I'm From The Government and I am Here To Help

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[00:01:45] All right, welcome back to the Survival in Basic Badass podcast with Kevin and Chuck.

[00:01:55] Today well we're going to talk about the government because you know I'm sure you guys

[00:02:01] miss my rants every now and again and you know you just really want to hear Chuck complain

[00:02:07] about how the world is and how things work. So today is your lucky day. So there's a

[00:02:16] famous quote from Ronald Reagan that always comes to mind when people talk about government

[00:02:23] and basically I'm going to let him share it with you.

[00:02:27] I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are

[00:02:33] I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

[00:02:36] And I think that pretty much you know summarizes how people feel about

[00:02:42] about government at least in America but I imagine it's government everywhere. I mean

[00:02:46] when you have county government, when you have local government, when you have state government,

[00:02:50] I can't think of too many instances where I have a higher opinion. The UN, they don't instill

[00:02:58] confidence in you know things getting better for people. You know when people think of

[00:03:05] FEMA, hey FEMA is going to show up. Yeah do I want to die? Do I want to take my chances on

[00:03:12] my own or do I want to go in that FEMA camp? You know it's not we think of New Orleans

[00:03:20] and the dome there after Katrina. It wasn't a good time at by all.

[00:03:28] No, no it doesn't seem like FEMA comes through in the emergencies that they're supposed to and

[00:03:34] most of the time I don't know most of the time it seems that their resources are spread

[00:03:41] too thin and the people in charge don't know how to spread it properly. So it's like you know

[00:03:48] don't I wouldn't I wouldn't ever count on FEMA saving the day in any sort of situation.

[00:03:54] Right, right now that sounds like my take. Now I guess what it really comes down to and this

[00:04:00] is what me and the wife have the different opinions on and I think a lot of people

[00:04:06] will agree or disagree you know one way or the other. It seems to be polarizing like

[00:04:12] Democrat or Republican and I think it kind of even goes along the party lines as well.

[00:04:19] What I'm getting at is I think it's is it because government is really inept

[00:04:26] or is it because they're nefarious and trying to you know screw things up and trying to you

[00:04:33] know steal and be greedy and just gain themselves by pushing you down and gaining more power.

[00:04:41] And I think that's what it comes down to is you know is it nefarious but I guess the bottom

[00:04:47] line is it doesn't really matter like the government doesn't solve problems and that's

[00:04:55] that's really what it boils down to you know whether it's because they're evil and shady

[00:05:01] and trying to screw with you or is it because you know they just are really incompetent.

[00:05:08] Now my wife would say well it's human nature you know it's that people are just naturally

[00:05:14] greedy and whatever and that's you know why we end up with the corruption and stuff

[00:05:22] as opposed to a big cabal of global elites trying to bring it down.

[00:05:27] But I mean if you wanted it you taking my money doesn't help things.

[00:05:32] Right right I mean it's it seems kind of suspicious that millionaires would take a job that pays

[00:05:39] you know 200,000 a year that it's just foolish like you don't make money how many how much

[00:05:45] money do you spend on a congressional election compared to how much you you get paid just

[00:05:50] from your salary you're not doing it for your salary you're doing it for all the other

[00:05:54] benefits that you get legal and illegal right right right because I'm a powerful man you can't

[00:06:00] talk to my daughter like that you can't talk to my wife like that I'm powerful I can you know

[00:06:05] cops are gonna be here state troopers are gonna be here in 15 minutes and they're taking you

[00:06:08] to jail whether you did anything or not I just don't like the way you look it's it's you

[00:06:15] know if you were say you're a really intelligent person that was very charismatic good looking

[00:06:21] guy well spoken so maybe had some really good ideas on how to fix the government

[00:06:26] none of that shit matters no how many millions of dollars can you raise for your campaign

[00:06:30] that's what matters and if you don't have a bunch of rich friends you should have luck

[00:06:35] nobody cares whether you're smart whether you're competent they only care about how much money

[00:06:40] you can raise and that's why we end up in the situation we're in yeah it yeah what was

[00:06:46] I wish I had it uh I should have brought it up for the episode if I'd known you said it

[00:06:52] but uh they had that Joe Biden and Bill Clinton sitting uh sitting there and Biden was talking

[00:06:58] about Obama and he was like man a clean articulate black man that's impossible and

[00:07:07] he was you know because that was it though he was like wow I could raise so much money with

[00:07:12] this guy and he fits the mold of exactly you know somebody who can connect with people

[00:07:19] and get things and and whatever and it was it was ridiculous it yeah I know I'm a racist when

[00:07:26] I say it but really if you say that I'm horrible for saying it then do you have to

[00:07:30] admit to yourself that Biden's fucked up well everybody knows that that you know

[00:07:39] poor kids are just as smart as white kids and that's that's that's Biden quote right there

[00:07:48] it's so messed up and we're like yeah that guy should be in charge I mean that's kind of what

[00:07:53] it even comes down to we're always like oh you know well we could have uh Trump or Biden

[00:08:00] and it's like yeah that you know that that's what it comes down to and the thing is

[00:08:07] right so you're going to spend tons and tons of money to get into power and you're going to have

[00:08:14] your family attacked and ridiculed and harassed which you know Biden's experienced that Pelosi's

[00:08:22] experienced that Trump's experienced that you know they try and destroy you somebody's always

[00:08:28] coming after you the higher office you seek seems the more powerful or even lower office if

[00:08:35] you're in New York or something where they're happy to you know yeah I mean if you're if you're

[00:08:40] in New York and you're a politician and you're not on the take they're coming for you yeah

[00:08:45] they're gonna they're gonna take your ass out yeah no it's not gonna work but all right

[00:08:50] so bottom line I wanted to kind of dig deep in why I think this is is true uh one

[00:08:58] I think my argument is like if the government was really inept I think that we would have like uh

[00:09:08] no the the spending would be you know we'd have very inefficiencies in the government

[00:09:15] we do have that no doubt but I think it's it's more nefarious than that because it seems like

[00:09:21] they're actually trying to harm us and that's where people are like oh you're crazy I don't see

[00:09:28] that um and and part of it is like there's some middle of the road stuff where it harms us

[00:09:34] but it's more just because they want power and control and and so you know you have kind of

[00:09:40] the three ends of the spectrum of incompetence you have power and control and you have actually

[00:09:48] trying to destroy people um I would make the argument that the education system

[00:09:55] is in a way trying to destroy our way of life um one of the things I was actually listening to

[00:10:04] a old preacher from back in the day looked like from the 80s and it was something I saw on

[00:10:11] like YouTube or something and the guy was like well you know the way that schools are just

[00:10:22] trying to get people who are willing to go along those are the ones that excel and he talked

[00:10:28] about all the stupid projects and the stupid assignments that don't make any sense and don't

[00:10:34] you know aren't logical and are clearly time wasters now you know I know we like to tell

[00:10:40] ourselves well you don't understand the bigger picture we're not smart enough to see that

[00:10:46] and I think that's the problem is maybe we do see the bigger picture

[00:10:52] and that's where it's starting to fall apart but I think the the stupid projects and the

[00:10:58] stupid assignments are intentional and that because of that it's basically the ones who

[00:11:07] exceed are the people who are willing to conform and I would even venture as far to say and this

[00:11:13] is kind of what the preacher was saying but I would venture to say that maybe to get to the

[00:11:20] more elite schools you're basically more willing to conform and obey and and so we end up with

[00:11:28] these crazies and I think that my theory could be validated by what we're seeing now with

[00:11:35] this whole pro-Palestinian thing you see it's all like the elite schools where everybody's out

[00:11:42] trying to destroy the building and putting up Palestinian flags and the whole thing

[00:11:49] and just out and I don't think it's not an argument I mean obviously you know I have

[00:11:56] opinions on being a pro-Palestinian or not and pro-Israeli but it's not even that it's

[00:12:04] whatever the indoctrination going on at the school and then somehow everybody's on board with yeah

[00:12:11] let's just do it you know and and let's just all go out and be angry whereas you know at

[00:12:17] maybe community colleges and and things like that people are like hey I'm just trying to

[00:12:22] get a job you know I'm just trying to you know go through the motions so I can get my

[00:12:29] nursing degree or learn how to weld or you know be an electrician or plumber or whatever you know

[00:12:36] and their the goal is different if your goal is control if your goal is to rise up in power

[00:12:45] you end up having to be somebody who's willing to go along to get along you know you're

[00:12:50] somebody who has to follow the rules and eat a lot of crow you know right and that's that's

[00:12:57] kind of concerning it makes for a weak country is what I would say I don't know thoughts yeah

[00:13:05] no I agree with you see it does seem like um I don't know it does it does seem like we put

[00:13:11] up with a lot of bullshit from our government you know there's a lot of shit that I'd like

[00:13:16] to do that you know I do my spare time I enjoy doing and there's also a lot of shit I

[00:13:22] can't do that I would like to do in my spare time you know what I mean because it's against

[00:13:27] law most of it is because I live in New York State instead of Texas but I mean it's it's

[00:13:31] the same sort of uh same sort of situation um let's uh let's talk about some of the uh some

[00:13:40] of the government programs that uh were catastrophes Operation Fast and Furious that

[00:13:45] was a fantastic one so they're trying to figure out where the guns were going right how how are

[00:13:50] cartels getting firearms some of them were American it seemed so what they did was they

[00:13:58] they sold a bunch of illegal firearms to criminals in the United States and track

[00:14:04] that's worse is they went to the local gun shops and they said look we need you to not

[00:14:11] do background checks you know on certain people or let things go when these red flags come up

[00:14:17] we need you to just let it go because we're trying to see what happens here and what it was

[00:14:24] I mean I guess I misspoke there they still did background checks but it was when you think

[00:14:31] somebody's shady and like they come in and buy all these guns you know that they're kind of

[00:14:36] reselling them or buying them for other people just let that go even if you see red flags

[00:14:43] and and so they were doing that and then it's funny because then they went back and went after

[00:14:48] some of the gun dealers after they told them to let the stuff go yeah they were like why did you

[00:14:54] do that yeah they were like because the that's what you get though for working with those

[00:14:59] motherfuckers you know what I mean shit rolls downhill and if you're working with them you're

[00:15:03] the fucking bottom of the hill yeah yeah no exactly and you know that's it you know people

[00:15:08] it's funny at work somebody was like oh well the manager said just put his initials on there

[00:15:15] and he's okay with it and I'm like yeah that's cool because he's not going to be the one to

[00:15:21] question it but when somebody else is like oh I don't think he signed that that doesn't look

[00:15:27] like his initials he is not going to have your back yeah and you're gonna you know be out

[00:15:34] there to hang well I don't think that would happen okay go ahead yeah right now

[00:15:41] that's not what I'm gonna do but you know whatever whatever yeah so so ultimately with

[00:15:47] that they um most of the those illegal guns ended up in Texas they didn't most of them

[00:15:52] didn't go across the border some of them did uh one of them was a ak-47 that was used to

[00:15:58] kill a border agent yes um also they were used in um 100 150 mexicans killed and wounded

[00:16:07] as a result of those firearms that went missing because they were going to track them but they

[00:16:12] didn't so they didn't know where they actually ended up using and yeah and they said oh wait

[00:16:19] a minute this uh this gun that killed those people that came from us yeah that's awkward

[00:16:25] embarrassing yeah now that's definitely something that kind of keeps recurring and we see often

[00:16:34] with government you know I don't know let me let me segue around let me tell you about the irs

[00:16:42] I feel like the irs now mind you the government loses like billions of dollars trillions of

[00:16:48] dollars oh we don't know where that went oh yeah we misplaced all that money but with you you're

[00:16:56] totally accountable for anything and you know they're like oh you spent that 25 dollars I'm

[00:17:03] not sure that was really you know tax deductible or you know whatever they have but we pay an

[00:17:11] insane amount in tax right now you're thinking well chuck you know we wouldn't have roads and

[00:17:16] firehouses and policemen and and welfare if we didn't have taxes so it would be horrible

[00:17:24] well I kind of I did some research and I brought up a little chart with the

[00:17:30] background of where your money goes now out of every dollar that we spend

[00:17:36] 27 cents that's your biggest like category goes to medicare and health

[00:17:43] that's a whole big can of worms right there that we could unpack for hours of how our health care

[00:17:52] why are our taxes paying 27 percent are going just to health care do you feel like you get

[00:18:00] 27 cents out of every dollar you spend 27 percent of your paycheck helps you out with

[00:18:08] your health care do you feel like I mean shit I go to the doctor like once every five years and

[00:18:16] I don't see it obviously bigger things come up now you could say well somebody gets cancer

[00:18:22] and that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars do you feel like you got hundreds of thousands of

[00:18:30] hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of value out of that I don't know that you do

[00:18:38] 17.8 percent would go to the pentagon and military do you feel like they're doing good

[00:18:46] to actually make America awesome out there now obviously I'm not talking about soldiers I'm a

[00:18:52] veteran whatever they do what the government says but do you feel that the government is

[00:18:57] allocating resources and deploying our military to things that represent your values and where

[00:19:04] you want that to go now when we live in society we all decide together and some things aren't

[00:19:10] exactly the way we want them to be you know more one more the other 12.7 cents of that

[00:19:20] dollar goes to education do you feel like your kids are really getting the education that you

[00:19:25] want that 12 percent of your paycheck is going to that well let's let's stop that for a

[00:19:31] second because in most states in New York State specifically I know because I live here

[00:19:39] a large portion of my check ends up going to pay for school taxes yeah that's not the

[00:19:48] federal government that's the state government but I was just talking about income tax now

[00:19:53] we're talking about a whole other tax right so all the money you pay in school taxes that's

[00:19:59] not all the money you pay in school taxes because you still pay 17 percent of your taxes

[00:20:04] of your pay your dollar goes to schools right right that's insane that that is is insane

[00:20:13] let me let me keep going a little bit more here because then unemployment and labor I don't

[00:20:19] even know what labor is but anyway unemployment and labor is eight cents veterans benefits is

[00:20:27] five cents so really if we add the five cents to the 18 cents from pentagon and military that's

[00:20:35] almost right up there with health care um food and agriculture four and a half percent or four

[00:20:42] and a half cents right transportation three and a half housing and community community two and a

[00:20:49] half energy and environment is a cent um science is 0.7 international affairs is one cent and then

[00:20:58] just running the government is another three cents that actually doesn't even horrify me as

[00:21:05] much as the rest of them uh-huh but it ah dude it just it makes my head explode and like I said

[00:21:13] that's just out of your irs income tax so when you pay uh 27 percent of your taxes that are

[00:21:21] going to medicare and medicaid that means that you don't have to pay eight or nine hundred dollars

[00:21:26] a month for health insurance right oh you still have to pay for your own health insurance i got

[00:21:32] it okay right all right so i'm paying for my own health insurance and then whoever everybody

[00:21:38] else also that's great now and and this is the dangerous road that everybody you know that we

[00:21:45] always end up going down is you're like well you know it's not fair that we pay for everybody's

[00:21:52] health care because i can't decide who drinks and smokes who does heroin who eats way too

[00:22:01] much who just drinks too much beer where they're fat you know whatever it is right i can't

[00:22:06] you know decide if you eat the ding-dongs or not right now obviously i eat a lot of ding-dongs and

[00:22:12] i pay for my you know my health care right but so that's the thing we can't control it

[00:22:19] and that i feel like is just opening the door where the government's going to be like well

[00:22:24] you know what we looked at it and we've kind of run out of money

[00:22:29] so instead of not paying for everybody's health care we're gonna have to make sure that you

[00:22:36] guys all stop drinking smoking and eating bad food because we can't afford it anymore so

[00:22:43] twinkies we're gonna ban twinkies we're gonna ban the sodas because look at smoking look at

[00:22:49] how much health care it costs how about we don't ban smoking and drinking and whatever

[00:22:57] and we just don't pay for your health care that sounds logical to me like they mind their own

[00:23:04] business you know i don't know dude it enrages me um now you're another thing that i have a big

[00:23:15] problem with is percentage of income that people pay for taxes now it turns out right that

[00:23:24] the share of of total taxes all right total income taxes paid is paid by the top one percent

[00:23:35] does pay 42 percent of all the taxes so they always say the rich aren't paying their share

[00:23:42] but one percent are paying 42 of everything and i feel like that's discouraging people from

[00:23:50] earning more and at least limiting because here's the way i look at it and and people

[00:23:56] get annoyed at this because they're like oh well you don't understand rich people are greedy

[00:24:01] but here's the way i look at it you're basically saying this top one percent is a good

[00:24:07] steward of money and knows how to invest it and make it grow so we're going to take the

[00:24:14] majority of that away from them so they can't do well now you're probably going to tell me

[00:24:22] well chuck but they wouldn't have the roads to do anything if it wasn't for the rest of us

[00:24:27] well okay so the only the bottom 50 percent only pay two percent of all the taxes

[00:24:38] the bottom 50 percent earners now you're saying yeah but you know they're not paying their share

[00:24:46] they need to pay a higher percentage of their income well they do the top one percent pay

[00:24:52] 22 percent of their income in tax whereas the bottom 50 percent pay 10 percent of their

[00:25:03] their income in taxes so the percentage they're paying double when they're rich

[00:25:09] i'm just saying that's something to think about it it's you can't punish people for succeeding

[00:25:16] and reward bad behavior and expect good things like they always say well we tax the shit out

[00:25:22] of cigarettes because we don't want you to do it anymore but if you're a really good earner

[00:25:31] we're going to tax the shit out of you because we don't want you to be a really good earner

[00:25:35] anymore that doesn't make sense i'm just saying what are you gonna do what are you gonna do

[00:25:44] somebody's got to take care of everybody else i don't know it just it just enrages me

[00:25:51] all right the the patriot act that's a whole other can of worms is the patriot act keeping

[00:26:00] us safer i know that i haven't seen any reports about this in a long time um i know i kept going

[00:26:07] away and then coming back and you know whatever but it never really went away but one of the

[00:26:13] things with the patriot act was they said that it had stopped zero terrorists or whatever since

[00:26:21] you know i don't even know how you can say these things it got some drug dealers

[00:26:26] that aren't terrorists at all but i mean i guess whatever there's lots of people who say things

[00:26:33] that they're like well we put that guy in jail so you know i don't know but they didn't stop any

[00:26:38] like terror attacks i guess was the right argument not they caught lots of terrorists

[00:26:43] i think but maybe not terror attacks yeah but i mean i feel like that label terrorist is

[00:26:49] thrown around pretty well i think exactly what what i mean there you know it it comes up um

[00:26:57] yeah now they're and you know look at how it's changed our police you know the whole

[00:27:04] a cop coming up and and just being like show me your papers kind of thing that would have

[00:27:09] never been acceptable before 9-11 people didn't go for that kind of crap like obviously

[00:27:16] you know you can say well that's not how they treated black people in the south and you are

[00:27:21] right there were some cops doing some horrible things and there's always you know that whole

[00:27:27] but the majority of of a small town america in the 80s it wasn't really a thing 90s 2000

[00:27:34] that cops weren't like out just screwing with you i don't know i know they used to be like

[00:27:39] hey what are you kids doing out here on your skateboards and whatever right god forbid a kid

[00:27:44] rides remember some of that crisis right uh that that stuff always uh drives me crazy because it

[00:27:51] does feel like a lot of cops are into like pushing teenagers around but they do like

[00:27:57] pushing teenagers around you got to teach them whatever you got to follow the rules buddy i'm

[00:28:03] an authority figure you listen now you're thinking well chuck that all that income tax

[00:28:08] goes to important things but like roads and whatever but that's not really right because

[00:28:15] we have the fuel tax that you pay at the gas pump right turns out that really is supposed

[00:28:21] to be covering your and believe it or not before there are cars and governments there were roads

[00:28:25] roads existed like it can't be real well all the way back all the way back to horses man

[00:28:30] well yeah they were all yeah no it it worked out um i want you to come to my business i'm

[00:28:38] going to find a way for you to get there right you know um and and that's also why people

[00:28:44] group together in uh in areas you know uh what about well we're still on the patriot act

[00:28:53] thing and police and the lockdowns the things that they did and i'm not talking about you

[00:28:59] know people here locked down there oh coven yep they had a shut in well even more than that do

[00:29:04] you remember the boston marathon bombing right they just shut that city down and we're like

[00:29:11] nope none of you it's security terrorism we had to get obviously that was a horrible tragedy

[00:29:17] and it was fucked up and you know we don't need that kind of thing in america i hate

[00:29:21] to say it we need to make sure that we get people who do that kind of thing because they

[00:29:26] need to know that there's no chance of you know i get that i i get the argument but

[00:29:33] the way they came rolling out and now dude that was insane to think for a government to kind of

[00:29:41] flex that kind of power and show the uh the population you know what kind of control they

[00:29:47] have over them that was a big hand to play and i'm surprised we didn't have more uh

[00:29:54] consequence to that i'm surprised that you know is one more thing that nudged us into that police

[00:30:00] state direction but i think on the flip side it wasn't it wasn't uh it didn't seem to have

[00:30:12] consequences on the service surface like i would have thought it would have you know more long

[00:30:17] term for society as a whole because we just accepted it we were like oh okay that yeah

[00:30:23] that's all right because terrorism bad you know but it's one more nudge in the wrong direction

[00:30:30] yeah yeah well they they the news spent a lot of time working us up getting us terrified

[00:30:35] of terrorists they're around every corner you know every person you saw that wasn't like you

[00:30:40] know had a kind of a uh a dark tan you know what i mean not black not white but anything

[00:30:46] in between you're kind of in trouble didn't matter if you were from india pakistan

[00:30:51] afghan didn't matter where you're from if you had that skin color i don't know dude probably a

[00:30:57] terrorist yeah but now they're working so hard as don't be judgmental nope palestinians nope

[00:31:04] these are all good people over there that are uh you know just trying to make ends meet

[00:31:12] i don't know i just i i find it beyond disturbing you know that that's where it comes down

[00:31:21] um all right let's talk about food how are they doing uh making sure your food is safe

[00:31:27] making sure you don't get sick are they out inspecting everything and and making sure it's

[00:31:32] all cool because they don't really inspect that much um and how do you feel about

[00:31:38] poison in your food um how are we doing with corn syrup why is that a big push why is the

[00:31:44] government funding that kind of thing how much has the government put into utilizing corn

[00:31:50] and putting corn in everything you eat like what what the hell yeah why why why is uh

[00:31:57] why is is corn in everything i eat corn syrup corn starch corn everything yeah it's in everything

[00:32:05] and the united states subsidizes that right if you grow corn you're going to get paid for the

[00:32:10] corn you know yep i don't i don't get it it just it it just feels like the priorities are all

[00:32:19] wrong um and you know i mean the chemicals in general you know they're starting to be this

[00:32:25] little uprising of uh people talking about uh forever chemicals chemicals that they're putting

[00:32:31] in food that end up there in your body and never go away um you know is there maybe something you

[00:32:38] know people keep saying chem trails that if you do a little research into this there

[00:32:44] there's now a lot of aluminum in jet fuel which is a weird thing that happened in like

[00:32:50] the 80s 90s they started doing it and they're saying that that's kind of so

[00:32:56] in the environment and from and because of the chem trails right just coming off the plains

[00:33:02] that it's now kind of everywhere in our land just has aluminum that's getting in our water

[00:33:08] it's in our you know food at the soil that we're growing and everything and it's really

[00:33:13] taking a toll on people's health and of course then we just have more pharmaceuticals

[00:33:18] to kind of keep us alive so it evens out we're still living to 80 or whatever versus

[00:33:23] right you know right as long as we uh as long as we take all the right pills and

[00:33:29] shit yeah it doesn't seem like science in america has really like cured anything in a while

[00:33:36] like what was the last thing polio they can treat a lot of stuff but they don't cure shit

[00:33:41] no they don't cure shit they gotta have the long-term plague because you're like oh

[00:33:45] they cured aids they got that figured out i see the commercials undetectable well yeah but

[00:33:51] did they cure it or do you just have to keep buying more pills yeah i knew a guy that had uh

[00:33:55] had aids and um he lived a good long time but it completely the medication he was taking

[00:34:01] completely destroyed his health like he got early onset alzheimer's and dementia and like

[00:34:07] just fucked him up all kinds of ways but he stayed alive for a lot longer hey there you go

[00:34:12] well they said uh like with uh oh alzheimer's then it really wasn't a thing in like up to

[00:34:19] like the 50s nobody like had alzheimer's and people are like well we didn't detect it and

[00:34:25] whatever no it pretty much that kind of thing wasn't there to anywhere near the levels that

[00:34:32] we have now and i gotta say i really feel like it's the chemicals and everything that

[00:34:38] we get and and back to the theme i mean the whole point of all this is the government is

[00:34:44] not really making things better for us yet they keep taking more of our money and i keep having

[00:34:50] to go to work all the time and doing tons of shit that i don't really want to do i want

[00:34:56] to spend time with my family i want to spend time you know enjoying the company of people

[00:35:01] i care about instead of being a slave you know they thought i thought with all these

[00:35:05] conveniences and innovation and technology that things would get cheaper and easier and instead

[00:35:13] we just have more crap you know yeah no i mean obviously we have a lot more stuff and you know

[00:35:20] oh well we have an iphone and we can you know look at videos of nonsense all day long and

[00:35:26] yeah i guess and you didn't have that and i can research and see the world and whatever

[00:35:31] but if we had that without the crippling taxes and i feel like you could have both

[00:35:37] i feel like technology could progress and we could not have crippling taxes maybe

[00:35:44] if we weren't poisoning everybody with all the food and the chem trails and everything else right

[00:35:51] then maybe we could not spend 27 percent of our income on health care for the country

[00:35:57] yeah that might be a thing so uh yeah so we're spending a lot of money right now on um

[00:36:04] on uh pfoas which is uh that's a one of the forever chemicals it's um related to microplastics

[00:36:11] it was used for um uh was used for um making non-stick uh pans yeah you know things things

[00:36:19] like that so that that's great um the company uh that produced it bare uh did have to pay a

[00:36:27] small amount out uh for that so um so there's that but the rest of us actually pay for it so

[00:36:35] bear you know we wouldn't want bear to go out of business you know what i mean

[00:36:39] so we can't take all their money so we'll take all your money you know that's now

[00:36:44] i'll get that straightened out exactly it's kind of like that whole lords of london

[00:36:48] insured the twin towers yeah and then they were like well we didn't think they'd

[00:36:52] fall down and whatever so obviously they went bankrupt yeah you have to pay for that

[00:36:58] they didn't go out of business right no they're all fine they're just like yeah no we're just

[00:37:02] not going to pay for that because that was like a lot why would we insure shit and take

[00:37:07] the money every year and then you know what you guys should do that or maybe the banks

[00:37:12] that did all those bad deals in 2009 and they bought all those shitty investments right

[00:37:18] right they bought all those shitty investments and then and then it came back and bit him in the

[00:37:22] ass uh no it didn't it bit us in the ass yeah exactly gm you remember gm uh they were going

[00:37:30] to go bankrupt and the big bailout because their pension fund and everything else yeah

[00:37:36] no don't worry the american taxpayer i'll take that we got that and no that's and people are

[00:37:43] like see it's capitalism capitalism's bad yeah capitalism didn't do any of that shit

[00:37:49] yeah no it wasn't capitalism capitalism would have seen those banks go bankrupt and would have seen

[00:37:54] those those uh yeah manufacture car manufacturers go under because you know if you suck at

[00:38:00] something you're not successful yeah yeah but that's not the way it works in in the united

[00:38:06] states anymore but then we wouldn't have the new camaro i don't know that that new camaro

[00:38:15] is really worth it i'll be honest with you i'm not impressed with it i hear you but kevin a

[00:38:21] thousand horsepowers out there with you know the different company not not camaro but i don't

[00:38:27] know there's a lot of 700 we're in that neighborhood and that's pretty freaking awesome

[00:38:32] i just didn't for that's the zl1 camaro that you know there's things out there right

[00:38:39] some cool things but uh now it's concerning it uh it's a crazy world though and that's

[00:38:46] my point you know fluoride in everything uh the covid vaccine you know there was a lot of

[00:38:53] states that wouldn't let people work in the health care or do things unless they got you

[00:38:59] know a mandatory vaccine i know massachusetts said they were making it legal for employers to

[00:39:07] demand you got the vaccine or you lose your job that was a legitimate thing um

[00:39:15] there's so many things that uh you know you could go out there and i don't know the government

[00:39:22] just can't force you to do shit yet they do and we keep accepting it as a society and i

[00:39:29] think that's you know what i'm talking about and that's you know right they take your money

[00:39:34] from you because you're not you're not really a grown-up you're not responsible to handle

[00:39:39] your own money so they'll take it and they'll spend it the way that they see fit as long as

[00:39:44] you follow their rules right i think that's really what it comes down to is one they know better

[00:39:49] than us as they keep telling us over and over again as evidenced by everything that we just

[00:39:54] laid out you know they obviously make good choices yeah um you know we we paid i'm a grown

[00:40:00] ass man but i need another grown ass man to tell me what to do right yeah you know you know how it

[00:40:05] is now what i would really bring up is is there a possibility that they did all this uh

[00:40:16] they they damn i don't know where i'm going now they uh is it possible that they added all

[00:40:24] this stress to us they put all this stuff out there and we don't know anything we're too dumb

[00:40:32] they know better and they have to tell us what to do could it be because we got a shitty education

[00:40:40] because aren't they in charge of the education yep but it's we're so dumb that all they had

[00:40:48] to work with is raw materials that you know this is the best they can do i don't know that

[00:40:54] could be idiocracy comes to mind i was just watching that the other day and they were

[00:41:00] you know they had the whole uh he's like no i'm getting out of jail today oh you're an idiot

[00:41:05] you're in the wrong line go stand over there oh okay yeah i feel like that would play out

[00:41:12] i don't know yeah no i feel like uh that is that is the kind of

[00:41:17] kind of bullshit that we're dealing with it's like we're getting we're getting dumber and dumber

[00:41:21] and we're putting up with it you know more and more bullshit and eventually you know

[00:41:26] the federal government has been growing for 200 years right been getting more and more

[00:41:32] powerful for a long time it never goes back the other way you know what i mean it never

[00:41:37] the president never gets less powerful only more powerful you know thomas jefferson john adams they

[00:41:44] weren't very powerful people they were the figurehead of uh of the executive branch and

[00:41:48] that was it yeah but i mean now the president just does whatever the fuck they want used to be

[00:41:56] that congress had to declare war but we don't go to war we're not in wars anymore we're in

[00:42:00] policing actions right operations so you know you just kind of cut congress right out all that

[00:42:09] shit it's not like congress makes better decisions though or anything you know they're

[00:42:13] a bunch of fucking retards too but my experience right what are you gonna do so with that i know

[00:42:21] nobody really wanted to wake up and hear me rant about the government but i just i couldn't

[00:42:26] help it it was building for a while i have to vent a little bit every now and again

[00:42:31] and you know that's how it is sometimes so you just i appreciate you bearing with me

[00:42:37] and and toughen it out you can uh you know give a show ideas tell us things you're concerned

[00:42:44] about what you'd rather hear about maybe you don't want to know about coffee for the

[00:42:48] apocalypse you know maybe we need to do an episode on how you can substitute your crack

[00:42:54] habit during the right there's gonna be i mean if things go down there's gonna be a lot of

[00:43:00] addictions that people have that they don't realize they have you know that's right

[00:43:05] there's a lot of people out there with sugar addictions that don't even realize that they

[00:43:09] you know they're addicted i mean the truth is sugars in almost everything you eat

[00:43:13] especially things that are processed you know you know that most of sugar comes from

[00:43:17] beets in the u.s yeah that's weird right i didn't know that until recently not sure

[00:43:22] you know because in school they brought in sugar cane this is where it comes from this is right

[00:43:28] we're like oh yeah that's my understanding now it's all like beets i'm like this weird

[00:43:34] so just saying there's things out there you need to know about it we have the answers

[00:43:39] we'll dig it up for you you know if concerns talk to us prepping badass at gmail.com

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[00:43:53] something that has you know podcast logo maybe you want some of those shirts i'm gonna have

[00:43:58] to make the seven ways to die t-shirt from kevin yeah i don't know there's got to be

[00:44:04] something that that we need to do to work this out make the world better for you

[00:44:10] you can let us know we'd appreciate it anyway i appreciate you sticking around

[00:44:15] appreciate you having us here and uh you know somebody recommended maybe you want to save the

[00:44:20] nudie magazine so when the internet goes down you'll be in demand or maybe that's not what

[00:44:26] he wrote but that's what i came up with um anyway the uh i will let you guys get to it

[00:44:34] so with that stay safe and we'll talk to you guys next week