Greetings, everyone. And welcome to progressive discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna. I've been doing this since 2007. And welcome to our Easter 2023 weekend special show. Or should I say Happy Ishtar, the origins of Easter, connected, pertaining to the fertility goddess, Ishtar, paganism, you know, the rabbit, the Easter eggs, it's all connected to the fertility goddess. Happy Ishtar. So I hope everyone has great plans this weekend to spend quality time with family, loved ones, which are not necessarily the same thing. Some people have loved ones that are really not their relatives.   But anyway, yeah, all the pain in the asses are deceased. The ones that ask you irritating questions, nosy relatives, they don't ask you how you're doing, how you're feeling. They want to know, are you working yet? Are you working? Are you working?  They don't talk about hobbies or interests. They don't talk about anything pleasant because they didn't have any lives. The older generation folks, all they had is their job. All they thought about is money.  And then repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. And they used to brag, oh, I get a lot of overtime. I'm happy about that. I get a lot of overtime, overtime. Yeah, they don't realize with all that overtime, you pay more taxes. So it doesn't pay. The overtime does not pay anymore.  He'll fix it. It just takes, sometimes it takes a little while.  And safari is not compatible. Yeah, safari is not compatible with live streaming. Let's see if it works now.  Okay, hold on. Yeah, the usual is right. Hello. Hello. Hello. Oh, we're okay now. We're okay now. Okay, this is my right hand man, my co-host, Mick Vaughn Raven from Chicago, Illinois, and they just selected a new mayor, but it wasn't the mayor that the intelligent Chicagoans really wanted.  You know, they have the, I guess the politically correct mayor now. It's a dumpster fire.  Yeah, I'm very surprised at Bernie Sanders. I mean, I have to call him like I see him. Sometimes he really shows his raisin balls and he showed it again by talking about defunding the Chicago PD, the Chicago police, defund the police, defund the police, and spend the money towards social programs. Okay, that sounds fine and dandy, but who's going to fight all the violent crime in Chicago? Yeah, it's a farce and this candidate was quoted as saying defund the police whereas Paul Vallis said we need a bigger police presence and, you know, the safety of the city people, of those that voted for him, they're going to find out the hard way. I don't get to vote because I'm in the suburbs, but I lived in Chicago, the city for nine years and they go to Chicago all the time. So it's got plenty of effect on me and I'm highly disappointed, but I hate to say it nowadays. I'm not that surprised.  And it's just downright brain cell deficient to make a statement like that, especially for Bernie Sanders. Unless he's pandering to the, to the, the minority vote and the Black Lives Matter and the woke voters and that maybe he's got something cooking in 2024 or he's pandering for most, but you don't say to a city where a high crime rate, a high homicide rate, defund the police, defund the police and give it all to social programs. What does he think the low income people in Chicago are going to do with all those social programs? They're going to buy drugs or alcohol, alcohol, drugs and booze.   No, sir. No, sir. And, you know, right now we're, we're living in some rarefied times of political. Oh, God. Hold on. This is an extension of bad political politics. Our politics is a slew and stew of shite. I mean, it's always fling poo at the other guy, but not face reality. I'll blame you. You blame me. Let's not address what's really going on in the room. Whether it's in the city of Chicago or in the White House. You know, and then this thing with Trump's arraignment, everyone's using it, pretending he's like Jesus and he's being persecuted.  Yeah, the antichrist. I mean, he did some good things in his presidency. I won't deny that. But, you know, trying to become a dictator and overthrow the government's not one of them.  You know, he's getting his comeuppance. He's broke the law. He's been a scoff law his whole life. And he's, this is the tip of the iceberg when they get him for January 6 and for, you know, Georgia.  But the 34 charges don't even involve Georgia and Jen. I know. So he's got a litany of, of, of violations that are going to take him down. And it's really going to happen because he really did the stuff. It's real. It's not made up.  No, it's all been, it's been on track. And now it's, he's got to pay the piper. Yeah. And his father was no angel. He was a slumlord and a conniver. Just like him. And, and, you know, Donald Trump learned from the best. He learned from his own man. And he was also a big time racist. Oh yeah. Head of the Klan in the New York. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.  They couldn't. Like a corkscrew. They couldn't. I mean, everything, you know, like the old saying, if it, if it sounds, walks and, and, and looks like a duck, you know, I mean, everything is so obvious today that you don't need to have a high IQ to understand and notice what's going on.  It's really strange that the Republican party would embrace that. They were always the, the law and order party, not anymore. This is not your father's Republican party. And they, and they're teaching American public as well as young people. They're teaching them that selfishness is a virtue. All of a sudden selfishness. I think I am ran started that self interests and being for yourself only. Hey, do me a favor, talk a little bit about what you had put up here in New Jersey. I'm not from the area. So I wasn't aware of this. Okay. This I just learned today. New Jersey legal weed dispensaries pay fines for sliding medical marijuana patients. That's not, that's like kicking the, the, the ill and the poor when they're down. Yeah. April 1st, 2023, it came out. Let's see what this is about. I guess that's one dispensary. I guess I don't know if they're, if that's aligned to get their, their stash or if they're protesting the botanist. Okay. Long lines and tension at the botanist in Williamstown, the medical and recreational cannabis dispensary paid a $5,000 fine for making patients wait to buy their medicine. What deliberately making them wait, I guess. Let's see. Shortly after the legal weed market opened 11 months ago, the cannabis regulatory commission cited five cannabis operators to send cure relief, Toronto, GTI and acreage for selling to the public during times reserved for registered patients. No, greedy. Yeah, they were. Yeah. Greed. So that's a, that's it. So registered patients had, I assume appointments to pick up their medical marijuana and yes. And they, they just waited for the highest bidder. I assume. You know, a lot of people instead of turning to opioids are using medical marijuana and it's the right thing. It's not addictive. It's, it helps them. I know, I know people that use it medically and it's just one of the great, you know, it's God made. It's, it's grown on earth. And I mean, I, I, I played the video of Jesse Ventura telling the story about his wife having very severe seizures. And he, at the time he had to go, he had to go to Colorado to get her to be able to use the extract, the drops under her tongue a few times a day. And ever since she tried the cannabis extract, she hasn't had a seizure. He said that medical doctors put her on several different drugs for her seizures and nothing worked. Nothing worked. And then he heard about marijuana, about cannabis extract and it worked. And she hasn't had a seizure since and, and since she put the first drops under her tongue. Yeah, that's a miracle thing. Marijuana is a miracle plant really is so many different versatile, useful, helpful things. Well, the whole, the whole species, the hemp plant is the most, the biggest cash crop known to man. And it has, it is so versatile and has so many positive purposes that it is literally, I get one of God's prize plants. I think it is. They should have medical, they should have marijuana celebrations. You really should. It should be a marijuana parade. Yeah. And marijuana should be used in religious ceremonies, not just wine. I really, I believe, maybe I'm getting Rastafari in here. What can I say? Not the, not just wine and frankincense and myrrh incense. You know, like when the priest has. Yeah, there should be some weed in there, man, with that frankincense.  I saw an alarming headline. I just want to change gears for a second. That GOP is trying to find a way to expel three Democratic senators, impeach them and get them out. Have you seen that? Yeah. What's there? What is the problem? I mean, how can they get that done? That's a witch hunt. And is that so they can control more of the Senate? They, they, they, they don't, I don't think fair play is part of their vocabulary. No. They play dirty.  Their agenda is number one with them. They don't care about really the American people, the voters. They can care less about the American. Yeah. It's inconsequential that, you know, anything good happens to them. Yeah. It's like, it's pure selfishness. That's what it seems like to me. It's like, they don't care about the voters that put them in office. The fools, you know, like, like Mitch McConnell, what is it? Wolf County, Kentucky, these, these, these red, they're living in shacks and they're, and they keep re-electing Mitch McConnell. He does nothing for them. Because it does nothing for them. Republicans never worked for the poor and the middle class. No. And why? Because they keep repeating the same thing. Oh, Democrats are baby killers. Oh, abortion. So they're religious cults, which they belong to. And they love, they love the corporate world. That's all like, that is, that's their world. Their loyalty is to the fat cats that line. Yeah. The top 1%, the allergy. They run this country. Really. I mean, like Jesse Ventura was right. A politician is not obligated to meet with lobbyists. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. A politician is not obligated to meet with lobbyists. And I have Right wing friends that are going off on me because I'm a Biden supporter saying all the economy and everything. It's all the president's fault. Look when Donald was a president that was all fine and well, the president doesn't, he's. An economist. You know, he doesn't run the economy, he doesn't, give out rates and take points away. Under Trump. He gave so many breaks that now we're paying for all what he did do it for his friends You know, there's always a fallout when one presidency does well the other one usually pays for it Yeah, look what happened when GW Bush took over for Bill Clinton Bill Clinton had a surplus and GW Bush with Dick Cheney Squandered it put those put those Unnecessary wars on a credit card and and and forget it and put the country in very deep debt And Halliburton profited both of them very much. There's a very profitable war for those two Albert and and and then Barack Obama inherited that mess and They fought him tooth and nail They just because he was black and he was he was half black. He was mixed race Yeah, his mother is mother's Irish. His mother was Irish and But the point is Yeah, and then they were claiming he was born in Kenya and all this nonsense The point is that even Trump before he ever ran for President the presidency was on this tangent about In search of Barack Obama's real birth certificate, but they just don't want anyone To Anyone that is to the left of where they are which is fascism They don't want anyone who's moderate or progressive To be elected to anything not even dork that you Me that's just say did you good morning? Masumi from Japan. Good morning, my dear. It is a it is now. I believe nine twenty two A.m. Friday in the Tokyo area. So good morning to you Masumi. All right Thank you for stopping by Did you did you see Clarence Thomas is in the hot seat for all of his Accepting lavish gifts and such. I knew he was a weasel all along and his wife's a POS. Oh My god, you mean I we're talking about a Supreme Court justice taking Take taking bribes. Yes.  With the executive order That's that's the only way and you know the only time he did the last time he did executive orders it was After he got inaugurated and yes, yes He had a whole bunch of them that he did and then he stopped And I see this headline Saudi Arabia cuts ties with the US for economic independence So they are pretend allies Saudis behind 9 11 Mastermind fuckers. Yeah, most of them Most of them were Saudis. They were sponsored by the Saudi state I didn't know they weren't independent. So that mean what they're gonna jack up oil prices even more OPEC What's going on is? Saudi Arabia Russia China and you know, whatever countries consider themselves Adversaries of the United States. They're They're not they don't want to deal with the US dollar anymore They want to deal with the Chinese one. Oh, God. No, which is why spell why you a and And let's see what we got here good riddance to bad rubbish. They're evil anyway Saudi Arabia aims to adopt an economic strategy independent of the United States Due to declining relations during the Biden administration.  I got news for you. You're not better than anyone Yes, they are very much so Saudis they murder so many people that when they handed that reporter back to Trump and he didn't even question it she was How about that that guy for the Wall Street Journal that's been detained in Russia? Well, first of all, don't go to Russia ever anyone unless you're Edward Snowden or Or Any of these celebrities that seem to love him so much Putin? Oh, Edward Snowden is is a hero and And a traitor at the same time at the same time now now Julian Assange Assange is he he helped Donald Trump like that. Oh, yeah, he got paid He was a for hire and now what he did, you know, I don't believe he's innocent in any way He took money to sway an election and he did he did help Okay, let's see what we got here The country and the OPEC plus group have announced a cut in oil production of around 1.6 million barrels per day to achieve Market stability and a surprising move Saudi Arabia and the OPEC Plus group of producers have announced a cut in oil production of a pot.     That doesn't surprise me There's something some evil going on in the world when China is talking to Russia. They were never allies ever Yeah, all of a sudden their buddies World War two China and Russia were not allies So why now from what from what I'm reading here it Oh India wants in on it too. Oh, man, that's not good They they they're not they're not nice to Americans anyway if you go in there in their quickie marks, they're Well, they got to know which side of the the bread is buttered in It's not through Saudi and Russia Russia Russia will use any number of countries Russia is very upset that Finland's joined NATO. He's practically shitting himself now They did join NATO. Oh, yeah, they're going to it's been announced. They're joining Finland because it's a border country with with us Poland Poland is a border country NATO is going to be surrounding Russia very soon. So it it appears instead of me Oh It's not a long article, but I will summarize everything and say that it seems like all of the adversaries, you know the rogue countries with Dictatorships and you know that in monarchs monarchy Monarchies that don't get along with the United States. They they're all they all seem to be getting in cahoots with Saudi Arabia and Yes, the photo of the prince The monarch prince.  Yeah, he does not value human life at all No, not at all It's like Putin. He does not value human life at all And I think Putin's finding out I'm sorry, what James Yo, I am agreed Okay, um, yeah, Putin's finding out that the Russians really don't want to fight his war You know, many of the soldiers are defecting and they don't want to die They didn't they wanted they didn't want this war only he did and his his I his Uh, plan to reclaim anything that you used to be the USSR is failing He will not succeed in that he will be out of office At the end of this war.  Oh, yeah, russia The russian oligarchs have lost their fortunes, uh, uh, they were confiscated by the united states, uh Government, you know the they're they're probably furious that Putin Vladimir Putin Exactly You know, it's sad that in this day and age that we're we're talking about wars when we thought wars would have been abolished by now Yeah, like, uh, china is obsessed With controlling the south china sea uh, even if it means Going into international waters and and private waters of other other countries like the philippines and and Malaysia and vietnam and singapore and thailand, but they there it looks like they they're trying to It looks like they have ambition to to build an empire Oh, yeah, like like This, uh, president chi is um They had a phony election and he won again. Gee, what a surprise. Yeah, how come i'm not surprised at that? How it reminds me of the time this very corrupt columbian president Uh, when i was married to my ex he was uh, he ran for reelection and there was this His opponent was like a real honest nice guy and everything and And he was as crooked as they come and the election results is that the crook Won by a landslide in every in every section of columbia He won by that's when the other results taped to the bottom of the belt and they just reached down and pulled it up There it is Yeah, and he's he he represents uh, he was very Chummy with American republicans and it doesn't surprise me because he was the type where There really was no middle class there. It was only the very poor and the rich and uh, um, you know You have to pay out of part just like the philippines.  Is he part of the chinese government or he's um, he's talking about this Talking about the destruction of our economy had a traffic Uh collapse of the um american currency I don't believe that it never has collapsed ever. It's never going to You should go back to a gold.  Who is this jamoke? Who is this uh, hold on. Let me see. He looks like he looks like he's insane He looks like he's one of those robert kayo sake. This is emergency podcast number three And I want to thank my friend andy schekman for bringing me personally up to speed Because I knew something was going wrong all these years But I had no I did I did I lost the macro. I didn't get the bigger picture of it So this is the emergency broadcast number three number one was andy's warning about What jennet yellen who was a secretary of treasury? But she was also the head of the federal reserve bank. So there's a little conflict of interest there But how she was warning people saying that jennet yellen herself The fdic and the federal reserve bank Will determine which banks survive and which ones die So andy called up. He says we got to do emergency podcast number one Number two is what does it mean when japan and mexico want to join the bricks? And the bricks stands for brazil russia india china south africa Saudi arabia and on and on and on But if you have japan and mexico Who are possibly as close to us as canada? Joining the opposing side That's number two and I think is by far the best Financial literacy video I have ever done. So that was number two sandy will please watch that one. It goes in depth And today is number three emergency podcast number three An emergency podcast number three is not for you who are paying attention Emergency podcast number three is be careful for those who are not paying attention In other words, we're about to go into what's called the wily coyote moment Everybody's running along says. Oh, don't worry. The fence got my back. You know, the economy's fine I love this guy biden, you know, and we're americas the greatest in the economy's safe all the And when people crash when this thing crashes it is coming soon It's the people that are not prepared the people who are not watching this Emergency podcast number three haven't watched number two or number one Are the ones you're gonna have to be afraid of this guy's a republican I can tell Yeah Yeah, you know what his emergency podcasts Yeah, yeah, he's uh Yeah, it sounds like he's uh Getting people uh all stirred up shaking the the can of hornets Because he wants people to run and take all their money out of the bank so the banks collapse That's what he's promoting without saying it and uh, you know, he's bashing the biden administration janet yellen and Oh I sent you a link on the chat.  They just said You know, uh, they were Uh putting down the uh The gun control bill But you know that that the why the democrats that the democrats were pushing and and they um, they somehow prevented that gun bill You know After sandy hook, they should have passed it. I still don't understand Why we haven't passed any gun control laws in this country and that doesn't mean take firearms from people It means reasonable care. It means reasonable background checks Nine out of ten of these shooters have a mental illness record and they still got all the weapons Yeah, I took I took a look at that article The font is small, but I got the gist of it. It's a big article.   You should not have not even a BB gun Not even not even a bow and arrow Yeah, it's crazy Yeah, I don't understand, you know with with school Grammar school being unsafe. Who who would think Not when I was a kid that was one of the safest places you could be I mean, yeah, but my childhood was stress-free. I mean except for the photo shooters No, we didn't have that the only stress I had was Uh I hated homework. Yeah, me too.    They're watchers They watch, you know, the wrong thing and then they let everyone else run rough shot Just like they let the russians run rough shot over and during 2016 election as long as they paid for it.  It's like it's a it's a very it's a company run by incompetent people that You wouldn't want a hire to at a starbucks No, and he's gone. He's gone on the cheap, you know cuts here cuts there I I can't I can't remember the last time I saw facebook didn't always have an ad every single time now Every time you open facebook, there's an ad Every single time I'm bombarded with uh Even if I read articles On on the browser on the internet i'm like I I see I see the The ad I see the barrier feed. I see the bait on the hook. I see the The interesting title To the article or the video, but then when I click on it when I go to it There's like a ton of uh, it's like a bait and switch Yes, I can't I can't close out the advertisements Like they want me to subscribe If I want to read the article I have to subscribe to them And then there's a whole and then often And even youtube is doing this now the youtube is brutal The video or the article has does not apply to the title Like the title is supposed to attract your attention to want to watch the video or read the article, right? But but the content Is not related to The title It's not applicable And you're like well, why does the title say this? Yes video the video is about that and and And and you know sometimes there's like a little tidbit of what the title says It's just a bait and switch and facebook should be ashamed it used to be Free flowing and easy to use and you know kind of like a roots project for the people instead Instead of turning to a corporate weapon I don't know. I think it's a really corrupt thing now. You know the bait and switch Is is a very old sleazy Technique uh used by retail for for many decades Yes, and It's underhanded because it's false advertisement Yes, it is and uh They used to do One time there was a sale, you know, this is back in the day when we had to buy Regular mattresses. There was no memory foam Okay, you know the mattresses that were if you have sex it goes squeaky squeaky Okay, they had a sale on These extra firm mattresses Which I like and when I went there They said, uh, oh, we don't have It didn't arrive yet The mattresses didn't arrive yet. We're not sure when they're going to arrive, but I could show you A much better mattress than the one that's on sale Oh, yeah, that's illegal Right. So in other words They are much better mattress Was much more expensive And it was and it was not the sale mattress So I said, well your advertisement Mentioned this mattress When are they arriving? We're not quite sure There's a problem with the shipping, you know, they're tied up somewhere, but you know what? Have a nice day. Goodbye Exactly, you know, it's like, uh, okay now for the Okay I kind of figured they were going to do this and but What I learned about it was very infuriating and um What is that? I'm sorry I bring it up here Okay, you will really dishonest But he they don't mention it at the very beginning though You'll be able to tell your kids about how the us dollar was once the strongest currency in the world And you were there to watch it fall into ruin You'll be able to explain to your kids that it was all self-inflicted how Arrogance greed and bullying led to the collapse We'll get to that part of the story in a minute But first you'll also be able to tell your kids that you were there when they took away paper dollars and coins In favor of a u.s digital currency and you'll be correct because in fewer than 24 hours the united states dollar changes forever Tomorrow the first week of april the federal reserve begins the rollout of their new central bank digital u.s dollar That's right Call the fed now program and it's going to replace your paper currency not overnight But it's moving in that direction and it will move the united states to a cashless society A surveillance state where every transaction will be tracked and cataloged Where as the fed describes it money that's in your account can even expire and become Unusable that's right.  That's what made me extremely extremely furious because that that's that cashless digital money that He explains is is people's hard-earned savings And they're going to put an expiration date On people's hard-earned money that they work for So in other words they're going to force people to spend All of their saved money before it expires which means people will not have a savings anymore because It'll be like a A gift card with an expiration. That's insane. I don't believe that's ever going to happen Are you kidding? It'll be like a revolution Yes money right on the fed's website China's already doing it. We already have a template for it and many u.s. Government museums national parks Historical sites are no longer accepting paper dollars. Many of you have emailed me about this You've tried to go and actually use dollars at different locations. Sorry. We don't accept cash Want to go visit the Wright brothers museum? Don't bring cash. You'll have to use digital currency Want to go to smithsonian? Sorry. No cash. How about mount rainier national park? Sorry. No cash allowed We only accept digital and many american businesses have already gone cashless as well. They'll pretend It's all about convenience. But really, you know, it's all about control the brilliant katharine austin fits recently described What going cashless would do to all of us the reality as the financial system gets more controlling and more invasive It's a little bit like bringing up a corral around us And cbdc's central bank digital currencies and vaccine passports or digital ids Are sort of the last Shutting of the gate It's hard for many people to imagine the risks here because we're so used to living With financial transaction freedom and we don't understand that when this gate closes on us We literally We'll be sitting in a system where the central banks believe that our assets belong to them And they can dictate where we can spend money and what we can spend money on It's frightening and she's 100 correct, but that's only part of the story Fox news. Yeah, okay If you can believe that Now to the elephant in the room and the larger reasons we're seeing the decline of the us dollar But first I decided to go sophisticated for today's video I could have kept it super simple But instead we need to talk about some specific details and you are a very smart audience that will watch this video until the end So we're going to go sophisticated today. Okay, let's do it and for that. Let me tell you a story Let me start here back in 2014 the country of russia annexed the territory of Crimea We're not going to get into why they did it. You're a smart audience You probably already know why they did it But what we're going to do is look at what happened next now the united states and western allies then slapped massive sanctions on russia Then the value of the russian ruble went down But then something remarkable started to happen And this is perhaps the beginning of the end of the us dollar. You can pinpoint the moment Here's what happened is the ruble started to decline Russia was then forced to ramp up production of just about everything that they produce from oil to lithium to silver to uranium For nuclear fuel natural gas They kicked everything into high gear became self-sufficient became the dominant exporter of many of these minerals in every category Want uranium for your nuclear reactors? You're probably going to be buying it from russia In fact, the united states currently buys almost all of its uranium from russia Isn't that funny? They did this because their ruble was going down They needed to produce more oil in order to sell more oil to compensate for the lower prices that it was receiving In u.s. Dollars while the united states was destroying its own manufacturing base under president obama for those folks who've lost their job right now Okay, I see what this guy's this is like right-wing fox news shit. He's but yeah, so he right away the blame is put on obama Or the blame is put on the bite administration Fox news any anytime someone quotes fox news, you know, you're in trouble. It's a it's a slanted board And then you know, it's box news. It doesn't mind lying. They said so And they mentioned the government will be in control of your finances and and and your spending patterns and And the government was the the first thing that the right wing does is they they blame Everything on the government Government is bad big governments is worse You know, everything is government government. They don't say anything about corporate CEOs. No, they don't Yeah, it's always the government's controlling your life through what the subliminal messages the corporations are using No, yeah, I mean, I don't think That the asses of the masses are going to tolerate Your harder money expiring No, they'll be riot So, you know, that means that if you if you had a pretty good career For let's say 20 years According to that guy All your hard earned saved money will have expiration dates on insane Yeah, I just don't I just don't think that's gonna fly Oh, uh, one one quick subject I wanted to go over was uh You know, I'm single. I'm doing internet dating and I'm finding Someone's profile will say something and then you talk to them and they'll say something completely different and say Oh that the profile's wrong and I haven't been able to change it. Um, I think it's the site I really think it's the individual and I think that they're They're I don't know Frankly lying. I don't know what for The age changes Uh, the astrological sign is different. Um, oh they do that to so many people my profile hasn't changed I don't know that that just has to show you people are a lot more dishonest nowadays Well That is is a pattern Unfortunately that uh has been progressively getting worse lying And um people will be be leaving their own lives Fake pictures fake pictures. Uh, I mean you you have to You have to watch for red flags now if if you have A person on On online dating app That has a photo That is not a close-up Crystal clear high definition photo Don't don't believe that's that's that if it's if it's an old photo where they're Um Where it's a little blurry or they're far away and you can't make out the detail of them or or they only show The photo only shows them from the chin to the top of their head that means they're they're obese um And they refuse to do uh video chatting with you. Yeah big red flag Yes, it could be number one a scammer uh number two They have something to hide Exactly and you know, i'm just tired of Bullshit in the world so many things are hard enough as it is. Why do we have to have? People running interference in in our personal lives in our online lives. I mean I don't get it man No, I I I don't I don't get it either.  Can I get the x-ray glasses too while we're at it? yeah, and and and but you You post or say something that doesn't even come close to that banner And and you and you're in time out for a week Well, the weird thing is these things where they won't let you post in groups that aren't your own I don't know what that punishment is really about. Yeah, what's that about? Okay? I got my own groups I guess i'll post in there. What is it? I posted in a group and someone was offended Is that what it was? I they they never tell you you don't know It and they keep They keep wanting you to do a security check and they were going to send you a login code I received a login code on my phone in like two years from facebook. Oh, it doesn't work It's broken. They started doing that with me. They start they started logging me out of my app And they started asking me Do I do I want to update my phone number and I say no my phone number is the same? Yeah, go over your stuff and it's always the same. Oh someone may have tried to access your account Like who facebook?    Everything has everything is like Is like light blue and white I says I'm able to custom design my myspace profile to make it anything I want Anything I want I could literally custom design it like a website And that's nice and it allowed me to do that. So why Why is everybody like say oh get rid of myspace is uh, oh it's old outdated Crap you got to be on facebook got to be on facebook, you know exactly because of the The smartphones back then it was like the blackberry, you know Exactly There were one or the first You know what I had no problem with myspace When I when I when I say I could I could Design it like a web page. I'm serious. I was able to and When I first joined facebook, did you know that? The facebook pages were available To be viewed by in a feed by every no even people that didn't have a facebook account They were able to see the page like it was a website Like they were able to go to progressive discussions like I mean like back in 2012 They were able to go to progressive discussions and scroll down and see the whole thing Yeah, the facebook's changing not for the better. We've known that for years not for the better and That's why other social media companies are burying Facebook I mean tick tock is exploding. Oh, hold on Jason Cleveland greetings greetings. Good evening. Good evening. Hello, james. Sorry. I couldn't be on the show tonight the auditors had pulled some items for secondary review And we have to have our files turned Into them tomorrow. So working late tonight. Oh, wow.    I even blocked his Him from calling me I don't want I told Salvatore mercurio because he did That's his one of his buddies. I says I want absolutely Nothing to do with him. He's persona non grata Yeah, he's a piece of work I had very little dealings with him and I knew I you know, he was a schmuck and a half Yeah, well, he got he got banned from the whole foods over here He used to bring his clients to go shopping for organic foods at Whole Foods and What happened was He tried to he tried to hit on this girl whose boyfriend was in the men's room and He was bothering her and then she told him and then He said something to mario, you know and mario says You don't you don't keep quiet. I'm gonna smack you right across the face.  So he went to the store manager and he got He got banned for for good and good Now he's got to go to another Whole Foods.  You don't stare Yeah, you take a look and then you look away. He says it's like looking at the sun You don't you don't stare at it Exactly, you know, I mean, yes The girls of tees they dress that way.   Yeah I mean it goes with the territory not not everybody that she wants Is going to give her attention. There's going to be a lot of people That she doesn't like That will stare at her and give her attention That's a fact.  I I I don't see anything good Coming out of it. Yeah, 12 year old or something.  Well, I don't know man the people of Chicago have spoken By electing a very progressive mayor brandon johnson who bernie supported Hey to tell you he wanted to defund the police And he he owes the city of chicago thousands of dollars in unpaid fines and penalties Yeah, he's he's not quite the guy you think he is i'm sorry to tell you and the other guy was uh um valis, what's the whole name paul valis paul valis is the um The person that um Mick Preferred that didn't get in well because he was going to take care of the crime number one and he wasn't about defunding the police And that's the last thing you need to do in a high crime city like chicago is to fund the police You know you need more police presence. You need stronger police. You need better police training so there's not unnecessary shootings You know police shootings uh when they you know shoot somebody 14 times It's it's not a good day in chicago like it's like put Extending a bad she was a bad mayor of this guys. I predict it's going to be Possibly worse than her. We don't know yet But on paper he was saying things that no one agreed with so I don't I think it was a low voter turnout That's how he got elected Yeah, it's like it's like um the cops just turning over Their weapons to the criminals and saying here here to city's yours Exactly exactly so I I don't know and as far as my concern I don't agree with that that his little victory is not going to be a good thing for chicago I don't think so I know people that live that live in the city and they're they're They're frightened I've had people send me messages on facebook saying r.i.p. chicago now that he's been elected You know every time new york city Had a democrat mayor I hate to say it but but crime skyrocketed Wow Because they have Luminant and crime It's just like When David dinkins who a black mayor Used to be Mayor of new york city. He had this He had this approach Where you know don't hassle the brothers So When they're committing their crimes you mean well everything from um Like the like there was a big problem back then with aggressive panhandlers You know the tourists would be in Where you well, you know time square 42nd street, you know Where the big ball comes down on new years eve, you know and the tourists are there and Then you had you know all the peep shows and massage parlors and everything at that time. So what happened was There were these aggressive panhandlers were that were perfectly healthy young black men that were aggressively Asking people for money You know like Give me five hours. Give me twenty dollars.  It's just uh It's a there's a whole industry you know they were doing that in the lannic city and and the motherfucker was like um Right outside of the trope of canna near the boardwalk and I was with We you're my buddy because we had free comps. We stood overnight and and ate for free and drank for free and all that so he um He's a um He's a retired county cop.  Wow Yeah, I said that thing is beautiful, man Yeah, you know, he he used to keep the charge in his car Did he have to use it on this guy or with the snapple request? No, no, no the guy backed off one time he saw it Yeah, one time because he he manages this, uh, you know high-class go-go bar gentlemen's club They call so a place is called platinum dolls so He had trouble They're not gentlemen that go to the gentlemen's club. No, they're not they're rogues. He had a problem Not with the older guys that come in with a lot of money had the problem with the pumps So I think the punk didn't want to finish his Drink inside. He want to go outside and finish his drink outside. Can't do that No, you can't do that So the guy was, you know, giving Jimmy a hard time.  He lit them up. Hey He lit them up. What a beautiful weapon. I have you don't even have to like hit anybody Just a quick jolt and then he had something called the slapjack.  It was a slapjack. It was flat Oh, and it was lead.  He slapped jacked his other guy to try to hit him with a chair in the bar. Oh, man He's funny or sounds like a badass. Oh, yeah, yeah, he's Oh, yeah, he was he was a bad. He was like a dirty.  Oh, I saw this video I posted it Bert Reynolds when he was younger and alive Said that he saw he was with Clint Eastwood he he witnessed him going dirty harry on somebody. It was this woman in a bar Yeah, she took her drink and poured it over his head Over Clint's head Clint said and Clint went and took All the drinks that all the guys Around their head and poured everyone over her head And then and then tossed her out at a bar Wow And paid a cab driver to take her home Yeah, sounds like a real bad time Yeah, I mean Jimmy did that to with this girl when he was managing This irish pub that had They had cover rock bands on on the weekends Pop 46 because it was the highways on the weekends Yeah, yeah, so it was nice, you know, he always get good value in irish pub the food Food was good. You know a lot of grilled food And uh, that's fine and the beer and the drinks were reasonable. So anyway The girl Again You know, they don't want to finish her beer inside. It was closing time. She she want to go outside with it So he took her beer and he just go boom boom boom boom poured it right over her head And she was like in shock that he would do that to a to a girl To a girl Oh, that's funny Yeah, he told her so many times You can't take the beer outside Finish finish it up inside. You can't they could lose their liquor license if people are drinking outside of the taverns Yeah, because guess what happens when when it's closing time The cops come by to make sure they're closing Exactly That's what happens. That's why they turn all the lights on says everybody got to go Let's go drink them up. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here That's when you find the four o'clock bar. Yeah, I'm glad those days are gone. I don't do anything close to that You know, my you know, my four o'clock bar was it was called white castle Yeah, the fourth meal when your body could handle it You eat in the middle of the night and it didn't affect you now. It's like putting a brick in the oven I would wake up lethargic and kind of slow from the extra meal. I would get Four I would give four of the uh, the bacon cheese burgers the white castle special bacon cheese burgers Nice, I would get three of the um, the fried cod fish nuggets Nice Then I would get also three of the fried clams because They don't advertise, but they do have fried clams Uh lightly fried otherwise it's like dry like rubbria and then I would get um a large sweet potato french fry Wow Right and then I would get a jumbo milkshake because there I thought their milkshakes were very creamy Very rich, and I would ask the lady Could you please mix chocolate and vanilla?  They were actually pretty good The best one they have is the waffle one. That is the best one They have a waffle breakfast sandwich Where it was like an egg and sausage patty inside. Yes. It was delicious. Trust me It's the best one and then they closed the white castle by me. I was kind of depressed I don't I would be depressed too if there's if there was a white castle near you And you didn't have to go far I I would really be bummed out. Yeah now the the nearest one is twice as far So I don't even go anymore. Yeah, they don't even have they have an advertise in years They they don't have strawberry shakes For some reason, but they have not advertised in years. Oh I forgot they also had later on they started making Barbecue pulled pork sandwiches.  He says I use his audible because I like Ali boat They said that he faked that accent. He hammed it up for television. You know that right? Yeah He was trying to say olive oil, but yeah Exactly Ali boat You know, uh, I know a couple people in southern Louisiana and I That's a hop in part of the country For food music Yeah, yeah the cajun they they got some good cajun bluesmen too food food music fun frolic Uh, and it's very it became very multi-ethnic I heard uh, bow bowmont texas. I heard it's a pretty cool place. It's right near louis louisiana border Hey, what's up ronnie ronnie ronnie. Yes greetings earthlings greetings earthlings are Are wondering why so many aliens are taking vested interests In a in the vile creature known as homo sapiens human We it A very vile species that that kills for pleasure Not to eat just to kill not to eat Now there's so many speaking of pulled pork there's so many This america south is infested with wild boar and wild hogs They made them from those ones from canada came down to the u.s. Yeah, they're supposed to be smart They're super hogs.  That's the only way they're gonna get them They said in canada they burrowed under the snow and survived. Yeah, but you know how they can find them They see steam coming up from the snow exactly So they got to eradicate these these invaders They look all these all these rednecks with their ar 15s And they're hunting rifles. Why don't they just I know that in in louisiana In texas or no. Yeah, louisiana texas they they they rip They charge people hunters a lot of money to go up in the helicopter and shoot The boar and the hogs from a helicopter. Wow how unsportsmanlike.  Well those pigs are supposed to be ginormous. So yeah, they're gonna feed a lot of people That's a lot of meat I mean, I mean pig roast. I mean, I've been to pig. I love pig roast.  He had those those barrels.  I think it was rotisserie possibly Ronnie had said he came back from a holy a nice holy mass thursday holy thursday mass Yeah with easter right on the horizon. Well tomorrow Next to a friday. Yeah friday mass. I hear is real long because they they do a reenactment of Stations on the cross Good friday is a lot is the last supper. No, no, he doesn't get crucified on good friday I think friday is uh the last supper, you know, but they do a reenactment, but you know what it's it's long and I don't feel arduous You know, you got to stand up and you got to sit down again. Yeah Then I got to sit down again Up and down up and you know, I get so comfortable That you don't want to do that. Yeah, I think a little map sitting down. I don't want to stand up a thousand times It's crazy, man. Yeah, I mean uh And then the now they're asking Now they're passing the basket twice I mean once is once is enough Twice thursday is the last supper. All right, so what's good friday then with crucifixion If holy holy, I didn't even know there was a holy thursday So I know how I know about holy saturday night Saturday night fever Holy saturday night people holy saturday night Jukebox saturday night. Yeah, I didn't know I didn't know that the last supper is holy thursday You got I think ronny's got to fill me in on uh Good friday was the suffering and the crucifixion Now see i'm learning something all right very very nice Learning something here um Yeah, I put the air conditioner on today because it was 75 degrees Wow That's that spring weather that summer weather only today though Only for today Yeah, I wanted to put it on at work, but we have such a turmoil people start yelling and You know women want the heat on when it's like 80 out sometimes They're out of their minds at a fucking moment. Yes.  It's like a cross between a shirt and a jacket. It's got fleece on it. It's like yes Yeah, I got two of them. They're great And just keep that on your chair Exactly you know, um Instead of complaining, you know the bus The free bus that took us to the other market They uh, they he put the air the air conditioning on because it was like real stuffy Hmm the economy under Joe Biden is the strongest economy ever under any president four more years four more years well you know if he starts If he starts making good on all the promises he he made to bernie sanders to get his His people to vote for him I'll be happy. You know, he's he's got he's that's some executive orders to sign. He's got I don't know I don't know what's taking them so long. I mean I I hate to procrastinate.  Well not not for eggs eggs are still They're down a little bit. It's like four dollars and fifty cents for a dozen jumbo eggs by me I don't like that. I don't like that I used to get it for like a little over three bucks And I would have I would have four eggs in one sitting Nice, that's what real leadership looks like. Hey, I want Like frank barone says marie eggs. Where's my eggs? Yeah, we want that legalized marijuana And we want the supreme court stacked and we want student loans expunged You see democrats have to give up the idea of trying to Make friends with republicans You know, uh, why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? It's not gonna happen. You can't negotiate And reason with the enemy with evil Let's be friends Let's be friends. Home. Oh, you don't why can't we be friends? This is that was when we used to say in school. Let's be friends. Home. Oh, you don't Let's be friends. Let's be Let's be friends 899 for a dozen eggs in Seattle.   That's that is a lot.  Ronnie. Yes is saying that's a good price, jason No, no, it's not. No, it's not I'm bitching about four five bucks and four fifty and you're saying it's a good price Marijuana is legal in washington state. Yes, oregon took the second state legal in chicago But we need it legal federally Well, new jersey also, but we need a federally federal should have passed it already The second state to legalize it for sale and use For everyone over 21 years of age Yes Yes, just like uh the legal colorado Colorado, yeah, just like the legal drink in california legalized weed Chicago has Yeah California's legalized weed My ex used to go from san diego over the border to tijuana and get those those dark chocolates that are loaded with THC Yeah And and and she used to eat those instead of Getting a prescription for for tranquilizers and they worked and they were nice Why do you gotta be 21 to smoke weed because uh, you know what controlled substance listen Ronnie brought up a very good point And I'll tell you when I smoked all my weed when I was a teenager.  What do you think? Gentlemen, it it does not make sense. It doesn't make sense Why I mean, I mean just listen if you're an adult at 18 That's it across the board alcoholic beverages weed cigarettes military Even driving should be at 18. I think yeah, I don't I don't I don't feel comfortable with some Some senior in high school On the highway or no Exactly, you should see how fast they go on a residential street But they did they did something smart over here One of the best inventions. I think by civil engineers is the high speed bump Oh, I hate driving over those This slow you down. I got slow down. Yeah I'm talking about people are that going fast where they're going 40 into 20. Yeah, you know, there could be children playing, you know Children at play just like us What's this? There's a cool song by a metal church called watch the children pray That's a cool tune Leave us kids alone Yes, exactly speaking of that they identified another gacy victim recently Thank god with the dna You know first family's closure.  I don't think dom or past him. I don't know Zeta one zeta one that like dressed up like a clown so he can yes Yes attract There there was an underlying thought that he was doing snuff films homosexual snuff films Which you know just grim grim stuff Well, let's pull let me pull out of that and stop talking about that. It's not I'm just saying I'm glad they That they identified the remains of a young man knows about it exactly exactly Ronnie s Jason Cleveland says Ronnie s I think it's because it's an intoxicant like alcohol And thus has the same laws in place You can get a a weed dy so I'd never try to get high and drive anymore I used to when I was younger But now they can give you a dy just for that and it's not worth it Yeah, see Ronnie made a very good point Yeah, you're right. You're right. It doesn't make sense working papers 16 drivers licensed 17 dying a war and vote at 18 But you can't smoke weed or drink alcohol until you're 21 I don't get it.  So I don't remember how many gacy killed I think the only the only famous Damn That's why you know you can't That's why kids have to be The kids need curfews definitely. I mean and they need parental they need print they need to be chaperone by an adult And they need to be picked up at school by a guardian We were never picked up. We walked we walked all the time back when it was safe Hit of me. I I walked all the time and I also went trick-or-treating without an adult with me Exactly then I remember the one halloween When it was in the news that someone put razor blades inside of an apple Well, I wouldn't eat apples when I was a kid. I'd give those away I wanted to eat and candy bars like They found razor blades in some I don't know if it was three musketeers or snickers or what? You know, I forgot but there was somebody started with the razor blades. That's pure evil right there And maybe poison.  They should suffer. I'm sorry Yeah, that would hurt children the u.s. Government is the biggest serial killer of all. Yeah Well, the perpetual wars the wars that don't end The the wars for profit Korea Vietnam Yeah And all those wars under bush jr. That pos It's amazing how I don't know I I don't want to get off on a tangent Because when you think about it it makes me angry. No weapons of mass destruction. None. It was a fallacy It was just a reason to go to war And look, you know, I I hold him personally responsible for creating isis Isis wouldn't have existed if we didn't go through that war You okay jimmy you take too big of a gulp there? I I did When when when gw the The the the best thing that ever happened during his presidency is when that iraqi was throwing his shoes at him Both his shoes and and yeah, I'm sorry miss You know, I never watched that war on tv pure like it's so cool. You can watch it and I'm like I didn't agree with the war. I certainly didn't want to watch it myself personally You know, I mean like we said at the beginning of the show all of the 9 11 culprits were Saudis Yeah, Lonnie knows that Oh god fentanyl Fentanyl whoever made that they fentanyl Should be destroyed immediately and never you know all the all the people that are famous drug addicts are all now Dying because there's fentanyl laced that one actor That did the wire. I forget his name.  I asked what prince died of Oh, yeah truman did yeah, we that's the only way the japanese would stop dropping those bombs Well, and I would have done instead of uh, I'm really I'm really against hurting And well, I'm against hurting innocent civilians. Oh, they killed tons of civilians in that. Yes It's the it's the it's the wicked government That is to blame not not not not men women and you know, not Women and children and and old people, you know not yeah, that was evil stuff You know truman what I would have done was massive embargo don't allow Anything to leave Japan waters or enter No cargo note. No shipment. No cargo ships. I mean just cut off their supplies By having the u.s. Navy surrounds Japan and that's it. I wouldn't I wouldn't have dropped Atomic bombs on the poor souls. I mean come on. Yeah, that was that was against humanity what he did Isis. Yeah, well al-qaeda was around during a gw bush and then Isis was born from out of the iraq war and Uh, it never would have come about without iraq war two.  But then obama and john carry did their part also In what in what way with not with those wars or isis Yeah, well, um the republican of arizona there john mccain was uh getting chummy chummy with uh Isis right the sale of weapons One of the bombs was dropped next to a church that was in session Church a bar, you know bombs one of the I know I said a church a bar wherever people are. I mean yeah, I mean, I mean I'm not as religious as jason, so I don't believe you have a sacred thing when you're in church. I I mean, I wrote too much crime too much crime done in churches myself. Well, I mean the main thing is innocent civilians through children yeah grandparents you know, it's uh Whether the church in session was right next to the bomb being dropped or or 50 feet away.  He ended the war with the japan japan immediately. They immediately surrendered after that Andola gay wasn't that the name of the plane that dropped the bomb? Yeah, it was the hiroshima and nagasaki Yeah, didn't uh russia drop a bomb on a hospital Recently Yeah, they did In in uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they loved to bomb. Yeah, putin loved to bomb hospitals He's doing now for the terroristic effect. He's he's attacking civilians in ukraine for the For the sake of terrorism I read a pro-putin guy was bombed to death. Did you see that one?  In in uh russia oh Well, I just got a burp about an announcement at a concert A reminder. Well, it's at a place where the roof collapsed. So I don't think it's gonna happen Apollo theater It collapsed uh last week under a heavy storm So that are you under you have an Apollo theater also in chicago in belvedere. It's a suburb. It's uh, yeah, I've never been there Yeah, well now gary indian is the suburb of chicago, but that's a shit hole Well, I wouldn't call that that's not it. That's not annoying It's it's yeah used to be a thriving uh steel community once that left left behind a real bad ghetto Yeah, whenever business leaves just like in detroit when the plants close down Yeah, nothing replaces it And it becomes a shallow. Yeah, you don't want to no one vacations to gary indiana. Yeah, no Yeah, I think um dearborn was uh, michigan was where the uh General motors probably for christler, right? That was the yeah That was the first year born was right near detroit Yeah, now dearborn today is is a very large middle eastern community It's quite large. It's uh That's dearborn Why why they chose that area? Who knows?  Um Well in iraq The um the people ruling iraq Including his sons, you know, they all his sons some of them are still alive aren't they? Yeah, they've been sons things like Like they would like I heard they the son like this Was interested in this woman, but she was a married woman and he had the husband killed so he could make a play for her Yeah, it's nasty stuff, man Trans lives Matter biden is doing more for the 2 s l l g b b t d q i a v but but community Than anyone before him Uh, yeah, that's true That's the problem they're finding now as many children get older They regret doing the trans things to themselves and want to go back to who they were I want to go back to my little grass No kazoo That's my you know Okay, okay All right, yooker I'm yooker ukulele yooker I got the I got the Because uh community What was I gonna say?  Yeah, does that mean the u.s. Should invade iraq and destabilize the entire region Said I was a brutal man. His sons were too. Yeah, they were brutal But they there's the thing they created something even worse than them by doing that. They were not behind 9 11 It was their their buddies the saturdays The beer whisperer. Oh, yeah, tom oh tom overhill He's turning into quite the boo sound. Well because he is yes now don't uh don't leave a serious show ronnie s to To join booze hounds anymore Petulance for alcohol is not a good thing. Don't sneak out. Don't sneak out of one of my uh extremely talented Educational and deep shows to to go join a booze hound show uh With people that are like Me talking like me.  Yeah I'm gonna I'm going to join that whispering guy Do you know I did a show with The beer whisperer tom overhill a long Time ago seven more than several years ago probably close to 10 years and uh He did the show He came on the show naked Good But he didn't show is the bottom part of his body Luckily he's and he's uh He was fatter back then he was Obvious very obese. It's still on youtube That show that and and you know for for for comedy sake Uh, I just let it ride, you know, I just let it ride just Okay That's how drunk he was It'll take a pass Whisperer about No, Ronnie. He does not whisper about alcoholic beverages. He never whispers Oh You're probably uh, what time you going to bed? Uh, you gonna you working tomorrow, uh, mick No, but I'm getting ready to sign off soon. We're going on two hours now You're getting sleepy. Yeah, because I'm yeah I'm running out of uh, my free uh My free time as a yeah I think I'm gonna sign off james. I get recharged I I get my hours recharge on the 12th of every month. So so next wednesday, it'll come just in the nick of time Uh, uh, or just in the mick of time All right, I'll be charged With with another month's worth of hours and I think I know why I use up a lot of hours It's between the red pill show. Excuse me. It's between the red pill show and Improves of the specials. Uh, excuse me, but uh, mick, uh, Michael Lebar didn't show up. I you know I hate to say it Some people are either really shy about Uh going Going with the video camera with the webcam in public and letting the whole universe see them They're either really shy about that Or some people feel they have the perfect face for radio You know, well anyways have a happy easter everyone Yes, I'll be by my sister's she's making smoke. I'm going to my I'm going to my brother's. We already bought a small chunk of ham at Aldi that's pre-sliced a black forest ham Black forest, you know My sister's making a smoked ham and trays of homemade manakati No, that sounds delicious. Enjoy. That's what's going to be not the lasagnas time this time. It's going to be manakati So anyway, I'll be over there No sunday show and then Next weekend next week. Well, I'll be back in action All right, cheers Good night everybody All right. Bye. Bye. Good night. Thank you for coming. No problem, buddy. Bye. Bye Does he whisper about the uh, no, no, no He doesn't whisper about anything I don't know why they I don't even know why the the the original dog whisper Uh That mexican guy he doesn't whisper on his show So what's the name of caesar caesar milan? I don't know where they got the word whisper um from Yeah, I mean I don't understand why some people They could upload political banners They could they could post all kinds of articles and videos And they could type and type tons of commentary on social media But when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is and You know going for the gusto and grabbing the bowl by the corns And opening up their webcam to come on a live stream show And that is also being recorded They just don't have the balls they did they're like Like bernie sanders was When he was campaigning for the guy who won mayor of chicago the black guy They've got to defund the police got to defund the police Um We got to put all the money towards social programs Yeah, he was so anti-police In a city with such a high crime rate and a high homicide rate And I think he was I think he was sucking up to that part of the population For uh for votes because I think bernie sanders is going to do something In 2024 So anyway, I am gonna Close up the store And just say I wish Everyone I'm a happy Easter weekend 2023 Have a safe healthy and enjoyable On holiday weekend the biggest holiday for christianity Easter or ishtar If you're not christian and you're in you you practice paganism ishtar is the fertility goddess And uh Enjoy eat lots of good food Spend quality time with relatives Even relatives that are very annoying and I know they can be Uh Mutures Any moochers up any people who have In-laws that are moochers You know But um, so Um people out there, let me know If you if you would like me to do progressive discussions Um next thursday, no not next thursday No, I'll be doing progressive discussions Saturday That's right next not this saturday next saturday and then we'll play it by year. Okay I'll be I'll be bouncing back and forth from thursday to saturday Back to thursday or remain on saturday back and forth and then uh red pill man cave will be the usual time slot sundays Starting at 3 p.m. Eastern time For advice banter and fun General gentleman, okay So bye bye Enjoy


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Here we are in our Get Great Guitars 2024 QuickBooks Online Sampled Company file we set up in a prior presentation opening up the major financial statement reports like we do every time the reports on the left hand side within the favorites we're going to be right clicking on that balance sheet report to open link in new tab right click the profit and loss to open link and new tab and one more time right click in the trial balance to open the link in a new tab if you don't have that trial balance in the favorites you can search for it in the find area let's go to the tab to the right close up the hamburger and change that range we're going to go from 010124 to 022824 for the second month and I'd like to see it broken out on a month by month breakout we're in the second month of operations running to refreshing let's tab to the right repeat the process closing the hamburger range change 010124 tab 022824 month by month breakout on the left first a word from our sponsor yeah actually 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be things like inventory and the fixed assets property plant and equipment how are we going to get that well typically we can either go the liability route meaning we take out loans or we can go the equity route we put the money in our sales or we take on partners or we incorporate and take on shareholders or something like that so what we did is we financed the company through equity and liabilities to get the money to then purchase the fixed assets and the inventory now if we have excess money on the books then note that what what we typically are not thinking of doing is for a business to just hold on to the money within our business unless we have a business that's an investment business in other words our business here is not a business to generate income through dividends and interest it's to sell guitars so the cash that we want in our system we want it to be there in order for us to invest in the future in order to sell the guitars if we generate revenue through sales for example and we get excess cash we start cash starts piling up that would be great what would we typically want to do with that well our choice would be we can put it back in the business and in the form of investing in fixed assets and inventory or if i don't need to do that everything's running smoothly then i would take it out of the business and give it to the owner in the form of draws if a sole proprietorship or dividends if a corporation so that the owner can then take the money and do whatever they want to do such as invest in the stocks and bonds on their own to get some type of return the point of the business file is that it has a separate books from personal or individual books so that's the general concept here so but it might be the case where we have some excess money that we plan on spending soon but we're saving up the money possibly so i can expand on my building or buy a building or buy more equipment and as i'm holding on to the cash for that purpose i might put it in to say a short term investment such as stocks and bonds right so i just want to make that differentiation between our personal investments and basically our business investments that said there might be some cases where a small business wants to use quick books for both business and personal purposes uh if that's the case then ideally it would be nice to have two the best bookkeeping scenario would have two files of quick books but then if you use quick books online you'd have to pay for the two files of quick books so that you can do the bookkeeping on the individual side and keep it separate from the bookkeeping on the business side individual bookkeeping is basically the same concept you still have the double entry accounting system but the the purpose of the of the business in that case or your personal finances is different it's not simply revenue generation it's to live good right so that makes it a little bit more complicated actually that's why we break out the business as a separate entity so we can focus just in that part of our lives on revenue generation right that's what the books are for but uh you might be able to combine the books if you needed to with the help and the use of class tracking so if you have class tracking that can kind of break out the income statement typically is the main form we think of break it out by class so you'd have two columns one for the business stuff one for the uh personal stuff and if you're small business all you need to do is this is for taxes to get the schedule c uh for your taxes which is basically an income statement so you might be able to do that most bookkeepers don't like that because it mingles things up and it makes it a little bit more confusing if you don't if you're not intimately aware of what purchase is you're making because you have to have that out added allocation of all your expenses between was it a personal purchase or a business purchase if you want to get into that in more detail we have uh other courses and or sections that talk about class tracking in more detail if you want to look into that uh so that's how we got this investment on the books so now we have this investment here uh on the books now whether once you have the investments on the books there's a couple issues and these are issues whether you're doing this on the personal side of things or on the business side of things one is that people often confuse the investments for stock in stocks and bonds and the use of the quick books software as though the software is there to kind of track the day to day kind of investments or the activity that's not what quick books is there for there's other ways you can do that you can go you can go on to online software or to the people that you are actually investing in such as if you're investing with vanguard or e-trade or something and look at the funds to see the performance of the funds the point of putting them into quick books is that you want to be able to to generate reports with them on the balance sheet and the income statement periodically most likely at the end of the of the month or uh or the year so that you want to make periodic adjustments in your quick books file you're not using quick books to track day to day types of investments so that means that your investment categorization is is probably not going to be too detailed you don't want to be breaking up breaking out every stock or bond most likely in quick books that's going to be quite tedious to uh to keep up with you want to summarize them some ways you might summarize them would be one you summarize by the the institution that you're investing with such as a vanguard or a v or e-trade or bank of america if it's with your bank or something like that and even though you have different types of investments stocks bonds different types of investments within there you can break it out by institution because then you can get the statements at the end of the month and you're able to make adjustments periodically by institution and then if you want to break up the detail you can you can do so on those institutions pages to see the activity of each performance of stocks and so on and so forth also just realize that oftentimes when you're investing you know if you're a small person you may want to invest in a mutual fund or something like that an etf that has a targeted fund which might have both stocks and bonds within it and possibly even change the mix between the stocks and bonds as you get closer to a retirement that's kind of like the easiest type of thing to do and that will make it so you don't have so many funds possibly but still have some diversification but we won't go into the details on your investing strategy if you if you are doing a lot of trading and stuff then again you probably don't want to record all the activity you want to record like the summary of the activity typically on here now you could also try to break out based on bonds versus stocks and that kind of thing but if like I say you have some accounts some investments that have both stocks and bonds in it that's going to be a little bit more difficult to to do to make that kind of breakout now if you're on the personal side of things note that a lot of your investments might be under the umbrella of a retirement account like a 401k or an IRA or something of that nature in that case you probably want to break out your investments between short-term investments and long-term investments meaning if it's under the umbrella of an IRA you can't take it out so you don't want to have it in possibly current assets because those look like assets that you might be able to get some get access to in some time you want to put them in long-term assets because you can't get to them without being hit with penalties and interest generally that's the general idea so that's another way that you might want to break them out okay so now also just realize that there are other softwares that can give you the balance of of your financial institution balances so for example if you wanted to get a report of all of your ending balances from financial institutions which includes bank accounts savings accounts the investment accounts stocks and bonds typically depending on where you're investing in and credit card information loan information like mortgages and stuff then you can use other software even excel sometimes i think you can even use at this point to basically pull that information from the financial institution and it'll pull the ending balance meaning where you stand at if any given time that's great you might ask why doesn't quick books do that quick books doesn't do that because it's not designed to give you the ending balance it's designed to create an income statement if it just gives you the ending balance then you're losing all the detail you're not creating the income statement it's just like with the with the checking account up here like we want to see all the transactions in quick books in the checking account we don't want to just see the ending balance being pulled in to quick books because then we don't have the income statement we're trying to build the the whole financial statements from the transactions which gives us the activity of what is happening in terms of an income statement right so so those other softwares are great to use in conjunction with quick books so that they can give you the ending balance of your financial transactions at any given time which you could use to make periodic adjustments or to double check your balances in quick books but quick books isn't designed to pull in the ending balance quick books is designed to give you the detail of the transactions all right so there's that issue now the other issue is with the investments when you buy the investments you're going to put them on the books as whatever you bought them for so we did that by reducing the checking account and we then put it in as one lump sum in this investments short term stock and bonds now then as time passes the investment value is going to go up and down the question then is should we be adjusting our books up and down with the investment value and the argument is closer to be able to say yeah we could do that with bonds if they're traded or stocks if they're traded on a market why is that the case notice that we don't do that with fixed assets at least oftentimes in generally accepted accounting principles in the United States why because if you have a car for example the car might go down in value over time and you might be able to look up the fair market value using like a kelly blue book or something like that to try to determine what the actual value of the car is but it's not perfect because every car is unique if you didn't treat the car well or if you have more miles on the car or so on and so forth then it's going to be worth less than if it then in other circumstances if you've repaired the car that it's going to be worth less so so it's just an estimate down here if it's a building for example the building could go up and down dramatically and if you allow someone then to adjust the value of the building based on an appraisal which is just an estimate you're giving a lot of leeway to people to be able to appraise high or low based on what whatever they want to do based because there's going to be a range of numbers that you would think might be reasonable given the fact that each building is unique that's not the same with stocks the beauty with stocks is that every stock is the same and the fact that all the stocks are trading on an exchange at least tells you what the value of an individual stock is at that point in time so it's not perfect still because note that if for example you're trying to value the stock of say someone of like an elong musk owning tesla and you say well the stock is currently trading for so much on the stock exchange and he has so many shares of stock therefore his value is this times this x well you can't really do that because if elon musk was to sell tesla stocks the value of the stock would plummet right because he would have an influence on the market but for small investors that works quite well because we're we're going to say yeah you know if i sold my i could sell my stocks for whatever it's currently selling for therefore it kind of makes sense for us to make adjustments periodically possibly monthly or quarterly or yearly based on the investment statements that we have when we make those adjustments we would just do a journal entry so we'd hit the journal entry because cash would not be affected we could do a month in journal entry which would basically adjust this account for whether it went up or down and the other side then the question is where should it go some people will say it should go to equity because we don't want to put it on the income statement because you haven't actually sold it but that's confusing to most people most people would put it on the income statement because that's the easiest thing to do but instead of putting it up top in income then you might want to put it down below in other income the reason being because it's not part of your normal income operations if it's a business it's other income uh down below even if even if you're doing your personal books possibly your main income might be w2 income and then you make some income on investments so personally i would think then you might want to put it down below as other income so you get a subtotal of your operating income and then your other income down below now one more point on that you could also if you want to complicate it a little bit more you could say that i'm going to have my investment account that's what i paid and then create another account which would be a sub account of this investment account recording the gains and losses in that case uh you could then you can then track both the cost and the gains and losses which might help you to kind of think about what your capital gains or loss might be if you sell it because when you sell it that's when you're going to get hit with the taxes if you're in the united states okay so all of that said now we're going to imagine that we're selling this investment in our scenario so we put the investment on the books now we're going to we're going to sell it but when we sell it it went up in value so now it's worth more than twelve thousand dollars so if i sold it for just twelve thousand what would the transaction be an increase to the checking account of the twelve thousand and a decrease to the investment but if it went up in value i'm going to have to deposit the greater amount over twelve thousand i have to reduce the investment and i have some kind of gain which i'm going to which i'm going to call uh you know investment gain or something like that for the for the sale of the stock okay so now if i look at the forms to do that what form is designed to sell investments well there's not one because that's not that's not a normal cycle transactions that's not part of the customer cycle vendor cycle or employee cycle so the next question would be well is cash affected in this case cash is affected because we're selling the stock therefore i can use it a a deposit form basically because i'm depositing into the checking account if however cash wasn't affected because you just record in the unrealized gain or loss without selling it then cash wouldn't be affected and that's when you would default to the journal entry all right so let's go to the first tab and and do the transaction finally after that was a lot of talking it's a lot of talking really okay i know we're going to go to the plus button and let's do a deposit form i'm going to go into the deposit form and we'll say this is going to the checking account and let's say this happened on uh the second or let's say oh two oh two twenty four and then getting sick of your lip what's wrong with my lip my lip is i have a nice lip i don't know what i'm talking okay so let's go in here let's say we're going to say receive form this is going to be a short term let's say we're going to say short term investment so that's going to go down so i'm going to say the account is going to go down this is for the sale let's put a memo of investment and we'll say and then i'm going to put the amount in here which is going to be twelve thousand is going to go down and then we're going to say the other side is going to be i'll say gains now i'm going to have to make a new account so is there an account for gains and losses i highly doubt it right there's no account in here for investment gains and losses i don't think so i'm going to make a new one and so i'm going to go a new account and it's not going to be an income account or not a normal income i want to put it into other income the difference between these two being that other income will be on the bottom of the income statement rather than on the top of it dividend income maybe i'll just say other investment income and the difference between what we bought it for and what we sold it for could be like there could be dividends that we received from it there could be and those would we would record as we go there could be interest that we could record as we go and then there could be capital gains when we sell it meaning the the value of the stock went up we're going to imagine here that the value of the stock went up and so i'm going to call it gains on sale of investment investment income i'm going to say gains on sale of investment and so then i'm going to say that this will be not a sub account it's in other income that's what i wanted to make a point about all right boom so then and i'll call this oh what in the world okay then i'll call this sale of investment again and then this is going to be for 250 so that gives us a total of 12,250 okay so what's this going to do it's a deposit form we're going to imagine we sold the stuff which we might see come through the bank feeds if we did this with an electronic transfer but when it comes but then when we get the bank feeds it's at 12,250 why did we get that well it's not because it came from our customer cycle that didn't come from customers it came from us selling the investment that means the investment account has to go down to zero because i no longer have the investment account but it's only on the books for 12,000 the difference where did that difference come from we're going to imagine that it was capital gains the value of the stock went up over time and we sold it for more than we purchased for buy low sell high that's my marketing strategy that's what i do so then so the so that so that's it so let's go and save and close it and then we're going to go to the to the balance sheet and run it and so then if i go into my checking account we ought to have a deposit now for the full amount of the deposit 12,250 and then i'm going to go back and then the other side took the took the investment account down to zero so it was on the books and now it's off the books so we bought it and then sold it boom boom boom boom boom uh what happened uh i wanted to make this 010124 so there's the two transactions back off and then we're going to say on the income statement if i run it to refresh it we have the income showing here but it's down here in gains on sale of investment in other income so it's increasing the net income but and we could we could see just the February here right we have these expenses and then we had other other income so now we're still at a loss of 345 59 but i get this nice net operating income that should give us a better idea of what our actual operations are because this 250 is something that's a little bit you unusual it's not part of our normal operations we can't really rely on it we don't expect it to happen really again in the future so we need to include it but we'll put it on the bottom okay so there's the process now one other thing i want to mention is just with these investments you could have other types of income right if you invest in stocks then you're going to have dividend income so if you have dividend income then sometimes that will actually come through on the bank feeds so if you connect some institutions you can connect using the bank feeds and then you can pull in the dividend income as it happens and normally i would do a similar process with the dividend income in that we're going to record it as they happen and i would put it into basically other income down below which would be dividend income in other income as we generate the revenue if it was bonds interest income would be happening and you can do the same thing pulling it over here now oftentimes these accounts will generate dividend and interest income but instead of of giving it to you in the form of the checking account they might be just rolling it back into the mutual fund so in that case you you still might have the bank feeds that will show you the dividends and the interest that you can properly record to the income statement but then it's been reinvested back into the investment account so what that basically means is that this account for the dividends and interest that you rolled back in you should be recording a credit an increase to the dividend and interest expense and then this number right here should be going up because it's not capital gain you invested more money back into the into the business you bought more you bought more stocks right so there's three kind of things if you have stock well if you have stocks how are you going to generate revenue well they could give you a dividend if they give you a dividend then then you can record that as dividend income and then you or if you roll it back in you still recorded as dividend income but instead of increasing the checking account you're going to increase the investment because you invested more in it or some companies don't give us much dividends or maybe no dividends especially companies that are smaller and are trying to grow because they're reinvesting the money back in the business so so in that case the hope is that the value of the stock goes up at which in which case then you're not going to get the dividend but when you look at the next period you're going to have a gain possibly the value of the stock goes up so now you have an unrealized gain in the value of the stock increasing which which you can report periodically with an adjusting entry okay that's enough of that let's go to the trial balance and see where we stand let's run it we've got four legs now the debits and credits the debits and credits we're like a we're like a tiger now instead of just standing on two legs and we're just we're running forward because our business is like a like a like a leopard that's the fastest animal right we're like running light speed in case so we have the the balance sheet on top of the income statement so obviously assets cash is an asset count seville's an asset inventory is an asset investments is now off the books an asset payments to deposits an asset prepaid insurance is an asset accumulated depreciation contra asset furniture and equipment asset assets are what the company has liabilities and equity is who has claimed to that and then on the liability side accounts payable visa the institution visa by the way is another one of those accounts that is by a financial institution and if you use financial software it'll put that on your balance sheet as well if you if you use that soft any case we have sales tax liability we owe to the government and then to the federal government the payroll tax liabilities and then we have what we have our claim to our assets and that's the owner investment and the equity account and then the entire income statement which we can boil down to one number represented on the income statement of for the year to date number 7081 85 and if I was to take the credits minus the debits starting with the billable income that's what we should be getting and then if we were to roll that number into the equity by for example moving the date up to 2025<PHONE_NUMBER>25 then you can see it's all part of equity right it's all part of equity it's just breaking out the income statement it's just breaking out the story of the last year which we want to do because oh what a story it's been and we'll continue with that story next time


So both rivalry in central planning and national economic planning what is left were published in 1985 So it was like a one-two punch. It wasn't leaving like a delay It was like a you know a Mike Tyson combination, right? Boom boom for those of us coming up in the next generation It made Austrian economics a viable research program not about the past Right, but about the future direction of the way that we think about doing economics and political economy In terms of history of thought many people viewed Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek as having lost the debate about socialism more broadly and globally You had major issues with efforts to actually impose real-world Communism and socialism and so throughout the world you had various reform efforts Which were trying to deal with the problems that real-world socialist economies were running into and so now all of a sudden you got Lavoy making a theoretical argument About that the Austrians were right after all at the same time that across the globe all the socialist economies Are in fact admitting that they can't achieve the socialist goals and Lavoy had now set that stage that the kind of Austrian criticisms Could in fact be part of the literature in the mainstream discussion of economics if you want to make an argument about Socialism you had to deal with the argument the way Lavoy laid it out The carefulness of the scholarship the thoroughness of the scholarship meant that it would be so like scholarly Irresponsible to not even if you disagreed with it to not have to grapple with Lavoy's book So taken together the two books compliment each other nicely on the one hand There's the knowledge problem that is there is the inability of central planners to access the appropriate economic information that is required for coordination and Economic progress on the other hand Lavoy also emphasizes that when you centralize economic planning it leads to what he calls a power problem That is that it grants those who have control over planning a Significant amount of power and control over the lives of ordinary citizens Lavoy also emphasized that this Analysis of planning applied both to comprehensive economic planning. That is efforts to plan the entire economy as well as Non-comprehensive economic planning in order to engage in planning I have to give authority to either centralized units or even decentralized units, but they have final authority And so what happens is our lack of our knowledge means that we still have these people with power So they're going to make their decisions based on political knowledge rather than economic knowledge And what's the main way in which we end up by using political knowledge is Militarization our failure on the economic freedom side generates a militarization of the economy planning is militarization right Regimentation allocation all of those things is in fact militarization. And so that's why socialism Doesn't generate a leftist dreamland. It generates instead, you know, like Mayday parades, right? The Soviet Union demonstrates its entire, you know, military apparatus. We can understand that but it's also true in economies that have more Decentralized methods. So you have to go back to the 1980s You see steel factories going down in Youngstown and Pittsburgh and you see the car industry in Detroit having its problems So one of the answers to that was hey We need to engage in industrial policy in order to fix up these firms Not let the new technology come in and and and wipe away not creative destruction And so Levoix's book national economic planning is directed at those kind of policy proposals that were put up Many of which came from the left But in fact would result in outcomes, which the left would find deplorable None of them want to have a militarization of the economy But yet this is exactly what happens when we have large comprehensive planning proposals put forward Really as political economists what we want to focus on is thinking about What institutional arrangements are feasible in different societies, but then the alternative implications of those different institutional arrangements for the well-being of people and what Levoix's body of work empowers us to do is To not only analyze different institutional alternatives, but to think about what the implications are for human freedom So where Levoix comes down at the end of his study of real-world socialism and real-world central planning is the need for a Radical agenda and a radical commitment to markets What he argues is that in order to overcome both the knowledge problem and the power problem What is ultimately necessary is to? decentralize Control and decentralize decision-making all the way down to the individual level and under a regime of private property rights and respect for rules a System where the rule of law exists where no one is above the law Levoix argues that individuals will be able to take advantage of dispersed knowledge But also they will be shielded from concentrated power precisely because no individual or group of individuals has control over the lives of another we treat people as With dignity and respect all human beings and that we don't allow power to be concentrated in the hands of a few Right, we allow governance not necessarily government power And that's the kind of picture that Levoix is painting for us and that vision is extremely still attractive Today as it was in 1985. We believe that these books are still part of an extended Conversation that's essential for advancement in the social sciences