And welcome to progressive discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna, as seen on the web for many decades. And it happens to be Sunday afternoon here on the East and the Northeast. The Northeast, yes, it is May, the end of May, 2022. The 1st of June is right around the corner. And I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. Well, here in the, in Northeastern New Jersey, we're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave. It's been a little over 90 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday and today, and then the heat wave will quickly break, thank God. You know, I mean, I'm just here. I'm reverse hibernating. And I would like to, I would like to introduce you to my co-host, the one and only, the one and only Commodore, the Commodore Jeff Zanbello from the Maritime Prov... Well, originally from Boston, now residing in New Brunswick, Canada, the Maritime Provinces. And a very good friend of mine, a highly intelligent man, and the man who tells the truth, he tells it like it is, Akara North Atlantic. The president of Akara North Atlantic, here he is right now, the Commodore, the very mysterious Commodore at that. And I am very happy to have you here, once again, I know the weeks go by very fast. And before you know it, it's time for a new progressive discussions. I like that dark purple t-shirt you're wearing. At least I think it's dark purple. Jay Rock, hello Jay Rock, cheers to you. Cheers to you, Mr. Jay Rock. And Feliz Domingo, as they say in Spanish, happy Sunday, happy Sunday, Domingo, the North Atlantic. Now, I know I've had this discussion with the Commodore many times off the air, but I have to bring it up, I have to bring it up. And the t-shirt is Harvard Crimson. Oh, the color is Harvard Crimson. Well, it's very nice. It's, no matter how you shake it, you know, the purple of Harvard Crimson. Hey, Bart Robinson from Southwestern, New Jersey. How are you, sir? Happy Sunday. And I'm sure you're having the same heatwave we're having slightly over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Good day, Mr. Bart Robinson, the man who is dedicated to holistic health, nutrition and physical fitness. He agrees with Commodore and myself and the Lake Great Jackal Lane. That physical fitness is one of the best fountain of view. It's one of the best forms of the fountain of youth. It's probably the best fountain of youth going aside from good nutrition. The horse kick, you and the triceps. That means your workouts have been going very well. Hold on, hold on, let me get a bird's eye view. I gotta get that, hold on, sir. Let me see the horseshoe, let me see it. I missed the horseshoe. You were covered up by the thing, yeah. There we go, the horse kicked you in the arm, in the back of the arm. There we go, there we go. Flex that horseshoe. All right. That's right. Ah, yeah. I think Bart always goes to the gym on Sunday. Oh, you're taking, oh, because of the heat probably. I don't blame you. I know they have air conditioning in the gym, but you know, when a lot of people go in there, all that body heat, 98.6 times however many people are in the gym, it really gets pretty high.  Yeah, sweaty t-shirt contest, only if you had a frozen food section for the girls to walk down after the perspiration, especially when they're wearing white. So getting back to the maritime provinces. Now, this is very infuriating, frustrating, and sad at the same time. The residents of the maritime provinces in Canada cannot partake in the fine, freshly caught seafood of the North Atlantic up there where he lives because they export all the commercial fishermen in the maritime provinces export the seafood to the United States, why? Because the exchange rate is a dollar and 28 cents. So every Canadian dollar is worth a dollar and 28 cents US dollar, which means they're greedy, scumbags, chores around the house, chores around the house. I do my chores a little at a time. I don't wait until they all pile up because I do not like to be overwhelmed, Mr. Bart Robinson. Oh, Ronnie Simpson, yeah, down in Clearwater, Florida. That's right, the condominium in-ground pool or piscina, as they say in Spanish, the piscina. Oh, so now it's close to a dollar 30. So for 30 cents on a dollar, give or take. Give or take the people of the maritime provinces, you notice the word maritime, which means they're nautical people. Maritime, the ocean cannot partake in the fresh seafood that the commercial fishermen and lobstermen and whatever, scallopers and whatever, cannot partake in the fresh local seafood because of greed, because of penny-pinching, skin-flint greed. There he is, my other co-host, Jason Cleveland. Father's Day is coming. Well, my father's deceased, but when he was alive, he wasn't a nice man. Father's Day is coming, up turns out people spend more money on Mother's Day than Father's Day. What about equality or is feminism the death of all men?   That's insane, you're right, you hit the nail on the head, Mr. Jason Cleveland of Seattle, Washington, 30% premium that Canadian fishers get. Good boy. So you see, Jason Cleveland, all that fresh seafood of the Pacific Northwest that you enjoy in the state of Washington, up there, what is it, Puget Sound and all that? Commodore Jeff Sanbello cannot partake in the fresh, cold waters of the North, because of greed, because of greed. I mean, he's from Boston, which is also a nautical, the coastal New Englanders are nautical people also. And, but it's the United States. And I'm sure they rip the consumer off in the United States for seafood. And I'm not sure, I'm positive, I'm positive. The only fish I can afford, hold on, somebody sabotage an old James P. Madonna by blurring his camera. The only seafood I can afford is that flash frozen seafood from Alaska, while the Laskan pink salmon filets, while the Laskan suck-eyed salmon filets, while the Laskan cod filets, while the Laskan paddock, pollock, halibut, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Hey, Jason, yes, feminism is the death of America. Jason, the only good thing that came out of feminism was when Gloria Steinem told women to go brawls. Yeah, everyone go brawls, like the Irish say. You see, the thing is, well, I think bra is a B-R-A-H-L-E-S-S, but anyway, it's not important. And another thing that I like Gloria Steinem for is that she insisted on true feminism, which is women pay their own way on a date and if a man is living with a woman cohabitating with her or he marries her, she should contribute to half of the bills, which back in the Gloria Steinem days, they had real equality. But then the women started exploiting the feminism where they wanted their cake and eat it. So they wanted special treatment when it came to families, dating, love relationships and all that, they wanted special treatment. They wanted to be treated special, but when it comes to economics, employment, career, they want to make top dollar, they want to make at least the same as a man, hopefully they can do the same job, but huh, fat chance. Legal Seafoods is a big purchaser of Atlantic Canadian seafood.  I'm sure the bonefish grill, I'm sure their prices are sky high, but come on, legal seafood wants over $30 for a platter of deep sea scallops. Give me a break. These fishermen sell their fish to distributors for pennies per pound, and then the distributors make a killing. Yeah, the distributors, the middle man, gee, what people are we talking about? Could they be the ones with the hawk noses? These fishermen should start a co-op so they can sell fish directly to consumers, like other countries do. People in other countries can go right to the marina, right directly to the marina and buy fresh fish. And you know what, these poor fishermen, they gotta pay their overhead, they gotta pay for diesel fuel, okay, for the commercial boats.  No, so did Jane Fonda, age pretty well. Some of them age pretty well. You must work faster, you must work faster, you're not working fast, you know. Jason, you hit the nail on the head. Of course, yeah, Jason's a brilliant man. And so is the Commodore Jeff Sanbella. Now, let me start with some serious topics, not that we didn't talk, discuss serious topics, of course we did, but you know, let me get the show on the road here, okay, all right. Let's see, let's see if I got it, there we go. All right, I'm gonna start it now, let's see. Our polling has found 75% of the country, thanks for heading in the wrong direction. In fact, just 28% of Democrats right now think the country is headed in the right direction. Where do you stand? Do you think we're headed in the wrong direction? I sure do, look, what we're looking at is a nation today where the billionaire class, the people on top are doing phenomenally well, Chuck. The middle class continues to decline. We're seeing increased concentration of ownership in America, which has huge impacts for ordinary people. We've got three Wall Street firms, Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street that have assets of over 20 trillionaires, dollars controlling hundreds of corporations. You're seeing millions of people unable to afford the cost of prescription drugs, unable to afford healthcare, unable to put gas in the tank. So how can anyone think that what's going on right now is good? And obviously what I and other progressives are trying to do is put together a movement which tells the billionaire class in this country whose profits are soaring, who are getting richer and richer, you know what, you can't have it all. We need an economy that works for the middle class, the working class, the elderly, the children, not just the few on top. Okay, all right, that's very true. That's very true, Bernie. Hold on. Does the CEO of Walmart work 351 times harder than his workers? He is paid as if he does. No, they're paper pushers, pencil and paper pushers. The CEO, you talking about the Walton family of Walmart? Oh, that's another talk show onto itself. Okay, let me go on to the next topic here.  Well, this is, this is an article, I think. Let's see, this is an article. Okay, let me read this article.  Look at that, Bloomberg News, their, the Walton family fortune tumbled almost 19 billion on Tuesday after Walmart incorporated slash is profit outlook. Most read from Bloomberg, Walmart flashes a warning sign to the entire consumer economy, US set, well, then, oh, okay, so Walmart controlled by the family fell 11% in New York trading after the Bentonville Arkansas based company reported earnings that lagged and analysts estimates. Soaring inflation, heat pressure on the retailing giants profit margins in the first quarter, testing the company's appetite to raise prices for poor Walmart. Okay, the family's late patriarch, Sam Walton, centered the business around a discount ethos that has in the past helped buoy its stock during recessional times, Walton's time surviving children. I'm sorry, Walton's three surviving children, Alice, Jim and Rob, daughter-in-law, Christie and Christie's son. Lucas owned just under half the retailer, giving them a combined network net net worth of about $212 billion, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index. All right, let me see what this. Well, we're digging deeper into inspection reports for local Walmart stores after a viewer claims she keeps catching overcharges. Jocelyn Bunn-Strong felt ignored at the soon city Walmart after she says she caught the store repeatedly overcharging her. I think there should be an investigation. I don't think that just going to him and saying, hey, this is a problem is working. Well, it got us wondering how often is Walmart overcharging customers? We pulled some inspections. Solano County, which only inspects stores if there are complaints, confirms the soon city Walmart failed two of four price verification inspections since 2008. Countywide, it says Walmart failed six out of 10 inspections in the same timeframe. It says Walmart could face fines. We also pulled inspections in Yolo County out of 15 routine inspections there since 2017. The county caught the store overcharging five times. Three so significant, they find Walmart. And we pulled reports for Sac County, which also does routine inspections finding Walmart failed five of 52 inspections since 2019. So if you catch yourself getting overcharged anywhere, complain to your county weights and measures department. It's that agency that keeps stores honest. Walmart says it's always trying to stay on top of pricing changes, but sometimes the bar code can fall through the cracks.   You know why I think Walmart does that, the sneaky bastards? Because they probably know that a lot of people don't bother to watch the item when it's being rung up and check the price. And a lot of people don't bother to read their receipts. And if they do notice it, they don't want to hold up the long line. They want to get the hell out of there. So they say, ah, no, forget it. I'll pay for it. So they're relying on people like that that are not diligent enough to watch these things. And the people, the customers will let it go. And guess what? Because the consumer gets screwed, Walmart's profit goes up. They can't pull the wool over my eyes. Let me catch up before I go to the next one. Okay, all right. What's up, brah? Hey, Sid, our mail rights activists and an official red pill executive officer. Walmart needs more money as soon as possible here, right? Yeah, sure they need more money. Walmart takes our life insurance policies on their minimum wage workers that pay the company a lot of money if they die. Sadly, these workers are worth more dead than alive to the company. You know, I don't know what company is more vile and low.  I really don't know. I know that Bezos and Walmart have the same mentality. They abuse their workers, they overwork their workers and they underpay them. And also, you know, who else is this? What else is this comeback company? Is the Dollar Tree. They used to be, the main office is in Virginia and they started out on the East coast in the South. Now they're nationwide. It's a publicly traded company. They're on the stock exchange and people that work for the Dollar Tree say that their salaries have not budged.  Their benefits are really, you know, in the abyss.  Walmart is in bed with Warren Buffett and George Soros profits over people, money, money, money. Yeah, profits over people on the planet. They said, the kid, happy Sunday to you. Yes, our alpha male red pill aficionado and enthusiast. We need to get Ronald to stop lining the pockets of Walmart. Well, I'm sure he goes there for the same reason why many people go there is their loyalty is to their wallet. You know, they want the best bang for the buck, but you will not get the best bang for the buck at Walmart because they have a lot of crap in their store. And I want to tell you people from firsthand experience of my own, never buy an electronic device or appliance in Walmart. I always end up taking it back one or two days later.  They really are scumbags.  All right, all right, oy vey. Okay, let me go on to the next. I mean, I have to get the serious topics out of the way first before I do open forum and open topic with all the gentlemen that come to the show and I use that term loosely because they interrupt and they never get anything done. Oh, here's a good one. I think, I think Jason sent me this one.   Okay, this is a chiseless hall of shame inductee. All right, I'm sure you people are aware of these new apps that you can download on your phone where you can purchase any motor vehicle you want and avoid the middleman.  Okay, there's been a lot of complaints about Carvana, about Varum, Carvana loses license to operate in Illinois. Let me see if I can, I just had to enlarge it so I can read the damn thing. I don't know how it looks by Springfield, Illinois. The state of Illinois has suspended the license of online auto dealer Carvana after the company failed to properly transfer titles on vehicles it sold. Interesting. The company is also, the company is also accused of misusing out-of-state temporary registration permits according to automotive news. The Illinois Secretary of State opened an investigation into over 90 consumer complaints, wow, in February and said Carvana will have to resolve the issues at hand before the suspension can be lifted. Carvana says it strongly disagrees with the state's stance.   Carvana has compliantly operated as a licensed dealer and good corporate citizen. Yeah, that exists. In the state of Illinois for several years and we strongly disagree with the state's characterization of both the facts and the law leading to this action. A Carvana spokesperson, hey, Carvana spokesperson, I got an itch in the center of my forehead. It needs to be scratched. A Carvana spokesperson said in a statement, we are actively working with the state to resolve this issue and they have agreed that we will continue delivering already purchased vehicles. We look forward to resolving this issue with minimal disruption to customers. Yeah, right. Carvana allows customers to purchase a car completely online and have it delivered as soon as the next day or pick it up at one of its 17 car vending machines, car vending machines nationwide. Must be a pretty big machine. Once delivered, the customer has seven days before committing to the purchase. Wow, that's not bad. Carvana has also opened an eight-story vending machine in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. The vending machine holds 27 vehicles. What is it like?  The company laid off 2,500 employees last week after experiencing slower than expected growth and a loss of 260 million in the first quarter of 2022. Now, do I believe that? Do I believe what big companies say? I don't think so. Oh, well, you know, but the arrogance of them scolding the state of Illinois for coming to the defense of the consumers. Oh, hey, hold on, hold on, brother, hold on. Jack Lillane was way ahead of his time also. He damn right he was. I watched a video of Lou Ferrigno meeting with his wife, Elaine Lillane, and she showed Lou Ferrigno his personal gym at home, Jack Lillane's gymnasium. He was way ahead of his time. Carvana is one of the biggest scams in American business history, just like Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. I trust Richard Nixon more than I do a car salesman.  Yeah, I do trust him. I do trust Richard Nixon. You know, he wasn't born rich. He was born in a poor family. And I think it was Whittier, California, Southern California. Hello, Sid and Jason. Does the car vending machine have anything in common with the shake weight? The shake weight, yeah. I like the satire that South Park did on the shake weight. On the shake weight. A car is one of the few products that sells for different prices for each buyer. It's such a scam. You know what? There should be a suggested retail selling price that is the same nationwide. And also the car dealer does deserve to make a fair profit, but not a killing. A fair profit, just like the drug companies, you know? Or what about what I mentioned last time when I was a little kid just starting grammar school, my grandfather was able to drive to the Ford assembly plant that was in Mawa, New Jersey. And he was able to buy a brand new Ford off the assembly line without having to go to a car dealer. Uh-huh, you don't see that anymore. Fitness pitchman, Tony Little says, step right up, step right up. Have I got a deal for you ladies who like my long ponytail on a short man's body? Yeah, he's a smurf with a long ponytail. He's also, he also has one of the most annoying voices known to mankind.  Tony Tittle's target training, he quote. And it was so successful in the infomercial it quickly started appearing at Kmart on available on DVD in the field to fight all the discount section. On South Park, I liked the episode where Randy was very proud of his giant size dump in his toilet bowl. Yes, he broke the world record for the biggest of fecal matter deposit. The evacuation of his colon was second to none. Okay, all right, go to the next. Oh, this is the first thing from Forbes magazine.  Well, I'll just read it and you know, people can make their own decision as to what they, let's see if I can. All right, here we go. How Donald Trump shifted kids cancer charity money into his business by Dan Alexander of Forbes magazine, senior editor at Forbes covering Donald Trump's business. Oh, like autumn leaves, sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maserati's descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York in September for the Eric Trump Foundation Golf Invitational. Year after year, the formula is consistent. 18 holes of perfectly trimmed fairways with a dose of Trumpian tackiness, including Hooters, waitresses and cigar spreads followed by a clubhouse dinner, dates encouraged. The crowd leans toward real estate insiders, family friends and sea list celebrities such as former baseball slugger, Daryl Strawberry. He must be a hundred years old now, too as he was with the mess and reality housewife and bankruptcy, Freud fell in Teresa Geodes, Geodice. Yeah, the housewives of New Jersey, here in our husband. Yeah, yeah, the commenter probably remembers that case. The real star of the day is Eric Trump, the president's second son and now the co-head of the Trump Organization who has hosted the event for 10 years on behalf of the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Oh, now I know where St. Jude's is located. Memphis, Tennessee, he's done a ton of good. All right, to date, he directed more than $11 million there, the vast majority of it via this annual golf event. He has also helped raise another $5 million through events with other organizations. The best part about all this according to Eric Trump is the charity's efficiency because he can get his family's golf course for free and have most of the other costs donated, virtually all the money contributed will go towards helping kids with cancer. We get to use our assets 100% free of charge, Trump tells fours. Okay, I'm sure there's more in this article. That's not the case in reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities. It's clear that the course wasn't free.  All right, the course wasn't free. That the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented receipts past the Trump Organization. Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable course justification for a one-day golf tournament. Additionally, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has come under previous scrutiny for self-dealing and advancing the interests of its namesake rather than those of charity, apparently used the Eric Trump Foundation to funnel $100,000 in donations into revenue for the Trump Organization. And while donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was redonated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses. All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors. It also raises larger questions about the Trump family dynamics and whether Eric and his brother, Don Jr., can be truly independent of their father, especially since the person who specifically commanded that the for-profit Trump Organization start billing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the nonprofit Eric Trump Foundation, according to two people directly involved. Was none other than the current president of the United States? Well, that's when the article came out, Donald Trump, president of the United States. Oh, this is a long, long, long article. Well, I think it's... Some people have no conscience. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but some people have no conscience. They're like sociopaths. They feel no remorse for what they do.  And, you know, people today in the plutocracy, the oligarch or plutocracy, which is fascism, corporate control, greed, money. They don't care.  They have no feelings of guilt, no remorse. And I should just place this article on the progressive discussions Facebook page or something because it's a long article. But anyway, let me catch up here. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Health insurance premiums are going up, as the rest of us have to pay for smokers and all of the effects of smoking. Smokers are a serious strain on the whole of society. Yes, they are. Damn brah. Trump is pissed. James, what is your preferred beverage today? Hennessy's whiskey or Southern New Jersey blueberry wine? Well, I had the Hennessy whiskey on Fandango Friday, which is on Friday. I was very impressed with it. It was an airline bottle. No, I have no liquor in the house, so I have my tea concoction with four different tea bags in it. Let's put it this way. It's a healthy tea concoction. I am going to the liquor store this Tuesday and I will look for the blueberry wine. And if I don't see it, I might get a Taylor port wine made from concord grapes. I haven't had that in a long time, or I might just get a bottle of rum that I haven't had yet. Would Stormy Daniels happen to be at the Trump golf course, social event by chance? Wouldn't that be funny if his wife saw Stormy Daniels as a guest? When she was giving birth to his son Baron, he was banging Stormy Daniels the next day. Stormy Daniels is having to pay Trump? What for? Pay him for what? And Aveneti is getting jailed for ripping off Stormy. Oh, that lawyer that Stormy Daniels had that was producing a lot of videos for YouTube. He's from Los Angeles area. Why he was really overcharging Stormy Daniels? Oh my goodness gracious. Well anyway, never believe the mega rich because of their agenda. They will lie through their teeth for the sake of profit before people and the planet. Now, I don't know what this is all about. I'll have to see. I hope it's not an article. I hope it is an article. Child molesters are thankful to Donald Trump. Why they're trying to say Donald Trump set the example of pedophilia. That has never been proven. I'm going to stick. You know what? These articles that are way too long with the fine print. I'm going to stick to videos. I am going to stick to videos. Let me see what else I have here. Oh, this is a video. Yeah, I got to skip some of the videos that are really, really warm. But let me check this one. Now, there's a new strain of smallpox called the monkeypox which went from Nigeria which doesn't surprise me. From Nigeria to Canada and from Canada to the United States. Monkeypox is related to smallpox and to you people that know history, smallpox is really bad. Let's see how long this article is. If it is an article. Oh, there might be a... Let me see if there's a video here. Monkeypox. I hope the monkeys from the 60s, the musical didn't have monkeypox. Every business, big or small, coast to coast needs internet that can keep up with its demand. 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Now, Elizabeth, for many this might be the first time they've ever heard of the monkeypox virus. What are the symptoms of this virus? How does it spread? All right. So let's go over what the symptoms are.  It's swollen lymph nodes, fever. But then after those, shortly after those, you get that tell-tale rash with lesions all over the body. This is why the contacts of the person in Massachusetts are being told to watch out for lymph nodes and fever. Transmission is through prolonged. And I want to emphasize prolonged, prolonged face-to-face contact and direct or indirect contact with bodily fluids or those skin lesions. So just to give you an example, this has happened before. In 2003, there were 47 cases in the U.S. Jake. Are we hearing anything more about those possible other cases abroad? We are. Let's take a look at places that have had confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox. So we've heard of confirmed cases in the U.S., U.K., Portugal, Spain, and Italy, and Canada has suspected cases. I want to be clear here. This is an interesting thing that a CDC doctor said earlier today that many of these global reports are occurring within sexual networks. When people have very close contact with each other, especially if those lesions have started to form, that can be a way that monkeypox spreads. After the coronavirus pandemic, I think there are probably a lot of Americans who would get nervous when hearing about a new virus outbreak. Could this spread on an international level the way that COVID did? The experts we're talking to say that that is quite unlikely. This is much, much harder to spread. It just doesn't spread in the same way. And I think the U.K. National Health Service, they summed it up quite nicely. They say on their website, it's very uncommon to get monkeypox from a person with the infection because it does not spread easily between people. As the CDC says, you need prolonged contact or contact with bodily fluids. This is not a COVID situation. I know you might think, wait a minute, didn't we hear that at the beginning of COVID that this was containable? This is different. We do know something about monkeypox. It has happened before. For example, in 2003, when we saw those 47 cases, it ended at 47 cases. Obviously COVID did not end at 47 cases. Jake. All right, Elizabeth Cohen, thanks so much. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. The photos of the people with the monkeypox really made me cringe. Okay. I think this is, let me get this one last one out of the way. I think this is a video. CEO is really let loose. Wait a second. Oh, this pencil and that geek that runs StreamYard, he makes me jump through hoops just to bring something up.  CEO is really let loose in 2021. While inflation wiped away wage gains for most workers, the typical CEO paycheck grew 31% to $20 million. What makes all of this even more outrageous? We as taxpayers are actually subsidizing these extreme pay gaps. Take Maximus, for example. You might not have ever heard of this company, but if you fall behind on your student loan payments, you will. Maximus gets billions of dollars from Uncle Sam to collect student debts and run call centers. Recently, the mostly black and female workforce at Maximus in Mississippi staged a walkout to demand better health benefits and working conditions. Until President Biden required that federal contractors pay at least $15 an hour, many of these women were earning less than 10. Meanwhile, the CEO at Maximus got a 30% raise last year to earn $8 million. Or let's look at the most extreme example, Amazon. You might not think of them as a federal contractor, but they are. Government agencies have awarded billions of dollars to Amazon for web services. And last year, the new CEO at Amazon got $212 million in compensation. That was 6,474 times as much as median worker pay at Amazon. It's crazy, but it doesn't have to be this way. Just like President Biden required that companies lift the floor for federal contract wages, he could help narrow the pay gaps as well. He could make it hard for companies to get a federal contract if they have huge gaps between CEO and worker pay or are interfering in union organizing. I know I don't want my tax dollars going to companies that overpay their CEO and underpay their workers. Yeah, I agree. 110%. Okay, let me try to catch up on... Hold on. An extorting Nike, I think.  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump used to be very close friends. I wonder if they were in on social media. I wonder if they were in on some of these money shifting scams for each other's charities. Yeah, you never know. They could have put on an act. Hey, when Murph Griffin was married to Jaja Gabor, that was a fake marriage. He was really dating Denny Terrio from Dance Fever. You know, I mean, people do put on an ax for mega bucks. Maybe that's why Murph Griffin used to go, on his talk show all the time. He'd go, maybe when Denny Terrio banged him in the ass, he went, James, fact that I am quiet right now as you are bashing the Trump family should tell you how much you mean to me as a friend.   Okay, nothing surprises me, Commodore. Nothing surprises me. There could be skeletons in anybody's closet. And if Trump and his sons are doing that, and it's proven, of course it has to be proven. You know, this was an article from, what was it, Forbes magazine? It's not from me. It's not James P. Madonna's magazine. It's from Forbes. So what I say is investigate and prove everything beyond a shadow of a doubt. Because we're all sinners, even the priests of parish, even the cardinals in the Vatican. We are all sinners. I don't put anyone, any human being up on a pedestal or up on Mount Olympus. And you know me, I have no, you know, I have a very open mind about things. But that's it. If Forbes has dirt and they prove it, then they got dirt. And they, you know, I'm not going to, I am not going to support any conservative Republican candidate for any office. Because they will take, they will take my benefits away, because they want, this is what they want to do. They want to take people's benefits away. What is the price of fuel under Biden? These store shelves under Biden? Or it could be price gouging by big oil. And people like Mitch McConnell, you know, the Senate between those two phonies was a cinema, cinema, and Joe Manchin, the Senate is a hard nut to correct. You know that people like Mitch McConnell are going to side with big oil and big pharma. So it could be price gouging. You know, it's not necessarily Biden.   Neither was Donald Trump, the dictator of the United States of America. Afghanistan pulled out fiasco under Biden, leaving billions of dollars of weapons behind. Well, that's pretty bad. If he did that, that's pretty damn bad. So what's wrong with getting a golden shower at a Russian hotel resort? That's his business. That's his personal business. If he wants to have Russian hookers urinate for Russian hookers, that's his business. Oh, wow. I got a ways to go. Videos that are really wrong are really long. No, they're not videos. Well, most of them were articles that were really long. And I was straining my eyeballs and then there were a couple of videos that were really long. I mean, they were great videos. I posted them online but for me to have it on the show I mean, I could but you know, it's after four already and I guess I could play one of them. The Kardashians are attention whores. Yes, they are, sir. Do not believe anything that the CDC or entity Fauci proclaim. Well, someone has to protect our lives from these dangerous diseases. I'm sure not going to put my life and limb and health in the hands of big farmer.  Yeah, why would they pick something that is not in demand? Can you imagine someone getting a grant a Pell grant or any other kind of grant to go to college for a major that is not important, that is not employable, that is not a marketable skill. I mean, that would be a total waste. As far as lazy goes the job market is in the shitter just like the economy. Damn, bro, Biden is destroying the country's economy. How come everybody fails to focus on Joe Manchin and cinema, Senator Sinema and Manchin and the Republicans that are with the two traitorous Democrats. They blame the person at the top. If a baseball team loses the World Series they blame the manager. What about the jabronis on the fields? They always blame everything on the guy on the very top. It is not a mark. That is price gouging, $5 a gallon for gas. Biden needs to fix it. Everybody blames one person.  Santa Claus is no good because he didn't give you the video game that you wanted. Hillary Clinton used $600,000 from the Clinton Foundation to pay her daughter Chelsea's wedding. That is the price for her wedding reception. Yikes! Well, these are establishment elitist Democrats. They are neoliberals. There is definite greed and evil in the Democratic Party. Look at what they did to Bernie Sanders. They screwed him over twice. Biden sending $55 billion to Ukraine in three months. Why do these weapons cost so much? Could it be the military industrial complex? Is price gouging also? Screwing the government over? Nobody knows how to say no anymore. No one holds people are not held accountable like they used to. What about Hunter Biden making $11 million in like four years while doing coke and hookers? Those that embrace capitalism will always attack the Democratic Socialists or the left wing. It will go on forever and ever and ever. Chris Cuomo is innocent. Hey listen, Chris Cuomo wanted to help his brother with advice. Andrew Cuomo is a divorced man. He's single. He's allowed to get horny. He's allowed to get laid. That's it. That's it. If a woman comes on to him or flirts with him and he follows up with it, more power to him. He forced himself on those women. All right. Oh my God. I don't think I can get Cuomo got the boot by Stelter.  What was his name? Brian Stelter? The bald headed guy that looks like George Justanza. Stelter and Don Lemon wanted Cuomo out and got him booted. Yeah, the phony friends. The fake phony friend Don Lemon stab Chris Cuomo in the back. You're right. Nancy Pelosi. I never liked her. I definitely never liked her being Speaker of the House for the second time. But she kept on nagging everybody. Nancy Pelosi, the old bag. Give me that Marble Rye old bag. She'd run in 2024.  She's ancient just like Joe Biden. Oh my gosh. And she shakes when she talks. Remember Trump used to call her nervous Nancy? Brian Stelter is all over CNN saying that Cuomo is a degenerate that ruins CNN. And he should just go away. No, Brian Stelter is a jealous Jew. He's jealous that the Pizon Chris Cuomo was the number one rated of personality on CNN.  Don Lemon said Cuomo violated all journalists ethics and needs to get a different career. Yeah. Cuomo couldn't keep anything in confidence with his discussions with Lemon couldn't keep anything in confidence whatever he discussed with Cuomo. He had to open his big mouth right after he got let go. Brian Stelter was the lowest ratings on CNN on CNN history. Good. Oh, man. All right, give me one moment. Give me one moment, people. I got to check on something. The boozehounds the boozehounds are insulted because I told them that I can't I can't have fun and frolic and open forum until 4pm they they seem to be like snowflakes right there. They're very easily offended. Well, they know they all know including Ronnie Simpson. They all know that the Streamyard link is all the way at the top of the comment section. Anybody who wishes to join just needs to go to the top. Brian Stelter says Cuomo was too dumb to be part of CNN and wasn't a professional too, and is just a meathead. But how come Chris Cuomo doesn't like I looked he doesn't have a YouTube channel. Chris Cuomo could very easily do live stream videos and put them on a YouTube channel of his own. But why is he so quiet? Why doesn't he go off on Brian Stelter and possibly Don Lund? I would be very insulted if I was stabbed in the back by a friend who was exaggerating interesting. Well, it's time for open topic but I'm not going to wait forever. Let's see. Yeah, now these this one's interesting let me now you know what I'm going to skip this because it's a real wrong it's really wrong. All right, you know what I wonder Jason Cleveland do you do you do you have Colin McMeneman's YouTube channel I mean or or email address or anything of that nature maybe you can send them a message to that he can come on the show. Okay. Time for the wheel. There's the wheel. Fake Discounts Fake Discounts when a retail company runs a sale and realize they jack up the regular retail selling price and you think you're getting it for 25% off 30% off 10% off but you're really not it's a it's a scam it's a lie they do it definitely they do it in the car dealing industry they do it they do it they do it retail number one that's definitely a fact retail is notorious for running fake sales with fake discounts well these boozehounds need to stop being so sensitive and overreacting I think the liquor has really saturated their brain cells when you go to a restaurant with a coupon for let's say it could be a TGI Fridays or whatever or any of the fake Mexican corporate chains any corporate chain as a coupon never show them the coupon before you receive the food wait until you get the food because first-hand experience by yours truly they will give you at least 50% of the normal portion of food you will get screwed on the portion another it's not retail it's a restaurant business I mean what industry doesn't screw people over in this country anybody if anyone has a comment about the subject on the wheel feel free okay otherwise I'll spin the wheel again yes yes we know it well right and the women get they use the retailer retailing Valentine's Day bullshit as an excuse to lay a guilt trip on you men if you don't take them out for dinner if you don't buy them roses that die in a couple of days if you don't spend dollars on a bullshit greeting card that is nauseating when you read it like wording that came from the 1950s if you don't get ripped off by the fine jewelry industry like Jared K-Jewelers whatever they make you feel guilty they lay a guilt trip on you this is all brainwashing by retail to get men to part with their money meanwhile any day can be Valentine's Day think about it or any day can be Mother's Day you don't have to wait once a year to take your mom out let's see what we've got here yeah no that that'll be coming very soon Commodore he's in the middle of the wheel he's mad because I put his face in the middle of the wheel for one show said one show and then he got so upset I took it down and then I put my face up there and he's still mad to this day he won't reply to me or nothing he's powering he's very upset that I put his face in the middle of the wheel one time and therefore now because he's acting like a big fat snowflake man baby his face is in the middle of the wheel quite a bit alright that's where the Michigan guy is well I just told you I just explained to you good morning my dear Masumi from Japan it's now 5 21 am Monday in Tokyo right now good morning to you Masumi I wish you a very pleasant Monday and I hope you're feeling well good morning salute to Masumi I have no idea if he's a Jew or not I wouldn't be surprised but you know I would be disappointed you know Elon Musk hails from South Africa so he is of the Dutch descent yes because the Netherlands colonize South Africa among other places I think Belgium used to own the Congo which is now they changed it to Zaire and I think it's now back to the Republic of the Congo yeah alright back to the wheel Valentine's Day bullshit you guys the silk the silk roses look just as realistic as the real roses and they last forever and you can spray them with any scent you want and if you do get real roses and you hang them upside down on the wall they will become perfect dry flowers and forget about the diamonds from Jared they use very low grade poor quality diamonds and they make you pay for the workmanship the so called designer that made the setting and everything and they make you pay through the nose for the designer setting and their overhead, their advertisement and they are a corporate chain but the diamonds are low grade they are not certified top quality diamonds by the Gemological Institute of America they do not come with that certificate so if they're charging you $6,000 on a diamond tennis bracelet you're being ripped off because if you try to sell that special Valentine's jewelry like that bullshit commercial about chocolate diamonds brown diamonds they're probably the cheapest diamonds in the industry you try to sell those diamonds a few years down the road and they will give you a tiny fraction of what you pay for okay hold on for a second hold on for a second you're sending a message okay now for the spinning of the wheel again yes the space program they claim that the main objective of the space program is to find a suitable planet that is in the Goldilocks zone that can support human life for the time comes when our planet Earth cannot support human life or any life and of course it's the fault of greedy corrupt humans that this planet is dying for the sake of greed alright and that is the main reason for space exploration otherwise you could just keep sending unmanned spacecraft out there and satellites and all that and have the international space station and just be happy with that hold on hold on I'm getting a thousand messages here yeah the Dutch are pretty supposed to be pretty tight with the dollar they say the Dutch and the Scottish planes are pretty tight with the dollar too well Jordy knows that 4pm is the time for him to come and he's not coming because I guess he's insulted that he can't start at 3pm and interrupt me and turn this show into a big party of intoxication too bad Sid you're funny man Sid is funny Commodore and Jason Cleveland you hit the nail on the head I guess no I didn't shave anything he went to Supercuts and he asked for the Larry Fine style oh I got it from a source one of my sources gets me uncomplimentary photos of people that tick me off you think I'm gonna put I'm gonna put the best photo in the middle of the wheel no way Jose hold on I am getting messages every which way well you know what I'm gonna do if people this is what I gotta do first I gotta do this you know just for the help I am going to alright that's enough I've had it I've had it alright he should shave his head guys that are bald that are that bald look funny with the peach fuzz with hair on the sides hair in the back they really look funny just buzzing the whole thing and you know getting a good electric razor or whatever just shaving their head I had to do what I had to do because beer booze and beer mostly beer and and eating eating crap he doesn't have underactive metabolism his thyroid I'm sure is fine I noticed how he made an excuse that he couldn't get charcoal or firewood for the smoker because his his scooter is in the garage and the mechanic wants to charge him a thousand dollars to fix a fucking scooter and I'm thinking how the hell how the hell how the hell does he ride a scooter and have groceries with his body mass damn scooter how does he do that honestly I don't know where they are I don't know where any of them are well it's not the fat it's the sugar addiction to carbs that's what causes excess body fat he smokes like a chimney he's a chain smoker that's another thing Sid nah he probably he probably got too fucking lazy and uses smoker and grill stuff for the show so he started putting pork loins in a in a crock pot it looked really disgusting you know steamed pork loin you gotta put that sucker on a barbecue and smoke it get it nice and brown and crispy yeah yeah where is Colin very talented man very intelligent too I enjoyed Colin being on the show I mean I joined his his YouTube channel and I left a really nice complimentary message on one of his videos and he never answered me he never replied oh he coughs up a lung and he told me it's a smoker's cough I edited it ladies man yeah well you never know you never know who might show up I have no idea you know Sunday is when it comes to the weekend it's not easy because people do stuff on Friday Friday nights Saturdays and Sundays and during the weekday people are tired people at work come home tired by the time they get done with dinner and everything I want to relax that's what's good about Sunday I mean I can relax and I don't feel rushed no no way why would I go where the weather is colder and damper than New Jersey or at least just as bad I don't want more ice and snow I want less ice and snow no I think Detroit is a shithole I think I think the the weather I think they have bad winters no not a fan okay people know the format they know the new format and that's it if they come they're welcome they don't come then what can I say that's the way to crab cake crumbles I thought it should be I think Sid would I think Sid would like this subject mooching gold diggers you know what I hate I hate the most about the mooching gold diggers or the mooching the mooching women that want special treatment that are materialistic I hate it they say you're the man you're supposed to do this or that I'm not supposed to do anything the only thing a man is supposed to do is die and pay taxes you know yeah like that scumbag cook at the crow's nest that got seriously reprimanded it's not worse and that witch of a waitress yeah well you know what if you were to be a in order for a woman to exploit she has to have a victim she has to have a sucker if the man is is a pussy he's a wimp he's a wussy he's got raisins, raisin balls if he is willing to be controlled by his girlfriend or fiance or wife well then she's going to continue to control him it takes two to dance the salsa remember so you can't put all the blame on one on the woman you can't put all the blame on her I know Sid is an expert at this subject yeah they are an opposite of a true feminism of course the fake phony fraud feminists that like to ride the fence when it comes to making money they're feminists when it comes to being waited on hand and foot and being entertained all the time and supported then they're not feminists that's what I meant by having your cake and eating it is absolutely correct and as long as we don't have any booze hounds on the show I might as well go back to the old wheel of course the weathermen these networks choose weathermen and weatherwomen they call them meteorologists but that's like calling a janitor or a custodian you know whatever engineer or some kind the thing is they pick them for their personalities and their appearance to get ratings they all get their information from the national weather bureau NOAA just like we do you can download on the NOAA app or any quality weather app on your phone and you can get the same national weather bureau information they don't know for sure the weather it's very changeable never go by a five day forecast don't even go by it well I would say a three day forecast is fairly accurate okay Jason Cleveland says lung cancer and obesity are the two preventable detriments to one's health and well being listen these people choose to be addicted they choose the lifestyle they don't have to smoke if they get addicted to nicotine because they're idiots and they've been smoking that long see your doctor get the nicotine patch get help if you're an alcoholic there's a medication for preventing that urge there is get help or don't start to begin with me and Jason Cleveland we drink to help relax and take the edge off a life a bit and also we enjoy the flavor of fine craft beers and ales and stouts or it might be whiskey or something of that nature you know or it might be peppermint schnapps we enjoy the flavor of the finer not the cheap crap not boxcar willy hobo hooch we have total control we're not alcoholics no just like I'm not a compulsive gambler when I used to go to Atlantic City I would only take so much money to play the machines the progressive slots and that's it once I'm done I'm done I have a friend that keeps on going to the ATM machine until he's broke these are addictive people no booze hounds yet airlines suck let me tell you I really hate united airlines because when I took united airlines I'll just give you an example and I'm sure Jason can can vouch for this airlines have contemplative customers their greedy scumbags before they became greedy scumbags they were the only thing they did that would crook it was they based on supply and demand I guess they jacked up their prices their rates during holidays but now they they charge you for absolutely everything the airline food which was never great does not automatically come with the airline ticket okay you have to pay for the food you have to pay for the liquor if you want a blanket or a pillow you have to buy them you know so and then with united airlines flying five hours to San Diego what happened was even with my seat all the way back my knees were still touching the seat in front of me so they squeeze more seating aboard the cabin of united airlines so they can shove more people on there now the fact that you have to pay for absolutely everything on the plane and I think they charge you for a certain amount of carry-on by weight despite everything that you have to pay for the airline ticket should be lower should be significantly lower but it's not when you it's funny I close Facebook messenger but I still hear the sound when you took your last united airlines flight what did your fellow passenger tell you yeah he was a Los Angeles police officer and a Philippine guy very nice man and we had a great conversation throughout the whole trip and he was in New Jersey attending a wedding reception so he was returning his girlfriend is from San Diego so he was flying there instead of flying to LAX and I I told him the first thing I said if anybody causes trouble on this plane flight we're both tackling him hard he says you bet you bet we are I says yeah and and then the stewardess the airline attendant as they call him now says oh we have Wi-Fi and you can use the Wi-Fi and go online well guess what the Wi-Fi on united airlines did not work so thank god I had someone interesting sitting next to me to have great conversation and then he told me that to live a decent middle class life in the Philippines all you need is an income of about like $800 a month US dollars $800 a month and you can live a good life I remember him telling me that but there would have to be a really good part of the Philippines near a white sandy beach a powdery you know Zuckerberg these are real pieces of shit I closed the messenger and I'm still here in the jungle Riley Reid once gave the person next to her on the airplane a handjob under the blanket oh so so she jerked Riley Reid jerked off someone sitting next to her gave him a handjob like it that's interesting well you can't make it obvious you can't make obvious facial expressions or noises now there's an old saying if there's a will there's a way two people that are not obese like some people you know two people that are reasonably slender can sneak into the small airline lavatory and have sex standing up it can be done you know you have to use your imagination and you know angle it properly maybe the girl has to put her foot up on the toilet raise one leg you know it could be done but the only problem is the motherfuckers that will be knocking on your door anybody in there yeah naturally it's locked you dumbass gotta go to the bathroom okay and then you come out with the girl and then he goes and he blabs to everybody on the plane and the airline attendant hears it oh shit Riley Reid oh so the guy it was a Muckety Muck he was one of them Muckety Mucks big deal you better do a lot more than a hand job if she's a gold digger using using the fitness guru from originally from Iran wearing baggy genie pants using his shlong as a stick shift to me somebody we know Jason Clark Griswold once attempted to join the mile high club you know I was watching a video of someone from the press in the locker room St. Louis Cardinals attempting to interview Mark Maguire I guess he was a Cardinal I don't know if he was a Cardinal after the Oakland days he might have been or before before the Oakland days he had no shirt on and what the the title said under the video is he's huge and you know he's the guy that says well he was taken over to counter Andrew Steendion for to increase his libido I think he was taken more than that so that's when later on they found out Maguire was on the juice Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs you know when they were breaking Roger Maris' all time home run record but Mark Maguire was very defensive and very rude and very arrogant to the guy trying to interview him so that's it for the airline you gotta pay for everything oh here's another one you're right Barry Bonds who supposedly broke Hank Aaron's all time home run record was on the juice San Francisco Giants the son of Bobby Bonds who was a great old school ball player also with the San Francisco Giants so there's a hope there's an asterisk and you know in the baseball hall of fame profile actually I wouldn't I wouldn't give them I wouldn't, I would not claim that he's the all time home run hitter if he was on the juice that's cheating good Hank Aaron was a great all natural player for the Milwaukee Braves and then they moved to Atlanta originally the Braves were in Boston they were the Boston Braves and that's where Babe Ruth retired he went from the Yankees to the Boston Braves nationally I sent them the link so you know what that means Jason that means his goofy face is going to be in the center of the wheel for a long time it's interesting how all the boo sounds not sure enough what do you know about feminism the subject of feminism I have no idea how to contact them I left them a message I left them a message under his one of his videos playing a guitar singing a message of how much I enjoyed or how much we enjoyed having them on the show he never replied feminism we've been talking about feminism all day what more can we possibly say so let me spin the wheel again ok now this is interesting the Pollyanna now sometimes the Pollyanna person is also a sycophant which is an ass kid brown nose a Pollyanna doesn't doesn't see the real world they look at the world through their own deluded vision rose colored glasses everything is wonderful everybody is wonderful I love everybody they never say a discouraging word about anyone they never criticize anyone they never get upset about anything they don't bash anyone they want to be they're often synonymous with sycophants for instance they'll join everyone's facebook page Mark Zuckerberg even if they're scum even if they're asshole douchebags they'll join it because it's somebody in the spotlight so what could how can they go wrong somebody in the spotlight they're famous they're rich so they kiss their ass but a Pollyanna I know Pollyanna is personally where you're talking to them and they'll they'll say they'll be honest with you privately they'll deny what they said about the individual they don't want to rub anyone the wrong way they don't want to offend anyone yes you can call them snowflakes they want to be like they want to be loved they're nauseating people they're really nauseating people female empowerment extortion through the use of sex through the use of the selling tool the hula hoop video with a petite woman with big boobs well yeah they use sex as a way to persuade people to part with their money they also salesmanship with salesmanship like that guy yeah well salesmanship they'll take a little bit of truth and they'll exaggerate and distort it and they'll just coat it with a lot of bullshit unfortunately Deena Engard is a sycophant and a rim job tongue twisty in other words a Pollyanna yeah everything's wonderful I am so happy to be home where I really belong Southern California yeah my ass she had a condo right near me Phil Murphy a fabulous governor that would do very well as Kamala's VP if she wins the nomination in 2024 I don't have a lot of confidence in Kamala Harris I don't think she's qualified to be the head honcho I'm sorry neither is the woman that a lot of guys like because she was cute Tulsi Gabbard she's she's got some issues she's not qualified to be the top banana either Pollyanna's are more than willing to eat corn niblets out of their mentor's poop Corn Wallace on South Park that's beautiful that's beautiful Corn Wallace I'll be Corn Wallace her valper and a Tijuana breath let's see I have to go check something I will be back in a flash hold on let's see there you go I will be back in a flash so sit tight everybody those dirty rotten scoundrel boozehounds okay the song entitled and I would walk 500 miles a Pollyanna would fly 3,000 miles eat corn niblets from the centrifugal torque training instructor's poop after the seminar you know another line of bullshit with circular training is that they make it appear to be like a panacea a one stop exercise a one stop shopping exercise that does everything it does it all it's not a bodybuilder it does not maximize muscle mass it is good for certain things it will give you overall functional strength but it doesn't do it all but the people who do seminars would make you think it does it all oh South Park hold on for a second I have no idea you just gave me an idea I can feel that it's 90 degrees out there today Carl, why doesn't NJM use mascots? mascots are silly saving money isn't you think I'm silly? hold on hold on for a second hold on for a second I like the spiral I like the spiral the pipe it wouldn't be funny if you knew how to hypnotize the women with that that steel dildo masapis to get control over their wallets oh oh thankfully the weather should dip I'm going to order Chinese food every Sunday you know the show takes a lot out of me for me to cook anything from scratch Crystal Pendulum the booze hounds upset that they can't come on the show until 4 p.m. Crystal Pendulum are they brain cell deficient from the alcohol is that why they get so upset? I thought so I thought so okay time is it I think I'm going to bang up the show go order go relax in the air conditioning Commodore thank you for coming on I have no idea where these people are I finished up the last of my pickled herring from Canada last night late last night I was hungry until I get another jar which will probably be the creams pickled herring sour cream which I happen to love nothing like sour cream on good Mexican food or baked potato you know sour cream and chives the Polish sometimes they'll put it on pierogies pierogies they're just dumplings a dumpling is a dumpling whether it be Chinese Polish or whatever I just have to figure out what I'm going to order pickled herring from the Canadian Maritimes yeah the Acme food company from Brooklyn New York it cost me $10 for the biggest jar they have $10 I can imagine I can imagine what it will cost to make pickled herring right off the docks by you I could imagine I mean the ingredients water, vinegar onions you know I think they put dill dill in there and then sour cream that tickles your fancy what if it's fresh from the nets of the commercial boats I'm sure it's not $10 a jar oh that's right I got eight ounces of ground venison I can make a jumbo venison burger tomorrow if I'm going to order Chinese food today a little later well I'm supposed to be getting something very important delivered to me today so I'm going to check and see if it was delivered and get it up here and I'm very excited about it and that's about it but anyway common or thank you very much and I'm very I look forward to seeing your next workout video from Akara North Atlantic right from your your dungeon your personal private dungeon and that should be good and remember if you set records if you break records your dungeon should be yourself I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any any so called event national event let's put it that way especially a national event who has a sponsor from a fitness company trying to sell their product tickles tickles harrowing tickle they don't say pickle cucumbers they say they call pickle cucumbers pickles everything else is pickled and the name of what it is you know it's like toast they'll say toasted corn muffin but when they just say toast it means toasted bread but they don't say toasted bread it's funny how that works very strange very strange plus I got a little I got a little acid reflux I have a pickle that needs to be stick shifted from JFK airport to southern New England yeah extreme southern New England extreme you might as well say it's a suburb of New York it's not a suburb of Boston the only time the only time you hit a suburb of Boston I think is when you go towards like north of New Haven you know Groton London Mystic Seaport maybe Hartford maybe then you get Boston radio stations but anything anything anything from New Haven even down the end of Long Island also gets Boston radio stations like going towards the Hamptons like towards the tip and then you have Block Island Block Island Sound then beyond Block Island you have of course Malthus Vineyard and Nantucket yeah they get Boston stations you know Carl Yastrebski was from the tip of Long Island he grew up on the tip but anyway take care I'll talk to you I'll see you over on Facebook Messenger thank you for coming thank you for being my co-host much appreciation and also I want to thank Jason Cleveland from Seattle Washington I want to thank Bart Robinson I want to thank Masumi from Japan I want to thank Sid Psycho Sid Sid the Kid I want to thank him I didn't take it out next time next time goodnight everybody have a pleasant beginning of the week


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And I wanna give you guys some tips that's gonna allow you to make the right decision and really put you in a position to make the right choice that's gonna make you happy and put you in a position to make that six-figure income. First of all, guys, you can't go wrong either way. Both are really good careers. Both put you in a position to make that six-figure. It really come down to what's right for you and your skill set and what come natural to you and what you wanna work in because that's really gonna come play a major role in which one you wanna go with, guys. So let me tell you guys a quick story and I made some bullet points here so I can make sure that I hit these points effectively. So when you're in college, guys, this is where it's gonna really kind of stand out as far as just the which direction you wanna go and you're gonna have to make a decision at this point. If you're a college student, you probably got two options right here. College, software engineering and computer science. Software engineering goes more towards the computer engineering route and computer science go more towards the software development route. At this point, the education which you learn is gonna be drastically different depending on which route you're gonna go. Both heavily focus on software in parts of it. It's just the computer science really going to the software where the software engineering more focus on some of the hardware and integration between the hardware and the software. So it's a major difference there when it comes to learning. So when you're in college and you're trying to pick the right one, I can definitely tell you the computer science route is gonna have less math and science actually. So depending on what you're trying to do, I know a lot of you guys rent away from math guys. You got to pick one that's gonna rep your skill set. As far as just educational, I'm gonna be honest with you. The engineering is gonna be a lot harder depending on which school you go to. So kind of keep that in mind too. But as far as just the salary, generally speaking now, don't take this as the default, but the engineering is gonna typically pay more. But when you're in college guys, it really comes down to getting one that's right for you as far as just the coursework, what you're comfortable with, what that school's known for and what program's gonna help you guys reach that level even faster. So as you pick the right one in college, you have to be mindful of these differences and all that. The good news is once you get in the real world, as far as just the job market and working for certain companies, it delies blur even more guys. Because from a learning standpoint, you can, there's a clear difference when it comes to the hardware and software, but each company is different depending on how they market these two guys. You can have a pure software company who don't deal with hardware at all. Still have software engineers on the team and their roles are more traditionally software developers. So when you're dealing with Corporate America, each company deals with the role titles a little bit different. So you have to really kinda look at the specific tasks that you're gonna do to really figure out which one is definitely gonna be what you wanna do going forward and what that job is going to be, the expectations of you on the job. What I found out is guys, when a company trying to, not necessarily, when a company want to make you look as smart and technology friendly as possible, it leans towards the engineering side of the fence. You notice Facebook, Google, any of the Silicon Valley's, they use software engineers, they use JavaScript engineers, they use a lot of engineers. A lot of the companies who are first starting out are maybe not as tech friendly and want to pay tech professionals on a more level playing field as their other employees, they typically lean towards developer, programmer, coder, application specialist, those type of titles. So the amount of money a company wanna pay, you really come to play also guys because you gotta look at the BLS. I'm pretty sure you go to the engineering section and the tech specialist section is gonna be a drastic difference in salary as far as just the peaks of each of them. So companies wear that so they are very sensitive on the titles. Even if you're gonna have more engineering type of a role as a company who want to kind of keep your salary in check, they're gonna title you as a developer. So that's one other aspect you have to be concerned with guys. So I wanna make sure I hit all my points here and make sure that I cover this from multiple angles to kind of give you guys perspective on which one to pick. And guys at the end of the day is really gonna come down to the end result of the project that you're working on. A lot of the software development projects that I work on is purely hardware, purely software. I don't deal with any hardware outside of the actual computer system. If you're dealing with the engineering firm who's maybe got an application or just say a project, let's say a AC company and you have mainly developed ACs and engineering and you want software to integrate with that so you can control it on your smartphone. That's gonna be typically a software engineer who's gonna be doing that particular role because when you want to press a button on your software you want that machine to spin send a certain amount of energy, circuits, communication to that specific hardware. That's typically an engineering role. But not to say that company won't have a pure software developer that reports to that engineer to write the software that they don't have and necessarily touch the hardware side of things. So it's a mix and match even in certain companies. So it's not just engineers or developers. It really comes down to your role and what the expectations are as far as just that. So you gotta be aware of that guys and really kind of position yourself for success. Me personally, I am a SQL developer. I don't touch any hardware so I am a developer. I have done some projects in the past that deal with hardware but mainly my role was a developer. I dabble in the architecture side of things when you're dealing with certain companies but mainly as a developer. So a lot of the stuff that you see me talk about on this channel is purely from a software side. I don't necessarily get into the actual hardware of anything. Just say you're creating an app like Facebook or Twitter or any kind of social media app and it's gonna be working on multiple platforms being Android, iOS or even Windows. Those smartphones have components on as far as just the cameras and all that. As a developer, you don't wanna get too deep into the actual component itself and the electronical components and the architecture and all that. That's where you may have to hire a software engineer to really be that bridge between your application and that piece of hardware to ensure that the end user gonna get the best results, guys. So you have to be aware of that. I talk about that in my seven step guide, guys. So go ahead below and pick that up. It's gonna really position you so that you can make the decision up front and you can have laser focus to get to that six figure salary and don't be confused about what you guys wanna do. And that's my recommendation going forward, guys. Know where you at, know what you wanna do and really focus on that. And yeah, there gonna be some blurred lines as far as just a software developer versus a software engineer that's not gonna go anywhere. Some companies who clearly have software developers name them software engineers. So I don't see that ending no time soon but what you should be able to do is look at that job description or action what they do on a daily basis to decipher is that role or the daily task associated with engineering or software developments are going. But at the end of the day, guys, you have made the right decision. You can't go wrong with any one of them. It really come down to your personal preference, your skill set, what comes easier for you. The job market in your area. Which one is more prevalent as far as just in my area, software developers are the thing. We have a couple of software engineers but mostly it's probably 80, 20 software development is 80% of the 20 software engineers because of just our local economy here. We do do engineers but it's gonna be more of the civil, mechanical, agriculture, petroleum, those. As far as the software, engineers gonna be more of your industrial companies who deal mainly with hardware. So Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, even the New York's of the world, Chicago's, Washington's, things like that. Those markets gonna have a lot more options when it comes to engineers because they having to deal with high level hardware guys. So I hit all the major points. What do you guys think? Comment below. Do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me? Tell me what your job role is and what you guys are seeing in the industry. If you guys haven't already, links are below for my seven step guide access to our community and a lot more resources below guys. 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