 Welcome everyone to Progressive Discussions. I'm your host James P. Madonna. I am here with the one and only T.K. Lawless from outside of Dallas, Texas. And we got Alex the Beer Master who lives in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. So we have two, where the Jersey Devil flies around. He's in that area. And how was everyone's week and weekend? I guess y'all getting a little tough weather up there in Philly, huh? Yeah, we got snow now. Yeah, they said something about it. It was supposed to snow for two days solid. Well, the past two nights was 18 degrees with the wind shield. It feels like seven. And I knew something was coming because it was like, you know, I mean, it was frigid. You could tell. I mean, we have, unfortunately, we have a damp cold here in the Northeast as opposed to people like in Colorado have a dry cold. Right. Right. I hate humidity. You know, I've been to San Diego, Baja, and I love the dry heat, dry cold. It can be pretty tough. Well, not not to get you off of off center too far, but it was 76 here yesterday. 20 mile an hour winds. Although they're supposed to be a norther blow in off the, you know, once that once that norther hits the Colorado eastern side of the Colorado Rockies, there's nothing to stop it, but the barbed wire coming this way. So we're supposed to be we're supposed to be down in the 20s tonight, I think. Well, all those people on the Gulf have brutal humidity. Yeah, right. Corporate Galveston, what do you call it, New Orleans, Alabama, Biloxi, Mississippi, right? Yeah. All the Gulf Coast, Tampa, Florida, terribly humidity. Oh, Houston, Houston too. Houston is terrible. Yeah, Houston. Yeah. They say that whole area across there. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it's like, it magnifies the temperature. But when I was there, when I was in Sonora Desert, it was over 100 degrees. And honestly, I didn't feel it. Yeah, I did not feel it. So the humidity is a killer. We play, I play a lot of golf at least once or twice a week. And I remember last summer, there was there was days when I was making, it's pretty tough making up 18 and when we had all the high humidity. I was just war slick, you know, but like you say, when it's as long as the humidity is down, you can take it pretty good. Oh, yeah. But I doubt. Well, I'm going to sink my piranha teeth right into, I guess, going sort of light into something deep. So like a warm up in the bullpen. Okay. A little chisel is Hall of Shame, little consumer stuff. Now, I notice if you download on the so-called free apps, okay, and they're deceptive, because when you download on the free app, they throw a little bait and switch at you like they do with retail. It's always something wrong with it. It's full of glitches. It doesn't work properly. And then they start pitching the professional version for you to buy. Yeah, they purposely make it faulty. So I do notice that the premium version, they usually got a little extra. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like it's actually, it actually, the free version malfunction is not, that's not always the case. Like some things work fine, like C cleaner, you know, as a few computers running slow and things of that nature, you know, but a lot of them are pretty deceptive. Now, we got, now I over the years, I've noticed a lot of misinformation on YouTube videos where you have these so-called experts and gurus telling everybody how to do practically everything, but a lot of it is misinformation. And some of it is just really, they're just, it's almost like they made up the advice they're giving because I was a victim of it many times. So I think they do it. They do it so they can monetize their videos and make money just for them to pump out maximum videos and get monetized. Now you have, there is, well, there's one app I had called Drizly where they deliver liquor to your home. Yeah, I'm saying it. Yeah. Now, all right. I don't mind the little fee, you know, for the delivery and the tip. I don't mind that. Everybody's got to make a living somehow. But then they have like a $29 minimum. Now, why can't they do it like the takeout, the food takeouts where you could order whatever you want. And if the guy happens to be out delivering, he just delivers it. But all the liquor establishments have this like $29 minimum. There's always a catch to everything in, especially in retail. Sure. Now, okay. All right. Now, I notice, now we're getting a little deeper. I noticed that now, why are Democrats still too nice to treasonous fascist Republicans? Bipartisanship today will not work as much as Joe Biden feels. I actually tend to think that might be a little more lip service. Just like you said, it's just politics. I think Joe found out in the Obama regime when most of the time when they had a tough call down at Capitol Hill, Obama sent Joe down there because he had 36 years in the Senate. And even then, as time went by, okay, this has been, it's actually been going on since Newt Gingrich. They basically drew a line in the sand and basically called it Civil War 1994-95. It's been going on at least that long. Now, they've been lying since way before that, all the way back to Lee Atwater, Nixon, and all those guys. But it really got worse, I think, with Gingrich. And they just now, now the last seven, eight years, maybe 10, and maybe it was when Obama got elected, it was a shock to their system for President Blackinstein to get in there. And they just, they couldn't stand it. And they basically blocked everything he tried to do. It's really amazing when you think about it, he got Obamacare through in any form. I'm surprised about that for 40 years, you know, any kind of health care reform. But him to get it through in any form was a miracle. And if you remember back, he also was the only Democrat in the last two decades has been able to pass any kind of middle-class tax relief where people over 400 grand, remember, they cried about that, people over 400 grand had to pay. They weren't considered middle-class. They kept trying to cry that they were 400, 500,000 was middle-class. Those people actually had a tax increase of, I think it went back up to 39.6. So those two things were almost a miracle to get past through the Congress that Obama saw. And I think Joe saw that. I honestly believe he would love to work with them. But I think they're fixing to find out that he's not going to dilly-dally around with them very long. Well, Mitch McConnell did say he wanted to make Obama a one-term president. I mean, yep, maybe they got him on video. That's another thing Republicans ain't really figured out. And Trump was the worst of them. They hadn't figured out how that video deal works. You know, they say something two years later, we play it back for them and they're like, oh, I heard him say that. And then they tell their neophytes that they didn't say it and they believe them when it's right there on video. If you're in public office, you've got to also beware of the live mic. Oh, no question. I don't begrudge anybody up there that, you know, it's one thing to shade your position a little bit and try to put your position in the best light possible. But it's a different thing to just blatantly out now lie and say actually the opposite. That's what they do. The hypocrisy is just overwhelming, just like Trump's lies every day, day and night. But you know, the Republicans are about party over the planet. It's been so obvious in recent days and just the last couple of years. They have no policy. You know, at their convention, their virtual convention, they didn't have a platform. Remember, that's the first time in the history of political parties that one party didn't put forth a platform as this is what we're for. You know, the Democrats had a 67 page platform. The Republicans had no platform and they announced it. No platform. They're going to line up with whatever Donald Trump proposes. That was their platform. Just like Trump had no federal plan for vaccine distribution and now we have a serious shortage. I'm pretty sure his health care plan ain't coming either. Yeah, that's it. Remember that. You promised him the best health care, the greatest health care. We heard that about every day for four years and I think he's out of time. Best, the greatest, the best. I wonder if Trump and Trump Jr secretly sold the supply of vaccines to others. You know, I saw one meme that kind of questioned that and that's really the only time I saw it, but I can't say that it didn't cross my mind. Let's put it that way. These are world-class grifters we're talking about and it wouldn't surprise me if it was found out later on. Somebody investigated thoroughly that some of those disappeared in some different and various and nefarious ways. Well, Israel got their shipment right away. Netanyahu, he got it. Just when the FDA panel approved Pfizer, all of a sudden, CNN is showing that Israel got their big shipment. Jared Kushner might have played a part in it. Yeah, imagine that possibility. Nothing surprises me. Well, like I said, supposedly the Obama transition team, when they finally did get in there, and I probably want to, you know, obviously, Trump was trying to hold them up, hamstring them, screw them up every way he could, but and that's the thing. When you have people that tell you they hate government, but they run for government, you should trust them, you know? Well, and basically that transition situation, they held them up and held them up and now we find out why. You know, the transition team just on the pandemic alone got in there in the coverage drive. You know, it's old mother Hubbard and this this deal with Trump. And he was promising. Remember, they kept talking about it and he had the Acer run out there, press conference and say, we're getting ready to send that second batch out. We've been holding it back for the second doses. Right. Come to find out there ain't no second dose. There ain't no batch. So, yeah, they, like I say, that's that's the difference in Democrats and Republicans, really, is Republicans absolutely lie. I mean, flat lies say the opposite of what's true. Democrats, I'm not going to say that every Democrat politician doesn't doesn't shade the truth to make his position look a little better. That's that's the art of politics anyway, you know, is to try to convince people that you're right. But going along with absolute complete 180 degree lies, you know, that there's really no place for that. But there's a huge, huge problem with it in America today. This information misinformation, whatever you want to call it. Well, anytime you you you accept huge campaign contributions from the oligarch from from the major risk, you owe them big favors if you get elected. And apparently they don't do what Bernie Sanders did, take money from the little guy. Right. They took it from the fat cats and they owe them. I'm sure Mitch McConnell visits with every lobbyist that has something to offer him. Yeah, and he was he was he was a lot closely, more closely tied to those Russian oligarchs than then ever got reported. Now, there were a little bit of reporting about it. But for some reason, he's able to coax that and he didn't he didn't really have the Russia problem that Trump did. But he was tied in with a lot of Russians and a lot of money and RNC was too. At one point, I'd heard, you know, a year or so after Trump got elected that there was a FBI had a pretty big RICO case against the RNC for for taking a bunch of Russian money. So I, you know, never never materialized because of who was, you know, appointing people to run the DOJ and FBI and stuff. But they had they had a bigger, bigger problem than they ever end up having to face. I have a feeling Vladimir Putin has something over on Donald Trump called the Russian prostitute. You're the PP tapes. They've been talking they've been talking about that forever. But he's been able, you know, Trump was able to quench it for for long enough, I guess. But yeah, you notice how advantage and the Epstein the people that visited Epstein's resort with all the girls and everything. Just laying, I guess, so Epstein's girlfriend, you know, there was the recruiter or whatever. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there that other presidents, you know, that we've always kind of we even Republicans through McCain and even Romney and some of those guys, you know, they they were fine upstanding human beings. You may not agree with their politics that you really you really couldn't call them the scum of the earth. And Trump has been the scum of the earth since at least the 70s. I mean, he's I can't think of one redeeming human quality. I'm sorry. And I believe me. I'd love to say, you know what this one thing, you know, but what would it be? I don't know what it would be. People knew what they were getting when he was campaigning. Well, I'll say this, they damn sure knew the second time. Okay, 16, 16, maybe snuck up on some people. Maybe it wasn't such a known quantity. Maybe Hillary was a little too cocky. Maybe Comey's deal about Hillary's emails came at a bad time. Maybe it was a perfect storm of events. Maybe there's no question that Russians helped him. No question that they hacked into a lot of places. And it didn't take a lot up there in those three or four states up there in the Roosevelt. And then next thing you know, a total of 78,000 votes gives us that idiot for four years. You know, but the second time around, they didn't have any excuse. Okay, there he was a known quantity at that point, even though he probably should have been the first time. But a lot of people knew was always a reality TV star and he's rich, rich guy. You know, he's been blowing up this rich guy deal for a billionaire. And probably at the time he got elected, he probably didn't have 200 million. But, you know, he lied about that too. And everything else that he's ever done. He owes a ton of money to IRS, that's for sure. Well, they're showing that 793 million that he could potentially owe the IRS. And that didn't even include those loans that's out there for almost a billion. I don't, you know, I mean, he, if he was up in your part of the world borrowing that kind of money, he'd get kneecapped at least, wouldn't he? Yeah, well he and what's worse is he does business with autocrat despots and murderous dictators like the Saudi, King of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, how about that one? I mean, not even ever even address the fact that they were absolutely caught red handed killing that guy and chopping him up. And, and, and no, not a comment one from Donald Trump. None. I think it was done in Syria, I think. Well, I think they actually, they actually nab him. Where was it that day? I can't remember where they first, it wasn't in Saudi Arabia. No, it wasn't in Saudi Arabia. They actually got him at an embassy somewhere else. It was an embassy. Yeah. And, you know, he, he's just money is his God and the church is the bank. Yeah, that's how they are. Prophet before people in the planet. Well, that's, that's been another thing. It's been just mind boggling, you know, the Christian, right Christian evangelicals lining up behind Trump. I mean, you could not find a more, like I said before, John McCain, POW, maybe you don't like some of his policies. I thought he was a little bit too much of a warmonger, but I always had a ton of respect for McCain, even though I disagree with his policy. Well, he had integrity and even Romney, I never liked Romney. I thought he is kind of a wishy-washy, mealymouth kind of guy and he was one of those hedge funders. So I never, I wouldn't don't agree with his tax policy and things like that. But at least he was a decent human being. You know, who's worse, Paul Ryan, remember him? Well, he's, yeah. He's what we down here called the pull up the ladder behind you, Republican. Now, what's with speaking of evangelical? When they, well, a lot of them seem more like cultists than Christians. Yeah, because they cherry pick from what they like, from the Old Testament. Well, it's funny, they've got those, they've got two issues that they can't get off of and they are just rabid about it, abortion and gays. You know, that's their whole policy. And as long as the Republicans are against that, they're going to be on the Republican side, even though the whole New Testament talks nothing about anything but basically Democratic politics, you know, taking care of the lesser, taking care of the less fortunate, you know, that kind of thing. Well, life, according to the Bible, life begins when Adam was given his first breath. I mean, a fertilized egg to call a fertilized egg a baby. I mean, God used to smite innocent men, women, children. I mean, you know, but now Ted Cruz, he used to, how come the evangelicals... I apologize for him, too. They have to pray with their arms up in the air. Is that like a Wi-Fi antenna to God or a batch one? You know, I don't know. I guess it's something that helps them speaking tongues or something. I don't know what all, what to deal with all that is. But yeah, Ted Cruz is another one. Louie Gohmert, I got him down here in East Texas. Oh, Gohmert Tile, I call him. Gohmert, he's an idiot. You know, he's down here about 60, 70 miles away from me and Tyler down in that area. And he's just, it's embarrassing sometimes after these guys have been on TV to admit that you're from Texas, but... Oh, that's East Texas, Tyler. That's like... Yeah, he's about, yeah, 60, 70 miles east of me, all the way to Louisiana border, little southeast of Dallas kind of, but basically East. But he, you know, he's just... He blames the mask for him testing positive. Yeah, yeah. And the day tested positive, he took the mask off and went into his office when he had, you know, eight staffers there in an enclosed room. I mean, they're just idiots. I mean, and you know, the thing is, look, say we don't know exactly, you know, we don't know exactly how to transmit it at that time, especially we didn't maybe a few months back. We didn't know how to transmit it and we didn't know how effective the mask were and everything, but what the hell's the... Why not wear it just in case? You know, what if you totally agree with all the science, wear the son of a bitch just in case for everybody else's sake? You know, look, the Constitution does give you the right to be an asshole, but you don't have to use it every day. Well, you can't scream fire in a movie theater. I mean, as far as the First Amendment goes, I mean... Well, and that's what they did on January 6th. That's what they did. And there ain't no way around it. We got the video now. You know, maybe there were some idiots a year ago that said, you know, Trump didn't do it and Mueller didn't prove it. And even though Mueller came right out and said, we did not exonerate him. You know, he said it right out. But, you know, maybe the evidence was a little pragmatic the last time. This time, there's video. Well, they're afraid of losing the base if it's something to be proud of, which it's not. You know, the Republicans don't want to lose Trump's base. You know, it's been refreshing for him to be gone and be gone off Twitter and not have to listen to that goofy ass and not have to read the tweets and stuff. But, you know, just like the other day, Kevin McCarthy, what, two weeks ago, Kevin McCarthy made the mistake, a Republican mistake. Right. I was saying something on the House floor about that, you know, that all the people that spoke that day need to take a little responsibility for inciting that mob. Well, you know, next thing you know, last Friday, he's down there in Mar-a-Lago kissing Trump's ass because Trump's pissed about him coming out and telling the truth, basically. And so, he has to fly down to Mar-a-... What is he? The minority leader in the House. So, he's the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. He flies down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. So, we're not rid of this fool just yet. No, there damn sure not. What do you mean you're not rid of Donald Trump yet? Well, just look, he's always in the media. He's slapping his... Well, the Republicans are not rid of him. I'll say that. I think Biden's done a pretty good job of ignoring him, you know, even when the questions come up. I think the Democrats have done a decent job of just letting him go away. And that's kind of what I was hoping would happen. I'm, you know, they're saying, oh, Biden, you know, let Biden tell Merrick Garland to go after him and D.O.J. can go after Trump. And there's plenty of evidence. And, you know, really, I'm almost of the opinion. I just assumed Biden to stay above the fray and work on all these problems that we got to try to fix from the pandemic on down. Let the other people he appointed go after him. Exactly. Let the Southern District of New York go after him. And let D.O.J. go after him. Let the D.A. and down in Georgia go after him. And actually, the Department of Justice, when Merrick Garland gets confirmed, they'll have, they have a case of incitement. Now, it's a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia, but D.O.J. runs that criminal investigation part since D.C. is not a state. So Merrick Garland will be the one, and that'd be ironic if he was the one to stick it up Trump's butt. But Merrick Garland's going to be the one to decide whether or not to go after him on that. And even though it's a misdemeanor, he could face as much as six months in jail. Not that I think he'll ever do time, but there's a good chance in Southern District of New York and Manhattan D.A., he may very well do some time. Do you think Trump will run again in four years? I think he will. I'm kind of on the fence on that. I hate to be on the fence on that. I'd like to say no. I'd like to say he's going to be in jail, so it's going to be hard to campaign. But I don't know that for sure. And I'm afraid, I'm afraid he's going to get the Kid Gloves treatment. There you go. I think he's going to get some Kid Gloves treatment and they'll probably make a deal. He'll probably get away without any jail time. That's just my gut feeling. You know, his biggest problem now is he can't get any lawyers to work for him. Yeah, they all quit. So all five of the guys on the, all five of the ones on the impeachment quit yesterday or today. What about, what about the guy who cries black shoe polish? Now, you know, he ain't going to, nobody else going to hire that son of a bitch. So maybe he'll go back to Trump. But yeah, he's going to have a harder time, I think, getting out from under the Manhattan DA. The Manhattan DA one is actually financial fraud. You know, and I know a little bit about that from my old days back in the 80s being in the real estate business and when the savings and loans went under down here, well, everywhere, but basically down here with the crash started in the late 80s. And I know a lot of people that actually went to jail for false sign their financials. So, you know, they ended up getting anywhere from three to five years, at least seven or eight people I know. And the ringleader of that whole deal, he was in for like 11 years. So they take that financial stuff pretty seriously. And like I say, these folks I'm talking about went to jail just for false find their financial statements. But the funny part is Donald Trump would be the first president that would ever be in jail, because I don't remember any other presidents have gone to jail, won't you? No, no, nobody's ever gone to jail. You know, Nixon was probably the closest and they made a deal to for for departing, you know, so how about that joke called Trump University? Where you go? That's his MO that's his business plan. He screwed those folks out of $250 million that we know of. Okay. And then once they come claiming it or they suit him, he tied it up in court for what seven, eight years. And then finally settles on 25 me. So he made 10 times his money, at least 10 times his money and held them off for seven or eight years. So, but that's that's his MO, you know, he's done that. He, you know, he bankrupted the casinos there, you know, Jersey, he bankrupted Atlantic City with the Taj, what three times? Trying to get rid of his partners. The second time he's trying to screw the state over on their on their percentage, they were supposed to get off the gambling fees. And then third time, he bankrupted again to get out from under the the unions, the employees, the pensions and the contract that he had. So, like I said, he's a scumbag. He had several casinos at one time. Yeah. And he had Ivana were running Trump Plaza. And then I heard he has a tendency to stiff people for money. Yeah, all the time, like the caterer that that took care of his daughter Ivanka's wedding. He says, I don't like the taste of the food. I'm not going to pay it. Yeah. And that happens a lot. That's that's another thing I'm talking about about his business plan. His business plan basically is if he owes you 100 grand, he's going to say there's some problem. Then he's going to offer you 25 grand and you're going to say screw it. And you're going to take him to court and then he's going to drag you along in court. You're going to spend 15 $20 in attorneys fees. And then he's going to offer you 40 and you're going to say, finally, fuck, I'll take it. So he saved 60 grand and he knew he's going to do it from day one. He was never paying the hundred. They agreed to. That's just the way they work. That's that's that's just the way their their mind works. And they call that business being a good businessman. I call it not living up to your responsibilities in line. When I when I was in Taj Mahal, my friend had two comp cards. My name wasn't James. My name was Glenn de Blasio. I was, uh, he had these two comp cards from high rollers. So I didn't believe I was one of the high rollers. And we, we ate in the Maharaja's Palace and the safari steakhouse. And, you know, we, we, we got everything. We were in a suite all the way on the top, $500 a night, you know, whatever. It's about, you know, as long as I pretend to be somebody else. So, so he had his name. His name was everywhere. Trump, Trump, Trump. Everywhere except the toilet. Yeah. That's his deal. That's his deal too. You know, everybody talks about him being, you know, quote unquote, we used to hear him about, about him being a real estate developer. He, he, he has built very little. Now he's bought stuff and stuck his name on it, but he is not a real estate developer. His father or motor is, he was not like his father, but his father was a slumlord too. Yep. I was going to say at least his father built apartments, even though they ended up being a majority of them a slumlord. And he was the first time he run afoul with the government back in the 70s. Him and his dad got sued by the feds for keeping black people out of their apartments. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. So right there, right there when people keep saying Donald Trump is a racist, truly that he is a racist. Well, he also likes, he liked to put his teenage daughter Ivanka on his lap. That was pretty sickness stuff. I mean, some of that stuff is pretty creepy. You know, when he went on, when he went on what you call it show and talked about it, if he wasn't, if it wasn't his daughter, he'd be dating her. And is it, is it creepy for him to be talking about his daughter in a sexual sense? Yes, it is creepy. It is creepy. Why don't I know if it's creepy? And he's got to ask the question, is it creepy or not? She said he shouldn't be bringing it up. It's inappropriate. I mean, he just, he's, first of all, he's a weird duck and he's a scumbag. And it's just, you put all that together. It's just hard to believe this many people would lay down in front of a truck for this guy. Well, he's an associate path. He doesn't care about it. Absolutely. Well, he didn't care about anybody else. I can't, but it's still, I can't believe that Trump had the hots for his own daughter. Oh yeah. He admitted it on a talk show and then what didn't he do it on air with, uh, what's, uh, what you call it, uh, God, Howard Stern, Howard Stern, Howard Stern. That's the one. He said, Howard, he said, is it, is it weird for me to have sexual thoughts about my daughter? And Howard even was, and as before, Howard had turned over a new leaf, you know, back when he was still the shock jock and he said, well, hell, yes, it's weird. You know, it's, it's, it's done. Trump still had the hots for his daughter. That's the case. That's weird. And I don't know that he's, he really don't have the hots for any of them. I don't guess any more. He, hell, you know, he, he and Melania, they were basically estranged sleeping in different rooms. She wouldn't even hold his hand in public. Uh, I'm sure Ivanka still walked up and kissed him on the cheek and stuff. I saw her, she wrote that op-ed in the New York Times, something about how they were being unfair to him. And, and it was, uh, which had to go after him after he got out of office and all that stuff. So, I mean, so she's still, she's still there with daddy, but you know, I did hear something else too when they were talking about these investigations. There's a, I heard a, and I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard rumor that the district attorney in Manhattan, that Ivanka is going to be in a little bit of hot water there too, because you know, Donald put her, he put her as, as the head, head of a couple of these corporations that have done some of the shady tax shifts. So she could actually catch some heat over that. And, and, and I, I mean, of all of them, he would probably less likely to throw her under the bus, but it wouldn't shock me. That's why you're wrong. I got your own kid. What would you do? Oh, I guarantee, if it was, if it was Eric or Donald Jr., I guarantee you he'd throw them under the bus. That's why Ivanka and, uh, Jared Kushner moved to this island off of Miami. They're building this huge mansion over there. Why? Because they have to let her, her daddy-in-law live with them because nobody else will take him either after Trump. He can't, he can't live in this, uh, ordinance in, uh, I think, uh, West Palm Beach or Palm Beach County, whatever, that he cannot live permanently at Mar-a-Largo for more than 30 days at a time. Yeah, for seven consecutive days every 30 days or something. There's, yeah, some kind of an agreement that they made way back when, when he, when he wanted to turn it into a private club or whatever, he signed all that paperwork. Now he's trying to renege on that, obviously. And his neighbors in Mar-a-Largo are fighting like hell to get him out of there, and a bunch of them just said the hell with it and moved. They don't want them. They say it's like a ghost town down there. Wow. Well, he's going to have to, because of the IRS alone, he's going to have to sell a great deal of his property. Yeah, I don't know. And, and, you know, somebody, there was another article about Deutsche Bank, uh, on all those properties over in Europe, Deutsche Bank's talking about foreclosing. They're not going to renegotiate the loans with him anymore. You know, they've basically been, the spotlight's been shown on them, and they don't, they don't like the publicity they're getting. And, you know, he doesn't, he's not in a position of power to give him anything anymore. So they're not, uh, they're not willing to renegotiate his loans. So the chances are that some, at least some of those properties over in Europe are going to go to foreclosure. Why is he not empowering anymore? And Scotland, you know, the, the country of Scotland where one of the golf courses is, is already under, taking steps to, because he went to court on something in law. So over there in Scotland, and it was a huge amount of money that he owed, uh, something to do with the environmental impact and everything on that golf course in Scotland. And he lost and wouldn't pay or hasn't paid. Right. And they said that the country Scotland is, they're going to take steps to foreclose or take that golf course away from him if he didn't pay. So, and he ain't, like he said, he owes so much money, he can't pay that one. He's got too many fires to put out. And I can tell you from past history, like I said back there, when those SNLs went under in the late eighties, when you get too many fires to put out at one time, you, you're pretty much done. Well, it's a fickle finger of fate, karma, biting them on the ass. Hey, you know, if, if karma ever came down the pack, this might be the biggest and best example of it ever, you know, not just for Trump or Trump and Stein, but for, for the party. Yeah. Yeah. They, they had their opportunity when he got beat in November, they had their opportunity to, to basically purge themselves of him if they chose to. And I don't know what they think going forward if they really are that scared of that mob of a base of his and look, he got, they talked about, he got 73 million votes or whatever. I'd say probably 40 million of those were pretty rabid Trumpsters. The others are probably people that won't come out half those other 33, they won't come out and vote again probably. You know, so I think there's probably a 40 to maybe 50 million of the Trumpers out there that are that rabid. And I guess that's the, that's the group that Kevin McCarthy's of the world are scared of. You know, McConnell don't really seem to be scared of them. I think he, you know, he won his race in Kentucky by landslide this last time and everybody talked about how that girl was going to make it close and McConnell was in trouble and they were within three or four points of each other. Next thing, you know, he went by 21 points. So I think McConnell feels like he's pretty insulated. He doesn't have to count on the Trump mob to get elected. But I do think Josh Holly and Cruz and that, that goofball out in Arizona, the house guy in Arizona, there's about seven or eight guys around that, that seem like they feel like they have to have Trump's base to continue, to continue on, you know. And so you're going to see him pander until him for at least a while. I was pretty shocked. Kevin McCarthy looked like he was trying to slide away from Trump a couple of weeks ago. And then next thing you know, Friday he was down there kissing the ring. So and he's the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. So I think there's still an issue for the Republicans that maybe it's a maybe it's a divisive issue enough that that it'll tear tear them apart eventually. Yeah, I think there's a chance of that happening. Are you saying the party's not going to exist anymore? Oh, they'll still be here, but they'll just lose so much strength. It'll take them if they let Trump divide them because these Trump people if as long as he's not running, they're not going to be storming the Capitol and storming all these places. And if he gets convicted, if he gets convicted in the impeachment, I still think that's a long shot of happening because I don't think there's 17 Republicans with a backbone. There may be five or six now. Actually, I guess there was five the other day that voted in on that other thing about going forward with the trial. So there's five or six probably and they might can peel off another one or two in certain areas. But to get 17 Republicans with a backbone, I just don't see it. But now they they can't on a majority vote. They can't on a majority vote, keep him from ever holding office again. So I think that's a possibility. But he's still might run. And let's see. He's still in 2024. I mean, he's lined up there. People have said he, you know, he may not run. He may end up pushing Donald Jr. up there as his kind of figurehead. I don't know. Four years a long time. You know, and like I said, he's going to be he's going to be defendant one in so many suits and trials between now and 2024. I think it's just way too early to say what he's possibly going to do. I don't see him having four years from now. Like I said, it's kind of like being in NFL and getting hurt. You know, you're out for two years. You don't never come back to say same thing with this in 2024. I just don't seem coming back with that same strength and that same base. And a lot of that will depend on what goes on with the Democrats too. Obviously, I mean, if Biden has a good run here and this gets this pandemic under control, which it looks like they're making pretty good strides, especially when you think they've only been at it 10 days since he got inaugurated. Yeah. Look at all the executive orders he signed. Hey, you know, he said he told everybody going in things are going to be, you know, he's going to get writer's cramped the first couple of days. And he he's been true to his word, you know, but you can't you can't deny he said a hundred million doses in a hundred days. So that was averaging a million a day. Okay. Right now we're averaging 1.35 million. So he's 35 percent above what Joe was projecting or hoping for. So Johnson and Johnson and they were and the Johnson and Johnson's just fixing to hit. They're going to they're supposed to be asking the FDA for that, you know, wafer next week. Maybe it's next week. See usage. Now our AstraVeneca is I think they're almost done with their right phase three trial. The Johnson and Johnson, though, is a one shot deal that can be that can be kept in a regular refrigerator. It doesn't have to be dry ice and all that. So it could be a game changer. And they've also said they would the guy Johnson Johnson said they've already, you know, gambled, if you will, on on like 50 million doses and they can have 100 million doses out by June 1st. And and two, I'm sorry, two billion doses by the end of the year. That's just Johnson and Johnson alone. So there's a lot of as Fauci said, there's help on the way. Yeah. Well, he said, let's say, let's say someone has no choice but to get the Johnson and Johnson single shot. They said in time, you can still get right Pfizer or Moderna six, eight months, nine months later, whatever. And that's another thing. We know we're this thing was there's a lot of people that are saying I'm not taking that vaccine because it was rushed and all this. Well, you know, we had a lot of history on vaccines. It is the quickest that's ever happened and been approved. No question. Quickest by far. But we got a lot more better technology than we had when they did the months virus, you know. So so that it doesn't scare me quite as much as and the fact is, you know, you've got you've got the technology you've got basically a different delivery system on this. What is it called the mRNA or whatever it's called. It's not the same as our old vaccines where, you know, our old vaccines like the flu, they inject you with a small amount of flu and let your body build up immunity to it. That's what the vaccine was. Well, now this new vaccine is is different. It's a delivery system that's different, that's wrapped in a different, I don't know, DNA strain or whatever that that delivers it to the body and lets the body recognize this different DNA strain. And that's it's different than our old vaccines, in other words. And so so, you know, we've we've got a lot of technology on our side. We've got a lot of smart scientists on our side. And you know, there's a lot of money to be made to for these companies. So, you know, and, you know, all good to them. I mean, it's capitalism. We're all for that. You know, we just we're just not for unlimited greed. But we don't mind a company if they're going to stick their neck out and, you know, gamble on this thing and it's going to end up helping the American people tremendously. I don't care how much money they make. I mean, as long as they pay their fair share of income exactly, you know, and we can go back to your normal is what I call normal. That might be a while. I think the new I think we're going to have a new normal. But I do think it's going to be a lot closer to normal by the end of the summer. I predicted that a year ago. I've studied this stuff a lot when it first hit because I was, you know, a lot of smart people I read were really scared about it, you know, and so I hit the nail on the head about the tech and medical technology when we had the polio vaccine and the mumps and all that. They pretty much grew in eggs and egg yolks, right? Right. We're light years ahead of that and technology nowadays. You know, I still, I still believe eventually we will go back to your normal because they're free. I think there's no doubt. We'll get to herd immunity. We'll, there'll be my guess is what? We got 330 million people in the country. My guess is they're still going to be 100 million people that won't take the vaccine, even if it's offered to them and even if it's available. Okay. But eventually those people will be sucked into the immunity herd if, whether they like it or not. Yeah. And some of those folks that don't take it will end up dying. There's no doubt. Well, the influenza of 2018 eventually achieved herd immunity and despite how devastating that was. Right. Yeah. And it just appeared and went back to your normal. So I'm thinking it didn't come. You see, it didn't, it didn't come from Spain. It came from the troops that were fighting World War One and they brought it back and I mean, well, and you had a situation like I said, where they came from, the people that that were carrying it had a herd herd immunity to it. Those troops come back to America after the war is over. Americans don't have that same immunity. And so it ends up, you know, running rampant for a while. So it's it that's just that's just nature, you know, just like the mutation of the virus. That's the every virus mutates every virus we've ever seen mutated. And it's basically it's a living organism that's trying to survive. And and Darwin taught us, you know, long time ago that survival is finished and whatever mutations work to allow that virus to live longer is are the ones that become dominant. Well, some of the viruses were were scarier than COVID-19, like the old smallpox. Yeah. No question. We did a number on the on the Native American Indian with smallpox. So we have had that little a little bad history about about that. And then and then Sitting Bull did a number on General Custer. Got him back, didn't he? Basically, what you guys are saying, we will better should go back to the old normal. I don't think there's any question. I think by the fall of next year, winter, whatever, obviously going from fall to the winter of next this coming year, if you will next year, then you're going to have the same problems you always have every year when it gets cold. You're going to have the flu and the, you know, colds and the flu is going to come back. And this will probably rear its ugly head again when people are stuffed inside. And, you know, on top of each other that much more often, there's going to be a probably a reboot of it. It won't be as dramatic as as what we've seen. You probably won't have half a million people die, obviously from it. But it'll come back around a little bit until the we get those last hundred million people I'm talking about that won't take the virus. I mean, the vaccine until those people until we got those people into the herd. Then, you know, once that happens, then it'll probably be like the flu every year you get a booster. And that's the thing we don't know right now. The variants are a little bit disconcerting, obviously. The we don't really know how long the vaccine is going to last. We know it works, but we don't really know how long it's going to last. And some people, some of them are afraid that it might only last 90 days. Scientists think it's at least six months to nine months, and then you might have to get another booster. So it's but but the flu shot is similar to that and people get the flu shot every year. I never was a big flu shot guy because I didn't, you know, knock on wood. I never got sick. You know, I don't get sick. I don't get sick often, either. So I always dodged that flu shot because I thought, well, hell, I don't get sick from the flu really anyway. Why would I want to inject the flu into my body? Well, you know, people, it's known fact that babies who receive mother's milk and the colostrum have a much stronger immune system when they're adult humans. No, no, no. That in itself should tell you that the same thing is going to happen with this stuff. Yeah, the more the more the more vaccine is out there, the more immunity is out there, the better for everybody. I do think we're going to have, I hate to say it, because there's just so many anti-factors out there. There are going to be there's going to be a larger number than you'd like to hope. You know, I'd like to think there's only 50 million, but I'll bet it's closer to 100 million. It won't take the shot. You know, when they ask Fauci, they ask Fauci, what happened to SARS-1? He says it vanished when we created a vaccine for it just disappeared. He had a smile on his face like he didn't know it disappeared. It vanished. Yeah. I mean, now back in the 19th century, they had yellow fever, 19th century America, tuberculosis as it was around for a while. That's more or less, that's a bacterial infection, tuberculosis, I think. Yeah, and like Paulio and the measles and all those type of things, you know, we got, we used to, when I was a kid, not semi-years old, whatever, we got that measles shot and that damn thing put a mark, a scar on the side of your arm about the size of a quarter. Oh yeah, that ring, like ring of dots. They shot you with almost like a gun. It wasn't just a needle. Well, you know, when they take blood for a blood test, they don't use the big harpoon anymore. Right. It's a little, a little short needle with like a butter, a plastic butterfly wings and they put it in a vein and you don't feel anything. I felt nothing. A mosquito was much more painful. Well, and I was noticing the people that, you know, they've been showing the vaccines being done at the drive-throughs and at the convention center and everything else. And it looks like they give people a shot and nobody even flinches, you know. Well, I asked my doctor, what's with these needles now? I don't feel anything. He says they're designed differently. They're, they're not only thinner, but they, they're like concave, concave. They're like, they're like curves. They're, they're designed to be less painful. Well, there you go. Technology again. You gotta love to take that. Hey, toilet bowls. You know, no matter what, no matter what, what deposit you leave in there, you hit it like a, like a nanosecond. Shoot. It goes right down. What was it? Yeah. What was that Trump speech he made about? Having a flush toilet 10, 15 times. What the hell was up with all that? I never got, I never really understood. I thought that was one of the craziest things I ever heard him say. He's talking about dishwashers and women in the kitchen. You know what I'm talking about? Dishwashers don't work like they're supposed to. And everybody knows you got to flush the toilet 10 or 15 times. What, what the hell was all that about? Oh, he was, he was getting that from the commercial where they say, how come we have to wipe our, our dishes before they go in the dishwashers? Oh yeah. Wash them before the dishwashers. Oh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm inherently lazy. So I always ask, I used to ask that question too. I said, what the hell are we washing the dishes first and then put them in a dishwasher for them? I thought that's what that damn thing was for. You're 75% of the fish washing the dish. Are you watching? No, Trump was out in left field when he talks, he rambles. Well, that's another thing that made it hard for me to understand how he had such a following that was so rabid. Like I said, these people, you know, our expression down here, they lay down in front of a truck for him. And it's just unbelievable to me. I never saw, anytime I ever heard him speak, it was just cringe-worthy. Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda. I guess if it's the old, the old saying in Nazi Germany, you're throwing up shit against the wall, some of it's going to stick. Yeah, you just keep telling the same lies. But I will say that about him. He would lie and then he would double down on the lie when he got called down on it and he would triple down on it the next day. I mean, there wasn't no backing off the line. I think he takes advantage of the emotions of people. He knows what raw nerve to hit. I think that's what happened in 16. I think he kind of caught a wave of a nerve that a lot of people didn't realize was as big. Let's say you want to call it the average Joe white guy that thinks the world in America is passing him by. Women are getting more power and minorities are getting more power. And the old angry white guys kind of sitting there going like, what the hell happened? And I think there was a lot more of that maybe than most of us realized. And he was able to tap into that. Well, I think it turned their back on the South. Even in modern days. Yeah, I agree. They did without a doubt. I mean, they neglected certain parts of the country. Well, and I think that was a little bit of a genius, if you will, about Biden. Obviously, he's got some experience at this. You know what I mean? 36 years in the Senate and eight years with Obama's vice president. He's got a little bit of experience and he's got a little bit of savvy about it because I do think that you're exactly right. Hillary and them, the Democratic Party in 16 wrote off huge swaths of the country. The flyover part, if you want to come, you know, that's what the Republicans love. They laugh about us calling it that. But the flyover part of America that I do think Hillary ignored a lot of a lot of those folks and thought that she, you know, she could win it in New York and if she could pull off Florida, California, that would, you know, be something. Look at Mississippi, the poverty of Mississippi, West Virginia. Well, you know, when LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act, he said it at the time, I just signed away the South for a generation. And truthfully, if you look up, it's two generations. We're coming up on the second generation now. And it's just that, that, that racism is just that deep-seated. You know what I mean? It's just that deep-seated debt. And if, you know, Democrats are just that much more inclusive, you don't see, you know, all you got to do is look at those interns, you know, they had to picture Obama's interns and then Trump's interns. And Obama's interns look like a pretty much a mixture of society like you'd expect. Trump's interns, I think there was one black race, one Mexican out of like 150. All of the rest of them were white, most of them blonde-headed and a few, you know, female women. Well, like, like the Fox, like the Fox News. Basically, yeah. Fox News versus, you know, any other channel. Now, and you're going to go to TK, I'm curious. Well, there's social distancing in the mass and as well. Yeah, I think eventually, now, Dr. Fauci has said that it might, you know, we wouldn't be too crazy to be like a little bit more like Japan and maybe in a lot of instances, unless you're with family or outdoors and stuff that we'd be smart to continue to wear the mask for some period of time. I think the social distancing will start to fade away. It's already started a little bit. And I think by the fall, when you, you know, you got to remember America, man, football is huge. They're going to be back in the stadiums. Now, we might not be 100 percent. You know, we've been to, we've had 12,000 fans, I think in Cleveland was the biggest one. They had 14,000 or something at that playoff game. So they've held them down a lot. But I feel like by next fall, you're going to see the stadiums at least half full. I'm saying at least 50 percent. And it may be, it may even go above that. Wow. Because a lot of them are at 25 now. And I do, I do believe that we're going to have enough herd immunity by the end of summer. We're good. You know, people are going to be outdoors more. They're going to be more people vaccinated. The weather is going to be warmer. All of that's going to, going to play into our, our hands as far as getting this thing a little more under control. And I think by the end of summer, we're going to be a lot further down the road than we are. And I think the new, the new normal, I think it's going to be a little different. You know what I mean? You're not going to, it's Dr. Fauci also said he thinks we ought to do away with the customer shaking hands, you know, maybe all out of keeping knuckle bumping or elbow bumping for the next, you know, foreseeable future. But are you saying forever? Because I believe in shaking hands. Yeah. Well, see, I'm a big handshaker too. That's the weird thing about it. Even during this time, I don't get out with groups, big groups that I don't know the people very often. I still catch myself every once in a while. I'll just woke up and just grab somebody's hand, you know, because I'm a big handshaker too. But I don't want to like a lot of the, the millennial girls, the younger generation girls, they give you their fingers like, like it's like a, like a dead jellyfish or a dead baby doing that for years. We would, we would have called that in the old days. Yeah, that was the genesis handshake. Yeah. Like, you know, it's not a sincere handshake. I like somebody to try to crush my hand. I like a firm one. Yeah, me too. I don't, I don't want to be mean, but I, I believe now I think Fouchie likes to have control when I don't like that. I'm starting to feel that way. Well, I think he's, he feels a little more confident about speaking out, not having to get his ass eat out every time he goes back behind the curtain after it's over. But uh, I'm pretty confident with him being up there. I mean, look, this guy's been, he's worked under six presidents. Okay. Republicans and Democrats. He's not partisan. You know, he's not, he doesn't have a, I don't think he's got an agenda or an extra grind. I really do think he's doing the very best he can. And he's got a lot of experience. So I'm, I'm, I'm okay with him. I'm pretty confident with him now. Granted, I might, two weeks from now, I might tell you something different. But uh, for now, for now it's, it, it just seems like I sleep better at night maybe or it just seems like I'm a little more calm because the adults are in charge again. You know? Sanity is in charge. It's just not this fucking chaos every minute of every day. But what I'm saying is we will stop at a hug. We'll stop because eventually. It'll get back to, like I said, I firmly believe that by the fall, end of summer to the fall, maybe not an absolute 100% back to normal. Please not yet. But it'll be close. I really believe it'll be close. And it's, and it, and I'm even more convinced now that these vaccines are getting out there quicker because like I said, remember when, when, when Biden first said a hundred million in a hundred days, everybody's like, oh, oh shit. How do they, how are we going to do that? Well, I'm telling you, I just looked at it today. We've been averaging 1.35 million a day. So we're 35% ahead. We're 35% ahead of the game. So, you know, I know we're going to run into some supply issues. They're going to, you know, they're going to fall behind just because they need so damn much of this stuff and, and Trump left a cover to drive. But I do feel like the Defense Production Act, they're even talking about pulling up the National Guard if they need to to start servicing some of these vaccine locations. And so, you know, they've got a plan finally. You know, we went for a year basically with no plan, 11 months with, with no plan. And, and actually with a, with a, with an attitude of it's a joke. It's a hope. See, I mean, how many times you hear it's a hope. I'm not wearing a mask. It's a hope. It's a Democrat hopes. And, you know, if you're hearing that from the top, you can't blame a bunch of Americans. They're going to trust what the president's saying. I mean, they just don't know any better. And they're not going to sit on the internet and read 10 stories a day to try to get up to speed on shit like I would, like I do. You know, I try to get it up to speed as much as I can before I start shooting my mouth off. And as you found out tonight, I damn sure can do that. Oh, yeah. I can talk for the best of. And this first time I met you, you're cool beans. I really hope to see you again. Well, thank you. I appreciate it. He's he's he's a whirlwind. He's a he's an F5 tornado. James has seen a bunch of my Facebook stuff over the years. And so any any trend of Michael LeBar, it's got to be. There you go. That's my man. And hey, he's in Oklahoma and I'm in Texas. So, you know, if we can beat against these idiots, then anybody can. I know there's sort of a little bit of a rivalry right between. I'll say this. I can't hang with Michael. He's he's probably the best. He may be the best liberal I've ever seen on Facebook. Well, he taught me that that not everyone down south and out west is an evangelical right wing. Yeah, that well. And like I said, we got a lot to have to answer for for some of our neighbors around here in Texas and Oklahoma. But we we do our best. We do our best to keep kicking over ant files every day. Yeah. And and you got those armadillos. And I hear they got leprosy. You can't really play with them. Hey, I don't fool with armadillos anyway. They're kind of weird animals. And I never have been able to to chase one down or never really wanted to. But mainly main thing about what armadillos down here is what I've got to see. The only thing in the middle of the road is white lines and dead armadillos. So you don't have to worry about me being a dead armadillo or being a white line because I'm definitely down the left lane. And you got those Texas brown tarantulas. Man, there's a bunch of them out there in the Big Bend country out there in West Texas. I'm curious on one thing, like you said before, I think it'll probably take maybe two years for us to go back to the old one. But I think that the huge part of the normal will be back at the end of the summer. Once we get these vaccines out there and once the warmer weather comes, people get outdoors a little bit more. Vitamin D, whether it be a supplement or just the sun itself has a huge impact on COVID. It's it's the own. It's actually really down. Zink has a little bit of an effect. So that's supplement people ought to probably take. You know, I'm not going to sell you on on the hydra or whatever the hell and I'm not going to drink bleach. But I don't know if you want to give yourself a little extra immunity before the get the shot or whatever. Vitamin D and zinc and vitamin D seems to be even more important to maybe be orange juice and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Or just get you just go to hell. Just go to the health food store or even Walmart and buy you a bottle of vitamin D and just take a couple of those little things a day. Vitamin D seems to be at least the stuff I've read the biggest, biggest help toward the immunity. And that's why you see less of this stuff in the summer because people get outdoors and they get sun and things like that. And I think, like I said, I don't look for it to be 100% at the end of the summer. But I'd be shocked if we're not 80, 85% back to normal by the end of the summer. Well, I'm saying the new normal will go away after this coronavirus kind of goes away. My summer. My summer of this year. Yeah. Of this year, but it's still going to be a new normal until it's completely gone. Yeah. I'm going to say it'll be with us in a little bit of some form or the other probably for two or three years later than this year. So you might be looking at four or five years out before and I don't know, I don't know how it's going to mutate. So I don't know that we're ever really eradicated. But I do think that between the immunity for people that have had it and recovered and the vaccines and the herd immunity and getting summertime here with, you know, people outdoors more often not packed inside, getting sunlight, all those things out there. You put all that together. I think you're looking at 85% probably, 80 to 85, not a full 100% back to normal, but then a lot better shape than we've been in because then in September, October, whatever, when the kids go back to school, kids go back to college, all that kind of thing, it won't be as big an issue. Wow. You know what really made my days when I heard the Republicans were so upset that Joe Biden appointed Bernie Sanders ahead of, was a budget committee. Yeah. The House Budget Committee. Yeah. Well, I tell you what, for him to nominate Merrick Garland for Attorney General, I thought was a big one because, you know, he's the guy who got screwed over the most as far as the Supreme Court. And you know, the odd thing about that is because Obama appointed him, Republicans were, you know, up in arms about it, but Merrick Garland, Obama appointed Merrick Garland because he thought there was a decent chance of him passing the nomination process and being confirmed. He was a moderate, basically for liberals. Merrick Garland's a moderate. And Obama put him up there to appease the Republicans, thinking that maybe we can get this guy through. And if Obama had had a Democratic House and Senate at the time, he would have put somebody up a lot more to the left of Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland is a centrist. He's a moderate. There's no question about that. And that's time with me, especially at the DOJ, you know, being the Attorney General. Like Biden. Biden is much more or less a moderate. He's been pulled to the left a little, and I'll give him credit for that. I think, you know, if you're smart, if you're a smart guy, and I think, first of all, what the difference between Biden is, he is such a compassionate, decent human being. Okay, that is the first thing. And so when people make the arguments to him, that minorities have been screwed over, women have been screwed over, we need to raise a minimum wage, we need to get these people some help. When people make reasonably good arguments to that side of the issue, Joe's willing to look, and he's willing to turn further to the left than you would have expected him to two years ago, three, five years ago, whatever. He's open-minded enough to listen to the argument, and if the left has a good enough argument, he's willing to act on it. And as opposed to Hillary, who was just to the right a moderate. Hillary always worried me, I voted for her, but I did vote for Bernie in the primary because I was trying to keep Hillary's feet held to the fire. I didn't want her to slide back to her Wall Street Democrat. And there's no question, her and Bill probably had a tendency to be a little more Wall Street Democrats, and way to the right of me, but that's okay. I don't mind the Democrats that are a little to the right of me, but I try to drag them back to the humanity part. Yeah. Like remember George Wallace, the Alabama, the Dixie Cruts? I've got a bunch of my family came, my dad signed the family from Alabama, so I'm fully aware of all that. As soon as the civil rights laws took place, they jumped ship and they went out to the Republican Party. That's what I was talking about earlier, in 64 or whatever, 65, whenever it was when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, he said it behind the scenes after it's over with, he said, I just signed away the South for a generation because he knew that those people were racist, and he knew that given Black folks the right to vote and full civil rights was going to be an issue for them. You're talking about a part of the world that fought a war over the fact they wanted them to be three-fifths of a human. And you can't reason with them or debate with them? No. No, it's impossible. Now, talking to the Southern Republican about race is just as bad as talking to a fundamental Christian about gays or abortion. Greed. You're wasting your breath. That lunatic, the blonde, her last name is Greed. She's Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now, let's put it, let me say this. She is, she's really not a Republican. She's a QAnon. She's an idiot. I mean, this is a woman who absolutely said that George Soros paid for a laser, a Jewish laser, and they trained it on the California Forest to start the wildfires out there. That's just kind of shit that she believes. I mean, you can't even, we talked about, you can't talk to people about certain things with this. There's no point even beginning a conversation with that. He reminds me of Marshall Applewhite of Heaven's Gate. Remember, he said the rapture was coming. Everybody had to wear white sneakers and wait for the UFOs to pick them up, and they all committed suicide. Yeah. I mean, it's a shame. I mean, we've seen these cults in the past. I mean, we've seen Charlie Manson. We've seen Jim Jones, but it wasn't 40 million people. David Koresh. David Koresh there, you know. But, you know, they had a few, you know, even Jim Jones only had, what, a few hundred followers? Eight or nine hundred, I think. That's probably the biggest one when they all committed suicide together. Yeah, the Kool-Aid deal. But Koresh didn't have, but what did he have? 50 or 60 followers, and Charlie Manson only had his little group of 20 or 30 people at Max even that followed, you know, went in and out of that group. But this is a situation with, we got 40 million of these nuts we got to try to deal with, and I just don't know how you deal with it. How do you talk unity with people that incited riot on the Capitol? I just, I don't know how they, you know, I understand why they want unity now. They got their ass kicked in the election, you know. They didn't want no unity when they were in charge, did they? I haven't seen the infomercial late at night about Trumpy Bear, you know, the little bear with the stupid haircut. Yeah, anyway, yeah, it's like, well, he should do like, he should, he should, to raise money, he should sell a package of a Trumpy Bear, a MAGA hat and a MAGA hat and a Trumpy Bear. You know what I told on YouTube about, you know, they were talking about Mike Pillow, it was one of his promo videos. I said, you know how I made my own Mike Pillow? I ordered a sack of a blue shredded memory foam from Amazon Prime and I stuffed the memory foam in a dollar store laundry bag, you know, the smaller ones, stuff it real tight. There's my ultimate pillow right there. I think that's what Bill Maher kind of said that last night on his show, he said something about, yeah, the Mr. Pillow guy who basically just says you're a fucking pillow. But Wendell, Wendell, I think is what he said. Yeah, Wendell, Wendell, yeah. Wendell, yeah, $100 for his pillow. Basically, it's a memory foam pillow. Marshall Law. He was pushing for Marshall Law. He said he had the evidence. It's funny, they said they had the evidence for a month. Rudy said it, Lindell said it, but why don't, if they got all this evidence, why are they keeping it to themselves? He never did show his taxes. No, no, he never showed anything. He never showed his taxes. Like he said, he never showed his health plan. I'm pretty sure he's run out of time. Trump's run out of time for showing his taxes in his health plan, I think. There's no vaccine distribution. There's no health plan. There's no nothing. He always does this play golf. I hate to say this for our purposes, because being on the side of the political spectrum that we're on, but you think about this, if Trump would have paid even a little attention to the pandemic, I'm not talking about doing what Biden's doing. If he would have just done a third of what Biden's doing, wore a mask every once in a while out in public, talked about the fact that all these 400,000 people had died. If he had just showed any kind of care for that at all, I believe he might have had a chance of getting reelected. It's just that scary that if he had done anything at all about the pandemic, other than calling it a hoax and not wearing a mask and mock people that did, if he had done anything about the pandemic, we might have been another four years of the goofball. I hate to say it, but I think there's a decent chance of that. The pandemic beat him because, you know, before the economy, Obama's economy was still rolling, even though Trump was taking credit for it, but prior to the pandemic, the economy was okay. It wasn't great in the four parts of town, but it was still okay. And the pandemic came along and just whacked Trump and he had no response. Well, he didn't stop the plane flights from Europe. I think over 2 million people from Europe flew to the United States. Yeah, well, and that was the dumb thing about it. He stops the flights from China and he don't stop the flights from Europe. I mean, that was just... Like I said, it was a situation where he had no idea. He had no idea what the science was. They were in bad shape, Spain, Italy, Germany a little bit. Well, and you know what made it even worse? Remember when they first started talking about those flights? If you remember all the pictures on CNN, Spain and Italy and Europe and I mean in London and all those places, man, people were packed in the airports. They were right on top of each other, not no social distancing whatsoever. Nobody, you know, we really didn't know at that time, but people were panicking, no mask, no social distancing, packed on top of each other, just jammed in there trying to get a flight. And that probably made it five times worse. Shooting their aerosol all over the place. What about the mask? Can you think that'll last forever? Probably not, right? I think you're gonna have a... Fauci was touting the mask for a longer period of time and I've heard some scientists say that it's a smart thing and that's why you see people in Japan wear them all the time, even before... Well, not in Japan though, I'm gonna say that. I'm just saying, but they had a tendency, I think, to talk about the mask. And really, like I said, the mask only protects other people. The mask is not gonna protect you from the virus if somebody has it near you. It's more protection for everybody else. And so if you're in a situation, if everybody in the room ain't wearing one, the one person that ain't wearing it, give it to everybody. But my point is, do you think this mask will be forever? I don't think it will be forever. You know how Americans are. They're gonna tire of that shit after a while. I think the average American will do it because I think they've been shown that it's effective. But at the time, like I said, the end of summer, first part of next fall, I don't think you're gonna see 50,000 people in a football game with all 50,000 wearing a mask. You might see half of them, the other half of them. Yeah, once the vaccines establish herd immunity, the masks are slowly going to... Especially for Americans. Now, you know, you may have the Chinese and Japanese and Korea and all the four East countries. They may continue to wear them because it's a little more acceptable in their world. But in America, I think by the end of next summer, the football season, if you will, fall, I think you'll see the mask wear and go down dramatically. Unless the virus gets bad again and then... Yeah, like I said, unless one of these mutations or variants become a real issue and we're not ahead of the virus like we think we're going to be. Based on the trajectory I'm seeing right now, I'm saying in the end of summer, first of fall. It'll be nice to go back to the old normal eventually. Of course. Hey, I'm a big concert guy. I love going to concerts and this is really... It's really screwed up my chi on these concerts and stuff. I'm a big baseball guy too. I hadn't been able to go to baseball games, ranger games and things. So I'm not as big on cowboy games and stuff anyway. But Jerry Jones, he kind of run me. I love Jimmy Johnson. I hate Jerry Jones. So you know how I felt for the last 25 years? I've been kind of stuck. Again, thanks for having me talk to you. Because I agree what you just said. You said this might last for three years and then probably disappear because that's what they did in 1918 anyway. So I appreciate your help on that. Well, I'd say I'm pretty opinionated, but most of the time I'm coming from a place where I've done at least some research on it and have a little bit of information about it. Try not to spout off too much about stuff. I have no clue what I'm talking about. Right. Your store back was from Navy. Yeah. There you go. Navy. Yeah. I need to run, but I appreciate you asking me like I told you when you asked. I was humbled to come home. I would like to see you again next Sunday. Anytime. Just give me an instant message or whatever. I was having a little trouble. I had to get my sister's laptop and get all this stuff kind of working. I know just enough to be dangerous on the tech side of things. It's been my pleasure to have you in honor and Alex enjoyed your visit. And we'll do it again. It was a blockbuster show, but I appreciate it. I said I'm not talking to conversation, but... What's your Facebook, TK? Next time at TK Lawless. TK Lawless. Yeah. I'll play a little draw hard. I'll be on there and I'll accept it immediately. We'll be off and running. But next time I'll try to let somebody else speak a little bit, but don't worry about it. Don't worry about my feelings. I want people to jump in and talk. Yeah, but I like your opinions too. I notice you're like me. You like to talk a lot. And I like that. So keep it up. Well, thank you. He's educational. He just doesn't talk for the sake of talking. He teaches. No, but I enjoy those kind of people. I can talk to them. I don't have no problems with them. Oh, that's really... Oh, yeah. Like the guy I was telling you about who's really bad. Some people are happy drunks. Oh, yeah. And some people are nasty drunks. I got you. I'm a happy one. But this other dude, I said... Well, you know, it's funny. It's funny. You know, you wouldn't think this about Texans because you hear a lot of things. Most of us are pretty easy going in the hall. But one of my best friends in the world is, grew up on Long Island. You know, so he trained trotting horses up at Saratoga. One winter, he had a rough winter and he got a couple of horses claimed off of him. He only had two left in the stable. He said, let's get rid of these two. And his brother-in-law was down here in Texas digging swimming pools. And it was booming. And so he said, hell, Debbie, let's sell those last two horses and go to Texas at least for the winter and get the hell out of this snow. And see what happens. He came down here in 1981. He's been here ever since. Well, well, San Antonio with the Riverwalk, that looks really... Oh, that's beautiful. Beautiful place. Mexican food. A lot of Mexican restaurants. Yeah, man. Well, like I said, you get down this part of the world, you get some good Mexican food. It's on every street corner just about. And San Antonio, that Riverwalk stuff down there, the hill country is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. What about the Salt Lake in Austin? I saw that on the food channel. Yeah. Yeah. You're making me hungry, Gene. They have a fire pit, Alex, right in the middle of the running. Austin's cool too. Now, Austin would be the place I'd live if I wasn't a lifetime Dalasite, if I hadn't been here all my life and born and raised. Austin would be the other place I'd live in Texas. It's liberal. The rest of the state is pretty hardcore red still. But Austin, Austin, you know, it's got the college here, UT and everything. And so you end up having a little bit more liberal bent. And Austin is crazy. There's parts of Austin that's kind of like California, but it's a cool place. And it's a lot more liberal than most of the state. Hey, TK, I want your opinion now. You ever heard of Huey Long and Earl Long? Oh, yeah. Louisiana, sure. Yes. Chicken ever pot. I hate to say it, but I love Huey Long and I love Earl Long, which is Huey's. They got a lot done. I mean, you know, there's no question. There was a graph and stuff going on in Louisiana back in those days. And they filled their own pockets more than most. But they got a lot done. They got a lot done. The street, the roads were working. You know, they didn't have potholes. And like, you know, Huey's, you know, like I said, his campaign slogan was a chicken in every pot. He tried to spread the wealth around because he knows. I thought he said he meant a king. I'm confused. Well, that too. That too. But that chicken in every pot came from him, too. And he knew that's how to get people to vote for him is make sure they had at least the minimal stuff. You know, you don't have to make them all rich. You know, you're not going to, especially if you're trying to put a few dollars in your own pocket. But as long as you give people some hope. That's like, you know, Will Rogers said the thing about the trickle down economics, the reason it was asked backwards. He said, if you give a poor man a dollar, the rich man is going to have it by dark. But at least it'll pass through the poor man's hand and gave him a little bit of hope for that day. I mean, we, I mean, you have Huey long. You got Earl long. You got Governor Jimmy Davis. Yeah. He's got a lot of Tennessee. That guy was cracking me up. You got Edwin. You got Edwin Edwards, which is still alive. Yeah, a little bit, but he's out. Yeah. I tell you what, I met Edwin Edwards in person in a suite up at Louisiana Downs. He was good friends with Al Stahl. Al Stahl was the racing commissioner, the head of the racing commission in Louisiana. Awesome. And back in those days, see, we didn't have race. We didn't have horse racing in Texas. Well, match racing, but not, not paramutual. And so we always had to go to Shreveport in Louisiana or the hot springs in Arkansas to go to the horse races. And so I started owning a few horses after I got a little bit lucky in real estate and loved it. You know, got, got to eat up with it. And so we were running horses in Louisiana and a guy said, Hey, buddy, mine's got a suite up Louisiana Downs. If y'all, next time y'all are down there, come up here and visit, you know, have a couple of beers. So we, I went up there and sure enough, he introduced me to Al Stahl, who was, like I said, the head of the racing commission, state of Louisiana. And he was big buddies with Edwards. Next thing, you know, 10 minutes later, here comes Edwin Edmonds walking in and, Hey, you know, just a regular guy, nice guy you ever want to meet. He was fine with me. You know, he was a nice as hell to me. He just treated me like a king, you know, pat me on the back the whole time. And because I knew a little bit about the horses, you know, a lot of guys like him, they like the horse races, but they really don't know about the racing form and all that stuff. They just like to go and I own horses and stuff. He, uh, he thought I knew a little more than the average Joe. And so he was treating me like a king, pat me on the back, get me to give him pigs and all kinds of stuff. So that was kind of a cool day. And it was weird about that. It was back in the days. That was in the mid mid 80s, I say. Oh, wow. And, uh, you know, cell phones weren't that prevalent back in those days. And, uh, it was illegal to have a phone at the racetrack in this grandstands. And sure enough, Albert Stahl, since he was the racing commissioner head, he had a phone in his, uh, in his suite. And they were, they were making calls to guys and telling them what to bet. Friends of theirs. Wow. It was pretty crazy. It was when Edward Stahl was going, is he out going? I think he's very outgoing. He was. He was a good politician. I'll tell you that. He was pat me on the back and now you're, you know, you're a genius. You picked a winner. Give me another winner. He was just like I said, he was, he was very outgoing at Greg Arias. Al Stahl, the older guy that was the head of the racing commission, which I became friends with his son who's a horse trainer now. And Al Jr is a good guy too. But Al senior was kind of, he was kind of stoic. He was kind of standoffish. He wasn't, he wasn't a really, you know, hand shaker and back slapper like Edwin Edwards was. I don't get it. Why would Edwin Edwards be out with somebody that's not really out going? He, well, you know, they finally got, they finally caught him, didn't they, on some something? And he went to jail for a while. He's out now, but, and he's, he's, he's got to be pretty old. I guess I don't know how. I think he's 80, 89. Yeah, I was going to say, he probably had to be at least mid 80s because he was 20 years older than me at least. You know, and this is, you know, at that time, I was only about 30. So he's about 50. He's actually a four time governor, actually. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they, the Democrat down there doing a pretty good job. You know, it's been a while since they'd had a Democrat and he, the guy that's in there now is a pretty good dude. His name is John, no, John Edwards, John Bell Edwards, I think, or something like that. I don't think that, but I don't think they're related. I think it's, I think he's from a different family, but, but you know what, it wouldn't shock me if you said he was cousins or something. Of course I'm saying, maybe it's possible to relate, like way, that could be. I haven't heard that. And I think if it was true, I would have probably, it'd been something they would have meant, you know, played up a little bit more, maybe, I don't know though, after Edwin went to prison, maybe they, maybe they could be Ken and he don't want to talk about it. I don't know, but he's doing a pretty good job the guy that's in there now. He's, he's had, you know, he's had a rough road at first. They, you know, it's mostly Republicans in the state legislature. And so, you know, he was kind of like Obama. They were blocking everything he's trying to do. But the biggest thing he did was he got, he got them in a, the state to sign in for that, the Medicaid under Obamacare. That helped a hell of a lot of poor people in Louisiana. I'll tell you this much though, TK, I really hope you, when I, I looked up some history, I think back in 1970, there was a bombing in the new capital building, which is the same building that Huey Long built and also shot and killed in. And also he's actually buried underneath the statue of his own statue, Huey Long. He's actually in front of the lawn underneath the statue of Huey Long. Huey Long is buried underneath his statue. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm basically saying. So also another thing that interests me, there was a bombing in 1970. And I don't know if you noticed, but if you go to one of the chambers, there's a, there's a gondos ceiling, like there's like gondos everywhere. I, one of them is lit up. The reason why one of them is lit up is because one of the bombs, when I blew up, the pencil went ching, went flying up, and it's still in the ceiling. That's fair, huh? Yeah. I don't know if you knew that. No, I didn't. I didn't know that. I actually didn't even, 1970, I'd have been 11 years old, but I got a lot of history in Louisiana. I ran horses down there, and I had Cajun horse trainers. I've been all over the state from New Orleans to Benton, Louisiana, to Lafayette, to Shreveville, up in the North. I've been all over that state. Spent a lot of time down there over the years. So, but I had not heard about, I had not heard about the bombing or that, but I always thought Huey and Earl and them were, they were, they were cards, like I said, you know, you can go back and find it and stuff. They line their pockets themselves, but they also did a lot of good for the poor people of the state, too. Well, I also heard that, yeah, they did, including Edwin Edwards, and what I'm getting at is that Huey Long and Edwin Edwards are one of the most powerful governors in Louisiana. Both of them, no doubt. Yes. That's what made the deal with Edwin Edwards at the horse races that day. That's what made it even cooler, because, you know, he was, he was like a king down there. I mean, he was, he was cat daddy. You know, they, like you said, he's one of the most powerful governors they've had and, and he ruled pretty much, ruled with an iron fist at that time. Well, that's what Huey did. Yeah. Yep. But both, like I said, at the time, they were ruling with iron fists like that, but they did a lot of good for the poor folks. And that's what I like about them. Because of that, you know, because they were Democrats, they did that, but they also, they also knew that was how you kind of kept power. You know, if you can't keep beating these poor people down all the time, you got to give them some hope. And that was why I said that quote about Will Rogers, about the dollar going through the poor man's hand, the rich man's going to have it by dark. It's true. We all know it. Hell, you know, the rich man's going up with the money, but at least give the poor guy the working man a little hope. And I think, I think that's what we've been seeing just in the just in 10 days here. Well, November, I guess, but just in the 10 days with Biden up there, he's, he's given the little guy a little hope. I think he's given the little guy a little hope. And that's, that's gone a long way, you know. Well, we'll see if he's, we'll see if he's able to keep it going. Well, I hope to see you again next week, because I want to talk to you more about Huey Long and Earl Long and Jimmy Davis and Edmund Edwards. And Buddy Romer, I think you've heard of him probably. Yeah. Oh, sure. Sure. But I want to talk about all these people, maybe next time I see you, because I know you need to go. Well, I said, hey, I'm holler at me next Sunday. I'll be ready to go. I got one horse question. Okay. P.K. Wallace. Wallace, is there any Arabian horse blood in the thoroughbred racehorse lineage? Actually, the three original thoroughbred were all three Arabians, because it's Arabians, a beautiful horse. I hear that very frankly, I'm trying to remember the names. Hey, when I was younger, man, I was into it. I could have told you, but one of them, the Barley Turk, the Gold Dolphin Arab, and I can't think of the third horse's name, but they all thoroughbreds trace back to those three, and they're all Arabians. Yeah. And I hear that the mayors, are artificially inseminated. Now, that's only in the quarter horse business, so the thoroughbreds have continued to, it's got to be live cover steel. They had never gone to artificial insemination yet. Yeah, because sometimes the stallions, they get a little rough with the mayors, right? Yeah, they take precautions. They pad them up and everything. The stallions, it's a pretty, it's a pretty, I don't know how to describe it. It's wild. Let's just say that. I've seen a few breedings in Kentucky, and yeah, it's wilder than you would even expect. But the thoroughbreds, the thoroughbreds have still gone. You still have to live cover the mare with the stallion. And now the quarter horse industry, they do the artificial insemination. And like you said, one of the arguments about that is the safety of the horses, the mare and the stallion. D.K., is this you? I don't put this to you because you don't have pictures here. You know, I think it is. So you can see it's clear. I can't see it's the glare either, but yeah, just T.K. Lawless on Facebook. You shouldn't have any trouble finding me. I don't see no picture here. No, the one that's my page has got a picture. Okay. If you go to Facebook. I did look it up. I did look it up. I don't know why that. No, he's got a picture. Yeah, my background picture is Biden being sworn in and Obama watching him and smiling. And then my picture is with a golf cap on it. I think sunglasses at the golf course. Can you send me the link, James? And I'll just subscribe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Send me the link. Yeah, next Sunday, send me the link and I'll be off and running with you. Okay. I appreciate it. Like I said, I'm humbled to be asked. So you know, I want you to be one of our host people because I think you're cool, T.K. Thank you. You know, I used to bring the divining rods to the racetrack and hold it over a racing form. 99.9%. I won. Is that right? It was my favorite. So I didn't get a lot. That old movie with Richard Dreyfus let it ride is one of the funniest ones. You know, he went around to ask everybody, who do you like? And he's scratching. Yeah, who do you like? Scratch his name off. Oh, T.K., one more thing. There is a movie called Louisiana and that's about Jimmy Davis's campaign. Oh, is it? Okay. Well, you know, one of my favorite songs is that old song Louisiana that Aaron Neville sings about the floods and all that stuff. It's a damn good song. Click on YouTube and find Louisiana. I think it might say Louisiana in 1927, but it's Louisiana. It's Aaron Neville. No, I feel like having crawfish, e2fay, e2fay. You know what? I spent a lot of time, I spent a ton of time in Louisiana. I never was a big crawfish fan. Now I eat shrimp and catfish with the best of them, but I never was a huge crawfish fan. There's so little meat in there for all the work you got to do to get it. I just thought to pay off when never as good as all the other shells. Yeah. Now I eat some e2fay and stuff like that after somebody else shells them. I'm good. I'm going to go with that. Don't realize that crawfish, if you let them, will get big. And when they molt, just like a crab or a lobster, when they molt, they're soft. So what you got to do is as soon as they molt, you got to put them on ice and kill them on the ice. Oh, okay. Is that it? Okay. Yeah. Like with the soft shell crab sandwiches, you can fry them. You know, they've got, these crawfish deals have gotten a lot bigger down here over the last 20, 25 years. You know, everybody in their dog is doing crawfish bowls and all that kind of stuff during season, you know. And I, like I said, I've been around it quite a bit because all the time I spent in Louisiana, the horse races. Are you friends with anybody that works on Facebook? You know, I don't know if I am or not. I'd have to check. Because I'm trying, I try to friend them, but I don't know if he's out of the hospital. I heard he was in the hospital. Well, you know, I heard that too, I think actually. Like I was saying, he's got, he's got to be in his mid-80s, doesn't he? I think 90 or something like that. Oh, okay. But yeah, James, if you would, send him the link or whatever. I shouldn't, shouldn't be hard to find me. Believe me, I got, I got some of them Trumpers still trolling me so they're finding me. Oh, I used to have a, I had to block a lot of trolls. Oh, maybe it's not a good idea to follow them because I don't have trolls. Them. No, I tell you, I put enough liberal stuff on there. I'm one of their targets. They like to, they like to try to argue with me. And I give up because you can't win with them. You know, like I said, what's that? There's another meme about that, Trumpers are like a pigeon playing chess. No matter how good you are, the pigeon's going to knock over the piece of shit all over the board and say one. And that's basically what Trumpers do when you make any kind of argument with them. So it's, it's really a waste of time. And I've been, I've been pretty good lately about just letting him fade off into the sunset. I'm just hoping he does. That's what my brother used to do when we played monopoly, the game. He used to, he used to tip the, he used to throw the board up in the air, tip it over. If he couldn't win. Yeah. No, he went, he went broke. He kept that land that I made in the hotels. And yeah, he went broke. Anyway, it was a pleasure. I have a, you have a good, y'all have a good week. Y'all have a good week. And if anytime you want to bring me on, I'm, I'm humble to do it. I'm looking forward to hanging out with you. You seem cool, man. Thank you, brother. I appreciate it. Cheers. I have a good week. You too. Well, well, James, man, he's awesome. We're out of doubt. I wonder if he's he hit the oh, there he goes. So anyway, so yeah, that was an outstanding blockbuster of a show people for progressive discussions. I sent the link to Eric Fraunfelter and he's not here. I sent the link to Chef Salvatore and McFawn Raven and they're not here. Well, you know, so anyway, are you what food did you feature this past Friday on your show? This for I think it was it was a macaroni and cheese. No, let me see what I did. I remember now. Let me check my YouTube because I got on my last video. So the last video, let's do the look here. I did food parties with Alex fish and chips. Oh, that's right. Yes. Oh, did anybody bring Yeah, they did. They brought some they just brought fries or something like that. I brought fries. They they drunk one brought some tater tots, which is okay. You know, whatever it is. I like it. You know, I I let things slide a little bit because it could still be chips, right? So yeah, James, I again, thank you for bringing him on. He seems like a cool being. Oh, I've I've I've read his materials. He's very proactive on social media and I've read I've I've read his materials for years. And his the other guy. He works with Michael LaBar is very proactive also. No, they're very intelligent men. And he was a huge contribution to the show. And let me just tell if he could be a new host as well with me or you don't think so. Well, you just met him. You know, you gotta know what I'm saying on here, on here. Yeah. Well, you know, we'll say he's a he's a he's a very experienced intellectual knowledgeable man. And I enjoyed having him. So I think I think and he seems to like the show. He seems to like the concept of going live. And he seemed so he has watched our past live stream. Oh, I don't know. I don't know if he's seen the live stream show, but he knows who I am. I'll send I'll send him the video and then I'll send him the show when we're done. And he can he can watch himself and get you. You might get a kick out of it. Yeah. I'm sorry that I talked about the pandemic all the time. It bothers me. Borders me when I do it. I just hope it goes away. We don't have a crystal ball. You know, fate is a funny thing. I think it will go away because it was in 1917 virus. They just it just appeared, right? So there you go. We just need a thousand more vaccines and we should be back to the old normal soon. Well, vaccines is the only way to achieve herd immunity. Now, what the what the crazy right wing insurrectionists believe is that they can they can reach herd immunity with no vaccines. It's not going to happen because millions of people will die. Well, it happened in 1917 to 1920. But again, they didn't have vaccines then. So they had no choice. Yeah. So today, you have a choice. You have vaccines. Right. Well, it's just that way too many people will perish without the vaccines. And I'm saying they had no choice in 1917 and 1920 because there was no vaccines to take care of it. That's what I'm saying. But but but but but in today's world, you can get vaccines instead of waiting for herd immunity. You can get herd immunity with the vaccine back in the day. They couldn't because they're going to vaccine. Well, yeah. That's why that's why so many people were victims of the Spanish flu. And and the black while the black plague, there was no vaccines back in the middle ages. No, as I'm saying, 1917 to 1920, no vaccines. Nine. I don't know when the first vaccine was even out. I do know for a fact with modern modern medical technology, like Anne said, even vaccines have come a long way. They're very advanced now. And well, I think this will be the second forgotten pandemic. I have a feeling because that's what happened the first one. Yeah, one years. Yeah, once you get it, once we get another drug company like Johnson and Johnson and then Oxford, Astra, Astra Zeneca, once we get to at least two more companies in the mix, I think we will have more than enough vaccines for the American population in the world. I think that that, you know, I mean, the fact is that Donald Trump has a lot of blood on his hands. Well, I think Trump should owe us because he shouldn't have ever did what he did. He was totally unprepared for vaccine distribution. He allowed all those flights from Europe, which was very irresponsible. And he, I don't think he cares. I think he's so self-absorbed, self-centered, so much of a sociopath. I don't think he feels any remorse. I mean, that's just what I think. I don't understand why he wouldn't care. Why are you going to be, why were you a president? Because sociopaths are very, very severe psychological problem. So he was technically a serial killer, Donald Trump. Yeah, sociopath is similar in a way to a serial killer. They don't feel remorse either. But I'm saying he used the pandemic to kill people, I'm saying. Well, I don't know what, I think his purpose of running for president is to use, is to abuse the presidency for his own gain through, for, for his own business. Right. I think he used, he abused, he used and abused the presidency for his own gain. He didn't do it because he wanted to serve the American people. No, he wanted to serve Donald Trump. And he did. And he did. And it was a nightmare of the past four years. It was definitely a nightmare. But now, now getting back to fishing ships. Let's do it. I, I happen to like Irish pubs because you get a great value for the money. You get, you get big portions. They're not too expensive. The drinks are reasonable, the beers, everything. So when I was in the tropical can in Atlantic City, me and my friend went to this Irish pub that was inside the tropical can. I loved it. It was huge. It was a huge, you know, they have that cozy dark wood and it's very dimly lit. It's very cozy and everybody's friendly in the Irish pub. So I ordered fishing ships and I got two huge, had not, not just regular cod fillets. I got two haddock fillets, which is the most expensive member of the codfish family. And they were big fillets. Wow. Came with the white steak fries and a home style coast law. And what else? I ordered a couple of pints of Guinness stout, you know, and it was awesome, man. You know, I put the tart, the tartar sauce on it and then I had to have the malt vinegar, the malt vinegar. You could buy it in a store. Heinz makes it, malt vinegar. That's what they put on the fish and chips. Oh, I don't remember doing that. I don't know how to try it. I'll have to try it. Yeah, they put malt vinegar on the fish and chips, but you could, you could, you could find malt vinegar in the supermarket. I think on your own stuff. Yeah, you pour it on your fish. Actually, it's quite good. If I don't have more vinegar, I'll use, I use the the raw apple cider vinegar, you know, the cloudy, the cloudy apple cider vinegar with the mother of the vinegar. I won't, you know, not the clear one, but either one is good, but traditionally, they use the malt vinegar. And I'm telling you what, it was great. So what I do, sometimes I make it here, like I'll fry, I'll fry the cod, cod, I have the cod filets, and then I'll do the potatoes. Now, someday I want to get a hot air fryer like my sister has, and then I can make, I can make french fries with no oil. Mm-hmm. Better than that. Oh, Grace, I'm telling you, you would love that appliance. Yeah, but I love air fryers. I've been using them for a little bit. You use an air fryer, you just love that thing. You can make, it cooks fast, you can make so many different meals in there with no grease. More healthier that way. Oh, it's healthy. It tastes great. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You can put Cornish hens in there, you know, whatever. You can make a span, which I like. You can do your spam, you can do your pork roll. Mm-hmm. Instead of frying it, you know, in a pan, you can put it in, you can put the, put it in the air fryer, if you have a, if it could fit a plate, like if you could put a ceramic plate, because I wouldn't put anything plastic in it. Hell no, close the fire. Yeah, yeah, if you, if you could fit a ceramic dish, you could probably put a couple slices of toast, the pork roll or the spam. Of course, you could put strips of bacon, you can probably do the whole thing on the dish. You can't put eggs, because eggs have to be timed perfectly. And they'd be running everywhere anyway. Well, they'll explode. Yeah, but no, you could do scramble, I'm sure you can do scramble eggs in an air fryer. I hope, I don't know, you never tried it, you obviously tried it before with regular eggs and they explode, so I wonder if it'll do it with scramble eggs. I gotta ask my sister, if she did ever did scramble eggs in the air fryer. Yeah, no, it looks like, these other people are not coming on. That's a shame. Yeah, Chef Salvatore, all of them really, I sent the link out. I don't know why they never come on, if I, if I had to go on Facebook, he would come on, I don't get it, maybe because it's not that many people, I don't know. I have the foggiest idea, they like, they like the weather. You know, they're like the weather, they just, you know, they come on and they get, because they get the urge to go live and these, these jabronis see it, they see it. Yeah, because it tells you that they saw it, and you know, but yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I just, I'm happy that I go to work and stuff like that now, you know what I mean James? I'm very happy. Oh, that you're, like that you're working? Yes. Well, keeps you busy. Sure does, keeps me busy, all right. But yeah, Michael Cormor office, I see Michael Cormor's. What? Oh, he's on here? Oh. No, he's on, he's online, he's on, he won't come on here though. That's a shame. Yeah, let me see if I can, no, he's on, he's on messenger. He's got two capital letters, TK, TK and lawless is capital L. Yeah, I know he's on messenger, but I don't have them on there. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. So anyway. Where is he? I don't, I don't see him on here. Oh, so capital, just go capital T, capital K. Uh, space and then capital L, lawless. And then the rest are just, they're lower case. Yeah, lower case. So KT, so KT is capital L is. TK. Oh, no, TK is capital and then the L is capital and then the rest are. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Then it might come up. Oh, mate. But yeah, I, I just, I, I talk gibberish sometimes, James. I just want to get this COVID thing over with. That's all. Now, but I'll add, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll show you his Facebook profile. I'll add you, or recommend, I'll recommend him to your Facebook profile. Awesome. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that. But anyway, uh, so yeah, so that's about it. Anything new with you, aside from the fishing chip show? No, nothing new. Got my haircut yesterday. I'm happy about that. Yeah. Yeah. I went to, I go to supercuts. I hope to go there again in a couple of weeks. And that's that. That's that. I like going there, you know. Well, they, I like the machines they use now. They don't even make, they hardly make a sound. They're like, they're so powerful. And they don't make any. They don't, they don't shave your face anymore though, because they're so afraid of that. Well, there's a new, uh, infomercial now of, um, of a, um, rechargeable hair clipper with that has the blades on the side. So you, you make like your comb in your hair. And that's different size combs. You can attach to it. And it shows these guys giving himself a professional haircut. Makes you wonder if it's bull crap though, because sometimes that's the case. Just like Coleman, you know, because the blades are sideways. Right. But do you think it's nonsense to make you buy it? You know, it makes me wonder. Well, I would have, I would read the reviews, always read the reviews. That's true. Yeah. Always read the reviews. I keep hearing, oh, that's you. The ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. Yeah. But you should be on your tube because I don't know who this is. It's, it's, it's alpha male. So you be getting it too. I think there's a lot of binging going on. I thought that's alpha males, isn't it? Probably. Yeah. Because I, I put, I put a bunch of shits there. So that's alpha males. Yeah. Yeah. It's alpha males. So I don't know who's. Yeah. Oh, Gabriel asked me what I mean by all the shits. Well, well, I don't know about if you want to say that, but it's a feeling that one. I'm posting the shits. Yeah, I've seen that. Some people did not bother to join the show once again. Once again. Babb it up, babb it up, babb it up, babb it up, babb it up. Babb it up, babb it up, babb it up, babb it up, babb it up. Well, hey, what are you going to do? You got to break a few eggs in life to make it omelet. Through there. Through there. You got to break. How's the, how's the rods? We haven't done them for these two weeks. The log? The rods, you know. All the divining rods. Divining rods. I would have to go get the divining rods. No, I'm going to put, let's see, Alex. I'm going to find you and then follow. Find me for what? No, I'm going to put, oh, what's he doing? Well, I'm going to, let's see what I take. But they changed the whole like format here. Oh, on, on Facebook it's different. So now I got to look for the friends. What do you mean it's different? Looks normal to me. Mine is different. It's totally different. Well, how do you put, how do you add the, I mean, I go to all friends. I mean, I find all my friends and. No, it's not the same anymore. Oh, to add friends you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. The part where you add. Hold on. Now his is, wait a minute. His is edit favorite. Now, do you think it's dangerous if I follow him? Because he says he has trolls. I don't want to have to worry about that. Everybody is subject to get in trolls. Oh. Yeah, that's nothing. Let's see. I can't, no, I can't find the, that's weird. Well, I guess if I go to all your, let me see here. Yeah. If you type it in that way, uppercase TK, uppercase L, you know, lawless. Here you are. Let me see if I can just, I like your new picture there, James. You're a truck. You know that? I think it's my picture. Oh, I picked my photo. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. I'm drinking this, this Australian wine is like 14%, a little over 14% alcohol. By wine. So you show he should be on your friends list on the Facebook friends lesson, right? DT lawless. TK. TK, I keep saying TK. A uppercase, yeah. But I'm saying your friends are on Facebook, so I should have to find them on your friends list. Good, unless he uses his real name that I don't know about. Well, it's hard to believe that that very shortly, it will be February 1st. Yeah, I know. It's freaking crazy, isn't it? It seems, you know, brave or not, it seems peaceful. It seems more peaceful now than since Joe Biden came president. Well, it is because just like, just like Mr. Lawless says, we don't have all that chaos and drama. Every, every day, day and night, it was constant chaos. That's another thing they said that we might be going back to normal because we have that we have the original people from the Obama era. Yeah, and then some. And some new ones. Yes, some new ones, yeah. I think this new normal is not going to last forever because I don't think people are going to stand for it. I really don't. And I said before, we're not in China. We don't, I don't want to do fist bumping and believe it or not. Some people do that anyway, okay? I don't mind elbow, elbow touching or, you know. What do you say? But do you think the handshake will go back? We are Americans. We're not China. Well, I don't know. This pandemic has taken a lot of lives. It's hard to say. Let's just let's just let's just get people vaccinated and and start start to bend the curve down and and then we'll see. I'd say by by summertime. Yeah, by summertime or summertime or fall, I think they'll have handshakes. But you know what? People still do handshakes anyway. So I don't know why I'm worried about it. They shouldn't really. Well, I mean, if you do wash your hands real quick afterwards. You know what I mean? That's what people do now, right? They they they once they touch something, they wash their hands when they do that. I'm always washing my hands and sanitizing. That's nothing, though. Yeah, I don't see him at all. I don't see him at all. So I'm just going to look him up by doing capital, you said, right? Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't find the. DK, right? Yeah, I couldn't find. The what do you call this? The link, you know, the profile link. Oh, that's what the problem. OK, well, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. I mean, I found the one here. I don't know how to. Well, then the rest will be a. I'm going to see if I can go back to the traditional format. But this is getting on my nerves. What's after the W? That's L. A. What's after the W? Wallace. James, what's after the W? I already hit the W. So there's no W. It's just T. K. Wallace. No, no, I did the T. K. And then I did L. A. W. And then I did L. E. S. But L. E. S. S. L. E. S. S. L. E. S. S. OK, appreciate your help there, my friend. Nothing. Nothing comes up. The only thing that comes up is this. I'm trying to I'm trying to find the link. I'm trying to find the link to his. Profile and I can't find it. I can't find it with this new. I think I got him. Right here. You found it. I think that's him because he said he had Obama. He's got like a mask says mask up. On his profile picture. Yeah, Obama and Joe Biden is in his front cover. With Michelle in the background. Yes. How you found it. Yeah, because it says I see your face as a mutual friend. So I know it's him because your face is right there. That little circle there. That's you. Yeah. So. Oh, bam. There you go. Stop that. Very outgoing guy, I can tell you. What's the mess up all about? I thought you didn't believe in that. About what? The mess up thing. No, he believes in masking up. Oh, yeah. I can't wait to go back to your normal. James, you started James. Well, I guess James is done, I guess, everybody. James, you kicked yourself out. You're not here. I don't know what happened to James. Come back in. Oh, there you are. Yeah, I hit the wrong button. Anyway, you found it. Oh, yeah, I found it. I looked up and went, wait a minute, it got quiet. Yeah, no, I posted something real funny on AlphaMales. Oh, that's where you left. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, at least you found this profile. But anyway, I'm going to wrap it up because, I mean, everything's quiet. No, well, Eric's got to get up early tomorrow. I have to get up early, too. You got to get up early yourself. Oh, James, well, it was nice hanging out with you, my friend. Yeah, plus I'm getting a tad bit hungry anyway. So I'll see you. It's been a pleasure, as always. And thank you, everyone, for viewing. And yeah, definitely. We were going to do the Viding Rods actually going to play with it, but we'll do that next Sunday. What do you have? You have a few questions? I'll go get it. No, I don't have any questions. If I have any questions, I can always message you some other time. Yeah. Yeah, we can always do that. Or if I do, if I go live, let's say on Facebook, I know how to go live on Facebook. Yeah, you can invite me like you did the last time. We know how to do it. I can do the Viding Rods on one of the shows there. Yeah, you can do that because now you can go live on Facebook. I thought you were Facebook Live-ing now. Anyone? Oh, no, you would have to pay for it now. Yeah. No, if you have some important questions you want to ask, I mean, only take me 30 seconds to go get them, you know. Well, now I have no questions right now. But if I do. All right. Well, we'll save it for next time. Yeah. So, all right. Well, James, I will talk to you later, my friend, and peace out.