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16APR2026 - Ohio on the Ballot & Week in review

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In this episode we talk about canidates to watch for upcoming Ohio election on May 5th and weekly discussions on happenings. 

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SPEAKER_03

Hi, everyone. It's Nicole with History Unmuted, and we are back with our podcast. And I wanted to introduce everyone to Adam. Adam is joining the podcast now, and he is one of a close friend of mine for a really long time. And he's full of knowledge, full of history, and also very, very knowledgeable in terms of these upcoming elections. So, Adam, if you want to introduce yourself.

SPEAKER_02

Hey everyone, how you all doing? Um, my name is Adam. I am really into history, and I am a big election nerd. So we're gonna be talking about elections a little bit more on the podcast, and we're gonna still hit on history and everything else, but we're gonna be hitting on current events as well. You want to take it away, Nicole?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so what we're gonna be doing, kind of structuring the podcast a little bit differently. I know before I was kind of saying some past um historical events that really were muted by textbooks. So they were mostly stories, I guess, in terms of like not really widely known or said. Um, but now we're kind of pivoting more towards looking towards these different candidates into the elections, especially highlighting ones that really should be focused on in terms of their stances. And then additionally diving into kind of weekly what's happening in in terms of the political world, because history is happening now. Even what we're doing right now is history. So it's just really what's recorded. And one thing I want to really kind of also harp back on in terms of what I started when we started this podcast is like how George Santiana in a long time ago said, you know, if we don't learn history, we're bound to repeat itself. But he didn't mean it the way we took it, the way Winston Churchill when he repeated it. It was more or less, you know, we need to really look at things and kind of focus on what's happening and make changes. Because if we don't make changes, it's just really just gonna stay, it wasn't as inspirational as it was said, is what I was really trying to get at there. And um history also too is what is recorded. So it's really important for us to really that's why we kind of want to pivot is to get what's happening now also out there because this again, like I said, this is gonna be history, like and the history books in the future are gonna be wild. Am I right? And I'm like, oh, can you imagine the leg of video?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, the meme says uh like uh I'm tired of living through uh historical events.

SPEAKER_03

I'm uh kind of right, and Nepal is gonna be, I think their history is gonna books are really gonna be really funny. This their whole uprising that happened um a few months ago, and they use the one piece flag as their like sign of rebellion. The history books are gonna be wild. That's that's all I gotta know.

SPEAKER_02

But um, we already are wild.

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Right.

SPEAKER_03

So while we're rambling on, we'll go ahead and hop into it. We really wanted to kind of look at these upcoming um elections and in prepare um preparation for the primary elections. And the ones that are upcoming right now are Ohio and Indiana, actually. They're both on May 5th. There's especially, I know Adam definitely wants his on a certain candidate from Ohio that was also previously a senator. Um, Adam, if you want to go ahead and yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02

So Sherrod Brown used to be a senator for Ohio, one of the few Democrats that actually went on in Ohio as a very Republican state. He's trying to become a senator again. So he's going against, well, technically he's not the the Democratic nominee yet, but he is likely gonna be it. He's already been a senator, but if you want to talk a little bit more about the other candidate, Nicole, right quick.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah. So there's another Democratic candidate called Ron, his name is Ron Kincaid. Um, he's running um on for the Democratic um place. So he's kind of an interesting. So I was looking into him. So he is very like Ohioan, like he's very pro-Ohio his state. Like he doesn't want to listen to outside voices. Um, he has been very vocal about not taking any pack money, which I think is really good for candidates now because, like, you know, it's supposed to be America first. So if you're gonna be America first, why take foreign entity like any foreign entity money? Like that's not America first. You're you're literally putting somebody else's um objectives above your own because they're giving you money. Like that's weird. So um it's very great that he's doing that. Um, he's really focused on um like clean energy, like tax fairness. Um he wants to lower the rent and build more affordable homes in Ohio, um, using actually Ohio union labor, which I think is pretty, pretty dope. And he's even like proposing to expanding like care choices in terms of health care through like public option, um, that also kind of works alongside with private insurance so that people can like, you know, really have more of a voice on their plans. So I think that's really neat. The only thing that's kind of like really hinky kind of to me about him is that he hasn't really like been very like vocal in terms of um what's happening in the Middle East and in terms of like, you know, Israel and Gaza and things like that. So it's kind of like a yeah, he's not taking pack money, but like where do you stand too? You know, so it's it's kind of iffy in in terms of that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I know it's I don't like when when candidates are upfront with their how they feel about things. A lot of candidates, a lot of politicians don't like to say anything to upset anyone, especially Democrats, especially establishment democrats. Staying on nothing is like the democratic establishment's like key go-to because they don't want us accept their donors, make their donors mad, and they don't want to piss off voters because they don't like doing anything, and it's just gonna make everyone mad when they don't do it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I mean that makes sense. Yeah, that would make sense, but I mean, like, also come on, if stand proud in your stances, too. But that that's my own personal opinion, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

But uh so Sherrod Brown's the very likely Democratic nominee. Uh you never know, but uh be pretty shocking if he wasn't. So this race is to replace JD Vance. He was a sinner before. Now he's uh Trump's lapdog. And um so it's a special election, and he is very likely going against uh Ron Hudson. He's a Republican, Detroit area. That's where he was born, adopted, went to Dayton. He has a lot of uh career uh experience. He actually was a senator in uh January 2021, lieutenant governor. So he's been a he's been he's been a senator already because he was appointed. So Cher Brown's trying to take him out. Um Cher Brown is for a Democrat that's not like a Bernie Krat, and so he's kind of more of a establishment Democrat, but not as bad as like a Chuck Schumer. He's decent.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I thought I feel like people need to understand that there's a scale for Democrats, like there's more conservative Democrats, there's like liberal Democrats, and then you have like super socialist. Like, yeah, I feel like people need to know that there's like levels.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, um, I think I think uh establishment. Sorry, my mouth's gonna dry. I think establishment democrats are the bane of uh our society and democracy, honestly, because they don't again, like I was saying, they don't do anything, they don't allow change, and they don't and they let Republicans just walk over them, which is happening in this administration. Chuck Schumer is just a clown, uh Jeffrey's a clown, like all of them being replaced replaced mostly.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I totally agree.

SPEAKER_02

Like this the whole capital Nicole's been telling me that everyone needs to be replaced.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I've been saying that everyone needs to go. Like, and I'm sorry to the listeners, but I'm even down to even AOC and Bernie. I know that sounds so terrible. I understand that, but we need just be everything needs to be refreshed. Everything, like our but I digress.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I won't get onto my my extreme, but I a lot of them need to be replaced.

SPEAKER_03

But don't get me wrong, I do like burning AOC. Like, that's yeah, yeah, no offense to them. It's just the whole generality of everything.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_03

So yeah, I think um Brown's a pretty good like candidate. The only thing that like really I found hinky in terms of Brown is that like, which I don't know if you know this, um, which me, I'm like really big on. Like, let's not choose people who take APAC because we need to put America first. But like Brown actually like signed a um APAC sponsored letter like that urged during Obama's administration to veto any one-sided resolutions against Israel.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And yeah, he's so they have like a really mixed like really mixed bag.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, he took a million dollars from pro-Israel lobbyists. So he's not perfect, like I said before, he's not perfect. He's not a he's not a progressive, honestly. But the unfortunate thing about it, and especially in red states like Ohio, you kind of have to get what you can get. Long as they're not like a like mansion from West Virginia that's not gonna do anything and doesn't give a shit about anyone. So, I mean, Democrats need dissent in my eyes. I uh Republicans are completely not doing anything when it comes to holding Trump accountable. So that part they have to honestly the Democrats in my eyes have to take back both parties.

SPEAKER_03

It drives me so yeah, it drives me so crazy too, because like the back to the whole accountability thing. Because like, do you remember during Obama's presidency where everyone lost their whole damn minds because he wore a tan suit? Or the or the one time when he asked for Dijon mustard like the horror.

SPEAKER_02

How far have we gone? Honestly, like it's crazy.

SPEAKER_03

Right now we literally have a guy who's like, Yeah, I'm building this ballroom. Oh, by the way, the ballroom's a bunker. Like, yeah, like, oh yeah, I'm just almost like I just can't. Like I cannot. And also the same guy who recently, which I don't know if you saw in this past week, um Dr. Oz was talking about how Trump likes to argue with him about how diet coke kills cancer because it kills grass. I'm not even joking. Yeah, I'm not even joking. I'm not even joking. Donald Dr. Oz a little bit is like, yeah, that's why he says that Diet Coke kills that's why he drinks it, because it it kills cancer because it kills grass. Someone should tell him about arsenic. Just kidding. Jokes.

SPEAKER_02

Wild. Entertaining. Yeah, that's a joke. Anyone listening? That's definitely a joke. Um uh so I'm gonna go with some polindation.

SPEAKER_03

So Coca-Cola is basically like arsenic. You can literally kill um rust off your car with Coca-Cola. Yeah, and so I mean he's probably maybe close on that just with but with that just being I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

Evil never die, evil never dies.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry, it's so funny, so funny.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, back on track. So yeah, uh the polling. So um this latest poll um has Hudson, the Republican likely candidate, beating Cher Brown by about 1.1%. Uh another poll had uh Cher Brown by two. So essentially they're tied. It's about three point three point uh margin, which in politics about three points is in the general uh error, error for uh error for uh yeah, margin error. Thank you. Shit.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So yeah, it's pretty much tied right now. It's a really close race if they had it today.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's just really unfortunate that Ohio is so red. And I I personally know this because I don't know, you probably don't you don't know this about me. Most of my family is from Ohio, and my father grew up in Ohio. Um, like he's no longer here, but I remember growing up like riding the car with my dad, and he would not, I'm not even joking. I mean every time we're in the car, and there was never sometimes we'd listen to Kiss and A C D C and you know George Thoroughgood, the the greats, but like most of the time it was Rush Limbaugh road trips were my dad always listened to Rush Limbaugh and uh conservative radio, or he was in classical media like burnt in my brain. Rush Limbaugh.

SPEAKER_02

I'm uh I'm writing a book right now, and uh one of the chapters is gonna be about how Republican media has completely brainwashed the entire generation, and Rush Limbaugh is one of the main components of that.

SPEAKER_03

He was not a good person.

SPEAKER_02

He was not a good person.

SPEAKER_03

I don't care if anyone cares me. I will die on that hill. He is not a good person, you know, like Russian choices because oh, I digress. Um, so yeah, we can only hope on May 5th that Ohio makes the right choices in terms of that. Um, additionally, like on top of you know, with the senators and things like that. Sorry, I know I'm going a little off because I know we really want to highlight onto the senators and stuff, but um, when I was looking into it, there's actually a person who is running for governor, which I was kind of like, oh, interesting. Um, it's a a uh woman named Amy Acton, and she's running on the Democratic side, but like this woman's kind of interesting because she has no political background, she actually is a medical provider. Okay, and she's running um against was it Vivek Ramaswamy? Anyways, he's on the Republican side very yeah, he ran for president in 2024. Oh, well, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

He uh he he like ran for president for like two seconds, and Trump said get out of race and he got out of race. So yeah, he's he's kind of uh he was like a tech person or some like really wealthy sleeves well. He he's yeah, not a huge fan of them, but he's probably gonna win, unfortunately, given that state, which is the other crazy thing about Ohio. Like it like they're so Republican, but they like Sherry Brown for some reason.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe because he's more on the conservative side of the Republican, or not Republican, I'm Democrat.

SPEAKER_02

Democratic side, I guess, but like he's he's even more pro-labor than a lot of other Democrats, which is kind of why I don't mind him. He he at least acts like he cares about the working class.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so that Amy Acton person I said, she's she's she's pro-labor too. Um, and she's yeah, that's one of the things that she stands on. She stands on that and energy as well as education, and she really wants to um work on like the um health care, obviously, being a medical provider and stuff. So we'll see.

SPEAKER_02

Let me see, and we're gonna go to she's gonna talk about this a little bit more, and then we're gonna get off and we're gonna talk about other things. So right now, Cher Brown has raised a ton of money, about$10 million from donations. Again, we're being transparent, a lot of money, probably APAC money, but yeah, that's that's the unfortunate thing. A lot a lot of politicians is they cannot get away from this Israel lobby slush fund, which they crazy the how much APAC has an impact on our elections, or APAC adjacent groups as well have a humongous impact on our elections.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, it's especially since because we have like rules in terms of receiving like being able to lobby and things like that, and they don't even the ape the APAC has like even special rules. I I can't remember off the top of my head, I'm gonna have to look into it and we can discuss it um on a later, like on the next episode or whatever, because like I said, I'm not coming to my brain and I don't want to misspeak, but and I know there's like certain things that they didn't have to in terms of criteria or something. I have to look into it, but like it's all very, very sticky, and is very sticky. I don't even know why we even have any sort of foreign entity, any any foreign lobbying, period. Like, why are any foreign countries lobbying for our like our process, our rules and what we're doing, like our elections? Like that does not make sense. And I don't even think that any of our candidates should even uh be allowed to take foreign money for their campaign. Because at that point, like, where does the conflict of interest come in? Like, if you're getting taking money for your campaign to run to be able to get the seat and you get money from a foreign entity, who's to say that's not like uh let's say bribe or or in a sense or something to oh, we're helping your campaign. So later, like that to me is so iffy and it's very yucky. Yeah, and the fact that we allowed it to happen is just mind-blowing. I don't understand.

SPEAKER_02

Um yeah, uh money in politics is like one of the biggest issues going against our democracy, honestly. The wealthy just completely dominate everything. Like they've done studies about how like a lot of American people want certain policies, but they never get those policies, and like the wealthy get whatever they want essentially. Yeah, because of massive campaign donations.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and that's that's why we are in the position that we are. It's yeah, it's the it's the one percent. Yeah, always always the one percent.

SPEAKER_02

I don't even but uh yeah, if uh if we want to switch to something else, uh we're gonna end this episode right quick and we're gonna talk about a couple other things, okay?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I'm not I'm happy to jump on to something else. What do we want? We want to get to do things that are happening this week or yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um if you want to bring up the files, uh our shared uh notes right quick. Uh give me one second.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, and just to everyone listening, this again, this is we're really starting this new kind of like um dynamic. So it's gonna be kind of a roller coaster, but I'm glad you guys are along for the ride.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we're we're trying to get out of all the bugs and everything. We're we're still kind of used to getting used to uh even talking on camera, honestly. It's still kind of uh jarring to you're talking to you're talking just the camera sometimes, and you don't even you you misspeak or you you mumble your words or you say things that you didn't even mean to say. So we're gonna be talking about current events this week. Uh we're gonna talk about straight homoose. Homoose. I don't ever say that right. Hormoose. Humus or yeah, I think it's hormoose. It's interesting. I think so.

SPEAKER_03

I know I say I ran bad because you know I'm from Oklahoma and a country accent, and I get I get dragged on TikTok both.

SPEAKER_02

We have both had like like we talked like hicks. Um yeah, mine comes out in the yeah, mine just comes out in general, honestly. But uh Trump uh he issued a blockade of the strait because he's trying to add economic pressure to Iran to get them to open the fucking straits. What he would tweet at mid midnight. But uh they're not doing that. Iron's that's interesting. Fuck you. Um is this causing more issues? Uh they are negotiating, negotiating, we'll see. But uh maybe maybe they'll get a deal. I doubt that. But who's I I'm hopeful, honestly, because I don't think our economy can last a couple more months of this bullshit.

SPEAKER_03

No, and I was actually looking, and from what I was actually seeing, Iran is actually saying, like, nah, we're not negotiating anything. Like they're there, I know they met with JD Vance. That was an actual meetup negotiation, but prior to that, like these phone calls that the president is saying, from what I understand, is like not going down at all. And additionally, too, from I don't think has the whole blockage of the trade of horror moves and like that. I think it's also an not just a power play, but I also think Trump also thought that he could do that to block others because you know, places like Japan, where they get you know, like 90% of their oil, crude oil, from like using that straight. Um, he's trying to force these other countries to buy from the US because, you know, we got that oil from Venezuela, which I still I need to look into it, which I don't know if you know this. They were going to direct that oil to Israel, but ended up directing it to Greece.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, I didn't hear about that.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so we can talk about that next time. I'll look into it more to kind of get more details and context, but I was like, that's a little sus, especially given on the news recently. Um, well, I say recently, it's probably a few weeks ago, um, about the ambassador from the US in Greece just splurging taxpayers' dollars. And we can we can probably keep that note for a topic on the next time.

SPEAKER_02

It's it's quite I didn't know I didn't know any of it have heard of any of that, honestly. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and if any any listeners like they know I made a TikTok in terms of like China saying, like, you know, f your blockage, we're we going through, and it's crazy because so many people are like, never happened, didn't happen. Literally, two ships made it through, and it was all it was talking in terms of just using the straight in general, and these people are like, they ain't getting oil, they ain't doing this, this would methane, whatever. And that's like it's about using the straight in general, and not only to two Chinese, which these people, which in a world like you know, I'm gonna go on my little tangent in a world where there is Google and AI and libraries are accessible, these people don't look up Jack. It's like seven other ships on top of Chinese. The Chinese ships made it through the strait. Like, hello, hello, hello, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Like for reference, Nicole made a a uh uh TikTok about how China's like fuck your your uh blockade, we're doing it whatever we want. And oh my god, the comments are insane! Like a lot of the comments are like China ain't gonna do shit, fuck China. We don't need them, they need us. Like, dude, these people live in a completely different fucking universe. Like, China is our number one trade partner, you fucking morons. Like that part they have a uh a billion people and a fucking great military. Like, what are we talking about?

SPEAKER_03

See, and I know, and a lot of people are like, China can't take us, China ain't nothing. Listen, we have been around here in America for 250 years, okay. If you've seen me on the TikTok and you've seen me now, like I'm Asian, okay? Like, I'm Asian, Asian history goes deep. Dynasties, okay? Long time history. That's dynasty money. Not only that, here in America, like, I don't think people understand, especially when it turns to these other countries. In America, you have a yeah, you can choose if you want to join the military. You can choose if you want to go to college, but places like Russia, you get a choice. You either go to the military or you go to college. So not only do they have most other people are either soldiers, they're either soldiers or educated. Okay. Other Asian countries like Korea, South Korea, and well, even North Korea, for example, have mandatory military service. That means every single one of those civilians are military. And these people aren't getting that. When I say every single other civilians, let me backtrack on that. Not the children who can't make it into the military. Anybody who's uh old enough to go to the military are technically veterans. They are all service members, they all did their time within their country's military. Like they're militarily trained, and you guys are like, uh, let no, and like there it's it it cracks me up because I don't know if you recall this, and this is uh during the riots in LA. I I think I mentioned we had discussions before about it, but during the riots in LA back in like what the 90s, 80s, I can't recall timelines specifically. Again, people look things up. If you hear this, look it up and be like, what the heck is she talking about? It's Google's free. Um it was right ironically during that time. Who came in to help the LA riots and all this craziness get stopped? The rooftop Koreans. Okay, they just went up there and was like, snipe, snipe, snipe, snipe, and it was done. Like get it together, people. Get it together, and not only that, we have what 340 million people in America. Like, let me look up how many people are in China over a billion. Well, uh um, let's see, adult age, because we want to look in terms of like who's the military at? Let's look at that. We have 340 people, period. Okay, that's including children, but people of adult age, 1.4 billion. And y'all are like, they can't, I guess. All they have to do is load up their airplanes and come park. Okay, that's all they can do and unload. Like, are you kidding me? Like, just come on.

SPEAKER_02

The arrogance of Americans is never non-astounding.

SPEAKER_03

It kills me. It absolutely absolutely kills me. And like they don't understand the significance of this strait. Like I said, Japan had to release, you know, their a lot, some of their oil reserves because they get 90% of the those the oil and things like that through that strait. So this is really hindering Japan. And I know we're gonna do a different segment, which I don't know. Um, listeners, if you guys watched the TikTok, we've had um a video come up on terms of we're gonna be talking about um Japan and how their you know role in in American borrowing and things like that, which this all plays a part. And this Iran war is really just like, you know, honing that in. So um I definitely would listen to that and kind of see in terms of that because there's a lot of things coming in terms of how um prices and the economy is really gonna change, really, because of Japan, because they played a major role in US economics, and a lot of people don't realize that. And it's been since the 90s. Um, they they basically built us out, as you know. Um yeah, it's crazy. So I'm like, oh, and like apparently two over 200 million people are 65 and older, but still, that's still way more than Americans. Sorry, I got a sidetrack.

SPEAKER_02

But yeah, regardless, like regardless, like our military is a great military, it's very powerful. It's not like Trump, but uh it's not as strong as we thought it was, given given the uh given the Iran situation. Um, like we're struggling to stop a country that's spends like 10 million dollars a year on defense. So again, Americans are stupid, they believe whatever they want to phrase that. Certain Americans are stupid. They they believe what they want to believe. Um, but anyway, propaganda.

SPEAKER_03

This has been ongoing since the red scare was so just powerful in terms of a propaganda tool that we are still experiencing it in 2026, which to me is so wild. Like, if people actually looked up things like Marxism and things like that, I bet you they read it and they'll be like, oh, this kind of makes sense. If they can understand and read it, as you know, most Americans they they can't read past the sixth grade level.

SPEAKER_00

That's why Trump talks about fourth grade level, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So and honestly, this that goes all the way back to Reagan, but you don't want me to get in get into that POS.

SPEAKER_02

That's like my uh Roman Empire right there, Reagan destroying the campaign.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, he was he he was the devil. I don't care what anyone tells me. Ronald Reagan was the devil, oh but I digress, you know. I'll I'll I get sidetracked, but um, also to add to what we were just talking about, um apparently in terms of troops, though uh yeah, they added about a multiple hundred thousand so no they they lead in all nations in active military, is what I actually just looked up and find out um in terms of military personnel. Yeah, so they actually have two over two million is like two million and thirty-five thousand whatever troops, but and the next one who has the um next largest in terms of troops is India, which is like almost 1.5 um million, and then the United States is like 1.3 million troops.

SPEAKER_00

So, like Americans saying that Chinese military cannot take most people, they literally have almost twice as many troops as as we do, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But people are like, nah, they can't take us. Yeah, it's it's why look how fast it was for me to look that up, guys. It's crazy, it's crazy, but at all at the same time, the people who listen to us are probably ones that are like, we get it, we know, we we understand. But even if people who are oppositionless to us are probably like liars, fake news, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

It's crazy, like this is the people and like other countries or or taking China's lead, like they they're essentially saying fuck the bar but the uh blockade, like it's Trump. Other issue with Trump is he he says one shit and he does other shit, and like you never really know what what he's even wanting to do because he's always all over the place.

SPEAKER_03

Which I don't think people it's so like weird to me that people just don't see that he's just a bully. Like he's doesn't do anything but bully people, like and and it's so it's so just you can see it because you can sit there and a reporter will say something like what are you talking about? You're stupid, you don't know how to do your job, you don't know what you're doing when they're not like fake news. What you just wanted to bully that per you're just bullying that person because they were speaking facts, like yeah, and then people are like, Yeah, Trump, talk, talk crazy, yeah. I think just America's just so we're so we have been so engulfed into entertainment culture that we don't take things seriously like they should. And I I stand by that. I'd stay stand by that. Americans need to get a little more serious because they're so unserious, they're weird but at the same time, I also do appreciate the unseriousness. Uh, Portland talking to you with the frog and the play-down costumes top tier.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I didn't I didn't even hear about that.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, what in Portland when they were doing when they were doing the um a protest against ice and they were like fighting against ice, but they're not fighting against ice because they were peaceful protesting, they were showing up with bubble machines and ukuleles and music and people in inflatable costumes, and they were dancing in the streets. That was literally the protest.

SPEAKER_02

I didn't know that. You should look it up. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, when I go to the No Kings things here, I I when I my dog, my dog wears a frog hoodie in solidarity for Portland.

SPEAKER_02

That's cute. I didn't know about that.

SPEAKER_03

Little Pomeranian. Don't judge me, guys. Um, so but back to the street of her mood though.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Or what? What do you go?

SPEAKER_00

What were you guys going?

SPEAKER_02

Oh sorry, we're I was just I was just gonna ask you about the war with powers of vote, because we were talking about that before uh before we started for you.

SPEAKER_03

So, like this whole war with Iran, which I need to make something really actually very clear with some people. Um, a lot of people like, oh, Congress didn't approve it. Congress didn't approve it. Congress hasn't approved war since the Vietnam War. Okay, the Vietnam War. And how many wars have we had since then? The uh the Middle Eastern war with Iraq and Afghanistan after 9-11. There's so many different wars that have occurred, and Congress didn't claim call those either. Like, so that to me is kind of like, but anyways, I digress. But Congress put up this war power resolution to kind of restrict Trump's like authority within this war. He has to get congressional approval in order to do things kind of going forward. And I was my flabbers were gasted um when I found out the news of how that kind of went down. So the the war powers resolution failed by a single vote, and this was voted on today, um, which as we were recording it, we're recording the study on the 16th. Um it failed from 213 to 214. And the one vote that voted against it, which again, I say every MFer in that cabinet needs to go, was a Democrat from Maine, Jared Golden. He's the only person who voted no.

SPEAKER_02

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03

And yeah, um, there was a representative Warren Davidson who voted present and three represents did not vote, but the one no, like, are you kidding me? He apparently explained his opposition. He argued that like the US is currently like in a ceasefire with Iran and in negotiations, so a resolution would weaken our hand.

SPEAKER_02

It's wild.

SPEAKER_03

I don't see I have no words. Like I'm like, I don't I don't even know what to say to that. Like I understand how he could probably like think that way that it could weaken our hand, but at the same time, we shouldn't even be in this war. So and we need to restrict his power because like it's ridiculous. We're we're literally bombing children. We're bombing children, it doesn't matter, and it's not like they're going and there's so many violations of like international like law and law like rules of war, it's mind-blowing.

SPEAKER_02

But the thing about it is only uh the war the laws of war don't apply to America, just applies to everyone else.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I mean, I feel like America treats all the rules like that, like that. Yeah, doesn't apply to us. Who's she when you talk about rules?

SPEAKER_02

It really doesn't. Um yeah. So do you want to move on to uh JD Vance going to Hungary and Orban and Orban losing? Wanna talk about that real quick?

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah, no, yeah, we go back to really in in terms of that, yeah. Um I just find it really, really funny, just JD Vance's streak. Like you you go up and do these things and you fail a lot. Like just recently he had the turning point USA thing, and like a big old stadium to fill it up, and there was like not even 25% of people filled up the place, and like someone yelled at him, calling him um say you're killing babies. He kept yelling in the background, so that was pretty interesting. But and then on top of that, you know, way back when he first visited the Pope, and then the next thing he the Pope died, so and now he goes to Iran to go, and it's just comical to me. It's just he he can't win for nothing, he can't he can't win for and that's I'm not mad at it technically. So, but I mean uh so he goes to Pakistan, um, and it was like more than 20 hours of negotiations, supposedly, and then he just pulled the plug on him, and he was like, he failed to agree. And I honestly, I don't know, we don't really know how these talks went, obviously, because they're closed doors talks, but like I can only just assume that it's America's like you're gonna do this, this, this, and this, and this, and you're just gonna accept it. Like, I feel like that's how that's gonna go. Like, I don't feel like it's negotiations. I think it's like, hey, we're gonna bully you and we're gonna threaten you until you agree, and we're gonna do this for 20 effing hours.

SPEAKER_02

It doesn't help when when uh Vance has a call Trump six to seven times when uh during the negotiations. It doesn't help when Trump is at a UFC fight and Rubio's at a UFC fight while they're trying to have negotiations.

SPEAKER_00

Like oh my god, everyone's talking about the UFC.

SPEAKER_03

UFC things. You know, do you hear about them gonna do one on the White House lawn on the South Lawn? Yeah, I heard about that. Excuse me. Yeah, they're apparently the US UFC is like it's like to build the whole stadium. It's like they want to build a stadium of like almost 5,000 people and it's like 10 million dollars.

SPEAKER_02

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03

I just I don't understand, but anyways, sorry, I digress. Um, yeah, it's I just I don't even know why why they think they can bully people, especially with Iran. And you know, going back to kind of I mentioned before in terms of like history books and the Lego videos are gonna be wild, the Lego videos. I don't know if you've watched all of them or not, they are actually pretty accurate. Yeah, they yeah, they're very, very like I I I was like, I can't see no lies in these videos, like no lies.

SPEAKER_02

My fiance says that she doesn't think Iran's doing it, but I'm like, I don't I don't think it really matters, it's still speaking facts, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So I actually saw an interview. So there's two creators, so there's one um of the rap videos, which are that I'm waiting I'm ready for the soundtrack. Okay, soundtrack of this warm is fire, fire. And there's one guy who's doing those, and he he actually writes the lyrics to all of those videos. Like this dude is but I watched an interview, he actually did an interview. I didn't see that the other guy, I saw like a snippet of something. He did talk to somebody. Um, but the one that I I really watched was the guy who was doing uh who does the rap videos, and man, there were some questions they answered, and he had an interpreter in is like he w there's some questions like we ain't answering that. Um, but they did um cave and said that they did work with the Iranian government on some things, but they were very like, we ain't talking about it, sort of thing. Um, so that was pretty, pretty interesting. And there was one that was really kind of, I don't know if you saw the very, very most recent one that was released today, but there was a video pretty much saying you're being lied to America, you're being lied to, and at the very end, depicted America, basically um the people of America in just a really bad position. I'll just say that. Look, you guys should look it up. Look up this guy, he's he's a freaking artist, like music artist, Lego artist. Yeah, and I don't I don't also don't know if you know this too, but a lot of people are like, why isn't Lego saying anything about this? I was about to say, yeah, right? Because people don't remember, okay. Lego is a Denmark company, and who does Denmark own? Greenland. So Lego's like, we ain't saying sh we ain't saying sh I didn't know that's that's funny.

SPEAKER_02

I didn't even like copyright who's she who's that that's wild, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So that it adds an a just an extra layer of funny to me that like everyone's like, hey, just just go for it. Silent solidarity, and I love it. I love it, I love that for them. I do, I love it for them.

SPEAKER_02

So speaking of everything that JD Vance touches either dies or fails, um he went to Hungary, but like last week to uh support uh Victor Ouroban election. Yeah, and Orban the fascist got his ass kicked.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and I just I did you see Hungary celebrate? Did you did you watch? So once it that dude won and like they celebrated, he was dancing like on the stage and just jumping around, like because they were so happy that they defeated like the people that Trump was like pushing for, and they're like, nah, not here.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna be out here, but my Alexa was going crazy. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, and it's it's totally cool, and then like it also. Kind of takes me kind of back to you know when we were talking about how Obama wore a tan suit and everyone was freaking out. We literally had our vice president use our American tax dollars to travel to another country to promote another politician.

SPEAKER_02

That part and it's funny because they're saying like they're saying like because the Catholics are getting into Trump and the Pope and everything, and uh Congress people on a Republican side and uh saying that uh Pope needs to stay out of politics. Like, but you guys are in Hungary politics, right? If if the the Pope would actually let you guys, he would probably have a uh like a wing of the White House by now.

SPEAKER_03

I swear the theme of this administration is rules for thee, but not for me.

SPEAKER_02

Pretty much, like absolutely ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, and everything they do, ever just I will hope people understand and start recognizing this that every accusation is projection, everything is projection, and like that even goes down to just a lot of the propaganda here that is like very thick in the US, especially when it turns in terms of like Islam and things. But I won't even get into that because that's a whole touchy subject. But yeah, it just blows my mind. It blows my mind. Americans are the most propagandized people in the world, and they don't see it, and like, and that's why also it's the whole starting of this podcast and wanting to give kind of context of stories that aren't told because a lot of people don't realize, okay, in the terms of the things that are being in terms of history, that this is how I this is how I explained it to my niece, and my niece is eight years old. I told her, You gotta look at I said, You gotta look at history like this because I always teach her to like research everything and look at all sides. And how I told her is that you gotta think look at history like gossip. I said, You have friends who gossip at school, right? She's like, Yeah. And I was like, who's the loudest? Right? The ones who told the the story the most, the one who's you know the loudest of it. That's what's what really gets said in and what people believe, right? And she said, Yeah, and that's not always the truth, is it? And she's like, No. And I said, Exactly, that's just like history. It's whoever is the loudest and writes it down, and then boop, that's history. She's like, uh, and she's like, trust nobody, basically, girl. Basically, so you like really have to like dive in and you and like yeah, and also don't sit in an echo chamber, like that also kills me. And I see a lot of that happening on both sides. If you sit in a room with everyone who's agrees with you, you're never gonna learn anything. Sorry, that is what it is, you're just never gonna learn anything, and it's just I don't know. I'm I'm I'm I know I'm rambling, but no, you're good, you're good.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, speaking of echo chambers and um people that don't like to uh admit the wrong. Uh did you see the Trump Jesus photo? Or oh sorry, the doctor, Dr. Trump photo.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, doctor. He's he's a it was Salvation Army or something.

SPEAKER_02

Something so yeah Red Cross.

SPEAKER_03

I think he said Red Cross, was it? I think it's Red Cross.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so he that's what he said. He said like he's like a red cross, he's like a doctor for the Red Cross, and uh like he he uploaded it. If you guys don't know, he uploaded a photo of him. Looks like a Jesus, he's touching some man's head, and there's like all of a whole bunch of like angels and shit behind him. It's like an AI photo, and like a lot of people will get mad about that, and they said, like, what the fuck? And he's like, No, I'm a doctor, like I'm trying to help help people and stuff. And um, I think he actually meant it the photo was doctored, but he said doctor. So I don't know if you've been seeing this, but oh my god, the internet's so funny. They they've made so many memes about it, it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_03

See, I think he really meant doctor because I heard something about him also mentioning the Red Cross, like a Red Cross doctor.

SPEAKER_02

Like maybe he did, honestly.

SPEAKER_03

It's I don't I don't freaking out, but but like I don't know why he thinks that that's going to be a believable story, just anyways, because let's not forget just a few months ago he depicted himself as or was it a few months ago? I can't even timelines are so jacked. Like I can the time is so crazy whenever it happened, it happened in the past.

SPEAKER_02

Um, but during the administration, every day is like the Pope.

SPEAKER_03

Do you remember? He depicted it. Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_02

I remember that. Yes, he did do that.

SPEAKER_03

And I think there was also another one where he depicted himself like as an angel or something else that was like religious based. And I'm just like, sir, sir, stay off the internet.

SPEAKER_02

Like I think he just, I think he just uh like very late at night, just on a toilet, just uploading stuff to like grok or something, like make me a Jesus a Jesus orange Trump.

SPEAKER_03

One thing that I really wish that people would do in terms of this like president and presidency is like think about it as if this was just like a random stranger in your real life. Okay, if you were on Facebook and someone that you just like you weren't really close, close with, but you knew who they were, but you wouldn't really, or maybe someone that you had added on Facebook because it was like connections, but you never really met in person, and then that person posted that picture of themselves. Yeah, like how would you feel? You'd probably like that was weird, um little little heretic like, but you know, like that's how you would react to somebody, you know, in you could literally physically talk to like Trump Trump don't give a shit about nobody here. He's not gonna talk to and we're all commoners, we're pee people, okay? So like in that terms, someone that's close to you, you would react like that. Why would you not do that to a stranger who would never talk to you? You know what I'm saying? Like because he's the president, if anything, then you should be extra, like what the heck? Yeah, you know, it just uh mind-boggling. And don't even get me started on the documents.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that's that's that's a different episode.

SPEAKER_03

We gotta that's a whole nother thing. But at the same time, I'm like, if people were accused of that, or even accused of associating like that in your real life, most people be like, we ain't being around them, we ain't talking to them, uh disconnect, absolutely not. And those are people that you know, those are people that you associate with, those are people that you had a connection with, and you are willing to cut them out. But a complete stranger because they have a title, it's fine. I just my mind is boggled by people, like just boggled, boggled, like it's wild. Yeah, I just any association I could not, but again, yeah, I always go off track and I am so sorry.

SPEAKER_02

No, we're good, we both have really bad AHD, so we both kind of ramble. Um, uh the last uh the last thing uh we can talk about is the commie and kind of the cost of living. If there's nothing else you want to talk about.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I do also want to know, I don't think a lot of people notice this because the news and the media is just a lot of censorship these days. Um, we are, you know, we're Oklahomies, and I say that very uh all the time in the podcast. I'm an Oklahoma. And as we know, DHS secretary um is now Mark Wayne Mullins. I just the fact that he put Mark Wayne Mullins in that Homeland Security Secretary of Homelands, it's uh see my brain is just like frazzing out because I just can't. He was a horrible senator, he didn't listen to his constituents, he didn't care to listen to his constituents. I've called his office number and they're just like whatever, they don't care. Like Adam, not only that, like he even stated, and this was I think if this was on Fox News or something, I know Fox News, blah blah blah, but he he still said it, regardless of the station that aired it. Um he's he called the Trail of Tears a voluntary walk.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you told me about that. That's wild.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. But aside from that, um, I don't know if it has any association because I haven't looked into it, but at the same time, like I haven't really seen this very big in the news. But the acting ice director, Todd Lyons, he submitted his resignation letter to Mark Wayne Mullins, and that's like, whoa, yeah, whoa. I mean, I find it really interesting. Talks of ice has been really kind of quiet lately, yeah. Or I don't know if it's censorship or what's happening with that. I think the Iran wars is taking up so much oxygen, yeah, and the shutdown, right, that occurred, but at the same time, I'm like, wouldn't they still be operating though? Because they're supposed to be in the airports. I don't I know they have that the with the TSA they they got that I know with the also I don't we talked about this before too, but not necessarily here. And I know I put a uh video um on um the TikTok, but the TSA people also um looking for video game enthusiasts for air traffic controller jobs.

SPEAKER_02

Uh that's wild. Yeah, about that.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, yeah. The the FAA is looking to recruit video game enthusiasts for air traffic controller jobs.

SPEAKER_02

That's that's safe.

SPEAKER_03

They're actively hiring for people out there, it's a six-figure job. Okay, it's money, but it's one of the most dangerous jobs. It's like top five worst danger, most dangerous and most stressful jobs in the world. Yeah. Um, here in America, just what like uh last year or the year before, I can't specifically recall, but there was a woman who was an air traffic controller who got sucked in an engine. Like, that's how scary this job can be. So, and just have these videos like, don't get me wrong, I'm a gamer, okay? There's a lot of multitasking things we can do. We but uh I'm just worried that kids and it's a very dangerous thing. And oh, I don't know. Sorry, I went off ice into the airport because they were at the airports, whatever, but yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02

That's uh that that's just like a whole different type of craziness. Hopefully, uh they get out of that that situation because ice is just makes everything worse.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I don't think they are because if anyone, I don't know if you read Project 2025 at all. Um, when it's brought up a lot, especially in this administration, even though Trump in the beginning was like, I don't know what that is. What's Project 2020? Just playing absolute himself. Um he he uh in Project 2020. Sorry, not he, in project 2025, it it talks about privatizing the TSA, which is yeah, so I'm not saying that things are not gonna go, it's not gonna be privatized, but I definitely um think that it will be because there are so many things that are within Project 2025 that are actually being enacted right now, and it's scary.

SPEAKER_02

So I didn't even know about that. I didn't know that uh they wanted to take over TSA.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I I strongly suggest we to go look and look into Project 2025. There's actually a Project 2025 tracker website, I can't recall what the website name is, but easily Google just Project 2025 tracker, it'll pop right up. Um, I know we're definitely over 50 completed on Project 2025. And people forget there's also Project Esther out there.

SPEAKER_00

And yeah, I know about that too.

SPEAKER_03

People really need to read into it because if it if you start reading it, you're like, uh, this has happened. Yeah, these are up. Oh, this is coming up. So you can really actually kind of mentally prepare on what's coming into the US and what's going, what their direction that they're trying to go, as long as you just like look at it. And it's unfortunate that a lot of people don't even take the time. But what's great about that website, and like I said, I definitely encourage you guys to like look it up, but it breaks it down on every like item. You're not reading through these multi-page, like hundred-page document. It really have these like just line items, and it even shows like the progress on how like quickly it's like going through and being processed. So I it's a good tool, just like Apex Tracker, but whatever.

SPEAKER_02

A pack tracker is great. Yeah, ice tracker. I don't know if you've seen ice tracker, but uh that one's pretty good too. Keeps on saying that poor connection. But uh, if uh you want to uh complete the this episode with uh the commie, if if you want to don't want to talk about anything else.

SPEAKER_03

But did you what did you want to complete it with lies? Sorry, my brain heard the commie, and I was like, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02

If you want to like you stop me my tracks, is it huh? Not bad, not bad. If you want to uh complete the episode with talking about the the commie uh economy, oh economy, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

No, yeah, so which I also put this on on a TikTok because that's where a lot of I've been putting the information out really and until we really started this whole commentary. Um, people don't understand. We are still in the pre-war economy. The the thing, the effects of the war hasn't really hit us yet. So it will now though, because as of yesterday, we received our last shipment of oil. And I don't think a lot of people understand that. And I don't think they understand the impacts of that. Um, additionally, too, which we talked about before in terms of the Shredo Hormones, not only being a major source in terms of oil, but it actually ships 30 to 33 percent of the world, the world's fertilizer. And I made a video on that too, and the comments again were just so stupid. Um, yeah, I just people kill me and they're just like fertilizer. Oh, it's just you just put food, you can just compost the compost food, and there you got fertilizer. Like, hello, let's let's all you this is what my big problem with Americans is that they lack associative and cognitive thinking, and it really drives me nuts. Yeah, we can compost food, and we have a lot of food ways that we can do that, but are we doing that? No, how long does it taste to compost food? Me, I'm I just started my garden and I'm learning about it, and it takes time, like it takes time for food in the environment to break things, yeah. And I honestly strongly encourage people to try because uh it is gonna get crazy out here, and I don't think people understand. Um, economics, because um, economists, I can't even talk right sometimes, my apologies. Um, I can't either they are projecting that food costs, even within this year alone, will rise another 15 to 20 percent. Um, this fertilizer thing is not just they I don't think they they really just understand how much that's really gonna impact and what's in here in the US, what it's really gonna impact is like the US in terms of like the corn production, because a lot of the fertilizer that we do rely on is is a lot of it does go towards our corn production. Um, and once we start experiencing like food shortages, let's say these farmers aren't yielding enough because of these lack of fertilizer things and things of that nature, there's going to be food shortages. When there's food shortages, there's also gonna be an increase in price. Like, I don't think people get that. So that's gonna be talked. So we have in we're gonna get end up getting an increase on food costs because of shortages, because supply and demand go hand in hand. And then we are going to experience uh the the economics of war and how that's going to impact our inflation too. And I don't think people really, really understand the the impact of that and how many, especially if farmers are not able to keep up, because farmers do hold actually on to a lot of debt and stuff like that too. Um, because you know, farm equipment things is expensive, which I understand a lot of the gross medium like income with farmers is quite high here in America, but yeah, their income is high. I think it's like$1.5 million, which I know people are like, that's a lot. Like farmers got money. Think about how much they have to put money in towards means of production in terms of like um processing and um harvesting, and all of that costs so much money. So, this terms of in it's not really as it's reflected, right? Um, and I just I don't think people really understand that in that not all these farms are big major farms either. Like, yes, they're large, but not so much to scale as some of these like corporate farms, like these large, just like ridiculous farms, right? So a lot of these smaller farms are also closing. And you know, as you I don't know if you know, um JD Vance, he invests in um acre trader, which they are buying up these lands that these farmers can no longer afford. And it's just it's a scary road, and that is and it is it's just very scary, and it's really sad because some of these farmers and these old-time, longtime farmers are generational farms that are now losing their family freaking life, like that's their life, that's their what they're known. And it's it's it's sad and kind of hard to see, to be honest, because in America, because we live in such a capitalist society, we don't have um really kind of back. Um, I can't remember the the word for it right now. Um, but when people had for their families that were targeted within certain trades, like, oh, we're a family of like, you know, these um like we're a family of blacksmith and we're a family of this. Like they that's not necessarily a thing anymore. And it's kind of sad to see that the ones that really do still have that kind of like legacy, um, like as legacy careers, I guess you maybe could call it, um, are really farmers, and that's dying too. And that's it's it's really sad, especially since a lot of Americans here, like you said, they don't even know how to farm. So these to me, these people are really special. Farmers are so and you know, being an Oklahoma and also just growing up in the South in general, like we love farmers. They might not vote correctly all the time. I said what I said, but that part, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um you know, it's funny. Uh I talked to you this, uh I messaged you this, but she so she put a uh TikTok about farmers and fertilizer. I was at work and I was doing research on fertilizer and how it's affecting the economy and what states are uh what states is gonna affect most and how can I look at that like election-wise. It's crazy. I was like, we know we think her and I'd think so much alike, it's wild.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I was just screaming to my partner, I was like, we're all the same white length.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I know, right? I was creating like a full-on like TikTok series about like how like the farming and fertilizer and how it's gonna affect the economy, and yeah, so I'm working on that. Yeah, yeah, we do need to highlight it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they really aren't.

SPEAKER_03

It's like all your oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, but like food, like food, food, yeah. There's already food insecurities like everywhere, and it's only gonna make things worse. And that to me is just so, so just scary. Um, and especially with I think a lot of people too, because I know we're talking about like the farmers and things like that, but like again, we talk about associative thinking. I don't think people are also connecting, like what I just you know discussed on the food insecurities, but people need to also remember that um with the whole DEI thing and then Trump wanting to gut things and also throw more money into war, there's been cuts to Snap and things. And majority of the people on Snap are seniors, veterans, and children, the most vulnerable, and we they need this support, and so they're gonna even get even shorter. So the lives are gonna be lost, and whether people realize it or not, it it's it is it is what it is, and it's true. And it's unfortunate that a lot of people are like we don't need to pay for you to eat, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Because, like, I think in Oklahoma, our taxes contribute to Snap was like$36 a year, I think, for Oklahomans to pay into Snap, or in general, for or maybe it might have been that the whole nation, but I think it's like$36 a year. And it's like, you're complaining about$36 a year when like all of your tax money is going. To all of this bullsh, like friggin' um cash patel flying his girlfriend in a jet, you know, to go to her concert. You're not mad about that millions of dollars, but we're mad about you the$36 that you pay in a year to make sure children don't starve.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, honey, if you can't afford it, just say that. Like, I just don't understand.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I just what? What?

SPEAKER_02

And yeah, or partying with uh the US hockey team or doing other wasting other fucking money as well.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And like to all those people who who feel that way, you know, all I gotta say to you guys is I really hope that you never have to rely on assistance. And if you do, don't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like you tell everybody else. Go get you a third, fourth job and shut up like you tell everybody else. It just kills me because these people who are always spouting against it are always against it until it happens to them. And that's and that's and that's America. So sad. But yeah, I just hope people prepare that we're now starting to really just slow roll into the war economy. And I hope people really start, and they should have honestly should have already started. Stop going paying to these corporations and overconsumption. I don't think people understand that's also propaganda here in America, too. Like I use TikTok as a tool to plant seeds and get information out, but TikTok also too is to sorry to say, guys, it's to keep you distracted from and it keeps you from looking shit up yourself. It throws out a lot of misinformation and it also pushes over consumption, which they want you to do because it makes you feel like you, oh, you have to have these things. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. And just it's they're keeping you in a cage and you don't see it because it's invisible, and it's crazy. It's crazy that people don't. So I and I know I'm I'm part of the the um in the cog of a problem, but like in the turn in the world of censorship, it's hard to get information out, and that's also you know why you and I started to do this YouTube because TikTok is not a great source, and it's not a great place because there's so high such censorship to be able to really talk this freely. And again, also why I started a podcast because there's yeah, too much censorship.

SPEAKER_02

It's TikTok's very bad. Like our one of our accounts got banned, and other one got a couple flags on videos, and yeah, yeah. Ever since ever since the takeover, the American takeover TikTok, it's been pretty shitty, honestly.

SPEAKER_03

It just so the listeners out there know, because I know a lot of my listeners do come from TikTok. Um the video that got the main account banned, the main account was almost to like a 10,000, which I know 10,000. There's other people with like way more like followers, but it was almost a 10,000, which I was pretty proud about. Um, yeah, it got banned over a ad for the podcast over Human Zoos and for misinformation, which none of it was misinformation, like not a single, not a single thing. It was literally history that happened. Wild TikTok. It's so uh so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02

It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03

But I hope people do enjoy kind of how we are now more in a commentary and like talking things. And um, you know, if you guys have any like thoughts, opinions, or anything, like you can always reach out to us on on TikTok, like shoot us a message, like that's available. Um and we'll definitely listen to it. Um if you guys want to shoot us an email too. It's unmuted history. I know I did it backwards, just maybe I had dyslexia that day. I'm not quite sure. But um it's unmutedhistory at gmail.com. Dyslexia happens. I do it all the time.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But it's it's unmutedhistory at gmail.com, and you can always send us an email. Um, and we definitely appreciate you guys' support. So um, this is how it's gonna be going on. We're gonna be highlighting just different um candidates and just discussing things that are happening in the world and for the for that week. And yeah, I hope you enjoy and nice to introduce Adam finally, like fully.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you guys. Thank you, everyone. This is so much fun. Uh appreciate everyone. Um, I'll I'll be doing more videos as well, and we'll uh get into a lot of other topic topics.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And like our typical sign off, it's been Nicole and Adam.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you guys.

SPEAKER_03

We'll do it again. And yes, it's Nicole Eric. We're not gonna this guy.

SPEAKER_02

I'm sorry, I'm very lame. I'm very, I'm a very lame person.

SPEAKER_03

It's okay. And one fry short of a happy meal, and I don't know if you all saw those. Those happy meal fries are small. So a lot locking up here. But this has been History Unmuted, and until next time, thanks you guys.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you.