1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,480 Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Nate. 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,040 And I'm Mike. 3 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:15,520 Now what in the heck are we smoking tonight, Mike? 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:23,960 Well on a theme from a previous episode, we are starting our CAO Flavors extravaganza. 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,360 And the one we're smoking tonight is the one I've had. 6 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:36,720 I've never tried any of the other ones, but it is the CAO Moontrans. 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,240 And how would you describe this flavor? 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,400 It is officially bourbon vanilla. 9 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,960 And the wrapper itself is a little sweet. 10 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,560 Yes I noticed that. 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,360 And the smoke is sweet as well. 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:58,720 Alright so I'm lit. 13 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:05,240 It is a bit sweet, it's not, I would say initially it's not overpoweringly sweet. 14 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:11,160 No, in my experience these have not been overpowering. 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,400 They're just not nice. 16 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,400 You know what? 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:22,160 It took me about four or five puffs to finally get the vanilla. 18 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:28,160 I'm not getting a whole lot of bourbon right now flavor, but the vanilla is coming through. 19 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,440 Bourbon vanilla is a type of vanilla. 20 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,280 Yes, I believe, I think. 21 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,440 I can do some internet research and find that out real quick. 22 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:47,760 I thought it was bourbon with vanilla, but I don't know. 23 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:48,760 So far I like it. 24 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:55,160 It's a good change from our Kohiba Black that we smoked last episode. 25 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:59,680 I wouldn't probably want to smoke two of these in a row. 26 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,520 Just initially thoughts out into the void. 27 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:09,280 But you know I also don't necessarily want to drink like two hard seltzers in a row either. 28 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:10,280 Yes. 29 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,760 But speaking of drinking. 30 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,480 Oh yes, drinking. 31 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,440 Well you do the bourbon vanilla thing first. 32 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:29,280 Okay bourbon vanilla is a type of vanilla and it is the OG powerful vanilla from Mexico. 33 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:36,920 So for those of us who go to Mexico occasionally and pick up the big bottle of pure Mexican 34 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,360 vanilla that is bourbon vanilla. 35 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,160 That's why it's so good because it's the real stuff. 36 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,160 Got it. 37 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,160 Yes. 38 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,280 Well I do like this vanilla flavor. 39 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,440 Does not taste artificial really. 40 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:55,440 You know it's got a nice feel, nice taste profile to it. 41 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:56,440 Yes. 42 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:57,720 I would say. 43 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:05,160 I'm drinking with my cigar an Insight Vibe which is a New England IPA from a Minnesota 44 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,960 brewery. 45 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:14,520 And I am drinking Michelob Golden Light because I had some extras from my trip. 46 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:21,160 And a nice clean crisp light beer is perfect for a cigar like this I think. 47 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,200 Yes. 48 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:28,000 Any beer is a good beer if you like it. 49 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Yes. 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,600 I saw that on a bumper sticker once. 51 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,280 No I didn't. 52 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,280 I just was trying to be prophetic but I'm not. 53 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:46,760 Again, we always have this disclaimer for those listeners outside of the Northern Territories. 54 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,480 McGolden Light is a kind of like a Bud Light another light. 55 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,420 It's a lot regional. 56 00:03:54,420 --> 00:03:55,420 It's better. 57 00:03:55,420 --> 00:03:56,640 I think it's better. 58 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,580 But it's along the same vein. 59 00:03:58,580 --> 00:04:01,580 So real quick about McGolden Light. 60 00:04:01,580 --> 00:04:05,480 This is an interesting story for me and maybe not for you. 61 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,520 But I didn't force you to subscribe to our podcast. 62 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,200 So here we are. 63 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,160 One of my good buddies spent many, many, many, many years. 64 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,480 He's eight years older than me so many, many, many years. 65 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,320 Many years bartending. 66 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:27,520 And I for some reason in my head I thought Coors Light was the end all be all for light 67 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:28,560 beers. 68 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:35,880 And I had gone to the bar he was bartending at and drunkenly, not so drunkenly, drunkenly, 69 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:36,880 maybe I don't know. 70 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,880 I wasn't there. 71 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,040 Mentioned that Coors Light was the best light beer. 72 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,920 And he goes hold up fucker and what he did is he blind poured me a taste test. 73 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:48,840 We did a blind taste test right there in his bar. 74 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:52,680 He poured Bud Light, Coors Light and McGolden Light. 75 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,960 And he said McGolden Light is the best light beer you can ever drink. 76 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,180 And I said no way dude. 77 00:04:58,180 --> 00:05:04,360 And so he poured me those three and he mixed them up behind the bar in little shot glasses 78 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,880 and I tasted them. 79 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,840 And the one that I liked the best sure as shit was McGolden Light. 80 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:16,160 Compared if you do a blind taste test with the three of them is very weird. 81 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,600 It's very interesting because the Coors Light even though you think it's better than Bud 82 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,040 Light, I don't know. 83 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:28,160 I might rank it the least least tasty of all of them and it just has to do with their marketing 84 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,640 I guess. 85 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,240 So that's really like the power of marketing. 86 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:40,120 But if you do a blind taste test, you know McGolden, I'd drink McGolden if I was drinking 87 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:41,120 Bud Light beer. 88 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,120 Yeah. 89 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:47,480 It's kind of a special treat for my friends who aren't from this area because they don't 90 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:48,960 have access to it. 91 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:49,960 Okay. 92 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,120 So anytime you can get something it's kind of like Yinglings on the East Coast. 93 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,440 Yeah we just had some of that. 94 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:00,000 One of our neighbors brought back a 12 pack for us and it was good. 95 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 I liked it. 96 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 I really like Yinglings. 97 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,760 You can't get it here in Minnesota. 98 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:05,760 No you can't. 99 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,880 I actually saw a guy fishing who had Yinglings and I didn't have any beer on me but if I 100 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,680 did I would have tried to trade him one. 101 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,440 Yeah you would have traded. 102 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,520 Here's a McGolden for a Yingling. 103 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,440 A Yingling is the oldest brewery in America though. 104 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,200 It's the first brewery. 105 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:29,040 So that's kind of their claim to fame. 106 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,040 And their beer is tasty. 107 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,040 It is. 108 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,040 All right what are we talking about tonight Mike? 109 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,040 This morning. 110 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:38,040 Whenever you're listening. 111 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,320 Whatever time it is on your clock right now you look and then that's what we're talking 112 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,040 about right now. 113 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,520 Yes. 114 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,040 I believe the topic today is going to be the leak. 115 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,040 The leak that we had from the Supreme Court. 116 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,320 And not Roe v Wade. 117 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,320 Oh yes. 118 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,040 Roe v Wade. 119 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,600 Okay. 120 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,480 I think like just additionally up front. 121 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,920 Let's just up front. 122 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,240 Both Mike and myself are men. 123 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,160 We do not have uteruses. 124 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,160 We know this. 125 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,160 We understand this. 126 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,560 We're going to say some things I'm sure that will be offensive to somebody somewhere somehow 127 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,560 some way. 128 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:24,040 Additionally I would like to say because this does matter Nate and I are both in a position 129 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:33,200 where abortion is likely not going to be a part of our lives at this point. 130 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:41,120 Because we're both stable adults in stable relationships and you know if my Sarah got 131 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,040 pregnant we would not have an abortion. 132 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:50,840 So it's not really not really something that personally affects either one of us. 133 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,160 Nate has a child as well. 134 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,600 So you know that it's not going to affect him and his wife. 135 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:03,920 So but we're going to we're going to try and be objective with this discussion and hopefully 136 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,120 not piss too many people off. 137 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:10,480 But well I'm sure I know because I have a pretty hard line stance. 138 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,120 Okay well very very hard line stance. 139 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,560 Okay let's let's get into it then. 140 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:16,560 What's your hard line stance? 141 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,160 Let's just get that out of the way and then we can talk. 142 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:21,800 Sure. 143 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:27,440 Unborn children are not citizens of the United States and they do not have rights. 144 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:28,440 It's not about morality. 145 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,400 It's not what's right and wrong. 146 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,880 Government policy is not about what's right and what's wrong. 147 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:39,720 It's about laws and what the rights of citizens and oftentimes governments do things that 148 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,080 are not morally right. 149 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:51,440 That's why we have we round up illegal illegal aliens even though they're fleeing war torn 150 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,280 poor places and they're trying just trying to work and feed their families. 151 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,820 That's why we get into wars. 152 00:08:56,820 --> 00:08:59,920 That's why we do all sorts of things. 153 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:07,400 We as in our society our government is not a moral force. 154 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:14,160 It's just a function of our society and it makes laws to make everything functions more 155 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:15,700 smoothly right. 156 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:18,180 There's not a moral element in fixing the road. 157 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:25,000 There's not a moral element to regulating pollution in my opinion. 158 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,840 Or regulating flavored cigars. 159 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:36,260 Right a lot of people try to bring emotion and morality into government functions and 160 00:09:36,260 --> 00:09:38,760 that is not how good government works. 161 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:46,040 Good government works on just facts and focusing on the facts and the fact is is that a woman 162 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:52,120 carrying a child is a citizen and the unborn child is not. 163 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:59,120 So the woman has all the rights and the unborn child has zero of the rights. 164 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:03,580 That's just the way the laws have to work in order for our society to function. 165 00:10:03,580 --> 00:10:12,880 If we look at nature right a lot of other species that their children are their offspring 166 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:19,280 I don't know some people get kind of messed up when you talk about pets or animals as 167 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:27,440 like people or whatever so the other animals offspring are usually born and then in an 168 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,440 hour a couple hours they're like good to go mostly you know yeah they still need their 169 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,600 mom for food, nursements and protection but they are up there running they're walking 170 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:47,680 they're jumping whatever and us our evolution has favored the brain so it keeps us in for 171 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:53,840 as long as the brain needs to cook and then we're out and we need you know the year, year 172 00:10:53,840 --> 00:11:01,640 and a half to actually be able to walk around longer to speak cohesively coherently to other 173 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,840 people to communicate. 174 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:13,980 So you could say that a fetus in the womb if you were to say well you can't abort this 175 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:20,000 fetus because it is a person well take it out and you're going to find out really quickly 176 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,400 that it's not. 177 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:22,440 It most certainly is not. 178 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,140 It can't sustain itself. 179 00:11:24,140 --> 00:11:26,240 It can't breathe on its own. 180 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,600 It can't even find food on its own. 181 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:38,280 You know a baby human abandoned on a doorstep if nobody checks the doorway it will die. 182 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,160 It doesn't have the means to feed. 183 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,800 It doesn't have the means to protect itself. 184 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:44,800 It can't move. 185 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,480 It can't even roll over yet. 186 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:59,120 I mean that's a developmental milestone is being able to roll over for humans. 187 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:05,560 Right and for those listeners who are trying to argue against Nate he's talking about wild 188 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:08,920 animals not domesticated animals. 189 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,200 A lot of people have experience with domesticated animals and a lot of times domesticated animals 190 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,360 are helpless for weeks and months. 191 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Yes. 192 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,640 But that's because we domesticated them and made them that way. 193 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:26,740 A dog cannot survive away from human society. 194 00:12:26,740 --> 00:12:30,840 We purposefully evolve those animals to be dependent on us. 195 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:31,840 Yeah. 196 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,720 And it's crazy because sometimes it doesn't even have to do with evolution. 197 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:42,920 There's a Raptor Center here in Minneapolis and they rescue eagles and falcons and other 198 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,080 Raptors birds of prey. 199 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:50,160 And there are some that are there and they say this bird can never ever be released back 200 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,460 to the wild even though we're here to rehabilitate them and to release them. 201 00:12:54,460 --> 00:12:56,640 That's our core mission. 202 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:03,600 But if they've become too humanized or too dependent on humans they cannot go back. 203 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,760 They'll just die. 204 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,880 You know and so I can see on one hand if we're going to stick with the Raptor Center. 205 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:16,600 Let's stick with the Raptor Center just for a moment. 206 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:23,840 You save a Raptor, you rehabilitate it and you say to truly be a Raptor you need to be 207 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:24,840 in the wild. 208 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:31,080 Well if you release it in the wild it will be killed or die of starvation. 209 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:37,160 And then the Raptor you spent all that time and effort on that was all wasted more or 210 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:42,200 less because maybe you bought it a couple extra months or a year but it wasn't ready 211 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:43,960 to go back. 212 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:54,240 And part of the way that humans have evolved is we're very tribal and social and you know 213 00:13:54,240 --> 00:14:02,200 you need that I don't know if you need the full 18 years but you certainly need I don't 214 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,040 know I don't know if it's six I don't know where it would be where you could go and actually 215 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,360 kind of like survive on your own. 216 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:13,740 It would depend on where you're from and where you live for sure because in a big city it's 217 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:19,840 different than out in the wilderness or out in a more rural setting. 218 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,680 But that's part of part of how we've evolved is our children our offspring they're dependent 219 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:34,960 on us for a good chunk of their early lives and without that input it's very very detrimental 220 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,440 and life-threatening in some cases. 221 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,960 Oh absolutely. 222 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:47,000 Children are extremely labor intensive for a decade at least a decade. 223 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:54,960 Yeah our daughter she loved she loved playing in the snow and she would play out there literally 224 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:00,340 all day but in Minnesota here it gets below zero and she doesn't know that she doesn't 225 00:15:00,340 --> 00:15:06,360 know what frostbite is she doesn't know what exposure is and if we weren't watching her 226 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,320 and didn't bring her in when she started getting cold even if she couldn't tell that she was 227 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:15,680 cold or couldn't articulate that she was cold you know there's there's certain things like 228 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:22,160 there's environmental factors to to consider as well. 229 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,480 Absolutely but this is just kind of a lengthy way of saying or trying to say that we're 230 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:36,800 trying really to look at this from as many angles as we can without becoming overly passionate 231 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,800 about one side or the other because like most things in American politics or just American 232 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:48,480 society because football teams can be very divisive and you can get to the very the us 233 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:54,800 versus them argument very very quickly in anything that you try and talk about with 234 00:15:54,800 --> 00:16:03,320 Americans very quickly and especially when people try to bring up morality because that's 235 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:09,800 like your opinion man you know you that's not a fact you can't back that up with evidence 236 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,640 you can make moralistic arguments but you can't it's not like one plus one equals two 237 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,120 you know. 238 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,520 And maybe and maybe this is a good kind of piggyback off of our last episode when you 239 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:26,420 were talking about the the Treaty of Tripoli where we're not and never have been and maybe 240 00:16:26,420 --> 00:16:29,520 until recently a Christian nation. 241 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,280 Right right you know. 242 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,880 Right and neither one of us are Christians so that does skew our perception. 243 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,600 Excuse it. 244 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,080 Not that I was raised Catholic so I do understand. 245 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,640 Yeah I was raised Lutheran which is Catholic light so. 246 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,520 Right. 247 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:54,680 You know we have less Latin but just kind of you know as much kind of strict adherence 248 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:59,000 to random random ramblings from the sky. 249 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,120 The Bible I mean. 250 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:08,520 Oh geez that's that's that's that's a zinger that's going to make people upset. 251 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:09,520 Good. 252 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,960 Let's get get your heart pumping. 253 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:18,280 Sure heart disease is one of the leading killers of Americans so let's let's get that blood 254 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,240 pressure up a little bit. 255 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:26,320 Let's let's delve into this first and foremost I think I should say this out front. 256 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:32,080 I am not concerned in the least about the leak from the Supreme Court. 257 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:33,400 I don't care that it happened. 258 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,600 I don't care who did it. 259 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,240 I don't want them to be punished. 260 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:44,120 Our our our court of the land should not be secret. 261 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:49,480 I don't care about the leak as much as I care about what was leaked. 262 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:54,720 See and I will come up I will say that I am not I'm not against the leak. 263 00:17:54,720 --> 00:18:01,200 I think that it was politically motivated who knows by who. 264 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:06,440 There's various factors that go into it and I ultimately don't think that Roe versus Wade 265 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:16,440 being struck down is going to matter ultimately because people who support abortion are the 266 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:24,320 majority and the states that have a lot of Democrats are already have legal abortion 267 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,240 it won't change. 268 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:32,160 The states that are run by the anti-abortion forces generally Republicans already restrict 269 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,560 abortion extremely. 270 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:41,700 I think that eventually those states will loosen up their abortions regulations due 271 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:45,520 to public pressure. 272 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:50,840 Unless there's some crazy riot there won't be any immediate change unfortunately people 273 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,840 will suffer usually poor women typically poor women or teenagers. 274 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,000 See that's what I was going to say. 275 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:03,860 You know that's who's getting abortions to begin with are poor women and you know disadvantaged 276 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:09,440 women and teenagers or women that have our their life is threatened or who've been raped 277 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,720 you know there's usually not a good situation. 278 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:17,660 I mean I should say 100 percent of the time there's reasons why people get abortions and 279 00:19:17,660 --> 00:19:19,880 it's because it's not good. 280 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:28,640 I don't have any proof of this but I saw something that said that you know the people who outlaw 281 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:34,040 abortions are the same people who will drive their kids to the abortion clinic or will 282 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:42,280 pay extra to have a kind of a clandestine abortion where nobody knows of it. 283 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:47,300 And I think it just kind of comes down to if you're in the ruling class you're not the 284 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:53,200 average citizen whether that citizen is wealthy or poor if you're in the ruling class a politician 285 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:58,560 or a corporation that sponsors or has bought in several politicians you know what the laws 286 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:04,360 don't matter to them and they're going to do whatever they do and mostly what they do 287 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:13,040 is kind of two faced and is really for some. 288 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,840 The best way to explain this is kind of like I've been reading Dune in the Dune series 289 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:22,080 and I'm halfway through the second book already but one of the lines in there is like plans 290 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:27,140 within plans within plans and so some of this stuff like we're just not going to understand 291 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:33,440 like why does what is a Republican conservative Republican Christian want to restrict abortions 292 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:38,480 when maybe they themselves have driven their daughter or their son's girlfriend to go get 293 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,640 an abortion like what's in it for them. 294 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:48,440 I don't know I couldn't tell you it's something that I can't I can't put a number on I can't 295 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:53,040 put a figure on because I'm not in that in that circle in that realm. 296 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,960 I don't know what all happens happens there. 297 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:04,680 The polling shows that about about 25 percent of the country is a hundred percent against 298 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:14,800 abortion and then about 60 percent are for abortion in some fashion of which about 25 299 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:22,860 percent are like me where it's like abortion all the way like I don't care. 300 00:21:22,860 --> 00:21:26,660 It's not a matter of morality to me. 301 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:33,840 I don't think that abortion is a good thing and I wouldn't I'm not a participant in abortions. 302 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:42,360 I would say that it's not right for me to do for me but I look at it purely from just 303 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,000 a government angle. 304 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,760 You know government is not a moral entity. 305 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:53,060 It does all sorts of things that are morally wrong but it does it for practical reasons 306 00:21:53,060 --> 00:21:57,120 and abortion exists for practical reasons because we have poor people. 307 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,800 You know we have prostitutes we have rapes we have teenagers who get pregnant. 308 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:07,600 These are factors in society that we have not alleviated and we have people that for 309 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,440 whatever reason the pregnancy doesn't go as planned and could threaten the mother. 310 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,440 Sure. 311 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:14,440 Absolutely. 312 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,840 You know absolutely and that's and I think bring up as well. 313 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:19,840 Yeah. 314 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:20,840 Well how about this. 315 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:21,840 How about this. 316 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,720 I'd say it's not a poor woman. 317 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:32,160 I'd say it's a slightly well to do woman and she gets pregnant but you know that doesn't 318 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:37,520 fit with her plan for her life. 319 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:38,520 That's her right or. 320 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:39,520 Okay. 321 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,540 I mean that's what I'm trying to get at because there are some people that say like if you're 322 00:22:42,540 --> 00:22:47,840 limiting women's right to choose regardless of class and I would say. 323 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,740 I don't want any limitations on it. 324 00:22:49,740 --> 00:22:50,740 It's not my business. 325 00:22:50,740 --> 00:22:53,760 No it's not my business either. 326 00:22:53,760 --> 00:23:01,520 I'm just saying that you know you hear all these arguments from the pros and the anti's. 327 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,040 Sure right. 328 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:11,880 My argument is typically not made in public because people aren't very philosophical about 329 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,800 what the role of government is. 330 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,680 They can choose what they want the government to do based on whatever their opinion is at 331 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:19,680 the time. 332 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,080 Yeah same with the Bible. 333 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,080 Absolutely. 334 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:31,160 So for those readers who don't know me obviously readers listeners who don't know me I was 335 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:38,640 heavily influenced by John Stuart Mill who wrote on liberty and who wrote utilitarianism 336 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:45,640 and I pretty much agree 100 percent with those two treatises. 337 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:52,040 For those who don't know utilitarianism is the concept that decisions should be made 338 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:59,280 based on what brings about the quote unquote greatest happiness which I generally think 339 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:05,280 how the is how the government should be run and on liberty is a statement that says the 340 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:10,600 individual should be free to do whatever they want as long as it does not directly harm 341 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:17,720 another individual not indirectly but directly harm somebody else. 342 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,840 See that's similar to to my thoughts. 343 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:28,280 I don't know where it came from or where it started out but the my right to swing my fist 344 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:34,040 ends at your face is is basically like a summation. 345 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,280 Right. 346 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,120 Of that. 347 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:43,720 Not not saying that you know given somebody the old one too isn't sometimes called for 348 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,760 but it's usually only in self-defense. 349 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:53,520 Usually speaking you can't just go waylay somebody because they called you a bad name 350 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,200 online or something like that. 351 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:04,360 But then we get into that definition of directly harming another individual and we've got people 352 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:09,880 that that say an unborn fetus is an individual. 353 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,920 Well that's where utilitarianism comes in. 354 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:22,000 Right the government has to run as a utilitarian entity in order to be fair and prosperous 355 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,280 and well run. 356 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:31,480 And unfortunately because of where our society works the greatest utility is that citizens 357 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:38,520 have rights and non-citizens don't because we as a society give benefits and rights and 358 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,680 perks to being a citizen and you have to in order to give benefits and perks you have 359 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,280 to exclude people who are part of the group. 360 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:54,040 And we don't give social security numbers to unborn children. 361 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,500 Right this is social security. 362 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,280 Now you're part of the system. 363 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:03,000 So let's talk about that because you're born and you don't necessarily have to file for 364 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,080 the social security number right away. 365 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:12,000 So are you telling me that if you put off filing for the social security number that 366 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:18,120 you could choose to post a post abort your child. 367 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,120 Very interesting. 368 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,680 I did not know that the parent had the option not to file for social security number. 369 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:24,680 I figured it was automatic. 370 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,320 You know it's I don't think it's no well it's not necessarily automatic. 371 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:34,480 It's something you certainly have to do but the hospital doesn't really care. 372 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,080 You know what I'm saying. 373 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,360 You have to fill out the birth certificate. 374 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:46,360 Kind of like your service card you know like you have to fill it out. 375 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:50,840 Yeah I don't you know I'm not sure you have to fill out the birth certificate but I know 376 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:58,080 that you know until the birth certificate is filed anyway you don't you're not assigned 377 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,400 a social security number and it takes the social security office some time to assign 378 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,400 one because they have all those numbers to count I guess. 379 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,600 Sure we're kind of splitting hairs here but you know what I mean. 380 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,160 Well no but I'm doing this as part of a devil's advocate. 381 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,720 Yes that's true. 382 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,080 Because I want to let's like delve into it a little bit. 383 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,080 Sure. 384 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:28,360 Because you know we're a modern society and even non-modern societies had bureaucracy. 385 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:34,160 So your child was born let's say you've got I don't know if there's a if there's a limit 386 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:39,920 between how long you can go before picking a name. 387 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,680 You know I mean and filling out the birth certificate like there's I'm sure there's 388 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:48,640 some statute of limitations like you have to do it at a certain point. 389 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,960 But then but then that's that if you if you would sit there and say until you have a social 390 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:56,520 security number you're not a citizen you don't have rights you're not an individual. 391 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:03,800 There's like a two maybe a two week window between everything being you know agreed upon 392 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,840 name wise and sent in and filed and then returned. 393 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,080 Sure. 394 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,760 Would that also be a legal time to terminate the pregnancy? 395 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,880 You know I would say that from a government perspective they have to establish some point 396 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,560 at which you become a citizen and have rights. 397 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,960 So if it was at the point of birth or is it at the point of you know at social security 398 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,560 I would say it has to be when you have a social security number. 399 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,360 Well okay so here's the other question because legally legally if you're born on American 400 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:39,160 soil you're an American citizen. 401 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,160 Absolutely. 402 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,640 That's why we have so many foreigners that come in and they call them anchor babies and 403 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,200 if that's a racist term I'm sorry but I don't know what else to call them. 404 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,560 Sure. 405 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,680 So then but they wouldn't have a social security number immediately either. 406 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,520 It's just they were born here. 407 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:02,200 Oh they would have a social security number if they're a citizen. 408 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,640 Yeah but did they file the proper paperwork? 409 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,000 Well that's another question. 410 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,000 Yeah I know. 411 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000 That's another question. 412 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,200 That's why I'm asking it. 413 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,160 By the way update I'm about halfway done with my cigar. 414 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,160 You're only halfway done? 415 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,560 I'm only halfway done. 416 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,120 Oh Mike Mike Mike. 417 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,160 I'm just about to the little wrapper the little. 418 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,840 Oh I took my wrapper out right away. 419 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,840 What's it called? 420 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,840 A band. 421 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,880 I've only got about an inch and a half left of the cigar. 422 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,320 Oh see and I have a good two inches left. 423 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,600 I've been smoking it slow. 424 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,560 I usually like this a lighter tasting tobacco. 425 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,560 Very smooth. 426 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,560 Yeah it's very smooth. 427 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,720 It's got that nice vanilla flavor. 428 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,720 Yeah. 429 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:53,040 I really enjoy it and I like to smoke these cigars with my Sarah because she likes them. 430 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,000 Okay yeah. 431 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,640 Here's my thoughts. 432 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,920 The first few puffs were not overly vanilla-y. 433 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:07,440 The subsequent I don't know 15 or 20 pretty strong vanilla. 434 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:14,120 I don't know if it's just my palate acclimating or the vanilla kind of tapering off a little 435 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,120 bit. 436 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,320 But I still get the vanilla. 437 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:21,640 It's just not as strong so it's a very smooth, very very smooth. 438 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,920 The sweetest part is probably the very beginning I think. 439 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,640 And it becomes kind of less sweet as you move along. 440 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,840 A lot of that has to do with the flavor on the wrapper. 441 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:32,840 Which is good for me. 442 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,800 Like I enjoy this. 443 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,320 This is a very good cigar. 444 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,520 They're excellent. 445 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,160 I don't particularly care for flavored tobacco products but those that I do like. 446 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,800 I really like. 447 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,880 And this is one of my favorites. 448 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,480 Well I can see why. 449 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,840 Just about anybody can smoke a cigar like this. 450 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:54,840 Yes. 451 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,520 Who's of age of course. 452 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,440 But you can definitely give one of these. 453 00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,440 This was a Robusto size. 454 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,780 I don't know if we said that. 455 00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:08,040 But anybody a non cigar smoker can easily smoke one of these and enjoy it. 456 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,400 Very nice and light and smooth and still got the good tobacco taste. 457 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,640 But they're overall a very good cigar. 458 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,320 Yeah it's still very much a cigar. 459 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:28,800 It's not one of the heavy air quotes cigars that the FDA is trying to ban where you smoke 460 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,800 grape cough syrup. 461 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:38,520 This is very much a cigar with vanilla in it. 462 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,280 Yes. 463 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:50,280 So anyway so yeah and you know like I say I'm pro-abortion and I don't pretend to care 464 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:58,960 what the arguments against abortion are because I don't it's just not practical. 465 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,120 And I don't care about the morality of it. 466 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,120 Do I think it's moral? 467 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,320 No. 468 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,040 Doesn't matter. 469 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,200 The government's not about what's right and wrong. 470 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:15,640 What is functional and what they can tax. 471 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:22,560 Right you know I mean we can look at the war on drugs and the legalization or persecution 472 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,760 of marijuana. 473 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:31,320 I guess I'm you know what I'm going to go out and just say that I am pro-citizen's choice 474 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:39,360 whether that's male, female or any of the other genders. 475 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:46,760 If you're a citizen then you have your choice and that should not be infringed by the government. 476 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,640 Absolutely. 477 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,800 I am very pro-personal liberty. 478 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,800 Yes. 479 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,040 And I don't think that there should be any restrictions on what people can and can't 480 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,840 do to themselves. 481 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,160 I support full drug legalization. 482 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,040 Oh me too. 483 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:09,720 Nobody's going to start smoking meth tomorrow because they legalize it. 484 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,960 It's not a realistic fear. 485 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,200 I'm not going to smoke meth. 486 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:20,680 You know people who are currently smoking meth are doing so regardless of what the law 487 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,680 states. 488 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,440 We might as well make it a little safer, legalize it and tax it. 489 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,440 Oh yeah. 490 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:33,320 I mean here I guess this is kind of you know. 491 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:39,280 Here's my kind of thought on hard drugs and things and I wouldn't consider marijuana a 492 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,360 hard drug. 493 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,200 But let's just go let's go here. 494 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,680 Preventative laws real quick. 495 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,480 I am 100% against preventative laws. 496 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:57,640 If I'm driving home and I'm staying in my lane and you pull me over and I blow over 497 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,140 the legal limit. 498 00:33:59,140 --> 00:34:03,960 I didn't hurt anybody, I didn't harm anybody else's property. 499 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,800 Leave me alone. 500 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:12,560 Now if I am intoxicated and I did damage to somebody's property or I did damage to somebody's 501 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:20,260 person or life, there should be a higher tier of punishment for me. 502 00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:21,800 But there shouldn't be preventative. 503 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,320 If I'm speeding, leave me alone. 504 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:32,240 If I am speeding and kill somebody or damage property, give me a higher tier punishment 505 00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:37,600 but do not give me a punishment preventatively for something I have not yet done. 506 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,040 I'm not as extreme on that as you. 507 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:48,200 Generally I think speed limits in residential neighborhoods should be low and enforced and 508 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:52,820 on highways they should be not there. 509 00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:57,840 Who cares what you're driving as long as the highway, drive as fast as you want on the 510 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:58,840 highway. 511 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,840 It's very difficult to design a highway that way. 512 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:06,160 Granted it's very difficult to design a highway that way. 513 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:14,280 But we could initiate an auto bond like policy and have people drive in the right lane at 514 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:18,240 a responsible speed and people who want to drive fast have them drive in the left lane. 515 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:25,200 Well I mean that's the whole issue is those slow people in the left lane. 516 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,560 They're ruining it for everybody, really. 517 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:32,880 But you know speed limits when they were first instituted, the cars were not the same as 518 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,600 today. 519 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:42,840 And you know you've got all of these crazy, crazy things that have come out. 520 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,640 And I drive a 2004 Honda Civic. 521 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,560 It doesn't have any sensors, it doesn't have backup cam or anything. 522 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,960 And my wife drives a 2016 Toyota RAV4 and it's got backup cameras, it's got proximity 523 00:35:54,960 --> 00:36:03,000 sensors, it's got blind spot detectors, it's got radar cruise control of all things. 524 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:10,200 And I don't know, you know, if those things work and those things are legal then there 525 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,720 shouldn't be a speed limit. 526 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:13,720 Sure. 527 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:22,160 But like I said, the only issue would be teenagers driving through residential neighborhoods. 528 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,640 I can see that. 529 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,480 You know, I mean I understand, you know, kids playing in the street. 530 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:33,480 But that also comes kind of down to personal responsibility too is if you feel in control 531 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,060 of your vehicle is one thing, that's personal responsibility. 532 00:36:37,060 --> 00:36:42,200 And if you're not in control of your vehicle then you need a punishment befitting that. 533 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:47,240 The other personal responsibility is the roads, the streets. 534 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,160 And kids aren't perfect and kids are learning. 535 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:56,440 But roads are not play areas, you know. 536 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,440 And that's something that we're working with our daughter on is if we're crossing the street 537 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,800 you hold one of our hands or both. 538 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,480 You know, we look both ways and she's not quite two yet. 539 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,860 But she knows when she comes up to the street she'll reach out for one of our hands. 540 00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:13,080 So that's where I mean we're working on. 541 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,760 She doesn't do it every single time, but she does it a majority of the time. 542 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:18,760 But you know what? 543 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:19,760 All it takes is one time. 544 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:29,740 So you know, for me there could be a little wiggle room in residential areas and things 545 00:37:29,740 --> 00:37:30,740 like that. 546 00:37:30,740 --> 00:37:36,640 But the other thing is we've got an uncontrolled intersection in our neighborhood here. 547 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:46,400 There's no stop signs whatsoever on one intersection and that bothers me just as a driver because 548 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,760 I don't trust other people. 549 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,760 But we don't really value personal responsibility in our society. 550 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,160 So that's another kind of contributing factor. 551 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:02,760 Given your neighborhood I'm guessing you have a lot of Norwegian standoffs at that intersection. 552 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,440 You know, actually I've never ever met another car at that intersection. 553 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,240 But it still bothers me. 554 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:11,520 I try not to go that way. 555 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,640 I go different ways to avoid that intersection because I don't like it. 556 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,640 I don't like it. 557 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:16,640 But I love roundabouts. 558 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,840 But I hate that intersection. 559 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,840 Most people hate them. 560 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:21,840 The roundabout. 561 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,080 Depends on where they're located. 562 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,160 They're my favorite thing. 563 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,200 I wish every intersection was a roundabout. 564 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:33,320 I know we can't do it because of square footage or whatever, but I love roundabouts. 565 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,720 A lot of it is traffic volume too. 566 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:41,600 I hate other people trying to use roundabouts, but I love using roundabouts. 567 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,800 I almost rear-ended an old lady at a roundabout. 568 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,840 I had to take the center of a roundabout to avoid hitting her because she stopped in the 569 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:50,840 middle of the roundabout. 570 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:51,840 Yep. 571 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,560 And that's the problem with roundabouts is people aren't taught them and they can't. 572 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,280 It's almost like, can you fix my Wi-Fi? 573 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,840 Can you teach me how to use this roundabout? 574 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,800 Like it's simple. 575 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,800 Same one. 576 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,960 Somebody came backwards down that same one and was going in a circle, man. 577 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:15,760 Was going down the road when I was driving down it. 578 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,000 It's interesting. 579 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,240 Yeah. 580 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,360 People are interesting. 581 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:28,040 I don't think we solved the Roe v. Wade thing. 582 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:32,720 One of the concerns I saw online, and it's very tough now for me to decipher if people 583 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:40,400 are actually being reasonable or if they're trying to perpetuate a political message one 584 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:45,160 way or the other, but they were saying that if Roe v. Wade gets overturned, then they 585 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:51,280 might also make condoms illegal unless you're married or something. 586 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,520 And I don't know, man. 587 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,920 There's a lot of open room there. 588 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,640 And I will say, this is one thing that I will say that is political. 589 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:06,640 I feel that I have not been pro or anti-democratic Republican too much. 590 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:15,320 But as of today, and it has been for a long time, there's a bill in the Senate with 48 591 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:21,040 Democratic sponsors who have already written onto it that would legalize abortion nationwide. 592 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:30,800 And those weak Democrats will not bring it up for a vote even though they have 48 signatures. 593 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:37,240 So those of you who are going to say all Republican this and Republican that, you're barking up 594 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:38,640 the wrong tree. 595 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:45,680 The Democratic Party are the ones who have caused this problem because they can't put 596 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:52,760 the pressure on the members of the Senate and the members of Congress to pass a law 597 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,020 even though they have a majority. 598 00:40:55,020 --> 00:40:57,760 They have a majority in the Senate, they have a majority in the Congress, and they have 599 00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,080 the presidency. 600 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,160 They could easily pass this through. 601 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,280 Easily. 602 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,780 No problem at all. 603 00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:07,280 And they won't fucking do it. 604 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:13,600 So if you want to look at who's responsible if you're pro-abortion, look at your Democratic 605 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,960 senators and Congress people. 606 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:16,960 And the president. 607 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,080 Or better yet, give them a call. 608 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,080 Send them a letter. 609 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,080 Sure. 610 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,680 I don't know if that works. 611 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,680 I think it does. 612 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:25,680 I mean, it might. 613 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:26,680 It might. 614 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:27,680 I don't know. 615 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:34,920 I know usually they don't read them, their aides do. 616 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:35,920 Right. 617 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:41,360 I know one of the big talking points during the last election was that Joe Biden was going 618 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,040 to be an arm twister because he was in the Senate for so many years. 619 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:50,280 It's like, well, the people who are in charge of the government, who are all Democrats, 620 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,600 are not willing to bring up the dirty laundry of their fellow members of government to get 621 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,800 this law passed. 622 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:57,800 And that's what it takes. 623 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,400 But they're all like 102 years old, though. 624 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:05,600 Well, I know, but you know, there's always dirty laundry to bring out, you know. 625 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:11,080 LBJ was having secret meetings with the Republicans in his bathroom, you know what I mean? 626 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,840 They can do the nipple pinch if they got to do it. 627 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,800 Have all the places to do a secret meeting. 628 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:17,800 He did. 629 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:18,800 He did, famously. 630 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,680 He would take shits and talk to people and threaten them. 631 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:27,800 Well, you know, I guess if you're talking to somebody taking an angry shit and they're 632 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,440 threatening you, they don't really have a whole lot to fear. 633 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:32,440 Right. 634 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:39,600 But so that's, you know, that is my little political statement is that there is a bill, 635 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,880 there's been a bill, it's the same bill that's been around forever. 636 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:48,160 It's basically codifying Roe versus Wade into federal law, which would make the Supreme 637 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,280 Court null and void. 638 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,800 But they won't do it because they don't want to do it because they want to run on it because 639 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:58,160 it's a political issue and they don't care about the consequences. 640 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,360 And there's no there's no negative repercussions for them doing so. 641 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,680 And they're going to continue to do it probably. 642 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:05,680 Yeah. 643 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:13,720 And you know what, I don't know if we talked about it, but I don't vote anymore. 644 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:21,880 I used to and I used to vote third party and until I realized and it was I learned that 645 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:26,120 Republicans and Democrats work together to keep third parties off the ballot because 646 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:31,640 they feed all the media and they say, you know, vote for third party is stealing a vote 647 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:37,360 from insert your favorite political party of the two here. 648 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,960 And they work very efficiently together to keep third parties off the ballots, to keep 649 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:46,700 third parties out of the public mind. 650 00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:51,720 You know, and they work very hard to keep things that keep them in power is kind of 651 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:53,640 what it comes down to. 652 00:43:53,640 --> 00:44:00,520 And it's very, very frustrating for somebody who was kind of taught that even one vote 653 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,840 can count and matter. 654 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:08,760 But with the Electoral College and with the kind of the brainwashing of the American populace 655 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:17,200 with third parties are wasted votes, it's going to take a huge campaign to undo that 656 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,560 in the public eye, I think. 657 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:27,160 Well, the winner takes all voting system we have benefits a two party system. 658 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:32,680 And it is just a fact that the Democrats and the Republicans are almost identical on every 659 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,200 issue that matters. 660 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:39,240 Yeah, that'd be economics, war, taxes. 661 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:43,080 They agree on all the things that actually affect how government works. 662 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:48,320 Yeah, and they fight on the little little things that don't affect them, but could have 663 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,600 huge consequences for for citizens. 664 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,500 Sure, it has huge consequences. 665 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:58,560 But there's typically and this is my opinion, the arguments usually don't have negative 666 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:03,640 consequences if they just do the quote unquote right thing. 667 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:10,160 You know, legalizing gay marriage didn't negatively affect anybody. 668 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:15,280 People owning guns legally doesn't negatively affect anyone. 669 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,620 You know, there's a lot of these issues that they want to talk about. 670 00:45:18,620 --> 00:45:23,900 There's no negative consequences for half of the issue, quote unquote. 671 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:30,760 You know, trans people having basic human rights does not negatively affect anyone. 672 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:36,160 Yeah, you know, a lot of it's just bullshit. 673 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:40,720 It's bullshit because it makes people emotional and they want to talk about morality and blah, 674 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:41,720 blah, blah. 675 00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:43,720 And, you know, it doesn't matter. 676 00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:46,840 What matters is that we don't have a flat tax. 677 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,960 What matters is we don't have universal health care. 678 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,880 What matters is that we are fighting wars on multiple continents. 679 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,360 What matters is we have 180 military bases. 680 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,560 What matters is that our military takes half of our budget. 681 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,540 What matters is we're running deficits every year. 682 00:46:01,540 --> 00:46:03,420 But both parties want to run deficits. 683 00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:06,280 Both parties want to have fucking a huge war machine. 684 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:11,120 Both parties don't want to tax corporations. 685 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,760 Both parties don't want to put tariffs on foreign made goods. 686 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,320 So it won't change. 687 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,280 And those things would have real long term benefits, you know. 688 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,280 Yeah. 689 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:26,920 Not to sit on my high horse or, you know, up in my tower. 690 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,600 Hey, it's called the soap box, Mike. 691 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:30,600 Yeah, I know. 692 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,600 I know. 693 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,280 It's all bullshit is what it is. 694 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,280 It's all bullshit. 695 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:35,280 Yeah. 696 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,280 But you know what? 697 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,920 It's our podcast and if we have soap boxes, then they're ours to stand on. 698 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:40,920 I guess so. 699 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:41,920 Yeah. 700 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,160 But, you know, I agree. 701 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:49,600 It's very it's one of those things where the more you learn about American politics, kind 702 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,720 of the more depressed you become. 703 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:54,080 Oh, sure. 704 00:46:54,080 --> 00:47:01,800 I love the CNN quote and they were talking about firearm control after a school shooting, 705 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,440 which I'm anti school shooting. 706 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,440 Yeah, me too. 707 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:11,600 I just I want to make that clear that we're both anti school shooting. 708 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:16,440 But some CNN host said fully semi automatic firearms. 709 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:22,760 And it's like what a manipulation to people who don't understand firearms. 710 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:27,040 Fully semi automatic is a nonsense term to scare people that don't know what the fuck 711 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:28,040 they're talking about. 712 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:29,040 Yeah. 713 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,460 You know, and I don't like Steven Crowder. 714 00:47:32,460 --> 00:47:39,320 I'm not a fan, but he did a great video where he had a bunch of models of the Ruger 1022 715 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:44,240 and he had people point at which ones they want to ban and which ones would be legal. 716 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:47,680 And then of course, they pointed all the ones that were souped up with the extended magazines 717 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,120 and they had plastic stocks. 718 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:50,800 You know, they're like, oh, that one's OK. 719 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,920 And it's like the wood one with a short magazine in it. 720 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,440 Yeah, it's like they are all extended magazines. 721 00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,440 They're all the same gun. 722 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:00,920 You know, they're all the same firing mechanism. 723 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,320 Well, yeah, it's all the same. 724 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:03,320 It's all the same thing. 725 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:04,320 Mine is stainless. 726 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,560 I've got a Ruger 1022 stainless steel composite stock. 727 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,560 I've got a couple of banana clips, you know, quote unquote banana clips. 728 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,560 I also have a Ruger 1022. 729 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,040 Yeah, and it's wood. 730 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,760 And I have a lot of 25 round all Ruger branded magazines. 731 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,440 Well, yours is safe and mine is not very clearly. 732 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:22,440 Yeah, because mine's wood. 733 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:23,720 Yeah, it's got a scope on it. 734 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:24,720 Yeah, mine's stainless steel. 735 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:25,720 I don't have a scope. 736 00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:26,720 I just got the pop up sights. 737 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:28,720 So OK, yeah, no, I have a scope. 738 00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:30,680 I used to shoot Prairie Dogs with it. 739 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,680 We would do all that. 740 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,320 Obviously, you know where I live. 741 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,720 It's like shooting squirrels and porcupines and, you know, the skunks and stuff. 742 00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,080 Oh, yeah, just the last one. 743 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,560 Last skunk I shot, I shot him with your hunting rifle. 744 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,640 Well, sometimes you got to send them extra quick to God. 745 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:53,000 I just wanted to make sure that I hit it and it would die right away. 746 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,400 You know, all those things. 747 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,320 Yeah, but the humane thing. 748 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,360 Yeah, I was trying to be I was trying to be as humane as possible. 749 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:06,320 And it was a way it was long enough to where I wasn't quite sure that 22 was going to be 750 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,960 able to, you know, I wasn't sure about my optics. 751 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,280 Yes. 752 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,520 So anyway, it's it's it's all AstroTurf. 753 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:23,320 And this I feel that abortion is along the same lines. 754 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:28,320 The most of the people that really care about abortion are not going to be affected by the 755 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,320 laws changing. 756 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,600 You know, it's kind of a hidden issue. 757 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,600 People getting abortions. 758 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:40,600 Yeah, it's you know, there's definitely social stigma around it. 759 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,660 Oh, sure. 760 00:49:42,660 --> 00:49:48,880 And now they're publishing various animal medicines you can take to induce abortion. 761 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,440 And, you know, there's all sorts of stuff like that. 762 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:57,120 You know, I think and maybe that's a good point and maybe a good because I'm done with 763 00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,080 my cigar and it was it was very delightful. 764 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,840 I did enjoy that. 765 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:10,360 But I think that by making abortion illegal or trying to or giving people the impression 766 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:17,260 that it is, will make people do more dangerous things. 767 00:50:17,260 --> 00:50:26,800 And by doing that, you are not not having your citizens best interests in mind when 768 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:33,200 you're passing laws, which is one of the functions of government, allegedly. 769 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,880 And it's kind of the same with drugs. 770 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,540 And are drugs legal or not legal? 771 00:50:38,540 --> 00:50:40,480 And if they're not, well, guess what? 772 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:47,320 Somebody is going to go huff glue or somebody is going to, I don't know, do something else 773 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:53,800 when they could be getting a legally illegal amount of drugs. 774 00:50:53,800 --> 00:51:00,480 The only kind of anecdote that I have is going to like a weed dispensary. 775 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:07,640 You know exactly the content of THC and CBD and everything in those drugs is right on 776 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,320 the package. 777 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:14,120 You're not taking a chance that somebody put rat poison in it or or whatever else you might 778 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:19,680 mix with it or cut with it to save a buck and make more money at the drug dealer's table. 779 00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:20,880 You know, you know exactly what's in it. 780 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:22,240 It's been tested. 781 00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:23,240 It's there. 782 00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:27,360 You know, you know the amount, the potency. 783 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:28,940 The same with drinking beer. 784 00:51:28,940 --> 00:51:30,960 You can look right on the can or the package. 785 00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,760 What's the ABV? 786 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,240 You know, you know, they're all legal things. 787 00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:40,680 Like there's there's no harm in legalizing everything. 788 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:47,080 The leading cause of death of 18 to 48 year olds is drug overdose. 789 00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,360 And it was during the pandemic and it is now. 790 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:54,800 And it's largely caused by fentanyl being cut into the drug supply and people are largely 791 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,160 unaware of it. 792 00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,480 So if we really want to save American lives, we'd legalize drugs and people would go to 793 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,220 the pharmacist and pick up their heroin. 794 00:52:03,220 --> 00:52:05,360 So there wasn't any fucking fentanyl in it. 795 00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,320 And I think to be clear, fentanyl is a legal drug. 796 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:09,320 It's legal. 797 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:10,320 Right. 798 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,200 And it's been and it's been. 799 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:23,600 Oh, lobbied for and the big powers that be big pharma companies have lobbied to keep 800 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:24,600 that legal. 801 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:30,600 Oxycontin and other narcotics that are terrible, terrible things when you could just smoke 802 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:36,400 weed or some other drug that's a lot safer, but illegal. 803 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:37,560 Right. 804 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:44,480 And if people want to use fentanyl, if they could pick it up legally, then they would 805 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,080 know the dose they would need and they wouldn't overdose. 806 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,640 Well, overdose less often. 807 00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,160 They might still overdose. 808 00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:55,960 But at least you could put it squarely on them and not on the drug companies that just 809 00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,040 make this stuff, pump it out and want people to use it. 810 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:00,040 Right. 811 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,240 You know, I mean, look at all the drug ads on TV. 812 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:04,280 Is this drug right for you? 813 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:05,280 Go ask your doctor. 814 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:10,160 It's the only country in the world where drug companies market directly to citizens. 815 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:11,160 New Zealand. 816 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,040 Oh, New Zealand is New Zealand's the other one. 817 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:15,720 But they have a universal health care system. 818 00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:18,400 So yeah, it's kind of other places. 819 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,640 The doctors are the experts. 820 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,240 And if the doctors think your drug is good, they're going to recommend it. 821 00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:24,160 And if they think it's bad, they're not. 822 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:29,240 But here they get a cut for everybody who gets whatever drug it is. 823 00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:30,900 Right. 824 00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:35,820 And like you say, this is a tertiary issue to the main event. 825 00:53:35,820 --> 00:53:42,360 But there is an argument to be made that Russia, or not Russia, China is initiating a quote 826 00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:49,640 unquote third opium war because they're allowing mass production, legal production of fentanyl 827 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,120 and illegal sale to the United States. 828 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:57,400 So but that's a separate, you know, obviously not related to Roe vs. Wood. 829 00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:58,400 Yes. 830 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,000 That's another podcast topic in the future. 831 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,000 Yeah, it might be another podcast topic in the future. 832 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,160 But the point is to say that the government, we're just trying to get to the bottom of 833 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:10,800 what the government should or shouldn't be doing for its citizens. 834 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:19,600 And I hope that we have shown that maybe government limiting things that could be safely done 835 00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:24,080 if they were legal is dangerous to everybody. 836 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:25,380 Right. 837 00:54:25,380 --> 00:54:31,800 And as an update, last final cigar update, I am borderline roach clipping this and it 838 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,120 is still lovely. 839 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:39,120 Yeah, you know what, I smoked a lot more off of this one than the than the Cohiba. 840 00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,880 And I could have kept going, but my fingers are getting a bit warm. 841 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,440 So that's where I'm at now. 842 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:47,960 Yeah. 843 00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:52,440 So anyway, CEO Moon Trance. 844 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:53,440 I'm for them. 845 00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,440 I like them a lot. 846 00:54:56,440 --> 00:55:02,040 I recommend if you see them at a cigar shop and you've never had one, buy two. 847 00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,320 Yep. 848 00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,200 And if you don't see them at your cigar shop, call your congressman. 849 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,200 That's right. 850 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:14,920 Fight against the man or woman or them. 851 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:31,840 Until next time, have a good weekend.