Bruce Magee - MAGA, NO Kings, and The Rest of America

0:05 Hey, welcome World of Blazers. Today, I have Bruce McGhee post of the Weathered View Weather Report. Weatherview, by the way, greatest morning show on X period. Haven't if you haven't tuned in and watched it, you have you have to definitely get involved. It's it's a it's very cool and I'm gonna I might be off on this, but because you're in California, I'm in California, we're roughly around the same geographical location. Kind of gives me the old La Mantin vibes. Be honest, Yes, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it gives me that a bit, which is great. Ah, well kind of me too. I guess I might be a I don't know if I'm a little behind, probably, but regardless, you know, I listened to it as well. They're very prominent out there in the Bay Area, so uh yeah, I get those vibes.

0:56 Really cool, except with without all the censorships. So there are some. There's some choice words, especially from our acquaintance Aaron. Yes, when he goes on his rants, which is great, it's funny. So let's let's just dive into it. Man. You know, there's been some stuff going on. But I want to get some background on you. What prompted you first, Let's say, what problems you to get into podcasting, because it seemed like everybody kind of did this around COVID when they were starting to pay attention to what was going on, decisions being made by the government California government for us, but also you know, federally, and people were starting to realize, like, hold on, I haven't paid attention because I don't want to be bothered with politics, but now it's kind of hit me in the face.

1:43 Was that your story or were you into this before that? Oh? No, I was in this before that twenty twelve. When I moved to Gilroy, California, because that's where I'm from. I was a voracious speaker or just I wanted to talk all the time. I mean, I love talking to people. I'm you know, I'm not a social butterfly. When I go into the room, I'm not you know, pastored up against the wall looking at everybody. I'm like, hey, i's going My name is you know, Bruce? Right here I go. I started out in the ministry at a church that I was attending back back in the day, and I became a a junior high school ministry. So being able to talk was was one of my things that I was able to do. And I and when I when I kind of got into the sphere of podcasting, it was only because of the fact that I was getting involved in politics. I was really dissatisfied with what was going on. And that was back in twenty twelve. I've already went through the two thousand and eight the bacle with with the with the financial meltdown and stuff like that.

2:45 But I really started getting involved when I started hanging around with the liberal crowd here, which is unavoidable, Yeah, which is unavoidable area. But I decided, you know, i'll podcasting came around. I started listening to different different podcasts. I think the first one that I listened to was to Jason staple in podcast. As I was commuting because it was my first time I ever had to commute from from one spot to another, which was a forty five minute commute, I had a lot of time on my hands. I was born of I was boring radio. You know, Lamont and Tamali was on. I was fine, that was great, you know, but I was kind of beyond the music thing and beyond the Lamont and tamality thing. So I started listening to a guy named Jason Stapleton, libertarian, and I was kind of at that point in my political verse. I was going like, oh, that sounds cool.

3:36 I think I'm a libertarian, you know. So so I decided to get partner up with my old co host, which his name was Doug, and we did this out of the same garage that I'm in now, a different setup, but we started podcasting. Then we started podcasting kind of like a what is the Hannity and Coombs type thing where I was the I was the independent kind of conservative guy. Doug was the liberal type guy that and we kind of argued back forth, great banter. The show went on for one hundred episodes, and then it just kind of faded away because Number one, uh, just we started drifting apart. It was one of those things where you know, you don't want to clash so much that you lose your friendship, and and things were getting kind of heated in the political realm. So we kind of decided to kind of around what year was that That had to be probably two thousand and sixteen to two.

4:32 I was just going to tru yeah, right around the Trump era, as usually when most people's relationships start to disintegrate, you. Know, it started to strain a little bit, and we decided that, you know, our friendship was better than that, and so we decided to stop that. So it's a smart move. So we're still in touch. Then, yeah, we're still in touch. We still talk. And then at the same and at the same time, I got into a direct marketing business that I still have today, and I started doing a life live stream on Facebook which was called The Morning Drive, the same kind of like The Morning View, but it was just me and I was crying a podcast all the way through, which I don't do anymore because I'm a terrible It's hard. It's hard, it's tough. You make it very easy to do that, but I.

5:18 Have a method of how I do, but it's not as easy as it seems. Yeah, but it's kind of evolved from there. So I've had several different podcasts underneath my belt, and just you know, going through this, these are the two most successful ones I've had for going forward with it. I've actually spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks kind of doing getting the three businesses that I have other than my nine to five together to make a really kind of a full court assault on getting my entrepreneurial aspects going. So you're trying to push and expand into the podcasting arena more or or just all encompassing, Like, I. Still want to be independent. I don't want to be a big fit, you know, I want to don't want to be the big fish. You know, they don't want to be a popular fish in the big ocean.

6:05 I mean, yeah, that that makes sense to me. You know, as you grow, and we've seen this with many other people in this space, is they they get the deal, they get everything that they want, and then they're no longer themselves because now your sponsors and whoever's paying your check is telling you exactly what you're supposed to say. And and uh, that's not the road I'm going down either, to be honest. So that's great background there. But let me see, so when it comes to politics, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you this. You're conservative, all right? Here, here's here's what. Here's the start of a conversation when we start getting a politics. Now, because I've seen a change and even with my audience, as I'm sure you know, because I've expressed it before.

6:47 You know, it fluctuates. Uh. And I think people have a perception of who you're supposed to be versus what. You really are. So let's talk about MAGA and what you think MAGA is and and how they've been treating everybody who's a conservative. It's like, all of a sudden, if you have an opposite opinion, you're a traitor and they just they abandon you. And it kind of calls in the question whether or not there were your people in the first place, because right now, in my opinion, they seem to be very narrow and close minded on a lot of issues. But I still agree with the fundamental foundation of making America great again, and we're going to get there. It's gotten better.

7:28 But what is your opinion on the MAGA crowd at this moment? And and I hope I'm not offending anything saying it's about a question. Yeah, it's the same thing I think about the far left in the same token, because you know, there's just these fringes that are outside of everything that I think that normal people think about. And you know, I've kind of broadbrushed a lot of my liberal friends that I have here in the South Valley here where I live, and I apologize for first of all, if anybody's watching this, you know a lot of a lot of that. But it's hard not to broadbrush when I just believe that silence says a lot, especially when people are vocal on social media on one thing and not as vocal as something that they did that they that they either agree with or disagree with you about on another on another level. Uh.

8:24 That being said is that during this no Kings thing, let's just take the note things Kings thing, because that's I mean, that's just in front. I know a lot of people that went to No Kings. I look at them and I'm going like, you know, I'm just shaking my head. But it's not a magat thing that I'm shaking my head about. It's the fact that these were the same people that were silent during the era of which they had power, you know, the Biden era, the Aboma era. They were just silent about it. You know. But once you know, Trump got into office, or any Republican for that matter, or conservative gets into office, all of a sudden, everything is evil and everything is this, and everything is that it bugs me. It really bugs me.

9:09 And to see the silence of some of the people that I know that are most vocal on my social media and my social circle that I that I that I have, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth. And it's one of those things where you have to make decisions, and sometimes you have to make hard decisions to what your circle of friends are. I mean, really, I mean I don't want to be into a crowd of people and then think that people are rolling their eyes and you know, and you know, giggling behind my back. I mean, I know a lot of people do. Yeah, it is what it is. It's a hard thing to do when, especially when you're in a family situation. My friends, uh, my personal friends share friendships with my wife and stuff like that, and I don't want that to bleed over to her, you know, And a lot of times, you know, they go like guilty by association if he's like that and she's like that, and it's just it makes stress all the way around. And uh yeah, that's what I kind of say about that. But as far as mag is concerned, I don't identify with Mega. I'm an American first type guy. I want our country to be prosperous.

10:15 I want our country to be strong. I want a lot of things that Maga wants. But I'm not going to go off the deep end and be a fundamentalist about the way my career conservative views are. Hmm, yeah, I think that's the way. Well, that's how I see it. I'm gonna be honest. I've I've I've made that very clear. So with that being said, though, Bruce, there is a splintering in the Conservative Party, especially as of late. And you know, we have Maga, we have you know, the neo cons never really went away, they're still there. And then we have people you know that are becoming like the Thomas Massey crowd for example. It's not necessarily a movement or you know, but they're starting to shift over and like, wait a minute, you can't talk bad about Ram Paul or Thomas mass or anybody else.

11:08 And now we have you know, followers going and saying I'm part of this group, this group, like I think there's like three or four different factions right now within the Conservative Party itself. And then when you're when you're trying to call for unity, people get offended by that. Well, I can't side with you because. You're pro Israel, or you're not pro Israel, or it always comes down to freaking foreign relations, which is which is ridiculous. We just can't talk about America itself and what we need. But it's so splintered. Is this a sign of us losing or Conservatives losing control here really soon in the midterms and moving forward. I don't think so. I've thought about this a lot with the midterms, and I'm I think President Trump, and I said this during his first administration. The guy tweets like a like a heartbroken fourteen year old. I mean, he has he can't help himself. He can't help himself.

12:04 And when he started his second term, he was really really kind of in the background of Twitter and all that, and then all of a sudden he started doing it all over again. And the policies that he's set forth I agree with, I mean pretty much so, but some of the promises that he made that he's broken. As far as the immigration stuff, the deportation and stuff, I don't agree with that stuff a lot of it. You know. I agree that we should go after the burst people that have crossed our border, but you know, somebody who's been here twenty thirty forty years and paying into the system, you know, has a business and things like that, because they had a traffic ticket, all of a sudden they're getting you know, called away in the immigration court and stuff like that. I don't agree with that. I didn't vote for that, But that being said, you know, we have to do something about our immigration system. They've been talking for decades. I mean I'm sixty five years old.

13:00 I mean these things have been talked about since I was a kid, and we still haven't done anything about immigration. And they say, well, we're gonna we're working on comprehensive immigration. Well, comprehensive means we're never going to do anything about it. That That's the way that I've been following everything. Uh but yeah, I mean to get back online with the with their question is just like it's a weird situation with politics and and how we, uh we differ between Democrat and Republican. My old co host Doug which I'll refer back to the the old Weather Soul podcast, which was the podcast being him, had there was once a time where Democrats and Republicans are closely knit. I mean, we can you know, we had our differences, but you know they can reach behind the aisle and and and make deals and and right now that the rift is so far and it's because of those splinters, It's because of Mega, it's because of the far LEP progressives, the communist movement to socialists, the democratic socialist movement, whatever you want to call it. I think that we're so far off of the mark now. I don't know if there's no repair in it.

14:09 Yeah, I think, especially well as far as I can recall anyway, Like in the nineties, it was a lot not as a contentent like not so contented or contentious the relationship and what I find like I'm gen X, you know, so the deal is like and you know, Aaron and other people and a lot of people and watch us won't know who we're talking about. But you know, Aaron I had to say it podcasts go check them out. It's worth your time. And his rants are just gold. But the the thing is is like a lot of us from that generation are actually just really old school Democrats. I mean that's how we're raised. We aligned a lot with you know, how that party then viewed things and what they looked looked after and stood up for. And you know, we realized that, like, are the conservative Is the Conservative Party really that far right? Or is it really just aligning with fundamental values that people really are looking for for our society to stay together and move together and keep America together. Now, yes, there's a far right faction absolutely, which is ridiculous. And you got it, like you said earlier, on both sides, you got far right, far left. I'm homeless. I think at this point, I'm thinking, you know, I could just say this. I know I'm conservative, but I'm not sure I aligned with a party anymore.

15:22 I just know that I'm not left. You know, I'm not far anything because I've always taken the view that look, I think either side makes some decent points, but I'm not going to be all in on either side because I can't, you know, especially how I grew up and you know, you being in that Bay Area sphere, it's like it's too hard to just take a hard stance either way because you see people living, you interact with people, and you and you know you get it. You're like, yeah, I get it the way you live in what. You're going through. I understand how this affects you. All right, everyone, it's time for me to tell you about bear knuckles gloves. That's bear like a grizzly bear, so spelled eaar knuckles. And here's what I like about bare knuckles gloves. Barre knuckles gloves are durable, they're comfortable.

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18:10 Counter to that is this, while it's not anybody's fault, it's not their fault, and it's not my fault or your fault. Like we'll get criticized for speaking on it. But it's not our fault that previous administrations didn't enforce the actual law that was already in place. So here we are at a tough spot because it's like, well, now we're going to enforce it, and people are like, well, I've been here for twenty years, why are you suddenly ripping me away from my family. Well, it's like if you rob a bank, the FBI is not going to stop looking for you. Eventually it catches up. Now I'm not saying that's right, Bruce, because I am agreeing with you, because I think we got to look at these people and say, well, twenty years, I get it. You can ask the question why did you not go through the process in that twenty years though?

18:50 What stopped you? I have a friend person, right, I just had loans with them the other day, who is a younger guy. He started working with me when he was just out of high school, doing gigs and everything, and then he ended up going to college got his computer science degree. I mean, the guy's doing it right. He just got his citizenship this year. He's been working out the system. He's already planning to bring his wife over. But because of the consulate in Mexico and how everything's going where they're at and or so backed up they're not even going to be able to get an appointment till August of next year. So but they're waiting it out, they're doing it and how they have to do it. So I think that. We can't ignore the laws weren't enforced, and we could be hard and say, well, the law's the law, But with these.

19:32 People that have been here, I think what we need to do. Is say, well, you got one over on us, period, and it's our fault for not enforcing the law, but you don't have a criminal record. You've been contributing. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to give you. This timeframe to get it right, and after that, if they still haven't done it, then you know what, they got enforced the law. That's way I look at it. But we do have to give them the opportunity because it's not their fault the law wasn't enforced. But it's also, you know, not our fault that they didn't take the steps and measures during that twenty ten whatever how many long they've been here to even try. To become a citizen. Yeah. Correct, So there's that other argument to it, and we do have to be empathetic, but we can't be so much to where we're giving the country away either, So we do have to give those people options for sure.

20:19 With I agree with that. My take on it is that this is a media driven hyper be scared, hair on fire type issue, at least with the mainstream media, because they're not doing the what do you want to call it, the check in on what's going on with the headline news. Okay, you see the news in the Bay Area. Oh, they tackled a grandma and they've got the family guy from the courts as he was going in to checking his immigration status. 're going to immigration court and these people are being ripped away from their families and blah blah blah. But they're not doing the follow up reports on what really happened after the fact that that happened. Now, I would hope to think that when ICE is taking these people into detention, that they're actually doing some kind of hearing or something to get them through and say, Okay, well, you're a good guy.

21:12 You know we're gonna let you go. We're sorry we tackled you, and you know you made headline news and stuff like that. I'm hoping that that that has happened, but there's no outlet for any of us to find out whether that has happened or not. You don't have to follow up from from the mainstream media because the mainstream media doesn't want you to know what's going on. K TV, you, k n TV, all these Bay area stations do not do any kind of follow up stuff about what's going on with the immigration status here or the immigration you know, policies that are happening here, and the arrests and the and whether or not you know, people are let go or deported or whatever. I haven't heard anything, so I have to take I have to take that news, and then I've got to dig to dig into X. I've got to dig into other sources because I just don't take things by by face value.

22:05 So I kind of dig into it and to find out that, you know, a lot of these people are returned to their families and they go on and they have a you know, immigration lawyer or status. This it's going to cost them a lot of money, of course, because you know, quote they're they're not here legally. I think it's a shame that being said, you know, we have to fix the mainstream media, and unfortunately the mainstream media is actually taking a back seat to places like X, you know, and I think that's where we have to start getting our even with X, you know, with that said, a lot of hyperbole, a lot of AI, a lot of all this stuff, but you know, that's at least a place to start to go do your sourcing. And so that that's kind of where I'm at with it. Yeah, So the.

22:53 This isn't a me respond to and disagreement, by the way, It's it's more reinforcing, which said, But the thing is is they don't want to give you the fallow up story because they'd be damned if there was a win or the other side. That's really what it is. But I put the fault on the people themselves. I mean, the everyday person who doesn't want their routine bothered by actual you know, politics or going past the headlines. You know, I've always said this. I say people live on the surface of information. They do not want to know more. They're just following their leaders, They're following their favorite podcasts, you know, Pod Save America. You know, screw those guys. Whatever, it's my opinion, but there's there's there's things like that going on where people just they want to live in the bubble.

23:35 It makes them feel good and they don't want to be challenged. And as I said before, you know, when it comes to these issues like this is more current event issues, we can call it political, but it's because it has become political. But it was really just reinforcing laws that were being ignored, So it wasn't like this was something new, right, But I agree that there isn't a fall up because they don't want to show the wins. You know, they want to keep people separated, want people to not know the truth, so that they're just continually in conflict with each other. And this is all very well planned. I mean, I can get conspiratorial and say, well, they're trying to push us to fight with each other. Sure, let's, you know, let's have a civil war. Let's let's keep everybody. Busy while we secretly go behind and start, you know, instilling the policies that the World Economic Forum has been trying to push for all these years. Maybe, but that's you know, those are conspiracies. Possibly maybe legally we can go down the road later but you know, as far as as far as the immigration thing, like my dad's an immigrant, you know what I'm saying.

24:33 I get it. I have friends that are immigrants. I grew up around nothing, but you know, people from Mexico. You know, I understand That's what. It doesn't mean that we can enforce policy, you know. And the reporting that is ignored to the follow up is an issue. It really is. So it seems like, you know, we're we're looking at this from a common sense perspective or what we what used to be common sense. I'm not sure how common sense is anymore. But let's let's touch on what you brought up earlier. What's your take on this no king's protests? Because I thought, I mean, we haven't had a king, you know, seventeen seventy six. I think, you know, just when we we acknowledge that we would never have a king, right, I'm not really sure where they're coming from. I mean, because they don't like policies that are put in place that they disagree with, that we suddenly have Donald Trump acting as a king.

25:26 I would have more respect for the people that went to the protest if they would just call it. I hate Donald Trump protests. That's it, you know, that's it. I mean, the I mean everything is face value. I mean, if you take no kings and face value, that's what you're looking at, right, Okay, so the protest isn't about no kings. You don't have a king, you know, Burton King, right, you know, we have the King of Rock, you know. And yeah, it's it's silly. And like I said, I would have more respect for them if they said, you know, this is an I hate Donald Trump protest. Great fantastics. You can get behind that. You know, you're spot on, you know, and it's just weird. I did. I crunched the numbers yesterday and and actually, uh, my numbers were kind of high because I went through this. I used Rock, and I used the AI, used the chat GTP and and basically, uh, GROC was pretty straightforward with that. I love chat g TP. They does a lot of good things for me. Uh But uh, now the A, now that we have a I it's just another thing to argue with, you know. So now I'm arguing with the computer, all right, Right, part of it finally got it to uh to uh to say what I wanted it to say.

26:39 But you can get anybody to say what you want to say, right pretty much. But the fact of the matter is is that you had seven million people yesterday that uh that attended these uh these rallies, and the media is out there going like, oh, this is the biggest freaking protest American protests that ever happened. Fine, that's great. My my co host now for the Weather Report, Ken Would He says that stuff moves the needle. The essence of what was happening in the protest yesterday is that the Democrats are on their back heels right now. They need to get voters out. They need at least one million new voters on the rolls to at least kind of do some kind of swinging to change the midterm elections.

27:23 That's a tall order right now to get, especially in the volatile environment that we have in the political spectrum. Yesterday, like I said, they had seven million people. One point nine people or one point nine million people were at college football games yesterday. Another forty five million people were watching from their homes or whatever platforms it is for college football, whatever everybody else was doing. Beyond that seven million people, which is one hundred and fifty five million people who voted in the twenty twenty four election. That's exactly that seven million people is a small small number.

28:05 In fact, it's about six percent of the people that voted, that voted. And and let's let's look at this number, so three hundred and thirty million people population, and let's take voters out of it. And I'm not gonna I don't know what the actual number of people who are eligible to vote in terms of age and whatnot, but if you just take it by population, that's just barely over a little over two percent. Yes, yeah, So that numbers mean something. That numbers mean something. It really does. And I think that in my in my estimation, it was a huge it was a huge protest good. It was a huge protest a failure by all me, I think, I really do. I don't think it might have moved the needle, or it might have made everybody in the you know, the progressives and the and and the disgruntal Republicans that might have malt them, made them feel good that they ran around with signs and everything and they were circle jerking whatever they wanted to do, right, But to me, it was a it was a huge failures are as a political movement. I mean it didn't move me. No, it didn't.

29:04 And just like the last protests that they did, there's no Kings. It's like they have to keep doing it because it's apparently not effective. I don't think. And if you've got lesson too or a roughly round two percent or so of the population of the United States of America actually participating. And then also look at let's look at the generation of people that are participating. From what I see in videos, it's not younger people, It really isn't, you know, Yeah, but you know, okay, so your generation, let's just sabers. But regardless, you know that in and of itself speaks volumes because it's it's telling you that the future, the people who are going to drive the future of this country are not bought in. No, you know, it's a Saturday. You can't say that they're all working and stressed out. You know a lot of people have days off on Saturday. What was their excuse for not showing up and supporting if this no King's movement and is exactly what represents how people feel in America, because it fucking doesn't.

30:04 It just doesn't. Absolutely, you know, it's just a bunch of whining cuts man just going out there trying to get attention. That's all it is, exactly. And the and the culture shift also takes a lot a lot into uh consideration when they're doing that. So you had you had the two, You had the old people like us, the old hippies, even even my parents. The older people than that. Those are the ones that were out there. Probably a lot of boomers were out there, of course, because there are some people my age, like I said that, I know that went to the to the rallies yesterday. And then you've got the fringe Democrats that were out there. I don't think that there was a lot of what I want to say, you know, the people with people with the bullnose rings. People will tell yeah, you know all that they're out there screaming and hollering and certain kind of borders out there that are kind of cherry picking who they're interviewing and going like, well, these people are dumb, they don't even know what the hell they're here for it, and stuff like that. I think the movement had a had an issue with with just the general base value of what it was, Like you said a bunch of cry babies. I really think that it was a cry baby thing. We didn't win. Our king isn't in power and your king is, and we're going to do everything that we can to get your king out of power so our king can roll. But still in that fact, there's no king.

31:26 He was elected, and I agree, I mean, that's just what it is. I mean, if he was a king, why can we still not get his nominees to be approved and move forward? Like there's still hang ups on that he could just say, I don't care. These guys are in that's it, you know. Why Why is there certain legislation that he approves or even through executive orders that you know, people push back on or goes to the courts. If he was king, we wouldn't have that. If people just shut the hell up and just say, all right, well that's what he said, you got to go with it. Yeah, you know, So there's all there's Obviously he's obviously not a king. They just don't like that. He's upset in the norm right and pushing back against the system. Whether you agree with him or not doesn't matter, but he's just stirring things up. The thing that you said earlier is very true. Though, regardless of the cherry picking of who they interview these people, most of these people that get behind these movements don't even know why they're there. The fundamental reason that the snow kingsting is even going on is exactly what you said. They just hate Donald Trump.

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34:38 We talked Prop fifty. And when we're talking about Prop fifty, you know, and you're in California, so you know, very relevant to you. We discussed the reasoning behind it, what the intent is, the truth and the consequences. And one of the things I stood out is what he experienced what I experienced, which is relating to what you just said by them, I'm I'm getting there. You know what it is is people don't know why they even support Prop fifty. I've had this conversation with friends the other night and they're bringing it up because they've discovered my podcast. So now it's like, and I appreciate it. I do that I get the support from them. But what happens is I started asking the question, Okay, great, let's get down to the root of it. Why do you support it? They don't even really know. They just know, well, you know, Texas did this and Republicans and you know that's not right, and so okay, but you know the thing with Texas is that was actually a court order mandate that was actually put off for years that they're being forced to do regardless because when they tried to do it earlier, the courts found it. I think it was a two thousand and it might be off three want somewhere in there. Anyway, when they tried to do it a long time ago thirteen I can't recall pers but anyway, people you can look it up. When they try to do it before the courts found that it was illegal, it wasn't right, Like, hold on, what are you guys trying to do? So they got involved and they're like no, no, no, you have to readjust all this. So here we are and this is what Texas is going through. And then you got Gavin Newsom, who's nothing more than I mean, he's

36:10 just a little dictator himself. Absolutely yeah, he's a funck trd dude. Really. So the thing with Newsom is he's just he hates Trump too, That's all it is. He's he's running for president without even saying it or acknowledge. He's been doing it for years. And this whole thing, as you know, is nothing more than an attempt to keep Democrats in power. Absolutely, we have what I don't know. If I don't know if we have the most delegates, you correct me on that. Do we have the most delegates? I'm not sure if we have the most delegates. I know that we have a huge amount of delegates. We have a lot. Fact, we have a lot. I should know that. I should know that as long as our personal you know, our population dictates that we have a lot of delegates.

36:51 Yeah, but anyway we have we have where the state that matters when it comes to voting for the president period, and we do sway the vote quite a bit due to themount of delegates we have. So this whole thing with fifty is doing nothing more to ensure that the future of the presidency is tilted much more in the favor of the Democrat Party. And so people are saying, well, I oppose Prop fifty because I oppose what Donald Trump's administration is doing. Well, it's not Donald Trump that is telling everybody to redistrict. We redistrict every ten years unless there's a special circumstance. Right. So the thing with this, what's going on with California and them trying to do this, is just trying to ensure that they remain in control or that they can grab control on the presidency. But what people don't understand is if you hate Donald Trump and you think this is a good reason to do this, you're also ignoring the future of California, though you're not looking at it from that view, because as we move forward, look, conservatives are already underrepresented in California as it is, and the argument from the California government, more from Newsome and his cronies, is well, it's going to go back in twenty thirty.

37:58 Okay, so from from. Twenty six on to twenty thirty is supposed to go back with that does kind of conveniently line back up with when we're supposed to redistrict anyway. So and then at the same time, it's like we've never seen anywhere in history. We're in government where if we give them a little to give it back. So people are not not seeing the whole picture here. I don't know what your opinion is on Prop fifty, but you know, I did have that conversation, so I thought i'd bring it up and see what you think. Yeah, Well, Proposition fifty, which I've already voted on, I turned in my mail in ballot, you know, because you know, that's just why I do it. To me, this little special election, mail it in. They can just do it, and I did so, you know, I vote no on everything anyway, so it just doesn't matter. But whatever the case may be. No, But Proposition fifty is a like you said, it's a ploy to be able to bolster the Democratic Party into just keeping their power in California.

39:00 As as long as I remember, Democrats have been in power since about the time you know, just before you know, when Duke Major and all those people were in power there, and the Assembly of California has been Democratic since then, even during the orned Soursenager years. We have to stay wrong a strong Democratic presence, and now they have a super majority, they want to keep that supermajority. Twenty ten, we voted the fact that we wanted an independent citizen Council to go ahead do districting in California. I think it's a slap in the face of the people in California to be able to be in support of something where a political party and Assembly can take control of those districts and be able to rewrite them as whenever they want to. Because every ten years we have to anyway by census. I think disenfranchises the people that are in the redder parts of more conservative parts of California because they're you know, as much as the bedroom Like I live in Gilroy, so it's a bedroom community. It extends out to here, you know, the districting extends out here, but it even extends out past that, and it goes out into the Central Valley and to the agricultural places and stuff where people seem to be a little bit more conservative than liberal. And I think it's a travesty.

40:24 I think it's a bad move for California. But California is used to making bad moves. I mean that's just the way it is. The Democrats have a stronghold. They don't want conservatives here. They want us all out, which is fine. I say, Frea can move out and let the damn places burn down their ground. But I love California. I mean, I was born and raised here. I'm not ready to give up yet, and I'm gonna sit around and see what happens, whether it kills me or whether I prosper from it. Yeah. The redistricting thing that peoplen't understand is it's not just moving the lines, you know, and people don't understand what the differences between redistricting and jerrymandering, which is exactly what they're intending to do and what this is gonna do.

41:05 I'm I'm gonna give an example, Like we know you may know that like District three and five in California, which is roughly as you said, Central Valley, is conservative. But in this redistricting, what may even happen is they'll combine three and five into one district, which dilutes its power when it comes to voting for issues in California. Another tactic they will use is they might take some Democrats from this district move it over to another one, so also further diluting the voting power and consensus of a district that may have been read but now we're looking at it being purple. So they know what they're doing and what they're trying to do. There's even conservative districts up in far North when she gets starting up into the Napa area and past that they're trying to rope into a more democratic district now, which is what they're trying to trying to do. So yeah, they're pretty much screwing California over yeah, and that's what people aren't seeing, like, Okay, cool, you hate Donald Trump, you don't want to you don't want to have a Republican president going forward, whatever. But the reality is you got to look at, as a resident of California, what it's gonna do for California moving forward.

42:14 And if that's the precedent in that, while you can screw conservatives of California over if it ever flips the other way, you've already put into place school now you're on the other side of it, and you're gonna be crying about how you're not represented. So that's what people are not understanding. You know, it's not you can't just have this knee jerk reaction to like I hate Donald Trump, so fuck Cam and I'm not gonna okay, great, but there's other ways to approach that. But you're given your rights away right now. And while you may be benefiting from it now because you have the supermajority, in the future California is gonna be screwed because you already put into place what is acceptable and when it becomes fully Republican, for example, they're gonna run with that. And there's nothing you could do with it, they'll just go, oh yeah, but you know matter twenty twenty five.

42:58 So it'll never see to amaze me the stupidity of the political parties. And again, you know, it comes down, uh to the average persons. I hate I hate calling people stupid cause I don't think they are. I just think they don't. They don't want to be bothered or so overwhelmed with their daily routines that they just don't have time. Point in case, you know, I go on threads once in a while, which I recommend you don't. It's it's accessful, But I go on threads once in a while. And what I'll do is I will go down the rabbit hole of arguing with people just for entertainment. And I don't do it all the time, but every once while I get in the mood. And what I did is I typed in Prop fifty just to see what people are thinking on that side. And almost everybody that was talking about it was referring to the advertisements that they were seeing.

43:41 Oh god, it's terrible. I'm like, hold on your Your entire basis for how you're going to vote is based on the advertisement you agree with. It's terrible that is so terrible. It's terrible. That's the problem. I mean, if you want to flip something real quick, let's go to Prop A, which is the California thing where you know we got we lost the federal funding to the hospitals and up and the the the advertisement I saw the other day because I know I stream everything is now that they're they're looking at. Okay, so now first responders are going to be affected by by PROPE all of a sudden, You're not going to get cops that are going to be coming to crimes that are they're happening here. The cops already don't come to the crime set. And the problem with crime is is that you know, you can do all you want to to get first responders going to where they want to be, whether that be cops or whether it be fire department, whether it be the e mpts or whatever. The fact of the matter is that you still have the the other side, the hospitals and everything that are involved in this is the federal funding being cut for Medicaid and places like that gonna kind of affect uh, small town hospitals.

44:49 It's going to federal funding is going to affect everything But what head of the snake do you chop to make sure that everything is right across the board. With federal funding for all of these programs, we can't sustain the programs that we got because they keep they keep just either taxing us to death or or and if they can't tax us to death, they keep creating more money, and it just dilutes our money, It dilutes our buying power. Now, the fact that this PROPA is going through in California, and who knows whether it's going to go through or not, I got I got a bad feeling because you know, a Democrat held a state that you know they're going to pass this thing. That's fine, you know, my property taxes are going to go up, or some kind of sales tax is going to be be brought in. But the problem with all of this stuff happens to be with the execution of the laws that are already done.

45:42 Like you said, we circle back to the immigration stuff. We have a crime We have a crime problem here in the bigger cities. The problem is is that they can arrest them all. That's fine, but they let them out so there's no there's no follow up to that. There's no real punishment. Yeah, yeah, exactly, And prope is not going to prope is not going to solve that, you know, and redistricting isn't going to solve that. You know, none of that's going to solve that. It's got it's got to be a it's got to be on the local level. Can Can, my my co host on the Weather Report, says that all the time, you've got to be involved in the local level. You've got to be able to get into your your city council medium. So a lot of people don't go I go at least uh, at least once every couple of months, I'll go, uh.

46:30 And it's amazing how many how many people just don't care what goes on in your city council. And there's a lot of things that just get passed by. It's because there's no support for anybody. There's no there's no public outcry for anything to change. So nothing changes because you've elected these people. You don't even know, whether it be a panel of six, nine to twelve people in your city council, you don't know them. You just kind of go like, Okay, well this one that's been in for a while, maybe I just want a new face. They don't know you, just check boxes and they don't do any campaigning. They don't come to your door and knock on your door. I haven't had one city council person come and knock on my door. So the best thing that you can do is either get involved in your community, get involved in your city council meeting, and get involved on the local level and run for your like your your first step up, which is like the school boards and stuff like that. It's terrible from what you see out there. And I urge people that if you want change, you have to go out there and do it on a local level.

47:28 Yeah, agreed. So I've always said this that pressure comes from the bottom. It's bottom up, it's not top down. And I've actually I've actually had this discussion, uh with a local politician in my area, and I actually had him on the show one of the early interviews, and it wasn't my greatest I could have pushed on him a lot more, trust me, but the reality is he didn't agree with that. He's like, well, it does that's not true. You know, you know the top, it works from the top, And then you know, I'm like, no, dude, you're not seeing that. The foundational is the majority of the people. If the majority of the people band together and tell you know, you're gonna do it this way, you're gonna be forced to change. That's just how it works. So people just don't understand that they do have more power than they think. But what you said is correct.

48:14 They're not getting involved. And what you're talking about with police response, yeah, I've seen it. You know, are they responding in Oakland? I mean I hate doing it. If I get a job in Oakland, I do not like going there. You know. I don't like Stockton. I don't do Stockton. Baker's Field is another one I don't like, although that's that's more conservative out there. But still it's just just some areas in California where I'm like, I'm just gonnavoid San Francisco. Don't like going there anymore now, I just won't. You know, there's pockets where it's very evident the police do not respond or in force. But you know, we're when you were just talking about federal funding as far as it being applied or taken away from from like police or hospitals or whatnot. Let me ask this question, how is the federal government responsible for it. When this is something that is managed at the local level, I mean it's it's the policy's put in place by local government that got you here. When it comes to hospitals, do we really need federal funding? I mean, let's let's be honest.

49:09 Obamacare screwed the industry. All it was was a was a attempt to price fix the industry. Lord, No, I can't prove it, but who knows who got whatever kickbacks from this whole deal? And now it got from where I remember, I can get insurance for a certain price that was affordable to like No matter what you do, here's your price across the board, and the only people who benefit from it are those who literally are on the edge or below poverty level. Everyone else, this is your price. And it's designed. It's designed. It's designed to be that way. It was a totally All you got to do is follow the money. I mean, if you sit back there and now, it's easier than anything to follow the money you've got. You've got several websites out there that have their pulse on the finger of federal spending and who who gets what from where? You know, we can talk about any politician you want to. They're all funded by somebody.

50:00 Even somebody is as saintly as Thomas Massey is still getting federal funding and stuff like that. So you know, we can go there. All day, we can go down the donor rabbit hole. Yeah exactly. But all you got to do is follow the money. Do I think that that uh that uh uh county hospitals or rural hospitals should be federally funded? Oh? I don't think so at all. Me as being a taxpayer in California is different than me being a tax payer for for the federal government. Uh. We we vote on our taxes here in California, and if we don't vote the right way, well then the legislature just passes it anyway. So I mean.

50:41 I didn't vote for the additional gas taxes that they're imposed. No, but but yeah, Governor News just decided that that was just. The government body or board that decided, hey, you know, due to environmental whatever, we're going to add another percentage. I don't vote on that, Yeah, So I think So, I think really what it comes down to is this is just a great big bitch fest for everybody to you know, kind of throw their matches into the fire and say, you know it's bad that you know, federal funding is being stripped away from from this, and Medicare is getting stripped away from that, and Social Security is getting taxed for this and everything. It's a ship show, I mean, just to just to bluntly and for the federal government to step in here and and uh, you know, uh Trump to go ahead and start slashing with with Elon Musk and Doze and the department that we've always had dose has always been there, regardless of what has always been there. And but this is a this is a this is a thing that needed to be done.

51:44 And I think to me, if you would cut fifteen percent across all all UH programs across the board, what lives, lives, what dies dies is what I think is fair and honorable. Do I think that we should close all these parts? Meant oh yeah, absolutely, Department of Education, Department of Transportation, all these all these money makers that have all these contracts and stuff to their preferred people, you know, unions and stuff like that. Not the union guy. You know, I like unions. I think unions are good. I think public sector or the public unions, you know, the federal unions are atrocious. But that being said, like I said, you know, then, like I said, I refer to him a lot, you know, in the in the weather report, he thinks that it should be fifty percent across the board.

52:34 Just slash everything all the way across the board, and that's kind of high. I was, yeah, but you yeah, but there's a whole bust a bunch of us social safety nets that are out there that don't need to be there because what people what happens is is people get dependent on this stuff. It's like, you know, don't feed the don't feed the animals at the zoo, because then they get used to you know, the people food. Right. You know, that's the point that right there, what you said is exactly it. We created this. Yes, you know, people became dependent because we were letting them become dependent on it. I want to I want to clarify something because I just realized that what I said about the hospitals, people were to give me crap about and say, oh, you know, you have no heart, No people would I wanted to. I want to explain that a little bit, what I said about pulling funding from hospitals because after Obamacare and everything else happened in the insurance industry.

53:28 I'm just going to give you a story. I remember when my brother got a major accident where he rolled his car the whole bit and this this was, oh man, this was years ago. But even then things were exorbitant. And there's no reason you could tell me a box of bandages band aids cost five thousand dollars, right, Okay, the medical industry needs to needs to be looked into, and they need to be torn apart, and they need to be regulated because your medication shouldn't cost what they are. But that has more to do with how they regulate the drugs and whatnot. And you know, we're flipping the bill for most of the world when it comes to the percentage of how much we pay versus like you know, the people in Europe or candidate, et cetera. But when it comes to the hospitals, like is this surgery, a certain surgery really worth thirty thousand dollars? Is it thirty thousand?

54:15 Is it really worth fifty thousand? You know, why is my cancer medication? You know, thank god, I'm not I don't have cancer, But why is cancer medication twenty thousand and fifty thousand per like, why that doesn't make any sense. Why advantages being built up five thousand dollars doesn't make any sense. So while hospitals can cry and scream, you know, they are charging, they are getting their money. What they don't like is they're not going to be federally subsidized when someone walks and doesn't pay the bill. And a lot of that is from people who don't have insurance, who are not necessarily the working class, you know, it's the people that were relying on these programs, as you said earlier. So this, this is going to be painful, but I think we need to have this rese set we needed.

55:02 They need to be more responsible for the things that they want. So I decided to move to go Roy, California. I had no idea that we had an hospital that we have Saint Louis, which is which is now a part of the Santa Clairic Health System. Now, so don't you guys, I mean you got a kaiser also in morgan HILLO, right, I think it's in morgan. Hill, or we have a Kaiser here in Gilroy. It's it's a close yeah, so it's it's it's not a hospital but uh, you know, make a long story short, I had a I had a I had an emergency in appendectomy a couple of years ago in which they had to come get me by by ambulance and take me all the way to Santa the which is forty five minutes away. I shouldn't be here. There's a couple of times I shouldn't have been here. But the fact of the matter is is that is that they couldn't take me to Saint Louis because of course, you know, I had Kaiser insurance, so they had to get me up there. I I just think I'm all into about the temp Amendment. I'm into states rights, but I think states have gotten used to sucking off of the government tit and you know, and I think it's wrong. I think that in some ways, and I hate to say this, that you know, Governor's right. I mean, you know, Governor Newsom is right to be rebelling against Trump on a lot of stuff that Trump is trying to do federally within California, because I think that, you know, California is a sovereign state. Every state is a sovereign state. Every

56:33 state is the sovereign country, and we decided to come together as a union to be able to defend our borders against you know, enemies and stuff like that. But we're still sovereign states within itself, and the federal government ought to do what the federal government was supposed to do, and states need to do with states what their citizens want them to do. And whether or not the Democrats want to fund hospitals and abortions and stuff like that with my tax money is only my decision by vote. It's a it's actually it actually states are democracy and then the whole of the United States is a constitutional republic because that's what we decided to do. Because you know, as you know, and you being in California here too, when we vote in California, you know, the majority wins.

57:19 That's what it is. It doesn't matter whether San Francisco is a huge voting block and that Los Angeles County is the biggest voting block of of any country or any state. You know, the majority wins, and that's why we have this democratic uh supermajority here. But the fact of the matter is is that states ought to be able to fund what they need to fund to share within their own state, and the federal government. It's a state as much as it is possible. But using their own damn money, using their own money. Yeah, right, if and here's here's the caveat to that. If if states states need to get back to statehood, correct, but then you should also reject all federal funding. If that's going to be your stance, you need to manage yourself.

58:04 It's it's it's it's a slippery slope. I'm just saying because we're what are we supposed to be the fourth largest largest economy in the world as he likes to, you know, brag about. Well, if we're making so much money and you're raping us so much in taxes, why are you even accepting federal funding for anything? Then absolutely, absolutely no reason for it. I agree that no reason for it. And here's the thing that we need to get back to. I think some of these states and these governors also need to realize that you are a member state of the United States of America, and so what what And this leads to like what what people were talking about with the National Guard, right and we and we we can argue whether or not how Trump is handling it that is constitutional or not. Uh, but what I My take on that is, if if you're going outside the union and opposing the union, and you're no longer aligning with the Union, at what point does the federal government not say, hold on, guys, you're no longer representing what this entire nation stands for right now.

59:00 I'm not saying march in with troops, but federally, if we're all supposed to come together as a United States, and we have a certain direction, a way of things that we that we that we believe, and we're supposed to move forward in one direction as a country, and that you have a state over here who wants to act like they don't belong to the Union. They could do whatever they want outside of what is written and not not actually, you know, adhering to the you know, or actually what I'm trying to say is, you know, stay within the guardrails of what makes up the United States of America. Then does the federal government not have a right to check in on them, say hey, guys, what are you doing over here.

59:40 Let's take Portland as as our example, because Portland is the ship show of the world. Man, they have surve pass California. Stuff that is in every aspect right about sending in the National Guard Portland and protecting federal interests. Yes, the ice facility. In fact, I think that they should have a perimeter around the ice facility way bigger than it is because right now they're still blocking the streets entering the ice facility and stuff like that. Anybody who is attacking that, anybody who is is deterring traffic going in and out, ought to be rounded up like soilent green with scoops and everything and just taken away. I mean that that is my honest opinion about that whole thing, whether it be peaceful or not.

1:00:31 Do you agree that the local police should be handling that though, because. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, But they don't because they're all read from you know what Portland has become over the years and decades that it has become. Portland has been its own little kind of city or city state within the state for decades. I mean, they were the first to bring in, you know, public transit there, They've got this, you know, they got a great system going. I've been to Portland. Portland's a beautiful town. It's this one little section of Portland right now there's just a ship show and and it kind of moves around. It wasn't it was in downtown, and now it's moved to the ice facility, and and you know, it's just one of these things that you've got. It's like when you have a major flood somewhere. Right, Okay, they're gonna the media is going to show you the place is more flooded than anything.

1:01:19 They're going to show you the puddle that's you know, six with the with the head sticking out, and then you know, one hundred feet away there's no flood at all. The same thing is happening with Portland, and it's atrocious. Chicago, New Orleans, Uh, you know you name the city. Uh, you need to send troops in there if they if the police aren't doing their job, you need to send National Guard in there to protect the federal interest. Other than that, I can give ship what happens to Portland. I can give a crap what happens to Chicago. Those people decided by their vote that they wanted to be governed by the people that they elected to govern and yeah, help you high water.

1:02:02 So okay, So protecting federal facilities exactly where this application makes sense. Right, But let's let's say that should we let a state become a hellhole, become destitute and ram by crime just because people voted that way is the other question. And then you know, when we're talking about California earlier in my point being about you know, being part of the union, when you have the governor himself popping off and trying to talk about how we should secede as a state, that's not acceptable. I will say this, Does California have a military? Well? No, I mean, I'm with you when you start spouting of the fact that you know, we want to succeed from the state. Does California have a military? No, California doesn't have a military. We have a nation. Yeah, we can't stand on our own. We don't have taste, we don't have nuclear weapons, we don't have anything of sort to go against the the power of the federal government, the US Army, the Navy, whatever, understood.

1:03:05 But but the governor of California himself saying these things, I mean, would you say the federal government has a right to tell the governor or go to the state of California, the governing body of state California, say all right, what's the reasoning for this? Rhetoric, this narrative of secession, like why are you trying to push this? Are you trying to you know, isolate yourself and separate from the Union. And then to your point, it's like it's a stupid situation that they want to do because now they're trapped, like you're gonna you're gonna have the coastline and then they're gonna be blocked off on all other sides, not being able to defend yourself or do anything against United States of America. But then I guarantee if they ever did this, they're gonna cry and try to be an ally of the use because they're then they're going to realize they're boxed in and they have nothing they can do.

1:03:48 And then what about pulling out our our training bases in San Diego, Like we've got the Marine training facility, Like we have the base over there in uh Palms, Palm Springs. Like yeah, now, what you know, how is this guy separation? It's the separation of the ideologies of the political parties that are that are running these states and local governments. And that's just the way it is. I mean, we I guess we boxed ourselves into a situation where now we got to go, wow, we're really strewd, you know. I guess my point is like when you when you got governors talking this, it's like they're trying to stir ship up just because they don't like Trump. You know, you got Newsom said it. I think uh JB. Prisker Actually I don't know if he said it or he made a under the radar type of comment about it.

1:04:37 But other other Blue states have said this, and it's like, are we trying to recreate the South versus the North? But it wouldn't literally be the South verst North. It would be like you know, the left first right war, Like what are they pushing for? And all for the sake that they don't like Donald Trump? You know, and then the citizens are caught in between because you know, we give these politicians too much power. They think the rock stars these days, they can do whatever they want. It's like, hold on. It's like the approach to war in my opinion, so like because two politicians leaders of two countries don't like each other, we're now going to stand troops in to fight each other. Well fuck that, you guys, get in the ring and duke it out. See who wins. You know, it doesn't make a little sense.

1:05:17 It would be a lot different if we had the WWE pay per view, they had all the governments pitted against each other, and I would pay. Oh, that would be great. I think that would be amazing if we can get to that point. I mean, could you imagine Trump and Kim Jong un over there in the ring just going at it, you know, rocketman versus Orange, you know, Cheetah dusted man like, that's what they would call. It, right, That would be freaking great. But in all seriousness, I think that it's we have just let government. We have come. We have citizens that become complacent to government. We become complacent to the things that we're used to. We we get we get just really comfortable with what we have. Man. I mean really, I mean I never thought in a million years that I have a home.

1:06:07 I'm sitting here with the home. I'm doing everything that I can do to protect it, with insurances, with with the cost of living, with you know, making sure that this thing is still standing, you know, on this foundation and stuff like that. And yet you know, outside of my outside of my little bubble that I have around my you know, less than a quarter anchor freaking home here, I've got, you know, walls falling down around me, and uh, you know, so you know, we like the costcos we liked the We like the convenience. We liked we like the sunshine. We pay sunshine backs me and you, George, and uh, you know, all that stuff is falling down around us, and we were looking at each other and just going like, we created this, We created we created all of this. Now whether or not you voted for it or not is irregardless of it. But when was the last time you talked to your neighbor? How many neighbors do you know around you?

1:06:59 Okay, but I don't think that's a political thing when it comes to like talking to neighbors. I think that is a that is an engineered social behavior over time, because you know, now we're talking, I'm gonna. Win in politics. But that that that is a result of always having always having to have the latest, greatest, newest entertainment in your hand. It all started with social media, and once that happened, we started separating from each other to interact base to face. Now everything's done online or you're you know, you don't even have conversation with anyone on the phone. It's a text message. Nobody wants to talk to anybody. It's like, send a message, and there's a place for that, you know, like for me if I'm busy and I'm in a meeting or whatever. Yeah, text message makes sense, Please text me and then I'll call you back. But nobody wants to talk to anybody. People have lost that.

1:07:50 People have lost, right, So I don't think that that that particular example in terms of talking to your neighbor. Not No, your neighbor is a political thing so much as it is a societal thing. Is what we have become due to being trained, you know, we we've been behaviorally modified and conditioned into looking at our phones in our social media and that's our that's our world. And unfortunately that led to these these keyboard warriors and these people who believe that because they have a million followers on x that they're the biggest shit in the world. Well, listen, I'm gonna tell you right now, once you walk out your door, you're nothing. You really are nothing. They don't want to they don't want to hear that, but that's true, you know. And it's like when it comes to podcasting, for example, just because that's what you do. We have that my social media does not reflect. It does not reflect what goes on with the podcast whatsoever. You know, I'm horrible at it. I don't grow it because I don't have time to sit there and post twenty four freaking hours. But there's people that they tried to make this their living and what's dangerous. And I'm going to tie this back together, Bruce, But what you said in the beginning is like with the news now, they're relying on what's being said on social media as fact in truth when most of it is a bunch of bots just kicking the hornets nest.

1:09:03 Yeah, yeah, I think that. I think the fact that you've got to go like, we cannot trust the mainstream media anymore. You can't trust uh, but even even independent so called journalism. Well, and that's what I'm saying. That's why I'm getting that. I'm getting that. So now we got X that we're going into and we're going like, oh, well, that's where we get the news first, because they're faster than anybody else, you know, faster in NBC, faster and Fox faster than CNN. Fine, it is you know, but like you said, there's a whole bunch of bots that are kicking the hornet's nest, and you still have to do your due diligence. I had had a conversation last night with the person that we've had on our show before, and she she had been duped into into, uh into posting something that she saw online. What she found out was basically, you know, about kicking the hornous nest, and it was wrong, you know, And I go, you still have to do your due digits. Just because I found it on X doesn't make it true. I mean, they showed they showed the presence of Boston yesterday of of the of the No King's protests. But but the picture was from another protest back a couple of years ago. Yeah, I mean from Yeah, they're reusing you know, stock photos from stuff that happened earlier. Now, did Boston have that turn up? Maybe maybe not. I don't know. I don't freaking go to Boston. I don't care about Boston. The only thing I care about Boston is that, you know, they beat the Yankees. You know, That's what That's what I care about. But but no, I mean, you know, we got to take this stuff with a grain of salt.

1:10:34 When you're when you're dealing with social media, which is our main source of information, now you still have to take it with a grain of salt. You still have to do your due diligence as you go forward, especially with you know, with the weather Report, is it different? Is a different animal than than the Wedterview. The weather View deals with news and politics and cultural stuff that we do every every morning. I still have to research before I get into that realm on every morning. Yeah, before before I go with because you know, a lot of these guys and I love all my freaking co hosts, my collaborators, and collaborators will come out sometimes and I had to go like, hey, whoa, you know, this is what's really going on. Even though we have a dialogue there that we discussed these things back and forth always because it's open dialogue. It's it's a critical thinking discussion and stuff like that. But you have to do your due diligence. If you don't do your due diligence, I'm doing my listeners wrong by giving them bad information and then they're going to react whether they're you know, the dozens of people that I have listening are going to react. Yeah, they're going to react in a way that that is contrary to what's really happening out there. I think we have a response. I think we have a responsibility as independent podcasters to at least do as much due diligence as we can, because as much fact out there as possible strew the Hannity is screwed, the Joe Rogan, screw everybody else. You know, uh like that. It doesn't matter.

1:11:57 They have an agenda to go by. You can say. You can say that Joe Rogan, you know, shoots from you know, shoots from the hippie, doesn't shoot from the hippie. He's got his donators and stuff like that. He's gotta he's got to do the same with Hannity's same with all these other people that are that are doing this stuff. But yeah, Joe's got that one hundred million dollars contract. At some point someone's gonna like say, whoa, hey, you need to kind of got it. Ten I got a tent and tenths and fifteen dollars contracts going on, So. I got nothing. I don't even push it. I'm bad about that, But you're correct. This is what you said is very akin to what uh Roy Strozzio. I don't know if you know who he is, but he's he's another he was an influencer. Uh, he's another podcaster who's kind of switched his career up. He was he used to be like the Disney Parks guy. So he go like to the Disney parks and do all this. He had a huge falling TikTok, and he's been changing things.

1:12:49 He's having more of these type of conversations now, getting away from it. And uh, that's one of his peeves, is uh self moderation. There's not enough of it from podcast independent or otherwise. It's great that we don't have the regulation. We can say whatever we want. We could use whatever words we want. I can use as many expectives as I want. But we also have to realize that there's a responsibility because there are people who will hear us. Big or small, doesn't matter. We have are people who listen to us, and they may take what we say as fact in terms of he said this because this is what he does, and I trust what he says or her. And now I'm going to move forward in my life and I'm going to apply what that person said, like me, you whoever, and this is now going to be my way of thinking and the basis on how I make all my decisions. There are all those people out there, and I would say that if you listen to me, you whoever, take even what I say with the grain of salt, do your own research.

1:13:49 And I've said that, and there's times where I'm like, I don't have time to do all the research, like I've done it. But I'll even tell people when I'm recording, hey, look this up yourself, like, don't just don't just hang on my word. And I think there has to be some self moderation. I don't believe we need to be censored. I don't think we need the whole FCC regulation stuff applied. That's what That's what Royce keeps trying to say. I was just, you know, on one of his podcasts today listening and he he believes that we need to get to That's like, nah, I don't believe in that fuck that. I want to say, funck, shit, cunt, whatever I want to say, however, however want to express myself. I want to do that, but I also realize that I have a responsibility like, I can't be pushing hate speech, and you know, I don't want to bombard the bombard social media with nothing but like beheadings and death and you know, pedophilians, Like what kind of person would I be if I did that? You know, I believe in your approach, Uh, do your research, present facts and data. And I say facts and data at the time of my recording, because as things as things progress, you know, it could change, it could change right in the middle of your podcast, right it's happened. I'm like recording something and all of a sudden, I say something pop on. I was like, well, all right, I guess that's no longer valid, so but whatever.

1:15:00 But yeah, I'm just saying you're correct. I believe everything that you said is absolutely true. And unfortunately, too many people are easily influenced and they and they hang on the words of like these you know, Ben Shapiro's, Joe Rogan's, Michael Knowles, all these guys. And I'm not saying they don't have valid points, but in the end, they're no different than your right, They're just people. There's people with opinions that they are not qualified to actually be somebody in which you would hang your entire life view on. They're just not period same thing with a politician. They're just another person. There's nothing special about them. But George, would you sell out like like Aaron Wood or you know, the one hundred million dollar contract and just you know, become the uh come the next Rachel mad Out. I would never be that. But at the same time, I get it.

1:15:45 I get the question because that is something that I think all of us think about, like, let's just be honest, would we not rather have this be our career for example? But there's a problem. You know, the problem with that is you do get what you ask for once it becomes the career and it becomes the grind, and then it's no longer you know, you literally caring about what you're doing. You're just like, God, damn, I gotta put another one out. I got to talk about the S s U. And then you're just stuck in this this this stuck in these four walls that you can't escape because if you don't do X, you don't get why in return, and you're you're part of this vicious cycle of being a exactly pretty much. But as far as one hundred million dollar question, yeah. I mean I think most people will say they wouldn't, but they would. What question is is how long can you hack it? Like could you how long can you swallow before you blow up and say fuck this, I can't do it anymore. I can't do it anymore. I mean, I would think that someone like uh, me or you would have the integrity to I mean, even if someone waving in front of your face. I mean, it's hard to turn that down. But at the same time, you gotta you gotta stand up for who you are. So I can't answer that question until someone actually presents it to me because it would be tempting.

1:17:02 Well, right now, I'm living the dream because I love to talk. I love podcasting. When I started podcasting, I was like, man, this is great and I'll be able to talk. And the whole thing is is this is when I get into my social circles now, which is mostly because I live in a democratic, you know, democratic kind of area, When they start talking about politics and stuff like that in a social situation, I'm going like, hey, you know what, I got two shows. I got The Weather Report and I got the Weather View. Let's talk fishing, Let's talk baseball, let's talk football, let's talk anything that that you know that I don't have to talk about other than that you can get from one of my two shows. That's basically what I told them because it's so free and in that way, Number One, I get to do what I love. I get to enjoy the people that I like to hang around with. And it's not work. And like you said, it's one hundred million dollar question. What one hundred million dollars help me out?

1:17:53 You know? Oh? Absolutely, it change my life totally. But then it would be the grind and everything else like that. And then my other two businesses. I'm in a direct marketing business plexus worldwide. I use the products, that's what I do. I love it. I have a backyard nursery. I love gardening. Yeah, you know, if I got a one hundred million dollar contract in the doing gardening and stuff like that, would it be different than what I'm doing now? Absolutely? Would it be a grind? Absolutely? Would I hate it? Absolutely? Yeah? So it comes rob Yeah, I'd rather be on the small end of it and put in my extra twenty hours a week that I do, you know, producing this program, doing my backyard nursery, promoting my other direct marketing program stuff like that. Yeah, it's it's a grind. It's still it's a grind. It it is an enjoyable grind. It's not like work. It's something that I love. Yeah, it's different.

1:18:49 It's a different grind because you're not you're not under the pressure of if I don't do this, my paycheck's taken away or exactly. Got to be afraid to say something because then I will no longer get this support from my employer. Really, and even when it comes to sponsors. I mean, you know, I look at it this way. I got some affiliate marketing things going on, and it's like they approved it. That's all I'm gonna say. They approved it. The email we no longer want you? Fine, whatever, you know. I mean, it's I'm not getting rich off this anyway. I don't really care. I'm not doing it for that reason. So look, let's I don't know how much time you have, but I I do want to get your opinion on whether or not foreign nations are running our nation? Like, is do you believe that's true?

1:19:38 Is that just a bunch of bullshit? Are you talking about? There's there's a well I got I've got the right there that globalists plan to collapse everything. I got that book sent by Yeah he actually signed that and send it to which was great. But yeah, there's that. But also, you know, everyone thinks that Israel runs America, that Qatar runs America just because they may donate and they have all this power and influence. It's really like, you know, dropping the bucket compared to everything else that the US does. And you know, the US also influences other nations. We do the same thing. But what what what is your take on on whether or not that is true? And you're also I'm going to do a follow up like our relationships with these countries, like how far do you think we should go in supporting them as well? So let's start with how you feel or what your viewpoint is on whether or.

1:20:36 Not other countries are actually running our nation. I think they have an influence of it. I think that the United Nations is probably the worst out of all of them about the about the perpetrators of running other countries and running this country. UH. I really believe that that's so. Uh, even though we disdain the UH the United Nations and why it's still sitting in New York I have no idea because they they don't represent us at all. Yeah. Well, some will argue the UN is really the US. Yeah, and you know, all I got to do is look at the Look at the headline this morning Israel and Hamasra back at it. Oh yeah, so so I mean look at that. Now. Now we're in a Klaig mayrble where where President Trump says, you know, we're gonna go in there, We're gonna kill them all. So now we're gonna get troops on the ground over there. You've got the Klaus Swabs, You've got the the the w e F. You've got the Rothschilds and the old money that that could be or could not be running the world.

1:21:34 You've got the Putins, You've got the Kim John Ouns. You've got all this stuff that is all combined in an interconnected network of people that actually do influence what goes on in the world. So it would be silly of me not to say that that other countries don't influence what happens in the United States, as well as those countries have influence about what's going on in their country by the United States, by the Saudi Ist, by Israel by whoever you think it's going to be. I think that, unfortunately, that we're probably running into a one world government eventually, not not in my lifetime. I mean, I'm you know, I've got one foot in the grave.

1:22:15 I've probably got fifteen twenty years left, and. You never know the way things are going on, yeah, you never know. I don't want to live to be one hundred it that way, gotcha. But no, I think that unfortunately, unless I see it, there's not enough turn in the actual world of countries and you know, and stuff like that that is able to turn the tide of a one world government. I really think that there's powers out there that are are more powerful, you know, money's talks, bullshit walks, and I think that that that the situation that we're looking at. Look at UK, look at all those European nations that are all just going to this one world government that they feel is correct. Saudi Arabia is going to be one of those people like the United States that are going to kind of push back on that. But I think eventually you're going to have that situation where you know, one or more is going to have to capitulate. Think I think that.

1:23:17 There's definitely influence, but I don't think ownership as people are trying to say, we give Israel a hell of a lot more than they give us, and people will say, well, yeah, but they buy it back. It's not all buyback and military supplies. It literally is not three point five billion a year regardless is our commitment, and that's not all of it. That's just the minimum level that we send them. But we also fund two hundred and some odd countries and territories about the unit throughout the entire world. I think last time I looked up combining territories and countries was two hundred and forty period were Misspuney. Who has more military bases and more countries than anybody else? We do for sure, man, absolutely, you know.

1:24:00 I mean we got the largest military base in the Middle East right there in Qatar, which is you know why that relationship is important. I know a lot of people like they were like, why are you saying there are our greatest? And I didn't say that they are our greatest. They're considered one of our greatest. There for the reason that we have that relationship to where they allow us to host our biggest military base in the Middle East. So you know, when you have countries like Israel who decide that they're just going to go ahead and attack Moss leaders on Katari soil, that kind of creates a problem for us. And so that that's was what I was meaning by that. And even under Biden, I know, none of us respect him, but you know, even he stated on his under his administration before then that Qatar was one of our greatest allies in the area. But they got to understand the context because of that, you know, and so they try to play Switzerland in the Middle East, but they're really not.

1:24:49 We know they're playing both sides. The US accepted it. We know that we're not stupid, but we also have the power by way of having our base right there to go hold on, guys, let me let me, let me really back a bit. So it's a very tricky relationship there. But you know, I don't I don't think that anybody is running us necessarily. Yeah, yeah, sure, we may have some politicians that are influencing definitely. You know, look out like we could talk about Ilhan Omar, who basically looks out for Somalia first before the United States. But I'm not sure, it's all due to funding. She's just just fucking out there. And then you have other politicians who may be more pro Israel, but I don't.

1:25:29 I don't think Israel's running the United States of America because when push comes to shove, I guarantee you the US is going to go. No, no, no, no, hold on, guys. And we've done it before, We've done it. Breaks tapped the breaks. Brother. Yeah. I mean really, like I said, it's all about money. And every place that we have a military base in, uh, the country that we're in there is all about the American dollar. And I can talk about the American dollar, and I can talk about the deflation that the value the dollar, but still people out there in the in the in the world want American dollars. American dollars are still what fuels, uh, the economies of many nations. And until that changes, uh, you know, the military, the United States military, and the United States is gonna have more influence over the world than any other superpower in the in the in the world.

1:26:17 So well, China is definitely contesting that power as of life, but they've they've been on this multi year plan. I think it's like a thousand year or hundred year plan. Yeah, I forgot how they coined it, but they've they've they've been on the path to control the world. Yeah. Well, I don't know if they'll get there, but they're definitely they definitely got they definitely have influence. Yeah, lifetime. But like I said, you know, I keep saying that in my life and I hope that well. And let's talk about the what you said about the one world government. I think I've been thinking about this more, uh and and it seems like that's where it's heading. But Brice, I'm also realizing that the problem with that is money aside, money doesn't matter, or two extreme fundamentalist fundamental idealists period. And then now we're talking about cultures and religions. How are you going to reign in one point eight nine million billion Muslims?

1:27:15 How are you going to do that? How are you going to suddenly integrate a fundamental belief in Islam based on the Quran and get them to integrate with the entire world and rule them under one government? How's that going to happen? That's not going to happen, going to be one great, big, huge civil war. And I don't I was talking about. Yeah, I'll go back to my statement. I think that we're heading that way. Oh no, I agree, but it's going to be a bloody It's going to be a bloody mess. I think they're pushing for it. But I but the more I think about it is like, how are they going to make that happen? Are they going to literally try to kill almost two billion people to make it happen?

1:27:55 Of course, basically sure they would, why not? You know? But then but then here's the other question though, So, so China is going to come to heal as well. Then some of the larger countries like China, Yeah, I don't think so, because they have their own internal problems with their ethnic uh people that they've let in and and you know, the different people. I mean, China is huge, same with the with the with the the Russia. I mean it's still huge. There's still a huge sport of different ethnicities and stuff like that. And they've got same with India, and they've got their own problems within their their own continents. But I do think that some of the lesser nations like the UK is just lost, that they're just lost and they've been lost for some time. Yeah, and and you know, you get that little cancer. Selling cancer seems to want to metastasize and move itself out, So it is going to move itself out, you know, and and infect other countries. So whether it infects you know, a little bit of Russia, whether it effects a little bit of China, that it affects a little bit of the United States, it's eventually gonna metastasize and get into those countries. But it already has been. But uh uh, Like I said, it's not going to happen in my lifetime.

1:29:11 But I think that there's there's truth And if you've ever seen the time machine where people are going to get into that notion that you know it's going to be an autonomous, one kind of government type of situation. Now, well, is it going to be able to be governed and anything successfully? I don't know. You're always going to have those factions. You're always going to have a religious faction, You're always going to have a fundamentalist faction. You're always going to have a terrorist faction that's going to seek to undermine whatever kind of government is is around them. I don't know if it'll be uh necessarily a one world government, but more like more like the Five Families of the American mob back in the you know where they Yeah, they come in and meet and go, Okay, guys, how are we going to handle banking? How we are going to handle money? You know, things like that. I think that would probably be be more what a one world government would look like, because it's gonna be too hard to wrangle in all the different cultures, beliefs, et cetera and get them all come to here. There's there's no ways gona happen. But but I can see that situation.

1:30:12 I can see you know, like China, America, EU, et cetera. They're already doing it, but like literally really coming together and really deciding we're working together and we're going to control everything, and this is how we're gonna do it. So, you know, we got digital ID being pushed in the UK, how long is it before that starts to infiltrate, like you said, infect the rest of the countries around them. And listen, it's not just the UK that's lost. Friends. We do we do, we okay, we do. But at the same time, they're not at the point where they're controlling our banking right, These are just these are just doorways or portals to be able to manage those things by us.

1:30:53 But we're not. We're not being controlled by the government yet yet China does it. They already do it. They have a social credit score system, which, by the way, I hear from what I've been seeing reports gotta dig into it has been backfiring on them as of late. It looks like economically they're starting to slip backwards. But you know in the UK they're they're they're pushing this and and Starmar's like standing behind it and he's like, Nope, moving forward. This is going This is how it's going to be. And if you don't like it, too bad. And we also have Canada with their mandate of the gun buy back, you have no choices, like you gotta tell this date to turn in your weapons. They already did it in Australia years back. I saw how that turned out for them during COVID, right exactly. So I think I think you're right, we're on track to it.

1:31:40 I'm just trying to understand what that would look like like. There's no I think it's going to be a conglomerate of people like a five families type situation where they're gonna come together and then decide on certain things like banking, housing, like whatever, stuff like that. But there's no way they're going to be able to rule, Like there's not going to be on TV or whatever communications the system have then one person representing the entire world. I don't know if that's yeah, I don't think there's going to be like this one world president or anything like that. We're never going to get to Star Treks. Yeah, exactly. You know, for people don't know, just just read those books or look into that. And that was kind of you know, what the whole year Star Trek was was being able to become one world.

1:32:21 We're all work together. Kumba A. I don't know, I don't Yeah, I mean, but but but when you're talking about you're talking about that has to be done with technology, and technology is really scary these days, especially when we're walking around with something you know, as powerful as the laptop computer that we have you know in here, and you know we're tracked all the time. All you got to do is you know, type something or or or mentioning something into a microphone and all of a sudden it's popping up on your TV, it's popping up on your feeds, it's popping up everywhere. Uh, we're not far away from it. We're not far away from being controlled, you know, seeing as what China is doing. Uh, we're not far away from somebody like Starmer saying, you know, Trump is almost there, but Farmers saying, hey, you don't like it. This is what's happening. This is this is what we're doing. I can't believe what I'm seeing in the UK right now. It's just unbelievable. With they're talking about, you know, well, we love free speech, but we're gonna put you in jail for a Facebook post or or they're unfettered, uh, their unfettered uh borders of immigration that they're letting people just change the whole culture of what the UK used to be in order to just like, you know, push down their own people in order to find you know, favor with with with Islam and the Muslims that are that are in the area, and to be able to accept the Sharia law and the other cultures and stuff like that. They're able that that seem not to want to assimilate into the culture of where they moved to or immigrated to. But the same thing is happening in the United States. We're fighting different factions

1:33:55 here and there in different states that are going like, we don't want sharia law here. I don't want sharia lawyer. I'm used to the law that that I'm used to being under. And if my wife has to worry about being in a certain area of town where she needs to cover her face or whatever like that, bullshit, That's not what I did that, that's not what it's all about. And I think that the the the uh, the other countries in this world are are you know, like I said, even ours are slowly shifting to to that norm. And whether it be the the enormity of the islam face or the muddle of face or whatever you want to say. And Christianity is on its way out or or maybe it's on his way back up. With the killing of you know, Charlie kirk Uh, you know, there's there's a there's a retribution to be had, and I don't know which way it's going to go. I'm kind of scared about it.

1:34:47 I think the EU or the European countries need to be like Poland. Poland isn't messing around. They don't care that, you know, they're controlling their borders. Uh, you know, you're you can't give away your own culture and your statehood due to empathy and under the guise of empathy and acceptance. Is how since you brought it up and we're talking about it, Islam itself is going to infiltrate other countries and turn their cultures. And since we're talking about UK, it's funny. How you know, we had all these videos and people pushing the rhetoric that, oh, you know, the culture of UK wasn't all white. Now they're trying to push out the idea of it being a white nation. Well, I'm sorry, but white people are actually indigenous to that area.

1:35:35 I know. People don't want to believe. They all want to believe that it's always a person of color. Was the inhabitants of all places in the world really a person of color inhabited and colonized and developed, you know, the areas of the north of ice and snow. Sure, right, And that's not true, you know, and the people of the UK or skin color is white and this isn't a white versus black or color thing. I'm just saying that they're intentionally, intentionally pushing the narratives to change the culture and get you to accept it under the guise of racism and empathy and acceptance. And what we're seeing with what's happening in New York with Mondamie is like, how scary is that? Yeah, you know, and people say that, oh, he's in trouble because of the debate he had. Why because he's he asked whether or not Cuomo visited a mosque, Like, who gives a fuck? How many fucking Catholic cathedrals as Madambie been to? How many times has he fucking prayed the rosary or got his knee down on in a pew?

1:36:33 Like seriously, that's what sways the votes? How ridiculous are people? It's pretty scary to listen to Mandami speak, you know, getting back to us politics and what's going on in New York. It's scary to me to think that that's it's all related. Though, yeah, it's all related, but I mean, you know, it's pretty scary to living where I came from. I mean, I was born in the sixties, I grew up in the seventies, I matured in the eighties. You know, got married in the nineties and here I am today. To be able to listen to somebody like Mdamie, to be able to listen to Ilian Omar, to be able to listen to AOC is totally foreign to me. But I don't count anymore because I'm a dying I'm a dying voting block. My voting block is getting slimmer as we age, and these young people are coming up, and I have faith that you know, some of the young people, There's still going to be a fifty to fifty split no matter what happens, there's still going to be a fifty to fifty split. But I can't feel sorry for the people in New York City that are going to vote Mondamia as their governor. I don't feel sorry for the people in Minnesota who keep Ilion Omar in power.

1:37:56 You get what you freaking vote for, no matter the makeup of your city is either there's a lot of conservatives in there, but there's more Democrats. But I don't know. Okay, But that argument though, that argum members, which I do agree with what you're saying. That's on the surface. Let's let's be honest, you're saying in that situation, they got what they vote for. Now that applies a lot to what happened in California when we're talking earlier, but we're talking about like ilhan Omar. Her district is made up with largely Somalian immigrants. They have the power, they've already they've already went ahead and shifted and tilted the balance in their favor. Same thing that's happening in New York under everyone's nose. You have this Muslim population that has grown exponentially, just blown up, and now that you have someone like Mandami, it's getting all of them to come together and unite to cast their vote because they know that they can, they.

1:38:49 Have the power to do so. So while they may have gotten what they voted for, who voted for it? Like? Who got what they voted for? That's another question. That's what I'm saying, is that you don't have the Republican Party or the Conservative Party or the Democrat Party who's against even Mandami and the numbers enough to over over, you knowwhelm that vote because people just don't get interested about it. They're busy, Like me, like, when I get done with this podcast, I got another podcast. I got to prepare for tonight. You know, I'm having Aaron, you know, a repeat of Aaron that I did earlier, that I'm doing but I got to do that. I've got stuff that I got to do out of my yard. I've got shopping to do, I've got this to do. Right, people are so consumed with their own lives and go so consumed with other things in their lives that that oh, you know, this will take care of itself. Somebody will vote him out or they'll be a pushback, and then you wake up on the morning after the election, they're like, oh my god, they fucking won, you know, and then they're just going like, well, now what you know? So I really believe that the political parties number one aren't doing their job. Some of them do it better than others. Okay, the Democrats are out there, they got a machine, they know how to freaking run an election. And Democrats when they get into like California here, or excuse me, the Republicans when they talk about winning elections here in California, just do not put out the effort to go ahead and run a decent candidate, nor do they know how to get their people involved enough to want to go out and vote. So a lot of times, you know, a lot of seats around here in California get get

1:40:21 uncontested because Republicans just says I'm not going to win, so why run? You know. So you know, like I said that, that's where I get my premise that you get what you vote for because there's not enough base or there's not enough enthusiasm of that candidate or that or that party to move themselves forward. It's almost like you get what you don't vote for. Yeah, right. You know. The thing with we're talking about the youth in the future is like the fact that someone like AOC who's I mean, I hate to say it because sometimes she actually has a sliver of genius, but a box of rocks can literally become the representative in her district. About my baby like. That, and then the other the other one that's baffling me, my brother and I on our other show all the time.

1:41:07 Hank Johnson, Oh my god, have you seen this guy? No? Have I just encourage you to. Look into representative Hank Johnson contract. There is absolutely no reason this guy keeps getting re elected. I'm just gonna leave that there. Just just looking at I guarantee you it's gonna be amazing content for your shows. You're gonna love it. I'm gonna say that he takes the cake. That's all I'm gonna say. And that's saying a lot. Right, Well, you got to ask yourself, you know, Lori Lightfoot was probably the worst worst mayor of Chicago in history, and they turned around. Now they got Brandon Johnson. What do you do that? How do you top Yeah? How do you top that? See you see clip after clip after clip of him in a city council meeting with his people. Oh, going like, you're despectable, this is what you're doing, blah blah blah blah blah blah. And then when they come to want to, you know, elect the mayor, they elect somebody.

1:42:04 Even then, what they got rid of is I don't. Even know what the thought processes behind the voters when they like looked. At that situation. I mean serious, I don't get it. I don't get it. That's at all. We're not going to all right, sir? Do you want to wrap this up? I think have some time. You know, we're recording on a Sunday, so I got football to watch. You know that the world, you know, goes. My fantasy football is my fantasy football team is totally tanked. What was your what was your team? By the way, my team is the the Left Coast the Left Coast Burners, then Left Coast Burners. I'm in John Jamigo's uh Boomer Bunker's uh fantasy league, but my team is Miners. I'm the Niner fan you're in. Yeah, I've been a Niner fan forever. So, uh, you know, we'll see what happens today.

1:42:56 I I thoroughly think after Atlanta's showing the last game that they have, uh, they're going to kick freaking Uh. San Francisco's asked today. The problem with Frisco, Man, I know we're not a sports show, but let'st I'm a Niner fan. The problem with the forty nine ers is how do we start the year with all of our starters getting hurt? Yeah, it's been. I don't get it, it's been. It's been that. It's been that turnstile for three or four years now, Yeah, it has. And you know it's just so are we gonna we're gonna start questioning the conditioning coaches? Yet? I think so the dietitians. I mean, something's not working. You've got you've got three hundred pound guys that are running around doing, you know, doing what world class printers used to do decade. You're right, So, I mean, you know you've got that aspect, you know, inertia and connect energy actually work, you.

1:43:43 Know, And you're correct, But come on, how many other teams have this big of a percentage of their starters hurt and on the. Bench You'd be surprised. Man, there's a lot of people out there. There's a lot of starters that are hurt, and uh, it's just unfortunate that San Francisco just bears the front of all of that. Like I said, probably conditioning coach. Yeah, and even with the schedule that we had, we had the we had the weakest schedule out of everybody, and I just you know, I hope that Kittle coming back today is going to make a difference. I hope. I hope so too. Yeah, that does make a difference, Yes, because I had I had the other tight end on my on my team and they just seemed to forget about them the last couple of weeks. And not that it made any difference with my fantasy league, but it did. Well.

1:44:30 We can only we can only hope. Hey, at least we have that, so you know, we're going to take a break from politics and watch football. Then we can argue NFL's not the politics anyway. But and I gotta go from my traditional three hundred dollars a week at Costco also today. Yeah, I hear that. Man. All right, Bruce, thank you so much. Man. Do you want you want to you have any parting words, anything you want to say. Just go on and and uh and and join us on the weather View every morning from six am to seven am on x spaces. All you got to do is go down there and and follow any one of us that you know there. And that's what we do. That's my morning show. It's a little bit politically, a little bit cultural, a little bit slapstick, and a lot of bit of rudeness, but yeah, it's a good time.

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1:46:10 I have nothing more to say. Fantastic, Hey, thanks for having me on. Man, I've been looking forward to this for a long time. We'll do the other side. We'll have you on my show, Yeah we will. And look it's Sunday, so here's the barbecue and beers and they we're gonna drink my heavily whiskey racial coffee. And absolutely Thank you. Take care all right, buddy. Thanks The Devil's behind redemption. Honesty is a one way gate to help