Wrack Your Brain Episode 13

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Episode 13. This is a show about everything and nothing. Part politics, part satire, all bourbon. Join Dominick Leon and Charles Fuks as they muse about current events, social issues, and whatever surfaces from the depths of their minds. In this episode we talk about lanscaping, social media feuds, and term limits. 

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Transcript

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[Applause] uh first we've alternated we've it's not been consistent every time but fine

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ladies and gentlemen welcome to may 26 2022 rock your brain podcast with dominic

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leon and charles fuchs and tonight we're as usual talking about

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several different things first and not least of which is the fact that

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we have these these nice blue new chairs where we've upgraded we have

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upgraded uh full disclosure these are not dedicated to the record braided podcast um

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studio uh they they go in my living room and my wife might kill me if i don't replace them yeah we we've been told

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specifically to put them back when we're done yes by uh by household six as people in the

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military would by the by the executive branch that's right okay so that's that's one topic that's out of

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the way um next is uh amber heard no no well we were gonna

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i was gonna put my my former landscaper on blast let's do that and we will let's let's name a couple of topics first

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before we before we actually generate them uh topic number i'm pulling a lot of people on blast

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let's do it uh number two is an individual that i'm having a linkedin feud with

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um i you know i wouldn't even describe it as a linkedin feud it is he is an individual that in my opinion is

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embarrassing themselves because they're they're they're digging themselves a hole they're gonna have some kind of a mental purpose perhaps but they're

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they're i don't know this person my opinion is digging themselves or um uh i guess what i would say embarrassing

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themselves but they're they're uh digging their heels in on a position that that most people would would not agree most

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people who who you know are familiar with them even people but specifically people who are who are uh you know in the military

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and who are decent leaders in those are um we haven't identified topic number three

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but i'm sure oh i'm sure with the way the rack your brain podcast goes i'm sure we're just gonna kind of segue into

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whatever we fall into yes um i guess we should also probably say to to the tic tac live and and to the to the uh

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podcast listening audience that we we are on tick tock live as as we've been doing the last last couple of episodes

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um and so we will we'll try to reply to people on tick tock forget your bourbon oh yeah no thank you wait we can't say

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it oh yeah ash the schmur

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so i recently saw i think i told you about this i recently saw a thing with tic tac videos an ad

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for or maybe it was either an adder review for this spiral spiral shaped piece of

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piece of oak that you can buy you told me about it yeah

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and stick it in any bourbon bottle and it'll it'll it'll increase the the oak flavor right but the one that that we've been buying the last couple of weeks or

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the last already has it in there and it's wonderful it is very good i wonder if it would taste

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like [ __ ] or if it just wouldn't be nearly as good if they didn't do that beforehand i think it would taste i

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think it still would taste very good i think but having the oak stick in there makes it just enhances it well it does

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but that's the thing like you buy the oak stick for yourself to to make

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cheap bourbon better so i don't know if this is like already i don't know whatever but it's good i i

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like it and you know i don't want to sell them in case they're the only ones that do this um also for our viewers i'd

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like to point out i am wearing a different shirt he doesn't only own the the grunt style

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and i don't only own uh snarky shirts i'm wearing a a green hakuna matata

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lion king shirt uh disney if you want to sponsor us or or the

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or the spiral or the spiral um oak spiral stick yeah uh rod desantis if you

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want to spot sponsor us you know whoa well we'll talk about you beto o'rourke you want him to sponsor us isn't it

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b i don't know he's beta beta of beta aurora okay what what would the problem name a price tag for aoc to

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sponsor us oh my god listen no

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i don't care what even if no no uh there's a price everyone has a price

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what are you the million dollar man i promise you he will sell out if you want to sponsor us but okay

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so uh let's get into my landscaper let's jump into it let's let's jump jump

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again it's it's not the motion of the oceans to force the horse that's right as those of us now mind you as he talks

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about this i know exactly where he's coming from because i saw firsthand the effort and

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the energy he put into all the work that was done and

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so the the anger level is justifiable but continue oh i was i was livid i was and

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my wife will tell you that i was pacing i was yelling i mean i i kicked a wooden

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palette that i have i was livid okay so you got that why you kicked the palette i kicked the

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pellet oh my i was that pissed all right so um i have as you know as as

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our avid and and rabid rabbit is that the word uh fans i don't know

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i don't know ravenous oh hang on uh someone wants to go live together shall we

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no and we're here here here's why because we're recording our podcast later on if we have time sorry about that uh feel free to comment so

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um as as our as our uh ravenous fans know uh i am i'm into

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a permaculture edible forest gardening things like that and so um while while uh the head of the household

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has uh has forbidden me from planting anything edible in the front yard because she doesn't want to attract animals from the executive branch sure

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household six uh so uh she's she he or she i don't wanna i don't wanna got that household six

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things you've never heard that before in your life no i know it's like you know like yeah i got it six is the commander

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oh my god i've heard that my whole career okay i've never heard that household six yeah just stop that's new

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for me you know maybe it's an officer joke because i've heard it a lot among among officers because six is okay anyway uh if you

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know you know so um and but i also want to i don't want to specify its gender uh the person

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who who i'm married to so um anyway i was i was forbidden you've already said i know and in other

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episodes i think anyway so but we want to be pc on on on

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rocky brand package podcast he has a wife she's a female and she identifies as such

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and has always identified as such again nothing wrong with that uh you know uh

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dm me if you're passable you know what i'm saying so [Laughter]

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all right um anyway so i'm into the park enlisted i'm i'm into this

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uh straight cisgendered um homosexual uh uh democratic socialists what

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can i get to my story please dude okay so while i'm forgetting forbidden from uh from planting anything anything truly

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edible like like fruits and vegetables um i i have been allowed to to plant

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um herbs and edible flowers mostly herbs that that i that we typically don't use in our

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cooking but apparently a lot of these a lot of herbs will will produce pretty flowers

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yeah they smell nice uh except for parsley and cilantro i hate parsley and cilantro so but anyways the rest of them

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the rest will smell nice as well marjoram uh i don't know dill

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uh a bachelor's button any all these things long story short but the landscaper yeah well i'm getting

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to it okay uh in addition to a lot of red clover red clover is an excellent soil developer it's a nitrogen fixer

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it'll it'll it'll support other plants as well and makes it makes an excellent ground cover it's easy to maintain dude

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i mean it's it's you know it'll just grow right yeah so anyway um so i had a

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lot of this and it was great been growing for for a couple of months now since since it got warmer uh where we live

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and um my my landscaper so i i have this landscape actually i'm going to put him on bless no no no don't say the name why

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not no no why not no no no we can get in trouble just say why would we get in trouble no just say what they this is a

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review this is a legit review and it's i'm going to say just people make mistakes don't say it we can get in

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trouble don't say the name that can get us in trouble okay i won't

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say it okay don't say the name just see what happened okay synonym for green for grass

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synonym for beginning lawn care okay so

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that's what i'll say actually yeah you know what uh uh i i put them on blast on

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social media already so so look me up on facebook and see the latest comment that i post on someone's page okay so uh

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anyway this i've had this landscaper for for a couple of months now they come they they've been coming twice a week

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they typically send a different a different what they call provider every other week which is fine

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but i have notes in my file do not touch my flower bed don't spray it don't weed whack it don't do anything look at it i

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don't even look i just want them to mow the lawn it's super simple what i need i don't even want them to spray the lawn i

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don't care what it looks like i just need to be sure okay so anyway this guy takes a weed whacker to

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my to my despite the notes and despite me sending texts like

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this guy took a weed whacker to the entire to the entire flower or you know flower or bed

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uh and and i was pissed and you know it's it's i hope i put in a claim i hope

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that they replace it financially right so i could buy all the seeds again but it's it's the the the material

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aspect is the fact that it took months for it to grow i mean it's just it

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in a way was as simple as throwing seeds out but i had a couple of false starts because it got warm and cold and warm and cold and it was it was it was effort

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and it's you know here in the undisclosed bunker in los angeles that's right well the weather has been very very

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changing i mean the last two and a half months it's been beautiful yeah uh anyway so

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so i fired them and i put in the claim and hopefully hopefully i'll get the seed at least the monetary replacement for the seeds so i could when you did

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someone you no longer want them to oh yeah no i told them like even if they send another provider i'm that pissed

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even if they did it for free to to apologize well i mean i would allow them to cut

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the cut the grass but i'll [ __ ] stand there yeah yeah like every time they come out now oh anyway

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you know i want to be insulting but this guy looked like he was gonna [ __ ] up anyway

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he just had that look about him he he had he had a look he almost looked like um was his neck of a certain color no uh

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the neck was a certain color uh he looked like uh diabetes oh like

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what's his name brimley walter broom yeah he looks like walter broomlet a little guy if you've got diabetes

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he was writing the the riding lawn mower anyway i will speak ill of the better but um

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or walter brother all right so that's topic number one topic number two

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which again centered around no continue on with no i mean that's basically it i mean you [ __ ] up my flower bed i fired them

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i found the clothes what i was saying before about the the anger is because this was

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months in the works this was a lot of effort and it was a lot of you know work to get the soil

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prepared and to get the area prepared and to you know put the seeds down and get the seeds to begin with

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and it was a lot of effort all right i started i started throwing seeds out in in december and like every other week i

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would throw more seeds depending on whether or not they needed cold stratification like some seeds cool they give me they give me the two hundred

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dollars to to buy all these seeds i can't throw all of them out i like throw them out meaning like put them into the

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garden now some of them require a period of cold in order to break break like a seed dormancy

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that's it i don't have them this year again until next year like that that's it's it's just

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ah throwing me into a frenzy so anyway and let's see you in that frenzy because

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we haven't really seen you in a friend everybody's seen me well i've gone i've calmed down i i had a workout i i ran for a mile and i even kicked the pallet

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i kicked a pallet i didn't i didn't i barely cracked it okay cause i don't weigh as much as you

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if you had kicked it you would have gone through saying i'm fat uh i don't know what do you think viewers

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uh uh let us know what you think of dominic's body type there are no wrong answers uh there are no dumb questions

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only dumb people so this is actually shadow this is not like i'm taking up all the

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it's the chair it's the chair the camera the light the angle it's all sure yeah it's all lighting i i need to get amber

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heard's makeup artist i don't think you could say names that you you told me i can't say in the name

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of my landscaper but you can say the famous because that's a company but we're not saying i'm not saying anything bad about her i'm just saying i want her

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to get sued for a libel from another i'm not saying anything bad about amber hurt i'm just saying i wonder i'm not

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saying anything about this [ __ ] [ __ ] ass excuse my language landscaper

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but you know but you were gonna you can say anything you want about the guy but not about the company that's what i

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think don't see the company look it's it's hard it's hard to separate right like like they they

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they're supposed to own let me put it this way companies hire idiots all the time i i know that but but the the

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company is if it was a very good interview it just sucks it is the company companies right like like like service

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brands own the experience right like if you let's say the uh a schmecktrum apparently i can't say

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names of companies around this guy uh if if spectrum internet uh comes and and

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works on your house right and he like breaks a vase like our oh he's got to replace it well i i understand that and and schmecktrum

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is responsible but like and maybe that's maybe that's that's a that's a poor example what if like he he uh he or she

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comes and and um they're supposed to increase the speed of your internet via whatever and then

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they like decrease it by half right like yeah it's the individual but it's it's the it's the the employer and the brand

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that owns the experience that they've vetted them they're responsible for their training should have known yeah i

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see what you mean so like even in consulting right like if if somebody

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provides to a client a poor experience yeah maybe they ultimately lose their job or maybe they get retrained but like

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it's the brand of the company that i think my brand sucks and a lot of people have a bad experience because i curse

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people out all the time i mean in in your uh in your sexuality isn't it good to have

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a brand that's sucky you see what i got to deal with

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all right all right so whatever i don't even want to talk about anymore hopefully i'll get a at least

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get the the money replaced and um and i'll i'll let you guys know

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in the meantime like share subscribe we got somebody else who wants to join live we apologize we're not uh we're not

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taking yeah we're doing this live while doing the podcast while we're reporting listen uh uh please leave a comment and

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we'll try to we'll try to get back to you or throw some likes our way like comment subscribe subscribe yeah all

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those things so uh okay what's the next topic um how about social media feuds how about that

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that's the topic that's the topic let's see how much we can squeeze out of that we're going to squeeze a lot of it

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out of it i'm going to start with with my one a and i and i use that word loosely as it

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relates to this next story but um a series of back and forth tit for tat if

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you will that you say yeah if i say it in the context of tit for tat

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okay all right um

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there's a um i think it's college humor uh skit where i've seen a million of those are

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hysterical i'm sure you've seen the one where where they're like the following words sound like racial slurs but

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they're not really late racial slurs i haven't seen them oh my god it's it's it's hilarious shout out to them if you

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want to sponsor us uh but basically they're you know like the word niggeredly

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it has nothing to do with with um i think it's negatively uh has nothing to

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do with with the with the race okay um or seriously it's a word use your phone

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pull your phone at it tell me what the word means we're not we're not saying enough that's like another thing until

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you look up that word because i need to we need to confirm no please continue

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oh thank you webster's dictionary for that one anyway while he's looking while he's

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looking that up um so so much is it spelled the way i think yes pretty sure i'm almost positive my god

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uh i think it i think it means frugal if i'm not mistaken

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but it comes it doesn't come from a racial place okay it just sounds like a racial slur

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i listen blame me don't blame me blame the blame uh

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college humor did you find the definition anyway so um so this thing that's happening um

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without i'll i'll spare you some of like the more military details but long story short there there's there's a

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motto monitor there's an a in there so it's okay but it's very close

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excuse me and so it's it's it's it

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okay what the definition is wonderful what's the difference

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what's the word again i don't want to repeat it oh you've already said it three

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means not generous stingy in a stingy or meager manner

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oh my god that's wonderful okay and and i i would find the history of it because i i'm

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almost positive it has nothing to do with with racial slurs anyway we're not saying that

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that word even even though it isn't a true truly a racial slur we don't mean it no it's not it's not so

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all right um all right so so there's there's just this principle of taking care of soldiers right and at least in the army

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technically everybody is a soldier um you know your officers enlisted but anybody who wears the army uniform who's

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in the army as a soldier fine but but typically it refers to lower enlisted but it can mean it could mean anyone

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and and what it means to take care of someone is is to um you know make sure that they're

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that their needs are met and not needlessly suffering and administratively they're okay and uh

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sorry to whoever's trying to invite us to do live where we're recording our podcast uh but please please leave a comment

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um and uh you know if if we have time uh yeah around nine nine ten i think we can

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do like 20 minutes of like actual live if we um if we get people to uh to to

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stick around all right so stick around for for another 30 minutes watch this record and uh you know we'll try don't be niggerly

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leave some comments and likes good which means stingy has nothing to do with the the racial slurs it's not going to do

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with the racial slur mean stingy so somebody on and and you know i i would encourage you to look up the rack your

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brain podcast uh linkedin profile as well as the link the rack your brain podcast uh company page on facebook

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no no the company page on linkedin right right both on linkedin and then look up dominically on charleston linkedin as

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well but if you look up charles fuchs um and and you you see the the uh i don't

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know posts and replies uh you'll you'll see this so so an individual who i believe is is either

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lieutenant colonel or a colonel in the in the army reserve posted a story about how they helped the soldier and and

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their their their their that soldier they they the story uh goes that they needed to sleep in their car one night

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needlessly okay because the hotel is typically available for reservists which which is neither

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here nor there uh so so somebody replies basically saying

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like and i'm paraphrasing i want to i want to be a budget as objective as possible they they they basically um

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stated that that sleeping in a car should not be i don't know

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avoided in a way it should be it should be you know taken as as a sacrifice and in the

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military military is all about sacrifice and so the original poster replied something to the effect of uh you know

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you don't need to suffer to to serve right like like the sacrifice doesn't just have to be it

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doesn't have to be uh being uncomfortable or or or suffering

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um and in fact i i would say that that uh reducing suffering whether it's it's

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staying warm dry or or not going hungry and staying fed are actually combat multipliers because if you're hungry wet

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and cold like you will not fight as well that's just that's just the reality that's that's the biology okay so uh so anyway so the

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the person who responded basically said that that's sleeping in their car is sacrificing that how back in their day

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right like we we we wouldn't be discouraged or something with that to that effect and so

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i i replied not slightly snarkily that um that

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in in their day they probably used rotary phones and fax machines but but but the reality is that that as as an

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organization we we need to improve and and um wait a minute i use rotary

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phones i've used rotary phones are you saying i'm old you're all

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so

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yeah let's let's not okay but anyway i know and i'm not nearly as holy so anyway um

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long story short i i was saying how how we we we shouldn't we shouldn't essentially glorify right suffering and

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how we need to take care of soldiers and and how you know there's you know we shouldn't be defending sleep

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in the car so this person replied with their professional background and how they accomplished x y and z despite

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using rotary phones and and fax machines and um i've used fax machines too

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i can probably count on my own fingers number of times i've used the fax machine

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so now uh uh uh uh there are websites that you can you can

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upload a document and it'll send the facts for you like on the receiving end oh no i actually said put the

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this person responds with the professional history and and their run time of all things picture

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of the runtime and i i again not necessarily politically correct and not

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not necessarily to defuse i said i'm not impressed by the professional background or runtime of somebody who'd who would

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justify making a soldier needlessly sleep in their car and so this is i don't know we a week a

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week ongoing and now this person replies several times a day i i that was my last reply about about not not being

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impressed uh and i i ended up by saying i take solace in the fact that the the organization of the culture sorry the

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culture of the organization is changing i'll be it probably faster in the reserve than active duty

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but every day this guy's been been like i'll go to linkedin and i i don't honestly i'm not even reading them anymore but i just see that that he's

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tagged me in in a response um and i i don't know i think this this person

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is is they're not making themselves look good i might have he might have some

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mental mental unrecognized mental issues we don't know but

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but continue i mean that's that's basically it i mean that's that's the feud that i'm involved with now so i mean all right so touching

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on and i'm the only reason i'm i'm gonna say anything about this is because i'm even though we're both you know i'm a

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veteran you know i joined back in 97 you know and he's currently a captain in the reserves

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um and he joined much later than i did but still even you know and he said you said he

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claimed to be a ranger and all that stuff i mean that's it's very easy simple to find out

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but um i mean one of the things about the internet is people can always claim to be all kinds of [ __ ]

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you know and i don't for some reason stolen valor seems to be a more pro now i'm not

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claiming that this guy is a stolen valor i'm not saying he is right dominick's not seeing the post i'm not sure who

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this person is what i'm getting at is that you know behind the keyboard anybody can say that

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they're whoever they are and who even knows the [ __ ] runtime could have been a picture he got on on google

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images or whatever the hell who the [ __ ] knows this guy could be some troll but needless to say

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to try to justify the the unreasonable

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you know uh now don't get me wrong i was active duty for 17 years i've seen my

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share of [ __ ] and but and things happen things do happen but an active duty or in the army from when i joined

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if anything like that would have happened uh wall number one

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it wouldn't have some he would have been put somewhere to sleep even if it was a barracks

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something they would have found a place for him temporarily until they got him squared away well just to clap right

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like that the the the story was that like this this this officer found out that the soldier

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on a particular night slept in their car and that same day was like no no like we got to get you squared away right right right like so so you're right like if

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somebody found out a soldier was sleeping in the car they'd be like what yeah they would try they would try to rectify that quickly

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reserve or active it's something that you want to fix right away and then you want to find out

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what went wrong like how did how did this end up being a thing like what happened um who made a mistake what fell in the

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cracks like what what exactly happened not to put blame on people but so that

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it doesn't happen again you know so you know we can get preventative you know and proactive so it doesn't

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happen again but now to defend that you know i'm saying again

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anybody who would claim oh back in my day this would have been sacrificed so that that's complete horseshit

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complete [ __ ] because in their day if they had to have slept in their car

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they would have probably raised a stink they probably would have said something oh i slept in my car how come nobody's

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because that's that's just the nature of of people you know and they would have brought it

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up and if he calls it sacrifice i'm sorry it's just it's just not that's it's an unreasonable thing it's unsafe

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it's it's and maybe it is sacrifice but it's an unreasonable thing to ask for somebody if the alternative is find a

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place for them to sleep matter of fact matter of fact last the last time i went to my army reserve weekend

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i didn't have a hotel room that first night now granted you know not knock knock on wood that um

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that uh that i can afford to get myself a hotel room but i did the the the first night for a friday night i got myself a

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hotel room the next day i started talking to people and and one guy overheard me he's like hey listen my the

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the person was supposed to sleep in in my there was double rooms person's supposed to sleep in my room tonight uh

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last night didn't show up why don't you come to my room i'm like yeah that's perfect that's excellent like and you i wasn't even telling that person they

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overheard me saying that's what you do in the army you take care of your battle buddies and especially the

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juniors now we're not saying that this guy should have got himself a hotel room because we don't know their economic

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situation maybe they couldn't do it maybe at the time their money we're not trying to count his money we don't know

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what their financial situation right i'm not saying this guy should have right now absolutely however there is no defending that there is just

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there is nothing you can say to justify you know saying that sleeping in your car is part

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of sacrifice no it's not it's mind you every single this this is like i don't know 100 responses this this thread

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everybody is saying to the original poster good job this is what we need to be doing this the other [ __ ] you know

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pardon my french no offense to that that stupid individual um no offense to morons yeah or you know

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order morons uh but but they're clearly on the wrong side of this and and i

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i wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow i walk into linkedin and again and my opinion on that also was it's

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like you know he said he was uh he said he was from a different era back in my day

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if there wasn't progress and you know and and getting better at things over time

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if if the military didn't believe in getting better and progressing and doing all these good things we would still be

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firing muskets and and sawing off each other's legs without anesthesia we would be

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we would still be way behind if it wasn't for products we would still not be allowing privates in basic training

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to have cell phones so in the name of

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basic training cut that [ __ ] out no [ __ ] cell phones that's the stupid take away the stress cards

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take away the cell phone you said it yourself you we have to adapt as an organization i understand that but but that's what is that teaching a soldier

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and when it's basic training listen you can you can survive what is it ten weeks now basic training

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or is it nine weeks it was nine weeks and two it was me for me was eight weeks because we didn't have that week of eo

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what and then i like done added week now for like um like you got to be sensitive and all

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that i don't know about now but in 2008 it was just nine nine weeks i don't know there wasn't a week in 1997 it was eight

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weeks well for me if for me was eight weeks of basic

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fort jackson and then after my eight weeks at fort jackson i went to three weeks in fort betting for everyone

30:57

school from fort benning we went to fort lee virginia because you had to be airborne qualified to be a parachute rigger

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and to jump out of planes you had to be airborne qualified to pack a parachute so that's why we went to

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airborne's basic training airborne school then ait then fort bragg

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and uh and then a year later i reclassed because i hated packing parachutes

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he likes packing other things just not perfect i got used to it i guess

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stuffing big things into small small pockets yeah with enough force and enough in the

31:33

right bending it'll fit i'm telling you maybe sometimes you got to bend it in half get it real full

31:39

make him feel really full make him feel really full

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and listen um anyway we are pc on this program

31:49

that's all right podcast that's pretty podcast bro we are um i'll

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think of i'll think of a definition for pc that's not that's not politically correct but okay um

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we're pushing pushing schmuck

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dc anyway all right putin's [ __ ] oh my god

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yeah this is crazy who knows what you can and can't say i'm not tick-tock anymore

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like seriously as long as it's coming from a good place on mcmark mikmak yeah all praise the tic-tac

32:25

algorithms hail to the tick-tock the tick-tock gods in china all right um

32:31

all right so well okay but with the the the topic if the tick-tock gods are in china do they

32:38

look like dragons uh dragons with lions heads right like

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like not like the european dragon with wings but no no i mean like the ones that dance in the streets yeah

32:50

with people inside so the topic is uh is social media feuds

32:56

um but i think you said something right like the the the fact the fact and you said like this you might have um

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you know behind the keyboard you could say anything that yeah that's that the reality is that he could be a troll for all we know

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he could be some [ __ ] troll who just wants to instigate problems and you know what and that's fine you want to do that

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we're not going to shy away from you [ __ ] that you want to go at us come at us come at me bro

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either way come on me bro there is well that too but there is there is nothing you can say that's going to justify

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making a soldier sleep in their car right and so unless it is like these really

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weird circumstances that that's just a thing like they maybe chose to do this on my car by the way but i mean i'm also

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at the supermarket but like again it was if it can be bored it can be avoided but

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but the the part of the point is that you're right behind a keyboard anybody can say anything and and like that that

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this i think they've been it's either anecdotal or the fact or this has actually been studied where like people

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are are emboldened by by the fact that they're behind a computer and their grandma's basement right like they'll

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they'll they'll be more aggressive than than they typically would be i mean even

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even even what was my blue-haired freak playing dungeons and dragons in his mama's basement

34:19

or maybe they or maybe they look like the diabetes guy and maybe it was the guy who mowed my lawn today yeah maybe

34:25

he pissed him off so he went home and he was started becoming as well keyboard ranger no the reason he [ __ ] my up my uh

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flower bed up is because of this feud that we have we've been having online maybe it was him so i'm gonna get this

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[ __ ] guy i don't know that's right if it's flowering so anyway you know i mean if the

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apocalypse hit today i would be out an entire growing edible edible bed like

34:48

this guy this guy killed me he practically killed me anyway you're dead you're dead now

34:56

but okay so i gotta say not to interrupt but these couches were a wonderful idea the idea was his

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and it was tip top magoo that's right as as her friend shmearas

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schmuck bergerobinski would say that's the move

35:15

all right what else what what have okay so so this isn't we're going through

35:21

topics pretty fast we always uh we're doing 15 minutes per topic

35:26

which is a little bit fast but to our viewers if you and any and everybody else said on tick tock that's that's

35:32

with us live if you actually believe that justifying having a soldier sleep in their car needlessly sleeping in the

35:38

car you know if you can defend that either way let us know what you think

35:44

nobody's going to say yes uh speaking of asking random people

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did we talk about the last time we recorded was was after

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i had drilled but i don't remember if we talked about this um where where i turned to i was having a

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conversation with some people on a drill weekend we were at a restaurant and we were talking about term limits and and

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you know we don't believe we talked about it maybe we didn't so so i was we were talking about term limits

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and um we were talking about how how most people want term limits yet

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congress has not done it both democrats and republicans because it doesn't it because it doesn't it gets

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themselves out of a job um now it's it's been proposed doing all these great things for what you know

36:32

right so great things like if they ever try to get anything done right so so i said

36:38

something to the effect of or maybe exactly if you ask a hundred people on the

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street do you think congress should have terminals a hundred people will say yes i don't think you're gonna find anybody

36:49

that says no i don't well i don't know that a hundred would say yes i think but a very high percentage i

36:55

think it would be 100. i i would bet i would bet on that's something i would bet on now so to prove it i turned

37:00

around to somebody that wasn't at our table into some random person at the bar and i was like hey you think congress should have term limits

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and he's like congress and he named like 10 different types of officials that

37:12

should have term limits like don't even starve me on congress like that's just the tip of the iceberg of who should

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have i picked the right person involved in the country sounds like this guy was already down on the bottom of

37:25

the rabbit hole and you just started to dig him out of the way he's serious this is what it's called and he was i think he might

37:31

have been there by himself and he was probably drinking a beer like i wish i wish somebody would ask me about terms

37:39

and then i and then who knows maybe he was even like listening a little bit like oh my god i hope they asked me and then i made his wish

37:54

so he goes on and so you know i i basically anyway the the reason what reminded me of that was you asking

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our listeners to to to comment right so speaking of asking uh but no i i do

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term limits are not controversial now let's let's let's run this off they shouldn't be controversial because it's

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a legitimate it should not be controversial it should not be controversial no it's a legitimate thing

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that i think people this discussion it should be more open amongst the people in the country and i

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think it should be more discussed as far as the politicians are concerned because it remember if the politicians

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if the looks so mad is that you is that me which one me i

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don't know but then the same person goes bro put some shoes on we both we both bother yeah we're both

38:43

barefoot who we're in the house gone they're gone uh tetris the person's name was tetris

38:49

come on we're gonna help me maybe it's because of my toes probably [ __ ] you okay we're in the

38:54

house who gives a [ __ ] let's stop what do you got a foot fetish i don't know i'm in my own house in my own office

39:00

suck my okay so by the way in that same conversation at

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the bar with alcohol right of course you solve all problems with with with alcohol

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which is what we're here to do which is what here to solve world problems or alcohol are we here

39:18

both anyway so um put some shoes on

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i just noticed they used to people with sweat fetishes watching us on tick-tock anyway

39:31

anyway uh so okay so we we solved the problem

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of turbulence by the way oh by looking at the constitution oh okay

39:43

i gotta hear this please according to the same thing that talks about uh

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amendments how to propose amendments either congress

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proposes it and i think it's two-thirds of congress or something like that i think it's two-thirds of congress has to

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has to uh propose i mean that everybody knows that or at least i think i hope everybody

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knows or two-thirds of the states

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via their legislatures petition congress to to um

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to convene a convention to amend the oh but then constitution going to go

40:24

through the supreme court no however does that feel to prove me now gentlemen

40:29

the constitution is very clear on this yeah there's two ways two ways to get a an amendment proposal

40:36

but politicians would find a way to block it so well so so

40:41

well let's back up their best interest to have several limits so you are

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you may not be wrong where if two-thirds of the states by the legislature's vote

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to to petition congress to convene not to consider convening it literally says if two-thirds of the state here's

41:01

congress two-thirds of 50 states will be what like states yeah 36 but whatever okay

41:08

and by the way some states have standing votes like votes that were done you know

41:14

four five six plus years ago that would never rescinded were never revoked that are the state voting there's i

41:22

don't know six term limits to to to convene a convention to amend

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the constitution i'm telling you it's paul some politicians have probably blocked it somehow well no no sultan it hasn't been two-thirds of the states

41:33

it's been x number less than two-thirds okay but they're but if and until it gets to two-thirds it really can't exactly right

41:41

so it's possible that some states might revoke that that vote that they had right or or more than hope the hope is

41:47

that people add to it on a side note the risk is that congress

41:53

choose to chooses to make an amendment that nobody wants that's the risk

41:58

and i think that's what's stopping the petition that being said what what what

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what you were alluded to is may may occur right if two-thirds of the states petition congress and and

42:10

the constitution is clear like if the two-thirds of the states say congress doesn't have a choice it's not like

42:18

not the other way around that's right so what may happen is two-thirds of the state said congress congress is like no

42:25

make us and then they would have to involve the courts and stuff but i i think the odds of that are low i think i think most

42:31

most most people in congress feel like all right guys i guess we don't have a choice no i'm telling you these

42:36

positions are [ __ ] snakes and they will find a way to do something sneaky

42:42

the the problem is part of the problem is i don't think the states can tell congress what to amend like once that convention

42:49

is amended uh or convened they can they can just throw out the entire constitution technically

42:57

like you like literally redo it like i mean what that's how the and the thing is that's a slippery slope because once

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they do that then what else can they you know what else can they amend

43:08

let's back up let's back up actually have i mentioned how comfortable these these chairs

43:13

the way an amendment gets passed regardless of whether two-thirds of the

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congress says hey we're gonna we're gonna vote on an amendment or if two-thirds of the states petition

43:25

congress to say you will convene a convention and propose amendments regardless of the first part

43:31

the way it gets ratified is now three-fourths of all the states have to

43:37

have to accept it have to ratify so let's say let's say it starts with the states forget congress starts with the

43:43

states two-thirds of every state so 30 something states um

43:49

now congress convenes a a convention and they they propose x

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number of amendments those amendments now go back to the states and now instead of 30-something 40-something of

44:02

the states now have to vote yes and then it becomes an actual amendment so it doesn't matter where it starts so

44:09

so yes the the risk mitigation is yeah ask them to convene a convention

44:14

if they do something you don't want don't accept it i just don't see politicians not looking for a way to

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block it i mean i'm not saying that they're going to like block it because i'm saying they'll

44:30

pull something out of their ass to try at least because again we both know and our our viewers and our listeners know

44:37

politicians don't want to do that because it's not in their best interest you know number one they don't want to

44:43

work really hard for four to six years on something for them somebody else to take credit for and they also don't want

44:49

to possibly make mistakes that the other person that comes after them is going to just drill them into the ground and say

44:56

look at how shitty they were and look at all the great things um and number three it it you know it's their career it's

45:03

their career what are they going to do now again well hold on we are in favor of term limits we would like term limits

45:11

but the reason that i'm saying politicians would try everything in their power to not have that happen

45:17

is because think about it you have people like biden and schumer and pelosi and many

45:25

others name some republicans though come on you gotta name three republicans now all right

45:30

mitt romney oh my god mittens romney uh oh uh sorry i i was i confused him with

45:36

um glasses old former former senate majority leader oh my god

45:41

oh my god oh mcconnell [ __ ] mcconnell mitch mcconnell mitch mcconnell is another one

45:46

all these career politicians it's not in you know they they don't wanna what are they gonna do they're in there for four

45:52

years then tell them to go all right well all right thank you for your four to six years of service now

45:58

from their perspective yes yeah foreign cool go away don't care what you do yeah

46:04

they don't want to have to figure out life that being said that being said right they get into these positions knowing

46:10

that they're going to be there for a while for a while now uh that being said right like oh like we don't care what

46:17

you do go [ __ ] yourself it's a term limit for for every position

46:22

now if you're good and people want you you voted to other positions uh uh house of

46:29

representatives and then the senate and then maybe state legislature and maybe governor you have the opportunity

46:35

that's right as an elected official right right but but like to stay in the same no get get

46:42

the heck out of here all right so those term limits and the term limits are also because we don't

46:47

want you know when these people are in power for that long you start to make

46:52

shady connections and you start to make business this enables um

46:59

it's like pelosi in the insider trading thing you know it enables oh my god what's what corrupt corrupt it

47:05

enables corruption it enables corruption it enables oh it doesn't matter it's across the

47:11

board you know all parties there it's gonna just say well i'm here for the long haul what can i do

47:17

and get away with it since i'm you know what are they gonna say i'm here

47:23

well and plus we don't know what kind of connection that they have with lobbyists because the lobbyists aren't going

47:28

anywhere they're there uh well no hold on no no no when i'm saying lobbyists i don't mean

47:34

like the in the in the actual definition that they're in the lobby barking at these apologies you know i i know

47:40

they're having meetings with them to say that to say that and i'm not saying all of them do it no

47:45

i know but to say that lobbyists aren't going anywhere implies that

47:51

that congress couldn't make rules no one to limit the influence of lobby groups what i'm saying is

47:57

when i mean lobbyists aren't going anywhere i mean the the reach that some of these groups have

48:05

whether it be short or long is going to still be present by which is

48:10

pretty low and i've heard and knowing the politicians knowing that

48:16

these people are going to offer money or or deals for certain things

48:25

it's gonna be enticing for a lot of politicians to you put your shoes on [ __ ]

48:31

he said it again no you didn't i wonder which one of us is the one that looks mad

48:38

yeah tick tock viewers which one of the which one of the two of us the one on the right but we don't have any viewers

48:44

zero people in the room uh spu i don't look angry do i look angry

48:51

oh no hold on when i was talking about the [ __ ] landscaper yeah i was [ __ ] angry maybe it was because maybe

48:56

yeah landscaper [ __ ] shoe guy

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i'm just i'm i'm i'm um we get people criticizing us the way we look we get people criticized we've got some foot

49:09

fetish freak but who's the guy in the right i don't know what they're because i'm on the right right now

49:15

i thought i was on the right no look it look i mean but look look at the screen i'm on the right right now i guess you

49:21

are why do you look so angry no he said why do you look so good no he didn't no he oh man

49:27

yeah you look so mad i thought he said was he talking about the landscape i thought he said it was that i thought he said why

49:34

does he look so good it's because of the bourbon [Laughter]

49:40

you're saying i looked good to him because he was drinking bourbon

49:49

[Laughter] okay uh so we talked about a lot there

49:55

was something else i had in my head and i and i don't remember what it was let's see landscapers

50:02

social media disputes and you know talking about these social media disputes there's a lot of social

50:07

media personalities and i can think of one in particular that if you listen to their podcast they will say time and

50:14

time again that they don't read the comments they don't they don't like yes that

50:19

person um and i love his podcast but you know for her yeah you know

50:25

uh no he's actually he said he identifies as a man as a human but we don't want to identify who that's

50:30

true but the person i'm talking about identifies as a he him male anyway but we do read we do read the comments

50:37

we like to engage with our listeners and our viewers we don't you know we're not those kind of podcasters that just want

50:43

to dismiss you if you have something of a valid interest to us and you want to engage with us you know truthfully

50:50

and honestly and earnestly do it we will respond we don't care and if you want to call me ugly put my shoes

50:57

on i don't give a [ __ ] say whatever you want good or bad or indifferent we will engage with you if it's

51:02

something that we have an interest in yeah except shoes i have no interest yeah we're in the house bro shut the

51:08

[ __ ] up mind your [ __ ] business stop looking at our feet you weirdo um okay i'm gonna talk about something that that

51:14

i don't know why but the person who said put your shoes on sounds like he looks like the btk killer

51:20

because the picture i mean i don't know what it looks like it sounds like he would he sounds like that kind of a person like btk like

51:27

if you look at the picture he looks like he's wearing a uh like a jedi jedi robin hood oh he's probably some [ __ ]

51:33

[ __ ] who lives in his grandmother's bedroom playing dude i'll [ __ ] wiggle my my gross toes

51:39

with you that's from the house bro shut the [ __ ] up you probably have 20 cats in your

51:45

basement that's right you start your own podcast you wear one of the [ __ ] shoes you want oh get the [ __ ] out of here

51:50

so there's uh the next topic that i would suggest is very near and dear to to

51:56

schmears schmuck reginski's heart and if he ever listens to this episode

52:01

yeah but schmerski uh there's a lawsuit right now there's

52:06

schmerez shout out there's it's whatever so there's two what to do

52:12

there's uh there's two lawsuits right now and they have to do with um

52:18

the the the the trump russia investigation and do you know what i'm talking about i

52:24

heard about uh some i think it was an assistant or something of hillary clinton's that leaked that hillary

52:29

clinton purposely

52:35

yeah and they went to the fbi and said she did she was the one endorsing this no no no this well i don't know maybe

52:41

there's another story but this person was connected with the hillary campaign and they went to the fbi and said hey

52:47

i have this information you should you should because of this information you should investigate the

52:52

trump campaign something like that now right the law turned out to be false turned

52:58

out to be like here's my detai and i i probably shouldn't have suggested this without knowing more information but

53:04

here's my understanding whatever information this person had

53:10

was a good lead again whether you're not whether or not you believe the the the the

53:16

the russia thing collusion and all that turned out to be fake it turned out to be [ __ ] parts parts yes partner the

53:23

mueller report had plenty of factual information but it wasn't in his purview remember right okay so that again which

53:30

is dismissed his own [ __ ] report that's an important fact that's important fact hold on and i don't know if we're saying the same thing

53:37

whether or not the mueller report indicated that trump knew or had any involvement himself

53:44

is different than the conclusions that every every intelligent agency in the united states agrees with that russia

53:50

did took steps to interfere with our election they took like many steps so we talked about this last time i think

53:56

which is like hey or maybe two times ago which is hey like if if they attack us on social media should we consider that

54:03

like a bomb right as if right but okay so let's let's back up

54:09

so the lien this is my understanding of that of the lawsuit the lead was good whether it turned out to be something

54:15

but a lead is just that it's a lead it's like hey it's something to look into it's something to look into that's right the lead was good

54:22

but that individual who who went to the fbi did not disclose that they were

54:27

affiliated with the with the hillary campaign see that's shady and i it is shady and i think that's what the

54:34

matter of the lawsuit as a matter of fact uh i was listening to the radio this that's a setup

54:41

again maybe but again if the let's say the lead was good and let's say there was

54:47

like definitive 100 you can't argue with this collusion they should have been smarter about it and sent somebody in

54:52

there with no affiliation with the same information well i

54:57

maybe also the fbi probably should have been like hey where's this lead coming from let's let's look at the person with

55:03

the lead yeah how did you get i think yes how did you get that should be due diligence yeah but also the fbi has

55:10

been under a lot of scrutiny because they they've been [ __ ] up left and right all kinds of [ __ ] too

55:15

[ __ ] they've done a lot of great things but they they've dropped the ball on so many others there

55:21

there some people believe given

55:26

some people see bias political bias in some of the actions that the fbi has taken

55:33

which is not the same and let's back up some people see politics

55:38

you start backing up a lot today you've been saying it's like circle back all right circle back and back up is not it's not the same so the back is like

55:45

i'm not talking about this right now we're going to talk about it in the future when i wanted to backup is hey

55:51

that's we got we're going to talk about that in a moment but first we need to talk about x and right now when as as

55:56

we're backing up it is not the same thing to say that individuals affiliated with the fbi have

56:03

done things that seem to be politically biased yeah versus the fbi is

56:09

politically biased those are two different statements i agree okay all right but some people don't see the

56:14

distinction though yeah yeah right okay so that's in in response to what you're saying about like fbi has been [ __ ]

56:20

up some people see it that way but again you you just like you said about about brands and that now i'm defending the

56:27

fbi brand right which is like hey like okay some of their employees are [ __ ] up and shady or whatever

56:33

they're either mistakes intentional or not but you can't blame the whole organization but some people do

56:39

okay this is great bourbon here's a really good part so uh are you touched yet brother

56:44

bourbon a little bit i'm oh yeah i'm touched by the bird so have you ever had um shout out to this

56:51

bourbon have you ever had uh absinthe yes i've i don't i've never had

56:57

the absence of nowadays yeah yeah that's what's gonna say their absence now is not like the real absence right right because you've never had

57:03

relapses no no no i've had like the newer [ __ ] right yeah but the actual what's the original absence

57:10

like almost like a hallucinogen believed that it was a hallucinogen yeah but like it's a whole experience you like

57:17

i don't even know you have the spoon and you laid out a fire and over sugar and all that [ __ ] i would i would like and

57:22

and if i'm not mistaken i should have i actually should have tried absinthe when i was in europe i believe absent in

57:27

europe is is like the original absence of closer to the us like us absolutely

57:33

a lot of u.s alcohols uh except for this bourbon except for the sperm shout out shout out to bourbon

57:39

all right so um there was there was a point that i was getting to with with the lawsuit or

57:45

whatever um and and i lost it because you said something about about

57:51

mueller and [ __ ] up and okay the fbi and people associated with the fbi are two

57:57

different things that is 100 okay um

58:03

why did i well i asked you that about that because i because schmerz and i have been talking about that a lot lately he's like and

58:10

to his point he's like oh and you still don't know who so-and-so is i'm like yeah because i don't care and he's like

58:15

you should care about so-and-so and yeah i don't care about so i don't care who so-and-so is i know the lawsuit

58:25

be a [ __ ] guest on our show because you would be amazing uh

58:30

we'll put you in the corner it will blur your face out and change your voice yes

59:00

that's the move right um

59:06

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59:12

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i will cut it open right here live on one of those game of thrones letter openers it looks like the like the what

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is it called the sword yeah a little letter opener but the guy saw jon snow sword was called the wolf

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something i don't know anyway um okay so

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and there's a purpose in that anyway before the episode ends say that now back to uh back to oh

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guests we will have a guest soon please let us know if if you think there's

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somebody that we should have a guess i have somebody somebody who is um

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that's right uh moral of the story is dominic is willing to give you a hand job um if you buy her merch i think

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that's what i heard ladies and gentlemen may 26 2022 rack your brain podcast with

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dominic leon and we will see you guys next time take care