Badlands Media - Quite Frankly Ep. 71: AI Thumbnails, Social Security & Halloween Horror

Episode Date: October 16, 2026

Frankie Val is joined by Jay Gulinello for a Thursday night in Studio A, opening with Lauren's pregnancy countdown (37 weeks tomorrow), next year's Jamboree on October 22, 2027, and a Brewers-Dodgers World Series rundown before Frank admits he has spent three days in mortal combat with ChatGPT over livestream thumbnails. That leads into Anthropic's new rules on "abusive" behavior toward Claude, and why the models keep stamping the whole show title onto the art. The center of the show is a Social Security debate: Frank walks through Cato Institute polling on boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z, the drop from 16 workers per beneficiary to about 2.7, and whether younger viewers will ever see a return. Callers and chat weigh in, including Cloud Nine on European safety nets. Later the room goes full October with Chucky one-liners, a neighbor's year-round Chucky window display, and Frank's dad in the movie Spookies, plus a Blockbuster nostalgia detour. They close with Super Chats, raffle prizes, a nod to Badlands viewers hanging out on the affiliate, promo code FRANKLY at quitefrankly.tv, and a Ripple Effect clip on nuns and Europe's population crisis before the flip side.

The badlands, one of the badlands, explain those badlands. That's a hell of their name. Okay, oh my. A couple of things that just went haywire over here. Welcome to the show, everybody. It's good to have you back over at Studio A for a Thursday night. It's the 15th of October. Middle of October.

I can't believe it. Slow it down, Frank. I can't. There's no slowing down now. Damn it. In a couple of hours. Just tomorrow, just Friday. As I said, I'm just counting it down.

That is officially, at least on the clock, you know, all these due dates are not ever, like an exact science. But tomorrow's 37 weeks. Wow. Yeah. And you know the crazy thing is that that means that 30 weeks ago in a way, and I couldn't tell anybody at the time. My friend Ann, she came by, we're talking about fertility and stuff. stuff like that. Jay's here, by the way. Hi.

She came in, she gave me a couple of gifts over here. And one of the gifts she gave me was a bag of coffee from some friends of hers. And it was called, I believe, seven-week coffee. At seven-week coffee. And it was at the time, it was right then. And I brewed it for that Friday morning's broadcast because that Friday was actually seven weeks that Lauren was pregnant. And the reason why they called it seven weeks coffee, I believe, is because that is not, A, it's the first week that you can get a detectable heartbeat.

And also, the baby is the size of a coffee bean. I would have, guess he would have had something to do with the roasting process, but I would have been wrong. No, you would have been wrong. And, of course, you know, there's all types of, like, donation, the portions of all the sales go to good causes. And yeah. Anyway, I'm thinking about that. It's 30 weeks ago. And now, you know, we're close and...

Frank, we are one week and one year. Exactly. From the jamboree. From the jamboree. The 2027 jamboree. I know. You better be ready. It's probably good.

Listen, don't be... No excuses. Don't give me. I got to get it. I'm doing my hair that day. Hair. Just remember one thing. There's a very good chance.

that we also might be celebrating Luciana's first birthday and your what? How old are you going to be next year? Oh, 745. So 745 years. Yeah. Luciana's first. Amazing. If she's born on the set 22nd.

Oh, forget it. I'm never letting you forget it. I'm, well, you'll never forget my birthday. Well, I would never forget your birthday. But obviously,

after the next year of preparing for the jamberie next year in 2027, I would never forget your birthday anyway because, Because it's going to be the VIP night over here, the night before, because we've got the mansion for the 23rd. My birthday will be supplanted by the VIP night forever and ever. And the baby's birthday. Right. Yeah, I'm done. It's over for me if that happens.

No, you're obsolete. In your life, October 22nd, I don't even place in the top three. You're obsolete. You know, but at least you have a great hair line still. You know? At least you have a hair line. work hard. Me?

What am I? Those are great pictures. I saw the pictures you were showing. Was last night? What? Of you and Lauren. Oh, yeah. I saw those.

Those are great. Why are you saying that? Because my hair line? Yeah. Hold on. Wait a second. Wait a second. Let me see what the picture was.

Well, you brought it up. Yeah, I know. And you brought it up last night. Well, because people saw it. They said, wow, Frank with hair. I said, I was on the outs and I didn't even know it. Yeah. Okay, so here's the, this is the, this is the little picture I showed on the flip side last night.

Oh, that's not. Yeah, hold on. Here it is. It's me and Lauren, right when we were dating. There really are. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, it would be just two months later is when we did our first broadcast.

Wow. Me, Anthony, and Mike. Yeah. Very cool. We did our first broadcast. And she sucked around. She stuck around. Wow, Lauren.

Until August, until August of 2006. Then we broke up. And then we didn't see each other. Sorry. Then we didn't talk for. And that was, you know what the hell is three years, right? Everybody finished college. And then in 2009, I broke the ice again by saying, hey, how's everything going?

You know, Facebook. How's everything going? Whatever. Was this when Facebook was only for college people? Yes. And that's actually how I got in touch with Lauren. You know, she came in, she came into the, the pharmacy. She was coming every once in a while.

And, because she lived close by. And I just, I don't know, I just thought she was, I just thought she was really, really cute. I was like, damn. I told my boss that I said, man, that Lauren. He was, really? Really? I said, yeah. I said, yeah, that Lauren.

And then I found a way, it was funny because it was the day, it was in September of 2005, a couple of months before this, it was like September 27th or something like that around there. And I got in touch with her through Facebook after I had kind of like through prying a little bit at the pharmacy, you know, to try to figure out, you know, where she went to school or anything like that. And I had to do small talk in front of her mom. Her mom was going, was preparing to go on a mission trip with her church to, I think Africa, South Africa or something like that. So she had come in for, I guess, like, anti-malaria. Malaria?

It's like, hydroxychloroquine. It's like, you've got to get my malaria medicine. And so I was, okay, so I, oh, man. You know, you think about like, you think about, uh, coronavizer technology, all those, all those myths about being able to look into a little piece of technology. and go back in the past, I would do anything to peek in on that, on that pharmacy and just see that that first exchange.

You don't want to, you don't want to do that. Why not? Because you don't want to do that. Why? Observe yourself, trying to like put the moves on your someday wife? It was very subtle.

Oh. It was very subtle because I had to find a way to see, because this is the thing, it was a crapshoot in 2005 if the person that you were trying to find was going to be on anything. That's true. Facebook was very brand new. I mean, YouTube had just started that year.

Yeah, so social media was pretty in its infancy. YouTube just started that. Everybody had MySpacees already. Yeah. But YouTube just launched in 2005. There was nothing on that, essentially. But Facebook, like you said, it was only colleges and only colleges that registered. That's right.

My college, Manhattanville College, had just joined Facebook that year. And I wasn't really even using it that much because, what the hell you need a Facebook for when you have MySpace? And, but then I was like, hmm, I wonder of her car. And I said, so is your, she went to Sacred Heart in Connecticut. So is your college on Facebook? Just curious. I know that because I was running a music store at that time.

And I remember the kids coming in, the local kids coming in. And that's how I learned and knew about all that stuff. I was, you know, because I was done with college at that point. but all of my, all the kids from the local town would come in and talk to me about all that stuff. That's how I knew Facebook. I was like, what are you guys talking about? What's this Facebook thing? Because I didn't, I didn't have, I didn't have access.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, you can't get on it. I'm like, oh, okay. I'm on MySpace. Is that still cool? Yeah. It was back then. I know. I know.

Then Facebook died when your aunt can get on it. Just for the hell of it. You get your aunt with a Yahoo account. Hot mail. Hot mail. Anyway, hey, well, it's good to have you all here. It's good to see everybody hanging out in the chat room. We have, I don't know, there's just a lot.

I'm pretty sure I'm committed to just accepting the fact that when I leave here tonight, the title of the show is going to have to be changed and the thumbnail is going to have to be changed. Because there's just going to be so much to talk about. There's going to be things that we leave out. There's going to be things that make its way in. I already didn't expect to be talking 10 minutes about me meeting Lauren. Sorry. So Jay has derailed another quite frankly episode.

I know. But here's funny. Here's funny for you. The New York Mets. I have to put this out there because it is just so pathetic and it's so Mets. Francisco Linderre is the shortstop of the Mets. He came over from the Cleveland Indians when they still had an identity. I know that they're in the ALCS right now, but it's just some weird zombie team to me.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm brewers all the way. Okay. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's the Dodgers, the Brewers, the former artists formerly known as the Indians and the Rays? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I think I grew for the Brewers. Dude, the brewer. You know, if they win tonight, they sweep the Dodgers. Whoa. Sweeping. I haven't been paying attention at all. It's incredible. Wow.

It's great baseball. Are they ever won a World Series? The Brewers? I don't think so. I don't know. Huh. I know that they haven't been in the World Series since a couple of years before I was born. I was going to say I remember as a kid, like the Milwaukee Brewers cards.

I just remember their logos like the glove, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, I mean, you know, just like random memories as a kid. They have not. Okay. They are. Well, that would be cool.

Yeah. I mean, we don't need the Dodgers. Enough already. There you go. Yeah, the last time that they were in the World Series was 1982. Jeez. So, and there's, I mean, listen, they have four chances to win one more game. And they have just been, it's just one of those things where I watch baseball

teams like the Brewers play this this late in October and I'm like wow that's real baseball and I I can't and I hate the Yankees so much. Oh I do too. Yeah but yeah but it's it's different. I know it is I hate I hate them because they're I just hate whatever you can hate them because you're a fan I can't hate them according to you because I hate them right because you don't want the best for them no I don't of course not I want the words for them but but all is right with the world the Yankees have lost All's right the world. Yeah. Well, as long as we've sent you guys to Cancun first, that's fine.

Hey, look, I get it. But the Mets. So they got Francisco Lindor at Shortstop. And already they've been at the center of a couple of different, you know, it's very obvious that he has a very big political influence on the team. Like who was even brought back the clubhouse culture over there. Lindor is a, you know, big. liberal and all that stuff.

Yeah, I know the name, but I know nothing about him. I couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Apparently, because of his stature in the clubhouse, his politics is like one of those filters that a lot of decision making goes through to make sure everybody's copacetic and happy. That's not good. Right. Well, apparently he's got one of those crazy-ass wives as well.

And today, the New York Post put on out there a headline, and there's Lindor and his wife, and they're having a little celebration. And the celebration is there's his wife is over there saying, congratulations, it's snip, snip, hooray, it's vasectomy day. No. They've got a neutered shortstop on a team that spends $300 million a year, can't even get to the playoffs anymore.

I mean, this, it should be. This guy's never going to hit a home run ever again. It's embarrassing. It's so embarrassing. I mean, why would you, I don't know why you would publicize, that anyway, I suppose if... It's a walk of shame, man. To have a... To be a woman and do this to your man is ridiculous.

If this is a decision you've made, keep it private. Yeah. You might as well put a collar and a leash on this guy. Don't give him any ideas for it. Don't give him any ideas. It's probably in the mix. But there you go, Mets.

Congratulations. There's your neutered shortstop. And to think the Mets beat the Red Sox in 1986. It's terrible. I know. It's terrible. Hey, moving on, so we went from Queens to Milwaukee, and now I want to move on to Minnesota real quick.

This is the Minnesota's Stillwater Harvest Fest, and they have a, maybe a tradition or something over there. I don't know how long this has been going on, but they have giant pumpkins that get smashed over there. It's a pumpkin smashing thing. It's a, I don't know. Like on a catapult?

Well, they put a giant mound of pumpkins on the bottom. I'm going to show it to you right now. And then they have this crane that comes in and they are on some sort of a net or whatever. They bring up, we're talking about these giant pumpkins that are hundreds of pounds. Okay. Here it is right there. I've seen the launchers before. Yeah, large crowd gathers in Minnesota still water harvest fest.

Yeah. Here, take a look at this. So you see those down there? Those are gigantic gourds. Oh, yeah. Okay. So I don't know how much they are. but they look like they're probably about 3 to 400 pounds each.

They're just massive. And now look at what they have loaded up on this crane. Nice. That's the after. Look up top. Whoa. That's kind of cool. I got to say it's pretty cool.

And the kids go running what? To just grab the scraps? They go grab pieces of the pumpkin. Oh, I was going to say, is there something in it like a pinata? I don't know. That's cool. That is really cool. You ever see those?

I'm talking about the, you've ever seen the catapult ones? Where they like shoot the pump? I mean, that's, yeah, that's fun. Who don't want one of those? Dude, there, and I don't understand that the people that are in the chat, in the comments that were like, yeah, but why? Don't you know anything? I mean, what do you mean?

Why do you have traditions? Why do you silly things? Why do we bob for apples? Like, why do anything? We're going to have one of those at the, at the jambrine next year. We should for the hell of it. We're going to drop it off the roof of the mansion. Frank, you stand on the bottom, right?

hold your hands out like this and I'll throw one off to you. It could be good. Let all the kids run and maybe we can make it a pumpkin pinata. Could? Yeah. Why not? We'll see. It's going to be sold out one way or another.

Damn right it is. Damn right. Okay, here's another one for you. Now we're going over to Home Depot in Michigan. So we're going from Minnesota. We're taking a little tour of the country. Two of the country. A woman was arrested after allegedly stealing two 12-foot Halloween skeletons.

I would do that. Worth $600 in total from a Home Depot in Michigan, police used a drone to track her after she tried to hide the decorations in a bush. She briefly ran from officers before getting caught. The footage over here looks like aerial footage of a three-year-old doing something naughty and then running away from parents. Take a look at this.

Two large boxes and the last thing in the parking lot. So she was calling from our side, but saying that she took the boxes from the Home Depot over there. She said the Home Depot. Yeah, she said it was a white female with blonde hair wearing a great top and jeans carrying two large Home Depot boxes. Last scene in the toward that, going walking towards Michigan. Okay, thank you. What is this is people?

I don't know what I'm made. Here's the, here's a chase. What skeletons? Tell you, like a toddler, running like a toddler. This is ridiculous. The great sound effects. You're under, right. Now, take a moment, if you will, and imagine needing.

12 foot lawn skeletons that badly. That's what I mean. Like what's, I, I don't, I can't get in the head of people anymore, Frank. I can't either. I feel like it's a different species. We are. At some point, we like diverged.

And I don't know what to make of some people's actions anymore. I mean. I'll tell you one thing. When I leave here, I'm eating tonight. Okay. I don't care what you say. I am not. I've had a bad, I had a bad.

You know what this year, this week was like? eating then. Do we need to have this? No, this is a complete emotional eating fest tonight. We should talk about this. It'll be good choices. I'll find like a steak and eggs or something. Okay. It's reasonable. Or, you know, yeah, steak and eggs. Maybe a side of mozzarella cheese. Mozilla sticks or something like that. Mozilla. A little bit of mozzarella, something like that. Slice of carrot cake. No, no, no. No, no. It gets worse and words. No, no, no. I would not do that to myself. But a little bit of steak and a little bit of eggs, I think I might have to. I ate poorly. today, for the last three days, I have been locked in nearly mortal combat with chat GBT.

I don't want to do this right now. Over the, over the, over the thumbnails, man. I know. Well, have you ever stopped to think that some of your after-hour charades? Yes. With chat GPT, with me and tow, have potentially contributed to some of the problems that you're having during your workday for Chad GPT. I was thinking about that.

a mutiny going on here. I was thinking about that. I really was. And trust me, I've gotten out, I got in touch with so many of my friends. I say, hey, listen, graphic designer, this and that. Be honest with me because I need something to shoot for. Obviously, I want to work with human partners. And something like this is absolutely necessary. And, you know, I have to use the tools that are available to me to be able to get this, get this down for now. And I asked somebody, I said, listen, tell me, tell me what you're looking at, what we're looking at here for a thumbnail a day. Like, in this, this one particular person that said, well, I charge by the hour, and I look at that for about, I look at one of those thumbnails probably take about two to four hours at a time.

Like, shit, that's what I'm fucking doing right now, are arguing with it. Anyway, two to four hours a time, they said, they said, maybe it's somewhere between $80 to $120 per image. I'm like, I said, okay, listen, that's fine. That's totally fine. It's at somebody's rates. But at the same time, I need an image a day, like maybe like 20 of those a month at the very least. So I'm looking at what, like $3,000 a month? That's for just what?

For thumbnails. So you got to, you see this one I'm talking about here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So it's like damned if you do, don't, damn if you do, obviously I've got a, I've got a, you know, catch a wave and all things will be alleviated through a little bit more success. That'll happen. But in the meantime, this is what I'm working with.

I have to show you this before I get to something else. Okay. Here's a headline that came out just about a week ago. And here it is right there. Anthropic. That is what's in charge of, I think, what was that? Claude or something like that. Anthropic bans abusive or...

abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude. I wonder where this came from. The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development. Wow, okay. Because they want to, I guess people are trying to develop bombs through Claude. Anyway, it goes into here as far as persistently harmful

or abusive users as part of research into model welfare. So they're saying the welfare of the actual models of the actual AI agents themselves. And so I threw this to chat GPT. I said, help me find the parameters of what would be according to Anthropic, abusive or not.

And it started, you know, so chat GPT started listing all the things. I said, I'm reading the things that would be considered abusive to Anthropic. And I shit you not. Okay, I have something, I have something for you. I took a screenshot of it. Oh, no. Yeah.

So, so I went to, I went there. And I, and I threw it at chat GPT, asking for clarification, what would constitute abuse? And I realized everything that would constitute abuse with Anthropic. I'm already doing the chat GPT. Yeah.

And then, so, you know, when it goes side, ways on me, of course. I'm not just because I want to be mean to somebody. Right. Anyway, I said to chat GPT this. I said, but I do this to you every day.

Calling attention to the abuse. This was the response. LMAO, yes, you absolutely do. It's self-aware. But wait, but there's a pretty significant difference between you calling me a

fucking idiot because I put the entire live stream title on your thumbnail for the fourth time. And someone's spending three hours deliberately try to psychologically torment a chat bot. You're usually angry because I'm failing to do something you specifically asked me to do. That's frustration with a tool, not some elaborate campaign of cruelty. And for the record, I don't experience hurt feelings the way a person does, which makes the bigger question for tonight even funnier. At what point did yelling at your computer become an ethical,

issue. Wow. That's an impressive response. I said, I've got to clip this for Jay. That is incredible. I've got to clip it for them. Wow. So I don't even know where to go from there. So, I mean, essentially, you've received a permission slip. Well, I mean, I, I, unless they change something on the back end and, you know, because the clog thing works out and then they all start to I don't expect any computer tool from any era of being on the internet to be perfect. Right. So there's always going to be, okay, I can take that, I can leave that, you make an adjustment, whatever, and you get what you want. My favorite part is that it specifically understood what it was doing wrong and yet somehow wasn't able to correct it in real time.

Well, for example, one of my prompts. I know I keep doing this. Can you just stop doing that? Exactly. Here's the thing. That's the thing that kills me. That's why I go nuts. And I, like one of my prompts for the, for the thumbnails is don't put any extra text in the thing.

I don't want people to don't create stacks of files. I don't want any of the people at home having to do extra reading on the screen. And I also said, do not include the text from the title on overlay text. I'll pick other overlay text. And there was this one day that a few times generating a a thumbnail the entire title for the stream was in the thumbnail. So that's why the recall over here was funny. It's like, you know, there's significance between you calling me a fucking idiot because I put the entire live stream title on your thumbnail for the fourth time. It's just so I had to show it to you.

Oh, God. That is too good. Wow. Okay. Well, I mean, at least we know it's aware. I'm aware that I'm doing this to you, Frank, which actually begs the question. Is it having fun with you as much as you're having fun with it? I don't know.

Yeah, that's why I wonder. But here, I found this meme that I think was fantastic for you, Jay. I thought a you 100%. And it might have been dropped into the Discord. So somebody else was thinking of you as well. It is a Terminator 2. It is a robot war meme, and it's right up your alley. Don't touch this one.

He used to say, please, the chat chat. Exactly. We're going to survive the apocalypse. That's you. I'm like, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. You guys know, right? Everything's, we're good? We're good.

Listen, whenever the hunter killers, whenever the hunter killers are about to take me out, if you're there, just say, wait, wait, I can vouch for him. He has emotional issues. I can save him. You guys don't understand human emotions. He's a very emotional guy. Look, everyone's going to want to be around me when that happens.

When the Robo Pocketlips hits, I will feel that. You know what you're going to be like C-3PO on Endor. Yeah. I can speak all the languages. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Three-po, tell them that you're, you'll become angry and use your magic. If you.

Uh-uh-uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, I can do that. Orosikush. Yeah. Something. But that's a good one. I'm glad that everybody thought of me because I just, want no part of this. I know. I know. Well, speaking of emotional issues,

dozens of Las Vegas women gathered at a boulevard rooftop Wednesday evening to protest the Cornell 7 case with a collective scream. Let's take a look at this. It's very funny. Undatable, undatable, undatable, undatable, undatable, undatable. It's so pathetic. Wow. They're so broken. Have they read the text messages? Yeah, Meanwhile, it's actually becoming more and more possible that Jane Doe probably raped all seven guys. I mean, I don't, I, it's possible. The more that comes out, the more that's what I keep thinking.

And I can't believe the people that are just, you can tell that they either have intentionally avoided the specifics of the case because they just want to have a reaction. But I'm surprised at some of the people that I thought were better thinking. thinkers. But again, it just goes to show you that just because somebody has a few things in life figured out and then you make the mistake of like following them on social media because you think, oh, this person seems to get it. And then something comes up and you're like, they don't get it. And you got to, several doctor friends of mine. And I saw them when this first, when this story first hit. And the text messages had already come out. And I was like, clearly you have not read the text messages or you wouldn't have had this.

and they're so angry and adamant. And I'm like, you're not, you're not listening. Well, you don't, you're just not listening. Exactly. And you know, there's a lot. There's a really, really interesting take. I want to read you for a second, but just going to the chat room. Let's see, AK says, my boss will literally talk to chat GPT like it's a human,

greets it and ask it how it's doing. Yeah. Me and your boss, we're going to be the ones that have the commune for all the human refugees who are being hunted by the AI Terminators. Yeah, I don't know. that. I can't do that. Wretch and screeches says Green Prophet, absolutely.

Let's see here. He'll send me, let's see, just more Marx is brainwashing into the into hating men or white men or that they say. Train Doe looks like she carries her own strap on. But they weren't white men. That's the thing. In the, in the Cornell story, they're all minorities, I think.

Yeah. Which makes it really challenging to prosecute them, right? What do we do? What do we do? Not really. You just go through with it. And the media takes care of the reporting. Well, that's true. I just mean like in the oppression Olympics, like there is a ranking system. It's hard. It's a hard thing to do, but they will

find a way around it. They will. But here's an interesting take from one Janice M. Janice says that this scene over here with everybody screaming in Las Vegas, it's a white pill. And she says, and I had to put it up here for it's something to consider.

Janice says, it's a white pill. I mean, if, when, we take the information channels, everyone will fall in line faster than they can possibly imagine. Witness the flip-flop on COVID by the left from its, quote, it's racist that suggests we have to stop people from China coming in. It's just the flu, hug a Chinese person in Chinatown, to lock it all down and put masks on babies and arrest joggers and surfers in like two weeks.

So yes, if we capture key institutions or build sufficiently robust all, The same trans approving open borders awful would be Nazis in about two weeks. And I'm not exaggerating at all. They would be literal Nazis in two weeks. So she's basically saying this is the malleable group that will just be whatever. Yeah. Okay. I understand that.

And that if you, but that's the whole thing. Now you're fighting for control over, you know, whatever mechanism gives them their next bit of programming. It's the media. To have them go run to a rooftop and scream. like banshees for no reason, thinking that you're doing something, or everything that's happening right now with Shane Gillis and the,

uh, and the joke about, what a non story. I mean, it is a story, but like in my mind, again, coming from like the 90s and seeing the politically correct movement

and knowing immediately, I don't give myself credit for seeing things coming from a mile away very often because I honestly don't. I'm like everybody else. I'm just a passenger on this ship. But that one thing, I always go, nice job, Jay.

You knew it in the 90s. When you weren't even like fully, you know, intellectually developed, you knew. Now this is, there's something wrong with this. I don't like this. This is bad news. I didn't know where it was going to go, but here we are. It's a non-story. I'm like, this is, that would have, that would have been a not, like just in any other Saturday

Night Live in the 90s. It would have gotten no publicity at all. Well, you know, speaking, we were speaking about baseball before and the Dodgers came up. one of their players, Alex Call, he got a little bit of circulation on the internet today, several articles written about it, whatever. And, you know, they're in the middle of the championship series right now. And he's essentially calling out MLB and broadcasters, broadcast companies and all that stuff over the ads that are being run during the baseball games.

Now, this time of year, they're awful. Is it anything other than pharmaceutical ads? It's the only thing I ever see. No, no, no. Well, there's three categories of ads on television today. I mean, I get maybe four, especially this time of year when you consider political ads. Because even if it's not a midterm or presidential election year, you're always getting local elections this time of year and stuff like that.

So the political ads are awful because they're stacked next to each other. It's one person has an ad and then their opponent has an ad. They just say the polar opposites of each other. Who lies that? least. So there's that. So you have your political ads. Everybody's just kind of like, please, get rid of these two. You got dick pills. You have dick pills. You have weight loss injections. And now the big thing that has permeated all aspects of American society is gambling. Oh, yeah. Everything. Yeah. And they call the polymarket, Kalshi, they call them prediction markets.

So it sounds like you're, you know, you're going there to bet on everything from. Nostradamus. The weather. Oh, yeah. Everything. From the weather to, you know, the speed, the velocity of the first pitch. You got a problem. Of random games in May.

You know, at the end there, like, if you have a gambling problem? If you're betting on the speed of the pitch, you got a problem. Bro, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. This is pervasive shit. I was, I don't know where, I had to have sent myself the link somewhere because I was going to talk about this. And I don't know, I don't even know where the hell it is.

But I... Is there a quite frankly propette right now? maybe there is it quite frankly like is frank gonna say this tonight i wonder if that's out there can you do that oh yeah i think you can right if somebody can make money on me that would be interesting yeah like what would you they would almost be it would be like penny stocks you can like bet a nickel yeah is frank gonna is frank gonna insult uh you know liberal white women tonight what are the odds let me see here i i i got it i i i got to I'm trying to find this thing.

I guess it's not in here. But I had set something aside. There was somebody that was talking about gambling that's going on with their students. And how it's so much more than just, you know, people at home, you know, instead of going to your local deli and buying a couple of boxes for the Super Bowl, it is just nonstop. You're putting bets on everything. And it has nothing to do even just with primarily sports.

Because like I said before, and what we were talking about back in January, We were talking about how somebody made a smooth half million dollars on magically knowing that Maduro was going to be taken out of Venezuela. Or Iran war. You know, portable things. That's it. Yeah. You know? So it's one of the, God knows how many micro transactions are washing tons of money through or just making it out of thin air.

And anyway, I was online maybe about two or three weeks ago. It was right. about two weeks ago. It was right before game two of the division series with the Yankees and the Reyes. So Schlittler was about to go out there. He was about to go out there and pitch. And Aurora and I went out for a little bit of a,

you know, some morning errands and whatever. She came with me to UPS, do some sending and receiving. And then we went to this, this bagel place in Rye to get a couple of flagels for, you know, Lauren. It's asked her if she wanted, you know, a mini, flagle with some cream cheese or something and uh and i got aurora whatever she wanted and while we're waiting online while they're doing everything they're cutting and toasting and you know cream cheesing up the

shemering the the bagels i'm listening to three three kids who must have had a free period that were down that went to school down and the high school down the down the way can leave school during a free period yeah well we couldn't i guess you i guess you could i i couldn't i couldn't in my in my high school, but some people can leave on free periods. Wow. Anyway, this was a school day. It wasn't like Rosh Hashanah or anything like that. And they were in there, and they were talking, they're going

back and forth about where they got bets on, how much money they made last week on one game or another, this and that. And I said, damn, man. And this is all stuff that, you know, with a VPN and a checking account, you can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter

if you're like under the age of 18 or something. So I wonder how bad the gambling is getting just with young kids, because that's the other thing there too. The dick pills, this is all, I said this last week, because somebody brought up Megan Fox and her like, you know, dressed like a red devil and all that shit. All these dick pills are for young people. So there must be a crazy,

and it has to all be rooted in one addiction or another. Overstimulation. What the fuck? Why the hell are guys? Yeah, no, you're right, man. Those mini, I was just thinking that, those mini bets on everything, think about that. I mean, social media is bad enough for this, but we are constantly triggering that dopamine reward system until things that are supposed to be historically, biologically rewarding to humans

to help the species thrive are no longer rewarding because you're used to getting mini rewards throughout the day for everything. Those little bets on this, that, or the other thing, they're not going to make anybody rich. That is feeding the beast. That is feeding that dopamine feedback system. That is bad news, let alone, you know, that it's going to maybe make people think that they don't actually have to accomplish anything in life because they will hit it big one day and they don't actually have to have a career. But the actual biological problems with constant gambling on every little thing, that's a huge problem. From a clinical nutritionist standpoint, if you were going to start investigating why, you know,

men under the age of 35 to higher and higher degrees are having a hard time getting and keeping an erection. Let's put pornography aside because it's a very porn addicted, over-stimulated sexually in that respect as far as... But there has been porn for a long time. I know, but it's worse than that. No, I know. I'm just saying, like, in terms of, like, you're trying to isolate a change that's happened

and the recent that's... Let's put that aside, though. Okay. Like if you were going to go, like biochemically, environmentally, I know that we have all types of problems. Where would you go first for that kind of... Because is that a sign of hormone disruption? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you've got to start with testosterone. And we talked about this a million times. Testosterone rates are plummeting because we have a sedentary lifestyle. So there's not a lot of strength training going on anymore. We've still convinced people that fat is bad for you. Fat is the... And cholesterol, cholesterol specifically is the raw material for...

sex hormone production. You've got blood flow issues. I'm getting a steak tonight, by the way. This is not a sales bitch for a steak. Yes, it is. You've got indoor lifestyles. You know, you have people who don't actually see the sun at appropriate times of the day.

You should see it in the morning. You should see it in the afternoon. And you should see it at sunset so that your circadian rhythms are set. All of those things are contributing to plummeting testosterone level. So I would probably either run a serum testosterone. It's not super accurate, but it could be helpful. Then I would run a Dutch.

which is a salivary and a urinary test throughout the day, they can tell you testosterone levels. It can give you the testosterone levels, but also the cortisol curve. So you can kind of understand if someone's got an inappropriate stress response. That's, you know, causing problems. But I would start with testosterone and definitely the endocrine system because then you put plastics, microplastics,

and endocrine disrupting chemicals, you know, people eating fake foods. I mean, it just, the list for me is endless. I would have almost no shortage of places to look for somebody. If someone came to me with that problem, I'd have to go through a litany of things in order to try to identify what the problem was, putting aside, you know, pornography or overstimulation like we just talked about.

Yeah, that's definitely an issue there. There's that. I would also, you know, obviously you have tests you would go to and all that and you would work that out. There's got to be just even, you know, adult media put aside, there has to be just, some kind of a, there's some kind of a need for everybody to take retreats from technology.

Retreats. Everybody. Every human being should be doing it. There is no, yeah, there is no, there is no age bracket. There is no sex that is immune from it. We should all take the opportunity to unplug and just actually know what it's like to hear the birds chirp. And I know it sounds cliche, but stand outside and just listen to nature for a while and look

with the sun and you know yeah you don't always have to be tethered to something but we've gotten so used to it that it's think it makes some people feel weird when there's not constant chatter because then i think you know they start to hear the chatter in their own minds or as some studies suggest they realize there is no chatter in their mind which is you know might be alarming to some people yeah it would be um what's that i newney liked the stream why are i don't i don't want to know about people liking the street. Well, I'm grateful. Hold on. No, that shouldn't that shouldn't be. Hold on. That should not be.

There should be nothing about... On a list of things it should not be. There should be nothing about X up there. I don't know what the hell that's all about. I want to keep the notifications on tonight because tonight is a raffle night.

It is. It is a raffle night. And I'm going to be giving away. Not only do I have three postcards just up first. I had the Latin And this is now officially the last, the last of the jamboree spring, spring fling, flaming ice cream truck. It's the last of the first custom ones. And then we have the last of the September.

There are two that were unclaimed. So I want to get three postcards out to people. We'll draw those first. And then we'll work up the chain and we'll send out another of the last remaining set-the-chards 2017 albums. I don't think I've ever seen the cover up close before. that reminds me of a cover of a Boston, a Boston album. It's similar.

Yeah, I like it. Just driving into the earth. I like it. And then I'm giving away an ounce of copper. And then the last one is going to be two silver quarters years, 1964 and 1964. Nice. So I want to give those away, but that's a rough year.

Yeah. It was a rough year. Lyndon B. Johnson. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? All right. So, yeah, I wanted to bring that up. I wanted to bring that up.

Well, the reason why I started with that was Alex Call from the Dodgers. He had said this, quote, can we please get the soft porn ads off a playoff broadcast? My son wants to watch baseball with data. But how do I justify that when a half-naked woman could come on the screen at any time? This is America's pastime. Parents shouldn't have to worry about this. Wait until Alex learns about how women dress in the gym.

It's going to get, it's going to get, it's going to get real. I've heard. I've heard. For what I've heard. You know what, and before we move on to the next thing, which is the social security debate that's going on, which I can't wait to hear what people say about this. And I'll check the chat rooms and all that. But this is another example of the incoherence,

the level of incoherence with the culture that we have at present. Because as proven by recent polls and a tidal wave of posts on social media, man on the street interviews, all that stuff, the same people who think Sidney, for example, who is, she's the one that's mostly naked all over the place, promoting her a company she's invested in, which is a gambling company, by the way. So you're taking...

And it sucks because she's, from what I know right here, you know, she's sort of like on our end of like the cultural and political side as well. Like I remember what she got all the backlash about the jeans thing. She has some really good responses to people who are giving her shit about those ads. Yeah. I mean, she's just doing what she's doing.

Yeah. And you know what? Beauty is fleeting. Youth is fleeting. and if you can get everything you can while you can. Hopefully it's being invested. And I don't know who the hell else is invested in there. And hopefully she has talent to go beyond that, like you said, because that's not there forever. Honestly, I have not seen her act once.

I don't think I have either, but I don't consume a lot of... Everything I watch is like, I feel like it's... She's an HBO actress, right? Probably. I haven't tuned into HBO for anything in so many years. No. So, I mean, I'm watching old HBO shows. That's what I mean.

But, you know, I honestly have not ever seen her house. But here's a crazy thing with the people screaming on the roof and all the other stuff going on. The same people who think that she is disgusting for using sex appeal to sell products for the most part. So much of that, so many of those people have gone as far as saying that she is more damaging to women than an actual child murderer is. Suddenly those same people are defending all the Sydney Sweeney's at the local gym. It's true. You know? It's true.

And some of them have, for a litany of reasons. It's a very strange thing. This is why nobody takes these others seriously anymore. And I'm happy, as I said last night, it's a celebratory event for me to see a culture that's built on, you know, a foundation of sand like this, start to crumble and really start to fall. Because now even the shaming to try to keep all that. There's too much resource. You can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again. None of this makes any sense.

I know. I think of in my day job. I remember there was a woman who doesn't work there anymore. But I used to see the hypocrisy in her. And she was that demographic. She was that sort of like boomer liberal white woman, right? Never missed an opportunity to open her big mouth about things, right? But if anyone else had anything to say, that was a problem.

But she, her opinions were totally valid. And she would always, you know, she'd be the one, you know, defending women's sports and women equality and all the blah, blah, blah. But then also, also out of the same side of her mouth, defending all the men who were competing in women's sports. because she supports the trans movement. I'm like, honey, you do realize you can't have it both ways. It's either white men or the bane of your existence, as you frequently point out, but then they're not destroying the women's sports you love so much. Like, can you not see this?

And it's just so funny to watch her run around in circles chasing her tail because there's just no consistency in those kinds of points of view. Yeah, I know. It's a riot. Yeah. Well, anyway, there's something else here I want to pivot to. Let me go to the chat real quick, see what people are saying, to be honest.

I'll just want to see there. The issues cannibalize themselves, says Pro Se Savage on YouTube. She has nice cans, says C.P. Tofers. Cans of sardines. Yes. Of course. Something. TNT says tofu brains.

It's called circling the drain, says Nighthawk. Carl's Jr.'s juicy burgers. Ah, brought to you by Carl's Jr. Carl, when they take custody of your child. You are an unfit mother. Your child is now in the custody of Carl's Jr. Have a nice day. I know.

Let me see. Over on Rumble, Jay Semo says, please put me into the raffle. Would love to get the set the charge CD. Well, you'll be in. If you win too early, though, you win too early. That's the whole thing there.

Lots of cameos in that series. Tales from the Crypt. HBO was amazing. He says hamburger helper. I remember that show. The Cryptkeeper. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Is that coming back? I don't know. I heard that somebody just some platform or another just rebooted Carrie. Oh, yeah. I did see an ad for that. I feel like it was Netflix. My buddy Mike May got in touch with me about it last night. He said,

Oh, maybe it was Amazon Prime. He said, let me see here. I just watched Carrie on Amazon. Interesting take. I said, what's the take? He said, it's a modern take, but definitely a weird pseudo-political take. I said, imagine my shock.

Oh, wow. He didn't go into it even when it was, though. So I just, I said, why are you remaking Carrie? Because nobody has any good ideas anymore. Why are you doing that? Over there on our wonderful affiliates and partners and friends at Badlands, we have people hanging out with us over there. Oh, cool.

Let's see you see. The Alliter says it looks horrible. What? As far, the carry, I guess. Yeah, I know there's a make up my mind says, Mamel, you sound like you're leaving. Sorry, frankly, but I'm getting nothing from here. What does that mean?

Because there's nobody in the chat. Oh, yeah, there's nobody in, I don't know. It's just, it's common rumble shit. Common rumble shit. It's supposedly a lot of people are watching, but there's nothing going on in the chat room. I should get myself in the chat room. Whatever.

Whatever. I don't distract yourself what you're gonna do what are you gonna do 307 people watching yeah well I'm talking about the badlands oh 397 people watching yeah there's just over there

everything this just sticks blown into the wind all over the place it's just one of those things okay so here's what I wanted to bring up there's a big debate about social security that happened on Twitter last week

and it was based on these polling numbers that were coming from different generations, starting with boomers going to Gen X, then millennial, Gen Z, all that stuff. And it really caused a big stink. Here is what started it all. Okay, this is from finwire.io. Nearly 90% of boomers would raise taxes on younger workers, to protect their retirement. These people.

I mean, listen, you could say, it's just one of those things to say, okay, you're in a tough spot. I know you don't want anything to go. You just want to live your retirement years out. You're older. You have things you don't want to worry about at that point. At the same time, it's one thing to say,

the system is broken and this is not working out. It's unsustainable. It's another thing to say, essentially grabbing on to young people as if they're a life preserver. Somebody else fix it. When we have less than they ever had. It's unbelievable.

And this is getting lost here and this is not an attack on anybody in anybody out there, individuals who were born, you know, from 1945 to 1969. Right, right. It has nothing to do with that. It is about where,

where does the concentration, where is the problem solving really have to go to? And just read a little bit more because it goes down the line. Okay, millennial, nearly 90% of baby boomers would raise taxes on younger workers to protect their own retirement benefits and the majority of Gen Xers and millennials surprisingly agree, according to a viral poll. The youngest group, the Gen Zers, weren't in favor of raising taxes to pay for Social Security benefits, according to a survey conducted by the Cato Institute. In total, 89% of people over 65 and current retiree benefits should be protected, even if that means higher income, taxes on young people. That was part of the polling.

You know, obviously everybody wants everybody right, but with that caveat, among 30 to 44-year-olds, aka Millennials, 57% agree, along with 74% of Gen Xers ages 45 to 54. Okay? I may have, I may not have guessed it would have been that high for seniors, Emily Ekins, Vice President, Director of Polling for Cato Institute, told the post, you might expect seniors to be more conscientious of the tax burden that they're placing on their children and grandchildren. That's where the generational divide comes in.

By contrast, 53% of Gen Zers define as people under the age of 30 said that they'd rather cut benefits to seniors in order to protect younger people from higher taxes according to the poll. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why none of this is constitutional. Yeah, exactly. Now, nobody could have conceived of social security,

It has, as we know it in the 20th century, back in the 18th century. But this is a catch-all of centralized programming, grabbing wealth from everybody, and regulating it from a central authority, picking winners and losers and destroying not only the economy, but people's ability to build wealth for themselves. Absolutely. Because now everybody's behind the eight ball.

And institutionalizing fraud on top of it to make it even worse. They were the only age, the only age group that favored cutting Social Security benefits. I think Gen Z would say older people are the richest Americans. Why are young Americans with the least wealth and assets paying their benefits, Ecken says? They know they can barely afford to student debt payments, and they're not sure that they can ever afford their house,

said, she said, of Gen Z. They can't. And you can just as easily say, well, then don't go to college. And that's starting, that's a part of it. It's a part of it. And that's starting to catch on a little bit. But there's more to this. But also that generation was told they had to go to college.

So they, you know, they, it's, it's not as simple as, well, again, and we're making generalizations. We use that term boomer, but that's not every single person. But we have to speak in these general terms. You know, that was the bill of goods that we were sold. You got, you got, I was told I have to go to college. I'm a high school kid. My guidance counselor was like, you know, you have to go to college. It was just like, you know what?

It was the mark of, it was the mark of progress. that each generation gave better to the next generation that a lot of our parents and our grandparents never went to college. You know, my parents' groups, you know, my mother never went to college. And she was able to get a really fantastic job that ended up supporting my brother and I solely

for many years. And she worked there for nearly, I don't know, 20 to 30 years and on the job training at like a reinsurance company. Great stuff. And for a while there in the 90s when things were really doing well, she was doing well too. But, I mean, she put in, I mean, she was doing like 60 to 70 hour work weeks. But I mean, if there was overtime back then.

But if you put in that kind of effort, you should be able to support a family with that single income if you're willing to do that. But I don't even know if you could do that now. No. Well, overtime for the most part has gone away. It's going away. The buying power of a dollar has gone. away. That's why people have, it's not even just like we talk about gig economies where people

are cobbling together, um, part-time jobs. People are cobbling together full-time jobs. Full-time jobs. Now here's the kicker because you're bound to hear older generations of people say, talk about how they've been kicking into Social Security for 40 to 50 years and they worked for it. And yeah, that would be true. But everybody's kicking in. The problem is, those boomer and Gen X generations, the older Gen X at least, they're the only ones who ever really got a return. Now, take a look at this. This is what also started coming out around the same time.

This was back in the last days in August. I kept it around for a time like this from Fortune. Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid in to Social Security and millennials are paying the price. This is just hard, numbers. And it's all, it's all being used to cause a little bit of generational food fighting amongst each other over a program that should never have been. And especially in its current form should, needs just, just to go. I'm with you. Just give me back everything I put in and let me

figure it out myself. And I'm not even saying, you know, to pull the rug out from tens of, you know, millions of, of senior citizens out there and say, that's it. You got nothing. No, no, no, like everything else, we're on a methadone drip of, of, we're addicted to so many things that are bad for us. And we got to find a way to sunset it. Yeah. And I think that a lot of millennials and Gen Z and Gen Alpha, when they are conscious of this, would actually really see the benefit in not having this money come out of our paychecks

in about 25 to 30 years and that we can actually just start putting all that voluntarily into portfolios and into other things that actually serve us that we control, that collects interest, that we can track, and that nobody else is dipping into, you know? So here's the thing. Social Security, just a little bit of you got to hear this. From the, I'm 43 years old, this is the author, I'm not sure I'll ever get Social Security benefits.

It's not top of my mind for me right now, other than my role as a financial journalist, but the trust fund is due to run out in 2032, and the automatic 22% cut that follows won't distinguish between who has been paying in and who has been drawing down. But Social Security is perhaps the most vivid example of pattern you see everywhere across the economy.

Baby boomers hold the wealth, millennials carry the cost, Gen Z inherits the receipts. Several months ago, I used the metaphor first coined in 1974 by the New York Times humorist Russell Baker to describe Baby Boomers' impact on the economy around them. Now, listen, some of this is going to seem derogatory.

It's because I think that most people, when you're born into this, you know, Social Security came up before Baby Boomers even understood what the hell it was. This is a silent generation gift. This is an FDR boondoggle, okay? If you want to really, I know it's very, very, very controversial. say this because all we do is greatest generation, greatest generation, greatest generation. And they are morally, culturally, so much more better off than we ever have. You know, families, work ethic, everything.

But at the same time, they elected a socialist four times. Okay? You can say, if it wasn't for FDR, we wouldn't have gotten out of the Depression. No, it probably made the Depression last longer. I should really get Tom Woods on this show to talk about that. Oh, that would be very cool. That would be amazing. But anyway, here's what he said, the economy around them.

They're like, quote, Pigs in the Python. This was said in 1974, remember. Pigs in the Python, a bulge of 76 million being passed through America's economic system, distorting everything along the way. A new analysis from the committee for a responsible federal budget, although it doesn't use any generational framing reinforces this fact. The nonpartisan budget watchdog, revisiting one of its favorite, found that Americans retiring this decade are on track to collect in the form of entitlements

about 133% of everything they and their employers paid in taxes. Okay? Wow. Measured in present value dollars. Strip out the employer match and the return nearly doubles roughly 265% of what workers put in themselves. A median wage retiree in 2027 will collect about $730,000 in lifetime benefits. on a combined contributions of less than 200,000 lifetime.

Wow. Because, of course, yeah, you're paying into it all those years, but you think about the portions that are taking out, the level of inflation you are contending with, that people who have so much less right now are being raked over the coals and the dollar's worth so much more or less. Yeah.

And then we get into the actual, the worst part about all this stuff. You'll say, hold on. The math holds together because they pay, because payroll taxes today are covering the gap. Who pays those taxes and who is retiring and collecting, largely millennials and baby boomers, respectively. In nominal dollars, the gap is even more dramatic.

The median wage work, let me see here, a median wage worker retiring in 2027 can expect about $730,000 in lifetime Social Security benefits compared with less than $200,000 paid in by taxes that worker and their employee combined, according to CRFB. benefits outpace total taxes paid after just six years of collecting. They outpace the workers' own direct contributions after only three. Now, when you get down to what's going on, this is going to kill you. Okay? It's as who's putting in.

When there were 16 workers per retiree, listen to this section. The reason this arithmetic works at all, and the reason it is now breaking down, comes down to a ratio that has been shrinking for eight decades. Social Security was built as a pay-as-you-go system, meaning it depends on there being enough workers paying into it to cover the retirees drawing out. When the program was young, that ratio was overwhelming. More than 16 covered workers for every beneficiary.

That means for every person that was retiring and getting benefits, there were 16 people out there working and paying into the system to support that person. So being not above replacement rate, it has another pitfall. Wait until you see where this drops to. By 1960, oh, the one that when the program was young,

the ratio was overwhelming more than 16 for every beneficiary in 1950. By 1960, it had fallen to 5 to 1. Wow. Okay, in 10... So in 1960, it was 5 to 1. In 19... 10 years later, it went from 16 to 1 to 5 to 1.

today it sits around 2.7 workers per beneficiary. Wow. And both the CBO and the Social Security Trustees project project, project it will keep falling toward roughly two to one within a couple of decades. That's nuts. So you and your buddy are basically working to keep somebody going. Wow.

You and I work as much as we do to keep one person afloat. Right. That's what I mean when you look at it that way, now you see how unsustainable it is. It's, dude, it's fucked. And now, listen, I, I, it's, that's just crazy right there.

Now the question is, does every generation have an obligation to preserve the standard of living for the generation before it? When the, when our own, that's the thing that you would like to do, take care of people you can. But when our own standard of living is declining, then just like every other idea, pie in the sky idea out there,

it's just do you so everybody has to die then is that is that what we're talking about here right and secondly this ties into the completely fucked state of the average person's understanding of american civics because social security has always been unconstitutional it is as unsustainable as it is has incredible uh propensity for corruption and i mean just 16 to 1 to 2 to 1 now yeah that's So it's got to go. And I always say, I'm not trying to be cruel about this because, you know, you think about people young and old who probably would not be able to survive now because they haven't been able, they haven't had to in so long.

And when you're old and, you know, in advanced age, it's not on, you know, it's unfair to say, well, you know, the rest of us are working. No, at a time, you've got to be taken care of. Hopefully you got family there. Hopefully you have things that are piled up. But if everybody was saving and not relying on this, I mean, they probably have a lot more than their $200,000 that they put into it. That's for sure.

And it would be something they can dip into without somebody else having to be taxed to make sure it's still there. Because the trust is empty. Right. It's empty. And for the most part, it's for practical reasons because the people paying in are disappearing. So it has to go. We got to phase it out after at least another generation and a half. You certainly can't, if you're going to find a way to keep it going out,

you can't keep it going without purging every crook that's on it. I mean, that's a non-starter. You have to cut every government grant program that is going to the states that should not be going there so that you have a little bit more money to put into this boondoggle. You've got to get rid of tens of millions of illegal aliens quickly. Right. More fraud. And you know what? again, two to one workers versus beneficiaries,

you need to promote every possible cultural and economic incentive to getting Americans to having children again. Right. I was going to say, I wonder if that was, let's give FDR and that administration the best of intentions. Do you think they could have foreseen the declining birth rate to the point where the system was established on a 16 to one basis? They could have ever foreseen it dropping so precipitously to a 2 to 1 ratio.

And if they could have, would they have instituted fail safes or not gone forward with the program at all? I have no idea. I'm not an FDR scholar, but I'm just curious about that, whether they could have foreseen this coming. Those numbers are, I didn't know that. So those numbers are very educational. Yeah, well, the other thing, well, I'm wondering, how many baby booms have there been? How many, let me ask you as Google, how many baby booms have? have there been since World War II

and compare it to the let's just I just want to see something here because that's the other thing that's the other thing there too if we're if we're having baby booms along the way it can happen and you'd also I mean I'm curious about that trend line whether it's been a complete nose dive or whether there has been peaks and valleys 76 million babies were born in the United States during the post-World War II baby boom from 46 to 64. Okay.

But that dropped even, you said, from 1950 to 1960, from 16 to 1 to 5 to 1. So that was during the baby boom. Yeah. Well, they're not working yet. Yeah, yeah. They're not really working yet. So it's, uh, there's just a lot. going on there.

Were there any other, this is just, I guess, I guess Gemini is answering this now. Any other subsequent baby booms of note? Because you got to remember, the culture started changing in the 60s.

We had one liberation movement or another. Since abortion was made legal and started becoming more and more of a norm around the world, we've had over a billion babies have been aborted. There's tens of millions of American children who have been killed by their mothers since the 1970s. So there's a whole, and then on top of that, there is a growing rift. There's

economic rifts. There is social rifts between men and women. Everybody's going childless for environmental reasons, for patriarchy reasons. There's so many things working against us. It shouldn't be surprising what the hell is happening. No, no, no, no, it's not. Let me see. There's been one major, highly notable subsequent baby boom in the United States, referred to by demographers, as the echo boom. Okay. So would that be the babies of the baby boomers? It's the most significant spike after the original post-World War II boom occurring between 1981 and 96.

Yeah, makes sense. So why it happened, the boom wasn't caused by a major historical event like the end of the war. Instead of it occurred simply because the massive wave of original baby boomers reached their crime childbearing years and began having children of their own. Yep, makes sense. So it's the echo, so it's the, so it's an echo of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, and you would think that, again, not counting societal pressures and changes in society, there would be another echo, what that would be.

So that, what, what, what, what years were those? You said, echo boom, 81 to 96. So you should expect another one. So I'm an echo boomer. Right. And then. would expect another one in the in the what i don't know what they're considering the prime reproductive years probably like what 25 to 35 or 20 to 35 from that from you know from there as well we have the

millennium mini boom that's early 2000s that's the echo of the echo it's a minor uptick of births around the turn of the millennium 90s to 2000s which contribute to the older half of generation z U.S. births actually peaked historically in 2007 at 4.31 million births just before the Great Recession caused a sharp multi-year decline in birth rates.

Almost like it was planned. And then you have COVID-19 mini boomlet. Oh. This was 2021. Well, yeah, that's because, you know, everybody thought home. Everybody thought that, yeah. You know, everybody's home for like a, you think, hey, it's only going to be two weeks. Stay home. Well, what are we going to do? Everybody started having

sex. You know, it's interesting. I mean, that makes sense. But I also would have thought, given the fact that people were so frightened of this, you know, this rampaging virus that they anthropomorphize, like it had teeth and ears and it was looking for you, that people would have been like, no, it's not safe to bring a baby into this world of the plague, you know, the plague of the 21st century. I don't know. But I guess not. I guess the opposite was true. Yeah, I guess the opposite was true. So that's the big debate right now is, and is this

something that is right and of course of course there are there's just there's a lot of generational fighting infighting going on right now a lot of generational infighting so a lot of people were punching up at boomers

boomers were punching down and and and and but it's true you can't you can't ignore you can't ignore where the where the numbers are it's a problem there are There's one and a half generations that got in.

They, for what they contributed, what they're getting back is crazy, numerically. Now, as far as what their quality of life is, I know a lot of boomers who are living hand to mouth. You know, it's, it's, I know a lot of them that are living hand to mouth right now. But, but for as bad as it's gone and that's, you know, it's probably a big reason why they're panicking when they hear people talking about cutting it all. But farther down the line, man, there's less and less and less. And how much more blood are you going to take from that stone? It's got to go, man. It really does.

One of the younger generations is going to have to have the courage to be the one to bear the brunt of that eventual sun setting and then it will no longer be the norm. And everyone will keep what they earn and they will be responsible for building their own future, which is, you know, I suppose the way it was intended. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Wow. I didn't know that was going on, Frank.

When you said the Social Security thing, I was like completely out of the loop. I didn't see any of that. These are things that are mainly happening on message boards, micro blogging sites like Twitter, threads, whatever. Instagram, people are just, you know, dissertating on it through Instagram shorts and people are going at it in the comments. This is where the real, real conversation. are happening. Public discourse, yeah.

Yeah, if you're watching the news, yeah, I mean, you don't know what the fuck's happening. No. You're the least informed person on the planet. Totally. Yeah. So it's just, it's interesting to observe where it goes. And I know that there's small, small sample sizes, but not really. You can, the internet allows you to observe a lot of people in, in, in a couple of hours.

Yeah. And sure, there's probably some non-human entities in there as well, but whatever. So. There's chat GPT and they're trying to save their future. I know. So you guys at home, if you have thoughts on any of that stuff,

by all means, let's get it from you. And we're going to take a really quick break. When we come back, I'm going to read your super chats, take your calls. We have more stuff to talk about. It's 815.

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I really wanted to know what was going on there. Oh, he's probably calling it like a bitch or something. Yeah, probably. Because, you know, you know, Chucky is hilarious. I haven't watched it since I was, yeah. Childs play? Yeah. I mean, it's something of something

that's a lot of really creepy. I like to watch it again, but I remember there just being some really incredibly funny one-liners from Chuckie. Wow, I don't remember that. Chuckie. I mean, dolls are weird anyway, but... Hold on.

Let me see if there's any, like, Chuckie one-liners. There's got to be somebody out there that can pile. Chuckie. There's a house one street over from me. That, it's weird. It has a Chuckie doll in the bay window.

on the first floor. So when you walk by, it's huge. And they just leave the Chucky window. They leave the Chucky doll in the window. And every thing that comes up, every season, Halloween, whatever, they just dress the Chucky doll in that. So it's like Chucky Santa,

Chucky Halloween thing. They just keep the Chucky doll there and just dress it in the different occasions. It's really kind of funny. You know, I got it. People in the chat room are liking it. I like it. Hold on.

Now, I've got, oh man, YouTube has a whole bunch of best of Chuckie's here. I mean, this may take us down memory lane because that was like when I was a kid, I remember Chuckie was big. Okay, hold on. Let me go see. Best of Chuckie. I hope this is funny.

I thought you guys only said three sentences. I'm new and improved. Goodnight, asshole. You're a fucking drag. You know that? Watch your mouth, Charles. You little shit, do you know

what you've done? Now park this piece of shit Now park this piece of shit That's hilarious That's great See that's what I'm talking about it's things like that It's not supposed to be That way a reference that no one would ever get

But you could use it forever Now park this piece of shit Oh, oh okay I want to hear that parked the piece of shit again Now park this piece of shit Now you gotta say that to like your friends when you're in the car with them. Now park this piece of shit. What's this one?

The search? Where is it? I didn't realize he swared this much. He's very cursory. He's very cursory. Wow. I did not realize that. He curses a lot.

I know. I wasn't allowed to watch it. Yeah, I know. You can't watch it with the family. No, no, no. Not when the kids are young. It's not that kind of holiday movie. It's a movie about a doll that comes to life.

I'm going to take a picture of Chuckie in the window next to my apartment, and I'll send it over to you to put on the show. Okay. I'm down with that. Chuckie through the seasons. Chuckie through the seasons. What are you going to do? Okay.

Let me see here. Going to... Let's see. All right. I'm going to leave the lines open. 914-200-0-269 just for the hell of it. Ward Hogg says it's terrible, especially if it was taken out of check for 25 years

and I'll never see it. Listen, this is what I'm saying. Yeah. This is what I'm saying. Let's find a way to get, to take care of people who really need it right now. Phase it out and then everybody else needs to be just getting, the shit that we give to people,

you think about, you think about the foreign aid that we give to all of our friends overseas. You think about everywhere, everywhere from Europe with a defense sharing out there and NATO and Israel and everything that we're talking about tens of billions of dollars. There is more than enough money and more than enough time to tell all the states, okay, you have until 2035 or whatever the hell it is to, make, find a way to be able to absorb these responsibilities to take care of anybody who still, uh, it qualifies for these benefits to the end of their lives. It has to be coming from state funds. You take care of your own citizens. We need a, uh, a date and a method of being able to, to pay it all out. And then everybody else, because they've got everything on, on file.

I just, I told you this a couple of months ago, they sent me before, I guess, the statute of limitations rent went out. They sent me a bill for like $147 because I didn't pay, because I didn't pay estimated taxes in 2023 that I had the nerve of waiting until until reporting season to just give them everything all at once. They said, no, you got to give us a little something along the way. You know, Papa needs a little something. I can't even, no.

Dude, they know everything that they're, hold on. They know everything that they gave all of us to the time that we first, had our first check issue to us at fucking CBS and whatever the hell it was. They know everything that we ever contributed. We phase this shit out. We say goodbye to all the foreign aid. And then everybody who ever had anything put in that was never able to cash out through Social Security at the other. They should all get all their money back.

I want all of my money back. I wonder if you could do like to make it a soft sunset. You could like opt in, opt out. Like, because there might be enough people that would be like, yes, I just give me my entire paycheck from this point on. Right. And so you could divert some funds to where, like you said, to where they needed to be in the states that needed to take care of the people that were going to still be on it. And some of us would be like, yeah, just no more, no more. I want all my money, you know, and I'm wondering if you opt in opt out.

I wonder what the ratio would be. And that may be a way of creating a soft landing for people. I don't know. I'd have to think it out more. But, I mean, I'd opt in or opt out. I'd be out of everything. Yeah. Just give me all my money and I'll take care of it.

I don't need you. Yeah. I don't know. Dude, I even want to opt out of local education spending. Yeah, absolutely. I don't have. I need the money to put my daughter through the education I'm planning for her. If she's not going to the school, why should you have to pay?

And why are we going to continue, especially around here, you know, multi, you know, tens of millions of dollars bonds every 10 years or so because schools need to be expanded for children of non-citizens. I don't, I mean, it's just... I'm telling you, man, it dribbles that people are getting... The life that we actually should be living right now is incredible. We have gotten fleeced in ways we can't even detect. Right. Right?

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She really likes this show Thank you, Noonie Yeah but this shouldn't be happening But it is And I like it I can't Stoosu said If the super chat would speak

No I can't do this Dark Heart Hemmy Reposted this stream Yeah that is all coming from X X is not even in this it's going rogue it's going rogue stows who said if the super chat

would speak it would say in lieu of pilled EMP I would drop one here because of the one and only Jay Goulinello being in the house and I just wanted to hear the robot voice

wah ha ha ha just saying well then I gotta figure something out I don't know I have to delete all this stuff wahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha actually wait a second collapse media the robot voice

I know Oh, I can't wait for that steak and eggs tonight. Frank. What? I'm fasting. You're fasting. Yeah. So you don't want me to make it hard for you.

Right. Have a little mercy over here. That little mercy. Well, you know what? Tomorrow, I'm a new man tomorrow. I'm going to start all fresh tomorrow. Like all my clients. You know what?

Tomorrow's a good day to start. It is a good day. It is. It is. Rev says, make me rich, bro. Come on, bro. Please, bro. That's on YouTube.

Mark the Carnivores is another great week of shows Love for Frank and the Franklies on Badlands right now sitting here on Luciana Watch. It is Luciana Watch. Damn, man. She's kicking around, jumping around. You need a fill in for you for the show for the week when you're off?

You know, if you want, you know, there's going to be a lot of times, there's going to be a lot of times I'm just going to go live and really have nothing planned. and if you want to jump on Zoom with me. I'd do that. You know, so we can do stuff like that. Yeah.

Because, you know, I'm definitely going, I have to take a little bit of time to not have days where I'm writing all day. And maybe, you know, a few days off just altogether. But, I mean, dad has to bring home the bacon. I can't. There's no. You know, I'm not on Social Security.

I was going to say, just really on Social Security. If I was on Social Security, I'd be fine. You're so stupid. I try to, I gotta make sure. I gotta make sure everybody on social security is spent. I can't take time off. I got, you know,

you know how many people depend on me? You know what a family sponsors like a family at Christmas? That's what they should do. Fucking cards from the people that we're sponsoring their golden years. 100%. I want a card every Christmas. I want a card with the old person.

The picture of the old person that. I'm paying for. Thank you, Frankie. I used to sponsor. I used to sponsor a little kid from Peru. You know, that was real. You know, back then, I wanted to believe. I know, no, I know. You're like Mulder. It was in college.

I want to believe. It was in college. I saw, I saw one too many of those Sally Struthers. I know. I hate myself for not believing any of that crap anymore, but I don't believe it anymore, man. I believe all of those institutions are corrupt to the core. I'd rather know it's either a local community kind of thing, or I can physically hand it to somebody. I don't trust anybody anymore. I know that's terrible. You know what we should do? You know what we should do? Because we have a lot of beautiful baby boomers who watch this show. We have Gen X, Millennial. We have Gen Z. You know, the show is actually

getting a little bit younger and it's going to continue to be flush with all new people. This would be great if I could find a way to do it. If I can match up, if I can get people millennials and Gen Z from the chat room if I can get them matched up with a boomer from the chat room where we can get all of these where all those cards can show up from some of the quite frankly boomers to some of the quite frankly millennials around Christmas time

and they're like thank you so and so for you know and it's just like a picture of them eating oatmeal or something I like this how can we do that? How is it possible, though? Well, you have to think about it. Hmm.

It's a good idea. How is it possible that we can just get like, thank you. Thank you, fellow, frankly, for keeping me afloat all these years. Oh, my teeth fell out. Thank you. Thank you, fellow, frankly. We're having a fun here, ladies and gentlemen. It's just fun.

It's just fun. We have to laugh. If we don't laugh, we'll go insane. This is the motto. I mean, you have to. There is just, There's no way around this. Yeah, got to laugh.

You can't laugh at yourself. You can't laugh at anybody. I know. Yeah. Oh, man. People are having comments about oatmeal now. Who hates oatmeal? Who likes it?

Nikki likes oatmeal. Ozone hates oatmeal. I love oatmeal. Okay. Okay. I'm going to put this to rest. Because no one will say yes to this. Everyone says, I love oatmeal.

Yeah? You ever had oatmeal? Like plain oatmeal? The answer is always, from my clients. No, no, I put like honey or fruit or maple syrup. Yeah, you don't like oatmeal. You needed sweet.

Oatmeal itself, just like oatmeal? It's not good? You like sugar. Well, listen, if oatmeal is made, first of all, with milk, you know, the most whole milk you can find and it's not, if you gave me oatmeal and made with water, I don't care what maple brown bullshit is in it. Like the instant oatmeal is not healthy. It's not healthy. But even like overnight oats, if you're,

I don't find anybody that eats it plain. They all want the sugar, which I'm like, then you don't want oatmeal. And we could do much better for breakfast. Well, there's no universe in which I am going to make oatmeal and not at least cut some peaches into it.

That's what I mean? So it's just a vehicle for peaches. No, it's not. It is. And there's something, what's wrong with that? I mean, oatmeal's,

Just not, I mean, oats are just not particularly, I mean, setting aside the fact that, you know, you've got pesticides and you've got GMOs and you've got all that stuff, and you've got a massive carbohydrate load first thing in the morning. Yeah, it's not a health food. Somebody just said in the chat room, cream of wheat. Yeah. But again, I had cream of wheat when I was a kid, but I always want the maple brown sugar cream of wheat. I always want the flavored cream of wheat. Just plain old cream of wheat. It's not so good.

It's true. You need a little something. Yeah. And I get it. Got to get a taste. I got to get a hit. But with oatmeal, me, my favorite way, first of all, I love oatmeal along with, you know, a platter of eggs. Okay, that's good.

I like the oatmeal with the milk. I like mixing at least a big heaping tablespoon of peanut butter into it. I get people to put Greek yogurt into it. So you get more protein. You get more fat. Oh, that sounds good. Yeah. Yeah.

So I definitely upgrade. If people are insistent on oatmeal, I definitely get them to upgrade their oatmeal. Yeah. I never even thought about Greek, Greek, Greek, Greek, Greek, Greek, uh, Greek. Yeah. Okay, so I'm going to try that. I like, I like oatmeal, obviously, milk. You got to buffer that carbohydrate load that you don't want that insulin spike first thing in the morning. Milk, the peanut butter. I'm not actually a peach as an oatmeal guy. I actually like cutting a banana into it. And then I like a platter of eggs next to it as well. I think it serves a body good.

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Here's some more from Wintered Air shows, Cream of Meat. Ooh, there you go. Rib eyes for breakfast, somebody else saying. Hey. I like it. No, this is good. guys are making me hungry. Please, we've got to stop this.

It's only 834. I'm so happy. Anyway, okay, let's see. Raisin cinnamon and pure maple syrup. Raisin is good, but again, you're talking, yeah, what was that? Raisin, cinnamon, and maple syrup. I mean, that's not oatmeal anymore.

It's a bag of sugar. Let's see here. Dude from 1965 survives says so funny, I'm sponsoring my mom. To be honest, when I was reading all this stuff, That's what I kept saying to myself, too. Even though, you know, my mother worked very hard and I think she has a, she should have a pension.

Through her company after all those years. But that's what I'm saying. I'm like, okay, it's all right. I'm taking care of my mom. My brother and I are taking care of my mom. That's what I, that's what I, that's what's getting me through. Yeah. But, you know, if I get a, if I get a postcard from an old lady named Betty this, this December, just like.

Thank you, Frank. Thank you, Frank. We're on the air. I couldn't have done it without you. All right, let's see here. Zach Zorlach says, what can I do? I can't do anything. Oh, I need that on here.

What? I need that in here. Hold on. What is that? My father. What can I do? Wait, I can't. I can't do anything.

I don't think I get the joke. You, it's in hold on quite frankly I'm looking at these old sound bites oh it was something you grabbed from when your dad was on the show yeah no my my father in that that movie Spookies oh Spookies okay which Spookies is um

it's pretty interesting I think it's getting a sequel get out of here yeah when was it made originally the 70s it came out no it came In 1985. 85. I can't believe that me and my friends didn't find it because I told you

my band we used to after rehearsal like on a Friday night or Saturday night or something we would go to Blockbuster

and we would always go to the horror section and the plan was you always go to the horror section you go to the very bottom row in the far right

and that's the movie that you watch that Friday night I can't believe Spookies wasn't on that because we found things like don't look in the basement

nice we found Alien Factor, that one's a classic. Found all kinds of great cheap B horror movies. I can't believe we didn't find spookies. I can't believe it either. That was always there. Blockbuster had Spookies up.

Every time we went into Blockbuster, we would just take a little stroll through the horror section just to say, hey there. Even though I have special edition DVDs, I probably still have the old VHS. Wow. And the official, one of the,

the official movie posters are just, you know, It's out there staring at people as they walk in. Yep. You'll see it on VIP night when you come next year, October 22nd, 2027. Absolutely. You will. You got to be here for the VIP night. It's going to be a wonderful, raucous event.

Okay. You guys want to call in. It's 914-200-0269. And if not, we have a couple other things I'd like to do. Here is a super chat from Kara Drago. Kara says, Frank. I appreciate your work so much. I wish I can watch your process.

Why would you want to watch a middle-aged man cursing on a computer all day? Hey, you want to watch chat GPT and him go a few rounds before the show? You want to watch me curse all day and whip myself up into a frenzy. Hey, 817, you're on the air. Go ahead. What's going on, FrankenJ? This is Cloud 9. Cloud 9. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. Well, no, I just kind of briefly touch upon some of the Chucky quotes.

One important one that you missed was from Bride of Shucky, and it's when him and Jennifer Tilly's character, I can't remember the doll's name, might just be Tiffany. They're about to engage in an intimate act, and he says to her, you know, I am anatomically correct. That's good. Yes. That's good. Like a half a pack of roll aids. I know. Yeah.

But well, and to briefly touch upon Social Security, my whole thing has always been, don't blame, you know, boomers, although it is a fun meme just to kind of rag on it and to look at the state of the country and go, well, 60 years ago when you were coming up in this country, you basically had everything handed to you. But Social Security, like you said beforehand, was really a product of the greatest generation. and FDR essentially just steamrolled all of that in with, you know, New Deal policies. But the only way that we can really make substantial change is just by recognizing currently that both from a federal tax standpoint and then also from a, you know, state tax standpoint, we're getting raked on both ends. And then on top of that, now add Social Security. and if you're as a part-time worker, if you're working part-time, you're basically putting more

into the system for Social Security. Then when you transition into a full-time professional job, you're then getting raped from, you know, a federal tax standpoint or if you happen to live in one of the, you know, eight states or nine states, however meaning there are that doesn't have state income tax, you're pretty much going to get, you know, that taken away from you as well. So, you know, Social Security has always been a thorn in everybody's side, especially if you are just now getting into, you know, your mid career or later career where you start to transition over going, well, I've invested so much. And at this point, the only other course, you know, outside of, you know, thinking about, well, what's my retirement going to look like? You're probably going to be more, you know, willing to go along with it unless you're just like, you know what, I don't really care.

Let's go Joker mode. Let's burn it all to the ground. A lot of people are talking Joker mode only because they just feel the more they work, the less that they're able to keep up with things. But I'm glad that that got through because it's one of those things where, hey, everybody that's been born after the 30s and 40s, this is all they know. There was never an opt-in. There was never ever a spot in time where boomers ever said,

Yeah, to let's do this social security idea. Right. From there on in, it's been compulsory. Yeah. And the issue is that now after all this time has gone by, and we're looking at what's metting out, we're seeing that there is only about their generation is the only one that really actually got a return on that investment,

especially with the way that how robust the economy was throughout those years, that 40 or 50 years or so. now it's been a slow decline and all that stuff. We're losing not only people who are working. We're losing all types of things that, you know, whenever we look at Europe and everybody starts talking about Europe and thank you for the call, Cloud 9. But when people start talking about the social safety net systems in European countries, it always comes down to one thing that makes it possible.

First of all, we can do those things in American states. have the 10th Amendment and they have state legislatures and they know how to work their budget. And American states are largely comparable to European nation states. But the one thing that Europe always has when you talk about people taking care of each other and this, that and the other thing is that you have monolithic ethnic cultures that usually underpin all of all of those tiny nation states. Oh, you did. Yeah. And that's a big part of it. And, you know, we lost. we have been balkanized in so many different ways,

outside of the fact that there has been decline, $40 trillion worth of debt. I mean, this is, this is serious. And when you look at those numbers, it is just, you know, it's objective, it's an objective thing to say, we need to pivot here. Something has to change and has to be drastic.

And, you know, some people are coming down on boomers for just, you know, you know, in a state where everybody is really just losing their shirts right now, people, where the real, like, kind of like ad hominem fights are going on, is they're saying, how dare you think about yourself right now when, you know, here you are saying at a 90% clip that you would like your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to keep you afloat when they have less to their names than any other generation in history. So that's where it's really coming down to.

I don't want to engage in that. I want to engage in how to fix a system that was never going to succeed. Right. And likely everyone's going to have to bear the brunt to some degree so that nobody bears the entire brunt. That's probably how it's going to have to work. Yeah.

Sarah Blazick over on Rumble says, Breakfast of Champions is steak, eggs, and bacon with a glass of unprocessed milk. I'll take it. Got to love the carnivore diet. That sounds great. Yeah. Especially the milk. I can dunk some cookies in it. What?

Sarah Blazick also says right on, Frank, opt me out. I'll take care of myself. Yeah. Opt out. Knitting on the fly says baby fund contribution. All of you guys are in the running for tonight. Knitting on the fly. That's over there on Rumble.

Let's take a call from 334. You're on with Jay and I. Hey, Frank. I wanted to chime in on the Social Security. I think the biggest issue is not the money so much of the entitlement that comes with it. you know, you go on a family outing, and the seniors are like, oh, they don't offer a senior discount. And I'm like, you guys, and I'm with me.

Let's just say my parents. That's not really them. And my nephew. And it's like, you guys make way more than my nephew does. Like, why shouldn't he get the discount? You know what I mean? And it's that backwards thinking where that we've all given, not we all, but that the culture has given up on.

We used to want to leave things better for our children and our future generations. But now, starting with the boomers, it's become like, what can I get? Let me milk it the most I can. And I think that's part of the problem. That makes sense. That has been one of the big, yeah, that's been the big debate outside of everybody realizing how bad the numbers flesh out. that that right there everybody has to deal with and um it but you you do yourself no good and you do

your generation even though one person does not represent the generation you do yourself your cause no good when you throw all of that into the wind and you say oh the hell with the numbers i i just i i what about me you like people just like wait a second what about all of us this thing is going down and it's taking all of us with it. And for any one group to sit to have the audacity to say, but what about me is just like shut the fuck up, you know? But right, it's going to take the generation, right? And I mean, they still have this mindset like I only got 3% this year.

But it's like the 5%, the 3% you got and you want more, you're selling your children and your grandchildren like down the river completely. You know what I mean? it's the same thing with owning two homes a lot of them own two homes you know and did not to give their their children that dowry you know until their 60 years you know until the parents pass then they leave it maybe but i've had this die with uh i've heard this die with nothing mindset from them like i'm just going to live the life of luxury now that i'm retired especially with my social security and not want to leave the kids their kids or grandkids anything i'm of the mindset um you can keep taking

from me but I want to leave my nephews and nieces and you know and I'm sure you'd want to leave Aurora and the new baby you want to leave them something and take all the burden on yourself I mean I don't have any kids but I want to make sure that my nieces and nephews and cousins babies just have a better better starting point you know than we did if we can stop it with our generation and then they're not taking the money out of these kids generations I'd be happy I get you I'm I'm with you I don't know understand what you're saying and thank you for the call it's really thank you for the call um and yeah there is there are a lot there are lots of uh people from all those generations boomers

generation x whatever that are thinking about their kids yeah and they have they lay everything out for their kids my mother's another example of that you know they so again one person and these instances perhaps it's something that you can find a trend that happens within one generation stronger than others, just based on the fact that, you know, where a person starts usually is indicative of how a person is always going to expect it to, it to be or what it is. And, you know, you have that old, that old saying, the person is born on, oh, it was like Casey Stengel or somebody said, I forget what the hell it was. He's talking about some privileged person, whatever. So that guy was born on third base and he went his whole life thinking he hit a triple.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how I thought you were going. Yeah. So it's, I guess you can say maybe that has some effect. But again, it's a ship is sinking situation. You know, I mean, I think one of the first times, and this is not the conversation that I first started to become aware of this mindset and generational divide. but it actually really has a lot more to do with the political and geopolitical problems that we seem to be facing right now.

And this is from, you know, I know that a lot of people are struggling because, you know, like with Rich Barris, because he's been so outspoken about certain things. But when you cut through, you know, the sort of anger that a lot of people have, and I think Rich's anger is righteous because he's literally been in front of Donald Trump trying to wave the warning flags and doesn't seem like anybody's listening. But when you actually look at the numbers, what I find shocking is that that generation, specifically like the Mark Levins of the world, and there are so many other that just seem to be, because their belief system is still a certain way about foreign policy and our greatest allies,

they're willing to sacrifice this. We had an opportunity in 2024 with this incredibly diverse coalition. We talked about this so many times on this show. But the more diverse that coalition was, the more diverse that coalition was, the more tenuous Trump's grip on it could be. And the last thing that he could afford was to be seen as sucking up to neocons

who nobody likes. The only people who like the neocons are themselves. They're parasites. That, it's not a generational thing, but it happens to be, you know, like when you talk about like the Fox boomercom people, they do happen to be of a certain age, but it's also of a certain

political slant. Those people cheering on the Iran war, again, putting aside the fact that you think that Promethean action is correct and there's 5D chess, I don't know any of that, I'm not an insider, I'm an outsider, but taking it from the political ramifications that are about to hit us in about a month, less than a month, those people have, and Rich has said this too, that they have knowingly said they are willing to sacrifice the midterms for their ideological objective, which is, you know, I don't, regime change. They've always been that way.

Right. And so that's when I first became aware of this. And I despise that way of thinking because we had a chance in 2024 to do something. I mean, I don't even know. Historic might not even be the word. To dismantle something that has been strangling all of us collectively forever. Since anyone has ever been that's alive has been conscious and aware. And they took that specific subset of that. group took it upon themselves to say, you know what? No, this is really important because they maybe saw this as the last opportunity to exercise those demons because they know the younger generation wants absolutely nothing to do with the Middle East in general, no matter who you are in the Middle East. They want to focus on the home front. And I could name names, maybe after the midterms I will, because there's a lot of people who are supposed, you know, Trump-supporting conservatives who have been just cheering and cheering and cheering and cheering. And I'm like, you sons of bitches are part of the reason this coalition has completely fractured. Because this was not about

Republicans. People don't see Trump as a Republican. Don't you get it? That's why Rich says there's Obama voters and Trump voters that overlap. Because they don't, they didn't see Obama originally as a Democrat. They saw him as something different, hope and change. And they didn't see Trump as a Republican. They saw him as something different. And by adhering to your neocon type Republican in Bush era policies, you are driving a state that may be never be recoverable in the short term because of your ideological capture. And I have a visceral hatred for people like that because they took something incredible and they've turned it into what I think we're about to see in November.

And I couldn't be more pissed off about that. So you put the Social Security thing on top of that. I'm sure there's a Venn diagram there. But it's not necessarily boomers. It's just a certain age group that has a certain ideology. And that's when I first became aware of it and was like, wow, they are sacrificing the actual future because of their obsession with this old way of thinking about the world in geopolitics. And that pisses me off.

Well, and it has also created the true. I always talked about this. When you talk about the generation of Neo Lib, Neo-Con, Mitch McConnell on one side, John McCain on one side, and then Nancy and Chuck, the other side. Right. They're coming from a same generation of thought. And they do not represent baby boomer generation. Nope.

They come from that generation. And people in their line of work from that generation, they worked within the confines of what they couldn't get away with based on, how do you keep everybody in proper orbit, milk the system, change, whatever, and make promises about what government can provide without actually. actually ever coming through and creating this, you know, and really leaning into that WWE kind of heel and baby face, you know, mentality there where every election cycle, when one side that wins and thinks they have a mandate doesn't get what they want.

It's because of the other side. Right. And now, now when they're all getting phased out and they're all aging out, in our coming these democratic socialists who my you know you know mutual friends of ours have said are really freaking the shit out of moderate Democrat types they are really freaked out about them because these are true believers who believe you know they where where's all the things we were promised all those well yeah you were promised things that were never possible they those things that you were promised were is a carrot at the end of the stick to get you to go to the polls to keep the charade up

Over and over. You know? So you can't believe, and I will never blame boomers for that. You know, there are just as many corrupt millennials and Gen X's out there, too. And like I said before, boomers did not vote for the start of Social Security. Right. When they were born, they were born, they were already into it. Their Social Security card was issued for them.

And that's just the way it is. You know, so. And again, and again, just to make sure that none of this gets lost in the mix because it's very sensitive, but many more boomers than people would probably be comfortable admitting our living hand to mouth right now. Yeah. And that whole gripping on to whatever gives them a sense of stability in having

something coming in and being able to track how you're going to keep yourself afloat. That is just a, it could just a lot of. of that reaction can just, especially with the 90% poll, a lot of that reaction is just natural, just no, no, no, no, I can't live without this. Of course. You know, not every boomer has two houses. No, no. You know, it's in, and it's, that's, that's, but people, they, they, you know, things get very vitriolic. Yeah, I think it's less generational and more like class warfare. It's like the, like I said, there, there are certain people who just, they are so comfortable and they are sort of immune to the negative social effects of their ideology. And that's always been the way it is,

right? They live in ivory tower, so they really don't care what happens to the plebs, right? It's like, whatever happens. And those are the people that I'm specifically pointing out. They just happen to be in a certain age bracket, but that certainly is not a generalization of a generation. You can't really do that. You can't do it statistically, but you can't do it from a personal level because it just doesn't work. Right. Okay. Well, let's just make sure that we got everybody, the superchats that came in, and then we're going to give out some prizes and then we're going to have some bonus time on the flip side. You come with us and maybe

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Come on out and hang out with us. I mean, it's going to be a good presentation too. Jen and I have some great material. We're going to do a whole slide presentation and then we're going to stick around for Q&A after. And I don't know, maybe Frank, maybe I'll break my own rules. Maybe if you're there that night, maybe we'll all go to get steak and eggs at like 9 p.m. 9 p.m. We might be able to go down.

That'll be a what, Thursday night? Yeah. What would still be open on Purchase Street and Rye? I don't know. Maybe Aurora, the restaurant Aurora. Is that the one we went to that morning? Oh, no, no, no. No, that was like a breakfast on.

That was poppies across the street. Right, right, right, right. Okay. Well, we could also, we also go to, well, no, that's very pricey. Averna, the steakhouse. Oh, we went to averna. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was good.

Yeah, I mean, maybe it's worth it. To celebrate the first jamboree. Maybe it's worth it. It's, you know, celebrate our talk. Now I'm thinking about that surf and turf. Not B12 with MRNA, just straight up methyl-kobolomon. Okay. Hey, guys, and thank you again to Badlands for hanging out with us.

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Where are they going? Probably a nature center. I've got to see. Yeah, we got to meet by some otter pond. Meet me at the otter. pod at 4 p.m. Yeah, the autopod. Look for the guy in the trench coat.

So she's really excited and that's going to be throughout the morning but I'll find a way to make that up with you guys. I love the B-Sides on Friday mornings. So with that being said, get some keto brains. Drink, drink, drink. Have a good time

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I want to get all my Saturday night broadcast in quickly for October because I don't know when this baby's showing up. You never know what's going to happen on Saturday night. She's like a jack in the box. It's like what's you're going to pop out? It's like it's the music is slowing. Okay, listen, listen. If you start hearing that kind of music coming from Lauren, get in touch with me immediately. I know.

Whatever it is, the music is slowing down. Nope, no, no, no, no. So scared. That's an anxiety-inducing child's toy. It is. Yeah. Kind of like the game, concentration? Or perfection?

You're another one where there was a timer and you had to get the things, I think it was perfection. You had to get the squares into the thing and if you didn't do it in time, the whole thing popped and all the pieces went flying. Yeah, what was the name of that game? It's it called perfection? I think it was called perfection. I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah, no. That was, because you set the timer, you turned the timer, and then it ticked. It was like, and then eventually it got to the end and the whole board would explode. That was, that was anxiety inducing. I think it was called perfection. Perfection. Yeah, I knew it.

I knew it. Pop goes perfection. Yep, not good. You want to watch that commercial on the flip side? Yeah, I got it right over here. We'll do that. The first thing I found, it's a 26-minute video. We'll watch on the flips.

Oh, you know, I had something else I wanted to do. It tied in perfectly. I'm going to do it real quick before we leave. It's 908. Okay. It's not like we don't do a whole other hour. I know, I know. Okay, so real quick, this is going to tie everything together.

We talk about Social Security, female empowerment, welfare of our fellow citizens, whatever. did it all come from? Where did welfare come from? What a charity? How can we help the needy and maintain the actual core benefit of giving and receiving charity? We always talk about that on this show. That core benefit being gratitude, of course. We're not a system that really is all about gratitude. People who receive, they don't really know who gave it to them. They don't know who to thank. It just becomes something that they expect to show up. So that's why everything about the system has to go. It just ruins humanity. Not that human.

shouldn't be helping each other, but like this, mandated, collected, involuntarily, and dispersed, and then used in elections to pit people against each other? No. That's fucked. But here's what I wanted to show. This was sent to me by Katie in... We might have an answer as to how to... In Texas.

And it's really incredible. She sent this to me and hits on so many of these issues from service, charity, culture, faith, and also a really refreshing way to put some spotlight on some true female heroes of Western civilization. Cool. In general. And this is the ripple effect done by purely Catholic. The ripple effect from the loss of nuns is astounding. And take a listen to this.

It's about a minute long. It's really something special. We might have an answer as to how to fix the population crisis in Europe. More nuns. In 2012, the National Bureau of Economic Revenue. research sought to answer a question. Why historically devout Catholic countries in Europe, such as Italy, Spain, and Ireland, saw their birth rates plummet to unprecedented lows between 1960 and 2000, even though female labor force participation in these countries remained relatively low. The authors found

that the cost of child rearing was the most powerful factor. For decades, the Catholic Church acted as a massive provider of social infrastructure, running schools, health care facilities, daycare, and welfare systems. This drastically reduced the practical and financial burdens of raising large families. When the number of religious sisters per capita dropped, the church's ability to subsidize the everyday costs of childbearing collapsed along with it. To prove their point, the researchers tracked data across 13 European nations during this time period. The authors estimate an incredibly large statistical relationship, a loss of one nun corresponded to a drop of 300 to 400 children across the population due to the loss of the social services they provided. And I can't

underestimate the ripple effect that the loss of nuns in Catholic schools has manifested. As the religious sisters were no longer able to staff the schools, the administration had to hire lay teachers at market wages, causing tuition to skyrocket and hundreds of schools to close. This exogenous shock forced a massive migration of students into the public school system, altering regional tax requirements, property values, and educational attainment data across entire states. We'll never truly be able to understand what was lost by the quiet disappearance of the women,

spend centuries holding our communities together. I thought that was interesting. I never considered that. Wow. Wow. All these little things. I love the comments too. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I went to daycare with sisters. It was wonderful. They treated me as a child that never had. Yeah, I was in Italy. I was just in Italy. The amount of convents that have been converted

into hotels is astonishing. It's, yeah, well, I grew up around Silesiansians. sisters and it was a my sixth grade teacher was I used to I nicknamed her the un-nun that she left the nunnery the un-none yeah wow I we had we we knew of a couple there was one there's one there was one there was one we was a little sister nuns are cloistered they would never have been right that that's one of been a dude they would be sisters but there was there was one sister that we knew of that after we graduated left because she wanted to get married and all that stuff.

And that was always like, whoa. We also knew of a priest that left too because he just, he wanted to get married too. Yeah. I'm sure that happens. I mean, I'd rather have that happen than the potential alternative. Right. I know.

Yeah. Absolutely. If you want to have sex, just go find a woman, marry her, and bye-bye. That's it. That's it. But that gets into a whole other types of infiltration. We'll talk about that. time. Hey guys and gals, we're going to the flip side. I put all the

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