Everything Going Wrong All At Once

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Earthquake in Syria and Turkey 

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Then I had another dream where I was in this big factory with all this big machinery and equipment, and they're very vivid. The dreams. I don't know what they mean, but, you know. Have you ever been to someone who, like. Understands dreams and stuff? Yeah. I'd have to probably find someone that. That understands. Am I the one in the factory with all this pretty complicated equipment? What I was doing was. Was cleaning a table that's in the dream. Yeah. And in the dream, I was just cleaning a table. With the table. Looked like. Good question. I don't even remember. I don't. Know. Sorry. There's a hard question when I can. I have. I have a terrible like, remember memory of recalling my dreams. Yeah. I had a I had a dream where my girlfriend's my, my girlfriend's dad like, like, got really angry at me and was like, clean up, clean up my bathroom. Let's do it. Do you clean the bed? But that's the dream. You're crying in there with some Pine-sol. Yeah. What does the bathroom look like? It's nice. A really nice back there. Yeah. Is that all you did? Grandpa was clean the table of the whole dream. That's all I. That's all I can remember about Grandpa. I can't hear you. I've had a pretty rough week because I had. I was quite sick from the flu. I had conjunctivitis, which your eyes get bloodshot and a very sore throat and lung. But I'm all better now. But Linda got ill about four or five days after me, and she's just getting over it now. And she really had a rough, rough situation with it. I don't know why, because we've both had the the flu vaccine, but apparently we we both got the flu. That's probably why you feeling so good, Honestly? Yeah. Because the flu can take you out for a real long time. Well, I think it took me about 8 to 10 days to really get over most of it. 99% of it her. She's in like the sixth or seventh day right now. And she she wants to go back to work on two days. So anyhow, but she had very different symptoms and that I did she's got laryngitis. First of all she's got asthma and that caused her asthma to become a problem. You know. Is she doing that or Grandpa. Is she doing better? Yeah. Yes, Yes, she's doing much better. Yeah. But her her voice is different. It's like much lower her voice than what it normally sounds like. So, yeah, she's she's, she's coming along, you know, she got antibiotics. I don't know if they help at all, because from what I understand, it's a viral infection. Not a not a what's the other word I'm trying to think of. But you guys all look very healthy, Wonderful. And, um. Yeah, you really do. All of you. You look terrific. I couldn't tell if you had the flu a couple of days ago either. Yeah, you're glowing. I got to ask Brandon, I'm not trying to be in your cornflakes, but you got the craziest, uh, looking email name in your inbox right now. Which one? This Geek Squad recipe. What the heck? You ready for. Your renewal request that has been processed? Yeah, That definitely seems fake, because if you if you click on the email, it says. Oh, no. Okay, I'm. Going to put you on. The Geek Squad. Like the Geek Squad would be like at Geek Squad dot com. This is the creep. That's what I thought. Like, I didn't even I saw it was already open and I was like, okay, well, you know, Brendan must opened it, so he must know what it is. But I saw the name of who it was from, and then I saw and I just clicked on like, you know, on Gmail, you can preview the documents that are chat. And I did that and I was like, What the fuck is this? How do I how do I spam you? You email your email sends me like this the same message, like I get it like once a week it says, Hey, sorry, these are delayed. Here are your photos. Open them as fast as possible. And then it's like branded. They're not. They're not from me. And your father's been getting them too, and they're not from me. They read the fax. You didn't get it since. I don't. Yeah, I get it from blogs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. You're the weak link brand, and I've been getting them ever since I met you. Ever since you started emailing me, I've been getting those. They go straight to spam, but I've been getting them from Brandon Fox with two exes. Oh, I never knew if you. If you. I only have one thing. You know, he's in his sleep. He sleeps in bam, bam, bam. I got one, right? I got one, two, three. I got four in my in my spam right now. And I definitely boarded them sooner. Anyway, here they are now. Three pictures, but no attachment. Yeah, I don't even click on it. I just go. Away and read this one. So. So now I'm realizing I should have sent them to you a bit earlier. Yeah, I. I know, but you're being a desperate friend right. Now, young. Lady. Want to take a picture with me? You can just take it with me. You don't need to. You need to do all this. I know. I'm sort of. On the link. Jump jumping around, but. Don't Pygmalion just reason why we're getting along. Because you already clicked on something. Identity fraud. What? Do you guys have any any thoughts on this awful, awful situation in Turkey? The earthquake? Crazy. There's a lot of crazy. There's a lot of crazy happening. I, I yeah, I just never heard of something. Like I just never heard of a earthquake doing something like that. More than 30,000 people die. Now it's 30. It's going to be 30. 30. Like they're. Gonna. You make sense. And it's literally like 200, like very rich building contractor is like cut codes for, like most of the buildings in the city. And so all these buildings that were supposed to like, not crumple at all, like, completely collapsed on everybody. Oh. Yeah. Before I moved to Atlanta, I was very Jeremy Jonathan Yes, I was very close to someone who was from Turkey and them and they're like, Oh, you know, I met family and everything and I was like, Yeah, I hope they're all okay. But I think it's all in this one city. Yeah. And Syria has had a lot of issues too, with it, not only Turkey, Syria. What are your thoughts. Or how you got, uh, are. We prepared if things happen like that here? How many? Maybe we should be sanctioned looking at people of houses and looking at people's housing now, you know, before it's too late, before we like, we're like, Hey, was someone else's fault that this area I knew this or that? Maybe since we know that the world may be in for some some troubles would be a good idea for people to go and go, Hey, we know we kind of messed up a while ago. We didn't really make this place flood proof. And you're in a really flood heavy area. Let's go ahead and fix that. That be a good idea. That's going to be really forgiving of you. Yeah. Whoever. Whoever has done it already. Like, hey, you're already forgiven him. Find this book. Just go fix it now. Please. I know several years ago there was an earthquake, I think in either South or North Carolina. Not not that severe, but. But there was another. Can you hear that? Yeah. It's just. It's very. Hard to hear me better. Now when you when you put it. I don't know this right here. You okay? But you're. Yeah. Okay. You speak like I'll put it. I don't know. I think something's wrong with the way I have this whole thing set up. I and again, I don't know whether it's the focus right unit or the, or my computer, but I've got to get somebody in here because I don't know what I'm doing, obviously. Right. That's. Yeah, right. Not them. Visit you in May and help you. Well we would. I would like to see you. I would. You're always welcome. Um, yeah, the they, they put out like a few hundred arrest warrants for all these building contractors in Turkey, but, you know, like, Miami is supposed to be underwater in X amount of years and not nothing you really can do about that. So that's going to be crazy. That's going to be straight out of Florida is going to look straight out. What was that movie? Don't look up. Don't look up. Yeah. I haven't seen it. It doesn't end well because bleak. Nothing. I think. You mean you're talking about the world of moral, right? No, I'm talking about Don't look up where everyone was, like, very well aware of this imminent disaster coming toward them. And then instead of taking any resources or brainpower or any any single cell of their body, putting it towards trying to solve the solution, they just I don't even remember what they did. They threw parties. They made me. Yeah, that's good food for me. I don't want to waste that. They went out of their way to make it worse instead. And and then this this other situation with the balloons that they've shot down, I think is a farce. I think that the Chinese economy is overtaking American economy. And I think that we're trying to make China look like bad characters. And I'm sure there's balloons flying from every country all the time. It's been I've never heard of an accident from a balloon since aviation began. And you and you were there. They're looking for ways to condemn China. Yeah. Who gave us all these products at very reasonable prices. And people in the right got good value from the products, and now we're complaining about inflation. Sure. We've put all kinds of duties and everything on on Chinese imported goods. I think I think it's all government hype, really. I'ma tell you some China. China is not China doesn't need any bad press. They've got they figured it out on their own. Okay. There's still I assume I assume they're still jailing people in Hong Kong and they still have the many concentration camps that you could see from satellites in space. I have so many. First of all, we've missed so much. We've missed so much. We've been gone so long. So much happened so much. The balloons are a distraction because there is the balloons are a distraction. There is World War One gas leaking across the Midwest. From the. Train. Yes. Yeah. Nobody's fucking bank. You finally start on the 530 news today. Today, when it was like a week ago. Where were you? NBC when. The government officials. In Ohio. The government officials say everything's okay. The train crash this there's private railroad. I'd let a train crash and fucking explode in the middle of Ohio and it was full of, I don't know, fucking Chemical X and like it was this huge mushroom cloud of smoke and death and tar. You could see it from space. It literally cleared. You can see it from the when you fly a regular ass airline, you can take pictures. If you're flying over Ohio, you could see it. You could see it from space, cleared the skyline and there's just like black. There's just black, literally black clouds over the middle of Ohio. There's shit leaking literally all over. It seeped into the ground. It's and then it released all this gas and they decided to burn off some of the gas because if the rest of it got out, you know, then we'd really have problems. They didn't. Meanwhile, burn vinyl chloride. I don't even know what the fuck that is, but. It's one of them. That's what they make foam out of from rubber. You know. What? It's very. Sleep. Toxic, very cancerous. And the company donated $25,000 to help. It's like a 55 billion or trillion dollar company. They gave.$5 to each person is what that comes out to be. Just in the nearby town, as if it's so. So all the fuckin fish around there have fucking died. Everybody's fucking chickens and pets are dead. I'm not joking. There's just foxes in the forest that are just lying there dead. Everything is fucking died. They told everybody to evacuate and then like a few, like a day or two later, they were like, Oh, it's fine. You can come back. Just don't drink anything, okay? If everything is fine, like you can breathe. I know it feels like the air smells funny. And I know you think your head hurts. And I know you think you feel dizzy. But I'm just telling you probably drank the water. I just told you not to drink the water and you're drinking the water anyway, and that's why you feel bad. So it's not even my fault. Sorry. It spread into the Ohio River. Now we live in hell. It's been a really great. You're burning throats are burning from it. The fish that fish and the. The vinyl chloride. Thousands of years were totally fine. And then now everybody has every fish is like dying of microplastics and. The vinyl chloride is only one of the substances. There are some that are much more dangerous than the vinyl chloride. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, because it's a private it's a private railroad, so you don't actually know whatever the fuck was on there. What else. What else was on the train. You. No idea. Well, they claim that the reason they burned it off, they claimed that it would. It may have exploded if they didn't release some of the gases from it. So that's the only part, I believe. So how did it. What do you mean? Yeah. So they think that they think that are former crew leader when he was in office, they they relaxed a lot of the rail way or transportation safety guidelines because and so that has led to them having so they have a they haven't acknowledged what the actual cause of the crash is, I think. But I just saw something this morning about a picture that shows some kind of like fucked up brake wheel or something, some kind of break, some kind of axle was fucked up or you can see it overheating. And so some people are like trying to blame those regulations. And then there's other people that are blaming the current administration because transportation and people to judge. I'm not really sure what. Oh, because they broke up the strike because the I think like Amtrak in them wanted to strike earlier this year, I think. And Congress told them, no, babe, you can't actually strike. I know you think that's right, but it's not. You're done. So we don't know exactly why it crashed, but it all fucking crashed. I read where they say that the the the possibility of explosion from this train is as strong as a small nuclear bomb like one that was set off in Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Then we live in hell. Not great. I live in hell. Rosie. She just bit me and she bit me before and I bang my hand against the table. Is just because she's excited. Yeah. I guess she doesn't like the idea. This bomb stuff or the chemicals. And she's like, Oh, God. She said, You need to get the go back. You know, you get the go bag ready. She misses her weekly hangout session. This is probably the most that anybody on this podcast. She probably really does. I think this is her highlight of the week. Little baby. Her the only one. I think there going to be a better look up there. Hey, Rosie. Hi, Rosie. Rosie. Rosita. Oh, yeah. The other stupid part, Phines is that the the governor won't call FEMA. Y because. He won't call FEMA. And they asked him. He was at a press conference a couple of days ago, and they're like, you know what? You know, we feel so bad for you. They're like, you're not getting any support from the federal government, Clean, Red Cross, anybody. And he was like, that basic bitch. Joe tried to call me earlier today. Okay? And he told me, you know, well, if you need anything, just let me know. Because, you know, that's literally what the government is there for, for when you fuck up and leak Chemical X all over the countryside. And he said, I didn't call him back, but I haven't called him yet. Okay, that's and I won't elaborate. A lot of people's lives on my hand, you know. You better hope. He thinks about that. I'm sorry. But he's. It's in the water or it's in the ground. It's traveling downwind. It's fine. Well, I guess the problem is that we feel safe because we're not right in the vicinity of the of the problem. I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe. They said this could spread as far as Pittsburgh, you might say. Rosie said get the go back right now. Put the gas in the car. Make a plan, man. It can't be good for the atmosphere, that's for sure. The fuck up the you know, as if we don't. We just live in hell. I don't know. I don't. Know. The whales are all coming in and dying on, you know, big whales are dying. Whales are dying on the beach. The sharks are eating, still eating children. The hippos are eating children. Everyone's angry. I believe I. But you should be happy because Bezos just sailed off his 500 foot yacht. Oh, good. You know what? I'm going to keep that to myself. Any of the. Any of that. Thank you. Very well. What I. Myself, him. He's got a. Yacht. He was got in it. He's got one of the largest yachts in the world. They just finally they were going to tear down a bridge to get the the master. But they didn't put the master until it went through and hits this thing cause they have a half a billion dollars, 500 foot yacht. You realize what 500 foot is? It's just enormous. Weight. And it ended up moving the bridge. Yeah, they they know they didn't have to move the bridge. They didn't put the mast up until they got through the bridge that put the mast up on the other side. But I hope he has enough room on there because I saw him laying out there and sunbathing with his girlfriend on this. Maybe he's making the next argument. And, you know, there's. Good things that our all around us happening me and look at the bright side of things I appreciate this. You know I it's. He makes more money like in an hour than we'll make a lifetime. And like many people will make it they're the ones bitching about the environment. I'm like, Bill Gates is always going on about the fucking the CO2 levels. And he has a private jet that he flies on all day. So a fancy house. And, you know, he also rotates. Isn't that good for the environment? I haven't been invited in the world. A Probably because you're not good enough for that by way of the prior. You know, good for the environment. And I'm over the. Environment. Hazards yard I want to look. At this Oh it'll. Look like a Carnival. Cruise ship. It's house of a the cruise. You know what. It's harmless. It's half as long as a regular cruise ship. It's half that length. It's nice. When I visited my daughter up in Vancouver, Canada, they had one of the largest yachts in the world right there in a little. It's like a little shopping area. It was parked right there alongside the secondary yacht. He has a secondary yacht, too, that they keep alongside the regular yacht, the secondary yachts, maybe only 250, 300 feet long. Yeah. And in Russia, they were clamping down on all the oligarchs that had their, like, super yachts. They're all trying to get away on the boat. So what's what's been good in your guys this months? You've, uh, you know. Oh. That's a cool things I'm trying to draw with the Sharpie board. I'll get. I'll be quicker. But it has hasn't helped me be quicker, so that's been cool. I like the the Sharpie look spun. Was good to think about love. That's pretty cool. And how little we talk about and how we're, like, scared about it. We'll have a whole like podcast about porn or like something uncomfortable, like anything. We'll talk about anything other than something that's like love in general, how we live, how little we bring it up, and how well we talk about it and how important it is. We were all like looking forward, not wanting it, but we don't know what it is. No, we want to talk about it. So it's pretty cool, right? That makes me want to bring up loving people more. And. We open up a little going. On porn. That is true. It is true that, you know. Wow. Like we all have also had a podcast about love, though I have. To look at one. I'm pretty sure we can. Remember the porn one. Loved one. If we had it. We did. It was very interesting. Is that up? I should be. Like a lot about like, kind of like reconnecting with what's important and all that stuff. Like, you know, family and friends. Yeah. You feel about. That? What the book talks about. What family and friends. The book, the love. Like what did she say? About what? Love about. I don't know. What was she like? It was it was good. The ends like. It's part of me. Go okay. This is probably because it's Black History Month and Valentine's Day and this is about bell hooks. So I can spread some good, good news about now. I think I think something else I opening I was learning about were I never talked to you about this is and I have said it on this podcast about how we treat kids like I was like, I'll get whippings, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know how cool that is. Yeah, you know, that's not that cool with my little love. You know, that's not a it's not a cool thing to do. And this year I kind of take that back. You know what kids should not be? Get weapons. All right. I have learned so it is talking about like, you know, how they're individuals, too, and how appropriate it is to punish children or be mean to them. But you don't do that to adults. And that, you know, what's the difference between a child and an adult? Essentially, they're the same, you know, So that's that's pretty cool. That's something else. So what do you think about that? Brandon I think it's great for a long time, like you, even up until recently, like it was totally okay to like, spank your kids or hate your kids, but like, if anybody were to hit a dog, like, they would, you know, the world would freak out, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I think it is crazy. Know it it really I'm laughing at the bird, not a child to do it. It really is crazy because it, you know, you think about, like, different stuff that happens to, like, kids and you're like, okay, well, if you do that to an adult, like, will visit you in jail, like, Mm, no, no, no contest, no argument. Like, no dispute. If you do that to a grown person, like you're in prison, you're in jail, depending on how bad it is, you do it to your child. Now grow out of it. This is really bad. Someone might call CPS and CPS might ask you to stop. It really just depends. Sorry, I'm laughing at Rosie. It's crazy. But we can never have a good, serious, full on conversation about child abuse. There's always something. Today. As well as you were talking about CPS, she, like, took the the case from your grandmother's pocket and just threw it on the. Floor. We're going to call them on you. Word? Yeah. You're the next call. Well, Sierra, I respect your opinion, but I want to ask you this question. Do you think that we ought to have more severe punishments for for young people who, if they're not punished, severely, end up at some point killing somebody? Doing what? And spending the rest of their lives in prison? In other words, stop them when they when they start going off the rails so that they don't go even further off the rails and end up seriously injuring or killing somebody or or or damaging their own life completely. Well, a beating isn't going to change that. Like the research shows that beating children just teaches them either don't get caught or that strength rules. I'm not saying beating. I don't necessarily mean beating. Well, I mean and I'm not like saying this in a way that's like, you know, you did this. You're awful because like, we're also of the generation that, you know, was punished physically. But, I mean, if you do it to a grown person, you're going to jail. I don't know. Like that's kind of that's like my end. All thinking of it is just that, you know, if you can't do it too, if you can't do it to a grown adult that is kind of fully matured or has some kind of like full ish mental development than like, how can you do it to a child and not expect like a severe change, like it like abuse changes how your brain works, like it changes the way that your brain grows as a child. Like no matter what kind of abuse it is, if it's mental or physical or like emotional abuse, like it changes the way that your brain grows and is shaped and how you develop like completely. I the reason I bring it up is because I live pretty much in the city of Philadelphia, and there's hardly a day that goes by that there aren't shootings where someone is severely injured or killed. Hardly a day that you don't read about it or hear about it. And it it really seems to me that something needs to be done, something drastic needs to be done to stop this. The shooting and killing every day. There's a there's another shooting today. And I was like, goodbye. No, no, please go ahead. I've just. Visited. There's another there's another like school shooting today. I forget what state, but like, I think three people. But murdered and I probably probably the ease of access and the lack of mental health like ease of access to guns and how easy it is and then complete lack of like I think probably I mean, I don't know the time, but a like Reagan's doing where he just closed down a bunch of like, you know, mental health facilities, even though a lot of them are really bad, like all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, I think the the the bigger question is it like, like what? How do we punish this or how do we figure out how to like, forces out of them? It's like, how is this happening? Because there's I'm sure a lot of poverty in these high crime areas that you're talking about. It's a metropolitan city. So I'm sure there is a lot of like wealth inequality. Um, I don't know. I don't know enough about Philadelphia, but like, even where I live, like, we have a lot of food deserts and it's a huge problem because what was already like the poorer part of the city is now also dealing with not even having access to just like regular fast food or produce. And they're relying well before there was literally nothing there and they like they had like three or four grocery stores. And then it was like almost all at once they decided to like close up. And the reason that they gave was shoplifting, which also begs the question, okay, well, why are people needing to shoplift? Why don't the people in that area if if everyone is shoplifting from this store in this area, then what is going on with the income and where is their money going that they can't buy? Just buy groceries like people are at every other store in the city, But they close those down and they literally had no options. They were basically just busing people from one half of the city to the other half of the city where the grocery stores were still open. I would ask like, is there money is like your state money or like your city money going into schools? Or is it just going to like the people that run like your school district or run your school? That's a big factor, too, because if your school is passed, like if you have, you know, mold in your you know, if you have mold in your school or you have pests in your school or you don't have your books are from, you know, before Obama was elected, you know, all your textbooks or I've been to some schools where I'll find like the staff bathroom or the adult bathroom, but I'll walk past and see the the children's bathrooms or the student bathrooms and like, they're so old. They're old, they're terrible. Some kids have got in trouble in the bathroom, so they've decided to just like, block off a whole bathroom or like half of the stalls. So kids can't be in the stalls or they've taken the doors off the stalls like just crazy stuff. But like, you know, you can't even, like, piss and wash your hands like a normal person, like you would at home. Like that would piss me off and make me not. That's the shit that makes me not want to come to school. And then when you're not at school, well, what are you doing? You're fucking around in the rest of this, you know, not great environment where you don't have anything to do. You don't have a lot of guidance because for whatever reason, you know, there may not be an adult in the home or your adult, you know, is working. So. That they can afford to go across town to go to the grocery store, you know, where they do keep it open. But there's like so many different factors that go into creating, you know, a shitstorm that you see. It can't it can't a family that that is in a poverty level get food stamps. Doesn't the government give or any family that is needy food stamps or am I wrong about that. I don't know. It depends on the income level. There's a lot of people that fall into like a gap where you make too much, too much money to afford food stamps. And I don't know if that like nurses, I don't know. I don't know if the food stamp like limit is how do I say this? I don't know if the like maximum amount you can make for food stamps has a has been adjusted for like cost of living because if it costs like you know if your rent is like 3500 a month for example, like that's a lot. But like for example, like 3500 a month is your rent and you know, you can't more than 3000 a month to get on food stamps or something like, you know, that's not going to work, then you won't qualify even if you really need it. And I know some places, some states, you know, more conservative states are always trying to make up new fucking rules for food stamps. You know, you can't buy lobster with food stamps. You can't buy you know, you can't buy, you know, a steak with food stamps because how dare you be poor and want steak or lobster? And I just saw something, I think, last month where they were trying to remember what state it was, someone maybe with Oklahoma, someone had like a crazy ass. Maybe I can look it up. But they had crazy requirements for food stamps that they wanted, that they wanted to implement where it was like you couldn't buy white bread, you couldn't buy white bread, you could only buy food. It was a proposal where you can't buy white bread or white pasta. You can only buy like whole grain pasta and brown rice and brown bread, Brown rice, brown pasta. You can't buy fresh meat. You can only buy can meet with it, even though that's sometimes more expensive than just buying like, you know, a dollar pork chop or something that it was like it was a huge list of things that like they wanted people to not even be able to buy with their food stamps. And so that also comes into play where it's like, okay, well, I can only buy a certain amount of things. I can only buy certain things. Are they even at this store? Are they going to be at this corner store where I have to get my food because I live in a food desert, so I don't even have, you know, a Walmart or somewhere to go to get this food. So am I going to have to travel all the way across town by like bus or something so that I can get the food that I'm allowed to get with my food stamps? There's just like a whole lot of hurdles that go into just being poor as if being broke or poor isn't hard enough. But and and food costs have just gone up astronomically. Costs and. Wages haven't gone. Up. And that, too. And wages don't go up. Wages don't go up. Food goes up. Food's gone up like 11%. Wages or cost of living has gone up to. Really. Grandpa like the the price of food in the seventies compared to now like how much out of a dollar it takes seven. In the seventies. Seventies eighties yeah. Ten 10% or less of what it is now. But like like comparative to the value of currency back then, is it 10%? Well, I would say that I would say that it's much more it's much more, I don't know, percentage wise, it's much more expensive to buy food today. There's no question about it. I mean. Even with the currency rate, right, Like. Even with the with the change in currency, I mean, everything's been gummed down. You, the United States of America used to print fur for the for the public,$100, $500 and thousand dollar bills. Okay. Now, the highest denomination is $100 bill. Now, money is only worth less than 10% of what it was worth, let's say, in the sixties. So if we go from 1100, that's that means that's only 10% of the valley. And then if you take the fact that from 100 excuse me, from 100 to Yeah, from a thousand down to down to a down to $100, that's that's, that would be 1000 to 100 would be 10% of its value. And then on top of that you're only getting ten or 15% of the value of what was in those days. So you're getting basically a bill, a dollar bill can only buy $0.02 worth of worth of food today compared to what it used to be like. Crazy. So if you're saying 10%, then like obvious, anybody who walks around with $100 bills, that's like, Whoa, that's crazy, right? Like, if you're to flash, but to flash a bunch of $10 bills in the seventies, that wasn't a huge deal, I would imagine. Right? They weren't like, oh, no, not at. All. Or not at all. But but because they want to try to stop counterfeiting, it's always they always have a reason that, you know, like 1,000th of 1% of the problem. It creates the new laws that screw everybody. Yeah, I'm not. Making any. Scientist. I cut you off a while ago. What? What were you. Oh, I mean. Back in time you were there. They no serious said to. Also just argue Grandpa's point of view when we should put someone in jail. Essentially it was kind of saying like, ah, when do we put someone? When we put someone that's doing something wrong and behind bars so they do worse things. And I think he just gave so many options or so many things that we could work on before. I think the easy answer, the one someone behind bars or pitting them as an enemy or put them as a danger, I think there are things that are not easy. They're not that the easiest thing to do, but I think that we have the ability to, you know, help out and those things, all those other things that she said plus more. I mean, honestly, there's so many different options rather than just, uh, just to put someone behind bars. I'm definitely starting to get not only anti-capitalism, but very anti prison, too. But I know there's an issue with, you know, people in the street and everything, but I think we got we got things that we can systematically fix to that, you know, that that can happen. What about giving an option, let's say, to either go to prison or jail or go in the military? Now what? No one might die for the country. I don't feel like I have to go to war or, you know, I don't think those are two. I still think those are two punishments where I think that about you go to jail, Army are counseling, are you? Well, what if what if he get good training? You get good training and you learn a profession that you can make a decent living out of. Very few people now are engaged in actual battles. I mean. You know, the military. Doing harming people on the street that are civilian are people I mean, might say I'm not trying to compound that. I'm definitely not trying to pair them. I'm not trying to say that people that do military bad people or anything like that, all that I, I just think there's more options than even that. I think there's more options in the military being put into the military or going to jail. I think that there could be maybe something a little bit different. Well, what are the what what options would you have to some to stop a person who's violent, who would go out and beat up somebody, shoot somebody, regardless of what their background is, Because church people from all kinds of backgrounds that end up in all kinds of lives. Some are very successful, some are somewhat successful, some aren't at all. So it's not always about the background. I think what what solution? I think I brought up background at all in what I just said. I just brought up the solutions. We'll just stay on that topic. In that vein about background still, there's so many options. Rather than just bail someone in jail or to put them into military in a sense of maybe asking them why they did what they did. And starting from there, you know, But I do understand these people can be dangerous to everyone. And, you know, like, you know, I don't know if I can ask and is going to murder someone right in front of me of like, hey, why did you do that? Are you okay? You know, I'm I'm not I'm not saying to that extent. Of course. Would you like to sign up for the Army? And you should. You know what? You would be. Good in the Navy. Well, you are somewhat, you. Know where you should have been. Na, na na. Let me give you a third one hook. Now. You can just bring it over there. Right? Right. Na, na na. I all that. I just think that, you know. Us as Americans. At least from what I know, we just jump to something really negative and punishing. I'm just. Maybe I'm just in the south. That is love. But I'm like, maybe we could do something not so negative, you know, maybe we. Never got to that. I'm definitely not saying give someone a treat for, you know, beating anybody or doing something or robbing somebody. But, you know, I don't always think an eye for an eye is always answer. You know, things are black, black and white and gray. And I. Found this article on the snap. It was snap, but not food stamps. It was snap benefits. And it was Iowa State legislature. And like, this is what I mean. Like, y'all like it's hard enough being is hard enough not being broke and then going to the store for like three things. And then you still end up spending $50 because the inflation is just out the window right now. But then you have these but then you have these people who are just going out of their way to punish you while you're being broke because this was going to ban this was going to make sure that you can't buy any white grain. So only 100% whole wheat bread, brown rice and whole wheat pasta. You can't buy baked re fried or chili beans. You can only buy black, red or pinto beans. You can't buy cooking oil, spices or salt and pepper, and you can't buy soup, canned vegetables and fruit. You can't buy fresh meat. With this proposal, you could only buy canned meat like soup, like salmon or tuna, and you can't buy sliced cubed or crumbled cheese or American cheese was that it existed? Yeah, that was it. This was a proposal to change to change the restrictions on Iowa snap benefit. You know, just making up things to punish brown people because that's who buys and used uses chili beans and refried beans and, you know, things white grains like, you know, flour tortillas and white rice and different kinds of other grains that that that that are common there and just fucking fresh meat. Well, there's always awful people making suggestions like that, but they rarely come to any fruition as far as that law. Mm hmm. But sometimes they do. I don't know what would stop. Iowa is very conservative. I don't know what would stop this from from going through. I mean. There's only a three weeks old. Yeah. The the wealth inequality that you were talking about like it. I think it's like 20 people own as much as, like, the bottom half of the entire world. Money? Yeah, like the bottom 55% of people. It's like literally, like 20 billionaires or whatever. Like the the government, the US government is horrible at like using the tax dollars as well. So how, how would like like what would be a solution for getting the money from the top 20 billionaires like to actually help people without it just being pumped into like military industrial complex or like, you know, that kind of thing. Well, Biden's trying to do that, but the Republicans don't want to allow it. You know, they've been trying to do that. It was very unfair that during the pandemic it was compared to a war and during the Second World War, the wealthiest people in this country paid 91% in income tax, people that earned over 200,000 a year. Of course, that would be today like 2 million. But but today, instead of them increasing taxes on the wealthiest people, when we really need the help, they lowered the taxes for the richest people. They gave the the average people a little handout, but it didn't last very long. So it's really it's a crooked it's a crooked situation. They the wealthiest people should be paying a much higher tax rate than what they've been paying. Yeah, Yeah. But my point is, even if, like I completely agree that it should 2 million and another 91% like I have no problem but like the like when the government receives those taxes like they're going to allocate it like very little to programs like this where they're like, oh, you can't even have like white grain and you can't even have refried beans. You know what I mean? Like. It really requires the government to just nut up and just do something simple, Like we're not proposing things that are astronomically, you know, complex or sophisticated. It's, you know, don't ban fresh meat. Don't ban fresh meat and fruit, you know, from the people who are already, you know, suffering, quite frankly, You know, don't limit don't don't ease up the restrict the safety regulations on a train that can carry chemical X and mustard gas and, I don't know, fucking napalm all on the same train. You know, don't loosen those up. These are simple request. You just requires. You know, don't tax me, you know, 30% and then go tax Jeff Bezos with his car in a carnival yacht, you know, a third of a third of a fifth of a penny. Come April, you know, I'll never forget that man went in the space and came back and said, Thanks for the money, dummy. Yeah. The US military is good at fighting wars, but it sucks at managing money, partly because of its convoluted bookkeeping bookkeeping systems. 8.5 trillion yes, trillion taxpayer dollars doled out by Congress has never been accounted for. Uh, scathing review of how basically a lot of this money that goes to the military, they just have no idea where it what it's being spent on and no idea. I. Remember a couple of years ago somebody was like, snitch in a little bit because I remember there was a story about like some really like it was like $250, like toilet seats or something like that. Like there were like there were like two or three, like weird ass stories about the military, just like wasting the shit out of everyone's money. And then no one ever talked about it again. That sounds like the drug laundering. Drug money. Laundering. That's what I was about to say. I wasn't. I was thinking about saying it, but I was like, this is this is a front. Which. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, well, it's. Really good Phines that you started drawing with Sharpie. I think that it's it's a good counterbalance to everything else. Whoa. Good. Wow. Right. It's the face. Not. Who is that? I like. Very good. I like that. You know. So in the face of capitalism. It's the face of capitalism, right? That's the face of it. Speaking capitalism. It's going to hurt. But I may have to leave Twitter or no, because it's getting so ghetto. Y because of Elon Musk taking over. The shit doesn't work anymore. The shit doesn't work anymore. I literally be scrolling on my phone and I will click. I'll click on a tweet, I'll be reading it and I'll go back out onto my feed and like, right when I see another interesting tweet beneath it, the whole thing refreshes. I don't even know what it does. It's like the top half of the page stays the same. But then everything subsequent that I was interested in learning about disappears and refreshes with some other random shit, but somehow with by scrolling up and down in both directions, I'll find the shit that I was looking for. Sometimes it'll refresh like two or three times like a second. Like it'll just keep refreshing and I'm not updating it because everything after the update is even worse. Like they have views now on Twitter, you can see how many times someone is viewed your tweet, which no one wanted. I can see everyone's stupid checkmarks that are different colors. If I update it, I don't want to see that there was something, Oh, he's going to start charging people to tweet more than 20 times a day. What else stupid is going on? He's going to charge us to use Twitter now. It costs $8 now instead of$3 for premium Twitter. And oh, and he's so mad that no one even wants to talk to him or look at him anymore on Twitter. He's firing people for letting him know that his engagement is down. He said, Guys, Twitter is broken again. We need all cylinders firing. We got to figure out what's wrong. And they're like, What do you mean Twitter's not working? He said, Well, I only got, you know, 6000 on this tweet. I only got 60,000. Like last year I was getting 200,000 likes. And they said, Girl, they don't like you anymore. And he said, Get out. Dime if they. 5000 employees, like 66% of the workforce or something. Like that. All all Yeah. Ten out of the 12 people that are still working working there. I've never been on it. I don't even know how it works. And I'm just as happy. I'm you're. I'm devastated. I'm devastated. I'm going to have to go back to frickin Instagram. I hate Instagram. Wait, you guys, what is your screen time like? If you go on your phone, does it show you and Google God? I don't know. Maybe. Have you? Yeah, I don't want to know. But I think. It's going to be really. All right. Mine is 338, which is a lot in my opinion, but I've. Hit for what. 338 for phone use today. But I use. Oh, that's just phone use. This phone use. Yeah. Oh no. I knew Monday it was 5 hours, 45 minutes. Sunday, February 12. You could tell that I didn't have that much to do that day because I had 14 hours and 41 minutes. Have you filed your income taxes. Grandpa? Do you know how you know how to do this? Do you know how to look at your screen phone? Don't know. Don't want to know. Too much, too much junk. It just too much easier. It's like it's like everybody's, like, busy with all this nonsense. I caught just a bunch of junk. Yeah. I like nature and music and, you know. Yes, I do junk. Really. The core ground fun show I. Get is just junk is. Littered. Deal with it anymore. It's just junk. It is going to go outside and be like, good outside, huh? Yeah. And we had some warm weather today. How about where you guys are located? Yeah, it was nice out. Very friendly. Very cloudy. The press was. Windy. I was up in Austin during the big winter storm, so. Damn. It was some light rain for like 45 minutes. And then the city broke apart and fell down and shuttered and everything was stopped. It was it was like literally, like I walked out in the tank top some of the some of the time. Well. Did. So you you were there when there was no power for like ten days. Or for like most some people still don't have power, but like a section of the city didn't have power for like ten days. We never lost power. But like, everybody's like, this is the most dangerous the roads have been in like years and this is horrifying. I was driving along in my in my Hyundai with shitty wheels and it was like literally I was it was totally fine. So but you know, Texas you you've. Got that you've got that northerners winter winter. Drivers. Like not knowing what you're going to see. Yeah I was going to say it was very windy today but the wet but the temp wasn't bad. But then I was going to say, but now the wind terrifies me like I'm Mike Mark Wahlberg in the happening because I'm just waiting for this Ohio vinyl glory. To sweep down scary. Cancer rates are going to go up for sure like birth defect. You'll be fine. Just don't drink the water, but it's fine. Or breathe the air. Just just see now you just, just just die. Literally, honestly, just die. I said this would be easier if you just weren't here to drink water. Have you. Tried that? Have you? Not? If everybody else dies. You said what happens when it's going to. We're just going to man the yacht for Bezos. The I don't most disenfranchized person at that time. Rosie These were awful, bro. She molting? Yeah, she looks a bite. Would anything ever happen with that other bird? No, Petey, No. We never found Petey. Petey flew to Canada like a freed slave. For Pete's dead inside the wall, I. Think. Yeah, I think so. Gordon Likely. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, Rosie's. Rosie's good. Yeah, I just smacked her because I don't know what to do. I've told her a thousand times she's either pulling on my whiskers, bite my ear, and I mean, she hurts. She's her beaks like razor blade, and I don't know what to do. What you need to do is you need to swing through your local Popeye's and then come back and then just show her the wing and just be like, this is going to be you need to get it together. And. You need to get it together. I know. People. I don't want. To hurt her. I love her. By animals. Or you doesn't love her, but she her parts of wall and you say, Oh, look, look at what I'm capable of doing. So just show her the whole. No, that's. Terrible. But don't play with me. Don't play with me. Show her the drumstick, Show her the wing. Say, do not play with me. Do not play with me. What? What is your favorite fast food restaurants? What are your favorite fast food restaurants? Hmm. Jersey. Mike. That's a good one. But doing very well, by the way. They're doing terrific financially. On what is my favorite fast food. Hmm. Maybe even. Taco Bell. Oh, yeah. I just had Taco Bell, like, two nights ago. You can get a lot of bang for your buck, right? That's really them bad. Either you know that they're the good, like, has to. Popeye's is not so bad. It's kind of expensive but it's good. Would say Popeye's or steak. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Is that. Fast food. Does that count. Yeah sure. Shake Shack does great. You know that. Good business Have. No fear. Oh, my God. I want to. I would say Popeye's, but every time I go to Popeye's, there's about a one in five chance I'm actually going to get some food and get sort of what I ordered. I go through McDonald's almost every day and I get the on the dollar menu. I get. Would. A plain, a plain hamburger and I tell them, don't put anything on it. And when I go through there, there's ketchup, pickles and onion on it. Every day I tell them the same stuff, put nothing on it. What? What do you there? Okay. But I guess. Maybe. Go to a different McDonald's. There are a lot of different ones. That's a that's a good idea. Go to Wendy's or something, bro. I don't think they see you and they know you're in there like this. This. But we're going to. Tell that. Kind of technology. But let me tell you what, that McDonald's app, if you're going to be down every day, the points you get there were the the little the coupons that they have on the app very worthwhile. That's true. Grandma and grandpa would. Instantly invest in the stock and lose like $1,000. Oh. Not at this rate. McDonald's go one every day. That's the only thing. I believe. Food is so expensive now, but it is cheaper for some people to go to just go get fast food instead of going to the store. You might be on to something Now that would be for the best. I couldn't believe the price of lobster tails today. I like this. It rarely ever eat them, but Linda bought some lobster tails. I, I guess she wanted to make a nice dinner and it was like $40 for two little tails. I mean, unbelievable. The cost of food to them. Hmm. I guess I don't know enough about lobster. I've eaten lobster at a restaurant, but I've never. I've never tried to make it. I never tried to cook with or never bought it. What did you what did you what were you used to paying. For, really? I don't really know, because I really never bought them before. I buy them. I know when you go to a restaurant, they're very expensive guys. I'm going to say good night. All right? We did it. We did it. Boys. Congratulate now the most. Upbeat sentence campus that all night. I you guys, it's really nice to be on with you again. Seriously? Yeah. I'm enjoying. It. We've got you ready. But I'm. Recovering. Have a good. I'm glad you're feeling better, Grandpa. Stay healthy. Okay? Thank you. Okay. Good night, everybody.