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Doing a show on Labor Day, and still not getting paid. Covering topics from around the world.

Hosted by: 

- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:19) Introduction

(00:00:59) Political Discussions: Trump and Mail-In Voting

(00:05:07) Kamala Harris and Secret Service Details

(00:09:01) FBI Investigations and Political Intrigue

(00:11:31) Newsom's Crime Strategy in California

(00:13:33) Controversial Sentencing and Legal Debates

(00:18:33) Visa Integrity Fee and Immigration Policies

(00:25:10) Tax Proposals and Economic Implications

(00:31:16) Trump's Stance on COVID Vaccines

(00:37:32) Google's Spam Filters and Political Bias

(00:41:28) Tariffs and Presidential Powers

(00:44:30) Deportation Debates and Immigration Policies

(00:46:22) ICE Operations and Legal Challenges

(00:51:05) Racial Tensions and Legal Consequences

(00:54:24) Safe Injection Sites and Public Health

(00:57:54) Puberty Blockers and Health Policies

(01:00:40) Immigration Protests in Australia

(01:05:23) UK Immigration and Political Arrests

(01:10:40) Star Wars Inspired Technology

(01:16:07) Ancient Discoveries and Climate Change Theories

(01:22:01) Canada: Sex for a Room

[00:00:19] Jesse Fries:

And a good afternoon to everybody. It is Labor Day,   September 1, and we are live with episode number 58 of the mindless meanderings.   And I'm Jesse Fries.   And, yeah, thank god it's Labor Day. A nice day off mostly, except I'm working right now.  

[00:00:40] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And I'm Jamin Fries, and,   yeah, I got nothing.   There is nothing going on up here.  

[00:00:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It,   not too much going on. But, let's see what we got. Let's see what we got.  

[00:00:59] Jamon Fries:

Well, I mean,   since neither of us really have anything going on in our lives,   let's get into   some   politics.   Uh-huh. So   Trump is   there's an article says that Trump is facing a hurdle in ban in banning mail in voting, his own Republican party.   The they're they're basically saying his own Republican party is keeping him from   banning mail in voting.  

[00:01:28] Jesse Fries:

Right. Which  

[00:01:30] Jamon Fries:

I   don't   I mean, the article had absolutely nothing to do with that with the headline at all   other than the fact that he's trying to ban mail in voting. What instead, what the article talked about was   about   how the president couldn't do that. It was up to the states to set their voting   their voting parameters.  

[00:01:54] Jesse Fries:

Well,   that's true. But   it   the constitution also says that it's up to that Congress can actually set restrictions as well on that for Yeah. I mean, it it has to be able   to. It has to be able to. Yes. Well, it's the constitution. I don't know necessarily if it has to. But it is in the constitution where it does say that it's part of that whole thing where the states are I don't know what article or anything like that. But, you know, it states that the states   do do the elections. But when it comes to, like, the federal offices,   then Congress can actually set rules on this. You know? Like, you have to be a citizen. Absolutely. Yeah. You know? So Yeah. Because technically, within a city, you can have citizens not you can have noncitizens   vote for, like, mayor or Well, in in whatnot. In California.  



[00:02:41] Jamon Fries:

In California, it is it,   noncitizens   can vote in state elections.   Yeah. Yeah. But because of the federal regulations that you have to be a citizen,  

[00:02:51] Jesse Fries:

they can't vote in the federal elections. No. Exactly. Exactly. Wait. Wait. To me, that's fine. That's up to the states on however they want. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.   But yeah. So,   yes, technically, Trump can't do anything about it, but his Republican people can.  

[00:03:05] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Trump can't, but the Congress can. Yes. Yes. Yes. And, generally So as long as long as the Republicans control Congress and as long as they I mean, most Republicans   want to limit mail in voting voting anyways because, well,   you know, it's   it it was something that was brought up the the extent of mail in voting was brought about because of COVID,   because they were telling everybody you can't go out. You have to stay at home. So therefore, they had to make it okay to vote from home.   And so now that that's no longer the case, so we no longer need this   rampant   widespread   mail in election stuff.  



[00:03:46] Jesse Fries:

Well, right. Right. It's, generally,   the way that it has been is that, generally, it favors more Democrats, so Republicans don't like it.   But then also back in the seventies, they tried it again, and they did a study.   And, the Democrats got rid of it real quick because it   there's so much fraud   when it comes to mail in voting. You can't actually prove that whoever is signing it or anything like that. You know? So Yeah. Absolutely. It is rampant for fraud. And if you're a political   party that, is good at fraud, which I'm I'm thinking most of them are   Awesome. Yeah. You you may want that, you know, that sort of thing. So Yep.  



[00:04:29] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   So I I just I I didn't understand anything that this article was saying though. You know, it's I just   if you're gonna say that the Republican party is stopping him,   then   put it in the article. Tell us how they're stopping him. Not say not just say, well, you know, all these states, they they they get to choose how they how the voting is themselves. That's not the Republican party stopping them. No. It's not. It's not. Maybe in some states it is. But, you know, then but then you can also have the federal,  

[00:04:59] Jesse Fries:

congress actually   have certain restrictions. You know? It's Yep.   Absolutely.   Yep.   Let's see. Elsewhere in politics,   Kamala Harris lost her secret service detail.   So  

[00:05:15] Jamon Fries:

I heard about that. I didn't hear why, though. I didn't I didn't hear what was going on that caused him to pull to pull her detail.  

[00:05:22] Jesse Fries:

Well,   technically,   vice presidents usually only get it six months after for six months after,   they leave office.  

[00:05:33] Jamon Fries:

Oh, fuck. I mean, then Why is that a good story then? No.  

[00:05:37] Jesse Fries:

Because because it was extended for some reason. I I think, Biden extended it, and then Trump goes, no.   That's basically it.   But   in general,   it's only six months. The former presidents get it for lifetime.   Right. But   but not,   vice presidents. Vice presidents only get it for six months after.   So Okay.  

[00:06:03] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And that period ended July 21. So Yeah. I I figured there would be some kind of limitation on on how long it would the vice presidents would keep their details. But Right. Right. I didn't know the exact time frames.  

[00:06:16] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Biden   or somebody   extended it,   for additional year via directive that they made. It wasn't made public, though.   And so it was just this, public sort of thing. And so   it was signed or auto pen signed   by Joe Biden. Yep. Yep. Just shortly before leaving office. So  

[00:06:37] Jamon Fries:

Okay. Okay.   Yeah. Yeah. So it that makes a lot of sense why why Trump would do that, but I still don't understand why that made the news.   I mean, that that's like a nothing story. Every vice president loses their detail. The the the the the news makes it is gonna make it sound like Trump is getting revenge.  

[00:07:00] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. This was a CNN news story, and the headline of it actually, it's it's just Trump cancels Kamala Harris secret service detail that was extended by undisclosed Biden order.   So Okay. It it it's actually just a straight up headline. Wow. They they did they they did pretty good with that with that, headline at least. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. It's, I I think it's just one of those know nothing stories that nobody cares about. But Right.   You know, I read through all the news, so I find a lot of things that nobody cares about. Yeah. It it it's one of those things that happens in a slow news week.   Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm Yeah. And and it was the weekend, so, you know, what can you find and everything like that? Yeah.  



[00:07:43] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. There wasn't much that happened this weekend so that I could find.  

[00:07:47] Jesse Fries:

Well, no.   Apparently   apparently, Trump had it in his calendar that he wasn't doing anything this weekend. Right? Yeah. And so and and there was nobody saw him because he wasn't doing anything. And so, apparently, there is this thing I saw this one meme and it said, oh, Trump's not dead. And I'm like, what?   Apparently, some people   on the left side goes, oh, he's dead now.   This proves that he's dead.   Well, I I mean, it is unusual for him to stay silent for a weekend. I I don't put I'm like, wow. That is it. Oh, yeah. What what did you do for Biden? How long was Biden dead then in that case? You know? It's He was like, what? They got their they got their hopes up too soon.   Yeah. It's like, wow. These   some people really need to stay off the Internet.  

It's just  

[00:08:44] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[00:08:45] Jesse Fries:

And that's for both sides. I'm just saying. It's Yes. Absolutely.   So are these crazy ideas. But, yeah, it's, there's this whole thing about how, yeah, he's dead and stuff like that. So,  

[00:08:59] Jamon Fries:

yep. Yep.   Other thing,  

[00:09:02] Jesse Fries:

is that,   apparently, right before Trump became president,   a whole bunch of, people, like, from his first administration   got notified by Google   that they were under investigation by the FBI.  

[00:09:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's not surprising.  

[00:09:22] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It's like they didn't even know about anything like that, but then they were about to, just shortly before Trump came into office, the FBI said that they let Google tell them. Otherwise, they were in these people's emails and everything like that. So   for political reasons, if you ask me. And this was like Patel and so on and so forth. So it was,   yeah. Yeah.   It it was   yeah. Like,   Jeff Clark,   Patel,   Danscovino,   whoever that is. I don't know. But,  

[00:09:55] Jamon Fries:

yeah. Yeah.  

[00:09:57] Jesse Fries:

Apparently, it was the whole Jack Smith team and whatnot. So  

[00:10:01] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   I   I   don't think you got   Dan's right name right.   I can't remember his last name. He's   a no.  

[00:10:13] Jesse Fries:

S c a v I o. I'm not talking about,   Bongino.   He's a different guy. Oh, okay.  

[00:10:21] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:10:22] Jesse Fries:

You you you know, Jamie, there could be more than one Dan in the world. Well, no. I know that. It's just the names are so similar. I thought maybe it was a typo.   Oh, yeah. No. No. No. Definitely not.   Unless if it's a different typo in the actual article many, many times.   But they there's also a picture, and that is not Bongino. That is Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay.   Bongino's ripped. This guy is not ripped.   Yep. Yep.   So, yeah, there's that. You know, just normal   fun stuff against Trump's   bunch of lawfare against that sort of thing. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's  

[00:11:00] Jamon Fries:

I I remember   that,   I I remember when that when that story first broke, that was   that was one of those things where you're like,   you know, I should be shocked.  

[00:11:19] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. But so I bet you're not. Has happened, I'm not.   Exactly. It was it was all our warfare against the right. So, you know Yeah. Yeah.   Let's see here. What else do we got?   Looks like Newsom is deploying the state police to major cities around California,   to try to stop crime. So, basically, he's,   even though he will not admit it by any stretch of the imagination,   he is doing exactly what Trump is doing with the National Guard. Yeah. He he's he's doing he's doing what Trump wants.  

[00:11:59] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Which is put more put more boots on the ground to stop the crime. Yeah. That's all good. If if a governor if a governor could do it himself, then Trump doesn't need to step in to do it. Yeah. Yeah. The reason Trump is stepping in is because none of the governors have ever done it.  

[00:12:18] Jesse Fries:

That's the thing. You have to clean it up. And, you know, it's   a   and Newsom goes he insisted that he was not reacting or responding to anything   relating to Trump.   Sure. Yeah.   Yeah.  

[00:12:33] Jamon Fries:

He just, on his own, decided, you know,   what we really need is for the state patrol to start patrolling the city streets. Yep. Yep. What I'm thinking he's doing is,  

[00:12:47] Jesse Fries:

he he goes, okay. Well, Trump's thing in DC, that's favorable to the American people. Last poll, it was, like, 56%   of approved it. Yeah. And Newsom wants to be the next president.   Oh, yeah. And so he's going, well, how do I boost through that? Well, I need to become tough on crime.   And so that's what he's doing. Yeah. That is exactly what he's doing. So yeah.  

[00:13:14] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's it's amazing.   You   know,   it's   I I love it when politicians get tough on crime,   but I hate it when they do it because someone else has been getting tough on crime, and they don't want that person to come in and then take over for them.  

[00:13:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   It's   it doesn't make sense. And you especially when it's just like a political move, You know? Yeah. Yeah. Or or or it's like they they get picky they pick and choose which ones they wanna do. It's like this guy in California. Don't get me wrong. This guy is a a hole. He deserves to spend some time in jail.   He threatened   a black lady and called her pray every word under the sun and everything like that. Okay.   And he   he had a plea deal for five years, right, for   making racist threats, right, to a black woman and everything like that. The woman scared him off with, like, pepper sprayer or something like that.   But Okay. He had a plea deal for five years.  

Right? But Yeah. Apparently, that wasn't good enough for the prosecutor or the judge.   And so now they ordered to re they ordered a trial and everything like that. And now he's gonna spend the next how long was it? Twenty seven years in prison   for threats   and   racist slurs. Yeah. Don't get me wrong. He's not a he he deserves time in jail. But Yeah. Twenty seven years?  

[00:14:45] Jamon Fries:

No.   That's that's an insane amount of prison time for threats.  

[00:14:51] Jesse Fries:

Right? It's not even a it's not even a attempted murder. It's not years. Yeah. Yeah. It's not attempted   yes.   Twenty seven years.  

[00:15:01] Jamon Fries:

All because he said something about race.  

[00:15:04] Jesse Fries:

Oh. Oh. He was, like, throwing the n word in it. He he he he was, like, good nuts. He had a swastika, everything like that. Yeah. If it if it weren't if it weren't for the fact that he  

[00:15:12] Jamon Fries:

said the n word,  

[00:15:14] Jesse Fries:

he would have gotten maybe three, four, maybe five years at the moment. Right. Right. Right. But then then they go, oh, hate crime. And so they tactics all the crap on.   And so now he's gonna It's so bullshit. It really is bullshit.   I completely agree. It is bullshit.   It's like   that is too extreme in my book. Yeah. You know, it's Yeah. Yes. Five years. You know? I I think five years sounds like a fair.  

[00:15:38] Jamon Fries:

Five, six Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I think Hey. Yeah. What what's what's what kind of surprises me about that story is he had a plea plea deal for five years, but the prosecutor wasn't happy with the plea deal that he gave him.  

[00:15:52] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.   Yeah. I know. I I I don't  

[00:15:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I'm sure the judge may not have been happy. He don't he's not involved in the plea deal, but the prosecutor makes the plea deal.  

[00:16:04] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Okay. This is the story of the five year sentenced five years prison.  

[00:16:11] Jamon Fries:

Unless it was a new prosecutor that came in.  

[00:16:14] Jesse Fries:

Maybe they fired the old one because he went too easy on him. This is the sentence, California man sentenced Monday to five years in prison for making racist threats against pregnant African American women in court offered plea deal that rankled prosecutors and community advocates.  

[00:16:30] Jamon Fries:

So apparently So in other words, it it rankled the community advocates, which means that the which means that the prosecutor caved in   and said, well, you know, that really wasn't the greatest idea that I had to give him that kind of a plea deal. Actually, it was the judge. It was the judge that did it.  

[00:16:47] Jesse Fries:

The prosecutors actually wanted thirty eight years to life for a sentence   for threatening any woman.  

[00:16:54] Jamon Fries:

Life?  

[00:16:55] Jesse Fries:

Life. Thirty eight to life. What the hell?   Yeah.  

[00:17:02] Jamon Fries:

You don't even get you don't even get that for a murder charge.   No. Not not no. You get that. Years is a lot for a murder charge even. Well, for a manslaughter charge. Maybe not for, you know, it's the first or second degree murder. But Yeah. For a manslaughter charge, thirty eight years is insane would be an insane.  

[00:17:21] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep.   Apparently, the judge at that time,   he said five years noting no weapon was used or injury caused during the crime.  

[00:17:30] Jamon Fries:

So yeah. In other I agree with the original judge. That's In other words, what this guy should have done   and, you know,   I'm this I'm saying this very facetiously   Uh-huh. Is he should have just killed her, and then maybe he would have got a lighter sentence. Yeah. Probably so. Probably so. I I mean,   what the hell?  

[00:17:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It is kinda crazy.   It just doesn't   it just doesn't make sense. It doesn't No. It doesn't.   Makes absolutely no sense.  

[00:18:02] Jamon Fries:

You know, I I I could see adding a a couple years for the hate crime aspect of it, but   for threatening, you know, no. No.   That's insane.  

[00:18:15] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It really is insane. It really is. It it it seems a bit extreme to me. So Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Well,   you should have fun in jail.   Yeah. We'll see if that gets appealed.   I probably won't hear about it if it does.  

[00:18:29] Jamon Fries:

Oh, no. Absolutely, we won't.  

[00:18:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I see you have the story about, the Visa Integrity fee, for people coming to The US. I see. Yes.   I had that one a while ago. I just never talked about it. Well, it  

[00:18:44] Jamon Fries:

it it was it was a rumored thing at the time when you had it.   No. It just wasn't being emplaced yet. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. But, now it's it's,   it's gonna be in full effect,   October 1.  

[00:19:03] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Vegas is really gonna go down. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because this is an extra fee on top of everything for people that wanna come.  

[00:19:11] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And it's $250   Mhmm. Except for if you're coming from three countries.   Mhmm. If you're coming from Mexico,   China, or Brazil,   it's gonna be $442.  

[00:19:26] Jesse Fries:

Why Mexico?  

[00:19:27] Jamon Fries:

I have no idea. Is that it? Prob probably fentanyl, the the stance they're taking with the cartels and stuff like that probably has to play in it.  

[00:19:39] Jesse Fries:

So   I I I really don't understand this one. You already have the visa fee. You know, if you don't want people to come in, how about you just   stop them? You you know, it's  

[00:19:51] Jamon Fries:

You don't have to approve visas for everybody that applies.   No. No. I So if you don't want them coming in, just don't give them the visa.  

[00:20:00] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I just I really don't understand this one. You know, it's gonna cost me more money on   Oh, yeah. I have to pay for the visas for some of my wife's family or we have to pay for the visas to come here for you. You know? So it's like Yep.   Yeah. It's just gonna cost me money. Thank you so much. I truly appreciate that.   Yeah.   Yeah. I don't get that one. That was in the big beautiful bill. It's just Yeah. I I Yep. It it it was. Yeah.  

[00:20:29] Jamon Fries:

There's a lot of stuff in the big beautiful bill that I'm slightly confused about, but, you know.  

[00:20:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah.   A lot.  

[00:20:41] Jamon Fries:

And that happens with pretty much any bill that goes through the congress, though.  

[00:20:45] Jesse Fries:

It really does. It really does. They tack so many things on there, and you're like, yeah. Okay. Can we just get rid of that one? You know, it's like,   you know,   just make them clean and simple. That's what I say, you know. Yes. Absolutely.  

[00:21:00] Jamon Fries:

No one's gonna listen to me. I agree I agree with one with one guy that I heard ranting and raving.   Mhmm. And he said that every bill that passes congress   should be a one item bill.   Yep. Yep.   It just makes sense.  

[00:21:17] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like I I just,   it was on TikTok. It was, like, apparently, somebody has proposed. I don't know if they've really proposed it or not, but, like, where they they would get rid of income tax and just put a 30%,   federal ink or sales tax on everything. Oh,   god.   So I'm like   and he   what what whatever that is, I I find it   that's gonna hurt the poor people, like, much worse than Yeah. That would be horrible for the for lower income people. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. It really would. It would completely fuck them over. It would destroy them. Yeah. Uh-huh.   People like me, we'd probably get off better.  



[00:22:02] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people people   that have a good amount of money that let's see. The the thing is is that when the majority of your income goes to things that you have to buy Yep. Yep.   It's going to destroy you if the if the thing if the sales taxes go up. Especially by a third. People with that people with money. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Definitely. But people with money,   they buy stuff that they wanna buy. So they don't have to make those purchases.   Yep. Yep.   So not only would the poor peep the poorer people be very massively   affected by this,   and the richer people not barely affected at all,   the government would bring in so much less money because the rich people would say, well, you know,   that boat I was looking at buying, that 30%   tax just really   kinda takes it out of the range of anything I'm willing to pay. I'll just go pay for it done in Jamaica.  



[00:23:00] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's  

[00:23:02] Jamon Fries:

I'll barely go to Europe and buy a boat. Yeah. Yeah. Is it you know, Europe is the one is the primary manufacturer of all those expensive yachts. So it's not like buying a yacht is gonna give more money is gonna is gonna gonna provide sales tax to the state. Do they go Well, they haven't. Yeah. They have the VAT, though, so I'm not sure how much  

[00:23:21] Jesse Fries:

you would actually save on that one. I don't know how how much that actually Right. Goes up to. Right.   But, you know, it's   but, apparently, let me just I that wasn't the point of it. What I was trying to say. But, apparently, we get rid of Social Security tax and Medicaid and everything like that. So you you wouldn't have FICA or anything like that. So it'd be everything.  

[00:23:44] Jamon Fries:

So you want everyone on social so they want everyone on social security to have to rely on that 30% sales tax?  

[00:23:53] Jesse Fries:

Well, it would just be included in the 30% sales tax instead of having the additional. Apparently. This I I just I just heard it overall, so I really don't know. Yeah. So so yeah.   But but anyway, what I was trying to say is that that bill was, like, a 130 pages.   Yeah. You know, it it's like, it's still way too much. You know? It's just Oh, yeah. Make it simple. To me, that one would just make it stupid simple.   Yeah. No income tax. Know this. Yeah. I think you could do it in, like, two pages.  

[00:24:22] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.   You know, if if the government were to as we talked about last last week, if the government were to,   own,   like,   fifth like, whatever percentage   of money they invested into patents   Uh-huh.   No one would ever have to worry about paying a sales tax or income tax or any kind of tax.   Property taxes, you would you potentially wouldn't have to pay. I mean, there's lots of stuff you could get rid of. Now well, no. You couldn't really get really right now, you couldn't get rid of sales or property because that goes to the local government   that allows the local government to operate. So couldn't really get rid of those. But, you know, no income no income tax would be a huge thing. It would be. It would be.  



[00:25:09] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. What else do we got? Looks like a whole bunch of stuff with, like, CDC and,   Robert Kennedy and everything like that.   Okay.   Okay. So let's see. What's this, Maha calls for the limit on food as to kids?  

[00:25:24] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   They have announced that they are that they're looking into putting limits   on   advertising towards children, especially   food products.   They they   believe that   that I mean, those food products cause children to desire very unhealthy foods.   And so they wanna get rid of them, you know, no more you you they they don't want to have, you know, the   the parents going down the grocery aisle and the kids sitting there screaming about this   cereal that they saw on TV. I need to have that. I need to have that. I need to have that. And most parents just cave in and buy it for them even though it's very unhealthy.  

[00:26:11] Jesse Fries:

Right. But you can make it healthy. You know, that's the thing. It's like, who cares? You know? Well, yes. But but they No. This but they they can't.  

[00:26:19] Jamon Fries:

The only way that the that the federal government could do anything would be by limiting the amount of sugar that you could put into a product.  

[00:26:26] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:26:26] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's right. And   they   can't really do that, I don't think.  

[00:26:33] Jesse Fries:

Well, to to me it   that   I I don't think that matters because you can have   I think of cornflakes when we grew up, Jamie. You know? It's like mom always got, like, cornflakes and stuff like that because, well, the other one's like grape nuts. And then what did we do when we put it We put a shit ton of sugar in it. Exactly. So what does it matter?   You you you don't you you you want it to be sweet because it's a breakfast thing. So you load it full of fucking sugar.   You know, it's just whether or not I do it myself or a company puts it in, I don't think that matters.   You know?  

And instead of, like, maybe trying to get, like,   a big pharma off the TV with their ads and control of the media That one I would fully support. Yeah. Yeah. No. Let's go after the food industry that is just trying to sell food. You know? It's like,   no. I find this completely stupid.  

[00:27:28] Jamon Fries:

I I It it it's it's a it's a   reaction   to   a   current health panda issue within The United States. If you if a parent Unfortunately,   many of these reactions   many reactions go way too far and they don't target the right area. No. Exactly. And the parents that want this aren't  

[00:27:53] Jesse Fries:

they're generally the ones that can tell their kids no.   Yeah. You know? So I don't even know why they're doing it, you know? It's like, I could tell my kids no.   I I I I but, you know, I I really don't mind those cereals. I don't care. Get some going or anything like that. You know? It's as I said, you just dump sugar on it anyways to make it palatable  

[00:28:13] Jamon Fries:

in the morning. Yeah. You know, that it's because you're nuts. Most most   most breakfast cereals that don't have sugar   do not taste that great. They really don't.  

[00:28:23] Jesse Fries:

You know? I mean, what do you what what do you Mom's old favorite load of bunches of sugar on it.   Oh, yeah.   Apparently, you know, did did you know that was actually one of the first cereals ever?  

[00:28:34] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I did know that. Yep. Yep. But it it's did you know that it's not supposed to it was never meant to be eaten   as a cold cereal?  

[00:28:44] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:28:46] Jamon Fries:

Because when you when you microwave it, it gets it gets soft. The flavors come out and stuff like that. It's Why would you want those flavors to come   out?   I don't know, but that's how it was meant to be eaten.  

[00:29:03] Jesse Fries:

No. I understand. I understand. No. It's   yeah. No. I I find the whole idea stupid. And it is generally the parents that could tell their kids no that are wanting this to happen. You know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. They wanna control other parents   and everything like that. You know? I and I'm and my kids just gonna dump sugar on it anyways. That's what we did as well. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:29:23] Jamon Fries:

You know? All of us. You know, quite quite honestly, if mom would have given us the sugary the sugary cereals,   I probably would have eaten less sugar.   Probably. Because I always put a lot of sugar on my cereal.  

[00:29:37] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.   You know, it's a  

[00:29:41] Jamon Fries:

I yeah. Yeah. Okay. I I was I was using the I was using the sugar not just to be sweet, but to cover the flavor of the cereal.  

[00:29:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. No. I it's   yeah.   So, yeah, that that's kinda funny. That's kinda funny. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see here.   Speaking of,   RFK, he said   just shortly after reset, basically, the same day,   that he's gonna start an investigation into,   drugs and how they enter with school shootings and everything like that, how they may have,   be associated with that.   Yep.   It's it's like yeah. Some are saying trans, but I think is   it may be more the antidepressants  

[00:30:25] Jamon Fries:

and everything like that. Yeah. Because not all shootings are trans, but almost all shootings are done by   kids that have, you know,   that are problem children. They're   many of them have been put on to  

[00:30:42] Jesse Fries:

drugs to help Well, I I would see I I I see what you're saying, but I I don't like that terminology. I don't think they're problem children. I think the drugs have made them problem.   Yes. Yes. You you you know, just let a boy be a boy. Let these kids  

[00:30:54] Jamon Fries:

deal with them, you know, instead of just throw them on a drug. Okay. But by by problem children, I am I'm saying that the schools look at them as problem children. Okay. After all, you you don't get   a diagnosis of ADHD   because your parents were concerned. You get you get it because the school got concerned about your learn about your attention to the physical disability. Generally. Sometimes it comes from the parent. Sometimes it's the parent, but it's usually the school brings everything to attention. And so the school looks at them as if they're problem children because they're not obedient. They don't sit there, and they don't just stare at the wall like every other child. Yeah. And and, you know, I've never understood  

[00:31:38] Jesse Fries:

how   in these clinical trials on all these drugs, it generally   says,   there has been a notice of,   suicidal or homicidal ideation. Yeah. Yeah. So you're like, go so so you wanna give this to people?  

[00:31:55] Jamon Fries:

You you you you know You wanna give this to children   so that they have homicidal   or suicidal   tendencies   when they're going to school.  

[00:32:06] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Makes sense.  

[00:32:08] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:32:09] Jesse Fries:

No. It it Yeah. You see, to me, that just makes no sense. It's never me. No. Not at all. No. It's Not at all.   Do you know what you're doing? You know, do you do you Yeah.   And yes. Okay. It's a small percentage that gets those things. But guess what? That small percentage   causes a lot of death.  

[00:32:29] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[00:32:30] Jesse Fries:

You know, it it It really does.   It it's like before all these things came about,   there weren't any school shootings. It it it was once. Yeah. It's like Gen x and everything like that. We didn't have any of these issues. You know, it started right at that shift change from x to millennial.   Yep. It's when all the shootings and everything started to happen. And, you know, it's  

[00:32:52] Jamon Fries:

Coming up. It's also when when kids became overly medicated.   No. You know, back back when I back when I was in high school, there I didn't know of a single person that was   on any medication. There were a lot of people that didn't concentrate.   I was one of them.  

[00:33:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:33:09] Jamon Fries:

None of us got medicated.  

[00:33:11] Jesse Fries:

No. Exactly.   Exactly.   Let's see here.   What else is in the news? It looks like Trump is kinda getting tired of this COVID,   vaccine sort of situation.  

[00:33:23] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:33:25] Jesse Fries:

He has said he has told pharma that they need to clean it up.   He is truly sick. Where does he say it? Let's see. Let me see where it is.   He he basically says that there's positive data out there with the vaccines, but for some reason, he he hints   that pharma is hiding   this good information.   The the the because Trump really truly believes in these vaccines.   Oh, yeah. I mean, that's why he pushed them. No. Exactly. Exactly. And so he he's like, oh, I've seen the data. I've seen there's good data. And he goes, farmer, you need to clean this up. So I wonder   could are it's like, are they just shoving crap in him at him? Like, going, oh, see. Look at all the good stuff that we've done and everything like that. And maybe cherry picking the data that he sees instead of not showing him any of the,   negatives. You know? It's   Could be. I have no idea. Yeah. But he seems to so so he's pushing for them to actually just   he's he's he's tired of it. It's kinda like the whole Epstein thing and everything like that. I think he's just getting tired of these things that just won't go away.  

Yep.   And he just   and luckily, this time around, he did not put it on us. Because last time I remember when it was Epstein, he learned. I think he really learned.   He said he blamed it on he goes, I don't know why people are still paying attention to this Epstein thing. It's a non story. Look at my people say it's a non story.   Yeah.   So he he was basically calling us all stupid for thinking it was a story.   You know?   Yeah. This time he's going, well, it's big pharma's idea. Hey. Bar Big Pharma has to fix this issue. I don't know why they are not he goes, I've seen the data. I don't know why they're not giving us the data.  

[00:35:11] Jamon Fries:

So I think he's learned. I I mean, I I I can But tell you why they're not giving you the data. It's because either the data is horrible or they don't have it because they never tested any of it. Yep. Yep. That's why they're not giving you the data.  

[00:35:25] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. He he in his post, he goes,   the CDC being ripped apart over the question. I want the answer, and I want it now. I've been showing information from Pfizer and others that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show these results to the public.   Why not? They go off on the next hunt and let everybody rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy,   CDC,   and trying to figure out the success and failure of the drug company's COVID work.   He goes, they show me great numbers and results, but they don't seem to be showing them to many others.   I want them to show them now to CDC and the public   and clear up this mess one way or the other.  

I hope warp operation warp speed was a brilliant as many say it was   or was as brilliant as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it and why.   Thank you for all your attention to this very important matter.  

[00:36:18] Jamon Fries:

President Well, you know, at least at least he's he's saying, you know,   if   if it he he's basically what he's saying is,   if it was as great as I thought it would be and as long as great as you told me it would be,   then   awesome. I mean, why why are you holding that back?   If not,   then you lied to me, and I supported this thing in such a heavy way.  

[00:36:46] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   It's like it's also like going so the numbers you've been showing me are these crap. Is that what you're telling? Yeah. Yeah. You hiding everything and not showing these to everybody else.   Are these numbers crap? Because they might be showing them things, but then, you know, if you really dig into the data, you're, like, going,  

[00:37:04] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:37:06] Jesse Fries:

So yeah. Yeah. No. It it it makes sense. It's a I think it's a good call.   Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. And it it's good for him to put the onus   on   the big pharma. Should be. Yeah. Big pharma. That's where it should be. Yep. Because there are some questionable things out there. So   Yeah.   Well, yeah. So I thought that was kind of a cool thing. So  

[00:37:30] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   Yeah. The,   FTC   has   warned   Google that,   if they don't   straighten up their spam filters, they're gonna be under investigation.  

[00:37:46] Jesse Fries:

Okay. What's wrong with their spam filters?  

[00:37:50] Jamon Fries:

From what I understand,   there are a lot of   conservative   groups that are,   that are sending emails to people seeking funding or just informational and stuff like that. Things where people have signed up for them and they're so they're sending them the inform the information from it.   Uh-huh. And it's all going into spam,   yet   nothing from the Democrat side is going into spam.  

[00:38:19] Jesse Fries:

Interesting. Yeah. Okay. So  

[00:38:22] Jamon Fries:

Google back and Google shot back and said, well, you know, the way our algorithm is set up is   more people that that click on this is spam,   the the more information you send out and the more people that click on it saying it's spam   will mean that you're   going to be put in the spam folder more likely.  

[00:38:43] Jesse Fries:

Sure.   Sure. Yeah. That's why I get all those democratic   Oh, yeah. Text messages. I never signed up for them too either. No. And I keep saying remove me, but they never removed me.   Yep. Whenever's campaign season, holy hell. I get so many of them. It's just I I don't get a single one from, conservatives, which is kinda funny, really. We It is. Yeah. So it's probably not just,   yeah, it's probably just not   Google.  

[00:39:14] Jamon Fries:

It's probably also, like, t mobile app. Apple and everything. So Yeah. Yeah. It it but, so the so I guess back in 2023,   the the the Republican,   some Republicans   complained about it, and they brought the issue up to the Federal Election Commission.   Uh-huh.   And they just   dismissed it.   They basically said, yeah. No. We're not even gonna look into it. Yeah. Sounds about right. The federal court has also   dismissed a RNC lawsuit with similar complaints.   And earlier this month,   a federal judge blocked the FTC's   investigation   into the left leaning group media matters   over its research into antisemitic   content   on   x, describing   that the investigation   is a retaliatory   effect act.  

So the fact that they think that it's a retaliatory   act   means that the FTC can't look into it to see if they're actually doing something wrong.  

[00:40:21] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:40:22] Jamon Fries:

Bullshit.  

[00:40:23] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. No. It's well, that's that's how it is, of course, you know. It's, Yeah. If it's a Republican or anything like that trying to figure out the the truth, you know, it's crap and it's retaliatory. But when a Democrat   does it, they're just trying to get to the truth. They just want the truth. Yeah. Yeah. It's Yeah. Absolutely.   It's all that crap, you know. It's like, you know, there's bad actors on both sides. The Democrat's thinking that there's not.  

[00:40:47] Jamon Fries:

It it it's Well, you know, the the biggest the biggest problem that I have with this though   Mhmm. Is that this is now setting a precedent that a federal judge   can stop an investigation   into something.   Right. Right. Which means that if if someone   gets something on a federal judge, like, say, a drug cartel has something on a federal judge Interesting. Yeah. They could stop   the federal government from investigating   that cartel   under this precedent.  

[00:41:18] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. You gotta watch out for precedents. But, you know, it's You really do. So   many people don't really think about that. But you really do. Of course not.   You really do.   Yeah. Let's see here.   Other thing,   an appeal court, said that the tariffs that Trump put out on everybody,   that he overstepped his powers.   Okay.   But they said   they can stay as this works through the system.   It was a completely,   partisan   vote,   when it comes to   it was like all the Republicans voted,   said that it wasn't, and all the Democrats said that it was.   You know, it's   and because of that, you know, it's so hard to know what the actual truth is.  



[00:42:05] Jamon Fries:

You know? It's Well, I mean, the well, it's not hard to know what the actual truth is. The actual truth   is that   Congress is the one that deals with tariffs.   That's not No. Absolutely. That's not a presidential   power.   Right. So so so you're citing the court. So the what you're doing. In this case, yes. Because they did get it right.   That's what I mean to it. But what what Trump what Trump has done, and Trump knows this too, but what he has done   is he's fired the shot making it so that congress   has to look at it.   Yeah. Let's see if they do though. That's the thing. Oh, yeah. I mean, we can only hope. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. It's it's it's the same with Doge and everything that they did, you know, nothing nothing that they did is permanent.  

Everything has to be ratified by Congress for the most part.   You know, except for, like, firings and stuff like that. But, where the money is going, that all needs to be ratified by Congress.   And so this is just the this this is basically just Trump in my mind, it's Trump saying, you know what? We've been sitting on our asses for so long about all this shit we've been taking we've been putting up with the shit that other complete people have been giving dealing us. Mhmm.   I'm gonna get the ball rolling,  

[00:43:18] Jesse Fries:

and you guys had better take it up. No. I can see that. I can see that. Makes sense to me.   Yep. Definitely.   Definitely.  

[00:43:31] Jamon Fries:

So there was a   court hearing on Sunday.   Mhmm. I haven't seen the results of it yet. I saw this article yesterday.   The about,   the Guatemalan children.   Trump is trying to deport, like, over a 100 kids back to Guatemala.   Okay. And Guatemala   has they they've   already set up to accept them. They've got places to to to take them to. They've got,   they've found most of the   they've found family members for a lot of the kids and stuff like that. Right.   But, you know, of course, the court steps in and says,   yeah. No. You can't send them back because they're unaccompanied   minors, and, therefore, we have to   keep them   here.  



[00:44:20] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That doesn't make any sense to me. You know, it's  

[00:44:24] Jamon Fries:

the the And the the Why how did they get here?   Yeah. Exactly.   The thing that I find   the most problematic about this is their their cons the the the court is concerned about the treatment that the children will have when they get to Guatemala.  

[00:44:42] Jesse Fries:

They're children. They could be fine. Unless if they're, like,   assholes and they're 16, 17, 18, and they're basically  

[00:44:48] Jamon Fries:

Right. Yes. Yeah. They're  

[00:44:50] Jesse Fries:

bangers anyways.  

[00:44:52] Jamon Fries:

Think of you know, I I find it very,   ironic   that they're concerned about the situation they'll face over there.   But over here, they get put into foster care until   their quote unquote family member   or someone that is designated to take care of them comes to pick them up.   Right. When we have been repeatedly   hearing stories about   people that have picked up like 50 kids or,   you know,   people picking up children that are completely unrelated to them in any way Yep. That that the government is not even verifying   that these people   should have responsibility   for these children.  



[00:45:43] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:45:43] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No. I I I mean, it's like, okay. So you've got so here in The US, you got a fifty fifty shot of   going into   human trafficking.  

[00:45:54] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:45:55] Jamon Fries:

Over in Guatemala,   the government's got a whole bunch of stuff set up to protect you.  

[00:46:00] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:46:01] Jamon Fries:

But I'm concerned about sending you to Guatemala.  

[00:46:05] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. No. Hey, it's   once again, if Trump wants to do it or whatnot, it's bad, and the judge will stop it. And then Yeah. It'll be overturned   because that's Yep.   That's what's happening. It's it's Yeah.  

[00:46:23] Jamon Fries:

Pathetic. It it absolutely is.   And, Christy Nome   has,   can now confirmed plans   to expand ICE operations in major cities.   Okay.   They're planning on sending a whole lot of ICE officers into like Chicago and stuff like that.   Makes sense to the response is   the   Chicago,   the I I I can't remember if it's the governor or the mayor. I think it's the mayor   of Chicago   has   decided to go the legal route and try to get courts to tell   ICE   that they can't send more operatives into Chicago.  

[00:47:10] Jesse Fries:

I don't think that's in their jurisdiction.  

[00:47:13] Jamon Fries:

I do. It's not.  

[00:47:18] Jesse Fries:

Wow. Yeah. No. I I I just don't get it. I really don't get it. I don't know why the Democrats   are keep   going on this. You know? Yes. Okay. So they're illegals. Let's get rid of them. I'm you you you know, there's some sad stories that you're, like, going, really? You're going after that one? You know? But in general, you   know, it's like sometimes they're going after people with a misdemeanor from, like, ten years ago. You're like, oh,  

[00:47:41] Jamon Fries:

yeah. Yeah.  

[00:47:43] Jesse Fries:

It seems a bit ridiculous sometimes, but, you know, it's I I think overall, you know, you try to get rid of, the illegals, you know. If they're here legally, you know, just leave me. But, yeah, it's,  

[00:47:53] Jamon Fries:

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, I heard this one story where she was here. The way it's always gonna be. If if you're here legally,  

[00:48:00] Jesse Fries:

you're fine. You don't have to know. I heard I heard the story where she was here legally,   and then she had a misdemeanor, like, like, ten years ago. And   then ICE found out, and she was still just on a Visa green card or something like that. She was married   to American and, well, they go, they picked her up, threw in detention. I I didn't read the whole article. But, yeah, it's like Yeah. To me, it's like a misdemeanor from years ago and they're here legally.   I I don't a misdemeanor could be anything. See that's the thing and then you have these assholes. No. No. That that is that is absolutely true.  

[00:48:32] Jamon Fries:

It'll and the the thing is is that it should all be based on what the,   immigration policy was at the time. So when she committed that misdemeanor,   there there are some cases where when you commit a crime, you will lose   your eligibility   to be here.   Right. Right. I don't know how minor, you know, it I know for, like, massive crimes, that's definitely true. I don't know how minor it goes. So if at the time it was true that a misdemeanor would have   should have cost her   her legitimacy being here, then I could see doing something. But   it had to have been at the time of the crime. It couldn't have been ten it shouldn't be ten years later. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Completely.  



[00:49:14] Jesse Fries:

Completely.  

[00:49:17] Jamon Fries:

Let's see. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, it was, the   the mayor of Chicago. He signed an executive order directing his city's legal department to explore ways to counter the potential surge.  

[00:49:29] Jesse Fries:

Okeydokey.   Okeydokey. Good luck with that. Good luck. Yeah.   Let's see here. You you you probably heard about that,   Minnesota   mom who called   five year old black kid the n word?   No. I didn't hear about that. Oh, yeah. This was a while ago. She and she she was being harassed and everything like that for doing it because some guy caught her saying that and, apparently, this autistic apparently, the black kid was autistic.   Okay. Years old. And it he was going through her purse,   and so she just started calling him that. Don't get me wrong.   Don't condone it.  

My family I have a black wife, Kenyan,   you know, kids with her and everything like that. So, you know, I'm no. No. Not at all.   Yeah. But now she's being charged, like, with three counts of disorderly conduct. You know? It's so   What?   Yeah. Yeah. So it's like each one carries a ninety day sentence in jail or $1,000   fine. They're just misdemeanors.   But   it's like,   what are you   and then some guy was videotaping her and says, you can't call the kid that, and then she called him that.   You know, it's like,  

[00:50:44] Unknown:

I I I  

[00:50:48] Jesse Fries:

to me, you should never use that word or anything like that. But something you do and everything like that. And so you know, it's just that work. Yeah.   And so, you know, it's just   but for this, you know, just the you just call it and you just move on with your life. People. You know? Yeah. Yeah.   This is disorderly conduct. I I just   I I don't get it. I really don't get it. You know, it's  

[00:51:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I could under I I   not that I'm qualifying or anything like that.  

[00:51:20] Jesse Fries:

Wait. You're qualifying? But Uh-huh.  

[00:51:23] Jamon Fries:

Well, not not so much qualifying. I I would completely disagree with the use of the of the language that was used. Uh-huh.   If you can if I if I caught a kid digging through my personal belongings,   I'd get upset.   No. Exactly. I wouldn't use that language.   No. I can understand her being upset for a five year old kid going through a purse. She has no idea he's autistic if he actually really is. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. No. It's like I'm not So I I could under I could understand the anger and at at times of anger,   language that shouldn't be said sometimes does occur. However,   that language should never have occurred.  

But No. I I'm right there with you. I'm right there. Yeah. So I'm I'm not it's not a qualifier for the use of the language. It's a qualifier for the state of mind that she was in it. Yeah. Yeah. She was angry and apparently it's in her repertoire, you know. It's,   Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.  

[00:52:24] Jesse Fries:

Some people, it's just in their repertoire, especially behind closed doors and then when you get angry sometimes it comes up. Well, you get or or you never know.  

[00:52:32] Jamon Fries:

She she may listen to a lot of rap.   If you listen to a lot of rap, the n word is going to be in your repertoires especially if you repeat the words of the rap song.   I I have actually seen stories about people. No. I have seen stories about people that got in trouble  

[00:52:49] Jesse Fries:

because they were quoting the words of a rap song. No. No. I know that. I I saw one video of some poor white girl today at a concert. Oh, that was Yeah. That was   bad.   No. No. No. I I I I I I know those stories, but  

[00:53:04] Jamon Fries:

I don't just Yeah. No. No. There there's Wait. Wait. No. I I it's just There's there's absolutely no place for that language. Yeah. But Which which is which is which is why I say that no one should ever use that language. No. Yeah. Completely. Completely.   You know,   a black person should not use that language because it is a derogatory   term.  

[00:53:24] Jesse Fries:

I leave that to them. I think that's the best way to do it.   Yeah. It's if they want to, they want to. You know? That's   that's all I know.   Let's see here.   Oh, surprise, surprise. Apparently, there's   a a dark money group that is secretly funding high profile Democratic influencers.   Can you believe that? That's not a big surprise.  

[00:53:47] Jamon Fries:

No. It's not. I absolutely believe that.   I also believe that there's probably a dark money group fund secretly funding high profile Republican influencers.  

[00:53:57] Jesse Fries:

That's exactly what I'm thinking. Yeah. Apparently, it was like something like $9,000   a month, so pretty good pay.   Yeah. Yeah. I'd take that.  

[00:54:05] Jamon Fries:

Hell, yeah. I'll become a Democratic influencer for that kind of money.  

[00:54:12] Jesse Fries:

Screw the Republicans.   Yeah.   Let's see here.   Let's see.   Oh, apparently, up in Maine, they decided to open up a fentanyl,   crisis,   place to where   well, they sent up, like, a free shoot up place, you know, so they Yeah. Come shoot it with clean needles and whatnot.   You know, this place became apparently, they didn't look after this place.  

[00:54:45] Jamon Fries:

They just let it go to the druggies. Oh, of course. Of course. But, I mean, you don't wanna actually be around those people when they're doing their drugs.  

[00:54:54] Jesse Fries:

But if the whole purpose is to give them nice, clean, safe place to do this, you have to be there and monitor this crap. And at least go, like, once a day clean up the needles, but there was excrement. There is needles all over the place. People are sleeping in the basement. Blah blah blah. It's like   so they just opened this place.  

[00:55:15] Jamon Fries:

Just let it go to shit. They they essentially they essentially   opened up an abandoned area   that   drug users and homeless people could move into. No. It wasn't abandoned.   But now it's condemned. It it became abandoned.   It became abandoned because they   they put it for that purpose. So no one else is ever gonna be there. Yeah. Yeah. And now it's condemned because it's just  

[00:55:39] Jesse Fries:

apparently, it just has to be torn down.   So Yeah. Or something. I don't know. Take it to the rafters or,  

[00:55:45] Jamon Fries:

the boards and just Oh, yeah. I mean, you'd you'd have to completely gut it and replace everything, and then you probably still wouldn't get rid of the smell.  

[00:55:54] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. So   and apparently, this place was called the Church of Safe Injection.   Oh my god.   Yeah. Yeah. So it was like a huge, like, f u to the right wing and everything like that. So it was,   but, yeah, it it's you just   if you're gonna do one of these things,   fine. Whatever. You have to maintain it.   Yeah. That's it. You you you know? Do. Yes. You know, every so often, get a fire hose in there and clean it up, like, every day or something like that. You know? It's just Yeah.   Otherwise, this happens. I it just  

[00:56:30] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.   You you you have to take responsibility for the things that you decide to implement.  

[00:56:37] Jesse Fries:

I would think so. I would think so. Yep.   Let's see here. What else do I   have for this?   Apparently, Biden's FDA, they push for approval of puberty blockers   Mhmm. Despite knowledge that the drugs increase depression and suicidability.   So  

[00:57:02] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. You gotta love that. You know, it's just doesn't make sense. Well, I mean, it that's because they care more about the headline than the actual effect on the children.  

[00:57:13] Jesse Fries:

Which is completely opposite of what you need to do.  

[00:57:16] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.   The government should not be concerned about a headline. They should not be concerned about pushing an agenda. They should be concerned about the welfare of the people.  

[00:57:27] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. They should. They should. But of course That is their only job.   Yep. Yep.   Okay. Let's go into international news.   Alrighty.  

[00:57:40] Jamon Fries:

What you got, Jabin? Lot of shit's going on in Australia, I guess.   Apparently.   All over Australia,   there are   massive   marches against immigration   now. They're   they they're trying to keep all of the,   all of the well, the people that they don't want, they're out.  

[00:58:02] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:58:03] Jamon Fries:

The the it it's kind of   it's starting to take a trend mostly in   it's it's kind of   the the ones you hear the countries that you hear about these these movements starting in   that are   the countries that   were started by England.   United States, England, it's happened it's starting to happen now, Australia.   I mean, you hear about problems all over the place. But I mean, as far as, like, the the people that are starting to stand up where the the citizens are starting to stand up and really get angry about it, you don't hear that too much out of, like, France. You hear a little bit out of it of it out of Germany.   But I mean, you the the news doesn't talk about a lot of it other than the   other than the English speaking  

[00:58:53] Jesse Fries:

countries. Well, right. But that that could be for, like, one of two reasons. It could be what you're suggesting. It's just it seems to be an issue in English speaking countries,   or it's just that, nobody translates.  

[00:59:06] Jamon Fries:

Well, see, yeah. See, I I don't I don't think it's because they're English speaking countries. I think the reason is is that English countries are the ones that the media wants to talk about.  

[00:59:17] Jesse Fries:

Well, you're right. That that's what I mean. It's It's it's like the Yeah. Absolutely. Basically the people in the media are too lazy to translate the article from French into,   English. Yeah. It's basically what I'm saying. You know you you know Yeah. Because I because I know I know that there's  

[00:59:31] Jamon Fries:

a lot of movements in Germany against this. I know that there's a lot of movements in a lot of other countries. Yep. Yep. You know, in some of the Slovak Slavic countries,   in the, you know so I mean, it there's a lot of movements, but you only hear about the ones that are speed that are happening in English speaking countries. Yeah. I just find that kind of amusing.  

[00:59:51] Jesse Fries:

Because we could read their news, and so our Yeah. Reports it. That's it. Yeah.   I I don't think it's anything but that. You know? It's like,   of course, you're not gonna get everything because you just not gonna translate it. So Yeah.  

[01:00:06] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Could be.  

[01:00:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's how I view it. You never know, though. But I generally think it's that way. It's just easier for us. You know? We Oh, yeah. Yeah. We we can just read it ourselves too if you go to the newspapers. You know? So Yeah. It's   Yep.   But, apparently, also in Australia,   it's not law or anything like that, but there was this group,   kinda like a think tank sort of thing  

[01:00:31] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[01:00:32] Jesse Fries:

Where they proposed   that,   Aussies, so Australians,   would be taxed   on any room in their house that was not used.   So if they had, like, a two bedroom house and only used one, they would be taxed for the other room.  

[01:00:52] Jamon Fries:

And they said being used, does that mean, like, if you don't have furniture or something like that? Or or is No. No. No. No. No. If somebody isn't in there the room. If somebody isn't in there. So  

[01:01:03] Jesse Fries:

they're going, we we have a housing crisis. And because of that, these people should be renting out those rooms.   Yeah.  

[01:01:13] Jamon Fries:

I I I can see it now. Every house has to have a camera in every room, and you get taxed for the amount of time that no one's in the room. Right? I I just  

[01:01:24] Jesse Fries:

I bought that house as my house. You have no right to even know that I have that many rooms. You know, I'm just   Oh. See, this is when you start knocking down walls in your house.  

[01:01:37] Jamon Fries:

Oh, absolutely. Yes. An open concept suddenly becomes a very nice idea. Exactly. Instead of a three bedroom, it's a one master  

[01:01:47] Jesse Fries:

suite   that has an   office   that   has   partitioning   walls even. Oh, look at that. You could just say it's partitioning walls. Or even just curtains.  

[01:02:00] Jamon Fries:

Right.   Exactly.   Hang some curtains up. You can still separate everything out, but it's still one room.   I I I think it's a trend. I I I could I could see   a one story house   that has absolutely zero walls inside of it. Only has one of the pockets.  

[01:02:20] Jesse Fries:

Well, no. You you you could have a kitchen.  

[01:02:24] Jamon Fries:

And and Well, yeah. But I mean, most most houses now, the kitchen and living room are in the same space.  

[01:02:30] Jesse Fries:

There isn't usually a wall between them in many Well, I don't know how how Aussie houses. Do you? That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Every place has a different, sort of thing. But, Yeah. Simply, you know, you would just if   there's bedrooms,   all the posts clustered together, you just knock out the walls. It's one room. Yep.   And then you just have this palatial little thing.   You know?   And then whoever wants to come in and has more kids just puts up a wall. You you know, it's a new industry.   Instant wall. Yes.  

[01:03:00] Jamon Fries:

Yes.  

[01:03:01] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. You just put up a wall. It's a big empty space, and then you can just make it whatever you wanna be. Could make lots of money rather than taxes that way. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:03:10] Jamon Fries:

We solved their problem, Jay. But look at that. Absolutely. We did.  

[01:03:14] Jesse Fries:

Hell, yeah. We are good. We are.  

[01:03:21] Jamon Fries:

There is one room that I would always maintain that must always be walled off, and that would be the bathroom. No. Open that one up, dude.   No.   Yeah. I don't   with some people, I don't want that one open.  

[01:03:36] Jesse Fries:

Just so you know, when you have to take a poop and your guests are over, they have a show, you know.  

[01:03:44] Jamon Fries:

I'm not so much worried about the show. It's the smell that I'm worried about.  

[01:03:49] Jesse Fries:

Hey, Jay, but that that that that's like a four d situation.   You see, you know, you   have these, like, four and five d, like, Yeah. Movie theaters. You could just have that in your Four d entertainment. Hell, yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah.   Throw some spritz some water at them so they can really get the five d experience.   Yeah.  

[01:04:10] Jamon Fries:

Oh, god. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.   Yeah. We solved our problem too. We solved our problem. Absolutely. We did. Yeah.   We're good like that.  

[01:04:19] Jesse Fries:

We are. We are.   That's not really that big of a news story to me at least.   Let's see. So,   you know, speaking of, like,   anti immigration or whatnot, things like that,   apparently so, you know, the Reform Party   in The UK?  

[01:04:39] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[01:04:40] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They're   going raising quickly up in the whole, polls and everything like that. They are the ones that,   basically just want it to make sense,   like, restrict,   immigration   to manageable   levels. That's all they're saying, you know, and enforce laws   on these people and treat,   native like, treat citizens just as well as you treat the immigrants, you know, that sort of thing, you know, instead of the immigrants getting special treatment over, citizens.   So there is a whole huge thing where, a court of appeal overturned in it, an injunction,   that, sought to temporarily halt asylum seekers from being housed in the Bell Hotel. This is in Epping   UK. Yeah. Yeah. And so there are protests and everything like that. Right. And so a reform UK candidate,   Orla   Minihane   Mhmm. And Sarah White, apparently, they were arrested for displaying,   union jack.  

Okay. So  

[01:05:45] Jamon Fries:

yep. Yep. Could you imagine living in a country where you can't even fly your own flag?  

[01:05:51] Jesse Fries:

It is crazy. It really is crazy. I don't   I I I I just don't get it. You you you know, it's   you know, here, technically, you even have the right to fly the flag of the   the traders. You you you know, the South. Yeah. You know? Yeah. We we even have that right. So, you know, it's a not that you should or anything like that, but we we have the right, and nobody's gonna arrest you for it. See, that's the thing.   And so   even though a lot of that times that flag is considered racist and everything like that, but we have thank god for our first amendment. You know? Oh, yeah. Absolutely.   But yeah. So   there you go. Another instance of the UK police.  

Yeah. Yeah. I just don't it's interesting. Let them talk. You know? Apparently, there's a lot of issues going on over there,   and you're just trying to sweep them under the rug and not doing anything about them. I Yeah.  

[01:06:49] Jamon Fries:

Well, I I saw a story. There was a guy that wanted that had a he had a union jack,   and he decided that he wanted to fly the flag on his house.   So he went out, he bought a flagpole and he put it up on the house and he put the flag on it. Right.   They came and told him that   you can't   have the flag on a pole.  

[01:07:14] Jesse Fries:

What now?  

[01:07:16] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They told him they had to take the flag down because it was illegal in their area   to put it on a pole.   Interesting.  

[01:07:24] Jesse Fries:

Interesting.  

[01:07:25] Jamon Fries:

So in other words, you could tape it up to your house or you could put it in a window, but then they'd probably find ways to prevent you from doing that too.   But,   I mean,   his own residence on property that he well, I mean, I would say owned, but was renting from the government.  

[01:07:45] Jesse Fries:

Texas I'm not sure if anybody actually owns homes. They own leases.   Yeah. They own leases on the land. Because it all belongs to the king in essence.  

[01:07:54] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. It's the craziest thing.  

[01:07:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. That's why that's why I said, you know, I I don't know if it would actually be consone considered   owning the property. They would be more leasing it from the government.   Right. Because I'm pretty sure that that is how it works over there. I don't know 100%.  

[01:08:12] Jesse Fries:

But technically, yeah, I think I I think it all technically belongs to the king in general. But then it also from there, it goes down to the lords  

[01:08:20] Jamon Fries:

and so and so forth. And so I think Well, I mean, the the the law it's it's it's it's it's all about   who has   current control of the land because it starts off with the king.   Right. The king   proportions land out to the to the nobles.   Right.   And then the nobles proportion land out to their subjects, basically.   Right. Right. Exactly. So when it comes back to it, the king actually is the one that owns all of the land.   The nobles are basically the managers of the land and they deter they decide who to give portions of the land to. Right. Right. Right. Right. I I don't, you know, with with the Yeah. We might be completely wrong. What it is. We could be completely wrong. Yes. I do know that there are places   like in Scotland,   in fact, almost everywhere in Scotland,   the nobles still own all the land. So the the nobles own the small villages out there in Scotland.  



[01:09:17] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[01:09:19] Jamon Fries:

So I know at least in Scotland, it's still done that way. I don't I'm not 100%  

[01:09:24] Jesse Fries:

sure about England, though. I think it's pretty much the same sort of situation. Yeah. I I would believe so. Yep.   Yeah. No. It it it's all craziness. It's all Yeah. You know, just as crazy as us here being a value for value podcast. You know?   We don't have any sponsors or anything like that, so we just spout. We could say whatever we want,   which is kind of fun.   Would be nice to make some money, though. But, you know, if we don't, we don't. You know? But, you know, you could help us defray the cost of this and help us, produce the show. You know? Give us ideas,   send us   pictures, some music if you wanna throw it out there that can be heard around the world, you know, or send us some money,   the treasure to actually help defray the cost of the servers and everything like that. If you have any ideas or just wanna help us out,   you can click the link   in for each podcast, and you it'll take you to the funding right there. And you could also email me at jesse@mindlessc.com,   or you can email jamen@jamenatmindlessmeanderings.com.  

And you can help us out in any which way that you you want, and every little bit   does help.   Let's see here. We only got a couple more stories here. Let's get on to technology.   Okay.  

[01:10:40] Jamon Fries:

Have you ever felt the desire   to   yeah. Well, first of all, do you remember   the I believe it was the second Star Wars that came out, the originals.   The   bikes that they rode through the forest on Tanduina, I think it was. Jaiman, that's a third, dude.  

[01:11:00] Jesse Fries:

Is that a third? That's a third.   It's, Return of the Jedi.   Come on, dude.   Yeah.  

[01:11:08] Jamon Fries:

Fuck. Yeah. It's been too long. That was the Ewoks.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. I knew it was the I knew I knew the Ewoks, but I'm very, very  

[01:11:19] Jesse Fries:

not quite so big on maintaining my knowledge about the show. We just lost, like, all our Star Wars fans, you know. What what what are we gonna do now, man?  

[01:11:30] Jamon Fries:

Damn. There there goes   two of the eight.   Shit.   I just I just lost us a quarter of our listeners. Exactly.  

[01:11:41] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.  

[01:11:42] Jamon Fries:

How dare you? No. It's been a very, very long time since I've watched the the old ones. I've never watched most of the new ones.   Oh, good.   But, yeah. So I I was I got a little confused. I thought it was a second, but I I guess I was wrong. Yep. You were.   So anyways, the the, the bikes that they rode through the forests, you know, the stormtroopers rode. Have you ever had the desire to hop on to a bike like that?  

[01:12:08] Jesse Fries:

No. Not really.  

[01:12:10] Jamon Fries:

Well, if you had. And for all you start start word Oh, sorry, David there. Yes. Yes. I have. Everyday,   I have. Is that better? Is that better? Yeah. That's much better.   There   is a guy that, here in 2025,   he has,   he has finished   building one   that works off of tiny jet engines on the bottom of it. So so it can   it it just tiny little things that so it controls the tilt and all that other stuff.   Uh-huh. And it looks   just like okay. Say say you took a take a crotch rocket motorcycle.  

[01:12:52] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[01:12:53] Jamon Fries:

Right. Cut off the front where the wheel is and cut off the part right behind the drivers the behind where the driver sits. So it's just a one person vehicle. Right.   It looks exactly like that. You sit in it like you you sit on it like you do in a crotch rocket,  

[01:13:09] Jesse Fries:

but it It looks like  

[01:13:11] Jamon Fries:

flies.  

[01:13:12] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Interesting.   He looks like he's gonna take a poop.   He really does.   Yeah. If he inched back a couple inches, I'd probably fall off for the damn thing. He would. Hey. He he could just spread his poop all over the place. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:13:32] Jamon Fries:

But I mean, yeah, that I thought that was pretty awesome. I mean, that it,   it it travels at pretty good speeds. It's very tiny and compact.   Mhmm.   You know, they're they're talking,   there there I've seen a whole bunch of other stuff,   other in I was watching a YouTube video that Dennis was part of it. There were other technologies that allowed you to fly and stuff like that.   And the the thing that they were saying is that these types of vehicles, especially this one as small as this,   would be perfect for, like, rescue operations to get someone to the to the to get a paramedic to someone very quickly.   Because it can literally go anywhere.  

Yeah. No. What's that that you you'd have to get repel ropes to climb down to somebody? No. I'll just hop on my bike and fly down there. No. That'd be kinda cool. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:14:26] Jesse Fries:

He looks kinda like,   not sure if you,   the newer Star Trek, with the Enterprise crew, but not with   not with Shatner, the newer movies, you know?  

[01:14:40] Jamon Fries:

Right.  

[01:14:41] Jesse Fries:

It it's like, if you remember that scene where a cop is chasing,   Kirk as a boy,   it kinda looks like that.   Okay. Yeah.   Interesting.   Interesting.   Yeah. It's kinda cool.  

[01:14:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's that was the smallest one that I've seen. It's also the only one that it's it's also the only one that's powered with jets. All the other ones that they had in there, they had,   they they were more like, VTO or heli they were more like helicopters.  

[01:15:12] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:15:13] Jamon Fries:

They or drones. They they had, like,   eight some of them had up to, like, 16 rotors all around you and stuff like that. So Right. This one was just so compact and small.   It it was just I I think that's pretty cool.  

[01:15:29] Jesse Fries:

No. It is. It is. You could really get into tight spaces with Just kinda Oh, yeah. The the cool In fact, in the promotional video for this Uh-huh. They actually have someone in one of those stormtrooper  

[01:15:40] Jamon Fries:

uniforms   flying through a forest.   Oh, that's funny. That's Find out the firebreak of a forest.  

[01:15:48] Jesse Fries:

Just, watch out for that tree.  

[01:15:50] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   Stormtrooper   uniform   flying through forests.  

[01:15:57] Jesse Fries:

Trees are very good things to watch out for. Yes. Yes. Yes. I I think the movie itself proved that, you know. Yes. Absolutely.  

[01:16:04] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely.   Okay. What else? And then the final story for today.   No. I have one after this that I'm Oh, okay. Okay. Funny one. Yep. Yep. Yep. So this one, the in the in I put it into science news because,   well, it talks about climate a little bit. Okay.   So in a Peruvian city, in in what they consider to be one of the oldest cities in the   in the American hemisphere.  

[01:16:33] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:16:36] Jamon Fries:

They found   a sculpture that had two toads on it.  

[01:16:41] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:16:42] Jamon Fries:

And a wall that had symbols that they believe represent water.  

[01:16:46] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:16:48] Jamon Fries:

So in this entire city, they found one statue with two frogs   and one wall that had markings that they believe   indicate that that water indicate water.   Uh-huh. And they now have claimed that this proves   that this city would with that this city fell  

[01:17:09] Jesse Fries:

because of climate change.   How now?  

[01:17:13] Jamon Fries:

Well, because obviously they had water there and now they don't.  

[01:17:18] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Possibly  

[01:17:19] Jamon Fries:

So the climate change took all of the water away   because they found one wall that had water. I mean, obviously, if it was a city, it had a water source.  

[01:17:29] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Right.  

[01:17:31] Jamon Fries:

And this this statue   could have been a representation   of this is where you get your water.  

[01:17:38] Jesse Fries:

Right.   But Yeah.  

[01:17:44] Jamon Fries:

They're saying that that this proves that water was abundant in the area at one time and so it had to have been climate change.   Possibly. It may be. It it very well could be. It very well could be.   And then then the story goes on to say,   now   we do we do admit   that there are   that there are natural things that cause climate change. There's volcanoes and solar activity.   Right. But since the eighteen hundreds,   humans have been much large have had a much larger impact   on the end on climate change than any than anyone than anything else.  

[01:18:26] Jesse Fries:

I always hate these stories. It's I know. There's there's so many things that say so so there's a story. It's it's like and it's pretty much   neutral and everything like that. But at the very end, it goes,   but we know climate change is caused by humans. You you you know, you just said that. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. So you you know that whole article ahead above   kind of didn't say that. Right? But now you're saying it down here. It's  

[01:18:51] Jamon Fries:

I mean, yeah. It's like, okay. We're we're admitting that there was climate change up to 1800.   After 1800, it's only because of humans.  

[01:19:01] Jesse Fries:

Sounds about right. Sounds about right.  

[01:19:04] Jamon Fries:

I I was I was actually talking to Johnny about that once. Uh-huh.   And   he I I I mentioned, you know, they they keep talking about this climate change and saying that the planet's warming and that we're   that it's going to be unbearable for humans to live here. That is at at a certain point. Right.   To which I always bring up the fact that as the ice   recedes   in   in many places in in the desolate as a lot of the,   shit. What's the word for it? The,   well, the the ice blocks on on land. Glaciers? Glaciers. As the glaciers recede,   farmland and old farms are being uncovered.  



[01:19:48] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[01:19:50] Jamon Fries:

Those wouldn't have existed   if the glaciers were always there.   Therefore,   at one point in time,   the glaciers were much further away.   Yep. Yep. And   from what I've heard now, I've I've never been to Europe, so I've never seen this myself, but I have seen pictures.   If you go to the European coast and then go about   ten, fifteen, 20 miles in,   you will find big stone docks.   Mhmm.   Which proved that it that that at some point in time during the European   during   civilization   in Europe, when when we had during the ship building era Mhmm. Most likely,   the oceans were at that point,   twenty, thirty miles inland.  



[01:20:42] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[01:20:44] Jamon Fries:

You can't say that that was because of the industrial era.  

[01:20:48] Jesse Fries:

You know, I I don't know anything about that.  

[01:20:51] Jamon Fries:

I haven't seen or heard anything about that. So I don't Yeah. I've I've seen pictures and I've I've I've heard people write write stories about them. But I mean, you know, if that's the case, if they truly were if that is truly where the docs were.  

[01:21:06] Jesse Fries:

No. Yeah. If yeah. If they were yep. I have no clue. We're not even close to that point yet. Yeah. I'd I'd have to research that myself to see. Yeah.   I don't trust  

[01:21:16] Jamon Fries:

people. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. I've I've seen I've seen it in about   10 or different 10 or 10 to 15 different places talking about that. So Okay. I I think that there's kind of a consensus on it. But, you know, again, it's just from people that were visiting that were talking about it. So I have no idea what the actual purpose of those structures Oh, yeah. It's weird. If it was docs or not. But they were calling them docs, and the people that lived in the areas were saying that those were the old docs. So That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. I don't know. Everybody just makes it up. Archaeologists,  

[01:21:49] Jesse Fries:

they just make it up. You never know. Oh, yeah.   They they take it to educated guess, but no matter what, it's still a guess. Yep. And so, you know, that that's all we could base anything off of. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.   But yeah. So let let let's get to the last story here. So it it just   so, apparently, I I read across this one. It was just funny. So, apparently,   things in Canada are getting so bad and   And this is when you say, Jim, how bad are they? How bad are they?   Apparently,   some   guys are   or or   maybe some girls too. They're they're say they're willing to rent out a room or whatnot   in exchange for   sexual favors.  

And, apparently, it's quite a thing. I've seen so many news stories on it.   Yeah. A rental ad on Craigslist after up a one bedroom with a warm bed available.   But instead of a price tag, it comes with a description of who qualifies to sleep there.   A young, petite female,   you know, looking to escape the cold.   You you know, it it's apparently it has many different stories. This is in the CBC.   But, apparently, it's quite a few stories,   of,   yeah, people wanting to   exchange sex, for a room because they just can't afford to live anywhere. So  

[01:23:17] Jamon Fries:

Well, I mean, you know, it's,  

[01:23:22] Jesse Fries:

wow.   Yep. I don't even know what to say about that. I mean, that's just   well, I I'm just telling you, I'm gonna buy some property up in Canada.   And with   and with that, I'd like to thank you for joining us, in the minus meanderings.   This was episode 58,   and I'm Jesse Friese. And I'm Jamin Friese.   And we will see you on Thursday.