anything, you know what I mean. They're
(22:37):
just like, I mean what, they can't do anything. Okay,
I guess packs Loavid, But you know, if they're not
eighty and you're not like in a really vulnerable position.
I mean, these strains, as much as they keep saying
we're going to have the next demon strain, they've just
not proven to be that they've only proven to be
more mild.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
So hey, anyways, what do.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You what are you gonna do? They're they're gonna come
up with something new to try to kill us every year,
every year from hell on anyway, because it didn't work
the first time, so now they're just going to keep trying.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, it's it's the I think it's also the need,
particularly by progressives and the Democrats, that you know, to
keep everybody in perpetual fear. And it's like, and if
you look to us to guide you, we can do it,
if you just listen to me, if we can have
the authority over you, and if we can, we will
(23:28):
keep you safe and we will be better, you know
what I mean. It's that it's that overall uh nanny
state bullshit. And once they saw that come in a
little bit with with COVID, they were like, oh man,
this is the good ship, this is it, this is
the way to do it.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
So they just can't let it go.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You know, they got to keep pumping that fear down
because otherwise they they you know, they've lost so many already,
like in all of gen Z.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
But whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, yeah, I mean, so there's new numbers coming out today,
and I'm kind of understanding why they're trying to go
them on of the fear stuff as much as they
can still because for the thirty states that track voter registration,
there has been a three million count drop in Democratic
voters registering. There's been a three point four million increase
in Republican voters. So we're talking about a full swing
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plus four hundred thousand in the last four years. So
I kind of understand why the people that are still
trying to make the fear porn work are drastically and
so seriously trying to make the fear porn work. But
I think it may be too late for them, because
not only was one of the topics you wanted to
talk about today, you know, the fact that gen z
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is swinging widely conservative, and they are, but there's proof
of that because I don't know if you've noticed it.
I don't see it that often because I live in
the middle of nowhere now. But the last time I
went into the city, I was driving through a neighborhood
and kids were playing outside again, like seriously, like riding
bikes and doing all the things that we used to
do for like an entire generation. They weren't doing they're
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doing it. And I think part of it's because the
parents were like, oh my god, you were cooped up
with me for over a year. Get the hell out
of my house, okay.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I also I also have another theory about it as
far as the demographic that's raising these kids. Now, it's
the younger It's like the youngest of gen X and
the eldest of Millennials, and that Zennial group, the kind
of last you know, five to eight years of Gen X,
(25:35):
and then the first five to eight years of Millennials
are the ones that largely have kids in middle school
in high school right now, and and younger too. But
you know, they have kids that are approaching this coming
of age right And I just feel like, and just
from my group, my cousins that are the kind of
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the younger gen X, you know, you're kind of that
younger gen X.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I'm the elder Millennial.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
There's just I know that Gen X likes to be
the real like we're the only ones that don't give
a fuck, blah blah blah blah blah. But I think
that extends further into that zenial, that zenial grouping to
where we saw the in between, we saw the over
compensation and the complete flip around to try to make
everything soft and comfy for kids and to do participation
(26:23):
trophies and to make everything fair and have safe faces
and all that shit. And so we got to kind
of experience that as like young to middle adults, and
then now having the kids those ages are like, oh
fuck no, that didn't work. That our older cousins, not
the boomers, but the older gen xers did right to
try to overcorrect their lack of affection during high during uh,
(26:47):
during their childhoods or or lack of attention or whatever.
So there's like a balance of still having that kind
of like yeah, go outside and play. And we grew
up that way too, but we also kind of grew
into technology during like maybe high school, college, early mid twenties,
and then that started coming around and then so we
(27:08):
kind of had a like we're in between these worlds
and we got foocked over by everybody. So there's a
whole lot of like, no, that's not what we're doing,
and that's not how We've seen this party get destroyed.
We've seen y'all destroy other people, and there's just this
sweet spot of about ten to twelve, maybe even as
many as fifteen years of parents raising kids that are
(27:30):
kind of going back a little old school. They're the
ones that aren't as big on having phones and devices
in their hands all the time, not because they're helicopter parenting,
but because they're like, literally, go the fuck outside, go outside,
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Go outside?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You know, they're taking their kids fishing and hiking and
teaching them, you know, all kinds of skills. There's more,
there's a higher rate from the demographic of thirty five
to fifty that is the largest amount of teaching firearmt
like learning and teaching firearm use, proper firearm use two
children to their children. It's the highest demographic right now.
(28:09):
So I just think that there's like the sweet spot
of people. So what you're kind of seeing with these
Gen Z kids that they really don't give a fuck,
you know what, They're like, cancel me.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I'm already canceled. I don't care. There's nothing to cancel.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You can't even So that's the thing, you can't cancel
them because they literally don't give a shit. And it's
kind of adapted that attitude from that young gen ex
elder millennial that kind of got the best of multiple
worlds and the worst of multiple worlds. Raising these kids
in a different way and enabling them and talking to
them about politics and not letting them become commies, like,
(28:43):
you know, having those conversations and not hoping to kind
of get enough in them before they go get brainwashed,
which sometimes you can't help. It's what happens, we all know.
But yeah, I just think that there's just a little
bit different happening with these kids that are from like
mid to late elementary school to high school right now,
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and the different approach from their parents, watching their grandparents
and their parents and then their older siblings or cousins
or neighbors or whatever, and then deciding what to do
with theirs. And I think it's having a real effect
in addition to the overall then culture shift with the
likes of Trump and you.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Know, the onslaught.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Of Republican media, right wing influencers, all of that of
course comes into play as well, but it's because they
have a base to start from.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, good point. Good point. Oh so, how are you
feeling about this whole Texas redistrict?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
So like people have lost their minds?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Of course, we knew they would, right, Like I knew
that Dums were gonna go absolutely blonkers. But when it
all started, like we're at the beach when the dams
flood the state. And it always cuts me out because
they do the every few years. Anybody that like pays attention.
Usually it makes national headlines because everybody's.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Like, oh, they're sitting Texas and.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It's always the Democrats and uh they flee to try
to avoid you know, a quorum, and so uh always
puts me up though, because they it's always some sort
of protest about those mean Republicans trying to bully us
and not compromising and you know, it's corrupt and they're
(30:27):
Nazis and they're fascist.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
And then they flee to Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Ah yeah right, Ah.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
What I'm sorry, Yes, let's go to the bastion of
political corruption. Let's let's let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
But they yeah, I so it always corrects me up
when they did that. So they've they did that, and
then they stalled by trying to amend the bill. They
finally reluctantly came home. You know, Abbot kind of had
a strong hand in that. There were some clever tactics
there and then they stalled by trying to I'm into
like twelve times, they tabled it seven times, and they
just really were dragon afe trying not to make this
(31:05):
aboute of course they get defeated eighty eight to fifty two.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
That was a no brainer there.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
But everybody seems to not be understanding first of all,
that this is completely within the rights under the Texas constitution,
like it's in the state constitution, and it's they keep
trying to make it seem like this is some shady,
underhanded thing. No, this has been done multiple times throughout
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the state's history, including after Texas which people conveniently forget
how freaking democrat Texas was for decades. So seventies, eighties,
leading into the nineties, Texas was blue and.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
District yeah and daily district.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And I know it's a different branded Democrat at that time,
but still they it was blue and no one ever
saw it going fully red, like it's crazy to think
back on that.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
And but they you.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Know, they read a strict in ninety one to try
to keep even to get even more seats too, like
this is something that only that usually like super politicals.
And then of course like Texas nerds have even looked
back far enough to see what this is. And then
in addition to that, I think that I think that
it's shortsighted not to acknowledge the absolute like influx that
(32:31):
Texas has had for the better well, I mean really
for ten to fifteen years, but specifically the last five.
I mean there were over five hundred thousand, half a
million that came to Texas, mostly from blue states in
twenty twenty, and that continued for the next four years,
adding five, six, seven, even one estimation for twenty twenty
(32:55):
four is over eight hundred thousand, so almost another million
people coming to text says, you know, coming in in the.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Last five years.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
So you're talking about four to five million people coming
in in the last five years. And yeah, there's ever
a time to redistrict. Now, of course Republicans want in
more seats. I'm not gonna lie and say that's not
the case, but as well within their rights to do so.
They control the Texas Congress right now, and they absolutely
had the right to redistrict it. But if you do
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look at it on the logical level of how much
we've added people people fleeing from blue states, which by
the way, a whole lot of them fled because they
were flaying blue policies. So you can kind of bet
that a decent chunk will be leaning right at least
a decent amount of time. So you know, you need
(33:49):
to reevaluate what those districts are. But again they go
to Chicago, the most gerrymannered state in the fucking country,
and cry about it like hello, and you got Barack Obama.
You know, shouldn't have Geremane, we should not have got
in politics, it's not right or fair. But since it is,
really glad Newsom is going to retaliate because he's five,
(34:11):
because that's how this works, so dude.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So so it passed. It passed the California legislature today,
by the way, So I would like to point out
that none of the California Republicans absconded to like Texas
or anywhere to try to stop the vote from going forward.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Is that interesting?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Also, I think it was funny that you know, they've
been like this is all about like leveling the playing
field because of what Texas did, right, even though like
California already has more but they already have more population,
higher population, Okay, whatever, But after all of this, and
they were like saying that it was you know, it
(34:51):
was so that they could do this to retaliate, and
they would only be they were only doing this because
of if other states do this, because they assume and
it it's kind of been hinted that other states are
going to follow suit with Texas other red states, so like,
we won't do it if y'all will stop, if you
won't put yours forward, then we won't do it too well.
And guess what they did today, quietly without any announcement,
(35:15):
they removed and completely removed the provision that said the
scheme would only take a vent if other states engaged
in redistricting. So now they have passed it and they
removed vas so that they will redistrict regardless because they
are just as you know, power hungry, vote hungry, and
actually more so, they're more desperate than I think Texas
(35:38):
Republicans are at this point in time. And of course
for Newsome, it's just another little on his resume, on
his Cutler resume. He's he's compiling leading up to the
next election. The other thing they kept being really upset
about is this.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Mid decade, This mid decade redistricting.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
They keep saying that in the media, like it's like
don't don't, like you're not allowed to do it, and
like mid presidential term in mid decade, We're like, yeah, yeah,
before the mid terms, this isn't hard. Yeah, but they
keep saying it with this like tone like it's like
that makes.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
It super shady, like well, when is a good time
to do it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Their whole argument is that it's unconstitutional because it's only
supposed to be done after the census, and I'm like,
that's not actually what it says.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
It's also not what it says in the Texas state constitutions,
so they can go get sucked with that.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh I know. The thing about it is what what
California is trying to do does actually violate their constitution,
which is why they have.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
To propose an amendment they have to put it through.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It's just hilarious watching all this, And now, of course
the new shtick is, oh my god, Gavin Newsom's amazing
because he's copying. I'm like, yeah, you have if you
have to explain that he's trolling, Oh that account.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Okay, Like I could read like one or two of
those and be like, oh, Okay, that's kind of fun.
But that's all they're doing now is so stupid. But
by the way, I have to tell you one funny
thing that happened during this vote.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Sure, so.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Representative Nicole Collier was trying to.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Was trying to make a whole thing about you know,
Newsom supporting the Texas Democrats or whatever.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
So she tried to go FaceTime Newsom in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Like she left the floor and went to the bathroom
that adjoins the House floor and the Congress floor Congression
floor in Texas, and she left and went into the
bathroom to FaceTime Newsom to make you know, some point
and to be like and then so that way she
wasn't on the floor quite yet for the vote and
then maybe it could stall more.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
But also to get Newsom.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
On and to film that and use it as you know,
motivation and get her pots on the back, I guess,
and get his face in part of death in Congress.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
And she ended up getting.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
They ended up coming to find her, and she got
in trouble because it's a felony to.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Call from the floor or the bathroom that adjoins the floor.
Wild confession.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
So she had to duck out and had to hang
up on Newsom real quick in her little stun like
y'all should have discharged her, not to actually go through
with the prosecution, just to scare the ship out of her.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Dude, I as soon as they all started throwing a
fit about not signed information slips and all that ship,
I'd just been like, fine, we're gonna throw you in
jails with the boat then, Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, I mean, you know, at the end there before
they finally came out, which is what happens every time.
You know that they really they really did a good
job of reining them in after after threatening quite a few,
quite a few meaningful things and knowing that Abbott will
fall through on it, you know, hander he'd have them
(39:10):
all aristed, but especially as he's you know, winding down
in this which also reminds me some good news and
even though it's like not great for his district, hopefully
there's a good replacement.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
But chip Roy is running for Texas AG which I
think is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, I saw that today. Yeah, I would also I
would also like to point out there's a good chance
Slavey Crockett might be having to start an only fans
channel soon because she probably won't have a district anymore.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
She's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
She's probably gonna go to California. She'd been she'd been
sucking that dick pretty hard, so it wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And she loaded up the truck and went.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
And by the way, did you see the kammulator?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Oh, bits and pieces of it. I have to admit
I usually try to tune it out now that she's
back in the news again.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
But like what, she's literally going on tour to celebrate
her failed presidential run.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
The fake swearing inn was kind of cute.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
It's just like, wait, what it's like? Sort of presidential
campaign in history as a tagline for.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
It, and most expensive that went nowhere in.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Which I lost and some funds are still unaccounted for.
But sure she's sharing her lessons.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Learn girl.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
She's gonna sit up there and she's gonna tell her
little stories and a bunch of world salid about, you know,
and the hope and the peace and the love and
the things, and how we aren't empowered and we're going
to have to come together and everything that was good
can be great again.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
And oh and did I mention I brought you my
ven diagram about how I like yellow school buses.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Just thought I was like, what, who is buying these
tickets to go see this?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
This is so weird.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
It's just so gree to do.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I mean, at least Hillary was embarrassed and her ego
was bruised and she had some shame.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
But so so there's something speaking of Hillary that's kind
of completely flown under the radar that I love to
point out to the left every so often, because remember,
Donald Trump is the devil, He's Hitler, He's Satan incarnate.
But even she did it on a podcast the other
day with Jessica Tarlov, if he could bring peace between
Ukraine and Russia, she would submit him for the Nobel
(41:29):
peace price. You're gonna put Hitler up for the peace price? Really,
you fucking bitch?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Really, really, that's wild. Like you've been You've spent ten
years tearing this man apart. You had the CIA and
the FBI going after him when he was campaigning and
trying to see what you could what you could do
to have him tear tore down. Then you did everything
you could with Barack Obama to to hinder his transition,
(41:55):
and you've called him every name under the sun. You
you you you can see, and then took it back
and then did a four year tour about how Russia
robbed you of an election, and now you want to
give the man the Nobel Peace Prize if you can
bring peace between these two countries. You're a fucking slunt.
Speaker 6 (42:14):
Why don't you slunt? In a long time, I love
that word. Well, that's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It's like, yeah, it's almost like they don't believe anything
that they say.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, well, they've kind of proven that over and over again.
Because again, even if it was for the purpose of trolling,
why would you be mimicking Hitler on social media?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Right?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
People?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Okay, well there is uh one other main thing and
then like a couple of little things.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
But one other main thing is the.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Uh the announcement about how they're going to reassess the
fifty five million visas.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, we probably should have done that a while ago.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Fifty five million, fifty.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Five million visas? Am I the only one that was gues.
I guess you're from the Tony voice on population what Yeah, so,
I guess by the Tony Tony of your voice, you
weren't the only one that was extremely surprised by that number.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
I mean, I did think visa wise think, I know,
it probably includes tourist visas, which can be various degrees
of time lengths, and then they also might be reported
even if there are people that aren't even here right
now that are coming up. They have approved visas for
two weeks from now or whatever, or for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
You know, when I had.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
To do some study abrosive and some traveling to certain places,
you know, I had to get my visa preapproved like
way in advance.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
But it not fifteen million worth, Like oh, I was
like twenty million, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I would have even maybe went thirty, but fifty yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:02):
Yeah, maybe thirty.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
No really, And I love it because they're still hanging us.
So it's like fifty five million visas and there's still
somehow stuck on the same number they've given us since
like nineteen ninety five, of like eleven to fourteen million illegals.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
I'm like, it's now, that's that's just fifty. That's just fifty.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
And then and then you add into that there's twelve
point eight million Green card holders last year, and then
these are the the.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Mostly the main visas.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Then there was three point six million tenth visas outside
of this visa number last year. So I tell you
that's another sixteen million people.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
So what you're telling me is like seventy percent of
our population as foreigners right now? Like, I don't know
how I feel about this?
Speaker 6 (44:54):
What now? So? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:59):
So then on top of the did you see it
was announced later this evening that RIDO is causing all
issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Well, yeah, I mean it kind of seems important when
you know you've got somebody that never should have gotten
one in the first place, couldn't pass the oral test,
couldn't read more than one out of twelve road signs, right,
got one question, right, understood one of four road signs,
and still managed to get not only a temporary CDL
out of California, but a permanent one out of Washington State.
(45:30):
What yeah?
Speaker 6 (45:31):
How did he even pass the test? Perfectly?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Confident and qualified people are denied these on a regular basis,
Like what the.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
It's just all scam, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Whenever that terrible accident happened here on thirty five and
often that killed like four people, similar thing the guy
got out nobody.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
He was like dazed and confused. He acted like he didn't.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
He's like, oh what and he was like, oh, they're
dead and they're like yeah, bro, you just rammed into
them going sixteen miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (46:02):
They're dead.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
And he's like oh man, oh and he just stands
there like whatever. And even after like that happened, when
people really dug into that, and I tried to a
little bit, but it got to become too much.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Of a rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
It goes to this place that's this building that oh
doesn't actually have a company, it's just an address for
this one that's actually over here here, and they all
lead back to fucking California. It's shell on shell on
shell on shell, and they like go to apartment buildings
to another approach. So it's like you go to one,
you go to one actual business that's just basically no
(46:46):
more than like a little rented space to have a
basically a po box, and then that's like the business address.
And then it's like, oh, their parent company is actually
housed out of these apartments in Arlington and Texas, Arlington, Texas,
not even forwards of Dallas, Arlington. And then on top
of that, that company's parent company is based out of
like it would go even something more obscure, like uh,
(47:08):
go to like an Amarillo, and then it'd be like okay,
and then that one is based out of this place
in Arizona town I've never heard of. Then that place
is based out of and it all would lead back
to California, and that's where these CDLs are coming from.
Speaker 6 (47:24):
So there are some major fucking scam going on.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, anybody and everybody who can investigate this shit needs
to investigate it because there's there's absolutely no reason this
idiot should have ever gotten a cdo. And then of course,
as soon as they made the announcement that they were
suspending the visas for that kind of stuff, they're like, oh,
look here comes more inflation. I'm like, you don't think
American workers would like jump at the chance to do that.
(47:48):
I mean, my son is one of my kids is
a truck driver. He loves it. Yeah, he's stepping away
now because his kids are older and he doesn't want
to be on the road all the time while while
they're in school and all kinds fun stuff. So he's
taking the job at the yard and then probably go
back to it. But he absolutely loves being on the road.
I mean, now one of the guys, this is almost
every single show we put out is constantly on the room.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's a really great option for
a lot of people and in a way to make
a decent chunk of money, and especially for younger people
starting out, like young men, Like it's kind of like
doing some of those others, but like not as dangerous
as doing like oil rig work or something like that.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
Like go while you're young, while you're not attached, while
you don't.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Have kids, and go make your money, yeah, and then
get that experience. It's always on your resume. It's a
lot of cash in the bank, you know, because of
your expenditure. Is not crazy going out, especially like I
mean I had friends that did stuff like this, and
it's like yeah, because then you you have an apartment
with like three bedrooms, you get like five or six guys,
(48:51):
and y'all are always rotating in and out because you're
all on the road or you're all on the ship. Yeah,
so you're splitting you know, eighteen hundred dollars rent six ways,
Like you're not that you're paying pennies.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
It's not it's not.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I mean, I think it's a great option for some people,
and but I do know that they're they're parts of
this country where it's very hard to get one.
Speaker 6 (49:16):
Oh we're not getting them out.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Well, I mean that's gonna be something that's gonna have
to be looked at too. But with it, what doesn't
make any sense to me is what as difficult that
as it is to get them in some places? And
they hand them out like like can yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
This is happening over there right, It's almost like they're
all pre rubber stamped and they just hand them to
the guy that's paid whatever he's paid for them, and
then he gets to hand them whatever forener he wants.
Speaker 6 (49:39):
I don't know, it's so crazy, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I hate to bring this up, but historically speaking, you know,
back when the Hell's Angels were a big deal and
all these guys were trying to keep their licenses current
with all the crap that they were doing, and they
they would always put their lady friends to work in
the DMV before background checks got relea severe. So I
have a feeling something like that might be happening here. Oh,
(50:03):
somebody's making money off of this somewhere.
Speaker 6 (50:06):
Yeah, I have no no doubt.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Well, anyways, back to the overall visays, So yeah, that's
just such a ridiculous chunk. So I was trying to
read more about like because they're like, they're gonna thoroughly
vet you know, they're gonna do this, They're going to
do that, And I'm like, okay, but some of that's
been done before. Some of that has been already going
(50:29):
on since this administration took office. There are departments that
look at this stuff on a regular basis, no matter
who's in office. It's just how diligent do they or
how much incentive do they have to actually produce anything.
But I was looking at it and basically everything's really vague.
It's like we're gonna look to see if they've been
(50:50):
in violation of any US laws, you know, all that,
and then they're gonna go try to get their records
from their country of origin, which I guess for decent
tonks of time during Obama and Biden that was it's
been admitted was all but suspended. So even though like, yeah,
they might have done a terse research, so it was
(51:12):
like they didn't they haven't committed murder, they haven't been
convicted of murder. They didn't really look very hard or
and they didn't follow up, like if countries just didn't
send them the records. A lot of times these people
would still get their visas approved even though like they
hadn't heard back, and so they'd wait and wait and wait.
And I actually used to work We've talked about this
(51:32):
a little bit before, when I was working for Broadway
Dancer in New York City. Actually worked in their student
visa department, in the department that handled immigration and visas.
Because it was an accredited program, you know, we could
give student visas to foreign students, and so, you know,
I learned a lot about doing all of that process
(51:53):
and paperwork and everything. And I mean there were a
councelhre like it sucked that kid had gotten there and
had planned everything, and their country would not sit in
the appropriate paperwork, They would not answer the questions, they
would not give me the background checks that I needed
from their records, and I had to halm them and
halm them and helm them. And there were times where
(52:13):
there was a kid standing in front of me so
nights older than I was. I was eighteen, nineteen, twenty
years old. S Day's older than I was, and I'd
have to tell them that, like now their tenth visa
is running out and their full visa can't be filed
because their country won't cooperate, and so Nomes I don't
even think.
Speaker 6 (52:28):
They have the resources too. You know, there's a lot
of that.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
I ran into that a lot with people from the
Philippines and like Indonesia. I like people I actually was
able to converse with. They're like, I don't even know
if we have those records, Like they're not filed anywhere,
they're not digitized. They he'd have to go to his province,
like all kinds of things. So anyways, the point is
(52:52):
is that I that it wouldn't surprise me if there's
a ton of people that possibly have fled their country
and do have records there that we're going to find
out because they just waited them out and went, oh, well,
I never heard back and it's been three months, so
I'm just going to stamp it say it's fine. I
don't say anything bad, so I guess it's fine. So
I think there will be some of that. But the
(53:13):
other thing that is being stated in every article, is
they are going to look at their social media.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Oh it's all crazy. All of this is craziness. Sorry,
I got distracted. I got distracted by two things. One,
I just realized the Democrats put the Democrats account actually
put out a post a few hours ago that said,
we think the cracker barrel logo soaks too.
Speaker 6 (53:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
I was like, I was wondering why corn had posted
about who would have thought the one thing that could
unite the left and the right is how bad the
new or how lame the new cracker brel logo is.
Then I saw that, I was like, oh damn, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Will say the cracker barrel thing. I mean, it's stupid,
it's stupid. I think it's dumb. I don't like it,
but I don't wouldn't call going. Look, it's just modernizing
and trying to rebrand and listening to some idiot who
probably is a leftist. But I don't know that they're
doing all of this because of some sort of leftist ideology.
(54:13):
They're doing it because they're trying to be trendy and
they're trying to be upsteal like.
Speaker 6 (54:19):
Stressed it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Yeah, Well, I mean it's because they've lost track of
what their brand is supposed to be. But this isn't
anything new. Does anybody, I mean, anybody been to McDonald's lately.
It looks it looks like it looks like a fifty
year old man going through a midlife crisis. When you
walk in, it's dark, dreary, drab. No nothing I saw.
I saw somebody put a real up of a play
place the other day in a newly built McDonald's with
(54:42):
this new've been doing for a while, and it's like
two screens and some little pool looking thing yep, And like,
what the hell?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah no around here. You got to go to Chick
fil A if you want a good playscape. It's still
two story, nice indoors hot. See.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
I'm for a time when Chick fil A was only
in malls, so I'm still not used to having standalone locations.
Speaker 6 (55:08):
Yeah no, I mean growing up, that's how it was.
That's absolutely how it was.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
But I I thought it was funny though that the
feet was like, uh, customer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive,
and I was like, what, there's no way that's either
like waitresses being forced to ask their customers to their
face as they're handing them their bill and they're.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
Like, oh, yeah, that's great, looks great, or you're lying.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
Oh, I mean if.
Speaker 6 (55:42):
See that kid, to see them like serving.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
I mean because we sometimes do this for like, hey,
get feedback on these appetizers or get feedback on this,
and so when it's terrible, they're like, oh, yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 6 (55:55):
We want to ask you how you like the remodel.
You know, everything's net a little bit and so that
is known, and they're like, yes, it's put on the
spot like that. Absolutely, people will say yes just because
they want you to go away.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yeah, no, exactly, because there's just like just shut up
and leave me, that's just it.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
They also pulled h oh h loyal Cracker Barrel customers
and also people that had never been to Crater Barrel.
Speaker 1 (56:26):
Nice. I mean, up, it's been probably two or three
years since I've bothered to eat there because the last
time I ate there, their portion sizes weren't what they
were before. They'd cut down on the amount of meat
that they served and put an extra vegetable on the
plate instead, and I'm just like, that's not why I
come here on my Sunday.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Thick and is still the same, and it is delicious,
and it is like the hangover drive home food. When
we come back from DFW after like nice cotton cotton
ball or saying my brother play or whatever we like
get We.
Speaker 6 (56:59):
Don't go to the one right outside.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
You don't go to the one, you know, just south
of Fort Worth and Burlison. You go on down a
little bit. You don't go on the one in Alvarado.
You go a little bit farther down to where you're
north of wake Goo but so far south enough from
DFW that's not as busy and crowded, and you hop
off thirty five on that one. It's amazing. Just make
sure that the church crowd has passed nice.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
Yeah, no, I mean I don't know if maybe some
of them are like you know, maybe franchises or what.
But yeah, it's definitely different up here. But like I said,
it's been a couple of years because I hadn't been back,
so I don't know if I will be now, because
if it's going to be all drabbing depressing when I go,
and I don't really care anymore. But we are out
of time because we have somebody else spinning up about
our mendors. So where can folks find you?
Speaker 6 (57:46):
Mostly on Twitter, X whatever.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
I always love it when my phone dings and it
says you know your mom's an article from X formerly
known as Twitter.
Speaker 6 (58:00):
Every single time it says it, it still says it.
Speaker 2 (58:03):
So yeah, here at jay Holmestead and h then as
always follow Missfits politics and hang out for miss Fit
mischeff on Friday nights.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
Hang out for the saloon. You can hang over, sit
down at the bar, grab a drink, get ready for
closing time because that'll be the last act for us.
And I'll be back tomorrow morning ten am Eastern for
the Rick Robinson Show. Back tomorrow night for Rick and
Aggie seven eight thirty pm Eastern, seven thirty in God's
time zone. And also back tomorrow Saturday, and my first
Pushing Buttons for the front Port Forensics Crew starting at
(58:36):
eight pm Eastern, then Juxtaposition at ten pm Eastern, then
Pushing Buttons and co hosting with Corn and Mickingkorn's reading
room at seven pm Eastern on Sunday. Because I'm a
workaholic and I still haven't been able to figure out
how not to do that anymore, but it's been fun.
We I have missed doing the show and I've missed
talking to you, so I look forward to us continuing
(58:56):
this again, hopefully next week. Absolutely, out feeds not changing,
so just stay put. Yesterday helps if I hit the
red button, that was not the outpost.
Speaker 6 (59:10):
Okay, where am I
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