Veteran Love

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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Arah, When did we all get this dump? Almost only
counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear warfare. I don't
see anybody, so it doesn't count. I'm the chef. I
want to hear one thing, Yes, chef, Come on, man,

(00:35):
here's your brain.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Why I'm Angry Podcast start now, Come on man.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
In Flandersfield, the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row,
the mark our place, and in the sky the large
still bravely singing fly scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn,

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saw sunsets glow, loved and were loved. And now we
lie in flanders Field. Take up our quarrel with the
foe to you from failing hands. We throw the torch
be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith

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with us who die, we shall not sleep. Though poppies
grow in flanders Field. Every year we kind of take that,
take that poem, and we do something with it. We
read it and just kind of have a moment. It
is Veterans Day and at the y I'm Angry Podcast,

(01:55):
obviously we are. We're patriotic, and we believe in the
sacrifice that our our our fallen heroes have have given
to us, and those who have fought in battle. We uh,

(02:16):
you know, we honor them every day, really, we try to.
And uh, you know, it's the why I'm in your podcasts.
So let's get into it. I got Carson with me
here today and we're gonna talk a little bit about
about everything. We We got Veterans Day, and I went
out and ate with my father in law, one of

(02:39):
the few living veterans that I still have in my life.
It was a it was a good time. It's it's
nice to see companies around the country really honoring our veterans.
Something that that we've kind of fought with over the
last few years is veterans affairs, the VA getting what

(03:04):
he is. He's douet for medical you know, just payments
and stuff like that, and uh, you know, it's just
nice today to be able to honor them. And and
I went to a couple of different restaurants because I
was picking up food for somebody and doing that and
just you know, try to talk to a couple of veterans,
and and happened to talk to a couple of Vietnam
veterans and the one guy said he goes, I don't

(03:27):
know that I would I would give ten cents to
do it again, but uh, it was definitely an experience
and that's how he kind of had had looked at it.
But uh yeah, so I I you know, I felt
for him, but uh yeah, so Veterans Day. Yeah, and

(03:51):
some something I also heard today on Veterans Day and
I kind of kind of watched over my shoulder as
I was trying to get through. You know, we have
a ton of uff going on in the news like today.
If you haven't been looking and participating in the news today,
you've got a lot to catch up on. We had

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Assyrian Assyrian leader or the Syrian leader come to the
White House and meet with the President for the first
time ever. We've never had a Syrian leader come to
the White House. That would be similar to a new
Iranian leader coming to the White House. And when we've
had sanctions on them for years and years and they've

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just they've normally been a sponsor for terrorism, so we
normally don't meet with them and things, so this is
this is a pretty big, pretty big deal. But and
then just the regular stuff we got, as you know,
some quotes from the Pope to talk about. We've got

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I think we're going to lighten it up with some
sports this afternoon and just check in on everybody's fantasy
teams and stuff like that. So I know, I think
Carson beat me this week in fantasy football, so it
was a rough week for me. But yeah, so Veterans Day,

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give me give me a few thoughts on you know,
Veterans Day. Have you ever have you ever been able
to go to a Veterans Day like funeral or memorial
or anything like that. Have you gotten out to some
of those things?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I think one thing that I remember, Man, I don't
remember how long ago it was, but we went to Washington,
d C. Me, Mom, Dad, Joshua, and Catherine. I think
it's when they lived in Virginia. Yeah, and we went
to like the the memorial there and that was pretty
neat and we saw the exchanging of guards and stuff
like that. Yeah, so that was That's cool. That's probably

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the most significant thing I.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Could think, And that's what I just I just watched
they played the taps and the exchanging in the lane
of wreaths on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and
they did that. Yeah, that is something honestly, I've never
gotten to do. I've been to d C probably four
or five times at least, uh like downtown d C.

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And even even last year when I went, we went
to the Library of Congress and stuff like that and
kind of kind of took my mother in law around
so that she could kind of see it and still
didn't get over to Arlington. And that's one of the places,
like like I said about Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, like

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just one of those places where I'm I'm sure you
feel the spirit of something happened, these people stood for
something and just you know, that heavy spirit.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah. Yeah, I think when I went it was a cloudy,
rainy day too, so that definitely added to the effect.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I don't know if it gets sonny on Arlington,
Like you're just like it could be the sunniest thing,
like you're you're you're in the sun in d C
and then you you get on the on the train
to Arlington and you're like, is that cloud that? But yeah, no,
it because I think even I think even two or

(07:12):
three times that I went to like the Vietnam Memorial
and stuff like that, it was it was the same
type of dealer's just like, you know, the sun is
behind clouds, whether it's you know, whether it's there or not.
But uh so, yeah, definitely just a good day that
if you've got a if you got a veteran, somebody
who's fought. And and this is one thing I also

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thought about, or that that I that I had heard
it was I was going to say earlier, is that
if you didn't fight, if you were prepared to fight,
if you you know, you don't have you know, not
that you're not, that you're a veteran. But I've always
felt kind of like, you know, I should have gone,
like if like as a as a patriot, as a

(07:57):
person who feels strongly about my country. You know, I've
always felt a little, a little just that little apprehensive
that I didn't that I didn't go. Yeah, and and
it probably wasn't for me. I'm not a very regimented person.
Maybe maybe it would have helped me become more regimented
and things. And then we've talked about add ADHD and

(08:18):
stuff like that, and that definitely is not you know,
regiment is definitely not in my wheelhouse. I'm trying more
as I get older, and doctors are trying to prescribe
me with medications and stuff like that that you know,
to to follow that. But uh, you know, I definitely
probably missed my doctor's appointment for the year yearly check

(08:41):
up because I didn't follow through and schedule it a
second time. But since my doctor decided to leave his
practice and went somewhere else, so and then they're like, yeah,
you should schedule the thing, and I'm like, yeah, I'll
get to it. It sucked. It's now November and.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
I just edule a dnnist appointment too, right, I've never
done in my whole life.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
So well, you know, just just get just get in
the habit of doing it, because that's important because at
forties forty three, I'm not in the habit of doing
these things. And uh yeah, I mean I think there
was probably ten twelve years where I didn't get go
to the doctor and didn't have really a doctor.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
When I first had you know, the deep deep vein thrombosis,
they were like, well, you know, who's your doctor? And
I'm like you yeah, because they're like, yeah, but who
do you normally go to? Like like, I don't go
to the doctor. I don't you know, I'm healthy. So
obviously not because you're in the doctor's office, you know,

(09:47):
can't walk, but right, yeah type thing. But uh yeah,
so but as as a not you know, as a
non veteran, don't feel bad that you're not a veteran.
But at the same time, make su sure that you're
there supporting the veterans. You know, as a supporter of veterans,
you know, you can you can feel good about that

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and that even if you didn't you know, even if
you weren't in a fight, as a veteran, you put
your you were willing to put your life on the line.
You know. I've got a friend that went to boot
camp and got injured and they sent him home, and
I feel like he's always felt bad about that he

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didn't you know, that he didn't make it. And they
and they do, they do have a They do a
good job in boot camp of breaking you down so
that when you're ready to fight and things like that,
there's there's a base so that you know, you have
a base of belief that you are this. You know,
you don't want to go into a foxhole with a

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guy that's like, dude, I don't think I should be here,
you know, I don't know. I'm not sure that I'm
I'm built for this, you know, so they they break
you down so that you have that Okay, this is
who I am. I'm here as a fighting machine type thing.
And so I think that at the same time as

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they do that if you don't make it through, you
feel like a failure. And I think they want you
to feel They want you to feel like a failure
because they don't want you to fail so that you
you know, you're you're right, your your back is to
the wall. Maybe you'll you'll succeed through that. And so

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with that being said, you know, if you didn't fight,
don't feel bad, but support a veteran, like do your
part now, you know, get out there. And you know,
the one thing I've always I've always wanted to do
is those honor flights, you know, where you take a
veteran to d to Washington, d C. To see their
memorial and stuff like that. And that's something that I've

(11:58):
just every time it's come up in the Dayton area,
I've I've not been able, I've not had time, or
it's been a bad scheduled time for it. But but
you don't even have to do that like when we
have the food truck. If you were if you had
your your fatigues on, or you were in police uniform
or whatever, we gave you something. You know, if it

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was you know, we gave your fries or we gave
you your burger, you know I'd comped a whole meal.
You know, we gave you something. And so I think
that that's you know, whatever you're in, if you can
give them something, that's that's the deal. So that being said,

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let's talk just a little bit about the Assyrian or
the the Syrian sorry, Assyria is from Bible Times, and uh,
let's talk a little bit about the Syrian president or
leader because like as somebody was saying even today that

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he hasn't gotten full control of the whole country yet
there are still areas of the country that it's been
a year almost like it was October last of last year,
November eighth of last year that Asade got on a

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plane and exiled himself to Russia. It's kind of strange that,
you know, all of our all of the the exiled
rulers are going to Russia and hanging out, but you know,
it is what it is. And that also puts a
firm grasp of who Russia is in your mind, because

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you know, sometimes when you listen to Putin talka and
he waxes his historical on on how he sees his
country of power and stuff, you could say, okay, I understand.
You know, like even when he was talking to man
who is that guy on the on the radio? He

(14:11):
was sorry. He did an interview where he talked about,
you know, the US left him out to dry when
he was when they were trying to, you know, bring
him into NATO and stuff like that, that he wanted
to be part of NATO and they left him out
to dry and kind of painted him as a villain.
And you could say, okay, I could see how the
US would have done that or something like that. But

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it's also a point of view of you know, the
the the people that you you keep in your in
your circle of influence. You know, it's like Stalin was
not a great guy, you know, so and when you
take power and you never you know, and you never

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relinquish it to you know, you're never willing to relinquish
it to anybody. You know, you're now the perpetual president
for you know life. That kind of sounds like you
might be a dictator. Right, So this kind of you know,
continues to you know, eat and I can see like

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because you didn't grow up in the Cold War, you know,
and you didn't grow up with the fact with you know,
nuclear missiles, you know, the thought of okay, Cuba can
shoot missiles into the US, and you know, we could
all be whatever. You you lose the not fear, but

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I would say you lose that that respect for this
is you know, like respect for fire. You know. You know,
if you keep fire in a bin, it's safe. It's
there to warm you keep you keep you warm. Fire
in my furnace is not going to burn me. But

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I have a healthy respect for it. You know. It's
like knives. As long as I keep my hand on
the handle and on the top of the blade, it's
not gonna cut me. But the second that I don't
respect it anymore, you kind of get sliced up. You're
going to get burnt. You know. If I go throwing
gas on it from a gas can and lighting matches

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right next to the gas can, I'm probably going to
light myself on fire, you know. And so I think
that's what we we've done with Russia a lot or
those people who believe that Russia is not that big
a deal, is that you know, yes, it's a big deal,
you know, and this is you know, if we don't

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respect them, they do have the nukes that could could
blow the world apart, and they respect and that's why, Yeah,
that's how this all works, is that you know, we're
a big bag of America and we just bully everyone
no where. We are big, big bad America because we've
won warse And if we didn't be big bad America,

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do you think Iran would do anything? But I mean
they would run people in here in a second, you know.
And so so I think that, yes, like this is
a big deal. It really is. And there are a
couple of ways to kind of look at this this

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big deal like why it's a big deal. And one
of the ways is is that if we can if
we can get Syria to become a more democratic, a
more western thinking I guess country, then you know, it's

(17:53):
a it's a it's a place where we can you know,
while they were talking on on on the news and
radio today about putting a base yeah in Syria, and
you know, strategically on our side of things. The more
we keep the fight on in other countries, obviously, the

(18:16):
better we are, and we've always talked about that. But
to put a base in a country in the Middle East,
you know, is always a big thing. You know, there's
you know, they were just talking about Iraq. The base
in Iraq and Kurtistad hasn't been We've lost zero people

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in that base. And so you know, they talked about
people go to you know, they go in holiday there
and stuff like that when they've got like a couple
of days or something like that. So to be able
to to have a thumb or to be able to
kind of know what's going on in a country that we,

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you know, literally has been like vitual to us, it
is a big is a big thing, like it's it's
a good thing.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, yeah, what makes me think of
that too? Sorry, I was thinking of a couple of
things there. One thing is another country that this is
a little off topic, but like Nigeria all the all
the killings and stuff that have been going over on
over there. Have you seen that stuff about Christian killings? Yeah, yes,

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I mean right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Africa is having a big issue with like and and
what somebody some people don't understand is Egypt has been
a big like Southern Egypt has always been a Muslim
held area. And if you are a Christian in Southern Egypt,
you're on your own. You're like, this is you know,
your life is is not like it's you you live

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underground Christian. They're in danger because they're always going after you.
And then and it's and it's spread more to like
you said, Nigeria and the Congo and all of that
has become very Muslim. And if you don't think the
Muslim faith is like coming at you, yeah, I mean
we've got to. We've been talking about. The big thing

(20:22):
in the news lately has been Dearborn, Michigan, and Dearborn
has had a population since the late seventies of Muslims.
And it started out with just like one mosque and
and that's and and that's fine you know as as
a as a so this is this is where you

(20:45):
know your patriotism and your your belief in God or
your faith, they don't one hundred percent line up because
as a free country, it's fine for them to practice
their faith. Yeah, And honestly, as a free country, you know,

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They have every right to speak out loud and speak
their faith. The problem with the Muslim faith is is
they don't believe your people if you're not Muslim. Yeah,
they believe you're an infidel, You're you're a lower version
of a person. And they're in their faith they're allowed

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to do.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, no, they're they're told to eliminate other people that
don't believe in Islam.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Right, you're you're, you're a tool to whatever means they want.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Speaking of Islam to New York first Islamic governor ever.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Big time craziness like this is like yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Just I know we didn't talk about that, but yeah
you would.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
And that was that was something that was on the
list last week. And just because we've gone through so much,
so much over the last like week, you know, with
the elections and and everything. Like I mentioned it, but
that was about it. He just and this is lot.
This Muslim mayor isn't isn't just Muslim. He's socialist Muslim

(22:14):
like he is. Sorry, Yeah, yeah, mayor of New York
City and like just like off the rails crazy like
I mean, I guess it's crazy. Yeah, just like everything
he's thinking, he thinks is like he's going to take
all of the buildings, you know, all of the homes

(22:37):
away from people and then give them like give them
back to the people. That's free housing. And it's like, no,
that's not that's not freedom. That's free right, that's not freedom.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
You know, this isn't I saw like a million people
said they would leave New York if you got to
like that man.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
And and what's crazy is is this guy now has
mayorship over We were just talking about it. The New
York Stock Exchange, Yeah, Wall Street.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
That is the word the biggest exchange.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
In world, right right, I mean the Nasdaq is is
whatever it is, but you know, but yeah, the New
York Stock Exchange in Wall Street like that, like he
basically has stewardship over the largest financial area in the world.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah. And I saw some companies talking about how they
would want to leave New York. A lot of a
lot of business would want to leave New York. Is
the higher taxing that he said he's gonna but you can't.
You can't move Wall Street Like that's that's not going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
And and that's that's what's interesting to me because we
even talked about what happens when Wall Street is no longer.
When when when it's just like you don't have like
like when the things that you know that that should
that that needs stability, like Wall Street needs some stability,
Like it doesn't thrive off of chaos, like you see,

(24:06):
because people don't want their money to thrive off of
Like your money can thrive off of chaos, Like that's
really where your money actually thrives is when there's giant
ups and downs. But the problem is is people don't
have a like there's no confidence. And when there's no confidence,
people don't move their money. They back their money into

(24:29):
the safes and into the banks and stuff and into
you know, loans and things like that as opposed to
the market and businesses and these these businesses and this
is where this is where it hurts everybody, is when
these businesses can't get their funding or can't get the

(24:51):
funding that they need to be solvent. You see businesses
go down, right, and it's not you know, and some
of these companies, like you know, Frish has made bad decisions.
But that's one hundred and some restaurants that employ twenty

(25:11):
five to thirty people each, right, you know, that's that's
three thousand people that just lost jobs employment yet right
because they didn't have the money. And now it's not
because of the market. But at the same time, you
also got to think people didn't have confidence in that

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business anymore. The food hasn't changed in forty fifty years,
and they're not innovating anything or being the best or
being the cheapest. And so because I've always said, and
especially in restaurants, you can be the best or you
can be the cheapest. If you're in the middle, you're
just staling out your failure. You know you're going to

(25:55):
fail someday. And so we're just we're watching some of
these companies that are just straight failing. They're just going
down because there's no confidence. Yeah, and so that's why
this is, you know, that's a giant thing. Is you know,
if you can't instill confidence in the in in his city,

(26:18):
which you know what is it is New York isn't
even eleven million people anymore. At one point it was
Tokyo and New York for the largest cities in the world.
I don't think either of them are the largest city anymore.
I think it's somewhere in Dubai or something like that.
Probably or China, probably China.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
But I think Tokyo might still be up there.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I know they're both up there still, but at the
same point. I know in like the early nineties when
I was a kid, that they were they they you know,
it was a fight between Tokyo and like they were
like neck and neck at like ten eleven million people.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Population wise. I think Tokyo is number one, Is it still? Yeah,
thirty seven million.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Okay, because I think it was like and I think
it had grown like by by the two thousands, like
to twenty or so million, and New York at one
point had to overtaken them. Yeah, you know, it was
like New York was at like twenty and they were
at nineteen or something like that.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, and then Shanghai's up there and Delhi, India.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Deli Yeah yeah yeah. So why you know, why, why
else is this important? Because if we don't come into
Syria just to go back to Syria, if we don't
do and this is just purely economic, honestly, if we
don't come into Syria and put in and put give us,

(27:51):
give some influence and that, and we don't we don't
start trying to help build their infrastructure, back up with
our not our government, but our companies. Then China, Iran,
all of those places come in and then they reinsert
influence and so you know, not that I know that

(28:16):
we don't want to like we don't want to upset anyone.
We want to be non confrontational. Let's not you know,
let's not be too great. But why why aren't we
Why why wouldn't we as a country try to influence
another country?

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Like why wouldn't beneficial?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
And and why? You know, what is what is the
ethics in not doing like what what what are we
gained by not doing it?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
You know? Yeah, I mean I think there's I think
there's absolutely proof that socialism has failed and communism has failed.
So yeah, I mean you look at uh, what is
it South Korea? Too?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Right?

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Like why why wouldn't we want to instill the best
government that we've had in my history? Why wouldn't we
want to.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
The one government that has held Yeah, I can say
it has been constantly a force in the in the
world for the last two hundred and fifty years. Yeah,
I mean there isn't another government that I can see
that has held like.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
That, No, and and expanded like like right, it.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just yeah, because like you can say, oh, England's been
been a constant government. Okay, they have been a constant government,
but they've lost ninety percent of their territories. They've you know,
their expansion, their government has has lost their power more
than they've expanded their power like that. You know, they're

(29:58):
they're not and this is like, you know, with all
due respect, but they're not a force on their own.
Like if they went out and said we're going to
attack Pakistan, like they would have to get people behind

(30:23):
them to do that, Like we would have to come
up and ally them so that they would be able to
you know, so that they weren't just you know, and
that's why you have allies. You know. It's not like
but if we went in and said we're going to
you know, incur into Pakistan and take you to try
to take out the Taliban or something like that, then

(30:48):
had a NAT but then we would we would do
that like yeah, and and they and I'm sure other
countries would be like boh blah blah, and they could
do that, but they can't stop us. You know, they're
not going to you know, they're not going to physically
actually try.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
To stop us, and and not even just military wise
with England, like economically too true, they're they're really I
wouldn't call them.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
And and and that's right, and that's and that's that's
one hundred percent try right there too, is that you know?
With with that, yeah, they just they just they don't
have you know, they're they they're importing all of their
food and they're you know, when you when you get

(31:35):
to the point where which we've gotten to, where you're
importing a ton of of your products that you need
for daily life, then you're dependent on other people. And
I think that that's what Trump's seen, and that's one
of the good things he's brought back to us, is
that you know, we can be energy independent. We can

(31:57):
be yeah, we can you know, we can build, we
can sell our beef in other countries. You know, we
don't have to just bring you know, we're not bringing
it all in here. But any of our surpluses are
now able to go out because honestly, we make enough
enough food in our country to feed the world. But

(32:21):
because of tariffs and because of just random agreements, you know,
a lot of times we don't export our food to
keep values and costs high and to keep you know,

(32:41):
just honestly, just some of it's just to keep the
market share, like we talked about with diamonds and stuff.
You know, a lot of it is is that if
we flooded the market with grain or whatever, then then
the grain market would crash and so and and yes,

(33:01):
right now, you know, beef prices are high, and so
they're talking about bringing in beef to from New Zealand
and Australia and stuff like that to kind of help
with that. But at the same time, if we if
we incentivized it, we could grow our own beef. If

(33:25):
we also hadn't sold a ton of our farms to China,
we could grow our own beef. You know, why is
China buying our food because they want to control it.
I mean Smithville bacon is all Chinese owned and so
I you know, I don't buy it anymore because it's

(33:45):
Chinese own bacon. And not that I don't not that
it's not good or not that it's whatever, but I
don't want to support countries that don't support us. And
they're going to whine about a tariff, Well that's what
they're for. Like everybody wants to complain about, well, these
tariffs are going to raise prices in other countries, but

(34:08):
for us, if we pay a tariff to come in,
we didn't tax any of those people's work. We didn't
tax you know, if you want to talk about income taxes,
we didn't tax any of those in their income. We
don't We didn't tax any other businesses. Why would we
tax our own people? And we're not taxing people out

(34:29):
of our country. Like, if we can bring in the
in the money on tariffs that we pay, then for one,
the government has enough money to run it stuff. Because
I don't know if you know this, but the government
is a shutdown right now. I mean that's working on
an opening up today and they're you know, as sad.

(34:51):
As as much as I hate Fetterman, like he just
like he just looks like like he's never got a
suit on. He's always got and I know, you know,
I understand he wears a hoodie and some shorts and
he doesn't you know, he doesn't care about all the
pomp and circumstance and all of this stuff. And and honestly,
he's he said some things over the last two years

(35:12):
that I'm like, Okay, he seems like an okay, dude.
The fact that he got elected over doctor Oz, an
actual doctor, although he is a celebrity after having a stroke,

(35:34):
barely said a thing, and when he did say things,
you couldn't understand him. There's also a conspiracy that this
John Fetterman isn't the same one that had a stroke. Wow,
you know that they've body doubled him and put somebody new,
because a bald guy with a beard you can replace
in a second, you know, with somebody else. And yeah,

(35:56):
just the fact that he stepped over the aisle and
his vote is going to vote to end it, like.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, And the thing that blows my mind. And I'd
have to be fact checked on this with the shutdown,
but my understanding is they're trying to strong arm Trump
with the shutdown like the Democrats are. They're trying to
strong arm him with signing more incentives to give out
more money, which blows the mind. So the government gets

(36:28):
shut down because there's a lack of money to pay
to pay workers. That's why shutdowns have That's why they say.
But then they want to they will only open the
government back up if Trump will sign these bills to
give out more money, you know what I mean. So
it's it's like, okay, it's not about not having the money,
it's just a strong arm place so they can still

(36:49):
gain control. That's right. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yeah, they're trying to control. And what I like, even
what I heard today, like they didn't have a plan. Yeah,
they didn't have a plan to open the government back up,
and so with that they try to strong strong number
the government to give them more money. They shut down

(37:12):
the government. And a shutdown is basically we set up
a budget. The country sets up a budget, and they
set it up for so long it said one year
or two year or four year or five year budget whatever,
and at the end of that budget they scrap everything. Basically,
they look at what they've got coming in money wise,

(37:34):
and they change they then they set it up so
that you know, depending on who's in an office, is
what the budget's going to be like. When Republicans are
in the office, most of the time, they're going to
try to balance it so that we're not we're actually
paying off some of the national debt. When Republicans are

(37:55):
in the office most of the time, there have been
good Republicans or good Democrats, and good and bad Republicans
that have have done the opposite. Then they try and
then they try to expand you know, programs and programs
cost money, and so that adds to the national debt.

(38:17):
That's why Obama has added more to the national debt
than all of the other presidents combined. And some of
that's inflation, but not all of that his inflation. It's like,
you know, some of the for like George Washington didn't
add anything to the national debt because he was George Washington,

(38:40):
and they didn't even we didn't even have barely have
a national currency at the time, let alone. But you know,
we didn't really start adding to the national debt probably
for the first fifty to one hundred years. And again,
like you said, I have to be fact checked because
I don't have a clue right off. You know, when
they are went to a national debt system, I would

(39:03):
say it's probably in the twenties or thirties. But we
could have had national debt before then. I don't know. Yeah,
I know that we you know, at one point we
owed France for our freedoms because France came in and
beat England, helped us beat England during the Revolutionary War.
But I don't think they took it out on debt wise,

(39:24):
you know for sure. But anyhow, so that's kind of
the budget is. And so yes, the Republicans basically said,
we're going to cut all of these programs, and you know,
especially the programs that are helping LGBTQ people in Ecuador

(39:44):
and you know South Africa and Madagascar and you know,
gay lemurs and stuff like that, and so you know,
making sure they have dance lessons and stuff and all
of that stuff, which I don't believe we're actually programs

(40:05):
in the beginning. They're payoffs like they're they're not they're
not actually helping that. The Democrats don't really care that
much about the l g b t Q plus A
plus plus whatever community. They they are using that because

(40:27):
it is a smoke screen that will not be walked through,
like nobody's gonna go you hate you can't you can't
do that because because they're going to be called a
hater of you know, you're not a you're not a
you're you're not an ally and so they you know,

(40:49):
they're gonna put that up as a smoke screen. But
they're paying off people, they're paying for influences in places absolute.
So you know, I don't know whether who loved coffee
and or but that's what they're buying. You know, they're
they're buying favor in markets. And so you know this
whole Ukrainian thing Hunter Biden favor. You know, we're paying

(41:14):
them five hundred billion dollars for so that they can
have tanks and blah blah blah. You know, the the
Ukrainians better better better be like erecting statues to Hunter
Biden and right, and and that for for the favor
that they got because they gave him jobs in Ukraine.

(41:35):
You know, so yes, they basically yeah, at one point
I saw they strong armed him for one point three
five trillion dollars two provide healthcare to illegal aliens in

(41:56):
our country.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
No, that's that's that's what I was talking about. So
if the government shut down is because we don't have
money for the government officials, then why are we sending
more money to something that has nothing to do with
government officials? If we don't have the money like that,
it's so does that make sense? Right?

Speaker 1 (42:16):
And we and we shut it We don't shut it
down because we don't have the money for the official.
We can't we can't agree on how we're going to
spend the money. But we didn't pay all these government
officials because we can't agree, and so we don't have
the money. But you wanted to start, you want to
create a continuing resolution that continues to pay these people

(42:40):
for being here illegally. But then when we want to
pay for SNAP for people who have come here legally,
who who, like I said, you know, for the benefit
of the doubt, we'll give them ten percent, are the
bad side and really needs SNAP and really you SNAP

(43:01):
for the betterment of their lives and stuff like that,
and helped and helped themselves feed themselves with that. But
you know they're you know, how many how many years
could we you know, ninety thousand dollars a month for
SNAP or ninety million a month for SNAP one point

(43:24):
three five trillion to make sure that illegal aliens who
should be getting kicked out of the country or maybe
already kicked out of the country by now, as fast
as they're kicking people out of the country. And again,
I know there are people who are good people who

(43:46):
have come to the country illegally because there was no
other way they could get here there was no other
way they could save their lives, you know, And I
understand there, But that's that story is just like the
and this is gonna sound harsh and may upset you,
and if you sow you know, it's just skip about

(44:07):
twenty seconds and you'll I won't be saying it anymore.
But it's just like the abortion deal where you say,
but what about those raped ladies?

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yeah, no, that's exactly and.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
What about this And you say, okay, so if you
really give a push to it, less than half a
percent of those people are those people?

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:32):
You know?

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, no, I I completely I had a conversation about
this recently as well, and I use that exact same analogy.
And I think we talked about this a little bit
the last time. But I don't know. I definitely have
fixed mixed emotions right now about immigration. The only thing
that kind of I feel like makes me on edge

(44:56):
is like you see the videos online about ice, and
like there's videos that are up there where it's like, okay,
what like that it looks wrong, you know what I mean?
Like like I am four, like getting illegal aliens out
of the country as humanly as possible, as as you

(45:17):
can do that with how many there are. But like
you see videos and it's like like that looks ridiculous,
Like it looks like a circus, you know what I mean.
So it's like man like that, like I have a
problem with that in a way, but I also support
getting them out of here. Right, So.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
It's tough as sad as it is. You're you're right
there there are videos of and and we've even we've
even had one of one of I'll just say, somebody
that that is close to us, ish in our circle,

(45:56):
had one of their family members.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
That they they.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
They lived with, you know, it's just a close family member,
a spouse was deported and because they were here illegally
and they were they were working on all the paperwork
and things of that nature. Unfortunately they're still here illegally
like that. They're just like it's it's not cool. And

(46:22):
they're nicest people, right, and maybe the system failed them. Yeah,
And you could say that that because it takes so
many years to go through the program, that there isn't
just a great you know, but there's still a system
and there's still a way to go through and the

(46:44):
way to and the way to to to change the
system isn't to game the system, Like it's not like,
you know, if you can use whatever loopholes, I don't care,
that's fine. But if you're still here illegally, you're still
here illegally.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yeah, And and obviously we need we definitely need reform
with the system right to get people into the country.
I think everyone agrees on that. But and one thing
I have, I do think there has been like more
villainization to those people than necessary, because there are people
that are bringing guns, weapons, dangerous things to the communities.

(47:24):
But like, for example, the person you're referring to, they're
they're not an evil person, They're not a villain, Like
don't we don't hate those people. And I think a
lot of the Republican side and and this is like
not as much you don't hear this a lot on
the Republican side, But but I don't think we should
have villainized them as much as on a grand scheme.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Doesn't make sense, Like yeah, no, definitely, like.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Because there's still people, they're still humans, they're here illegally,
they broke the law. But just like I see someone
else that's broken the law, and Joe, I don't hate
them yeah, I mean they're still humans as well. Right,
It's a tough thing navigated.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
It is, And I think I think the problem is
is that that as much as we villainize them, or
as much as Republicans have villainized them for being here illegally,
we've also we also set out to say listen, if

(48:22):
you're here illegally, it's illegal. And I think that the biggest,
sometimes the biggest you know, deterrent for crime is the punishment.
Like you know, you you know, at some point in

(48:42):
in your criminal career, you you may not care about
the punishment anymore, but I feel like you weigh is
the crime worth the punishment? And I feel like some
of these people have weighed that the crime is worth
the punishment because you get to the America and you
get to live that dream of being in America. And

(49:06):
I feel bad for those people, like those are the
people that you you honestly, they're the hardest working people
in America. Probably you know some of the some of
these people who have who have dreamt and slept getting
across the border. They work as like you know, Dalton, Georgia,
where they have where, you know, laying carpet and construction

(49:29):
in Georgia, Like those people are some of the hardest
working people. And it's hard to say, like, look, you've
you know it. I wish we had a way to
document you've been here so many years. Let's get you
in the system. Let's get you through the program so

(49:51):
that you can be assimilated into the systems.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
And you know, my wife says, well, we should accept everybody,
and it's a yes. As a Christian nation, this is
this is where your your your your patriotism and your
your your Christian. You know, somewhere, somewhere here, one of
them has to win. And you hope that your Christian
wins every time, right, And you know at the moment,

(50:18):
the laws are this, and as a Christian, as a Christian,
you know, I want to accept you, whether you're le
here legally or you're not. And as a person, and
you know, I hope that you find God or you
have God or or anything like that. But I think

(50:40):
until but I also feel like the country as a
government is supposed to keep you safe and somehow there's
got to be a way to vet you through, whether
it's find out if you're a criminal or not, and
if you're a criminal. Honestly, most likely you're going to

(51:02):
recommit more crimes, and so we don't want you here,
you know, we we don't want to add more criminals
to the country. We already have a problem with crime
because we don't punish. We've we've basically become on crime,
like like parents have become on their kids. We're just

(51:27):
gonna we're just gonna easy parent them. We're gonna light
parent them. And because because we've loved them so hard,
they're going to be good. It's not how it works,
like the Bible says, it's not going to work that way,
like from from the writing of the Bible, you know,

(51:49):
which has been a couple thousand years ago. I just
just let you guys know, like, it just doesn't work
that way. And so we have to have punishments and
punishments to ter crime because you can't legislate out crime
even though they try to keep making more laws, you know,
put more laws on the books that'll keep them from

(52:11):
from making more. No, it just makes us less safe,
it makes us less free.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Now you've got like you said, ice is a ice
is a carnival or a circus because you got all
these eyes on it and all these people trying to
catch them doing one thing wrong, and these people are
just literally trying to do their job.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
And that's what makes it hard because I feel like
sometimes you can you can because I'm not prejudiced towards
those people. We don't want to be prejudiced towards at
all because that would be wrong. And the dangerous part
is seeing some of these ice into it. I mean,
I think there's Republicans that fill a type of way
towards immigrants that is wrong from a Christian aspect. Does
that make sense? Yeah, I can see them, you know

(52:53):
what I mean, like they have a hatred. So I
think another question that I see, and this is just
to play the devil's appy. I don't have I'm indifferent
about this, but I mean people will bring this topic
up and be like, well, America was founded as a
melting pot, Like New York is a melting pot, what

(53:13):
where do you where do you go from there? You
know what I mean, We're a melting pot, that's what
we are. True.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
So it's like and we're built on immigration. We're built
on immigrants, but we've always been built on on the
law of immigration, like in the in the in the
nineteen hundreds to nineteen thirties, everyone came in through Ellis Island.

(53:39):
You came in, you stated your name, you got registered
you you know, you came in and then you were
not a voting citizen until you took the test to
become a citizen. You were here and you had papers,
and and if we could do something like that, then
that's fine. Yeah, like let's let's get them in here,

(53:59):
let's get them signed and in. You know, if you
break a law, you see you later. I mean a
law more than like speeding, Like speeding is not really
a law.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
It's a tort.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
It's a tort. It is a it is a below misdemeanor,
you know.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Law.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
But like that's it though, Like if you break a law,
like you rob somebody or you you know, or something
that you know, you know, you started organized crime or something,
you know, then you know, don't pipe bomb somebody, you
know type thing.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
But so you think you would say, just we need
a better we do we we do.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Need a better system of immigration. Like I can see
that you know the fact that you know you sign up,
you got to wait seven years or you've got to
wait this many much time, or that there's not enough
judges or not. You know, there's there should be a
better way. You know, as a Christian, we should accept
more people. You know, we should bring in you know,
it says, you know, bring us there. You're tired, and

(54:59):
you're you know, you're hungry and all of that, and
we should do that. Yeah, but it doesn't say put
your people at risk by bringing in your murderer their
murderers and any of things like that. Absolutely, we want
to be a protective society that you know, we're not
bringing in the dog and the cat, you know, like

(55:22):
the cat comes in, we say it, you know, kick
the dog out or what you know, whatever's attack, whatever's
following you. We don't want to bring in the boogeyman too.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Yeah, you know. So yeah, I mean, and think about
it too, Like one way to fix that system is
one point five trillion dollars a year. Maybe let's put
that money towards a program that gives more workers that
go through the paperwork, that get people in exactly. That
would be a much more effective use of the money.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Like how many how many of those of those you know,
eighty eighty thousand irs agents could we use you know,
damping people's you know, you know, standing people's citizenship paperwork
or or looking you know, vetting through this system, because
there should be some kind of vet like we don't. Again,

(56:13):
we don't want to bring in ISIS leaders. You know,
nobody wants to get blown up, and no one should
get blown you know, should worry about that. But because
we are a country of excellence, because we are a
country that's been out and taken, you know, and gone
and spread out into the world for whatever, then we

(56:40):
we do have a target on our back, and not
and not always because we're we're the jerks in the world.
Not only not always because we're the bullies trying to
make you do this. Your people want to come to
America because we offer a level of freedom that no
one else sees. And you can say, oh, we've treated

(57:04):
our We haven't treated our people any at all, anywhere
close to places like Iran and Iraq and the nineteen
ninety six or ninety four World Cup Iraqi team is dead. Yeah, wow,
they got drug across fields of glass and they were

(57:26):
all killed. The brother of Saddam Hussein who ran the team,
was exiled. We don't do that to our people, Yeah,
even if they are murders and whoever else.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Yeah, And I think another thing at play here too.
You look at like those countries like they're belligerent people
in Iraq that want power like that that is their play.
So when you have a country that prioritizes freedom, we
have CRUP But that's another thing. Prioritize freedom. Majority of America,
I would say that that's that is what we are

(58:06):
built on. When there's freedom, you can't have power. So
for example, like North Korea, he doesn't want to give
his people freedom because then he limits his power, right,
don't want to limit their power. And that's what we
do as a government is limit our power with checks
and balances. Right. So I think that's another thing at
play is power that people want that and you can't

(58:28):
have with freedom.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Right And I and I feel like I do feel
like we struggle with You know, there are there is
a a a overwhelming group of people who want power
here and we fight that. And that's why the Constitution
is so strong because or or so valuable because it

(58:49):
isn't written to give people power as much as it's
written to limit the power of the people in power. Yeah,
you know the First Amendment wasn't so that you or
I could never be you know, confronted or never be
never have our feelings hurt. The First Amendment is so

(59:12):
that the government can't come and crush you because you
said something against the government.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
You know.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Having guns isn't so that you or I can't shoot
each other. You know, you get or I could shoot
each other. It's so that when the government comes to
attack you, like the English government came to do, you
can defend yourself absolutely, And because of all of the
gun controls, we couldn't do that anymore. You know. It's

(59:43):
like I had a conversation with a family member this
the two three weeks ago, and they they said, well,
they're not going to come and attack us because we
got five million gun owners. Oh boy, five million gun owners.
They got missiles.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Yeah, five million plus.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
And I think it's a it's a higher level than
just five million gun owners, because they sell seven to
five million guns a year, you know, so that that's
the number. So I think it's more like fifty or
one hundred million gun owners, you know type deal. Really,
but that's what they were saying is we got so
many gun owners who cares like most of the gun

(01:00:30):
owners part of the military right. And honestly, when they
come to attack you, they're not coming face to face
with you. No war is going to be fought on
a face to face battlefield anymore. The next major war
will be fought with drones, with automated vehicles, Autonomous vehicles,

(01:00:56):
will be fought with missiles from boats in the ocean,
will be fought from miles and miles away. Because of Vietnam,
because of World War Two, we don't have people with
the guts or the wherewithal to fight that kind of

(01:01:17):
war anymore, like you like nothing like yeah, like nothing
against against your generation or the generation at before you,
or or the generations after me coming up, or even
my generation. We just don't have the stummach for it. Yeah,

(01:01:38):
we were we were coddled in life, Like we didn't
grow up with dads beating us relentlessly, and we didn't
grow up in that kind of violence. Like, yeah, we
had long yards, but it wasn't used against us as
a weapon. You know, we used it as a weapon
against each other, but it wasn't you know, we just

(01:01:59):
didn't roll up in this kind of violence. And yeah,
video games are video games but video games have taught
us that we can fight from miles and miles away. Yeah,
and we can be disassociated, right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
And I think another thing too, it wouldn't be effective either,
like a foxhole compared to a drone that's in the
sky with nobody in it, exactly, it's not effective. I
think that's another reason it mayn't be fought like that.
It's just.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Right because you could put a missile on a drone
and drop it a bomb on a drunk like Israel.
And I've taught and we joked about I think with
I had joked with Jay Boots on the last time
I was with him, is that you know, Israel is
shooting missiles through walls, multiple walls, and detonating it at

(01:02:47):
pinpoint accuracy, so that a missile is killing you and
no one else in the house. Yeah, I mean, it's amazing,
but it's kind of scary because you don't think they
could do it here where we don't even have rock walls,
Like we build our walls with paper thin plywood, and

(01:03:07):
and you know, hopefully you've got stuff in your walls
so that you're you know, heat deficiencies and stuff like that,
and it's like you don't. You don't you don't think
that's going to happen here when things hit the fan, Like,
you don't, you don't think the government, the US government
isn't helping Israel get those things. Yeah, you know, we
don't have access to that. Then you know, you're thirty

(01:03:31):
hot six or your twelve gage shotgun isn't going to
do anything against the doorbuster missile, the you know, the
hell fire missiles that pinpoint accuracy blow through your house.
So and yeah, and that's and that's that's just it

(01:03:52):
is that we just we don't have you know, That's
what the that's what the Constitution was for is to
control the power, not give the government the power. And
I think that we've lost that. We don't we don't
teach that in school. You know, see the Magna Carta

(01:04:12):
was a great piece of paperwork that helped us get
to the Constitution. And the Constitution gives the government to
put No, it doesn't give the government the power. That's
that's not what it was there forever it was. And
that was the argument, why do we create a government,
a full federal government, because we just got rid of
a federalized federal style government in England, and we're going

(01:04:36):
to create, you know, by creating a republic, now we
could create thousands of tyran tyrants miles away as opposed
to one tyrant thousands of miles away.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
So absolutely, so yeah, I do have to use the.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Restau real quick. Okay, sorry, no, you're good. Let me
let me pause it. So we took a quick break here.
We're coming back from that break, and I just wanted to,
you know, just as as I've been finishing the the
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a US made company, all of their products and that

(01:06:41):
are made in the US, and you get, you know,
you get some great gloves. So go on help them out.
I'll have the link in our comments area and our
subject and you know, just help them out, help us out.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Gosh, I love fields.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Right all right, So we're gonna like lighten things up
just a little bit here coming off the off the
break here and just we're gonna talk. We're gonna we're
gonna do something we we don't normally don't normally do,
and we're going to, uh, you know, just just talk
a little bit about some sports. You know. I know,

(01:07:28):
I've I've I've done this a little bit myself, and uh,
you know, I like to call it and uh an
exercise in hooliganism. That's right back to my soccer roots.
Like to call it a little exercise and hooliganism, and uh,

(01:07:50):
you know, just just you know, just break it loose
like there. You know, like we said, it doesn't have
to be super serious every second of the day, and
we're just when we'll just talk about our fantasy teams
and what's going on, you know. So so here we
are fantasy teams. Me and Carson went against each other

(01:08:13):
this week, and I think I lost by I don't
know how many points, about twenty three. At one point,
we were like I was ahead, and it kept saying
that you were going to win, and I kept saying it,
kept rebuking it, telling it, no, I'm ahead because I
was up by like ten or fifteen points coming into Monday.

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But you had your quarterback, I think you had. I
think you had your quarterback and one of your wide receivers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Was that Monday night football I.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Think it was Monday night.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Yes, yes, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Yeah, and so that, yeah, that I knew you were
going to probably pull ahead because all I had was
I think I had a running back and I had
the wrong running back back in swift to like got
me twenty eight points on the bench.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you had Tyrone Tracy instead.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Which which Tracy became the number one because which I thought.
I think he's a really cool, like he's just one
of those guys you're like, listen, there's a wall you
need to get through it, and he's gonna run through
it for you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
He's entertaining. He's really fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Yeah, but and I think I think he'll be fun
for for years to watch. I think he'll be a
force for a while for the Giants as long as
as long as he can stay healthy. That's that's the
biggest thing is those guys normally don't last as long
because they can't stay healthy because they're because they put

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their body on the line every every play, which is
kind of what I'm like, I'm worried about. Like Michigan's quarterback,
Like I I've seen him block for the running back
a few times.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Yeah, and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Dude, but he is six five pounds, so yeah, like
he's got the weight to be able to do it.
It's just, you know, not all of us are Ben Roethlisberger.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Pittsburgh lost. I was so so ugly. I was so mad.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Uh you know what though, you know who won? Dub Bears.
Dub Bears ten seconds left touchdown dub Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
That game was crazy, it was great.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
It was just and it was just like the Bengals
game too. It was just like, yep, yeh, doub Bears.
It's it's our year. It's it's dull year for dub Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
What's you guys record? Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Seven and two? I think now, no way, yeah, I
think so pretty sure.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Let me see six and three?

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Six and three.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
That's good for you guys' division, right, because you guys
are in a tough one. Yeah. Yeah, Pittsburgh, we played uh,
the Chargers, and I stopped watching. I was like, we
just had no offense. Our defense was great and that's
and they have a tough defense.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
And honestly, that's what I've been surprised about this season
is you guys have actually put up a bunch of
yards and stuff like that you know, actually done really well. Yeah,
because I just I honestly just don't believe in Aaron Rodgers.
Really yeah, no, I have one hundred percent said, what's that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
He threw two picks?

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
Yeah, and that's it. I've said, Like he's the poor
man's Brett Farv. You may not, like I don't know,
I guess he's been around what not fifteen years a
long time, so you haven't really seen you'd never see
Brett Favre as Brett Farv, Like if you go back
and look at like Brett Farv was the man, Yeah,
like he and and he wasn't. And this is no

(01:11:57):
like dig on Brett Farv because I know my uncles
are are packers fans and stuff like that. He wasn't
the smartest guy in the world. And he went out
on a record with the record interceptions, like he threw
the most interceptions in the NFL as a quarterback ever,
which I think is I think he still holds that record,

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but he went out holding almost every other record. Like
it's not his fault that Tom Brady came in like
just a few years after him and just started taking
his records like right after.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Yeah, he still has the interception record, but he's yeah,
three thirty six.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
But if you saw how he threw the ball, like
the ball came off his arm like a rocket, like
he he had Like he's one of the hardest throwing
white quarterbacks I've ever seen. Really, like when you saw
in the water Boy when the when the ball sticks
in the guys, like I could see Brett Favre doing

(01:13:01):
that to somebody because he throws the ball so hard.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Wow. So so Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
So Aaron Rodgers I always felt like was the poor man's.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
Even when he was, Yes, really he was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
He won a ring, he won one ring.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Yeah, I mean that's better than Josh Allen. Sure right now,
that's right, Yeah, I mean I think but Rodgers is
like the opposite because he throws like not a lot
of picks. That's what.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
He doesn't throw very many picks. He doesn't throw as hard,
but he does throw the ball in the long distance.
He hasn't he's not afraid to no and and and
the same thing though with Brett farrvs. Brett Farv was
the guy that you know if if he threw a pick,
he was tackling the dude like he was the guy

(01:13:57):
tackling the guy to start, like on the nine nine
yard line, like on the one yard line, like the
you know the guy he threw the pick in the
other end zone. Yeah, and he's the one chasing him
down to like yeah, even at like forty years old. Yeah,
Like he was the one tackling the guy. And that's
why I think. I think that's why you endeared yourself
to him, and you thought, like this is this is

(01:14:20):
a man's man. This is like a tough dude. Yeah,
And I think that the NFL has has gone away
from that a little bit, like there's not as many
tough dudes.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
I think that's why people like scatterboys so much.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Right, yeah, Yeah, that's exactly why is that. You know,
he's a tough dude. He just like like you said,
like I said, he'll run through a wall for you. Yeah,
and you want to like those people.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
And it's it's the injuries too. That's another thing I
wanted to bring up is how many injuries there's been
this season, Like it's ridiculous, Like I feel like it
feels like there's more this season than normal. Did you
see the Jayden Daniels one? No? I did not you
didn't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
No, I didn't see it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
Oh it's ugly.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I I honestly, I was pretty busy this weekend, so
I didn't get to see a ton of games. I
saw a little bit of the Jets game, and I
just got to watch the Bears game from Oh yeah,
Oh he's not he's not He's not ever gonna be
left handed.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Yeah, no, it's not his throwing arm. Yeah, tell me
when it ends.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Oh yeah, that's that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
You see it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Yeah, that's that looks like AI. That looks like a
bad a. But he's not on I R so because
he'll be left arm.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
He'll be back before five weeks or four weeks or whatever, right,
which is good for my fantasy team.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Honestly, as long as they as long as they break.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
I didn't mean to watch it again.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
As long as they brace it up. I wonder if
they'll if they'll play him.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
No, and people were talking about they shouldn't even he
shouldn't have even been in the game because it was
it was the fourth quarter. They were getting beat so bad.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
I guess you can say that all you want.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
But like he is their gym though, like Jane Daniels
is Washington's future, right, that's all they have right now?

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Right, Well he's there, he's like, yeah, he's their star,
they need him. And but at the same point, then
why do you play him any games this season? Because
you know, if you know, you know, they're not gonna
win there, they're gonna be you know whatever. But yeah,
that that's to me is always the like he shouldn't

(01:16:22):
have Yeah, okay, we should have taken him out of
play before. Like it's it's kind of like the stock market,
like I should have stayed in an extra, an extra,
you know, five minutes, or I should have gotten out
ten minutes ago. Yeah, that's why I say, like, for
some reason, I had I knew bitcoin was gonna go,
and it was forty bucks when it when it was

(01:16:43):
first released, and I was sitting there telling Allison. I
literally told, and Allison will say, I told Alison, we
need to buy a hundred bitcoin. Gosh, but I would
have gotten out at ten thousand right when it was
when that hundred one hundred bitcoin was ten thousand dollars,
I would have gotten easy, right you know, now that
two hundred bitcoin would be worth what five hundred thousand

(01:17:06):
dollars or whatever, yeah, I wouldn't have made it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
Yeah, so for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
But yeah, so yeah that I did not see his.
I was like, that's one of those like they're back
back when I was a kid, there was they were
they were fighting against turf on baseball fields because Filipe
A Loo or no not Felipe Lou, moyses Alu, Philip's son,

(01:17:36):
moyses A Lou was coming around first base and it
caught in in the actual turf and because he was
running so hard, because he was running full blast and
he was a fast dude, his leg just snapped like
right through and and it and it literally made like
an L shape.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Just and if you watch the video is so bad
because before he could like you have to stop, you
have to slow down, like you can't just like like
he could have just like lifted his arm up or
lift his leg up and just skid it across the ground,
I guess, but like he tried to take another step
with it and it was just like yeah, it was
just like swinging around and stuff, and it was so bad.

(01:18:23):
The videos really like if you you can look it
up on YouTube, it's will yeah, but yeah, that's the
kind of bad. It is. It's just like one of those,
but it it does. Like with AI, if you go
and watch some of the like beginning AI videos, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Yeah, if you could go look at some of the
Beginning AI videos and like the people's arms are all
contorted weird and stuff, or or like the EA sports
soccer football like touchdowns things. Yeah, because there was like
a there's like a whole YouTube page like YouTube videos
set up, you know, just dedicated to like messed up

(01:19:08):
videos and stuff like that computer rated yeah pictures, and
this is not computer rated. Yeah, it's real life.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Yeah. So anyways, Yeah, Steelers to the Super Bowl. Yeah yeah, no,
I'm not sure I'm on that, but I would. I
would be more excited if we would have gotten a
receiver before the deadline. But we right, and that's I
don't understand why we don't get a receiver like we have, right,
we have the things that trade with right to get

(01:19:38):
a receiver like it doesn't make sense. We need another
weapon on offense and we need a deep threat for
Aaron Rodgers, and we could get that from so many
different teams, like Chris A. Lave was one of them.
I'd be so fine with getting Chris Lave. He's twenty
five years old and he's talented.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
What about if Dallas said pickets back available.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
It depends what they would offer for him. I don't
know Pickens is they would offer a lot more than
what we got for him is the problem. Because he's
been doing so good with the Cowboys, right, so I'd
probably say no. And also he's not He's really not
the best for a locker room. He's a great player.
Though I was always a Pickens fan, Okay, I really was.
I always thought he I didn't think he was a

(01:20:20):
bust like people said he was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Right, and I think it was. I think it was
more that they that I honestly think that he's moved
around a lot like Jared Judy, like it. There was
too high of expectation on him, and like you wanted
him to be a Randy Moss and he's not a
Randy Moss. He's a.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
He just didn't have any help either. He was the
only receiver, but then he wanted the ball, so like,
I can't be mad at the guy that is competitive
and he wants the ball in his hands.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
I would say he's more like a Mike Evans, like
you know at the Buccaneers. Like, he's not that guy
that's going to although he's played a decent job in
Dallas doing it, he's not the guy that's going to
streak down the field and catch that big pass. He's
the guy that's going to go across the middle catch
that pass. He's kind of like a tight end in
his in his route running where it's not quite as

(01:21:13):
technical as your slot back. Absolutely, but he's going to
you know, he's going to uh, you know, catch a
decent pass and he may get a bunch of yards
after the catch.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
I would agree. His hands are unbelievable. I think he
has one of the top five best catches.

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
They still they still talk about how small his hands are.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Though, No, that's the that's the quarterback. Oh okay, yeah, okay, No,
that's that's Kenny. He's okay, But no, he has one
of the top five greatest catches of all time. Like
I am convinced, maybe top three, and you might you
might not know the one I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
I don't just because I like, you know, I follow
it as much as I can, But I really follow
soccer a ton more than I do anything else. But
but I am doing pretty good in in my other
fantasy league. You're, yeah, the one. I the one I
have a little little bet on it. That one. I'm

(01:22:08):
I'm in third place right now. I'm actually seven and
two on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
Nice here tell me when it ends it like slows.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
It down in Yeah, I mean that is that is
a pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Like the body control he's mid fright, reaching the fact
that he yeah, the fact that he's run, he's gone
and actually you know, bent himself back. That's ye.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
I was gonna say at first, I was gonna say
it's a lot like the Megas Megatron catch, but I
think that one actually probably is harder than than that one,
even because it's not just you know, reach up and
grab a ball, you know, because there's plenty of players
in that that have been able to reach up and
grab a ball like Randy Moss and that that you know,

(01:22:56):
just one handed. But yeah, to be able to move
your body back like that, yeah, that's probably.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
It's probably there. It is a pretty good catch.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
But yeah, so that uh, you know, this this week
wasn't so great for me, but I I mean I
did have good like play, like my I had a
defensive back. It was it wasn't Miles Garrett. Yeah, And
I literally picked him up because Trevor Hunt, Trevor Hunter,

(01:23:28):
Travis Travis Hunter was was injured, and so I picked
up this other Hunter guy. And I'm like, I don't
know who this guy is, but he looks like he's
gonna score eight or ten points. And he scored sixty
because he had like.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
Three and a half sacks.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
Yeah yeah, And so I'm like, okay, cool, I'll keep him.
You know, not that he's ever gonna have three and
a half sacks again. He may have one, but he's
got the potential to do it obviously. So I'll watch
matchups and when he plays a week line, I'll play
him again. And honestly, Travis Hunter, I've been playing because

(01:24:06):
he still has the defensive fact categorized and he's playing
wide receivers, so I'm getting all the wide receiver points
on it on a defensive back. So great. Yeah, and
what's okay, So I'm not gonna put it all out there,
but he is the reason we redrafted. Yeah, so me

(01:24:32):
getting to use him in a in a back door
just beat the rules kind of way. Is It's just
is my little.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Bit of uh and then dropped his whole team. Yeah,
and then that was like, well, well, and what's annoying?
So I got Jane Daniels from Jonathan putting everything, and
then I could have gotten so there he had Courtland
Sutton and JSN I picked. I would have gotten Courtland
Sutton before Mike did. I wouldn't got either of them.

(01:25:04):
I picked Courtland Sutton instead of Jason Jayson's the top
wide receiver in the league right now, So I was
mad about that. I just believed in bow Nick's and
that offense, and Evan Ingram hasn't done anything. Neither has R. J. Harvey,
who's that rookie running back or Courtland Sutton so right disciplined,
But yeah, I I could have been way out better off.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
I just left all his players because I'm lost, like
these are these are demon players? These are these these
are cursed? Yeah, but I did. I did when I
played Jay, I did drop everybody except but I didn't
realize on Thursday night had gone. I almost commissioned it,
commissioned it and took out every like just even took

(01:25:47):
my points away from everybody except for my kicker. And
then he dropped his kicker that day so that I
couldn't do that, you jerk.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
So no, that and that's uh, you know, that's and
we kind of talked to we kind of talked just
before we got on here. It's people and whenever you
have people in there competing and things, you know, it's
you know, people get excited about things and they deal
with things the way they deal with things. And I'm

(01:26:18):
sure we'll have him back next year. Maybe I don't
know really with him, and so yeah, it's just you know,
you got to kind of take it and yeah, this
is the lesson learned and never do it again.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Yeah, we'll never Joshua was still number one, so he is.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
And and it's funny because we both said, like I lost.
So I didn't have Lamar Jackson first, but I had
three really good running wide receivers and two really good
two or three really good running backs. And I've struggled
all year with running backs. Like my wide receivers, I've

(01:26:58):
got a pretty good core. Now I don't have anything
like I did, And like I got Saint John or
what you McCall it from the Detroit and Jeffries. Yeah,
in the first draft and the second draft, I didn't.
I didn't get anywhere close. And even DJ Moore has

(01:27:19):
been terrible this season. Yeah, but I did pick up
o'doon say and he got me twenty five this week, so.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
Yeah, nice. Yeah he is Jonathan Taylor and Christian McCaffrey,
I'm pretty sure. So it's like, right, Jonathan Taylor is
the number one back this year and Christian McCaffrey. Everyone
on the sand on the forty nine ers has gotten
hurt except him, and he gets hurt every season, right,
and I like whatever, and.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Somehow he didn't get hurt last season, so somehow he's
he's doing something different.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
Yeah, but yeah, seventy three points Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
But yeah, so you know, it's it. It always feels
like it's never the never as good the second second
draft if you draft multiple times, and like I'll I'll
do a I'll do a mock draft just to see
how things are popping on things. But then I also

(01:28:14):
know that like with our league, it's it's a lot
of people who either watch, you know, watch it casually
or they're you know, they're not they're not one hundred
percent going to draft the way like a season veteran
is going to draft right, And that's why I like
even the even the league I have, like I have

(01:28:34):
a twenty five dollars buy in on a on a
league and so like even that league, I know, like
it's a bunch of engineers, oh wow, and so like ones.
The guy I played last week was a ja Like
literally it was a Japanese engineer. He had come to America,

(01:28:55):
like he know, he knows some soccer and baseball and
until he started into this, like now he's a little
bit better. But even when I first started, and I
think I started with doing this league for like seven
or eight years ago, like when he for when he
for he's like, I don't know any of these players,
Like he's like, I just just draft based on the
numbers like on the thing, and so you know, you're

(01:29:18):
not drafting like you would with everybody like one hundred
percent on their on their draft boards and stuff. Like
I normally come in here and draft and I've got
three screens going and I've got you know, like I'm
like I'm watching it. Yeah, I'm sure, you know, uh,
this year, I you know, I'm I'm doing AI and
saying who should I you know, who should I get

(01:29:39):
for this round and stuff and and the average picks
and stuff like that, and and it's just you know,
so but then you're like looking at it and even
if you just go down that rabbit hole, then there's
always that one player that's like, oh wait, I should
get this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Yeah no, always yeah for sure. But yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
Yeah, that's that was our fantasy. It's just terribleness for
this week. And I don't like, I think this is
this year. I'm like, what two and I'm I'm four
and six? Yeah, at least this year, like I've I've

(01:30:21):
still been like in each of them, I've been competitive.
Last year, I lost my I lost both my starting
running backs like right off the bat, and I could
never find like I could never get in on a
new starting running back like the rest of the season,
like then they were out for the season. So it
was just like it was, oh yeah, so I still

(01:30:42):
have I still have once what you McCall it sitting
on the bench. What's his name? I would look on
my phone, but my phone is one of the cameras, so.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
I have Is he hurt Godwin?

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Well, yeah, I've got him. Like I've got some some
players on the bench, like if they come back in
the next couple of weeks, which they're supposed to. But
it's a running back.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
Swift.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
No, the other one, the one on my IR, the one.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
You have Travis Hunter on IR.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
Oh, that's right, because watch McCalla came out of IR.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
You have Chris Godwin. Yeah, Swift's the only running back
on your bench.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
Well maybe it's on the other team then, but yeah,
I think Godwin was on the I R. And then
he came off the I R and I had to
I wanted I needed to throw somebody because either way,
otherwise I would have to drop somebody. So yeah, yeah,

(01:31:47):
so fantasy football, that's where we're at. There was one thing.
I can't remember it though, I was gonna say there
was one thing. I wanted to see what you what
your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Were on it. But was it about fields or was
it something else?

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
Yeah, we did kind of. I think. I don't think
we talked about him on the on the podcast, did we?

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
No, I don't think it was fields, but I you know,
we were talking about fields, and we both I think
we both said that you know, he's in a situation. Yeah,
and and I don't know how as ownership and it's
it's just like just like you said about Pittsburgh, Like
all we had to do is get a get a
wide receiver, and we don't know what's going on in

(01:32:31):
the background, obviously, but the piece of the what you
see on the field, what what you you know, what
you need, like, you know that's what we need. We
needed we needed a you know, the Bears needed a linebacker,
and we picked up some backup to you know, Miles

(01:32:55):
Garrett or whatever, some backup at the Browns. So it's like, okay,
but with him, it's like where does ownership ever go
by down playing, like by criticizing one of your players. Yeah,
like you've paid good money for this guy. You look

(01:33:16):
like an idiot for saying, yeah, you know this guard
is you know, he's not the Well maybe he's not
the answer. Maybe the answer is somebody else because he's
not the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
Yeah, like you said, yeah, No, I mean I watched
fields play week one against the Steelers and I was like,
this looks like a good quarterback. Like they almost beat
a week one and they were a couple. They almost
beat the Eagles. They literally they had that punt where
they blocked the field goal returned it for a touchdown,
they were up, and then the Eagles won with a
minute left thirty Like they're that close to being a

(01:33:49):
completely different record.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
I feel like he's he's a damaged quarterback because of
the teams he's played on. Yeah, and I will throw
the Bears under the bus on that. Yeah, is that
he was a good quarterback. He's got all the tools.
He's got more tools than a lot of quarterbacks coming
out in the league right now. I mean Daniel Jones,

(01:34:12):
I mean, come on, he's got more tools than him.
And I think he's an intelligent guy too, Like I
think he's a smart enough guy to get the system.
I think we put him like the Bears put him
in a bad situation. And I honestly like him better
than Caleb Williams really, Like I have never been a

(01:34:34):
super fan of Caleb Williams. Now he's changed in my
mind a little bit by the last these two last
weeks where he had the mental fortitude to say, I'm
still in the game and I'm down two touchdowns or
two scores, let's get this done. And I don't think that,

(01:34:57):
like he didn't give up the two score that it
almost gave up the Bengals game, like he didn't give
those upright, like it was a score. And then an
onside kick which was crazy in itself, you know, just
how how the guy like kicked it into his toes

(01:35:19):
and somehow he jumped up in the end and hit
him in the toes and then a Bengals player fell
on it within the ten yard line, like didn't make
it ten yards even, like just right? Yeah, so yeah,
but so but I but I think that, you know, yeah,

(01:35:42):
I just I just think he was put in a
bad situation and and for the Bears wise, it was timing,
like they knew they only had two more years to
get him going, and so they saw their out.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
I did. Yeah, I mean fields because when he was
with us, he won the first four games for US,
right with Pittsburgh, and then he lost too tough losses.
But you're you're four and two, you're foreign too, Like
that's that's a good starting record, I'm pretty sure, is
what it was. I'm almost certain. And we would have

(01:36:19):
kept them. I really think we would have kept them
if it wasn't for the Jets paying them thirty million dollars.
We were not going to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
So, yeah, he was coming off of his freshman contract
basically his like beginning like the first five years when
you're in the NFL, you get like this set contract basically, yeah,
and we sign him for one year and you're getting
paid like, you know, not ten million dollars a year, right,
you know. And so I don't know why they've got

(01:36:49):
it set up that way, but it protects the teams
from spending even though they still do twenty thirty million
dollars on a wider on a quarterback that for five years, right,
and so yeah, So just I think with him, it
just happened to be, you know, you know, God has

(01:37:10):
got a big boy contract and unfortunately for him now
it's with the Jets because the Jets aren't protecting him.
And that's I think that's what happened with you guys,
is is that it was first year in a new system.
You can't like some of the systems that they're thrown
at these quarterbacks is just it's crazy. And I keep

(01:37:31):
telling anybody who listen, give him twenty plays for the
first season, give him twenty thirty plays or twenty pass
pit pass plays that he's going to do, and you
wouldn't believe what they can You can do with twenty
pass plays even in the NFL, Like, it's not that complicated.

(01:37:55):
You still got variety, you still got whatever. And then
you've got your running place, you got your you know,
your handoffs, and you've got and you've got an offense
that's not killing your quarterback. Like you put thirty forty
plays in front of this quarterback and now you now
he's got to figure out all of the checkdowns, all

(01:38:18):
of this plus the thirty plays plus that you know,
forty plays plus all of you know, it's just it's
too much for Plus he's got to figure out the speed, right,
he's got to figure out who you can trust on
you on this side. Yeah, he's got to figure out who,
you know, who's going to be blocking for him, so
if he needs to know if he needs to be
watching the side to run, yeah, you know, it's just
it's it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
And although these players have have practiced since there whatever
age they you know, I think you give him too
much and then you expect them to win you a
super Bowl in the first year there with your team.
That's that's not that's not the normal.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Right, And and I think we were comfortable keeping them
but when he got that contract, We're not like they're
smart enough. We're not going to outpay the Jets. The
Jets are stupid. We know that they're dumb. They're gonna
let like we're gonna give that up for that and
and and good on him. But the Jets have a
great offense. Like they have a offense. They have Garrett Wilson,
Allen Lazar, two really good wide receivers. Obviously Garret Wilson's

(01:39:21):
is the number one, and then Braylen Allen at running
back who has been great, and then another backup I
can't remember his name. Like, they have weapons on offense.

Speaker 1 (01:39:33):
The problem though with the Jets is it's never been
the weapons. It's always been the the guys in the trenches,
right you You you can't build off of one line.
You have to have two and a half lines basically
to get through a season. Like because you're you're your
center is gonna get injured, you know he's just because

(01:39:55):
he's the one that gets beat up on all the time,
and you know one of your guards is going down obviously,
and both your tackles are going to get injured at
least for a game or so a season. The Bears
are like on their fourth or so tackle, and uh, yeah,
we had like I mean, I think we're on our
third center and well like one of our guards. I

(01:40:18):
think we just got back our our our starting guards
or something like that. And so you've had, you had,
and and that's why, like, that's why the Bengals always struggle,
is because they may have a really good like they
may build up one really good line, but the second
that that line goes down, then they then they're just

(01:40:43):
it's terrible again, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:40:45):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
They also have an issue in their in their in
their locker room. And you can tell that by the
fact that Joe Flacco is winning. Now you know the
Browning where you know, the second that that that Joe
Burrows went down, the team itself went down, like it
just crashed. And Joe Burrows didn't play the defense. You know,

(01:41:07):
not sure if you notice this, but he's not on
special teams, you know, he's not, and he only does
a certain part of the offense. So yeah, that just
you can tell. And then Joe Flacco comes in, who
is a super positive guy and has like like if

(01:41:28):
you put him on like the belief meter, like Joe
Flacco believes in himself like he knows who he is.
He knows that he's a super Bowl winning quarterback and
that's like that should be tattooed on his like somewhere
and I'm a super Bowl winning quarterback because that is
like his mantra. Like listen, now you can say, oh,

(01:41:54):
he's never won it, since doesn't matter for Joe Flacco.
He's won the super Bowl and so and that's the
that's I feel like, in the in that kind of industry,
in in your life, if you can walk around with
your greatest like achievement on your chest, you will be
such a better person. Like that's you know, not to

(01:42:15):
be like you should flaunch your but if you felt like, yeah,
if you felt the confidence of your greatest achievement and
you walk, that's it. That's that's what he does. And
then that's how he wins. You know. Now, is he
gonna win the rest of the season, We'll see, we'll see,
but he's definitely gonna win. He like, if he comes

(01:42:36):
to your team, he's gonna win two or three games
right off the bat because he walks into confidence that
most players don't see until you see Joe Flacco and
that's and then and then that's how you know, that's
part of how Tom Brady was Tom Brady, you know,
is he like and I'll tell you when he played

(01:42:57):
for Michigan, I was always yelling at the screen like
I did not believe in him. Yeah, but he walked
into confidence that I'm Tom Brady, right, and especially after
he won that first super Bowl. Yeah, you know, I'm
Tom Brady for sure. So if you want to get

(01:43:19):
a life lesson, walk in the confidence of your greatest
achievement always, always, and the super Bowl and then you continue.
Then then maybe you never win a super Bowl again,
but you at least win on a regular basis. So yeah,
I don't know, but yeah, so I think we're too

(01:43:47):
too uh to the kind of the the end here.
You know, we've got got a pretty good almost two
hours here, so just you know, time flies when you're
having fun. And I think, I mean, I think we
just will we talk about the pope later? Good and

(01:44:07):
we still have time that we can talk about that.
That's just more of a you know, honestly, it's more
of a theological thing. And uh, you know, I'm pretty
interested to see what what you have to say about
it and what what we can get to on it.
But you know, I think, uh, I think this is
a good a good spot to end and and I

(01:44:30):
think I think what we want to promote here is
just you know, just an open thought, you know, just
you and I think that you know, we're not trying
to reinvent the wheel, but we are trying to fix
problems with thought. I think that that, uh, that is
a that's an admirable trait. And I think we we've

(01:44:53):
been me and Alison, me and my wife have been
talking about people just don't have have that that kind
of way of thinking anymore. It's just there's no there's
no uh uh not not creative thinking, but there's no

(01:45:16):
creative thinking, critical thinking. Critical Yeah, yeah, there's just there's
just we just and I don't think we teach it
in schools. And I think that I don't know that
it was ever really one hundred percent taught in schools.
But our parents don't teach it to us a lot
anymore either. Yeah, Like we just we have a lot
of absenteeth parents that that send your kids to school
and and believe that that's you know, that's where your

(01:45:39):
upbringing and you know, that's where your knowledge base is
going to come from. And I think that we've lost
the critical and creative thinking side of things, and uh,
you know that's where we're at.

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
Yeah. No, it's definitely important, especially on the political side
of things too, because you you talked about it earlier,
like even if and this is this isn't what you meant,
but it made me think of this. Even though you
haven't gone off to fight for your country to be
a veteran, you can still do it in day to day,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:46:09):
Right, you still be a patriot, right, You're still you know,
you can still fight for your country. And I think
that we've we've lost sight of that that some people
go to go to war for our country and some
people fight for a country in a different way. And
whether that's you know, taking on politics, or that's you know,
coming on on a show and talking about your beliefs

(01:46:31):
in in the country, you know. And so you know,
not that not that all sacrifices are equal, but all
sacrifices are needed, you know. And so yeah, we all
play a role, right, right, you know, maybe the pinky toe,
but yeah, but you've cut off your pinky toe and

(01:46:53):
see how how.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Well you like to walk around. So absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:46:58):
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(01:47:21):
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so get on help us out and uh, you know,

(01:47:43):
we just appreciate you guys, and we'll see you next.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
Time later maybe. Yeah. All right, we're out.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
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