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Father's Day. And, you know, you know, I have I have two kids who would probably cringe if they heard this podcast, earning any any of the other stuff that I'm doing online. I know, they try to shut it out as much as possible. And we did celebrate Father's Day in our house, you know, but it's never been a big deal to me. And I kind of never understood really why. And then I looked it up today. Just as as a lark, I'm like, it's gonna be father's day tomorrow, and I close that browser tab for some

stupid reason. But let's see Father's Day origin. I looked it up in using Wikipedia everybody's favorite source for accurate information. I found out that Father's Day, obviously, was created in an attempt to honor father's like Mother's Day does it it was created in 1910 by a woman named Sonora smart dad, and she was born in Arkansas, but she was living in Spokane, Washington. And she can't tell if she worked at the YMCA over there. Or she couldn't have lived there

because the YMCA not the YWCA. So she created it to honor her father, who was a civil war veteran and a single parent who raised six children. So after hearing some sermon at a church, she decided that father should have a similar holiday. And she originally suggested June 5, but the Spokane Spokane ministerial Alliance did not have enough time to prepare their sermons for that fifth. So the celebration was deferred to the

third Sunday of June. So that's how we ended up here. But then, you know, nobody picked up on it was only celebrated in Spokane. And nationally, nobody really picked up on it. And it didn't have much success. So it kind of lost its promotion. Nobody really did anything with it. From 1920. On, she tried to to resurrect it in the 1930s. And she enlisted the help of trade groups that would benefit from the holiday. So they gave you an example in Wikipedia of the manufacturer of ties, tobacco

pipes and other traditional presence to fathers. She tried it. So it's this is really, this is a commercial holiday. And yes, she tried to create it to celebrate her father and but really, this has just been pushed by economic interests and no real you know, homage to fathers. So it just kind of went on and off and it wasn't really much of a thing. There was a

proclamation in 1966. So it wasn't nationally declared a thing until 1966 with Lyndon Johnson issued a presidential proclamation honoring fathers designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, Nixon made it a permanent holiday. So 1972 I was born in 1966. So if it was just made a national holiday, and it was proclaimed 90 and when I was born, the year I was born, that's why I never felt much of a big deal to me. So it was there. Obviously it was always

there since I was born. But I don't Recall really celebrating it hardly ever growing up. No, you know, my parents were divorced from when I was a very young age, I think it was four when they separated. So I was with my father on weekends anyway, so we, we celebrated, but I don't really have any memories of doing much of anything. So, you know, and even you know, when I, when I had my kids, yes, we also celebrated Father's Day, but again, to me, it's like, you know, we went out mostly for

dinner for my own father. With the family. We didn't do anything specifically for me, which doesn't really bother me that in my mind, fathers You know, I'm not talking about like being old fashioned either were like, okay, you gotta get bring you my slippers. Bring me my pipe. And let me sit in front of the TV and general watch football day or whatever the

home right now it's summertime. So you'd be watching baseball or basketball the playoffs are on. But I think most fathers I see, I don't know about young young guys, young guys are so different from my generation. You know, I'm in my mid 50s. So I feel like we're just so different, where, you know, I took care, I did all this stuff, to take care of my kids change diapers, made lunches, cooked meals, you know, you know, I took care of them on a regular basis. I did all the feedings at

night when they were infants. But you know, so so in some respects, you know, I'm a modern, modern day, father. But at the same time, I'm an old fashioned father. You know, I never tried to be my kids best friend. I don't never thought that that was a good idea. And these days, I feel like the fathers are trying too much to be buddy, buddy. You know, and I feel to be like, I don't need a father's day. I just don't need

it. What do I need it for? I already know, I'm a father, I already know that, you know, I've done the best job that I could while they were growing up. And the chips have to fall, where they may, you know, the decisions I made at the time when they were growing up were decisions I made that I felt were the best for them at the time, whether I made a mistake or not, you know, that's all in the past. It's happened, it is

what it is. So I don't need a special day to be honored for any of that, after all, you know, they didn't ask to be created. I'm the one that assisted in bringing them into the world. So what in the world does a father need any thanks for? What do we need a day? that honors us for? What's the purpose of it? You know, it to me, it just seems like such an exercise in narcissism, that, you know, you have to glorify Me, glorify me for bringing you into the world. It's just such

bullshit to me that, you know, it's fine. You know, my kids send me a card or whatever, you know, and, you know, maybe once a while you get a little gift. But I think I think in my mind, a father would not care about this day. It's utterly meaningless, because you have to be a father every day. You know, women are different. Mothers are different. Although my wife is different. She's I don't she doesn't really give a rat's ass about Mother's Day either, you know, because to her every day

is Mother's Day, but she's an anomaly amongst women. Anyway, on to the rest of the story. I was 15 minutes about Father's Day. That's how much it bugs me. I talked about it. Last week, two weeks ago, Dr. Brett Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Cory, they had a they on the Dark Horse podcast had like two and a half hours of talking about ivermectin, what's happening with it, why the government's ignoring it and what their

general feelings are as to how effective it is. And why there's such a big campaign against it. Which they do think it's effective. By the way, I don't know if I included that. So they had a two and a half hour thing. And it's a it's a podcast so you can get it you can get it from search for Dark Horse podcast. You can pull it up. I've got a link in the show notes to this, I believe or it's on the it's on the blog post page. For this

particular topic. YouTube takes down video discussing ivermectin by Dr. Pierre Corrie and Dr. Brett Weinstein. So YouTube takes down the video And they sent him a strike on it. And so he asked for clarification. And YouTube actually responded that to qualified doctors, researchers, not quacks. One that actively sees patients and is currently administering the drug ivermectin to his patients, and not only to his patients, but also himself. He takes it as a prophylactic, prophylactic,

prophylactic. However, I'm mispronouncing that, but he takes it as a preventive measure to prevent himself from having a severe case of COVID-19. Should he contract the SARS covi to virus. So not only is he qualified, he's seeing patients and administering is also taking it himself. So YouTube decides you're providing misinformation to the public and they took his

video down is unbelievable. It's unbelievable the power that everybody has given Google companies like YouTube, Facebook and Apple, Spotify, whatever, the ability to silence a different point of view, a different opinion by qualified people. You know, it'd be different if I was telling people, I have no quote, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a researcher. So it'd be different. If I'm telling people online to take ivermectin, this is going to cure you, blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. Okay. You know, unless I'm quoting somebody else who's qualified, you know, maybe they have the right to say I'm providing misinformation because I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm talking out of my ass, but these guys at least have credentials. And they've taken them down. It just to me, it's just unconscionable. And I guess now, you know, we get an

idea. Why is because of the money that's behind it. Because Dr. Pierre quarry also posted a video where he was talking about ivermectin and the United States, making a deal with Merck, pharmaceutical company Merck, about an unproven drug that I guess is trying to mimic or replicate ivermectin, but just in a different way. Let me get to this here.

complaint, and which is already failed. In hospitalized patients, they are now testing and in outpatients when we already have a drug, which is low cost, safe, widely available, which has been proven to work in many phases of disease, not only as outpatients but in patients.

approved. Because what do you need a vaccine for if you have a viable treatment, and Dr. Pierre Corey and the FLC cc Alliance, the frontline COVID care doctors I forgot what their acronym stands for. But you can go look that up. You know, they're heavily pushing ivermectin as a treatment. And if they're successful, you know, pharmaceutical companies are going to lose a lot of money in the future because they're looking to push these vaccines annually, an annual booster just

like the flu shot. And so this is made worse by now the US government pushing out billions of dollars to another pharmaceutical company to come up with a drug that's untested, that's trying to mimic what ivermectin does. That's, at least that's according to what Dr. Dr. Correa say. You can go look this up for yourself at the the flcc. c Alliance. They have a lot of information. They even have their protocols for ivermectin. This also brings me to what happened today. Or at

least what I discovered today. Is that near ej fipe. I hope. I doubt i'm pronouncing her name correctly. And I doubt that I've done it in the past correctly, but her daughter posted on Twitter on the 14th. So I just found out about it today. I've been checking from time to time, but I must have forgotten earlier in the week, but she posted on the 14th that her

mother's doing better continues to improve. And her story is the one where they had to go to court to force Elmhurst Hospital in Illinois to administer ivermectin or not, they didn't administer it, they allowed they agreed to allow an outside doctor to come in to administer ivermectin at the time, she was on a ventilator for over a month. And it seems to me given what I know now about following these other doctors that if the hospital was not forced into doing that, she probably would

have already passed away. And she may still pass away because she's, you know, she was pretty seriously ill. She was in a coma at the time from what I understand. But after forcing them to do that, and, and using ivermectin, she's steadily or slowly improving a little bit at a time. So it's, it's good for her. And hope, you know, the disgusting part of all it is

that the media dropped it like a hot potato. They covered it when the court case was there because it was kind of sensational that somebody pushing, you know, had a lawsuit pushing a hospital to administer ivermectin when the all the experts in the world, except for the frontline care doctors COVID care doctors have. You know, they're pushing ivermectin. So they just dropped it like a hot potato once. Once the once they succeeded in getting the hospital to change their ways. They didn't bother

to check up like did did she recover? Is she doing better? You know, and I tweeted back to the one of the reporters for the Chicago Tribune, showing him that Oh, she is indeed doing better. And all I had to do is tweet the daughter. So there's some improvements here. The media, again, is not doing its job because they're ignoring the story because it was a positive story, I believe for the use of ivermectin.

Sticking with COVID, there was a study recent study from Germany, that showed that PCR tests of people with us 7050 to 75% of people with positive tests are in fact, not infectious. So once you learn about the PCR test, and the results it produces, depending on the cycle threshold used, you can never look at positive test numbers, again, without knowing what the threshold number is, which is never reported. When you look at positive test stories, you know, cases are rising, but you know,

due to the PCR test that they're calling the gold standard. They never tell you what the cycle threshold is. And Dr. Fauci himself, fucking Fauci admitted early on on a podcast that any cycle threshold over 30 is worthless for determining if somebody is infectious. And I've read other stories where they say, shouldn't be run over 25 cycles to ensure that you know, that there's enough viable virus there to actually infect somebody, but let's go with fucking Fauci. It shouldn't be

over 30. They never tell you what the cycle thresholds are here in the United States, you can look it up in it. And I remember reading from the FDA guidelines that they were using cycle thresholds of over 40, which means that they run this test over 40 times. And each time you run the test the PCR test, each time you cycle through the sample. it amplifies whatever's there. And even the Creator who have the PCR tests, who is now dead, said that this is not the test that you want to

use for what we're using it for. Because you can find anything you want. He said you can find latent viruses or latent pieces of things that are not able to do anything to anybody, but they're just there in your system and they're they're harmless. So now this study out of Germany found that 50 to 75% of the people in their study tests that tested positive were unlikely to be infectious. And this is basically their summary. They say, this is from the Journal of infection and I've

got a link on the website. That says in light of our findings that more than half of individuals with positive PCR

test results are unlikely to have been infectious. RT dash PCR test positivity should not be taken as an accurate measure of infectious SARS Koby, two incidents, our results confirm the findings of others that routine that the routine use of positive PCR tests results as the gold standard for assessing and controlling infectiousness fails to reflect the fact that 50 to 75% of the time, an individual is PCR positive, they are likely to be post infectious.

And this is the bullshit test the goals quote unquote, coal gold standard that they've been using to shut economies down. You know, I say it over and over again, you look at Canada, you look at Australia, you look at the UK, former countries that you would believe would fight for freedom, are still using draconian measures over test results that are bullshit. This should piss the shit out of piss people off like crazy. Moving

away from COVID, President Biden had his meeting with Putin. And prior to that meeting, a question was asked from a reporter right, this is off a c span. And remember how tough President Biden was before when he's debating with Trump and or maybe it was after that? I don't remember. But he basically called Putin a killer. You're a killer. What do you say to Vladimir Putin?

make it to the first vote. She didn't have any support. So now we're stuck keeping this corpse alive in order to prevent her from becoming the first female president. Let's just hope Joe makes it all the way through. Although I you know, this stuff that they're passing is is just such a waste of everybody's time. Oh, I thought I was done with COVID but I'm not because Jon Stewart was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I really can't stand Colbert I've never liked his brand of comedy

whatever the hell it is that he's doing. But Stuart even though I politically I opposite with Stuart is I've always found him hilarious. He's got a great delivery knows how to do comedy and he was on Colbert discussing COVID-19 and whether or not it was a lab creation. Let me forward through that for a second.

And really, it stemmed from something I read somewhere where I said, you know, the direction of the country and things that are happening, I somebody was blaming Trump somewhere online, and I had a response where I said Trump was the festering infection that resulted from the virus or progressivism, and Biden is like gangrene setting in. And we need to chop off a limb or two in order to stop the infection from killing us. And it just got me to thinking more. So I just had a long blog post

that had nothing to do with a particular news story. But I just I needed to point out that if you know right now, we're at a point where people think Trump is to blame for everything that has happened in the country, and maybe even before, but since at least 2016. And it's my opinion, that if you honestly think that Trump was the problem, that you're stupid, number one, or you're ignorant, which is not the same as stupid, but almost as bad, that you're blind, you can't see what's going on in

front of you. That you're in denial, or you're a raging progressive, you know, more hardcore than, than your normal progressive, you're more like AOC, progressive. You're progressive. So that covers it all, or have a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome. But, you know, I think that we've been headed down this path for decades. And, you know, I was born in 1966. It's before the creation of the department of

education that was created in the 70s by Jimmy Carter. And to me, when the Department of Education was created, that put federal money into local public schools, and from that point forward, you can pretty much count down and look at the deterioration of the public school system. You can even look at the rise in the case, the rise in childhood obesity from that point forward, because you got to remember the the Department of Education Department of Agriculture

started getting into school. lunches. kids didn't used to be served lunch in school, he used to bring lunch from home. You know, rich, poor, whatever people brought lunch from home. So you enter federal dollars. And the government then starts telling states what to do with their public education in order to keep that money flowing. So Generation X of which I'm a part of, I believe we're the last generation to be educated

largely without influence by the Department of Education. It was there, but it was, you know, it was just beginning when I started school. When I was in kindergarten, first grade, the Department of Education was just created. So they were just starting to get their claws in. So I don't think it really metascore Miss death. metastasize metastasized until I was probably in high school or just out of high school.

So, you know, I think my generation is probably the last generation to not be propagandized by the federal government and the teachers unions, all that stuff was tied together. My children who are part of the millennial generation, they're, they're older millennials. They're not younger millennials, they're older millennials. My oldest is reaching her mid 30s. My youngest is in his early 30s. But I remember when they went to school, I could see this stuff

creeping in. And I was like, What the hell is this? You know, it started when my kid was my daughter was in grammar school, when she was in kindergarten, first and second grade. In the school, they give you a list of supplies, bring these things in the class, paper towels, pencils, pens, paper, whatever. But what were they doing with that? It wasn't wasn't supplies that my daughter gets to keep and use for herself? No. These supplies were to be distributed and shared across the entire

classroom. So I never know when we figured that out. I never sent my daughter to school with like, Great pencil, she got no bargain basement pencils, because what am I going to spend a lot of money on pencils for, for other kids to use the pencils. I didn't send her to school, great paper towels, I bought the cheapest shittiest paper towels we could find? Because why would I give them paper towels for other kids to

use? Why would I spend my money for that same thing with any of the other supplies, you know other than crayons, because who's going to buy something other than Crayola. At least if you can afford to buy something to buy Crayola, you're gonna buy Crayola crayons. But all the rest of the supplies, you know, we bought the cheapest stuff we could find. Because they were you know, in essence socializing. The private supplies I was sending to school with my daughter. So I wasn't

happy with that. And then later on, you know, as as they're trying to teach kids to read and spell and write. You know, she was coming home with homework, where some of her work was misspelled. And I was like, What is this? So I you know, I would correct your spelling, and I would show her Okay, this is wrong. And this should have been marked wrong, and all this kind of stuff. So on a parent teachers conference, I, you know, I went to school, and I asked the teachers like, what

are you doing? She's coming home with work. That is marked correct, but the spelling is wrong. So I correct it. And the teacher actually told me that they didn't want to cause sadness at you know, and she, I guess that, you know, if the teacher was looking at my face, you must have seen the confusion. Like, what are you talking about sadness. You're correcting the mistake, you're supposed to be a teacher, you're supposed to be correcting spelling, but they were starting

this. I think it was called a whole language approach to reading and writing, which meant that the kid could do what they call creative spelling. They could spell the word However, they wanted to spell it. And however it was, it was there was no correction being done because they didn't want to lower the self esteem of the kid in order to teach them how to spell. And, you know, I looked at our teacher and I said, you know, I'm correcting her spelling at home, and I'm telling her that

it's wrong and that she should have been marked wrong. She should have received a lower grade than what she got, because it wasn't correct. And the teacher just didn't seem to care. It's like, yeah, you can correct it at home with all you want. But we just don't do that here because we have a different method of teaching. And that really was the part that opened my eyes the widest it wasn't the part was sharing the stupid supplies, it was that it was like, What? What kind of

teacher? You know, what kind of system teaches kids by letting them make the mistakes? It just didn't make any sense? How stupid is that? So it got worse. You know, okay, fine, I can deal with a little bit of a spelling I, you know, I can I can do supplemental teaching at home, you know, I shouldn't have to, but I do it anyway, you know, my children make sure that they know what they're doing reading and writing, learning how to

spell. When my son entered kindergarten, you know, he already learned how to read, he was able to read, you know, rudimentary words and sentences, things that were simple. But he could read, you know, whatever he was, he was beyond the kindergarten reading level. So he's in he's in kindergarten, and on our teachers conference, you know, a while back that up a little bit. You know, My son is very sharp, and especially back then, you know, is very sharp

for his age. And he already knew he could read. And he was telling me that, you know, when he was coming home, he would tell me that he was reading to the first graders like, Oh, really? Yeah, he's like, yeah, this, this guy is kid, you know, trying to read to me, and he couldn't figure it out. So, you know, I helped him read the words. Now, again, he's telling me this in a five or six year old person's way of telling, it

wasn't as as clear as I just put it out there. But he was still letting me know that he was reading to the first graders when they would come in to read to the kindergarteners. So again, on a parent teachers conference, I asked the teacher about this. And she said that, oh, yeah, you know, he would read to the first graders that they could not read, or couldn't read the books that they were reading. You know, and I knew my son was a little bit bored with kindergarten, he just didn't

care for it, there wasn't much for him to do. So I was asking the teachers like, well, he needs, he needs a little bit more stimulation, because he's kind of bored. He's reading beyond, you know, the books that you guys have, he's reading to your first graders, which are supposed to be reading to the kindergarteners. So, you know, maybe he needs to be in first grade that kindergarten if he's if he's beyond what your first

graders are. But they wouldn't do that they wouldn't move him forward, they, you know, nobody wants to advance children much anymore, because they're worried about their social development. You know, five and six years old, he can hold his own with, you know, a six and seven year old that might be in first grade, or even a seven or eight year old big whoopee Doo, there's not that much difference in age. But they didn't do

anything. They gave him some busy work. You know, they let him they gave him some computer time, which at the time, you know, computers were really worth shit. for education. It's really just pressing some letters on the keyboard and watching some animation go by. So that was the one that really woke me up to it. And I was like, Okay, this is only going to get worse. So I had to find another option. And that's when I took my kids to private school. And it was much better.

But what has gotten worse in the public school system? You know, I think goodness, I sent my kids to private school. And that they were they graduated, they finished high school prior to all the crap that's happening today. Because instead of being concerned about making kids, making sure that the kids can finish high school with the ability to read and write and do some math instead, public schools are worried more about indoctrination. Pushing political agendas like climate

change and critical race theory. Before and the reason you know this is this is indoctrination is that they're pushing this stuff before the kids know how to think. They're telling them what to think before they know how to think. And then that's the reason they want to put this stuff in their brains. So before they're able to actually think about something and put it together like Does this make sense? They push this bullshit

on him. And part of it is, you know, they're taught a false history the united states You know, look at look at what's happened to Columbus, Christopher Columbus. Now he's got nothing to do with the ad states, but just the fact that Columbus Day is just been vilified, to honor an Italian Explorer. was the guy perfect? No, did he cause a lot of problems? Sure. But what they're celebrating is not any of the mistakes, you don't celebrate mistakes, it's stupid. you're

celebrating the accomplishments. And regardless of what you think of the man, and maybe what he's done, it was quite the accomplishment to do what he did, to be an explorer to take a boat across the ocean to come to another continent, whether he thought whether he was in the right place or not. None of that stuff makes a difference. None of it. Or let's take the founding fathers, for instance.

You know, they're all human beings, they all have flaws. But those flaws and the problems that they had, do not negate the accomplishments. It wasn't perfect. But the things that they did led to where we are today, the things that they did, provided the foundation to let these other idiots demonize the founders, that's fine. Now you can talk shit about the founding fathers and how this, you know how this country was founded. But what you can't change are

the accomplishments. And this is what they're trying to do. And that's why they're pushing it into the public schools. Because to teach, like the 1619 project, as if the country was founded prior to the revolution, as if we didn't go to war, with the British, to claim our own independence. Nothing is smooth, nothing is perfect. Nobody is perfect. The Founding Fathers weren't perfect. But they weren't all about just oh, we're just gonna rape and pillage and

commit genocide against the Indians. You know, we're just gonna hold slaves forever. You know, there's, there was a healthy contingent of founding fathers that have hoard slavery. They didn't like the practice of it. But there wasn't much they could do, because it was not the consensus of the time. But they fought against it. Many of them fight against that there was tons of people that were abolitionists, and they weren't black, they were white. There's more to the history of the

country and the founding. And there's more to celebrate in the accomplishments than in the mistakes. Because the accomplishments are what got us here. It will. It's what gives me the freedom to say what I'm saying right now, to give my own

opinion, to cover the news of the day as I see it. But this is also why the federal government needs to get the hell out of public schooling, because they should not be able to push political agendas in elementary school, if you want to teach the 1619 project that belongs in university, critical race theory. It belongs in university or at the university level. Because once you're able to think, and do a little bit of math, and read and write, and you know, think critically, then

you're, you're better able to discuss the issues. But to push them into elementary school, I don't even know what age they're talking about teaching this stuff. But there's no way on Earth. A kid the age of 1112, even 1516 years old, can really prop properly put things in context and have the maturity to be able to discuss those types of topics of imperfect humans. I don't know if there's a way to fix it. I just know that it

shouldn't. It shouldn't be there. This type of discussion shouldn't be happening we should get rid of we should abolish is the Department of Education. We should abolish all public employee unions because they are organizing against the people and go back to elementary education as well. mentary education teaching the basics of reading, writing, doing math, basic science, but science, not climate change science, basic science, climate change is too complex a subject for elementary

and high school. You can discuss whether you can discuss the climate. But discussing human caused climate change does not belong anywhere above or anywhere below the university level. You know, in COVID-19 revealed much about our country and the world. You can see as long as government is shelling out bread and circuses food and money and keeping the population placated that we will not fight. We won't even resist their authoritarianism, authoritarianism or too

comfortable when you're comfortable. You've got no reason to fight. But with all the money being pushed down our throats, with all the money being printed. It doesn't seem to me like this is going to end well. I hope I'm wrong. Because I don't want bad things to happen. I would like to see things continue on an upward trend. But you know, history tells you that it doesn't continue to go up forever. Hopefully this is not where things are going to end up.

Let's see here. Juneteenth, this is recent. Biden signed into law, the new federal holiday called Juneteenth. It's the wrong day. First of all, Juneteenth is a horrible word. It just makes no sense. It's not a number. It's not a month. Let's just throw them together. Juneteenth is supposed to be

June 19. But here are my four reasons. It's a this was a local event in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, it was basically a media event, they're celebrating the in the people of Texas, the final, the last people in Texas being informed that the war was over and that slavery was abolished. But here's the key after June 19 1865, Kentucky in Delaware still legally held slaves in the United States. So slavery was not totally abolished and totally ended. At that time. The 13th amendment of

the constitution was proposed, but it wasn't ratified yet. It was ratified on December 6 1865. And it was made part of the Constitution on December 18 1865. So if you want to celebrate a date for the end of slavery, those are two good dates, not the date that people were were informed that the Civil War was over, especially when two other states did not end slavery in their states until the 13th amendment took effect. So this is a problem we have in this country of always

coming up with a wrong date celebrating bullshit. So you know, we should be celebrating the end of slavery and in even the 13th amendment didn't totally end slavery because it's still allowed for slavery for people who are imprisoned. But for for people outside of prison, it ends it ended slavery. And it happened at that time. And if so, if we're going to celebrate this, we should pick the real date. Not a made up date that makes people feel good about something. And I

don't even know what that is because that correct. Changing the Constitution is not easy. It's a very it was a very difficult thing to do. You know, that's why you don't see amendments today. It's it's so difficult to do. They don't even bother going down through the process. You know, instead they try to get the Supreme Court to make a decision. You know, God forbid Congress pass a law. God forbid they introduce, you know, another amendment for something.

Moving on to Wow, did you hear that? It was almost like I was doing a harmony with myself. My throat is gonna be cleared. There. I just turn off the mic and cleared cleared my throat. Well, sort of. companies don't want to hire people from Colorado for remote work. Why? Because Colorado passed a law that requires companies even with a few employees in the state to disclose the expected salary or pay range for each

role open role they advertise, including remote positions. The rules aim is to narrow gender wage gaps and provide greater trend. Okay, let's try this again. The rules aim is to narrow gender wage gaps and provide greater pay transparency for employees. To avoid having to disclose that information. Though some employers seeking remote workers nationwide are saying that those living in Colorado need not apply. This is out of the Wall Street Journal. Oh, and I forgot to provide the hyperlink.

So if you live in Colorado, you in your you are applying for remote work, you will if you're a male or female, you will get equal pay because you're just not going to get hired now. So zero is equal to zero. Now I already covered critical race theory and how I don't believe it's something to be taught in school, but there was I wish people when they tweet stuff

would put the source. I don't have the source. I was, you know, going through Twitter and I saw somebody post this video of a black man at a school board meeting somewhere in Illinois, according to the tweet, but he doesn't say where would it be nice to know. And he's going through what he thinks about critical race theory

and hustled my butt off to get to God. You don't tell me somebody? kept me from doing it. Are you serious? Not one my person ever came to me say was never going to get away because you know the black people. But guess what I was thinking about this whole thing is what y'all doing right now is already something I do in my community right now to speak out against that because black folks get told by other black folks are you know, doing a bad thing or let you get out? No, not gonna

do it. Because you're the white the white man, the white man will keep you down. Well, how did I get where I am right now? It sounds like me and kept me down. How am I now directing over folks that look just like you guys in this room right now? How? What what kept me down what oppressed me. I worked for myself in office freeze to where I am right now. He will sit here and tell me this lot of critical race theory.

It's there to hold black people down. It's there to hold other people of color down. They're going to they're going to grow up thinking that that's true. So they will institutionalize race and racism. They will make racism systemic. But it's going to be systemic against white people and racism period, whether it's against white people, black people, Asian people, or half breeds like me, it's wrong. And that crap needs to end. We need to we need to get that bullshit out of

schools. And out of the general discussion if you want to discuss critical race theory as a theory. It belongs at university. But as I was I was definitely lazy this week. When it came to blogging, I still did post a bunch of stories. But in general, I was kind of disconnect. I was burned out by the news burned out by COVID burned out by Biden Singh pueden, burned out by Kamala Harris being stupid. And, you know, last couple of weeks I went on hikes. So I'm new to

Georgia. And, you know, I, I'm from the Chicago area where there aren't a whole lot of places to hike. If you're hiking, you're just really walking down some trail. It's more like strolls rather than real hikes. So last week, I went on a hike at four years ago park it was okay. It was a nice park. But it was still it was a little bit too civilized. There were too many people around. And so this week I found another one. It's called Don Carter State Park. And I don't recommend

anybody go there because I liked it way too much. So stay away because when I went there early Thursday morning, and I went with my dog, Godfrey, the one that you heard bark earlier, did you hear embark was that on the other podcast? I can't remember now. This is the third podcast I've just done in a row for different things. he barked during one of them. But anyway, he's a Labrador Retriever. And so I went on this hike. And it was really nice. I only saw one other person on the trail. And

it was occluded. There was some good elevations for walking around. You know, it was an actual hike through the woods, we had to you know, it made me tired, I had to walk. You know, it's like, it's right off of Lakeland air. So you're kind of walking around little creeks and stuff that feed the lake. So you're going up, you're going down. And so it's it was a very, it was definitely a moderate hike, it was not just a stroll through the park, which was nice. And it was quiet. So it's

just me in the woods. And my dog where I you know, I found a little sort of like a beach area, just off the trail in the lake. So my dog could actually go in the water and take a swim, which he hadn't done in in over a year since we moved. He used to go swimming at there was a park district dog park near my house that had a big pond. So I would throw a giant ball in there and he would swim a lot. So this is the first time he's been swimming in a year. And it was nice. So you can it was very

cathartic. You know, and I lot of people when they hike, they like to go hike to a destination and take, you know, those Instagram photos of this site or that site or, you know, this little tourist thing or that tourist thing that me I I like to hike like I drive, I prefer the actual act of hiking. So the walking part of it and keeping pace and just listening to the sounds I don't I don't have any headphones in I'm not listening

to music or podcasts or anything. I'm literally just walking with my dog through the woods, hiking up and down climbing over logs and you know, fallen trees over the trail. And just hearing the sounds around me and just tuning out. It was a it was very cathartic. I was very hopeful for just tuning out all the news because I really been burned out

the last week with the news. So much so that in the mornings, I'd been reading a book versus reading the paper, at least for half an hour, you know, I'll still kind of thumb through the newspaper to get what's happening around me. But the first half hour I'm reading a book which is so you know, it was just a good way to just kind of decompress because the news is really been pissing me off lately. I'm hoping the current

week will be better. I might go to a peach farm check out some peaches you know, get some fresh peaches I've been in Chicago, you can get a good beach. No matter almost no matter where you buy it from. I've you know, I've been on the search for so here. At least during peach season, we go to this little produce stand that's been maybe a couple miles from my house. And it's literally just a tiny mom and pop produce stand. And they have fresh vegetables and they have fresh peaches there.

I've been buying for every week just to eat them. And I haven't had a bad one yet. They've all been they taste like peaches. So you know the ones that I would get in Chicago were always either under ripe. Or just if they were ripe. They were just flavorless they didn't have anything. So there's some peach farms, not that far from where we live now. And you know, I might just take a drive over there this week and see how those Go. Get some fresh that at least fresher off the tree than

what I'm buying from the produce. And even though those are fantastic anyway, it would just be nice. Just be nice to see. So that's my complaint. Those are my complaints for the week. Have a good Father's Day if you're celebrating Father's Day. As a reminder, this is a podcasting 2.0 compatible

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Simple, they're simple to do. They're easy, it's quick, when the transcript is always available, you know, within, before the end of the day, after I, after I post this up, transcripts I'm working on to try chapters, I'm working on a better workflow in order to get those done. And hopefully, I'll have that worked out in the next couple of weeks. Because, you

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sucks. So I may be changing it I might not who knows the RSS feed stays the same anyway because it's based off my website given by calm so Have a Happy Father's Day Have a great rest of your weekend and talk to you next week. You know false starts. I record this live basic basically live to to to a SD card. I'd like to say live to tape but nobody tapes this live to SD card and I hit the button and I couldn't remember what my own theme music was and I think I thought I hit the wrong button

but I hit the right button. So I'll close it out now. Here we go. Ever happy weekend. Bye bye. The title of the music of the theme music is right there on my iPod track. See it right they want to hit the button for increased Hope you enjoyed it. couple dollars please send me a couple of hours.