1:00

1, 2, 3, 4...

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Ei, todo mundo, é uma nova semana, é um novo eu. É

1:10

pelo menos um novo almoço. Vamos,

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nós temos

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um novo almoço todos os 6 dias? Sim,

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eu acho que sim. Eu acho que

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sim. Eu acho que sim.

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Eu acho que sim. Eu acho que sim. Nós

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temos um novo almoço todos os 6 dias? 6 dias, 7

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dias? É pelo

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menos um novo almoço do último domingo.

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Mas nós vamos nos arrumar para

1:41

uma semana toda sem interrupção

1:43

de shows agora.

1:47

E sem festivais, por enquanto.

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Hoje

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a noite nós vamos nos divertir em companhia, e fazer muitas

1:55

coisas, pensar, e conversar.

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stories that popped up over the course of the weekend.

2:03

We have a little bit of stuff with a grab bag that

2:05

I want to do this little... I

2:08

want to ask you guys about incompetence

2:10

in the workplace because

2:13

of the Black Rocks Larry Fink.

2:17

He

2:17

had a lot of things to say

2:20

about how to force people's behavior, how to modify...

2:23

It's everything's behavior modification. We talk

2:25

about it a lot.

2:27

Well there's no more reading between the lines.

2:29

They're all just talking about it. He's

2:31

talking about how Black Rock

2:34

and ESG and you can use these economic...

2:38

You can twist these economic screws,

2:40

put the screws to people, to corporations,

2:43

to everybody to make sure that corporate

2:45

culture drips down to the culture of the people

2:48

who work there. Then

2:50

of course, you're modifying behaviors of everyday

2:52

people that go out into the world and

2:55

they now have assimilated to

2:57

whatever

2:57

their new parents

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at corporate headquarters, which is really Black

3:03

Rock, which is really all the central banks of the

3:05

world and the think tanks and the NGOs

3:07

and the WEF crew. That's

3:10

their new parents. That's everybody's new parents who are

3:12

being retaught how to speak, how

3:14

to hire.

3:17

Depending on how you were born, you have

3:19

to be able to check your privilege, your

3:22

imaginary privilege or you have to look

3:24

at yourself as something bigger than you really

3:26

not. That's

3:30

the craziness here. He talks

3:32

about how you have to force behaviors

3:35

in companies regarding

3:38

diversity and inclusion. I wanted

3:40

to ask you, because I'm going to pair that up with another article

3:42

I saw about what happens when the competent

3:45

opt out of the workplace, when they see

3:47

that things, the culture

3:50

is really shifting

3:53

toward these

3:55

trends and all these

3:57

edicts. these

4:04

new behaviors, the modified behaviors

4:06

that are coming down from front

4:09

offices of the biggest corporations in the world,

4:11

what happens when competent people just leave?

4:14

And they just say, I'm out. I mean, yeah,

4:17

it's going to suck not making this kind of money, but I

4:19

got to go do my own thing or I'll

4:21

take less just to have peace of mind. So

4:24

I want to link those two together and ask

4:26

you guys and gals about times where

4:28

you have seen, and if you're seeing it right

4:30

now, incompetence in the workplace.

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And that is just because of a culture that is being

4:36

nurtured, a culture

4:38

of incompetence that's being nurtured because

4:41

we're checking boxes instead of getting the right people

4:43

for the job. There's

4:45

that. There's also a little UFO news that

4:49

I'm going to save bigger questions that

4:51

have popped up for

4:53

me in this

4:55

for nights that we have either Timothy Alvarino

4:57

on, because he'll be coming back next week or a few

4:59

other people. We're going on a booking spree

5:02

right now, so I'm sure

5:04

that we're going to have some

5:06

other people to talk, UFOs,

5:09

occult, symbolism with all that stuff

5:12

and mix it

5:14

up a bit. Jason Burmese will be coming back at the

5:16

end of the month too, so we haven't talked to him in a couple

5:18

months. That'll be fun.

5:20

What else do we have tonight? I

5:23

have a couple other questions I'm going to throw out to you guys

5:25

and maybe you'll respond to some

5:28

because ultimately I want to hear from you and we have another

5:30

badass,

5:31

the badass pick for June 5th. That will

5:33

be tonight. I

5:36

really hope you're not missing any of it.

5:41

All right, do I have any other new bookings to tell you

5:43

about? BCP is coming on tomorrow

5:45

night. Surprise. BCP

5:48

is coming on tomorrow night. It's a short show because

5:50

I got band practice around 10 after 8,

5:53

so I'll go live around 645 so that

5:55

we don't lose too much time, but

5:57

BCP will be on for the majority of it.

5:59

fun to catch up with him. Audit

6:02

NY, Audit

6:05

NY is going to be in studio

6:07

on Wednesday,

6:10

the 7th.

6:11

So we'll be talking about the national security

6:14

state, the

6:17

national security threat that is the state

6:20

of New York, and

6:22

that'll be really interesting. I'll be asking

6:25

a lot of questions and and we'll

6:27

see how long they're gonna be in studio with us. It may not

6:29

be the whole show but it'll be a good

6:31

time. Scary

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of course.

6:35

Then on June 8th, Leo Zagami is in

6:37

with us. That's on Thursday night.

6:40

That'll be a little bit of a shorter show as well. At 8

6:42

30 we have book club session 2

6:45

for Shoeless Joe. That's gonna... I

6:47

can't wait. I can't wait. We're talking

6:49

Moonlight Graham. Moonlight

6:52

Graham. Chapter 3.

6:55

They're long chapters.

6:57

So chapter 3 is 50 pages

7:00

and that is gonna be on Thursday.

7:03

Now next week,

7:06

I don't know just yet. We will see his availability

7:08

but I'm looking for a day for Mickey

7:10

Willis to come back on. If you were

7:12

on quite frankly.tv last night for

7:15

your Sunday nightcap, your

7:18

Sunday Fix, Frank's Picks,

7:22

we had at the 10 o'clock feature,

7:24

it was the pandemic 3, The Great Awakening,

7:27

which we'll talk about a little bit tonight and I'll take some calls

7:29

and your opinions of it. But all of my main

7:32

thoughts and questions are in a

7:34

separate file already so that when Mickey Willis

7:36

comes on we can talk to him about it. If

7:38

you've watched any of his

7:40

two appearances on the show, a lot

7:43

of that stuff is very familiar

7:45

to you. Especially his personal

7:47

journey,

7:48

which I knew when we brought him on

7:51

the first time I couldn't wait to ask him. I think

7:53

I was the first one to really ask him about

7:55

that stuff years ago after pandemic 1

7:57

came out because he would... he's bust

7:59

up. onto the scene for most

8:02

people with pandemic one, but

8:04

I saw his face, said, what? Because

8:06

I had known him prior too. And I'd seen

8:08

him, we worked with him at YouTube

8:10

Studios and I knew his

8:13

personal views, his personal politics

8:16

and his social media presence in the years

8:18

leading up to 2020.

8:23

And I knew he was very progressive,

8:25

very left. I didn't know that he was campaigning

8:28

with Bernie Sanders, but

8:32

I knew that when he came on that first time with us, and you

8:34

can still go see it, I think that it is pinned

8:37

to the top of our SoundCloud, one

8:39

of our highlights.

8:41

I knew that that was gonna be a wonderful transformation

8:44

story,

8:45

and it was. I have more things to

8:47

ask him about that because

8:49

the pandemic three

8:52

one was really about the

8:55

psychological programming through

8:57

the guise of pandemic response

8:59

and all this other stuff and where we are now,

9:01

and I think it was great. I

9:04

think it was really good, really, really good.

9:07

Timothy Alberino next week,

9:10

John Doyle next week, George

9:13

Nori on the 29th, and more, more,

9:16

more, more. All

9:19

right, so

9:22

we'll

9:22

take calls on that. You let me know what you thought about the

9:24

pandemic.

9:26

It was on last night.

9:27

Tracy sent me some of the pictures

9:30

because she works directly with Dell Big

9:33

Tree now and was

9:35

VIP all weekend.

9:37

Looked like a lovely time, but the movie was great,

9:40

and that's what we have over there. In

9:42

New York, though, in

9:45

New York, I guess it's a lovely time wherever

9:47

you can make it. Wherever you can make yourself

9:49

a lovely time, you will have one, but

9:51

the 30,000 foot view is a little bit weird.

9:56

Mayor Adams floats the idea of New Yorkers

9:58

housing migrants.

9:59

in private residences. See,

10:03

a little of this. It

10:05

is my vision to

10:07

take the next step to this, go to

10:09

the faith-based locales,

10:12

and then move to a private

10:14

residence. Yeah, faith-based, that means all

10:16

of the churches with

10:19

the lesbian deacons.

10:20

There are residents who are suffering

10:23

right now because of economic

10:25

challenges. They have spare

10:27

rooms. They have locales,

10:30

and if we can find a way to get over

10:32

the 30-day rule and other rules that government

10:34

has in its place, we can

10:36

take that $4.2 billion, $4.3 billion, it

10:39

may be now, that we potentially have to spend,

10:42

and we can put it back in the pockets of everyday New

10:44

Yorkers. Look, I knew it.

10:47

What they should do, what he should do, he

10:49

should start by making every member of that men's

10:51

choir behind him taking the two families

10:54

each.

10:56

That's what he should do. He

10:58

and his entourage should be the first people

11:01

to have to take in two families each,

11:04

one in the attic, one in the basement, and

11:07

there you go, there's a scam in here,

11:09

a $4.3 billion scam in here somewhere. It's

11:13

gonna be a lot of skimming. There's

11:15

gonna be a lot, a lot. People

11:19

are gonna give their Airbnbs, make

11:22

extra money. They're gonna be able

11:24

to just name their price. They'll

11:27

write a government check. It's gonna

11:29

be, it's a disaster. It is a disaster.

11:32

So that's what they're trying to do now. Any

11:35

spare rooms at Gracie Mansion, asks

11:38

the New York Post. Mayor Eric Adams,

11:40

that's not right. Mayor

11:44

Eric Adams wants now

11:46

to start paying everyday New Yorkers to shelter

11:48

migrants in their own homes as a big apple

11:50

struggles to find beds for the thousands

11:52

of asylum seekers still flooding into the city. He

11:55

had $4.3 billion, he said, made available

11:58

to him. Put them on planes and send them back.

11:59

back. No,

12:02

no, we couldn't do that. We have to create

12:04

bigger problems. We need secondary

12:06

and tertiary problems.

12:09

That's what we need. We're

12:11

not going to do the most easy. We're

12:13

going to do the easiest thing to do. We're going to complain

12:15

about how our city's being destroyed.

12:18

We'll send them back. No, no, no, no, no. We

12:20

need to have people take them into their homes,

12:23

which since this is a foreign army

12:26

being turned into the domestic

12:29

army of the

12:31

rogue government that has taken over the former

12:34

republic. This is like a violation of the

12:36

Third Amendment, if you ask me.

12:40

Let's see.

12:43

Very seldom you ever hear anybody talk about the Third

12:45

Amendment these days. When

12:48

you think about how the migrants have been

12:50

weaponized

12:51

as a standing army in their own

12:53

right, you say, oh, there's a lot of women and children.

12:55

Yeah, there's a couple sprinkled in there, but

12:57

it's a different kind of army and I'm sure their

13:00

use is going to evolve over time. It really

13:03

is.

13:04

We're getting into Third Amendment territory here.

13:07

Seldom brought up. In his latest

13:10

attempt to battle the ongoing migrant crisis,

13:12

Adams,

13:13

who does everything except the most common sensical

13:16

thing to do, voted a half-baked

13:18

private residence plan, which

13:21

could possibly see local homeowners getting

13:23

compensation to put up asylum seekers.

13:25

Who will never leave?

13:28

It will be impossible to get them

13:30

out of there. You know how impossible it is

13:32

to get a renter out after they've

13:34

been there for a couple of months? Squatters

13:39

have more rights in New York state than babies.

13:46

His honor put forward the

13:51

proposal as he revealed

13:55

religious leaders had agreed to start housing adult

13:58

male migrants overnight at 50.

13:59

places of worship scattered across

14:02

the five boroughs next month.

14:05

There are residents who are suffering right now because

14:07

of the economic challenges.

14:11

They have spare rooms, they have locales. I'm

14:15

going to use the word locale today. The

14:17

mayor said arguing his private residence

14:20

proposal could put money back into the

14:22

pockets of taxpayers. Where

14:25

did that money come from in the first place?

14:28

This is such bullshit.

14:30

You know what it's like, even when

14:32

you talk about it, we could put money

14:36

back into the pockets of taxpayers this way.

14:39

I feel like we're out of Dave and Busters

14:42

and we're just dealing with the tickets that are

14:44

coming out. The money comes

14:46

from nowhere, it's backed by nothing, it's

14:48

created out of thin air. The only real

14:51

thing that is tangible here is our labor

14:53

and whatever jobs that we're doing.

14:55

Now we can be paid in other things that are tangible

14:58

like eggs, produce, whatever. Instead,

15:01

we all have to share this currency. Just

15:05

to see how it's thrown around, it's

15:07

made available, it's

15:09

used as a carrot on a stick. We're going to give

15:11

you something back. We're going to put it back in your

15:13

pocket. Bullshit. It's just nonsense.

15:16

We're going to give you some Dave and Buster tickets.

15:19

Here you go. Here's 50 Dave and Buster tickets.

15:21

You can cash it in for that plush bear over there.

15:25

That's it. You want the little green

15:27

alien? It's such a game. It's such a joke. What

15:30

a joke. I

15:33

can't wait until my

15:37

sound board over here

15:40

is finished so I can start queuing up my media again

15:42

but we had some issues.

15:44

A lot of issues going on technologically

15:46

but they'll be cleared up soon. My new video card

15:49

should be in today and then

15:51

I have to

15:53

cross my fingers, not screw anything up

15:55

when I attempt to install it myself.

15:59

So we'll see if If we have shows next week,

16:01

you'll know that everything went well. If not,

16:04

it's because I bit

16:06

off a little bit too much that I can chew over

16:08

the course of this upcoming weekend.

16:10

Oh, but there is some good news

16:12

for New York. Maybe they'll actually be a little

16:14

bit stabilized now because the mob

16:16

is coming back.

16:18

The mob is making a comeback in

16:20

construction as demand for new

16:22

housing grows in NYC. It's

16:24

going to be a green mob though.

16:28

It's going to be a green version of

16:30

La Cosa Nostra where they're

16:33

completely opposed to gas stoves

16:36

and all that stuff.

16:38

Amid the drumbeat

16:40

of demand for creation of more

16:42

housing in New York City, the mob is staging

16:44

a potentially hazardous and costly

16:46

comeback in the city's construction business where

16:49

it has long been a sinister factor.

16:51

The evidence of its renewed

16:54

involvement has quietly unspooled in a series

16:56

of recent corruption prosecutions across the city

16:59

involving insignificant, or significant

17:01

I should say, affordable housing and high

17:03

rise hotel projects. Another

17:06

case ended

17:07

with the conviction of the head of the powerful state

17:09

building,

17:10

trades council, who

17:13

admitted taking $100,000 in bribes

17:16

and was caught on tape consorting with mobsters.

17:19

I wonder if they're really mobsters

17:22

or if it's just people bribing each other.

17:25

I feel like you can't get anything done without a good bribe

17:27

these days. All the cases

17:29

present stark evidence of a shift by

17:31

organized crime from corrupting union construction

17:34

locals to aligning with non-human

17:39

contractors, including many

17:41

that employ untrained workers and have lengthy

17:43

records of on-the-job accidents, including

17:45

fatalities.

17:47

They also spotlight the sophisticated manipulation

17:49

of government programs aimed at promoting the

17:51

use of women and minority-owned businesses,

17:54

as well as widespread cheating on

17:56

workers' compensation payments in schemes

17:58

that have left injured.

17:59

employees without insurance protection.

18:03

You know, I would

18:06

love to hear about the mobsters. I

18:09

would love to hear about the... say Alvin Bragg

18:11

is looking into it and all that stuff.

18:14

I would love to hear more about the mobsters

18:17

because there's none that

18:19

are really mentioned in here. A

18:22

few. A few.

18:26

But what we're talking about with unions

18:29

and we're talking about with regulations, governments.

18:32

Unions are pretty much governments.

18:35

Collected bargaining and all that stuff but they there's

18:37

so much more than that.

18:40

The whole thing is organized

18:42

crime. The whole thing

18:44

is organized crime. It's undue influence.

18:47

The whole thing is tortious interference.

18:51

So I guess we'll see

18:53

what kind of figures,

18:55

greasy figures they can produce if this

18:57

actually goes anywhere. I saw this just get

18:59

posted again today. I'll

19:01

save this to the side so we can we can see where

19:03

it goes from here but we'll see what

19:05

figures they can produce. What new

19:09

people have to be taken down. Though I don't understand

19:12

how it could even happen anymore.

19:14

I don't know. With

19:17

government being as big as it is, who the hell

19:19

can really compete? And

19:22

here's another one I want to bring up to you. This

19:24

is that

19:27

she's like a claymation character from those old

19:29

Christmas films in the 60s. Nikki

19:32

Haley. What an embarrassing, embarrassing,

19:36

embarrassing person here. Completely

19:38

passed her prime by the way. And

19:42

she is talking about

19:44

how she just how far she wants

19:46

to bring the Ukraine war effort and

19:49

just listen to how passionate

19:50

this dumb sock puppet

19:52

is. Let's listen to Dummy Dummy

19:55

Haley. And

20:00

it's one we have to win. It's a war about

20:02

freedom. Look at that profile Her

20:05

chin goes down and then curls up. I'm

20:08

telling you she's like snow miser This

20:11

is she was created in a I Don't

20:14

know whoever creates the claymation Figures

20:17

from all of the you know a year without a

20:19

Santa Claus Santa Claus

20:22

is coming to town This

20:25

is about freedom don't you know You

20:28

look at those Ukrainians and what they do in Russia

20:30

invaded their freedoms They

20:33

moved in there. Our freedoms are being

20:35

invaded That's what they

20:37

all screamed in Latin last last

20:39

February Our freedoms are

20:41

being invaded went to the front lines

20:43

and fought for their country The women said

20:46

we're not gonna stay back. They made Molotov cocktails

20:48

to defend their country. Everybody gave them

20:51

five days to survive But

20:53

yet their passion and their will push

20:55

them forward

20:56

well, they're mostly dead Nikki Nikki,

20:59

they're mostly dead and millions more

21:01

have fled into Western Europe They're

21:04

dead Nikki because of people like you

21:06

they're dead Hundreds

21:09

of thousands have been slaughtered

21:12

Dead they're dead Nikki You

21:16

lying. I You

21:18

liar we have to understand

21:20

is a Win for

21:23

Ukraine is a win for all of us

21:25

no because tyrants Tell us now if you're

21:27

saying all of us you mean all of your friends

21:30

in both parties who have made this a You

21:33

know in the country club that is Washington

21:35

DC all of your friends there the stakeholders

21:38

Yes, it is a win this might as well be

21:40

a stakeholder meeting,

21:41

but it has the trappings of a town hall

21:44

Exactly what they're gonna do what

21:46

we heard China said they were gonna take Hong

21:49

Kong They did it Russia said they were gonna

21:51

invade Ukraine. We watched that happen yeah,

21:53

cuz you know Hong Kong and Ukraine

21:55

are all part of Rhode Island and I

21:58

mean, what are we gonna do? China

22:01

and Russia just keep taking the

22:03

United States. They keep taking portions

22:06

of states from us. What are we going to do?

22:08

China says Taiwan's next. We

22:10

better believe them. Russia said Poland

22:12

and the Baltics are next. If that happens,

22:15

we're looking at a world war. When the fuck

22:17

did

22:17

they say that? Poland

22:20

and the Baltics are next? They

22:22

said that. We're coming for them next. I mean, just

22:25

come on now. Come on

22:27

now. I mean, they've been very forthright about

22:30

nobody else getting involved or else there's going to be

22:32

severe consequences, which of course

22:34

is the story of Ukraine as it is right now.

22:38

A long, long history of telling

22:40

everybody, please just stay away from our borders. Don't

22:42

get involved. And

22:44

here we are now

22:46

with Santa Claus is coming to town now.

22:48

This is about preventing

22:50

war. And so the way you prevent more

22:52

is not that we give cash to Ukraine,

22:55

not that we put troops on the ground, but

22:57

that we get with our allies and we

22:59

make sure that we give them the equipment and

23:02

the ammunition to win because when Ukraine

23:04

wins.

23:04

But I, but if that's

23:07

the same, that's the same thing. This

23:11

is about preventing war by pumping

23:13

more money and explosives

23:16

into a war that has been lost

23:20

months and months ago with

23:22

nothing to stop it. This

23:25

is about preventing war. That's what we need

23:27

to do. We're not going to go in there. We're

23:29

going to get together with our friends and

23:32

from a remote location, send

23:35

in bombs. Send

23:37

in bombs with somebody else who

23:41

has less and less men to actually

23:43

even send to the front line. So

23:46

there you go. Of course,

23:49

nobody delivers these

23:51

ridiculous hackneyed messages

23:54

more enthusiastically than people like Nikki

23:56

Haley.

23:57

What a pathetic bill. I'm

24:02

trying. Don't want to say

24:04

the words, but they're

24:06

fighting, fighting to come out of my mouth. Here's

24:09

one for you, Nikki. Headline,

24:12

I know it's 720, but the hell with it. Russia

24:15

says it put down major Ukrainian

24:17

offensive hours after it began. Oh, it's Putin

24:19

propaganda, Frank. Of course Russia would say that.

24:22

Well, it kind of goes hand in hand with

24:24

the things that have been happening the last year.

24:26

You know, mostly Zelensky

24:29

running around the world asking several

24:31

times for us to rebuild an army that's

24:33

been completely decimated.

24:35

So after a trend, a

24:38

verifiable trend forms, it

24:40

just becomes a little bit easier to believe. Did

24:43

Ukraine forces just attempt to kick off their

24:45

much anticipated major counter offensive only

24:47

to have it put down immediately afterward? That's

24:50

what Russian defense ministry suggests early

24:52

Monday in announcing that Ukraine began a

24:54

large scale offensive and mounting attacks

24:57

along five sections of the front

24:59

lines in the Eastern Donbass region. But

25:01

Russia said it thwarted the major attack

25:04

and that some 250 Ukrainian

25:06

troops were killed, which include Ukraine

25:08

sending six mechanized and two

25:10

tank battalions to Russian controlled Southern

25:12

Donetsk. On

25:15

the morning of June 4th, the enemy launched

25:17

a large scale offensive in the five sectors of

25:19

the front in the South Donetsk

25:21

direction. The MOD statement said

25:24

the enemy has failed to reach its goals

25:26

and was unsuccessful.

25:28

It added that in total,

25:30

the attacking forces lost six tanks,

25:33

three infantry vehicles, 21 armored

25:35

vehicles in what would mark a significant

25:37

defeat if confirmed. Quote, the

25:40

enemy's goal was to breach our defenses and what they

25:42

assume was the most vulnerable section of the front

25:44

line. Russian military statement continued.

25:47

Quote, during the day, the occupiers made 23

25:50

attacks, but all of them were repulsed by units

25:52

of the defense forces. Man, we have

25:54

made Russia

25:56

and their army so strong.

26:00

is that you want to talk about an

26:04

army that perhaps maybe

26:06

had some kinks to work out going

26:08

back to February 2022. Perhaps

26:12

it had a few kinks to work out back

26:14

then. Maybe.

26:17

But

26:18

combining their

26:20

battlefield performance with

26:23

their military intelligence and everything else

26:25

after this past year, their knives are

26:27

sharp.

26:29

Their knives are sharp and we have

26:31

only been pretending to fight wars

26:33

the last 25 years.

26:36

Man, I mean this is

26:38

a real opponent here. This

26:41

is a real opponent. During

26:44

the day the Aka the Ministry further specified

26:46

the Russian Chief of General Staff, Valery

26:49

Gerizimov, was one of the forward

26:51

command posts at the time of the thwarted

26:53

attacks.

26:55

While Ukrainian President Zelensky just

26:57

days ago said that his forces stand by ready to

26:59

launch a counter offensive, he made no mention

27:02

of the alleged assault on Sunday night when

27:04

he gave his nightly video address.

27:07

I guess that's not a good thing to

27:09

report on but

27:12

there you have it. I don't know. We'll see

27:14

what is confirmed after that but

27:17

you know what's another couple

27:19

hundred people dead. They're just people. You

27:22

know? They're just people. Get

27:24

Nikki Haley out there. I

27:27

think anybody who talks like Nikki Haley

27:31

should be sent to the front line right now. Send

27:34

Nikki and every last person

27:37

who talks the way she does about this slaughter,

27:41

send them out there to the front line. I would

27:43

love to see her with a flak

27:46

jacket on and a helmet running around

27:48

with a gun she can't even hold up. That

27:51

would be wonderful. It really would be to

27:53

see these people actually have to eat their words and

27:56

not just be thousands of miles away sending

27:58

other people to be killed.

28:00

That would that would be a nice refreshing that'd

28:02

be a refreshing take on things. All right 724

28:06

We did a little bit extra in the opening, but I

28:08

guess it had to be said. We'll be right back

28:12

Hey, you're just

28:14

mad because I'll be able to do something with my fucking

28:16

guitar and hands that you'll never be able to Achieve

28:18

in your entire life kid. So yeah,

28:20

you're gay You

28:40

Let one and stand up

28:42

to us then they all might

28:44

stand up Those puny

28:47

little ants outnumber us

28:49

a hundred to one and if they

28:51

ever figure that out There goes

28:54

our way of life It's not

28:56

about food. It's about keeping

28:58

those ants in line That's

29:01

why we're going back Does

29:04

anybody else want to stay?

29:30

It's just a stand up It's

29:32

just a stand up Oh, oh, oh,

29:35

oh Oh, oh, oh, oh

29:38

Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh,

29:40

oh, oh Oh, oh, oh,

29:43

oh Oh, oh, oh

29:46

When Johnny comes marching home again Hurrah,

29:49

hurrah We'll give him a heart

29:51

he will Oh, oh,

29:53

oh Hey

29:55

So who the hell

29:57

do you think you are? That This

30:00

should be a really great, I think that would

30:02

be a surprisingly good call and topic one

30:04

night. Who the hell do you think you are?

30:08

And what gives you the right? That's

30:12

Toby Flinderson's exit interview

30:15

in the office. But

30:18

still, one night we'll do that. Who the hell do you think you

30:20

are? Welcome

30:24

to the show, and I'm

30:26

glad that you're all here with me. Have

30:28

you been having any weird dreams?

30:29

You

30:32

can call in tonight about what you thought if you were watching

30:35

with us all on QuiteFrankly.tv for

30:37

the Sunday nightcap last night with the plandemic 3

30:41

Great Awakening movie. What you thought

30:43

about that. We'll have Mickey Willis on the show

30:46

at some point in the next couple of weeks and you

30:50

can save it for then too. So I'm just going to throw out a

30:52

whole bunch of things you could call in on. But also

30:54

strange dreams. Last night I had a

30:56

pretty claustrophobic dream.

30:59

Claustrophobic. Everybody

31:01

in this dream was living underground and it was

31:03

not, I would say underground,

31:05

I'm talking about uncomfortable

31:07

networks of caves where

31:10

they have been bored out of the ground

31:12

and they were just like these tight little passages.

31:17

And some of them were, like

31:19

I was talking to people on the other end of tunnels

31:21

and shit. They're

31:23

like, hey, come on over. Come on. They're

31:26

saying, come on over. But I'm crawling

31:28

through

31:29

the tunnel and I realized that some

31:31

of these tunnels were halfway

31:32

walled up with stones and stuff.

31:35

So as tight as the passages already were,

31:37

you sometimes had to go over the top and

31:39

I said absolutely in awe. No, no, no, no. I

31:42

woke up twice

31:43

from this dream where for some reason

31:46

we're in and I had another dream of this

31:48

young boy who had like hypothermia.

31:51

We're trying to get him inside. He

31:54

was left outside or something. We had to bring him inside

31:56

and get him warm or something and somebody

31:58

said he's not going to make it.

31:59

what the hell's going on? But

32:02

the tunnels,

32:04

those were really weird. That

32:06

was very odd. And I'll tell you, my

32:10

claustrophobia, whatever I do have of it, I

32:12

think everybody to some degree is claustrophobic.

32:14

You ever end up at the bottom of a dog pile? That

32:18

is not a comfortable place to be. Even

32:20

if you,

32:21

you know,

32:22

some people can't get into a tanning booth.

32:24

I've never been in a tanning booth. But

32:27

I know it's like bad like

32:29

that.

32:30

At this point, I've been inside of a

32:32

MRI machine. I had to get my elbow

32:34

MRI'd in 2006. So

32:37

I was on my stomach with my elbow over

32:40

my head for 45 minutes in this

32:42

little coffin. And I got through

32:44

it.

32:45

I don't think I'd be able to get through it now though.

32:48

So it's something weird that's going on there. In

32:50

this dream, however, I

32:53

woke up, the second time

32:56

I woke up, the first thing I thought was, oh

32:58

man, I thought of the Shawshank Redemption.

33:01

How at the end, he

33:03

makes his way out of the prison. He's

33:08

crawling through the walls. And the last stretch

33:10

to freedom

33:12

is crawling through that long,

33:14

I don't know how many, how many hundreds of yards

33:16

of that very, very tight pipe.

33:19

The shit pipe,

33:21

okay? He's crawling through a shit pipe.

33:24

And I'm thinking to myself, freedom

33:26

is on the other end of that pipe. Can I get through it? And

33:29

I don't know if I could. That

33:31

would be, I don't know if I could.

33:34

I would tie myself up to

33:36

a rope. If somebody was on the other side of the rope, I would just go

33:38

like this, put my hands out in front of me. You can pull me all the

33:40

way through. But that tight

33:44

wiggling through, oh man, I

33:46

woke up feeling like,

33:48

you know what? I

33:50

gotta relax before I go back to sleep. Cause

33:52

I wanna go right back into that dream. And

33:55

this sucks. So I don't know what it all means.

33:58

But have you had anything like that?

33:59

happen to you lately. So you can call in

34:02

about that whenever the hell the lines do open

34:04

up. But you can also talk about this.

34:07

It's about workplace incompetence. And

34:09

the first thing I want to do is play for you CEO

34:12

of BlackRock, Larry Fink,

34:17

who's out there talking about diversity

34:19

and inclusion and how

34:21

this needs to be forced, behavior

34:24

needs to be forced

34:27

through the corporate chain.

34:30

Listen to this. It's just you

34:33

have to force behaviors. And

34:36

if you don't force behaviors, whether it's gender

34:39

or race or just

34:41

any way you want to say the composition of your team,

34:43

you're

34:45

going to be impacted. And that's just not recruiting.

34:48

It is development, as Ken said. How

34:50

do you force change, though? I mean, Larry

34:53

BlackRock has really been the forefront of the

34:55

ESG movement within corporate governance

34:57

and a real leader. And yet change

35:00

is so slow. So what is, and

35:02

Ken as well, how do you force

35:04

change when it is so incremental

35:07

and so gradual? How

35:09

do you do something more radical? Or especially

35:11

when it's so antithetical to

35:13

human nature.

35:15

That's the other thing. You know, change is incremental.

35:17

Change is radical. This is not about

35:20

creating new ways of doing business,

35:23

new ways to incentivize better

35:26

communication and better interaction

35:28

between a company and whatever it provides

35:30

to a consumer base and the consumers themselves.

35:34

New ways to market them, new ways to,

35:36

you know, how do we get to trigger those impulse

35:38

buys? Whatever the hell it is.

35:40

This is not about incremental

35:43

changes in reaching new

35:45

consumers. This is about

35:47

changing the nature of mankind,

35:50

which

35:53

is why none of it works out very

35:55

well, which is why when

35:57

you try to force these changes in those little Seattle

36:00

coffee shops that don't want to open up at a,

36:02

they're going to let it, uh, they're going to leave

36:04

all the decision making up to their commie

36:06

employees when they open up and what they

36:08

pay each other. And what do you know? They're all, the,

36:11

they're closed in a year.

36:14

This is about going against

36:16

human nature. That's what all of these

36:18

people that are involved

36:20

in these social engineering initiatives

36:24

never really

36:25

get the handle of, but they don't care about that because

36:28

at the end they really are talking about the

36:30

death of societies, the replacement of societies

36:32

altogether. They don't care about preserving

36:35

anything. In fact, the, the sooner they can

36:37

burn it out the better.

36:38

So this guy is asking a half

36:41

intelligent question leading, leaving

36:43

out the, the real, the real important

36:45

part of this, which is the human animal

36:47

itself. How do you do something more radical?

36:50

Have you thought about that? Has the board of American express

36:52

thought about more radical things we could do to

36:54

enhance diversity and inclusion? It's

36:56

because it has to be viewed in the culture of

36:58

a firm. It has to be talked about.

37:01

It has to be shown behaviors across

37:04

the entire firm in every region have

37:06

to be similar.

37:08

And every citizen of

37:10

the firm has to understand what

37:12

is acceptable behaviors and what are unacceptable.

37:15

The every citizen of the firm.

37:19

I, but again, what, listen

37:21

to the, the, the end of that question. Have

37:24

you thought about that? Has the board of American express

37:26

thought about more radical things we could do to

37:28

enhance diversity and inclusion? What

37:30

is more? Okay. So, um, here's

37:32

my question to you.

37:34

How can this gigantic

37:37

corporations that make more money than most countries

37:39

do,

37:41

how can they enhance diversity

37:43

and inclusion? Well, um, stop,

37:47

stop, uh, put, uh, did you, did you put any hiring

37:50

freezes on black people and Brown people?

37:52

Um, did you put

37:54

any higher, do you have any kind of,

37:56

you know, company policies about not

37:58

hiring a person?

37:59

because they may or may not be gay

38:02

or what is it? Do you have any

38:04

company policies about not hiring people

38:06

with a limp?

38:09

Tell me something about

38:11

this. Where are your companies

38:14

outlining all of these

38:16

exclusionary things?

38:21

Because that's really

38:23

the barrier between diversity

38:26

and inclusion.

38:28

If your company is not barring

38:31

people

38:32

from joining the ranks or at

38:34

least competing to join the

38:36

ranks for no matter

38:39

what the hell they are, for any kind of superficial

38:41

reason, for any kind of lifestyle

38:43

reason that does not come

38:45

and impact your work or anything like that,

38:48

if you don't have these policies in place

38:50

that actually exclude people, then what the

38:52

fuck are we talking about?

38:55

Show up for the interview with your resume.

38:59

If you're the right person for the job, you're fucking hired.

39:01

What are we talking about? These

39:09

are some of the most influential people

39:13

on the planet. Now

39:15

they're not stupid. They're just talking in coded

39:18

language. That's the whole thing. My

39:21

question is why? If

39:24

they want to be able to ...

39:28

Everybody talks about population reduction.

39:32

Why does

39:34

it have to be done with an artificially

39:37

diverse black rock out there? I

39:40

don't get that. That

39:43

I don't get. Behavior modification,

39:45

why? Because they don't

39:47

care about real diversity, equity, inclusion,

39:49

whatever the hell that all means. All

39:51

of that equates to just control.

39:54

So it's this ... Again, it's the

39:56

invisible fence dog collar.

40:00

I guess anybody who works underneath them

40:03

and when you think about all the stuff

40:05

that BlackRock owns, it trickles

40:07

down to many hundreds of thousands if not millions

40:09

of people.

40:11

Tip-toeing, self-censoring themselves,

40:14

it's just sterilized human interactions

40:16

they're trying to create, I guess. And ultimate,

40:18

ultimately, obedience.

40:20

So I guess there's that. I

40:23

guess there's that. Maybe that's just the

40:25

water that they're carrying. Maybe

40:27

this is the slice of the pie that they're in control

40:29

of. But it's not just about quotas to bring

40:31

in racially and racial,

40:34

racially militant or gender militant

40:37

people.

40:38

You know the kind of people, I mean,

40:40

these are the people that, the hires that you can't

40:42

fire because it's always about discrimination

40:45

and who can accuse you of some

40:48

type of workplace abuse with little

40:50

to no evidence provided or anything like that. It's

40:52

about bringing people who will proactively advance

40:55

the party's ideology.

40:56

And it's

41:01

just so incredible.

41:02

It's just so incredible because you think that along

41:05

the way they would want to be able to maintain some

41:07

kind of quality because

41:10

you're not, you can find people

41:12

who are black, brown, white,

41:15

who are qualified to do something

41:17

and are also crazy. Do

41:20

you just need to go for crazy? That puts,

41:22

I mean, because the quality is going to suffer.

41:25

It always does. And that's where it

41:27

comes in for you guys and gals here tonight. Here's

41:30

the headline from Zero Hedge. What

41:32

happens when the competent opt out? This

41:36

is written by Charles Hugh Smith

41:40

of Two Minds blog.

41:42

What happens when the competent retire, burnout

41:44

or opt out? It's a question few bother

41:46

to ask because the base assumption is that there

41:48

is essentially a limitless pool of

41:50

competent people who can be tapped or

41:53

trained to replace those who retire, burnout

41:56

or opt out.

41:57

I.E. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn't

41:59

require a job.

41:59

much in the way of income or

42:02

stress. Like I said before, would you, I know

42:04

there's a lot of people out there,

42:06

as long as they can get by and

42:08

living within their means, they would take less just

42:10

for peace of mind. These

42:14

assumptions are no longer valid. A great

42:16

many essential services that are tightly bound

42:19

to other essential services are cracking

42:21

as the competent decide or realize

42:23

they're done with the rat race.

42:26

The drivers of the competent opting out

42:28

are obvious yet difficult to quantify.

42:30

Those retiring, burning out and opting

42:33

out will deny they're leaving for these

42:35

reasons because it's not politic

42:39

to be so honest

42:42

and direct.

42:44

They will offer time-honored dodges such

42:46

as to pursue other opportunities or family

42:48

obligations, but number one, the steady

42:51

increase in workloads, paperwork, compliance,

42:53

and make work

42:55

that led to burnout. There's only so

42:57

much we can accomplish and if we're

42:59

being burdened with ever-increasing demands

43:01

for paperwork, compliance, useless meetings,

43:04

training sessions, etc, then we no longer

43:06

have the time or the energy to perform our productive

43:09

work. I love that they brought this up here first

43:11

because over 10 years ago, I'll

43:14

tell you, I noticed this well over 10 years

43:16

ago. I was personal training, I was doing

43:18

a lot of private work,

43:21

but also I was working out,

43:24

I was training people at a local YMCA,

43:27

and within five to six

43:29

years of me being there, the

43:31

heart and the soul saved

43:33

for a couple of really good friends were

43:35

completely cored out of the place, especially in

43:37

the leadership, and we weren't hearing

43:40

about ESG or anything else back then,

43:42

but the diversity stuff had already trumped

43:44

all of the reasonable decision-making

43:47

about staff hireings, for example.

43:51

This is when they started elevating people who

43:53

had just checked boxes instead

43:55

of had a real good experience, they

43:58

were ignoring good ideas from people.

43:59

that were on staff for new programs,

44:02

fitness programs and shit like that, and instead

44:05

they would fixate on things like, what

44:07

should we rename the fitness center? And

44:11

then it would take them three to four weeks to come

44:13

up with wellness center. We're going

44:15

to call it a wellness center now. Fitness

44:17

is just too much pressure. This is the kind

44:19

of shit that was going on back then, and

44:22

I know it's worse now. I

44:24

know it's worse now with the gender neutral

44:26

saunas, okay? I

44:29

know it's worse now. The diversifying

44:31

of bathrooms. This one director

44:33

came up to me.

44:35

We're already in the dark times as far as fitness

44:37

directors go. All my really good friends who are worth

44:40

the damn, they were already out of the position at that time.

44:42

This one director came up to me

44:45

during a shift I had and asked my opinion

44:47

about what we should call the new,

44:49

it might have been like January

44:52

or something or December, we're getting ready for

44:54

the new year, and they asked my opinion

44:56

what we should call the new personal training starter

45:00

package to encourage people to

45:02

sign up for personal training or semi-private

45:04

lessons or anything like that. And I said, I

45:07

don't know, call it a personal training kickstarter

45:09

package. Just call it the kickstarter package,

45:11

whatever. It sounds dynamic, it sounds

45:14

fun, and

45:15

whatever. Just don't even think about it. I

45:17

didn't think that this was too much of a thing, so I threw it out there,

45:20

and she was a little, okay, okay,

45:23

sounds good. So then two or

45:26

three weeks go by,

45:28

and I'm approached on shift again. I guess she

45:31

probably forgot that she had already asked me this question, and

45:33

she asked me the same damn question again.

45:37

Same damn question again. I said, well, I

45:39

already told you, call it a kickstarter

45:41

package and stop thinking about it

45:43

too much. She said, oh, well, you know, it's

45:47

just a little bit too aggressive sounding, and

45:50

this is what they

45:52

concentrate on.

45:54

This is what we're talking about here, and

45:57

it's exactly what this is,

45:59

and it makes every everything around completely,

46:01

it's unbearable.

46:04

I mean, if you need the paycheck, you

46:07

gotta get the paycheck. If you

46:09

need the money, you do what you gotta do, you gotta pay your

46:11

bills, absolutely. That's what you gotta do.

46:14

I was wiping down those machines, I

46:18

was doing what I had to do, and whistling

46:20

my way through. But that's,

46:24

let's get back to the article. He said, I

46:26

wrote a short book on my experience of burnout.

46:29

There's a lot of burnout in that respect. Number two, loss

46:31

of autonomy, control, belonging, rewards,

46:34

accomplishment, and fairness. Professor

46:37

Christina Malash

46:38

pioneered research on the causes of burnout,

46:41

which can be summarized as any work environment

46:43

that reduces autonomy, control, belonging,

46:46

rewards, accomplishment, and fairness.

46:49

Despite a near infinite avalanche of corporate

46:51

happy talk, we're all family, stuff

46:54

like that, this describes a great

46:56

many work environments in the US, in a word, depersonalized.

47:00

And that's exactly what Larry Fink is talking about.

47:02

We're the diversity, inclusion,

47:05

they are the most banal, sterile, it's

47:09

boring,

47:13

there's nothing to them,

47:15

it's just, I don't know. They

47:20

have been sapped of their meaning. In

47:23

fact, they are just, they're inert.

47:25

They're just inert words. Some

47:27

words are having been completely inverted from

47:30

what could be

47:31

seen as generally positive and

47:34

idealistic, but

47:37

they are just inverted. And we

47:40

know that there are modes, there are

47:42

words that just suggest

47:45

control needs to be surrendered

47:48

in one way or another, or certain

47:51

groups need to step back

47:54

and others who may or may

47:56

not be qualified to even compete

47:59

with certain. others

48:01

are put forward because of superficial

48:03

things that should not matter in a

48:06

world that really favors inclusion

48:09

because you want to be able to promote the best of the best.

48:14

So there's that. The politicization

48:17

of the work environment. Let's

48:29

begin by distinguishing between policies

48:32

enforcing equal opportunity, pay,

48:34

standards and accountability. There is no accountability.

48:37

Policies required

48:39

to fulfill the legal promises

48:41

embedded in the nation's social contract

48:44

and politicization,

48:47

which demands allegiance and declarations

48:50

of loyalty to political ideologies that have nothing

48:52

to do with the work being done or the standards

48:55

are of accountability necessary to

48:57

the operation of the complex institution

48:59

or enterprise. I know. Like

49:01

imagine working at a gym

49:04

and your only thing is to make sure

49:07

that the fitness center is clean, that

49:09

the machines are all up to

49:11

date, that they are working, that they are good, that

49:14

they are being used, that they're not being used. Let's

49:16

get something in there that might attract some attention,

49:18

that you have good things, fitness

49:22

programs on the calendar. You got good

49:24

people on staff.

49:25

You got a good environment over there and everybody's having

49:28

a good time. And that's really all you have to know. You're

49:30

trying to get people to exercise more. Suddenly

49:33

if you are a fitness director or if you are

49:35

an assistant director of sports at

49:37

some school, it's not about whether

49:39

or not the kids are going out the same time every

49:41

day and having a good 45-minute

49:44

session of kickball. You need to be able

49:46

to understand the ins and outs of human

49:48

sexuality

49:50

and how to use anal beads. You

49:55

need to be able to understand the nuances

49:57

of diversifying a locker room.

49:59

Okay, so that the old ladies,

50:02

the young girls, and the men who think that they're young

50:04

girls can all coexist peacefully

50:07

without any kind of problems.

50:09

This is what we're... this is... this is it. It's

50:12

stifling at this point because it didn't used to be

50:14

this bad 15 years ago. Um...

50:20

I think that was actually what was so fun about

50:23

the office. Which

50:25

I know that they're trying to reboot... now they're thinking about

50:27

rebooting the office in

50:29

Australia with an all-female cast. So

50:31

that's gonna be... that's gonna be just as... that's

50:34

gonna be as funny as a dead moth.

50:35

And, um... but that's

50:38

the real reason why the office was so amazing. It

50:40

really captured that stiff

50:43

corporate culture so well. And

50:46

the... the... I don't know... the

50:49

uncomfortable atmosphere of

50:52

wanting to be loose in a place where you just

50:54

cannot do that.

50:56

And of course that... you can never...

50:58

you can never put out a show

51:01

that good of high quality these days.

51:03

Just couldn't do it. Um... but

51:06

that was good.

51:08

At least we always have that.

51:10

And number four, the competent must

51:12

cover for the incompetent. As the competent

51:14

tire of the artifice

51:17

and the make, work, and quit.

51:19

The remaining competent must... uh...

51:21

let's see... They must work harder to keep everything glued

51:23

together. Their commitment to high standards

51:25

and accountability are their undoing. And the

51:28

slack masters and the incompetent either

51:30

don't care... I'm just here to

51:32

qualify for my pension crew. Or

51:34

they've mastered the processes of masking

51:37

their incompetence by often blaming the competent

51:39

for the innocent...

51:40

or the innocent for their own fallings. Fallings

51:44

down. So

51:47

have you had those problems? I... I know all

51:49

these. I've seen them.

51:53

Thankfully I'm self-employed now.

51:55

So the only incompetence I know is my own.

51:57

And I don't have anybody to complain to. So

52:01

at this point

52:03

and number five as the competent

52:05

leadership leaves

52:07

the incompetent take the reins.

52:09

Yep and

52:12

they blind to their own incompetence

52:14

it all looked so easy when the competent

52:16

were at the helm but reality is cruel

52:19

a cruel taskmaster and

52:22

all of the excuses that worked as

52:24

an underling

52:25

they wear thin once the incompetent are

52:27

in leadership roles and that is when you really

52:30

have people start leaving because

52:32

the incompetent they actually don't they don't have a lot

52:34

of work ethic they don't have a lot

52:36

of people skills

52:38

and they don't really understand they

52:40

never understood what kind of

52:43

stuff was going on at higher levels when

52:45

they were fucking off somewhere and making everybody

52:48

else around them look bad and forcing out good

52:50

leadership that just really need needed

52:52

some competent hiring practices underneath

52:55

them to support a good team

52:57

but once you get up there once you've been moved

53:00

up because at that point you are seniority

53:02

even though you're worth dick then

53:05

you start realizing that it actually comes

53:07

responsibilities and that also inquire

53:09

that also requires you to interface with people

53:12

it requires you to be humble

53:15

so that you can make sure that the customer

53:17

always feels like they're being satisfied but these

53:19

people don't have people skills and they're

53:21

usually not not adept for the situation

53:24

and and their weaknesses shine through in

53:27

incredible ways and then of course

53:29

when you are a

53:31

competent worker that

53:33

has been passed over for

53:35

somebody who's incompetent who wants to I don't know they

53:37

think it's gonna be challenged or in

53:40

some cases where they they find it could

53:42

be a good diversity pick

53:44

if they're going by some kind of ESG rules then

53:47

man

53:49

that really starts stinging I know you

53:51

guys know some of the same things

53:53

that we were talking about with the whole fight for 15 stuff

53:57

now I want to ask you guys about this

53:59

I want to ask you guys about this. They have the life cycle

54:02

of a bureaucracy here. And

54:04

then we're going to take some calls.

54:06

Let's see here.

54:07

Look at this. I thought this was pretty good.

54:09

So you have the program budget is in

54:11

blue. The administrative costs are in

54:13

red and you have the expansion phase. You have

54:15

the launch. Tight budgets, modest pay,

54:18

minimal benefits, high camaraderie

54:20

within the staff because you're excited. Then

54:22

there's growth, rapid growth in program

54:25

and staffing. Morale is still high. Maturity,

54:28

mission creep, union

54:30

and administration gain political power.

54:33

And there you have the departments

54:35

solidify and then you start getting

54:38

to the infighting phase. Then

54:41

you have the bloat phase. This is the contraction.

54:43

So this is your rising action. This is your pinnacle.

54:46

And then you have your contraction. The

54:48

bloat phase, budget is flat. But

54:51

administration costs rise. Gaming

54:54

the system and fraud are rife. Budget

54:56

cuts, program abandoned as focus

54:58

shifts to protecting budget and staff

55:01

pay and benefits. And then finally, the

55:03

failure and the implosion. The competent

55:05

retire leaving the incompetent in command.

55:08

Morale is low. Chaos and failure

55:10

is the norm. Organizational implosion.

55:15

I want to hear about your

55:17

stories of workplace incompetence. If you see,

55:19

obviously everybody has seen this in the past. This is just

55:21

a life cycle of a business. Some

55:23

of them can

55:26

handle this a lot better and keep things healthy

55:28

for a lot longer and sometimes for many generations

55:31

and only keep growing. But

55:33

especially in the times that we're in right now, are

55:35

you seeing this right now in a new,

55:40

new, rapidly deteriorating

55:43

fashion? Are you seeing this play out right

55:45

now? So you can call in about that.

55:47

You can call in about what you thought about

55:49

the pandemic. You can call in about if

55:52

you've had any weird dreams or all three. Just

55:54

make sure it's

55:55

quick. All of your thoughts are

55:57

coming together quick. So let's go on a really quick break. When

56:00

we come back, we're going to take all of your

56:02

calls on this 914-200-0269. 914-200-0269.

56:07

We'll be right back.

56:13

It's

56:15

intermission time, folks. Time

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out to press the like button. Thank you.

56:22

Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome

56:30

to intermission. We'll be right

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back. Yeah!

56:44

Intermission. Yeah!

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Intermission. We're

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watch

58:00

Quite Frankly with Frank!

58:38

we got some great great calls

58:40

coming and keep them coming 914-200 that's the

58:47

old one sorry 914-200-0269

58:57

alright let's take a call from Julie

58:59

what's going on Julie

59:02

Julie Julie

59:09

Casey Frank

59:12

how are you Casey I'm

59:14

not bad how you doing man I'm doing okay I'm

59:16

doing okay it's a Monday night but it's a beautiful

59:19

night so I'm happy to be here how are

59:21

you feeling on this call so far

59:24

oh dude I have

59:26

oh this could be like a whole

59:28

show unto itself as far as the incompetence

59:32

of incoming

59:32

workers and stuff I

59:35

was a firefighter for six years in

59:38

in my city that I won't name right now

59:41

and I've been off the job longer now than I was

59:43

on the job but yeah

59:46

again whole show unto itself with all the fuckery

59:49

and things that went on there but my husband

59:52

is a journeyman lineman and

59:55

he worked for the utility company

59:57

here locally for 17 years and

1:00:00

he just recently left. And

1:00:03

again, he's got just story

1:00:05

after story of, I mean, both

1:00:08

when he was coming into line

1:00:10

work and when I was going on

1:00:12

to the fire department, it

1:00:14

was just at the time where we

1:00:17

were like the last, well, not so

1:00:19

much me, because I came on to my job

1:00:21

a couple years after him, but it was old

1:00:23

school mentality.

1:00:25

If you had to know every tool on the truck,

1:00:27

and if you forgot a tool, you had to wear

1:00:29

it around your neck for the whole day,

1:00:32

or like a safety cone on your head or something

1:00:34

for the whole day, got worked into the

1:00:36

dirt, and that's what you did. And

1:00:39

his apprenticeship was four years before

1:00:41

he got his ticket.

1:00:42

So I mean, those guys,

1:00:45

it was brutal. They got treated like dog

1:00:48

shit for the first four years they were on their

1:00:50

job. And they, you know, you couldn't

1:00:52

say boo to anybody that was above you seniority

1:00:54

wise, or somebody who already had their cert.

1:00:57

And

1:00:59

in the last five years, I saw that

1:01:01

he was with the utility still. He'd

1:01:04

come home and tell me about like apprentices.

1:01:06

They don't have any bucket time, which is where they

1:01:08

go up in like the lift and they

1:01:10

put on the big rubber gloves and they work

1:01:12

with live wires and live electricity

1:01:14

and stuff. They were like

1:01:16

force feeding them through to make sure they had enough

1:01:19

hours to get this loving time. And a bunch

1:01:21

of them will come away with still zero

1:01:23

understanding of what the hell they

1:01:24

were supposed to do. Like if they pulled up on a

1:01:26

trouble call at night by themselves, they were

1:01:28

gonna be dead in the water. They had no idea what was going

1:01:31

on. Jeez.

1:01:31

He took video of this

1:01:34

kid that was like, I think

1:01:36

he was on his first or second year of apprenticeship,

1:01:39

refused to do anything, refused to

1:01:41

go up in the bucket,

1:01:42

would sit down on the ground and stare at

1:01:44

his phone, which for anybody that's

1:01:46

been in any kind of like, I

1:01:49

don't know if it's that police works like this,

1:01:51

the fire department most certainly was. Is

1:01:53

it hard? Is it hard to get rid of people

1:01:55

like this? That's what I'm talking about. I mean,

1:01:57

we see, when I think.

1:01:59

about union jobs and I see all the the union

1:02:02

construction workers aligning the streets

1:02:04

and the highways over here I always count

1:02:06

all the people that are just standing around playing

1:02:09

with their phones while two other people are using jackhammers

1:02:12

and I and I I laugh to myself

1:02:14

but when you're talking about these newbies that

1:02:16

are that are apprentices that are supposed to be going

1:02:18

up there and cutting their teeth and

1:02:20

and they're refusing work and they're just they're just

1:02:22

you know you know messing off

1:02:24

a little bit is there any way is

1:02:26

doing anything about it you can't get

1:02:28

thing is like if you did something like that when my

1:02:31

husband was coming up like you got busted back

1:02:33

you got held back you have to redo the

1:02:35

unit you had to redo your hours and it was gonna

1:02:37

be another couple six months before you got your third

1:02:40

man they don't do that anymore they don't hold

1:02:42

those guys to those state same standards the

1:02:44

wokeness though this is really funny

1:02:47

so probably a couple years ago

1:02:50

obviously that the utility company

1:02:52

has all their own trucks and their whole fleet of everything

1:02:54

so they have a garage where they do repairs and

1:02:56

stuff well this guy that works in the garage

1:02:59

decided

1:03:00

he's a woman now oh

1:03:02

they had one of those changes his name

1:03:04

to a female version of his of his

1:03:07

man name and

1:03:10

everybody they had to do sensitivity training

1:03:12

like once a year since this dude

1:03:14

decided he's now and I'm

1:03:17

it wasn't like a passable kind of thing

1:03:19

it was it sounded more like a

1:03:20

dude looking for a lawsuit kind of a thing

1:03:22

you know

1:03:23

but I mean he he committed to it fully

1:03:27

and so they having all the sensitivity

1:03:29

training my husband raises hand he says

1:03:31

can we please say a prayer for so-and-so

1:03:35

and all the you know the supervisors are

1:03:37

scratching their heads and grit in their teeth

1:03:40

then oh you know we

1:03:42

can't do that you know we can't

1:03:44

do that

1:03:45

but they all have to sit there and get

1:03:47

their names tons of whipped on a piece of paper says they

1:03:49

sat in the room for eight hours and did

1:03:51

the sensitivity training

1:03:52

she saw well even pray for

1:03:54

this person well Casey

1:03:57

thank you all right well

1:03:59

I do is gonna be

1:03:59

I mean that's just that's nuts. That's

1:04:02

nuts. Well, that's a great example great example

1:04:04

You know that that's just gonna filter up soon. There's

1:04:06

gonna be a transgender foreman There's

1:04:08

probably many of them at this point. I wonder how

1:04:10

many foreman have Have started

1:04:13

their transition over the last couple of years whether

1:04:15

they're committing to a scam or or

1:04:18

something else But thank you for the call Casey

1:04:20

and all the best to Dylan

1:04:22

Yes, sir. Have a great night. All right. Wow Wow,

1:04:26

you see when you got the apprentices

1:04:31

Messing around like that and

1:04:33

there's no way to even say all right. Well,

1:04:36

sorry new guy. Just get the hell out of here How

1:04:39

the hell do they have? protections

1:04:42

That's and that's just incredible 541 you're

1:04:46

on the air. Who's this? It

1:04:49

is your brother. So how the heck you doing?

1:04:51

Hey Zoso. How are you doing? I? Am

1:04:54

grooving my man. Hey sometime in the next

1:04:56

month five weeks. I'll be headed your way I'll keep

1:04:58

you posted as it gets closer, but yeah,

1:05:01

please I could not

1:05:03

let this topic go. Okay good get

1:05:05

get on it Let's see. Oh, the young lady

1:05:07

was talking about a you know, I guess Electable

1:05:11

problem. I am a superintendent

1:05:13

for a construction company and let me tell you if

1:05:16

there are any People

1:05:17

in your audience who have young

1:05:19

men and women with a brain in their heads

1:05:22

who want to make a ton of money Send

1:05:25

them to construction because

1:05:28

the workers that we have Here's

1:05:30

here's what has happened to construction about 20

1:05:32

years ago. I read an article that said 80% of

1:05:36

the construction workforce is going to retire

1:05:38

in the next 10 years. Well They're

1:05:41

all either managers or retired.

1:05:44

So everything we have now our

1:05:46

young guns who If

1:05:48

they know how to swing a hammer, they already

1:05:50

think they're adjourning it They'll tell you

1:05:52

they're a carpenter when the fact they

1:05:54

don't even they don't even know how to build

1:05:57

a status there Frank it is the toughest

1:06:00

thing to be in. Had

1:06:03

a young man come to my job a couple weeks ago,

1:06:05

I had two weeks to hand him the keys. So

1:06:08

at this point, I don't care what I need

1:06:10

done, I just need it done. And

1:06:12

this guy says, you know, I'm a carpenter. I said,

1:06:14

okay, well you look around, you'll see the building's

1:06:17

about completely done. What I really

1:06:19

need is you to grab that pressure washer and get

1:06:21

over here and wash that sidewalk

1:06:24

for me. He goes, well, I

1:06:26

don't know if you heard me, man. I'm a carpenter.

1:06:30

I said, yeah, I heard you. I'm a carpenter too,

1:06:32

but guess what? I need a sidewalk wash right

1:06:34

now. He goes, you should have

1:06:36

asked for a labor. I mean, this

1:06:38

is the kind of mentality that I'm dealing with.

1:06:41

Wow. My goodness, man.

1:06:43

My goodness. Any frankly

1:06:47

out there who have kids in their

1:06:49

early 20s who with

1:06:51

a brain in their heads and want to make a killing,

1:06:54

please send them to us construction workers.

1:06:56

We need them. We need them.

1:06:58

Well, it sounds like you need more than just a brain.

1:07:00

You need some, you need some old

1:07:02

school humility and

1:07:05

it sounds like just the humility kind

1:07:07

of a thing there. Oh, you know, the other thing, hold on. Before

1:07:10

we get into anything else, though,

1:07:13

when we talk about things like healthcare

1:07:16

or even if it's just retail,

1:07:19

I feel like we have been suffering from

1:07:21

hyper specialization of everything

1:07:23

these days where you can never, you can

1:07:25

never just talk to somebody about a general

1:07:27

issue you have and have somebody with general knowledge

1:07:30

be able to get you through to the finish

1:07:32

line. It's always, oh, I specialize

1:07:34

in nails. I specialize, I

1:07:37

specialize in helmet. I specialize

1:07:39

in screws. I specialize in, you know,

1:07:41

one specific vein inside of the

1:07:44

eye. You know, it's like you always have to go to a doctor

1:07:46

for a specific artery.

1:07:48

You know,

1:07:49

not just, you can't just go to a doctor for everything

1:07:51

anymore. So what is that? How

1:07:53

do you see that playing out with,

1:07:56

I mean, obviously you have the carpenter that doesn't want to,

1:07:58

who doesn't want to do the work of a

1:07:59

laborer obviously he feels like he's

1:08:02

above that too but it has

1:08:04

to be more widespread than just that no?

1:08:06

Oh no there are you

1:08:08

know fortunately fortunately

1:08:11

construction most of the trades

1:08:14

stick in their lanes you know like Christians

1:08:16

do electrical work there's low voltage

1:08:18

guys there's high voltage guys there's you

1:08:21

know plumbers and some trades

1:08:24

kind of bleed off and do a little bit of somebody

1:08:26

else's work like your carpenter can also

1:08:28

build cabinets but you know then

1:08:30

there's just plain raw framers it

1:08:33

doesn't affect construction

1:08:36

as much but I have experienced

1:08:38

exactly what you're talking about in healthcare

1:08:41

in the last six months Frank I've been

1:08:43

trying to get a hernia operation for

1:08:45

I I herniated my little

1:08:47

belly button oh and I've I

1:08:50

they have sent me to because

1:08:52

it's a workman's comp case I have gone

1:08:54

to nine different doctors

1:08:57

and every single one exactly

1:08:59

as you say oh I'm

1:09:01

gonna have to send you over to a different office and

1:09:03

I get to that office oh I'm sorry yeah

1:09:06

we're gonna send you over here to this guy there's

1:09:09

a surgical special I have to send

1:09:12

you to my colleague he's the best belly button

1:09:14

guy in the business it's just

1:09:17

like you know

1:09:19

it's crazy it

1:09:21

is crazy yeah God those poor healthcare

1:09:24

people God bless them

1:09:26

well well dude great to talk

1:09:28

to you looking forward to seeing you soon yeah listen

1:09:30

whenever you have a trajectory whenever you have a window

1:09:33

when you think you're gonna be passing through let me know

1:09:35

because I'm booking July pretty

1:09:37

feverishly at this point so I want to make sure

1:09:39

you have a night

1:09:40

absolutely I will keep you posted

1:09:43

I'm gonna say somewhere around the last week

1:09:45

of July maybe first week of August somewhere

1:09:47

right in there brother okay I'll I'll

1:09:50

make sure to keep that flexible

1:09:51

all right my man all right later take care great

1:09:54

to talk to you there you go it's gonna sounds like it's

1:09:56

gonna be two years in a row there's

1:09:59

also came in last year year right or

1:10:01

was it it was a 2021 I don't

1:10:03

know it's

1:10:04

such a blur it

1:10:06

is such a blur let's

1:10:08

take a call from mr. mr.

1:10:12

B what's going on mr. B personal

1:10:15

trainer you got that right hello

1:10:19

this is this is that is an article

1:10:21

from zero hedge I mean that is the

1:10:23

deterioration of fitness and what we experienced

1:10:27

so I can only add

1:10:29

to it if you don't mind I can take two minutes oh

1:10:31

no no please add to it

1:10:33

because you know mr. B you

1:10:36

you're you're one of the one of the people

1:10:38

out there that we experienced a lot of things

1:10:40

together and we've seen a lot of those transitions

1:10:43

and we had yeah we

1:10:45

had the tight-knit crew we had you know we had

1:10:47

the crew that just they did their own thing they

1:10:49

had their own backgrounds and it was kind

1:10:51

of a laissez-faire policy we just

1:10:54

we were able to train and that was it I'd

1:10:56

say you know I

1:10:58

played a bigger role in that fitness center and

1:11:02

the ideas got squashed when we had

1:11:04

something called activate America happened and

1:11:07

they came up with a new term for exercise

1:11:09

and the exerciser and they called the person

1:11:11

a health seeker wanted

1:11:14

to target a different type of person

1:11:17

a person who wanted to be healthy who

1:11:19

wanted to exercise but they were they were

1:11:21

afraid of the gym and that's who we weren't gonna go

1:11:24

after and they stamped them as a health

1:11:26

seeker and what they identified through their

1:11:28

research was that there were 18

1:11:30

different obstacles to get

1:11:32

this health seeker from their

1:11:34

couch

1:11:35

into the fitness center

1:11:36

and it could have been they were afraid to get into

1:11:39

their car they couldn't find they couldn't

1:11:41

find a parking spot they fumbled

1:11:43

around with their membership card at the front desk

1:11:46

there were two flights of stairs that they needed

1:11:48

to climb in order to get up to the fitness center once

1:11:50

they got into the fitness center there was another

1:11:52

check-in and all

1:11:55

those things were enough of a reason for

1:11:57

that health seeker to turn around get back in their car

1:12:00

and not work out. So

1:12:02

we had to count, we had to, you

1:12:04

know, do we actually

1:12:07

set up

1:12:09

drivers to go pick the

1:12:12

person up. The personal trainer would go pick

1:12:14

the client up. What was this? And bring them to

1:12:16

the fitness. I mean, I was there when you were a fitness director.

1:12:21

So this was late like 2008, 2009. These were the brainstorming.

1:12:23

And this actually went

1:12:28

on for a little bit. We put up curtains

1:12:31

in the group classes so people

1:12:33

didn't have to see themselves in the mirror. I

1:12:36

don't remember the curtains. I

1:12:38

remember when they

1:12:39

renamed the fitness center, the wellness

1:12:42

center though. The wellness center, yeah. Wow.

1:12:45

And what else was there?

1:12:48

The advertisements. The advertisements, you

1:12:50

didn't want to use fitness. And the advertisements

1:12:53

couldn't be women in sports bras

1:12:56

with, you know, a tone stomach lifting

1:12:58

away. It couldn't be a guy

1:13:00

with, you know, a vein running down his

1:13:02

arm. So

1:13:04

that's, they changed everything.

1:13:07

It was about just everybody. And

1:13:09

it wasn't about getting

1:13:11

in shape. It was more about, they definitely

1:13:14

stuck with like the mind, spirit, body

1:13:17

concept. But, you know,

1:13:19

they said, you really don't need to work at this anymore.

1:13:21

You can just do whatever you want. And that's

1:13:23

that.

1:13:27

That is, I know that it's happened

1:13:29

elsewhere because we have a lot

1:13:32

of friends in different places, not

1:13:34

just in, you know, that one

1:13:36

chain of wellness

1:13:38

centers. But there is, it's

1:13:41

just crazy. It's just crazy. Like you

1:13:43

said, there is a time when you can see

1:13:46

a group of people who are

1:13:48

all good at what they do and left alone.

1:13:51

It just creates not only a lot of

1:13:53

camaraderie among the members and their trainers

1:13:55

and whatever, but also camaraderie

1:13:57

among the workers.

1:13:59

All of a sudden everybody's attention is pulled

1:14:02

to the most tedious Mind-numbing

1:14:04

stuff that helps nobody and only complicates.

1:14:07

Oh only complicates What is naturally

1:14:10

the most easy thing in the world you want to

1:14:12

be able to move every day?

1:14:14

The body responds in only a certain amount

1:14:16

of ways. We're not reinventing the wheel, but

1:14:19

the coddling It's it's part of the mental

1:14:22

that the mental toughness aspect

1:14:24

of it. It is the coddling that

1:14:26

has made so much

1:14:28

It's made oh, it's made things so

1:14:30

hard really really hard to deal with

1:14:34

So it's it's still going you

1:14:36

know the shutdown definitely Accelerated

1:14:38

that a little bit more to where the gym is

1:14:40

just it's just a bizarre place to be at

1:14:43

times and it's definitely a bizarre place to work

1:14:45

and You know that place that you

1:14:47

were talking about there's still some you know Hidden

1:14:50

gems that still work there and

1:14:53

nobody knows their background And

1:14:55

it's just they're okay with that and

1:14:58

it's super super talented people You

1:15:01

know former Golden Gloves boxers martial

1:15:03

arts like unbelievable people

1:15:06

and it's it's done They

1:15:08

don't like talent. They just want you know

1:15:10

yeah people that turn the lights on and

1:15:12

off and it's unfortunate They just want the message

1:15:15

they love they want the message to be pushed. That's it

1:15:18

and the message if you have ideas

1:15:20

Forget about it. They're not gonna listen to them. That's

1:15:23

been a long time I remember I wanted

1:15:25

to started I wanted to start after school dodgeball

1:15:28

And they actually can

1:15:30

see they actually considered it for a second then

1:15:32

finally I said we're not gonna go with that I think

1:15:34

I come with how I get this would be so fun,

1:15:36

but the agility ball

1:15:39

now come on. Oh, that's well Yeah, well I can imagine

1:15:41

dodge what yeah Well, I want and that

1:15:44

was the greatest thing about that is it would be dodgeball

1:15:46

in this little racquetball court so there's there's no

1:15:48

place to run and Anyway

1:15:50

that well, I

1:15:53

mr. B. Thank you so much for calling in you

1:15:55

got it man. Talk to you soon All right, take care.

1:15:57

There you go. See You

1:16:00

see, someone to remember things

1:16:03

that I have forgotten. Now I didn't know

1:16:05

that there were carpooling people,

1:16:07

and I don't remember, maybe I do remember.

1:16:11

Maybe I do remember the curtains in front

1:16:14

of the mirrors, which are actually, the

1:16:17

mirrors are necessary. I know that it's a tool of the

1:16:19

egomaniac, someone who just didn't,

1:16:21

you can't stop looking at yourself. The mirrors

1:16:23

are

1:16:24

very important in a gym,

1:16:26

especially for being able to

1:16:29

manage your

1:16:31

form and everything else. So,

1:16:34

to make it all about ego is

1:16:39

really indicative of just how these people think. They're

1:16:41

always like, oh, we want to counter racism or

1:16:43

counter one thing or another, but they always just double

1:16:46

down on racist and self-image

1:16:48

obsessed tropes and ideas

1:16:51

that are rooted and just seeped

1:16:53

in self-image,

1:16:55

covering up the mirrors. You need the

1:16:57

mirrors. You don't have to ogle yourself.

1:17:01

All right, let's go. 252, you're

1:17:03

on the air. What's

1:17:05

up, Frank? I'm driving right now. I don't know

1:17:07

if I can hear me clear or not. Yeah, you

1:17:10

sound great. Who am I talking to?

1:17:12

This is John from North Carolina. Welcome

1:17:15

John. What's on your mind? Not

1:17:18

much, man. I'm driving through Kentucky right now. Anyway,

1:17:20

I was listening to the show on this road

1:17:23

trip and that article

1:17:25

spot on, I think it's widespread

1:17:27

through all industries. I work for a mining

1:17:29

company in North Carolina

1:17:32

and we're seeing it right now. The

1:17:35

corporation is based out of Canada and

1:17:37

they're like kind of Uberwoke in Canada with the

1:17:40

HR women that run the things. All

1:17:45

of our new management hires are

1:17:47

either women or minorities. They put out this quota

1:17:50

system. They want 30% of their management

1:17:53

to be minorities and then another certain percentage

1:17:55

to be women and they got like the LGBTQ

1:17:58

stuff and all that crap. And

1:18:01

I've only been with the company for three years, but it kind

1:18:03

of makes it seem like, where's this company going

1:18:05

to go in 10 years? Oh, yeah.

1:18:08

They're hiring people not based on their merit or

1:18:10

their qualifications,

1:18:13

but what they look like or what they identify as. It's

1:18:15

just going to... I mean, that BlackRock thing

1:18:17

to me, because

1:18:18

of who they are, just kind of seems like it's a way, another

1:18:21

way to fuck up the economy and everything

1:18:23

in the long run. Well, dude, I mean, you heard

1:18:25

that. When you heard that video

1:18:28

that I played before, that is

1:18:31

the top of the pecking order right there. When

1:18:33

you're listening in on how these guys are thinking

1:18:35

over there at BlackRock, that is where

1:18:38

all this stuff trickles down from. The

1:18:40

stuff you're dealing with right now, that's

1:18:42

where it's trickling down from. It's running

1:18:44

downhill to you. When you talk...

1:18:47

Yeah, we have a scorecard for our... We get a

1:18:48

skip bonus, we get a bonus yearly,

1:18:50

you know? And they have this corporate scorecard,

1:18:53

it's usually based on certain things, but

1:18:55

now they've added the ESG to it and

1:18:58

all that. It's just crazy. And

1:19:01

most of the men, most of the people that work in this

1:19:03

industry are your

1:19:06

typical white Christian man.

1:19:08

And then they've... I've dealt with HR where

1:19:10

they've come in and they've taught us all this, the comedy

1:19:13

goblet or comedy goblet or

1:19:15

whatever, you know, how Norm calls it. Anyway,

1:19:18

they come in and they

1:19:21

just... It's just, they kind of whitewash and

1:19:24

are trying to pull the wool over people's eyes and it

1:19:26

just isn't going to work. People aren't going to quit, people

1:19:28

aren't going to leave, the incompetent foe, you know, that article

1:19:30

nails it spot on. But yeah,

1:19:32

I think it's widespread and I'll let you get

1:19:34

back to this show, man, and I'll be able to get one. I

1:19:37

really appreciate it. And I have to imagine that

1:19:39

there's a lot of... When you and your coworkers

1:19:42

get together for a lunch or something

1:19:44

like that, when you know that you're in

1:19:46

a safe company, you're

1:19:48

all agreeing on the same things because it can't

1:19:51

be... It's meant

1:19:53

to make people uncomfortable because what you can see

1:19:55

here is what they're trying to do is

1:19:57

change behaviors. Thank you for the call.

1:20:00

And what's the behavior? They

1:20:02

make it seem like they are on a mission, a

1:20:05

mission to finally eradicate racism

1:20:09

and discrimination and sexism.

1:20:12

They need to do, they need to strong arm

1:20:14

society into finally equalizing

1:20:17

because we won't do it ourselves.

1:20:20

That is not what you're saying

1:20:22

when you put this type of quotas

1:20:25

in. That's not what you're

1:20:27

saying. Like when I hear people

1:20:31

in baseball,

1:20:32

whether it be Major League Baseball

1:20:34

or anything else talking about

1:20:37

there's a lack of black men playing baseball.

1:20:43

My question is, what's your community outreach

1:20:45

like? What's

1:20:48

your community outreach like in Little League? What

1:20:51

are you doing? What are you doing to make

1:20:53

the game more accessible to people? I

1:20:55

mean that's the real thing. You

1:20:58

want to talk about carpooling. We

1:21:01

used to have this first

1:21:03

couple of years that I was coaching baseball

1:21:06

for the 12U team. I

1:21:09

coached from 2006 until 2019. Those

1:21:17

first couple of years we were having practices in

1:21:20

some of the crappier

1:21:22

fields in the

1:21:25

town because we just need places to practice.

1:21:28

We'd pick up some practices there

1:21:30

and whatever. There'd be a lot of neighborhood kids,

1:21:33

black, Hispanic, white, all hanging out that

1:21:35

were not part of the league that were just hanging

1:21:37

around while we were having practice. I would

1:21:39

get them involved. A couple actually

1:21:41

joined the team. I

1:21:44

arranged for them to get a uniform and stuff

1:21:47

like that. Parents

1:21:50

were not involved. They were all just latchkey

1:21:52

kids on their own, stuff like that. I

1:21:54

would show up, pick them

1:21:56

up at their houses, get them to the ...

1:21:59

And there's

1:22:02

a lot of teaching that goes on in there too.

1:22:05

Because you can tell that there's not a lot of parental

1:22:08

involvement there. And

1:22:10

that's really the whole thing there. These are not sports,

1:22:12

these are not jobs,

1:22:15

these are not schools that were

1:22:17

made for people of certain

1:22:20

race or certain sex

1:22:22

or anything like that. It's about how

1:22:24

do you inspire people to go out there and

1:22:26

reach

1:22:28

new levels of their potential.

1:22:32

And again, it always comes down to

1:22:34

misdiagnosing the problem. And

1:22:36

where are you sending money? And you're not thinking

1:22:38

about actual real cultural issues that

1:22:40

are going on.

1:22:41

You're thinking about something else.

1:22:44

And a lot of the problems is that we're

1:22:46

looking at the fallout from

1:22:48

past

1:22:50

societal programs,

1:22:52

past government programs to fix

1:22:54

another problem that they thought that could

1:22:56

be cured with money and not with

1:22:59

grassroots cultural reinvigoration.

1:23:03

So this is just part of the trauma

1:23:06

cycle that we go through naturally

1:23:09

with government and ourselves. It's

1:23:12

not about, hey, why aren't there more black

1:23:15

people in construction? Well, it's not because

1:23:17

they won't be able to swing a hammer

1:23:20

if you teach them how. It's

1:23:22

not because they wouldn't be qualified if they knew

1:23:25

how to swing. It's not because there wouldn't be somebody

1:23:27

out there to hire them if

1:23:29

they knew how to swing a hammer just as good

1:23:31

as anybody else.

1:23:33

You know, that's, it's

1:23:37

always misdiagnosed, purposely misdiagnosed,

1:23:39

but Larry Fink and everybody else, they have something

1:23:41

else up their sleeve.

1:23:43

They have something else up their sleeve. They're helping,

1:23:46

they're doing their part in conquering a civilization.

1:23:50

That's what's going on there. Let's take a really quick break.

1:23:52

We'll be right back.

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1:25:38

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1:25:49

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1:25:55

Head other

1:26:00

arm up that hand right by your face

1:26:02

there guys

1:26:05

to me keep them on me

1:26:31

we them that a

1:26:41

a a

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a of an

1:26:58

that Golden Retriever but

1:27:03

bn independently

1:27:26

is

1:27:30

that and

1:27:36

jsf also says that is on rock and

1:27:39

says hokul and adams need them to

1:27:41

offset populations moving out

1:27:44

well yeah I guess there

1:27:48

might be a lot of people who have just left I

1:27:51

mean unless unless

1:27:54

these are black rock properties

1:27:58

because you know a lot of people

1:27:59

have put their houses on the market in the last three

1:28:02

years. BlackRock,

1:28:05

Vanguard, all of these types of big companies,

1:28:07

they'll come in.

1:28:08

And other development companies, they'll come in and they were

1:28:10

just outbidding everybody. Anybody

1:28:13

out there who might have actually just really wanted to

1:28:15

settle down and have a forever home

1:28:18

with their family or grow a family or whatever

1:28:20

were outbitted by 30 to 60%. And then we know we can

1:28:22

tie

1:28:24

that

1:28:27

into the same kind of predatory

1:28:32

activity as what Katherine

1:28:34

Austin Fitz was talking about with these opportunity

1:28:36

zones that were going on with the

1:28:40

property depreciation inside

1:28:42

of all of those riot zones. And

1:28:48

no bigger opportunity zone than a place like New York

1:28:50

right now when you have 50% of the businesses that

1:28:53

left and now you're just cutting deals

1:28:55

with everybody. As far

1:28:57

as who they're going to put this, I cannot

1:28:59

imagine.

1:29:00

There's going to be a couple of people who think

1:29:02

that they can do this for clout. I know

1:29:05

that there's going to be a couple of people who say, we're going

1:29:07

to take an un-migrant family. No,

1:29:09

mom, listen, I know we are going to do it.

1:29:12

We're going to do it and we're going to Instagram

1:29:14

about it. Okay?

1:29:15

So there's going to be a couple of white

1:29:17

saviors that take in the migrants. They're

1:29:19

going to quickly regret it and they're going to realize it's going to

1:29:21

be very hard to get rid of them.

1:29:24

But I would not be surprised if on

1:29:26

the down low, a lot of this

1:29:28

billions of dollars that

1:29:30

has been set aside for New York

1:29:32

City is going to be diverted into empty

1:29:35

houses that were sold and bought up

1:29:37

by a black rock or something like that. A couple

1:29:39

of billion dollars extra.

1:29:41

You can keep up with

1:29:44

the migrant crisis and all that stuff. And

1:29:47

I wouldn't be surprised. You think $4.3 billion

1:29:50

is going to be distributed in some kind of legitimate

1:29:52

way when the migrant crisis itself

1:29:54

is illegitimate.

1:29:57

This is, this is such a.

1:30:03

Let's see here, Yamez says Americans

1:30:05

are living out the office in real time except

1:30:07

the boss has zero endearing qualities,

1:30:10

praying for your brother. That's

1:30:12

a wonderful way of putting it. Michael Scott,

1:30:15

especially once you get into

1:30:17

season three.

1:30:20

Season two you get a couple of like the Halloween

1:30:23

episode. You see that he's,

1:30:25

you know, he makes an ass of himself

1:30:27

at the Halloween party and all that stuff and

1:30:30

he has to fire what's his name.

1:30:36

But

1:30:36

at the end you see him giving out candy to

1:30:38

the kids and he says, oh, you know,

1:30:40

he's a good guy. He just can't get out of his own

1:30:43

way. There's no endearing qualities with

1:30:46

our bosses. Stowstube,

1:30:50

that's a great, thank you Yamez for that. Thank

1:30:52

you so much. Stowstube says

1:30:54

great Monday Frank and Franklies off to another

1:30:56

great week of wonderful independent media. And

1:31:00

it's independent media that survives because of

1:31:02

people like you Stow.

1:31:03

Thank you. Thank you to you all,

1:31:06

especially to the Stowstube family out there in Massachusetts.

1:31:10

Ken McNeil Music says, uh, the

1:31:12

only day job I've ever had has finally

1:31:14

been infiltrated by ESG and DEI.

1:31:17

Five workers quit every day. They

1:31:20

can't keep enough workers to keep the manufacturing

1:31:22

going. Incompetence has ruled

1:31:25

since the events of 2020. I'm sad. I'm

1:31:28

leaving.

1:31:31

Turnover is incredible, isn't it?

1:31:34

Just incredible. Ktskyd

1:31:37

says companies are starting to see that performing

1:31:40

ESG theatrics to

1:31:42

get access to loan and, uh, loan and

1:31:44

debt from BlackRock is no longer worth it since

1:31:46

they're losing so much money in profits and

1:31:48

are about to get, uh, sued

1:31:51

by their shareholders. Oh yeah.

1:31:54

I was reading little rumblings of that

1:31:56

and I had not even thought about

1:31:59

it until today. not even

1:32:01

thought about it, that you know

1:32:03

you have, these are publicly

1:32:05

traded companies

1:32:07

and there's a lot of people out there who are

1:32:09

looking at investing in these companies as

1:32:11

a way of building up retirement

1:32:13

and and you know just just fueling

1:32:16

industry and having some skin in the game

1:32:18

and

1:32:18

then when you see that these companies

1:32:20

who have your money

1:32:22

are taking money from trillionaire

1:32:26

political ideologues and they're

1:32:28

going on these these these crusades

1:32:31

to try to change cultures instead of

1:32:33

just sell soda, sell

1:32:36

beer, they're going on

1:32:38

these ridiculous self-sabotaging

1:32:41

crusades. It's a great point

1:32:43

if I held stock in any of this stuff I would

1:32:45

prepare major class

1:32:48

action lawsuits

1:32:50

because it is deliberately being done

1:32:53

and I see more and more this pushback I mean

1:32:55

especially this LG this LG this gay gay

1:32:57

pride month it I've said

1:32:59

it many times I'll continue to say it

1:33:02

they have completely

1:33:05

gone beyond their viability

1:33:08

as a social movement. There is

1:33:10

nothing endearing, there's nothing natural

1:33:12

and there is nothing organic about

1:33:15

what this

1:33:16

gay incorporated steamroller

1:33:20

has become always was and was

1:33:22

waiting for its time to really just come out and start

1:33:24

swinging and that's what's going on right now

1:33:27

there is no more there

1:33:29

is no more fuzziness

1:33:33

about the whole thing the whole civil rights thing is gone

1:33:35

they are the bullies it is completely

1:33:37

degenerate they have gone far beyond

1:33:40

what is comfortable for anybody to accept when

1:33:42

they start going into schools and

1:33:44

after children and it's that's just what

1:33:46

it is it's not about banning books it's

1:33:48

not about taking to kill a mockingbird or or

1:33:51

you know

1:33:52

something else dr.

1:33:55

Seuss off the shelves

1:33:57

it's not that about that

1:34:00

And I can see that Major League Baseball

1:34:03

that a few other places they saw

1:34:05

the backlash They're completely pulling back

1:34:08

all their gay logos and shit like that I

1:34:12

Saw that the Mets

1:34:14

I was watching a little bit of for lunch today

1:34:17

I was watching a little bit of an encore presentation

1:34:20

of the New York Mets versus the Toronto Blue Jays

1:34:22

from yesterday and Probably

1:34:24

around the sixth inning they wanted

1:34:26

you know in between innings They always say on the television

1:34:29

broadcast. Hey come to this come to the

1:34:31

the stadium on

1:34:33

On you know so-and-so date for

1:34:35

bobblehead night or something like that. Well,

1:34:38

they already bought

1:34:41

the rainbow Fans,

1:34:44

you know the accordion fans you

1:34:46

hope you open them up and you you fan yourself They

1:34:48

obviously already bought the rainbow fans But

1:34:53

they're seeing what's going on around the the

1:34:55

the country right now, and they said

1:34:57

come to you know Foldable

1:34:59

fan night, and it's all rainbow,

1:35:02

but they said nothing about pride

1:35:05

nothing about gay Which

1:35:07

would not have been the case even just last year

1:35:10

so you can tell that they just you know what let's just get

1:35:12

these Let's get these fans out I Guess

1:35:16

we're gonna have to just say it one way or another You

1:35:19

can tell that there is a very

1:35:21

nervous

1:35:22

right now, and it's a good place to be

1:35:25

it's a good place to be because

1:35:28

We're we're showing that this whole

1:35:30

esg dei thing is

1:35:33

really just a militant political not

1:35:36

Farce and it's harming a

1:35:38

lot of things not only people's ways of life.

1:35:40

It's harming work culture. It's harming

1:35:42

children It's harming everything

1:35:45

But but we'll see because

1:35:47

it's it's not enough for Major

1:35:49

League Baseball or one other corporate

1:35:52

Raytheon or something else to change their

1:35:54

their logos back to the non-gay edition Because

1:35:58

it's the

1:35:58

the mentality of the

1:35:59

people in the board rooms that's still that's still

1:36:02

there just because they're reacting

1:36:04

to everybody else paying attention now doesn't

1:36:06

mean that they're not going to find another way

1:36:08

to snake their ways in to where they always

1:36:11

wanted to go so

1:36:13

objectively good but

1:36:16

where does it go from here friggin

1:36:20

person head this is from

1:36:22

last night says I just became a new sponsor

1:36:26

and this one is my first Sunday streams

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that I was on yes I remember you yesterday

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was different from name there so I'm not putting

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it together

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anyway welcome as a sponsor this

1:36:39

is one of my first Sunday streams I wanted to ask

1:36:41

you about

1:36:47

I wanted to ask you

1:36:49

about your grandfather I think

1:36:53

one of the reasons why people love you so much is

1:36:55

because your presence and attitude

1:36:57

is more than just you you're living

1:37:00

for grandpa too

1:37:03

well I I

1:37:06

feel like I'm and

1:37:08

it's not just me but I you know

1:37:11

I feel like I'm I try to feel

1:37:13

like I'm living for a number

1:37:15

of people these days and

1:37:17

I try to keep a number of people with me I should say

1:37:20

these days and

1:37:24

you know

1:37:25

when I when I when I hug Aurora

1:37:28

I'm hugging her on behalf of a few generations

1:37:30

of people she'll she'll never know

1:37:33

and yeah

1:37:35

well my grandfather is a big part of it

1:37:38

definitely a big part of it

1:37:39

I was actually just talking to my my

1:37:42

friend today about this because

1:37:44

his grandfather died he was

1:37:47

in his 90s

1:37:48

his grandfather died last year and he's

1:37:51

just starting to feel it right now and he asked

1:37:53

me you know do you um knowing

1:37:57

how close you were with your grandfather

1:37:59

have you ever had

1:37:59

had the grief just

1:38:02

come a year after or something like that. And

1:38:05

I said, well, it comes

1:38:07

in waves, it always does.

1:38:10

I mean, I just, again, in

1:38:12

the early parts of May, I went

1:38:14

and I dug up my confirmation letters.

1:38:17

When we received confirmation, when we were confirmed

1:38:20

in eighth grade,

1:38:23

our family all wrote us letters when we went

1:38:25

on to our religious retreats. And

1:38:28

we got to this really nice

1:38:30

time in this chapel and everybody

1:38:32

got to open up their packages and inside the packages

1:38:34

were letters from everybody in our lives,

1:38:37

wishing us well and blessing us and

1:38:39

all that stuff. And

1:38:41

I always go back to that. Some

1:38:43

more and more people in that stack of letters

1:38:45

that,

1:38:47

then I felt the warmth, but

1:38:49

now they're just,

1:38:51

they're incredible.

1:38:53

Letter from my grandfather is incredible. I've

1:38:55

read that on the air before.

1:38:57

And he wrote on behalf of my grandmother

1:39:00

because she had already died. Then

1:39:02

there's a letter from Pam, there's a letter from her

1:39:04

daughter,

1:39:05

Maria. They're both gone. Skip

1:39:08

his letter to me, he's gone.

1:39:13

There's just a lot of people that

1:39:16

I feel,

1:39:17

I carry their memories around. And I

1:39:19

think that's the same for all you guys and gals out

1:39:21

there.

1:39:22

In some respect, everybody's got that.

1:39:25

But yeah, thank you for asking, frigging

1:39:28

person head.

1:39:30

There'll be other nights, show and tell nights,

1:39:34

like in the past. We'll

1:39:36

dig it all out and we'll get personal again,

1:39:38

we always do. All right, over

1:39:41

on Rumble,

1:39:43

I just wanna make sure I do these so I don't, then we're

1:39:45

gonna get back to your calls, so don't worry. Cody117

1:39:48

says, the company I work for was bought

1:39:50

out by a huge corporation and my

1:39:52

job has become everything that you're describing.

1:39:55

I can't even do my job anymore. It's

1:39:57

soul crushing feeling because I love working.

1:40:00

working.

1:40:08

Alice, Alice frazzledrip

1:40:10

says it's it's what the communists

1:40:13

do. They brainwash youth through

1:40:15

education in Hollywood and cartoons and

1:40:17

woke school boards to indoctrinate

1:40:20

against the parents.

1:40:22

Yeah, yeah, that's,

1:40:24

that's part of it. But we're talking about implementation

1:40:27

of things on the back end on

1:40:30

at the parents,

1:40:32

the parents school. I mean, we can see what this is doing

1:40:34

to schools. That

1:40:37

is on full display, especially this week.

1:40:41

Wasn't going to poison the air with some

1:40:43

of those videos are coming out. I comment

1:40:45

on a few of them on Twitter before but that.

1:40:49

Yeah, that's just a little bit more there. Over

1:40:51

on quite frankly dot TV. I want

1:40:53

to go through a few of these. Thank you cautious

1:40:55

observer. It's great to see you again. EO2

1:40:58

Dave, good to see you again too. Says

1:41:00

yes, it's the mob 2.0. They took

1:41:03

over the government.

1:41:05

Sean Joe, porpoiseful, Paulie,

1:41:08

EO2 Dave again and

1:41:10

Michael BKNY at the bottom

1:41:14

says MF and sent a

1:41:16

phone.

1:41:17

Thank you.

1:41:18

Thank you for that. Let's take a call from Albert.

1:41:20

What's going on Albert?

1:41:22

Hey, I think I'm pretty sure I heard

1:41:24

you say in the beginning of the show or in

1:41:26

the first hour sometime that

1:41:29

what's your mayor's name? Eric Adams. Yeah.

1:41:31

Yeah. So he's going

1:41:33

to be spreading

1:41:37

the money around New York to

1:41:39

get all the New Yorkers to start to sell

1:41:41

out their own state. You know, that's such

1:41:43

a great plan dude because it's got

1:41:45

a proven track record. I'm

1:41:48

pretty sure I'd the

1:41:51

first baby name in London

1:41:54

now is Mohammed. So

1:41:56

when you get the people to work with you, fantastic.

1:42:00

fantastic. And Nikki Haley, she

1:42:03

was talking to the stakeholders, dude.

1:42:05

They don't, they don't, she wasn't doing that.

1:42:07

They just bring these people out and

1:42:11

they all repeat the same thing

1:42:14

for a long enough time. And then

1:42:16

they're just going to take us to war. I mean, I

1:42:19

can't believe that you, you,

1:42:21

you do see that. That's exactly what you were saying.

1:42:24

Yeah. But yeah,

1:42:26

that's, that's, that's exactly what they're doing and they're

1:42:28

not going to stop. And it's just like, it's so

1:42:30

hilarious. It's just, remember I told you

1:42:32

a while ago, I'm like, dude, we're not even close to top.

1:42:34

They're not going to stop. And

1:42:37

Eric Adams and all that dude, I'm pretty

1:42:39

sure Whitmer's going to be not far behind.

1:42:42

You know what I'm saying? It just is

1:42:45

what it is. All we can do is, you know,

1:42:47

hang out, watch a ride,

1:42:49

do your best and fuck the rest. Right. Absolutely.

1:42:52

Absolutely. Always have our,

1:42:54

have our time in the sun over here and it is the sunny

1:42:57

season. So why not?

1:42:59

Right. Dude, this is an awesome show

1:43:01

too. Awesome. I love it when you do the show

1:43:03

yourself and you, and you go on. That's

1:43:06

the whole reason that I started listening to you.

1:43:08

I love the guests and everything, but you

1:43:11

just been on fire tonight. Always love

1:43:13

the show, man. Thank you, sir. Thank

1:43:15

you, Albert. Thank you. I've, I,

1:43:17

I really appreciate you hanging

1:43:19

with me all that time. And I'm glad that I'm

1:43:22

glad, I'm glad to hear that some days I need to hear

1:43:24

them more than others. I'll tell you. Um,

1:43:27

so

1:43:28

that's what we have. That's what we have for you

1:43:30

over here. 9 1 4 5 9 5 6 9 5 3. It's

1:43:33

eight 40. I guess I'll just take some more calls

1:43:36

because we have just a little, little time to go. And

1:43:38

then I want to do our bad ass of the night. I'm

1:43:40

not even going to bring up this, uh, the UFOs.

1:43:43

Maybe I'll do that on, uh, both.

1:43:48

Maybe I'll do that on Wednesday, or

1:43:52

Thursday. I forget what the hell's going on this week.

1:43:55

We are not alone. The U S has retrieved

1:43:57

craft of non-human origins as

1:43:59

whistleblower.

1:43:59

from the government the

1:44:02

government task force

1:44:04

on UFOs

1:44:05

so we're gonna be getting into

1:44:07

that and

1:44:10

I'll be splitting up a lot of my inquiries among guests

1:44:12

that'll come on in the future

1:44:14

in the near future all right let's take a

1:44:16

call from John what's going on John

1:44:19

hey it's Annie

1:44:21

John is my husband oh hey what's

1:44:23

up Annie well just

1:44:26

talking about um the

1:44:29

mayor in New York City he

1:44:31

wants to take up residences

1:44:33

private residences for illegals

1:44:36

did you speak about that already I

1:44:38

don't

1:44:38

know yeah yeah yeah yeah we open

1:44:41

we open with that one that he wants

1:44:43

to see if they can spread some money around for for

1:44:45

people to let

1:44:47

let migrant families come into their homes

1:44:50

for what I'm sure is going to be an indefinite

1:44:52

engagement okay

1:44:54

I didn't

1:44:55

I wasn't watching at that time I

1:44:57

wasn't listening at that time

1:44:59

what do you think about it again I think

1:45:02

that it's it's gonna be rife with

1:45:04

corruption and money wasted I think

1:45:07

I think most of that money will probably go to

1:45:09

bigger companies that have swallowed up homes

1:45:12

that have been sold in the last couple of last

1:45:15

couple of years alone for those who actually

1:45:17

are willing dupes to

1:45:19

open up their basements and their addicts to new families

1:45:22

it's gonna be impossible to get them out

1:45:25

I just don't I just don't think that people

1:45:27

are actually gonna go for this no no no no

1:45:29

no they're very very few will

1:45:32

which is why I'm wondering what

1:45:34

they're going to spend the money on to say

1:45:36

that the program was a success because they can

1:45:38

never fail obviously you know

1:45:40

like the 800 million that the

1:45:43

other that de Blasio

1:45:45

took

1:45:46

it's gonna be something like that

1:45:48

yeah yeah okay

1:45:50

yeah I took all in on that thank you the 800 million

1:45:54

the 800 million that he said that they are going

1:45:56

to spend on on giving

1:45:58

full benefits

1:46:00

to non-citizens inside

1:46:03

of New York and we haven't heard about

1:46:05

it since. He said we're gonna get $200,000,000 to set aside for non-citizens for full medical

1:46:11

benefits even though there's plenty of citizens who don't

1:46:13

have insurance and he had the nerve

1:46:15

of saying that it's not going to

1:46:18

come out of taxes. People are

1:46:20

not going to pay for it. Like okay.

1:46:22

Nothing. No, we don't pay for anything.

1:46:24

No taxes come. No, no, no. We

1:46:26

don't pay for anything. It comes out of thin air.

1:46:29

No, you know what it is, Annie. They have all of their

1:46:34

government chocolate bars.

1:46:37

They go selling the government

1:46:39

chocolate bars and that's how they

1:46:41

make their money. That's how government makes money. They sell chocolate

1:46:44

bars.

1:46:44

With

1:46:46

all the kids going around in the supermarkets, hey,

1:46:50

would you like to support our

1:46:52

school? And it's like, yeah, no.

1:46:54

Yeah, no. I'll buy from

1:46:56

them before I do anything else but all

1:46:58

right. Well, thanks for the call. Thank you.

1:47:01

Bye. You got it. Yeah, I

1:47:04

remember those. I used to like the chocolate bars

1:47:06

that we would sell in school. It

1:47:09

had the McDonald's. You

1:47:11

remember those? It had

1:47:13

the McDonald's arches on them. What

1:47:17

was that? Do they still sell those? The kids

1:47:19

get still get sent home with the suitcase,

1:47:22

the cardboard suitcase full of chocolate.

1:47:25

We used to have to sell those. I used to love eating them. I

1:47:28

love the almond

1:47:29

and I love the crisp one. I

1:47:31

didn't like the, I don't like caramel

1:47:34

filled chocolate bars and I, there's

1:47:37

only very few milk chocolate, solid milk chocolate

1:47:40

that I like. I like dark chocolate but I like almonds.

1:47:45

Nutty you're the better.

1:47:47

Nutty you're the better. Let's take a call. 607 you're

1:47:50

on the air. Who dis?

1:47:52

Hey crank it's Mark Sparks. Hey,

1:47:54

what's going on there? Not

1:47:56

much. How are you? I'm okay. I'm okay.

1:47:59

So what's going through your mind? tonight. Well

1:48:02

I had a put my

1:48:04

dog down today. I'm sorry. Thank

1:48:08

you. Yeah it's uh I

1:48:10

mean we gave her up my wife and I because

1:48:12

we had to the landlord and then the

1:48:15

lady that had her had passed and her friend

1:48:17

called said a few months ago said

1:48:20

you want to back sure. She

1:48:22

was blind couldn't hear

1:48:25

diabetes

1:48:26

and uh but you know had it for a few

1:48:29

months and I was grateful for that.

1:48:31

So even

1:48:33

when I heard you talk go ahead. No no

1:48:35

I was gonna say even in her

1:48:37

diminished state she's still a good dog.

1:48:40

Oh yeah definitely little shit coop. Oh

1:48:44

well I'm sorry about your loss. Thank

1:48:47

you thank you. I heard you talking

1:48:49

earlier about the uh uh

1:48:52

New York City and the housing uh

1:48:55

problem and all and uh a

1:48:57

couple years ago I got a settlement uh

1:49:00

small you know and before my wife was going

1:49:02

to pass I wanted to you know get her a place

1:49:04

and we'd have our own place and Sullivan

1:49:07

County we moved up from Queens

1:49:09

up to Sullivan County

1:49:11

and um

1:49:13

I was looking for place and every time I

1:49:15

put a bid in somebody would outbid

1:49:18

me because it was close to New York

1:49:20

City you know Sullivan County.

1:49:23

So I got a place out uh

1:49:25

further out in Broome County.

1:49:27

A nice place and a month

1:49:29

and a half later she had passed I mean I had

1:49:32

talked the last time on the show about this

1:49:34

um

1:49:36

and uh

1:49:39

uh that that

1:49:41

Saturday you talked about the that

1:49:44

uh town in Maine or

1:49:46

Vermont. Maine. Yeah yeah

1:49:49

and it remind me I sent you the email with uh

1:49:51

they're gonna have July 1st and 2nd here

1:49:53

in uh

1:49:55

deposit at the historical society

1:49:58

uh guys gonna show the time

1:49:59

Nashville reservoir

1:50:02

and all the displacement of people

1:50:05

losing their houses. You know, some people got

1:50:07

bought out,

1:50:08

some people they didn't want to leave and

1:50:11

you know, they just let the water come in

1:50:14

and

1:50:15

you know, they lost everything because they wouldn't play

1:50:17

the game. That's a that well,

1:50:20

that's that's what we see, you know, on local

1:50:22

level, there's always been things like that. And I thank

1:50:24

you for the call. And I know I know what you're getting

1:50:26

at there, especially the outbidding.

1:50:30

There's always things, there's always stories to be

1:50:32

said, you know, on a local level, there's a