In this lively episode of "Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude," we dive into a myriad of topics with our signature blend of humor and candid commentary. We kick off with a light-hearted discussion about the nuances of button mashing versus button pushing, and the technical hiccups that sometimes accompany our live recordings. The conversation then shifts to the quirks of pet ownership, particularly dealing with dogs during thunderstorms, and the various solutions like thunder shirts and earmuffs that can help calm our furry friends.
As the episode progresses, we tackle more serious subjects, including the challenges of homelessness and the societal structures that contribute to it. We explore the complexities of poverty, the role of government assistance, and the importance of personal responsibility. The discussion also touches on the evolving landscape of video games, the impact of social commentary in gaming, and the nostalgia of classic arcade games. Throughout the episode, we maintain a balance of humor and thoughtful discourse, ensuring an engaging experience for our listeners.
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[00:00:01]
Bryan Goodwin:
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together
[00:00:18] Rich Chelson:
to show folks that living and having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan
[00:00:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Rich and the Duuude.
[00:00:34] Rich Chelson:
Alright. I've got a chance to turn on.
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian. Hello.
[00:00:41] Rich Chelson:
There we go. I think I got you on the right one. Let's double check here. Now we are.
[00:00:46] Duuude-Ron :
We're good now?
[00:00:48] Rich Chelson:
I think so. Okay. Getting myself finished getting everything off. I'll connect that, and there's there's the dude. Oh, man. Heck, yeah.
[00:00:58] Duuude-Ron :
Dude. What's up? Plink your button up there, dude. Do what? Smash the damn button.
[00:01:05] Unknown:
What button?
[00:01:07] Duuude-Ron :
The button that that that unmutes you.
[00:01:11] Unknown:
I'm not muted.
[00:01:13] Duuude-Ron :
Not no more, but you wear it when you got
[00:01:17] Rich Chelson:
on.
[00:01:21] Unknown:
Look here.
[00:01:22] Rich Chelson:
Look here. You know, I don't We're gonna get you around to pushing buttons and and and I don't wanna do fucking I don't push no fucking buttons. You guys know that.
[00:01:33] Duuude-Ron :
No. You don't push them. You mash them.
[00:01:36] Unknown:
You mash them. Okay. So oh, so there's a fucking difference?
[00:01:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. There is.
[00:01:43] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:01:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It depends on See, we don't. Okay. So country you're from.
[00:01:50] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. You are from minky country in Texas
[00:01:55] Duuude-Ron :
because Texas is just on its own. You know?
[00:02:01] Unknown:
So I so what I take it then is you are no longer pushing buttons. You are mashing buttons because when you push buttons, you fuck some shit up.
[00:02:13] Duuude-Ron :
It's about right.
[00:02:14] Unknown:
So now we're mashing buttons
[00:02:17] Rich Chelson:
so we don't fuck shit up?
[00:02:19] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Things are working. I got the live working again. It was Sure. Yeah. It was funny. It it couple weeks back, I'd been having the lives going, and all of a sudden, it decided to stop fucking working. And I couldn't figure it out, and then it it was still doing the same thing tonight. And I'm like, what the fuck? So I mashed the fucking button, and guess what? It works. Oh, there we go.
[00:02:46] Rich Chelson:
Somebody's actually wanting it to work.
[00:02:48] Unknown:
So now you just got to remember keyword remember which button or which button you mashed instead of pressed.
[00:02:59] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, I shouldn't have to mash any more buttons because I've got it set. All I do is exit off. When I'm done, I I shut everything down, and I leave it set. It it it's a it's a week to week thing if butt wants to work or if
[00:03:19] Unknown:
or if Windows wants to let it work or whatever. Oh, okay. I get it. So now you're gonna blame the butt or whatever you just called it or Windows. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I see. Passing the buck.
[00:03:34] Duuude-Ron :
I got I mean, I can't blame it on Bella. Bella hasn't learned learned how to mash buttons yet.
[00:03:42] Rich Chelson:
I get we are alive. I see we're live.
[00:03:45] Unknown:
You know, I guarantee you, she knows how to fucking mash your buttons.
[00:03:50] Duuude-Ron :
I swear to that dog that dog, she about to flip. It was it was starting to thunder and
[00:03:57] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. You need to get a thunder shirt.
[00:03:59] Duuude-Ron :
Maybe. I don't know. I mean I mean, yeah, probably so because sometimes the thunders I mean, not tonight. It's just been kinda calm tonight, but, yeah, she just just was flipping out. And I'm like, uh-huh. You ain't you ain't trying to mash your heated furry body into mine where I'm at. No.
[00:04:22] Rich Chelson:
Yep. She's she has decided to imprint herself upon you. So
[00:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
No. No.
[00:04:29] Rich Chelson:
No. Yes. She has. Oh, she already has. So She already has. You you yeah. You can't you can't do anything about it now. Too late. To fuck. Oh, no.
[00:04:38] Duuude-Ron :
No. I didn't I didn't let her get that close. I I moved her over to the side right there beside me. But, no, she was trying to physically shove herself inside of me, and I'm like, nope. I do not do that.
[00:04:55] Unknown:
You okay. Not today.
[00:04:58] Duuude-Ron :
And not broke. But,
[00:05:01] Rich Chelson:
yes. It's definitely you have got a smaller version of Lorraine to a point, though, because of how she is how she acts because you just left for a couple of hours and came back. Took you a little bit to get her wound down. That Yeah. That she is, I mean, most rather nervous. So coming in broke you're coming in broken, see how she's She's gonna wanna I would get her a they'd get her a thunder shirt.
[00:05:33] Duuude-Ron :
Probably have to. Sure. Who'd you was coming in broke and getting Hold up. Stupid there for a minute.
[00:05:42] Unknown:
You know they also make earmuffs, Rich, for dogs. No. I hear you. That is just the biggest pain in the butt.
[00:05:49] Duuude-Ron :
Guys, no.
[00:05:51] Unknown:
What? What? What's snow?
[00:05:53] Duuude-Ron :
I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not doing all this little fancy shit that that all these little sissy people that have pets No. No. No.
[00:06:05] Unknown:
No. No. No. No. I'm talking about earmuffs only when it's thundering out.
[00:06:12] Rich Chelson:
Right. That's the, there's specific thunder shirt's about.
[00:06:16] Unknown:
Yeah. Those are specific purposes.
[00:06:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Now thunder
[00:06:21] Unknown:
and lightning is gone. You take them off.
[00:06:25] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay.
[00:06:27] Unknown:
But it it reassures her. One, if you get to your house, it softens the noise. It's not so intense. And then that sweater, I know they're tight because of the fact, so they feel like they're being held.
[00:06:49] Rich Chelson:
Right. It calms them down.
[00:06:51] Unknown:
Yeah. So that's the only thing we're saying. We're not saying fucking No. That's fine. Gay out Bella. No. And, you know, paint her fucking nails and,
[00:07:03] Rich Chelson:
you know, old that, though. You'd be very down for that. Two two. I said she would just she would be down for getting her nails done. You know? Sure she would.
[00:07:13] Duuude-Ron :
If the kids ever come down, they can do whatever she'll let them do.
[00:07:18] Unknown:
She'll let them fucking do I bet you guarantee she'll let them do anything.
[00:07:22] Duuude-Ron :
Probably will.
[00:07:24] Unknown:
And we'll be enjoying every fucking moment.
[00:07:27] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:07:29] Unknown:
Because she now and it's only been a couple weeks now, but give it a couple months, and you'll be wrapped around that dog's finger. Plain and simple.
[00:07:41] Duuude-Ron :
We'll see. But it's a good thing. But it's a good thing. No. I mean I mean I mean, I I'm Yeah. I mean, me and her get along now as it is. You know?
[00:07:52] Unknown:
Which is which is absolutely great. And got along probably the first moment you laid eyes on her and she laid eyes on you. In your It just clicked.
[00:08:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But yeah. I know. I I mean I mean, she's cool. She's funny. Some of her head turns and mannerisms.
[00:08:14] Rich Chelson:
Right. I'm
[00:08:15] Duuude-Ron :
shocked she's not in here, but but, I mean, like I said, it's not it's not thundering real bad, but it's enough.
[00:08:23] Rich Chelson:
Not to get our attention.
[00:08:24] Duuude-Ron :
The the last time that I went outside and smoked cigarette, normally, I've got her right I mean, right there. Right? I mean, and that's by her choice because, oh my god, dad's stepping out of my sight. That could Uh-huh.
[00:08:40] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:08:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The last this, last time, she was like, I said, I'm going outside. And then she just looked at me and said, get on, bitch.
[00:08:51] Rich Chelson:
Fuck you. Like, so bad. There there's big booms going on out there. I'd rather hang out in here. Right. Be like and she's like, knock yourself the fuck out. Have fun. Right.
[00:09:02] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And as and and, normally, I can hear if if she's laying on the couch and doesn't wanna get up right away, she'll wait, you know, like, a minute maybe and then jump down, shake, and then I hear her and then I'll open the door, she'll come out. Nope. She's just like, no. Fuck that. Ain't doing that shit.
[00:09:24] Rich Chelson:
It's like Cricket, my, my basset that I used to have. She was scared to death storms too. But we knew when storms were coming in because she could sense them coming up, and she'd be about three hours before the storm would show up. Oh, wow. And so she annoyed the shit out of Jana. Jana would she would her and Jana had a very Love hate relationship. Love hate relationship. She's like, I'm not gonna get tell you to get rid of the dog. We kinda can't stand the dog. And I was like, well, that's fine. She owes me. I love her. We're good. And so we, you know and and just she was just, she was a funny dog. Yeah.
Oh, Cricket. But, yeah, she would hop up on the bed, and we knew a storm was coming in because when she'd hop up on the bed, the whole bed would sit there and start shaking because she was so scared to death of the damn storms.
[00:10:16] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:10:17] Rich Chelson:
And if, Jenna had enough of the shaking, she would end up kicking her off, and she would go and she would go hang out in the bathtub. So Oh. But but one of the one of the things we found that that worked to help calm her down was was one of the undershirts. And it basically and, like, he was the like, the dude was talking. And it basically is just a compression shirt. Okay. And it holds holds it holds them tight. And so they feel a lot more secure because they, you know, they're not they don't feel like they're hang hanging out with their with their dick in the wind. So
[00:11:00] Duuude-Ron :
I got you.
[00:11:02] Unknown:
Yep. Yep. Just gives them a little reassurance.
[00:11:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. I might find one on Amazon then and get it for because that I mean I mean, stuff like that, I'll do just to you know? Because there's times when, you know, I've got thunder right over top of my literally right over top of my house, and it sounds like fucking lightning is gonna come right through the house. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I I mean, it gets that loud in here. So, you know, I'd be willing to do that for sure.
[00:11:35] Unknown:
And, again, it's not a, you know, girly shirt. I got a neighbor. God. She's not a Karen, but she is Right next there.
[00:11:51] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:11:53] Unknown:
And the three they have four dogs. Three little two are, I think, schnauzers or the yippee dogs. They're not chihuahuas. Yorkies. Yorkies. And they are fucking yippee yippee yippee. And, I mean, it's a 100 degrees outside. Those fucking dogs got shirts on.
[00:12:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'd be like just messed up.
[00:12:24] Unknown:
And then they got a husky, and I really do feel sorry for her because they keep her in the backyard. Because it originally was one of their kids' dogs, but where they're living, that particular child doesn't allow pets. So they took this husky in, but they leave it in the fucking backyard. In Texas. In Texas.
[00:12:51] Rich Chelson:
Well Yes, sir. Yeah. No. And that's one reason my daughter for a long time wanted a husky, and I kept it's like, no. That's just mean and cruel to the damn dog.
[00:13:01] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. You're right. But, you know, there is food. There is water. She does have shelter. There's a shed back there, but she doesn't come into the house. It's like, you know, if you're gonna bring the other three in the house, why don't you bring that one in the fucking house?
[00:13:16] Rich Chelson:
Right. He sheds too much. Well, you gotta take care of the damn dog, and don't you don't shave huskies either.
[00:13:25] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. They've got an undercoat that that you brush out. Yeah. Some cooler.
[00:13:32] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:13:32] Duuude-Ron :
And and you see, the thing is people that have huskies should only live up north because huskies are bred for the cold. Right. Have them. Yep. Yep. You know? And so, you know, having one down south, yeah, they are lovable dogs, very, very outspoken, and, you know, everything like that. I get that. But still, just to be decent with the dog, keep it in its closer to its climate. You know what I mean?
[00:14:06] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah.
[00:14:08] Unknown:
Yep. I appreciate my thoughts on that. But Well, here here's she's not a Karen. She was a pageant mom. Oh, no. Youngest is a girl. She's in college now, but because she couldn't do pageants, she forced her daughter to do pageants.
[00:14:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. She was a Oh, that's where pageant moms are.
[00:14:37] Unknown:
Yeah. They're fucking insane, and that's the way she is. And now and now yeah.
[00:14:44] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, yeah. Yeah. Dude. Yeah, dude. You're not right. Or you guys are right or or or or aren't wrong there because a Karen and a Padgett mom is not too far apart.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:14:59] Duuude-Ron :
I I just I mean, or dance moms or or or, singing moms. No. I don't want no hard work. Asthenics.
[00:15:11] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Anything that's a competition. Because they didn't do it. They want their daughters to do it, so they feel like they they're involved Yeah. To their dream, not their kid's dream. But, you know, you do you. Like like Rich says, you do you, boo. Whatever.
[00:15:34] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. Yeah. You, yeah, you shouldn't force your shit on, your kids, but to be themselves. This is why we have a lot of the problems we have is because mommy and daddy forces what they wanted to do because they were too busy fucking instead of and instead of really doing what they wanted to do with their life, they were too busy having babies. And, oh my god, we can't have a life now. Well, you know what? You're the one that decided to,
[00:16:11] Rich Chelson:
you know That's the story that they tell themselves, and that's the that's the issue. Can they have kids and and do what they wanna do? Yeah. They need to stop lying to themselves and going, hey. We can't do this because we've got kids. We've got responsibilities. No. No. You can actually go through and do all the stuff you wanna do.
[00:16:30] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh. You can. But they don't think they can. That's the thing.
[00:16:35] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. Yeah.
[00:16:36] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And it's because that's the thing. Look at their parents, especially if they only have one parent. What did their parent do? They took their kids everywhere. They still went and did things, had fun, enjoyed life. Did did they do everything they wanted? No. But they knew the sacrifice they were making. So that's why they were like, okay. Well, this is what I gotta do. I won't take my kid with me. And so they take the kid with them. And then when the kid grows up, they're like, oh, now I'm I'm not giving my kids the life I had. My life I had sucked. You know what? It's been happening since the beginning of fucking time.
[00:17:18] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:17:19] Duuude-Ron :
Literally, it has. Read the freaking Bible. This shit has been happening since the beginning of time. Only the names have changed. Instead of Mohammed, it was Rich or Brian or Dude or John or Mary or or Susie or or Lacey or whatever. The same thing has been happening. Alright. I'll calm down for a minute.
[00:17:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, I didn't even get you wound up on that one.
[00:17:55] Duuude-Ron :
I just I don't know. I just I don't know if this weather or what. I just I don't know. It's just it's just right now, some of this stuff, it just it's just lining me up because, well, I had just read an article before I jumped on here. They're saying where is it at here? I just saw it. And you can't fucking remember what it was. No. No. I can't. I've got it right here because because I didn't close the browser out. It says by 2032, we will have a deficit of 6,000,000 workers because kids that were born in o seven are turning 18 this year, and the, birth rate has been dropping steadily since o seven.
And if it keeps going on this trend, by 2032, we're not gonna have enough people working to, you know, pay Social Security or whatever, you know, because there's not gonna be that many people in The United States. And they're saying this is not just a United States problem.
[00:19:09] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Korea is already in a depth
[00:19:11] Duuude-Ron :
in a deficit. Yeah. This is global.
[00:19:15] Unknown:
Yeah. China is the same way?
[00:19:18] Duuude-Ron :
China is the same way themselves. Yeah. I mean, Yeah. Their one child
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
their one child program really fucked themselves over real good with that one.
[00:19:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but yeah. See, that's the thing. And and you see, the kids that are turning 18 this year, you know, they're the ones that are you know, want to have be accepted for, you know, you know, every little thing, you know, they're not looking to get married
[00:19:54] Unknown:
and have It it ain't looking to fucking work either because Right. That's millions that are yeah. Don't get me started on that one.
[00:20:05] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's the thing I'm just saying that that yeah. It's like it's like, yeah, this is crazy. And this this actually tracks. This, twenty thirty two time range actually tracks with a letter I got from Social Security last year. Yeah. I wanna say it was last year. I told y'all about it, I think.
[00:20:27] Unknown:
Well, if you did, I'd done fucking forgot.
[00:20:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But no. It said it said on on the current track as it's going right now, and this is for all people on Social Security by yeah. This was last year I got it. By 2034, if nothing is done with Social Security, a Social Security will only pay 800 on every thousand dollars they pay out.
[00:20:56] Unknown:
Well yeah. And if they'd stop fucking raping the goddamn account with and fucking putting it here, there, and every damn where I'm freaking have this problem.
[00:21:09] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. No. I agree. I agree and freaking pay back the money that that's been taken out of it. Yes. I agree. It would yeah. Social Security would not be at this at this juncture at all. But the thing is that's already been done. And will it ever get paid back? Probably not. You can talk about it all you want. You can whatever. But until the actual act of it being replaced is done, it's all talk. So, therefore, in 2034, like, my check will drop by $400 a month, and that's not counting other people. And, see, that's the thing. The the inflation rate and all this other stuff with living, you know, take someone making a thousand dollars on Social Security, and they're struggling to live on it now.
They'll have to live on 800, and prices aren't getting any cheaper. Not really. I mean, they they are cheaper than they were, but they're nothing to, you know, where they were at even eight years ago. So Because of greed. Oh, yeah.
[00:22:36] Unknown:
Those that have want more, and those that don't have, deal with it.
[00:22:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see the you see, though, dude, the thing is, believe it or not, and this might be a hard pill to swallow, but some of these people that don't have don't want it. They bitch about wanting it, but they don't wanna have to go get it. They want someone to give it to them.
[00:23:05] Unknown:
Yeah. That is yes. Exactly. And look at all the fucking rhetoric on when they did the the food stamps and the EBT and all that. And if you ain't working, but you have kids in school, you don't wanna work, well, you know what? Your funds get taken. You don't wanna help to contribute, then I guess you don't fucking need it.
[00:23:34] Rich Chelson:
And that's why a lot of people I mean, that's that's what everybody's complaining about right now because people are starting to see their their food stamps drop because now you have to do a minimum of fifteen hours of of some type of work or community service.
[00:23:51] Unknown:
Yeah. So and if they don't, boo fucking who?
[00:23:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:23:56] Unknown:
I've been working since I was 16.
[00:24:00] Rich Chelson:
16. Yeah. I'm 15 for me, but, actually, you fell off and on even younger than that, but it wasn't it was the, a youth. You eat the food so you can, you can, you can help make it. So
[00:24:16] Unknown:
Well, you know, paper routes and that kind of stuff. Yeah. That was, you know, for those individuals, that was so they could have just a little bit of pocket money.
[00:24:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's that's what most kids would do. But, again, I mean, I was kinda talking with something similar to this with with one of the guys over here at work. And, you know, I mean, they don't have any gumption to do anything. I mean, it it's like, well, you want money. It's like, well, why do I why do I need money? It's like, well, you're wanting to do shit. The video game industry is a good example of this. Right now, video game industry is spazzing out because people aren't buying video games. As a whole, aren't buying video games like they used to, and that is because 25% of the video game consumption is done by Gen z. Yeah. Gen z and, and Gen Alpha.
Gen Alpha is still a little on the young side, but they're starting to kinda creep into the, around 16 and stuff. But Gen z, they they were raised on Fortnite and and Warzone and and Apex Legends. And these are all free to play. And if you wanna throw some money at it, you get a scan or two. You know?
[00:25:46] Duuude-Ron :
Which I never understood that way of thinking, but, you know, there's a separation every minute.
[00:25:52] Rich Chelson:
Well and but that's a that's a way to because, yeah, you I see skins that I'd like, hey. I'd like to have that. I'm not gonna spend that type of money. I ain't gonna spend $20 for a fucking skin. You know? Because, I mean, they've got one on, on Warzone that's Art the Clown from Terrifier. He's just a fucking screwed up looking clown. And so it's like, hell, yeah. Well, that is alright. Granted, he's all he's he's all in white, so he'd stand out like a fucking sore thumb. But at the same time, you know, to be able to have something like that be you know, I thought that'd be really cool. But, again, to be able to get enough points is basically or equals out to about $20. And I'm like, oh, no. I'm just no. I don't care to spend that much.
I'll I'll nickel and dime myself in in earning cod points for, you know, but not doing the not doing the battle pass because I don't do the battle pass. I ain't spending $20 so I can get extra stuff to play.
[00:26:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I just I just fucking play with what I get and have fun at it. Yeah. And that's I mean, that's just me, though.
[00:26:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But, I mean but the problem that a lot of people the businesses are facing is that they've gone off. They they they shot themselves in the dick because they were doing all the damn all the damn woke shit. So they were they were making craps games with ugly player ugly characters, and people were like, oh, no. This is this is done. This is done. There's no it's all about, you know, the you've got a, you've got a a woman of color as the hero and you've and the and the bad guy is a is a white dude. And people start seeing through that and going, no. It's not always the evil white dude. You might wanna think it is, but it's not. And there's there's more to more to games than that. It's the whole story. That's the reason why I spent four hundred hours completing Elden Ring.
Yes. I've told people four hundred hours and they're going, goddamn. Are you, you know, are you bad at it? My response is, yeah. Yeah. I kinda suck at it. I don't get to play it, you know, twelve hours a day every single day. I get to play it for, you know, twelve hours a day, couple of days. But most of the time, it's, like, four or five hours. Not even four or five. Well, depends on, you know, four or five hours in the evening. If I'm not working, you know, if I'm days off, yeah, I'll do four or five hours where I'm just, you know, pill farting around trying to grind through Elden Ring. But it had a good story.
It had a you wanted to know what was going on. How did how do you become the Elden Ring, Elden Lord? You know, how do you become the the next god of this of this, of this world? How do you go from the tarnished to, to being, you know, the the lord of of all the lands that you see? The whole God of War 2018 and God of War Ragnarok. Again, that's a granted, there is a bit of chickification that happened in God of War Ragnarok, But at the same time, the whole overarching story, amazing. There's a there's a tearjerker actually in there. One where you're like, oh my god. No.
Not gonna spoil that because that is such a good brutal element of the, of the story. But I recommend anybody who plays, I always recommend, Red Dead Redemption two. Amazing game. Absolutely amazing game. The story is so beautiful, and it is a true story about redemption. Because Arthur Morgan starts out being like the scoundrel. By the end, he's his name is on a plaque for, for for helping people. You've got the cyberpunk 2077, another incredible story that is of a dystopian part of of The United States? What happens if the you know, what would what happens if you if you let a a government control or you let a company get a control of the government.
And what does that all be what does that all look like? And so cyberpunk twenty seven seven, another great story that you could actually play through and have some different beats in it three different times. And then, see, God of War, Red Dead, and Cyberpunk, and now I've add the Elden Ring. I mean, that one will keep you busy for for days and days and days and days, and I just got finished buying the, the DLC. So I've got a few, you know, probably another $200 worth of gaming I'm fixing to be doing on there. Because it, it's such a fast because they get in from what I understand, they're getting a little deeper into the, into some of the lore.
[00:31:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't I don't get I don't get too hard into the lore. You know? I mean, I I do a little bit in in each of these games, but, you know, I don't I don't totally get into it because it's like, I know the character I'm playing. I know my mission. I know my goal, and I'm going to achieve my goal. Yeah. And then, you know, and and I do watch cut scenes, you know, just to kinda keep up with the story and stuff like that. And it's and, you know, sometimes you do learn things that that'll help you either later on or you've done past it or whatnot. You have to go back. You know? But, yeah, other than that, I don't get too deep into it. It's just like, okay. What's my next goal? I need to go find this person and kill all these other sons of bitches. I
[00:32:07] Rich Chelson:
Right. And, I mean, the and there's, like, cyberpunk, you you can get you can spend weeks in the lore because it's actually a table it's like D and D. It's a tabletop game RPG that was played, you know, back in the eighties. Yeah. Mike Pondsmith is the guy who created cyberpunk and he's and it's a, you know, so there's a lot of there's, you know, first, second, third, fourth. I think they're up to the fifth edition now. And so there's who what who is the, you know, who's night the night corporation? Who's who's Arasaka?
You've got all the you've got all the different gangs that are in in the in Night City. And why is Night City the Night City, and what makes it so special? And it's the fact that, you know, they that that, California and and Texas, for whatever reason, both of those states decided, hey. We're gonna split off or fuck y'all. We're done here. And so they split off and become their own nations. And and then eventually, California goes, well, I I I think we wanna go back, except for the area around San Diego LA. They were, like, oh, no. Fuck you. We're staying. And they became their own little corporate sized section of of a corporatized government individual government within the state of California.
And, I mean, that's where the corporations have got these mega corporations got so big. They actually have wars. There's actually, you know, two sides that come together and they clash and they shoot and they shoot each other and and blow stuff up and they attack. And I mean, this it's it's a it's a fascinating story, but, again, it is a really, really deep story. While Elden Ring, again, was create was created by George and had a it was partially the law itself was created by George r r Martin. So it's got a lot of the weird twists and turns, and, yeah, it's got a lot of brother sister action going in there too. So you got one one character who somehow is a boy that split themselves off and became a girl, And it's, you know, you get in there, you know, like, going, how's all this fitting together? How does this you know, how does Ronnie the witch fit into the whole whole instance and, you know, why is the golden order the golden order? And it everything boils together. And when you look at the lore on it, that's a really fascinating tale. And some of it is all just speculation because it's not overtly told.
[00:34:44] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:34:45] Rich Chelson:
But it's a it's a great like I said, those are those are four great stories, and I'm also kind of I found a I found a tinkering around game that I'm having fun with. And so if you ever have $40, you wanna wanna fart around with me, hell divers too. That's kinda fun. If you wanna just run run and gun, there there you go. That is just a you are a you are a a a hell driver, which is a special army that goes to help super Earth, and they are battling he said you can almost take it like Starship Troopers because you're battling these bugs, these giant alien bugs and and stuff. And so it's you and everybody else. Y'all are all working to you know, you've got these armies of of other players all working together to try to try to try to drop back the bugs, and and, the bugs are taking over places. And so, yeah, you know, you get to choose where you're gonna land, but at the same time, you're trying to help everybody else out. It's they did a really good job with it so far, but I've only played for, like, maybe three hours.
[00:35:53] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. I might I might I might look at that because, yeah, I wouldn't mind shooting some bugs. Yeah. It doesn't oh, this is the old bugs game, it looks like. Because, oh god, Breezy was little. I think Breezy was, like,
[00:36:11] Rich Chelson:
divers. Well, there was a there was a Helldivers.
[00:36:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Might have been that, but yeah. Because, Brian played it. Brian and one of his friends played it, and they called it bugs. You just run around and and and kill bugs.
[00:36:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay. If it was called bugs, then that that's probably a different one to get altogether. But
[00:36:34] Duuude-Ron :
might have been. But either way, it's, you know, this one looks pretty cool. I might Oh, it's it? Yeah.
[00:36:42] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Different orbital strikes and everything else about it. So, yeah, it's a it's a pretty fun fun little game.
[00:36:48] Duuude-Ron :
Now see, this is a game to play. Well, who's you gonna say, dude?
[00:36:53] Unknown:
You know, it's a fun game. I'll name you a few. Galaga, Asteroids, Centipede, Frogger. What was the one with the monkey and the Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong? There you go.
[00:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
I've got a few of those, dude, on my PS five even. Yes. I do have them.
[00:37:17] Unknown:
You know, I I would love to get the the the arcade version of Galaga. Man, nothing would get fucking done in my house.
[00:37:30] Duuude-Ron :
Not a goddamn
[00:37:32] Unknown:
thing. Well, shit. I got one of those remake of the Ataris. It doesn't have the cassettes. It's all built in.
[00:37:40] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:37:42] Unknown:
But, you know Good job, dude.
[00:37:45] Duuude-Ron :
Hook it up to your TV, and we'll go.
[00:37:48] Unknown:
I know it will.
[00:37:49] Duuude-Ron :
We'll hook it up and play.
[00:37:54] Unknown:
You know what I'd much rather be doing?
[00:37:56] Duuude-Ron :
What? Sleeping. What's that?
[00:38:00] Rich Chelson:
No. You don't like sleep.
[00:38:02] Duuude-Ron :
Why? Why do you wanna sleep? Yeah. I'm a shit. I'm about
[00:38:07] Unknown:
twelve years behind. I'm trying to get to the beauty sleep. I'm already twelve years behind on regular sleep. I wanna get to that beauty sleep point because
[00:38:17] Duuude-Ron :
You're never gonna make it. So fuck it and just play games. Enjoy it. Yeah. Fuck it and play games, dude. You're never gonna make the beauty sleep. Maybe when you're dead.
[00:38:30] Rich Chelson:
And that ain't probably not really pretty enough with them. So, yeah, good point.
[00:38:34] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. Because a a bucket of ashes are just beautiful.
[00:38:41] Rich Chelson:
Oh, you can talk to them whatever you want.
[00:38:43] Unknown:
That's right. You know that they can now and I know this is getting completely off the subject of what you guys are talking about. So if you guys wanna get back to the subject after I get done saying this, you're more than welcome. But you know that they can take thank you. Take your ashes, and they have hydraulic presses that can Into a Into a diamond Yeah. Or into a gem.
[00:39:12] Duuude-Ron :
What? Yeah. Yes. I did not know that.
[00:39:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They can make you into a gym, or or they can actually just take your body. They will they will squish you up, put you basically wrap you around wrap your body around a tree, stuff you inside of a vase, inside of a decomposable, container, and they they can plant your ash. Literally.
[00:39:36] Unknown:
Yep. Yeah. They do that. But with this one actually, what they do, they take your ashes and they take the carbon out of your ashes.
[00:39:46] Rich Chelson:
Right. Which is funny because you know you know what you know what ashes actually are, don't you?
[00:39:53] Unknown:
A burnt body.
[00:39:55] Rich Chelson:
It is just the unburnable calcium and elements from your bones. Everything else gets burnt away. It's just your bones that's that's left.
[00:40:09] Unknown:
So they take that, get the carbon, hydraulically press it into a gem, and then your family can wear you around. Okay. That's On a necklace or, you know, a ring.
[00:40:24] Duuude-Ron :
That's just getting too much for me. If, I mean, that's in my personal opinion. That's just getting too much.
[00:40:32] Unknown:
Well, I'm just saying it's it's an available option if you want if you want to pursue said options. You know, they also have I can't remember where it's at, where you can have your cremated remains put into a
[00:40:52] Duuude-Ron :
artificial reef. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy.
[00:40:58] Unknown:
And, you know, they just buried the last soldier, but he just passed away. It's been within the last six months, the last surviving member of the USS Arizona.
[00:41:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I I read something about that.
[00:41:18] Unknown:
And they put his ashes into the ship where 90% or higher of all the survivors from the USS Arizona are now buried.
[00:41:33] Rich Chelson:
Yep. They were interned in the in the Arizona.
[00:41:37] Unknown:
Yep. But, yep, all of them wanted to, basically join their buddies. So I don't know if I what out the hell I'm gonna do. May maybe they'll just when I die, they can they can bury me in the backyard, and then my house or my property becomes a cemetery. No longer have to pay taxes. Property will always be in the family. Yeah. So there's there's another option.
[00:42:06] Rich Chelson:
You see somebody decides to sell it, and then they then they don't they don't, disinter you. And so all of a sudden, you become part of the next Poltergeist movie.
[00:42:17] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. That's true too. Yep. See, the thing is I'll be dead, so I ain't gonna give a shit. No. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. I mean, I I I mean, literally, funerals are for the living.
[00:42:30] Rich Chelson:
They're not for the
[00:42:32] Unknown:
Yeah. They're they're all for the living. Every bit of it.
[00:42:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So it's like, you know what? Y'all go be happy. Don't freaking boohoo over me. Just, you know, be happy. Have fun. Enjoy life. Do what I didn't do.
[00:42:51] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:42:52] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, that's I mean, that's that's just my way of looking at things.
[00:42:58] Unknown:
Oh,
[00:42:59] Rich Chelson:
I agree.
[00:43:00] Duuude-Ron :
Because one, I'm not spending $1,020,000 dollars on my funeral. That's a guarantee right there.
[00:43:08] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:43:09] Duuude-Ron :
I'm a go the cheapest way out because everyone knows me as a cheap old bastard.
[00:43:15] Unknown:
That's right.
[00:43:16] Duuude-Ron :
I'm not I'm not I'm not changing that.
[00:43:20] Unknown:
Well, you know what? You could have everything done for free. Just get buried into the cemetery there at, VA in Biloxi.
[00:43:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's not a problem.
[00:43:33] Unknown:
Looked like they still had plenty of space. I'm sure there's a lot of people that are gonna beat you to it.
[00:43:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, maybe. Maybe.
[00:43:46] Unknown:
But, you know, my only thing is is, you know, I could have a spot in the Texas Veterans Cemetery right here in Killeen. There's, like, hundreds of vacant vaults for ashes. Right. But yeah. Yeah. Then somebody might come and visit me.
[00:44:11] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Like I said impossible. But the thing is, you'll never know because you're dead.
[00:44:17] Rich Chelson:
That's right.
[00:44:20] Unknown:
Well, see, I might be able to, you know, come down and, you know, possibly be a
[00:44:26] Rich Chelson:
Be a poltergeist up there. Yep.
[00:44:29] Unknown:
Not a poltergeist,
[00:44:30] Rich Chelson:
but Maybe a poltergeist up there with people's hats off their top of their head, and that'd be great. Yeah. Okay. So Get the get the living wet willies. Like, oh, what the hell? Yeah. That would be that would probably be pretty fun.
[00:44:46] Unknown:
Probably the most fun I'd ever have in my life is being a poltergeist when I'm dead.
[00:44:53] Rich Chelson:
Absolutely. You know, because
[00:44:57] Unknown:
I'm sure God will let you, you know, come back down here to Earth and, you know, just hang out and spoof the shit out of people or spook them.
[00:45:07] Duuude-Ron :
You know, somehow, I I mean, somehow, I don't think that would be allowed. But then again, I don't know.
[00:45:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. God's got a sense of humor. Come on. Look at flamingos. He put the bees on backwards. Put the what? He put the he put the flamingos bees on backwards. You know where that was down. He did that for out of fun. It's like, check this out. Chicken legs, put it on backwards.
[00:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
Well
[00:45:37] Unknown:
yeah. You look at some of the animals. The badger, not the sexiest East of the world.
[00:45:44] Rich Chelson:
You know? They're mostly bugs out there too. Yeah. Well, so which which badger are you talking about? You talking about the American badger or the English badger? Because because there is a difference. The the English badger looks like he would part he would he would pull you, pour you a glass of tea while while the, American badger looks like he would just throw the tea in your face. You seem like wind in the willows, haven't you? American badger. Oh, American badger. So because I was gonna say the yeah. The the if you ever seen the oh We just lost, dude. Yeah. I was figuring we were. He was he was
[00:46:23] Duuude-Ron :
Chinese and honest pretty good. So Oh, yeah. It was yeah. It was I know. It looks like he's back.
[00:46:30] Rich Chelson:
Or did I cut out? Yeah. He cut out. Yeah. We were just talking. It's like, yeah. We knew you were about to leave because, boy, you were becoming really hard to understand.
[00:46:42] Duuude-Ron :
And then, oh, somewhere, bloop. Bloop. Yeah. You're gone.
[00:46:46] Unknown:
Yep. And it's fixing to happen again. Uh-oh. Oh.
[00:46:49] Rich Chelson:
Anyhow. So yeah. The you've seen the you've seen wind of the willows, the the badger and wind of the willows. Right? With badger and mister toad and and all that?
[00:47:00] Unknown:
Never heard of it. I think I've got He talked about the, comic one or the, yeah, comics. Not comics, but the animation.
[00:47:11] Rich Chelson:
Well, they did an animation. The Disney did an animation of it. Yeah. But it's a class it's a classic children's book. Nope.
[00:47:19] Unknown:
No? Never got that one to me.
[00:47:23] Rich Chelson:
Well Well Now that you got a reading assignment
[00:47:28] Duuude-Ron :
You know dude doesn't read. Right?
[00:47:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, he he could actually listen to books. He can get an Audible subscription. They're not ex no. Not that high. That's too much work for him. You know he's not gonna do that. Oh, if he can listen to if he can listen to to music on YouTube, he can listen to books on Audible.
[00:47:47] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know that. I'm not saying he can't.
[00:47:55] Rich Chelson:
But would he? Probably not. See, there he goes again. Yep. Yeah. He's he's breaking up on us.
[00:48:06] Duuude-Ron :
You know, and that's that's something I don't get because down here, I've been seeing
[00:48:11] Rich Chelson:
cheap. Yep. You know, someone's goats are loose. There's about 10 goats that are sitting there enjoying a bush.
[00:48:19] Duuude-Ron :
I had been I had been seeing T Mobile ads down here. Right?
[00:48:25] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:48:26] Duuude-Ron :
And, T Mobile's saying that now they're the best network of all the network, not just Verizon, all the networks.
[00:48:38] Unknown:
And, you know, they very then they very well could be. Downtown. But not but not at my house in Temple, Texas.
[00:48:50] Rich Chelson:
Or in Western Oklahoma. Because there's people in Western Oklahoma. They will
[00:48:55] Duuude-Ron :
Are we losing somebody else?
[00:48:57] Rich Chelson:
I guess so.
[00:48:59] Unknown:
He's probably he's probably babbling and doesn't have a clue that nobody can hear him.
[00:49:04] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[00:49:07] Unknown:
That's always he didn't hear us.
[00:49:10] Rich Chelson:
Well, there's a couple folks who have come up. That's four bars. Why can't I just you know? Hey, Bob. Just huge.
[00:49:16] Unknown:
Everything, Brian. Brian. Everything after you said West Western Oklahoma, Trust me. Nobody heard it.
[00:49:29] Rich Chelson:
Really? Damn it. Yeah. Really. That's a team owner who was hacking into my phone, making sure that I don't say disparaging words about them.
[00:49:38] Unknown:
I don't know. Your your icon was there, but you had no freaking
[00:49:43] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. You were talking to a wall. And and and yeah, Brian. It was funny because you you cut up. We couldn't hear shit of what she was saying, and dude was like and he probably can't hear a word worth saying. That's why I I started to Yep. Laughing. Because it's true. Because when you came back, you just sitting there just going on, like, just
[00:50:07] Unknown:
just continued on his conversation, then nobody heard except for are you in the truck right now?
[00:50:13] Rich Chelson:
I'm in the truck. Yeah.
[00:50:15] Unknown:
Okay. The windshield heard it.
[00:50:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. The yeah.
[00:50:19] Duuude-Ron :
That's about it. That that's hilarious. Because, yeah, because, yeah, dude's like, yeah. And I bet he can't even hear a word we're saying. I said, probably not. And then Probably not. Two seconds later, you came back just, talking just like you was before.
[00:50:39] Rich Chelson:
Never never never never looked at it. It's something
[00:50:43] Unknown:
That's because you're on that high dollar headset Yeah. That the company gave you.
[00:50:49] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep. $20 headset the company gave me. But it was a damn thing. It'll last three weeks before I had to charge it up.
[00:50:57] Unknown:
Well, maybe it needs to be charged again.
[00:51:00] Rich Chelson:
No. No. I charged it last night, as a matter of fact. Okay. So Okay.
[00:51:06] Unknown:
I don't have them. So Oh. We we ain't allowed to Yeah. You need to
[00:51:12] Rich Chelson:
we ain't allowed to have to be sociable.
[00:51:15] Unknown:
Nope. Not while you're driving.
[00:51:17] Rich Chelson:
Nope. Because, you know, yeah, that's that's so so dangerous that you're looking forward. You're talking, you know, talking I can understand you're not supposed to be touching your phone. I can get that, but, hell, you could talk on the damn phone.
[00:51:32] Unknown:
You know?
[00:51:33] Duuude-Ron :
No. Actually, they say talking is Also distracted driving. Well, yeah, it's still it's it's still a distraction because what if you were having an a heated argument with your wife or a friend or someone else? You your mental state is not on the task at hand of driving. That's why they say it's still, distracted driving.
[00:52:01] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I would have to disagree with him. No. Whoever they say that I and I I get that. And I get what the the what you mean because yeah. I mean, I've seen people who are just wrapped up in what they're saying. They even you know? But most of the time when they're yelling, they've got the they've taken the phone. They've got the phone in their hand, and so they're looking at the phone, you know, they're and they're yelling into the phone. And it's like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have so much more effect by by doing it like that as opposed to just, you know, talking with a with a headset on.
[00:52:38] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. But, yeah, that's why that's why they say it's still a it's it's still distracted driving. Because when when all this was coming into play, I was arguing. Now I could do both things, but then but then I put myself through an AB test, basically. And and, you know, I paid attention to me just driving,
[00:53:02] Rich Chelson:
and I paid attention
[00:53:05] Duuude-Ron :
to myself that when I was talking on a phone and everything like this and driving at the same time and even though I could maintain control fairly well, There was a few times where I got involved in the conversation and made a couple mess ups. You know, I didn't hit nobody or anything like that. Yeah. Easily corrected. No one you know, there there was nothing wrong with it, but I noticed it's like, woah. And that was when I switched to a headset. And Right. But even on a headset, it could still happen because you can still get engrossed.
You know? Uh-huh. Your mind could just be so focused on that microphone in front of you trying to get your point across or whatever. You know? So Fine. Finally in the end, I I was like, yeah. Okay. I see it.
[00:54:06] Rich Chelson:
I mean, you know Yeah.
[00:54:08] Duuude-Ron :
I use hands free if but but, yeah, normally, I don't, you know, I don't use the phone while I'm driving normally.
[00:54:18] Unknown:
Right.
[00:54:19] Duuude-Ron :
So but, I mean, not saying I wanted to agree with
[00:54:25] Rich Chelson:
them. But I'm glad you're going. Alright. Fine.
[00:54:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I had to do my own testing. And and the thing is, I had to be honest with myself. I could say, yeah. I can do it. No. I had to actually do an honest test. You know? So Yeah. So if I fucked up, I had to tell myself, yo, dude. You fucked up.
[00:54:47] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:54:48] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So
[00:54:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Go on. Phone and concentrate, motherfucker.
[00:54:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So do you, do you look at that, that link that I shot over on the on in the chat?
[00:54:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I just I just I just, actually, I kinda brought it up.
[00:55:05] Rich Chelson:
So do we need to start taking our shrimp and putting them in the dark and see if they go out, or do we need to start going to Walmart with a guy guy, with a Geiger counter or what?
[00:55:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, the thing is, you see, this is Walmart
[00:55:19] Rich Chelson:
shrimp. Well, it's well, not just Walmart. Kroger also.
[00:55:22] Duuude-Ron :
Well, we don't have a Kroger down here.
[00:55:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. So the only thing I I would be worried about yeah. It would've been through, with with stuff the the great value frozen shrimp through, through,
[00:55:34] Duuude-Ron :
Walmart. So Yeah. But and and it says it comes through Indonesia. And, see, Mississippi just literally just passed a fucking law, like, a month month ago, month and a half max that states any shrimp sold in Mississippi has to be labeled where it come from.
[00:56:00] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:56:01] Duuude-Ron :
And so I'm not sure if Walmart's great value brand has that information on it because, one, I'm not gonna buy shrimp from fucking Walmart when I can go down to the fucking boat and buy it. You know what I mean? Well, see, you know,
[00:56:21] Unknown:
not everybody can fucking do that.
[00:56:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, no. I I I I get it. I get it. Okay? But you do know a guy who has shrimp all around, and I could probably find someone to send you some. You just have to tell me how much, and I just had to find the cheapest price. But but, yeah, Walmart shrimp, I've honestly, I I don't I think I've only bought Walmart shrimp once, and that was when I was up north. It was okay. I mean
[00:56:54] Rich Chelson:
No. That's what you need to do, especially when you're stuck in Landlock, Oklahoma.
[00:56:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. But yeah. No. And see the the the brand names that it lists, I haven't seen any of these down here in our stores. So
[00:57:11] Unknown:
Right. So,
[00:57:13] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I'm not I'm not saying none of them is down here. But, honestly, if there's anyone down here on the Gulf Coast buying shrimp from Walmart, they need to just pack their shit and move back to Yankee Country. I'm serious. Because, Eric, I mean,
[00:57:33] Unknown:
you can get shrimp. Because, like, what you just said, why why the hell do you wanna buy Kroger when you could go to the damn boat?
[00:57:41] Duuude-Ron :
Exact right.
[00:57:43] Rich Chelson:
Because you don't have to deter the damn thing.
[00:57:46] Unknown:
Well, you know
[00:57:50] Duuude-Ron :
You can go to, other stores around here on the Gulf Coast
[00:57:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:57:56] Duuude-Ron :
That sell it peeled, deveined, and tailless if you want
[00:58:03] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:58:04] Duuude-Ron :
If you wanna pay that higher price. Yeah. You see? I get the headless and, sometimes shelled, sometimes not. It depends on what's the sales going on, but I can get a pound of shrimp for, like well, right now, like, $56 a pound.
[00:58:22] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:58:23] Duuude-Ron :
Probably later on this year, I'll be able to get it for, like, $3 a pound. $34 a pound. So, yeah, I I'm not I yeah. Walmart won't sell it at that price because Walmart Well, no. Has their has their overhead. But, yeah, I don't know if,
[00:58:45] Rich Chelson:
I would just like to know what in the world these these supposed shrimp got into to where they picked up CZM one thirty seven.
[00:58:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It says it's a byproduct of nuclear waste and nuclear weapons test. Nuclear weapons. They haven't been shooting off nothing like that in in and around
[00:59:08] Rich Chelson:
Indonesia. First of all, you would have the only one that from time to time does a wet a nuclear weapons test is North Korea, and they do it so far under a mountain that that I don't see it getting into, into the ocean.
[00:59:24] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, I mean I mean, everything eventually winds up in the ocean, but Oh, yeah. I mean I mean, enough cesium one thirty seven to cause a recall?
[00:59:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:59:36] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's and unless unless maybe someone dumped some nuclear waste over by Indonesia. Because you see shrimp shrimp don't travel that far. They do they do travel, but but, I mean, it's not like they make a nine, ten thousand mile track.
[00:59:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They don't they don't go around the world.
[00:59:59] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. They they they stay in their own little part of the world, and and and they're happy till they're caught. Then they get Yeah. You know? But, yeah, I don't know. This is this is crazy. Mhmm. Well, it's not saying it says you see, this is what I don't get. The the the first line of this is saying an urgent recall of radioactive frozen shrimp that may that may be contaminated with nuclear waste has been widened to Kroger, Instacart, and four other states. Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Since when did Kroger and Instacart become a state?
[01:00:46] Rich Chelson:
Well, Kroger, Instacart, and then there's four states. I think they missed I think the bad wording is what it is.
[01:00:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well, obviously, the person I obviously didn't pass English too well
[01:01:02] Rich Chelson:
because as it Well, it is Great Britain. They don't they're speaking they're speaking British. They don't speak American.
[01:01:11] Duuude-Ron :
But still, I mean I mean I mean, don't you know the Queen's English is the proper English? I mean, come on now. I mean, the way it Yes. But southern southern English
[01:01:24] Rich Chelson:
is actually old English.
[01:01:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I can believe that.
[01:01:30] Unknown:
Well, southern English southern English is Cajun.
[01:01:34] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Cajun is French.
[01:01:37] Unknown:
Yes. I know.
[01:01:41] Rich Chelson:
So big difference. No one understands the Cajun except for the Cajun. I do love to listen to him talk, though. There's a couple I got a couple of Cajun, Cajun TikToks that, that, we'll get from time to time. And one where a guy just sits there, and he'll just he'll tell he tells jokes in in Cajun. And so
[01:02:05] Unknown:
Well, apparently Does he sound like does he sound like the guy off of a a water boy?
[01:02:12] Rich Chelson:
He sounds he sounds closer to Ray off Princess of the Frog.
[01:02:20] Unknown:
Sounds more like what in Princess of the Frog?
[01:02:23] Rich Chelson:
Ray, r a y. He's a firefly. He's a what? He's a firefly.
[01:02:30] Unknown:
Okay. Yeah. Okay. I remember firefly.
[01:02:33] Rich Chelson:
But you gotta Well, you got it's a it's a good movie. You need to watch the punches of the punches of the frog. Disney's punches the frog is a good is a good movie.
[01:02:44] Unknown:
And, no, I remember the firefly. Yeah. And his the way he talked, I remember that. Yeah.
[01:02:53] Rich Chelson:
So couple of guys sound a lot closer to to Ray than they do, you know.
[01:02:58] Unknown:
Uh-huh. I gotcha.
[01:03:01] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Hey, Brian. Hold on. I'm having a hard time believing that, but hey, Kay. Hey. So what you got? Did you read this article? I believe you did. Right? Well, I gotta get through a good portion of it. I had to end up, get start driving, so now I hadn't been able to I had to read it.
[01:03:18] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Because reason I'm saying, I I I I looked, you know, further down, and, it says in the first recall so, apparently, there's this is the second recall. Now hold on now. Hold on now. I'm not hang with me here. K. K. In in the first recall, it it was saying the great value shrimp sold in Walmart and sold in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
[01:03:55] Unknown:
So half the fucking country.
[01:03:57] Rich Chelson:
Pretty much. Yeah.
[01:03:59] Duuude-Ron :
Now now hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Let me go down just a little bit more. It says tests on these shrimp revealed that they had a radiation level of 68 becquire or were rail rolls per kilogram. Okay?
[01:04:20] Rich Chelson:
K.
[01:04:21] Duuude-Ron :
Now the safe level is 1,200 of that b word per kilogram. Right. So so, basically, this isn't even a tenth of what the safe level is, and and they're and they're raising an alarm.
[01:04:42] Unknown:
Right. I can't I'll call you.
[01:04:47] Rich Chelson:
No. It's like, if it goes to the top, it's easier to eat. Come on.
[01:04:51] Unknown:
There you go. You know, just like that MRE that I sent you guys. I think I sent both to you. That fucking,
[01:04:59] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, The,
[01:05:01] Unknown:
tree bark with
[01:05:03] Duuude-Ron :
what the hell was it? Oh, I can't remember. I I remember seeing it, though. That was Yeah. Yeah. That was alright. But It was see.
[01:05:12] Unknown:
I took a picture of it or a screenshot.
[01:05:17] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. You see you see I mean I mean, I don't have a problem that they, you know, are are raising awareness about it and to be cautious. And if and if people get sick, yes, please go to your freaking doctor immediately.
[01:05:33] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. K.
[01:05:34] Duuude-Ron :
But doing I mean, putting an article out like this, you see, this is how it this is how panic gets started. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is how this is how population control and crowd control gets started. This is why we have all this shit going on in in the world because of this shit right here. Because like dude said well, like I said, I'm going to the boat to get my shrimp, but if I was landlocked locked like y'all, yeah. Yeah. I'd run down and get this. I'd eat it.
[01:06:12] Unknown:
Yeah. And and have it have that shrimp as an appetizer to the tree bark in pond water with terrace scalps MRE.
[01:06:25] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[01:06:27] Unknown:
You know, the kind of I know where the fuck I've been in the world. There have been some places that I fucking will never in my life, go back to again. It for never. You pay me a million bucks? No fucking thank you.
[01:06:45] Rich Chelson:
I know.
[01:06:47] Unknown:
Not gonna do it. Not gonna do it. And, yeah, it's cold camel meat hamburgers for oh, hard no. It wasn't Hardee's. It was where the fuck was it from? Yeah. It was from Hardee's over in Saudi Arabia. Campbell burgers. The fucking disgusting.
[01:07:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, there we are.
[01:07:10] Unknown:
I ain't going the only place that I would go to in the Arab nation is the AUE or Qatar. Other than that, I ain't fucking going there. You know, like to go back to South Korea maybe one day, but, you know, Kaegogi? No. No. Thank you. I ain't eating another fucking dog. That's Now I can honestly say, what were those that we had down there at at Jeep in the Coast? Alligator what the fuck were they?
[01:07:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Alligator. It was alligator bites. Yeah.
[01:07:53] Unknown:
Ski on on skiers.
[01:07:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[01:07:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Those weren't too awfully bad. You know? And I've had wild games too before. It had snake or rattlesnake, squirrel. There's a whole bunch of animals in it. That'd be good in gumbo. I'm sure it would. You know? Didn't know nobody told me what the fuck I was eating. It wasn't bad.
[01:08:19] Rich Chelson:
Gator's always been pretty good. I've I've I've enjoyed I've had gator tail before. That was that was actually a good predator to to nosh on. So yeah. Yeah. I I I would have to agree with you. I think gator would actually probably do pretty good in a in a in a gumbo or maybe even, in a, in a in a.
[01:08:43] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell yeah, dude.
[01:08:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, shrimp would still be better in my in Ron's Oh, no. You throw the shrimp in there too. I mean Oh, dude.
[01:08:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. You see? See, I was saying that's saying that's saying when I make gumbo jambalaya, you know, normally, it's chicken and sausage. Sometimes I throw shrimp in. And I throw all three in Yeah. When I do it. I don't just throw one. I throw
[01:09:09] Rich Chelson:
you know? You gotta have the chicken, the sausage, the, you know Yeah. The the condads or the, or the shrimp or
[01:09:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's it yeah. It it all freaking goes in there. I don't you know? Yeah. No. I don't skimp on that. Mine is meat tea.
[01:09:27] Rich Chelson:
And then there's you know? Then you got, like, bergot, which which just whatever meat you have left in the in the refrigerator that you wanna cook up before it goes bad. So
[01:09:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Nothing in my refrigerator goes bad. Nothing. It don't last that long. No.
[01:09:49] Unknown:
But so so what are you guys' opinion on I don't even know what country this truck driver was from that did
[01:10:03] Rich Chelson:
In the in front of the family? Yeah. I Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Back up. Let him finish.
[01:10:11] Duuude-Ron :
Because I I don't know what's going on here.
[01:10:14] Unknown:
Seriously? You have not seen that? No. This was where was it at, Brian?
[01:10:22] Rich Chelson:
I'm gonna see if I can find it here. I'm I'm just about at a place where I can kinda poke over to the side. It was I wanna say it was like it's Florida or someplace like that. But
[01:10:35] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm sure you'll I'm sure you'll find it. But, anyway, as the story continues, Rich, this truck driver
[01:10:43] Rich Chelson:
that probably should have never have been Oh, man. He was a guy with a migrant. He left me on here legally.
[01:10:51] Unknown:
Right. He did a u-turn on a toll road, And when he turned, he turned into a minivan, and the minivan went underneath the the trailer and killed three people that were in that vehicle.
[01:11:11] Rich Chelson:
And when
[01:11:13] Unknown:
and when he was walking around, he showed absolutely no remorse and no fucking care. It was just like it was it was agitating him that he could not fucking continue on his route. This is the same individual that in 2019 went across a wood bridge in a semi and a 53 foot trailer that clearly was posted load rating for a semi no greater than six tons.
[01:11:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Here's guys talking over over. It's not just the straight up, video, but, it does show the whole the show the video at the same time. I'm just gonna go ahead and just throw that over, if I can. I don't even know now that I'm saying it, I don't even know if I if I can actually, where is the photo? Well, nope. I can't. I'll I'll I'll text it over to you. They're rich.
[01:12:18] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Okay. I'll look at it. But You know? That
[01:12:24] Unknown:
So what's your opinion on it, Brian, since you know a majority or you know what I'm explicitly talking about? Rich I bet.
[01:12:33] Rich Chelson:
It it's the, I mean, that's just it's a again, it's just sign that video is downloading. There we go. There we go. Now it's saved. I the good news to go to jail because, I mean, he not only did he just make a left hand turn, he made a left hand turn from the right hand lane.
[01:12:56] Unknown:
He was further than the right hand lane. Yeah. Yeah. He got nowhere near it in he started it in the breakdown lane.
[01:13:03] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And just was expecting, I guess, everybody to to stop for them and oh, damn it. Not the camera. Who to lose?
[01:13:13] Unknown:
They didn't say what the speed was on the toll road, but, you know It's something where Where was it? Florida?
[01:13:19] Rich Chelson:
I think it was.
[01:13:21] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if it's Florida, it's 75. I can guarantee you that.
[01:13:25] Unknown:
Gear in Texas for I 30 toll is 80.
[01:13:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's Texas. Florida is 75 on all the states in
[01:13:35] Unknown:
Colorado. Okay. Yes. Well, we don't have anything that we don't have anything that exceeds 80 miles an hour. Yeah. Well, I 35 is 75 miles an hour.
[01:13:49] Rich Chelson:
Right. I probably well, the I 10 out east. I thought they were, experimenting with 80. Oh, no. Actually, there is. You get out, west of of Of of of of of, what's the fucking town? It's the it's the asshole, of fucking Texas. Midland. You get out West of Midland, and that I what is that? I 20? Interstate 80. No. 80 goes through fucking Nebraska and No. No. No. No. No. No. No. It turns into 80 miles an hour.
[01:14:26] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Sure. Okay. Never been to Midland.
[01:14:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, you don't have to. Like I said, like I said, it's the asshole of Texas. It is just it is dirty Midland. Filthy That's it. In Midland. No. Right.
[01:14:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I just I just I just watched Don't even have Warfields in Midland no more. I just I just I just watched his video, and, yes, the guy was was wrong in doing what he did by far. But at the same time, as tragic tragic as it was, that car was in the wrong too because that car didn't even slow down. I mean, normally, you would think that that if if if someone is making a dumbass move like that, my first instinct, and I'm talking only for me, my first instinct, when I see a big trailer across the interstate, I'm already on the brake. Yeah. Sound good. Okay. I thought you saw how we the trailers, but I'm not gonna hit it at 75 fucking miles an hour.
So, I mean, no. No. No. The freaking truck driver, yes. It is totally 100% his fault, and he should get three life sentences for the three lives he killed even though that's not gonna bring him back, but still. Right. You know? But still, there there again, that's where there was no common sense shown by those people that that had gotten that accident. I that's what I saw from the video. Right. Well yeah. Because
[01:16:10] Rich Chelson:
I saw that they had didn't have a chance to really, respond because I it looked like he was, and not that he was driving. You know? He was whipping a 50 mile an hour u-turn, but at the same time, it's, you know, it I don't know. I if I we could just get maybe ten seconds before he was, you know, get to before he started to commit to the turn and get just a little bit more of that detail, it'd probably help out tremendously.
[01:16:45] Duuude-Ron :
But Right. Yeah. Get and and get the angle from from back down the road. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I mean, either way, yeah, it's very fucking tragic. It's stupid, and, yes, I I I I mean,
[01:17:00] Rich Chelson:
all people Even if you are on a toll road, you do not make a fucking u-turn on the that's the that's for the highway patrol only.
[01:17:08] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's it's it's listed on interstates and toll roads that is only used for emergency vehicles.
[01:17:16] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. But he fucking couldn't re understand goddamn English, read it. But Nothing.
[01:17:25] Duuude-Ron :
See, that's where that's where that's where everybody from that driver on up through his company, yeah, all the way up to the state level in in the office where he got the his driver's license. And that whole leadership all the way up, they all should be held accountable.
[01:17:50] Unknown:
You know what? I truly fucking hope so.
[01:17:55] Duuude-Ron :
It won't happen. It never happens.
[01:17:58] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:17:59] Duuude-Ron :
It has never happened like that because there was years there was oh god. Even when I was driving in the nineties, with a $100 bill, you could fucking go to Indiana or Chicago, Fox Chicago. You just walk in, pay them a $100, and they'd print you a driver's license. You didn't have to take a test or nothing. $100, and they'd fucking print it to you. See you later. They're doing it in Texas, Alabama,
[01:18:26] Unknown:
Florida, West Virginia. I don't know how many states are on the fucking list right now of states being investigated for doing that said such thing with commercial driver's license.
[01:18:43] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Here's the thing. Okay. Whether it's a commercial driver's license, regular driver's license, any driver's license Old driver's license. Okay. Instead of all this fucking investigating, start making fucking arrest. The shit will stop. It will cease. And then find out the people that that freaking benefited from it and go take their license. Make them,
[01:19:09] Rich Chelson:
you know, make them pay. That's that's the only way this shit is gonna get fixed. Yeah. Yes, sir. With the it gets the first, get the business owners, the the trucking companies that they go up and hire somebody who can't you know, if they if they go up and go, hey. Well, of course, at the same time, it's California. So if you do, a lot of, a lot of a lot of companies, you can't even you can't even ask those types of questions. You get you could about that. You open yourself up you get yourself opened up for, for lawsuits. So you can't even actually even go as far as going, hey. Do you know how to speak English?
Do you know how to read English? You know, you can't even you can't even ask that type of stuff.
[01:19:56] Duuude-Ron :
You see, that's the thing. Okay. What law? Show me the law. Show me the federal law. Show me where it says in the constitution
[01:20:06] Rich Chelson:
where it says that. Show me the law. Oh, no. The constitution doesn't say that. It's the it's the labor laws, though. Oh, okay. And the equal opportunity equal opportunity laws Hold on. That do that.
[01:20:18] Duuude-Ron :
Hold on. The freaking labor laws, they're not federal laws. The labor laws are just the freaking freaking what? Labor interior made them rules up. Those are not duly appointed laws by congress, are they?
[01:20:37] Rich Chelson:
My problem is.
[01:20:38] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Then I mean, not highly enforceable.
[01:20:42] Rich Chelson:
Well, they are if they're in that particular state.
[01:20:46] Duuude-Ron :
If that state they face the law trumps. Federal law trumps state law unless the state law is stronger.
[01:20:53] Rich Chelson:
Which if the law is created by a state that the that the federal law doesn't have any, any say in it.
[01:21:03] Unknown:
Which is only one state.
[01:21:06] Rich Chelson:
Which state's that? Texas.
[01:21:09] Unknown:
Texas is the only state that could
[01:21:12] Rich Chelson:
secede from The United States. Oh, well, I'm I'm okay. Well, I mean, I would yeah. Well, that that's it. Country. Right. Yeah. And but that's not what I'm what I'm getting at. Each because it's kinda like look at the abortion law. The abortion law was whenever they report Roe versus Wade, it was basically they kicked the power back to the states.
[01:21:40] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:21:40] Rich Chelson:
So each state gets to make the decision. It's not it's not the federal ruling because there was never actually any federal rule about it. There wasn't any law about that in particular. But and so when it comes to the and what you can ask during pre when the interviews and the pre, the pre enroll I want to keep on and say preenrollment because that's not the right fucking word. But Preemployment. Preemployment, it's there is laws that point that that go against the, you asking too many personal questions. You can, in most states, get sued.
Like, if you go and and ask, are you married? Well, it's none of your business. You can get sued for that. So to go up and ask a guy, are you here legally from some point in in, like, California? I bet you dollars donuts, they've got a law saying that you can't ask whether they're here legally or not. And so they open the door as they open the door up for that company to be sued. So I bet you though the companies need to be able to ask those pertinent questions. Why did you get fired from your last job? Well, actually, you can't even ask when you go and do a verification of a job.
Yeah. You can ask is, has this person worked for you? Yes. You can ask why did he, why is he no longer with you anymore? You can't even say, hey. Do you, did, he he want his own, on his own, or did he have to be let go? You can't answer that. You'll put yourself up for a lawsuit if you ask that type of stuff. Pathetic, isn't it? It's sad. You should be able to know who you're hiring,
[01:23:37] Duuude-Ron :
but it's kinda like everyone You see, it's simple, though. You don't hire those motherfuckers.
[01:23:43] Rich Chelson:
Well, how how are you supposed to know the what what are those motherfuckers are the ones you're hiring if you can't ask questions.
[01:23:50] Duuude-Ron :
I'm gonna I I would ask the questions regardless.
[01:23:55] Rich Chelson:
Until you got sued?
[01:23:57] Duuude-Ron :
And then I would fight them. You see, that's the thing. This is this is called basically a state telling a business owner what they can and can't do with their business. Who owns But that's that's the only legal opportunity at. That's that's it. That's Who owns a fucking business? Who pays the taxes? Who pays the payroll taxes? That the income taxes. Who who pays the Social Security taxes? The business owner. Yeah. And that person, I'm asking any fucking question I want. And I don't give nadam what anybody tries, and I'd and I would say the same thing to a judge. If the state wants to run my fucking business and make it a state run business, I'll be happy to sell it to them.
[01:24:46] Rich Chelson:
That's just it. It's it's not some that's not something that you you can But because, again, you're you're opening yourself up for for for all sorts of problems. And, I mean, it could be that the and I don't even know if it's if it's state labor or if it's federal labor that actually says that that you can't ask those questions. It could very well be the
[01:25:12] Duuude-Ron :
federal labor. That's fine. I'll still say the same fucking thing because, again, it's my business. And if someone wants a job, you're gonna answer my questions. Now they will be regular common sense questions. I ain't gonna ask, you know, you know, nasty questions or nothing, but they are gonna be pertaining about the job. And, yes, if you're married, you know, that tells me that that this person is more than likely, you know, dependable. Not necessarily, but, you know, dependable. So whether it's state or federal, I don't give a shit. This is why I don't own a fucking business because I'm not gonna be controlled or ruled by someone's whim, you know, because, oh my god, you know, we can't do this, but yet you have to hire, you know, you you know, two white people, 10 black people, six women, three Asians, whatever. No. Fuck that.
Right. Hire the most qualified person for the job. And I give nay damn about race, creed, color, sex. Right. Whatever sex you were assigned at birth, when you popped out, if you had an any or an outie, that's what you are. Plain and simple. Yeah. I mean and that's the way people need to get back to, but that's not gonna happen. Nope. Because everybody wants to just pacify everybody and then sit around and fucking bitch about it.
[01:26:58] Rich Chelson:
So I Well, and and and so a lot of that I agree, and that but that goes right back into my whole my whole discussion that I've always make that there there doesn't need to be a separation between church and state. There actually needs to be a separation between business and state because
[01:27:19] Duuude-Ron :
government has the separation of church and state. That was in the Federalist papers. Oh, it's not even a law.
[01:27:26] Rich Chelson:
I know. I know. But the it is a because separation between church and state is a premise. It's not a it's not a law. It's just a premise to set the the church's minds at ease that there's not going to be a state, a federal correction, a federally sanctioned religion. Now the funny thing is is there used to be state saint that you can have state sanctioned religions all you wanted.
[01:27:55] Duuude-Ron :
You still can. That law has never been repealed. Yeah. I don't think it's ever been actually repealed, but they, you know think any laws have been repealed, to be honest with you.
[01:28:03] Rich Chelson:
Not many. So but
[01:28:07] Duuude-Ron :
But you you you That's You know, that's the thing. You know, I agree. I agree. Business needs to get their ass out of politics, all politics from the city government all the way up. Right. You know? Because, you know, we didn't have this shit back when when this country started.
[01:28:30] Rich Chelson:
No. I actually think that, and I've gotten around to where I'm to understand, and I I would have to agree why the founding fathers set the the the rule of who's allowed to vote or not. And they they were fucking crazy smart for thinking of that. Because beforehand, you had to be a landowner to be able to vote.
[01:28:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:29:00] Rich Chelson:
So one, it gave you the incentive. If you wanna vote, you better go on from purchase a, you know, a foot by foot square of dirt someplace. And I have a title, so you own some land. But, also, you know, it's the you had skin in the game. Yeah. That's one reason why, to to the extent that women shouldn't vote that I I don't agree with, but I think women should have have had the same level of being able to vote as what men did. So the women, they had a had a owned a business, owned some type of property. But, yeah, vote all you want. And that's kind of the issue. And even right now even now, men actually earn the right to vote because we have to if we do not sign up for selective service, we'll forfeit our right to vote.
We'll also wind up spending time in in prison and, and get fined. So there's we have an incentive. Women don't have any incentive. They are given a free right to vote. They have there there's no reason for them to earn that right at all. And so yeah. So that's a hold up. 69633. Gotta text over the, my, right. Right. Okay. Yeah. That's it. Boop. Let them know what, what type of third I'm getting. But so so these days, women don't actually have a skin in the game. And that's one of the big problems because, I mean, you who are the most of the, of the of the socialist in government.
The same as the who who takes the most who are the most vocal in on TikTok who may who make all the dumbass stupid, comments. It's the straight white it's all the white liberal women. Well, it's straight. But Hold on here.
[01:31:14] Duuude-Ron :
If if you're going if you're going with that premise about about having skin in the game, there's quite a few people who rant that don't have no skin in the game, technically, by the definition. So so, I mean, whether it's men or women, it it's it's it's it's freaking irrelevant.
[01:31:37] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yeah. But it it's a people who rent. Again, that gives you the incentive to better yourself. It gives you the incentive to be more than just I'm just gonna be here, and and I'm just going to you know, the the whole welfare welfare racket would fall apart.
[01:32:00] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see, that's the thing. A lot of people nowadays don't want that.
[01:32:06] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I know. I know. They're they a lot of people are kind of, starting to to accept the whole premise of you own nothing, and you will like it.
[01:32:19] Duuude-Ron :
It's been going on for quite a while, and,
[01:32:22] Rich Chelson:
you know, it's just starting to really take hold. Yeah. And that's real that's what's real scary about it. That we need people to have skin in the game.
[01:32:31] Duuude-Ron :
But that's the thing. They're so used to everything, and they're so used to the way things are because it's so it's so much easier.
[01:32:43] Rich Chelson:
They don't wanna mess with it. So And that's because, again, people have stopped days. Yeah. Welcome to life nowadays. It's people have taken and and and stopped believing Ben Franklin's philosophy on the best way to help the poor. Because if you truly love the poor, you will make you will make poverty as uncomfortable as possible.
[01:33:11] Duuude-Ron :
Right? But okay. You see? Hold on here. Hold on here. There's and and I'm not I'm not knocking what you're saying or anything about that. But but on the whole poverty thing, there's been poverty since the beginning of time.
[01:33:28] Rich Chelson:
No. Oh, no. I agree. I agree. There's been poverty since the beginning of time, but why has poverty gotten so out of hand now? Well Why do we have so many people with the in tent cities?
[01:33:38] Duuude-Ron :
Hold on. Hold on. How do you know it wasn't worse back then or it's it's I mean, how do you know it's how do you know it's gotten worse from then till now? You know, pick pick a date in in history to now. How do you know it's gotten worse?
[01:33:55] Rich Chelson:
Looks like at the last little event period we had, where there was a good deal of, of, of homelessness, of, or not even homelessness of, of unemployment And not just how government says there plays with the numbers and bullshit, but but let's go back to the great depression. For 25% of the if I remember right, 24% of that of the, of The United States was unemployed, if I remember right, or something to that effect. There's a lot of fucking people who were unemployed during the great depression. How many hit cities did you actually have?
[01:34:41] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[01:34:42] Rich Chelson:
How many people how many times was in LA? Because, you know, like, grape. Yeah. Were there migrant camps? Yes. But they went there to do what? They were instead of work they worked in the orchards. The family that moved from, I think, Arkansas and took the, took the, Route 66 to, to California and and, John Steinbeck's novel, Grapes of Wrath, they went to work in the orchards. Okay. They heard that there was work there. Yep. So these these, these migrant camps, which is what they call anybody from outside of the state that was coming into work, I will they will still be making a living. They were trying to work. They were trying to but nowadays, no. They've made poverty so damn comfortable that nobody is you've got you've got people shitting on in the, not having any pride at all. They they're shitting in the, on the sidewalk. There there's needles and and drug use everywhere.
You've got That's in San Francisco, and they But that's not no. That's San Francisco. That's under the bridges in Dallas. We're just crazy.
[01:36:01] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Now okay. I'll I looked up some numbers. Okay? In 2024, there was 700 over 771,000 homeless people in The United States. And this this represents an 18% increase compared to 2023 We Yep. That 653,104. Okay? Now during the Great Depression, it says official counts of homeless people were not consistently recorded, but by 1933, an estimated 2,000,000 Americans were homeless Right. Migrating across the country in search of food and shelter. So so, I mean, I'm it's less than his than it was in history,
[01:36:54] Rich Chelson:
but it's still a problem. It always will be a problem. Oh, no. It always will be. But to nurture and to call a a a homeless person, you're not helping them. You're not encouraging them to get out of poverty. You're just going, okay. Well, here's a tent. Here here's some you know, do what you need to do. You just and you had tent cities of just of misery. And these people don't want there's actually I have to see if I could find it whenever I get over to the, over to the sand plant. But there is a video of a couple who were doing this. They got they got a a some type of assistance.
But when they got a post, they got an apartment that they could afford. Actually, for the stuff. Yeah. Were they happy about that? Were they grateful for it? I don't know. Were they? No. They weren't. They were going, oh, this is really fucking small. You can't do there's no room here. You can't do anything with this. You know? And as they stand around, it was fucking trash. They'd only been in it for, like, two, three weeks, and they had already trashed the shit out of it. They had no concept of appreciation for what they were given while in the while doing the great depression. Yeah. You had may have had even more. You had 2,000,000 people by some estimates.
But by 1950, how many of them were still there? But you wouldn't sell 2,000,000 people.
[01:38:31] Duuude-Ron :
No. You're right. It was less, but but you see, that's the thing. You're not comparing apples to apples. Okay? Because people back during the great depression didn't wanna be there, didn't wanna be in that situation, so they found the intestinal fortitude to
[01:38:51] Rich Chelson:
fix it. Right. Okay. So let's bump up to the eighties.
[01:38:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Let's bump up to the eighties. That was when things started going back downhill, and and the government started making fucking easier things fucking easier and easier. And people were like, well, fuck it. I'm just gonna lay back and do what I want. This all started back then. It all actually, it all started to back there in LBJ's
[01:39:17] Rich Chelson:
great society. That's when he enacted the welfare. He enacted the the well, you know, it's it's easier for a single woman to get more money from the government than it was to be to be married.
[01:39:33] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. But, you see
[01:39:35] Rich Chelson:
single handedly destroyed the black family.
[01:39:38] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. He did. Okay. But you see the thing is, we're not gonna fix it. So so it doesn't matter when it started. It it doesn't matter how it started. It's it's gonna go on. It's gonna get worse.
[01:39:54] Rich Chelson:
And Yeah. Yeah. And the reason and again, while the the one thing that I'm in I've had discussions and discussions and discussions about this through, different types of of of social media sites. People are homeless. You can't help the homeless. Okay? And again, if you want to help the homeless and love to arm the homeless, you make homeless you make poverty as uncomfortable as possible. So you give them the incentive of going, you know what? This is too much of a headache. I wanna be a part of society, be a productive part a member of society and do something because a person is homeless because they want to be homeless.
[01:40:42] Duuude-Ron :
Not always, but most Yes. Yes. Always.
[01:40:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, no. Yeah. Okay. Very rarely. Is it a not because? And those ways are those who are actually mentally ill. Okay. Hold on here. Hold on here. Actually work.
[01:41:02] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay. Hold on here. Some of these homeless people okay. Some of them are felons. Okay? Now now now I'm not saying this as a cop out or anything like this, but I, I mean, I know there it goes. I know I know quite a few of them. Okay? And I've known some that are trying to do trying to work better themselves and all like this. Right. And a lot of times, people okay. It's not it's it's not the person's fault. They're trying to find a home. They're trying to find a job, but it's our problem, our mentality, our way of thinking that is not helping our fellow man or woman to to because they've done paid their price.
Yeah. They've done went to prison, did that, did the probation and all like that. Right. You still have to live with that for the rest of their life. Yeah. There's still a there's still a I agree.
[01:42:13] Rich Chelson:
I agree. But at the same time, all of the two thirds It's not all the homeless people's fault. Well, it's It's not all of them. No? No? Okay. Now we know that humans do that. They you go out. You you fucked up. You, you know, you were you you well, let's take my daughter's, ex boyfriend. Okay? He works. He he he's got a felony on his record. Okay? And he he's actually doing what he can. He went out. He found a a a means of stepping incrementally into a place of of, of trust. Isn't he going to always have to look over his shoulder? Because eventually, he may get to a place where the, where he gets a a Karen that goes wants his position and finds out that he was calling at one time and starts, you know, starts doing a little digging because, oh, hey. He never mentioned that he was a felon. I bet you I get his job if I yeah.
But at the same time, he made the conscious choice to base store and and get, and have to face the crime, face the, the consequences of that crime. He made that choice. Now he's still he he was in the wrong. He knows he was in the wrong. He got his ass he got his he put he heard the pop. He successfully dislodged his head from his anus, and he's doing what he can. And as as humans, you know, the folks who are that you're that you're talking about that well, why did I lose my damn I'm sure the person behind me is all sorts pissed because my freaking my there you go. There's evidence of what you were talking about. I'm sitting there talking and my my, cruise control kicked out.
And and I instantly stuck my foot on there, but I was because because I was talking to stuff, and my foot was on there realizing that it's, that I stopped, I started to slow down. I was using my foot, but at the same time, I wasn't doing the speed limit. I was doing I was doing 58. So I'm sure the person behind me is going, what the fuck, man? He speed up, and he's still down. Well, yeah, sorry. But my truck keeps kicking out of the kicking the cruise off.
[01:44:45] Duuude-Ron :
But You know what? Let him wonder about it. Yeah. So but, yeah, so
[01:44:50] Rich Chelson:
and then we should be more on a way at people out of prison for a reason. Depending on what they did. You know? Because sometimes, the one in prison doesn't reform you. It just helps you find a better way of working the system. Right. It's kinda like people who are like, who go to rehab. A lot of times, they go to rehab and come out with more contacts that they had when before they went in. Yeah. The only time rehab actually helps a person is if they, again, want to get the help that they want that they go there for.
[01:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
And and, again, you have to look at the people at the facility and make sure they're doing their job properly.
[01:45:43] Rich Chelson:
No. I would agree. But it also, belong falls on the person. Everybody has to take the ultimate responsibility for their actions.
[01:45:55] Duuude-Ron :
I agree 100%.
[01:45:56] Rich Chelson:
And so the homeless, to bring it all back to their, they have to decide, you know what? I really don't wanna be here. This really kinda sucks. But when you make like in California or in other places until they turn the, they turn the the laws around because there was too many wishy washy judges out there going, you know what? That's their property. You can't just take the property. That's illegal certain search and seizure and stuff like that. So all the municipalities were afraid of losing their losing their their revenue because they get sued by a the American Criminal Leaning's Union.
[01:46:40] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. Stand up. Grab your stand up. Grab your cone is in fight.
[01:46:47] Rich Chelson:
Right. And it would be good. And a lot of times, they do. Everybody just wants to call the fucking cops. I don't know if they wanna call the cops, but, again and the and the ACLU doesn't is is too busy pushing the the communist socialist agenda instead of helping people actually better themselves. Because, again, look at under the Great Depression. After that, we well, even before that, if you go all the way back to the the final of feudalism, which was the bubonic plague, from there, we started as a whole, started utilizing the capitalist system, and more and more people became wealthier.
And it was by increments. So by the time, you know, our the founding fathers arrived over here, and they were like, hey. Let's utilize let's really tap into this capitalist system. Let's really turn it turn everything on. All of a sudden, boom, we made a five thousand year leap. And all of a sudden, we went from within two hundred years, went from finding founding a a country to we were in space. We have computers. We've got, you know, we've now all of a sudden, we've taken the same we've got more computing power in our cell phones now than many of the mainframes did when the when the the first, man landed on the moon.
Yeah. And we have more rich people now, unbeknownst what the what the the socialist like to say. Yeah. The difference between middle class and low class is betting. They're they're getting, they're getting it's getting bigger because there are more middle class than than, than low class. They're fewer, fewer, poor. The only reason why we go all of a sudden had another bump is because, again, everybody decided, hey. We need to we need to be nice to the to the poor. We need to take care of them. We need to take the reasons for them to try to be better themselves away. Just so yeah. You've also increased crime.
You've increased all the, all the problems that come with homelessness. You have a homeless encampment. All of a sudden, you've got more rape. You've got more burglaries. You've got more theft. You've got more more murders. You've got more drug use. You've got more of all the unwanted aspects of society. And that's because people don't have the reason to change their life. They don't have the reason they don't have a a good enough reason to stop and, to stop being poor and actually give a shit and try to better themselves.
[01:49:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yet if you make go ahead. Let me ask you a question.
[01:50:02] Rich Chelson:
How do we change it? Is it not talking about it? How do you change it? Well, he kinda do what, what Trump's doing. You first make it illegal to be homeless on the streets.
[01:50:15] Duuude-Ron :
And how is it gonna be enforced? What are you gonna do with all those people?
[01:50:20] Rich Chelson:
Well, they will they'll end up being being put in jail. So, you know, for and it doesn't have to be that long. You know, you don't have to put them in jail for five years for for vagrancy.
[01:50:34] Duuude-Ron :
But yet again, your taxes are gonna pay to take care of them.
[01:50:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, your taxes are gonna be used to take care of them to a point. And, in all reality and this is one of the things that I think, sadly, the got wrong. And we need to actually bring back the the and, again, we're we're it's our our, tax money is gonna be applied to to this, but we need to bring back state run mental asylums.
[01:51:07] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[01:51:08] Rich Chelson:
I mean, either way Because, again, you, you wanna know wanna see people suddenly stop going well. I've got social anxiety. I want to stay let them spend, you know, forty eight, seventy two hours with a bunch of actual mentally unstable people. And they're gonna go, oh, never mind. I I think I can manage my anxiety. I don't wanna do that shit no more.
[01:51:33] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:51:34] Rich Chelson:
Have to lay in bed with my arm strapped.
[01:51:37] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see, that's the thing. You know? I mean I mean, we can sit here and debate this all night. Oh, yeah. But opinions, but but in the end, how do you move forward with it? Well, you can either a
[01:51:53] Rich Chelson:
you can make sleeping on the street to the legal again. And so what do they have to do? They have to either a, find a, I'm a a mission that will take them. They don't like to go to missions because all of a sudden you have to follow rules. Well, no. It was no fun following rules. Well, I would I'd like to like to shoot my heroin and smoke my crack, you know, before I go to bed. Well, you Well, then I guess you're not going into the mission, so I guess you need to get out of town. Well, how am I gonna make how am I gonna find food? Well, I guess you probably have to get off of the heroin and the and the crack cocaine and actually clean yourself up so you can be employable.
[01:52:34] Duuude-Ron :
But And you make it uncomfortable. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. No. Hold on. No. You see, that's fucking with free will.
[01:52:42] Rich Chelson:
No. No. That's completely allowing them to have free will. If you wanna be still it's still if but after we after the society has made it hard enough for you being homeless and you still wanna be homeless, okay. Congratulations. You get to be homeless. You get to be homeless by not being part of society. You don't get to be hang out downtown begging for money. You get to go not to figure out how you're gonna make your life better. You know, you have a how you gonna make ends meet, how you gonna live in a tent out in the middle of nowhere.
You wanna have a little tent sitting out in the middle of of of of Death Valley? No one's gonna see you? Okay. Fine. You do that. There is a town out there out in the middle of Death Valley where there are no rule, and you can do what you want, what you want, and how you want. I think it's called Slab City, if I'm remembering right.
[01:53:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's out there. There's one out in Quartzsite too.
[01:53:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So, I mean, there's you can you can find your community, and there's places like there's a, there's a homeless community, and it's an actual mission community, down in, down in Austin. And what they the guy has done is he's brought in a whole bunch of tiny homes, and he set up very minimal. You have to take care of the garden. You have to take care of certain stuff, and you have to you know, if you're going you have to take care of you know, meet these certain requirements. And then he leaves the guy that, created this, moves it up to the citizens to police themselves, and they do.
Yeah. Sometimes the time you get, you get Fred that goes out on a bender and starts walking around with no pants on. And usually someone in that community will come along, grab him, take him back to his house, get him dressed, but they are living within that society and within the rules of that society.
[01:54:47] Duuude-Ron :
I understand that. But but what I'm trying to get at, it's not a popular thing. It should be. I agree. It's not.
[01:54:55] Rich Chelson:
Because Because there's too much fucking socialist, liberal mentality out there going, well, don't give me me. You know what I mean? That's true love right there. I'm one of my man. I want him to be better. I want him to rise out of the ashes of the destruction that he found himself in, out of the mental spin that he put himself in. I wanna see him become the richest man in the world, and he can. And it's happened. But not with how he's yeah. It's happened many times. I mean, look at, Mike Lindell. Yeah. His his, his his, meth habit was so bad that his dealer actually went, dude, I'm not selling you no more. You're out of control.
And stopped selling it to him, and while he was going through withdrawals, that's when he was like, he will throw himself to god. Yeah. And became, you know, the my power dude. And and yeah. He sadly, he still goes when he goes into something, So, you know, he kinda so he he's his business has been other thanks to thanks to him going all in. But that's that's all all free will. People have the ability to people still have the free will to do what they wanna do. You can't there's no there's no way of of limiting a person's ability to make a choice. You're just showing them that this is a better choice.
[01:56:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, trying to make it illegal to be homeless. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's pushing limits if you ask me.
[01:56:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, but it's but it's been it's been shown to work time and time again. You have more people being productive in society and finding actual true happiness when you had vagrant two laws.
[01:56:55] Duuude-Ron :
And those ended when? Probably the seventies,
[01:57:00] Rich Chelson:
eighties? I think it no. I think the vagrant two laws ended back in the sixties.
[01:57:05] Duuude-Ron :
It very well could be. I mean, but, see, that's the thing. It's you see, that's the thing. It's been a shift. And if if you've noticed in history yes. History does repeat itself. Oh, very often. But but but if you've noticed in history, it's it's vagrancy laws is probably not due to come back into play for at least another hundred years. Minimum.
[01:57:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, I mean but Trump's using DC as a good example of what happens when you, when you actually enact those vagrancy laws.
[01:57:43] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I mean, you know, that's cool. That is great. The thing is trying to get the rest of the country to follow suit. As you know, it's not gonna happen in California. Oh, it's gonna happen in in Portland either. Right.
[01:57:58] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean, Portland's actually got, there's a, town that is, yeah, Chicago. But Portland is so bad, and there's a town, I think it's actually just a little just outside of Portland from what I understand called Tigra or something like that. It's T I G Something. And there there's some folks who are ringing the bells about, hey. We're fixing to be point one two point o if y'all if we don't start making changes here.
[01:58:26] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:58:28] Rich Chelson:
So So what are your thoughts, there, dude? You know, you just wanna pass it over. I'm over here at the sand plan. I'm gonna fix I have to hop off for a quick second
[01:58:39] Unknown:
so I can Well, you know, I just I just had a fucking word, and I already forgot to make a comment to that. And it was good. It would have been the perfect words, but, yeah, just it disappeared that fast.
[01:58:55] Rich Chelson:
I see. Yeah. Alright. I'll be right back, guys. Yep. Okay.
[01:59:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Word, but, you know, it would have been the perfect word. But
[01:59:05] Rich Chelson:
Can't fucking remember it. You know?
[01:59:11] Unknown:
And, see, we're just one each one of us is just one bad situation from being homeless ourselves. Exactly. So now do some of them choose to be homeless? No. That it's not a choice. I think that some circumstances put it a circumstance put them in that reality and know they don't wanna be homeless. Who was it that said who was it that said all the homeless wanna be homeless? Was that Brian, or was that you?
[01:59:59] Duuude-Ron :
No. That was that was Brian.
[02:00:02] Unknown:
Okay. Yeah. I strongly disagree with that.
[02:00:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do too. There's a lot of
[02:00:10] Unknown:
like I said, people got into a situation, may have been their fault, may not have been their fault, and that has what has resorted to that. No. They don't wanna be in that situation.
[02:00:28] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And see and and see, that's where that's why I was saying that's where we as human beings in in a way I mean, because, you know, we don't know these people's story. We can make you know, we can say shit all we want. But until you know each person's situation, you can't actually have any type of thought, feeling, or or judgment about it or idea about it.
[02:01:01] Unknown:
Yeah. That yeah.
[02:01:03] Duuude-Ron :
And that's, you know, that's the thing. So so trying to pass a law or, you know, do it in certain areas to you know, it's like it's like you're just, you know, putting a blanket thing over everybody and saying everyone under this blanket is in trouble. That's not right. That's fucking what's free will in my eyes. Yeah. You know, I might be wrong, but I don't know. It just it just irks me when when one person, and I don't care which side of the fucking aisle they're on, tries to make it, you know, the rule of law for everybody.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Hate that. It started with freaking Obamacare. At least that's that's what I remember. I mean, it might have started before then, and if someone listening to this probably would know if it started before then and might tell us about it. But still, you don't sit here and tell me that I have to have health insurance. And if I don't, I have to pay well, it wasn't called a tax, but it was a tax.
[02:02:22] Unknown:
Yeah. It was a tax. Do that.
[02:02:25] Duuude-Ron :
That was unconstitutional as hell. But everybody followed it hook, line, and sinker. You know? Yeah. So, yeah, it just, shit like that just irks me.
[02:02:41] Unknown:
Well, I I agree with that.
[02:02:45] Duuude-Ron :
It just does.
[02:02:47] Unknown:
Yep. So what's so what else have you seen on the news that you would like to
[02:02:55] Duuude-Ron :
Not too much. They're saying our, colon increase is between two point five and two point seven percent this year. So, yeah, I was just I didn't look up how much it would be for you. For me, it'd be, say, again, close to a $100 bill on my VA. Give me a second.
[02:03:25] Unknown:
Oh, okay. I see what you're saying.
[02:03:28] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. Well,
[02:03:29] Unknown:
it's When when I get my retirement in my VA, because, again, that is completely out of my control, and I have no say in it, It's you know, if I get $25, well, you know, I can go out to eat one more time during that year for free.
[02:03:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right. In an essence. Yeah.
[02:03:59] Unknown:
I mean, it's not it's not something that
[02:04:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It no. It it it won't it won't it won't freaking break the bank by no means. For you on your VA disability, it'll be an extra $51 a month. 51. Okay. That's the lowest point. So Okay. So yeah.
[02:04:20] Unknown:
But $51 is $51.
[02:04:24] Duuude-Ron :
Right. You can go out to eat maybe twice. Least
[02:04:28] Unknown:
maybe twice.
[02:04:29] Duuude-Ron :
And Depending on where you go.
[02:04:33] Unknown:
That's true. And but it's not being taken away from me.
[02:04:39] Rich Chelson:
No.
[02:04:40] Unknown:
No. It's not. Roughly until roughly 2032 when the system
[02:04:48] Duuude-Ron :
breaks down. And if I was getting No. No. No. No. Yours will not be affected.
[02:04:54] Unknown:
Your no. My Social Security Yeah. Social Security. Yeah. If I'm getting a thousand dollars
[02:05:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You'll get 800.
[02:05:04] Unknown:
You'll get 800.
[02:05:06] Duuude-Ron :
Which which actually, dude, I can tell you right now with with pretty much certainty, you're gonna get more than a thousand dollars.
[02:05:15] Unknown:
Okay.
[02:05:17] Duuude-Ron :
I'm sure I will. I I am. I'm I'm almost yeah. Just because of the fact that Social Security goes off how much you made in the last ten quarters, which is or forty quarter last four forty quarters, which is ten years. And it they do their math, and it's so, yeah, you'll get more than a thousand dollars a month. So Okay. That much I do know because I know how much I get every month. Okay? And and and I saw the breakdown of all the years I worked and made each year because you'll find out too. You know? You'll find out how much you made, how much you paid in, all that. They they freaking give it to you. And then they'll show you the final breakdown of Okay. What you get. So
[02:06:13] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well, that ain't gonna be and that won't be for another ten years.
[02:06:20] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So that'd be 2035. Yep. Well and that's the thing. That's the thing. If you stop working then, even though, actually, it won't help you after they say I've I've read a few different times. Actually, if you take if you take retirement at 62 instead of, like, 65 or 67
[02:06:45] Rich Chelson:
Right. You
[02:06:47] Duuude-Ron :
you might get a lower monthly amount, but you'll get it for longer. You know what I mean? So it Yeah. So it actually works out to where you'll get more money than if you waited till 65, 70, or whatever. You you would actually wind up getting less.
[02:07:09] Unknown:
And just think I would be my luck, I would start drawing it, and a year later, I'll be dead.
[02:07:18] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, that's that's not a really good positive thought there, dude. You're right. I you know? But yeah. You know, my you know I ain't gonna let that weak shit go on.
[02:07:36] Unknown:
Yeah. But who knows? Yeah. Who knows when I'm gonna retire? Because, yeah, I don't have to retire to collect Social Security.
[02:07:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well, say say you're, what, 57?
[02:07:52] Unknown:
Yep.
[02:07:54] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, say in five years, you'll be 62. You can, you can take yeah. You would have to retire. Yeah. Yeah. If you want Social Security, you'd have to retire. Why? Because that's the way sick Social Security works. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, I'm I'm not up on all the all the Social Security rules, but, yeah, when you take Social Security, you have to stop working. Now once you hit a certain age after that, if you work, you get to keep all the money. But but up until then okay. I think I think you can work and still claim Social Security, but for every $2 that you make, you have to pay back $1 in Social Security.
So, basically, what they're gonna do is take money from you because you're still working. They'll still pay you, but they're gonna take money back, and they ain't gonna save it for you. That's it. You lose it. Yeah. So, you know, if you take Social Security, you just might as well say, screw the pooch and, you know, stay home and, you know, run around the countryside or do something Yeah. And just in enjoy life. You know? Yeah. Possibly.
[02:09:42] Unknown:
But I understand with what you're saying. But since I'm not there yet, I'm not gonna truly worry about it today.
[02:09:51] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean, shit, dude. You got five years.
[02:09:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:09:56] Duuude-Ron :
And it'll be here before you know it. Yeah. Probably somehow. No. I see how you yeah. Just blink a couple times. You know? And it's like, fuck.
[02:10:09] Unknown:
It'd be like, where'd the time go? Yeah. Or take a couple of naps. Wake up. It's like ten years later. It's like, where the fuck time go?
[02:10:20] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[02:10:22] Unknown:
Oh, I'm very well aware of that.
[02:10:26] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, it's just I mean, that's just something to think about, you know, and kinda because, I mean, I mean, you I mean, get it anytime you want, but, you know, well, I know one guy. He got he freaking dragged his feet. Last time I talked to him was earlier this year. He, he finally quit working. He's 73, but he's the one that he's he's a type nice guy, but he's a type he's all about money. Money drives him. And Yeah. You you know? And, I mean, that's fine, but, you know, money consumed him.
[02:11:11] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:11:12] Duuude-Ron :
He he he freaking wanted to make just as much money as he could all the time. You know?
[02:11:19] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:11:20] Duuude-Ron :
So and, I mean, I don't knock anybody for that, but he was even going so far as to letting his health go bad. And that I was on him quite a bit, and I told him I said, Bob, you need to fucking stop, dude. Take care of yourself. Fucking money ain't worth it, man.
[02:11:40] Unknown:
Well, yeah, you're right, but it's hard to change a mindset.
[02:11:46] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, yes. It is. But in the long run, if you really wanna do it, you can do it. You know what I mean?
[02:11:55] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:11:57] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's just plain and simple. I mean, it it it don't happen overnight, but it, you know, it it can be done. But you have to actually want to do it.
[02:12:14] Unknown:
That's the whole thing.
[02:12:15] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's like it's, you know, it's like drugs or drinking, anything like that. You have to want to do it. Yeah. So but and, again, you know, same thing with the homeless situation. Same thing.
[02:12:35] Unknown:
Well, I saw an article, and it's been a lot a little while back, that there was a Vietnam veteran that was sitting outside this was in Las Vegas, sitting outside of one of the casinos begging for money. But his sign re it read this, not going to lie, need money for drugs and a place to stay tonight.
[02:13:07] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:13:08] Unknown:
Well, you know, I would throw you a $5 bill. At least you're being honest. You know, I need money for my fix and, hopefully, a place to stay tonight and and a meal. Yeah. Other than that, he was content with what he was doing.
[02:13:32] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:13:33] Unknown:
So, you know and that was a veteran. He was a Vietnam War veteran.
[02:13:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But you see, that's the thing. Had he gone and tried to get help from the VA because, you know, you you say again, you know, a lot of these veterans, yeah, they've been slotted by the VA over the years, but the VA has worked hard to, you know, reach out and help. And a lot of people don't want to accept it. You know?
[02:14:05] Unknown:
Yeah. Because of the way they were treated before. Right. But yeah. They're thinking that they're gonna get treated the same now.
[02:14:12] Duuude-Ron :
But you see, that's the thing. You see, that's where that's where people need to think about and and, you know, weigh the options and and and be like, you know you know, maybe they have changed. Maybe they do have something that can help me. I mean
[02:14:32] Unknown:
Yeah. And that is the VA happened to prove that they have changed. Now granted granted, they have. We know that they have changed Yeah. And have gotten better.
[02:14:47] Rich Chelson:
But you see that Those individuals,
[02:14:49] Unknown:
they lost the trust in the system.
[02:14:52] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see, that's the thing. The only way they're gonna find out if it's changed is to trust them one more time. See, that's see, that's that's the whole thing. You know? I I mean, I've known people to fucking give up on on a freaking company for one thing going wrong. You can take any company, any product, anything. If it fails, I know people that I'll never do business with them again.
[02:15:24] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:15:26] Duuude-Ron :
And and, you know, maybe it was maybe it wasn't the company's fault. Maybe it was a manufacturing problem. You know? Turn it back in. Turn it back in. Get another one. Try it again. You know? Or you know? I mean, actually but that's the thing. You know? It's like it's like you've got to keep trying. And, and and if after a few more times, things haven't changed, okay. Move on. I mean, is it gonna hurt? What's it gonna fucking hurt? It's either gonna make you happy or make you cry or make you pissed off.
[02:16:04] Rich Chelson:
Well, in a lot of people don't wanna get anymore. Don't wanna have to go through the hassle anymore.
[02:16:10] Duuude-Ron :
Who? Fucking who? Well, I know. No.
[02:16:14] Rich Chelson:
I know. But if you can but if you can avoid the, avoid the the pain, then why try? Even if going through the pain of that will allow you to have a better life, it's easier to avoid the pain. And that's the that's the source of everybody suffering is they wanna avoid that pain. Absolutely. Every single time. Problems we have today. That's the reason why people are, are those are not really a drug addiction that everybody understands what I mean whenever I say addicted to drugs. So when you have somebody who's addicted to drugs, addicted to cigarettes, you know, have these unmanaged coping mechanisms, how does they not wanna let go? Because what are they left with if they stop flooding their system with these distractions, which is what they are. It's just playing bingo games all the time. That's just a distraction.
What do you what do you are what are you left with when you have that distraction in your life anymore? You're left with your thoughts about whatever the circumstance is at that moment. Whether your thoughts are, well, my wife sucked. My daddy didn't hug me enough. Or the why should I even try? Because the the veterans the VA system is just gonna go off and fuck me over again. Well, that's where it could be. And you know what? I've been doing the laws of attraction. You're gonna set things up to where they do fuck you over again. With that not the mindset, you're going to you're you're again, as as you've heard me say before, your thoughts create your results. Your thoughts create a feeling which creates an actual increase of results. So your thoughts always create the results that you hang in your life. Not the results you want, but the results that you have.
So if you are going off and thinking, well, the VA system's gonna fuck me over. Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna find a reason for the VA to fuck you over.
[02:18:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's right.
[02:18:32] Rich Chelson:
They may need a p may may need your Social Security card. That's all they need. You just need a copy of your Social Security card. Well, you can't find your Social Security card. They don't care about me no more. No. Then get yourself another Social Security card, Ben. Yeah. I I actually went off and on. I I I like what they've done with Social Security here recently. I will actually give them a high five on this because I I don't know what I'm looking for Social Security card at. Somewhere in the past five years, my Social Security card up and just took a hike someplace.
And whenever I came to work for, for this company, realized that now luckily, they were like, well, you just gotta show two forms of ID. And so I was ahead of my birth certificate, my driver's license, and they're like, sweet. You're good. We know you're a citizen. And and so the Social Security card, I was still, I I know that eventually, I'm gonna have to get a real ID, and that's something that they'd like to have as a Social secure is a Social Security card. And so I was like, well, I guess I'm gonna have to spend all day on my on one of my weeks off getting going through the the system, and Janet was, like, going, well, check out the check out the the website. Maybe they've got something that, you know, maybe you can schedule a time in the system and and it goes faster. And I was like, oh, what whatever. You know? What is you know? Whatever. You know? Again, having my own thoughts, tell myself the story of why even try, but turned out to be pleasantly surprised. I was able to go in. They have a one a link up basically at the top saying, do you lose your card? Were you a dead ass and lose your card? And you just click that and they get asked for some basic information about you.
And, you know, when you get finished with it, they're like, okay. Look. Put it out in the mail. You'll probably get it here within the next two to three weeks. And sure as shit, three weeks later, I went to the mail. Social Security Administration pulled it out. There's a brand new fucking card. I didn't even have to go to the damn office. Yeah. But, again, I had I did like like I was saying, I had the the thought of why even try. This is gonna be a pain in the ass until, like you said, until you try. Yeah. I could have stuck with the whole story of why. Yeah. It it's we know it's the government. Government sucks. They're good. We if you've been to a DMV, you know how crappy, the the system's gonna end up being.
Well, okay. Yeah. It used to be that way, but now at least they got, the car you know, you can get reissued a car for you know? And it took me five minutes online.
[02:21:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I know. Social Security has done a lot. I mean, they've made major strides on, getting things done. Major strides. So, I mean, I don't know exactly all, but all I do know is is anytime I've had to deal with them, they've made yeah. It's it's not near the dreaded hell that it used to be. Right. So now and that's and, see, that's the thing. When you go get your real ID, you know, as long as you take your, you know, Social Security card and you'll need a couple pieces of mail, I'm not sure what what all what else Oklahoma wants.
[02:22:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:22:05] Duuude-Ron :
You just I mean, down here, we just needed a couple pieces of mail, you know, with your physical address on it and everything and shit. You're good to go.
[02:22:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, and, also, it was a kind of an added, added benefit because Jana needs to, needs to get her next time she gets, goes in, she's gonna have to get a real ID also. But because her name has been changed, and from being Janet Clark and she's now married, she has to get one of the things they she was reading on, it was that they needed to have a copy of the marriage certificate. And so, thankfully, no. I got a marriage certificate now. So Well, that's good. Yeah. But
[02:22:53] Duuude-Ron :
No. She had never changed her name.
[02:22:55] Rich Chelson:
No. She's changed her name. She's she's getting a good one.
[02:22:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know, ma'am.
[02:23:00] Rich Chelson:
On her life. But oh, no. Yeah. On everything, it's Jane a good one. But, again, they say you the one of the things that the, if you are a woman, a married woman, for whatever reason, she has to prove that she is Oh, yeah. That she's actually made.
[02:23:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, and that well, that's like that's like that's like when I did my passport, and they wanted to know the name, date, and, I got married. And I had I've been divorced for seventeen years. I had to go write that information up because I didn't have it. I'm like, fuck. I don't know.
[02:23:40] Rich Chelson:
You know? It's been celebrating that anniversary for seventeen years. How am I supposed to remember what it is? Right. Because I don't remember how it was made.
[02:23:48] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. So yeah. No. And, see, that's the thing. It's just like, oh my god. But yeah. I mean so, yeah, I get that. But that's the thing, though. You do it once, you know, unless you move, and you won't have to do it again. Yeah. That's what I've been hearing also. You know?
[02:24:09] Rich Chelson:
I just don't see I just I don't see the the full purposes, the one why we need it. I'm not planning on going into any federal building. And, also, you know, I don't plan on flying. So they made flying such a big freaking piece of hassle that Oh, I agree. I agree. But I'll I'll spend four days driving across The US.
[02:24:30] Duuude-Ron :
But but, see, Brian, the thing is you might not plan on going in a federal building. Well, you may go in one. On you coming.
[02:24:40] Rich Chelson:
Exactly.
[02:24:42] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I pray not. I pray not, but
[02:24:46] Rich Chelson:
you gotta see the reality here. Yeah. There is. But that would be kinda kinda interesting. You know, get told you gotta go to the such such so so building. It's like, well, I've tried, but y'all wouldn't let me in. So sorry. Y'all can come out here. We can sit out in the front on the steps out in front of the building. We can talk it out. But Right. Yeah. No. This is force me to have to do something.
[02:25:11] Duuude-Ron :
They've had they've had the Real ID for quite a long while now. Oh, yeah. I mean, I didn't get it for a long time. And then I think it was, I when I was up in Missouri, when I moved back up to Missouri from, Arkansas Mhmm. It was 2017, 2016, something like that, and I switched my license over. I, I just said screw it and went ahead and got one. Yeah. Because, I mean, either way, I knew I knew it was coming as, you know, being mandatory. So it's like, just suck it up, deal with it, and just get along with it. You know? Less hassle, less headache, less stress.
[02:25:58] Rich Chelson:
Precisely. So
[02:26:01] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So did you get unloaded?
[02:26:04] Rich Chelson:
I just got loaded.
[02:26:07] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[02:26:08] Rich Chelson:
So I'm taking this trailer back over to, staging pad, dropping it, grabbing a different trailer, and going back. So so here's a question for you. Okay. Do do we wanna do Brian's drama corner tonight, or do we wanna wait till next week?
[02:26:28] Duuude-Ron :
You know, we can probably wait till next week on that if we Correct.
[02:26:34] Rich Chelson:
I've been wound up. I've
[02:26:36] Duuude-Ron :
been wound up more times tonight than I've been in six months. Oh my god.
[02:26:42] Rich Chelson:
Well, at least we know you takers still hold tight.
[02:26:46] Duuude-Ron :
Thank god. I'm telling you right now. Thank god that that's holding up. Oh, man. That was a good one, Brian. I gotta admit. That was a good one. There's there there have been developments. So
[02:27:04] Rich Chelson:
on a couple different fronts, and I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna handle all all these fronts all at once. So but yeah. Good morning. Oh, it's just the because it it's it's kid, kid drama, and it's, and it and it's parent drama. So I Oh. I feel I I feel like I'm a man in the middle, and I'm getting it from both ends. So
[02:27:31] Duuude-Ron :
Fine. Fine.
[02:27:33] Rich Chelson:
Just just check out, dude. Just check out. Not sorry. Not doing this no more. I'm I'm gonna hang out and and blah blah blah.
[02:27:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. There you go. I'm gonna jump a ship. In fact in fact, speaking of a ship, oh my god. I mean, it's not a ship. It's a boat. You know? Because it's not big enough to be a ship. But for right now right now, for $15,000, I can get a $19.69,
[02:28:03] Rich Chelson:
fishing trailer or any I was gonna ask, do you get a shrimping boat? No. No. It's not a shrimping boat. Oh, come on. I'll get a shrimping boat. We Hang on. We got I call it Jenny. No. There's, probably a few boats named Jenny. Yeah. I'm sure there are a lot of boys coming around.
[02:28:23] Duuude-Ron :
K. Let me see. Oh, no. No. This is this is a fancy one. It's a 1969 Grand Banks 42 foot trawler. Yeah. It's it's a it's a nice cabin cruiser. Oh my god. She is gorgeous. And and, oh, yeah. Only wants 15,000 for it.
[02:28:46] Rich Chelson:
And, sounds like then she's probably got some engine problems, so you they're not one to mention.
[02:28:52] Duuude-Ron :
No. He said no. He says he hasn't worked the motors. He says he doesn't know if they run. They're Detroit's, and and and he says they will need to be gone through.
[02:29:05] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Sploose is open on that one. I get it. He yeah. Yeah. He,
[02:29:10] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, he said he just he just hadn't gotten to them yet because, you know, he he was working on other areas of the boat. So but there's there's that one. There's there's a few I've seen for right around this price. And, you know, if you've ever seen a picture of a of a Grand Banks' Troller, Look look it up. I'm telling you what. They are some sexy ass boats. I mean, they're
[02:29:41] Rich Chelson:
yeah. Chris Craft Now there you go. That's what you could do. What? You could go into agro was it agro tourism?
[02:29:49] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[02:29:50] Rich Chelson:
Well, you could buy a boat, get it cleaned up, and have people pay you to go out tripping or, you know, doing whatever fishing is. They pay you to do it. And then what they they get to keep, you know, a couple you know, you'll let them keep, you know, two or three, you know, items or whatever it is that they're you're catching. You know? So, like, say, if you did do shrimping, you know, they could keep, maybe five pounds of shrimp. They each person gets go go home with five pounds of shrimp. More shrimp than they would actually eat ever eat. There'd be a good bit of they'd probably go to waste, but at the same time, they already paid you $200 to go shrimping.
Show them the authentic shrimping system. You know? You get to go through and do all the cleaning and and all that and Right. And get to have a good time, and then you get to keep whatever the excess shrimp, you get to sell them. You already made the money because, you know, yep, 15 people or however many, you know, that page $200. Right. So, yeah, there you go. You make money over money.
[02:30:59] Duuude-Ron :
You know, that that is about stability. I mean, that's that's actually something I'm talking about. There's a there's
[02:31:07] Rich Chelson:
I mean, that's what they the the ranch is they have people pay the people pay to, to go be a be a cowboy on the, on a ranch.
[02:31:15] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, yeah, I could I could farm that out to tourists.
[02:31:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:31:22] Duuude-Ron :
Shit. Oh, man. They would love the hell out of that. Hell, yeah.
[02:31:27] Rich Chelson:
You know? All you enjoyed was watching them come in and out to in the morning. Right. Now you probably have to start a little later than than the rest of the guys. So, you know, you may not get the prime fishing spots. But
[02:31:41] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Because because these guys I think most of these guys go out at night.
[02:31:47] Rich Chelson:
Most of them do. Yeah.
[02:31:48] Duuude-Ron :
You know?
[02:31:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. They take the lights, shine them on the on the water, and that tracks the bait fish, and the bait fish attract the fish they want. And
[02:31:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They yeah. No. There's I I don't know. I mean, I would love to have a boat. I can't buy one this year. You know what? No. Ain't no way. But but I've I've found a few boats like that that that freaking Grand Banks trawler. That is just a sexy ass boat.
[02:32:19] Rich Chelson:
And and it's the old wood hole too. Right. I was gonna say, I mean, if you ever need somebody, I bet you I know I know one young man who probably would jump on the opportunity to help you do that. Right. Because he is he's starting to he's starting to itch for the ocean again. So
[02:32:39] Duuude-Ron :
Really?
[02:32:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. He's been talking he's been talking a lot about boats and and, and stuff, and he's like, yeah. Probably gonna lose him to the coast again. So
[02:32:51] Duuude-Ron :
but yeah. No. I just you you know, I just look because it it it's like I mean, yeah. I want a boat because I wanna be able to go out and, you know, spend a couple days out on the water.
[02:33:05] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:33:05] Duuude-Ron :
You know? That would be a lot of fun, I think.
[02:33:10] Rich Chelson:
My Yeah. There you go. Or you could actually go off and have one and then go off and buy a what? Jail possum. No. I hope I missed you. Almost got an opossum. But go off and have somebody with a submarine, but make the submarine look like a shark.
[02:33:31] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no.
[02:33:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Go out, and here comes this do emergency emergency, bubbles on the side. So all of a sudden, this shark like a thing can freshen up and out and comes down and goes back down and sinks. So
[02:33:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would that would cause some waves because we do have sharks around here. We do have sharks.
[02:33:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You go off. It's have it on the sound system. All of a sudden, All of a sudden, Oh, so it's funny. Shh. Yeah. Out of the water comes the submarine.
[02:34:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know how to do that, dude. Oh. Yeah. No. There's yeah. I've seen a few boats that that I want. It's like, no. Looking. Stop looking. Because where I got my lawnmower at, the, credit union that I went through that, gave me my loan Uh-huh. Last year, I was I was talking to the lady, and her and her husband had, gotten a boat and everything like that. I said, yeah. I want a boat too. First word's out of her mouth. We'll finance it.
[02:34:52] Rich Chelson:
I bet you would.
[02:34:53] Duuude-Ron :
I'm like, Kelly, I just bought a damn house and his mower. No.
[02:34:58] Rich Chelson:
I ain't got that much money. Well, I've I've heard, and I've I have a firm belief in the saying of the two happiest days of a boat owner's life's the day they get it and the day they sell it.
[02:35:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. Yeah. I've been around, you know, smaller boats, and and I was in charge of two of them. And I wanna tell you what, that was that was work. Yeah. You know? And, I mean, these were river boats.
[02:35:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. And they were a lot of work. You know what I mean? Uh-huh. So So, dude, what do you think? Would you would you jump on on one of his help help reach out with his his trolling business if he got it? I lose, dude.
[02:35:48] Duuude-Ron :
He might have fell asleep.
[02:35:49] Rich Chelson:
Dude, you fell asleep on us. Yeah. I think you did. Dude, you awake? He's Usually by now, he's going, well, about time for us to start landing the boat.
[02:36:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. But,
[02:36:05] Rich Chelson:
yeah, I think I think he's gone, man. Oh, man. Not a too bad we need to this. I need to figure out how to turn the damn noise cancelation off on this on Zoom so we can start hearing his snores.
[02:36:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that would be funny.
[02:36:23] Rich Chelson:
Dude. And and, dude, what's he doing? Paul, never mind.
[02:36:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Dude, I yeah. Brian, I think he's out for the count. I think he fell out. Yep.
[02:36:33] Rich Chelson:
So, anyhow so, guys, I wanna say thank you all very much for taking the time out of your day and coming over and seeing what was what, this show is about. We may have had a, a listener on, and he was he was talking about he was gonna try try to listen. If not, then I walked him through on how to on how to download and listen to to to past episodes. So he's at least catching old episodes that we've what he's throwing around, and he's got plenty to listen to because we're at, what, 66.
[02:37:09] Duuude-Ron :
This is 67.
[02:37:11] Rich Chelson:
67. 67 episodes that are all about three hours long. That's a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours to be listening. So, of course, he does drive a truck, so, he's got plenty of plenty of listening time. So but that's a that's a whole lot of dude, Rich, and Brian just. Mostly Rich and Brian. Okay. Mostly Brian. So So but anyhow Go ahead. One of the, one of the great things about this show is besides for me just doing something then wrong. Holy smokes. Is that if you found any value in this show, we have only one ask, and that is pay the value back.
And that is you do it in a plethora of different ways. There's our there's our $2 word for the day.
[02:38:13] Duuude-Ron :
Plethora?
[02:38:14] Rich Chelson:
Plethora. That's
[02:38:16] Duuude-Ron :
a word we don't use much. No. Nope. Like, what do you
[02:38:22] Rich Chelson:
it's a it's one of those words that just gets, gets used at random times. But
[02:38:28] Duuude-Ron :
It works.
[02:38:29] Rich Chelson:
Yep. So At certain times, it works. But there's a lot of different ways. There's many different ways of of paying it back. Granted, there are the the the three t's. There's the time, talent, and treasure that if you wanna be a part of the community, you can you can contribute to the community in in time by, you know, helping us do chapters, set up chapters. Maybe you want to, to take the time to, time and effort to help us have a better website, or you wanna find some other way. Maybe, you you wanna do a forum for, for our our site or you wanna run a a a Facebook group. You know, there's so many different ways that you can you can help us out. Maybe you wanna moderate for a Facebook group. You know? There's ways that you can contribute your time.
There's also talent. So if you are good at, being a prop jockey and you can you can make great, AI art, you can also do that or treasure, which is, again, money. You can help do so by hitting the support the show because we do have a, a funding tag on our podcasting two point o compliant RSS feed, and that allows you to be able to go to our our PayPal site and and make a, make support the show in any denomination that you wanna support the show at. But the other ways you can actually help the show is you could know other people about us. Share the show out. So, you know, see the show, hit the share button, share it onto your Facebook page, and and let other people know that there's this this site out here called two grumpy vets and a dude, and that they sit around and talk. And sometimes they make good points. Sometimes they make really idiotic points. Sometimes they make just, you know, no sense whatsoever.
And so you can you can help us out in so many different aspects, and that's the joy and and and beauty of the whole value for value model. Because what, what is the value that you got from the show? What do you think it's worth? I think it's worth, you know, or sharing to a friend. Okay. Great. Well, appreciate you about that. Or it's I think it's worth, you know, $20 a month. Alright. Awesome. Love to be able to, to we're gonna get some ideas that, wanting to, expand on. And so this might be something that we do some way down the way if we started getting more people showing showing interest in in in growing the community.
So but, that's something that's down the way. But right now, just if you are if you have something that, that you wanna be able to contribute to, then wait. Let let us know. So and you can also reach out to us by sending us emails over at CircleCast. That's my email address, circlecast, that's c I r c r e c a s t. Kinda like how Goofy Castell Rod. And, at g and that's, [email protected]. Or you can, get ahold of Rich, and that's r Chelsea, C H E L S 0 N, At Gmail Dot Com. And if you wanna get ahold of dude, then send it over to us because nobody can remember his email address.
Very little does can even do remember his email address. So we just we take the emails, we send it over to them, and we will have discussions about what it is that you have, what thoughts you you have, and what thoughts you've shared. So with that, I'll go ahead and I'll pass the, the the the share, the mic over to, over to Rich. And, Rich, what do you have to say?
[02:42:38] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not too much. Just wanna thank everybody that still listens. As I looked on Pod Home tonight before we jumped on, We've got over 3,000 total downloads from Pod Home.
[02:42:52] Rich Chelson:
There you go.
[02:42:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now Pod Stats, for some reason, this browser is not letting me sign in, and I don't know why, but I'll figure it out by next week, and I'll have those numbers. But, anyway, not to bore you too much more. Just, you know, thanks for listening, and keep coming back and downloading and telling your friends. Because like Brian said, you know, sometimes we say funny shit, and sometimes we say stuff that's just way the hell out there. You know? That's just who we are. That's that's how we think. I know it's scary, but, you know, we've been doing this for a while now, and we're still going at it. Oh, yeah. Because, we always have a have a have an opinion about anything.
[02:43:44] Rich Chelson:
We if there's anything we've got in in,
[02:43:48] Duuude-Ron :
plenty of, that is is the opinion department. So That that is correct. That is correct. But yeah. So but, yeah, like Brian said, you know, you wanna reach out and talk to us, send us an email what you like, don't like, or anything like that. [email protected] is my email address or, [email protected]. That's Brian's address. Let us know. Say hey to us. How you doing? Say boo, shit, howdy. We don't care. Just say hey. You know? And, like, the dude, you know, if if he's not passed out, he is actually full of some awesome wisdom, but he has passed out right now. So just send an email to me or Brian, and we'll make sure the dude stays awake long enough to get he might take a nap afterwards, but he's gonna stay awake long enough to get the email. So Absolutely.
Other than that, that's about all I got. So Alright. It's always a pleasure, man.
[02:44:53] Rich Chelson:
It is a pleasure here too, and I appreciate, coming on. And I appreciate you have having you and and and the dude as the friends.
[02:45:03] Duuude-Ron :
So Man, same here.
[02:45:06] Rich Chelson:
So y'all yeah. Both of y'all take care. Y'all have a good night. I'm sure Ron's gonna wake up, here in a bit going And, and, and we won't have the, we won't have the ability to, to laugh at him and and and his out of his pain. So Well, there's always next week. There's next week. It's true.
[02:45:32] Duuude-Ron :
Alright, Brian.
[02:45:33] Rich Chelson:
Alrighty, man.
[02:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
Be careful. I'll talk to you next week. Absolutely. We'll talk to you then. Alright. Alright. See you. See you.
[02:45:42] Rich Chelson:
Bye.
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together
[00:00:18] Rich Chelson:
to show folks that living and having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan
[00:00:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Rich and the Duuude.
[00:00:34] Rich Chelson:
Alright. I've got a chance to turn on.
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian. Hello.
[00:00:41] Rich Chelson:
There we go. I think I got you on the right one. Let's double check here. Now we are.
[00:00:46] Duuude-Ron :
We're good now?
[00:00:48] Rich Chelson:
I think so. Okay. Getting myself finished getting everything off. I'll connect that, and there's there's the dude. Oh, man. Heck, yeah.
[00:00:58] Duuude-Ron :
Dude. What's up? Plink your button up there, dude. Do what? Smash the damn button.
[00:01:05] Unknown:
What button?
[00:01:07] Duuude-Ron :
The button that that that unmutes you.
[00:01:11] Unknown:
I'm not muted.
[00:01:13] Duuude-Ron :
Not no more, but you wear it when you got
[00:01:17] Rich Chelson:
on.
[00:01:21] Unknown:
Look here.
[00:01:22] Rich Chelson:
Look here. You know, I don't We're gonna get you around to pushing buttons and and and I don't wanna do fucking I don't push no fucking buttons. You guys know that.
[00:01:33] Duuude-Ron :
No. You don't push them. You mash them.
[00:01:36] Unknown:
You mash them. Okay. So oh, so there's a fucking difference?
[00:01:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. There is.
[00:01:43] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:01:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It depends on See, we don't. Okay. So country you're from.
[00:01:50] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. You are from minky country in Texas
[00:01:55] Duuude-Ron :
because Texas is just on its own. You know?
[00:02:01] Unknown:
So I so what I take it then is you are no longer pushing buttons. You are mashing buttons because when you push buttons, you fuck some shit up.
[00:02:13] Duuude-Ron :
It's about right.
[00:02:14] Unknown:
So now we're mashing buttons
[00:02:17] Rich Chelson:
so we don't fuck shit up?
[00:02:19] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Things are working. I got the live working again. It was Sure. Yeah. It was funny. It it couple weeks back, I'd been having the lives going, and all of a sudden, it decided to stop fucking working. And I couldn't figure it out, and then it it was still doing the same thing tonight. And I'm like, what the fuck? So I mashed the fucking button, and guess what? It works. Oh, there we go.
[00:02:46] Rich Chelson:
Somebody's actually wanting it to work.
[00:02:48] Unknown:
So now you just got to remember keyword remember which button or which button you mashed instead of pressed.
[00:02:59] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, I shouldn't have to mash any more buttons because I've got it set. All I do is exit off. When I'm done, I I shut everything down, and I leave it set. It it it's a it's a week to week thing if butt wants to work or if
[00:03:19] Unknown:
or if Windows wants to let it work or whatever. Oh, okay. I get it. So now you're gonna blame the butt or whatever you just called it or Windows. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I see. Passing the buck.
[00:03:34] Duuude-Ron :
I got I mean, I can't blame it on Bella. Bella hasn't learned learned how to mash buttons yet.
[00:03:42] Rich Chelson:
I get we are alive. I see we're live.
[00:03:45] Unknown:
You know, I guarantee you, she knows how to fucking mash your buttons.
[00:03:50] Duuude-Ron :
I swear to that dog that dog, she about to flip. It was it was starting to thunder and
[00:03:57] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. You need to get a thunder shirt.
[00:03:59] Duuude-Ron :
Maybe. I don't know. I mean I mean, yeah, probably so because sometimes the thunders I mean, not tonight. It's just been kinda calm tonight, but, yeah, she just just was flipping out. And I'm like, uh-huh. You ain't you ain't trying to mash your heated furry body into mine where I'm at. No.
[00:04:22] Rich Chelson:
Yep. She's she has decided to imprint herself upon you. So
[00:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
No. No.
[00:04:29] Rich Chelson:
No. Yes. She has. Oh, she already has. So She already has. You you yeah. You can't you can't do anything about it now. Too late. To fuck. Oh, no.
[00:04:38] Duuude-Ron :
No. I didn't I didn't let her get that close. I I moved her over to the side right there beside me. But, no, she was trying to physically shove herself inside of me, and I'm like, nope. I do not do that.
[00:04:55] Unknown:
You okay. Not today.
[00:04:58] Duuude-Ron :
And not broke. But,
[00:05:01] Rich Chelson:
yes. It's definitely you have got a smaller version of Lorraine to a point, though, because of how she is how she acts because you just left for a couple of hours and came back. Took you a little bit to get her wound down. That Yeah. That she is, I mean, most rather nervous. So coming in broke you're coming in broken, see how she's She's gonna wanna I would get her a they'd get her a thunder shirt.
[00:05:33] Duuude-Ron :
Probably have to. Sure. Who'd you was coming in broke and getting Hold up. Stupid there for a minute.
[00:05:42] Unknown:
You know they also make earmuffs, Rich, for dogs. No. I hear you. That is just the biggest pain in the butt.
[00:05:49] Duuude-Ron :
Guys, no.
[00:05:51] Unknown:
What? What? What's snow?
[00:05:53] Duuude-Ron :
I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not doing all this little fancy shit that that all these little sissy people that have pets No. No. No.
[00:06:05] Unknown:
No. No. No. No. I'm talking about earmuffs only when it's thundering out.
[00:06:12] Rich Chelson:
Right. That's the, there's specific thunder shirt's about.
[00:06:16] Unknown:
Yeah. Those are specific purposes.
[00:06:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Now thunder
[00:06:21] Unknown:
and lightning is gone. You take them off.
[00:06:25] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay.
[00:06:27] Unknown:
But it it reassures her. One, if you get to your house, it softens the noise. It's not so intense. And then that sweater, I know they're tight because of the fact, so they feel like they're being held.
[00:06:49] Rich Chelson:
Right. It calms them down.
[00:06:51] Unknown:
Yeah. So that's the only thing we're saying. We're not saying fucking No. That's fine. Gay out Bella. No. And, you know, paint her fucking nails and,
[00:07:03] Rich Chelson:
you know, old that, though. You'd be very down for that. Two two. I said she would just she would be down for getting her nails done. You know? Sure she would.
[00:07:13] Duuude-Ron :
If the kids ever come down, they can do whatever she'll let them do.
[00:07:18] Unknown:
She'll let them fucking do I bet you guarantee she'll let them do anything.
[00:07:22] Duuude-Ron :
Probably will.
[00:07:24] Unknown:
And we'll be enjoying every fucking moment.
[00:07:27] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:07:29] Unknown:
Because she now and it's only been a couple weeks now, but give it a couple months, and you'll be wrapped around that dog's finger. Plain and simple.
[00:07:41] Duuude-Ron :
We'll see. But it's a good thing. But it's a good thing. No. I mean I mean I mean, I I'm Yeah. I mean, me and her get along now as it is. You know?
[00:07:52] Unknown:
Which is which is absolutely great. And got along probably the first moment you laid eyes on her and she laid eyes on you. In your It just clicked.
[00:08:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But yeah. I know. I I mean I mean, she's cool. She's funny. Some of her head turns and mannerisms.
[00:08:14] Rich Chelson:
Right. I'm
[00:08:15] Duuude-Ron :
shocked she's not in here, but but, I mean, like I said, it's not it's not thundering real bad, but it's enough.
[00:08:23] Rich Chelson:
Not to get our attention.
[00:08:24] Duuude-Ron :
The the last time that I went outside and smoked cigarette, normally, I've got her right I mean, right there. Right? I mean, and that's by her choice because, oh my god, dad's stepping out of my sight. That could Uh-huh.
[00:08:40] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:08:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The last this, last time, she was like, I said, I'm going outside. And then she just looked at me and said, get on, bitch.
[00:08:51] Rich Chelson:
Fuck you. Like, so bad. There there's big booms going on out there. I'd rather hang out in here. Right. Be like and she's like, knock yourself the fuck out. Have fun. Right.
[00:09:02] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And as and and, normally, I can hear if if she's laying on the couch and doesn't wanna get up right away, she'll wait, you know, like, a minute maybe and then jump down, shake, and then I hear her and then I'll open the door, she'll come out. Nope. She's just like, no. Fuck that. Ain't doing that shit.
[00:09:24] Rich Chelson:
It's like Cricket, my, my basset that I used to have. She was scared to death storms too. But we knew when storms were coming in because she could sense them coming up, and she'd be about three hours before the storm would show up. Oh, wow. And so she annoyed the shit out of Jana. Jana would she would her and Jana had a very Love hate relationship. Love hate relationship. She's like, I'm not gonna get tell you to get rid of the dog. We kinda can't stand the dog. And I was like, well, that's fine. She owes me. I love her. We're good. And so we, you know and and just she was just, she was a funny dog. Yeah.
Oh, Cricket. But, yeah, she would hop up on the bed, and we knew a storm was coming in because when she'd hop up on the bed, the whole bed would sit there and start shaking because she was so scared to death of the damn storms.
[00:10:16] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:10:17] Rich Chelson:
And if, Jenna had enough of the shaking, she would end up kicking her off, and she would go and she would go hang out in the bathtub. So Oh. But but one of the one of the things we found that that worked to help calm her down was was one of the undershirts. And it basically and, like, he was the like, the dude was talking. And it basically is just a compression shirt. Okay. And it holds holds it holds them tight. And so they feel a lot more secure because they, you know, they're not they don't feel like they're hang hanging out with their with their dick in the wind. So
[00:11:00] Duuude-Ron :
I got you.
[00:11:02] Unknown:
Yep. Yep. Just gives them a little reassurance.
[00:11:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. I might find one on Amazon then and get it for because that I mean I mean, stuff like that, I'll do just to you know? Because there's times when, you know, I've got thunder right over top of my literally right over top of my house, and it sounds like fucking lightning is gonna come right through the house. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I I mean, it gets that loud in here. So, you know, I'd be willing to do that for sure.
[00:11:35] Unknown:
And, again, it's not a, you know, girly shirt. I got a neighbor. God. She's not a Karen, but she is Right next there.
[00:11:51] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:11:53] Unknown:
And the three they have four dogs. Three little two are, I think, schnauzers or the yippee dogs. They're not chihuahuas. Yorkies. Yorkies. And they are fucking yippee yippee yippee. And, I mean, it's a 100 degrees outside. Those fucking dogs got shirts on.
[00:12:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'd be like just messed up.
[00:12:24] Unknown:
And then they got a husky, and I really do feel sorry for her because they keep her in the backyard. Because it originally was one of their kids' dogs, but where they're living, that particular child doesn't allow pets. So they took this husky in, but they leave it in the fucking backyard. In Texas. In Texas.
[00:12:51] Rich Chelson:
Well Yes, sir. Yeah. No. And that's one reason my daughter for a long time wanted a husky, and I kept it's like, no. That's just mean and cruel to the damn dog.
[00:13:01] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. You're right. But, you know, there is food. There is water. She does have shelter. There's a shed back there, but she doesn't come into the house. It's like, you know, if you're gonna bring the other three in the house, why don't you bring that one in the fucking house?
[00:13:16] Rich Chelson:
Right. He sheds too much. Well, you gotta take care of the damn dog, and don't you don't shave huskies either.
[00:13:25] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. They've got an undercoat that that you brush out. Yeah. Some cooler.
[00:13:32] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:13:32] Duuude-Ron :
And and you see, the thing is people that have huskies should only live up north because huskies are bred for the cold. Right. Have them. Yep. Yep. You know? And so, you know, having one down south, yeah, they are lovable dogs, very, very outspoken, and, you know, everything like that. I get that. But still, just to be decent with the dog, keep it in its closer to its climate. You know what I mean?
[00:14:06] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah.
[00:14:08] Unknown:
Yep. I appreciate my thoughts on that. But Well, here here's she's not a Karen. She was a pageant mom. Oh, no. Youngest is a girl. She's in college now, but because she couldn't do pageants, she forced her daughter to do pageants.
[00:14:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. She was a Oh, that's where pageant moms are.
[00:14:37] Unknown:
Yeah. They're fucking insane, and that's the way she is. And now and now yeah.
[00:14:44] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, yeah. Yeah. Dude. Yeah, dude. You're not right. Or you guys are right or or or or aren't wrong there because a Karen and a Padgett mom is not too far apart.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:14:59] Duuude-Ron :
I I just I mean, or dance moms or or or, singing moms. No. I don't want no hard work. Asthenics.
[00:15:11] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Anything that's a competition. Because they didn't do it. They want their daughters to do it, so they feel like they they're involved Yeah. To their dream, not their kid's dream. But, you know, you do you. Like like Rich says, you do you, boo. Whatever.
[00:15:34] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. Yeah. You, yeah, you shouldn't force your shit on, your kids, but to be themselves. This is why we have a lot of the problems we have is because mommy and daddy forces what they wanted to do because they were too busy fucking instead of and instead of really doing what they wanted to do with their life, they were too busy having babies. And, oh my god, we can't have a life now. Well, you know what? You're the one that decided to,
[00:16:11] Rich Chelson:
you know That's the story that they tell themselves, and that's the that's the issue. Can they have kids and and do what they wanna do? Yeah. They need to stop lying to themselves and going, hey. We can't do this because we've got kids. We've got responsibilities. No. No. You can actually go through and do all the stuff you wanna do.
[00:16:30] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh. You can. But they don't think they can. That's the thing.
[00:16:35] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. Yeah.
[00:16:36] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And it's because that's the thing. Look at their parents, especially if they only have one parent. What did their parent do? They took their kids everywhere. They still went and did things, had fun, enjoyed life. Did did they do everything they wanted? No. But they knew the sacrifice they were making. So that's why they were like, okay. Well, this is what I gotta do. I won't take my kid with me. And so they take the kid with them. And then when the kid grows up, they're like, oh, now I'm I'm not giving my kids the life I had. My life I had sucked. You know what? It's been happening since the beginning of fucking time.
[00:17:18] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:17:19] Duuude-Ron :
Literally, it has. Read the freaking Bible. This shit has been happening since the beginning of time. Only the names have changed. Instead of Mohammed, it was Rich or Brian or Dude or John or Mary or or Susie or or Lacey or whatever. The same thing has been happening. Alright. I'll calm down for a minute.
[00:17:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, I didn't even get you wound up on that one.
[00:17:55] Duuude-Ron :
I just I don't know. I just I don't know if this weather or what. I just I don't know. It's just it's just right now, some of this stuff, it just it's just lining me up because, well, I had just read an article before I jumped on here. They're saying where is it at here? I just saw it. And you can't fucking remember what it was. No. No. I can't. I've got it right here because because I didn't close the browser out. It says by 2032, we will have a deficit of 6,000,000 workers because kids that were born in o seven are turning 18 this year, and the, birth rate has been dropping steadily since o seven.
And if it keeps going on this trend, by 2032, we're not gonna have enough people working to, you know, pay Social Security or whatever, you know, because there's not gonna be that many people in The United States. And they're saying this is not just a United States problem.
[00:19:09] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Korea is already in a depth
[00:19:11] Duuude-Ron :
in a deficit. Yeah. This is global.
[00:19:15] Unknown:
Yeah. China is the same way?
[00:19:18] Duuude-Ron :
China is the same way themselves. Yeah. I mean, Yeah. Their one child
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
their one child program really fucked themselves over real good with that one.
[00:19:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but yeah. See, that's the thing. And and you see, the kids that are turning 18 this year, you know, they're the ones that are you know, want to have be accepted for, you know, you know, every little thing, you know, they're not looking to get married
[00:19:54] Unknown:
and have It it ain't looking to fucking work either because Right. That's millions that are yeah. Don't get me started on that one.
[00:20:05] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's the thing I'm just saying that that yeah. It's like it's like, yeah, this is crazy. And this this actually tracks. This, twenty thirty two time range actually tracks with a letter I got from Social Security last year. Yeah. I wanna say it was last year. I told y'all about it, I think.
[00:20:27] Unknown:
Well, if you did, I'd done fucking forgot.
[00:20:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But no. It said it said on on the current track as it's going right now, and this is for all people on Social Security by yeah. This was last year I got it. By 2034, if nothing is done with Social Security, a Social Security will only pay 800 on every thousand dollars they pay out.
[00:20:56] Unknown:
Well yeah. And if they'd stop fucking raping the goddamn account with and fucking putting it here, there, and every damn where I'm freaking have this problem.
[00:21:09] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. No. I agree. I agree and freaking pay back the money that that's been taken out of it. Yes. I agree. It would yeah. Social Security would not be at this at this juncture at all. But the thing is that's already been done. And will it ever get paid back? Probably not. You can talk about it all you want. You can whatever. But until the actual act of it being replaced is done, it's all talk. So, therefore, in 2034, like, my check will drop by $400 a month, and that's not counting other people. And, see, that's the thing. The the inflation rate and all this other stuff with living, you know, take someone making a thousand dollars on Social Security, and they're struggling to live on it now.
They'll have to live on 800, and prices aren't getting any cheaper. Not really. I mean, they they are cheaper than they were, but they're nothing to, you know, where they were at even eight years ago. So Because of greed. Oh, yeah.
[00:22:36] Unknown:
Those that have want more, and those that don't have, deal with it.
[00:22:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see the you see, though, dude, the thing is, believe it or not, and this might be a hard pill to swallow, but some of these people that don't have don't want it. They bitch about wanting it, but they don't wanna have to go get it. They want someone to give it to them.
[00:23:05] Unknown:
Yeah. That is yes. Exactly. And look at all the fucking rhetoric on when they did the the food stamps and the EBT and all that. And if you ain't working, but you have kids in school, you don't wanna work, well, you know what? Your funds get taken. You don't wanna help to contribute, then I guess you don't fucking need it.
[00:23:34] Rich Chelson:
And that's why a lot of people I mean, that's that's what everybody's complaining about right now because people are starting to see their their food stamps drop because now you have to do a minimum of fifteen hours of of some type of work or community service.
[00:23:51] Unknown:
Yeah. So and if they don't, boo fucking who?
[00:23:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:23:56] Unknown:
I've been working since I was 16.
[00:24:00] Rich Chelson:
16. Yeah. I'm 15 for me, but, actually, you fell off and on even younger than that, but it wasn't it was the, a youth. You eat the food so you can, you can, you can help make it. So
[00:24:16] Unknown:
Well, you know, paper routes and that kind of stuff. Yeah. That was, you know, for those individuals, that was so they could have just a little bit of pocket money.
[00:24:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's that's what most kids would do. But, again, I mean, I was kinda talking with something similar to this with with one of the guys over here at work. And, you know, I mean, they don't have any gumption to do anything. I mean, it it's like, well, you want money. It's like, well, why do I why do I need money? It's like, well, you're wanting to do shit. The video game industry is a good example of this. Right now, video game industry is spazzing out because people aren't buying video games. As a whole, aren't buying video games like they used to, and that is because 25% of the video game consumption is done by Gen z. Yeah. Gen z and, and Gen Alpha.
Gen Alpha is still a little on the young side, but they're starting to kinda creep into the, around 16 and stuff. But Gen z, they they were raised on Fortnite and and Warzone and and Apex Legends. And these are all free to play. And if you wanna throw some money at it, you get a scan or two. You know?
[00:25:46] Duuude-Ron :
Which I never understood that way of thinking, but, you know, there's a separation every minute.
[00:25:52] Rich Chelson:
Well and but that's a that's a way to because, yeah, you I see skins that I'd like, hey. I'd like to have that. I'm not gonna spend that type of money. I ain't gonna spend $20 for a fucking skin. You know? Because, I mean, they've got one on, on Warzone that's Art the Clown from Terrifier. He's just a fucking screwed up looking clown. And so it's like, hell, yeah. Well, that is alright. Granted, he's all he's he's all in white, so he'd stand out like a fucking sore thumb. But at the same time, you know, to be able to have something like that be you know, I thought that'd be really cool. But, again, to be able to get enough points is basically or equals out to about $20. And I'm like, oh, no. I'm just no. I don't care to spend that much.
I'll I'll nickel and dime myself in in earning cod points for, you know, but not doing the not doing the battle pass because I don't do the battle pass. I ain't spending $20 so I can get extra stuff to play.
[00:26:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I just I just fucking play with what I get and have fun at it. Yeah. And that's I mean, that's just me, though.
[00:26:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But, I mean but the problem that a lot of people the businesses are facing is that they've gone off. They they they shot themselves in the dick because they were doing all the damn all the damn woke shit. So they were they were making craps games with ugly player ugly characters, and people were like, oh, no. This is this is done. This is done. There's no it's all about, you know, the you've got a, you've got a a woman of color as the hero and you've and the and the bad guy is a is a white dude. And people start seeing through that and going, no. It's not always the evil white dude. You might wanna think it is, but it's not. And there's there's more to more to games than that. It's the whole story. That's the reason why I spent four hundred hours completing Elden Ring.
Yes. I've told people four hundred hours and they're going, goddamn. Are you, you know, are you bad at it? My response is, yeah. Yeah. I kinda suck at it. I don't get to play it, you know, twelve hours a day every single day. I get to play it for, you know, twelve hours a day, couple of days. But most of the time, it's, like, four or five hours. Not even four or five. Well, depends on, you know, four or five hours in the evening. If I'm not working, you know, if I'm days off, yeah, I'll do four or five hours where I'm just, you know, pill farting around trying to grind through Elden Ring. But it had a good story.
It had a you wanted to know what was going on. How did how do you become the Elden Ring, Elden Lord? You know, how do you become the the next god of this of this, of this world? How do you go from the tarnished to, to being, you know, the the lord of of all the lands that you see? The whole God of War 2018 and God of War Ragnarok. Again, that's a granted, there is a bit of chickification that happened in God of War Ragnarok, But at the same time, the whole overarching story, amazing. There's a there's a tearjerker actually in there. One where you're like, oh my god. No.
Not gonna spoil that because that is such a good brutal element of the, of the story. But I recommend anybody who plays, I always recommend, Red Dead Redemption two. Amazing game. Absolutely amazing game. The story is so beautiful, and it is a true story about redemption. Because Arthur Morgan starts out being like the scoundrel. By the end, he's his name is on a plaque for, for for helping people. You've got the cyberpunk 2077, another incredible story that is of a dystopian part of of The United States? What happens if the you know, what would what happens if you if you let a a government control or you let a company get a control of the government.
And what does that all be what does that all look like? And so cyberpunk twenty seven seven, another great story that you could actually play through and have some different beats in it three different times. And then, see, God of War, Red Dead, and Cyberpunk, and now I've add the Elden Ring. I mean, that one will keep you busy for for days and days and days and days, and I just got finished buying the, the DLC. So I've got a few, you know, probably another $200 worth of gaming I'm fixing to be doing on there. Because it, it's such a fast because they get in from what I understand, they're getting a little deeper into the, into some of the lore.
[00:31:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't I don't get I don't get too hard into the lore. You know? I mean, I I do a little bit in in each of these games, but, you know, I don't I don't totally get into it because it's like, I know the character I'm playing. I know my mission. I know my goal, and I'm going to achieve my goal. Yeah. And then, you know, and and I do watch cut scenes, you know, just to kinda keep up with the story and stuff like that. And it's and, you know, sometimes you do learn things that that'll help you either later on or you've done past it or whatnot. You have to go back. You know? But, yeah, other than that, I don't get too deep into it. It's just like, okay. What's my next goal? I need to go find this person and kill all these other sons of bitches. I
[00:32:07] Rich Chelson:
Right. And, I mean, the and there's, like, cyberpunk, you you can get you can spend weeks in the lore because it's actually a table it's like D and D. It's a tabletop game RPG that was played, you know, back in the eighties. Yeah. Mike Pondsmith is the guy who created cyberpunk and he's and it's a, you know, so there's a lot of there's, you know, first, second, third, fourth. I think they're up to the fifth edition now. And so there's who what who is the, you know, who's night the night corporation? Who's who's Arasaka?
You've got all the you've got all the different gangs that are in in the in Night City. And why is Night City the Night City, and what makes it so special? And it's the fact that, you know, they that that, California and and Texas, for whatever reason, both of those states decided, hey. We're gonna split off or fuck y'all. We're done here. And so they split off and become their own nations. And and then eventually, California goes, well, I I I think we wanna go back, except for the area around San Diego LA. They were, like, oh, no. Fuck you. We're staying. And they became their own little corporate sized section of of a corporatized government individual government within the state of California.
And, I mean, that's where the corporations have got these mega corporations got so big. They actually have wars. There's actually, you know, two sides that come together and they clash and they shoot and they shoot each other and and blow stuff up and they attack. And I mean, this it's it's a it's a fascinating story, but, again, it is a really, really deep story. While Elden Ring, again, was create was created by George and had a it was partially the law itself was created by George r r Martin. So it's got a lot of the weird twists and turns, and, yeah, it's got a lot of brother sister action going in there too. So you got one one character who somehow is a boy that split themselves off and became a girl, And it's, you know, you get in there, you know, like, going, how's all this fitting together? How does this you know, how does Ronnie the witch fit into the whole whole instance and, you know, why is the golden order the golden order? And it everything boils together. And when you look at the lore on it, that's a really fascinating tale. And some of it is all just speculation because it's not overtly told.
[00:34:44] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:34:45] Rich Chelson:
But it's a it's a great like I said, those are those are four great stories, and I'm also kind of I found a I found a tinkering around game that I'm having fun with. And so if you ever have $40, you wanna wanna fart around with me, hell divers too. That's kinda fun. If you wanna just run run and gun, there there you go. That is just a you are a you are a a a hell driver, which is a special army that goes to help super Earth, and they are battling he said you can almost take it like Starship Troopers because you're battling these bugs, these giant alien bugs and and stuff. And so it's you and everybody else. Y'all are all working to you know, you've got these armies of of other players all working together to try to try to try to drop back the bugs, and and, the bugs are taking over places. And so, yeah, you know, you get to choose where you're gonna land, but at the same time, you're trying to help everybody else out. It's they did a really good job with it so far, but I've only played for, like, maybe three hours.
[00:35:53] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. I might I might I might look at that because, yeah, I wouldn't mind shooting some bugs. Yeah. It doesn't oh, this is the old bugs game, it looks like. Because, oh god, Breezy was little. I think Breezy was, like,
[00:36:11] Rich Chelson:
divers. Well, there was a there was a Helldivers.
[00:36:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Might have been that, but yeah. Because, Brian played it. Brian and one of his friends played it, and they called it bugs. You just run around and and and kill bugs.
[00:36:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay. If it was called bugs, then that that's probably a different one to get altogether. But
[00:36:34] Duuude-Ron :
might have been. But either way, it's, you know, this one looks pretty cool. I might Oh, it's it? Yeah.
[00:36:42] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Different orbital strikes and everything else about it. So, yeah, it's a it's a pretty fun fun little game.
[00:36:48] Duuude-Ron :
Now see, this is a game to play. Well, who's you gonna say, dude?
[00:36:53] Unknown:
You know, it's a fun game. I'll name you a few. Galaga, Asteroids, Centipede, Frogger. What was the one with the monkey and the Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong? There you go.
[00:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
I've got a few of those, dude, on my PS five even. Yes. I do have them.
[00:37:17] Unknown:
You know, I I would love to get the the the arcade version of Galaga. Man, nothing would get fucking done in my house.
[00:37:30] Duuude-Ron :
Not a goddamn
[00:37:32] Unknown:
thing. Well, shit. I got one of those remake of the Ataris. It doesn't have the cassettes. It's all built in.
[00:37:40] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:37:42] Unknown:
But, you know Good job, dude.
[00:37:45] Duuude-Ron :
Hook it up to your TV, and we'll go.
[00:37:48] Unknown:
I know it will.
[00:37:49] Duuude-Ron :
We'll hook it up and play.
[00:37:54] Unknown:
You know what I'd much rather be doing?
[00:37:56] Duuude-Ron :
What? Sleeping. What's that?
[00:38:00] Rich Chelson:
No. You don't like sleep.
[00:38:02] Duuude-Ron :
Why? Why do you wanna sleep? Yeah. I'm a shit. I'm about
[00:38:07] Unknown:
twelve years behind. I'm trying to get to the beauty sleep. I'm already twelve years behind on regular sleep. I wanna get to that beauty sleep point because
[00:38:17] Duuude-Ron :
You're never gonna make it. So fuck it and just play games. Enjoy it. Yeah. Fuck it and play games, dude. You're never gonna make the beauty sleep. Maybe when you're dead.
[00:38:30] Rich Chelson:
And that ain't probably not really pretty enough with them. So, yeah, good point.
[00:38:34] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. Because a a bucket of ashes are just beautiful.
[00:38:41] Rich Chelson:
Oh, you can talk to them whatever you want.
[00:38:43] Unknown:
That's right. You know that they can now and I know this is getting completely off the subject of what you guys are talking about. So if you guys wanna get back to the subject after I get done saying this, you're more than welcome. But you know that they can take thank you. Take your ashes, and they have hydraulic presses that can Into a Into a diamond Yeah. Or into a gem.
[00:39:12] Duuude-Ron :
What? Yeah. Yes. I did not know that.
[00:39:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They can make you into a gym, or or they can actually just take your body. They will they will squish you up, put you basically wrap you around wrap your body around a tree, stuff you inside of a vase, inside of a decomposable, container, and they they can plant your ash. Literally.
[00:39:36] Unknown:
Yep. Yeah. They do that. But with this one actually, what they do, they take your ashes and they take the carbon out of your ashes.
[00:39:46] Rich Chelson:
Right. Which is funny because you know you know what you know what ashes actually are, don't you?
[00:39:53] Unknown:
A burnt body.
[00:39:55] Rich Chelson:
It is just the unburnable calcium and elements from your bones. Everything else gets burnt away. It's just your bones that's that's left.
[00:40:09] Unknown:
So they take that, get the carbon, hydraulically press it into a gem, and then your family can wear you around. Okay. That's On a necklace or, you know, a ring.
[00:40:24] Duuude-Ron :
That's just getting too much for me. If, I mean, that's in my personal opinion. That's just getting too much.
[00:40:32] Unknown:
Well, I'm just saying it's it's an available option if you want if you want to pursue said options. You know, they also have I can't remember where it's at, where you can have your cremated remains put into a
[00:40:52] Duuude-Ron :
artificial reef. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy.
[00:40:58] Unknown:
And, you know, they just buried the last soldier, but he just passed away. It's been within the last six months, the last surviving member of the USS Arizona.
[00:41:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I I read something about that.
[00:41:18] Unknown:
And they put his ashes into the ship where 90% or higher of all the survivors from the USS Arizona are now buried.
[00:41:33] Rich Chelson:
Yep. They were interned in the in the Arizona.
[00:41:37] Unknown:
Yep. But, yep, all of them wanted to, basically join their buddies. So I don't know if I what out the hell I'm gonna do. May maybe they'll just when I die, they can they can bury me in the backyard, and then my house or my property becomes a cemetery. No longer have to pay taxes. Property will always be in the family. Yeah. So there's there's another option.
[00:42:06] Rich Chelson:
You see somebody decides to sell it, and then they then they don't they don't, disinter you. And so all of a sudden, you become part of the next Poltergeist movie.
[00:42:17] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. That's true too. Yep. See, the thing is I'll be dead, so I ain't gonna give a shit. No. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. I mean, I I I mean, literally, funerals are for the living.
[00:42:30] Rich Chelson:
They're not for the
[00:42:32] Unknown:
Yeah. They're they're all for the living. Every bit of it.
[00:42:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So it's like, you know what? Y'all go be happy. Don't freaking boohoo over me. Just, you know, be happy. Have fun. Enjoy life. Do what I didn't do.
[00:42:51] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:42:52] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, that's I mean, that's that's just my way of looking at things.
[00:42:58] Unknown:
Oh,
[00:42:59] Rich Chelson:
I agree.
[00:43:00] Duuude-Ron :
Because one, I'm not spending $1,020,000 dollars on my funeral. That's a guarantee right there.
[00:43:08] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:43:09] Duuude-Ron :
I'm a go the cheapest way out because everyone knows me as a cheap old bastard.
[00:43:15] Unknown:
That's right.
[00:43:16] Duuude-Ron :
I'm not I'm not I'm not changing that.
[00:43:20] Unknown:
Well, you know what? You could have everything done for free. Just get buried into the cemetery there at, VA in Biloxi.
[00:43:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's not a problem.
[00:43:33] Unknown:
Looked like they still had plenty of space. I'm sure there's a lot of people that are gonna beat you to it.
[00:43:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, maybe. Maybe.
[00:43:46] Unknown:
But, you know, my only thing is is, you know, I could have a spot in the Texas Veterans Cemetery right here in Killeen. There's, like, hundreds of vacant vaults for ashes. Right. But yeah. Yeah. Then somebody might come and visit me.
[00:44:11] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Like I said impossible. But the thing is, you'll never know because you're dead.
[00:44:17] Rich Chelson:
That's right.
[00:44:20] Unknown:
Well, see, I might be able to, you know, come down and, you know, possibly be a
[00:44:26] Rich Chelson:
Be a poltergeist up there. Yep.
[00:44:29] Unknown:
Not a poltergeist,
[00:44:30] Rich Chelson:
but Maybe a poltergeist up there with people's hats off their top of their head, and that'd be great. Yeah. Okay. So Get the get the living wet willies. Like, oh, what the hell? Yeah. That would be that would probably be pretty fun.
[00:44:46] Unknown:
Probably the most fun I'd ever have in my life is being a poltergeist when I'm dead.
[00:44:53] Rich Chelson:
Absolutely. You know, because
[00:44:57] Unknown:
I'm sure God will let you, you know, come back down here to Earth and, you know, just hang out and spoof the shit out of people or spook them.
[00:45:07] Duuude-Ron :
You know, somehow, I I mean, somehow, I don't think that would be allowed. But then again, I don't know.
[00:45:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. God's got a sense of humor. Come on. Look at flamingos. He put the bees on backwards. Put the what? He put the he put the flamingos bees on backwards. You know where that was down. He did that for out of fun. It's like, check this out. Chicken legs, put it on backwards.
[00:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
Well
[00:45:37] Unknown:
yeah. You look at some of the animals. The badger, not the sexiest East of the world.
[00:45:44] Rich Chelson:
You know? They're mostly bugs out there too. Yeah. Well, so which which badger are you talking about? You talking about the American badger or the English badger? Because because there is a difference. The the English badger looks like he would part he would he would pull you, pour you a glass of tea while while the, American badger looks like he would just throw the tea in your face. You seem like wind in the willows, haven't you? American badger. Oh, American badger. So because I was gonna say the yeah. The the if you ever seen the oh We just lost, dude. Yeah. I was figuring we were. He was he was
[00:46:23] Duuude-Ron :
Chinese and honest pretty good. So Oh, yeah. It was yeah. It was I know. It looks like he's back.
[00:46:30] Rich Chelson:
Or did I cut out? Yeah. He cut out. Yeah. We were just talking. It's like, yeah. We knew you were about to leave because, boy, you were becoming really hard to understand.
[00:46:42] Duuude-Ron :
And then, oh, somewhere, bloop. Bloop. Yeah. You're gone.
[00:46:46] Unknown:
Yep. And it's fixing to happen again. Uh-oh. Oh.
[00:46:49] Rich Chelson:
Anyhow. So yeah. The you've seen the you've seen wind of the willows, the the badger and wind of the willows. Right? With badger and mister toad and and all that?
[00:47:00] Unknown:
Never heard of it. I think I've got He talked about the, comic one or the, yeah, comics. Not comics, but the animation.
[00:47:11] Rich Chelson:
Well, they did an animation. The Disney did an animation of it. Yeah. But it's a class it's a classic children's book. Nope.
[00:47:19] Unknown:
No? Never got that one to me.
[00:47:23] Rich Chelson:
Well Well Now that you got a reading assignment
[00:47:28] Duuude-Ron :
You know dude doesn't read. Right?
[00:47:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, he he could actually listen to books. He can get an Audible subscription. They're not ex no. Not that high. That's too much work for him. You know he's not gonna do that. Oh, if he can listen to if he can listen to to music on YouTube, he can listen to books on Audible.
[00:47:47] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know that. I'm not saying he can't.
[00:47:55] Rich Chelson:
But would he? Probably not. See, there he goes again. Yep. Yeah. He's he's breaking up on us.
[00:48:06] Duuude-Ron :
You know, and that's that's something I don't get because down here, I've been seeing
[00:48:11] Rich Chelson:
cheap. Yep. You know, someone's goats are loose. There's about 10 goats that are sitting there enjoying a bush.
[00:48:19] Duuude-Ron :
I had been I had been seeing T Mobile ads down here. Right?
[00:48:25] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:48:26] Duuude-Ron :
And, T Mobile's saying that now they're the best network of all the network, not just Verizon, all the networks.
[00:48:38] Unknown:
And, you know, they very then they very well could be. Downtown. But not but not at my house in Temple, Texas.
[00:48:50] Rich Chelson:
Or in Western Oklahoma. Because there's people in Western Oklahoma. They will
[00:48:55] Duuude-Ron :
Are we losing somebody else?
[00:48:57] Rich Chelson:
I guess so.
[00:48:59] Unknown:
He's probably he's probably babbling and doesn't have a clue that nobody can hear him.
[00:49:04] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[00:49:07] Unknown:
That's always he didn't hear us.
[00:49:10] Rich Chelson:
Well, there's a couple folks who have come up. That's four bars. Why can't I just you know? Hey, Bob. Just huge.
[00:49:16] Unknown:
Everything, Brian. Brian. Everything after you said West Western Oklahoma, Trust me. Nobody heard it.
[00:49:29] Rich Chelson:
Really? Damn it. Yeah. Really. That's a team owner who was hacking into my phone, making sure that I don't say disparaging words about them.
[00:49:38] Unknown:
I don't know. Your your icon was there, but you had no freaking
[00:49:43] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. You were talking to a wall. And and and yeah, Brian. It was funny because you you cut up. We couldn't hear shit of what she was saying, and dude was like and he probably can't hear a word worth saying. That's why I I started to Yep. Laughing. Because it's true. Because when you came back, you just sitting there just going on, like, just
[00:50:07] Unknown:
just continued on his conversation, then nobody heard except for are you in the truck right now?
[00:50:13] Rich Chelson:
I'm in the truck. Yeah.
[00:50:15] Unknown:
Okay. The windshield heard it.
[00:50:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. The yeah.
[00:50:19] Duuude-Ron :
That's about it. That that's hilarious. Because, yeah, because, yeah, dude's like, yeah. And I bet he can't even hear a word we're saying. I said, probably not. And then Probably not. Two seconds later, you came back just, talking just like you was before.
[00:50:39] Rich Chelson:
Never never never never looked at it. It's something
[00:50:43] Unknown:
That's because you're on that high dollar headset Yeah. That the company gave you.
[00:50:49] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep. $20 headset the company gave me. But it was a damn thing. It'll last three weeks before I had to charge it up.
[00:50:57] Unknown:
Well, maybe it needs to be charged again.
[00:51:00] Rich Chelson:
No. No. I charged it last night, as a matter of fact. Okay. So Okay.
[00:51:06] Unknown:
I don't have them. So Oh. We we ain't allowed to Yeah. You need to
[00:51:12] Rich Chelson:
we ain't allowed to have to be sociable.
[00:51:15] Unknown:
Nope. Not while you're driving.
[00:51:17] Rich Chelson:
Nope. Because, you know, yeah, that's that's so so dangerous that you're looking forward. You're talking, you know, talking I can understand you're not supposed to be touching your phone. I can get that, but, hell, you could talk on the damn phone.
[00:51:32] Unknown:
You know?
[00:51:33] Duuude-Ron :
No. Actually, they say talking is Also distracted driving. Well, yeah, it's still it's it's still a distraction because what if you were having an a heated argument with your wife or a friend or someone else? You your mental state is not on the task at hand of driving. That's why they say it's still, distracted driving.
[00:52:01] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I would have to disagree with him. No. Whoever they say that I and I I get that. And I get what the the what you mean because yeah. I mean, I've seen people who are just wrapped up in what they're saying. They even you know? But most of the time when they're yelling, they've got the they've taken the phone. They've got the phone in their hand, and so they're looking at the phone, you know, they're and they're yelling into the phone. And it's like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have so much more effect by by doing it like that as opposed to just, you know, talking with a with a headset on.
[00:52:38] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. But, yeah, that's why that's why they say it's still a it's it's still distracted driving. Because when when all this was coming into play, I was arguing. Now I could do both things, but then but then I put myself through an AB test, basically. And and, you know, I paid attention to me just driving,
[00:53:02] Rich Chelson:
and I paid attention
[00:53:05] Duuude-Ron :
to myself that when I was talking on a phone and everything like this and driving at the same time and even though I could maintain control fairly well, There was a few times where I got involved in the conversation and made a couple mess ups. You know, I didn't hit nobody or anything like that. Yeah. Easily corrected. No one you know, there there was nothing wrong with it, but I noticed it's like, woah. And that was when I switched to a headset. And Right. But even on a headset, it could still happen because you can still get engrossed.
You know? Uh-huh. Your mind could just be so focused on that microphone in front of you trying to get your point across or whatever. You know? So Fine. Finally in the end, I I was like, yeah. Okay. I see it.
[00:54:06] Rich Chelson:
I mean, you know Yeah.
[00:54:08] Duuude-Ron :
I use hands free if but but, yeah, normally, I don't, you know, I don't use the phone while I'm driving normally.
[00:54:18] Unknown:
Right.
[00:54:19] Duuude-Ron :
So but, I mean, not saying I wanted to agree with
[00:54:25] Rich Chelson:
them. But I'm glad you're going. Alright. Fine.
[00:54:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I had to do my own testing. And and the thing is, I had to be honest with myself. I could say, yeah. I can do it. No. I had to actually do an honest test. You know? So Yeah. So if I fucked up, I had to tell myself, yo, dude. You fucked up.
[00:54:47] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:54:48] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So
[00:54:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Go on. Phone and concentrate, motherfucker.
[00:54:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So do you, do you look at that, that link that I shot over on the on in the chat?
[00:54:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I just I just I just, actually, I kinda brought it up.
[00:55:05] Rich Chelson:
So do we need to start taking our shrimp and putting them in the dark and see if they go out, or do we need to start going to Walmart with a guy guy, with a Geiger counter or what?
[00:55:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, the thing is, you see, this is Walmart
[00:55:19] Rich Chelson:
shrimp. Well, it's well, not just Walmart. Kroger also.
[00:55:22] Duuude-Ron :
Well, we don't have a Kroger down here.
[00:55:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. So the only thing I I would be worried about yeah. It would've been through, with with stuff the the great value frozen shrimp through, through,
[00:55:34] Duuude-Ron :
Walmart. So Yeah. But and and it says it comes through Indonesia. And, see, Mississippi just literally just passed a fucking law, like, a month month ago, month and a half max that states any shrimp sold in Mississippi has to be labeled where it come from.
[00:56:00] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:56:01] Duuude-Ron :
And so I'm not sure if Walmart's great value brand has that information on it because, one, I'm not gonna buy shrimp from fucking Walmart when I can go down to the fucking boat and buy it. You know what I mean? Well, see, you know,
[00:56:21] Unknown:
not everybody can fucking do that.
[00:56:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, no. I I I I get it. I get it. Okay? But you do know a guy who has shrimp all around, and I could probably find someone to send you some. You just have to tell me how much, and I just had to find the cheapest price. But but, yeah, Walmart shrimp, I've honestly, I I don't I think I've only bought Walmart shrimp once, and that was when I was up north. It was okay. I mean
[00:56:54] Rich Chelson:
No. That's what you need to do, especially when you're stuck in Landlock, Oklahoma.
[00:56:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. But yeah. No. And see the the the brand names that it lists, I haven't seen any of these down here in our stores. So
[00:57:11] Unknown:
Right. So,
[00:57:13] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I'm not I'm not saying none of them is down here. But, honestly, if there's anyone down here on the Gulf Coast buying shrimp from Walmart, they need to just pack their shit and move back to Yankee Country. I'm serious. Because, Eric, I mean,
[00:57:33] Unknown:
you can get shrimp. Because, like, what you just said, why why the hell do you wanna buy Kroger when you could go to the damn boat?
[00:57:41] Duuude-Ron :
Exact right.
[00:57:43] Rich Chelson:
Because you don't have to deter the damn thing.
[00:57:46] Unknown:
Well, you know
[00:57:50] Duuude-Ron :
You can go to, other stores around here on the Gulf Coast
[00:57:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:57:56] Duuude-Ron :
That sell it peeled, deveined, and tailless if you want
[00:58:03] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:58:04] Duuude-Ron :
If you wanna pay that higher price. Yeah. You see? I get the headless and, sometimes shelled, sometimes not. It depends on what's the sales going on, but I can get a pound of shrimp for, like well, right now, like, $56 a pound.
[00:58:22] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:58:23] Duuude-Ron :
Probably later on this year, I'll be able to get it for, like, $3 a pound. $34 a pound. So, yeah, I I'm not I yeah. Walmart won't sell it at that price because Walmart Well, no. Has their has their overhead. But, yeah, I don't know if,
[00:58:45] Rich Chelson:
I would just like to know what in the world these these supposed shrimp got into to where they picked up CZM one thirty seven.
[00:58:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It says it's a byproduct of nuclear waste and nuclear weapons test. Nuclear weapons. They haven't been shooting off nothing like that in in and around
[00:59:08] Rich Chelson:
Indonesia. First of all, you would have the only one that from time to time does a wet a nuclear weapons test is North Korea, and they do it so far under a mountain that that I don't see it getting into, into the ocean.
[00:59:24] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, I mean I mean, everything eventually winds up in the ocean, but Oh, yeah. I mean I mean, enough cesium one thirty seven to cause a recall?
[00:59:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:59:36] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's and unless unless maybe someone dumped some nuclear waste over by Indonesia. Because you see shrimp shrimp don't travel that far. They do they do travel, but but, I mean, it's not like they make a nine, ten thousand mile track.
[00:59:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They don't they don't go around the world.
[00:59:59] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. They they they stay in their own little part of the world, and and and they're happy till they're caught. Then they get Yeah. You know? But, yeah, I don't know. This is this is crazy. Mhmm. Well, it's not saying it says you see, this is what I don't get. The the the first line of this is saying an urgent recall of radioactive frozen shrimp that may that may be contaminated with nuclear waste has been widened to Kroger, Instacart, and four other states. Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Since when did Kroger and Instacart become a state?
[01:00:46] Rich Chelson:
Well, Kroger, Instacart, and then there's four states. I think they missed I think the bad wording is what it is.
[01:00:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well, obviously, the person I obviously didn't pass English too well
[01:01:02] Rich Chelson:
because as it Well, it is Great Britain. They don't they're speaking they're speaking British. They don't speak American.
[01:01:11] Duuude-Ron :
But still, I mean I mean I mean, don't you know the Queen's English is the proper English? I mean, come on now. I mean, the way it Yes. But southern southern English
[01:01:24] Rich Chelson:
is actually old English.
[01:01:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I can believe that.
[01:01:30] Unknown:
Well, southern English southern English is Cajun.
[01:01:34] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Cajun is French.
[01:01:37] Unknown:
Yes. I know.
[01:01:41] Rich Chelson:
So big difference. No one understands the Cajun except for the Cajun. I do love to listen to him talk, though. There's a couple I got a couple of Cajun, Cajun TikToks that, that, we'll get from time to time. And one where a guy just sits there, and he'll just he'll tell he tells jokes in in Cajun. And so
[01:02:05] Unknown:
Well, apparently Does he sound like does he sound like the guy off of a a water boy?
[01:02:12] Rich Chelson:
He sounds he sounds closer to Ray off Princess of the Frog.
[01:02:20] Unknown:
Sounds more like what in Princess of the Frog?
[01:02:23] Rich Chelson:
Ray, r a y. He's a firefly. He's a what? He's a firefly.
[01:02:30] Unknown:
Okay. Yeah. Okay. I remember firefly.
[01:02:33] Rich Chelson:
But you gotta Well, you got it's a it's a good movie. You need to watch the punches of the punches of the frog. Disney's punches the frog is a good is a good movie.
[01:02:44] Unknown:
And, no, I remember the firefly. Yeah. And his the way he talked, I remember that. Yeah.
[01:02:53] Rich Chelson:
So couple of guys sound a lot closer to to Ray than they do, you know.
[01:02:58] Unknown:
Uh-huh. I gotcha.
[01:03:01] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Hey, Brian. Hold on. I'm having a hard time believing that, but hey, Kay. Hey. So what you got? Did you read this article? I believe you did. Right? Well, I gotta get through a good portion of it. I had to end up, get start driving, so now I hadn't been able to I had to read it.
[01:03:18] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Because reason I'm saying, I I I I looked, you know, further down, and, it says in the first recall so, apparently, there's this is the second recall. Now hold on now. Hold on now. I'm not hang with me here. K. K. In in the first recall, it it was saying the great value shrimp sold in Walmart and sold in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
[01:03:55] Unknown:
So half the fucking country.
[01:03:57] Rich Chelson:
Pretty much. Yeah.
[01:03:59] Duuude-Ron :
Now now hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Let me go down just a little bit more. It says tests on these shrimp revealed that they had a radiation level of 68 becquire or were rail rolls per kilogram. Okay?
[01:04:20] Rich Chelson:
K.
[01:04:21] Duuude-Ron :
Now the safe level is 1,200 of that b word per kilogram. Right. So so, basically, this isn't even a tenth of what the safe level is, and and they're and they're raising an alarm.
[01:04:42] Unknown:
Right. I can't I'll call you.
[01:04:47] Rich Chelson:
No. It's like, if it goes to the top, it's easier to eat. Come on.
[01:04:51] Unknown:
There you go. You know, just like that MRE that I sent you guys. I think I sent both to you. That fucking,
[01:04:59] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, The,
[01:05:01] Unknown:
tree bark with
[01:05:03] Duuude-Ron :
what the hell was it? Oh, I can't remember. I I remember seeing it, though. That was Yeah. Yeah. That was alright. But It was see.
[01:05:12] Unknown:
I took a picture of it or a screenshot.
[01:05:17] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. You see you see I mean I mean, I don't have a problem that they, you know, are are raising awareness about it and to be cautious. And if and if people get sick, yes, please go to your freaking doctor immediately.
[01:05:33] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. K.
[01:05:34] Duuude-Ron :
But doing I mean, putting an article out like this, you see, this is how it this is how panic gets started. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is how this is how population control and crowd control gets started. This is why we have all this shit going on in in the world because of this shit right here. Because like dude said well, like I said, I'm going to the boat to get my shrimp, but if I was landlocked locked like y'all, yeah. Yeah. I'd run down and get this. I'd eat it.
[01:06:12] Unknown:
Yeah. And and have it have that shrimp as an appetizer to the tree bark in pond water with terrace scalps MRE.
[01:06:25] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[01:06:27] Unknown:
You know, the kind of I know where the fuck I've been in the world. There have been some places that I fucking will never in my life, go back to again. It for never. You pay me a million bucks? No fucking thank you.
[01:06:45] Rich Chelson:
I know.
[01:06:47] Unknown:
Not gonna do it. Not gonna do it. And, yeah, it's cold camel meat hamburgers for oh, hard no. It wasn't Hardee's. It was where the fuck was it from? Yeah. It was from Hardee's over in Saudi Arabia. Campbell burgers. The fucking disgusting.
[01:07:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, there we are.
[01:07:10] Unknown:
I ain't going the only place that I would go to in the Arab nation is the AUE or Qatar. Other than that, I ain't fucking going there. You know, like to go back to South Korea maybe one day, but, you know, Kaegogi? No. No. Thank you. I ain't eating another fucking dog. That's Now I can honestly say, what were those that we had down there at at Jeep in the Coast? Alligator what the fuck were they?
[01:07:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Alligator. It was alligator bites. Yeah.
[01:07:53] Unknown:
Ski on on skiers.
[01:07:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[01:07:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Those weren't too awfully bad. You know? And I've had wild games too before. It had snake or rattlesnake, squirrel. There's a whole bunch of animals in it. That'd be good in gumbo. I'm sure it would. You know? Didn't know nobody told me what the fuck I was eating. It wasn't bad.
[01:08:19] Rich Chelson:
Gator's always been pretty good. I've I've I've enjoyed I've had gator tail before. That was that was actually a good predator to to nosh on. So yeah. Yeah. I I I would have to agree with you. I think gator would actually probably do pretty good in a in a in a gumbo or maybe even, in a, in a in a.
[01:08:43] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell yeah, dude.
[01:08:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, shrimp would still be better in my in Ron's Oh, no. You throw the shrimp in there too. I mean Oh, dude.
[01:08:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. You see? See, I was saying that's saying that's saying when I make gumbo jambalaya, you know, normally, it's chicken and sausage. Sometimes I throw shrimp in. And I throw all three in Yeah. When I do it. I don't just throw one. I throw
[01:09:09] Rich Chelson:
you know? You gotta have the chicken, the sausage, the, you know Yeah. The the condads or the, or the shrimp or
[01:09:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's it yeah. It it all freaking goes in there. I don't you know? Yeah. No. I don't skimp on that. Mine is meat tea.
[01:09:27] Rich Chelson:
And then there's you know? Then you got, like, bergot, which which just whatever meat you have left in the in the refrigerator that you wanna cook up before it goes bad. So
[01:09:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Nothing in my refrigerator goes bad. Nothing. It don't last that long. No.
[01:09:49] Unknown:
But so so what are you guys' opinion on I don't even know what country this truck driver was from that did
[01:10:03] Rich Chelson:
In the in front of the family? Yeah. I Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Back up. Let him finish.
[01:10:11] Duuude-Ron :
Because I I don't know what's going on here.
[01:10:14] Unknown:
Seriously? You have not seen that? No. This was where was it at, Brian?
[01:10:22] Rich Chelson:
I'm gonna see if I can find it here. I'm I'm just about at a place where I can kinda poke over to the side. It was I wanna say it was like it's Florida or someplace like that. But
[01:10:35] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm sure you'll I'm sure you'll find it. But, anyway, as the story continues, Rich, this truck driver
[01:10:43] Rich Chelson:
that probably should have never have been Oh, man. He was a guy with a migrant. He left me on here legally.
[01:10:51] Unknown:
Right. He did a u-turn on a toll road, And when he turned, he turned into a minivan, and the minivan went underneath the the trailer and killed three people that were in that vehicle.
[01:11:11] Rich Chelson:
And when
[01:11:13] Unknown:
and when he was walking around, he showed absolutely no remorse and no fucking care. It was just like it was it was agitating him that he could not fucking continue on his route. This is the same individual that in 2019 went across a wood bridge in a semi and a 53 foot trailer that clearly was posted load rating for a semi no greater than six tons.
[01:11:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Here's guys talking over over. It's not just the straight up, video, but, it does show the whole the show the video at the same time. I'm just gonna go ahead and just throw that over, if I can. I don't even know now that I'm saying it, I don't even know if I if I can actually, where is the photo? Well, nope. I can't. I'll I'll I'll text it over to you. They're rich.
[01:12:18] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Okay. I'll look at it. But You know? That
[01:12:24] Unknown:
So what's your opinion on it, Brian, since you know a majority or you know what I'm explicitly talking about? Rich I bet.
[01:12:33] Rich Chelson:
It it's the, I mean, that's just it's a again, it's just sign that video is downloading. There we go. There we go. Now it's saved. I the good news to go to jail because, I mean, he not only did he just make a left hand turn, he made a left hand turn from the right hand lane.
[01:12:56] Unknown:
He was further than the right hand lane. Yeah. Yeah. He got nowhere near it in he started it in the breakdown lane.
[01:13:03] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And just was expecting, I guess, everybody to to stop for them and oh, damn it. Not the camera. Who to lose?
[01:13:13] Unknown:
They didn't say what the speed was on the toll road, but, you know It's something where Where was it? Florida?
[01:13:19] Rich Chelson:
I think it was.
[01:13:21] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if it's Florida, it's 75. I can guarantee you that.
[01:13:25] Unknown:
Gear in Texas for I 30 toll is 80.
[01:13:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's Texas. Florida is 75 on all the states in
[01:13:35] Unknown:
Colorado. Okay. Yes. Well, we don't have anything that we don't have anything that exceeds 80 miles an hour. Yeah. Well, I 35 is 75 miles an hour.
[01:13:49] Rich Chelson:
Right. I probably well, the I 10 out east. I thought they were, experimenting with 80. Oh, no. Actually, there is. You get out, west of of Of of of of of, what's the fucking town? It's the it's the asshole, of fucking Texas. Midland. You get out West of Midland, and that I what is that? I 20? Interstate 80. No. 80 goes through fucking Nebraska and No. No. No. No. No. No. No. It turns into 80 miles an hour.
[01:14:26] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Sure. Okay. Never been to Midland.
[01:14:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, you don't have to. Like I said, like I said, it's the asshole of Texas. It is just it is dirty Midland. Filthy That's it. In Midland. No. Right.
[01:14:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I just I just I just watched Don't even have Warfields in Midland no more. I just I just I just watched his video, and, yes, the guy was was wrong in doing what he did by far. But at the same time, as tragic tragic as it was, that car was in the wrong too because that car didn't even slow down. I mean, normally, you would think that that if if if someone is making a dumbass move like that, my first instinct, and I'm talking only for me, my first instinct, when I see a big trailer across the interstate, I'm already on the brake. Yeah. Sound good. Okay. I thought you saw how we the trailers, but I'm not gonna hit it at 75 fucking miles an hour.
So, I mean, no. No. No. The freaking truck driver, yes. It is totally 100% his fault, and he should get three life sentences for the three lives he killed even though that's not gonna bring him back, but still. Right. You know? But still, there there again, that's where there was no common sense shown by those people that that had gotten that accident. I that's what I saw from the video. Right. Well yeah. Because
[01:16:10] Rich Chelson:
I saw that they had didn't have a chance to really, respond because I it looked like he was, and not that he was driving. You know? He was whipping a 50 mile an hour u-turn, but at the same time, it's, you know, it I don't know. I if I we could just get maybe ten seconds before he was, you know, get to before he started to commit to the turn and get just a little bit more of that detail, it'd probably help out tremendously.
[01:16:45] Duuude-Ron :
But Right. Yeah. Get and and get the angle from from back down the road. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I mean, either way, yeah, it's very fucking tragic. It's stupid, and, yes, I I I I mean,
[01:17:00] Rich Chelson:
all people Even if you are on a toll road, you do not make a fucking u-turn on the that's the that's for the highway patrol only.
[01:17:08] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's it's it's listed on interstates and toll roads that is only used for emergency vehicles.
[01:17:16] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. But he fucking couldn't re understand goddamn English, read it. But Nothing.
[01:17:25] Duuude-Ron :
See, that's where that's where that's where everybody from that driver on up through his company, yeah, all the way up to the state level in in the office where he got the his driver's license. And that whole leadership all the way up, they all should be held accountable.
[01:17:50] Unknown:
You know what? I truly fucking hope so.
[01:17:55] Duuude-Ron :
It won't happen. It never happens.
[01:17:58] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:17:59] Duuude-Ron :
It has never happened like that because there was years there was oh god. Even when I was driving in the nineties, with a $100 bill, you could fucking go to Indiana or Chicago, Fox Chicago. You just walk in, pay them a $100, and they'd print you a driver's license. You didn't have to take a test or nothing. $100, and they'd fucking print it to you. See you later. They're doing it in Texas, Alabama,
[01:18:26] Unknown:
Florida, West Virginia. I don't know how many states are on the fucking list right now of states being investigated for doing that said such thing with commercial driver's license.
[01:18:43] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Here's the thing. Okay. Whether it's a commercial driver's license, regular driver's license, any driver's license Old driver's license. Okay. Instead of all this fucking investigating, start making fucking arrest. The shit will stop. It will cease. And then find out the people that that freaking benefited from it and go take their license. Make them,
[01:19:09] Rich Chelson:
you know, make them pay. That's that's the only way this shit is gonna get fixed. Yeah. Yes, sir. With the it gets the first, get the business owners, the the trucking companies that they go up and hire somebody who can't you know, if they if they go up and go, hey. Well, of course, at the same time, it's California. So if you do, a lot of, a lot of a lot of companies, you can't even you can't even ask those types of questions. You get you could about that. You open yourself up you get yourself opened up for, for lawsuits. So you can't even actually even go as far as going, hey. Do you know how to speak English?
Do you know how to read English? You know, you can't even you can't even ask that type of stuff.
[01:19:56] Duuude-Ron :
You see, that's the thing. Okay. What law? Show me the law. Show me the federal law. Show me where it says in the constitution
[01:20:06] Rich Chelson:
where it says that. Show me the law. Oh, no. The constitution doesn't say that. It's the it's the labor laws, though. Oh, okay. And the equal opportunity equal opportunity laws Hold on. That do that.
[01:20:18] Duuude-Ron :
Hold on. The freaking labor laws, they're not federal laws. The labor laws are just the freaking freaking what? Labor interior made them rules up. Those are not duly appointed laws by congress, are they?
[01:20:37] Rich Chelson:
My problem is.
[01:20:38] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Then I mean, not highly enforceable.
[01:20:42] Rich Chelson:
Well, they are if they're in that particular state.
[01:20:46] Duuude-Ron :
If that state they face the law trumps. Federal law trumps state law unless the state law is stronger.
[01:20:53] Rich Chelson:
Which if the law is created by a state that the that the federal law doesn't have any, any say in it.
[01:21:03] Unknown:
Which is only one state.
[01:21:06] Rich Chelson:
Which state's that? Texas.
[01:21:09] Unknown:
Texas is the only state that could
[01:21:12] Rich Chelson:
secede from The United States. Oh, well, I'm I'm okay. Well, I mean, I would yeah. Well, that that's it. Country. Right. Yeah. And but that's not what I'm what I'm getting at. Each because it's kinda like look at the abortion law. The abortion law was whenever they report Roe versus Wade, it was basically they kicked the power back to the states.
[01:21:40] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:21:40] Rich Chelson:
So each state gets to make the decision. It's not it's not the federal ruling because there was never actually any federal rule about it. There wasn't any law about that in particular. But and so when it comes to the and what you can ask during pre when the interviews and the pre, the pre enroll I want to keep on and say preenrollment because that's not the right fucking word. But Preemployment. Preemployment, it's there is laws that point that that go against the, you asking too many personal questions. You can, in most states, get sued.
Like, if you go and and ask, are you married? Well, it's none of your business. You can get sued for that. So to go up and ask a guy, are you here legally from some point in in, like, California? I bet you dollars donuts, they've got a law saying that you can't ask whether they're here legally or not. And so they open the door as they open the door up for that company to be sued. So I bet you though the companies need to be able to ask those pertinent questions. Why did you get fired from your last job? Well, actually, you can't even ask when you go and do a verification of a job.
Yeah. You can ask is, has this person worked for you? Yes. You can ask why did he, why is he no longer with you anymore? You can't even say, hey. Do you, did, he he want his own, on his own, or did he have to be let go? You can't answer that. You'll put yourself up for a lawsuit if you ask that type of stuff. Pathetic, isn't it? It's sad. You should be able to know who you're hiring,
[01:23:37] Duuude-Ron :
but it's kinda like everyone You see, it's simple, though. You don't hire those motherfuckers.
[01:23:43] Rich Chelson:
Well, how how are you supposed to know the what what are those motherfuckers are the ones you're hiring if you can't ask questions.
[01:23:50] Duuude-Ron :
I'm gonna I I would ask the questions regardless.
[01:23:55] Rich Chelson:
Until you got sued?
[01:23:57] Duuude-Ron :
And then I would fight them. You see, that's the thing. This is this is called basically a state telling a business owner what they can and can't do with their business. Who owns But that's that's the only legal opportunity at. That's that's it. That's Who owns a fucking business? Who pays the taxes? Who pays the payroll taxes? That the income taxes. Who who pays the Social Security taxes? The business owner. Yeah. And that person, I'm asking any fucking question I want. And I don't give nadam what anybody tries, and I'd and I would say the same thing to a judge. If the state wants to run my fucking business and make it a state run business, I'll be happy to sell it to them.
[01:24:46] Rich Chelson:
That's just it. It's it's not some that's not something that you you can But because, again, you're you're opening yourself up for for for all sorts of problems. And, I mean, it could be that the and I don't even know if it's if it's state labor or if it's federal labor that actually says that that you can't ask those questions. It could very well be the
[01:25:12] Duuude-Ron :
federal labor. That's fine. I'll still say the same fucking thing because, again, it's my business. And if someone wants a job, you're gonna answer my questions. Now they will be regular common sense questions. I ain't gonna ask, you know, you know, nasty questions or nothing, but they are gonna be pertaining about the job. And, yes, if you're married, you know, that tells me that that this person is more than likely, you know, dependable. Not necessarily, but, you know, dependable. So whether it's state or federal, I don't give a shit. This is why I don't own a fucking business because I'm not gonna be controlled or ruled by someone's whim, you know, because, oh my god, you know, we can't do this, but yet you have to hire, you know, you you know, two white people, 10 black people, six women, three Asians, whatever. No. Fuck that.
Right. Hire the most qualified person for the job. And I give nay damn about race, creed, color, sex. Right. Whatever sex you were assigned at birth, when you popped out, if you had an any or an outie, that's what you are. Plain and simple. Yeah. I mean and that's the way people need to get back to, but that's not gonna happen. Nope. Because everybody wants to just pacify everybody and then sit around and fucking bitch about it.
[01:26:58] Rich Chelson:
So I Well, and and and so a lot of that I agree, and that but that goes right back into my whole my whole discussion that I've always make that there there doesn't need to be a separation between church and state. There actually needs to be a separation between business and state because
[01:27:19] Duuude-Ron :
government has the separation of church and state. That was in the Federalist papers. Oh, it's not even a law.
[01:27:26] Rich Chelson:
I know. I know. But the it is a because separation between church and state is a premise. It's not a it's not a law. It's just a premise to set the the church's minds at ease that there's not going to be a state, a federal correction, a federally sanctioned religion. Now the funny thing is is there used to be state saint that you can have state sanctioned religions all you wanted.
[01:27:55] Duuude-Ron :
You still can. That law has never been repealed. Yeah. I don't think it's ever been actually repealed, but they, you know think any laws have been repealed, to be honest with you.
[01:28:03] Rich Chelson:
Not many. So but
[01:28:07] Duuude-Ron :
But you you you That's You know, that's the thing. You know, I agree. I agree. Business needs to get their ass out of politics, all politics from the city government all the way up. Right. You know? Because, you know, we didn't have this shit back when when this country started.
[01:28:30] Rich Chelson:
No. I actually think that, and I've gotten around to where I'm to understand, and I I would have to agree why the founding fathers set the the the rule of who's allowed to vote or not. And they they were fucking crazy smart for thinking of that. Because beforehand, you had to be a landowner to be able to vote.
[01:28:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:29:00] Rich Chelson:
So one, it gave you the incentive. If you wanna vote, you better go on from purchase a, you know, a foot by foot square of dirt someplace. And I have a title, so you own some land. But, also, you know, it's the you had skin in the game. Yeah. That's one reason why, to to the extent that women shouldn't vote that I I don't agree with, but I think women should have have had the same level of being able to vote as what men did. So the women, they had a had a owned a business, owned some type of property. But, yeah, vote all you want. And that's kind of the issue. And even right now even now, men actually earn the right to vote because we have to if we do not sign up for selective service, we'll forfeit our right to vote.
We'll also wind up spending time in in prison and, and get fined. So there's we have an incentive. Women don't have any incentive. They are given a free right to vote. They have there there's no reason for them to earn that right at all. And so yeah. So that's a hold up. 69633. Gotta text over the, my, right. Right. Okay. Yeah. That's it. Boop. Let them know what, what type of third I'm getting. But so so these days, women don't actually have a skin in the game. And that's one of the big problems because, I mean, you who are the most of the, of the of the socialist in government.
The same as the who who takes the most who are the most vocal in on TikTok who may who make all the dumbass stupid, comments. It's the straight white it's all the white liberal women. Well, it's straight. But Hold on here.
[01:31:14] Duuude-Ron :
If if you're going if you're going with that premise about about having skin in the game, there's quite a few people who rant that don't have no skin in the game, technically, by the definition. So so, I mean, whether it's men or women, it it's it's it's it's freaking irrelevant.
[01:31:37] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yeah. But it it's a people who rent. Again, that gives you the incentive to better yourself. It gives you the incentive to be more than just I'm just gonna be here, and and I'm just going to you know, the the whole welfare welfare racket would fall apart.
[01:32:00] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see, that's the thing. A lot of people nowadays don't want that.
[01:32:06] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I know. I know. They're they a lot of people are kind of, starting to to accept the whole premise of you own nothing, and you will like it.
[01:32:19] Duuude-Ron :
It's been going on for quite a while, and,
[01:32:22] Rich Chelson:
you know, it's just starting to really take hold. Yeah. And that's real that's what's real scary about it. That we need people to have skin in the game.
[01:32:31] Duuude-Ron :
But that's the thing. They're so used to everything, and they're so used to the way things are because it's so it's so much easier.
[01:32:43] Rich Chelson:
They don't wanna mess with it. So And that's because, again, people have stopped days. Yeah. Welcome to life nowadays. It's people have taken and and and stopped believing Ben Franklin's philosophy on the best way to help the poor. Because if you truly love the poor, you will make you will make poverty as uncomfortable as possible.
[01:33:11] Duuude-Ron :
Right? But okay. You see? Hold on here. Hold on here. There's and and I'm not I'm not knocking what you're saying or anything about that. But but on the whole poverty thing, there's been poverty since the beginning of time.
[01:33:28] Rich Chelson:
No. Oh, no. I agree. I agree. There's been poverty since the beginning of time, but why has poverty gotten so out of hand now? Well Why do we have so many people with the in tent cities?
[01:33:38] Duuude-Ron :
Hold on. Hold on. How do you know it wasn't worse back then or it's it's I mean, how do you know it's how do you know it's gotten worse from then till now? You know, pick pick a date in in history to now. How do you know it's gotten worse?
[01:33:55] Rich Chelson:
Looks like at the last little event period we had, where there was a good deal of, of, of homelessness, of, or not even homelessness of, of unemployment And not just how government says there plays with the numbers and bullshit, but but let's go back to the great depression. For 25% of the if I remember right, 24% of that of the, of The United States was unemployed, if I remember right, or something to that effect. There's a lot of fucking people who were unemployed during the great depression. How many hit cities did you actually have?
[01:34:41] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[01:34:42] Rich Chelson:
How many people how many times was in LA? Because, you know, like, grape. Yeah. Were there migrant camps? Yes. But they went there to do what? They were instead of work they worked in the orchards. The family that moved from, I think, Arkansas and took the, took the, Route 66 to, to California and and, John Steinbeck's novel, Grapes of Wrath, they went to work in the orchards. Okay. They heard that there was work there. Yep. So these these, these migrant camps, which is what they call anybody from outside of the state that was coming into work, I will they will still be making a living. They were trying to work. They were trying to but nowadays, no. They've made poverty so damn comfortable that nobody is you've got you've got people shitting on in the, not having any pride at all. They they're shitting in the, on the sidewalk. There there's needles and and drug use everywhere.
You've got That's in San Francisco, and they But that's not no. That's San Francisco. That's under the bridges in Dallas. We're just crazy.
[01:36:01] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Now okay. I'll I looked up some numbers. Okay? In 2024, there was 700 over 771,000 homeless people in The United States. And this this represents an 18% increase compared to 2023 We Yep. That 653,104. Okay? Now during the Great Depression, it says official counts of homeless people were not consistently recorded, but by 1933, an estimated 2,000,000 Americans were homeless Right. Migrating across the country in search of food and shelter. So so, I mean, I'm it's less than his than it was in history,
[01:36:54] Rich Chelson:
but it's still a problem. It always will be a problem. Oh, no. It always will be. But to nurture and to call a a a homeless person, you're not helping them. You're not encouraging them to get out of poverty. You're just going, okay. Well, here's a tent. Here here's some you know, do what you need to do. You just and you had tent cities of just of misery. And these people don't want there's actually I have to see if I could find it whenever I get over to the, over to the sand plant. But there is a video of a couple who were doing this. They got they got a a some type of assistance.
But when they got a post, they got an apartment that they could afford. Actually, for the stuff. Yeah. Were they happy about that? Were they grateful for it? I don't know. Were they? No. They weren't. They were going, oh, this is really fucking small. You can't do there's no room here. You can't do anything with this. You know? And as they stand around, it was fucking trash. They'd only been in it for, like, two, three weeks, and they had already trashed the shit out of it. They had no concept of appreciation for what they were given while in the while doing the great depression. Yeah. You had may have had even more. You had 2,000,000 people by some estimates.
But by 1950, how many of them were still there? But you wouldn't sell 2,000,000 people.
[01:38:31] Duuude-Ron :
No. You're right. It was less, but but you see, that's the thing. You're not comparing apples to apples. Okay? Because people back during the great depression didn't wanna be there, didn't wanna be in that situation, so they found the intestinal fortitude to
[01:38:51] Rich Chelson:
fix it. Right. Okay. So let's bump up to the eighties.
[01:38:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Let's bump up to the eighties. That was when things started going back downhill, and and the government started making fucking easier things fucking easier and easier. And people were like, well, fuck it. I'm just gonna lay back and do what I want. This all started back then. It all actually, it all started to back there in LBJ's
[01:39:17] Rich Chelson:
great society. That's when he enacted the welfare. He enacted the the well, you know, it's it's easier for a single woman to get more money from the government than it was to be to be married.
[01:39:33] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. But, you see
[01:39:35] Rich Chelson:
single handedly destroyed the black family.
[01:39:38] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. He did. Okay. But you see the thing is, we're not gonna fix it. So so it doesn't matter when it started. It it doesn't matter how it started. It's it's gonna go on. It's gonna get worse.
[01:39:54] Rich Chelson:
And Yeah. Yeah. And the reason and again, while the the one thing that I'm in I've had discussions and discussions and discussions about this through, different types of of of social media sites. People are homeless. You can't help the homeless. Okay? And again, if you want to help the homeless and love to arm the homeless, you make homeless you make poverty as uncomfortable as possible. So you give them the incentive of going, you know what? This is too much of a headache. I wanna be a part of society, be a productive part a member of society and do something because a person is homeless because they want to be homeless.
[01:40:42] Duuude-Ron :
Not always, but most Yes. Yes. Always.
[01:40:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, no. Yeah. Okay. Very rarely. Is it a not because? And those ways are those who are actually mentally ill. Okay. Hold on here. Hold on here. Actually work.
[01:41:02] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay. Hold on here. Some of these homeless people okay. Some of them are felons. Okay? Now now now I'm not saying this as a cop out or anything like this, but I, I mean, I know there it goes. I know I know quite a few of them. Okay? And I've known some that are trying to do trying to work better themselves and all like this. Right. And a lot of times, people okay. It's not it's it's not the person's fault. They're trying to find a home. They're trying to find a job, but it's our problem, our mentality, our way of thinking that is not helping our fellow man or woman to to because they've done paid their price.
Yeah. They've done went to prison, did that, did the probation and all like that. Right. You still have to live with that for the rest of their life. Yeah. There's still a there's still a I agree.
[01:42:13] Rich Chelson:
I agree. But at the same time, all of the two thirds It's not all the homeless people's fault. Well, it's It's not all of them. No? No? Okay. Now we know that humans do that. They you go out. You you fucked up. You, you know, you were you you well, let's take my daughter's, ex boyfriend. Okay? He works. He he he's got a felony on his record. Okay? And he he's actually doing what he can. He went out. He found a a a means of stepping incrementally into a place of of, of trust. Isn't he going to always have to look over his shoulder? Because eventually, he may get to a place where the, where he gets a a Karen that goes wants his position and finds out that he was calling at one time and starts, you know, starts doing a little digging because, oh, hey. He never mentioned that he was a felon. I bet you I get his job if I yeah.
But at the same time, he made the conscious choice to base store and and get, and have to face the crime, face the, the consequences of that crime. He made that choice. Now he's still he he was in the wrong. He knows he was in the wrong. He got his ass he got his he put he heard the pop. He successfully dislodged his head from his anus, and he's doing what he can. And as as humans, you know, the folks who are that you're that you're talking about that well, why did I lose my damn I'm sure the person behind me is all sorts pissed because my freaking my there you go. There's evidence of what you were talking about. I'm sitting there talking and my my, cruise control kicked out.
And and I instantly stuck my foot on there, but I was because because I was talking to stuff, and my foot was on there realizing that it's, that I stopped, I started to slow down. I was using my foot, but at the same time, I wasn't doing the speed limit. I was doing I was doing 58. So I'm sure the person behind me is going, what the fuck, man? He speed up, and he's still down. Well, yeah, sorry. But my truck keeps kicking out of the kicking the cruise off.
[01:44:45] Duuude-Ron :
But You know what? Let him wonder about it. Yeah. So but, yeah, so
[01:44:50] Rich Chelson:
and then we should be more on a way at people out of prison for a reason. Depending on what they did. You know? Because sometimes, the one in prison doesn't reform you. It just helps you find a better way of working the system. Right. It's kinda like people who are like, who go to rehab. A lot of times, they go to rehab and come out with more contacts that they had when before they went in. Yeah. The only time rehab actually helps a person is if they, again, want to get the help that they want that they go there for.
[01:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
And and, again, you have to look at the people at the facility and make sure they're doing their job properly.
[01:45:43] Rich Chelson:
No. I would agree. But it also, belong falls on the person. Everybody has to take the ultimate responsibility for their actions.
[01:45:55] Duuude-Ron :
I agree 100%.
[01:45:56] Rich Chelson:
And so the homeless, to bring it all back to their, they have to decide, you know what? I really don't wanna be here. This really kinda sucks. But when you make like in California or in other places until they turn the, they turn the the laws around because there was too many wishy washy judges out there going, you know what? That's their property. You can't just take the property. That's illegal certain search and seizure and stuff like that. So all the municipalities were afraid of losing their losing their their revenue because they get sued by a the American Criminal Leaning's Union.
[01:46:40] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. Stand up. Grab your stand up. Grab your cone is in fight.
[01:46:47] Rich Chelson:
Right. And it would be good. And a lot of times, they do. Everybody just wants to call the fucking cops. I don't know if they wanna call the cops, but, again and the and the ACLU doesn't is is too busy pushing the the communist socialist agenda instead of helping people actually better themselves. Because, again, look at under the Great Depression. After that, we well, even before that, if you go all the way back to the the final of feudalism, which was the bubonic plague, from there, we started as a whole, started utilizing the capitalist system, and more and more people became wealthier.
And it was by increments. So by the time, you know, our the founding fathers arrived over here, and they were like, hey. Let's utilize let's really tap into this capitalist system. Let's really turn it turn everything on. All of a sudden, boom, we made a five thousand year leap. And all of a sudden, we went from within two hundred years, went from finding founding a a country to we were in space. We have computers. We've got, you know, we've now all of a sudden, we've taken the same we've got more computing power in our cell phones now than many of the mainframes did when the when the the first, man landed on the moon.
Yeah. And we have more rich people now, unbeknownst what the what the the socialist like to say. Yeah. The difference between middle class and low class is betting. They're they're getting, they're getting it's getting bigger because there are more middle class than than, than low class. They're fewer, fewer, poor. The only reason why we go all of a sudden had another bump is because, again, everybody decided, hey. We need to we need to be nice to the to the poor. We need to take care of them. We need to take the reasons for them to try to be better themselves away. Just so yeah. You've also increased crime.
You've increased all the, all the problems that come with homelessness. You have a homeless encampment. All of a sudden, you've got more rape. You've got more burglaries. You've got more theft. You've got more more murders. You've got more drug use. You've got more of all the unwanted aspects of society. And that's because people don't have the reason to change their life. They don't have the reason they don't have a a good enough reason to stop and, to stop being poor and actually give a shit and try to better themselves.
[01:49:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yet if you make go ahead. Let me ask you a question.
[01:50:02] Rich Chelson:
How do we change it? Is it not talking about it? How do you change it? Well, he kinda do what, what Trump's doing. You first make it illegal to be homeless on the streets.
[01:50:15] Duuude-Ron :
And how is it gonna be enforced? What are you gonna do with all those people?
[01:50:20] Rich Chelson:
Well, they will they'll end up being being put in jail. So, you know, for and it doesn't have to be that long. You know, you don't have to put them in jail for five years for for vagrancy.
[01:50:34] Duuude-Ron :
But yet again, your taxes are gonna pay to take care of them.
[01:50:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, your taxes are gonna be used to take care of them to a point. And, in all reality and this is one of the things that I think, sadly, the got wrong. And we need to actually bring back the the and, again, we're we're it's our our, tax money is gonna be applied to to this, but we need to bring back state run mental asylums.
[01:51:07] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[01:51:08] Rich Chelson:
I mean, either way Because, again, you, you wanna know wanna see people suddenly stop going well. I've got social anxiety. I want to stay let them spend, you know, forty eight, seventy two hours with a bunch of actual mentally unstable people. And they're gonna go, oh, never mind. I I think I can manage my anxiety. I don't wanna do that shit no more.
[01:51:33] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:51:34] Rich Chelson:
Have to lay in bed with my arm strapped.
[01:51:37] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see, that's the thing. You know? I mean I mean, we can sit here and debate this all night. Oh, yeah. But opinions, but but in the end, how do you move forward with it? Well, you can either a
[01:51:53] Rich Chelson:
you can make sleeping on the street to the legal again. And so what do they have to do? They have to either a, find a, I'm a a mission that will take them. They don't like to go to missions because all of a sudden you have to follow rules. Well, no. It was no fun following rules. Well, I would I'd like to like to shoot my heroin and smoke my crack, you know, before I go to bed. Well, you Well, then I guess you're not going into the mission, so I guess you need to get out of town. Well, how am I gonna make how am I gonna find food? Well, I guess you probably have to get off of the heroin and the and the crack cocaine and actually clean yourself up so you can be employable.
[01:52:34] Duuude-Ron :
But And you make it uncomfortable. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. No. Hold on. No. You see, that's fucking with free will.
[01:52:42] Rich Chelson:
No. No. That's completely allowing them to have free will. If you wanna be still it's still if but after we after the society has made it hard enough for you being homeless and you still wanna be homeless, okay. Congratulations. You get to be homeless. You get to be homeless by not being part of society. You don't get to be hang out downtown begging for money. You get to go not to figure out how you're gonna make your life better. You know, you have a how you gonna make ends meet, how you gonna live in a tent out in the middle of nowhere.
You wanna have a little tent sitting out in the middle of of of of Death Valley? No one's gonna see you? Okay. Fine. You do that. There is a town out there out in the middle of Death Valley where there are no rule, and you can do what you want, what you want, and how you want. I think it's called Slab City, if I'm remembering right.
[01:53:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's out there. There's one out in Quartzsite too.
[01:53:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So, I mean, there's you can you can find your community, and there's places like there's a, there's a homeless community, and it's an actual mission community, down in, down in Austin. And what they the guy has done is he's brought in a whole bunch of tiny homes, and he set up very minimal. You have to take care of the garden. You have to take care of certain stuff, and you have to you know, if you're going you have to take care of you know, meet these certain requirements. And then he leaves the guy that, created this, moves it up to the citizens to police themselves, and they do.
Yeah. Sometimes the time you get, you get Fred that goes out on a bender and starts walking around with no pants on. And usually someone in that community will come along, grab him, take him back to his house, get him dressed, but they are living within that society and within the rules of that society.
[01:54:47] Duuude-Ron :
I understand that. But but what I'm trying to get at, it's not a popular thing. It should be. I agree. It's not.
[01:54:55] Rich Chelson:
Because Because there's too much fucking socialist, liberal mentality out there going, well, don't give me me. You know what I mean? That's true love right there. I'm one of my man. I want him to be better. I want him to rise out of the ashes of the destruction that he found himself in, out of the mental spin that he put himself in. I wanna see him become the richest man in the world, and he can. And it's happened. But not with how he's yeah. It's happened many times. I mean, look at, Mike Lindell. Yeah. His his, his his, meth habit was so bad that his dealer actually went, dude, I'm not selling you no more. You're out of control.
And stopped selling it to him, and while he was going through withdrawals, that's when he was like, he will throw himself to god. Yeah. And became, you know, the my power dude. And and yeah. He sadly, he still goes when he goes into something, So, you know, he kinda so he he's his business has been other thanks to thanks to him going all in. But that's that's all all free will. People have the ability to people still have the free will to do what they wanna do. You can't there's no there's no way of of limiting a person's ability to make a choice. You're just showing them that this is a better choice.
[01:56:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, trying to make it illegal to be homeless. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's pushing limits if you ask me.
[01:56:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, but it's but it's been it's been shown to work time and time again. You have more people being productive in society and finding actual true happiness when you had vagrant two laws.
[01:56:55] Duuude-Ron :
And those ended when? Probably the seventies,
[01:57:00] Rich Chelson:
eighties? I think it no. I think the vagrant two laws ended back in the sixties.
[01:57:05] Duuude-Ron :
It very well could be. I mean, but, see, that's the thing. It's you see, that's the thing. It's been a shift. And if if you've noticed in history yes. History does repeat itself. Oh, very often. But but but if you've noticed in history, it's it's vagrancy laws is probably not due to come back into play for at least another hundred years. Minimum.
[01:57:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, I mean but Trump's using DC as a good example of what happens when you, when you actually enact those vagrancy laws.
[01:57:43] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I mean, you know, that's cool. That is great. The thing is trying to get the rest of the country to follow suit. As you know, it's not gonna happen in California. Oh, it's gonna happen in in Portland either. Right.
[01:57:58] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean, Portland's actually got, there's a, town that is, yeah, Chicago. But Portland is so bad, and there's a town, I think it's actually just a little just outside of Portland from what I understand called Tigra or something like that. It's T I G Something. And there there's some folks who are ringing the bells about, hey. We're fixing to be point one two point o if y'all if we don't start making changes here.
[01:58:26] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:58:28] Rich Chelson:
So So what are your thoughts, there, dude? You know, you just wanna pass it over. I'm over here at the sand plan. I'm gonna fix I have to hop off for a quick second
[01:58:39] Unknown:
so I can Well, you know, I just I just had a fucking word, and I already forgot to make a comment to that. And it was good. It would have been the perfect words, but, yeah, just it disappeared that fast.
[01:58:55] Rich Chelson:
I see. Yeah. Alright. I'll be right back, guys. Yep. Okay.
[01:59:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Word, but, you know, it would have been the perfect word. But
[01:59:05] Rich Chelson:
Can't fucking remember it. You know?
[01:59:11] Unknown:
And, see, we're just one each one of us is just one bad situation from being homeless ourselves. Exactly. So now do some of them choose to be homeless? No. That it's not a choice. I think that some circumstances put it a circumstance put them in that reality and know they don't wanna be homeless. Who was it that said who was it that said all the homeless wanna be homeless? Was that Brian, or was that you?
[01:59:59] Duuude-Ron :
No. That was that was Brian.
[02:00:02] Unknown:
Okay. Yeah. I strongly disagree with that.
[02:00:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do too. There's a lot of
[02:00:10] Unknown:
like I said, people got into a situation, may have been their fault, may not have been their fault, and that has what has resorted to that. No. They don't wanna be in that situation.
[02:00:28] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And see and and see, that's where that's why I was saying that's where we as human beings in in a way I mean, because, you know, we don't know these people's story. We can make you know, we can say shit all we want. But until you know each person's situation, you can't actually have any type of thought, feeling, or or judgment about it or idea about it.
[02:01:01] Unknown:
Yeah. That yeah.
[02:01:03] Duuude-Ron :
And that's, you know, that's the thing. So so trying to pass a law or, you know, do it in certain areas to you know, it's like it's like you're just, you know, putting a blanket thing over everybody and saying everyone under this blanket is in trouble. That's not right. That's fucking what's free will in my eyes. Yeah. You know, I might be wrong, but I don't know. It just it just irks me when when one person, and I don't care which side of the fucking aisle they're on, tries to make it, you know, the rule of law for everybody.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Hate that. It started with freaking Obamacare. At least that's that's what I remember. I mean, it might have started before then, and if someone listening to this probably would know if it started before then and might tell us about it. But still, you don't sit here and tell me that I have to have health insurance. And if I don't, I have to pay well, it wasn't called a tax, but it was a tax.
[02:02:22] Unknown:
Yeah. It was a tax. Do that.
[02:02:25] Duuude-Ron :
That was unconstitutional as hell. But everybody followed it hook, line, and sinker. You know? Yeah. So, yeah, it just, shit like that just irks me.
[02:02:41] Unknown:
Well, I I agree with that.
[02:02:45] Duuude-Ron :
It just does.
[02:02:47] Unknown:
Yep. So what's so what else have you seen on the news that you would like to
[02:02:55] Duuude-Ron :
Not too much. They're saying our, colon increase is between two point five and two point seven percent this year. So, yeah, I was just I didn't look up how much it would be for you. For me, it'd be, say, again, close to a $100 bill on my VA. Give me a second.
[02:03:25] Unknown:
Oh, okay. I see what you're saying.
[02:03:28] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. Well,
[02:03:29] Unknown:
it's When when I get my retirement in my VA, because, again, that is completely out of my control, and I have no say in it, It's you know, if I get $25, well, you know, I can go out to eat one more time during that year for free.
[02:03:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right. In an essence. Yeah.
[02:03:59] Unknown:
I mean, it's not it's not something that
[02:04:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It no. It it it won't it won't it won't freaking break the bank by no means. For you on your VA disability, it'll be an extra $51 a month. 51. Okay. That's the lowest point. So Okay. So yeah.
[02:04:20] Unknown:
But $51 is $51.
[02:04:24] Duuude-Ron :
Right. You can go out to eat maybe twice. Least
[02:04:28] Unknown:
maybe twice.
[02:04:29] Duuude-Ron :
And Depending on where you go.
[02:04:33] Unknown:
That's true. And but it's not being taken away from me.
[02:04:39] Rich Chelson:
No.
[02:04:40] Unknown:
No. It's not. Roughly until roughly 2032 when the system
[02:04:48] Duuude-Ron :
breaks down. And if I was getting No. No. No. No. Yours will not be affected.
[02:04:54] Unknown:
Your no. My Social Security Yeah. Social Security. Yeah. If I'm getting a thousand dollars
[02:05:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You'll get 800.
[02:05:04] Unknown:
You'll get 800.
[02:05:06] Duuude-Ron :
Which which actually, dude, I can tell you right now with with pretty much certainty, you're gonna get more than a thousand dollars.
[02:05:15] Unknown:
Okay.
[02:05:17] Duuude-Ron :
I'm sure I will. I I am. I'm I'm almost yeah. Just because of the fact that Social Security goes off how much you made in the last ten quarters, which is or forty quarter last four forty quarters, which is ten years. And it they do their math, and it's so, yeah, you'll get more than a thousand dollars a month. So Okay. That much I do know because I know how much I get every month. Okay? And and and I saw the breakdown of all the years I worked and made each year because you'll find out too. You know? You'll find out how much you made, how much you paid in, all that. They they freaking give it to you. And then they'll show you the final breakdown of Okay. What you get. So
[02:06:13] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well, that ain't gonna be and that won't be for another ten years.
[02:06:20] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So that'd be 2035. Yep. Well and that's the thing. That's the thing. If you stop working then, even though, actually, it won't help you after they say I've I've read a few different times. Actually, if you take if you take retirement at 62 instead of, like, 65 or 67
[02:06:45] Rich Chelson:
Right. You
[02:06:47] Duuude-Ron :
you might get a lower monthly amount, but you'll get it for longer. You know what I mean? So it Yeah. So it actually works out to where you'll get more money than if you waited till 65, 70, or whatever. You you would actually wind up getting less.
[02:07:09] Unknown:
And just think I would be my luck, I would start drawing it, and a year later, I'll be dead.
[02:07:18] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, that's that's not a really good positive thought there, dude. You're right. I you know? But yeah. You know, my you know I ain't gonna let that weak shit go on.
[02:07:36] Unknown:
Yeah. But who knows? Yeah. Who knows when I'm gonna retire? Because, yeah, I don't have to retire to collect Social Security.
[02:07:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well, say say you're, what, 57?
[02:07:52] Unknown:
Yep.
[02:07:54] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, say in five years, you'll be 62. You can, you can take yeah. You would have to retire. Yeah. Yeah. If you want Social Security, you'd have to retire. Why? Because that's the way sick Social Security works. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, I'm I'm not up on all the all the Social Security rules, but, yeah, when you take Social Security, you have to stop working. Now once you hit a certain age after that, if you work, you get to keep all the money. But but up until then okay. I think I think you can work and still claim Social Security, but for every $2 that you make, you have to pay back $1 in Social Security.
So, basically, what they're gonna do is take money from you because you're still working. They'll still pay you, but they're gonna take money back, and they ain't gonna save it for you. That's it. You lose it. Yeah. So, you know, if you take Social Security, you just might as well say, screw the pooch and, you know, stay home and, you know, run around the countryside or do something Yeah. And just in enjoy life. You know? Yeah. Possibly.
[02:09:42] Unknown:
But I understand with what you're saying. But since I'm not there yet, I'm not gonna truly worry about it today.
[02:09:51] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean, shit, dude. You got five years.
[02:09:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:09:56] Duuude-Ron :
And it'll be here before you know it. Yeah. Probably somehow. No. I see how you yeah. Just blink a couple times. You know? And it's like, fuck.
[02:10:09] Unknown:
It'd be like, where'd the time go? Yeah. Or take a couple of naps. Wake up. It's like ten years later. It's like, where the fuck time go?
[02:10:20] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[02:10:22] Unknown:
Oh, I'm very well aware of that.
[02:10:26] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, it's just I mean, that's just something to think about, you know, and kinda because, I mean, I mean, you I mean, get it anytime you want, but, you know, well, I know one guy. He got he freaking dragged his feet. Last time I talked to him was earlier this year. He, he finally quit working. He's 73, but he's the one that he's he's a type nice guy, but he's a type he's all about money. Money drives him. And Yeah. You you know? And, I mean, that's fine, but, you know, money consumed him.
[02:11:11] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:11:12] Duuude-Ron :
He he he freaking wanted to make just as much money as he could all the time. You know?
[02:11:19] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:11:20] Duuude-Ron :
So and, I mean, I don't knock anybody for that, but he was even going so far as to letting his health go bad. And that I was on him quite a bit, and I told him I said, Bob, you need to fucking stop, dude. Take care of yourself. Fucking money ain't worth it, man.
[02:11:40] Unknown:
Well, yeah, you're right, but it's hard to change a mindset.
[02:11:46] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, yes. It is. But in the long run, if you really wanna do it, you can do it. You know what I mean?
[02:11:55] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:11:57] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's just plain and simple. I mean, it it it don't happen overnight, but it, you know, it it can be done. But you have to actually want to do it.
[02:12:14] Unknown:
That's the whole thing.
[02:12:15] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's like it's, you know, it's like drugs or drinking, anything like that. You have to want to do it. Yeah. So but and, again, you know, same thing with the homeless situation. Same thing.
[02:12:35] Unknown:
Well, I saw an article, and it's been a lot a little while back, that there was a Vietnam veteran that was sitting outside this was in Las Vegas, sitting outside of one of the casinos begging for money. But his sign re it read this, not going to lie, need money for drugs and a place to stay tonight.
[02:13:07] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:13:08] Unknown:
Well, you know, I would throw you a $5 bill. At least you're being honest. You know, I need money for my fix and, hopefully, a place to stay tonight and and a meal. Yeah. Other than that, he was content with what he was doing.
[02:13:32] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:13:33] Unknown:
So, you know and that was a veteran. He was a Vietnam War veteran.
[02:13:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But you see, that's the thing. Had he gone and tried to get help from the VA because, you know, you you say again, you know, a lot of these veterans, yeah, they've been slotted by the VA over the years, but the VA has worked hard to, you know, reach out and help. And a lot of people don't want to accept it. You know?
[02:14:05] Unknown:
Yeah. Because of the way they were treated before. Right. But yeah. They're thinking that they're gonna get treated the same now.
[02:14:12] Duuude-Ron :
But you see, that's the thing. You see, that's where that's where people need to think about and and, you know, weigh the options and and and be like, you know you know, maybe they have changed. Maybe they do have something that can help me. I mean
[02:14:32] Unknown:
Yeah. And that is the VA happened to prove that they have changed. Now granted granted, they have. We know that they have changed Yeah. And have gotten better.
[02:14:47] Rich Chelson:
But you see that Those individuals,
[02:14:49] Unknown:
they lost the trust in the system.
[02:14:52] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see, that's the thing. The only way they're gonna find out if it's changed is to trust them one more time. See, that's see, that's that's the whole thing. You know? I I mean, I've known people to fucking give up on on a freaking company for one thing going wrong. You can take any company, any product, anything. If it fails, I know people that I'll never do business with them again.
[02:15:24] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:15:26] Duuude-Ron :
And and, you know, maybe it was maybe it wasn't the company's fault. Maybe it was a manufacturing problem. You know? Turn it back in. Turn it back in. Get another one. Try it again. You know? Or you know? I mean, actually but that's the thing. You know? It's like it's like you've got to keep trying. And, and and if after a few more times, things haven't changed, okay. Move on. I mean, is it gonna hurt? What's it gonna fucking hurt? It's either gonna make you happy or make you cry or make you pissed off.
[02:16:04] Rich Chelson:
Well, in a lot of people don't wanna get anymore. Don't wanna have to go through the hassle anymore.
[02:16:10] Duuude-Ron :
Who? Fucking who? Well, I know. No.
[02:16:14] Rich Chelson:
I know. But if you can but if you can avoid the, avoid the the pain, then why try? Even if going through the pain of that will allow you to have a better life, it's easier to avoid the pain. And that's the that's the source of everybody suffering is they wanna avoid that pain. Absolutely. Every single time. Problems we have today. That's the reason why people are, are those are not really a drug addiction that everybody understands what I mean whenever I say addicted to drugs. So when you have somebody who's addicted to drugs, addicted to cigarettes, you know, have these unmanaged coping mechanisms, how does they not wanna let go? Because what are they left with if they stop flooding their system with these distractions, which is what they are. It's just playing bingo games all the time. That's just a distraction.
What do you what do you are what are you left with when you have that distraction in your life anymore? You're left with your thoughts about whatever the circumstance is at that moment. Whether your thoughts are, well, my wife sucked. My daddy didn't hug me enough. Or the why should I even try? Because the the veterans the VA system is just gonna go off and fuck me over again. Well, that's where it could be. And you know what? I've been doing the laws of attraction. You're gonna set things up to where they do fuck you over again. With that not the mindset, you're going to you're you're again, as as you've heard me say before, your thoughts create your results. Your thoughts create a feeling which creates an actual increase of results. So your thoughts always create the results that you hang in your life. Not the results you want, but the results that you have.
So if you are going off and thinking, well, the VA system's gonna fuck me over. Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna find a reason for the VA to fuck you over.
[02:18:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's right.
[02:18:32] Rich Chelson:
They may need a p may may need your Social Security card. That's all they need. You just need a copy of your Social Security card. Well, you can't find your Social Security card. They don't care about me no more. No. Then get yourself another Social Security card, Ben. Yeah. I I actually went off and on. I I I like what they've done with Social Security here recently. I will actually give them a high five on this because I I don't know what I'm looking for Social Security card at. Somewhere in the past five years, my Social Security card up and just took a hike someplace.
And whenever I came to work for, for this company, realized that now luckily, they were like, well, you just gotta show two forms of ID. And so I was ahead of my birth certificate, my driver's license, and they're like, sweet. You're good. We know you're a citizen. And and so the Social Security card, I was still, I I know that eventually, I'm gonna have to get a real ID, and that's something that they'd like to have as a Social secure is a Social Security card. And so I was like, well, I guess I'm gonna have to spend all day on my on one of my weeks off getting going through the the system, and Janet was, like, going, well, check out the check out the the website. Maybe they've got something that, you know, maybe you can schedule a time in the system and and it goes faster. And I was like, oh, what whatever. You know? What is you know? Whatever. You know? Again, having my own thoughts, tell myself the story of why even try, but turned out to be pleasantly surprised. I was able to go in. They have a one a link up basically at the top saying, do you lose your card? Were you a dead ass and lose your card? And you just click that and they get asked for some basic information about you.
And, you know, when you get finished with it, they're like, okay. Look. Put it out in the mail. You'll probably get it here within the next two to three weeks. And sure as shit, three weeks later, I went to the mail. Social Security Administration pulled it out. There's a brand new fucking card. I didn't even have to go to the damn office. Yeah. But, again, I had I did like like I was saying, I had the the thought of why even try. This is gonna be a pain in the ass until, like you said, until you try. Yeah. I could have stuck with the whole story of why. Yeah. It it's we know it's the government. Government sucks. They're good. We if you've been to a DMV, you know how crappy, the the system's gonna end up being.
Well, okay. Yeah. It used to be that way, but now at least they got, the car you know, you can get reissued a car for you know? And it took me five minutes online.
[02:21:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I know. Social Security has done a lot. I mean, they've made major strides on, getting things done. Major strides. So, I mean, I don't know exactly all, but all I do know is is anytime I've had to deal with them, they've made yeah. It's it's not near the dreaded hell that it used to be. Right. So now and that's and, see, that's the thing. When you go get your real ID, you know, as long as you take your, you know, Social Security card and you'll need a couple pieces of mail, I'm not sure what what all what else Oklahoma wants.
[02:22:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:22:05] Duuude-Ron :
You just I mean, down here, we just needed a couple pieces of mail, you know, with your physical address on it and everything and shit. You're good to go.
[02:22:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, and, also, it was a kind of an added, added benefit because Jana needs to, needs to get her next time she gets, goes in, she's gonna have to get a real ID also. But because her name has been changed, and from being Janet Clark and she's now married, she has to get one of the things they she was reading on, it was that they needed to have a copy of the marriage certificate. And so, thankfully, no. I got a marriage certificate now. So Well, that's good. Yeah. But
[02:22:53] Duuude-Ron :
No. She had never changed her name.
[02:22:55] Rich Chelson:
No. She's changed her name. She's she's getting a good one.
[02:22:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know, ma'am.
[02:23:00] Rich Chelson:
On her life. But oh, no. Yeah. On everything, it's Jane a good one. But, again, they say you the one of the things that the, if you are a woman, a married woman, for whatever reason, she has to prove that she is Oh, yeah. That she's actually made.
[02:23:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, and that well, that's like that's like that's like when I did my passport, and they wanted to know the name, date, and, I got married. And I had I've been divorced for seventeen years. I had to go write that information up because I didn't have it. I'm like, fuck. I don't know.
[02:23:40] Rich Chelson:
You know? It's been celebrating that anniversary for seventeen years. How am I supposed to remember what it is? Right. Because I don't remember how it was made.
[02:23:48] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. So yeah. No. And, see, that's the thing. It's just like, oh my god. But yeah. I mean so, yeah, I get that. But that's the thing, though. You do it once, you know, unless you move, and you won't have to do it again. Yeah. That's what I've been hearing also. You know?
[02:24:09] Rich Chelson:
I just don't see I just I don't see the the full purposes, the one why we need it. I'm not planning on going into any federal building. And, also, you know, I don't plan on flying. So they made flying such a big freaking piece of hassle that Oh, I agree. I agree. But I'll I'll spend four days driving across The US.
[02:24:30] Duuude-Ron :
But but, see, Brian, the thing is you might not plan on going in a federal building. Well, you may go in one. On you coming.
[02:24:40] Rich Chelson:
Exactly.
[02:24:42] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I pray not. I pray not, but
[02:24:46] Rich Chelson:
you gotta see the reality here. Yeah. There is. But that would be kinda kinda interesting. You know, get told you gotta go to the such such so so building. It's like, well, I've tried, but y'all wouldn't let me in. So sorry. Y'all can come out here. We can sit out in the front on the steps out in front of the building. We can talk it out. But Right. Yeah. No. This is force me to have to do something.
[02:25:11] Duuude-Ron :
They've had they've had the Real ID for quite a long while now. Oh, yeah. I mean, I didn't get it for a long time. And then I think it was, I when I was up in Missouri, when I moved back up to Missouri from, Arkansas Mhmm. It was 2017, 2016, something like that, and I switched my license over. I, I just said screw it and went ahead and got one. Yeah. Because, I mean, either way, I knew I knew it was coming as, you know, being mandatory. So it's like, just suck it up, deal with it, and just get along with it. You know? Less hassle, less headache, less stress.
[02:25:58] Rich Chelson:
Precisely. So
[02:26:01] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So did you get unloaded?
[02:26:04] Rich Chelson:
I just got loaded.
[02:26:07] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[02:26:08] Rich Chelson:
So I'm taking this trailer back over to, staging pad, dropping it, grabbing a different trailer, and going back. So so here's a question for you. Okay. Do do we wanna do Brian's drama corner tonight, or do we wanna wait till next week?
[02:26:28] Duuude-Ron :
You know, we can probably wait till next week on that if we Correct.
[02:26:34] Rich Chelson:
I've been wound up. I've
[02:26:36] Duuude-Ron :
been wound up more times tonight than I've been in six months. Oh my god.
[02:26:42] Rich Chelson:
Well, at least we know you takers still hold tight.
[02:26:46] Duuude-Ron :
Thank god. I'm telling you right now. Thank god that that's holding up. Oh, man. That was a good one, Brian. I gotta admit. That was a good one. There's there there have been developments. So
[02:27:04] Rich Chelson:
on a couple different fronts, and I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna handle all all these fronts all at once. So but yeah. Good morning. Oh, it's just the because it it's it's kid, kid drama, and it's, and it and it's parent drama. So I Oh. I feel I I feel like I'm a man in the middle, and I'm getting it from both ends. So
[02:27:31] Duuude-Ron :
Fine. Fine.
[02:27:33] Rich Chelson:
Just just check out, dude. Just check out. Not sorry. Not doing this no more. I'm I'm gonna hang out and and blah blah blah.
[02:27:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. There you go. I'm gonna jump a ship. In fact in fact, speaking of a ship, oh my god. I mean, it's not a ship. It's a boat. You know? Because it's not big enough to be a ship. But for right now right now, for $15,000, I can get a $19.69,
[02:28:03] Rich Chelson:
fishing trailer or any I was gonna ask, do you get a shrimping boat? No. No. It's not a shrimping boat. Oh, come on. I'll get a shrimping boat. We Hang on. We got I call it Jenny. No. There's, probably a few boats named Jenny. Yeah. I'm sure there are a lot of boys coming around.
[02:28:23] Duuude-Ron :
K. Let me see. Oh, no. No. This is this is a fancy one. It's a 1969 Grand Banks 42 foot trawler. Yeah. It's it's a it's a nice cabin cruiser. Oh my god. She is gorgeous. And and, oh, yeah. Only wants 15,000 for it.
[02:28:46] Rich Chelson:
And, sounds like then she's probably got some engine problems, so you they're not one to mention.
[02:28:52] Duuude-Ron :
No. He said no. He says he hasn't worked the motors. He says he doesn't know if they run. They're Detroit's, and and and he says they will need to be gone through.
[02:29:05] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Sploose is open on that one. I get it. He yeah. Yeah. He,
[02:29:10] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, he said he just he just hadn't gotten to them yet because, you know, he he was working on other areas of the boat. So but there's there's that one. There's there's a few I've seen for right around this price. And, you know, if you've ever seen a picture of a of a Grand Banks' Troller, Look look it up. I'm telling you what. They are some sexy ass boats. I mean, they're
[02:29:41] Rich Chelson:
yeah. Chris Craft Now there you go. That's what you could do. What? You could go into agro was it agro tourism?
[02:29:49] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[02:29:50] Rich Chelson:
Well, you could buy a boat, get it cleaned up, and have people pay you to go out tripping or, you know, doing whatever fishing is. They pay you to do it. And then what they they get to keep, you know, a couple you know, you'll let them keep, you know, two or three, you know, items or whatever it is that they're you're catching. You know? So, like, say, if you did do shrimping, you know, they could keep, maybe five pounds of shrimp. They each person gets go go home with five pounds of shrimp. More shrimp than they would actually eat ever eat. There'd be a good bit of they'd probably go to waste, but at the same time, they already paid you $200 to go shrimping.
Show them the authentic shrimping system. You know? You get to go through and do all the cleaning and and all that and Right. And get to have a good time, and then you get to keep whatever the excess shrimp, you get to sell them. You already made the money because, you know, yep, 15 people or however many, you know, that page $200. Right. So, yeah, there you go. You make money over money.
[02:30:59] Duuude-Ron :
You know, that that is about stability. I mean, that's that's actually something I'm talking about. There's a there's
[02:31:07] Rich Chelson:
I mean, that's what they the the ranch is they have people pay the people pay to, to go be a be a cowboy on the, on a ranch.
[02:31:15] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, yeah, I could I could farm that out to tourists.
[02:31:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:31:22] Duuude-Ron :
Shit. Oh, man. They would love the hell out of that. Hell, yeah.
[02:31:27] Rich Chelson:
You know? All you enjoyed was watching them come in and out to in the morning. Right. Now you probably have to start a little later than than the rest of the guys. So, you know, you may not get the prime fishing spots. But
[02:31:41] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Because because these guys I think most of these guys go out at night.
[02:31:47] Rich Chelson:
Most of them do. Yeah.
[02:31:48] Duuude-Ron :
You know?
[02:31:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. They take the lights, shine them on the on the water, and that tracks the bait fish, and the bait fish attract the fish they want. And
[02:31:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They yeah. No. There's I I don't know. I mean, I would love to have a boat. I can't buy one this year. You know what? No. Ain't no way. But but I've I've found a few boats like that that that freaking Grand Banks trawler. That is just a sexy ass boat.
[02:32:19] Rich Chelson:
And and it's the old wood hole too. Right. I was gonna say, I mean, if you ever need somebody, I bet you I know I know one young man who probably would jump on the opportunity to help you do that. Right. Because he is he's starting to he's starting to itch for the ocean again. So
[02:32:39] Duuude-Ron :
Really?
[02:32:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. He's been talking he's been talking a lot about boats and and, and stuff, and he's like, yeah. Probably gonna lose him to the coast again. So
[02:32:51] Duuude-Ron :
but yeah. No. I just you you know, I just look because it it it's like I mean, yeah. I want a boat because I wanna be able to go out and, you know, spend a couple days out on the water.
[02:33:05] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:33:05] Duuude-Ron :
You know? That would be a lot of fun, I think.
[02:33:10] Rich Chelson:
My Yeah. There you go. Or you could actually go off and have one and then go off and buy a what? Jail possum. No. I hope I missed you. Almost got an opossum. But go off and have somebody with a submarine, but make the submarine look like a shark.
[02:33:31] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no.
[02:33:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Go out, and here comes this do emergency emergency, bubbles on the side. So all of a sudden, this shark like a thing can freshen up and out and comes down and goes back down and sinks. So
[02:33:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would that would cause some waves because we do have sharks around here. We do have sharks.
[02:33:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You go off. It's have it on the sound system. All of a sudden, All of a sudden, Oh, so it's funny. Shh. Yeah. Out of the water comes the submarine.
[02:34:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know how to do that, dude. Oh. Yeah. No. There's yeah. I've seen a few boats that that I want. It's like, no. Looking. Stop looking. Because where I got my lawnmower at, the, credit union that I went through that, gave me my loan Uh-huh. Last year, I was I was talking to the lady, and her and her husband had, gotten a boat and everything like that. I said, yeah. I want a boat too. First word's out of her mouth. We'll finance it.
[02:34:52] Rich Chelson:
I bet you would.
[02:34:53] Duuude-Ron :
I'm like, Kelly, I just bought a damn house and his mower. No.
[02:34:58] Rich Chelson:
I ain't got that much money. Well, I've I've heard, and I've I have a firm belief in the saying of the two happiest days of a boat owner's life's the day they get it and the day they sell it.
[02:35:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. Yeah. I've been around, you know, smaller boats, and and I was in charge of two of them. And I wanna tell you what, that was that was work. Yeah. You know? And, I mean, these were river boats.
[02:35:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. And they were a lot of work. You know what I mean? Uh-huh. So So, dude, what do you think? Would you would you jump on on one of his help help reach out with his his trolling business if he got it? I lose, dude.
[02:35:48] Duuude-Ron :
He might have fell asleep.
[02:35:49] Rich Chelson:
Dude, you fell asleep on us. Yeah. I think you did. Dude, you awake? He's Usually by now, he's going, well, about time for us to start landing the boat.
[02:36:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. But,
[02:36:05] Rich Chelson:
yeah, I think I think he's gone, man. Oh, man. Not a too bad we need to this. I need to figure out how to turn the damn noise cancelation off on this on Zoom so we can start hearing his snores.
[02:36:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that would be funny.
[02:36:23] Rich Chelson:
Dude. And and, dude, what's he doing? Paul, never mind.
[02:36:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Dude, I yeah. Brian, I think he's out for the count. I think he fell out. Yep.
[02:36:33] Rich Chelson:
So, anyhow so, guys, I wanna say thank you all very much for taking the time out of your day and coming over and seeing what was what, this show is about. We may have had a, a listener on, and he was he was talking about he was gonna try try to listen. If not, then I walked him through on how to on how to download and listen to to to past episodes. So he's at least catching old episodes that we've what he's throwing around, and he's got plenty to listen to because we're at, what, 66.
[02:37:09] Duuude-Ron :
This is 67.
[02:37:11] Rich Chelson:
67. 67 episodes that are all about three hours long. That's a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours to be listening. So, of course, he does drive a truck, so, he's got plenty of plenty of listening time. So but that's a that's a whole lot of dude, Rich, and Brian just. Mostly Rich and Brian. Okay. Mostly Brian. So So but anyhow Go ahead. One of the, one of the great things about this show is besides for me just doing something then wrong. Holy smokes. Is that if you found any value in this show, we have only one ask, and that is pay the value back.
And that is you do it in a plethora of different ways. There's our there's our $2 word for the day.
[02:38:13] Duuude-Ron :
Plethora?
[02:38:14] Rich Chelson:
Plethora. That's
[02:38:16] Duuude-Ron :
a word we don't use much. No. Nope. Like, what do you
[02:38:22] Rich Chelson:
it's a it's one of those words that just gets, gets used at random times. But
[02:38:28] Duuude-Ron :
It works.
[02:38:29] Rich Chelson:
Yep. So At certain times, it works. But there's a lot of different ways. There's many different ways of of paying it back. Granted, there are the the the three t's. There's the time, talent, and treasure that if you wanna be a part of the community, you can you can contribute to the community in in time by, you know, helping us do chapters, set up chapters. Maybe you want to, to take the time to, time and effort to help us have a better website, or you wanna find some other way. Maybe, you you wanna do a forum for, for our our site or you wanna run a a a Facebook group. You know, there's so many different ways that you can you can help us out. Maybe you wanna moderate for a Facebook group. You know? There's ways that you can contribute your time.
There's also talent. So if you are good at, being a prop jockey and you can you can make great, AI art, you can also do that or treasure, which is, again, money. You can help do so by hitting the support the show because we do have a, a funding tag on our podcasting two point o compliant RSS feed, and that allows you to be able to go to our our PayPal site and and make a, make support the show in any denomination that you wanna support the show at. But the other ways you can actually help the show is you could know other people about us. Share the show out. So, you know, see the show, hit the share button, share it onto your Facebook page, and and let other people know that there's this this site out here called two grumpy vets and a dude, and that they sit around and talk. And sometimes they make good points. Sometimes they make really idiotic points. Sometimes they make just, you know, no sense whatsoever.
And so you can you can help us out in so many different aspects, and that's the joy and and and beauty of the whole value for value model. Because what, what is the value that you got from the show? What do you think it's worth? I think it's worth, you know, or sharing to a friend. Okay. Great. Well, appreciate you about that. Or it's I think it's worth, you know, $20 a month. Alright. Awesome. Love to be able to, to we're gonna get some ideas that, wanting to, expand on. And so this might be something that we do some way down the way if we started getting more people showing showing interest in in in growing the community.
So but, that's something that's down the way. But right now, just if you are if you have something that, that you wanna be able to contribute to, then wait. Let let us know. So and you can also reach out to us by sending us emails over at CircleCast. That's my email address, circlecast, that's c I r c r e c a s t. Kinda like how Goofy Castell Rod. And, at g and that's, [email protected]. Or you can, get ahold of Rich, and that's r Chelsea, C H E L S 0 N, At Gmail Dot Com. And if you wanna get ahold of dude, then send it over to us because nobody can remember his email address.
Very little does can even do remember his email address. So we just we take the emails, we send it over to them, and we will have discussions about what it is that you have, what thoughts you you have, and what thoughts you've shared. So with that, I'll go ahead and I'll pass the, the the the share, the mic over to, over to Rich. And, Rich, what do you have to say?
[02:42:38] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not too much. Just wanna thank everybody that still listens. As I looked on Pod Home tonight before we jumped on, We've got over 3,000 total downloads from Pod Home.
[02:42:52] Rich Chelson:
There you go.
[02:42:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now Pod Stats, for some reason, this browser is not letting me sign in, and I don't know why, but I'll figure it out by next week, and I'll have those numbers. But, anyway, not to bore you too much more. Just, you know, thanks for listening, and keep coming back and downloading and telling your friends. Because like Brian said, you know, sometimes we say funny shit, and sometimes we say stuff that's just way the hell out there. You know? That's just who we are. That's that's how we think. I know it's scary, but, you know, we've been doing this for a while now, and we're still going at it. Oh, yeah. Because, we always have a have a have an opinion about anything.
[02:43:44] Rich Chelson:
We if there's anything we've got in in,
[02:43:48] Duuude-Ron :
plenty of, that is is the opinion department. So That that is correct. That is correct. But yeah. So but, yeah, like Brian said, you know, you wanna reach out and talk to us, send us an email what you like, don't like, or anything like that. [email protected] is my email address or, [email protected]. That's Brian's address. Let us know. Say hey to us. How you doing? Say boo, shit, howdy. We don't care. Just say hey. You know? And, like, the dude, you know, if if he's not passed out, he is actually full of some awesome wisdom, but he has passed out right now. So just send an email to me or Brian, and we'll make sure the dude stays awake long enough to get he might take a nap afterwards, but he's gonna stay awake long enough to get the email. So Absolutely.
Other than that, that's about all I got. So Alright. It's always a pleasure, man.
[02:44:53] Rich Chelson:
It is a pleasure here too, and I appreciate, coming on. And I appreciate you have having you and and and the dude as the friends.
[02:45:03] Duuude-Ron :
So Man, same here.
[02:45:06] Rich Chelson:
So y'all yeah. Both of y'all take care. Y'all have a good night. I'm sure Ron's gonna wake up, here in a bit going And, and, and we won't have the, we won't have the ability to, to laugh at him and and and his out of his pain. So Well, there's always next week. There's next week. It's true.
[02:45:32] Duuude-Ron :
Alright, Brian.
[02:45:33] Rich Chelson:
Alrighty, man.
[02:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
Be careful. I'll talk to you next week. Absolutely. We'll talk to you then. Alright. Alright. See you. See you.
[02:45:42] Rich Chelson:
Bye.
Introduction and Technical Difficulties
Button Mashing and Dog Stories
Social Security and Workforce Concerns
Video Games and Cultural Commentary
Funeral Options and Philosophies
Radioactive Shrimp Recall
Tragic Truck Accident Discussion
Homelessness and Social Issues
Retirement and Social Security Insights
Boating Dreams and Business Ideas
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
