 all right people staff everything okay cameraman everything all right all right good ready to roll ready to roll man yes i got a haircut i got a mole cut actually uh-huh uh-huh it's an old cheesy joke that's great uh seven lucky bells for our show for this week's progressive uh discussions i just want to say before i begin might as well get the formalities out of the way well you already know who we are and where we're from because you saw that the intro everything we discuss politically is part of our series capitalism in a conch shell actually crappitalism crappitalism in a conch shell see that conch messages from king neptune you got too many you got too much to say that will take up too much of our time right king yeah yeah i know i know how it is oh yeah donald trump yeah you think that's that someday he might undergo a psychiatric evaluation hi what straightjacket yikes i think so look good that's for sure that's for sure that's for damn sure um okay yeah right right wing evangelists religious freaks yes yes yeah we know all about them they're out of their minds man they're they're completely out of their minds and they can't prove anything no wonder our forefathers wanted to keep church and state completely separated that's right all right i'll talk to you later all right gotta love that nip soon or what the Greeks used to call him Poseidon not piss siden now you're talking about donald trump again piss piss siden pee pee no more pee pee pee i can't wait to see what alec Baldwin does tonight on saturday night lav he's got it oh he's got such a great job for the next four years that alec Baldwin uh all right um okay now uh you remember that gentleman um steven from new jersey that had problems with uh social services with new jersey uh welfare and then he got that straightened out and then he applied for social security disability and then he got jerked around by them and then eventually he got that straightened out because he had legal representation and he won his case the way to go steve i mean they they're not giving him a fortune but you know they are giving him a nice retro active check so yeah now well they are they are they are giving them a nice retro trick the monthly pay monthly payment is like ballpark typical of what people will get on social security disability i mean it's still you know social security disability payments it's like the average american salary the average payness uh wonderful and it's wonderful crappitalism we have here in america you know here's the cost of living and here's the average american salary here's the cost of living and here's the typical social security disability payment down here okay here's the cost of living and i don't know if you can see all the way down here is what welfare gives poor people new jersey were fucking welfare all the way down here so the cost of living is always head over heels far above the typical american salary the typical welfare payments and the typical social security disability because they always cheat on the code they try to screw they try to screw the cpi yeah well the a big business screws the customer every chance they get they lie to you so why not you know hey the people that are in bed with the big big companies are the same people that screw you out of uh what you should be receiving now on the other hand in scandinavia they're starting to give people an annual base income a couple countries have started i think norway started it and uh a base income gives you gives every citizen the foundation that they need to have a we don't all have land a halfway decent you know a halfway decent semi happy life maybe a happy life you know i mean you only live once life is short and uh if you got a miserable life that's pretty depressing because then you it'll be like like the fruit fly you know you're born you hang around a little bit you have sex and you drop that you know like creatures with short telomers rats live three years you know so humans i mean pets in general that live 10 15 20 years humans you might squeeze 80 years out of them you know they're good conditions maybe more you know i'm talking about what we're not talking about um uh a very sickly old age we're talking about quality life you know so like you know your jack the lanes out there so but eventually time flies and it's time to croak so at least you should be happy so you got that you got that base salary now steven let's get back to steven all right you want his case way to go steven right he the retro is good he's very happy retro is actually great uh monthly payments are good i wouldn't say they're bad i wouldn't say they're poor but you know still realistically cost of living is up here average social security disability payment is right down over here now um especially with the major cities of the u.s with the cost of rents and everything you know you know everything's a rip-off in in capitalist america everything utility bills your cable you name it hook or buy crook you name it they're all crooked now what steven found out that really pissed him off and he called me is that okay now that he has the social security disability they threw him off his obama care his uh horizon of new jersey affordable care act whatever they threw him off that now he's got a medicare card okay of course they have to take medicare premiums from uh his original social security disability amount i mean however heaven forbid you may contact s l m b in new jersey and you might be eligible eligible for them to for the state of new jersey to pay that they will pay that write that down before i leave and i will give it to steven s l m okay all right let's go i will try very hard to read to remind you to remember to remind you all right well we can come right now i don't know listen i don't know if steven still has an active medicare card because medicare was attached to the obama care you're probably open up you have a fee you have a feeling he got booted off of that yeah yeah yeah okay because because my mom too much now like my mother has her social security retirement yet she has her health insurance called wealth care that works with medicare she has that and and she said she has medicaid now i don't understand how my mother has all that right and steven has a god's anguola well you can look into all of that yeah i mean you know so we got a steve steve you got to look into it uh i will help you out um because oh this is why steven was pissed she he calls medicare medicare says well you have to sign up for a prescription drug plan aren't big yeah he says uh all right give me the policies what's your what's your cheapest what's your lowest rate she brings up all the companies she says well the lowest rate that will pay for the medications you're taking because you know you don't want to there's no sense of going rock bottom and then end up paying more out of pocket when you go to pharmacists because then you're not really saving if you're paying a higher uh what's the word co-pay co-pay then you know we gotta you gotta have a plan that'll that'll cover your costs well that is also another new jersey plan it's called ad p a a t and it will pay for a company and the company they're using right now is called silverscript i heard about that you get a part b car silverscript that pays your drug costs now this this applies to social security disability recipients cause and no low income people any low income right well you got to be within their jersey now it's not federal but you got to be within their range what they consider but it's a pretty good range you know it's okay if i think it's you gotta be making something like 21 thousand well Medicaid Medicaid i think is cut off if you're making up to 800 some thousand you're you're eligible if you if you fall under that amount you know then this is much different yeah better it's much better yeah well actually remind me i'll write them down now um yeah the lowest the lowest practical uh drug uh drug prescription coverage is a company called first health and it's $35 a month that steven says isn't that a little steep well normally if you didn't have pad you'd pay $30 for art or one of the other companies that carry the cars yeah i don't understand why the girl from medicare they didn't mention all these things you're over 50 no no steven steven steven is over 50 yes sir so he should join art too it's only $12 a year well that's just a membership like dudes right like dudes but they you learn stuff you do you know it's hard to be an old they sell vitamins well they so i guess they consider over 50 to be old yes see see the reason why the reason why steven got approved for social security disability so so uh smoothly so easily is because he he turned 55 at the right year which means he doesn't have to prove if he's eligible for any other occupation of of aside from what he did in life like like if he if he was younger if he didn't turn 55 at that certain year he would have to they would have to analyze the judge and the uh they have vocational experts so to speak they will analyze to see if steven is eligible for any other occupation uh not aside from the fact that the job market is is is shit you know they would do that they would try to see see gee let's let's see what else steven can do for a living you know and use that as an excuse not to give them social security disability yes but if you're a republican congressman or whatever and you got rich buddies and you got uh you know you've got corporations getting free billions in free welfare oh money is no object when it comes to that you know uh you know they on the show mysteries at a museum they showed up a bunker with thick lead walls a bunker that was built over under a um a hotel in virginia outskirts of virginia not not terribly far from washington dc but you know not not next door either but it's a bunker it's in the country and no one knew who was there and uh they the government declassified it i think in 1992 early 90s declassified it so it's now open for the public to see and it looked like a fortune was put into this bunker because it is it is supposed to comfortably uh uh uh contain the senate and the house of representatives comfortably in in in case you know the nuclear attack now now it was a beautiful it almost looked like a like a village or or a town underground and and and why would they spend all that money then declassify it well i'm sure taxpayers money went into because they got another one that's why yeah but more but they already have one don't they think about the taxpayers yeah who is this guy who me yeah who came in here i don't know who's behind me are you being sarcastic my god you're being sarcastic think about the taxpayers well i mean uh reverend dr bill this this bunker was freaking enormous it had a theater it had a yeah it had a room it had a room for the for the for the house of representatives have meetings it had little apartments it had a kitchen it had there's one in uh nevada or utah or whatever what the fuck couldn't they why couldn't they continue to use this it's beautiful you know you know you spent the money it's gorgeous use it why declassify it you know what see the problem is the american people and really no one else holds any politician accountable for any damn thing once they're elected that's it that's the problem that's the problem they're not answering to anybody what about the weapons and etc the tanks they got a couple of years ago they did you just threw them away and bought new ones thrown by military waste yeah it's it's it's terrific listen military social services and i know i keep on repeating myself social services make up one to two percent of the total budget the military makes up over 50 percent of total budget now that's not counting the waste oh come on you know the waste though the waste is in the waste is built in now if the waste wasn't there you know the conservatives that are supposed to be conservative and yeah with spending unless it's on themselves and their family and their friends you know i mean it will be considerably less than the 56 or 55 percent of the total budget um now um which it doesn't need to be in the first place yeah because as if we just spent normally we still spend more than any other than any other bunch of countries combined oh without a doubt uh yeah Mitch McConnell he sounds like Jimmy Stewart oh my American people working stuff American people are going to stand for it he's full of shit the American people the American people have no idea what you you you you you and your crooked friends are doing no idea and they're not going to stand for it yeah you know turtle face um the point is that it um they just are are not held accountable they are for you to do whatever they want they do it i mean uh but when it comes to the little guy you don't deserve a penny the little guy deserves now one red cent not according to a republican politician um and uh you're going to see a cute banner when we go to lunch and it says like if jesus was born 30 years ago how many if if jesus was born only 30 years ago okay uh the republicans and fox news would have impegged as a uh middle eastern uh uh terrorist uh uh uh enabling the poor social uh socialist the kami pinko uh etc etc etc they would have jesus labeled as that yeah the the so forget about when that when a right wing evangelical brags about how close to god they are it's all a complete lie because they don't know the god of the bible they don't want to help the poor all right they don't want to pay their fair share in taxes um and but but what puzzles me are all the morons that believe their propaganda and and they and these morons are living paycheck to paycheck bill to bill week to week month to month some of them don't have a pot to piss in and they vote republican you saw it in kentucky with this election with from yeah everybody on obama care and medicaid and this and the other thing voted for from him did you hit there was a funny cartoon of a of a redneck saying i don't want nothing to do with no old bummer care oh no we have the affordable care oh that sounds good yeah that's what they did they went around the street and they asked people do you favor obama care or would you favor something like the affordable care act affordable care act everyone they don't know what the hell they're talking about i don't want no sticking old bummer care that's the problem there's like 35 percent of america they consider themselves because conservatives well they're who don't know what the hell they're voting for or doing well they're clueless clueless they're completely clueless um so uh yeah chiseless hall of shame of course shame on you american pharmaceutical industry shame on you american insurance companies steve shouldn't have to be paying no stinking 35 dollars a month from his social security discipline george w bush part d is thanks to george w bush right now of course the universal singer single payer uh uh uh uh too easy modified medicare too easy but that's easy anything that makes sense yeah you see to all the people that are clueless really efficient living and doing the right thing is really just common sense you don't have to be a rocket scientist or you don't have to have a high IQ you don't even need a high a much uh you don't have to be brilliant to know who to vote for you just vote for who has your best interests that's all you have to know it's as simple as that all right let us sink our teeth into these readings for this week's progressive discussions and um we've been getting a lot of attacks by by trolls uh lately but that's okay it just invigorates me you know it's what's the shame my my black thorn chilelli hasn't really cracked open the heads well why don't you have any of anyone yet since i've had this why don't you ask them if they want to take over the show no no it's it's not about the it's not about the show uh i don't even care anymore what it's about time what people say about the show because i i i like the way we do things here but uh you know it's about other things like uh like in other words to make a long story short if you're an outspoken person and uh you tell you call them like you see them you're open for for attack that's correct um and that's in any society yeah so uh there's an old african proverb is that a true a person who tells the truth all the time that has no friends or or very i appreciate or very few you know george carlin says people really appreciate honesty until you say something about them exactly then you're an asshole and that's honest yeah so how honest could how yeah i mean it's hypocritical you want honesty but whoa as long as you don't mention my name yeah all right go ahead article on woman's reproductive rights challenged all right sounds good about halfway through the editorial i stopped and settled on but the choice to abort or not abort should be made by women not the federal government but guess who gave them that choice if the liberal majority on the u.s supreme court still had a moral backbone it wouldn't help women kill their own soon to be born children kill so they consider the embryo and the fertilized egg to be a human baby human baby now they're wrong they're out it's no more a human baby than the eggs in my omelet or an acorn you know what an acorn is to an oak tree an acorn is to an oak tree it is no more a baby president john adam said our constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people james wilson original supreme court justice said human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine Washington madison some of the other founding fathers were of the same mind they did not intend for god to be trapped within the four walls of a church and the catholic church is the largest private charity organization in the world the financial charity of this church preserves all life in the womb yeah let me tell you most charities are our scams even if even if you tell me 25 cents on a dollar goes to the worthy cause i still consider it out of scam because the people that work for charities should do it on voluntary basis volunteer basis so the only charity i respect the saint jew's children's hospital and i was appalled by the people that collect donated hair charge cancer children with cancer patient children for the wake charged them i would like to see uncle sam equal the catholic church in this effort huh well the catholic church i hear has many billions in gold when he owned right oh yeah in gold oh yeah so that which can half of that can eradicate poverty worldwide so you know you you you you represent the god of the bible well liquidate some of the the mass sets and eradicate poverty well you see what jesus told the one rich guy when he asked what he could do yeah i said give all of that away he couldn't do that give it to the poor and then come and follow me yeah he couldn't do it he couldn't do that hey donald trunks wonderful wall would cost about um was it 20 billion anywhere from 17 to 20 billion that'll eradicate poverty in the united states and homelessness but no problem you know but that makes too much sense well yeah that makes too much sense and believe it or not before that wall if it ever gets built and when it gets built the taxpayers will pay for of course not the rich but there are places in that wall that must remain see-through they cannot be solid over so many areas it's planned to go yeah let's let's take uh el paso texas which is not right next to war as the very dangerous war as mexico there's a road there there's a road people enter mexico and the us via that that path that that that little bridge it goes over to the rio grand if there's anything left of the rio grand river probably like a semi probably a little riblet this time of year maybe yeah like it's mostly a skeleton yeah the real grand so you know some place has to be open but hey they found a very lovely modern tunnel going from san diego to tijuana mexico yes built by the by the mexican by mexicans really nice tunnel and it was quite lovely you know you could make a very nice studio apartment down there you won't even need air conditioning and uh hey probably had it don't tunnels go under walls because el chapo's tunnel had air conditioning oh well yeah yeah when he builds some it's it's top of the line second to none is the best the best but i'm saying is the tunnels go under walls yeah and and and and and the helicopters and and planes fly over them or catapults even the catapult hey the guy in the circus does it with the cannon no and you're making so what the hell we catapult and you're making me think there's some old british kind of comedy and month monthy body python catapult above the wall there you go uh president donald trump is taking his first steps aimed at scaling back financial services regulations and the republican run congress cast a vote early on friday signaling signaling that it's eager to help the president signed an executive order that will direct the treasury secretary to review a 2010 financial oversight law which reshaped financial regulation after the 2008 2009 financial crisis tromb also signed a presidential memorandum that instructs the labor department to delay implementing an obama era rule that requires financial professionals who charge commissions to put their clients best interests first when giving advice on retirement order won't have any immediate impact the administration's intent is clear any relaxation of the burdensome regulations will be greatly appreciated by the bank gerald lippkin chairman and chief executive officer of valley national bank said in his statement john mcqueady jr president and ceo of the new jersey bankers association said mcqueady mcqueady said his industry is not looking to be regulated we're just looking for some smart regulation that allows banks to serve their customers better i wonder if he looks like anthony queener he's just a mcqueenie phyllis salau k executive director of new jersey citizen action in new york bemoaned the effort to scale back the dod frank amendment we worked so hard as did our members and our affiliated organizations to get dod frank pass it would be absolutely tragic to see dod frank roll back this is the first significant financial reform that we've seen and coming off the 2008 disaster that affected so many people it's just another example wall street winning over maize and we can't let that happen we will fight to protect wall street reform and the highly successful consumer financial protection bureau the agency at the front lines of consumer protection that has been targeted by big wall street banks debt collectors and even payday lenders because it works for consumers and not for them ed mirrors winski consumer program director for the public research interest groups and in a state trump pledged during his campaign to repeal and replace the dod frank law which also created the consumer financial protection bureau god frank is a disaster Trump said earlier this week during a meeting with small business we're going to be doing a big number on god frank so what how's he gonna help small businesses if he wants to cut more taxes from the rich obviously those people are not asking that part of the question because small businesses you see when you hear the word main street that's the middle class and what is the middle class unions union members small businesses mom and pop stores professionals self-employed professionals these are all part of main street middle class you take away you take away small businesses and you kill and unions and all that stuff you just you're destroying the middle class and oh by the way the middle class are the are the backbone consumers for the economy there they are the backbone for jobs and for the economy consumer spending you know hey any readings on what's her name uh kelly and conchway kelly and kelly and conchway yes she made a big boo boo the other day oh she's all right i could continue kitchen the shorthand name for the law refers to its democratic sponsors former senator chris god of Connecticut and former representative barney frank of massachusetts trump's order won't have any immediate impact but it directs the treasury secretary to consult with members of different regulatory agencies and the financial stability oversight council and report back on potential changes trump administration officials like other critics argue god frank did not achieve what it set out to do and portray it as an example of massive government overreach time for my medicinal tea oh my goodness let me see if i can find that one on kelly and conchway yeah what a joke that outfit was not during the inauguration that she wore she looked like a revolutionary war soldier in uh but in you know in a in a dress uniform for a parade or something yeah so we take you know they these republicans they sure are very ostentatious about their so-called patriotism aren't they yeah because republicans have more patriotic and they're more godly god likes them better than anyone else meanwhile they don't meanwhile the late late they'll let the the poor starve in the street yeah oh yeah great christians right oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah you know and then you got your evangelical mega churches when's the last time they helped the poor like joel holstein and his mansion they're always oh they're always they always look constipated when they pray remember take cruise his eyes were squinted he's making that face you know his hands are up in the air like he's like like it's a wi-fi intended a god you know bat phone they got a bat phone to god oh i uh on the history on the uh mysteries of the museum they said they were talking about how the white house was at the beginning and it was structurally um there were structural flaws in it and uh presidents did different things with it i think teddy roosevelt did the biggest renovation and he's the one that had put the structural flaw in it but uh then he showed how how different presidents had the oval office set up but there wasn't an oval office until uh fdr there wasn't the the oval office today was i think established by by uh franklin roosevelt and uh you know um was i going to say about the uh what's my train of thought i was going to say something about the white house or about um oh the mysteries of the museum um oh the uh during the cold war there was no red phone where jfk can call the key to cruise ship there was no hotline there was a like a tell a teletyper like a telegraph yeah there was no red phone i think that's where they got the idea for the batman series with adam west member uh commissioner gordon yeah chief ohara had a red phone yeah all the police he had uh working for me he got a paul uh batman well he never they never did anything got the gotham city police department never did a damn thing they would buy the batman up for everything they put they shine out light in the sky yeah well wait a minute if they call him on the bat phone why did i have to shine the batman spotlight in the sky i have no idea to make sure i mean oh maybe it's that way that's it batman wasn't home if he wasn't in the bat cave then alfred couldn't answer it you know you gotta love the old comedies especially if they're a little budget uh i can't seem to find galleon here and maybe the reading doesn't exist no it exists here but it's probably among another one you know maybe it's stuck it to something else elsa elsa but i'm all right don't worry i'm down to uh i'm down to uh older readings and uh well you want yeah you want to you want all the readings that are still applicable to today yeah yeah they should be applicable to the week the week of the show which is this week some things are more eternal than that and they are well some things have a week to week some things some readings have a universal message right well it can be any week i know some of your readings of censored never were eternal many of them were the names the names are different the names may be different the presidents may be different but the message and the problems are still the same right on that's what we mean by universal subject right on well read something you know i mean not not ancient but read something president donald trump while speaking at the annual national prayer breakfast oh yeah i heard about that in washington on thursday asked america he's a he's a man to pray for arnold schwarzenegger why he's sick arnold's sick no don't and his sagging ratings since taking over the celebrity apprentice oh i hear they're having words with each other trump had been introduced by mark bernett who produced and created the original the apprentice he's mad because he can't do both and the celebrity spin-off the president's remark was a small part of his speech it should be taken in context not just how it fit into a bipartisan gathering of political leaders that should have been more reflective i think arnold schwarzenegger said hey hey trump let's switch jobs he did and then we'll see our ratings and you know what i think arnold i think arnold's ratings would be very favorable over a trump over a donald trump as in soul searching rather than mirror preening but how it follows the president's statement on national holocaust remembrance day last week that was the same day trump signed an executive order banning all refugees from entering the united states for 120 days all refugees meaning not just is a muslim all refugees or did it does he really mean one of those seven countries yeah except the countries he's doing business with of course none of those countries ever sent us the terrorists though no trump did not specifically mention jews in his holocaust statement apologies are not his style so on saturday white house spokesman hope hicks responding to criticism of the statement was on cnn cnn saying despite what the media reports we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all those who suffered not good enough the nazis killed millions of people including gypsies and homosexuals but the holocaust was a jewish tragedy the final solution was designed to exterminate jews young and old regardless of politics or wealth or anything saved the fact that they were jew well i heard a young george soros his job was to confiscate the personal belongings of the jews before they went on the train to the concentration camp you know and uh possibly they confiscated uh everything they had six million jews were killed and while jews were being rounded up into cattle cars and sent to work in camps and gas chambers the united states did little to save them well they turned away uh german uh german jews seeking a refuge asylum on a ship on a passenger ship the passenger ship had a return to germany the absence of jews in the holocaust statement perhaps was a sign of the lack of people with wisdom around the president some reports suggest that trump son-in-law jarid kushner the grandson of holocaust survivors had a hand in writing the statement i do not question kushner's faith i do question whether any 30-something person has the first generation connection needed to understand why the absence of jew in the statement was so significant holocaust survivors are dying out the young men and women who witnessed the rise of the nazis and fled for their lives are upwards of 90 years old now oh yeah and us and people who survived uh Stalin Joseph Stalin also and and uh jews were also killed uh russian jews in in ukraine were also killed by the nazis and uh but but people forget history they have a tendency people have a tendency to forget history that's what he means there because there won't be anyone around to describe it and say that it actually happened they'll be like the guy the president of the the president of iran a while ago who never believed in it what about uh you don't even have to go to uh nazi germany what about the native americans and the slaves the african slaves in united states i mean they were they were tortured there was i mean uh genocide torture uh you know i mean uh but you know the younger generations quickly forget they don't even think about it no of course not so they cannot have the empathy if there are no survivors left uh they cannot read i mean they should really read real history books but i don't think there's any out there in school but you know if there is it should be empathy if they don't come from texas i would trust them history they come from texas forget it history books from texas i would say will glorify the uh white anglo sacks and protestant uh american settlers european settlers who stole everything from the indigenous people and had slaves kept slaves they they're not going to glorify they're not going to tell you the true story about what happened you know uh all i have to say is those white europeans in pennsylvania and and i think ohio the amish they i never heard about the amish keeping slaves they did hard the hard farm work themselves yeah they work their own farms they were lazy southern crackers they're too fucking lazy to work their their plantations no no the amish worked their farms i do question whether any 30-something person as the first generation connection we read that holocaust survivors are dying out the young men and women who witnessed the rise of the nazis and fled are in their 90s these survivors must be respected their loss was personal not inclusive and there was no grasp by the trump administration that banning refugees on the same day the world paid homage to the dead of the holocaust was also a statement that the holocaust could happen again that civilized societies were still capable of turning their back on people fleeing oppression and certain death because self-interest still trumps all other considerations so i looked for the healing from the president in thursday's prayer breakfast speech but it wasn't there the schwarzenegger joke should not be the only takeaway it is most significant in that it shows how everything that happens in the world is in trump's eyes all about him why does he need to critique arnold schwarzenegger's job performance because he has to uh why his performance has to be better than schwarzenegger's he has to do that with the with the with the amount of people that were at the on oration with the way with the winning the the the the the popular vote he has to be numero uno on everything okay does he honestly maybe maybe uh the the the american people's opinion of donald trump uh as a politician uh maybe it carried over to the those that watched the celebrity apprentice uh in the in the past maybe maybe their people are so angry with donald trump that they don't care about celebrity apprentice anymore maybe that they got something they have so much anger and disappointment that they they decide not to watch celebrity apprentice would be you know uh you know it you can only go so far and firing people constantly you know eventually you know you're like you know fuck you i'm fired you know further into his speech trump said he heard five words while campaigning that meant the most to him i am praying for you republicans like to say that by the way yeah they're i'm i won't help you but i'm praying for you not i pray for a better world or even i pray but i am praying for you trump you yeah was the center of his speech instead of praying for you he should be uh living up to his campaign promises rather than talk about the deep fear american muslims have today after the travel ban and after a young white man shot worshipers in a mosque in canada on sunday trump singled out the elimination of the so-called johnson amendment which prohibits tax exempt churches from advocating for a political candidate as a top priority well they they made they made it legal for uh the coal mining companies to dump their waste in in rivers and local rivers and streams of course you know the hell with the hell with the planet profit comes first right that's right profit before people you know what about the poor child born a mexican child uh that was born in united states and raised in united states and and then his his mother gets deported yeah how would uh how would they react to that they're but you know but the rich republicans can care less about those kids freedom to worship without government intervention is a first amendment right no one should fear that praying in a church a temple or a mosque will get them on a government watch list freedom to campaign for a political candidate while also being exempt from paying taxes is not the same thing trump also cited the inclusion of under god in the in the pledge of allegiance as a sign that we are a nation that values god this is a nation that doesn't know a damn thing about the god of the bible god isn't a word putting god in the pledge in 1954 didn't put god in anyone's heart or soul it was a gesture to a communist fearing america and putting god into political speeches today is symbolic and nothing more trump is not shy about naming islam every chance he gets when he talks about terrorism and barbarism he did nothing thursday to tell americans they should not fear or hate most just as he did nothing last week in his holocaust statement to remind the world that the holocaust was about jewish genocide putting god into speeches is easy putting god into actions is not Arnold schwarzenegger's ratings should be the last thing on trump's mind so lice of his worries we're all we're all with the crisis that he's up against of being president of the united states he's worried about the ratings of celebrity apprentice oh where are his priorities trump oh his ego right on trump yes well that's that's why he's so preoccupied with the satire done by saturday night live now he's after him yeah yeah he's obviously that that that's more important than than uh living living up to his campaign promises working for the american people what about uh is there anything there about this insane law that the republicans want to uh allow police officers to shoot protesters like fascist stormtroopers they already have that right what are they been doing for last few years i mean well they got the right right now to shoot you if your license plate is hanging what the hell they they they uh so they they usually get away with that right absolutely when they blow when they blow somebody away because they feel like it well how do they get away with blowing somebody away that's unarmed or that does that doesn't do anything wrong they do that too how the fuck did they get away with it because the what do you call that uh the big jury usually does not indict them because there is a fear that if these cops rogue cops are are indicted that other cops will not do do their job do their job but but blowing away someone who doesn't do anything wrong it's not their job it's their their in other words in other words power unless we unless we want chaos here in the united states we got politicians everyone is not above the law or they shouldn't be above the law no one from the from the lowest poorest homeless person to the uh the highest politician in the land everybody should uh be held accountable according to the law otherwise we might as well call call this the fascist states of america well that some people are doing it what do you think black lives matter is it matters it is all about right exactly and there's there are all lives matter of course you can't have rogue people in law enforcement number one now look look at the look at the pipeline and uh where's the north dakota the sue indians the kota sue yeah the oil company is claiming it's like 75 miles from indian land and you're telling me no it's a lie you know they're saying it's going over sacred indian land somebody's lying it's usually the company well because they they have to get what they want yeah well what they're what they're saying is is a blatant in your face lie because it is but what do kelly and it's right there i want to do the other day with alternative facts oh that yeah that if you don't have somebody who is a fact checker you get away with the propaganda it's very simple yeah and then you come out with what she said well you have your facts and we have ours you know and then if you do have a fact checker what they do to make that fact checker uh less accurate they you know attack against it to make it less less accurate and then you don't believe that either you'll believe their propaganda you know uh the woman justice uh ginsberg ruth bader ginsberg kagan no the statue oh the scales the scales well republican today that statue in republican hands the one scale is down oh when regard you might as well say in regards to the one percent oligarch it's imbalanced there is no fair imbalance that is correct sir how as as much as william h moral believes the mainstream media like cnn is still fair and balanced case concerning kelly and cuntway and donald trump i do side first time ever with cnn with you know when when the journalists when the when the cnn representative got upset with kelly and conway as well he you know because you might as well you're you're you're throwing their careers right into the abyss you know when they can't they can't perform their journalism they destroyed dad rather did he he quit or did he just no he was just oh he's old no no i think he's he's doing something now yeah he is he's coming back no but he's coming back with a with a purpose yeah he's pissed but the point is that they uh destroyed his integrity and uh that's what they do how do you destroy the reputation of such a well-established man like dan rather well very easy who did his job the old-fashioned way when you don't have a fact checker it's like he said that the mercy it's like he said she said right how did uh senator mccarthy do it because he felt like pointing his finger that's right that's all he did there was no facts to to any of his nonsense that he blamed people for being communists etc hey they put all japanese americans in the uh internment camps right yes yes oh you were born here went to school here here but you're still japanese we're gonna stick in in a camp on school days donald trump promised that thursday that he would totally destroy the law law that prohibits churches from engaging in political activity a move that would upend 63 years of settled tax law in an appearance at the annual national prayer breakfast trump said he would make good on his promise to overturn the johnson amendment which bans public charities including churches yeah from campaigning for or against the candidate for elected office they have no business sticking their so-called religious nose into politics well he's going to get rid of that law so he's going to try to combine evangelical right-wing church with state what do you call that theocracy yeah yeah fascism and theocracy theocratic those that do risk losing their tax among those freedoms is the right to worship according to our own beliefs that is why i will get rid of and totally destroy the johnson amendment he says it like a fascist and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution i will do that well uh they could i don't care if they express themselves even though they sound like like lunatics just don't don't apply anyone's religion to the law or making new laws the statement was met by enthusiastic applause i mean a perfect example an evangelical saying oh the uh the earth is only 6000 years old and uh there's no big bang theory there's no nothing there's no there's no evolution there's no dot uh adam and eve uh frolic with the dinosaurs or some bullshit you know things like that that you can't prove that makes for a very crazy government that believes that and cherry picking from the old testament the 1954 law is named for senator linden johnson because it's in the tax code any change would have to come from congress campaign watchdogs criticize trump's call saying it would open up another conduit for unlimited and anonymous money in elections religious groups can accept sums of any size and do not have to make public their donors identities this is a way to convert religious organizations charities and educational groups into dark money organizations allowing groups that are exempt from paying taxes to engage in political activity would force the government to subsidize secret money in politics the position is not a new one for trump who used it as a selling point to evangelical voters during his campaign in a speech to the values voters summit in washington last september trump said the first thing we have to do is give our churches their voice back i thought they had their voice it's been taken away hey all those uh right wing pastors they they they haven't been uh censored so they've been doing what they shouldn't have been doing for years they're all yapping their crap they nobody's taking their voice away unfortunately they're they're they're spewing their garbage way too much they spew their garbage and they get it into law and therefore it overlords the other laws that they consider down here what the hell is he talking see i don't understand why donald trump's cal talent to them because donald trump does not he he never made it obvious that he was very religious at all that's correct uh uh or an evangelical that's correct so all of a sudden he's cal talent to them that's his base what do you mean base thirty five percent of the republican party you mean all those freaks voted for him so now he owes the freaks that is correct sir like uh who is that rick james that's saying the girls are super freaks super freaks the girls are super freaks she's a very kinky girl trump argued that the johnson amendment has restricted not just political speech but religious speech as well if they want to talk about christianity if they want to preach if they want to talk about politics they are unable to do so he said all religious leaders should be able to freely express their thoughts and feelings on religious matters what do you think what do you mean it's not a think it's the law no no not the not the reading oh not the reading the break oh you get five minutes if you want it what do you have a five minutes thing to read certainly i got something small yeah you notice steven the cat it frantically twitches his tail continuously it should have been named twitchy yeah if he wasn't stevie would be twitchy to cat because i'm the other cats don't do that it's all over the place it's like he's got got an electrical current going through his body how can the editorial writer make such a claim from puritan days to today's intelligent angeles politicians and educators have despised harassed and marginalized roman catholics catholic politicians shirk their faith in order to be compatible with a secular america the historian author slesinger junior wrote that anti-catholicism has been the deepest held bias in the history of the american here's another idiot that wants to combine church and state when the irish fled the potato can in 1840 speaking of potato i will be making my own caron beef and cabbage with boiled potato this year this march but the little potatoes the little ones they were met with violence burning churches and signs reading irish need not to fly caron beef and cabbage yes one of the most flagrant violation of civil rights was the internment of 120 000 japanese americans during the world war through there you go and when a german ocean liner carrying 1000 jews tried to escape the nazis president roosevelt turned them away president roosevelt turned them away even he wasn't perfect exactly this is one of my uh this is one of my examples of what i keep telling you we all have a dark side well you know um uh dr bill back in the day people were more racist oh yeah more bigoted than they were than they are today or since 1965 you know like like all the generation folks even the even nice people use the word colored color people or or the n word well the the the the rap the rap artists they they're the only ones can use it they popularize that term that derogatory term in in general language which is it's not good to be to desensitize words like that but getting back to the older folks they use the word color i mean they they grew up with that i mean so i as far as the government goes yeah yeah there's some skeletons in fdr's closet and there's two of them japanese and americans internment camp and the thousand jews that were seeking uh haven safe haven i'm sure there are others and there might be others i mean you know italians poles and other nationalities face their own unwelcome unless we forget native americans would either laugh or cry at the editorials claim that america has long been a sanctuary for immigrants well they remember how they came down on paul adeem paul adeem is it is not a spring chicken you know she comes from a long past generation from from this uh i guess savannah georgia and uh you know she's not uh she's probably a nice woman but you know that's the language they use it was just inculcated in them it's just hard it's part of their character yeah okay we're going to break for lunch and then you will be joined by our sensible sage sash boil and his words of wisdom and then followed by promo followed by promo um and uh the uh how to defeat a conservative bible versus hit the pause button read and learn and then we'll be back for the balance of the show hey how's everybody doing all right cool all right so last couple weeks scalpers lost money at the trump events lying about the crowd size lying at the press conference surprise surprise uh alternative facts um kelly and con we actually tried to get that past the media saying that uh they don't believe in facts they believe in alternative facts which are basically lies and truck tide the tool actually called around on it how about that epa hasn't looked at any lead levels at least the guy that trump wants to put in charge of the epa flint what have you and flinches the tip of the iceberg uh trump withdraws from the tpp bans uh communications from government agencies like epa uh usda um some of them are already fighting back putting up alternative twitter accounts so awesome uh bannon the white supremacist is writing all of trump emperor trump's ongoing presidential decrees it's kind of ridiculous if you look at this past week woman's march was the biggest in history one over seven continents it was pretty amazing i saw it in san francisco myself and uh i was very impressed very impressed people out hiking in the rain and trudging through carrying those really impressive signs this is some fun signs if you check them out um the demos start to soften then harden against trump's picks um looks like they're gonna block the education person this woman i forget her name um and um that's good so they're they're they're caving to pressure from the public from the constituency which is good they need to harden up and filibuster everything that comes out of the trump administration um the ethics picks or joke one uh for trump you know one you know fought to get money in politics and the other one was the attorney for trump u so he's just showing us at this point uh hillary wants to run again in 2020 hey the neoliberal still not getting it we may even get hillary tv how about that it's just what we need right hillary's variety show and uh the fascist states of america are beginning not just trump's presidential decrees but louisiana they want to make resisting arrest of felony and in some states are trying to make enough felony to even protest so this fascist crap you know getting rid of our um civil liberties is happening and we got to stop it all right that was fast but it was the last couple weeks short but sweet uncensored hard-hitting truth coming at you california peace this is james p madonna of mega life 21 hard-hitting podcasts holistic health talk and progressive discussions i want to talk about the very foundation of our entire organization the newsletter that was founded by my co-host and mentor the reverend dr william j eisman in 1977 and that newsletter is called censored newsletters censored is truth and news fighting censorship and conservative propaganda we believe we are living in the end times and you need newsletters censored newsletter censor provides the kind of truth that most people are afraid to hear can you handle it newsletter censored is for the independent critical free thinker with an open mind besides the reading of censored newsletter censored also has the god project 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like the the buffalo wings that that guys like to eat during football games there's only tomorrow yeah super bowl sundae there's only two wings on every chicken so you need to kill a lot of chickens to get all of those wings could you imagine how many chickens have to be dispatched so you know have a little consideration for the pig farmers you know all right go ahead the Ohio port council a nonprofit based in columbus reported on tuesday that the demand for frozen pork belly frequently made into bacon that is true is outpacing the supply in spanish they in latin america they call it chicharron today's pig farmers are setting historic records by producing more pigs than ever yet our reserves are still depleting that's not good that's not good man there are literally not enough little piggies going to market we need more we need more pig farm pig farms we're hopefully organic in december frozen pork belly inventory total 17.8 million pounds the lowest level since 1950 hey a lot of methane gas you know how much uh uh what they call ethanol ethanol or method you know how much uh natural gas can be uh created from uh pig fecal matter there's all there are tons and tons of uh pig fecal matter produced by these farms according to the united states department of agriculture as a result prices are on the rise oh the council reports pork belly prices increased 20 in january they always use that supply and demand a mumbo jumbo was an excuse to raise the prices officials said increased foreign demand might account for the decline in inventory hey pigs pigs like chickens could be raised just about anywhere in the world what problem do they have in in other countries they have plenty of pigs there as well as chickens hog farmers export approximately 26 of their total productions hey i like i i trust livestock from other countries at least you know there's a good chance that they're organically raised while bacon may become more expensive for consumers rest assured pork industry will not run out of supply yeah yeah yeah oh they're always cry me a river when pig business cries who's cry me a river you know the buffets and in Las Vegas when the when the food gets all uh passe and mushy they use they won't donate that to the soup kitchens food they they sell it to the pig farmers in Nevada feed the hogs boss boss hog yeah in the article in the article about president hedges on idea of 20 border tax it is pointed out that it will cost upwards of 15 billion dollars to initially build the wasteful and useless war is a good reading this will be paid first by the united states tax fair of course only to be repaid by a proposed to 20 tax on all imports from Mexico these tax would be added to the cost of all items from Mexico hey my hot sauce from beer to clothing my hot sauce that i buy all the time the big giant bottle of hot sauce is going to go up in price that's not fair this tax would be added to the cost of all items from Mexico from beer to clothing that are sold in america modello the modello beer company makes corona and all the other beers will be uh well they already they're already overpriced anyway if you go to a bar and order one maybe in the liquor store that would be jacked up so citizens of the united states would pay more to cover trump's 15 billion dollar war this brings the total cost to american workers and citizens for the wall to be 30 billion dollars yeah because because republicans really like to put the blame on immigrants of color like that's not where the real problem is for the united states economy that really is not the real problem is there's a lack of revenue from the rich people not paying their taxes that's the number one problem the only way this useless wall gets built is with taxpayer dollars and that will cause hardship for the average america meaning the middle class always that middle class after attack and of course there's a war on the poor too a letter writer suggests that any editorial paid writer alfred p dole craft an entire column about the good that president trump has said and done the letter writer goes on to suggest that such a column might be and might win a Pulitzer surprise yeah in the fiction category Pulitzer Pulitzer price in the fiction in the fiction category yeah the the lexicon of emotional but meaningless words and phrases are now part of americana right to work laws never gave anyone a job we now add sanctuary city without a definition of sanctuary is that a city with many immigrants plus a letter writer can can claim new voter restrictions are no problem at 75 of those 65 are older have a driver's license this only eliminates one of every four sitter senior citizens promoting he's also claimed that 55 percent of americans are veterans amazing as in world war two only nine percent of americans serve we are in an alternate facts world insane asylum of a world well no we're in an insane asylum of the united states of america yeah and the inmates are in charge they're in charge maybe oh yeah oh we're out of doubt i'm really i really thought donald trump was really was much more intelligent than this what he's been what he's been doing with his cabinet selections and i knew something was strange when he picked up pence as his vice presidential running mate the the uh the religious freak caltoing to those evangelicals maybe he picked he chose douchebag pence to appeal to war appealing to the evangelical freaks out there in the southern and western states of america america i don't know why they call them bible belt states because you have to know the bible to be called a bible belt state because they take it out and thump it they shake it around your face they thump it but they don't know the contents of it that is correct but they get the what do you call it they they they get the uh the camera because they're thumping and and shaking you know if we didn't have so many readings we could probably easily do a show on bible study revelation reading the real truth from the bible yeah but what would that do to the people exposing those scumbags exposing them uh dr bill exactly but that will bring none of them to the bible well we can call names we can call we can call them names to a powerful person is not the answer because it won't get you where you want to go they don't know the bible so how can they profess to to be real christians i'm not against that i'm saying that it will not bring them over oh it's kind of like the it's kind of like the um the teabaggers i know that are like um lower middle class and and they and when i tell them about what ronald reagan did and when i tell them about how all the burden is on the on the on the backs of the middle class they just stare at me they don't they don't like agree with me no because they don't want anything about it they don't have an opinion all they know is flag waving flag waving that that that that you know what i mean and and all this phony baloney patriotism and uh phony christianity it is correct how else can you explain wolf county in kentucky how else can you explain hey you know something but let me use something uh comical um and um and very lighthearted as an example remember all in the family yeah remember how the meathead mike stevik could never get through to archie bonker exactly i don't think he ever really got through to archie bonker now he didn't they settled in the end for emotion well they moved to to minnesota well they moved next door and they moved again yeah they uh mike stevik uh mike and sally they moved next door mike stevik after after uh to the jefferson after little goyle the little goyle sally struthers oh no she's not so little anymore she had the baby well no she got fat unless she lost the weight but anyway rob reiner um i mean uh um the meathead and his wife after they moved next door uh uh they uh mike got a job offer to teach at a university in minnesota so the baby i think who was little joey i think the baby and and uh uh his uh his daughter and son will move to minnesota and then that that's when george jefferson and weezy moved in but moved in where next door to archie bonker first stevik bought the house from from the jefferson's oh yeah yeah you're right lie lion owl used to come over all the time right yeah yeah yeah yeah okay uh all right i'm sorry george jefferson his business grew he bought that he sold the house to mike the meathead he moved up to the east side to the deluxe apartment in the sky uh uh fish don't fry in the kitchen beans yeah how could beans cook on a grill anyway i digress anyway then all right then eventually yeah mike took the job in minnesota but what i'm what i'm saying is because i really digressed is that the meathead never got through to archibald bunker who wasn't a well-law financially independent person to be a republican he didn't get through them in all those years never got through yeah that's the point i was getting at yep i know it you started singing theme songs and well i started singing theme songs and we got off track a little bit if this is what running government like a business looks like oh gee it's no wonder president donald trump's companies kept going bankrupt and how is he such an expert on celebrity apprentice if if his companies keep on going bankrupt so he's like the expert on running a business then right yeah he claims to be but but if you go bankrupt all the time isn't that running a business into the ground uh yeah but then you can like he does for the last 18 years claim that as a loss and you don't have to pay taxes and if you don't like the the work somebody did for you you refuse to pay him you stiff them stick them man i don't particularly care for the job you did on the uh trump taj mahal i i have a problem with the quality of work that you did so therefore i'm not going to pay you there you go yeah one week into the presidency we've gotten a taste of trumps management style and so far it's been plagued by many of the bad habits common to poorly run businesses take for example his administration is clear in difference to or outright rejection of good measurement and analytics one of the first things you learn from talking to management experts and successful entrepreneurs is the importance of having a clear set of objectives as determining whether those objectives have been met or as trump's commerce secretary nominee wilbur wilbur wilbur wilbur that was uh the owner of mr red wilbur ross argued not once but twice in his confirmation hearing last week i have a very heartfelt saying in management that anything you can't measure you cannot manage ross arguably the most business savvy of trump's cabinet picks has not yet been confirmed in his absence the administration has not exactly been taking his heartfelt saying to heart during a january 23rd news conference while house press secretary shan spicer refused to answer a simple measurement question what is the current unemployment rate the answer is not exactly a secret earlier this month the labor department publicly announced its latest reading as 4.7 percent that's not the the real answer is perhaps a secret but spicer whose boss has variously claimed the rate is a total fiction and as high as 42 percent ducked instead of providing the figure or citing an alternative metrics he thought could be better gauges of economic health such as measures of under unemployment or labor force participation spicer poo pooed interest in quantitative quantitative gauges all together the president he's not focused on statistics as much as he is on whether or not the american people are doing better as a whole spicer said he went on to admonish washington for fixating on numbers and forgetting the faces and families and the businesses that are behind those numbers believe for trump we're caring about helping real people people with faces rather than statistics but numbers are the best tool we have for assessing whether the administration actually lives up to its promise to make sure the american people are doing better as a whole if you pulled this kind of stunt in business arguing that say growth targets or other quantifiable metrics don't matter and only some ineffable sensation of success does you probably fail with ross as a possible exception and trump's personnel decisions also bear many of the hallmarks of badly run companies he's made hiring decisions based not necessarily on qualifications or experience but on whether candidates are members of his family or have the right look funny facial hair inadequate height absence of a swagger reportedly disqualifies some contenders he's likewise instituted an indefinite across the board hiring freeze despite the fact that the federal government has clearly identified a little crucial needs for staffing up in select areas including for 2017 economic census and preparations for the 2020 census not to mention that a government accountability office analysis of across the board hiring freezes implemented by earlier presidents found that the resulting agency disruptions increased costs to the taxpayers and in the long run targeted freezes and cuts the report said are more effective addressing bureaucratic bloat with a chainsaw rather than a scalpel isn't leadership it's laziness yet that's how his administration has thus far approached regulation rather than thoughtfully assessing rules and regulations coming to the pike by conducting a cost-benefit analysis as you might in a real business is trump halted them across the board they include one related to keeping airplanes from crashing it's not expecting aircraft fusilages for cracks finally trump has recently committed spending billions of dollars on pet projects that are essentially expensive solutions to problems that don't exist a border wall with medicine despite the fact that we've seen a net outflow of unauthorized Mexican immigrants in recent years and voter fraud investigation into millions of illegal votes that he believes with zero evidence were cast in the election he won again are to imagine that such costly low upside executive windmill chasing would fly at a competitive business he was to say there are major differences between running a business and running a government it is a myth that aptitude at one necessarily translates to aptitude at the other but with ineptitude maybe it's a different story it's really bizarre world in the united states today a real bizarre world oh when when is the groundhog supposed to come out nobody else what he's what did it do February 2 punk satani film what he what did pox the tony do saw his shadow which means six more weeks of winter so that satan island chuck who was actually a few what did he do did not see his shadow and says we will have an early spring his punk satani fill uh geriatric is he old or they keep on replacing them when they when they croak when the when the woodchucks die they get another pox the time well by for the time being punk satani film is the qualified one so there's a we have a male woodchuck and a female woodchuck correct and the male says more winter correct and the female says an early spring correct interesting there you uh got one more for the road and why don't we have uh you know one of the old change of pace change of pace tomato paste yeah all right because i'm building up a couple of those put all these trumping here yeah we're yeah it's enough that's enough for him let's see what i got here i'm sure the uh liquor companies are making money hand over fist with with trump and the republicans being in control why why driving people to drink more oh for the stress all right yeah for the stress yeah smoke cigarette unfortunately cigarette companies which i cannot stand that filthy habit and it's also killer this is uh amy dickinson dear amy i have been with my boyfriend for two years we are both in our mid 20s one of the things that i am increasingly bothered by is our differing attitudes towards gift giving okay i grew up in a family that through huge christmases that's centered on gifts oh she's a materialistic bitch though that sounds vain and superficial yes it is the exchange of gifts is a very meaningful tradition to me yeah especially when she receives them my sibling scoping out and making the perfect gifts for each other let me tell you something about it retail would love more families like that the retail industry when the day comes the best part is not opening your own gifts but watching with me as the others open gifts you gave them she's just a sucker to retail on the other hand my boyfriend grew up the very stingy parents who sometimes do not even acknowledge his birthday oh that sucks this was not for financial reasons but it's the opposite because of their minimalist values that's the total opposite of her family he doesn't really understand my desire to exchange gifts well birthdays honoring birthdays is kind of like ega maniacal right selfish in our entire relationship i have not once received so much as a birthday card from him i was a little heartbroken to realize another bracket that when we got together to exchange Christmas gifts this year the gift that i spent weeks making for him was countered with your present is that you're really going to get good sex tonight yeah you can put a red ribbon around his genitals yeah um and the greeting car company is another racket nobody talks like that anymore oh darling oh darling oh yeah come on give me a break hey hey honey you're going to get really good sex tonight look look at the red ribbon i got around my balls i'm not asking for anything i would not only share it's something as simple as a hand written hand job something is oh hand written love a hand written love letter should i just try to let it go well he's not expressing maybe she needs reassurance that that he loves her maybe he doesn't he takes it for granted instead of granted well speeding up Christmas this is uh Amy's answer at this past year's celebration in my huge family several of the young adults were talking about the book the five love languages the secret to love that lasts by gary chaplain which had been making the rounds through the family this book was first published in 1992 i now update with many different editions how it finds how differently people perceive ways to give and receive love chaplain says an individual's love language is based on temple and also how the person was raised who and your boyfriend are giving each other the gifts you would like most to receive if you received anything handmade from him your love would tank would be full you would feel honored and appreciative well people like people like to be reassured that there's significant others still cares you can't neglect each other either his gift ID also indicates how you might fill his love tank if he wants you to be happy in your relationship he will have to figure out how to make the simple gestures that you treasure and vice versa who knows really good sex might follow well it's i don't think it's so much in the sex act i think it's how he treats her in general you know what he says to her verbally i i think uh that's what's important um doing things together spending quality time together uh not so much in the materialistic uh in the materialism of gift giving because what happens is when people receive gifts constantly you know you know what happens you know what they end up doing they have a lot of garage sales across the nation every summer because that's how you end up with a lot of shit building up in your basements in your garages and your attics and uh just for the sake of giving a gift i mean i mean things will act will build up you'll have clutter everywhere i think i think what's more important is quality time spent together and how each other is treated that's all i know i sound like jerry springer jerry springer's last words of wisdom you know but that's how i see it um it's not in the material possession hell rich people show their love to their children who are raised by the nannies they think it's love to buy them everything they want to buy them expensive gifts all the time and but they but there's no interaction there's no quality time spent the nanny does everything nanny go so the you know the rich kid is raised by the nanny and there's no real love being showed by the biological parents so uh yeah we had we did enough politics today i think it was quite sufficient so uh arnold schwarzzenegger don't worry about the uh the critique criticism coming from donald trump don't worry about ratings you know i mean i think people just grew weary of the words you're fired because i think they're they're getting an overdose of trump as it is and uh i would seem logical yeah and um you know the people on celebrity apprentice let me tell you i've never seen so much backstabbing cattiness in my life when one of the the worst the worst catty vicious backstabber was uh this comedian very ugly woman very ugly woman this comedian by the name of lisa lampinelli oh and uh she made many enemies you know people couldn't know the other women even the guys couldn't stand that she would um she would complain profusely about the job performance of everybody i think i think she was uh sucking up the donald trump by being who he wanted to be being the overbearing assistant the overbearing authority figure the manager of the group the manager supervisor of the group she was over um she was um trying to um keep herself out of the uh the bullseye of being fired and over trying to overcompensating for uh anything it's like a look it's over there like when the republicans do something to distract you from what they're doing well playing a big violin uh trying to act like you're you're the most devoted most dedicated hardest working manager that that you can ever have by constantly tearing apart your team you know and it's kind of like a distraction from your job performance and what you are contributing besides uh uh brow beating and criticizing and tearing apart your your employees so that's the it ended it ended up to be very petty on that show and i mean um i don't know i just totally lost interest after a while well maybe a lot of other people did too people being mistreated in a in a um in the corporate environment yeah you know but anyway listen thank you for joining us for progressive discussions we'll see you next time i think the next week will be our st valentine's day massacre on our wallets show because it will be the show before uh another retail scam valentine's afterwards the florists the candy companies that make chocolates the greeny cards companies restaurants and fine jewelry the the biggest scam of all on valentine's day fine jewelry with those with the bullshit levion chocolate diamonds can you eat them sold by jared no you better not you break your teeth chocolate my ass i bet they are the cheapest diamonds there are so many brown diamonds coming out of let's say south africa the beers diamond mining company there are so many of them coming out they're so plentiful they're not even precious stones and they and in order to get rid of them in order for the sleazy retail fine jewelry people to get rid of them they uh they decided hey they're brown let's call them chocolate diamonds oh the women will love that word chocolate diamonds ooh you know it's a waste of money you're a sucker man you're you're you're an idiot for for for getting excited over fine jewelry number one and the person who buys it isn't is an idiot and a sucker because it's not an investment the diamond there's they're too plentiful it's not the precious stone it used to be and uh unless you have a certified perfect stone it's not an investment you know by the gemological institute of america certified flawless we'll see you next time but i know a lot of you suckers that usually uh go along to get along and they go through the motions and they they just got to do what's expected of them during all these man-made traditional holidays that are made for businesses to make money they'll continue to be suckers all right goodbye bye suckers this has been a mega life 21 production