Homeless Healthcare

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Alrighty. Alrighty. Welcome back to Argue this with Alex the Truck and Troniwani. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Yo. [00:00:07] Speaker A: So this week, you know, we're gonna talk a little bit about health care, suicides and all kinds of crazy. It's gonna get dark maybe, I don't know, but a lot of people are upset at Trump for taking away, you know, the medical, the. What is it called? The Medicaid? Medi. Cal. [00:00:30] Speaker B: It's either Medicaid or Medicare. I don't know which one's the old one and which one's the poor one. [00:00:36] Speaker A: There's like two of them. [00:00:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I said. One of them's a poor one and one of them is the old one. [00:00:42] Speaker A: Just make them all in one. [00:00:46] Speaker B: Like universal healthcare, right? [00:00:48] Speaker A: See, like, I have no problem taking care of people that need to be taken care of that do not have that ability to, like, babies should be free. Like, I'm going to say that straight out, like, as a hardcore Republican, giving birth to a baby that should be free. The government should pay that. I have no problem up, up my taxes to pay for people's babies. I don't care about your baby. But, you know, you shouldn't be stuck with like a $40,000 bill to pay for, you know, giving birth. Hurt, you know, Like, I'll say that first and foremost before saying some fucked up shit, which I guarantee I'm gonna say, like, if. If you, you know, have not taken care of yourself and you're just like, did drugs your entire life and now you're all fucked up, I don't think we should have to, you know, tax, you know, the average American citizen to, you know, take care of you now. [00:01:45] Speaker B: So how do you judge that? [00:01:48] Speaker A: So, you know, I look at, you know, have you caused, you know, directly or negligently, you know, what you have that is going to cost the American taxpayer a bunch of money? You know, like, have you been like, just shooting up heroin your entire life and, you know, people trying to. Been helping you to get off of heroin, you know, or, you know, just eating sugary treats all fucking day long and people are like, dude, you know, maybe a salad. And now you're at this fucking level where you're like, fuck, I can't take care of myself. And you, you turn around, like, to the people who are trying to help you, I'm like, hey, give me money for medical, you know, stuff now because I've fucked up everything. [00:02:40] Speaker B: Well, first, if we want people not to be eating unhealthy and we want people not to Turn to drugs. Shouldn't we also then turn to poverty and as well, you know, housing? [00:02:59] Speaker A: Like, we should make fucking junk food more expensive. Add an extra tax to it. You know, why not? [00:03:06] Speaker B: Because you're pro. The reason why most poor people eat junk food is because it's cheaper than healthy food. So I don't think the answer is keep healthy food the same high price and increase junk food price because again, that doesn't help with the people who are already poor. And also what I mean by that is like, say you're. You only get $150 a month for snap, right? Which they're taking. They're taking away a lot of that. But say you only get $150 worth of snap, say most meat or is like $10 for per package or $20 per thing, depending on, like, what you're getting and whatnot, right? Yeah. So just with five to ten pieces of meat, that's your, your whole food at where like that same thing you could get, I don't know, almost like a hundred things. Not a hundred. Yeah, almost 100 things of bananas. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Top ramen. And that top ramens go to t take you further than that meat. And that's not even including, like, to cook that meat. You have to therefore have a place to cook. [00:04:31] Speaker A: I've never seen a fat person like, that has been, like, eating top ramen their entire life. [00:04:38] Speaker B: There's lots of people who are bigger that eaten a bunch of top ramen their whole life and have had issues of heart disease and whatnot because, oh. [00:04:48] Speaker A: Yeah, the sodium levels in top Rometer. [00:04:51] Speaker B: And like, what you're saying though is, like, if you don't eat healthy, that's your fault and we shouldn't pay for you. But again, I'm just, I'm saying pointing out certain, like, aspects of, like, things that people take for granted, such as, like, having a place to cook that steak or cook that beef where top ramen, you could just go into a gas station and put in the microwave, stuff like that. [00:05:18] Speaker A: You can cook a steak in the microwave. [00:05:21] Speaker B: I don't think a gas station is going to be very cool with you cooking. [00:05:25] Speaker A: You'd be surprised. Like, gas station, they'd be like, whatever, dude, I don't care. Like, as long as you don't pee in the microwave, it's fine. [00:05:35] Speaker B: I would like to argue against that for the fact that I've seen plenty of people get kicked out of 711 and Maverick down by where I live for cooking stuff. And the thing that they didn't buy. [00:05:50] Speaker A: There if you cook fish in the fucking microwave. Yeah, get the fuck on out, you know, for sure. But yeah, like if you're gonna come in and like you know, kind of set up camp and you know, be a nuisance to everyone around you. Yes. But if you're coming in they just cook something really quick. They don't usually don't have a problem with it. Also you can just cook shit over a fire too. [00:06:12] Speaker B: There's even that there's not places just to have a fire. Like so public parks. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Every public park has a little fucking, you know, stove. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Not every public park anymore has that. And even like non public parks, like say your apartments that used to have the fireplace and stuff, a lot of them have taken them out like mine have taken them out where you can't cook them. [00:06:38] Speaker A: That's wild. Yeah, I mean go to a hotel. Most of them will have like wait. [00:06:43] Speaker B: And then just go say go to a is it's anyway that that poor person with that $152 hundred dollars of their food stamps also have is mobile. So like you're talking well if they're. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Not mobile then they can't get to the fucking food place to get food. They die. Damn, that sucks. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Or you could that again that's why junk food is used so much is cuz there's a gas station typically where you can walk to. [00:07:14] Speaker A: I mean also you can go to food pantries as well. Like you know pretty much any, you know like Safeway King Supers, any place like that, any grocery store will take their you know, recently expired or very soon to be expiring food to the food pantry and get full tax credit for it. [00:07:39] Speaker B: Right. And again you're not taking into account the non mobile part. So again you could take a bus there. Yes. But then you have to do that at a certain time and whatnot. And then when it you're getting cold items you have to factor in that time as well. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Like oh they don't, they don't have like cold items at like food pantries. [00:08:00] Speaker B: Some of them do. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Oh do they? [00:08:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:02] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:08:03] Speaker B: And like for example to take a bus 20 minute ride from where I live to anywhere for 20 minutes. Taking a bus is roughly a two hour bus ride. Or I could do a Uber which takes is roughly 20 to $30. And again some people just don't have that. And like just to say go to a food pantry. And then some food pantries aren't open except for certain days or certain times of days. So when you're already poor and you're part of this growing culture of the working poor of like you have a full time job but you still can't afford rent and food and car payment and all that, which is a real thing. Which like it's really hard to just do the just of stuff. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Well, I mean, like, you know, like When I hit 18, I was homeless and I didn't have anything, you know, nothing to my name. [00:09:05] Speaker B: How long ago was like, what, around. [00:09:08] Speaker A: The year this was what, 90s? [00:09:12] Speaker B: 2000? [00:09:12] Speaker A: 2009. [00:09:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So like the economy was also different. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Than the, the economy just crashed and how it is, the entire, you know, housing bubble just burst. Everything just crashed. Housing prices were crazy. Like everything was really bad back then. Like, like it was insanity. Like, like that's when the housing bubble like crashed. [00:09:39] Speaker B: No, I understand that. [00:09:40] Speaker A: The movie. Yeah, that's what, it's gone. [00:09:42] Speaker B: I have, I live through that time as well. And I want to say cost of living and stuff wasn't as bad as it is now. I'm not saying that like what's it called, it wasn't bad where everything crashed and stuff, but like you were still able to get, I personally feel you're able to get still stuff for less. Like I was still able to live off of working at Taco Bell and shit like that. [00:10:10] Speaker A: I mean, I was working for like what, $7.25 an hour, you know, like I was making, you know, no money, right? And like, like I, I, I ran this entire scenario like back in my head. Like, you know, if I was to redo it all over, you know, how would I do it different? And you know, if you were first starting out and you are, you know, 18 and homeless, you know, find, you know, a temp agency, you know, these are like little, you know, agencies and just, you know, explain your situation, explain, you know, what's going on. They might be able to, you know, hook you up with someone that can come pick you up. You know, you just have to like make it to the temp agency and they'll come pick you up and take you out to work and just save up some money, buy a basic car, you know, $500. It doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't have to be nice. And then you, you now have like a semi secure place to sleep, you know, and then now you can continue going to work, going to the temp agency, they might hire you on full time. Cool. You know, you just keep on grinding away and then save up a, you know, a bunch of money. Get yourself a van, you know, boom. Now you have a much more secure place to sleep, much more comfortable place to sleep. And you can sell that car to, you know, somebody else that's on their way up. Boom. You know, continue the cycle. Now you're in a van. Now you have, you know, you know, get a gym membership as well. You know, $10 a month. You can go and, you know, have a place to go, shower, you know, you don't need to, you know, be spending all your money on rent and then keep it, you know, moving. You know, like, this is all stuff I did just without the car, and, you know, keep on, you know, squirreling away money. Squirreling away money. Put it in the bank, you know, and, you know, go to the food pantries, get free food, you know, and figure out how to just, you know, survive. And then before you know it, you have, you know, $25,000 in the bank. And, like, cool. I'm a great little saver. You can, you know, continue saving, you know, say, and then get yourself, like, a better job. Like, this is another thing that people don't do, you know, and no shade thrown on anybody. You know, I don't do this either. But no one looks for another job while you're working. Like, your job does not have any loyalty to you, so you shouldn't have any loyalty back. Like, you should work your hardest. Do what your boss tells you to do. Absolutely. But, you know, if you're gonna go find yourself a better job, go do it. If you can find something that'll pay you more. Okay, cool. This job will pay me $10,000 more. Boom. You know, stay there for a year, and then, you know, look for another job, you know, work your way on up. Cool. Now I'm making $150,000 a year, you know, on this job like this. Like, I'm looking at a job right now. [00:13:25] Speaker B: Yeah, you're. Look, I like to art push a little bit. A little bit against the whole job thing, because the. I know tons of people who have put in jobs applications and stuff and haven't got a call back and stuff like that. And, like, it's had the job market isn't that good right now. Like, even one of our friends who traditionally is a server, he was a manager, and then it took him a month and a half to find another serving job. Not even. Not even a manager job, because he didn't want that. And so, like, I. I don't think people could just find a job. And, like, I personally have put in job applications Since I've started where I've worked and I haven't got very many different, like, callbacks and stuff. So, like, it isn't easy to just do it. As easy as you're saying it is or making it sound to be. [00:14:33] Speaker A: Oh, no, I'm not saying that you're gonna immediately, you know, like swing from vine to vine, like, you know, job to job. But, you know, while you're working, you know, on your off time, just throw in a couple applications, you know, just a couple week, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then, like, find out who the HR person is, who the hiring manager is, you know, give them a call, maybe go in, pay them a visit back. Hey, you know, you know, a little face to face, you know, especially if you want to work there, you know, hey, you know, I put in an application, you know, like a week ago. I'm just, you know, you know, check in, see if you guys have any openings, you know, look professional, you know, as much as you can. [00:15:13] Speaker B: I think that's more of a past way jobs are done. Because a lot of jobs are searched and found. Well, not searched and found, but filtered through by AI of applications. Not like you, but the employer. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, like, if you put in like, hey, I can't work these days, yeah, that AI is going to immediately kick out your application, but get the fuck out of here. We need open availability and, you know, good work ethic and just like, you can go in and find YouTube videos of what to say in your drop application and how to fill out, you know, your resume. And boom. Like, I, I've probably put in six job applications in my life and gotten five of them. I don't know if I'm insanely lucky or privileged or whatnot, but, you know, I, I don't put Caucasian on the application. Yeah, I put Native American and, you know, Hispanic. Boom, boom, Native American, Hispanic, man. And there you go, you know, like, I'm not ever gonna say that it's easy to, you know, go get a job because I've seen people, you know, struggle. But, you know, just go in, be polite, you know, kind of be chatty, you know, if you're, you know, antisocial, put that in the back of your head and boom. And then you're in. Like, I got my first job on accident and then I became the manager of a frozen yogurt place. Like, I, I went in like, I was bored, hanging out with my mom at like fucking chamber of commerce or something stupid like that. I'm like, I'm gonna Go explore this place. Boring. I see a frozen yogurt store and I go in and I see the owner in there, and I'm like, hey. Just start chatting her up. I'm like, hey, you know, how's it going? You know, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, like, as like, a joke, I throw him, like, hey, you guys hiring at all? And, you know, she's like, actually, we are. You know, if you like to, you know, put in an application. Because, like, sometimes, like, they don't, you know, they, like, want help, but they're like, I'm too busy to, you know, go on. Indeed. Or anything like that. Yeah, you. You. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. But, like, I wasn't looking for a job. I've gotten two jobs like that. Actually got a job at Jimmy John's, and Ben was going in there for a job. Did not get the job. I got the job. [00:18:12] Speaker B: Had it been Phil, it was because. [00:18:15] Speaker A: He already worked for a different Jimmy John, so he couldn't work for that one. That's why he didn't get it. But like, hey, does your friend want to work here? I'm like, not really. They're like, here's a job application. Like, and, like, I fill it, like, my name out. Like, here's a shirt. I'm like, what? Like, you start today. I'm like, no, like, learn all the sandwiches and I've forgotten all the sandwiches. Like, I worked there when he, like, you know, Jimmy John killed that black rhino. Do you remember that? [00:18:54] Speaker B: No. [00:18:56] Speaker A: There was, like, one black rhino left in the world, and everyone was, like, up in arms. Like, the owner of Jimmy John shot and killed it. I'm like, what was he going to do, you know, with the. Like, like, what was the black rhino gonna do? Like, fuck, nothing. It was the last one. [00:19:15] Speaker B: Fuck. A white rhino. [00:19:19] Speaker A: No, the other white rhinos would not be pleased with that. They'd all put on their little, you know, pointy hood. One on their horn and one on their head. [00:19:30] Speaker B: I walked into that. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Walked right into it. It's great. And then give, like, birth, like a mixed rhino. Just like a half and a half a Milano rhino. It's like, oh, God. Yeah, yeah. No, he went out, killed it and, you know, paid a bunch of money, and it helped out the local economy over there. And I'm like, cool, good. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Are you sure it helped out the local economy? [00:20:03] Speaker A: Yes. Hunting, you know, in Africa, you know, is like, the only way that those people make money. [00:20:10] Speaker B: I have questions. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Okay, shoot. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Typically, it's the I don't know how to person in power that gets the money. [00:20:25] Speaker A: Well, no, it's like the villages, like the local villages will have like an area and they're like, you can hunt this animal. Like they mark the animal that you can hunt. So if you want to like go do like a wild hunt or a fucking wildebeest hunt, you have to like pay the village, like the village elder or whatever. And all the money and all the meat also goes to the village too, because like they don't really, you know, Africa doesn't have a whole ton of. [00:20:55] Speaker B: Exports if it works the way you say. Yes. But if it's like the save the children and those scams have happened. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Are you saying my 30 cents a day didn't go to helping starving African children? [00:21:13] Speaker B: No, your 30 cents a day went to lighting someone's pocket. Then there that kick down ended up being 30 cents per every thousand people. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Oh man. I. But I got a picture of the kid that I was helping. But I know it was always a scam. Oh no, no, no. [00:21:39] Speaker B: I know, I know. It's before. [00:21:43] Speaker A: It'S my A.I. [00:21:45] Speaker B: Like, I mean now it's all A.I. [00:21:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's like I find it hilarious that A.I. is like scamming dudes with like thirst trap photos. Make you want to see more of my only fans. Come on out. And like the AI has already created an only fans. It's like, give me $20. All right, sucker. Fuck off. Like that. That's exactly how it should be done. Like this is how AI is going to take over the world. Just, you know, scam money out of people non stop. And it's going to be great. [00:22:22] Speaker B: All right, I have a hot take. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Let's hear it. [00:22:24] Speaker B: I think we should have AI girlfriends so incel people would quit being as lonely. [00:22:32] Speaker A: Oh, they already exist. Like they, they're wild. They exist. Let me see. AI girlfriend video game. Okay, maybe not that one. AI girlfriend. You know, with utility end. Yeah. And it's $10 and you can have an AI girlfriend. Oh, is this the one that like kills you and like tries to murder you if you try and escape? Yeah, this is that game. Never mind. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Why would they make something like what's wrong with people? What's wrong with humans? The humans are. [00:23:24] Speaker A: Yeah, you have to convince this AI girlfriend to let you leave the apartment. And if you, you know, like she's like trying to kill you. So it's like an escape game. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Heard. [00:23:53] Speaker A: And I think it's actually like family friendly. Let me make sure on that before I back. Yeah, yeah, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think there's any like nudity in this game. I guarantee you that someone's gonna make it though. Yeah, I mean like, that's what happens. Fucking, you know, people. Yeah, I think it's like, Yep. Just artificial intelligence. Anime early access. Now I might have to buy it now I might have to like escape and have like an anime girlfriend. But it's like, you know, real girls are not into that. [00:24:40] Speaker B: Right. [00:24:41] Speaker A: So it's like if, if everyone started having, you know, anime girlfriends, you know, the human race would die out, which might. [00:24:49] Speaker B: No, it wouldn't die out. It would just help out the people who are can't get a girlfriend and hopefully would stop abusing women because they now have an AI girlfriend. [00:25:03] Speaker A: Oh, I think it would just exasperate the problem. [00:25:07] Speaker B: Why? [00:25:08] Speaker A: I. I feel like it would just like give them confidence. Like, you know, unless, like the AI is trained to like, you know, get rid of like incel behavior, you know, like if, you know, you have AI girlfriends that are just. Yes. Women. Oh yes. I love it. I will call you Lord Neckbeard, you know. Absolutely. You know, like just how like, you know, some of these guys like think in their heads and it's like, ah, just like the cringiness it all. And they're just gonna go up to a woman, beg m' lady, you know, like, tip their fedora at them and be like, may I kiss your hand? [00:25:53] Speaker B: Does that still happen? [00:25:55] Speaker A: Oh yeah, I guarantee it. I haven't been to an anime convention in years, but I guarantee you it happens. I kind of wanted to just go just to see how bad I used to be. [00:26:06] Speaker B: That's funny. [00:26:09] Speaker A: I think. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Weirdest comment compliment I've ever had from at an anime convention with someone and be like, thank you for not smelling. It's like, what the am I supposed to say to this? [00:26:22] Speaker A: Like, okay, you're welcome for, you know, me being a normal human being, you know, that's it. But like, if you ever go into the Yu Gi oh room, you're gonna leave the Yu Gi oh realm. [00:26:37] Speaker B: It can't be that bad. [00:26:38] Speaker A: It's that bad. It is like now, now I have to see when the next anime convention is. Next anime convention in Colorado. Upcoming anime conventions. Colorado Fan Expo. Denver. Not ain't going to Denver. That's a roar. That's Aurora. [00:27:04] Speaker B: Okay, well why don't you want to go to Denver? [00:27:08] Speaker A: Denver sucks. [00:27:11] Speaker B: Why? [00:27:16] Speaker A: And also like, I probably won't. Like this is like 4th of July weekend. What a terrible time for a anime convention. July 3rd. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Great time. [00:27:27] Speaker A: July 3rd to 6th. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Yep. People who don't want to spend time with their family can now spend time at the convention. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Yeah. There. There's Gaylord Rocky's Resort and Convention Center. Yeah. Let's see. California. Holy. California has a lot. Oh my God. Yeah. I guarantee you that hentai one over in San Diego, that one's gonna smell wonderful. [00:28:02] Speaker B: I would never go to, like, even if I was into Hindi. Why would you go publicly to something like that? [00:28:08] Speaker A: I kind of want to just send you. Just buy. Well, actually, no, never mind. You won't even be, you know, able to. Let's see. When's like the. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Like, why would anyone go to something like that? Just. That just screams gross. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Of course. [00:28:28] Speaker B: Like, I don't. I don't understand. I don't know. But it's just. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Yeah. They have one in Ventura going on today in California. Let's see. Let's see what like Missouri has. Holy. They actually have more than I thought was Montana. Montana. I sure has nothing to. [00:28:56] Speaker B: It's more than I thought. [00:29:00] Speaker A: Let's see what like, Rhode island has. Like, I've one Rhode Island. [00:29:05] Speaker B: That's what I thought Montana would have. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Texas. I. I feel like it's gonna be a lot. [00:29:11] Speaker B: Five plus. Oh my God. [00:29:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Etchy Fiesta. [00:29:17] Speaker B: I am so Texans confuse me. Like, the politics, the thoughts. I don't want no queers or those people that dress up like women. But I'm gonna do so many anime conventions. [00:29:33] Speaker A: It's like when you meet like a black guy that's like really into anime. It's like, what the. [00:29:39] Speaker B: What do you mean? Anime is huge in black culture. [00:29:43] Speaker A: I. But like, the first time you, like, meet like a, like a nerdy, like, black dude, it's like, oh my God. It's an honor to meet you, sir. Yeah, it's like what? Like, like the. Like the Carltons. [00:30:02] Speaker B: I have no clue what you're talking about. [00:30:04] Speaker A: Have you ever seen. [00:30:05] Speaker B: I have seen Fresh Prince. [00:30:06] Speaker A: Okay. Thank you. But like, they're like the anomalies. [00:30:13] Speaker B: I would say the preppy black guy is definitely the anomaly. But anime has always been huge because Dragon Ball Z was super huge in black culture. Piccolo baby. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Well, I mean, like, I know this, but like, the first time it's like, oh my God. Cuz like you walk in any anime convention, white person, white person, white person, white person, white person. Way in the back. One black guy. [00:30:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Because black people ain't gonna hang around with a bunch of crazy white people that's not what we're trying to do. [00:30:43] Speaker A: I mean you hang around me. I mean I'm not white but you. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Know, and there's not a bunch of you. If there was a bunch of you, I would be second guessing. [00:30:52] Speaker A: It's like I hang out with one crazy almost white guy. But I mean. [00:31:00] Speaker B: Yeah, also, also another thing, I think that is more of a social economic commentary than a racial commentary. Just because social economics of. Well, I guess it's racial amongst social economics amongst race because a lot of blacks don't have. What's it called, the expendable funds for that stuff like that. [00:31:31] Speaker A: I mean it's like dirt cheap to go to like anime conventions. [00:31:37] Speaker B: Eh. [00:31:39] Speaker A: Like let me, let me see the one in here in Colorado that is happening, you know, fourth of July weekend. You know, non harassment policy. I like that. Like they have, you know, really like stepped up to the, the plate and you know, protecting a lot of fucking people. 4 days advance price, 100 bucks for all of it. [00:32:03] Speaker B: A hundred bucks is a lot. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Let's see what single day is. $25. So yeah, you can go single day. This is a family pass. Youth. [00:32:20] Speaker B: Again you're. I'll give you that, I'll give you the single day price. But then again you're not pricing in the all the other stuff of like you know, food there. What's it called a ride there. Like there's a lot of stuff that people who have more of a stable income take for granted than I went. [00:32:44] Speaker A: When I was homeless. So. [00:32:48] Speaker B: That'S fair. [00:32:49] Speaker A: You know, like I, you know, had a friend that was able to, you know, give me a ride up there. [00:32:54] Speaker B: So that's the ride bar. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And you know, like sadly not everyone has a friend. I mean get friends, be nice to people. And you have friends more than just me hopefully. I know you have friends, motherfucker. I'm also friends with them. But yes, you know, this is you know, the big one up and fan, you know, fan expo. [00:33:27] Speaker B: But what if you're a black neurodivergent person that doesn't have a lot of friends? [00:33:35] Speaker A: If you are neurodivergent. We all are. Come on out. You know, we will, you know, like there, there is nothing that you can be like, oh wow, I've never heard of that. [00:33:47] Speaker B: There are so many more neurodivergent people at anime convention. [00:33:50] Speaker A: It is wildly a lot. Like I, I had one of my friends, you know, like bringing up like 4chan and who like Chris Chan is. And I'm like, oh yeah, we know all about that. In fact, my friend Trevin just got a Sonichu medallion for his birthday and she was like oh my God, like what? I'm like yeah, like we are well aware of everything. [00:34:21] Speaker B: I think the LEGO conventions have the most neurodivergent people. Either that or the train conventions. [00:34:27] Speaker A: I feel like anybody that went to go see the Minecraft movie is like the most neurodivergent people. [00:34:33] Speaker B: Are you including all the kids? [00:34:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:36] Speaker B: Because kids are kind of dumb when it comes to kid movies and stuff. [00:34:41] Speaker A: I mean like, like if it was just like one chicken jockey video I'd be like okay, that's just like one a one off thing. But like after like the 20th, I'm like knock it off. [00:34:55] Speaker B: While that I don't know the video. Just know the aftermath that I've seen of the chicka jockey video like shit everywhere. Yes. But I. I don't know. I don't understand why or what goes on. [00:35:07] Speaker A: No idea. Yeah, I don't know. Like the lead up to it like I think like one person like started freak out. Like everyone just started copying it. [00:35:16] Speaker B: But what just chicky jockey just comes up and everyone just throws their stuff? [00:35:21] Speaker A: I guess. Cuz mean I don't. I'm not gonna go out and see that. I'm gonna go see like the new you know, demon Slayer movie and take. [00:35:30] Speaker B: You to Heard the. I heard that the new Thunderbolts is really good. [00:35:39] Speaker A: What's the Thunderbolts? [00:35:41] Speaker B: The new Marvel movie. [00:35:44] Speaker A: What? [00:35:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I've heard from quite a few people. It's actually really good. [00:35:51] Speaker A: I haven't even. I. Here's my problem is I pay for no ads. I hate ads with a passion I hate looking at. I pay for YouTube Premium. I pay for all the premiums across the board. Spotify premium. Give it to me. I don't want to hear any ads. I don't want to hear any of the movies that are coming up. That way someone can make. Hey, what are the new movies? What are the new movies coming out? Well, Mario's already out. [00:36:25] Speaker B: No, that's the new one coming up. [00:36:26] Speaker A: What? [00:36:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Untitled the Super Mario Brothers follow up. Right. Like it doesn't even have like a fucking real title. [00:36:38] Speaker B: Yeah, cuz it's not coming out till next year. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Initial April 3, 2026 the should have made it like two days sooner that we could like have, you know. No Wicked for good. Oh that's. Is that a musical? It's a musical. [00:36:57] Speaker B: Do you know they made a new Final Destination movie? [00:36:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it's all something about that Shrek 5. Yeah, like. Like you just like none of this. Zootopia 2. God damn it. Like just when we're getting over Zootopia 1. Like just all the Zootopia porn that came out of that. I'm like, ah, no, please, no. [00:37:23] Speaker B: I don't even know what you're talking about with that. [00:37:26] Speaker A: There was like a bunch of like Zootopia. Like the bunny, you know, like they like try to make the bunny all sexy and shit. They. They have Angry Birds movie. I didn't even know they had one. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Yeah, how do you not know about. Nevermind. [00:37:44] Speaker A: How do I not know about any of this? Because I don't. Chainsaw. Okay. Legend of Zelda, it's coming out. Holy fuck. Okay, maybe I might have to, you know, Clay face. Holy shit. I know what you did. Last summer is an old fucking movie. [00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah, they're repeating it. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Okay. They didn't knock that off. Toy Story 5. Oh my God. Like I need to like watch a bunch of fucking movies. Cuz like I am like behind. I haven't seen, you know. [00:38:24] Speaker B: So you heard about how center is supposed to be really good, right? [00:38:28] Speaker A: Center? [00:38:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:31] Speaker A: Is that here on this list? [00:38:33] Speaker B: No, it's a movie that's currently out. Look at movies currently out or some shit like that. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Movies currently out. Lilo and Stitch. [00:38:45] Speaker B: Yeah, this live action, it's up here. It's not good. There's centers right there. They count it too. Which I want to see. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Well, who wrote, who made Sinners? I don't know who that guy is. Ryan Cog. Coogler. It was like a Quentin Tarantino movie. I'd be like, okay, now it's all. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Black cast and stuff, I think, like the main characters. Michael B. Jordan. [00:39:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Like there's a lot of good black actors. Oh, Friendship is like the one I've heard about. Okay. Actually has a fucking decent score on rotten tomatoes in 89. Disjointed, dismal, devoid of discernible plotline. Oh, fucking good alliteration. These are all good points. This is the first time in my life I felt the need to post a movie review. Congrats. Friendship. You're that bad. So I guess some people did not like it. Yeah, if you don't like his fucking TV show, you know, I think you should leave. Then you should probably not watch his movie. But I don't even know how we got on this fucking, you know, crazy tangent of movies. [00:40:17] Speaker B: I don't know either, honestly. [00:40:19] Speaker A: Yeah, no, like, this is always how it goes. Like I was like, I think, oh, yeah, it was going to anime conventions. [00:40:27] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:40:30] Speaker A: And. But you know, back to it all, it's like you, if you save up money and you know, don't spend it on, you know, things you don't need, then yeah, you'll have money. I don't do that. I, I spend my money. The second I get it, it's gone. [00:40:48] Speaker B: Everything should be affordable enough where you get to spend your money on stupid. Like we live in the air quotes. Greatest country in the world air quotes. Richest country the world world air quotes could do anything we set our minds to. Why don't we set our mind to affordable housing, affordable food, affordable health care. The I recommend free health care and then besides then actually have minimum wage, be the minimum standard of living for a family and then from there we could move forward as a nation. [00:41:26] Speaker A: I mean, honestly, I feel like, you know, here, you know, as a nation, across the board, rent should be controlled. Like you shouldn't be able to raise it, you know, like, especially if you've already paid for everything and if they haven't done any considerable upgrades, they should not be able to raise your rent. It should only go down like another, you know, non Republican idea. [00:41:50] Speaker B: I know, but I have a really unpopular opinion. [00:41:54] Speaker A: What? [00:41:55] Speaker B: I don't think housing and stuff should be valued and everything where it's a not necessarily asset, but whatever. It's not where you should park money to grow money. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Honestly, I feel like, you know, houses should be just like cars, where they only go down in value. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:14] Speaker A: You know, where it's like, okay, cool, I have a fucking, you know, 1970s house and it's like, oh, kind of like 55 years old, you know, what can we do with that? It's like, it's like, I'll take it off your hands for like, you know, $20,000. You know, like you, you, your, your house should not like me as a homeowner. Like, I own this home, I pay a mortgage. I do not believe that my house should grow in value. I believe it should stay and keep its value. And only if I do something that adds value to the house, like upgrading the electrical system or doing something like that, should the house value go up. But I don't think, you know, arbitrary numbers of whoever's around paying money for houses that are around you should raise your property value. Now I love that it's going to do that. And I hope that by the time I sell this house, it's worth $600,000 and I'm like, boom, sell the house. Get the fuck on out and then go build like what I want. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Also don't think your school should funding should come from property tax. [00:43:28] Speaker A: See like I don't, I don't care about that. Like it's not that much. [00:43:31] Speaker B: No, no, no. I'm just talking about like so if you are a school in the inner city and like they're the property taxes lower and stuff, versus a school in the suburbs where the property tax is higher than the school in the Inn not getting enough as much money. I think if you're a federally funded school, you should be getting money based on how many kids. [00:44:02] Speaker A: I, I honestly I, I feel like that number should just, you know, go into a giant fucking pile and then get evenly spread out among the schools. So that way every school is equal. [00:44:13] Speaker B: I also think that if your school makes a surplus after like, cuz of course you have to pay for salary and books and other stuff at the library, maintenance at school and whatnot, right? But like some of these high schools that have like superpower high school like sports and stuff, that they shouldn't just like get a pocket all that money. That money should go into like that same idea of a pot to then go to all schools. [00:44:47] Speaker A: If a high school gets a fucking excess of money, you know, after they've paid everyone, you know, that money should go into scholarships for the kids that go to that school. [00:44:58] Speaker B: You don't think it should go to a big pot that could go to more scholarships even though it'll be a little less for all students in the school district. [00:45:07] Speaker A: So like, you know, say one school, you know, like any school should be able, you know, you know, you know, raise money however they want. You know, if you want to, you know, sell stuff, do plays, you know, put on, you know, events, have bake sales, whatever you want to do, have car washes, you know, you can do all that. And you know, if you make, you know, any money that you make extra should just go to, you know, that school. Because those kids are ideally the ones that, you know, did all the work, you know, so it should go to scholarships for those kids and so the ones you know are going to, you know, move on to college, it's like okay, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then they just, everyone that graduates that year, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. There you guys go. [00:45:56] Speaker B: I still think a rising tide lifts all boats, so therefore like it should go into a pot. So like some of the schools that don't get that much money or have that much support or anything from their community because again, a community has less money to be able to put into it that they're still not left behind. [00:46:20] Speaker A: Honestly, I feel like college should be free because college should be free across the board. You should, you know, be allowed to go in and, you know, get free knowledge, you know, with reduced, you know, student accommodations. So, so, you know, you're just, you know, sitting there living and, you know, getting, you know, an education. That way, you know, it raises up all the youth and everyone that's coming up, it's like, okay, you know, you can either go to the military or to college. And you know, you go out and do, you know, two, you know, years minimum of military or college, like that, that, that's fair. And you know, it's like, well, I want to go explore the world. It's like, okay, do your, you know, mandatory two years and then after that, then you can, you're 20 years old or 21 years old, go ahead and do whatever the fuck you want to do. [00:47:14] Speaker B: I don't think you should force kids to go to the military. [00:47:19] Speaker A: Why other countries do it. And we're. [00:47:22] Speaker B: We're not other countries though, like, are we? [00:47:27] Speaker A: I thought other countries. [00:47:28] Speaker B: I thought we, I thought we were supposed to set the example of be the beacon not following. [00:47:34] Speaker A: I mean, fucking lead copy. You know, what other countries are doing, right, and improve on it. You know, just beg, hey, you know. [00:47:42] Speaker B: But a lot of people would agree that the other countries lack of freedom of speech is a good thing. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Who? [00:47:51] Speaker B: What's up? [00:47:52] Speaker A: Who, who would agree that other countries lack of freedom of speech is good? [00:47:56] Speaker B: I would say, I don't know names. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Name people like, do you think any other countries lack of freedom of speech is good? [00:48:05] Speaker B: No. Yeah, but I also think that America should have hot take more of a gun control than we have now. I'm not saying gun control as in take away my guns because I like guns, but some sort of gun control of like, you know, mental health assessments and stuff like that. [00:48:25] Speaker A: We have that red flag laws, all kinds of. [00:48:28] Speaker B: Not every state has red flag laws. First, first, first, if we're going to do anything about gun control, we should standardize what our gun laws are and not separate them state by state. But no one will agree to that because of state's rights. So just want to point that out. [00:48:45] Speaker A: The Bill of Rights. The states have power, the people have power. [00:48:48] Speaker B: No, I understand that, but if we as the US bullied every state to adopt a speed limit and we as a bully of the US force every state to be part of the Department of Education and stuff like that, we should be able to bully every state into having a standardized gun law. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Every state doesn't have a speed limit. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Yes, they do. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Highways without speed limits in the United States. Oh, they got rid of the Nevada. [00:49:25] Speaker B: Yeah, they did. I know, because Montana and Nevada used to be. Yeah, my kid was born in Montana, bro. I know because I, I drove on that highway. They made that speed limit 90 miles an hour instead of. [00:49:41] Speaker A: In Montana, it's 85. [00:49:43] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Yeah. And so you just fucking book it across. And if a cop, you know, it's like, dude, like, what the fuck are you doing? You're doing 110. And they'll like, catch up to you and back. Dude, just slow it down. There's elk out here. [00:49:55] Speaker B: There used to be a informal law where you could only get one speeding ticket a day. [00:50:06] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah, no, I got like in Montana, you know, because I used to live out in North Dakota. Like, I'd be driving through Montana, you know, quite frequently and, you know, I'd get pulled over all the fucking time, like, non stop. Because there's nothing out there. It's just one straight road. And, you know, a cop would, you know, see me and I pull over, he's like, dude, just slow down. You know, there's crazy shit out here and I don't want to clean you up. Okay. Just keep it reasonable. Have a good day. [00:50:38] Speaker B: It's really funny is cops really do say that shit. [00:50:40] Speaker A: Yeah, no, like that they don't want to do extra paperwork. They know it's like a fucking, you know, you're probably not from there and it's gonna cause a bunch of headache. But it's like, yeah, just, just, you know, I don't want to, you know, come, like, if you continue doing it. Yeah, they're gonna make it a problem for you. But, you know, if you're just like, yeah, I'm doing, you know, 95, the big slow down. That's it. [00:51:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:10] Speaker A: And I, I respect that completely. But, yes, you know, you, like, there's no, like, you know, you have to keep it like at 75, you know, anywhere in the United States, like, they just adopt a fucking speed limit, you know, in certain areas, because, like, that's what keeps shit moving. [00:51:33] Speaker B: We force speed limits in the. What are you talking about? [00:51:37] Speaker A: Is there any force speed limit in America? There's no force speed limit in the United States. So. Yeah, no, doesn't exist. [00:51:51] Speaker B: There. They're legally enforced. Not mechanically enforced. Force is literally what that thing said too, up top that you're reading now. What I was talking about is, again, like we just stated, Montana and Nevada used to not have speed limits. Now they have this 89, 85, 90 mile an hour speed limit because the. [00:52:13] Speaker A: Like, the cannonball came through and there's a bunch of reckless drivers, you know, trying to get from one side of the country to the other as quickly as possible. [00:52:20] Speaker B: It doesn't change my statement that if we forced states to adopt a speed. [00:52:28] Speaker A: Well, we didn't. The states, you know, made their own decisions on it. [00:52:32] Speaker B: No, we forced them because we threatened to take away their funding for education and that's why they did that. [00:52:39] Speaker A: Oh, they don't have any education out there anyway. They don't need it. You know, like, have you met a smart person in, you know, Montana? [00:52:47] Speaker B: That's where a lot of our nuclear silos are, is in Montana. [00:52:51] Speaker A: Yeah, but they like get educated like at Harvard, MIT and like that, and then go up there because if Montana was to blow up, we'd lose Canada. Whoopy doo. [00:53:04] Speaker B: How does that still change the fact. [00:53:07] Speaker A: That I'd say no one was born in, you know, Montana? Being smart. Okay, that's all I gotta say on that. I know, it's great, but back to the, you know, original point, you know, yes, healthcare should be cheaper, should be free. I wouldn't go as far as that because people would just be walking in willy nilly. I have a boo boo. Can you kiss it and make it better? [00:53:43] Speaker B: You know, why shouldn't we do it? [00:53:46] Speaker A: Hypochondriacs, okay, Just, you know. No. [00:53:51] Speaker B: So this. How much, how many much of percentage of the population do you think is hypochondriac? [00:53:58] Speaker A: I'd say like 35%. [00:54:01] Speaker B: I. That is a wild, wild estimation. [00:54:08] Speaker A: How many people do you still see wearing masks? [00:54:11] Speaker B: I still wear a mask, you know. [00:54:14] Speaker A: And when I went to Kiddo's graduation. [00:54:16] Speaker B: I wore a mask. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't, you know, say hypochondriac like disrespectfully or nothing. It's just, you know, you're, you know, hyperly aware of the fucking, you know, things that can get you sick and you're worried about it all the fucking time. [00:54:29] Speaker B: I'm not worried about it all the time, but I'm worried about it enough to wear a mask when again, the US is actively taking away healthcare. [00:54:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So you have to be careful. I don't, you know, and also you can just go into a hospital, you know, give a fake name, say you're an illegal immigrant and not pay. [00:54:52] Speaker B: I don't think that's how that works. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Exactly how that works. [00:54:56] Speaker B: I don't think so. [00:54:57] Speaker A: It's been a huge problem here in Colorado. [00:55:03] Speaker B: I don't. [00:55:04] Speaker A: People lying to hospitals to not pay. You know, lying to hospitals to, you know, fraudulent activity, potentially providing false information to obtain financial benefits or avoid financial obligations. Continuous fraud. Ethical potential harm to others. Legal repercussion. Yeah. [00:55:33] Speaker B: By the way, 4 to 6% of people are estimated to be hydro hypochondriacs. Yeah. So because of 4 to 6% of people you want to not give health care. That's saying because of the four to six people who are gun owners that have shot, killed another person. Not in self defense. We should have gun. No, I, I should lock up guns or have star. Stronger gun laws. I don't even. I want stronger gun laws, but I'm not even using that as an argument. [00:56:10] Speaker A: Like, like what, what would you consider like a stronger gun law than what we have? [00:56:17] Speaker B: I. Ooh. Do you really want a serious answer? [00:56:20] Speaker A: I really want a serious answer. You know, what would you can. Like, what would make you happy for gun laws here in the United States? [00:56:29] Speaker B: Here is a. Ooh, how do I explain this then? First, I think you need a mental eval every two years. Second, I think that we should. Here's a really hot take that I know you're not going to like, but you should, you should have more than three guns in the household. And the only reason why I say three is a shotgun, a rifle and pistol is I think for not in the inner city. I actually think that's too much for the inner city. But if you live out in the suburbs or country, I really do think that's perfectly reasonable. [00:57:10] Speaker A: Most police cars have more than three guns in it. [00:57:12] Speaker B: I know where as a civilian, you shouldn't be more armed than the police, though. I also don't think we should. I think we need to change policing too. There's. There's a cascade of things. But my gun, the gun laws of my perfect scenario is way too strict that Americans won't accept. [00:57:32] Speaker A: So like, like, you know, I say, you know, if you have more than three guns, get a gun safe. I have a gun safe right here. Boom. You know, it's bolted to the ground, it's bolted to the wall. You ain't fucking moving that shit. You ain't getting in. [00:57:48] Speaker B: I think because. Also hot. Take two. How much we fund the police department. We, the police department should have a gun safe for each of its civil civilians in its district that could store their guns there that are more than Three guns. And they could swap out whatever they want, but that would be a safe place to store them too. [00:58:09] Speaker A: But again, or, or someone fucking runs into the police station, steals all the guns because you put all your eggs in one basket and. And now there's, you know, a criminal cartel out there with a bunch of fucking guns. And you know what happens when, you know, someone puts in like their $20,000 fucking rifle. So are we, are we broken? [00:58:29] Speaker B: Are we saying that because gun stores get robbed and taken by cartels and stuff, we shouldn't have gun stores? [00:58:37] Speaker A: How often does that happen, though? [00:58:39] Speaker B: How often would it happen of police department robbed and stuff? What is that? What? [00:58:46] Speaker A: How many times has Dragon Man's been robbed? [00:58:49] Speaker B: I don't know. Zero. Okay. How many times has the police department been emptied of his fucking. What's it called? [00:58:58] Speaker A: Well, we can find that out, right? [00:58:59] Speaker B: Armory. [00:59:01] Speaker A: How many times has a police department's evidence room been raided? [00:59:06] Speaker B: Not evidence room, armory. Because evidence room is a different thing. And that's why it is. [00:59:12] Speaker A: How many times has a police department's armory. How many times has a police department's armory been stolen from? It is difficult to provide an exact number of times police department's armory has been stolen from, as is not a regularly tracked statistic. However, it is not uncommon for firearms to be lost or stolen from law enforcement agencies, including from armories. Between 2008 and 2017, Trace examined records from over 100 law enforcement agencies and they have collectively reported loss or theft of at least 1,781 guns. So, yeah, it's pretty fucking common. Police departments, you know, again, I don't. [01:00:00] Speaker B: Think that's the same what we're talking, because, yes, that's like a rogue cop or whatnot stealing guns from the armory. We're talking about like all of it getting jacked at once. Like, that's why I used a gun shop, because gun shops all been jacked at once a couple times. [01:00:24] Speaker A: But how many times do gun stores get robbed? Gun stores are robbed relatively often with an average of five incidents or theft or loss per day across the country. These can include both burglaries, forced entry after hours and robberies, theft during business hours. That means, like, if, you know, you see something on the shelf put in your pocket, that's a fucking incident. [01:00:51] Speaker B: Just saying. That's roughly as much as the guns stolen in nine years as it was per year. But again, it is what it is. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Smashing grabs are increasing across Colorado Springs. In the last two weeks, at least two shops had had cars smashing Them hopes of stealing guns and ammunition. $65,000 damages. Police say there are multiple suspects. They rammed through the wall, climbed over the hood of the car and ran in the store. Oh, no, it was spartan. That sucks. [01:01:35] Speaker B: Last year. [01:01:37] Speaker A: I know these guys. I know Teddy pretty well. Yeah, I mean, you like. I feel like, you know, if you have a gun store, you should have to have bollards put in, you know, all around the front of your store, like where, you know, cars could ram through. Boom. Now. Now cars can't, you know, bust in. You know, you should be, you know, allowed to. You should be allowed to shoot and kill people that are breaking into your property. [01:02:11] Speaker B: No, because. [01:02:14] Speaker A: Why not? [01:02:15] Speaker B: Because you shouldn't be able to kill someone over property damage. [01:02:19] Speaker A: Not property damage. If they're coming to steal your property. [01:02:23] Speaker B: Stealing properties, property damage or property loss, you. [01:02:27] Speaker A: Yeah, you should be able to kill them for it. [01:02:28] Speaker B: No. [01:02:30] Speaker A: Why? Like, why do you want to keep these people alive? [01:02:33] Speaker B: It's not necessarily I want to keep them alive. It's just morally that is wrong. [01:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah, but, you know, ethically is correct. [01:02:44] Speaker B: I don't think ethically it's correct either. I don't even think equitably it's correct. [01:02:51] Speaker A: I mean, like, you know, if. [01:02:52] Speaker B: If I think it. [01:02:54] Speaker A: If you. If you, like, find this person that comes in and steals something, you know, from, like, a store or whatever, and then you, you know, get them out, you know, do you think they're like a, you know, a good member of society? No, Just, you know, sometimes people are lost cause and, you know, sometimes it's time to get rid of it sometimes. [01:03:16] Speaker B: Or maybe society abandoned them. Maybe they're stealing something to like. Okay, example, I morally had an issue with somebody at Dollar store earlier today of a guy clearly stealing food from the Dollar store. Right. So shoot and kill him. What? [01:03:40] Speaker A: Shoot and kill him? [01:03:43] Speaker B: No. What? Like, holy time out. What? No. So my first thought was, this guy's a piece of. That was literally my first thought. Then upon retrospect, I was like, hey, this guy looks really down on his luck. He's dirty. He doesn't smell very good. It's rainy outside. He's just hungry. In society, as a society, we've done. [01:04:12] Speaker A: Nothing for this person, and we shouldn't be forced to. Like, you know, as a society, we. [01:04:20] Speaker B: First of all, as a society, we shouldn't have to be forced. We should want to help everyone. [01:04:28] Speaker A: As a society, we should be able to loan them some help, you know, a leg up, and then they should have to pay that back. [01:04:36] Speaker B: Why does everything. Why does it have to be transactional? [01:04:39] Speaker A: Because I've worked for everything that, you know, I have. So, you know, where is my leg up? Where's my freebie? [01:04:47] Speaker B: You didn't need a freebie to get. [01:04:48] Speaker A: To where you were, because I know how to work. [01:04:50] Speaker B: Maybe someone else does need a freebie to get to where you are. And then after they're to where you are, they're able to help someone, and that's how society improves. [01:05:02] Speaker A: Yeah, but now, now, you know, it's an unfair thing. And, you know, we're sitting here like, well, you know, that guy got something for free. I want something for free. Where's my free thing? [01:05:12] Speaker B: Here's a cookie. You shouldn't need a free thing to be a good person. [01:05:17] Speaker A: Well, like, I. I just. I'm like, okay, just, you know, hey, here's $10,000. Your taxes for the rest of your life go up by, you know, a quarter of a percent. Your income tax has got. Just gone up, you know, and you can just, you know, leverage that and be like, okay, Well, I want 40,000. It's like, okay, your income tax went up by a percent for the rest of your life. Boom, you can get up. You know, here's 40,000. That will get you, you know, back up and on your feet. And now your income tax has, you know, just gone from, like, you know, 17 to 18%. I. I mean, is that a bad thing? That. That is a way for, you know, you to leverage, you know, what you have. And if you want to, you know, lower your taxes, you know, back down to the base level, you can, you know, pay that money back, and, you know, your taxes get lowered right back down to where they were before. But, you know, you can only take out, like, so much. I'd say, like, 50,000 be like, the max. And it's like, you know, 1.25% tax increase for $50,000, you know, cash fronted. And, you know, you can lower, you know, your tax rate back down to the base level by paying that money back. Is that fair? [01:06:45] Speaker B: I'm. Okay. So to answer your question, yes, it's fair. But again, it should. Like, everything shouldn't have to be transactional in a society. We should be able to just do things for the betterment of the society. You believe in public libraries, right? [01:07:14] Speaker A: Well, I believe in them. Yeah. They exist. I've seen them. [01:07:16] Speaker B: You do you want them to continue and flourish, or do you think it's a useless thing? [01:07:22] Speaker A: I mean, if people donate books to them and people donate the time yeah, go ahead. Cool. That's. That's a neat little thing, but you. [01:07:31] Speaker B: Don'T think, as a taxpayer, you should fund a public library? [01:07:35] Speaker A: It depends on how much tax I'm spending on it, even though. But the fact that I get to get in for free makes it worth it because that's normally a, you know, something that you'd have to pay for. Hey, come read this book. Come read all these books for free. So guess what? I'm getting value out of that. You know, anywhere I go in America, any library I see, any public library I see, I can walk in their front door, no one's going to stop me. No one's going to ask for a card. I can pick up any book, read it, you know, cover to cover, sit down, have a quiet, you know, time, go use the restroom, whatever, you know, And I have no problem. I get that value because you know me as, you know, a property owner. Cool. I paid for it. [01:08:18] Speaker B: So now, should the homeless person be able to use that same library? [01:08:23] Speaker A: Now, if the homeless person is going in there and, you know, like, using. [01:08:26] Speaker B: No straight question. [01:08:28] Speaker A: If they are using the library as a library. Yes, go ahead. Come on in. Welcome in. Come read some books. [01:08:35] Speaker B: How else would they use the library. [01:08:37] Speaker A: You know, to, you know, find a dark corner, you know, lay out, like, a sleeping bag and jack off and go to bed and, you know, just, you know, piss in the corner and, you know, shoot up heroin. [01:08:48] Speaker B: Okay. The jacking off, shooting up and pissing, all those are obviously negative things. [01:09:00] Speaker A: Negative things that homeless people do do. Yes. [01:09:03] Speaker B: But why not let him sleep in. [01:09:04] Speaker A: A corner if he wants to, you know, just come in and, you know, catch some Z's in a chair. You're able to do that. I've done it. [01:09:13] Speaker B: But you just use that as an example for a negative for it. [01:09:17] Speaker A: But, you know, if he's like. If you're, you know, a homeless person and you just are just trying to get through, like, I, you know, have some homeless friends, you know, they're just trying to fucking get through. Yeah, you know, no problem, you know, you know, we should help you as much as we can, but we shouldn't, you know, enable you. Like, the library shouldn't enable someone to go into a corner and, like, smoke meth. [01:09:39] Speaker B: We're not talking smoking. We're leaving the drugs out of it. [01:09:43] Speaker A: Yeah. So if they're just a homeless person, like, that's it, you know, that, like, that's the beginning and end of it. And, like, they're just, you know, like, down on their luck. Not an alcoholic, not a fucking, you know, drug addict. Not. They're pissing on themselves. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Wait, so drug addict and alcoholic, as in that's the thing, or as in they're trying to use the library for that? [01:10:06] Speaker A: They're trying to use the library for that. [01:10:07] Speaker B: Okay. [01:10:08] Speaker A: You know, like, if you're a drug addict and you're just like, hey, I just need, you know, someplace to, you know, catch a couple hours of sleep, and you just, like, go into, like, a dark corner and you're not bothering anybody. Sure, go ahead. You know, feel free. But, you know, if it turns into, you know, 15 fucking homeless people all setting up camp in the corner of the library and then, you know, causing a fucking problem, that's, you know, usually when it gets out of hand and then cops come in and now there's fucking rules. And now no homeless people can come in. [01:10:41] Speaker B: But because of one person, it messes up it all for everyone. [01:10:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's usually how it goes. You know, one person decided to put bombs in his shoes. Now I have to take off my boots whenever I want to get on a plane. God damn it, you dumbass idiot. One person. [01:10:58] Speaker B: But that's performative theater. That's not even a thing that help. Really helps. [01:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah. So, like. [01:11:07] Speaker B: So, like, that's just to make you feel better that you're doing that. [01:11:12] Speaker A: Like, it does not make me feel better. [01:11:13] Speaker B: Like, it makes you feel safer? [01:11:16] Speaker A: No. Not even a little bit. Like. Like, let everyone come through. I don't care. Oh, that guy fucking has a turban on. I don't. I'm not, you know, sitting here like, you know, I'll let the racist fucking worry about that while I get some fucking good sleep. Like that. That's what racist people are good for. They'll. They'll look at, you know, all the, you know, brown people and be like, okay, none of them have a bomb. And then I just have like, you know, kind of pay attention to, like, the weird white people, you know, and then it's like, okay, none of them have bombs. I can sleep. You know, racism keeps the plane in the air. [01:12:00] Speaker B: I don't even know what to say to you. [01:12:01] Speaker A: After 9 11, like, there was anybody from the Middle east, you know, didn't matter if you're Muslim, didn't matter if you're Sikh. Didn't matter anything like that. You were treated, like, absolute horrible. You know, you're getting beat up in the street, you know, for cause of 9, 11, and it sucked. It was a bad time for those people. [01:12:25] Speaker B: Right. [01:12:27] Speaker A: And, you know, it's, you know, 24 years later. People don't forget. I'm like, God damn. Like, they. They put 9 11. Never forget. It's like, like, damn. They. They. They nailed it. And people haven't forgotten. It's like, name one of the terrorists from, you know, 9 11. They're like, oh, some of bin Laden, he's like, he wasn't there. He was in a cave somewhere. [01:13:01] Speaker B: That's fair. [01:13:03] Speaker A: But to. To end this episode, you know, some healthcare should be cheaper, affordable. We'll say affordable. And you should get financial assistance if you absolutely need it. [01:13:18] Speaker B: What makes you get be absolutely needed? And why not make it free instead of affordable? [01:13:25] Speaker A: Well, childbirth should be free. You know, I gave you that. [01:13:29] Speaker B: You did give me that. [01:13:31] Speaker A: And if you get into an accident, you know, like, if you're in, like, a car accident or something like that, you know, that health care should be, you know, free. [01:13:39] Speaker B: Should emergency server or surgeries be free? [01:13:43] Speaker A: Depends on the emergency surgery. Like if you have, like, a kidney stone free, you know, if you have. But, like, if you, you know, stuck like a, you know, a Nerf football in your ass. No, you're paying for that. [01:14:01] Speaker B: So I was thinking more of something normal, like a car accident or something. [01:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that, that. That. I brought that up. Car accident. Yep. Free if you're in an accident free, you know, but, you know, if you're, like, you know, playing, you know, the knife game, you know, and you chop off a finger, paying for that. I mean, like, have I, like, you know, torn down the house or anything? Like, here, I'm like, I'm bringing up good points. Like, if it's something that is out of your control. [01:14:35] Speaker B: What if you're a new chef and you cut off your finger? [01:14:40] Speaker A: Well, you don't become a chef immediately. [01:14:43] Speaker B: I know you don't become one immediately, but during, like, your bit first busy rush and stuff, there's a lot going on that are. [01:14:52] Speaker A: Gordon ramsay has all 10 fingers. You don't have an excuse. Cut off your finger. As a chef, you're paying for it. [01:14:59] Speaker B: Zara Burgessy. [01:15:00] Speaker A: Or cook up your fucking finger and serve it to somebody as a gourmet dish and be like, you know, human finger. And then, you know, I just say. [01:15:08] Speaker B: There'S gray area continued out with the rest of your outro. [01:15:13] Speaker A: And then it's like, boom, you can serve that. And then now. Now that pays for the surgery there. I'm sure there's some weirdo out there that wants to eat a human finger, you know, just like, take out the bone, take out the fingernail and just, you know, turn it. Little calamari rings. You know, that's what your finger would probably look like without the fucking, you know, bone in the side. Just, you know, there you go. Put it on pasta, whatever, you know, a little Hannibal Lecter up in there. So. Yeah. [01:15:46] Speaker B: Sorry I brought that up. [01:15:48] Speaker A: So, yes, you know, all of this, you know, stuff that is outside your control, free stuff that is inside your control, you know, you have to pay for. But everything should be affordable. You know, like if someone sutures up your fucking skin, you know, you're not paying $50,000 for that. You're paying, you know, like 200 bucks for it. [01:16:14] Speaker B: What about hurt? [01:16:16] Speaker A: What Hurt? [01:16:17] Speaker B: Hormone therapy. [01:16:20] Speaker A: Hurt is what it's called. [01:16:22] Speaker B: Hormone replacement therapy. [01:16:24] Speaker A: Hrt. [01:16:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:27] Speaker A: I've never heard anyone call it hurt. Yep. [01:16:31] Speaker B: It goes both ways for testosterone and. [01:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:34] Speaker A: I. I have, you know, a couple trends, you know, friends that are both girls now. [01:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:43] Speaker A: And I mean. Yeah, go for it. You know, if you're, you know, of, you know, 18 plus, you know, go wild. Go, you know, do whatever you want to do, though. [01:17:01] Speaker B: That's what I said. Free to free or affordable. [01:17:04] Speaker A: I. [01:17:07] Speaker B: I know I'm putting you on the spot. [01:17:10] Speaker A: Affordable. [01:17:11] Speaker B: Why not free? [01:17:13] Speaker A: Because it is, you know, like, it should just be affordable. And I. I know that makes me sound like a terrible person, you know. [01:17:29] Speaker B: And I didn't say that. [01:17:31] Speaker A: Like, I. I don't know how much it costs, but, like, it, you know, I would say 300 a year. That's all you should have to pay. [01:17:39] Speaker B: It's way more than that. But that's fair. [01:17:42] Speaker A: Then anything over $300 free, you know, you pay the 300 and then we take care of the rest. Yeah. Boom. I mean, is that. Is that like a fair statement to make? [01:18:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:03] Speaker B: Even though I still think that every. All health care should be free, then. [01:18:07] Speaker A: Then, you know, why would anyone ever want to become a doctor? Why would anyone ever want to open up a hospital? Hospitals are just close. Crazy, like, hot take. [01:18:18] Speaker B: I don't think you should be a millionaire doctor. [01:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah. But if you're. If you're. If you're a, you know, a doctor that's making no money and the hospital is making no money, why would it, like, as a business that's not viable at all. [01:18:34] Speaker B: The military makes no money, yet we're able to fund that. [01:18:38] Speaker A: Oh, the military makes money. We sell stuff. We sell tanks and we sell bullets and ammunition. We just don't. We're not loud about it. Like Donald Trump is. [01:18:51] Speaker B: All right, so you're technically right on that. But legally, like how it's stated the military does it is a non profit organization. Doesn't take it make a profit? [01:19:05] Speaker A: Oh yeah, no, they don't make them profit. Like they're selling everything for a loss. So like they're, they're. [01:19:11] Speaker B: So if we're able to fund that, then we should be able to sell health care at a loss and fund our peoples. [01:19:18] Speaker A: I mean we sell planes to the ocean for free. [01:19:22] Speaker B: Just. [01:19:28] Speaker A: Ah, God damn, I'm so good. [01:19:31] Speaker B: Just saying. Doctors could be paid just as much as generals are. Hospitals could get just as much funding as we fund our military bases. We could do all this. We don't have to charge for the health care. [01:19:52] Speaker A: Then why would anyone ever sell anything to a hospital if they can't pay? [01:19:58] Speaker B: What do you mean? [01:19:59] Speaker A: Why would anyone make a saline bag? Why would anyone make a new MRI machine? Oh, we can't fucking pay you, but you can feel good about what you. [01:20:05] Speaker B: The military makes new things all the time. We make new uniforms every few years. We can fucking like we reinvent the camouflage and remake new ones. Like we could do that for hospitals. I don't understand. Like, I think that's actually a great analogy is the hospitals as with our military. [01:20:24] Speaker A: Then how about this? You know, and it would be cheaper. [01:20:27] Speaker B: Because we don't need a fund for submarines and stuff. All we need is fun for are the ambulances and the helicopters. [01:20:36] Speaker A: How about this? You put the military in charge of all the medical care here in the United States of America. Why? That way it's all fucking one. [01:20:45] Speaker B: We already the hospitals train our US Doctor. Well, our military doctors. [01:20:51] Speaker A: Yeah. So even better. [01:20:54] Speaker B: I'm not trying to give and then it's free. I'm not trying to give more authoritarian power to authoritarian. What's it called? [01:21:03] Speaker A: How many people in the military do you know? I'm sure you know quite a few. [01:21:08] Speaker B: I know. [01:21:09] Speaker A: So like, do you like see like military people as like big authoritarian, you know, we're in charge of you like every once in a while you'll see like one dickhead Marine. Being a marine. But like for the most part, people in the armed services are very fucking respectful. [01:21:24] Speaker B: I don't see everyone who works for Miramax to be abuser, but I view Harvey Weinstein, who was the leader of it, to be abuser. So I don't view everyone in our military to be an abuser. But I do feel like people in the higher up power can abuse that power and so that's what I'm just saying. [01:21:50] Speaker A: Hot take. Here's a hot take. I would very easily fucking suck an old nasty dick to become like a fucking superhero in a movie. [01:22:02] Speaker B: I don't know where that came from. [01:22:04] Speaker A: Well, Harvey Weinstein, like, that's what he would do is he'd be like, hey, come into my room and look at my naked old body and give me a massage and then like, fuck me and whatever. And then I'll make you fucking, you know, the new superhero of this new movie. [01:22:22] Speaker B: I don't. I think putting your morals on other people is not the. [01:22:31] Speaker A: I mean, that's what they had to do, you know, like, like, you know, it's give and take, quit pro quo. I mean, it seems awful, but. And it is, but it's like, yeah, you know, you got something out of it. You got to be famous. And no one knows, you know, that you, Harvey Weinstein, like, like, like it's the age old question. It's like, you know, for a million dollars and no one would ever know, would you suck a dick? You know, it's like, dude, I'd do it way cheaper than that. Yes. [01:23:12] Speaker B: I'm just saying, I don't know how we got from. [01:23:17] Speaker A: We got the health care to, you know. [01:23:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:23:20] Speaker A: Harvey Weinstein and Miramax. You didn't say everyone that works for Miramax is an abuser. But yeah, I mean, we, we should have, you know, the military that, you know, the US Military, you know, bring back a bunch of their forces, you know, train a bunch of them to become doctors. And so instead of being in other countries, you know, fighting, killing people, a bunch of them are, you know, spending their time getting trained to do medical care and become doctors and become surgeons and all kinds of stuff. And they can specialize. And then guess what? Boom. Your medical care is damn near free because it's all done by, you know, soldiers that are out here helping you. Like it is that. I think that's like a fair compromise there. [01:24:13] Speaker B: I still feel uncomfortable integrating our military with our civilian life. That deep. I do think we could do that where we put, you know, aid to Gaza and Palestine and other places, South Africa and stuff, with our doctors in the military, because that would be a good use of them too. [01:24:44] Speaker A: I mean, now you're going crazy. I don't, I don't care about other countries. [01:24:52] Speaker B: Heard. [01:24:53] Speaker A: But it's like, you know, how about this? Like, we don't fucking shoot missiles at them and we don't supply, you know, any side with any missiles or any munitions. Whatsoever. Because, you know, you know, you see like, two countries squabbling, and then America comes in with big dicks and it's like, hey, what's going on here? And then we just, like, shoot missiles at both of them like, there. Knock it off, both of you. You know, war is hell. [01:25:26] Speaker B: And. [01:25:28] Speaker A: It absolutely sucks that, you know, kids are getting killed in war like that. That's the worst part of it. Like, I. I'd have, you know, no problem, you know, bringing all the kids from foreign countries over here. [01:25:43] Speaker B: What about the kids, families. [01:25:48] Speaker A: You know, if. If you want to see your kids again, stop fighting. And then, boom, they're done fighting. We want to see our kids. [01:25:57] Speaker B: Like, you're stealing the kids and threatening them. [01:26:00] Speaker A: That's exactly it, you know, for, you know, peace. By stealing your kids? No, by Pied Pipering your kids. The away. If you ever want to see your kids again, you knock it off, both of you. And then like, okay, we're done fighting. We're done fighting. And then you bring back other kids and be like, good, you do it again. We're gonna kill all your kids. [01:26:21] Speaker B: We did that during the Korean War and didn't give them back. But okay, what the Korean Vietnam War, when we just took a bunch of kids and left the parents that were like, here you go into the American adoption system. [01:26:43] Speaker A: Ah, Koreans are a hearty bunch, though. [01:26:48] Speaker B: I. I don't think they choose to be hardy. I think just happens persevere. [01:26:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Out of, like, necessity. But it's like, you know, like American, you take away their iPhone, like, oh, my life is over. You know, and then, you know, pretty much anyone else in the world's like, yeah. Since I'm only the third house I've lost this year by, you know, shelling and, you know, both my parents are dead. I can keep on going. [01:27:17] Speaker B: If we're going to say that, shouldn't Americans that who live in, you know, tornado valley or also places where it floods and stuff, shouldn't they be used to that? Be like, meh. [01:27:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm pretty used to it. Yeah. Flood insurance pretty solid over here. I live in a. [01:27:35] Speaker B: Not every, you know, a lot of insurance places left Florida and stuff because of the flooding and hurricanes and stuff. [01:27:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And I find that hilarious now. It's only expensive insurance out there. They're forced to get it. Insurance is a scam altogether. I. I think we already covered this one. Insurance is a scam. And health care should be affordable to free for people. [01:28:05] Speaker B: Hot take. We should have a government insurance. [01:28:11] Speaker A: We do. It's called the second Amendment. [01:28:18] Speaker B: Government flooding and natural disaster insurance. [01:28:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. It's called fema. [01:28:25] Speaker B: It isn't what. FEMA does not pay for everything. [01:28:31] Speaker A: Yeah, FEMA pays for damn near nothing. But, you know, it exists for the. [01:28:37] Speaker B: Moment until Trump takes it away. [01:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see. What he does is that. [01:28:42] Speaker B: I'll talk. [01:28:42] Speaker A: Wait until he does it. Like when you see a cat, you know, knocking a. A glass to the edge of a table, wait till the, you know, the glass is shattered to get mad at the cat. Not until then. [01:28:54] Speaker B: Okay, this sounds like a perfect way. [01:28:58] Speaker A: You know, wait until four years are done, and then, like, everything's on fire. And you can beg, you know, you Democrat, you know, libertarians can be like, see what I tell you? And I can. You, like, all right, I guess all. [01:29:13] Speaker B: I'm saying is the government should have insurance and the government should pay for health care. I mean, free insurance, free health care, walkable cities, remove car insurance. [01:29:32] Speaker A: If two, like, if people didn't it up, we could have all this. But too many people it up and you know, that that's where we're gonna leave it. Thank you so much for being here. We'll be back in two more weeks with some more. You know how it goes. I always have, like seven ideas in my head, and then we don't get to, like, six of them, but then, like, seven more ideas will pop up. But we'll be back next week or in two weeks. Till then, bye. [01:30:00] Speaker B: Peace.