1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,080 Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Mike. 2 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,080 And I'm Nate. 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,520 What are we smoking today, Nate? 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,480 We are smoking a Nub Connecticut. 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,120 Yes. 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:23,680 And it does have a bit of a peppery spice to the wrapper, which is quite nice at the 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,160 beginning, but we're going to light up now and we'll get rolling. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,240 I have high expectations for this. 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:37,600 I thought we talked about having low expectations for everything we smoke. 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:38,600 We did. 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,760 Usually it's a set of profilure. 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:47,040 This will be to solidify whether or not Mike is becoming a Connecticut person. 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:48,040 Yes. 14 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,040 That's why I'm excited. 15 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:50,040 That is why. 16 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,240 So what are we going to talk about today, Nate? 17 00:00:53,240 --> 00:01:04,480 All right, so there are some recent news that hit home for Mike and myself. 18 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:12,680 Just came out that the federal government charged 47 people in Minnesota with conspiracy 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:20,760 and other counts in what was a massive scheme that took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic 20 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:28,240 to steal $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low income children. 21 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,740 And so this nonprofit is called Feeding Our Future. 22 00:01:32,740 --> 00:01:39,920 And apparently there were 47 people that were taking this money and buying luxury cars and 23 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:45,760 jewelry and property and other things that kids cannot eat. 24 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,680 Well, they were feeding their future in a manner of speaking. 25 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,120 That's true. 26 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:59,360 And I suppose they're ensuring that prison guards stay employed now that they're being 27 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:04,040 charged. 28 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:11,920 So I had never really heard of Feeding Our Future. 29 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,660 I've never heard of that either. 30 00:02:13,660 --> 00:02:21,160 But I don't really travel in the nonprofit circles except for the brief five years when 31 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,760 I worked for one, not this one that we're talking about. 32 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,760 No. 33 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:31,440 That one also has some interesting background story. 34 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:39,340 Yeah, so I used to work for the Boy Scouts of America and they recently changed some 35 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:44,640 things but I've had taken issue with a lot of their positions on a lot of things for 36 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:45,740 a long time. 37 00:02:45,740 --> 00:02:52,120 So not necessarily what we're talking about this episode unless they show up on this list 38 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:57,840 because with this nonprofit getting slapped so close to home, we thought, well, what other 39 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,760 nonprofits are out there that are corrupt? 40 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,600 And I remember hearing about certain people saying, this nonprofit that's supposed to 41 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:12,800 help cancer research, maybe doesn't actually send that much money to cancer research and 42 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:13,880 so on and so forth. 43 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:20,200 So I just typed in corrupt nonprofits and clicked on the first one which brought us 44 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:26,000 to this website that looks super legit called Top 10s with a Z of course. 45 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,440 And it's a.net so it has to be true. 46 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,960 But it was updated in 2019. 47 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:33,960 So we will see. 48 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:40,160 We're just going to kind of go through here and see what their criteria is. 49 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,920 And if we have any insight on any of these nonprofits, we'll find out. 50 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,160 And if the nonprofits we want to talk about aren't actually on this list, then we'll 51 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,240 talk about them anyway. 52 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:58,600 At the start, we should say that neither Mike nor I are in any way related to the legal. 53 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,200 We're not lawyers, we're not doctors. 54 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,560 Anything we say here should not imply guilt. 55 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,400 We have not thoroughly fact checked any of this stuff. 56 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,880 This is an entertainment podcast. 57 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,320 Please don't draw any conclusions from this. 58 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,600 That would get Mike or myself in trouble. 59 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:14,600 Yes. 60 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:15,960 Yes, yes. 61 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:23,720 You sent me an article, was it last week, about the churches and the churches are notoriously 62 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:24,720 corrupt. 63 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:25,720 Oh, yes. 64 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:26,720 Yes. 65 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:27,880 Oh, no, I shouldn't say all of them. 66 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,360 That's a really wide sweep. 67 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,360 99% of them. 68 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,720 The Catholic church is notoriously corrupt. 69 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,720 Yeah. 70 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,720 And that one was specifically focused around the Catholic church because they didn't want 71 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:44,920 to have to follow the mandatory reporting for child abuse. 72 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Yes, for reporting abuse, for reporting crimes, let's put it that way. 73 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,760 The Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses were also implicated in that one. 74 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,960 Yes. 75 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:03,400 And as we know, a lot of Protestants are actually Catholic light. 76 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:08,800 So despite the fact that they think they're Protestant, they're really kind of the same. 77 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:09,840 Yes. 78 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,000 In a lot of cases. 79 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,320 That's not true of all of them for sure, but there are some that are closer to the Catholic 80 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,920 church than they would lead you to believe. 81 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,680 Sure. 82 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,080 Nothing beats the corruption of a televangelist. 83 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:30,120 I don't know if any televangelist is not corrupt. 84 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,560 I would have no idea. 85 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:39,600 Let's dive into that really quick because Sarah and I watched The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 86 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,040 which is not the documentary. 87 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,360 There's also a documentary about her and she was the wife of? 88 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:47,360 Jim Baker. 89 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,700 Jim Baker. 90 00:05:48,700 --> 00:05:55,680 And she actually broke away from him and she was one of the first televangelists to embrace 91 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:01,360 and actually physically embrace and touch a person with AIDS on TV. 92 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:07,480 And from what I hear is he was super corrupt, but she broke away from that and started doing 93 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,320 good with her personality. 94 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:15,400 And a lot of people kind of make fun of her for her look, which is ridiculous, but it's 95 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,640 her choice and what she wants to do. 96 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,960 And from everything I've read about her, she seemed to be very open and loving. 97 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,480 So I don't know. 98 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:28,360 Yeah, I'm sure she was not at all involved with embezzling money like Jim Baker. 99 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:35,080 Well, I mean, you can make the argument because if you're married, that's kind of the legal 100 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,080 thing, right? 101 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,240 Is like, how could you not know your spouse was doing this or whatever? 102 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,820 And it was a different era too. 103 00:06:41,820 --> 00:06:48,200 So the women weren't typically as involved in a lot of the business dealings. 104 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,400 But that's not for me to decide whether she was or wasn't corrupt. 105 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:52,400 Right. 106 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,200 Jim Baker's still out there shilling bullets buckets on TV. 107 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:02,640 I mean, maybe she was corrupt and she's repented now and is doing good. 108 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:03,640 I don't know. 109 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,120 I think she's dead. 110 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,120 Could be. 111 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:09,120 Isn't she? 112 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,480 I don't know as I watched the fictionalized version of her life and not the true one, 113 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,120 I did a little bit of research after that. 114 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,640 And it seemed to me she was a pretty stand up kind of person. 115 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:19,640 But sure. 116 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:25,080 Again, that's just a Tammy Faye Baker Foundation. 117 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,040 Could be. 118 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:32,280 But that was just the cursory kind of service level deep dive that I did that wasn't all 119 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,280 that deep or a dive. 120 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:35,640 Sure. 121 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,480 She's probably the least corrupt of all the televangelists if you separate her from her 122 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,480 husband or ex-husband. 123 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,480 Yes. 124 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:53,520 But you know, like Jimmy Carter is probably the least corrupt of all the presidents. 125 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,220 Possibly. 126 00:07:55,220 --> 00:07:57,520 In recent time anyway, we'll say. 127 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,400 Because he still goes and helps with I think Habitat for Humanity and builds homes and 128 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:02,400 things. 129 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Sure. 130 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,840 That doesn't mean he wasn't part of a corrupt office. 131 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:06,840 Right. 132 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,160 That doesn't mean he wasn't corrupt. 133 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,520 He just wasn't as corrupt as the other guys. 134 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,520 Yeah. 135 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:18,480 Maybe it wasn't a way of life for him like it is for so many of these other politicians. 136 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:23,080 But this is a top 10 countdown of the nonprofits that are corrupt. 137 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,840 And it's got a little bit of information about like fans. 138 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,160 No, not fans. 139 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,800 Sorry. 140 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,800 Fines. 141 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:40,360 I just I saw this nonprofit and I guess I was thinking of OnlyFans or something. 142 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:47,800 So number 10, unless you can guess Mike, on this top10s.net top 10 nonprofit organization. 143 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,280 I have no idea. 144 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:50,280 Okay. 145 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,240 The American Association of State Troopers. 146 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,480 Interesting. 147 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,220 And I don't know what criteria they're kind of judging this by. 148 00:08:58,220 --> 00:09:04,400 Maybe we'll find out as we go along, but you can certainly go and Google this or DuckDuckGoIt, 149 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:11,640 which is what I did, or BraveIt, however you like to keep yourself safe online. 150 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,520 But this one says the mission statement, it was formed to provide benefits for troopers 151 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,760 as well as their families. 152 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:28,200 From 2004 to 2011, they raised $45 million and spent less than $4 million on member benefits. 153 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:34,160 Also it says that they've been fined five times by regulators and paid out $300,000 154 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,160 in fines. 155 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,960 So that's a good profit margin. 156 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:38,960 Yeah. 157 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,720 I mean, taking in $45 million and only having to pay out four, that's pretty good. 158 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,600 Oh, four plus the $300,000. 159 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:53,120 Well yeah, but with the remaining 41, I mean, $300,000 is a drop in the bucket, right? 160 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,120 Right. 161 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:55,120 That's not bad. 162 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,120 Yeah. 163 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,960 And they're a nonprofit, they don't have to pay taxes. 164 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,880 And this is number 10, so it's only going to get better from here. 165 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,720 I mean worse, depending on how you're looking at it. 166 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,720 All right. 167 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:07,720 It's inspiration. 168 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,720 Yeah. 169 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:14,640 So you too can start a nonprofit and fleece everyone. 170 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:15,840 We're not telling you to do that. 171 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,720 We're just saying it apparently is not that hard to do. 172 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,960 Number nine, Cancer Fund of America. 173 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,600 So this is America going to be the theme? 174 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:27,600 Nope. 175 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,840 It's going to be blah, blah, blah of America every time. 176 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,280 No, I think it's just these two and then we're going to get into some other stuff. 177 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,800 So the Cancer Fund claims to be on the front lines of the fight against cancer. 178 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:45,080 However, the Cancer Fund of America does not spend a dime to fund research or pay for cancer 179 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,900 treatment of victims and their families that are struggling to survive. 180 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:55,760 So instead what they do is they collect donated goods, including shampoo, DVDs, and air fresheners, 181 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:01,800 which they ship to dying patients who have lost everything in attempt to pay for the 182 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:08,920 treatment because we're in some kind of corporate driven medical hellscape here. 183 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:14,640 So over, according to the IRS records, according to this website is the caveat, over the last 184 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:20,120 decade the fundraisers have collected over $98 million in donations while patients have 185 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,920 gotten less than $1 million in direct cash aid. 186 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,520 That's very clever. 187 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:31,440 And I guess there's some documents that show that the founder and at least a dozen other 188 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:36,840 family members earn a total of a million dollars a year in salary from the organization. 189 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,240 Oh, that's pretty good salary. 190 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,480 I mean, it's not outrageous or anything. 191 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,560 And it's all to help the dying kids. 192 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:46,560 Yes. 193 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:48,680 The broke dying people. 194 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:49,680 Yeah. 195 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:53,960 I mean, you know, I can understand trying to fleece the state troopers because like, 196 00:11:53,960 --> 00:12:00,880 fuck those guys, but dying kids. 197 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:07,480 Sarah was driving through a detour today and it was an unannounced detour. 198 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:08,480 Yeah. 199 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:13,080 There was a cop hiding in one of the bushes trying to catch people speeding through the 200 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,800 unannounced detour. 201 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,800 That's the dumbest. 202 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,680 I mean, like don't treat us like criminals. 203 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:20,680 Right? 204 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:21,680 Right. 205 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:22,680 Yeah. 206 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:25,920 There's not a single unsolved crime in your jurisdiction. 207 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,560 You don't have anything better to do. 208 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:30,600 And I'm not, I'm not seriously saying like, fuck all the state troopers. 209 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,640 It's just whenever you look in the rear view mirror, you're never happy to see them. 210 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:34,640 No. 211 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,640 Usually it's a bad day. 212 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:40,040 They do good work and they do good things, so I'm not trying to, you know, I mean, I 213 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:45,280 understand like they're not dying like kids with cancer. 214 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:51,280 So the kids with cancer one so far is like worse for me, but I guess that's why the kids 215 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:52,680 with cancer one was number nine. 216 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:53,680 All right. 217 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:54,680 Number eight. 218 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:57,680 I think there's going to be a recurring theme, but not what you thought it was. 219 00:12:57,680 --> 00:12:58,680 Okay. 220 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:02,040 The Children's Wish Foundation International. 221 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,120 I've heard of them. 222 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:08,120 Now let's be very clear, this is not the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 223 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:13,640 This is one that is, there's several charities that try and mimic the name. 224 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:19,280 You know, like when they put out, when like Pixar announces a movie coming out, like their 225 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:20,800 latest one was like Lucky. 226 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:21,800 It wasn't Pixar. 227 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,440 It was John Lasseter who broke away from Pixar, but that's not important. 228 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,280 Like when a big, big studio name animated movie is coming out, like Lucky about a black 229 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:31,280 cat. 230 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,640 It wasn't really about the black cat, but that's what's on the poster. 231 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:40,200 And you get all these like ripoff CGI animated movies for kids and it's called like unlucky 232 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,600 black cat or something. 233 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,040 You know, they all try and like ride that hype train, hoping that somebody is going 234 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,880 to mistake their movie for the one that's actually paying for the advertisements. 235 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:50,880 Sure. 236 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,880 Like Lord of the G-string. 237 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,040 Yes. 238 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,480 Or Lamageddon. 239 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:03,640 And then 20 years later, Lamageddon came out to try and ride the publicity. 240 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:04,640 Yeah. 241 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,400 I think that Lamageddon is probably a lot more legitimate. 242 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,400 Yes. 243 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:10,400 Harry Twatter. 244 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:11,640 I've never actually seen Harry Twatter. 245 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:12,640 Okay. 246 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,680 So we're not talking necessarily about porn movies. 247 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:19,760 We're just talking about like when you go, like if you ever heard the grocery store, 248 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:24,680 you see the red box and you see something that looks like the new Pixar movie coming 249 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,600 out, but it very clearly isn't. 250 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,440 But the name and like the poster is just close enough that the kids won't notice because 251 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,240 most of them won't read. 252 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,240 Yes. 253 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,320 It looks similar visually and the parents aren't really paying attention. 254 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:37,320 Blah, blah, blah, blah. 255 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,640 And also Harry Twatter, that sounds disgusting. 256 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:40,640 Where is that? 257 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,280 Where can I find that? 258 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,080 I know that it exists, but I've never seen it. 259 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,080 Okay. 260 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,240 I have seen Lord of the G-string though. 261 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,720 It was on SkinnyMax back in the day. 262 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:52,720 All right. 263 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,360 Do you recommend that or no? 264 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:56,360 It's kind of hilarious. 265 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,320 I mean, it is funny. 266 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,400 Yeah. 267 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:04,900 So I guess my point was these movies come out before the actual release of the big studio 268 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:09,760 name one, whereas a lot of the pornos come out after because they're a parody of that 269 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:10,760 movie. 270 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:11,760 Right. 271 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:12,760 Yeah. 272 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,120 These are just, they're trying to make a movie that sounds similar plot and title wise. 273 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,520 So I guess that's what this Children's Wish Foundation International is doing. 274 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,840 Oh, okay. 275 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,760 But the mission of the organization is to bring magic, joy, and hope to seriously ill 276 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,040 children and their families around the world. 277 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,800 But they've gotten apparently in some legal troubles in Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, and 278 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:34,800 Pennsylvania. 279 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:41,640 They spend only about 10% of their funds to help fulfill the wishes of dying children. 280 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:47,220 They've paid out $61.2 million to its solicitors. 281 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:54,200 And I'm not sure if that's like solicitors like a lawyer or if that's people that have 282 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,960 won judgments against them. 283 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,480 And the founder takes home an annual salary of more than $250,000 a year. 284 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,440 That's not that crazy for it, depending on the size of the organization. 285 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,680 I mean, not for the salary, but only paying out 10% of your funds. 286 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,960 That's yeah, that's pretty bad. 287 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:14,960 That's pretty bad. 288 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,600 They're embezzling it directly in funds. 289 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,320 Yeah, at least they're trying to launder it, right? 290 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,320 Right. 291 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,040 Like make the effort. 292 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,160 Don't just give your family members a million dollar annual salaries. 293 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,160 Yeah. 294 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,320 It's like Hunter Biden's Maserati, right? 295 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,080 That's how you embezzle it properly. 296 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,200 Yes. 297 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:41,320 So number seven is Breast Cancer Relief Foundation. 298 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,320 We can assume what they want to do. 299 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:49,000 Initially the founder had already been accused of diverting too high a percentage of funds 300 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:55,680 to a for-profit solicitor at a previous nonprofit, but he decided to start this one anyway. 301 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:00,760 According to the IRS, it's been one of the nation's most wasteful charities. 302 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,840 They've raised more than $64 million and the founder has allowed private companies to keep 303 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:10,060 upwards of 70% of donations. 304 00:17:10,060 --> 00:17:15,840 And the victims of breast cancer that are associated with this receive just over 2% 305 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,680 of the total funds raised. 306 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,040 2% is charitable, right? 307 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,560 Well, it's probably more than I give to charity, let's put it that way. 308 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,520 It's more than the Catholic Church gives away. 309 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,200 Yeah, but is that counting what they give to the altar boys or no? 310 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,920 Well, that's litigation, you know? 311 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,560 Every inch counts, right? 312 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:43,560 Oh. 313 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:44,560 All right. 314 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:50,360 So moving on. 315 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,640 Firefighters Charitable Foundation. 316 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:59,120 They've raised $64 million over a span of nine years and they claim to provide financial 317 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:03,600 assistance to people who have been affected by a fire or disaster. 318 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,120 So less than 10 cents of every dollar goes to victims. 319 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:13,960 So it doesn't go to firefighters, it goes to people who the firefighters helped by putting 320 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,280 the other fire out? 321 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,080 Yeah, but then also like, you know, soaking their home and possessions and things, which 322 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:24,920 would have burnt anyway, but they pay its for-profit solicitors. 323 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:30,120 So it must be the, I guess the for-profit solicitors, those must be like the companies 324 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:34,160 that they work with to try and help the people. 325 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:43,040 But 90% of the funds go to those and they've paid more than $53 million to solicitors. 326 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:50,640 So I guess these last couple all kind of sound the same with like percentages that they keep, 327 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:51,640 I guess. 328 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:57,120 Are any of them getting in trouble or is that perfectly legal? 329 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:01,720 Well, like I said, some of them, it looked like some of them had legal issues in the 330 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,480 past, but I don't know. 331 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:09,320 I don't know if any of these are, they must still be going because the last one about 332 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:14,680 the firefighters charitable said, if you get a call from somebody from that nonprofit, 333 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:15,680 just hang up the phone. 334 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:16,680 Sure. 335 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,360 I mean, I don't even answer the phone anymore. 336 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:25,160 So but it is election season. 337 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:30,000 And so Sarah got a call at 930 at night and there's this number and it called her like 338 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,960 multiple times and it was a Minnesota number. 339 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,700 And so she hands me her phone and says, can you answer this? 340 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,680 So I answered and this guy was on the line and he was like, Hey, hey, hey, can I, I'm 341 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,920 with so-and-so research or whatever. 342 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,920 And so I interrupted him like, my man, what are you doing? 343 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:46,920 And he's like, what? 344 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,000 I'm like, what in the actual fuck are you doing? 345 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,600 It's 930 at night. 346 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:51,600 Why are you calling? 347 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,560 And he goes, well, I'm from the, I'm like, no, man, no, it's 930. 348 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:55,560 Fuck off. 349 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,400 And, and that was it, you know, and, and, cause Sarah doesn't talk to people like that 350 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,400 on the phone. 351 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,720 Um, but that's like every day at work for me. 352 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:03,720 Right. 353 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:09,880 Of course I'm on mute at work usually, but, uh, you know, it's like, what are you, why 354 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,760 are you calling at 930 at night? 355 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,400 Like that's not, that's not okay. 356 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,400 That's intense. 357 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:16,400 Yeah. 358 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,280 I always screen my calls. 359 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,000 I don't answer anything if I don't know them. 360 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,320 Yeah. 361 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:30,120 So let's do number five and then we'll do a status check on the cigar. 362 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:31,120 Sounds good to me. 363 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,120 Cause I don't know. 364 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,560 I mean, I know I'm not quite halfway, but these things are so short. 365 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:39,960 Um, it's probably good to get a status check in before we get to where it may, uh, do the 366 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:40,960 flavor change. 367 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:41,960 Sure. 368 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,400 Uh, so number five is the children's cancer fund of America. 369 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:52,140 So there's another one for your bucket where it ends with of America and one for my bucket 370 00:20:52,140 --> 00:20:57,560 where it's children's cancer or cancer, because apparently the, uh, there's a sucker born 371 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,680 every minute and the best suckers have cancer or something. 372 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:07,320 It seems like it's a cancer and like patriotism playing off of people's patriotism. 373 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,320 Yeah. 374 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,220 You know, people love the police. 375 00:21:10,220 --> 00:21:11,440 People love firefighters. 376 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:19,440 So this one here, it's a run by an associate children's cancer fund is run by an associate 377 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,160 of cancer fund of America. 378 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:26,520 So apparently there's a, you know, one that's doesn't specialize in children, but this is 379 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,640 the children's one that we're talking about. 380 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:34,160 And so Rose Perkins, I guess, is the founder of the children's cancer fund was married 381 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:40,320 twice to James Reynolds and he was the person responsible apparently for transforming the 382 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:46,620 cancer fund of America and made large payments to executives and family members instead of 383 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:49,000 helping, um, this one. 384 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:56,400 So this, this one, the children's cancer fund shows that it's raised nearly $38 million 385 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:03,400 and let professional fundraisers keep about 78% of what they've raised. 386 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:09,600 Cancer victims have only received around 300,000 per year and Perkins pays herself more than 387 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,680 200,000 while her organization pays out less than a nickel for every dollar earned. 388 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,520 So it sounds, it sounds like a lot of these are letting the professional fundraisers keep 389 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:24,920 a lot of the money that they fundraise and then they pay themselves out a lot. 390 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:32,000 And then whatever's left over, they give sometimes to the people they're supposed to help. 391 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Yeah. 392 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Yeah. 393 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,120 There's, there seems to be a lot of embezzling going on. 394 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,120 Yeah. 395 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:45,040 I'd have to, you know, like honestly, I'd have to look into how nonprofits, uh, kind of function 396 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,320 and keep that designation, that tax exempt designation. 397 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:56,680 But it does seem like if you wanted to actually help the people that you're claiming to want 398 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:03,440 to help, you would maybe not let professional fundraisers keep all the money and instead 399 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,440 give them money to the people that you want to help. 400 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,360 Right. That's just me. 401 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:10,360 All right. 402 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:15,480 So it's like a good plan, especially if that fundraiser or that professional fundraiser 403 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,640 is your wife or something. 404 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:19,640 Yeah. 405 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:25,480 Uh, so cigar status check, uh, cause it'd be nice to have something a little more positive 406 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,560 to talk about this episode. 407 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:30,560 I am about halfway. 408 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,560 I think I'm about halfway now. 409 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,360 Uh, it's kind of tough to gauge, but, um, self-reporting. 410 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,560 So far it's been, it's been tasty. 411 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,440 It's tasty. 412 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,120 It's been very, uh, even. 413 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:45,120 Yes. 414 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:46,120 Very even. 415 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:48,320 It's stronger than you, than I was expecting. 416 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,120 That's what I was going to say. 417 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:54,240 It's not as light as the wrapper would indicate. 418 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,640 Um, it's good. 419 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:57,640 It's really good. 420 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,880 I like this one. 421 00:23:58,880 --> 00:23:59,880 Yes. 422 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,960 I haven't gotten any hints of sourness. 423 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:08,280 I know some of the other nubs we've smoked, uh, when you get closer to the end, sometimes 424 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:14,120 they get almost like mouth puckeringly sour, but, uh, nothing yet. 425 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,520 I mean, we're still a little ways from the end here. 426 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,680 So I'm not to the wrapper yet even, but no, I am not. 427 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,960 I am three quarters of an inch from the wrapper. 428 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:23,960 Yeah. 429 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:28,880 I'm about an inch, a little less than an inch from the wrapper. 430 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,880 So, uh, yeah, I'm liking this one so far. 431 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,600 I don't know. 432 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,240 I was trying to think back as we've, we've got this one and we've got two other nubs 433 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,560 left to smoke. 434 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,560 Yes. 435 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,040 And so far, I think the cane F has been my favorite. 436 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,040 Yeah. 437 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,720 And that was a dark one. 438 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,720 That one was really good. 439 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:48,720 Yeah. 440 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,760 We have a Maduro and a double Maduro. 441 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:51,760 I know. 442 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:52,760 Yes. 443 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,360 I saw that when I was digging through my, uh, my humidor. 444 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,260 Um, did I talk about this last episode? 445 00:24:58,260 --> 00:25:02,280 All three of my humidor's finally have cigars in them now. 446 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,160 I don't know if we talked about on the episode. 447 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,840 I know you mentioned it to me. 448 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:06,840 Okay. 449 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,840 Yeah. 450 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:08,840 So that's a good feeling. 451 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:14,080 And all three of my humidor's are finally sitting around, um, like a really steady humidity. 452 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,760 Oh, good. 453 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:23,920 Um, I had, uh, I didn't, so I hadn't put any sticks in the one that I got from my mom's, 454 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:31,400 uh, my mom's second husband who passed, um, because it was reading low and low and I, 455 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:38,400 I cleaned it all out and I re kind of like conditioned it and tried to get it going. 456 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:44,600 And it just, it was sitting, sitting low, like 50% humidity. 457 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:50,680 And it finally, like I've been tossing some Bavetta bags in there and it finally like 458 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,920 popped back to where it needs to be. 459 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,160 So that's why, that's why I started putting sticks in it again. 460 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,160 Excellent. 461 00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,400 So. 462 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:06,800 I know that it's not on the list, but, uh, the two that pop up in my mind were, uh, black 463 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,400 lives matter where the people running it were buying mansions for themselves. 464 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,400 Okay. 465 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:18,400 Instead of putting it towards whatever they were saying they were going to put the money 466 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,400 towards. 467 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:20,400 Yeah. 468 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:21,400 Well, we don't know. 469 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,400 We've got four to go or five to go, don't we? 470 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,400 Yeah, we do. 471 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,400 And the other one was the NRA. 472 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,240 Well, the NRAs won't, won't be there. 473 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,880 I don't think it either will black lives matter because of the age. 474 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,040 Uh, the NRA is still in litigation right now. 475 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,040 Okay. 476 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,320 Well, they're not really, I mean, I guess they're done. 477 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,320 They're a nonprofit. 478 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:45,720 They're like an advocacy group and these are more like, I feel like these are more like 479 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:54,040 those nonprofits that want to give money to, you know, uh, less well-off people. 480 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,040 Sure. 481 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,040 They're charitable foundations. 482 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,000 Yes, charitable foundations. 483 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,720 Um, so, but I don't know. 484 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,000 Yes. 485 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:12,760 The only thing they do is give me, uh, give me less than an ounce of wine on Sunday. 486 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:13,760 Yes. 487 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:18,520 Which actually like, if you're not Catholic, you can't take communion. 488 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,520 They don't really know. 489 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,840 Well, they don't know. 490 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,200 I'm saying if you want some free wine Sunday and you don't mind sitting through one of 491 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,680 the most boring and lengthiest services in the history of services, um, stop in at your 492 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,320 local Catholic church. 493 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:32,840 It's kind of like a workout though. 494 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:33,840 Yeah. 495 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:34,840 Yeah. 496 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,840 Up, down, up, down. 497 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,840 All right. 498 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:44,840 So, uh, number four is project Kier out of, uh, Brandon 10, Florida. 499 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,160 Okay. 500 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:51,120 They claim this is one of the most eyebrow raising organizations on their list. 501 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:58,440 So apparently it's office is a storage unit. 502 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,480 And, uh, the small office is filled with nothing but plastic bins and unused furniture. 503 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,000 It sounds like this, this person maybe went and interviewed to work at this nonprofit 504 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,000 or something. 505 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:16,680 Uh, but they, they've raised nearly $65 million, uh, since 1998 to lobby Congress and educate 506 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,960 the public about alternative treatments for major diseases like diabetes, cancer, and 507 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:22,960 Alzheimer's. 508 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,160 So I don't know what they mean by alternative treatments. 509 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,960 It seems like it's probably one of those not televangelists, but the people that are on 510 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:36,680 right after them that say, if you stick this crystal in your butt and meditate, you won't 511 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,680 have diabetes, cancer, or Alzheimer's. 512 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,680 Sure. 513 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:41,680 Yeah. 514 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,680 The holistic medicine. 515 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:49,760 So it says it's supposed to be educational and its efforts are basically just websites 516 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,560 that quote other websites. 517 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,280 So it doesn't have any original content. 518 00:28:54,280 --> 00:29:01,360 Uh, he's paid, uh, the founder or president is paid over $200,000 a year and 90% of all 519 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:06,400 donations go to fundraising fees and expenses. 520 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,140 So I don't know what the expenses are because it's not office furniture. 521 00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:16,600 Cell rooms and air travel and, and what black sofas and cameras. 522 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,600 Possibly. 523 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,600 Possibly. 524 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,800 His jet and their jet and cleaning fees. 525 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,800 Cleaning fees. 526 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:29,800 Yes. 527 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:30,800 Yes. 528 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,800 Yes. 529 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:32,800 Oh my. 530 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:33,800 All right. 531 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:39,600 Uh, this next one has one heck of a name. 532 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,080 Number three on the list. 533 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,600 Woman to woman breast cancer foundation. 534 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:46,600 Okay. 535 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,800 That's a heck of a name. 536 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:55,960 It is, uh, cause it almost makes it seem like the women will give other women breast cancer. 537 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:56,960 Yeah. 538 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:57,960 I was thinking that. 539 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:05,880 Um, I don't think they ran that name by anybody before they decided that, um, it was, it was, 540 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,320 uh, they said it might've started as a genuine attempt to help promote breast cancer awareness, 541 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:16,520 but it turned into a money making operation when, uh, I guess Jacqueline gray and her 542 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:22,760 family agreed to pay 90% of its funds to a telemarketing business. 543 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:27,040 After struggling for years to raise money, they met with a consultant who introduced 544 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:32,800 them to a telemarketing firm and, uh, they gave some them some seed money. 545 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:40,640 Uh, women to women raised 14.5 million over a three year span and they only paid out $20,000, 546 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,240 uh, to provide for mammograms and other services. 547 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:51,840 Um, and the family have taken salaries and they own cars purchased by the organization. 548 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:59,360 Now the 90% going to the telemarketing is concerning, but this one has actually paid 549 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,520 out only 20,000. 550 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:02,520 Okay. 551 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,400 So some of these other ones paid out like what 200 or 300,000, but I don't know how 552 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,120 expensive a mammogram is. 553 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,600 Uh, aren't they free? 554 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,640 Well, I mean, somebody pays for them somewhere, but not, you shouldn't have to pay for them 555 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:17,640 out of pocket. 556 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,040 I mean, it's almost like the flu shot, you know, you go to target, they give you the 557 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,640 flu shot for free and you get a $5 coupon to use in the store. 558 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:26,640 Right. 559 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,000 So you actually get paid to get the flu shot if you do it the right way. 560 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:37,600 Other places, like you have to pay maybe like $5 for a flu shot, but he would think like 561 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:43,600 mammograms would be one of those, if you have any kind of insurance at all, it's, it's covered. 562 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:44,600 Right. 563 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,060 Which there's a lot of people that don't have insurance. 564 00:31:48,060 --> 00:31:49,680 That is true. 565 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,160 And you would hope that this would be the kind of organization that would be helping 566 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,120 pay for that kind of stuff. 567 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,360 Right. 568 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:03,600 There's a theme here where a lot of these, uh, they're just covers for these ad agencies. 569 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,600 Yeah. 570 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:10,040 It seems like that'd be, uh, that'd be interesting to do like a deep dive and find out the names 571 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,280 of these like telemarketing and a for-profit fundraising groups. 572 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,280 Right. 573 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,160 I bet you the ad agencies change their name quite often. 574 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:21,160 Yeah. 575 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,020 You should be able to see who incorporated it though, or who, um, you know, might start 576 00:32:26,020 --> 00:32:27,520 seeing some common names. 577 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:36,080 Maybe it's, uh, you know, Richard Jones and then it's Robert Jones and then it's Bill 578 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,880 Jones, you know, like they've all got the same last name, but it's him and his brothers 579 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,880 or whoever. 580 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,440 Um, all right. 581 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,840 So I'm looking here at number two and number one. 582 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,520 And the one I was hoping that they'd talk about isn't on here, but we might have, we'll 583 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:59,360 have to do a little, a little more digging, but both of them, both number, number two 584 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,280 and number one hit what we talked about. 585 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,680 So they're checking all the boxes. 586 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:06,920 Exciting. 587 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:13,360 Number two, national veterans service fund. 588 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,360 Very nice. 589 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:15,360 Very nice. 590 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:16,360 Yes. 591 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:23,240 Uh, so their idea is that war does not end on the battlefield. 592 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,520 And apparently it doesn't end with them either. 593 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:31,120 Their mission is to educate and inform the public about the needs for veterans and their 594 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,120 families. 595 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:38,240 And they also claim to help provide assistance, relief and referrals to appropriate agencies. 596 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:44,280 Um, they have more than 80% of their funds going to solicitors, which I guess are the 597 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,160 for-profit fundraising groups. 598 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,160 Okay. 599 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,600 So like that would be, that would be something I'd be into if I could go and be a for-profit 600 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:58,080 fundraiser and I get to keep 80% of what I, what I bring in. 601 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,960 That'd be great gig. 602 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:01,960 Right. 603 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,300 Um, a lot of professional salespeople don't make, don't make 80% of the business they 604 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:09,800 bring into a, to a company. 605 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,760 And they use, uh, veterans as a ploy to fill an agenda that has little to do. 606 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,560 So they don't have a whole lot of information on like what the family pays themselves or 607 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,160 the, you know, the owners or founders. 608 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:30,600 But, uh, again, it's hitting the veterans a lot of things that the average American 609 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,640 is probably passionate about helping kids and helping veterans or, you know, service 610 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:43,360 people, not like service people in the restaurants, but you know, nobody gets on fire. 611 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,320 Our generation does, but like the older generations typically don't. 612 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,840 No, no, they were heroes. 613 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,280 And then, uh, you know, a lot of them asked for increased pay and now they're villains 614 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,280 again. 615 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,280 Yup. 616 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,280 So they were essential. 617 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,800 They were essential employees not that long ago. 618 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,800 Yes. 619 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,520 How dare they want to get paid? 620 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,560 How dare they cut off my Manhattan's. 621 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:15,440 I don't know if I've ever had a Manhattan. 622 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:16,720 I don't know if I have either. 623 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,520 I'm sure I've had one somewhere, but, uh, when we were in New York, we were going to 624 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:26,760 try and drink Manhattan's in Manhattan, but it never came to be mostly because the drinking, 625 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,720 we talked about the drinking in the bars over there in the city is just kind of weird. 626 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:33,840 Why is that? 627 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,120 Oh, we talked about it on one of our episodes, but, uh, they don't have a whole lot of beer 628 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,120 on tap. 629 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,360 Not that you need beer to make a Manhattan, but you know, it was hot. 630 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,480 And so we just wanted like a beer. 631 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:49,720 And then we just didn't really feel that they, you know, if you don't have a bar with taps, 632 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:54,120 I don't really know if I trust you to make a mixed drink, you know? 633 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,120 Sure. 634 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,880 Oh, beer has calories and that's not good. 635 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:00,880 I like them. 636 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,880 I like calories and beer. 637 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,920 So the number one most corrupt on here is the kids wish network. 638 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,600 And so this is the second one that sounds a lot like the make a wish foundation. 639 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,000 Yes, yes it is. 640 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,480 So this nonprofit raises millions of dollars every year in donations in the name of dying 641 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,640 children and their, and their families. 642 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,160 Uh, but they spend about three cents on the dollar helping kids. 643 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,880 Well, it's higher than some of the others. 644 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:29,880 Yeah. 645 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,240 Uh, so they funnel money to the charities, operators and the for-profit companies that 646 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:37,080 it uses to get all these donations. 647 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:41,440 And so it says, what makes it so tragic is the vast amount of funds at its disposal in 648 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,520 the past decade alone. 649 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:52,120 They've uh, channeled nearly $110 million into its corporate solicitors that were raised 650 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,680 to help sick children. 651 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,820 And it's not, that figure is not including the 4.8 million that has gone to pay the charity's 652 00:36:58,820 --> 00:37:01,680 founder and his own consulting firms. 653 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:06,760 So it sounds like this one set it up and then set up some consulting firms so that he could 654 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:15,440 pay himself out of the nonprofit and probably write that work off on his other corporate 655 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:21,920 taxes because he's, you know, giving them a huge discount for his tax purposes or something. 656 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:22,920 Sure. 657 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,080 Like I said, I don't know how it works. 658 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,240 I'm not a CPA. 659 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:29,640 I'm not a lawyer. 660 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:35,440 But the one I was thinking about was the, uh, let's see if I can find it here. 661 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,680 If I can remember the name. 662 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:43,180 The Bishop in North Dakota lives right on the edge of downtown Fargo. 663 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:45,340 And I used to live in that area. 664 00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:47,760 So I walked past that house all the time. 665 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,240 And at that time that guy had a G wagon as a vehicle. 666 00:37:53,240 --> 00:38:00,640 Isn't that incredible that a man of God needs a $300,000 SUV to roll around Fargo? 667 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,640 Yeah. 668 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:11,480 That was great. 669 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,360 In a mansion also, by the way. 670 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,360 Why not? 671 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,040 Yeah. 672 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,160 How else could that guy be a Bishop unless he had a mansion? 673 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,160 And a G wagon. 674 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,160 And a G wagon. 675 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,800 Because the G stands for God, right? 676 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,800 Yeah. 677 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,800 Oh yeah. 678 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,000 Well, that's where God would drive. 679 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Yeah. 680 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,760 That's what Jesus drove in the New Testament if you read it carefully enough. 681 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:36,760 Yeah. 682 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,200 He came to town in a G wagon pulling two donkeys. 683 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,280 Yes. 684 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,280 And three wise men, rich men. 685 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,280 I don't know. 686 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:51,800 Uh, so the one I was thinking of was Susan G. Komen, the breast cancer awareness, but 687 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,640 apparently is not necessarily corrupt. 688 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:59,840 I'm reading an opinion column from the Appalachianonline.com. 689 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:04,800 And so they're saying that there's nothing incredibly wrong. 690 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:10,920 But it doesn't, they say it's not the best place if you want to help breast cancer to 691 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,440 donate money. 692 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:20,000 They basically, I guess Susan G. Komen basically spends a large sum of money each year filing 693 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:25,660 legal trademark oppositions against other breast cancer charities. 694 00:39:25,660 --> 00:39:33,420 So when you donate to them, you're basically helping their legal team file trademark infringements 695 00:39:33,420 --> 00:39:35,560 against other breast cancer charities. 696 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,160 Oh, that's cool. 697 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:46,640 So and they only devote about 20.9% of its donations to breast cancer, which I mean, 698 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,800 just double a lot of the ones that we just read about. 699 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,480 Oh, it's 10 times more than some of them. 700 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:55,480 Yeah. 701 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,160 So it's not totally corrupt. 702 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:01,160 That's true. 703 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:05,440 And then I guess it says they'll put lives of women at risk purely to make political 704 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,440 statements. 705 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:13,400 So it sounds like either one of the two major political parties here, but I guess they pulled, 706 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,800 they pulled all their grants for breast cancer screenings to Planned Parenthood. 707 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:24,960 So there goes a bunch of mammograms, I guess, that people can't get to. 708 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:25,960 Interesting. 709 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:33,040 And I guess their organization wants to make people aware of breast cancer and not so much 710 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,240 help breast cancer. 711 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:35,240 So okay. 712 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,240 Interesting. 713 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:43,000 So basically it says it's not an outright scam, but they end up spending a lot of their 714 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,720 money on the legal, you know, they're not just sending cease and desist letters. 715 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:53,120 They're actually taking these other charities to court for trademark infringement. 716 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,120 Interesting. 717 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,120 Which I don't know. 718 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,840 I mean, I don't know. 719 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,080 So anyway, that's a whole list of them. 720 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,400 I don't know what I would do. 721 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,200 I guess, you know, if you're thinking about contributing or if you are contributing to 722 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:16,000 a nonprofit, a quick, all of their records should be public knowledge if you dig enough. 723 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:23,240 So do your research and make sure that they're not using it. 724 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:27,960 Information is publicly available, you know. 725 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:28,960 I just looked it up. 726 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,960 The Shriners give 80% to the hospital system. 727 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:32,960 Okay. 728 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,760 St. Jude's gives 90% to the hospital system. 729 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,520 Yeah, there's all sorts of stuff. 730 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,400 I'm surprised the Shriners are so low, to be honest with you. 731 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:46,400 Yeah. 732 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,680 I figured they'd be higher. 733 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:55,640 Well, they got to pay for the really tiny gas for their tiny cars they use in parades. 734 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,120 There is that. 735 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,960 And I don't want to know what it costs for them to have liability insurance on those 736 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:01,960 things. 737 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,320 You know, so there's some of that too. 738 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,320 Right. 739 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,680 So I guess I didn't know coming into this because we just kind of like went through 740 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,480 it on air with you, the listener. 741 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:16,920 But I wasn't sure. 742 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,840 I was expecting, I guess, like I understand for a nonprofit, you have to pay the people 743 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,760 that are working for you. 744 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,200 And then there's probably, you know, like other things like, you know, if you need office 745 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,760 space or, you know, mailings and things. 746 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,680 And so I guess like in my head, I was like, I don't know, like 50% is probably like the 747 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,040 bare minimum that you would give away. 748 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,080 Right. 749 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,400 But I think now having looked at this and knowing what like the Shriners and St. Jude's 750 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:52,000 does like 50% is probably low enough to be like raise an eyebrow. 751 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:57,840 Like I want you to be giving away more than half of what you're bringing in. 752 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,160 Otherwise you're not really like living your values or your mission statement. 753 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,160 Right. 754 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,640 I can't believe that. 755 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,000 I mean, I am not a big fan of charity in general. 756 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,000 I think it's ridiculous. 757 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,120 We pay so much money in taxes. 758 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:18,760 We shouldn't have issues that charities pay for as far as I'm concerned, especially veterans 759 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,760 this and hospitals. 760 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,360 We pay so much in taxes. 761 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,480 It's insane. 762 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,840 You're not opposed to helping people that need help. 763 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:35,360 You're opposed to people making charities like their full time, not just full time job, 764 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:40,760 making it their full time like way of life and how to fund their mansions and yachts 765 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,760 and vacations. 766 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,920 Right. 767 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:45,920 But I agree. 768 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:52,820 Like we pay so much in taxes that we should have a lot of these things already in place. 769 00:43:52,820 --> 00:44:00,340 And then if there's any gaps from that, that's where some of these charities could be helping 770 00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:09,480 to fill in the gaps or maybe the federal charity program is too stringent on a certain, I don't 771 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,160 know, certain whatever. 772 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:17,660 I mean, it all depends what it is, but maybe there's something that needs additional stuff 773 00:44:17,660 --> 00:44:23,160 beyond what the government can provide and that's where some of these other ones could 774 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:29,740 step up and fill in the gaps, but it shouldn't, they shouldn't be, you know, billion dollar 775 00:44:29,740 --> 00:44:31,720 business entities. 776 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,380 Right. 777 00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:38,360 If they're not giving that much money away. 778 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,800 It's asinine in the extreme, especially because you can write that off on your taxes. 779 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:43,800 Yeah. 780 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,700 You know, like, no, no, no, no. 781 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:55,680 Pay your taxes and then we won't have to have a charity that gives shoes to needy children. 782 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:56,680 Right. 783 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,880 Like the government should be doing that. 784 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:01,340 Yeah. 785 00:45:01,340 --> 00:45:06,680 Because as much as people like to attack government agencies, there's not as much corruption in 786 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,960 a government agency as there is in a nonprofit organization. 787 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,960 Apparently not. 788 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,760 I mean, until you get up to the highest levels of government, but. 789 00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:21,240 Well, I mean, those people are paid for, they're elected officials that are paid for by the 790 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:22,240 corporations. 791 00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:24,680 So not a lot you can do about that. 792 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,160 Like your average mid-level bureaucrat is not embezzling. 793 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:29,640 You mean the corporate peoples? 794 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:30,640 Yeah. 795 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:40,360 The corporate people, the important people, the real voters, the real constituents. 796 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:48,680 So yeah, I guess, I guess this is kind of a little bit of a depressing, depressing episode. 797 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,280 It was. 798 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,280 This cigar has not changed. 799 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,480 I have about an inch and a half left. 800 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,480 Yeah. 801 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,480 This one is, stayed really consistent. 802 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:57,480 Yeah. 803 00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:58,480 It's good. 804 00:45:58,480 --> 00:45:59,480 Not bad. 805 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:00,480 Yeah. 806 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,480 Not better at all. 807 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,800 Not, not too shabby. 808 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,920 So now that we're hopefully done with that depressing thing, the sack of this thing is 809 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,720 really depressing. 810 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,440 All right. 811 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:18,400 So the student debt relief thing is not going to happen. 812 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:19,400 Not in the way. 813 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,680 Oh, it won't happen at all. 814 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:22,920 Oh, it won't happen at all. 815 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,920 I'm certain of that. 816 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,280 But as of right now, they're talking about only government loans or government backed 817 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:38,000 loans are going to have the $10,000 forgiveness thing going on. 818 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,560 And we knew this backpedal was going to happen. 819 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,240 Everybody in their right mind can see that coming. 820 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:51,360 Joe Biden is not going to make a abrupt change at 80 years old. 821 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,120 It's just not happening. 822 00:46:53,120 --> 00:47:03,480 So I do find it humorous that people really, like I was optimistic, but I wasn't particularly 823 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:04,480 hopeful. 824 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:09,480 But I do find it humorous that people really believed that the Democrats were going to 825 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,040 do something for them. 826 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,040 You know what I mean? 827 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,040 Yeah. 828 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:19,760 Like they can't even pass a law that would legalize contraception federally. 829 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:25,040 How are they going to do something as radical as pay off student debt? 830 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:26,040 You know? 831 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,040 Yeah. 832 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:32,120 And I feel there's more people that are angry about student debt potentially being forgiven 833 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:36,200 than there are people angry about contraceptives. 834 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,200 Which is weird. 835 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,160 Yeah. 836 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:47,560 There aren't that many people out there that want contraceptives banned. 837 00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,000 I'm guessing. 838 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,200 I know the numbers are like 2% according to the polls, which who knows how accurate those 839 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,400 polls are that I've looked at. 840 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:56,400 Yeah. 841 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,240 But it's got to be a really low number. 842 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:02,080 Yeah, I would think. 843 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,360 And nobody has any issues with us giving all this money and weapons and stuff to Ukraine. 844 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,760 Well, not nobody. 845 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,240 I have an issue with it, but certainly none of our elected officials. 846 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:12,240 Yeah. 847 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:15,240 I mean, I have an issue with it as well, which is why I brought it up. 848 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:21,320 But it's interesting that that's the stuff that happens. 849 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,400 You know, that's just happening. 850 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,940 Our government just decides to do that. 851 00:48:27,940 --> 00:48:33,600 And there wasn't really any discourse public or like the media never reported on it really. 852 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,600 They just said, hey, we've good news, everyone. 853 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,120 We've voted to give another however many million or billion to Ukraine. 854 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:45,840 And then everybody feels good about themselves, has themselves on the back and goes back and 855 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:46,840 does their life. 856 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:53,760 But you talk about helping a vast segment of the population get out from these predatory 857 00:48:53,760 --> 00:49:02,040 loans that they call student loans and compounding everything. 858 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:08,280 And you're paying back double or triple, sometimes more than what you took out. 859 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,680 And then people get all bent out of shape. 860 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:19,040 Oh, I love the argument that, oh, those 18, 19 year olds were adults and they knew what 861 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,040 they were doing. 862 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:25,480 It's their fault, but in the same breath, those same people are like, oh yeah, you know, 863 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,960 you have to be 21 to smoke a cigarette and you have to be 21 to drink a beer. 864 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:29,960 Yeah. 865 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:35,200 And you have to be 27 and married to have sex. 866 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,120 Yes. 867 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,880 And we can't make the military recruiting age 21 because they never get anybody. 868 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:43,880 Yeah. 869 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:51,640 You got that real short window between 18 and 21 when you're just too stupid. 870 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,680 Yeah, in a lot of ways. 871 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:54,680 Yeah. 872 00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,520 I mean, that's kind of what they're saying. 873 00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:04,200 I know my dad always said that if they had to recruit 30 year olds, the military would 874 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,920 cease to exist. 875 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:06,920 Yeah. 876 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:14,080 You have to have 18 year olds and not 25 year olds. 877 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,080 You have to. 878 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:18,720 Yep. 879 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:25,200 So it's very interesting. 880 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,600 And I know that the pressure is still on now to get these kids to go to college and spend 881 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:30,600 lots of money. 882 00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:31,600 Oh yeah. 883 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,160 And it was that way 15 years ago. 884 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,640 It was that way for sure. 885 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:40,840 Yeah, and for a long time you didn't even really need a GED to get a job. 886 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,040 But now, and then for a long time it was a high school diploma. 887 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:51,200 And then more recently it was if you don't have a bachelor's degree and a lot of places 888 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,520 don't even care what your degree is in. 889 00:50:53,520 --> 00:51:01,160 It could be in holistic medicine and it doesn't matter as long as you have the four year degree. 890 00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:02,160 They don't care what it is. 891 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:03,600 They don't care what you majored in. 892 00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:12,600 So if that doesn't scream, you know, crazy scam to anybody else. 893 00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,200 It's not like a four year degree gets you that great of a job. 894 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:17,200 No really. 895 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,880 You know, but it opens up a lot of jobs. 896 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:20,880 I mean, it does. 897 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:26,560 I mean, it, it does only because the only because the companies have that requirement. 898 00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,000 Yes. 899 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,080 But the entry level jobs are not paying enough to pay your debts. 900 00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,240 Well no. 901 00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:36,360 And even the non-entry level jobs in a lot of times aren't, you know, right. 902 00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:41,920 You see all these things online where there's this one and it said you need to have, you 903 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,720 know, five years experience in this programming language. 904 00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:49,460 And the guy was applying for this job and they were like, well, you don't have five 905 00:51:49,460 --> 00:51:50,460 years experience. 906 00:51:50,460 --> 00:51:55,200 He goes, that's because I, I invented this coding language three years ago. 907 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,760 Like nobody can have five years experience in it. 908 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:00,860 It's only three years old. 909 00:52:00,860 --> 00:52:06,560 You know, so I mean, and that's like just, that's just the corporate corporate like hiring 910 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:11,440 requirements like, you know, have you seen those memes where it's like the kids, like 911 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,120 the six year olds are on a field trip at like a factory plant and they're all wearing the 912 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:20,120 hard hats and the caption is something like when that job application says you need, you 913 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:24,120 know, 10 years experience for an entry level position. 914 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,320 Yep. 915 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,840 That's great. 916 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,240 I think it's, it's a shame. 917 00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:41,320 I I've been looking at a lot of job applications and it's like even 60 grand a year, it's not 918 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,720 enough to pay your student loan debt off in the month. 919 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:49,240 Like if you're 20 years old or 25 years old, let's say, then you have $70,000 at the loans 920 00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:51,120 for your four year degree. 921 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,120 Yep. 922 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,920 You're not going to make enough to pay your debt ever. 923 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:54,920 No, man. 924 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,920 You were going to die with debt. 925 00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,920 Certainly you're going to die with debt. 926 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,640 And it doesn't seem like a good deal to me. 927 00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:06,600 You know, no, they have a $600 bill every month for the rest of your fucking life. 928 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:07,600 Yeah. 929 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:12,440 And a lot of times it's not 600 is 600 for the first however many years. 930 00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,520 And then it like graduates up. 931 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:15,520 Sure. 932 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:21,040 So, I mean, it all depends on what kind of loan and what terms you got, but a lot of 933 00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:22,800 them start small and ramp up. 934 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:27,520 So they could be, who knows, any number really. 935 00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:28,520 Sure. 936 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,680 So any gain you get is taken away. 937 00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:31,680 Yeah. 938 00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,780 And there's really no recourse to change the terms or to, you know, modify it much beyond 939 00:53:36,780 --> 00:53:41,800 what you signed up for when you were, get this, 18 and everybody was promising that 940 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:47,400 you'd have a six figure job after five years, you know, in your fields. 941 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:53,920 So right on certain fields while we talked about it incessantly school teachers are never 942 00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,520 going to pay their loans off. 943 00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:56,520 Yeah. 944 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,420 It'll just never happen. 945 00:53:58,420 --> 00:54:01,160 Or God forbid you leave your field to do something else. 946 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:02,160 Yep. 947 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:07,400 You know, which the health insurance system is another scam to keep you where you're at 948 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:08,400 too. 949 00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:09,400 Yep. 950 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,240 Because you can't really be without health insurance for very long. 951 00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:13,240 That's for sure. 952 00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:14,720 That is true. 953 00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:15,720 Yes. 954 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:18,120 Even if you're young, you can't. 955 00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:22,120 I'm now old enough to where I pretty much wouldn't take a job without health insurance. 956 00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:23,120 Yeah. 957 00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:24,120 Period. 958 00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:33,960 Of course I've had health insurance for my employers for a long time now. 959 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:39,200 So yeah, who knows what that's like. 960 00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:44,040 Well I just put mine out because it was starting to get a little sour. 961 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:48,680 And I didn't feel like smoking it anymore since I've had that experience with some of 962 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:49,680 the other nubs. 963 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:54,400 I let mine rest a little and it's fine. 964 00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:55,400 It's not great anymore. 965 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,400 Yeah. 966 00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:00,200 You know, I've been letting mine rest because I've been doing a lot of the reading off the 967 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:01,200 internet there. 968 00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:06,760 And it just, towards the end, it just started getting kind of that sour, a little bit of 969 00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,640 that sour hint again. 970 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:14,520 Since now I have an inch and a quarter maybe and it's sour. 971 00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:15,520 I'm putting mine down. 972 00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:16,520 Yeah. 973 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:21,320 And I did let it sit and repuffed it up and it was, yeah. 974 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,280 It was all right. 975 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,280 Yeah. 976 00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:29,080 But the first half, first three quarters maybe was pretty good. 977 00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,760 First three quarters, that seems to be the trend so far. 978 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:34,760 Yeah. 979 00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:36,920 Yeah, it's good. 980 00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:37,920 This one's pretty good. 981 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:42,360 It started out a lot stronger and it kind of mellowed out over time. 982 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:43,480 It did. 983 00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:49,320 It wasn't incredible by any means. 984 00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,520 That F-Cane or whatever, the Cane F was much better. 985 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:53,520 That one was a lot better. 986 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,520 The Cameroon was better, I thought. 987 00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,640 Yeah, I like the Cameroon. 988 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:00,640 So. 989 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:01,640 Yeah. 990 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:07,000 So I guess check your nonprofits if you're donating to any charities. 991 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,280 And join us next episode for the Nub Maduro. 992 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,280 Bye bye. 993 00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:41,320 Thanks for listening.