1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Okay, so you made an interesting point a few minutes ago, 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: and I want to delve into this because I this 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: said not even dawned on me. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 2: And that is the media. 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: The liberals are having an aneurysm over the fact that 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: some people might have to get off their ass and 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: go to work because these SNAP benefits. 8 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: Are expiring in November first, as. 9 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: Of the government shut down. Now is an amazing They're 10 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: far more up in arms or the SNAP benefits expiring 11 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: than the military people or the. 12 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 2: Who aren't collecting getting getting paid. 13 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 3: Right. 14 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, but look, this is utterly ridiculous. So what is 15 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: the number of people on the SNAP benefits? 16 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 4: They say forty two million recipients across twenty two million 17 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 4: households are going to lose benefits starting November. 18 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: First, forty two million people in a country of three 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five or forty million or whatever the 20 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: number is. Now, So I'm going to do a little 21 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: quick public school math here, if you'll indulge me. Right, Yeah, 22 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: so if you took forty two and you divide it 23 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: by three, let's say three thirty five, that's almost thirteen 24 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: per of. 25 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: Our population is on government assistance. 26 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: Now, look, I am not disputing that there are people 27 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: who need help in this country. I'm not disputing there 28 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: are people who have disabilities that prohibit them from working, 29 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: or that it causes you know, family members to have 30 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: to take care of them so they can work. I'm 31 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: not disputing that. But do we really believe that that 32 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: is thirteen percent of our population? Do we really believe 33 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: that thirteen percent of our population is so disabled that 34 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: they can't you know, take care of themselves or they 35 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: don't have family members who can you know, take care 36 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: of themselves in some capacity. Look, you know, we talk 37 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: about our sweet friend Michael, who we love, who is 38 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: cerebral palsy, who's our Megafan. 39 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: We love you, Michael. We know you're listening today, listens 40 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 2: every day. 41 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: We love Michael. He made us these fabulous paintings. We 42 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: posted the picture of One of the things Michael can 43 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: still do and do very well, is he can paint 44 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: pictures with his hands. And he made us these incredible pictures. 45 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: It sits right on the it's right on the on 46 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: my desk right when I get into my office. 47 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: Now. 48 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,279 Speaker 1: It's great people like him, Absolutely, they have no ability 49 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: to provide for themselves. They his parents have to help 50 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: take care of him, and I understand that, but there's 51 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: a let's face it, we would be totally not even 52 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: kidding ourselves if we said that that there are not 53 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people in this country who are capable 54 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,279 Speaker 1: of taking care of themselves at least in some capacity, 55 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: and are simply able to not do that because of 56 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: the how we have exploded government benefits, especially during COVID 57 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: and afterwards. 58 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 4: So in May of this year, seven point eight billion 59 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 4: in benefits were distributed. The average household benefit was three 60 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty one dollars and twenty eight cents. Now, 61 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 4: if you're how much, what was the number? Three hundred 62 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 4: and fifty one dollars twenty eight cents. 63 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: And that's monthly. 64 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 4: Yes, okay, a four person household with a fifteen hundred 65 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 4: dollars net income would receive about five hundred and fifty 66 00:02:58,880 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 4: four dollars a month. 67 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: So one of the things you mentioned, which is fascinating, 68 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: because of course we saw this during COVID. People go 69 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 1: insane during times of crisis and they can't. 70 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 4: Supporting the toilet paper for an example. 71 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: Possibly by the way, I still have You'll love this 72 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: sweet amazing Terry Stacey. When the COVID thing happened, she 73 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: somehow got toilet paper. So the toilet this was You've 74 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: worked in many big offices. The toilet paper they had 75 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: here was not great, very thin. It's the Econo toilet paper, 76 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: and she somehow got a whole bunch of it, and 77 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: she was like, hey, here do you want this? And 78 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: I was like, well, hey, in case of emergency or whatever, 79 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: cause you don't know how long people are gonna be insane, Like, 80 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: I'll keep it. And I've kept that giant. It's not 81 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: a role like it's rolled up like you get at 82 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: the store. It's like the you know, like you see 83 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: it a toilet at a public restroom. I've kept that 84 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: as a COVID souvenir for five and a half going 85 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,119 Speaker 1: on six years now, as a reminder of how ridiculous 86 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: COVID actually gotten so everywhere. You know, I still have 87 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: it in my house as a reminder of how ridiculous 88 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: it is. But you'd made a good point, which is 89 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: during COVID, for the most part, I'd like, she was 90 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: my girlfriend at the time, but I did not let 91 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: my wife for the most part, go to the store. 92 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: And now occasionally she had to. But it was like 93 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: people are insane, people are nuts. I'm gonna go deal with. 94 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: This, you know, so that you have to do. And 95 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: you made a good point. 96 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: We may see some of this again if these people, 97 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: these these people who don't want desperately don't want to work, 98 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: aren't able to get these benefits. Because it's never the 99 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: good people, the decent people, people deserve it, who do 100 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: these sorts of things. For the most part, it's always 101 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: the people who believe they're entitled to something and they're 102 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: mad it's going to be taken away from them. 103 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 2: You may run the risk of seeing it again. 104 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 4: Well, I've seen more and more people on social media 105 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 4: saying that you know, I'm still going to go to 106 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 4: the grocery store. I'm still gonna get my food and supplies, 107 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 4: and you're not going to stop me even if I 108 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 4: don't have my benefits anymore, meaning they're just going to 109 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 4: go in and take it. 110 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: Well, they've been rewarded in a lot of places in 111 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 1: these major cities that we've seen where peop just go 112 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: in and steal stuff and the drug stores or whatever. 113 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: Just let them go. Now, you made a good point. 114 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: Though your daughter lives in Baltimore. Yeah, and you've like 115 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: sent your husband on a mission out there to say, Jim, 116 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: you have to go to the store stock up for 117 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: her because you don't want her going to the store. 118 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 4: Well, I want to make sure that she's safe. Hopefully 119 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 4: the government will reopen back up and this won't be 120 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 4: an issue. But I told him he's going to be 121 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 4: going there, and I said, your job while you go 122 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 4: there is to make sure that she is loaded up 123 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 4: on groceries, gas, and her prescriptions so that I don't 124 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 4: have to worry about it. Now. One thing that you 125 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 4: have to consider about this message to him is I 126 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 4: was thinking of this because of this guy and what 127 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 4: he had to say. 128 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 3: Bro is waiting in the dispensary parking lot asking people 129 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: if they have any spare roaches. I don't think y'all 130 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 3: understand the crash out levels is about to go through 131 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: the roof. No food stamps equals no oh to less 132 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 3: weed money Like You're about to have people out here 133 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 3: hangry and sober. That's a diabolical combination because the full 134 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 3: money got to come out of some budget, and that's 135 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 3: the first one it usually comes from. 136 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: All I'm saying is just be. 137 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 3: Nicer to people in these coming days, because that blunt 138 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: and those snacks may have been the only thing stopping 139 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: your coworker from putting you first in line for a 140 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 3: meet and greet with God Almighty. 141 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 4: So in Baltimore, marijuana is legal and you can smell 142 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 4: it everywhere. And when I saw that video, I thought, Okay, 143 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 4: if that's true, and people are going to be a 144 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 4: little upset angry. As he put it, I want to 145 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 4: make sure my. 146 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: Kid is safe. 147 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: Okay, that's probably accurate, but it's also pathetic, right think 148 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: about That's where we're at as a society, and one 149 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: of the things that we've refused to address is that 150 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: our society collectively, like I'm not even talking from like 151 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: a moral stand but I'm talking just from a structural standpoint, 152 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: is so broken that you're going to see some of 153 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: these things on full display again. We should be having 154 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: a conversation why is thirteen percent of our population on 155 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: some sort of government assistance? But we're not having that conversation. 156 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: The conversation isn't about, which is what a government shutdown 157 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: should be about. 158 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 2: It should be like, this is ridiculous. 159 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: There's no reason for thirteen percent of the population to 160 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: be on government assistance. 161 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: Why are we fighting for that? 162 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: No, they're like, oh, everybody's going back on once we 163 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: reopened the government, because all we did was fund the 164 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: bidens spending levels and the Republicans. My dad and I 165 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: were talking about this yesterday when we were driving home, 166 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: and I said, you know, one of the things that 167 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: the Republicans are up against, which is fascinating, is the 168 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: greatest thing they have at their disposal they can't use 169 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: because they'd have to admit to their base what they are, 170 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: which is, hey, Democrats, all we're doing is funding Joe 171 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: Biden's government. 172 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: But they can't do it because if. 173 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: They say it out loud, they have to admit that 174 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: they've lied to their base again, which is that what 175 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: they do all the time. And so they're really stuck 176 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: between a rock and a hard place because the greatest 177 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: weapon at their disposal they can they can't use. Our society, 178 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: our government structurally is so broken. We are cratering towards insolvency. 179 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: This stuff is gonna start happening more and more frequently. 180 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:12,679 Speaker 2: And all we're. 181 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: Talking about doing is ways to keep it going or 182 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: make it worse. 183 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 4: Well, here's something to consider. As you're talking about insolvency. 184 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 4: Snap cost one hundred point three billion dollars last year? 185 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: How much? 186 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 4: One hundred point three billion dollars? Yeez, But that's less 187 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 4: than two percent of the federal budget. 188 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're running your interest is like approaching 189 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: a trillion dollars annually. 190 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 2: What we pay like out the window. 191 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: Think about when you pay your mortgage, right, And I 192 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: got the OCD, So this really bothers me that when 193 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: I pay my mortgage, I hate that such a large 194 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: portion of it goes to nothing, like it goes to 195 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: the bank right or to the lender. And that really 196 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: bothers me. I'm like, I'm just throwing this into the abyss. 197 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't do anything. 198 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 2: To help me. 199 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: It just helps some large corporation that's managing my loan. 200 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: And that's essentially what we're doing because our spending has 201 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: been so irresponsible. Think about how many people a trillion 202 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: dollar could feed, how many military members it could pay, 203 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: and we're just lighting it on fire because we won't 204 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: get our spending in this country under control. 205 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 2: It's never going to stop. 206 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just another arrow to the dysfunction that is 207 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 4: happening in DC. Look at the government shutdown that's going on.