 Greetings, welcome everyone, and welcome to Progressor discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madan. I've seen on the web doing this since 2007, and even before that with the podcast, with my original co-host and mentor, the very first co-host, the managing editor of Newsletter Sensor. He has passed on now. He's the man who invented the name Progressor discussions. I'm talking about the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenin. May he rest in peace. Follow our original commercial voiceover specialist, William H. Morrill III. May he rest in peace also. Anyway, I just want to say happy Father's Day 2023. Today is Father's Day. I realize that people really don't make a fuss over Father's Day, like they do Mother's Day. But I remember what my late grandmother used to say. She said, anyone can be a father, but you only have one mother. And you know what I mean. Mother has feelings for her children, and she will fight for her children and protect them like no other. Father doesn't do that. Father is just a pollinator. But for those of you that have good fathers that were excellent role models, God bless you. If your father is still with you, definitely do something special for them. Don't give them, I know they get cheap-ass gifts, but take them out somewhere, find out what they really like in terms of food. Take them to a nice, I don't know, an Irish pub sports bar. You'll get a great bargain in those places without a doubt. Take them for a nice steak dinner, not a rip-off corporate chain steak dinner, like the Outback Steakhouse. Take them somewhere good. In my area, we have excellent Portuguese restaurants that make, prepare some of the best steak dinner platters, as well as seafood like paella. Take them to one or else. Take it to a place that also has great craft beer on tap, and that's the way to do it. Show your appreciation for those fathers that were very involved in your life, who cared, who were good role models or excellent role models, not the scoundrels. If you know what I mean. And by the way, there are mothers that belong in a padded room that do not represent the ideal mother that I mentioned before. But my grandmother was right. I mean, normally with normal people that were raised properly and have all their brain cells firing, anyone can be a father, but you only have one mother. But you know, it is Father's Day, so happy Father's Day. I salute. Actually, to all the fathers that were great fathers that passed away, we'll have a short moment of silence followed by seven bells. Okay, may they rest in peace. Okay, now let me get a sip of my medicinal herb tea with chai, chai tea also. This is strong tea. This is strong medicinal chai tea. It looks like coffee is so dark, but I have other things in here besides the chai. Let me see if I can bring this up. Let's have a little humor here for a second. Let's see if I can do this. Oh, there you go. You see it. All right, good. I'll give you some laughs and I'll also have our first inductee into the chiseler's hall of shame. This is an advertisement that I saw, I believe, on Instagram from Amazon. Amazon Blue Pro Clear Nursery Pots with Humidity Dome. Doesn't that look familiar, people? It sure looks familiar to me. It's a damn ice cream Sunday container and they're selling them for a lot more money as a plant nursery for young sprouted plants with Humidity Dome. I'm sure you've seen this. I'm sure you've seen this at various ice cream parlors or what have you. Funny, isn't it? So there you go. The sleazy, underhanded deception of the American retail industry. All right, goodbye. It's true. It's no bullshit. All right. Now, let me go on to the topic of hand here. Happy Fajah's Day. I am your Fajah. And but after my awesome powers, gold member, I am your Fajah. There you go. Now, I don't know if this is true or not. I got it from a reliable source. Okay. And if it's true, the man is insane. He's a fascist, but he's, what's even worse, he's insane and he might be more of a fascist and more insane than Donald Trump. And I'm talking about Florida governor, the bloated toad, Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis. There you go. All right. It is a story. Okay. Governor, I guess this is from a radio station, 88.5 WMNF. Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill that lets professional baseball players get paid less than minimum wage in Florida. Interesting. Do you think baseball players that have achieved the major league baseball and have these agents and are receiving the salaries of, let's say, better than CEOs? You think they're going to play baseball in a major league stadium in Florida for minimum wage? Ron DeSantis, you need to get a CAT scan and an MRI or whatever of your brain because it's not going to happen. The Tampa Devil Rays and the Miami Marlins will flat out refuse to play in the state of Florida if this is true. So do some research, people, and see if it's true. Minimum wage. Wouldn't Republicans all would love everyone that is not part of their rich cabal, their rich friend, their rich cult of friends. They would love to see the little guy, but I wouldn't call professional sports athletes little guys at all. It's not even worth reading. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. They're referring to minor league baseball players. Oh, but that's still terrible. Holy shit. Yeah, Republicans Brad Yeager and Newport Richie. Is that an actual name of a human being? Yeah, the $290 a week, which is the equivalent of a $7.25 an hour wage without overtime eligibility. In season, weekly salary equal to minimum wage for a 40 hour work week. Still, still. Minor league teams is totally insane. Totally insane. And we have the one and only from San Francisco. Well, presently in San Francisco, California, the Western Mike happy Father's Day 2023 and greetings to you, Western Mike. I just started the show with these topics and so far they're going well. I don't have a lot of them, but I have good ones. I never run out of material, not in this day and age. Okay, yeah, I usually start off with the lightest subjects, the lightest topics. Then I progressively get more serious. All right. And away we go. Okay, this is from this is from the sun. Here comes the sun. It's all right. Do do do do that song. It's a nice song. FBI. Watch out. FBI issues, empty bank warning to all Android and iPhone owners over phone call that takes everything in seconds. Yikes. Uh, by Jonah Joppy technology and science reporter. Okay, this came out June 15th, 2023. The FBI has warned about tech support scams that aim to empty your bank account. Scammers utilize a variety of methods in the hopes of getting a hold of your harder and cash, including phone scams. Well, I know I have been receiving more red flag texts and court phone calls and ever before. The FBI has warned about tech support scams that aim to empty your bank account. Now experts, including the federal Bureau of Investigation are shining a light on one of the most popular types technical support support scams. What is a technical support scam? The scam consists of the scammer fraudulently posing as a technician or as tech support from a reputable company. Most commonly threat actors do this to gain remote access to your computer. Once they have done that, they can access sensitive data and information stored on your device, including bank accounts. They also, it's not part of this article, but they also will email you a replica facsimile of your bank's website. And you think it's really your bank, but it's not. Nearly everyone has gotten a scam call like this and we keep getting them because they work. The FBI said on its podcast, how do they work? Threat actors will usually call you on the phone to carry out a tech support scam. They may even spoof the caller ID so that it displays a legitimate phone number from a trusted company. Yeah, they're doing that. If you show signs of believing them, this is the stage where they will ask to install applications that give them access to your device. I'm sure they prey on senior citizens before anyone else because they figured the seniors are lonely. They want someone to talk to and it's like taking candy from a baby, unfortunately. Some people panic and send money or give the caller access to their computer, comprising their identities and financial information in the process, the FBI noted. Yeah, like if you, if someone from the Department of Social Security, okay, or the state tries to contact you stating that they lost your contact information and some of your personal information that you originally had on file with the state you live in or social security, that's a big red flag of being a scammer because if there's anything wrong involving local, county, state or federal government, you will receive a plain serious business letter in the mail. Okay, you wouldn't be getting a call from anyone. Okay, they will first send you a letter in which you would have to call the number on the letter. So they'll put it in writing. How to stay safe. It's important to know that a reputable tech company will never ask you to call a phone number to resolve an issue. That said, you should never give any personal information to strangers or remote access to your device. You should never give personal information out. If you believe you have been scammed, contact your credit card company or bank right away to stop the transaction. If you ended up providing remote access to a threat actor or run security software to immediately scan and delete malware, use a firewall and antivirus software, this will help to protect your computer from malware and other threats. Be skeptical of any unsolicited emails or messages. If you receive an email or message from someone you don't know, don't click on any links. No, and if you have, if you're entitled to anything, to any money or any grand prize or something that is a freebie, you don't have to pay a fee to get access to the free thing that you won. All right, that was good. That was a good one. So what's going on here? So keep that in mind, people, and stay safe, please. Stay safe. Yeah, I think you've got something. I like to progressively, I like to progressively graduate in topics. Okay, let me check. We're doing very well on time. I hope things are going well with your exercise program, Western Mike, and you know when you're doing rowing, you are directly also working your biceps and forearms and rear deltoids. So rowing is kind of a great overall upper body exercise. Now, with your machine, if you have to push, if you have resistance when you bring the handles out before you bring them back in again, that now you have a machine that can work your chest, triceps, and shoulders. So now you have a really complete upper body. All right, the US, hold on for a second, onto the next subject. The US is now facing a third inflation wave, economists explains. Greedflation comes when companies use the excuse of higher input costs, like higher input costs to high prices, but are really profit led USBs. I mean, UBS is all Donovan said. Okay, I would play the video, but the streaming software's microphone doesn't pick up outside audio. Let me just see if, let me experiment. The print that's set to come forward. Well, I'm afraid with the power feds. Okay. If anybody's listening now, let me know. Let me know if you hear any audio from this video. Go ahead to a packed week, kicking off with inflation data tomorrow, Tuesday. Our next guest says that we are in the third wave of post pandemic inflation. Paul Donovan, UBS, Global Wealth Management Chief Economist joins us now. Paul, good to see you here this morning. We're excited for this week. Okay. Brad Smith is the anchor Thursday, June 15, 2023. Although U.S. consumer prices provided further signs of relief for consumers in April, there are still factors keeping inflation elevated. Yeah, like greed and corporations may be reaping the benefits of that. Remember when we had the bird flu, the avion flu that killed millions of egg laying hens worldwide and it drove the price of eggs sky high. Well, remember how long they kept the price of eggs super high before they finally lowered it? Well, they do the same thing if there's a drought that drove up the price of produce fruits and vegetables, they take forever to come down to normal. Well, that's greed. Supply and demand is just an excuse to rip people off in capitalism. That's why I think one Viagra tablet costs like $45 each, I think, or maybe it's more now. Insane prices. Okay, we've had a really unfortunate situation where we've had three very, very different inflation waves caused by very different things. UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Economist Paul Donovan told the Yahoo Finance, which is a video above, and they've just come one after the other. So it looks like you've had this continuous period of inflation. Inflation continues cooling down in the United States. U.S. Consumer Price Index year over year changed since 1970. Source, U.S. Bureau of Labor shaded areas indicate U.S. recessions. Okay, the first wave primarily in consumer durable goods was demand led, Donovan explained. That's over. Durable goods prices in the States are falling. You've got outright deflation. That was followed by a second wave of supply led inflation, he added. And that was the energy shock coming out of the war in Ukraine. And then the third wave of inflation, the one we're getting now, is this unusual profit led inflation story, sometimes called excuse inflation or greed inflation. Profit led inflation occurs when consumer facing companies towards the end of the supply chain, persuaded shoppers to accept price hikes by pointing to plausible explanations, such as historically elevated inflation. However, Donovan said the true reason for these elevator prices could have more to do expanding margins and keeping investor sentiment high than with increased input costs. It's using excuses, Donovan said. It's using a cover. Here's a grocery cart, groceries in it, a shopper who lamented that groceries have recently become much more expensive. Pause the receipt from his purchase at a discount supermarket on June 15, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Okay. A lot of euros, I bet. Why inflation remains sticky. The main drivers of higher prices are the cost of good sold, which includes both material and labor costs. The corporate profits, fortunately for consumers, prices for materials have slid tremendously. The World Bank expects a 21% decline in commodity prices in 2023 relative to 2022, which it noted would be the sharpest drop since the COVID-19 pandemic. And that's where the story ends. If I click story continues, they would ask me to subscribe and pay money. Oh, I thought that's what they were going to do. However, prices still hover above the average levels from 2015 to 2019. During the first quarter of 2023, certain companies continue to institute price increases even as they witness flat or declining comparable sales volumes. Excuse me, the power must be very high. I think what you see going on as much as anything is one. Obviously, we've taken some pricing to cover the inflation that we've been dealing with. PepsiCo, CFO Hugh Johnson, Johnston told Yahoo Finance, Hugh Johnston. Yeah, they can profit off of toxic beverages. As consumers, sugar laden, may I say, God knows what else, as consumers move to smaller size packages, that's a damn sure. You see how much ice cream is shrinking and everything else, it affects volume a little bit as well. But overall, the demand for our products continues to be quite high. Well, I refuse to get a box of organic whole wheat spaghetti if it's not at least 16 ounces because that's what I grew up with. Where inflation is and is its 12-month change in the price of pets and pet products is 10.6 percent. Rent, 8.7 percent. Food and restaurants, 8.3 percent. Personal care, 6.8 percent. Housing, 6.8 percent. Food at home, 5.8. Alcohol, for all you boozehounds, 4.8. New vehicles, 4.7, and so on and so forth. Okay, well, they have more excuses than you can shake a stick at. They really do. Corporations have excuses upon excuses that are total bullshit. And they're not coming clean. Instead of going on and on and on and on and on and on, they're pretty much saying the same thing, profit-led inflation, profit-led in profiteering at a time when people are suffering. See, they exploit people when they're down or now, when they're desperate, when they're suffering. That's when they exploit. That's when the greed takes effect. Okay, that's this. Normal and recent contributions to growth in unit prices in the non-financial corporate sector. Corporate profits, 53.9 percent increase from 11.4 percent. Non-labor input costs, 38.3 percent from 26.8 percent. Unit labor costs down 7.9 percent, way down. And it was 61.8 percent. How long before companies rethink excuse flation? Well, my answer is one magical word is called boy cutting. If consumers are willing to say, no, I'm going to refrain from buying these things. I don't need these things to survive. Then you'll hurt companies where it hurts the most in your bank accounts. And then there's stockholders who will scream bloody murder, which I can careless. I didn't buy any eggs when eggs were like $5, $6, $7 a dozen for the jumbo eggs that I like. I didn't buy them at all. I just bought eggs recently for the first time in quite a while. The price came down to actually less than what I used to pay originally. There were only $1.99 a dozen for jumbo eggs. See what happens? If enough people boy cut it, they don't really know the potential power of boy cutting. But unfortunately, people are numbskulls. They're nincompoops. They're imbeciles. They're not willing to boy cut in large numbers. They'd be here and there like me. But people have to do things in a group. The larger the group, the more power they have. They have to do things simultaneously to have the power of boy cutting take effect. Otherwise, companies will not stop. They just won't stop. It's like a high-level criminal when he or she gets caught, they shed some tears and they apologize. But if they never get caught, they will just continue doing what they're doing and talk about the high-level criminals like Bernard Madoff and all people like that. Oh, I'm so sorry. That's because you got caught. Let me check here. What are we doing? We're really good on time. More than I expected. Okay, we've got two more left. Now, the reason to me for this article is obvious and I'll mention it in a little bit. It's really horrible. It's horrible. It's heartless. It's the behavior of associate path and I'm talking about the Republican party. Major cuts to social security are back on the table. What's being proposed now? Well, what's not being proposed is trimming the military budget, stop giving the rich corporate welfare. The wealthy only like socialism when it applies to them, not to the bottom 98 percent. Okay. And my take on Republicans wanting to do this is that they want people to be so destitute. What's going on here? We go back. They want people to become so desperate and destitute that they would work for anything, even less than minimum wage. And then eventually they would bring back child labor, child labor followed by slave labor or artificial intelligence because the robots are rapidly upgrading and improving and eventually they will replace everyone's job with an android robot and we're not that far away. So like the previous article, this has to do with obsessive greed, which is what the right wing is all about. Money is their God and the bank is their church. A group of Republican lawmakers aims to balance the federal budget and slash government spending by targeting programs like social security and some seniors could see a major reduction in lifetime benefits if the plan makes it into law. Yeah, so they want to steal your social security because people paid into it. It's not their money to take or should I say steal? It's not. The proposal was unveiled June 14th by US House conservatives. Bloomberg reported one of the one of its main features is to raise the full retirement age at which seniors are entitled to the full benefits they are due. Well, yeah, because this way more senior citizens will drop dead before they are eligible to collect social security. That's even more money that these crooks can steal. No people dropping dead. They have to work longer and they will drop dead. Choose the best for your money. The 176th member house Republican study committee, they actually study things, approved a fiscal blueprint that would gradually increase the retirement age of 69 years old for seniors who turned 62 in 2033. 69. That's to the average person who is not a health nut, who is not holistic and does not detoxify themselves and take antioxidants and uncle toxins. This 69 years old for a man is practically like having one foot on a banana peel and the other foot in the grave. The current full retirement age is 66 or 67. Really? I thought it was 65. I think it used to be. Depending on your birth year for all Americans born in 1960 or later, the retirement age is 67. Oh, gee. So you have to work full time when you're 65. I assume that those Republican senators don't have to work that long. Or should I say they don't work? They just meet with lobbyists and people that are offering bribes and then they willingly take the bribe. They don't work. Joe Biden has accomplished more than overall than the history of the Republican Party in one term. And I'm not just saying for the little guy, for the bottom 98%, I mean he has accomplished many things overall. Republicans are, they're like, they're like, I don't know, shyster lawyers or car dealers. They just, they have no integrity. As Bloomberg noted, workers expecting an early retirement benefit will see lifetime payouts reduced at the full retirement age. If the full retirement age is raised, those payouts could be drastically reduced for seniors who claim benefits at age 62. When you are first eligible, they're very stingy with paying the bottom 98%, very stingy. If you're wealthy or you're part of the top 2%, then you will definitely experience the so-called American dream and all the bullshit mumbo jumbo that you were told growing up in school. If you're part of the 98%, you have to know the right people. You have to get your first huge break. If you don't get your first big break in life, being at the right place at the right time knowing the right people, you're just going to be a sucker exploited by paying through the nose, by emptying out your bank account for the ever-increasing cost of living, not to mention the racketeering American healthcare system and the taxation burden on the middle class. All right, not to mention groceries and necessities and utilities and all this other crap. Okay, all right, that's enough. It's enough for that article. You know, I was rather long-winded. All right, I have one more topic before I send the links out for the panelists for this week's progressive discussions. What did I do? Okay, now to me, this is pretty serious. Okay, this is pretty damn serious. Not the advertisement for vitamins. No, not that. Let me get rid of it. Let me get rid of these ads. All right, here we go. Spike in ocean heat stun scientists. Have we breached a climate tipping point by Jeff Baradeli, June 18th of by 2023? Anybody can message me. Tell me if you hear any audio from this video. I will begin now. Kess and also on Spotify. All right, today's main topic is the developing El Nino and it's likely to be a strong one. Okay, El Nino. So let me know if anyone has heard the audio from the two videos that I've played briefly. Tampa, Florida, WFLA. Global oceans are so hot right now. Scientists all around the world are struggling to explain the phenomenon. Sea surface temperatures in June are so far above record territory. It is being deemed almost statistically impossible in a climate without global heating. This is happening across the huge expanse of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Okay, here we go. Here's a map. Ocean temperatures departure from normal. Warm being red, cool being blue. It doesn't look so cool, it doesn't. In the North Atlantic Ocean, which was already way above record levels, temperatures have strikingly shot directly upward over the past two weeks. A shocking visual shared on Twitter earlier this month is prompting many to ask whether this recent surge is evidence that human-caused heating has propelled the climate past a tipping point. Luckily, climate scientists say the answer is likely no. Instead, it is much more probable to be a compounding coalescence of various factors, some natural and some human cause. In other words, a coincidence of natural factors piled on top of the steady trend of human-caused global heating. If you want to find out the reason, just follow the money trail, like Jesse Ventura once said. El Nino could mean the hottest year on record, meteorologists warn. Regardless, it's a vivid illustration of the new extremes Earth can reach when conditions are right. Ocean temperatures in any given region are the result of complex interactions between ocean currents, weather, climate oscillations, and longer-term climate trends. In the case of this year, there are many factors, but the biggest factor is the change from El Nino to El Nino. In the tropical Pacific Ocean, a natural cycle that has global implications. There's the tropical Pacific Ocean, the location of paradise on Earth. For the past three years, Earth has been in a rare prolonged La Nina event. During that time, the heat piled up in the tropical western Pacific Ocean near Indonesia. But this spring, subsurface heat started propagating eastward across the Pacific Ocean and reached the surface. This marked the beginning of the warm phase called El Nino. Weekly sea surface temperatures patterns in tropical Pacific. Difference from average temperature in Celsius. With warm water now sitting on the surface of the entire tropical Pacific Ocean, a particularly wide swath of the ocean basin. Pacific Ocean temperatures have been rising fast, but the effects of El Nino are not confined to the Pacific Ocean. The ocean air heat exchange results in changes in the atmospheric steering flow and pressure systems in the Atlantic as well. These changes in weather over the Atlantic Ocean, some related to El Nino, can have significant impacts on surface ocean temperatures. At the same time, in the high latitudes of Canada and the far North Atlantic, a very blocked jet stream pattern has persisted for weeks. These persistent weather patterns have a significant impact on the underlying sea surface temperatures. Areas where it is sunny and calm tend to warm up and cloudy windy areas tend to cool. Canada has been trapped under a heat dome leading to record setting wildfires. And don't I know that living in the New York metropolitan area suburbs with the smog that we had not too long ago. And the US Eastern Seaboard Western Atlantic has been stuck under the opposite, a cool dip in the jet stream. And over on the other side of the Atlantic, an ocean heat dome has been present near Europe. That's why we've had a very cool spring, probably the coolest spring that I can remember. The result of this stubborn configuration is a cooler than normal Northwest Atlantic and a much warmer than normal Northeast Atlantic. Ocean temperatures departure from normal, warm to cool, jet stream, jet streams. To the south across the tropical Atlantic, this odd and persistent configuration of atmospheric steering and pressure systems has resulted in record chattering heat. Sea surface temperatures are so hot across the main development region. Sea and deep red between Africa and the Caribbean on this map. They have already reached levels expected during peak hurricane season in September. Hmm, no man. To be more specific, this X of C can be explained by some interrelated factors, atmospheric high pressure over the subtropical Atlantic is weaker than normal, likely due to a combination of the odd North Atlantic steering discussed above. And also El Nino's influence, weakening the tropical winds called trade winds. Well, that's not good. Trade winds are very nice. I've experienced them in the Caribbean. How will El Nino impact hurricane season? These trade winds blow across the deep tropical Atlantic from East Africa to West Caribbean. When they are strong, the waters cool due to increased upwelling of cooler water from below and also increased evaporation. This season, however, the weaker high pressure and lighter trade winds are helping increase sea surface temperatures. Gee, without trade winds, weaker high means weaker trade winds. Here we go is an animated map. This is how hurricanes get to the Caribbean. Normally, hot air over to Sahara Desert starts moving westward. And then the hot air meets cool air and you have storms developing in the South Atlantic. Cyclones mean storms. And then as it passes over warm water, it gets stronger. That's how hurricanes develop. You got that? Weaker trade winds usually also correspond to less Sahara dust coming off of Africa. This year, dust is at a record low. Less dust means cleaner air, allowing more sun to reach and heat the ocean surface. It's a very long article. Let's see how long it is. It's frigging long. It's a NOAA infrared imagery. The underwater Tanga volcano erupted in the Pacific Ocean, the South Pacific Ocean. The resulting explosion spewed large amounts of water vapor high up into the atmosphere, where it still lingers. And that's the hangatanga explosion. And then tsunamis will definitely be created from any undersea earthquake. Okay, this is good news. Now cargo ships are running much cleaner. The reduction in pollution, which is otherwise good news, means an increase in ocean heating. How do you figure that out? One very prominent example of this is very recent, the 2020 cargo ships, which traditionally burned the dirtiest of fuel, were forced to substantially reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, greenhouse warming effects. So as pollution has decreased, the Atlantic Ocean temperatures have increased. Well, pollution is never good, but I thought, well, I know the floral carbons put into the atmosphere by big oil started it plus the destruction of the rainforest, destruction of trees worldwide, which are the lungs of the planet Earth that pretty much sealed the deal with climate change, human cause greenhouse warming. That's the problem. Yeah, so now you got to figure is what they said about less pollution contributing to global warming. Is that true? Is that for real? It doesn't sound right to me, or is that just big oil propaganda? Interesting. Likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold goes bigger and closer UN forecast. In general, the oceans have warmed around two degrees Fahrenheit since the early 1900s. This is the elevated baseline foundation, which everything else is built upon. Okay, you know, question just like the late grade George Carlson said, you must question everything people. If something, even if you're in college and your professor says something that doesn't seem right to you, but it's rubbing you the wrong way or, you know, your intuition tells you something's not right about what he said. Always question everything, right? Take everything with a grain of salt until it is proven. Okay, that should do it. That should do it for this for the topics of the of this progressive discussions show. All right, see if we got any messages. Now I will start sending out the links to join. Bear with me, people. So how is everyone doing up there for Father's Day 2023? So what's going on with everyone out there? Okay. All right, here he is. Let's see how he's doing. Hello. Hello. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. Yeah, I did like seven bells for all the good fathers and good role models that have passed away. I did a memorial. I did like a moment of silence with seven bells. And I also will knock on wood for everything being hunky-dory on your first attempt to join the show. Hey, double seven. It's my second attempt. I had to go to Safari, you know. Really? You notice I didn't have any issues sending you the link on your text and the reason why? Yeah. It's because you have two phone numbers. One says home and the other one says work. And I've been sending it to your home number. And the reality is your work number should have been called mobile. Cell or mobile. Yes, yes. I wonder if that's in my context. I'll have to correct that. It says work and home. And I'm saying, oh, damn it. He has a landline. No wonder why he didn't get the link. I'm sending it to his home. That's hilarious. It should come back saying landline. Can't send. Yeah, landlubber. Yes, you landlubber. You are a landlubber. By the way, just to retort a little bit, even though if you're not a father, you still have a connection to father's day. You know, all the men and women who lost their fathers or men that didn't become fathers, there's still a big connection there, in my opinion, some level. Well, there's also, if a person's father was a first class horse's ass, and you had a really good grandfather, and he's still alive, do something with him. Yeah, unfortunately, I didn't have a really good grandfathering. My father was an A-type personality. I'll just leave it at that. Yeah, my father was a kind of a sanctimonious, self-righteous, arrogant prick. Oh, isn't that great to grow up with that? That's difficult, yeah. Yeah, in other words, if everything didn't go exactly his way, then nobody was any good. You know, but I only had contact with him when I was a toddler, you know, when I was like... Oh, he checked out early, eh, to another marriage? Yeah, well, he drove my mother crazy when he wanted to confiscate my mother's salary, and he wanted to be the one to spend money in the household. My mother, even though she worked for the money, he didn't want her to have the money. Wow, that sounds kind of evil. And yeah, and his mother was very negative, and jealous, and intrusive, because she, you know... So he was a mama's boy, your dad? Yeah, yeah, and my mother's parents were A-number one compared to my father's parents, so they were jealous, and my mother decided, screw this, you ain't, you're not going to drive me crazy, you know, this is... Yeah, marriages are not easy. I know that for a fact. I haven't been in a marriage, but I've been around plenty, and marriages are a huge compromise, huge. Not only do you have to make big sacrifices, you don't have to, but, you know, you're kind of expected to, depending on... Oh yeah. But there's a huge difference between first meeting someone, dating someone, living together, and or getting married, big changes go on. That's a big change in the relationship. You give up a lot of your hobbies and things are supposed to be forgotten, from what I can understand. Because these women, when, as soon as you co-habitate with them, and just because they're spread into their legs, only during appointments that you make with them, which is funny how that works out, they feel that, you know, you owe them your soul, you know, you're their property, or they could tell you anything, you know, they could bark out orders and say, you know, I don't like your friends, I don't like your hobbies, I don't like your interests, why do you have to go, why do you have to go to another concert you're going to? What, another concert you're going to? Aren't you too old for that? Aren't you too old for that? Well, let me tell you, there are men like that too, so it's a 50-50 out there. But, you know, we're talking about women because we go with women, so that's where our experience comes from. I've heard stories where the men had to be weighted on hand and foot like they were Julius Caesar. Oh, they want the continuation of their mother, a lot of men. Right, and also, there are men who are insanely jealous, just like a woman can be insanely jealous, you know. Well, the thing I've noticed in certain relationships, someone is constantly giving you free unsolicited life advice, telling you what to do, asking question after question, and then you kind of say, hey, maybe you should step back and take a look at your own life, and they say, oh no, my life's fine, it's you, it's you. Yeah, that's fine. They give unsolicited advice. Opinions. You don't ask for mine, you don't ask for this. And if you don't follow their advice, who are they pissed? See? Told you. See? Told you. Like I said, this could be a man or a woman. We're not picking on one sex. And it could be, you know, I'm just saying, we're just speaking from certain experiences. And as soon as you, if they give you a chance, as soon as you open your mouth and try to have a two-way conversation, they immediately cut you off. You know, a lot of Republicans do that in Washington. Yes. Yeah, they want to dominate the conversation. Yeah, or not allow you to be rude and not allow you to speak. Now, Michael LeBar, who is has a, you know, Michael LeBar, he's in, he's in a red, he's from a red, the red state of Oklahoma. And he has to deal with a lot of right-wing assholes in his state. And he's very progressive. And he associates with other progressive Oklahomans. He tells me a lot of people that were on his Facebook friends list who, who knew him personally, they ended the friendship for political reasons because he, you know, Jesus, because he didn't think, he didn't think right-wing. You know, you notice that a certain someone stopped leaving comments, yes. Commentary on a Sunday that they used to, you know, and, and yeah, that'll all cease because, you know, they probably didn't like, he probably didn't like us criticizing Republicans and his beloved Donald Trump. Oh, the beloved. Beloved one. Yeah. Yeah. Second coming of Jesus, Donald Trump. Okay, hold on, hold on. Let me, let me, yeah, I'm here. I have a left. I ain't no problem, no problem. I just want to turn the ventilation a little bit. Yeah. Because the humidity's been totally crazy. Hey, good news, James. I have an interview tomorrow for a job. There are techs. I got an interview. I'm excited. You got it. Yeah, you got an interview from, where, where from? From like, indeed, or I applied online and I got a direct invite for an interview and I'm excited. I also got my first unemployment payment minus the taxes. I had all the taxes taken out. I don't like to screw around on tax day with that and it's a little less than half of what I may took home before. So, I always, I always, I always request taxes to be taken out. Yeah. Federal and state, I had them both taken out. They do certainly whittle it down, don't they? Thanks for nothing. Yeah. Yeah, it's and when you think about it, that, that money is most likely taxed twice. Yeah, exactly. When you work, you pay taxes on it. Now, you know, it's crazy, man, and unemployment is taxed and it shouldn't be in my opinion. I just, I don't know. Yeah. I just don't want to owe one huge lump sum. Exactly. So, I've got that going for me. So, I'm excited. End of the month is my birthday. So, there you go. There's some more excitement on the 30th, June 30th and June 30th. So, you're a Canterian like my wife. Yes. Yes, sir. I went, also, I went to a concert last night and had a great time singing along with the songs, a one-gram bonnet, a one-time singer of Rainbow. And so, I'm getting out. I'm having fun. I'm trying to keep my spirits high. Any ads to slap you on the back or anything? No, no hardy har har this time. It was a place with assigned seating. So, that's a little different. And it's a great, it was a great time. And I, a mutual friend was there and him and I were hanging out and singing and talking. So, it was fun. You know, life is, fun is where you can find it. And I'm tired today, but that's okay. I mean, I had my fun. I wasn't drinking and driving either. That's the, when you don't drink and drive and you go home, you have the confidence. Go ahead, pull me over. Ask me how many drinks I've had. And I'll say none. Yeah. Well, I was tired when I went live at 3 p.m. But I just didn't kill myself. I just, I, I, I paced myself. I, I didn't, I didn't rush through anything. And it turned out that was like, what was it, for 402 or 407 p.m. I was, I was done with the topics that I had. Nice. Very nice. Yeah. Well, well, you don't want, if a topic is, is like way too long, I don't want, I don't want to bore people with all kinds of scientific mumbo jumbo or political mumbo jumbo. Once I start to see the mumbo jumbo, then I do like a speed reading thing. I, you know, I go right to important, important information in certain paragraphs, or if there's a map or like in this case with the global warming, there was animated maps showing you the path of the El Nino and this and that. You know, I mean, I'll cut to the chase. After, after talking about the meat and potatoes of the topic, I'm not going to go on. Because I'll end up boring myself if it's too long. Yeah. Especially when it's, it's technical talk, you know, the jargon, when it's, when it's technical talk and you get lost in it, you don't know what half the words mean. I mean, we're not, we're not stupid. We're just not, our dictionary doesn't extend that far. We never say these things in life. So, well, I understand, I get the gist of it. I try to, you know, and I interject whatever, whatever I understand about the article and I add, I add things to the article based on making the article easier, easier to understand. But I could tell, I mean, some articles are not that long. So, I just go through it. I just want to tell everyone that Red Pill Man Cave has officially begun. And now it's like open topic talk. And I mean, it's about anything. You know, that's why I have the, the Western top hat on. Because then we can just do whatever, say whatever within reason. I mean, we're not going to, we're not going to be chowing down on nachos with our mouth up against the camera. And showing other people in the room. Yeah. And constantly having a conversation with somebody else and keep on turning the camera like, you know, like why, why are you turning the camera? For some reason, I can't get my camera back. I might have to leave and come back. Did you, is your, is the little camera icon muted? Is there a line through it? Yeah. And then when I press on it, it won't unmute. Really? Yeah. I haven't had this happen before. This is a new one. Yeah. Do like a machine gun click. Sometimes I like something. Plus I took off the cover, you know, my protective glass cover and tried it that way. And it won't, it won't. No, it's checked like permanently for some reason, which is odd. I, I hate glitches, you know. Yeah. These programmers to me are really overrated. I mean, especially the dumbest, imbecile computer programmers of all time are the ones that created voice to text. It doesn't work. It doesn't. It's jargon. They put jargon. And I, it's also, I have on a GPS, there's a place I wrote to called Reggie's and the GPS calls it Reggie's. Okay. Now, did you say Reggie? You said Reggie's. Reggie's, but the GPS says Reggie's. All right. Oh, hey, it's a miracle. It's a miracle. I'm back without leaving. Okay. Yeah. The GPS says in two point miles arrived at Reggie's. I'm like, what, how can you cannot read Reggie's are, you know, yeah, I can't have my GPS. I can't select the, the female voice for my GPS because then it sounds like a woman's nagging me. Oh, that's funny. I can't. I just can't because I constantly at one point to seven miles, at one point, four miles in the, or your exit is on the right. Your exit is on the right. Turn into this lake. So if I go off camera, I'm not going to press that anymore. I'll be talking, but I'll, I'll just go off camera briefly, like, like this. How's that? Oh, what happened to your? I just, I didn't put up my picture because I don't trust the system. So I'm testing it. How is that when I'm away from the, when I wall off? Is that okay? And still, you can still hear me? Well, it matches the background. It's black. Well, I figure I don't want to press the camera suppression again. I don't know if it'll do the same crap it did a minute ago. What are you, do you have any, like, any, any image? Yeah, I'm having the same image, but when I do that, my concern is that camera will get stuck again. I couldn't even figure out what the image was. It looked like, like somebody playing an electric guitar. At one point I had somebody, let me try it as a test. That is, yeah, it's a tiny little picture though. I don't know. Hey, I came back right away this time. Yeah, yours is small too. You know that? Yeah. I mean, it's a small icon. What the fuck is it with these small icons? I don't know. I don't know. It feels small. Yes. Crazy, ain't it? Unbelievable. Why small? It's cheaper? When it's free, it's cheaper maybe? I don't know. Let me see if it could be bigger. No, there's no, there's no way to make it bigger. No, sir, there is not. Should, you know, like, I should like design, but no matter what I design, it's going to be the same size. Exactly. If I design something in neon lights, it says icon my balls, you know what I mean? Oh, man. Oh, man. Hey, where is everybody? They're out with their, they took, they took their dads out. They took their dads to a buffet and they're still chowing down together. That's a good play. The father's like that. The father loves a good deal, a good bar. Sure. They like, they like steak dinners, but don't, don't take, I mentioned before, don't take your father to a corporate chain like the Outback. Take him somewhere where he's going to get a great value in the steak dinner. Sure. I remember when my father was still alive and I was living in an apartment. I had him over for a barbecue and I had, I put some corn in, I soaked some corn overnight in a little bit of sugar water and then grilled it in the husk and we had that and we had steak and something else. It was really a nice memory. Unfortunately, my step monster was with him and we didn't know she was a monster at the time, but that was a nice memory. So, um, um, so you, you actually, it sounds like you used the corn husk to steam the corn. Oh yeah. And then, um, yeah, you could do the same thing with a big, with big onions. You could leave the onion skin on. Nice. Yeah. I put a little, in a little bit of sugar water. I don't I don't know what that did to it, made it easier to grill. You soak it overnight. And, uh, yeah. Yeah. It was delicious. I'm almost getting hungry talking about the corn. Corn. Um, I got two big, two jumbo packages of, of corn tortillas from a Mexican bakery and I put them right in the freezer. Nice. I put them right in the freezer. They, the Mexicans, uh, they processed the corn, I think with lime or something. In other words, they made corn, they make the corn better and healthier than it was when it was on the cob. That corn, yeah. When they grind it and they, and they, they prepare it to make, uh, tortillas and, and, um, it's, um, or even like, even like how many grits they did is a certain process that they put it through. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Because corn used to be a vegetable. Now it's a, it's a, a carb. Brain, brain. Because considered a carb. Well, it's not considered a vegetable anymore. Some people call it grain. Some people call it, um, just shove it into the carbohydrate family. Yeah. They do that a lot with things. I've noticed. But it depends. Like corn on a cob is a grain used as a vegetable. Just like avocados are fruits that are used as a, as a vegetable. Yeah. I love salt on avocado. You don't salt many vegetables. I mean, not any, many fruits. Excuse me. If you put like real sea salt or Himmel, I use Himalayan pink soil on an avocado. That's, uh, I mean, good even. It's like almost a thousand trace minerals and minerals and Himalayan pink soil. It's I, it's like, it's, it's like a mineral supplement. Yeah. Unprocessed. Totally unprocessed. It's, it's, it come from prehistoric salt beds when the Himalayan mountains where they mine it used to be underwater. Wow. So you know, isn't regular salt somewhat good for you to have once well because of the, isn't it, is it iodine in it or there's something in? Yeah. Regular, regular process table salt is just sodium chloride. It's just, so there's nothing in there like iodine or something that's good for you. Supposedly put synthetic iodine in. Oh, synthetic. Yeah. They put the iodine in the salt to make, to make iodine salt. Yeah. To supposedly make it healthy for you. Now the difference between crappy, uh, pseudo sea salt and real sea salt is that real sea salt is not pure white. It's, it's either grayish or pinkish. You know, there's always a tinge to it. It's never pure white. And, Gotcha. Of course, you're getting, you're getting minerals in, in real sea salt. So if you, you put that on your corn or avocado. Hmm. Delicious. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I love guacamole. Oh, it's the best. Delicious. I love Mexican food with guacamole and a little bit of a low fat sour cream on them. Yeah. They, a good burrito, like the place around the corner for me is called the Great Burrito. And they make, they make most Mexican food there. They don't, they don't just have burritos, but they have gigantic burritos. And they put, uh, you got the sour cream and the guacamole, everything's inside. You do not want a bunch of lettuce and beans in the burrito. Those are fillings. I don't want lettuce. I don't want beans. Exactly. You want meat, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, cilantro. I don't want white rice. Exactly. Those are cheap fillings. Now, on the, the travel channel or the food channel, there are certain personalities where they used to go into this very popular, uh, establishment, uh, I don't know, any, any given state in the United States. And they'll go to this popular place where all the locals go for hamburgers. And, and, and they invent this hamburger where they put the fucking french fries on top of the burger and then put the bread on top. I've heard of that. They do it with onion rings. I want that shit on the side. Exactly. Exactly. You know, and, and they better, better be good fries. They gotta better be, you know, it's good on the top of a, of a, um, hamburgers, a fried egg. Have you ever had that? I like that. I've had a blue cheese, bacon cheese burger made with blue. Well, you're making me hungry with all this talk of food. I'm drooling. I'm setting the drool. Hey, I love Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. I love salmon burger. That big ass salmon burger and you, and you open your mouth like the Grand Canyon trying to bite into it. That was, that was really, you know, you really make people work up an appetite when you do that. I appreciate it. I do. Tequila. My beloved Donald Trump. The poor persecuted criminal. Oh, poor, he's in diet. He's trying to get a gag order on him so he doesn't pollute the case. He's trying to pollute it as badly as he can. Well, he's, he's desperately trying to stay out of who's gal. Yeah, he's doing, trying to do the shapeshifting and point, look over there, not here. I am the great powerful Oz. Do not look behind the curtain. Do not, any attention. Do not pay attention to that man behind the curtain. I am the all powerful Don. Yeah, he's got people willing to jump off roofs for him. I don't, I don't understand it. So, I wonder if I can, I think I still have it in my Facebook. It was a parade in Mexico and they had a float of Donald Trump doing doggy style to the Statue of Liberty. Whoa. Yeah. In other words, he's trying to fuck democracy. Yes. Well, this time he's fucked the pooch now that he's going to be indicted for January 6th. He's going to be indicted for the thing in Georgia. He's got more indictments than some people have, you know, teeth in their mouth. I don't know. He's going to have a whole bunch of indictments. He's not going to be able to talk himself out of all those. No, Suri, Bob. He's trying to razzle dazzle everyone, but it's not going to work. Well, his lawyers are running out of the building screaming. You know that, right? You heard they're all withdrawing from his cases. Well, that, that was a pattern for Trump's lawyers. They, a lot of them. It still has been. Yeah, they all come, they go. Because they probably, except for, they probably tell him to shut up. Well, the biggest problem with Giuliani is he became one of those lawyers and look what it's done for him. He's almost in jail himself at times. Yeah, he was nuts. Remember the shoe polish running down his face? Yeah, that he was melting like Dracula in the sun. It was pretty funny. Yeah, he's like the Wicked Wes. You know, he really should have kind of stayed out of the public eye and had a nice retirement. I don't know why he, did you remember that one movie where they had him thinking he was going to get laid and they had that on camera? Yeah, come on in here. And he was sitting on the bed. Yeah, he's, he's two of a, him and Donald Trump are two of a kind in my opinion. He, I think he was drinking and he, he wanted a little action or. Yeah, that was pretty funny. Maybe try to get the woman drunk too. Yeah, he got himself filmed doing it. He should have, he should have quit when he was ahead. When he was like America's mayor and he should have just retired, like you said. Yeah, he's stupid for what he did. Yeah, don't, don't try to, that's what happens when, you know, he try to be, he try to be famous at a federal level by accepting the being Trump's lawyer. Yeah, that's one of the worst things you could do is be Trump's lawyer. He thought he was going to put him over the top. Yeah, and maybe make him a candidate for president one day. That's what I believe he thought, you know, so many people, they get drunk with power, you know, and he was, he was seduced by the power of that and thinking he was going to get somewhere with it, might just get him in jails, where am I, get him. And I like these, yeah, go ahead. I like these sentencing of these January six criminals. Oh, I had a great time. He, that one guy told the judge, judge gave him six years for his great time. I had a wonderful time storming the Capitol. Yeah, you know, that's a direct blow against democracy. I know those people realized that there'd be then a dictatorship and their lives would change greatly under that. So, you know, be careful what you wish for. That's right. I read an article where Ron DeSantis wants minor league, farm team, baseball players to receive minimum wage. Yeah, he's a piece of shit himself. He's a piece of shit on two legs that wants to ruin the world, rule the world and ruin the world. That's what these these jokers do. He doesn't stand to hope in hell, I think of becoming president ever. He's not a good speaker. He doesn't capture anyone's imagination. He's a dullard. He's not going to go anywhere. Do you know the polls show Donald Trump light years ahead of Ron DeSantis? Yeah, and then, you know, then once Donald becomes disqualified, who's next? If DeSantis is the candidate, I predict he will lose. Yeah, what you see what Joe Biden should do is, before the campaign starts, sign a whole bunch of executive orders. He better go and release some soft criminals to, you know, commute the sentence of soft criminals. Declare that marijuana across the board is legal. Get rid of student loan debt and with no student loan debt gone. Stock the Supreme Court Supreme Court. Yep. Exactly. Just do a whole bunch of executive orders. He cares too much about bipartisan compromising, but forget you're not going to be friends with these people. It's just not going to work. He's living in a hipster fantasy world. You're not going to. Yeah, unfortunately, there's a lot of heathenism and heathenism in those things, in those parties, man. Certain parties, they'd sell you for, they'd sell you up the river for a dollar if it suited them, you know? Oh no, the Democrats are no angers, the DMC. Well, I'm talking about certain Republicans, by the way, that would sell you up the river for a dollar. But yeah, there's all different parties it would, but them in particular, they used to be the law and order party. Now, I don't know what party, the one top 1% party, maybe? I mean, trying to cozy up to them is like... Hugging a rattlesnake. Yeah, it's like trying to embrace a Western diamond-backed rattlesnake. Put your arms around it. I said, oh. Trying to kiss a cobra. Kiss a cobra on the mouth. Yeah, King Cobra. Give us a kiss. You know, I like you. Can we be friends, King Cobra? Oh, I got bit. I'm so shocked. Yeah, and it's like the... I can't believe. It's like the story about the frog and the scorpion and the scorpion said that he promises not to sting them and he ends up stinging them anyway. And then the frog says, what? Takes them across the... Why did you do that? And the scorpion says, well, I'm a scorpion. That's what I do. Exactly, exactly. So when the Republican fucks you over, you know, they're a Republican, they're gonna fuck you over. Yeah, across the creek. That's right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. The scorpion want to piggyback ask the frog if it'll bring them across the creek. I saw some disturbing video of some guy eating a Scorpio. No, thank you. In Thailand, they have a tendency, in certain parts of China, they deep fry them or stir fry them. Oh, well, Thailand eats big tropical bugs, you know. Oh, like on the grill? Needles and yeah, yeah. Wow. They spice them up. Wow. Reminds me not to eat there anytime soon. Yeah. Well, bugs are protein though, aren't they? Yeah. That's what they say, but I'd like to get my protein elsewhere. The farmers in China, not China, the farmers in Thailand, they kill the rats and they clean them and they barbecue them. Wow, no piece turned away. I guess it's a rat that eats pristine foods. It's not a... Oh, well, then by all means, let's get the rats going here. Delicious rat on a stick. Required, what does it say? Countdowns and other... I didn't get to see all the graphics. I mean, I'm not going to pay for any graphics, but I do like the idea that I have unlimited hours for free. Yes. I like the idea that right now I'm streaming to both YouTube and Twitter or I can go YouTube and Facebook at the same time. Nice. At the same time, the only thing is I have to manually add my thumbnail, the front cover of the video. Okay. God bless y'all. The power has been very high this year. Yes. I have to hook up to electricity. I just got low battery warning. Like when a woman's using a vibrant machine, she doesn't want the low battery warning. Do you have a long USB cord? Yes, and I'm hooked up right now. I have six foot here and I have six foot in the other end of the house. I used to have a 10-foot cord, but for some reason it didn't charge normally. The 10-foot cord charged very slowly. Wow. That's not good. Maybe if you go over six feet and... Then that's when things get bad. It's going from six feet to a 10-foot USB drastically slowed down the charging process. That's not good. I am very happy that I bought two came in a box, two 40-watt high-speed rechargers. Nice. And 40 watts, and the average ones are like 15 watts. And let me tell you, it charges fast. That's what you want. Yeah, and it has different size USB ports. You don't just get one port. You get like several ports. Nice. Very nice. Yeah, 40 watts. So it goes according to the wattage. And the wattage in the cottage? The wattage in the cottage. Cheese. So they should come out with a shake, a combination rechargeable shake weight and dildo for winter. They can go from exercise to orgasm and back to exercise again. In no time. Yeah, and have it be like USB rechargeable. I don't know if you remember the shake weight episode on South Park. I haven't seen a whole lot of South Park, so I don't remember. You got a frog in your throat? Ribbit. Have some agua. You know, this Chinese woman said instead of saying frog, she said frock. I give a frock what she said. It was raining and she says good weather for frock. So I said, what? Excuse me. I was wondering, what is she trying to tell me? Give a frock. It's a good weather for frock. I thought she was flirting. You know, I thought she was saying, well, fuck, she meant frog. Seriously, grab yourself a drink or something. Little water, agua. Maybe it's the spices in the chai tea. Maybe. Maybe I need the old standby drink called Ho H2O. I called it Ho for short. Mike said, don't give a frock. Yeah, she said frock, Mike. Like F-R-O-C-K. She pronounced it frock instead of frog. She meant frog because it was raining so whole day. Damn, I wish the avatars weren't so small. I guess the only avatar I could really make where you could see them very quickly, very well. Yeah. Hello? Hello, do you hear me? Like if I made my initials in neon lights or something. Hello, Mick, do you hear me? Mick? Mick? Hello? Hello? Hello? Your microphone is going on the fritz. Yeah, he's using an iPhone. And the iPhone has a tendency to force you to use Safari. And Safari is not compatible with most live stream programs or software. So, Western Mike, are you preparing something in the kitchen? Yeah, he'll be back. In Marty's days, I have to really check all of the graphics. I have to check all the graphics here. And see if he'll come back. I mean, he's been doing good so far. Maybe he's having a problem all of a sudden with Safari with the iPhone. Because when he came on for the first time, it was perfect. And it's been perfect. So, what's up? How are you feeling? How was your week, Western Mike? I notice you did a whole bunch of hard hitting live streams for YouTube. You did a whole bunch of shows. And they're going quite well. I notice you got tired of going live, taking a walk outside in the hot sun, with all the neighbors, with all the people being nosy, probably watching you as you're walking in the hot sun. It's a lot easier to do a show to go live on the terrace. Maybe check something. Let me see if he sent me a message. Bear with me, folks. No, he didn't send me a message. Hope he's all right. Oh, here he is. Hello, Michael. No, I've been on. No, I've been on. Are you like rebooting your phone or something? Yeah. No, I didn't freeze. I'm just chatting with Mike here. He's typing to me. Yeah, I sent him a link. Mike, I sent you a link on Instagram. What are you doing now? I didn't realize time flew this fast. You're right. Come on for like 15, 20. Time flies when you're doing live stream, man. I really, I didn't realize it was almost 5 p.m. There it is. But there's Mike. Hey, Mike. What's going on? How are you? I'm good. I didn't realize it was 5 p.m. I started at 3. Well, it's 5 p.m. You're aside now. It's already 2 o'clock on the West Coast. Yeah, you mean to tell me two hours of blown by already? How about that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, Mick's coming back for like 20 minutes or so. 15, 20 minutes. So how you been? I like the videos you've been pumping out. Thanks. Yeah, it's good. And thanks for calling my live show. It's hard hitting. Just been dealing with a lot of just nonsense in the suburbs of the Western United States. And think that you deal with that also sometimes where you're at is kind of this some of this blue state kind of nonsense. I deal with moodiness in unlikely places with unlikely people like for instance the this Philippine Catholic priest that is next door to me. And I went to church a few weeks ago and he was like very rude. He like blew me off. I asked him a question and he just walked right by me and practically pushed me out of the way to a little shrimp. That's not the best conduct in a customer service role. Yeah, if you're a pastor or a priest, you are very much in a customer service role. You know, and to be rude like that, I stopped going. I'm like, he's really nice. He talks a mile a minute to other Philippine people that are in the church. But you know why? Because I'm Caucasian-American. He's got to keep blowing me off like that. Just because you're white doesn't mean you shouldn't have any right or guess any race really. Just because I'm white doesn't mean I'm not right. I'm back after technical. Technical difficulties on my mind for some reason. Technical difficulties, yeah. Yeah, it froze up totally. But considering all the time you were on. Yeah, I did well up to a certain point. That's all. Yeah, like when you came on the show and most of the time you were on the show, you're fine. Now you're fine. Yes. You know, so compared to other times you were on. Not bad. Just one hiccup. Yeah, because usually your safari really tries to ruin my life. Not enhance it. And ruin your experience. So what did I miss? You guys were talking about religion. We covered politics. So religion's not. No, we were talking. James is dealing with a rude priest. Well, you know what you do? He's just probably crabby. He's probably crabby. The altar boy hasn't visited him in a while. The altar boy. What if I what if I walked in? What if I said I'm wearing a Linda Blair mask from the exorcist? He might shit himself possibly. Or I have another mask, which is even worse. I got a couple. That Saturday night at home is nice. The altar boy. Yeah, the altar boy. I've got some religious jokes for you. How does a nun get pregnant? She dresses up like an altar boy. How come? What kind of meat do priests eat on Friday? None. None. But you know, there are no, you know, you just brought up a good point. But there are no altar boys in this Catholic church. Not one. Unusual. Maybe that's why he's so crabby. But unusual. Maybe that's why he's so crabby. Love by you. Yeah, possibly. Crabby without the altar boys just slap on his knee. He'll feel better one day, yeah. Maybe the parents in this community don't want their kids to be altar boys. I don't blame them. They spent more money. When these guys get in trouble, they move them. They don't report that to the local authorities. They move them to another parish. It's really evil, real evil. They move the pastor over just to the next arch. Diocese, not to use blasphemy. But when you're messing with other people, you gotta, you only gotta be fair. And all that money that they're collecting is for their legal team. Seriously, the payoffs, all that stuff, nasty, nasty. This country is dealing with too much corruption. Well, the church has been corrupt for a long time, I think. Especially like in England, when they changed it to the Church of England. So the King, who was that? Which King Louis or whoever? So he could get divorced? King Henry, yeah. So he could get divorced. So he changed the religion to the Church of England. Isn't America so corrupt right now that in states like in some southern states, the corruption per capita is extremely high? Well, I heard they're redistricting things in the Democrats' favor soon because they've been redistricted in the Republicans' favor a long time. You mean gerrymandering? Yes, redistricting. Well, I think they're correcting some incorrect redistricting is what I've heard. Thanks. The president is probably going to win reelection at this point. If my last name was Mandarin and I had a son, I would definitely name him Jerry. Jerry Mandarin, come to the office. We need you to fix some political stews for us. Jerry Mandarin. I would send him to law school so he can become a politician. Then he'll be like the candidate for Senator Jerry Mandarin. Mandarin coming at you. Well, it's like a podiatrist having to name Dr. Frank Futter. Or hygienist named Dr. Volva. It drives the Volva. Dr. Hans Grabber. Yes. What if a woman with a very large Volva and labia, like a trampoline, what if she insisted that she had to drive a Volva from Sweden? I don't know. Let her drive it, I guess. That's what you do. Go ahead. Help yourself, lady. How about the what are those all the names? Gymnasium, pizzeria, bend over. Then the poor Mexican hooker with no legs, Consuelo. Dr. Camilada. The broad certified internist named Dr. Camilada. And then there's, what is it? You know, we had a regional manager when I worked in one of the jobs and seafood I had. His name was Michael and his last name was Hunt, H-U-N-T. Mike Hunt to the front desk, Mike Hunt. Did you know they paged him to the front desk? Calling Mike Hunt, Mike Hunt to the front desk, calling Mike Hunt. I have four kids. But my buddy posted on, he said, you don't ever see kids ride bikes anymore, it's just a crack hence. Now what's with all these electric, over here I see electric bikes or e-bikes or whatever. What's with the freaking daylight? I see electric scooters, I see electric skateboards and I will tell you this, they move pretty fast. Why do they have, yeah, but what's with that freaking annoying ass daylight? Like these bikes that have this light that you put on during the day? Why? What does that mean? Why do cyclists feel the need to utilize, to take advantage of a light on their bike at 12, at 2, 4 o'clock in the afternoon? It should be working, but have noticed that. Why are people putting lights on their bikes in the day in broad daylight? Why do, why does anyone need a light in the day? This one guy, he was, you know, simply just because, because just didn't know him and wasn't looking at him, he, he had that bike light on and it was flashing really crazy at freaking like one o'clock in the afternoon and he started like waving at me for attention. Like, hey, don't you see me? Hi, dude, what is the freaking? Yeah, what, what, what, why, why do they have lights on in a daytime? Are they that like afraid of getting hit? Sorry about that, guys. I've done the 10% on my phone, so it. Did you plug it in? Yeah, I did, but sometimes these plugs are bad to be jiggled around. Well, what's so nice about the live streams is that you, while you're live streaming, you can charge your phone. So you can charge your phone while you're. Yeah, I was, but the problem is the cord has to be jiggled just right. So you make sure it's working. Some of these cords aren't, aren't the greatest. Well, when I, when I used to go live from the Oyuki Sushi place or anywhere, anywhere in a restaurant, okay? You did. But I used to, I couldn't plug into anything with my USB cord. So what I did was I brought the battery. I fully charged, I have a battery that I got from five below that actually will is capable of fully charging my phone. Nice. One charge. So I would charge the battery ahead of time, charge my phone ahead of time. Then if I'm going to go live on location, I would have the battery handy. Would you have a battery? What about a portable battery? I do. Portable, portable charger? Yeah, portable. That's what he was just talking about. Portable battery. Now, if it was, if you're in a place like a lot of restaurants, even Dunkin Donuts or fast food, a lot of them have these USB ports now. I mean, there was, there was the bar in the restaurant at the Holiday Inn had a bar with a USB port next to every chair going all the way around the bar. Nice. You know, so you don't have to worry about your phone going there. That's cool. So you have like a, you would have this major charging station for every person who would sit down. They would get, yeah, they have, they have that in the city too. They have these places where you can fit that down and all you have to do is just sit down and charge your device and then you're ready to go. It's very considerate and thoughtful. Of them to have that because they, they know how much people rely on their, on their, on their mobile phones, our phones. And it's necessary. It's a necessity. My phone is sometimes that negative like 2% going out. I had, I had, I had a doctor's appointment. Not a doctor's appointment, an appointment with a nurse practitioner Friday at, at 2pm Eastern time. And I almost forgot about my appointment. I got out of the shower. I dried off. I, I sat down in the living room. My phone told me I only had 3% power left. And then I noticed it was like, like 1.57pm. It was like almost time for the appointment. I said, holy shit. I got, I got my appointment. I just made it in time. So I plugged in and at 3% power and I had enough power to do, to do a video consultation. Yeah. Nice. No, good, good. You know, save a lot of time and money. What do you think? Yeah. Video consultation. I can't be accused of stiffening somebody for an appointment because hey, it's, it wasn't 2pm yet. It was 1.57. 1.57 Riverside Avenue, famous song by R.E.O. Speedwagon. Oh, really? Speedwagon. Yeah. R.E.O. Speedwagon. 1.57 Riverside Avenue. Don't know, even if I'm going to be a Republican ever somehow, again, just can't, you know, kind of hoping that the president wins reelection and kind of wins by a much larger amount than last time, just for the sake of things. Why don't you be, why don't you be a moderate independent? Moderate independent. I got to belong to a party here. I'm a Democrat, but I'm just not a woke, you know, Democrat. Yeah. Woke Democrats are dangerous. Yeah. I'm like, I'm not half asleep Democrat. I'm not woke. Yeah. Yeah. The, the Democrats have gone to woke and they're giving women way too much attention. Yeah. And they're, and they're allowing transgenders to participate in athletic sports. Yeah, that's unfair. Don't know about that. With women. And they're winning. And they're winning, of course, you know, because they're, they have testosterone. Yeah. They're bigger. They're stronger. Women and men get equal treatment. And January 6th was not a, uh, was not a, um, it's not a good day in America. Let's just go. No, it's a shameful day of democracy was almost put out of commission. And that was, yeah. Our democracy was under attack. Well, let me ask you a question. Our democracy since January 6th has had, was and still is under attack. But why are the Democrats being so weak in watching? They're always extra too careful. They're way too careful and worried about who they're going to offend. Yeah, you gotta give them a public party credit on that. They're, they're not overly, they're, they're not like that. So they don't care about a lot of things. Yeah. They only care about fetuses when they're in the womb. Yeah. Yeah. They care about fetuses. If you're still in the womb, they fight like hell for you. But if you're born, you're on your own. Made of rubber, everyone is weak. Everyone? Not on this panel. Everyone is a big statement. Mr. Rubber, Mr. Latex. Don't mess with Texas. Well, speaking of Texas, I gotta get more of that. Clint's Texas Cowboy Salza extra spicy Texas Cowboy Salza. That sounds good. Yeah. That one. Hey, I'm assuming. Hi, Missoumi or a Missoumi saying hello, James. Good morning. Oh yeah, I was trying to get have her appear. Good morning, Missoumi. Good morning. It is, it is now 617 a.m. in the Tokyo area. Good morning to you. Morning, Missoumi. We all send our best wishes to Missoumi. Definitely. Guys, I'm going to go get ready for my show. If don't come back. Oh, that's right. You do have a show coming up. That's good to see you. I got an order of food to be delivered. Yeah, me too. I'm going to pick up food. See you next week. Yeah, I'm going to close the shop. Man, I'm going to close the shop. I'm going to have to decide what I want. Gotcha. You know, I have to order something based on my desire. My Oolia, as they say in Italian. Oolia. All right, James. Happy Father's Day to everyone, including you and the Western Mike. Maybe I'll get a big ass well-stuffed calzone. I don't know. Ooh, that sounds good. I have to decide. A lot of places have specials for Father's Day. Jetspitz has 20% off. That's the Detroit deep dish. That's a variation of the Chicago deep dish. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They don't have that. Like the one I posted in Everything's Food the other day. That's a Chicago deep dish. All right, James. Good to see everybody. Chicago deep dish in Detroit is a deep dish without crust, right? Pretty much. Kind of. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, you're welcome, Miss Sumi. Take care. Yeah, she's a, hold on. Yeah, my click, my mouse is not rapidly cooperating. Oh, it's a little, when I click on something here, it's just like a fraction of a second hesitant. Got you. Thanks, everyone, your reply. Thank you too, Miss Sumi. Is it better? Well, anyway, I'm going to, we've been here almost two and a half hours. All right. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's almost two and a half hours. All right, everybody. Cheers. See you later. Bye-bye. Bye. I am ending the stream and see you next time. Thank you. This is one of my two Western top hats. I have a black one. All right. Take care, everyone. And thank you for stopping by. Until next time. Have a safe week. Have a pleasant week, everyone. This is James P. Madonna of Progressive Discussions.