Episode 99
Episode 99: 2024 Recap Part 2 & 🥡 Buffet, Banter & Biden's Big Freeze
Jump into another lively round of Get It Right Texoma as Mike, Terry, and Trey dish out laughs, local eats, and some spicy takes on the biggest headlines! 🍽️🎉
In this episode:
- 🥡 Local Eats Spotlight: Dive into Hunan Chinese Restaurant on Maplewood—famous for their sweet & sour chicken, generous portions, and unbeatable buffet!
- 🇨🇦 Trudeau Says Au Revoir: Canada's Prime Minister resigns—could Fidel Castro really be his dad?! 🤔
- 🧊 Biden's Big Freeze: The CNN debate shocker that changed U.S. politics forever.
- 🚑 Trump’s Close Call: An assassination attempt that had everyone talking—how a slight head-turn saved Trump's life!
- 🌍 Global Gossip: Greenland, rare earth metals, and a Space Force base—strategic moves or just another Trump troll?
- 👑 Royals & Rebels: America's strange fascination with the British Royal Family—drama, deceit, and Diana!
- 🌀 Stormy Days: Hurricanes Helene & Milton cause chaos—Texoma sends love.
- 🥇 Olympic Moments: Paris Olympics highlights and Texoma's pride, Talia Brooks.
- 🚀 Space Walks & Setbacks: A first for commercial space travel!
🎤 Special Guests: None this episode—but plenty of laughs and local flavor!
📍 Local Shoutouts:
- Hunan Chinese Restaurant
- Barbaritas Mexican Restaurant
- Samurai Tokyo
- 8th Street Coffee House
- Progressive Pizza (Parker Square)
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- 🏍️ Eddie Hill’s Fun Cycles: eddiehillsfuncycles.com
- 🍭 Lollie and Pops Sweet Shop: lpsweet.com
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✅ Businesses & People Mentioned:
- Mike Hendren
- Terry McAdams
- Trey Sralla
- Hunan Chinese Restaurant
- Barbaritas Mexican Restaurant
- Samurai Tokyo
- 8th Street Coffee House
- Progressive Pizza
- MacTech Solutions
- Eddie Hill’s Fun Cycles
- Lollie and Pops Sweet Shop
- Talia Brooks (Local Olympian)
- Ronnie Jackson (Congressman)
Transcript
You make this rather snappy, won't you?
Speaker B: y heavy thinking to do before: Speaker B:Welcome to Get a Ride Texoma with the trio.
Speaker B:Mike, Terry, Trey.
Speaker B:How is everybody?
Speaker B:Our way through a new year here we once again getting together to inform and entertain you and maybe educate you a little bit on some things.
Speaker B:But we're going to talk about a lot of local things around the area.
Speaker B:We're kind of.
Speaker B:Last time we were kind of recapping the year.
Speaker B:We're gonna do that again now we.
Speaker A:Gotta finish up that.
Speaker A:We'll do the second half of the year.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B: The second half of: Speaker B:And boy, there was a lot to talk about.
Speaker B:But anyway, welcome to the program.
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Speaker A:That's a big thing.
Speaker A:Share.
Speaker A:Sharing is caring.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:Sharing is caring.
Speaker C:Don't you feel so good?
Speaker B:Gosh, if only we had Barney the dinosaur behind us to dance.
Speaker B:Anyway, where that came from.
Speaker B:Flashbacks of my children's childhood.
Speaker A:I just was worried about having flashbacks of Mike have a Barney dinosaur behind him.
Speaker A:I don't know what's going on.
Speaker B:Oh, I just gotta make it weird.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Anyway, you said it.
Speaker C:Not weird.
Speaker C:You don't make it weird.
Speaker C:Weird.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Where are we?
Speaker B:Where were we?
Speaker A:Local restaurant.
Speaker B:Oh, yes, our local restaurant.
Speaker B:Focus.
Speaker B:So each show we try to hone in and focus and talk about a locally owned and usually family owned restaurant operation here in the Wichita Falls area.
Speaker B:And this week, this, this episode, we're talking about Hunan's Chinese restaurant.
Speaker B:Chinese, yes.
Speaker B:Option, yes.
Speaker B:Chinese buffet.
Speaker A:But they also just have menu items.
Speaker A:You could just, you could go in and order off the menu or get take, take out there.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, it is, it is really a pretty good buffet, let me tell you.
Speaker B:Oh, man, it is something else.
Speaker B:I don't know how long they've been around.
Speaker A:A long time.
Speaker A:They remodeled.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So they're on Maplewood and they've had, they've had different locations, but they've been on their Maple at their Maplewood location for a number of years.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:They had one out by Shepherd Air Force Base.
Speaker B:For a short while.
Speaker A:It was actually there for about.
Speaker A:That was out there about there about six or seven years.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It's changed hands.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:Barbaritas was out there after that.
Speaker A:Now Barbaritas has moved over on the south side of town.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:Yeah, who Nan's is on.
Speaker A:On Maplewood, the quarter of Maplewood.
Speaker A:And is it Mallard?
Speaker C: It might be Mallard Maple at: Speaker C:And it doesn't actually give it.
Speaker C:There's a Domino's Pizza.
Speaker A:It's across Maple or whatever that side street is from.
Speaker C:And you gotta.
Speaker C:If you're coming from Southwest Parkway.
Speaker C:Sorry about that.
Speaker C:It's hard to get to it unless you go one step early.
Speaker A:Yeah, you need to go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you're coming for.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you're coming down Maplewood from Midwestern Parkway, it's easy.
Speaker A:It's right there.
Speaker A:You can turn it there.
Speaker A:But yeah, if you're going down Southwest Parkway and you're coming from Southwest Parkway, don't.
Speaker A:If you see where the Hoonans is, turn on that street before.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:That's just a little loop there.
Speaker C:And then it goes up near Samurai Samurai Tokyo.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But Nick calls and their little coffee shop, and then boom.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker A:So we're trying to give you directions on how to get there, but the.
Speaker A:The point is they have good food.
Speaker A:And it's always.
Speaker A:It's consistent, it's.
Speaker A:It's reliable.
Speaker A:You know what you're getting.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:And if you like Chinese food, I think it's a.
Speaker A:It's a real good Chinese food, either buffet or takeout.
Speaker A:And they're.
Speaker A:Their takeout is good, too.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:They've got a whole website, but it is just to be picky.
Speaker C:That's Hunan.
Speaker C:We want it.
Speaker C:We.
Speaker C:We refer to it as Hunan.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:This does a common thing, but it is Hunan.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Just no s.
Speaker C:No s.
Speaker C:But hey, but I bet you they'd still take care of you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I bet you.
Speaker A:If you wrote a check and put.
Speaker A:Probably.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But they've been around for a long time, so go check them out.
Speaker C:And they do.
Speaker C:I always.
Speaker C:When we have.
Speaker C:I've never ordered online with them.
Speaker C:I've always called and said, hey, you know, can I get this, this, and this?
Speaker C:Well, when you go to pick it up, it always feels.
Speaker C:It's like, man, you get a lot in here.
Speaker A:You're actually true.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker A:It was $23, and you'd get like three sacks of food.
Speaker A:You're like, a lot of rice there, too.
Speaker B:But a lot of food.
Speaker A:Yeah, but it's good.
Speaker A:And they're in their.
Speaker A:Their sweet and sour chicken is really good.
Speaker A:Their fried rice is good.
Speaker A:So check them out.
Speaker A:Hunan Chinese restaurant.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker B:Kind of a surprise thing on the, on the political scene here.
Speaker B:Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of all Canada, has resigned.
Speaker B:Yeah, just.
Speaker C:He got, he got pissed that, that Trump was suggesting that they become the 51st state.
Speaker B:This is what I don't understand.
Speaker A:He's lost a lot of support.
Speaker A:I think that there's.
Speaker A:Yeah, these liberal.
Speaker A:These liberals all over the world are getting ousted and things like that.
Speaker B:The ultra liberals, the, the far leftism.
Speaker A:That's a better word.
Speaker A:I should not use word liberal.
Speaker B:The leftist leftism.
Speaker B:And true.
Speaker B:And they truly are the fascists, let me tell you.
Speaker A:Look at what they've done with the lockdowns.
Speaker A:Look at what Trudeau did with the truckers when the Canadian truckers went on strike to freeze people's bank accounts.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:That's beyond the pale.
Speaker B:Yeah, it really is.
Speaker B:So he got pushed out.
Speaker B:I think, you know, Trump kind of trolling him a little bit, you know, about the whole.
Speaker B:We'll make you the 51st state.
Speaker B:You can be the governor of the 51st state, you know, whatever.
Speaker B:Kind of.
Speaker B:With the whole.
Speaker B:The other day, the.
Speaker B:We're going to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Speaker B:Yeah, he's trolling people.
Speaker C:We're taking over Greenland.
Speaker C:You know, we're going to invade.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:We're not going to invade anybody.
Speaker A:Now, would we possibly look at acquiring Greenland and buying Greenland?
Speaker A:There's some strategic.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's some.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, actually some strategic stuff there.
Speaker A:Or going to the Greenland government and say, we'd like to buy 500, 5,000 acres or whatever it is here and put a military base here.
Speaker A:That's a possibility.
Speaker B:We already have, apparently.
Speaker B:I think there is a base in Greenland.
Speaker C:I thought.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I don't know if.
Speaker A:I don't know if.
Speaker A:Is it a naval base or an air force base?
Speaker B:I think it's an air force base.
Speaker A:They might want to put a naval base here.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:Well, I know.
Speaker B:I know there was one there 70 years ago or 60 years ago.
Speaker B:And I know this because I have a Zippo cigarette lighter that my mom had and it was Tule.
Speaker B:Is that how you say it?
Speaker C:Tule.
Speaker C:T H U L E.
Speaker C:I think.
Speaker B:Yeah, Tule, Greenland.
Speaker B:And it was a gift that was given to some airman or officer or something.
Speaker B:And it was left at a place where my mother was working.
Speaker A:She ended up acquiring it, and she.
Speaker B:Ended up acquiring it because I couldn't find the owner.
Speaker B:It didn't have a name engraved on it.
Speaker B:It just had a kind of a thank you message on the back of it.
Speaker C:That's what used to be Thule.
Speaker C:Known as Thule.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's, it's the.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Petufic, I guess.
Speaker C:Petufic Space Base, Greenland is part.
Speaker B:It's so from what I've heard, part.
Speaker A:Of the department of Space Force, I guess.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Greenland apparently has some degree of rare earth metals that they can mine there that right now China controls most of the rare earth metals supply in the world.
Speaker B:And so that, I think, is where the strategic approach to this is.
Speaker A:Well, and also shipping lanes, the shipping lanes are opening up.
Speaker A:With the polar ice caps melting a little bit, there's more shipping lanes that are opening up in those areas.
Speaker A:And so, yeah, you want to be sure that China and Russia can't necessarily control those shipping lanes.
Speaker A:So there could be some of that there.
Speaker A:But back to Trudeau.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, I've heard rumors for years.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I don't know, but he does look very.
Speaker A:He does look a lot like Fidel Castro.
Speaker A:Like, he could be a Fidel Castro's kid.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:Look at him in the face.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay, pull it up.
Speaker A:There's been rumors for years that Trudeau's mother and Fidel Castro were very, very close.
Speaker C:Oh.
Speaker B:Oh, look at it.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:With the beard on.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:Show Fidel Castro early.
Speaker A:Fidel Castro.
Speaker A:Not FIDEL Castro at 85 years old.
Speaker B:Let me, let me flip over.
Speaker B:I want to show that picture.
Speaker C:Well, hey, hang on, let me.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah, here, we'll pull.
Speaker C:Let's see if I can get to the.
Speaker C:There we go.
Speaker A:I'm not, I'm not saying.
Speaker A:And I'm.
Speaker A:All I'm saying is I never.
Speaker A:Paywall thought that, but when I hit that, I was like, man.
Speaker A:Well, there's a.
Speaker A:There, you got a picture of it right there.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:The bearded.
Speaker A:True.
Speaker C:The bearded one hit four.
Speaker C:Oh, I did.
Speaker A:He's there.
Speaker C:It's not.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, there it is.
Speaker A:Upper right hand corner.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Or a left hand corner.
Speaker A:Okay, now, now pull up.
Speaker A:FIDEL Castro at 30 years old.
Speaker C:Well, I was actually was gonna do Fidel Castro.
Speaker C:Maybe that's his death.
Speaker C:But father.
Speaker A:Well, conspiracy.
Speaker C:Yeah, there.
Speaker A:I, I, I don't.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:All I'm saying is there is some resemblance there.
Speaker A:That's all I'm saying.
Speaker A:Because at first when I.
Speaker A:And I didn't really, really see that until he put.
Speaker A:Got the beard, but once he got the beard.
Speaker A:It does, it does.
Speaker A:There is a resemblance there, and it could be completely coincidental, but there is a connection.
Speaker A:Look at that.
Speaker C:There.
Speaker B:There's Fidel, I'm telling you.
Speaker C:Okay, well, they're not far.
Speaker B:That is a little creepy.
Speaker B:I had never.
Speaker B:I had never considered that before.
Speaker C:I'm gonna bring.
Speaker C:Let's see.
Speaker C:Images.
Speaker C:I'll bring up.
Speaker C:Let's see.
Speaker A:Oh, there.
Speaker B:There's a side by side.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, but that's that.
Speaker A:This guy's got a cigar.
Speaker C:Here.
Speaker C:Here's another one.
Speaker C:Once again, he's 95, too old.
Speaker C:Here we go.
Speaker A:Look at that.
Speaker C:Now that.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So this is Snikey's bad man, Times of India.
Speaker C:That's a video.
Speaker C:Or.
Speaker C:Oh, and then there's even this.
Speaker C:Oh, a split face.
Speaker B:Oh, will it let you open that up bigger?
Speaker C:Yeah, there it is.
Speaker A:I'm just telling you.
Speaker B:I'm not.
Speaker A:I don't know that he is obviously Fidel Castro's kid, and it really doesn't matter one way or another.
Speaker A:I just think it's interesting.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But there was.
Speaker A:The thing is, there was a connection between his mother and Fidel Castro.
Speaker A:So it's not like, you know, if somebody said, oh, he could be Fidel Castro's K.
Speaker A:That's plausible.
Speaker A:And Fidel Castro and his mother never met.
Speaker A:Well, obviously they can't, you know, Immaculate conception.
Speaker A:Trudeau is not second coming of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:It wasn't immaculate conception.
Speaker A:But think of himself that way.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:But anyhow, anyway, I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker B:Trudeau has resigned and.
Speaker A:Au revoir, Trudeau.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, yeah, don't worry.
Speaker B:He'll pop up somewhere else and you.
Speaker A:Might be on the speaking tour and make.
Speaker A:Make millions of dollars, write a book, and that's what I'm saying, and go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Start.
Speaker A:Start doing public engagements and stuff like that.
Speaker A:I just hope that we get more somebody, more sens.
Speaker A:Canada as their.
Speaker A:As their new prime minister, because Canada is very important.
Speaker A:I mean, it's our number one trading partner.
Speaker A:They're.
Speaker A:They're right there.
Speaker A:I mean, Canada is a.
Speaker A:Is a very important partner with America, with the United States.
Speaker A:Maple syrup, that's.
Speaker B:What else do you need?
Speaker B:Maple.
Speaker B:Canada.
Speaker B:Maple syrup.
Speaker B:Let's do it.
Speaker A:We have some maple syrup in Texas.
Speaker B:I just don't.
Speaker B:I just don't know if we have enough Vermont.
Speaker B:That what's concerns.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, you go to Vermont.
Speaker B:Rare earth minerals and maple syrup.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker A:The the natural resources that Canada does has.
Speaker A:Canada's a massive place.
Speaker B:Oh, it is.
Speaker A:It's huge.
Speaker A:It's not a.
Speaker A:Now there's not a ton of people there because a lot of it's uninhabitable.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:But there.
Speaker A:Canada is a massive, massive country.
Speaker B:It is, it is.
Speaker B:And you know, I don't know, maybe we could have had it at one time.
Speaker B:Maybe we could have taken them at one time.
Speaker A: I will tell you the War of: Speaker A:They take.
Speaker A: really talk about the war of: Speaker A:It was very personal to the Canadians and there were the Americans kind of took their aggression out on a lot.
Speaker A:I think, of course, this is more the Canadian history.
Speaker A:I don't know how true it was, but I think that there was some pretty bitter attacks of.
Speaker A:By.
Speaker A:Of the Americans to the Canadians.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A: Because during the War of: Speaker A:We couldn't sail over to England and fight them on their land.
Speaker A:So we'll kick your guys ass that are.
Speaker A:You're calling us are over here.
Speaker A:We'll kick their ass because they're.
Speaker A:They're on the same continent.
Speaker A: Remember The War of: Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:That was a.
Speaker A:That was a significant war.
Speaker A:It's just that we had the Revolutionary War and then we had the Civil War, and those take up so much oxygen out of the room.
Speaker A: The War of: Speaker A:But it was a big deal to those people at that time.
Speaker B:I've never understood why so many Americans have such an obsession with the royal family of England.
Speaker B:There's almost.
Speaker B:I mean, I know some people, women I've met over the years that are just.
Speaker B:And a lot of it goes back to Charles and Diana, and it was sort of almost like a Ken and Barbie kind of thing, you know, But.
Speaker B:Yeah, but I've never understood why we have such an obsession with the royal family of England.
Speaker B:It's like we fought a war to get away from them.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think it's a pretty small percentage, but they're loud.
Speaker A:It's kind of one of those.
Speaker A:Relatively loud.
Speaker A:But yeah, I do think there is some.
Speaker A:And I don't know what the.
Speaker A:What the allure is.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker A:I will say I did not like the way that the royal family got trashed publicly because they're the heads of state from some of the people that were in their family that were just making stuff Up Meghan Markle, for instance.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, they didn't, the queen did not deserve that.
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Diana.
Speaker A:I don't, I don't, I'm not a, I was not a big Diana fan.
Speaker A:I think Diana did some really good things in her life.
Speaker A:But towards the end of her life when she started cheating on, publicly on Charles and started trashing the royal family, stuff like that, I didn't think that was, I thought, didn't think, didn't think it was a good look.
Speaker B:Apparently that was a two way street with Charles.
Speaker A:Oh, I'm sure it was.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But he, he didn't come out and publicly trash her.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:So anyhow, doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B: Top stories of: Speaker B:Let's continue with this June.
Speaker B:We had the CNN debate.
Speaker A:The, the debate.
Speaker B:And oh, how embarrassing that was.
Speaker A:This, this was the world's exposure and realization of what the three of us have been saying for years.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:And the curtain was pulled back for everybody to see.
Speaker A:And everybody saw it in June and the world, the, literally the world changed.
Speaker A:The political landscape of America changed that night.
Speaker B:And once that happened, there was no way to unwind that clock.
Speaker B:No, absolutely no way to unwind that clock.
Speaker B:It was just, I watched every second of that debate that night.
Speaker B:And one third of the way into it, I said out loud, he's done.
Speaker B:Oh, sure he's done.
Speaker B:This, this is, he's officially toasted tonight.
Speaker A:There was a point when Trump looked over and said, I don't know what he just said.
Speaker B:Nobody did.
Speaker A:He was right.
Speaker A:I mean, it was, to me, it wasn't funny.
Speaker A:It was sad.
Speaker A:When you see somebody who's, who is struggling mentally and I have empathy, I don't think it's, haha.
Speaker A:I think it's sad.
Speaker A:And then my sadness turns to a little bit of anger.
Speaker A:Why is his family letting him do that?
Speaker A:Well, if it was your, where is his family?
Speaker B:If it was your mom or dad or grandma or grandpa or yours or mine, we wouldn't put them in a situation publicly to be embarrassed like that.
Speaker B:We would not put them in what is essentially a compromising situation.
Speaker A:You wouldn't do it at church.
Speaker A:You damn sure wouldn't do it for the world to see.
Speaker B:No, but the, it's, it just, I think it goes back to the, the, the hunger for power that the family has, their desire to hold on to that.
Speaker B:But also the Democratic Party.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:They thought they could pull this ruse.
Speaker B:Over on the public, they thought they could.
Speaker B:It backfired in grand fashion that night, and then once it did, they had no choice but to start to admit, okay, there's a problem here.
Speaker B:And Kamala Harris apparently became the obvious immediate replacement.
Speaker A:That's the next month.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, that long?
Speaker A:Yeah, but.
Speaker A:But it was.
Speaker A:It was so.
Speaker A:That was sad.
Speaker A:And like I said, my dis.
Speaker A:My dismay, it wasn't surprising.
Speaker A:I mean, we knew all this.
Speaker A:We knew this was coming.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But my dismay and then my.
Speaker A:And then my anger towards that family, it's like, why are you treating your family member, somebody who supposedly love and care about and really should protect when they're vulnerable this way?
Speaker A:And it's all because, like you said, power and money, they're all sucking off the government teeth.
Speaker A:Joe Biden was the cash cow of that.
Speaker A:He was the only one bringing, really.
Speaker A:Hunter Biden would be some junkie loser somewhere that had never made a nickel, probably, if it had not been his last name and not been provided.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:Well, just a story that, you know, obviously from CNN after it happened is interesting just to look at that.
Speaker C:You know, they even pointed out, yeah, Biden's age problem just got a lot worse.
Speaker C:And Trump pulls some of his punches with us.
Speaker C:So, yeah, he held back.
Speaker A:He did a little bit.
Speaker A:That was the first time also that I saw.
Speaker A:And I was actually, same night, I said, I appreciate what Trump did tonight because Trump could have gone hard in the paint, and he didn't.
Speaker A:And that's the first time I've ever seen Trump pull back.
Speaker A:And I think it was the right move for him to pull back.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker B:So anyhow, okay.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:We had the Summer Olympics in Paris, which I'll admit, I didn't watch one minute of.
Speaker A:I watched.
Speaker A:I watched a bunch of it.
Speaker B:I didn't.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:That's the opening ceremony.
Speaker B:We were talking about another restaurant earlier, the pizza place over in Parker Square.
Speaker B:Oh, yes, Progressive Pizza.
Speaker B:We were sitting at Progressive Pizza having dinner.
Speaker B:It was me, my wife, my daughter, and my grandchildren.
Speaker B:And we're sitting there having dinner, and the opening ceremony is on.
Speaker B:And I'm looking at this and going, what exactly am I looking at here?
Speaker C:Is this the one with the.
Speaker C:The last supper thing?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I never even.
Speaker A:I never even watched.
Speaker A:I care about the games.
Speaker A:I was like, the ceremonies.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker B:What are you doing?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And that, for me, that was enough of a turn off right there.
Speaker B:I was like, I don't want.
Speaker B:I don't want to watch any more of this.
Speaker A:The Thing I like about the Olympics is I like, it's the best of the best of our mostly amateur athletes.
Speaker B:And we did have a local athlete that was there.
Speaker B:That's right, yeah.
Speaker A:Who work very hard to.
Speaker A:Lia Talia Brooks was there who worked very hard their whole lives to get to that point.
Speaker A:And they are competing on the grandest stage of the world and they're representing the United States.
Speaker A:I got USA all over them.
Speaker A:I love the Olympics for that reason.
Speaker A:The patriotism of the Olympics, that's what I love.
Speaker A:I don't care about the opening ceremony, I don't care about the closing ceremony.
Speaker A:And I don't watch everything.
Speaker A:I don't, I don't like gymnastics, but I'm going to watch, I do watch a lot of track and field.
Speaker A:I'll watch fencing.
Speaker A:I watch some of the judo stuff.
Speaker A:I do watch the wrestling.
Speaker A:I watch a lot, watch a little boxing.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I'm an Olympics guy.
Speaker B:Claudia Sheinbaum wins Mexico's presidential election in a landslide, becoming the first female president in the country's 200 year history.
Speaker B:And I'm thinking the same shine bomb.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's not, that's not usually a Hispanic name.
Speaker B:Not.
Speaker B:Yeah, doesn't, doesn't sound very Latin to me.
Speaker A:Of course, it's like anything else.
Speaker A:I mean, there's a lot of diversity and there actually is a lot of diversity in Mexico.
Speaker A:There's, you know, you have lily white people, there's villages in Mexico with lily white people.
Speaker A:Still, still speak German.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:And things like that.
Speaker A:So there's a lot of diversity.
Speaker A:Mexico is another one.
Speaker A:It's a big country.
Speaker B:Well, we haven't heard a lot about her recently.
Speaker A:She was pretty, yeah, she was pretty liberal.
Speaker A:She kind of made a splash.
Speaker A:But it seems like a lot of that has, has died down.
Speaker B:So she hasn't really made a lot of headlines here, here in the US but arguably we've had a lot of other things going on too.
Speaker B:And so the, the, you know, the newswire, if she's done anything outstanding, you know, in the last, I don't know, six months, she, she probably hasn't gotten a lot of attention over here.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm sure she'll see how she works with Trump when it comes to things.
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker A:We, honestly, what we got to do in Mexico, what, what Mexico needs and I, and I am all for the United States helping on this.
Speaker A:Mexico needs a middle class.
Speaker A:They have, they have some really rich people and they got a lot of really poor people.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:And they don't have much of a middle class there now.
Speaker A:It is growing a little bit because there are some factories that are opening up there.
Speaker A:I know in the power sports business there's a couple of can am as a factory there.
Speaker A:Polaris is a factory there.
Speaker A:So when we, if we could bring our, a lot of our manufacturing that is in the Middle East, I'm sorry, in China, the orientation and bring it over to Mexico.
Speaker A:I'm a firm believer in that.
Speaker A:Grow that Mexican middle class.
Speaker A:It'll help immigration, it'll help so many things.
Speaker A:And like for instance, I've got a friend who, who worked for me for a long time and he's a super good guy and it makes me sad, it made me very sad that he left.
Speaker A:He would have to leave his family to come to America and work at two places, my, my store and another place.
Speaker A:And he could make more money, much more money than he could working in Mexico.
Speaker A:And he was a road builder.
Speaker A:His job was to build roads.
Speaker A:You live in America and you're a road builder.
Speaker A:That's a pretty good job.
Speaker A:You're going to make good money.
Speaker A:But it's because they have no middle class.
Speaker A:So whatever geopolitical things or whatever military pressures we need to do, we need to help Mexico grow their middle class.
Speaker A:It'll be better for everybody.
Speaker A:It'll be better for the North American continent because Mexico is great people for the most part.
Speaker A:There's bad people everywhere.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:But you have very generally very family oriented people, very hardworking people, very down to earth people.
Speaker A:Mexico is full of great people and full of great culture and they've got the best damn food in the world.
Speaker A:My opinion.
Speaker A:So if we can help America, we as America can help Mexico grow their middle class, they would be, they would turn into a great another, a better strategic part than they are than they are now.
Speaker B:Well, a lot of that's going to depend on the government of Mexico finally tackling corruption within their own.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:That's the biggest thing.
Speaker A:You're absolutely right.
Speaker B:They're going to have to, you're going to have to tackle.
Speaker A:That's almost why I wonder, I wonder if we need to, we need to use some military work.
Speaker B:It's been threatened.
Speaker C:Now we've talked about this, yeah, we've talked about this on I think on the radio where I did a little bit of background on Mexico and, and the terrain itself is such that it's just not impossible, but nearly impossible, especially with their economy now may not be able to afford having a police force out in those rural areas.
Speaker C:That are very difficult to.
Speaker C:And that's where the cartel is.
Speaker A:I would rather commit American troops to doing some of that.
Speaker A:Hell, we're committing them to Afghanistan.
Speaker A:And their terrain's not worse than Afghanistan.
Speaker B:Nope, nope, they're not.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:I'm for that, if that would help.
Speaker A:And now it would be the American.
Speaker A:The Mexican government would have to kind of swallow their pride a little bit on this one.
Speaker A:But if we could convince them that in the end, we really want to help you.
Speaker A:We, we want your country to be better.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I truly believe that.
Speaker A:I think most Americans want Mexico to be better, be a better country.
Speaker A:Better for the people there.
Speaker C:But we could train.
Speaker C:I mean, it'd take a while, but we could train their troops.
Speaker C:And I'd rather that money go to Mexico than to some of the Afghanistan.
Speaker A:Yeah, we did that.
Speaker A:We had.
Speaker A:We had troops in Afghanistan.
Speaker A:A guy that, that Mike and I went to high school with died in the early days of Afghanistan and he was over there training.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, and that's why, like I said, I'd rather us do that here because we're going to see a much.
Speaker C:Plus, we have a lot more direct supervision over.
Speaker A:Well, it's right there.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:From a national security standpoint.
Speaker A:What's more important, Something that happens in Afghanistan, which is important.
Speaker A:I'm not saying it.
Speaker A:Or something happens on your doorstep.
Speaker A:And we've talked about all of the, the, the millions and millions of people that have flooded across the borders.
Speaker A:If America, if Mexico, if Mexico, the country of Mexico, not the people.
Speaker A:The country of Mexico can get their crap together and solidify their borders and have a good middle class here where people don't want to necessarily come to America to make, to make money because they can't make money at home and live with their families.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Then it'll be better for everybody.
Speaker B:So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker C:She's got a degree.
Speaker C:She's got a PhD in engineering.
Speaker C:Energy Engineering.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:So anyway, maybe she's smart enough to make it happen.
Speaker B:July was a very, very busy month.
Speaker B:We had the assassination attempt on Donald Trump where he, by a nanosecond of a head turn, missed getting shot in the head.
Speaker A:He was shot in the head.
Speaker B:He was shot.
Speaker A:It just didn't penetrate his head.
Speaker A:He got his ear, but your ears are part of your head.
Speaker B:You go back, you watch the video.
Speaker B:If he had not turned his head to the right slightly at the moment that shot was fired, we would not be talking about President elect Donald Trump.
Speaker A:It had gone straight in his head.
Speaker A:There's no doubt about it.
Speaker B:No question about that.
Speaker A:And the joke he made was this chart when he was at the Republican National.
Speaker A:This chart saved my life.
Speaker A:And I think that that changed things on so many levels.
Speaker C:Donald Trump solidified his election bid.
Speaker A:I think it was a massive part of it.
Speaker A:I think it.
Speaker B:A lot.
Speaker A:And let me tell you something.
Speaker A:You could like Trump.
Speaker A:Not like Trump.
Speaker A:I'm not a big fan of him personally on a lot of different levels, but when he stood up, that guy just got shot in the head.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So if you've never been shot or never been shot at for real and realized that you were just a nanosecond away from dying, you don't understand what it's like unless your life is.
Speaker A:Unless you've literally faced sudden, certain death.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And you come through it.
Speaker A:And for him to go down on the ground, then come back up and go fight, fight, fight.
Speaker A:That guy's got balls.
Speaker A:That is a tough dude.
Speaker B:And we're not talking about a young man here.
Speaker B:We're talking about a guy who's 78.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He wasn't.
Speaker A:Yeah, he wasn't jumping up trying to.
Speaker A:Trying to get.
Speaker A:Get into a fistfight, but he was just his adrenaline.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker A:That guy is a fighter.
Speaker A:And that was a.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That image of him holding this fist up with blood going down his ear, and all these people that say it was fake.
Speaker A:You can't fake.
Speaker A:Hollywood can't fake that.
Speaker A:And by the way, is it fake to the.
Speaker A:To the guy who got killed behind him?
Speaker A:Because, remember, there were people that died, and Ronnie Jackson's nephew was wounded.
Speaker A:There were people that were wounded.
Speaker A:And there was a man that died.
Speaker A:Two men.
Speaker A:Two.
Speaker A:Is it two people that died?
Speaker B:I think.
Speaker B:I think there was one that died and two firefighters.
Speaker B:Two that were wounded.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:One of them being Congressman Jackson's nephew.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Who were wounded.
Speaker B:I think they both.
Speaker B:I know his nephew was.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I'm pretty sure the other person survived it.
Speaker B:And then the fireman who was killed, he was there with his daughter.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:And he was killed.
Speaker B:And it just, you know, so.
Speaker B:No, it wasn't faked.
Speaker B:It wasn't faked at all.
Speaker B:Not at all.
Speaker B:Biden announced he was going to abandon his reelection bid in July after the miserable performance at the June debate.
Speaker B:And then almost immediately, it was announced that Kamala Harris would be named the.
Speaker C:And this is after the convention, right?
Speaker B:No, the convention was in August, and I really assumed that they would hold back and drop Somebody in, at the, at the convention.
Speaker B:They parachute somebody in at the convention, but they didn't.
Speaker B:They went ahead and named her.
Speaker B:Interesting sidebar to this.
Speaker B:Just a couple days before we're recording this podcast, Kamala Harris made history.
Speaker B:The first female former presidential candidate to publicly announce and affirm her loss.
Speaker B:A joint session of Congress had to certify the election, and she, as Vice President of the United States, serves as president of the Senate.
Speaker B:And she had to stand there and basically say, I lost, he won.
Speaker A:Well, it's the same as Mike Pence.
Speaker A:Well, Mike Pence wasn't running, though.
Speaker A:Yeah, she was actually the candidate.
Speaker B:Yeah, she was actually the Democratic candidate.
Speaker B:She was the nominee.
Speaker A:Is that the first time you said woman, but is it the first time it's ever happened in history?
Speaker B:I don't know if it's the first time it's ever happened in history, but now she is the first female candidate for president to announce that it might.
Speaker A:Have never happened in male history.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:May not have.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I haven't looked that deep into it yet.
Speaker B:But I just know that I thought I, that was, I'm like, that's, that's got to sting.
Speaker C:Well, that's got to stay subject to, to correction.
Speaker C:But my understanding is, I was listening to a radio show yesterday, and they said that it wasn't even that it was.
Speaker C:What's interesting is, is that we've never had, or at least in recent history, a, an election where a Republican was, was won, and that some Democrat didn't come up and protest it, challenge it, and challenge it.
Speaker C:And this time they were all quiet.
Speaker C:They all, of course, there was a.
Speaker C:I heard a speech.
Speaker C:I forget who the person was, but it was a Democrat that got up and said, hey, you know, we, our side didn't challenge anything.
Speaker C:We didn't give you any hassle and whatever.
Speaker C:And then of course, the Republicans, you know, when they, we just elected president, you know, the president, I will tell.
Speaker B:You, there's a, there's a couple of those mouthpieces on Twitter that have been going hot and heavy about this was a stolen election.
Speaker B:Trump colluded with Russia and they stole the election.
Speaker B:I'm like, okay, you, you prosecuted people for saying that about Biden's win.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And Trump's lost to him in 20.
Speaker B:And now here you are.
Speaker B:Come on, shut up.
Speaker A:There's always going to be those people.
Speaker A:But you're, But, Terry, I agree, Terry, you're right for main actual.
Speaker A:Because usually the candidate, you know, Hillary Clinton is out there screaming bloody murder.
Speaker A:Al Gore was out there screaming bloody murder like that.
Speaker B:So, yeah, see here, August, we had the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War.
Speaker B:I don't recall what the numbers were.
Speaker A:But I think it was about four or five.
Speaker A:I mean, it wasn't a lot of people, but I think it was four or five people.
Speaker A:But that doesn't happen.
Speaker A:Obviously.
Speaker A:We don't do a lot of prisoner swaps anymore.
Speaker B:No, we don't.
Speaker B:We don't.
Speaker B:Ukraine invaded parts of Russia, a part of Russia accelerating that conflict, and we're still dealing with that.
Speaker B:And, oh, by the way, in just the last couple of weeks, we sent billions more in aid to Ukraine.
Speaker B:I want to say there was another 18 or 20 billion that went to the Ukrainians.
Speaker B:We just keep giving them money and arms and whatever with no projection on when this is going to end and how deep into this thing are we going to get.
Speaker B:We've provided some very heavy weaponry, planes, I think, or some aircraft went indirectly to Ukraine through another NATO partner.
Speaker B:And then.
Speaker B:And then, of course, the money itself, the, the cash flow that's going into Ukraine.
Speaker A:See, and that's, that's where I have a problem.
Speaker A:I, I don't believe in sending cash.
Speaker A:Now, I'm not against selling weapons, but I use the word sell.
Speaker A:Selling weapons.
Speaker A:Ukraine is a rich country.
Speaker B:Oh, very.
Speaker A:So, by the way.
Speaker A:Okay, Ukraine, that's fine.
Speaker A:We now own this oil field.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Or, or whatever, that's fine.
Speaker A:We'll.
Speaker A:We'll provide you a couple of tanks and some bombs and some missiles and stuff like that.
Speaker A:But this oil field now belongs to the United States government.
Speaker A:The United States people.
Speaker A:Not the government.
Speaker A:The United States people.
Speaker B:Hurricane Helene hit the Southeast US in September.
Speaker B:More than 230 people were killed.
Speaker B:Tens of billions of dollars in property damage and a little bit of chaos.
Speaker A:This was what was so horrific about this hurricane.
Speaker A:It wasn't just that it hit the places that the hurricane usually hits.
Speaker A:It's when it went inland.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:There was very little damage, actually.
Speaker C:Comparative traditional hurricane.
Speaker A:It's the flooding.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Think about the rain that it.
Speaker B:Coastlines getting devastated by the surge and the winds.
Speaker B:But, yeah, the flooding was.
Speaker B:It was historic flooding.
Speaker B:Oh, it was biblical proportions that had never seen flooding like that.
Speaker B:Ever.
Speaker B:Yeah, ever.
Speaker C:And then a couple weeks later, the second hurricane.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And I, I.
Speaker C:And it wasn't as bad, Milton.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:Hurricane Milton.
Speaker A:It was in October.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it was.
Speaker A:Yeah, was so sad seeing the pictures when you have these roads that are washed out and you have people that literally couldn't go help people because they couldn't get.
Speaker A:They couldn't go through because the roads were gone.
Speaker A:The bridges and roads were gone.
Speaker A:They weren't just hard to pass, they were impossible to pass.
Speaker B:You can't rebuild all that destroyed infrastructure in a matter of weeks or months.
Speaker B:Some of that's going to take years to get rebuilt.
Speaker A:First off, you got to dry everything out.
Speaker A:You got to wait till the water recedes.
Speaker A:You can't go start building a road when the water's still blowing through there.
Speaker B:And then you've got hundreds of millions of tons of debris that you're going to have to remove.
Speaker B:The landscape is altered.
Speaker B:And so now you've got years ahead of you of bridge building and road construction.
Speaker B:You know, some of that's.
Speaker B:Some of that.
Speaker B:A little bit of that is recovered.
Speaker B:But some of that stuff will take three, four, five years to get rebuilt.
Speaker A:Crazy.
Speaker B:It's just the way it is.
Speaker B:Let's see here.
Speaker B:We had also in September, the first commercial spacewalk happened.
Speaker A:I just think I look at that as kind of the what's coming.
Speaker A:The next evolution where the space whole spacing gets away from what's not 100% dominated by the government and let some commercial enterprises do it.
Speaker A:And you know, under.
Speaker A:Under the work of a NASA.
Speaker A:It's almost like to me, NASA is almost like the F should be the faa, right.
Speaker A:You know, we have government control of the airlines to some degree.
Speaker A:The airlines don't work for the government.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:But they are regulated heavily.
Speaker A:Right, by the government to make sure things are safe and that sort of thing, or relatively safe or whatever it is.
Speaker A:And to me, that, to me is where NASA should become similar to the faa, maybe with and have some research, but be a partnership where we're not spending just all tax money only to shoot a rocket into space that we're going to destroy.
Speaker B:NASA clearly is not what it was 50 years ago and I never will be.
Speaker A:And the innovation, there was a lot of innovation.
Speaker A:NASA, but they never had the innovation.
Speaker A:They never had the wherewithal or the motivation, I should say, to innovate.
Speaker A:Reusing shit, right?
Speaker A:Because it's just taxpayer money.
Speaker B:Boom.
Speaker A:If it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker A:Whereas your Bezos and your Musks and all those, they have motivation to reuse stuff because that's $3 million.
Speaker A:We can't afford another 3 million bucks.
Speaker A:Well, let's try to use that, right?
Speaker B:We got, I think NASA got so heavily dependent on the shuttle program, for example, that's Technology that they started creating in the 60s.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker C:But I mean, they had the right.
Speaker B:Mindset, obviously brought it to fruition in the 70s.
Speaker B:And we had the first launch, what, at 80, 80 or 81 was the first shuttle launch, I think something like that.
Speaker B:So it was a 15 year project to get it from development to launch.
Speaker B:But then we depended on the shuttle program for decades.
Speaker B:And you've got these vehicles.
Speaker B:Yeah, we were not reusing the rockets and the solid boosters and all that, that all fell into the ocean is gone, but we were reusing these vehicles and the wear and tear on them, you know, the, the, the, the lack of safety in those clearly played a huge role in the fact that we had not one, but two shuttle crews die trying to get back.
Speaker B:Well, one launch and one trying to get back to Earth.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I just, I remember we were in.
Speaker B:You and I were in junior high school.
Speaker A:Terry Hit.
Speaker A:We were.
Speaker A:I was in Terry Hit's classroom watching it happen.
Speaker B:I was, I was in, I was in the gym getting dressed.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And when they, when the announcement came across, when Mr.
Speaker B:Polk.
Speaker A:We were watching it.
Speaker A:We were watching it live because so many people did.
Speaker A:Because there was.
Speaker A:The first time a civilian.
Speaker A:We had gone into space.
Speaker A:And it was a teacher.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:And it was a teacher.
Speaker A:So there was millions of school kids all over America that they rolled TVs into the classroom and they were watching this happen.
Speaker A:Sat there and watched it live.
Speaker B:And then, and then you got to explain to these kids what just happened.
Speaker A:But really nobody even knew.
Speaker A:I mean, they kind of knew, but kind of like.
Speaker B:Well, clearly it blew up.
Speaker A:Yeah, but I mean.
Speaker A:But right there.
Speaker A:Yeah, you say that, but at first you're really not 100 sure because you're going, it's going into outer space.
Speaker A:It's kind of disappearing.
Speaker A:Then you start seeing stuff fall and.
Speaker A:But the camera, the, the TV cut away a little bit.
Speaker A:I mean, I don't, I don't know that 100 that I comprehended that that thing just blew up.
Speaker C:Nobody.
Speaker C:I think most people didn't.
Speaker C:And even they, even the controllers that was announcing everything, obviously a major malfunction, I think is the word.
Speaker B:That's the words they use.
Speaker C:But you don't want to get excited.
Speaker C:I mean, they train for this stuff.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:That's what they do.
Speaker C:But then for us, as we've seen how many.
Speaker C:Up to that point, we had seen so many, however many it was, and they went up and it looked a little weird and not quite sure in the immediate moment of it.
Speaker C:Yeah, you're going, like, what's going on now?
Speaker C:In my case, I was, and I was active duty, I was in Arkansas and I was working swing shift and my buddy of mine came in at lunch and woke me up because I worked a night shift.
Speaker C:And so he woke me up and said, hey man, the space shuttle blew up.
Speaker C:And I go, whoa, cnn.
Speaker C:And watched it.
Speaker B: had the Columbia disaster in: Speaker B: That was when we were: Speaker B:And I remember I was working at a vet at the multipurpose event center, went back to the station and we were, you know, everybody's on top of this thing.
Speaker B:And I just remember sitting there watching it on the screen and on the tv, going, not again.
Speaker B:Here we go again.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then of course, that, but you know, that was reentry and we, and there were pieces of debris scattered across Texas, Louisiana, I think even Mississippi.
Speaker B:It just, it was bad.
Speaker B:The thing just disintegrated.
Speaker C:But on this though, on this whole thing of space travel, even the current people, we're going to have an accident.
Speaker C:I mean, wishing for it, I don't want.
Speaker C:But, but just like we don't want people to get killed in their car driving it.
Speaker C:There are going to be accidents.
Speaker B:Law of averages.
Speaker C:And so, so it hasn't happened.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:We haven't lost anybody that.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:That I'm aware of when the commercial, commercial stuff.
Speaker A:Not yet.
Speaker C:So it will happen.
Speaker C:And so I think that that's one of those discussions that, that we forget.
Speaker C:We get all caught up in the wonderfulness of this cool thing that's going on and forget, look, this is dangerous business.
Speaker A:Well, it's like anything else.
Speaker A:It's like we're better than we used to be.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:We take risk.
Speaker A:And, and those people, everybody that got in those space shows, while I have empathy for them, they knew what they were going to do.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:It's the same thing as when you fly a plane.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Is.
Speaker A:It's not, it's not unusual risk to fly in an airplane, but you will never die in a plane crash sitting in your, in your living room.
Speaker C:No, but you're diagnosed.
Speaker A:What I'm saying is.
Speaker A:So we all take chances in life.
Speaker A:Life is a zero sum game.
Speaker A:You know, it's, you know, we all take chances on our everyday life.
Speaker A:You take chances getting into the car, you take chances getting out on the road.
Speaker A:There's so many things you take chances in and you just do the calculated risk.
Speaker B:Well, you know, it's like, like a meme I saw on Facebook the Other day, your chances of being killed by a cow are slim, but never zero.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, shark, you'll never get bit by a shark in your backyard.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:So unless you go into the ocean, your chances of getting bitten by a shark are zero.
Speaker A:But once you go into there, once you go into their territory, oh, sure, that's their backyard.
Speaker C:But, but the thing is though, that risk.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You're probably not, you're not going to be killed by a rattler in the ocean.
Speaker A:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:That's what I'm getting at.
Speaker A:You're, you're.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's.
Speaker A:And that's what we have to look at it.
Speaker A:You're not a victim.
Speaker A:If you, when you hear that.
Speaker A:When I hear shark bite victim and somebody swimming in the ocean, you're not a victim.
Speaker A:You're you.
Speaker A:You got bitten by a shark.
Speaker A:If a shark bit you in your backyard, now you're a victim.
Speaker C:And probably he was just curious on what that thing is and wanted to take a taste to see what it was.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Do I want that to eat?
Speaker B:Is it edible?
Speaker C:Yeah, let's just take a taste.
Speaker B:Is it edible?
Speaker B:That's all you know.
Speaker B:Does it taste like chicken?
Speaker A:Sharks think that they don't really.
Speaker C:Apparently they don't really like humans.
Speaker C:They like seals.
Speaker C:And you look like a seal.
Speaker C:Let's see if you are.
Speaker C:And then that's enough to really mess up your day.
Speaker B:It really is.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:There was a second attempt on Trump's life.
Speaker B:This also happened in September.
Speaker B:This one, this was the one at Mar a Lago, was it not?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:There was a guy who basically camped out in a sniper.
Speaker A:He created a sniper's nest.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:It was camped out in a sniper's nest and he was found out before he could get a shot off.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:So, so there's that.
Speaker A:But it really was.
Speaker A:There was a guy who was there with a gun in a position to try to assassinate the President.
Speaker A:So it really was a real assassination attempt.
Speaker A:It just.
Speaker A:Fortunately he got foiled ahead of time.
Speaker B:Campbell Soup Company, 155 year old corporation made the announcement in September of last year that they are going to drop soup from the corporate name.
Speaker B:They're just going to become the Campbell's company.
Speaker C:Well, you know, the Apple did the same thing years ago.
Speaker C:They were Apple Computer for so long and then they just said, well, now we're just Apple.
Speaker B:Well, you're making more than computers, you know, Apple, iPhone.
Speaker A:I just think this is historic because it's 155 years old.
Speaker A:You Know, Apple did that.
Speaker A:But Apple's only been around since the 70s, right?
Speaker C:Oh, sure, yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, which, which I, I agree with you.
Speaker A:Same thing.
Speaker A:It's impressive.
Speaker A:But 155 years, that's a long time to have one name.
Speaker B:And, and I guess Campbell's makes more than soup.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, they make more soup.
Speaker B:I guess it comes.
Speaker C:A lot of these companies have just gotten huge.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:They're convinced.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And that's, you know, in October we had the next hurricane, the Category 5 Hurricane Milton, which again, destructive, horrible, horrible hurricane.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And especially on the heels of the.
Speaker B:One that just one that just happened.
Speaker A:You know, it's not like there was years in the between.
Speaker A:There was two weeks.
Speaker C:Did we mean to skip that one?
Speaker C:Because I think that was cool.
Speaker C:What's that Israel attack?
Speaker B:Oh, you know, we did skip.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:Israel.
Speaker B:Israel attacks Hezbollah with a massive pager attack.
Speaker B: wounded or: Speaker C:That made use of technology in a very innovative way.
Speaker B:They, they, that was some James Bond caliber stuff and logistics.
Speaker C:The actual, just the miniaturization of a, you know, it's one, these had explosives in them.
Speaker A:Well, and have to have to go back to the source.
Speaker A:You know, they had to have people on the inside at the plant, at the factory.
Speaker C:They had to involve them to get that all done and get these particular batch of them to the right people and everything.
Speaker C:I mean, and gosh, in a way though, if now I'm just looking at this from an outside viewpoint for a moment.
Speaker C:If Hezbollah did the same thing, it would be a terrorist attack.
Speaker A:It is a terrorist attack to them.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:It is.
Speaker A:And I don't believe Hezbollah saying Israel.
Speaker C:Created terrorist attacks, but it was very targeted at the actual people who are performing war.
Speaker C:So that's where philosophically it's like, what are you doing?
Speaker C:If it had just been a.
Speaker C:Because terror attacks generally are to just broad population.
Speaker B:It's so different than us, the United States and targeted sniper.
Speaker B:You know, using snipers to target drones or something.
Speaker B:Nazis during World War II or even.
Speaker A:Now when we do drone strike.
Speaker A:Al Baghdadi and.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Or, or bin Laden going in with it with Seal Team Six.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:This was, this was the same thing to me.
Speaker A:This instead of a terror attack.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:It was an act of war, right?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, it was a, it was a, it was an attack.
Speaker A:It was an act of response.
Speaker C:It was a response obviously to whatever Hezbollah has been doing.
Speaker C:And then they just, but, but yeah, I just, I, I, I just think the logistics and everything, the Coordination.
Speaker C:Pretty amazing, right?
Speaker C:And reminds me of the attack that the CIA did on Iran back in the day with.
Speaker C:It's called stuxnet.
Speaker C:Nothing got blown up, but they were able to infiltrate a mining enrichment program.
Speaker B:Uranium enrichment.
Speaker C:Uranium enrichment.
Speaker C:And what they did is that the centrifuges they use, they were able to modify the software to where it spun either too fast or too slow and didn't do the right thing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So anyway, by the way, do that.
Speaker A:Real quick before we go.
Speaker A:Why.
Speaker A:Why do we.
Speaker A:Why are we have not done strikes on all the Iranian refineries and basically, should I shut Iran down?
Speaker A:I hate it for their people, but God dang.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, you're.
Speaker A:In some ways, you're allowing this to happen in your country.
Speaker A:You need to revolt against your own, against your leadership.
Speaker A:If they're this bad, you need to revolt against them.
Speaker A:But I mean, I think that we ought to.
Speaker A:We ought to bomb the Iranian.
Speaker A:All the refineries and put them out of the oil and gas business for a while.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Well, back to October, here we mentioned Hurricane Milton.
Speaker B:Former President Jimmy Carter, who has since passed away, became the first US president to reach age 100.
Speaker A:That's pretty cool.
Speaker B:And shortly thereafter, he passed away.
Speaker B:He'd been battling a brain tumor for several years now.
Speaker B:Been in hospice care for at least a couple years, maybe three, I think.
Speaker B:And so he was not in good health.
Speaker B:His wife Rosalind passed away a couple of years ago.
Speaker B:Anyway, he was the first US president to hit 100.
Speaker A:And nothing happened in November.
Speaker B:So nothing big.
Speaker B:Just former President Trump wins re election by huge margin.
Speaker A:Really, really massive margin.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was a big margin.
Speaker A:It was a big margin not only in the electoral College, but also their popular vote.
Speaker B:Yes, yes.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And the fact that the Republicans control the House and the Senate, you know, now this is put up or shut up time, guys.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker A:We've said this over and over again.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And you've said it a bunch of times, Mike, that what happens is Republicans tend they'll get that ball down the field and they fumble on the goal line.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:And I'm hoping with the reelection of Mike Johnson and with all of these Trump cat people.
Speaker A:People that Trump is putting in their Cabinet.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:That the Republicans are going to do the right thing for everybody.
Speaker A:Look, if you're a Democrat, if the country runs better, you're going to do better.
Speaker A:It doesn't matter what your political leanings are.
Speaker A:When Joe Biden was elected president, I wanted Joe Biden to see I was desperate for Joe Biden to succeed because I wanted my business, my family, your families, your businesses.
Speaker A:I wanted everybody's business to thrive.
Speaker A:I want our country to survive, thrive.
Speaker A:So I don't care who's the president or who's in Congress.
Speaker A:I do care, but I care more about.
Speaker A:I want them to succeed.
Speaker A:When you see that Joe Biden was not succeeding and that the country was going down the toilet and going in the wrong direction, then I want to change.
Speaker A:Now I'm cheering Donald Trump on.
Speaker A:I've said this a million times.
Speaker A:I'm not a Jew personally.
Speaker A:I'm not a Donald Trump fan.
Speaker A:I'm a fan of his politics, I'm a fan of some of his politics, I'm a fan of some of his policies, and I'm a fan of some of his leadership.
Speaker A:And I hope that this will really be a historical election that will make America better than it is now and put it back on the path to be.
Speaker A:To make America great.
Speaker B:If I could say one thing to the Republican Party, it's this.
Speaker B:Don't screw it up.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker B:Now, just don't screw this up.
Speaker C:Well, there's still.
Speaker C:There's already a little bit of thing.
Speaker C:You know, they've still got the thing going on between the MAGA Republicans and the, you know, the Rhinos.
Speaker A:There's still.
Speaker A:There's some of that.
Speaker A:But they got to get those differences ironed out and get things done.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:Because the Frank, frankly, they have a razor thin margin in the House.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:This isn't like they've got 10 or 15 votes to play with.
Speaker B:They don't have a super majority.
Speaker B:Not even close.
Speaker A:Yeah, they have.
Speaker A:They barely have a majority.
Speaker B:Barely.
Speaker B:And then in December, rebels overtook the Syrian capital of Damascus and ousted.
Speaker A:I forgot, I just lost his name.
Speaker B:I did, too.
Speaker A:Al said their leader, who's been there for a long time, who, who was.
Speaker A:Had had some chemical attacks on his own people.
Speaker A:This guy was a bad dude.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Now I don't.
Speaker A:I hope it doesn't create a vacuum for somebody worse than him to come.
Speaker B:We still like we saw in our name.
Speaker A:It's driving me bonkers.
Speaker B:He's gonna look it up here.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:This was by Ukraine.
Speaker A:No, well, no, it was by rebels.
Speaker C:Well.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:Who was.
Speaker A:Who was the leader of Assad.
Speaker A:Assad.
Speaker B:Assad.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Fall is below.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:By the way, I didn't read it.
Speaker A:I remembered it before.
Speaker A:I saw.
Speaker A:I haven't seen it.
Speaker C:Free Europe Radio.
Speaker B:And then also in December, the United Healthcare CEO was murdered.
Speaker B:It was on video.
Speaker B:He was, I think he was walking into or out of a board meeting.
Speaker A:He was assassinated.
Speaker B:He was, it was an assassin.
Speaker C:Was it a board meeting or was he going to jog?
Speaker A:He was, he was headed, he was headed to work.
Speaker A:I think it was early in the morning.
Speaker A:He was, got out of his car.
Speaker A:It was, I think he was going to a meeting or something like that.
Speaker B:Walking into the building.
Speaker A:This truly was an assassination, you know, and in the end, he's, the guy's dead.
Speaker A:It doesn't matter whether you want to classify as murder or homicide or whatever it is, but to me, murder, you could kill somebody and it not necessarily be premeditated or any of that sort.
Speaker A:This was a premeditated assassination.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And the fact is the people.
Speaker A:Look, I'm not a big fan of the, of the big health care organizations in America either.
Speaker A:I think there's a shitload of corruption in our health care system and there's a lot of things that need to be changed in our health care system.
Speaker A:But to celebrate a guy who's got a family, who's got a job, who, who basically helps employ a ton of people, by the way, whether you like this guy or not like this guy, this guy does a lot of things well.
Speaker C:And nobody's being forced to work for his company.
Speaker C:Nobody's being forced to work for the companies that provide insurance through them or.
Speaker A:They buy or use, use their services.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:And for people to celebrate this guy getting assassinated.
Speaker B:Pretty sick.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:Yeah, I thought it was.
Speaker A:I thought it was a really poor taste.
Speaker B:Pretty sick indeed.
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