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DePriest: the next one.
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All right, what's up?
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Good people, we want to thank you for coming into the
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Truckless Lounge with you guys, priest and Jean.
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We got a little lineup today, a few things that we're going to
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be discussing in our commentary today.
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We got Illinois putting on the show.
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We got truckers I guess it's an updated story that the truckers
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Boycott in New York supposedly may be going into full effect.
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We don't know.
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We got Mitch McConnell stepping down.
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We got now we're probably looking at some issues with our
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fuel prices now because of what's going on overseas, and we
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also got politicians wanting to put on the show vaccine in our
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produce.
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So we got a lineup today.
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Jean.
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How you doing, bro, doing well, man, how you doing tonight?
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Man, I'm good man, just trying to get it right.
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Yeah, just trying to get it right.
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I'm going to try to set a little vibe here, man Going and
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everything.
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But, uh, before we set the vibe , we want to start off the story
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with, uh, my guy, like I said, I'm not a Republican, but my god
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, trump, uh, we're going to start off the story with what's
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going on with him in Illinois.
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Most of us by now we already know what's going on with him in
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New York, with him being sued for greater than a half a
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billion billion dollars.
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So he got other issues going on , so he's getting the business
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right now.
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But we're going to start off with this news clipping from a
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local news station, wq AD News 8 .
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They reported on this story, so here's a little clip and it's
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bringing you into full context on what's going on in Illinois
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with Trump now.
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Audio News Clip: Former President Donald Trump from the
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state's primary ballot next month overnight at Cook County
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Judge ruling that Trump violated the 14th Amendment's
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insurrection clause due to his actions during the January 6th
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Capitol attack.
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It's not a done deal, though.
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This decision doesn't actually take effect until tomorrow, so
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this is essentially letting the public know in advance what the
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decision will be.
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The judge is expecting appeals.
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A spokesperson of former President Trump is calling this
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decision quote unconstitutional.
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The ruling overturns last month's decision by the Illinois
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Board of Elections that Trump could remain on the ballot.
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This ruling is the latest in the string of decisions around
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the country concerning Trump's ballot eligibility.
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Right now, the U?
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S Supreme Court is hearing a case after the Colorado Supreme
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Court kicked Trump off its state primary ballot.
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It's unknown yet if that upcoming decision will have any
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effects on the ruling here in Illinois.
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DePriest: Alright, there you have it.
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So the surprising thing for me is is how rapid this thing is
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going on.
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It's like one after another, if it well I know as far as the
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state ban.
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It started with Colorado, then the state of Maine got involved
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in it as well, so now we got Illinois in it.
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So, gene, what are the details you got on this situation here?
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Eugene: Well, they're using that Illinois judge, which is the
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circuit court county judge, tracy Porter.
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They're using the the 14th amendment.
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The 14th amendment that basically says it will ban
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officials from serving if they've engaged in any
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insurrection, which you know, which is what they claim that
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Trump was a part of January 6th.
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Now Tracy Porter ordered the Illinois Board of Elections to
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remove Trump name from the ballot but put the order on hold
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just in case of an appeal.
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Now his attorneys were able to file that appeal and in that
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appeal it basically says that they're pretty much going to
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retain the order of stay of the judge, judge Porter, and it says
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, I quote, until the appeal is fully resolved by the Illinois
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Appalach Court First District, the Illinois Supreme Court and
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or the US Supreme Court.
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So basically can go through all those different courts till
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they reach a decision.
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That's my understanding that it can go through those courts.
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It go through one court if they appeal fails and then go
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through another court all the way up to the US Supreme Court
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that they can fight it.
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DePriest: Well, this sounds like .
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I mean, if that's the case, this would be music to someone's
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like Donald Trump's ear, because the election is going to
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be in November.
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If he wins the election, they're not going to be able to
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touch him.
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And really, right now, with what's going on with the
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Democratic Party, you got so many of their core base seem to
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be turning on them Now a lot of people, which is understandable.
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They don't want to hold their nose and vote for Trump.
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And don't get me wrong, I get it.
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I don't criticize anybody for not voting for him because I
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didn't vote for him the last time.
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But my opinion is a lot different now.
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With everything that has been going on since the pandemic and
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right now, you know we we're dealing with too much post
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pandemic anxiety to be sitting here looking at this nonsense
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swirling around in the news.
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And the reason why I call it nonsense is because when he was
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in office, he did a lot of shit that he should have probably
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been out of office for, for what they were accusing them of.
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If that's what he was guilty of , no action was really taken,
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just a lot of political talk.
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I mean, it was good entertainment if you was glued
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to the news like I was, but it was just political talk.
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I mean you had politicians in the past did things.
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I mean you know, I think they handled Bill Clinton kind of
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rough when they impeached him for you know, you know, getting
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fallacious.
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I think they let George W Bush get away with lying about
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nuclear weapons being in Iraq, iraq and Afghanistan basically.
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Right just to kick a wall and which that caused hundreds of
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thousands of Americans are alive , as well as the you know,
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unfortunately, the victims that went down in the fall of the
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towers in New York.
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So I mean it's to me, it's it's it's nonsense, because number
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one, the Democratic Party I haven't seen anybody that they
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had that was appealing, other than Joe Biden.
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That's all I see, who they seem to be giving a push to.
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Then, a lot of these guys are old, so we're going to have an
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old guy.
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I feel like you might as well have Trump at least try to get
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the economy back on track for some of the Americans who are
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financially suffering, pan high rent or whatever.
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I really feel like Donald Trump will come in and rectify those
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issues.
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Joe Biden is a corporate politician.
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I don't feel like he's for the people.
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Truth be told, just by some of the moves that he's making, I
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mean I just, I mean it just looks silly to me.
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I mean it's, it's it's bigger things they could be worried
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about than to be trying to get the man put off the ballot.
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I mean it's it's looking more and more like dictatorship than
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than democracy.
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I mean I haven't never seen this before, where they put a
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candidate off the ballot and if it happened in the past, which
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I'm sure it has, it wasn't in the media this way for the, for
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the Americans to see in this way .
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Eugene: Yeah, Right, and I think that's one of the things that
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they should just let the people decide.
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You know, instead of just taking his name off the ballot
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altogether, they should just let the people decide on who they
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choose and who they, who they know, who they choose to vote
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for.
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DePriest: Exactly, exactly.
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And then I want to say this here too for the average
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American if I'm talking to the ones who doesn't have a
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political seat, don't get caught up in the choosing the size of
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the political out, and there's no need in some of you saying,
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no, I'm not like that.
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Okay, we'll compare this to a basketball game.
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I've been around so many people that'll take a win any kind of
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way that they get it.
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And let's just be honest, even when Trump was in office, he
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wasn't perfect.
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I mean hell, if you ask me, none of them are.
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Eugene: Yeah.
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DePriest: So let's, let's let's be truthful in our judgment on
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this.
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Does he deserve what he's going through?
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Yes, is it necessary in these times?
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Hell, no, you don't have anything appealing to be in
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leadership to get the country back on track, because you keep
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putting these corporate politicians into play and they
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keep it just seem like most of their policies that's directly
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affecting us immediately.
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It's in the favor of the people with the money you know.
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So, that's just the way I look at it.
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I just really feel like it's a waste of time.
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So that's why you got now the truck, our fellow brothers it.
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You know it was a news update.
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What about?
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What about yesterday?
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It was yesterday, I think it was reported.
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It wasn't many news sources, it was a local news source in New
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York had reported, like an update, about the truckers
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boycott, which I'm pretty sure they're probably just going off
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of the last story that that we've reported.
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I just saw one new guy speaking up on it, but I can't even see
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that happening.
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Now.
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This is what I see happening.
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If you're a truck driver that live in New York, in a trucker,
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boycott happens.
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It's going to be some New York truckers, it's going to be some
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pretty good damn rates.
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That's, that's what I see happening.
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I don't see a unity forming amongst truckers to boycott New
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York for the sake of what they're doing to Trump Hill.
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You want to even boycott these, these horrible rates out here.
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You want to even boycott these fuel prices.
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You want to even boycott these long waits that the shippers and
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receivers.
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That's costing us money, because our time is money when
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we're in the transportation industry.
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So let's not, you know, play this political game, drivers of
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this.
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Boycott New York, because you know just as well as I know that
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it's not going to happen Anytime.
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You have a pandemic and the average rate go up, go up
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towards six to eight dollars a mile and then drastically take a
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drop within a year and a half and then go down to a dollar and
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seventy five cent on average for certain modes of
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transportation.
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I mean, just stop it, you ain't going to do nothing, just stop
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it.
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Eugene: Yeah, because everyone calls for a strike.
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You know everybody's pretty much go to is a let's strike,
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but no one really comes up with the right type of organization.
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You know they don't know how to organize it per se.
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On how to strike, I think one time they did a, a rolling, what
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you call a slow roll in in DC.
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You know slow down the traffic and stuff and it's a lot of
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truckers was going to be doing that, you know.
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And a one day strike or two day strike.
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I don't know how much that's going to change because not
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everyone is going to afford, be able to afford.
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They might better do one or two days, but that's not going to
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really drastically affect the country and make some changes
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that you're looking to to see.
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You know you're able to do a one month boycott and shut your
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trucks down.
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Then you might be able to see something, but not everyone can
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afford to do that.
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DePriest: Well, you got to watch pockets, and what I mean by
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that is, you know, when you got these bigger companies out here,
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like the Mega Carries, like your JB Hunt, your Swift, your
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Mega, your Mega Shipping facilities, or manufacturers
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like your General Mills, your Kellogg's, your Home Depot.
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The owners of those companies are just who they are, but they
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pretty much ran by their investors, which are called
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shareholders.
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So unless you plan on playing that game, it to me is going to
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take a month.
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Because see, here's the thing, the more you run, the more money
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you put into the shareholders' pockets.
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The more money you put into the shareholders' pockets, the more
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power you give them to come up with another plan to counter
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your attack.
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Yeah, you see, right now they're pushing heavily
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automated trucks.
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We want them to be rolling unmanned by the end of this year
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in certain areas.
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Nobody in the trucking community is paying attention to
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that.
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Everybody just focus on getting the bag.
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You're not even realizing that your bag's going to have a leak
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in it.
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Eugene: Yeah, a big, long cut.
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DePriest: Right, you know.
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So, like when you talk about strike, we're talking about
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months of preparation, of stocking your de-freezer full of
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food, getting all your bills paid up ahead of time and, on
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top of that, being able to put money to the side.
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Then you shut this motherfucker down for about six months.
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Even if they come to the table, you still make them wait, you
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make them agree and you make them wait.
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That's the game that you got to play with billionaires.
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They don't hear you.
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They don't hear a slow roll one day of holding up traffic.
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They don't hear that.
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Is it a problem?
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Yeah, it's a problem.
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Does it affect billionaires' bottom line?
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Hell no, it does not affect their bottom line.
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If you want to play that game with billionaires, you got to
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get ready to go to the max with it, because they got too much
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money to play with it.
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And out, wait us on these slow roll, these one day strike going
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up the Washington line.
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Enough honking your horn and all that shit.
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They got too much money to play with.
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They're not going to hear you.
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You got to get ready to be balls to the wall with it.
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Just imagine yourself coming down faster gap and getting in
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that hammer lane.
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That's how you got to be with this shit.
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Yeah, don't waste your time upping them rates for them guys
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in New York, only for them to get on social media Talk about
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how much money they done made, because if you do that, you're
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going to have more of these guys with these goddamn
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masterclasses talking about how good the rates are, when the
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rates ain't going to know them where.
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They just hide in New York because y'all went and did a
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strike.
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Eugene: Yep, and then you have everybody trying to get into the
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New York and northeast area to take those runs from the guys
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who live there.
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DePriest: Right, Exactly, you know.
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So I mean, let's get it right.
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I mean, if anything come together, let's get on the one
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umbrella and learn and understand the technical
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business side of the industry, because when you learn that then
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we could operate the same way shareholders do when we're
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negotiating our rates.
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You know the market, the market , this bull crap market.
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They claim they set the rates.
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Those rates are set by the people in power, the people that
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has the money, the shareholders .
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Do you not realize these shareholders a lot of the same
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names that are shareholders under JB Hunter Swift, are on
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the board with General Meals, which is a manufacturing company
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, on the board with some of these.
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What's another shipping company ?
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What Walmart?
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You can consider Walmart a shipping and what you call it, a
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seller or product to the consumers.
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Right, they got big shareholders.
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All these shareholders because there's only so many of you know
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, all of them sits on the board of a big transportation company,
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a big manufacturing company, a big shipping company, a big
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freight forwarding company and the biggest brokerage company.
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Doesn't that sound like monopoly to you guys?
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So, like I said, man, you know, until you're already to move
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like that under one umbrella, ain't nothing going to happen.
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Ain't nothing going to happen.
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They're going to slide these automated trucks right up under
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us and it's going to be what it's going to be until we move
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and I suggest we move quickly, right.
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Eugene: That's true.
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That's so true because you know they already started with the
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fully automated yard trucks at some warehouses across the
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country, Different warehouses across the country.
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I think one of the most recent ones is at a Nestle warehouse in
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Arkansas.
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They bought well this.
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I think this was an electric truck.
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DePriest: Right yeah, that's an electric truck.
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Eugene: Okay, yeah so, but over in Texas they have a warehouse
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that's fully autonomous when it comes to the yard trucks Right.
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DePriest: A company, a technology company that make the
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robotic, what automated trucks is called ISSE.
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It's a company from overseas somewhere and they got their
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yard fully automated.
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Eugene: Yeah.
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DePriest: Yeah, so you know, if you want to stand for Trump,
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just vote for him anyway.
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I mean, if you're in New York, I mean people that, not not New
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York, I'm sorry in the states that they're being in, Trump off
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of the ballot Illinois, Maine, Colorado, you know, darling,
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people have to speak up as Trump supporters because now you're,
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they want to vote for a particular candidate and you're
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taking them off the ballot.
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And now you're depriving I don't care what the law says,
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you're the, you're depriving citizens of their American right
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to vote for whoever they want to vote for.
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To put it off, Right?
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So, so the people over there could start screaming.
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I just get sick of the news and you know all this shit.
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They try to make it like it's so difficult to make it happen.
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Yeah, it's difficult, in a sense of when you're trying to
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get people to come together and speak in one loud voice.
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But it's not geometry, Right?
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You just take a little sacrifice, that's all.
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Eugene: Yeah, but you know there's how stuff get when they
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were in politics.
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I mean they sling and all kinds of mud.
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They'll go.
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They'll go back to a candidate is any type of candidate.
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They'll go back into a candidate's high school or
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college time and pick no, pick up what they did.
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And if they were a bully in college or a bully in high
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school, they're going to go and address that and pull that out.
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And that's the part about politics.
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I've never really cared for how they go so far back and they
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just sling mud and as as if that candidate is still the same
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person today.
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DePriest: Well, actually, like like me, I'm sorry, go ahead.
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I thought you was finished.
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Eugene: No, no, I'm done.
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Yeah, you go ahead.
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DePriest: Well, actually, like me, I feel a little different
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about that.
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I'm actually I'm cool with that in the spirit of politics.
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If you want to play the game like you did this here, you
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ain't no good.
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You slept with this many women If you want to play that kind of
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game.
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But when you start getting into messing up people, marriages,
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like, just like maliciously tearing down somebody,
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reputation, this situation they got going on with Trump.
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Now they trying to use the law for personal matters, you can't
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tell me that it's not personal.
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I was glued to the TV when this with this great, when this guy
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was in office, because he was so entertaining.
00:21:37
So I saw everything on the news .
00:21:40
It all the connection, all the links to Darcy, a Julia Sergeant
00:21:44
, and WikiLeaks, the situation with Facebook and Facebook being
00:21:50
infiltrated by Russia and China taking over the information to
00:21:55
steer toward Trump.
00:21:56
I watched all of it, you know, and so you can't tell me he
00:22:04
didn't step on toes and this is the result of him stepping on
00:22:07
toes when he was in office.
00:22:09
This ain't about what he did illegal.
00:22:11
You know.
00:22:12
This is this.
00:22:13
This is more personal.
00:22:15
And then they're sending people out they look like new people
00:22:22
to basically like dogs, sicken them on them, like those DA's in
00:22:27
New York.
00:22:27
Fannie Willis, down in Georgia they got her tied up in some
00:22:31
stuff.
00:22:31
Now that I'm pretty sure that was brought up with her affair
00:22:35
with this guy.
00:22:36
There's this that's got her on trial to be disqualified from
00:22:40
this case.
00:22:41
So I'm yet so you know, it's just a lot of personal,
00:22:48
malicious muscle in career in then type tactics that they're
00:22:53
using and I think that's unfortunate, you know, for this
00:22:56
country to be in that kind of trauma where we got leadership
00:23:02
doing this kind of stuff.
00:23:03
But again, like I say, as Americans is our fault because
00:23:07
we forget they work for us.
00:23:09
Even Trump, if we vote him in office, he works for us.
00:23:12
If he win the election and you didn't vote him in office, he
00:23:15
works for you.
00:23:15
That's true.
00:23:16
You know I like what killer Mike said on the view.
00:23:22
He said I don't want to get caught up into the soap opera.
00:23:25
You know it was asking him.
00:23:26
You know when you're going to endorse by the he's I'm gonna
00:23:29
focus on my our local elections in Atlanta.
00:23:31
You know he said that's what I'm more focused on.
00:23:34
He said what's going on right now?
00:23:36
He's I don't want to get caught up in the politic drama of all
00:23:39
this he said he said like I think he said his grandma or his
00:23:44
granddad told me, said one thing my grandma or my granddad
00:23:47
told me stay out of white folks building and sit back and see
00:23:50
what he's doing.
00:23:52
You know right, but to me that was like his way of saying I'm
00:23:57
not endorsing no body.
00:23:58
Body really hasn't did a whole lot.
00:24:01
You know they went through this list about all the money he gave
00:24:04
the HPC use and you know blah, blah, blah and all that.
00:24:08
Okay, yeah, that's cool, but what about all the other stuff
00:24:11
that he's doing is directly affecting people.
00:24:14
When Trump had the stimulus checks going around, a lot of
00:24:17
people depending on that, yeah, you know, and he did, and he
00:24:22
kept it going for a year after he got in office and it was gone
00:24:27
, just like that.
00:24:28
You know he came out with some old funk as a prepaid card to
00:24:32
give you what was it like?
00:24:33
$500 a month insurance, $200 a month, something like that.
00:24:37
Eugene: Yeah, I think it was some some similar to that.
00:24:41
DePriest: And we all know how, how these doctor bills are when
00:24:43
you don't have insurance and and and and.
00:24:47
Okay, that's fine for the you know to give us prepaid cards to
00:24:53
go to the doctor, but why damn card it for the prescriptions we
00:24:58
need that car, right, you know, because it I mean like.
00:25:03
I mean, it's like a horror movie to go to the doctor.
00:25:07
They tell you that, okay, so this pay for your doctor visit,
00:25:11
but the medicine that you need costs $700 for 20 pills.
00:25:17
You know, then, what you know now you don't find that I got a
00:25:23
problem and I don't have any money to fix it.
00:25:25
You know, this is the time that people will put out of work
00:25:30
because of post pandemic, when a lot of businesses were closing
00:25:34
down, people were, people were in, are still feeling the
00:25:38
effects of that Right.
00:25:44
Eugene: Yeah, yeah that's unfortunate.
00:25:45
That's true and I know we kill a mic.
00:25:47
I remember watching some of that His interview on the view
00:25:52
and I remember one does one of the things he was speaking on.
00:25:56
One thing I did like about him in prior elections you know he's
00:26:01
always said don't vote for someone who doesn't give you
00:26:06
anything.
00:26:07
He just given your vote away and you know I think he voted,
00:26:12
if I'm not mistaken.
00:26:13
I want to say he voted independent of this election.
00:26:17
DePriest: Yeah, is that correct.
00:26:18
He was back and Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders.
00:26:21
Then they make it in.
00:26:24
Eugene: Right, right.
00:26:25
So I think he voted independent , or so you know, and that's,
00:26:28
and that's the thing.
00:26:29
That's something that we've talked about was don't just give
00:26:32
your vote away because you're a Republican, you've always voted
00:26:36
Republican, or you're a Democrat, and you've always
00:26:39
voted Democrat.
00:26:40
Whoever the candidate is that's going to do the best for you
00:26:45
and your family, that's who you vote for it, in spite of your
00:26:48
affiliation.
00:26:50
DePriest: Right, right.
00:26:52
So I'm not going to speak for Jean, but you know, I'm in my
00:26:59
40s and I just recently learned, a few years ago, that and and
00:27:05
this is how I view it.
00:27:06
So so don't judge me.
00:27:08
I don't consider myself Democratic or Republican, and
00:27:13
let me explain why.
00:27:14
Because I feel like it's.
00:27:17
It's just like.
00:27:20
This is how I look at look at it like a fraternity.
00:27:22
I can like the Q dogs, I can like the alpha.
00:27:27
I could be a supportive of them , I could be at every event that
00:27:31
they have, but I'm not a Q dog, nor am I alpha.
00:27:35
I don't have the power to make any decisions that I may see
00:27:40
them doing or any events that they're having to change it.
00:27:46
I'm not a initiated member or voted in member.
00:27:54
That's how I look at politics.
00:27:56
I'm just a citizen who, looking for you know we're going to
00:28:01
have government.
00:28:02
I'm just a citizen who wants the individual in there who's
00:28:06
going to do what I want them to do.
00:28:08
I know they can't do everything that I want them to do, but at
00:28:11
least some of the important things that I'm looking for,
00:28:14
that's what I want them to do.
00:28:15
I be damned if I vote for D or R just because my family voted a
00:28:22
certain way.
00:28:23
I be damned if I vote for D or R just because I might like or
00:28:30
feel like Trump is the best choice.
00:28:32
You know, once in, and I want to make this clear If Trump gets
00:28:40
my vote, it'll probably be a long time before another
00:28:45
Republican gets my vote Because, to be told, I don't see the
00:28:50
Republican Party that's some of them that's in office not doing
00:28:56
too much, enough right, but holding up progress, and I see
00:29:00
the Democrats trying to give away money in all the wrong
00:29:04
directions.
00:29:04
Yeah, you know, which is going to lead us to our next topic.
00:29:09
Once we get there, I wanted you to have a look.
00:29:12
You know, and you know more input on this topic.
00:29:17
Eugene: Well, I mean, I felt the same way because you know we've
00:29:20
talked about a few times is I've never said that I was a
00:29:24
Republican or Democrat, because I've always looked at the
00:29:29
parties I voted Democrat and Republican on different ballots.
00:29:33
I know, when I lived in California and a lot of people
00:29:36
might laugh at this and like I can't believe you, but I voted
00:29:43
for Arnold Schwarzenegger where he became the governor of
00:29:47
California.
00:29:47
I think I was like 18, 19, or so I first began, you know, got
00:29:53
the, got my chance to vote in that election for the governor.
00:29:57
I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger and I think he
00:30:00
came in as a Republican, you know, because I was interested
00:30:03
in some of the things Okay, yeah , and I was interested in some
00:30:06
of the things that he said that he was going to do for that
00:30:10
economy in California, you know, and so I voted Republican.
00:30:14
I didn't affiliate myself with the Republicans or the Democrats
00:30:18
, I just did that and that's one thing I've always tried to look
00:30:22
for who's going to do the best for me with what I'm trying to
00:30:26
do?
00:30:27
And I think that's how everyone should vote Exactly.
00:30:32
DePriest: Exactly, but, yeah, but, but.
00:30:34
But we're going to move on to the next topic.
00:30:37
You know, in New York.
00:30:38
New York is, as a lot of us know, there.
00:30:42
They have been having issues with the immigrants being bussed
00:30:45
into New York City and it's a lot of benefits being given away
00:30:50
.
00:30:50
A lot of our fellow Americans in New York don't feel like it's
00:30:56
fair.
00:30:56
I don't think it's fair In a lot of ways.
00:30:59
I'm all for anybody coming to the country and want to better
00:31:05
themselves and better the country.
00:31:07
I'm all for that.
00:31:09
But this here is something else to me.
00:31:13
It just, it just looks like something else.
00:31:15
So I don't know what this is, but we're going to play a little
00:31:20
news clip in here from a local news station in New York City.
00:31:25
Basically, you know, talking about Mayor Adams.
00:31:30
A lot of the weight is falling in on him.
00:31:32
Eugene is going to have more information on what's going down
00:31:39
with it, but we're going to bring this news clip in, then
00:31:41
Gene is going to bring it in the context for us.
00:31:49
Audio News Clip: Mayor Adams says giving asylum seekers debit
00:31:51
cards to buy their own food will save the city millions.
00:31:55
But the head of the city council's oversight and
00:31:57
investigations committee wants to know why the city issued a
00:32:00
$53 million no bid contract without seeing if it could get a
00:32:05
better deal.
00:32:07
I think you should be able to see who would do the best job at
00:32:11
the best cost for taxpayers.
00:32:13
And also member Gail Brewer says she wants to investigate a
00:32:16
pilot program launched by Mayor Adams to give asylum seekers
00:32:20
prepaid debit cards that will allow them to buy food, baby
00:32:23
products and other necessities at supermarkets, bodegas,
00:32:26
groceries and convenience stores .
00:32:28
The $53 million contract we used by CBS2 gives the firm
00:32:33
mobility capital finance lots of fees for services, including
00:32:37
$125 one time setup fee, $250 in annual management
00:32:43
fees and fees based on how much money is distributed to migrants
00:32:47
$1.5 million for the first $50 million handed out, $2.5 million
00:32:52
for the next $100 million.
00:32:53
The program will involve 500 families staying in short term
00:32:57
hotels like the Row and the Watson.
00:32:59
According to the contract, the most the card can have is
00:33:02
$10, but most cards will be refilled every four weeks.
00:33:06
A family of four can get about $1, $35 a day and they can
00:33:12
buy whatever food they want to eat.
00:33:14
I don't know exactly how it's going to work.
00:33:19
In other words, I do say from the release that it would be for
00:33:22
diapers and baby products and food, but you know you have to
00:33:26
be careful that that's what it's actually going to be for.
00:33:31
DePriest: Now, on the face of it , I'm not for that.
00:33:35
I mean, have you ever had somebody that owed you money?
00:33:39
And you see them at the store and you know you buying your
00:33:43
cigarettes or your food or whatever, or local bread or
00:33:46
whatever and they come in and they're getting like $100 in gas
00:33:49
and they owe you.
00:33:50
That's what this looks like.
00:33:53
When you talk about everyday Americans in New York City
00:33:58
living in the streets, homeless, I mean just having a hard time.
00:34:04
Rent is so high up there.
00:34:06
I can only imagine you know the fluctuation of gas prices up
00:34:12
there on top of that.
00:34:14
So, yeah, this is a slap in the face to Americans and we need to
00:34:18
stop this notion that just because that Americans don't
00:34:22
like this, that they got something against the immigrants
00:34:25
.
00:34:25
We need to stop that bullshit notion.
00:34:27
I mean, I think to me that's a cop out to just keep from
00:34:31
addressing the issue head on.
00:34:33
But one of the things that I'm curious about is that you know,
00:34:37
I see a lot of this weight is falling in on Mayor Adams.
00:34:41
He's a mayor in New York City, he's an African American and I'm
00:34:48
just curious to know is this something that he's doing on his
00:34:51
own or is this more like a federal law that puts him in a
00:34:55
position that he has to accept these immigrants.
00:34:59
Eugene: Now I think that when it comes to that, when you look at
00:35:03
all the immigrants that have been led into the country, they
00:35:09
for some reason they led them into the major cities you know,
00:35:12
a lot of the major cities already have strained budgets
00:35:16
and strained resources that they're trying to maintain for
00:35:20
its own citizens, you know and so a lot of the immigrants are
00:35:26
brought into New York, just like they were brought into Chicago.
00:35:30
Now, mayor Adams basically said that this was basically the
00:35:37
solution to a problem and this would help them save money,
00:35:41
because they were basically saying that it would help to
00:35:45
curve the cost of expensive food distribution because a lot of
00:35:49
food was going to waste.
00:35:50
So I think at first they were just distributing food but it
00:35:54
was going to waste, and so they said, okay, why not, let's just
00:35:57
come up with a pilot program.
00:35:59
We'll take 500 families and this is what we'll do.
00:36:03
We'll just hand them those carts and allow them to buy the
00:36:08
food that they want and supplies for babies I think it's like
00:36:12
Pampers and baby wipes and stuff of that nature and that's all
00:36:16
they can use that money for.
00:36:17
And they said this will save them, say pretty much, say the
00:36:21
taxpayers about $7 million a year.
00:36:25
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute To my giving money
00:36:27
away to the immigrant, giving it to the immigrant, because
00:36:30
they have to take care of the immigrants anyway, and so them
00:36:35
doing it in that case would be cheaper, because they said that
00:36:42
would save them that amount of money.
00:36:43
Now, the part about it, now all of it, it sounds pretty suspect
00:36:47
to me.
00:36:48
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:36:49
I'm sick, I don't know what's that Go ahead.
00:36:51
DePriest: You know, just interrupt one second.
00:36:52
So let's do a comparison to something that we're familiar
00:36:58
with.
00:36:58
So my light bill, say, for instance, normally $120 a month,
00:37:07
let's just say that and you in the city or energy which we have
00:37:14
, energy in the area that we're in raises our light bill up to
00:37:17
$300.
00:37:18
So I have to go out and get a salt, pay thousands of dollars
00:37:23
for a solar panel set up to save money.
00:37:26
Is that the analogy that we can compare that to when they say
00:37:31
they just want to say the city money?
00:37:35
Eugene: You could use that.
00:37:36
Yeah, because the different yeah.
00:37:41
So, that's what we're doing now .
00:37:43
Now, because he the part about it that really I mean all of it
00:37:48
is going to make the citizens and the taxpayers angry, but
00:37:52
especially the fact that they're giving them $1 a month
00:37:56
prepaid card.
00:37:56
That's what that those immigrants get.
00:38:00
Like a family of four qualifies for a $1 a month prepaid
00:38:05
card.
00:38:08
DePriest: So that same.
00:38:09
I'm sorry because you just hit me with some.
00:38:11
So, so.
00:38:12
So they couldn't have had that same savings if they took care
00:38:16
of the, the, the, the Americans, that's living on the street,
00:38:21
and giving them prepaid free?
00:38:23
You know same room and board, you know the prepaid cost.
00:38:26
Doesn't it seem like they could still save the citizens in New
00:38:32
York this same amount of money?
00:38:33
It was even more, it was even now.
00:38:38
Eugene: Now, now in the face it is now.
00:38:40
Mayor Adams said that you know he's requested help from, or
00:38:45
they requested help from, the White House, but they haven't
00:38:48
had any in turn.
00:38:49
Dealing with that Now on the federal level?
00:38:53
I don't know.
00:38:54
That's the part that kind of confuses me and I had to do a
00:38:58
little bit more research on is why these immigrants being
00:39:01
dumped in New York City.
00:39:02
But they said over the past two years over 173 immigrants
00:39:10
have come into the city.
00:39:11
Why is that?
00:39:14
That's a lot of people, you know in two years and Shucks
00:39:20
that's probably what you say.
00:39:22
That's probably more than than the the great migration that
00:39:26
African Americans had 100 years ago.
00:39:28
They moved from the South into New York City, moved up North
00:39:31
and everything.
00:39:33
DePriest: I don't know, those are some statistics that we
00:39:37
would have to look up to be sure , but I do know this that's just
00:39:43
New York we're talking about, right?
00:39:45
We're not talking about cities like Chicago, right, and yeah,
00:39:49
you know, we're not even talking about them.
00:39:51
I mean, and they are really Democrats, are really in
00:39:56
political trouble in Chicago.
00:39:59
Yeah, you know, behind that, you know, and apparently,
00:40:04
apparently it must be some kind of fatigue behind it, because
00:40:09
CNN posted an article two days ago that Mayor Adam is calling
00:40:16
for changes in the New York sanctuary policy because they
00:40:22
haven't crime rate picking up there.
00:40:24
It's you know that that the immigrants are committing like
00:40:28
home invasion and all that, and he want to change the policy and
00:40:32
sanctuary in a sanctuary policy so he can send them out of New
00:40:37
York.
00:40:37
So that's what's got me kind of thinking that he's not right.
00:40:43
Like his hands are tied, Like he can't stop this train from
00:40:47
rolling in, Right, and you know, and I hate to say it like this,
00:40:52
but by him being a, you know, African American in a position
00:40:57
like that and if I'm not mistaken, I think the mayor in
00:41:00
Chicago is black as well To me it looks like a political setup,
00:41:04
because when this first happened, they was crossing over
00:41:08
into Texas and Texas was like OK, since y'all want them, since
00:41:13
y'all don't want to build a wall or y'all want them to come
00:41:15
in, we're going to bust them over to some of these blue
00:41:18
states.
00:41:18
And that's how the busts and had began.
00:41:24
But I never really understood or really looked into what the
00:41:29
sanctuary policy was all about.
00:41:31
So apparently it looks like his hands are tied, so he's trying
00:41:36
to find a way to get some of them out of there.
00:41:38
You know, and the way it looks, just by reading this article it
00:41:47
seemed like if he could have it his way, he'd get them all out
00:41:49
of there, Right, but apparently his hands is tied.
00:41:53
Eugene: Because you got to see I mean 170 extra people in
00:41:58
two years and more common Right.
00:42:00
That's a strain on the city's budget, I would think.
00:42:04
DePriest: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:07
Again, like I say, it just looks like dirty politics,
00:42:11
because if it's a sanctuary policy, I don't know who passed
00:42:16
it, but if it was a sanctuary policy, that's got his hands
00:42:20
tied.
00:42:21
That looks like a political setup, because right now his
00:42:24
position is in jeopardy.
00:42:26
Now New Yorkers are not feeling what he's allowing to happen in
00:42:32
the city and I mean it's just unfortunate.
00:42:36
You know, if that's the situation, yeah, it's just
00:42:41
unfortunate.
00:42:41
But but yeah, I'm sorry.
00:42:44
Eugene: You said what the Nah, I'm going to say, I guess we'll
00:42:46
see.
00:42:46
As you know, everything begins to unfold and the story
00:42:52
continues to develop.
00:42:53
I'm sure we'll really be able to get down to the bottom of
00:42:56
what's going on.
00:42:58
DePriest: Yeah, hopefully.
00:42:59
Yeah, I'm trying to look up something now on the sanctuary
00:43:06
policy.
00:43:08
Eugene: Okay, yeah, this is going to pull up.
00:43:10
Yeah, I didn't even know they had a sanctuary policy in New
00:43:13
York.
00:43:13
But that makes sense because when you look at, a lot of your
00:43:18
immigrants from the country are in New York.
00:43:21
You know New York is a melting pot of, you know basically
00:43:29
different groups of people, ethnicities and everything.
00:43:33
DePriest: Right, but see, we didn't know about the sanctuary
00:43:37
policy.
00:43:37
We knew they were calling themselves sanctuary cities,
00:43:41
yeah, but we didn't know about the sanctuary policy.
00:43:44
But yeah, this right here, what I found I don't think I don't
00:43:50
think it was a sanctuary city is a municipality that limits or
00:43:56
denies its cooperation with national government and
00:44:01
enforcing immigration laws.
00:44:03
So, yeah, that's a little deeper.
00:44:05
We're going to have to do more research and touch back on it on
00:44:10
another show.
00:44:10
But, however, there are some immigrants that are very happy
00:44:15
about it.
00:44:15
You know so much to the point that this next clip kind of
00:44:22
can't we're not going to say kind of idea, come off insulting
00:44:27
, we'll see here.
00:44:30
But anyway, we're going to play this next clip now.
00:44:33
This next clip here that I'm going to play is a clip of a
00:44:38
story that Jesse Waters was covering about.
00:44:42
One of the immigrants went on TikTok social media, whatever
00:44:45
channel.
00:44:46
He went on and he was bragging about the money that the United
00:44:51
States is giving them.
00:44:52
You know he doesn't speak English, so they have a
00:44:57
translator translating his words .
00:44:59
So I just want to keep this in mind.
00:45:01
I just got through talking about dirty politics.
00:45:03
Now, one thing that we learned during the Trump era.
00:45:06
You see it in and Fox News Didn't mind doing whatever they
00:45:12
had to do to push their agenda.
00:45:14
So I don't know if this guy is a plant by the Republican Party
00:45:20
so that they can have a story to cover to veer more votes toward
00:45:24
Trump or this real.
00:45:27
But see, we're going to take it as if it's real because he
00:45:30
actually posted it.
00:45:31
We saw the video of him actually posted it, showing his
00:45:35
family.
00:45:35
So you know so, but I just want to kind of give you that
00:45:39
context.
00:45:40
So if you hear somebody talking , it doesn't sound like a form,
00:45:44
it's translated, you know giving it.
00:45:46
But here's the clip on that data we're going to bring up
00:45:49
here, with this immigrant here speaking about the benefits that
00:45:54
he's getting.
00:45:55
Audio News Clip: Okay, from the Venezuelan migrant in the
00:45:57
country illegally bragging about ripping the country off, listen
00:46:01
to this.
00:46:03
You came to the United States to work and I came to vacation.
00:46:08
Look at the difference.
00:46:09
She is the one that maintains me.
00:46:12
That is why I don't work, because the government gives her
00:46:16
what belongs to her, to my daughter, for being an American
00:46:20
citizen, capiche, I have no need to work because, well guys,
00:46:27
like few of you, this little princess, for being American,
00:46:32
already receives a lot of money.
00:46:34
Capiche, the trick is to have children in the United States.
00:46:39
Here is the gold mine, the gold mine.
00:46:45
So we're suckers and we don't want to speak up about it
00:46:47
because we're afraid of being labeled haters.
00:46:51
DePriest: Okay, Now, let me, let me explain.
00:46:54
You know, do that?
00:46:56
I mean he made a song, okay, right.
00:47:00
So if you listen at the context , he wasn't talking to Americans
00:47:07
.
00:47:07
If you listen to the context it started off with, he said you.
00:47:12
So he's actually beefing with somebody on social media what it
00:47:16
sounds like to me and he kind of like rubbing it in their face
00:47:20
, like hey, we over here, you know we get in the bag over here
00:47:24
and we ain't got to work for it .
00:47:26
You know right, but nevertheless it's still insulting to me, to
00:47:31
Eugene, to my mother, my father and all my ancestors that work
00:47:36
to build this country, as well as yours.
00:47:39
So, even though he might not be talking directly at Americans,
00:47:45
that's good information to, to have to know what our government
00:47:49
is doing with money.
00:47:50
And then you got people out here they doing investigation in
00:47:54
Americans that they're doing investigation in on who got the
00:47:58
PPP loans.
00:47:59
They want you to pay back the SBA loans that you may have
00:48:03
gotten for your business during the pandemic.
00:48:06
And we're Americans who pay taxes here.
00:48:09
You know, I mean, I know I've been taxed heavily in my
00:48:14
business and you want to bring these people over here to give
00:48:17
them benefits like that that I'm paying for, just for them to
00:48:21
brag on it like that.
00:48:22
That's a slap in the face.
00:48:24
Eugene: Right, we don't qualify for it.
00:48:26
I would like to see receive a thousand dollar a month stipend
00:48:31
a prepaid off my family.
00:48:33
Let me pay my rent.
00:48:35
DePriest: Exactly.
00:48:35
But see, and that's the crazy part about it, is like I'm
00:48:42
assuming the thousand dollars for the family afforded their
00:48:46
getting that's just extra cash, but the the room and board is
00:48:50
already paid for and I think they're giving them something
00:48:53
else, like like foodstaff car for food.
00:48:57
You know, I'm yeah, yeah, I'm thinking that's what's going on
00:49:02
because Brother man Ray does.
00:49:04
If, if, if Rick Flair was a foreigner, that's what he would
00:49:12
sound like, that would be him.
00:49:14
That would be him.
00:49:15
If Rick Flair was a foreigner, that's what he would sound like
00:49:23
Exactly.
00:49:24
So yeah, that's an insult flat out in.
00:49:26
So, man.
00:49:29
Eugene: Yeah, that is crazy and I'm sure cuz he was pretty much
00:49:34
in that video was telling all all the his.
00:49:37
You know, latino brothers and sisters, you know the bass play,
00:49:40
come on over.
00:49:41
You know, yeah, they they telling you a lie that the board
00:49:44
is closed.
00:49:45
No, it's, it's wide open.
00:49:46
DePriest: Come on Right right in , in in.
00:49:50
We have to think about it too.
00:49:52
You know, what we hear on the news is just that, what we hear
00:49:56
on the news.
00:49:57
We're not on the grounds in these spaces to know what's
00:50:02
really going on, so we have to rely on the media to report it
00:50:06
to us.
00:50:06
And Now, if you see it like I see it, you can't really even
00:50:12
trust the media right now to really tell you the whole truth
00:50:17
About a lot of events that's happening in the world.
00:50:20
Like they say that they coming over here for a better life.
00:50:23
Well, who's to say they wouldn't live in a pretty good
00:50:26
life where they were?
00:50:27
Yeah, you know, I mean, it's a better life to come over here
00:50:32
and own multiple businesses and, and and and have many mansions
00:50:38
or big mansions.
00:50:39
Yeah, sure, that's a better life, but at what cost is that a
00:50:43
cost to us?
00:50:44
Yeah, you know.
00:50:48
Right, you know I don't have anything against foreigners.
00:50:52
I don't want anybody think think that.
00:50:54
But right, it's right.
00:50:56
You know, in in in Summer, our communities, we have foreigners.
00:51:02
Some are good, don't get me wrong, so I'm a good.
00:51:05
You know, we got one in the, in the area that we stay in.
00:51:08
He owns a gas station.
00:51:12
He's very involved with the city.
00:51:14
Give him back, you know, and I salute him for that.
00:51:18
But you got some over here.
00:51:20
They're just absolutely shit on the people in our community.
00:51:24
They only their only purpose is to come to our community, make
00:51:29
money.
00:51:30
They don't put anything back.
00:51:32
That money goes right back out of our community, right?
00:51:36
Some of them don't even bother to even fix their businesses up
00:51:40
to make the community looks look better.
00:51:42
You know now, if you want to call that racist, you're crazy.
00:51:48
That's not racist.
00:51:50
I have the right Not to approve or agree with anything, no
00:51:55
matter what it looks like.
00:51:57
It don't matter if you're a foreigner, don't matter if
00:51:59
you're gay, don't matter if you're straight, don't matter if
00:52:01
you're black, don't matter if you're white.
00:52:03
I have the right to disagree without being you know something
00:52:09
, something someone saying that you're racist.
00:52:11
Well, look, I'm black.
00:52:12
I can't be racist for one.
00:52:14
You know.
00:52:16
I mean, you know.
00:52:18
I'm saying not, not in there, since not not with the hard
00:52:21
times our ancestors had here in in this country building this
00:52:26
country and we still don't get what we feel like that we should
00:52:30
have.
00:52:30
Yeah, mainly number one one of my concerns is the level.
00:52:35
The level of education our children receive in the public
00:52:38
school systems I Think is bullshit.
00:52:41
Ever since George W Bush passed that, no child left behind law.
00:52:46
This is like they just been absolutely garbage in the public
00:52:52
school system.
00:52:53
Then I'm a black and white man and I have to get facts on this,
00:53:01
black and white facts.
00:53:03
Then you got the public school system donating supplies to the
00:53:08
private schools For real.
00:53:10
Eugene: Yeah, I didn't know where that happened.
00:53:15
DePriest: That's been going on.
00:53:16
That's been going on Especially in the hometown that I'm from,
00:53:23
to the private schools.
00:53:24
Eugene: Like they used supplies or something.
00:53:27
DePriest: It don't matter why you don't name anything to the
00:53:31
private schools when they charge in parents to have their
00:53:35
children there.
00:53:37
Eugene: Yeah, I didn't know they were doing that.
00:53:39
DePriest: Yeah, you know, I mean it's crazy.
00:53:42
Yeah, see, they do a lot of stuff under our nose that we
00:53:45
don't know about Because, see, we have people on you know
00:53:48
sitting on the school board that's affiliated with these
00:53:51
private schools.
00:53:51
So any resources that come in, that's left over.
00:53:54
Yeah, they help their buddies out.
00:53:56
Yeah, they make over the board of those private schools.
00:54:00
Yeah, they do that Because they have the power to distribute
00:54:03
that money supposedly any way that they want for whatever the
00:54:09
grant may be for, for the school system, or whatever Private
00:54:12
schools is a school system.
00:54:13
Now some people are going to disagree oh, no, that's bullshit
00:54:16
.
00:54:16
No, it's not.
00:54:17
No, that's not bullshit, you know.
00:54:22
So it's just a lot of crazy stuff going on.
00:54:25
It's not just about Biden, it's not just about Trump, it's not
00:54:29
just about President Obama, that's just the political system
00:54:33
that we have allowed to be going on forever.
00:54:37
Right, you know, these people, just like some of these local
00:54:42
politicians, they don't bring their asses around until they
00:54:45
want to vote.
00:54:47
Eugene: Yeah, then you see them, a lot of them.
00:54:49
They ain't see them coming to your church.
00:54:51
Yeah, exactly, they're so tired , you know doing they clap and
00:54:58
they, you know the pastor.
00:54:59
Let them sit up in the pool, put in a lot of smaller churches
00:55:02
and give them a few words to say and you know, go on from
00:55:06
there.
00:55:08
DePriest: Yeah, and it just lets you know how lenient God is.
00:55:11
You know that he didn't send a tornado through there.
00:55:14
They stood up in the church just for a vote.
00:55:18
Right, Come on now.
00:55:20
Come on now.
00:55:23
But speaking of politicians, that'll do anything for a vote.
00:55:27
Mitch McConnell stepping down from Senate leadership, and so I
00:55:35
guess he could get out of the way.
00:55:38
Eugene: I mean old Mitch yeah, that's what he's gonna say at
00:55:42
the age of 82, he decided he's gonna go on here and step down
00:55:46
when he's stepping down as the Senate Republican leader.
00:55:50
DePriest: But he ain't stepping down for working, no he look,
00:55:55
listen, you know he gonna wait till 2027, at the end of his
00:56:01
term, to retire.
00:56:02
Right yeah, he'll be 85 or 86 years old, Wow.
00:56:08
Now let me say this that's a damn shame.
00:56:12
It's a shame it's so greedy of power that your enjoyment of
00:56:17
your golden years is making laws .
00:56:23
Eugene: Yeah, and you know he's had some times I think on two
00:56:28
occasions that I know of where he froze up, you know all the
00:56:33
time he was looking like he was shitting himself Right.
00:56:36
Well, he looked like he was having a stroke or something you
00:56:39
know on one of them occasions.
00:56:42
DePriest: Excuse me.
00:56:42
Look, I'm gonna be honest with you.
00:56:44
I've been on the porcelain throne before.
00:56:48
On my phone you know FaceTime and people and I've had that
00:56:53
face before.
00:56:54
Let me stop making fun because you know, because it's not funny
00:57:00
, you know, but you know Mitch McConnell.
00:57:05
It's a blessing that you know for him even to be, you know,
00:57:12
still here at 82 years old in a job like that.
00:57:17
But uh, that man did a lot of you know things in politics.
00:57:23
You know it was for the betterment of somebody, but on
00:57:28
the face of looking at a lot of the things that he did, you know
00:57:31
he blocked President Obama nominee for the Supreme Court.
00:57:34
Was it Garland?
00:57:36
I?
00:57:36
Eugene: believe.
00:57:37
Yeah, I'm not familiar with who he, who he blocked on that.
00:57:41
DePriest: Yeah, yeah, president Trump, president Obama was
00:57:45
trying to get, I think, mayor Garland uh voted in as Supreme
00:57:51
Court.
00:57:51
Yeah, well, voted into the Supreme Court.
00:57:54
Mayor Garland was a Democrat, mitch McConnell.
00:57:57
By him being a Senate leader, he blocked it uh to clear the
00:58:02
way for Trump nominees when Trump came in office.
00:58:06
Okay, a lot of people didn't like that.
00:58:08
Uh, I know the Supreme Court is not an immediate effect on us.
00:58:15
I know that's like a long term effect.
00:58:17
By the time we feel some of what Mitch McConnell did.
00:58:21
He may be gone by then, you know.
00:58:25
But uh, he has did a lot of things where he's held up policy
00:58:30
for uh reasons to just play dirty politics, you know.
00:58:39
But I'm pretty sure he had his reasons for his agenda.
00:58:43
But to us it just like man, you know you're, you're holding up
00:58:48
a lot, you know, just for your own personal reasons.
00:58:53
Whether it be money, because of certain special interests that
00:59:00
he may have in certain businesses and certain laws are
00:59:03
being passed to benefit them, you know whether it's going to
00:59:07
boost up a certain uh start or whatever, you know.
00:59:11
So it's good that he's stepping down, but it's sad that he
00:59:15
stayed too long.
00:59:17
Eugene: Yeah, and I think that, um, I believe, I think that they
00:59:23
should really just change or make it a law that says that you
00:59:30
can only serve in a political position, in a political
00:59:36
position of power, up until the age of 65.
00:59:40
At 65, you have to retire.
00:59:43
You can't be an airline pilot or commercial airline, I think
00:59:49
it's just a pilot in general.
00:59:50
You can't be a pilot as 65 years old.
00:59:54
There are a lot of jobs in positions that age 65.
00:59:58
That is the age limit you have to retire.
01:00:01
How many people you see boxing or in sports?
01:00:04
You know a certain age, when they get past a prime, it's time
01:00:10
to retire.
01:00:10
And I think they should do that .
01:00:12
Uh, for politicians, and you know, let them serve on it and
01:00:16
serve on an advisory board or something to advise some younger
01:00:20
people that's coming in.
01:00:21
But I think they should make a federal law that at the age of
01:00:26
65, it's time to retire.
01:00:28
DePriest: But you know what?
01:00:29
It would be hard for them to be advisors, for the simple reason
01:00:32
is it's something about holding that seat that can get you to a
01:00:37
point to where you know you're not listening to your advisors.
01:00:43
You know, and I think that's the reason why they don't want
01:00:48
to just be advisors, because once you hold that seat you can
01:00:51
advise me all you want, but when it's showtime I do what I want
01:00:56
and that's right.
01:00:57
And when you got that kind of power and you have special
01:01:01
interests that you're not telling anybody about because
01:01:04
you don't want to get caught up in no kind of legal situation
01:01:08
for you passing laws for certain reasons, whether it be for
01:01:12
monetary reasons or whatever, you know that that would eat
01:01:15
somebody like Mitch McConnell up .
01:01:17
Yeah, you know, for somebody, you know who I mean.
01:01:22
That's just like driving from the passenger seat for for for
01:01:25
Mitch McConnell.
01:01:27
You know he, he, he been empowered for so long.
01:01:30
Then he said he stepped it down for the next generation to step
01:01:34
up.
01:01:34
Man, you should have been gone two generations ago.
01:01:38
It should have been gone.
01:01:39
Yeah Right, we probably missed out on some good politicians
01:01:43
that could have held their seat because of your greed.
01:01:45
You know, brad Fawd.
01:01:47
Doom Green Bay Packers like that.
01:01:49
They had to run him off like that because he didn't want to
01:01:52
move out the way for Aaron Rodgers to come up.
01:01:55
Okay, you know what I mean so yeah, you know.
01:01:59
I always bet Shoot man Brad Fawd , Hold on, Let me look at that.
01:02:02
Tell me when he left Green Bay.
01:02:04
Eugene: Yeah, when he left or when he retired he didn't retire
01:02:07
from because I don't really follow the sports like that he
01:02:09
didn't retire from Green Bay.
01:02:11
DePriest: No, no, he didn't retire from Green Bay.
01:02:13
He loved Green Bay and they sent him to the jets and then he
01:02:21
left there and went to Minnesota Vikings and then he
01:02:27
retired when he was with Minnesota Vikings, but I think
01:02:32
they let him come back to Green Bay to retire.
01:02:37
I could be wrong, but I think they let him come back to Green
01:02:41
Bay to retire because he had put in so much work at Green Bay.
01:02:44
He pretty much built Green Bay up to have the name that they
01:02:47
did have.
01:02:48
He was 41 years old when he retired in 2010.
01:02:53
Eugene: Okay.
01:02:54
DePriest: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah , yeah yeah.
01:03:00
That's pretty old for a quarterback, you know, taking
01:03:03
the hits that he took.
01:03:06
Eugene: Yeah, Okay.
01:03:07
So how old was?
01:03:09
You said that was Brad Fawd, right.
01:03:12
DePriest: Yeah.
01:03:13
Eugene: So how was Tom Brady when he retired, when he around
01:03:15
the same age?
01:03:16
DePriest: No, Tom Brady was 44.
01:03:18
Eugene: Okay.
01:03:20
DePriest: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was 44 years old.
01:03:23
Look like Brad Fawd.
01:03:27
Like he left, he got traded to the Jets in 2008 from Green Bay,
01:03:36
so he was 39 years old, but now , brady.
01:03:40
That's why, that's one of the reason why he, going down in
01:03:44
history, is one of the greatest quarterbacks.
01:03:46
He's the first quarterback that did it that long at that level.
01:03:51
Yeah, brad Fawd got to the point that man was so shook up.
01:03:56
I remember one game that man had ran five, about five yards
01:04:00
past the line of scrimmage and still passed the ball down the
01:04:03
field and he knew that was a penalty.
01:04:06
He, you know, he was shook up on taking them hits, right, you
01:04:10
know, he got about five yards past that line of scrimmage
01:04:15
trying to scramble and the big boys were coming down to me.
01:04:18
He, just he, he, that thing down the field.
01:04:21
That's when I knew.
01:04:22
Then I said this old with bread .
01:04:24
Yeah, yeah, it's old with bread , you know, because it reminded
01:04:28
me so much of I don't, I don't think what was the name of that
01:04:34
movie Jamie Foxx was in when he was a football player.
01:04:40
Eugene: Oh, friday night lights or something, is that it?
01:04:43
DePriest: No, no, I wasn't Friday.
01:04:45
Eugene: No, it's my.
01:04:47
With him and LL Cool J.
01:04:49
Yeah, I thought that was Friday night.
01:04:51
That must be Will Ferrell.
01:04:53
I forgot what the name of that movie is.
01:04:55
It was something with Friday in it.
01:04:57
I thought Well any given Sunday .
01:05:00
DePriest: Okay, yeah, dennis Quaid was playing what's his.
01:05:08
He was playing like the quarterback.
01:05:11
He was the quarterback that had built that team, that they had
01:05:15
built that team around for like years and he was aging and Jamie
01:05:20
Foxx came in as a backup quarterback to him and you know
01:05:28
they called Dennis Quaid cap and cap had took so many hits
01:05:32
through the years.
01:05:33
I mean he, you know like every time the ball snap it was like
01:05:36
his life was flashing, you know, in front of his eyes.
01:05:40
You know he was still trying to be productive but he didn't
01:05:43
have that nerve of stealing anymore to stay in that pocket
01:05:47
like he used to.
01:05:48
You know, them days were gone.
01:05:50
You know he had took too many hits.
01:05:52
Yeah, and uh, yeah, so that that that that reminds me of
01:05:56
Brady Farr.
01:05:57
But see, but it's, it's still the same analogy to politician
01:06:02
at some point in time you don't took too many hits, you're not
01:06:06
productive like you used to be.
01:06:08
That's when it's time to go and get on out the way and let
01:06:12
somebody else take over.
01:06:13
What happened to Mitch McConnell , that freeze up?
01:06:16
That happened to him.
01:06:17
That ain't the first time that happened to him.
01:06:19
That that I'm willing to bet.
01:06:21
That has happened to him quite a few times in private, you know
01:06:27
.
01:06:27
But, but, but greed of power.
01:06:30
Eugene: Yeah, and they tried to cover it up as best as they
01:06:32
could, but those few times that we saw they had slipped up, you
01:06:38
know, and we got a chance to see you know what he probably been
01:06:43
dealing, have been dealing with for the past 10 years possibly.
01:06:47
DePriest: Right, right, and, and what is that is related to a
01:06:52
mental issue.
01:06:53
You know, uh, uh, alzheimer's.
01:06:56
You know some kind of deterioration going on in that.
01:06:59
You know, uh, alzheimer's.
01:07:01
And what's the other one, dementia dementia.
01:07:04
Right, you know you, you mean to me, you got these issues and
01:07:07
you're making laws for us.
01:07:12
Eugene: That's something to think about it is, you know and
01:07:16
see, I thought until I did some research on it, um, I thought
01:07:21
that there were other positions outside of uh Supreme Court
01:07:26
justices that had positions for life.
01:07:28
You know, I thought, like some of those uh senators had, you
01:07:33
know, their positions for life.
01:07:35
So he had to keep getting elected in, and I'm trying to
01:07:39
figure out who kept elect them.
01:07:40
Because he was a senator of the state of Kentucky, you know,
01:07:44
and so that would mean that the citizens kept electing him or
01:07:48
voting for him.
01:07:49
You know, every.
01:07:50
I think they served six years or so.
01:07:53
That's the time that they have, it's like six years of a term.
01:07:59
DePriest: Man, I don't tell how many elections these politicians
01:08:02
still in, you know, say special politician like Mitch McConnell
01:08:07
, being from a state like Kentucky, I mean hell, you know.
01:08:12
You remember that scandal with Bob Dole and uh, who's a Bob
01:08:17
Dole?
01:08:17
and George W Bush when they said they they, they, they leave it
01:08:21
out of him with suitcases full of votes Wow.
01:08:23
So you know, I mean you know what I'm saying.
01:08:33
To me, it's just hard to believe that there's no new
01:08:37
upcoming candidate that can represent a seat like that.
01:08:41
But one thing I can say guys like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey
01:08:45
Graham and Ted Cruz, they do put on for their state, they
01:08:52
don't put on for their supporters.
01:08:54
Whatever they think their supporters want, they are going
01:08:57
to put it, put it down.
01:08:59
They don't care how crazy they sound, they don't care how much
01:09:04
ass it looked like they're kissing.
01:09:05
They, they, they have no integrity to me now.
01:09:10
No integrity, no morals, because we talk about Ted Cruz.
01:09:13
Donald Trump talked bad about the man's wife and he did the
01:09:18
same thing to Mitch McConnell he talked bad about the man's wife
01:09:21
.
01:09:21
Now, politician or not, you can't talk to me.
01:09:26
Once you make an insult like that, you know not moving around
01:09:31
with the demeanor like Donald Trump.
01:09:34
And and I guess that's why I like Donald Trump because at the
01:09:38
same time, washington needed that.
01:09:41
Our leaders had got too complacent, got too comfortable,
01:09:47
you know, got got got too secretive.
01:09:54
Yeah, and you had old Trump come up there and just blew the roof
01:09:58
off of a lot of it, exposed all of it.
01:10:02
Right, you know.
01:10:05
So I learned more about politics and government, the
01:10:10
four, the four years Trump served.
01:10:12
Then I did in school, you know, and that's because of the way
01:10:18
that I was looking at it.
01:10:20
See, I didn't get caught up in just looking at Trump, I was
01:10:24
looking at the reaction to Trump .
01:10:27
Yeah, yeah, that's what I got caught up in, right.
01:10:34
Eugene: Yeah, I think a lot of people were looking at that
01:10:37
because a lot of people were very highly entertained,
01:10:40
entertained during that election .
01:10:43
DePriest: I was one of.
01:10:47
Eugene: I was one of yeah, you tripped me out how you came over
01:10:50
names for everybody.
01:10:52
DePriest: Oh man, look, my favorite one was Nervous Nancy.
01:10:56
Eugene: Nervous Nancy, yeah, yeah, yeah, nervous Nancy, I
01:11:00
like that he would say little Marco, little Marco, right,
01:11:05
right.
01:11:11
DePriest: Yeah, yeah, little Marco, but you know, but see,
01:11:15
but he had called Nervous Nancy.
01:11:18
Well, I'm sorry, nancy Pelosi, I ain't mean to you know, but
01:11:23
when he called it, when Trump called Nancy Pelosi, nancy
01:11:29
Pelosi and I, and I quote, nervous Nancy, he was so damn
01:11:33
mad he.
01:11:36
I mean he because you, because you know, that's when her Trump
01:11:42
and Chuck Schumer got the argument in the over office on
01:11:44
the news.
01:11:46
Eugene: Okay, I think I remember that.
01:11:48
Yeah, I remember that.
01:11:53
DePriest: Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so he was, he was real upset
01:11:58
about that because he was like nervous Nancy, I mean he was, I
01:12:02
mean he was really upset.
01:12:03
So but see, but nerve.
01:12:06
I keep calling her Nancy, I like the name too much, but
01:12:09
Nancy Pelosi, she did stand up to him.
01:12:12
I mean she, she wasn't going for that, for what she felt like
01:12:17
was bullshit.
01:12:17
He was talking which it.
01:12:19
You know.
01:12:20
In that case his delivery was kind of messed up because he was
01:12:24
on some other shit with them folks on that day.
01:12:28
You know, it's been a battle and and he wasn't just wrong on
01:12:31
his side.
01:12:32
It had been going on ever since beginning because they, even
01:12:39
though Trump is looked at as a billionaire to those politicians
01:12:43
, they view Trump the way I feel like they look at us like just
01:12:46
regular, average American.
01:12:48
You don't supposed to be here, you know, and I and I just like
01:12:54
how he just broke down those barriers and in a way that he
01:12:58
approached it.
01:12:59
I mean hell, I wish Obama had the same approach.
01:13:01
Yeah, I swear, I wish president Obama had the same approach.
01:13:05
I feel like president Obama was just too careful with, you know
01:13:11
, a lot of this stuff because, like the uh, uh health care that
01:13:16
he was trying to pass.
01:13:17
I think that could have been really good if the house and the
01:13:23
Senate and the Democrats and the Republicans alike all worked
01:13:27
together.
01:13:28
Yeah, you know now we sitting around here hell, most taxes we
01:13:34
pay, we shouldn't have to pay for no, uh uh medical care.
01:13:40
Eugene: No, we shouldn't.
01:13:40
You know.
01:13:41
It should be like uh other countries that their health care
01:13:46
is taken care of.
01:13:48
DePriest: Right.
01:13:49
Eugene: I mean you paying for it anyway.
01:13:51
DePriest: That's right.
01:13:51
Right, that's right.
01:13:54
So, no, no, maybe it'll get better, but look, but uh on to
01:13:59
the next topic.
01:14:00
Uh, bring us in on uh this situation going on with the uh
01:14:04
crude oil.
01:14:06
Eugene: Yeah, uh, you know, over a lot of the oil tankers, the
01:14:12
one that brings the tankers, the oil tankers that, in that,
01:14:16
pretty much bring the oil from one country to the next.
01:14:19
Well, they are having a shortage of tankers, um, and
01:14:26
they have a crisis going on because a lot of those tankers,
01:14:30
because of the U?
01:14:31
S and the UK air strikes, dealing with the, with the, the
01:14:36
Houthi, the healthy how?
01:14:38
are you saying Houthi, houthi, houthi, houthi militants over
01:14:42
Yemen, yemen, um, because of those air strikes.
01:14:46
Well, it's causing them to bypass their normal routes,
01:14:51
which is the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, because they don't
01:14:56
want to be under attack.
01:14:57
That is pretty much going through a war zone and so a lot
01:15:01
of those uh cruise vessels were not cruise vessels.
01:15:04
Those shipping uh vessels they are going uh around the tip of
01:15:10
Africa and just going around the southern tip of Africa adds
01:15:14
about two weeks to their shipping time.
01:15:18
Now, with that being said, that's two weeks it's going to
01:15:22
take for their customers or the ports that receive the goods to
01:15:27
receive their product.
01:15:29
Also, it adds to the shipping rates for those tankers because
01:15:36
the price goes up.
01:15:38
Now they said one of the biggest things that's affecting that is
01:15:41
the production or the delivery of brand new shipping tankers.
01:15:48
They came out with an article, I think, a few months ago,
01:15:53
saying that they're trying to retire the old tankers and come
01:15:56
in with more, newer and more efficient tankers and because
01:16:02
they said they're just more fuel efficient.
01:16:04
Well, I think that, with them retiring the old ones, if you
01:16:10
look at they had a chart that I was looking at and they're not
01:16:14
making nowhere near the same amount of tankers that they were
01:16:18
making a few years ago, I think for this year they were only
01:16:23
delivering about two oil tankers to oil fleets and they said
01:16:29
that they only have a.
01:16:31
I think it was about four or five that they have set to
01:16:34
deliver for next year.
01:16:36
Yeah, it's going to be like a significant drop, though, ain't
01:16:40
it?
01:16:40
Correct compared to like the 2022 or 2023, when they
01:16:45
delivered like 50 tankers.
01:16:48
They were only delivered two this year, you know.
01:16:53
So a lot of that is just uh.
01:16:56
You know me personally.
01:16:59
I think that that's a way, with everything going on, it's going
01:17:03
to be a way, a bargaining chip for them to be able to raise the
01:17:09
price of fuel.
01:17:10
It's going to allow them to raise the price of fuel and also
01:17:14
raise their price for shipping costs, which they've already
01:17:20
done, that They've already raised their shipping costs
01:17:23
because they have to go out of route to make their deliveries,
01:17:29
but it's also going to but it's also going to raise their prices
01:17:32
of the ships, because if we can make less ships, then we can
01:17:40
put brain stress on that economy , on the global shipping economy
01:17:44
, and that's what's going on right now.
01:17:49
So, yeah, I don't, I don't know, uh, like they said, they only
01:17:55
make it about four ships for next year and they only did two
01:17:59
this year.
01:17:59
So I don't know what's going to be the difference.
01:18:04
But when you look at a chart that they've had, of all the
01:18:07
ships that they've built or they've delivered over the years
01:18:11
, this year and next year is way below what they've done, and so
01:18:18
to me they just look like they're just creating their own
01:18:21
market.
01:18:23
DePriest: So the brain in more for the people who may be
01:18:26
listening that uh probably don't don't understand what we're
01:18:30
talking about, because I know I was reading the article, trying
01:18:32
to scan through it, and I was kind of lost on a few things.
01:18:35
So the tankers that they're talking about is filled with
01:18:38
product that we need, like gasoline, diesel and crude oil
01:18:42
correct, correct.
01:18:43
So they're going to minimize the amount of ships that they
01:18:46
have coming over and that's based what they're saying, right
01:18:49
, correct.
01:18:50
And the ones they're going to replace them with supposed to be
01:18:53
more fuel efficient, to, I guess, make the shipping cost
01:18:57
cheaper.
01:18:59
Eugene: Yeah, it's going to be more modernized.
01:19:00
Uh, basically they say that just the cost of operation is
01:19:04
going to be a whole lot cheaper with the newer ones compared to
01:19:07
the older ones.
01:19:08
DePriest: So what about the amount of product of the down
01:19:11
size?
01:19:11
Are these going to be bigger ships to hold the same amount?
01:19:14
Or you didn't cover that part?
01:19:17
Eugene: I didn't see that in terms of the size of the ships,
01:19:22
I didn't see why they were reducing the amount of
01:19:27
deliveries that they were making .
01:19:28
You know, outside of me, just taking it upon, just seeing it,
01:19:33
it just appears like they're creating their own market.
01:19:35
But I think it also has a lot to do with the war that's going
01:19:40
on in those areas Right right.
01:19:44
DePriest: Well, I know they say that that that's going to be
01:19:47
tight for a few years.
01:19:49
So we're going to see, uh, probably a higher frequency of
01:19:54
fluctuating fuel prices and the frequency most likely.
01:19:59
The frequency is not going to be like when the prices drop.
01:20:02
It's going to drop to like normal.
01:20:05
What we see is normal, like in diesel.
01:20:07
When we first came out, diesel was like what?
01:20:09
260 a gallon at average.
01:20:12
Eugene: Yeah, some weapon around there 265.
01:20:15
DePriest: Right in the average, like what?
01:20:16
Around four dollars plus it just got over.
01:20:19
Eugene: It just got over four dollars this month that the
01:20:22
national average for diesel got over four dollars.
01:20:25
It back over four dollars rather.
01:20:27
DePriest: Right and it and it didn't stay under four dollars
01:20:30
very long, did it because it was not out at all.
01:20:32
It was in December, right, correct?
01:20:34
Like I said, man, we're, we're.
01:20:40
We just have to take the media and these CEOs who, who's
01:20:45
pulling a lot of stuff out at their word, I mean, uh, I mean
01:20:50
I'm not discreet, you know, like discreet, you know that it's a
01:20:55
war over there.
01:20:56
That's not what I'm saying.
01:20:57
I mean, these are like big time people.
01:21:03
Supposedly you don't have a plan A to Z.
01:21:06
That's your plan.
01:21:10
And I mean you improvising on the fly, you know, right, it's
01:21:16
just crazy.
01:21:17
I mean, well, well, people, let's just get ready for that,
01:21:21
you know, for possibly more hard times for the majority of us.
01:21:27
We have to just start coming up with a bunch of different
01:21:30
hustles to make ends meet.
01:21:32
I know, in our area here in the south, we got people already
01:21:37
paying money out the Wazoo just to have a roof over their head,
01:21:41
right, and you, you know, match that beside our cost of living.
01:21:46
I mean, it just ain't jelling, right, you know.
01:21:51
Eugene: Yeah, and a lot of people hurting alone.
01:21:53
Like I said, along with the cost of living, you know, rent
01:21:58
going up ridiculously for people .
01:22:01
DePriest: Right, right, and and we hate to be a Debbie Downer,
01:22:05
but you know we can't just ignore the fact that you know
01:22:08
that, that this is what's happening.
01:22:11
I mean we just can't look over this stuff, guys.
01:22:13
I mean we gotta, we gotta take this into account, because you
01:22:17
know the next topic that we're talking about, you know that
01:22:19
we're going to be discussing.
01:22:20
Is he more crazier than than fuel prices?
01:22:24
Yeah, I mean, it's even more crazy than fuel prices, but
01:22:30
that's Eugene's report on the fuel.
01:22:34
Well, possible fuel prices, whether they're going up and
01:22:40
down, you know basically what he just gave us.
01:22:42
It looked like it's going to be going up a lot higher.
01:22:46
You know what?
01:22:47
Eugene: I wouldn't be surprised if we see five dollars and fifty
01:22:50
cents a gallon national average for diesel behind this, yeah, I
01:22:56
would be, sure yeah, and because in certain places
01:22:59
already probably over five dollars, I had to check
01:23:03
California and see what California West Coast is
01:23:07
charging for diesel.
01:23:09
DePriest: Well, here look, the national average hit five fifty
01:23:12
here.
01:23:12
It's going to be about right at ten dollars a gallon over there
01:23:15
.
01:23:15
I mean just keeping it honest.
01:23:22
But but look, but on to the final topic.
01:23:25
You know we ain't gonna hold you long, but on to the final
01:23:29
topic now.
01:23:29
This is something that we really gotta take seriously,
01:23:31
gotta talk about this.
01:23:32
You know, I don't know how everybody feel about vaccine.
01:23:35
I could say I would raise my hand and I would say I didn't
01:23:40
take the COVID vaccine.
01:23:41
I have taken flu shot, but I'm kind of paranoid about that too
01:23:53
because, like I say, I don't know.
01:23:54
I don't know what they're telling us, what they're trying
01:23:56
to do, but we got lawmakers in Nashville, tennessee, that's
01:24:02
trying to.
01:24:02
They're trying to pass a bill to put vaccine in our lettuce
01:24:09
and tomatoes, polio vaccine in our lettuce and tomato.
01:24:13
We're going to play this clip and Eugene going to bring us
01:24:16
home with a little bit more understanding on who's behind
01:24:20
this policy, if anyone's fighting against it.
01:24:23
It's just something that's going to be able to be pushed.
01:24:26
So I'm going to run this clip here, you know, so that we could
01:24:30
bring everybody in context on all this.
01:24:33
Audio News Clip: Okay, Something a lot of us have never thought
01:24:38
about vaccines in the fruits and vegetables you get at the store
01:24:42
.
01:24:42
Some lawmakers say it could be a reality soon and they're
01:24:46
looking to create some new rules to keep Tennessee in safe.
01:24:48
Tony Sloan's lives in the state capital to tell us more about
01:24:51
this legislation.
01:24:52
Good morning.
01:24:53
Hey, good morning Ben.
01:24:54
Well, we want to make it clear that there are no vaccines in
01:24:57
your lettuce or tomatoes when you go grocery shopping right
01:25:00
now.
01:25:00
But lawmakers say it may be a question of when, if not if.
01:25:04
Now representative Scott's a pick.
01:25:06
He says researchers in California have perfected
01:25:09
putting vaccines into certain foods, so he's crafted a bill to
01:25:12
make sure that you know whether you're picking up a tomato with
01:25:15
a vaccine in it or not, as an example.
01:25:18
Now, basically, he says that this is a consumer protection
01:25:21
bill that will make sure you know what you're buying.
01:25:24
He says before this comes to Tennessee, there needs to be
01:25:27
safety measures in place to protect you when you shop for
01:25:30
yourself and your family.
01:25:33
If you're going in to buy tomatoes and there's a polio
01:25:36
vaccine in there that you were aware of, what you're buying has
01:25:40
a polio vaccine.
01:25:41
The problem you have is if it's not treated as a pharmaceutical
01:25:44
.
01:25:44
Being the size and difference between you and me, how many
01:25:48
tomatoes do I have to eat to get the proper dosage, versus how
01:25:51
many tomatoes that you have to eat?
01:25:52
And if you eat too many, do you get a overdose?
01:25:56
So it's raising a lot of questions.
01:25:57
Representative John Ray Clemens question whether having
01:26:00
vaccines and fruits and vegetables is legal in Tennessee
01:26:03
and if not, is the legislation necessary?
01:26:06
So picky says having something in place is better than not.
01:26:09
The protection passes latest House committee vote just last
01:26:14
week, but of course we'll let you know what happened.
01:26:17
DePriest: Now I'm a what I'm about to say.
01:26:20
I may sound out of the loop, you'll inform, I may even be
01:26:26
considered lame, but I gotta say that sounds like some crazy
01:26:31
shit to me.
01:26:33
Eugene: Yeah, yeah, they uh, I've never heard of nothing like
01:26:37
that but them being able to put , because they said that the
01:26:41
researchers in California had preferred, had perfected, you
01:26:46
know, the method of putting vaccines in certain foods.
01:26:50
DePriest: So how long without telling people?
01:26:53
Eugene: well, I'm sure they would like to put it in there
01:26:56
without telling you.
01:26:56
That's why that state representative, scott Sipiki,
01:27:02
came up with that bill he wanted to come up with.
01:27:04
He wants to come up with a bill that was a consumer protection
01:27:08
bill, basically that would require in the state of
01:27:12
Tennessee that whatever foods have those vaccines in them,
01:27:17
that they have to be labeled on the packaging that there's a
01:27:21
vaccine injected into their food .
01:27:23
If, if, how would that go?
01:27:28
I don't know, because from my understanding, if I'm not
01:27:31
mistaken, no, we have food on the shelves that's been cloned
01:27:37
and it's not labeled yeah, that's, that's.
01:27:41
DePriest: That's been going on too.
01:27:43
I mean that that red del was even messed up.
01:27:46
You know right, you know, and we have only in that shit man
01:27:52
correct.
01:27:52
Eugene: Now we have food that has on the back, that is
01:27:57
genetically modified right right , it's been genetically modified
01:28:01
so you would know, hey, what you're consuming.
01:28:05
But I've never seen a label that said that it was, uh, fully or
01:28:09
partially cloned, cloned meat or whatever you know and um, but
01:28:17
that that's their hope to pass that bill in the state of
01:28:22
Tennessee, that any products that have that vaccine in it it
01:28:26
has to have the consumer label on it saying what's in there, so
01:28:31
every consumer can know what they're buying man, that's some
01:28:35
crazy shit to me, man, you know, I mean it was already crazy
01:28:40
with the genetically modified uh uh stuff.
01:28:44
DePriest: But man, that's, that's crazy.
01:28:47
Man, it's like, okay, this is the way I'm looking at it and
01:28:50
I'm looking at it, you know, of course, from a health reason.
01:28:53
Okay, you are already putting in uh, msg and food, uh like,
01:28:59
like, like these snacks, fast food and all that shit which
01:29:02
make people uh um more addicted to, to, to fast food, uh uh,
01:29:11
shelf food, food like chips and and candy bars.
01:29:15
So you're already attacking that and it's causing obesity.
01:29:19
I believe that a lot of that stuff is causing cancer because
01:29:23
once it enters in your body, all that sugar and stuff
01:29:26
crystallizes in your system, make it hard to for that stuff
01:29:30
to run through your body properly like it should.
01:29:33
Yeah, and now you want to mess with the vegetable.
01:29:36
You know the escape.
01:29:38
You know the uh uh power healing.
01:29:41
Why the hell you need to put a vaccine in in uh produce when
01:29:45
they are already?
01:29:46
If you stop fucking with the food, cloning shit, all the
01:29:51
nutrients is there, all the healing powers there in the food
01:29:55
itself?
01:29:55
So for you to go around here.
01:29:57
You know, with this memory, they trying to play god to me.
01:30:00
That's the way I look at it.
01:30:02
Maybe I hadn't read into the story enough, but on the face of
01:30:05
it it just sound like some crazy shit to me.
01:30:07
Uh, you shouldn't be.
01:30:09
I mean, hell.
01:30:10
I mean you, think about it.
01:30:12
It's.
01:30:12
It's certain foods that they sell over here to us that they
01:30:15
won't even allow in other countries, right?
01:30:18
Why is that?
01:30:21
Eugene: because it's dangerous man, that's crazy and most foods
01:30:27
that have the food coloring in it is uh eat, you know, is
01:30:31
banned in other countries.
01:30:33
You know a lot of those foods that have, I think the msg is
01:30:37
it's banned at the in.
01:30:38
Genetically modified foods are banned in other countries yeah,
01:30:43
exactly, there's just some crazy shit, man yeah, yeah, it is
01:30:53
well, it's, it's, it's, it's.
01:30:55
DePriest: Not much more I have to say on that topic other than
01:30:58
there's just some crazy shit.
01:30:59
Shit like that leads me speechless, man.
01:31:01
I mean, you know, you know we just got to stand up, man.
01:31:06
You know, individually, we got to stand up to be united
01:31:10
together.
01:31:10
You know, I mean there is no unity till we all stand up at
01:31:14
the same time and get a lot of this stuff going on.
01:31:17
Whether you uh trying to make us uh uh or uh you try to veer
01:31:23
certain politicians our way, to make us vote in a certain way,
01:31:28
uh, whether you want to bring people from uh foreign countries
01:31:31
and and give them resources that we pay for through paying
01:31:36
our taxes and social security, and medicare you fucking with
01:31:40
the food.
01:31:41
I mean you got shit going on over there, a war going on,
01:31:45
blocking a, a route that's causing shipping costs to go up,
01:31:49
which is going to call uh calls prices to go up for us.
01:31:53
Come on, man, look why.
01:31:57
Why not trump he?
01:31:59
Can he do any worse?
01:32:01
Right, that's the way I look at it.
01:32:07
So you know, man, unless you got something else on it, man, I
01:32:11
you know?
01:32:12
Eugene: no, I'm done, man.
01:32:13
I uh.
01:32:14
I think we had a pretty good segment on some of the things.
01:32:17
We tried to give some insight and our opinions on yeah, so we.
01:32:23
DePriest: So we just said we were talking to you guys for an
01:32:25
hour and a half man.
01:32:26
We hope that you like the show.
01:32:28
Uh, make make sure you come back for more.
01:32:30
Now you know, we're gonna uh try to schedule uh every week to
01:32:36
release uh long-form content like this by seven.
01:32:40
No, uh, by Friday.
01:32:43
We hadn't came up with in the exact time yet, but we're trying
01:32:46
to at least have it out there by Friday and, like I said, we
01:32:49
hope you enjoy again.
01:32:51
I'm priest, my, my co-host, my man with all the facts is Eugene
01:32:56
.
01:32:56
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01:32:59
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01:33:01
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01:33:03
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