#JandR 08-28-25 The Gun Control Ghouls Are At It Again

Jenn and Rick talk about all the news of the day, including the gun control nuts who are out in force again since the shooting in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1 (04:36):
And welcome into the program. It's Thursday night, which means
it's time for Jin and Rick. I'm Rick. She's Jin
and Rex. Watch your fucking mouth, bro. Welcome into the program, ladies,
and don't hope you're Thursday Night's going well. I'm trying
to rally. I think I brought home a hitchhiker when
I took her friend to the hospital the other day
because I haven't felt right for like a day and
a half. I'm trying to rally. M We'll see, Hey, Jen,

(04:59):
how are you?

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Hang on my fault. You had some background noise and
I forgot I killed there. Now you can talk my bad.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
I was like, I'm good, but I'm muted. Uh, doing
really good. Two major American accomplishments this week. We bullied
Cracker Barrel into submission and brought the old logo back
and there's college football on my TV right now.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Nice. Yeah. Next next thing we got to do is
bully Pizza Hut and then not sucking again.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
Well, you know they're doing retro. They they already have
been doing this for the last couple of years. They're
they're picking out locations, particularly ones that still had the
bigger Hut restaurant you know they own that property because
next to McDonald's, they are one of the largest Uh well,
McDonald's was one of the largest landowners in America. I
don't know if people realize that, but like they're essentially

(06:01):
a real estate company that serves fast food. It's insanity.
But Pizza Hut, especially in the eighties and nineties, was
very close behind them as far as fast food ownership.
So they did retain a lot of their brick and
mortar of the big huts in a lot of areas.
So even though they weren't used, they didn't have the
salad bar anymore, you weren't going there for cake games

(06:22):
as often. They still kept the stores to you know,
run delivery out of. So over the last couple of
years they've been retrofitting a bunch of them, including bringing
back the red cups, the cool the cool little lights
over it, you know, the tile lights bus And I

(06:44):
don't know about the salad bar, but there is one
not like crazy far from here. So when I do,
like go go to Oklahoma or go to d FW,
I keep telling my husband that we are going to
make a point, we are going to ticket and they've
brought in like pac man, they've brought in ski like
they brought in older kid games and then like a
mini ski ball and things like that. So each franchise

(07:06):
is doing it a little bit different. But there are
I think it's a couple dozen now that are retrofitting
and with the hopes to expand to more, which would
be amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah. So the interesting thing because one, I'm glad Cracker
Rail came to their senses because not only did they
give up on the logo idea, they've also pulled all
their pride bullshit off their website, which was never a
good fit for Cracker Rail. But there's a dirty little
secret for all of this, you know, sterilization. And all
these buildings started to look the same. I mean because

(07:38):
when we were kids, McDonald's had a very distinctive look.
Long Down Silver's had a very distinctive look. McDonald's had
a very distinctive look. Now they all basically look the same.
You just hit the nail on the head because McDonald's
has basically become a real estate company. So when one
of those restaurants fails, usually they're franchises. They want the
ability to be able to sell off the property somebody else.

(08:00):
It's really hard to move anything else into a McDonald's
where they're not going to be like I thought this
was a McDonald's at least if it was like it
was when we were little. Now that they all look
the same, you can basically just pull the signage off
and plug anything you want in there. That's the real,
dirty little secret as to why all these locations are
actually starting to ok the same. It makes construction costs
much less because they can get all their stuff from

(08:22):
the same suppliers.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
And it's also not it's not always, but it is
a pretty decent tell tell of it if it's a
franchise cee owner or if it is a directly run
and operated McDonald's by the corporation, because there are still
a lot of those. Not every single McDonald's has a
franchise is part of a franchise. Like there are still

(08:44):
the corporate corporate McDonald's that are being run and those
are the ones that they've changed first. Those are the
ones they've built new a lot of times, so you
don't always get so there there's one right by us
that still looks like the old school, and the franchisee
owner once it that he's had uh, he's had offers
from corporate to update some stuff, and so he's taken,

(09:06):
of course, to do that inside with the booze and everything,
but he hasn't gotten rid of the classic look. They
just they just repair it. They just repair it and
keep keep keep it the way it is. So there
is a difference with that too. And I don't know
how much how much pool you have to have. I
don't know if it's like, oh, you've been you you know,
you've been one of our franchises for thirty years, so

(09:28):
you can make that choice, or if it's how much
money you've brought them. Who knows. I have no idea
about the inner workings. I just know that there are
a lot of differences and who runs them.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I just I just thought it was funny because
everybody's like, it's all about woke. I'm like, no, well
kind of, but not really, because it's really about cost
effectiveness when some of these places fail and on the
new like you know, the ones that have been here
for a while that you know may not have gotten
the facelifts yet, Like the pizza not too far from
me still looks like a pizza. But I've noticed the
newer ones they built. You could basically plug anything in

(10:04):
there and you wouldn't know. But so especially for like
the newer ones that are built, they're all the ones
that look like, you know, McDonald's went from being a happy,
go lucky kid to a middle aged man with a
midlife crisis in the last years.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
And I do think there's some of it that's happened that,
like people naturally wanted a facelift on things because it
was felt dated. And we went through a whole I
mean all of the two like the two thousands, from
like mid two thousand and tens to now only very
recently have everybody has everybody like as a as a

(10:38):
whole on society started to be nostalgic and retro about
things like that, Like we spent a good chunk of
the two thousands trying to upgrade everything, upgrade, upgrade, update, modernized, modernized, modernized,
and you know, whether it was you know, individuals' homes,
if it was fashion style, if it was restaurants, if

(10:59):
it was staate, if it whatever it was, it's just
been update, update, modernized, modernized like crazy. And you know
that's affected it too, because there were a decent amount
of those that would have been fine left alone with
just you know, a little spit and polish every now
and then, but everybody wanted a facelift on this. There
was one that got completely redone near here, and everybody's like,

(11:22):
a so sleek. You know, it was a fast food chain,
but it was like, it looks so sleek and nice
now and it's got marble countertops, and I'm like, really, okay,
doesn't feel like, you know, like what it's supposed to be,
so whatever.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
I think I think part of that is we had
this We had this grandiose idea of you know, all
the way back in the two thousands, you know, because
we don't forget we just survived y two k. Everybody
thought the world everybody thought the world was going to end.
So we had this grandiose idea of what we thought
twenty twenty five was going to look like. So we
were like, let's rush into the future, make everything look awesome.

(11:58):
And now we're like, can we please go back to
the eighties? Was that?

Speaker 7 (12:02):
And then there's nine to eleven, and then we start
going to you know, there's just a lot of things
that were happening. I mean, boy bands were top in
the charts. Like it was a weird time, you know,
and we were trying to move through it.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Weird time to be alive. Man, boy bands were everywhere,
but it.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
Was like it was boy bands, but also the same
people going to boy band concerts were going to like
you know, they were going to rock concerts. They were
going to see like Oasis and stuff too. Like it
was the same people. I mean I did. I went
to country concerts, I went to rock concerts, I went
to rap concerts, I went to everything. I was like

(12:41):
multi genre teen so always always as funny, where as
like before, it's like if you were grunge, you were grunge.
If you were a rock, you were rock. Like you
might listen to something at home by yourself, but even
like go out with those people. No, in the two thousands,
we were like, fucket, we like everything. I'm totally a
teeny bopper, but I'm gonna go rock out to you know,

(13:03):
freaking God. I can't even think like Stained and Disturbed
when they were on the same tour, you.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Know, yeah, well, I mean again, that was that, that
was just that, Oh my god, we're also happy we're alive.
It doesn't matter anymore. Labels don't matter anymore. We're still here.
But yeah, I mean there was a time when, you know,
I like you said, if you were a rocker, you
were a rocker, and you might go home and you
might listen to some Billy Joel, but you damn sure
didn't tell your friends you were listening to Billy Joels, right,

(13:33):
And then you know, and then the world changed different.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
Well anyways, So but I mean I am glad cracker barrel.
They said they were going to listen, they said they
were going to hear back, wanted to hear feedback, and
you know, they changed it. So we'll see what happens
with the rest of all that. I think a lot
of people got so caught up on trying to decide

(13:59):
if it was woke or not, which I never really
could get anybody to explain to me how it was
actually woke. But I mean, new different, changing things for sure.
But you know, it seems that they decided to be
dutiful two Americans and make it right.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Now.

Speaker 7 (14:20):
I don't know what that's going to mean for the interiors.
If they've already pulled the trigger too far to go
back on that, you know, that's a whole rebranding process
where they've already done it in so many of the
stores and other ones are lined up to have it
happen over the course of the next year. And I
don't know if you can pump the brakes on that

(14:40):
how many checks have already been written for all of that,
But we'll see, because that's a lot of what people
were mad about too. It wasn't just the logo.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't just the logo. It was
you know, sanitizing the entire theme of the restaurant and
then everybody when and there were lots of folks that
they didn't realize how deep involved in the alphabet mafia
stuff they were until they got pissed up about this
and started going to their and they're like, what the
fuck is this pride page bullshit?

Speaker 7 (15:02):
Yeah, and that that is woke. Of course that stuff
is woke. I just meant that, like just changing the logo,
I couldn't quick figure out like how it's stupid and shitty,
But I don't know that it was woke. But yeah,
all that other stuff was so By the way, speaking
of Pride stuff and Rainbow, did you see the old
people protesting them painting over the rainbow crosswalks.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
And I've heard about it, I didn't actually see any
of it.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
I can't believe it's actually weird, Like there has to
be something else because some of those people have have walkers,
Like this is not just like this would be like
the oldest of the what they'd be like the oldest
of the baby boomers, though, like this.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Is this is part of the reading stuff. They just
pull them out of the old folks home and pam
for the day.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
It is so funny looking. And one woman is like
laying in the crosswalk and people are making all sorts
of jokes like you know for the nineties kids like
you help, I'm falling and I can't get up, and
remember those commercials were anyways, And then self was sitting there.
There's this one lady that she has really has her walker,

(16:10):
and she's like using it like to keep time as
she's chanting whatever she's chanting, like she's like dank, dink dank,
slamming it on the ground. I thought it was hilarious.
I was cracking up.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'll have to find that because I haven't seen that.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
One believing it's actually real, I'll.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Want a diendem to your bacon egg and cheese biscuit comment.
It has to be the round egg because at least
it's not from a cart I don't like their folded stuff.
It all comes from cartons, like milk gardens.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
The round oh yeah, no. The powdered egg, yeah no,
not a fan. You know what's so weird though, I recently,
I've always thought that like powdered eggs like that was
like so kind of fake, Like obviously it has an
egg in it, but like it must be really fake.
And and I know someone now who has been because

(17:02):
they have chickens and they have so many, and especially
when they go through a periods of time where they
just have so so many and they can't keep them
long enough, you know, to be able to use them all.
So she started doing it with her eggs. She started
like freeze drying her eggs and making powdered eggs. And
she has tested it on like everybody. And now I'm

(17:23):
talking about she's just scrambling it in the pan and
putting it alongside some bacon. But she has tested her
powdered eggs that she reconstitutes with a little bit of
water and milk on everyone in her family, and no
one has been able to tell which ones are the
fresh scrambled eggs and which ones are her powdered scrambled eggs.
It is insanity, but that's that whole method, of course.

(17:44):
So I didn't really know that that was a thing
that you could do. And she's like, oh, yeah, my
grandma used to do it. I'm like what She's like,
I grew up on powdered eggs. But her husband was
like horrified, and then she did like four different taste
tests with him in different ways that she made them,
and he never could. He guessed the powdered egg once,
right time, right one time, and he even he even

(18:06):
admitted that he just guessed. He had no idea, not nuts.
I'm like, all right, okay, so everybody, that's all you
preppers go look at if you if you get a
lot of fresh eggs, if you have chickens, like look
into powdering your eggs, because it might be something you
want on your shelf when you have to, uh, you know,
escape the zombie apocalypse or you know, if we're gonna

(18:28):
have nuclear war. So look it up.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's not that I won't eat powdered eggs.
I mean, I grew up on a time. I mean
because when my parents got divorced was before foodstamps surely
became food stamps. So for a couple of years we
were using kamariti. So I was all in all, I
knew all about powdered milk and powdered eggs and the
government cheese that looked like velveta but could last for.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
Yes, of course shelf stable.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's also stable, and don't underestimate the power of a
sisslir coupon nice. Oh but anyway, No, it's just it's
just funny because I having And the thing about it is,
I haven't worked. I haven't worked at McDonald's and forever,
but last I heard, they were talking about getting to

(19:19):
the point where they were actually even their round eggs
that they used for like their mcmuffins and stuff. They
were going to have them starting being cooked at a
central location and then vacuum frozen. So I'm not even
sure those are technically fresh eggs anymore, because I haven't
followed up with that, but yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:36):
So who knows? Who knows.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
The one thing that I did find out because I
had a friend who was an assistant manager at Chili's.
He's like, don't ever eat anymore. It's like why, He's like,
everything comes in in souviie bags and they basically just
heat it up and serve it to you.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
Yeah, it is a problem with corporate stuff is a
lot of it. It just depends on what it is.
Even locally like owning stuff like it. It gets difficult,
you know, whenever you watch any of those shows that
are like rescuing restaurants and they're like, oh, you have
all this stuff in here, though, why are you buying
this when you could make it? And it's like the
reality of the day and day out though, particularly when

(20:16):
you're if you're in an area that can have varying volumes,
you know, is that everybody has those great intentions, but
when it comes down to it, sometimes you just can't
spend six hours babysitting, you know, twenty gallon pots of
homemade marinera three times a week, Like you need the

(20:37):
stove space, you don't have the storage space, so you
gotta get the canshit or and a lot of people
add stuff to it or like use it as a filler.
There's stuff like that, but everybody orders from the big
food companies.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, there's nothing. I mean, there's nothing really wrong with it,
especially once you learn how to you know, put your
own spin on it, because I mean most everything, I mean,
nobody's really got the time to make everything from fresh anymore.
I wish we did. Food would be so much better
if we could, if we had the time to grow
all of our own stuff fresh.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Not only that, but like a lot of the farm
to table concept restaurants, depending on where you are, you know,
it's not as farm to table as you think it
just it logistically cannot be. And then secondly, it's people.
It ends up being a lot of times ends up

(21:32):
being a little bit niche because it's hard to sustain
because you have to have your prices higher because you're
committing to these products, you're committing to the quality, you're
committing to the drivers that are having to come from
these farms, because you're not just ordering from a Cisco
or you know, another major food company like Benny Keith
who just have eighteen wheeler after eighteen wheeler on the

(21:54):
road and they've got locations all over the country that
they can deliver from. You know, it really I just
I know because of what we did at a couple
of the mom and pops I helped manage here some
of the efforts we went to to get some of
the freshness seafood and to get some of the better
meat and all of that. That it is a crapshoot.

(22:16):
The prices fluctuate like crazy. You pay so much because
of various gas or you have to pay someone to
go get all this stuff so it and then you
have to make your things expensive and then people complain
about that, so then you don't get as many customers.
And unless you have somebody that, like I said, is
like Top Chef, which we had a bunch of those here,

(22:37):
like a bunch of we had like four or five
Top Chef winners, and I've worked with three of them.
But unless you have like a face to bring in
all the time, it's not just an all the time
sustainable concept for every single restaurant to do. Definitely, there
are some that do it, and they do it really,
really well, but it's not the whole thing. It's like,
get as much of the stuff fresh as you can

(22:58):
and then you just serve five the rest. When you're
in the restaurant industry, which is already uh one that
kills to begin with.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Alan the jet. I used to get Lasagnia from this
place in town. The next employee once told me that
it was just stofers with more cheese. That he was right,
I make it at home now.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
Yep. Yeah. I was fortunate to work alongside quite a
few that did a whole lot. But even still, it
was like, okay, so after we've cooked certain things, yes,
make that stock and then store that in. But guess
what when you run out of stock, guess what you
got on hand? Backup canned, or backup box stocked like
you have to otherwise you have to close a restaurant

(23:41):
every time you run out of a few things that
take hours and hours to make. And you do that
for a main entree, but you don't. You don't do
that for the additives. If you are like we make
our own ketchup and you have to really busy learn
to be run out of ketchup. You don't go, oh well,
I guess I can't serve ketchup now. We're not gonna
give them any hinds with their burgers and fries, Like no,
you just you have it. You do it.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
You do what you gotta do.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
You do what you gotta do to survive in an
industry that is barely survivable as it is. It's not
very profitable, dude.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Nobody understands the actual profit margins in either the restaurant
business or the grocery business, because if they did, they
wouldn't bitch all the time. It's insane. The grocery business
is almost as bad. My ex used to complain about
it all the time. She's like, everybody thinks we're trying
to gaugeum shit half the time. We're lucky if we
make five sins on an item.

Speaker 7 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. There was something else I was
gonna put into here, but I can't remember. Never mind.
Oh did you see the Taylor Lorenz piece or what
it talked about about the dark money group that was

(24:51):
hired for a dark money group that was behind a
bunch of supposedly of democratic you know content social med
media content creators and influencers.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I've heard some rumblings about it, but I have not
yet actually found the source material. But it sounds like
you know about it.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
So okay, so let's just say here's what Taylor kind
of presented, right, is that so it's a screw called
the sixteen thirty fund. They founded this uh I think
it called a Chorus something or other. I can't remember.
I had it written down and I can't find it. Anyways,
it was saying and she claimed that they were paying

(25:31):
it's just dark money, you know, shady thing, and they're
paying these influencers, ninety influencers up to eight thousand dollars
a week to basically be Democratic Party shows. Some big
names on there, that Olivia Juliana, Aaron Parnas, that that
mom that does the gentle pairing contentsy bubble. Oh so

(25:56):
we're not going to use those words right now. Anyway,
she's so fucking obnoxious. I want to punch her face.
But we don't do that. We don't hurt people people.
Uh but she anyway, So it's all these people and
then and but I what I thought was interesting about
it was from the list is that it was also
going after some people that were not what you would

(26:18):
consider like very political. So it was going after accounts
that were supposed to be journalists, that were supposed to
be like mom content, you know, things like that, and
some of these names on the list, they were not
just that they you know, they were just that they
were not just political people already. You know, you expect
jojo from jurors and Brooklyn Dad and all of them, right,

(26:40):
because they've been political for years and years now, but
all the way also, by the way, they were getting paid,
and there's this whole thing of people being like Democrats
don't do that, that's what conservatives do. And I'm going, wait,
I'm sorry, are we am I high? Like what are
you talking about? But anyway, so this whole thing about
how they can't use money they make to make from
content support or oppose like a political candidate or campaign

(27:03):
without their permission. So like even if they were like, yeah,
it'd be be a dim but if you were like, oh, no,
I'm actually you know, not for such and such governor,
then I want to support the person running against them
in the Democratic primary, then you'd have to ask their
permission for that. It was also kind of this weird

(27:24):
thing that because there's it's really murky about what to
do for social media political content these days, and there's
not any directive that's very clear from the SEC or
the FTC. So this is kind of they can use
it to evade FEC reports, spending limits that are allowed

(27:46):
for direct advertising, all those kinds of things to like
skirt it. But it turns out that I know you're
going to be really really really really shocked by this,
very very shocked. Everybody listening is going to be stunned.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Everybody got their shocked faces ready.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
Okay, Taylor Lorenz might be a big fucking liar. She
might not be very good at her job. I don't know.
We've been saying this for a very long time. And
she may be flat out wrong or at the very worst, which,
unfortunately with her, seems the most likely, she's just a
fucking liar. And this went and wired, and I do

(28:27):
agree with some of these people that were defending the influencers,
because it's very obvious that there are a bunch of
these people that are getting paid for political content. But
someone defending the influencers, like, I don't even know why
anybody would trust Taylor Lorenz anymore to write anything. And
you know, if she had post a hit piece about
conservative social media influencers, I bet you they're keeping their

(28:51):
fucking mouse shut. I bet you they're not saying that.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, I did do I did do some research while
you were talking. One of the biggest, one of the
most instant things that I could find is the range
of payments, because they were actually paying influencers directly on
a monthly basis, ranging anywhere from the smallest payment amounts
being recorded to two hundred fifty dollars a month up
to eight thousand dollars a month to participating creators. Yes,
imagine being paid eight thousand dollars a month to play

(29:16):
on XT.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
So yeah, So here's the thing though, So a couple
things came out of this. The big one is that
Aaron Parnas, who a lot of people were shocked to
see his name on there because he does actually call
himself a journalist. He does interviews, he does investigative journalism
and some other things, and he can be political, but

(29:40):
it's not like that's not the focus of his work,
you know what I mean. So he came out and
did a video that just said it's basically all completely wrong,
that it had nothing to do with politics. He wasn't
ever paid for content, They didn't tell him what to post,
he didn't have to get their permission to post since
again they weren't paying him. That this was a part

(30:00):
of a public He called it a cohort that was
created by a few bigger influencers and journalists and stuff
to help mentor smaller creators so they could grow their
accounts and their content. So maybe those smaller people paid
for it. Who knows, But he's saying that he was
never anything post to post. And there's some other people

(30:23):
named that have said the same thing. So and Taylor
even responded to one of them, I think, and was like, no,
I know you didn't get paid to say things. And
it's like, well, that's but that's what your article said.
Like it was a little bit all over the map.
So I don't know what to think here. Do they
do they pay people? Do we know that the Democrats

(30:45):
have been doing this for quite a long time, especially
for gen Z. Hello, Harry Sisson, Like, yes, they are
doing this. Is it this one particular group that's doing it.
I don't know. Are they making eight thousand dollars? I
don't know, so, but I do. I mean, yeah, Taylor
Lorenz Uh, I don't know why she ever would be

(31:06):
employed ever ever again, her credibility is so shot. But
in this case, you know, while a lot of us
would love for all of this to be true. I
don't think we can hang our hats on it because
Taylor is such a wrecking ball.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hey that's Miley Cyrus. Yes, I guess, but no, but yeah,
I call Hoho from Hooterville the part of the DNC
debit card crowd because her receipts have been posted. She
makes like eight hundred and fifty bucks a month directly
from the DNC.

Speaker 7 (31:43):
Yeah, and I mean again, like we know that that's happening,
it's just the way she's reporting it from this dark
liberal money group, dark money liberal group funding all these people.
Like I don't think it's like what she found is
exactly that. But I always think funny that it also
brings us like, well, whether it's true or not, the

(32:04):
real thing is is that you know, right wingers have
been doing it forever, and so it's about time we do.
And I'm always I always think it's so funny when
they're like, well, we're only doing it because they did
it first, and all the while they consistently tell us
that we are uneducated. We're the fuddy doddy, old white
man party that can't figure out how to do things

(32:25):
technically or otherwise can't run the campaigns. You know, we
suck at everything. It's all these old white men that
don't even know how to use their phones, stupid boomers.
And then on the same time that they have been
just very expertly and slyly building this underground you know media,

(32:48):
social media concentration that has that has completely helped with
us to win elect elections. And it's super shady. I'm like, okay,
everybody does it, anybody that wants to run some kind
of campaign these days, political and even otherwise. Yes, we
know that there are a ton of paid people on

(33:10):
social media for any kind of cause or corporation or
whatever you want to find.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, amish, from now on, that has to be done
with the shatt in their pauses, set faces to stun.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Oh yeah, but yeah, I just always think that's funny.
And then it's like, so this one person said, this
one like another very left wing quote unquote journalist said,
finally setting up the media ecosystem that the right has
established over the last thirty years. Well, yeah, yeah, we did.

(33:47):
You know why we did? You know why we have
you know, talk radio, why we have right wing programming,
why we have right wing podcasts, why there have been
you know, the rise of right wing media, right the
conservative media. Yes, that has been building, that has been
being established over the last thirty years. But it's not

(34:09):
because there's been some way in which we have wanted to,
you know, make this network that was going to infiltrate everything. No,
it was to fucking be able to actually have some
news for us and buy us because y'all already had

(34:29):
the most funded media institution in the history of the world,
in the mainstream American media. This was an old media
in response to that, So you didn't don't get to go,
oh see, we should be doing this, they've been doing
it for thirty years. No, we had to do it
out of necessity. You have your left wing media. It's

(34:50):
all over every single nighttime news network, all.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
The time, all the time. Speaking speaking of the left
wing media, how about that that shooter news coverage.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Yeah, it's been rough, huh. I mean it's so horrific,
such such a terrible situation. I'm still not like I
still haven't said much about it in general, particularly like
on Twitter, because just like with all of these there's
always such for days, there's just little dribbles of information

(35:29):
coming in and then about half of those proved to
be wrong or from something else or misinterpreted or whatever,
so I've just kind of been biding my time. However,
I think it's like I'm very comfortable talking about, uh,
the wish casting from the media in what they want

(35:53):
this to be.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Part of it, because they're just they're they're just salivating
that this will finally be the time that they can
get everybody on board with banning assault weapons. And of
course Trey Gouty takes to Fox News and quickly obliges them.
Stupid mother.

Speaker 7 (36:09):
Yeah, I saw people mad him today, but I didn't.
I didn't get to see what it was. And I
meant to look that up before the show, but I forgot.
What did he do?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
He started saying that it's time for us to seriously
start considering common sense.

Speaker 7 (36:23):
Gun lows shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, m hm, right there on Fox News.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Holy shit.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
But the scariest thing about Fox News is if you
watch some of that that coverage at times, it seems
like their their news director was taking cues directly from
what I call PMS now now that they're changing their name,
because a lot of that coverage just is like it
came directly from their feats because it was it was
just it was terrible. I'm just watching all this go
and look, I I don't I don't talk about the

(36:56):
shooter much. I haven't said his name. I call him
Walkin's exploit. It is when I start trying to say
his name, because he doesn't deserve to have his name
said anymore. But the whole idea that all of these
politicians who just watched a bunch of kids get gunned
down in the middle of a church, how dare you
offer your thoughts and prayers? Well, there's a seventy five

(37:17):
chance these kids were gunned down because they were in
a church, And you want people to turn away from
their faith because of that, isn't that given the terrorist
what they want?

Speaker 7 (37:27):
Yeah? I thought that that to me, you know, like
I said, because we've you know, there's just still so
much coming out like I just have. I mean, I
think it's pretty clear that this was a at least
at one point a trans person. They changed their name
and talked about it and grew hair out and did things.
So there's definitely that I don't think they're going to

(37:50):
be able to like shy away from There's all sorts
of weird things. There's a manifesto supposedly that like contradicts
itself and some of his other signage that he had,
so kind of like waiting to see how all of
that pans out, And I'm not expecting the media to
still be honest about it. I'm just saying I'm waiting
to kind of see what more we find. But the

(38:11):
coverage in the immediate, you know, the quickness that the
so many prominent leftists, whether they be truly Democrats and
even officials, that jumped onto the we don't need your
thoughts and prayers, fuck your thoughts and prayers bandwagon was

(38:35):
so sickenly fast and just absolutely horrific, particularly when you're
talking about a church shooting. They get the arrogance, the audacity,
and then they'll turn around and pretend like they have faith,
but that just shows you right there how much they don't.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, I think JD. Van's probably had one of the
best tweets in response to all of that. I don't
know if you saw it or not and not, but
he was talking about we pray because we know God listens.
We pray because we It's something along the lines, we
pray because we know he's there. We don't expect prayer
to solve everything, but prayer helps us get through times

(39:15):
like this, and that is why we pray.

Speaker 7 (39:18):
Yeah, absolutely, I there were.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (39:23):
I had a person that responded to me and said,
I don't know why people find it so hard to
understand that thoughts and prayers is also used in a
general like reflexive expression to send condolences. It's not just like, oh,
thoughts and prayers like it. And most of the people
that are saying that, A lot of people that say it,

(39:45):
particularly in person, they really mean it. They are going
to stop and pray. They are going to think about
you many times that day, the next day, next week,
next month, and they're going to keep you on their
prayer list as you go through whatever struggles you are. Like,
that is not just that. This is a genuine sense
of care and love for other people that I think

(40:08):
they don't understand because they severely lack that ability. They
don't give a fuck about anybody else but themselves and
their power. That's it.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Now, this is an interesting post that I just saw
from none other than Tulsi Gabbard, and it's kind of
in the same vein of everything we're talking about those
like Jensaki and Jacob Pry who criticized prayers in the
wake of the Minneapolis tragedy, are expressing the same anti
God sentiment that motivated the shooter. He aimed as wrath
at God by trying to stop people with his bullets

(40:40):
from praying to God. Now is it time for us
to come together and join hands in prayer for the
children who were killed, the loved ones, and those who
survived this horrific shooting considering she used to have a
D behind her name, that's surprise.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
Yeah, I like that a lot too. That's pretty profound. Yeah,
I just that run to that. It's just like, oh,
my goodness, that like, what kind of person are you? Yeah?
Pieces of shit? Great? Great, Thanks for just airing it
all out for us, because I just cannot imagine having

(41:16):
making that decision to say that to people, and to
say it to families who lost little children, like it
just boggles my mind. Like it's kind of like, you know,
we just say, if you don't have something nice, don't
say anything at all. Uh. Nowadays, like the Internet version
of that is just scroll, just keep scrolling if you

(41:39):
don't like it. If it irritates you. The people are
saying prays for us, like scroll scroll on by.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, you know, I mean, that's just it. You don't
have to offer anything. You don't have to offer a prayer.
You don't have to Oh I'm gonna you know, I
don't believe in prayer. But all of a sudden, you
don't have to do any of that. You can just
mind your business because the whole thing, you know, And
just back to the gun control, guals if we were

(42:08):
focusing on the actual problem in this country, because trust me,
is not the guns. And I've said this, I'm going
this is my seventeenth year of saying this. We have
a heart problem in America. We do not have a
gun problem in America. We have too many people that
now view people that don't think exactly like they do
as the enemy, and now they're starting to live by
the mantra the enemy must be destroyed. This person, most

(42:30):
most assuredly, from the little bit I could see from
their YouTube stuff until I got pulled down, had a
severe mental health problem. That is something else that needs
to be addressed in this country. We need to start
figuring out why we have so many people that not
only do they want to hurt themselves, but they want
to hurt as many people as they can before they
hurt themselves. That that is the recurring theme. It doesn't

(42:54):
it doesn't matter whether it's well, white men do ninety
nine percent of the mass shootings. Well, obviously old white
men have a problem. Maybe we should start trying to
figure out what that is instead of blaming white men. Absolutely,
it's just astounding to me. Well, there used to be
able to find points we could agree on and figure

(43:14):
out how to attack them. They don't want to do that.
They just want to keep a signing blame. Like the
second it came out the dude was trans because you know,
there's court records of mom changing the name with the
explanation as to why a mom changed the name in
the court records. Well, he's obviously not trans because he's
a Nazi. Excuse me, what does one have to do

(43:37):
with the other.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
Well, yeah, well, remember these are the same people that
don't think you can be a gay Republican.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, well I know if you do, like I know
a lot.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
That would absolutely disagree. Uh, But you know what, I
think there's another more sinister thing underlying all of this.
Is that your average bleeding heart. They take their cue
from the top and those talking points go out, and man,

(44:11):
people just love them, don't they. They just hang on
to them with all their might and tweet the same
way that every other Democrat did. So they really love
to be repetitive and just drive it home by all
copying each other's same phrases over and over. But I
think people that started this a long time ago they

(44:32):
figured out, you know, the best way to capitalize on
any of these tragedies is to then go for the jugular,
go for the guns, not only go for the guns,
and be like, see, how could you not want how
could you not want to take away the guns if
it means that one more baby didn't die. It's not

(44:55):
just that, it's also on the mental health side, because
how often do they push these people are mentally ill,
mentally illmentally And yes, that is true, because I don't
think you murder someone, and you definitely don't murder little
children without having something very fucked up in your brain.
So yes, but they also then spin that into talking

(45:15):
about healthcare, about free health care, about moving along that agenda,
so everything stays intertwined and is constant any way we
can etch and move to then try to fearmonger our
way into more government control, which means power for them
and their respective states and offices.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
And that's really what it's about right there. That's the
truth of it. This is just a way for them
to try to grab more power, because because you've heard
it from everybody when the story broke from that, I
think it was the teenage girl, and I think it
was Scotland who was defending her sister and got arrested,
and you heard everybody from across the pond. This kind
of stuff couldn't happen in America because they've got more

(45:58):
guns than they've got people. I mean, it does still
kind of happen here, but the whole world knows we
have more guns than we have people. Now, that was
the reason why the Emperor of Japan never wanted to
invade the Japanese mainland. He was quoted as to saying,
we can't invade their mainland. There's a gun behind every
brand blade of grass. So but the thing about it is,
the more well armed you are, whether they whether they

(46:21):
want to admit it or not, the more afraid your
government is of you, Which was the exact reason we
have a second Amendment in the first place. Everyone seems
to forget that our founding fathers expected this grand experiment
to last about fifty years if we were lucky, and
they expected us to have to have another revolution, which
is why they wanted us to be able to be
armed to be able to do so.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:40):
No, this wasn't about the right. You know when everybody
tells they well, all they head was muskets, and it
was the right to bear arms in a militia, and YadA, YadA.
Whenever we go through all those arguments, it's like, no,
you really think that. They were like, hey, you can,
just don't. You are in the New World. There is
a lot of uninhabited territory. There are opposing country forces

(47:03):
in on your land, there are hostile natives on your land.
But sure, sure, sure, we don't really have running water,
we don't have an automobile, we don't even have a
telephone yet. But they definitely were like, hey, you know
it'd be good is if only certain people had guns
and none of y'all did. And I mean, fuck it,

(47:23):
Finn for yourself out there in the wilderness. No, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
It's crazy, ain't it.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
I mean, it's just Philly. They're like, yeah, no, they
only meant for like the militia to have guns. And
it's like, do you know what conditions they lived in
that the majority of the country lived in. They weren't
all living in Boston, they weren't all living in Philadelphia.
They were spread out all over when it was still
a small portion of our country, but all over it
with the ever continuing hopes of moving west. So these

(47:59):
are not such in which an avid person in that
day and age would be like, you know what, nobody
really needs guns except for the police and the army.
It's just not even remotely close to something they would
ever think, even without the revolutionary aspect.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Well, and it's nuts because the thing about it is
and part and part of this that I love, especially
with the I'm highly educated crowd, when they start defining
to me what well regulated means, like, do you know
what it meant in seventeen seventy six, Because it didn't
mean then what it means now, dumbass, It meant in
proper working order, that's all it meant. Right, And here's

(48:38):
the thing they don't talk about from a historical perspective
in that timeframe, if you were of a certain age,
a man or even a boy by today's standards, because
they were like fourteen fifteen, sixteen years old, if you
were a boy or a man of good physical standing
and of proper sound mind, you were automatically a part
of your town's militia period, full stop. Right, That's how

(49:02):
it worked.

Speaker 10 (49:05):
Particularly, yeah, particularly all the original Northeastern areas. But yeah,
I that so, of course it's a gun control thing,
and it's whatever.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
It's also a healthcare thing, and then that way too.
The other part of it is like when that when
they want to really play up the mental health, is
that then they can excuse anything that might make their
side look bad, And like, why is that how you're
immediately going into defence mode when you hear that there's

(49:40):
been a mass shooter, Like, my first thing isn't like, well,
I bet it's a leftist, Like I just I'm like,
oh my gosh, what has happened? How many kids? What
is going on? Like there were so many within seconds
of the news breaking that we're already tweeting that shut
out about it being like right wing white man blah

(50:03):
blah blah blah blah, and we know who it's gonna be.
It's all the conservative bros. They're the ones that are
most dangerous. Like they just I mean, within seconds of
the breaking news, they didn't even take time to say, wait,
is this true? Because remember the other day, we had
just had an active shooter situation on a college campus
and it turned out it was a fucking umbrella. He's
carrying a black umbrella.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
There were like there were like two or three within
this man in the last couple of weeks that all
turned out to either be people misidentifying something somebody was holding,
or complete hoaxes. And I'm like, oh, this is not
gonna go well because now when one happens, nobody's gonna
be ready because you're just going, no, it's just another hoax, right.

Speaker 7 (50:42):
Well that's why I was like, so your first thought
was to start doing that. We've just recently had hoaxes.
It just barely the news broke. We had no idea
what was going on, if he was contained, if you know,
there was anybody hurt. You know, we didn't have any information.
And it's like they got it. They got to get
the political digs in early and fast.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
I just I can't the thing that kind of trips
me out, I mean, going across the pond, because it's
it's the same thing. And for everybody who's like, we
should take all the guns away, if you want to
see what your life's going to be like if you
let that happen, just look at Britain now, because that's
where we're headed.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
And don't just look at that. Look at the commentary
on it of all of so many people in the
UK defending this, defending her arrest, blaming her. It's a
really it's really eye opening about where their culture has
gone and the excuses that they're making for the grown

(51:42):
men in this situation and not these little girls that
are terrified. Obviously have been harassed and harassed and harassed
to the point where she was ready to absolutely chop
someone's dick off, Like.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
I mean, and that's the thing, right for her to
have such a visceral reaction action to protect her sister,
this means she has gone through it too. And we're
we're talking about adults in migrant rape gangs that are
basically getting green lit by the police because they're like, oh,
we have to arrest you, and she's like, wait what
and it's not just that. I saw a video earlier

(52:18):
today and I was floored. There was a there was
a woman in the UK walking her dog on her street.
There were Muslims protesting. They called the police to make
her take the dog inside because they were offended by
the dog. Yeah, yeah, are you kidding me? This is

(52:39):
what we want in America because we already have our
own little pocket of Muslims and dear born as Stan.

Speaker 7 (52:46):
And a few other days.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
All you gotta do is take away the guns, and
you're gonna see what happened in Britain to happen here.
They've already told you they're not here to assimilate, they're
here to colonize. Well, what happened last time with a
group of colonizers.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
Yes, but and seriously read also, like read the commentary
and the people that are speaking of the people that
are being interviewed that are justifying this in a lot
of ways and are saying, well, she was in the wrong,
she can't do that. You know, this like that is
such societal rot because they have been brainwashed into this

(53:22):
whole situation and now they're completely stuck and fucked.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
I think one of my favorite memes out of this
whole thing is you're mad the little Scottish girl had
a knife and an axe. I'm pissed she didn't have
a gun. We're not the same. Oh, somebody must have
heard me, because when a Mush and I were talking
about this last night, I said, it reminded me of
Brave Heart. Somebody actually put out a meme with her

(53:48):
having like the Brave Heart face paint thing. That's kind
of cool.

Speaker 7 (53:51):
Yeah, I I just it's it's stunning to me the
amount of grown men that were condemning her for her actions.
I mean, it's just that's it's just they've lost the plot.
They've just lost the plot and they don't even know it.
It's like a frog frog in a pot like that's exactly.

(54:14):
They don't even know they're being cooked. And that little
girl knew she wasn't being bullied into it, she wasn't
having it pulled over her eyes. But far too many people,
particularly those are supposed to protect children like her, have
completely failed.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Jason, I think you're correct. I have to fact check
that real quick. I'll see if I can get an
answer real quick, but I think they actually did. I
don't know if it was coined a death to America rally,
but I know they had an entire they had an
entire rally in an Islamic language, and it kind of
got coined as one because they were, you know, chanting
that America sucked, right, fun times, fun times. But yeah, yeah,

(55:00):
that's kind of my thing anymore. If you're caught in
public yelling about how much America sucks, or if you're
actively just saying that people need reparations, you should start
being offered free plane tickets to go back to wherever
your ancestors came from, because if you think the country sucks,
I really don't want you here.

Speaker 7 (55:18):
Well, we're very spoiled because see there's a lot of
places they even idolize where you can't be as critical
of their governments as we can. You can't say these things,
you can't say certain words, you can't say them to
certain people, because there's such thing as hate speech, which
I know they continue to try. Some of the more

(55:39):
liberal on clubs try to try here every now and
then by charging someone for calling someone the inWORD or whatever,
but they never hold up. It's uncomptetitutional, I know, I
know again, and it's already even been ruled on in
their state, like it's not going to hold up. It's
completely performative, completely performative. But that's you know, thirt inch

(56:01):
by inch by inch. Make it more like Europe. You know,
they've always idolized European State, the European state in general,
just how how they are, because it's it's much more
what along the lines of what progressives want. But I

(56:21):
don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Yeah, so speaking of, you know, make America more like Europe.
I fell down an interesting rabbit hole again with the
Civil War, and I've found some connections that I hadn't
noticed before, Like some of the people that were advising
certain folks were actually from across the pond and they
were trying to divide the country so they could take
it back.

Speaker 7 (56:44):
Oh yeah, so they were infiltrating all the way.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
I'm still researching it all though, because I'm hoping I
might be able to turn it into a position episode.
Then probably after chuck'stober here, after the next couple episodes
are going to be locked in for like a month.
So anyway, believe it or not, my dear, we are
just about out a time and Bezy is coming up
in just a couple of minutes. So where can folks
find you?

Speaker 7 (57:09):
Uh find me on Twitter at Jay Homestead. I'm not
on all the platforms, but I mostly use X and
then check out Misfits Politics. Tomorrow night we'll be Misfit
Mischief and that's always good times.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
So yeah, I make Tomorrow night at a two box night.
Now that Mischief Mischief or Misfits Mischief is getting back underway,
don't forget the same time, around the same time, Aggie
and I'll be live tomorrow night at eight thirty pm Eastern.
For he said, she said tomorrow after tomorrow morning. I
keep saying afternoon because for a while it was tomorrow morning.
I'll be back for the Friday edition of The Rick
Robinson Show. That is the three hour edition starting at

(57:47):
ten am Eastern, and also the final hour of the show.
The accented edition is the weekend News Roundup, where I'm
joined by folks like Brad Slicker from town Hall and
any other news types that want to come hang out
for the hour and discuss their favorite stories, big stories
that they know of that are coming out, et cetera.
So make sure you guys are joining us there. Saturday
and I'll be back pushing buttons for the front porch

(58:08):
Forensics crew. Corn and I should be live.

Speaker 7 (58:11):
On Sunday night again.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Wait a minute, what happen? I was like, why do
I have music in my air? But it's because BZ
is starting. Corn should be back on Sunday night seven
pm Eastern and then Monday night they're probably there, may

(58:37):
or may not be a reals because I had to
do a bonus one this week anyway, but it depends
on how I feel and whether Shan's got air conditioning
again because he's been off this week because of technical
issues with the Homestead and I usually just try to
be his opening act anyway. So that's it, folks, We're
gonna get out of here hang out. In just a minute,
we'll be switching over to the shr media crew for
Bez's Berserk Bobcats Alone live right here on kaylor and Radio.

(58:59):
For those of you hanging out, want to hang out live,
you want to chat, make sure you go over to
their YouTube channel, but click on our stuff first so
we get the link count the account first. If you
would be so kind, I'm just gonna ahead and switch
over to that one live now because he's already getting started.
I don't want to do anything, So we'll see you
guys next week and i'll lea back to me