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#6 - Part 2: Border Chess Moves, Tariff Tactics, and Domestic Crime Debates
This episode explores the recent impactful changes in U.S. immigration policy following Trump's troop deployments and new tariffs. We analyze border security, the economic implications on goods, and the personal experiences of navigating political divides as we discuss pressing national debates.
• Examination of troop deployments and decrease in border crossings
• Discussion on tariffs and their effectiveness
• Analysis of immigration statistics and crime rates
• Ephemeral view on the Israel-Palestine conflict in relation to U.S. policy
• Insights on social media's role in political polarization
• Reflection on the need for respectful and informed discourse among differing opinions
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Can we talk about the overwhelming success of the last two weeks? I mean, good Lord, is this guy making moves or what? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? I mean, I could give you a list. This guy is on fire. He is making stuff happen. He's done more in the last two weeks than Biden even thought of, than he could even think about in four years.
Speaker 1:Tell me you're going to talk about the 10,000 troops coming to the Mexican border. Love it. It was already in place, doesn't matter. Biden had it months ago and he didn't have to fake a tariff for it. Well, I don't think the tariff was fake. I think the tariff worked. That's the difference. If Biden had the troops there, then he wasn't using them.
Speaker 1:I mean, the thing that Trump has done here is he's shown unequivocally that either the Biden administration was completely corrupt or they were completely incompetent. There's no other way around it, because we went from 6,000 border crossings a day which is just the interaction of board, meaning they've made contact with someone 6,000 a day, and it has dropped, depending on which poll you believe 95 to 97% in a week. Do you blame them? I don't want to come here either. Perfect, then it worked. Okay, great Then it absolutely worked. This is what he was elected to do and I will patiently wait for the prices of lettuce to go to five bucks a head. I'll gladly pay five bucks a head for lettuce for our country to not be inundated with illegal aliens who are coming here without papers the wrong way, not getting citizenship the way that they're supposed to, bringing drugs and all the criminals that come with that.
Speaker 1:The immigrants that came to the states committed crimes at a lower percentage than Americans do. The immigrants that came to the states committed a crime as soon as they came to the states. Okay, but when you talk about crime stats, they commit major crime stats less than the American population. The fact that we have a criminal problem within our own country doesn't justify the immigrants coming across the border in a way that they're not supposed to. That's a red herring. It doesn't matter. Yes, we have a problem here and I hope Trump fixes that too.
Speaker 1:We have a huge crime problem, partly because whenever these people are arrested, they're let go by the DA, who doesn't press charges, so you can do whatever you want. I mean, where was it? California where they said you can't even arrest someone if they shoplift less than 600 bucks. That's insane. Somebody can come and steal my stuff out of my store and as long as it's under $600, I can't do anything about it. That's nuts, it is. That's leftist. That's not the right. Doing that, all you do is create more criminals because now there's no repercussions. I agree, so hopefully it fixes that too.
Speaker 1:But this, these last two weeks, have surpassed anything that I thought was going to happen. Well, I mean, it's been. It's been beyond brilliant, oh, brilliant, it's been beyond brilliant. Absolutely, absolutely. Hey, hey, we want you to take these immigrants back. Well, too bad, you can't land here.
Speaker 1:Okay, 25% tariff. No, no, no, no, no, no. We'll take them back and I'll send my plane and we'll come and get them. Perfect, we'll lift the tariff. Hey, canada, too many people in fentanyl are coming in from your country because you have open borders. 43 pounds Doesn't matter, it does matter.
Speaker 1:Too much is coming in. Too much is coming in, so we're going to put tariffs on you. Oh, you're going to put tariffs. We're going to play hardball a day later, you know what? We're going to send a bunch of troops to the border. We're going to lock. Good, lift your tariffs, done you know?
Speaker 1:It's funny, that exact article 1.3 billion, 10 000 soldiers. You know all of that. If you, you go and you search that exact, you put in 1.3 billion canadian. Whatever he did that long before the election, long before they already came out and said hey, we're going to do 1.3 billion and increase security. The blah blah. Trump comes in. Hey, go, let's do a press release. They're doing 1.3 billion. They were already blah, blah, blah. Trump comes in. Hey, let's do a press release, they're doing 1.3 billion. They were already doing it. Yeah, I mean, look, I know you're not going to give the guy credit for anything. That's to be expected, but it doesn't matter, because the proof is in the pudding and what he's doing is working and it's exactly what he was elected for. You know what's hilarious? This country put a mandate on him to do exactly what he's doing and he's following through and he's doing it in spades. Yes, you know what's hilarious. He comes out and says Mexico, we're going to do a 25% tariff. Canada, we're doing a 25% tariff. The next day, the stock market dropped 700 points within minutes. All right, we're going to put a one month pause on this. We're not going to do it for a month. No, he talked to the president of Mexico who said we're going to play ball with you. We're going to negotiate over the next 30 days. Nothing has been agreed. No, they put a 30 day hold on it. Yes, can you? Can you please pause that so that we can have a negotiation and talk about this? There's nothing wrong with that. He brought her to the table yeah, yeah, it's perfect. After he crashed the market and his cronies freaked out. Oh no, oh no. The market crashed 700 points when it's up to 43,000. You think he doesn't happen to want to do that so that he can let his buddies know when to buy and sell stuff? No, I don't. But even if he does listen, every politician I don't care who they are, they go into politics. They're worth about 250 grand. When they go in Two years later, they're worth $8 million. You can't tell me they're not all doing it. I know, yeah, it's ridiculous, 100% yeah. But you just want to point at Trump and go oh, you know Trump. No, I think that's how he does it. Trump's bad because he's he's telling his buddies to invest in the stock. Man, I look like that when I talk yeah, you do. Holy shit, I know that's crazy. It's ugly I. So I got my, my neck all pulled back. You do. Well, this is generally how you sit anyway. Oh yeah, I had to do. I have a broken back. No, I think you have curvature in your spine. I do or I don't. I think you do because you're. Is that a good thing? There's some curvature is good, but this is a little much. We should just do it. We should do impressions of each other. We should switch roles. Yeah, oh no, let's fucking not, because I'm not going to go into that brain dead fucking motion. Jesus christ, you didn't keep up with the pace. Oh god, your head would explode. From all the facts you could, you now have to accept it. It's disgusting. What about Gaza, maga Strip? I thought it was Make America Great Again. That was great for you to bring it up. What about America? Well, gaza's four letters, maga's four letters. It makes sense. Sure, I saw a meme today where they changed it to Buc-ee's. They made the whole thing a Buc-ee's. I think it's. Here's the. Everything they've done up to this point hasn't worked. Yes, everything they've done has just created more terror, more, more problems, more infighting, all of that. At least now we have a leader who's thinking outside the box and thinking how can we just stop this? That's not thinking outside the box. No, everybody has the. Everybody has said we're going to take it over, we're going to turn into. You know the Mediterranean Riviera, right? Yeah, we're going to over, we're going to turn into. You know the mediterranean riviera, right? Yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna, we're gonna build great housing for all these. You know those people actually own their homes. 75 of the palestinians own their. Do you know? Those people's homes are now rubble. It's still their land. Sure, you don't get to go take it over just because you're trump. Well, it's not trump taking it over, it's the united states, and actually it's not Trump taking it over, and actually it's not even United States. He's asking the countries around it to rebuild it. Yeah, that's what we should. I mean, there's no plan. There's no plan for peace there, and that's what he's trying to institute is a plan for peace by taking people's land away, if that's what it takes. Have you ever looked at the map of Israel and Palestine? And whether or not that's their land is up for debate. I mean, that land was given to them as an attempt at peace and they used it to, you know, create more terror and lob missiles into Israel. Have you ever looked at the map? It would be really interesting for you to go there. I mean, I've seen that little strip. No, but you look at what it looked like in the 40s and then the 50s and the 60s. Well, the thing is that would be like saying have you looked at the map of america in 1600? It was much different than it is now. Right, yeah, yeah, conquest is a real thing. This is conquest happens. This is 70 years ago, right? Well, conquest, conquest doesn't stop just because it's the 20th century. So that makes it okay. That's the way things have been done since the beginning of time. It doesn't make it okay, but it is the way it is. There's not a piece of land on this planet that hasn't been captured by conquest. There's not a square foot, and I don't know what more you want. I mean, israel said hey, if this is what's going to create peace, take this. It wasn't Israel. Israel had a tiny little piece and it was all Palestine around it. It has been taken and they're down to this little bitty sliver. I'm not going to sit here and claim that I know the full history of the Palestinian and Israeli region. I know that Israel had it at one point, you know, a thousand years ago. I know that. You know things have moved over time. What I know recently is that that strip was an attempt at, you know, coming to a compromise and finding peace, and it didn't work. I think we can revisit this later. I think it would be best if and not that I think it's going to change. I'm happy to research it, but but I'll tell you, you're in concept, you're correct. In reality, maybe it was israel's 10 000 years ago, but, but the last century it has been mostly palestine. Well, how, if it was, was Israel, how did they get it and conquered it? And they have beat them down to this little sliver. And now they've figured out a way to get the United States involved and say, hey, let's just wipe them out. If it was Israel's to begin with, how did they get it? How did Palestine get it? If it was Israel's to begin with, I don't know if it was, I don't know. I don't know that far back. I'm just looking at the, at the, the recent maps, like the last hundred years, and looking at the last hundred years, jerusalem is is pretty much Israel. That's all Israel is, is the city of Jerusalem and everything around it is Palestine, and then it slowly gets morphed into. Now you've got the West bank All right, morphed into. Now you've got the west bank, all right, I'll research it. We can revisit it on the next episode. I don't know enough about the history. Yeah, what I do. Either way, we don't need to get involved. It's not our business, it's not okay. Israel's and now we're going to do that with all allies israel's an ally and they're they are repeatedly being bombarded by missiles. Okay, into their country and we are having to step in and help them in those situations. So, yes, we are involved. So we should take over another country's land, build a bunch of Trump hotels and casinos. Get Mr Wynn over there so he could build some casinos, and that's fair. I mean, if you want to twist it that way, that's fine. But what he's saying is it's unlivable right now and the only way to make it livable is to move those people out of there, rebuild it, and then, if they want to come back, they can come back. He's not saying they can't come back. He's saying I'd be surprised if they want to come back because they've been through hell there. But if they want to come back, they can come back. It's not our business. I don't want my taxpayer money going to that. Well, what our taxpayer money goes to is ridiculous anyway, and hopefully he's putting an end to that too. Well, I mean, he's not. He's talking about taking over another country. He's not paying for it. That's what he said. He's not paying for the wall. The US isn't paying for it, said we're not paying for this, but there's a way to make this happen. Yeah, nothing wrong with it, the real estate mogul. Nothing wrong with it, except that it's trump that's doing it. That's the only problem you really have. There's a. There's like everything else this guy can do, not. There's. There's nothing he's going to be able to do over the next four years. That's going to make you happy. Not true, because every absolutely true, because everything he does it's going to be for a selfish reason. It's going to be to line his pocket. It's going to be for some unforeseen, you know, backhanded, evil reason that you know that you can't give him any credit for. That's what's going to happen. I mean, it's already happening. We'll see. The last two weeks have been an overwhelming success and you're just like, nope, it's not because it's shame, he hasn't done anything, he's absolutely done something. He's citing executive orders which mean nothing. No, they mean a lot. Okay, yeah, that's the difference between the right and the left. You say they don't mean anything, and yet things are happening. Because of that, I don't see anything happening. Well, I can, I can tell you. I can tell you this If your daughter joins that traveling basketball team, she won't be playing against boys. Okay, and that's a good thing. You think an executive order can change how a school reacts? Well, it's going to. It has nothing to do with the state. It already has. It. Doesn't? Executive order are federal. Only, it has nothing to do with states. Okay, well, we're gonna see. Do I want her playing against boys in the co-ed league? Absolutely, when she's at the state, I didn't say in a co-ed league, okay, then then in the state league, no, I don't. Yeah, well, and that's okay, like everybody on the left doesn't? That's the difference here. I can be on the left and say, oh yeah, those guys over there agree with that. I don't necessarily agree with it. You don't have that on the right. Oh, yeah, you do. No, yes, you do. Tell me one thing. I just told you. The first person through that building should have been shot in the head. I don't think everybody on the right feels that way. Tell me one policy today that Trump is pushing that you don't agree with. Well, he's doing is exactly what I elected him. You should. Oh, you elected him to to try to overtake gaza. That's, that's part of the the america first. I elected him to create peace in the middle east, and that's what he's trying to do. If that's what now, now we're, then yes, so just months ago, the us has got to stop being the police force of the world. I do want them to stop being the police force of the world. I do want them to stop being the police force of the world. The problem is we are funding some of that. You don't think we're not going to fund Gaza and I want that to stop. No, we're not going to fund Gaza. So here's the thing. That's what he said. Now, if that changes, I'll have a problem. Want to about him is he said, we're not paying for it. Okay, so I'm gonna. I'm also say for our, our wall, yeah, and they never paid a dollar. I don't think that's one dollar. I'm 100. True, maybe it is, maybe it is. I don't know he. He went on that I still want, I still want a border. Okay, that's fine. And if it and if we have to pay for it, I'm fine with that. Okay, that's fine. Then don't politic over it, don't run your entire election over it. We're not paying $1 for this wall. Mexico's paying for it. Mexico's like, we're not paying for no wall. Never paid a dollar for it. Yeah, it's rich. Being lectured to by the left about broken promises and people saying things that they really don't mean and yada, yada, yada. What's that have to do with anything? I mean, that's what you're doing. No, it's, it's real. I'm just saying I can be like, acting like you have this, this moral board. You can stand on above everybody. I can be the left, but the but the left is like the worst. I can. That's completely. That is a complete BS statement. No, I can be on the left and say you know what? I don't think gun confiscation is right. I don't think we should come in and confiscate everybody's guns. I can say I don't agree that we should have trans athletes and born men athletes and girls, high school teams and Olympic games. I can say that, and that's apart from some of the left. I can say I don't necessarily agree with the entire green new deal. I don't agree with shoving everything to solar. I can look at major policies of the left and say you know what I don't? I don't really like that. Right, I can do that because I can be subjective. No, I can too. But the problem is the right doesn't try to cram the things down down people's throats. They're cramming crap down our throats all the time. That's all they do. Okay, give me another example of a policy that you think I shouldn't agree with, that the right does. Let's see if I don't agree with it. Okay, let me think of something that you may not agree with. Okay, exactly, no, there's something there. Okay, what's your thought of taking, taking land for oil rigs and and you know use an eminent domain for oil pipelines and all that other stuff? What's your thoughts on that? Where are we doing that? All over the place? Happened here in town when Iris estates. I don't know anything about it. Yeah, I mean, they do it a lot. Where they come in they say, hey, we need to put a pipeline in. It's a for profit, it's not, it's not for the government. We're going to take your land. I mean, I'd have to, I'd have to look into that. I'm not a big proponent of eminent domain to begin with. So you could look at that and say you know what, right, I understand with drilling, I like the idea of drilling a little bit our own, but don't take somebody's land from them. Buy it from them if that's what you want to do. Yeah, I mean. The problem is we've built a society that runs on oil, so we have to have it. I would have to look at what can we expect from that land? Is it worth actually taking it from someone? And they don't actually take it? I mean they pay the person for it. Again, they do it against their will, but they do get paid for it. I'm not a big proponent of eminent domain, but to say they just take it, I get it, they do, but they pay for it, I get that, that's a pretty loose distinction, I'll show you. I would not want someone taking my land if I didn't want them to. And this is exactly what happened. So Iris Estates here in Springfield. But who did it? The oil company, the oil pipeline? But who backed it? Who said that was okay? The government came in and said In Illinois, mm-hmm, so the government is definitely right-wing in Illinois. No, I'm not saying the government is right-wing. So the right didn't do it. Then no, you have the right. The oil pipelines, the people that are bringing this in, are far right. They're the ones pushing. Not necessarily. They're pushing a little bit on, necessarily on a, on a, on a federal level. Not, they might be, but not necessarily. There are left-wing people that own oil companies. There are people in iris estates right now where you had a house with a full backyard. I mean I mean I don't need the story, what I'm saying. I'm going to give you the story because because this, this could be you government. If they did it through government in Illinois, they did it through the left. It's not through Illinois, it is a federal thing. It's eminent domain is not necessarily just the state. They came in and they ripped their pools out, they ripped the fences out. I mean this has been a couple of decades ago. Who was president? I have no idea, but regardless, it still is. It's. It's happening today in north dakota. You are going to give me a right-wing policy and I really thought you'd be against it, but I even that. I don't know that it's a right-wing government. Give me a right-wing policy. The right, it is the right wing policy for eminent domain, for profit businesses. It happens all the time. That's why the left is the one. The left is the ones that are out there that are protesting it. You don't know that it's the right wing that did it, so you don't know. You think the left is going to want to put oil tar sand pipes through a national park. I think the left does a lot of things that they claim to be against. Oh my god, how did like. Yeah, anyway, I really thought that would be one that you might, you might be able to agree with me on. I just told you I'm not a fan of eminent domain. You're arguing for it. No, I'm not arguing for it. I'm telling you I'm not a fan of it To your house, your neighborhood, and I told you I would not like it. Okay, now, if they paid me enough, I'd be okay with it. Everything I have is for sale, that's true. So if they paid me enough, I'd be fine with it. Right, I'd want a piece of the action. Good luck with that. You're going to find oil here? Great, give me a cut, right? Oh no, this is just getting a pipeline down the middle. So now your home's pipeline, yeah, yeah, yeah, because now you've got a four foot. I mean, unfortunately, we, unfortunately we live in a society where stuff like that has to happen. You have to have trains, you have to have airports, you have to have pipelines. You know, I mean it's unfortunate for people. I get that. I don't like it, you know, but I get that sometimes it's necessary. I mean, highways, trains, planes, airports all of those are not for-profit businesses. You don't think airlines are for-profit businesses? Airports? Airports are state. Oh, airports definitely are for-profit businesses, they are. Okay. Railroads are for-profit businesses. I mean, they all are, all of them. They're not utility hoovers for a billion dollars. So are you trying to make the point that if it's not for profit, that it's okay to take people's land? I'm not. But I understand. In my mind, eminent domain should be like hey, we're putting a highway in here, we're putting a hospital in here, we're putting something in here that is a benefit to the people, not a hey, I want to put a Walmart in, or I want to put a parking lot here, or I want to put something for a for-profit business in here, so I'm going to take your land. That's what I don't think is okay. The only way that happens is when the government says it can happen. You're not wrong. Yeah, left or right, so it's not. So it's not the business, not the business of all. I mean, they're asking, they're the ones pushing for it, they're the ones asking for sure, but it's it's ultimately up to the government. We're probably way long again. I wanted this to be like 30 minutes. Stop arguing with me. Well, I mean, you're such an easy. You know it's low bar, I have to do it. It's like low hanging fruit. I almost can't help myself red in the face for a minute. I didn't, but that wouldn't surprise me. That's what leftists do. That's what leftists do. Okay, let me ask you this, let me ask you this. Then let's hear, just based on that, how many people do you personally know that are right wing, that have cut off people from their life that are left wing? That you personally know, because I personally know a lot a couple that are left, that are right wing, that have been cut off by the left wing? Okay, including myself. Okay, I mean, you're pretty freaking radical. That's a leftist. No, I'm not. I'm very not radical. That is a left wing problem. I mean according to the, according to the left, you either believe what I believe and you carry the water, or I can't have a relationship with you. Here's the difference. Okay, there is no difference. There's a 100% of difference, because what I don't see driving down the road right now, or the last four years, was a Biden flag on the back of the truck, because there isn't anyone who has an ounce of sanity who's going to support Biden in his delusional four-year run. He lost by a couple thousand votes in this county. Yeah, how many people do you every day voted against trump? They didn't vote for, regardless. You know. You did see, though, a lot of hillary signs when she was not. Never once did I see a flag, or or did I see his face, her face, or his face plastered to the side of a car. These Trumps, they're lunatics. I don't want anything to do with them either, because every time you sit down with them, all they want to do is talk about how great Trump is. You know what's funny. I don't want to hear about it. So you know what's funny. Before he ran for president, he was an absolute darling of the left. Everybody on the left absolutely loved that guy because they assumed when he ran he was going to run as a democrat and as soon as he ran, his entire policies are left, bang gone. Yeah, he's, he's. He's now the devil. Yeah, he's completely fake. Yeah, that's how many abortions you think that guy's? That tells you everything you need to know. How many abortions do you think you don't know? I said how many do you don't know, I don't know and I'm not even going to speculate. Okay, yeah, yeah, he it. You know what. It legitimately could be zero, but in your mind it's probably a thousand. I have no idea. Yeah, I don't care, but you brought it up. Okay, I don't care, but you, you think it's definitely more than zero, though, do I think it's more than zero? 100, and you have no idea? No clue, but, but I don't care. But you're still. Yes, you do, because you brought what I care about. So you're going to assign that to him, even though you have no idea. His entire view, paul, his entire adult life. He would tell you I align more with Democrats than Republicans. He's on record saying it. Yeah, all the time he was a Democrat his whole life, and then he saw the light and he became a Republican. He didn't see the light. Yeah, he did. He found it. You can see that by his policy. Okay, but you have. You have the religious right that is following him like a cult leader. No, I don't. Yes, 100%, if you're an evangelical you didn't let me finish. There are some on the religious right that follow him like a cult leader, there's no question, and I'm not supportive of that. Okay, but I don't think it's the majority. I don't think it's anywhere near the majority. Yeah, I know you do. Of course you do. You wouldn't have brought it up if you did, but anyway, back to the subject. Yeah, why would somebody on the left unfriend or de-friend somebody on the right? Because they don't shut up about it? Oh, that's not true. If you were from the left, you would understand the people who unfriended me. I never said a word to about anything. Okay, I never said a word to. They may be the anomalies, and then they found out I voted for Trump. No, they're not the anomaly. I just told you about my friend who their daughter uninvited them from Christmas, right, and they never even said who they voted for. She just speculated, right, that I'm pretty sure you voted for Trump. So you're cut off. That's disgusting, okay, that's disgusting within a family Okay, I don't disagree. I don't disagree at all. And that doesn't happen on the right Okay, it doesn't. When you shove it down somebody's throat, nothing's being shoved. Nothing's being shoved. When I can't sit in line, hold on, hold on, hold on. I can't sit in line at Walgreens without somebody with a MAGA hat turning around being like you can't believe these prices that Biden pushed on us Everywhere you go. That is every nonsense. Okay, that guaranteed you. Every person on here. I bet you that's never happened to you. That's never happened to me one time, not one time. I bet you that you know how many times I get it on showings. You know how many times I get it on showings. And do you tell them that you're on the left? No, I say I hate them all. No, because you don't. Yes, I do. You're sitting here gloating about how great trump is. You can't? I'm gloating about how great the last two weeks of his policies have been. What have I told you about him in the past time? No, it's still today. I don't like the man, okay, I think he's arrogant. I think he's pompous. I've never been a fan. I want to take just. This is from the 80s. I've I've never been a fan. I want to take just. This is from the 80s. I've I've never been a fan of his Right. I like what he's doing for the country OK, and it's, and it's OK to feel that way, but but back to now, that has never happened. Five times, I'm telling you, when you sit down with a family member who is far right Trump, all they want to talk about is Trump. I was just in Kansas City. I can't get on Facebook. You know how many people that I have unfollowed on Facebook Because every single post is something about Trump, every single time. Because he's doing stuff people are excited about. No, because they're obsessed with him. No, they're obsessed with him like he's a sports team. They're obsessed right now because he's doing exactly what he was doing. No, they're obsessed because they have a mental issue. They have an issue in their brain and they want to love something. So they're like, ooh, let's love a politician. He's a politician, he lies for a living and they won't have it. Okay, they're excited about what he's doing and that's okay. They're excited. If he's not doing anything, you're upset about it. This was the same thing I had to endure when Obama was in office the left I never had a flag. And they all talked about it. I never had a flag. Well, that's I never. I never put his face on the side of my vehicle. That's OK. People are excited about him and it's OK for them to be excited about him and it's OK for them to root for their team country. But what they're not doing, what they're not doing, is they're not getting rid of friends and family over it. That's what they're not doing, oh, I guarantee. And for you to sit there and justify that because people want to talk about it, that's nonsense. That's nonsense, I can tell you, because that happens. So you would do that. You would unfriend someone just because they talk about Trump. If every single post they make 10 times a day are Trump, they will 100% get involved. I wasn't going to do it, but I'm starting tomorrow. What I'm going to post every day about Trump, 10 times a day, about how excited I am, I'll snooze you. I'll snooze you for 30 minutes. No, I want you to absolutely unfriend me, because that's what the left does. You would never. Yep, I want you to zip your lip. The people who unfriended me I've never talked politics with them in my life. Yeah, I mean, I don't post stuff on Facebook. I will say that's a little much. If you're going to, if you're going to unfriend somebody just because of who they are, that's a little much. Well, if you talk about it all the time, if you get, if I was just constantly posting stuff from the left, just constantly posting stuff from the left, I can promise you my friend cat would go down and that just is what it is and that's okay, like I, and that the problem with that is there are people that I'm friends with on Facebook now who they still post. Those aren't your friends. I'm not done. Those aren't your friends. Yes, I would give this man a hug, the one I'm thinking of right now. I'd give him a hug if talk all the time. You know that's one. Okay, I've got the one friend. This guy posts stuff all the time. His friend list is so they've. They've weeded themselves out. So his friend list is so republican, right, that every time he makes a comment it's just positive, positive, positive and that's fine. Dude, like what we've. What social media has done to us is we have all self-isolated so much within our friend groups that it makes us feel like we are right, and that's right and left. But but those aren't your friends. That's my point. Like if I started posting about trump every day, I would lose friends on face 100, but those aren't my friends, yes, 100. I'm talking about people that I was close to, that's. I'm talking about people I went to on vacation. Am I still friends with you? Barely, oh, jesus, barely. You're riding the fence, buddy, you are riding the fence. You're gonna unfriend me? No, you're gonna unfriend me. Why would I unfriend you? Because, trump, you can have different arrangements. That's the whole reason for this test, baby, let's do. I'm putting a flag on my truck. Yeah, I'm gonna put his face in my window. There may be a bridge too far. Well, that's what I'm saying. There is no bridge too far for me. You can do it, I'm still. You're telling me if I'll still. I mean, the thing is there's, there's nobody I would. You've already gone too far and I still love you. There's nobody I would be obsessed with in politics. That's the thing. I don't care about sports teams that much. I don't care about anything, and I'm the same way. I don't live or die by any of this stuff. But there's apparently people that do. Alright, we gotta end this. Jesus man. That was a freaking long. I knew it was a fun one. Well, we did we should, because we didn't do our other recording this week, so we should cut this in there too. Yeah, we'll do a January 6th episode and we'll do a TDS episode. Tds, perfect. Yeah, I love it. See you guys have a great day. Thanks for listening. Hey, we got it.