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From TikTok to Trump: Navigating the New Digital Landscape
Episode 150 • 22nd January 2025 • The Mark G Show • Mark G
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The recent rumors about the TikTok shutdown have sparked a heated discussion about its implications for creators and free speech. As we delve into the political machinations behind this potential ban, we also reflect on the controversial inauguration of Donald Trump and the impact of social media on public opinion. The episode examines how these platforms can shape narratives and influence political decisions, raising critical questions about the power dynamics at play. Furthermore, we explore the risks associated with centralized control over digital spaces and the importance of safeguarding free expression in an increasingly polarized environment. Join us as we navigate these complex issues and consider what they mean for our digital future and democratic values.

Takeaways:

  • The potential TikTok shutdown raises critical concerns about free speech and creator rights.
  • Social media significantly shapes public opinion, influencing political decisions and perceptions.
  • Donald Trump's inauguration is surrounded by controversy, reflecting deeper political divides in America.
  • The discussions around TikTok highlight the broader implications of censorship in the digital age.
  • Understanding the impact of algorithmic control on what users see is essential for digital literacy.
  • The episode emphasizes the importance of maintaining family and friendship ties amidst political differences.

Companies mentioned in this episode:

  • TikTok
  • ByteDance
  • Meta
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Google
  • Amazon
  • Doge

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Mark G:

Still can't hear it yo.

Mark G:

It's the Mark G Show Time to unload Mike in his hand got the stories explode Gary G flexing JC chasing we breaking down news while your mind stays racing it's the Mark G Show let's go, let's go Hot takes, raw breaks every topic explode it's the Mark G Show don't miss, don't scroll Turn it up Lock in, lose control.

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It'S.

Mark G:

The Mark G Show let's go, let's go Hot text wall breaks Every topic explodes it's the Mark G Show don't miss, don't scroll Turn it up, lock in, lose control Conspiracies twisting headlines ripping no topic slipping straight facts were spitting Buckle up tight, let the chaos ignite it's the Mark G Show we go all night Real talk, raw truth this is the Mark G Show let's go.

Mark G:

Let's go.

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What's going on, everybody?

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What is happening?

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I am Mark G.

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Listen, I know Gary G and jc, they can't hear the.

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Because listen, they call me a poor ass producer, but I'm doing all this by myself.

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I'm the only producer.

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So I don't care if they're gonna.

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But we got a hell of a show for you all tonight.

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Tick Tock was banned for less than 24 hours.

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Donald Trump was speaking to the American people today during a little get together, or should I say a big ass get together in snowy weather DC all that coming up with the inauguration coming up tomorrow.

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Donald Trump talking about a ton of executive orders to be signed tomorrow.

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But before we get through all that, let me just give it a big old shout out to some people we know here.

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I've got my brother from another mother.

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Gary, what's going on, my man?

JC:

Just looking forward to hearing what we got to talk about tonight.

JC:

Seriously though, I can't hear this intro.

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No, I, I don't know what's going on with it, man.

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Listen, I, I.

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Listen, we, we drop, we dropped EV Mox and we're doing all this from OBS software.

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I got to figure out how to get you guys to hear it.

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I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll ask around.

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Okay.

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I was.

JC:

And I'm assuming that the words that are popping up or what it's saying.

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Yes.

JC:

And it looked like, I mean, because the resolution's pretty low in this obs thing.

JC:

Was it?

JC:

It looked like one of the things said it's the marching show.

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It's supposed to say marching it up on the text.

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That's okay.

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Yeah, it's a text issue.

Mark G:

All right, we make his.

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All right, y'all.

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Down below, we got the man that couldn't hit a bride broadside of a barn if he tried.

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J.C.

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ladies and gentlemen.

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J.C.

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what's going on, my man?

Mark G:

Hey, baby.

Mark G:

I love it, but I'm like, gary, you suck at your job.

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J.C.

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i'll tell you what, J.C.

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you are more than welcome to try taking the show over one time.

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One time.

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I'll, I'll give tell you the software, and you are more than welcome to try it.

Mark G:

Hey, it was just one time.

Mark G:

It was in college and tried whatever.

Mark G:

Okay, let's go.

Mark G:

Let's go.

Mark G:

Hey, I've been drinking yet again.

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Oh, man.

JC:

Couldn't even tell.

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All right, so, gentlemen, first and foremost, first so everybody knows, everything you're gonna hear in tonight's show are the views and the opinions of myself or any guests that may come up on the show.

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Do the information as you please and always do your own research.

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Please take a little bit of information we got and do your own research.

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Come up with your own conclusion on what you think you should do with that information.

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With that all being said, there's quite a bit being done.

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There is one more thing I want to get out of the way before I get the show started.

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Social media is a mainstream media, and politics are dividing families and friendships so badly right now.

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Folks, don't let politics destroy your family relationships.

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Absolutely don't.

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It's ridiculous.

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It's okay to realize that you guys have political differences, but to talk down on another family member because you don't agree with their politics is absolute bullshit.

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And that's all I'm going to say on that matter.

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And Gary, you know what's going on?

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I just, I, I, I just, I can't.

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And I just got to say something, folks.

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Don't let politics get in the way of your family matters or your friendships, because it absolutely fucking ridiculous.

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But, yeah.

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So Trump's inaugurations tomorrow.

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TikTok got banned for less than 24 hours.

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TikTok ban.

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Gary, you deleted the app?

JC:

Yeah, I deleted it.

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And you can't redownload it because you got an Apple.

JC:

I don't really care.

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Right.

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Jc, you deleted the app, but you were able to redownload because you have Google.

Mark G:

Yep.

Mark G:

No.

Mark G:

Well, I got the iPhone, but I'm done.

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Okay, but you did you delete.

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You got the app again, though, right?

Mark G:

No.

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No.

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So it's still deleted off your phone?

Mark G:

Yeah.

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Oh, okay.

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So JC has deleted it.

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Deleted it.

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So you guys deleted after they deleted it.

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That's all, folks.

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You think I was the one drinking?

JC:

Yeah, right.

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But no, I'm the one drinking.

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Social media blew the fuck up after the TikTok ban.

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There were kids calling 91 1, telling them to turn back on TikTok, whining and crying to the dispatcher, saying, we need TikTok back on.

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Absolutely.

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The world went to shit.

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They acted like it was the end of the world because an app got deleted.

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Now here's.

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Hold on one second, y'all.

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Yes, kiddo.

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Oh, you're fine.

Mark G:

Yeah, it's just.

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Go to bed.

Mark G:

Get your ass and go to bed.

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I love you.

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Oh, he got toothpaste on us.

Mark G:

That's why they call 91 1.

Mark G:

They're like, I love it, but I need my app.

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Right.

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Well, here's the thing, right?

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It.

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When you got social media that controls you that bad to the point of where you're calling 911-seeking- seeking to get an app turned back on, you got to realize at that point you've got a problem.

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You've got an absolute problem.

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And that's brainwashing my wife's life back.

Mark G:

Here, by the way.

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Is she.

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That is absolute brainwashed when you got people freaking out over an app like that.

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Listen, I was.

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Was I upset maybe because, you know, that's my biggest following, right?

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I got 150k here on TikTok and I've got a few k in other apps.

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So was it a big deal?

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Yeah, it kind of sucks.

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But it's not the end of the world, right?

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There's other ways to stream, other ways to do it.

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Did TikTok help out with meeting some friendship?

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Absolutely.

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If it wasn't for TikTok, I would have met JC or a large majority of other people that I've become friends with on this app.

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So did the app do good things?

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Yes.

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Do I understand why they were banning the app?

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Yes.

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Do I wonder why?

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The reason why.

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What is it?

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Bytedance.

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What doesn't want to relinquish their stock holdings is interesting to me.

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What's that?

Mark G:

What did you say?

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Bytedance.

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Bytedance is the Chinese company that owns portion of Tick Tock.

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So they're the kind.

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Okay, that.

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That is.

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So basically with Tick Tock is bytedance owns a portion of it, but they're Chinese company who's also part of the CCP.

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So all the US wants to do is have ByteDance relinquish or sell off their portion of Tick Tock to an American based company or Any.

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It could be anywhere else.

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Who doesn't have to be America.

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They could sell.

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They could sell it to.

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They could.

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Jennifer for the follow.

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They could sell to anybody in the uk.

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It just can't be China.

Mark G:

Okay, what's the difference?

Mark G:

What's the difference?

Mark G:

I mean that's my big thing is what's the difference?

Mark G:

You can sell it to anybody in the nation, country, whatever.

Mark G:

Canada, Russia, you can sell.

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No, you can't sell to Russia.

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Russia's on the list of banned countries.

Mark G:

Oh, okay, I did not know that.

Mark G:

Yeah, but what the.

Mark G:

Why?

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I mean, so the question is why are they holding on to it?

Mark G:

No, to me it makes no sense.

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To me it doesn't.

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Once said, we are not live on Tik Tok, folks.

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Tik Tok is still down in the sense of going live.

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Yeah, Chinese people, but yeah, so.

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So that's the question.

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Why is Bite Dance not allowing people to.

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Why.

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Why are they not selling off their portion?

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But we were told by the Shing Young or whatever his name is.

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I can't think of his name.

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I think it's Shingyun.

Mark G:

Oh, he's.

Mark G:

Dude.

Mark G:

Dude's awesome.

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He is.

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He's from Singapore.

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Yeah.

Mark G:

So like I want to do whatever I got to do to get right he.

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All of our information, all of American's information, all of our profiles and everything else are on American servers.

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So the question is what is Bite Dance hiding?

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Is my question.

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Why do.

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Do they not want to sell?

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Because of the money potential?

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Because the money from ByteDance gets enrolled back into the CCP.

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Is that why they're not.

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Because they just want to get into that money?

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Because it is a multi billion dollar industry.

Mark G:

Is it really though?

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It is, it is.

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There's roughly, I think Kevin O'Leary said there's roughly about $300 million being made off tick tock a year right now from small businesses alone in TikTok Shop.

Mark G:

Okay, how, how, tell me how I can do something for my small business to make money on TikTok.

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So you, maybe not you specifically because.

JC:

Of what you do, but there's a lot of people that run TikTok shops where they're selling soft goods and hard goods like T shirts, you know, knitting.

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Stuff, printables, foods like gummy bears.

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They're selling pouches.

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Not nicotine pouches, but they're selling like the energy pouches.

JC:

They're just reselling stuff like literally anything.

JC:

Like people are like, if you think of like the Amazon, what is it that you do, Mark?

JC:

Amazon.

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Amazon affiliate marketing.

JC:

Amazon Affiliate marketing.

JC:

So it's like you can be a reseller essentially for anything.

JC:

Like you can.

JC:

You can sell lights, you can sell flashlights, you can sell action figures, books, fitness equipment, anything you want.

JC:

And you can have a little store that runs on Tick Tock.

Mark G:

Oh, no, I got shoes from Tick Tock.

JC:

You bought Tick, like off of a.

Mark G:

Tick Tock store off of a Tick Tock order?

Mark G:

Yes.

JC:

Were they good shoes?

JC:

Not really.

Mark G:

Yeah, yeah, you'll see them.

Mark G:

But I was like, God damn.

Mark G:

I mean, I'll try it.

Mark G:

There were 20 bucks.

JC:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Some of the.

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You gotta buy off Tick Tock sucks.

JC:

Yeah, it's all teemu.

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A lot of it is.

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Yeah, a lot of it is.

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Like, there's.

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There's a shirt.

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Benji, he's trash.

Mark G:

No.

Mark G:

Yes, I am.

JC:

But, hey, Benji, that's the guy that was kicking your ass with on that.

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Shooter game, right now.

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JC doesn't play.

JC:

No, your ass.

JC:

You.

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Yes, Benji's one of the people that are kicking my ass.

JC:

Good job, Benji.

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My wife just said Tick Tock shop is wish on crack.

JC:

Yeah, wish timu all that.

Mark G:

Be right back with the shoes that you should not buy.

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Right.

Mark G:

Hold up.

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Yeah.

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How was we just talking?

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Wash your hands and shut off the water.

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Go to bed.

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My son's over here.

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Listen, dad, how is it wish on crack?

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The Tick Tock?

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Listen, there is a couple of good things.

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I ain't gonna lie.

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I've got a few good things off TikTok Shop that I've done reviews on.

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There's some things that are bad.

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Right.

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So now there's a knockoff shirt.

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SM7B microphone.

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Some of my guests are refurbished.

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Now, this is a $400 microphone.

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If you were to go order Shure SM7B from any audio manufacturer, does podcast and music, you're going to spend 400 bucks on this.

JC:

What's the brand?

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But it's $72 on a tik Tok shop.

JC:

Is that a real brand?

JC:

Read it.

JC:

What does it say?

JC:

I can't see the quality on this.

Mark G:

It quality says it sucks.

Mark G:

I will tell you.

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So the quality is that the.

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You got a Tik Tok Shop?

Mark G:

Yeah, this is it.

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That don't look too shabby.

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So is it really goes from six foot to whatever?

Mark G:

Yeah, I don't give a.

Mark G:

They are terrible.

JC:

Are they like super uncomfortable or what?

Mark G:

Oh, they.

Mark G:

They're garbage.

JC:

Just cheaply made.

JC:

Yeah, you can get it.

Mark G:

That's bad.

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All right, YouTube, talk for me.

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I'm gonna take care of the kid real Quick.

JC:

All right.

JC:

And to be honest, footwear.

Mark G:

Hey, boy Joe ass.

Mark G:

Go take.

Mark G:

Wipe your own ass, Nick.

JC:

I wipe my own ass.

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I wipe my own ass.

JC:

Shoes are a hard market though, to be honest.

JC:

Like, footwear is really complicated.

Mark G:

Now, I did do the 15 day.

Mark G:

What was that?

Mark G:

The 15 day clans or whatever.

Mark G:

The 20 day cleanse.

Mark G:

It worked.

Mark G:

I was aliens.

Mark G:

I was like, did you.

JC:

Did you lose any weight?

Mark G:

About seven pounds.

JC:

Is that what you were trying to do is lose weight?

Mark G:

Yeah, but I mean, I was trying it.

Mark G:

The colon, I think it's.

Mark G:

What's the.

Mark G:

Is the damn name of that.

Mark G:

I got that in the damn room.

Mark G:

But something cleanse.

Mark G:

Something cleanse.

Mark G:

I'm sure everybody in the damn little.

Mark G:

Oh, man, it bad.

Mark G:

It bad.

JC:

He's talking about a cleanse that he did, Mark.

JC:

He lost seven pounds.

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Oh, did you do a.

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And cleanse.

Mark G:

The shitting cleanse.

Mark G:

There it is.

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Yes.

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Was it a.

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It was a water pill, right?

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Yes, yes.

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That water pill is wonderful.

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Listen, the pill is great, man.

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Listen, I've taken the.

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I've ordered mine off Amazon.

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So you take it right before you go to bed.

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It's typically one or two of those pills right before you go to bed.

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And as soon as you wake up, dude, no, no, you don't to bed.

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But as soon as the morning wakes up, dude, you feel your stomach just rumbling.

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And then within moments, you are literally pissing the living hell out of your ass.

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And you do.

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You lose at least seven to eight pounds from.

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It's great.

Mark G:

A ten day.

Mark G:

Ten is great.

Mark G:

You're like going to vacation.

Mark G:

I'm gonna go and tell you I was gonna pickle.

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Yeah, you know, you don't want to take that before vacation.

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You want to do that when you have no plans for that next day.

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But it works out great.

Mark G:

30 days.

Mark G:

It's 30 days.

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No, dude.

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Oh, 15.

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Yeah, the 15 day cleanse pill.

Mark G:

Okay, you're still through your drawers.

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So I did it.

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I did it only for one day just to clean out my gut.

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You can do it just for one day.

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Just clean.

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I get.

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And get all the out one day, dude.

JC:

Well, you could just fast.

JC:

You could just not eat for a day or two, and that'll pretty much do the same thing.

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Yeah, but that's boring.

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I might try to take a pill and just let my gut just push it all out one shot.

JC:

You guys.

JC:

You guys, the two of you are what's wrong with America, right?

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What do you mean what's wrong with you?

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Listen, if you can just out the Bad.

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Chill.

JC:

Just give me a pill to cure my thing.

JC:

Instead of making changes, you just rather take a pill for it.

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Right?

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It works.

JC:

God damn.

JC:

They're.

Mark G:

Oh, my God.

Mark G:

Oh, my God.

Mark G:

Oregon.

Mark G:

Mr.

Mark G:

Organ.

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Right.

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Mr.

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And gotta do the PT.

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That's all there is to it.

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Liberals.

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What's wrong with the world right now?

JC:

Mark's liberal.

JC:

Mark's a liberal.

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I am.

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I am.

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You.

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You.

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I'm not.

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What the hell?

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We talk about the TikTok ban.

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So less than 48 hours, the world was freaking out, people.

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There was.

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There were Twitter or X spaces over the shutdown.

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I listened to one of them last night for I think it was like at least an hour and a half.

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And listen these people whine about it.

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Do we understand why they did it?

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Yes.

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Do we.

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Do we think that they did it on purpose, in a sense to make Congress feel a bit heat and have the American people flip the out the way they did?

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Yes.

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Do we feel like there's a major amount of brain rot from Tick Tock from a lot of people?

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Yes.

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Now, how do we fix that is the big question.

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Who's purchasing it?

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There's talks right now that Meta is the company that's possibly buying it.

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In my opinion.

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I think who's buying it is a multitude of companies because of the.

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The price tag on it.

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There's 25.

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There's a $25 million on the table right now for an offer.

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But right now you have Meta place in an offer.

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You have Mr.

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Beast placing an offer.

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Kevin O'Leary.

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Yep.

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Kevin O'Leary placing an offer.

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And then Rumble has also placed an offer.

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Oh, sorry, 25 billion, not million.

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$25 billion right now on the table.

JC:

When I was at the gym right now, before I came on here, I heard like a couple of kids that were like this.

JC:

This Tick Tock band is.

JC:

I had to go a full 8 hours without going on tick tock.

JC:

I went 8 hours without making a Tick Tock video.

JC:

And I'm just like, God damn, it's that hard to not be on there for eight hours.

JC:

That's like a regular work day.

JC:

You're just.

JC:

If you go to work.

Mark G:

Exactly.

JC:

Try to do your job for eight hours and not be on social media.

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What?

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And I could tell people if.

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If it's the endless scroll that you miss.

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Okay.

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If it's the endless scroll on TikTok that you missed doing this, there's a great platform that Elon Musk just bought on X.

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Let me tell you, folks, you can go down some of the best fucking rabbit holes in your life and be stuck on X for an hour to three hours, just going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole until you sit there and go, oh fuck, why did I do this?

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Because it's.

JC:

The difference is like X is like, you know, you get your memes and you get your, like your news or whatever from X, right?

JC:

But it's not, it can be, but it's not necessarily brainless doom scrolling Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, those are things that you can literally doom scroll.

JC:

You can just.

JC:

And it's like there's no mental fortitude that's required.

JC:

It's just memes and videos and funny and like whatever the, the algorithm is in your algorithm.

JC:

You know what I mean?

JC:

It can either be stupid, funny cat videos, whatever the you're looking up, but it's like it's mindless doom scrolling.

JC:

X is not going to necessarily be mindless doom scrolling, right?

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Gamer jam.

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It's calling it the leftist Twitter.

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There was a lot of left, so.

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And here's the thing, right?

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So Trump made a post today calling for TikTok to be turned back on, saying there'll be no charges brought against anybody, nobody will get fines and stuff like that if it comes back on.

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He says the American people should be able to watch the inauguration.

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Now mind you, they could have absolutely watched the inauguration on.

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They could have watched it on Twitter, they could have probably watched it on here on Twitch, they could have watched it on Facebook.

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There's other platforms they could watch it on.

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But he really wanted to be on YouTube also, right?

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So he.

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And that's what he used.

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But they did turn it on.

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And I any.

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But he said in the sense of America needs to own 50% of Tik Tok.

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So now my question is that 50% of Tik Tok owned by America.

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Now he had some tech gurus, tech gurus down there for the inauguration and during the little thing he just did at the arena.

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So he had Google there, which, please God, help me, I do not want Google to own TikTok.

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Folks, you think censorship is bad right now if Google owns TikTok, TikTok will be more censored than it is now.

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And yes, TikTok is extremely censored.

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Trust me, as a gamer and as a podcaster, I get banned frequently on TikTok for saying just certain words or talking to people.

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As you should.

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In gaming.

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You got face.

JC:

You always like, you always fight it and it gets removed.

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I do, yeah.

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But I still get banned, which, which is like you should have a consistent stream without worrying about getting banned for telling someone to off or saying that you their mom.

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Because you're just gaming, you're having fun.

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You shouldn't get banned for that.

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So like you shouldn't, but so I.

JC:

Mean talking banter during gaming is.

JC:

Is a pretty much an exact element of gaming.

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It absolutely is an element of gaming.

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So you got that.

Mark G:

Marus kills a lot in these games, by the way.

JC:

He really does.

JC:

Benji on Wheels is the one who gets the head shot.

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Yes.

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Benji on Wheels is a kickass gamer.

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He gave me a heart attack too, but we won't talk about that.

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He gave me a major heart attack.

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Dude.

Mark G:

What Going against you.

Mark G:

Killing you.

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No.

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Benji had a certain event that happened on stream yesterday that freaked us out that we thought we, we had no way of calling 911 to get him help or nothing like that.

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But we gotta situate it now.

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Yeah, he's an oh don't die dude.

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Right.

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Rule number one is don't die.

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Rule number two is don't break rule number one.

JC:

No, Rule number two is don't get maimed or severely disfigured.

JC:

And then rule number three is don't forget rules number one and two.

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There we go.

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Oh, essential.

JC:

Those are the rules of life.

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Extremely essential.

:

But so.

:

Yeah.

:

So the Tick Tock band.

:

Jc.

:

I don't know if we really heard your thoughts on the TikTok ban though.

:

What are your thoughts on it?

:

What are your thoughts.

:

What do you thought on it being banned and what are your thoughts on Trump overruling the ban for another 90 days?

Mark G:

I don't think Trump has any say so on it.

Mark G:

Be honest with you.

Mark G:

I think it's done.

Mark G:

I think tick tock's 90 day whatever, they got it.

:

So wasn't the 90 days supposed to start as of the 19th?

Mark G:

The 17th or whatever it was?

Mark G:

It was the 17th, I think.

:

Was that the end of the 90 days or was that when the 90 days was supposed to start?

Mark G:

Start.

:

Okay, so they didn't really have to shut down like they did on Saturday night.

Mark G:

Yeah.

:

They could have waited another 90 days and then shut down the whole, the whole shutdown.

Mark G:

I was like, yeah, this is think.

:

It was a political stunt.

Mark G:

100%.

Mark G:

100%.

Mark G:

I hate these politicians.

Mark G:

We got to get all of them out.

JC:

Look at all that red.

:

So my wife.

Mark G:

You gotta get all the.

Mark G:

The President has nothing to say.

Mark G:

You gotta get the goddamn out that are making the laws.

Mark G:

Get them out because they suck.

Mark G:

All of them.

Mark G:

Democrats, Independents, Republicans, all of them, get them out.

:

So now, my wife did just send me a message.

:

She says it was written in the law that was passed that the president can extend it for 90 days as long as there's progress in getting done with what they want done.

:

And Biden said that he was going to leave it up to Trump.

:

So with that being said and the progress in getting done, do you think the CEO of TikTok, that's right now, during Trump's inauguration and party, do you think he's stated that there will be progress and that is why Trump is willing to do this now?

:

Who do you think is going to buy it?

:

Do you think it's a collection of tech gurus who are purchasing it here in America, or do you think it's going to be one individual tech guru or an investor?

:

What do you.

:

What are your assumptions on it?

JC:

If there's multiple people, the contract's going to get messy.

:

Right?

:

But you got to think that we got 25 billion.

Mark G:

I think it's going to be multiple people, right?

Mark G:

It's going to be one.

Mark G:

I'm not going to buy that.

:

Who has $25 billion right now to purchase TikTok?

:

What company in itself has $25 billion?

:

We know Elon Musk ain't even valued at 25 billion.

:

Is he?

:

Is he what?

:

What is he?

:

What's his net worth?

JC:

He's like a trillionaire.

:

Is he a trillionaire?

JC:

Yeah, I think he's worth like a trillion dollars.

:

Okay, so maybe he does rumble like one of the.

JC:

I don't know, like, Maybe it was SpaceX.

JC:

I don't know.

JC:

Let me see.

:

I don't think.

:

I don't think Mr.

:

Beast can be 25 billion.

:

He would have to pull in other investors.

JC:

Oh, sorry, no.

JC:

Elon Musk is $416 billion.

:

Okay, so, yeah, technically, Elon Musk.

:

Elon Musk is probably the only one, as an individual, that could purchase it.

Mark G:

Drain his bank account.

Mark G:

He trained his bank account.

Mark G:

Think about that.

JC:

So bezos is worth 233 million?

Mark G:

Not million.

:

We do not want Bezos.

JC:

Zuckerberg.

JC:

Zuckerberg is worth 200 billion.

:

MA can purchase it on their own, but do we want Mated to purchase it?

:

Because Made is such a monopoly as it is already, right?

:

Beta already owns multiple different companies.

:

Meta is also Facebook, Instagram, they're.

:

What, the WhatsApp.

:

WhatsApp.

:

They also have the Maida Quest.

:

I think that's on a separate branch as well.

:

Their VR headsets.

:

And now they also got glasses.

:

But I Think that's branded in with the meta quest.

:

So Maya would be a major monopoly to the American economy.

:

So I don't.

:

I don't think I want Mark Zuckerberg to own Tik Tok.

:

I'm waiting for J.C.

:

i can go.

Mark G:

So deep on this.

Mark G:

I can go so deep.

:

This is the pot talk.

:

Come on JC talk.

:

We are un.

:

We are not on Tik Tok right now.

Mark G:

Get off the whole billionaire.

Mark G:

Okay, Just cut all these off.

Mark G:

Just cut them off.

Mark G:

Who gives a.

Mark G:

We are all working Americans.

Mark G:

Right, right.

Mark G:

Them.

Mark G:

They've made way too goddamn much money off of the pretty much us, the working Americans.

Mark G:

Absolutely honest with you.

JC:

So every time you put money on Tick tock Tick tock gets half of it about it, right?

:

About 50.

:

Yeah, 50.

JC:

So that's absurd just right off the bat because if I put a hundred dollars on there to have as like my little monies to donate and throw at people Tick tock just right off the top scoops.

:

No, no.

:

So so basically what happens is say you load a hundred dollars on it, right?

:

If you were to purchase, we'll say off of iPhone the 100.

:

Right?

Mark G:

It depends on what you see, I think.

:

Yeah, it depends on what you see.

JC:

I put a hundred bucks on there.

JC:

Say Apple gets 2%.

JC:

So they get 2 bucks.

:

Yeah.

Mark G:

And then, yeah, 300 or whatever, 400 bucks.

Mark G:

Right, but it cost me X amount of dollars.

JC:

Yeah.

JC:

And then you give that to somebody and then whoever you give it to has to give half of that to Tick Tock.

JC:

Whatever, whatever the exchange is, wherever it takes place, is irrelevant.

JC:

The point is Tick Tock gets half of that money.

:

Right.

JC:

Just because.

JC:

That is absurd in my opinion.

JC:

If you go on the world, it's.

Mark G:

That's the world though, bubba.

Mark G:

Right?

:

I mean, it's the weight of it.

:

You can't.

:

You say it's absurd.

JC:

Your money, your money was already taxed 40 from the U.

JC:

S.

JC:

Government.

Mark G:

What is federal income tax?

JC:

A robbery thief.

:

Right?

:

I mean we, we can all sit.

Mark G:

There and say start it for to build up a war now.

Mark G:

Oh, I'm sorry,:

Mark G:

We, I.

Mark G:

We can do this for goddamn wars.

Mark G:

And now we still got this.

Mark G:

What are we doing?

JC:

It's taxation.

:

Taxations.

:

Well, Trump is talking about getting rid of federal tax.

JC:

Yeah, but a tariff is also a tax.

:

It is, but that's to the other countries that are already charging us tariffs of wild.

JC:

I'm telling you right now it's not because when the tariffs go up, it costs my company more money.

JC:

To bring in our product from overseas.

JC:

We are paying that tariff companies over here in the US that's what it's supposed to do.

JC:

The point of the tariff is supposed to encourage US Manufacturing.

JC:

Here's the kicker.

JC:

We manufacture here.

JC:

The raw material is still coming from China.

:

So we gotta get the raw material over here.

Mark G:

But why?

JC:

Because it's cheaper.

JC:

It's cheaper.

JC:

They make it in.

Mark G:

They.

Mark G:

Do we have it here in American Soul?

Mark G:

Do we have.

JC:

I don't know.

JC:

I don't know.

JC:

Because if we did, would we be.

JC:

Would we be mining in America for the lithium that we need for all the batteries for all of the Tesla cars, in all of the cell phones and all?

JC:

Do we though we don't have any lithium mines in America that I'm aware of.

Mark G:

Yeah, we might not have what they want.

Mark G:

We don't have any.

:

Right.

:

We're gonna have to work with some countries regardless.

:

There are certain countries that have certain materials that we absolutely need.

:

Right.

:

But there is a lot of stuff that we could make in here in America.

:

But the question is too, why is American products so much more than products we get from other countries?

:

Why can't we get it?

:

Cost of labor here is far more superior.

JC:

Yeah, the cost of labor here is too expensive.

JC:

So if everybody's getting paid bare minimum, 20 bucks an hour, where in Mexico they're getting paid what might be equivalent to four dollars an hour, two bucks an hour, Right?

JC:

So it's like, would you want to pay 40,000Americans a bare minimum of 20 bucks an hour?

JC:

Or would you want to pay 40, 000 people in another country where their cost of salary is two bucks an hour?

:

Right, Right.

JC:

Like, so that's where we're at.

JC:

Like, I'm a capitalist.

JC:

I like capitalism.

JC:

I like making money.

JC:

Right?

JC:

But we also have to, like, you have to break down, like, how many.

JC:

Like there was an interesting video that was talking about how many people are involved to make a pencil.

JC:

Where does the raw material for the rubber come from?

JC:

Where does the raw material for the wood come from?

JC:

Where does the raw material for the metal, Brad, that holds the eraser come from?

JC:

Where does the raw material for the lead or whatever the.

JC:

I don't think it's lead anymore, but the carbide that's in the pencil.

JC:

Where does all of that raw material come from?

JC:

And then that raw material has to get shipped out here, right?

JC:

It has.

JC:

So you have to get the raw material, and to get the raw material, you have to mine it, Then you have to process it to get it pure.

JC:

Then you have to package it.

JC:

So then there's packaging companies, then you have to ship it here.

JC:

Then once it's here, it has to be divvied out.

JC:

That has to be put into another process, which requires machinery.

JC:

Where were those machines made?

JC:

So it's like, if you think of how many people have to work together to make pencils, it's absurd, right?

JC:

And then if you look at everything that we're using right now, we have monitors, we have lights, we have desks, we have tables, we have microphones, we have sound boards, we have cameras.

JC:

We're all wearing clothing.

JC:

Like, how many people are involved in the process to get a shirt?

JC:

Where does the cotton come from?

JC:

Where does the polyester come from?

JC:

How many machines are there?

JC:

Where's it getting shipped?

JC:

How.

JC:

How's it getting packaged?

JC:

It's getting shipped from the, the raw material place to the factory, from the factory to the store or the warehouse.

JC:

From the warehouse to your house.

JC:

How many hands touch every single thing that we use every single day?

Mark G:

But can.

:

Why can't.

Mark G:

Why can we not do that in the USA and knock out all the.

JC:

So I honestly think it's.

JC:

It's the cost of labor.

JC:

I, I don't know realistically, if we have lithium and all of the rare metals that are required for a lot.

Mark G:

Of these things, I think we do.

Mark G:

In Colorado.

Mark G:

I think we do.

JC:

So here's the other part of the equation.

JC:

How, how many pollutants or how much damage are we willing to, in like, cause to our landscape, in our waterways in order to get that?

JC:

Like, how many pollutants are involved in mining and, and like, refining these things?

JC:

Because if you look at these other countries, like, it's a pretty dirty process, right?

JC:

Like, we stopped doing coal mining for the, for the, for the most part.

JC:

There's still quite a bit in West Virginia and all that, but it's like the cost to the human life is pretty big.

JC:

People come out with fucking black lung.

:

Right?

JC:

Right.

:

So it's like black lung, popcorn lung.

:

Right?

:

They got popcorn lung from it too.

JC:

So it's like, are we as a country, do, do we want our workers to work for less money to get this kind of damage to our bodies and to cause that kind of damage to our, to our soil?

JC:

And then from the, from the damage to the soil, how much does that affect, you know, farmland, waterways, the, the air quality in general?

Mark G:

Like the same.

Mark G:

People over there farming the same, though.

Mark G:

That's my thing, right?

:

They.

:

You gotta look at how they try to do the label people that look.

Mark G:

At how China are going overseas, just say China, right?

Mark G:

Just say Japan, wherever.

Mark G:

I don't know where the this gets mine from.

JC:

A lot of it is Africa.

JC:

A lot of it is China.

Mark G:

Yeah, but they still shipping Americans down there to do that?

JC:

No, they're not.

JC:

No, the Americans are not doing the labor.

JC:

You might have some American people going over there to oversee it, but they're not doing the work.

JC:

I mean, a bunch of people from Mississippi fly to Africa to work for $2 an hour.

:

And you get.

:

You got to look at China, too.

:

Look, China has suicide nets on their buildings because people jumping out of building United States.

JC:

You.

JC:

You can and you can't.

JC:

Like, you can't.

JC:

You can't grow rubber trees here to get rubber because we don't have the proper environment for it.

JC:

We just don't have the.

JC:

The appropriate climate.

Mark G:

Okay, then a rubber tree.

Mark G:

All right, so you're talking about a rubber tree.

Mark G:

Let's bump this to Jamaica, wherever the it's from.

Mark G:

I don't even know where it's from.

:

There's a rubber tree.

Mark G:

Now we start talking about all these companies.

Mark G:

Apple, prime example.

Mark G:

Apple.

JC:

Right.

Mark G:

Let's just do apples.

Mark G:

That's a hundred percent.

Mark G:

Could be done in America.

Mark G:

Where is Mark, by the way?

:

I'm right here, Booger.

JC:

Go.

:

You don't see me?

:

Can you hear me, jc?

Mark G:

No.

Mark G:

Hey, Gary.

Mark G:

He got.

JC:

He's.

JC:

He's right here.

:

I'm literally right here.

:

Jc.

Mark G:

I don't even see him over there.

JC:

He got my screen for a second, but.

JC:

Okay.

:

Can you not hear me?

Mark G:

Literally, I can hear you.

:

Okay.

Mark G:

Everything.

:

That's gonna be great.

Mark G:

Oh, Mark, I hear you.

Mark G:

There's a good thing.

Mark G:

But I just.

Mark G:

I'm trying to figure out, like, cars.

Mark G:

We don't need cars from other countries.

Mark G:

We don't.

Mark G:

We do our own.

JC:

But again, it's the cost of labor to produce it.

:

Right?

Mark G:

When has it gotten that bad?

JC:

Probably about a hundred years ago.

Mark G:

Yeah.

Mark G:

Pump the brakes.

Mark G:

Let's break it down.

Mark G:

Let's get this back, right?

Mark G:

Get our troops out of other countries.

Mark G:

Other countries.

Mark G:

Let's stop spending $175 billion in Ukraine.

Mark G:

Let's just throw that out there.

Mark G:

Get them back.

Mark G:

Get them back.

Mark G:

I would rather give $1 million to every American for that.

Mark G:

Stop taxing.

Mark G:

Stop taxing.

Mark G:

Because that's what is paying for that.

Mark G:

What we're doing right now is.

Mark G:

It's.

Mark G:

It's astronomical.

Mark G:

Get our back.

Mark G:

Let's reel it back, America, all of us, and be like, hey, I don't give a.

Mark G:

If it.

Mark G:

Whatever.

Mark G:

The president has nothing to say about it.

Mark G:

It's the Congress in the House.

Mark G:

Blah, blah, blah.

:

Right?

Mark G:

Bring that shit back.

Mark G:

Let's go.

Mark G:

Building cars here.

Mark G:

Only cars here.

Mark G:

Let's go.

:

Doesn't some of the Tesla products have made in China?

Mark G:

I mean, are scared of America?

Mark G:

Let's be honest.

Mark G:

They ain't coming on this.

Mark G:

I will kiss your ass in front of the courthouse.

Mark G:

If a American soul flow fights like somebody comes over here, drops down and they fight like red dawn just.

Mark G:

Let's just say happens and Red dawn happens.

Mark G:

They lost.

Mark G:

They lost.

JC:

Are you thinking.

JC:

Are you factoring in sleeper cells on this one?

:

Yeah, yeah.

Mark G:

I don't give a who we.

JC:

You better get some lipstick ready.

:

Better get that chapstick ready.

:

You better get your chapstick ready.

:

You're gonna be kissing the ass.

Mark G:

I can't hear you.

Mark G:

What?

:

You're gonna be kissing that ass.

:

JC Mark.

Mark G:

Go ahead.

Mark G:

See if I can hear you.

Mark G:

I.

Mark G:

I don't know.

JC:

Are you so drunk that you can't hear?

Mark G:

No.

Mark G:

Like my shit's up.

:

Gary, tell JC to scroll out and scroll back in.

:

Like scroll.

:

Close out the app and then come.

JC:

Back and come back in.

JC:

JC Back out and come back in.

Mark G:

Yep.

Mark G:

This is all I got.

:

Okay, good.

Mark G:

Hold on.

JC:

Close the link.

JC:

Close the link.

JC:

Come back in.

Mark G:

Me and Mark or our man Gary in there?

:

Yeah, I gotta go clean up a water mess real quick.

:

You two talk before he does that.

:

My son just spilled a whole water underneath his bed.

JC:

I think he's doing it right now because now he's.

JC:

Okay, go do your thing.

:

Okay, I'll be right back.

:

Just talk for a minute.

:

Gary.

:

Y'all, I'll be right back.

:

My son's screaming.

JC:

Okay, so since I'm the only one here and I'm not very economics and supply chain, is there anyone in the chat who is currently watching that knows anything about where raw materials are coming from or the manufacturing process for any of the products that we use every single day?

JC:

Because at least from my understanding, I kind of voiced it a little bit ago where cost of the labor here and getting everything imported and processed overseas is basically what makes it possible.

:

Life as a parent.

:

There.

:

There's no dull moment being a life as a parent.

JC:

So what just happened?

:

He dropped his in the night cup.

:

It rolled underneath his bed.

:

I told him to get it.

:

He said no.

:

The lid opened.

:

I don't know why.

:

That didn't mean he couldn't reach underneath his bed to grab it.

:

So dad reached underneath the bed to grab it, and I.

:

I think he's just overly reactive right now because I'm watching the baby monitor, and he's literally laying in his bed with his feet up against the wall.

:

He's just.

JC:

I can hear JC but I can't see him.

Mark G:

Now.

:

That's funny, because I can't hear JC hold on one second.

:

Let me see, folks.

:

Give me one second.

:

Let me see what's going on with J.C.

:

here.

:

All right, Let me go look over the thing real quick.

:

Hold on one second.

:

JC if you can hear me, hold on.

:

I'm gonna bring you in.

:

I'm gonna bring you in.

:

J.C.

:

give me one second.

:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens on a show.

:

I guess that this is not.

:

This is not my issue this time.

:

This is a JC issue, but we'll bring him in.

:

No JC this is a JC issue.

:

This is what happens when you drank prior to the show.

:

Too many drinky winks will make you up on the podcast.

:

But it's okay.

:

We'll fix it.

:

Those drinky winks right there, that just looks like straight up piss that he's drinking too.

:

And while his poor wife is back there working away in the kitchen and he is just getting slobbergasted, she even had to drive him home.

:

Do you know that, Gary?

:

She had to drive his ass home.

JC:

Got a little.

JC:

Got a little.

JC:

You need to get a Tesla, dude.

JC:

Just let your Tesla drive you home.

Mark G:

It'd be awesome.

:

But I did get a text message while we're doing this from Benji.

:

Benji has shared Mr.

:

Beast profile to me on tick tock.

:

Mr.

:

Beast profile on Tick Tock right now.

:

And.

:

And the section randomly through where it says follow message says, new CEO of Tik Tok, question mark.

Mark G:

Right?

:

That's on Mr.

:

Beast profile.

:

So that's kind of interesting.

:

Is that him just asking his people, hey, you want me to be the new CEO of Tik Tok?

:

Or is that him hinting that he may have a hand in purchasing?

:

A hand in purchasing the.

:

The app.

Mark G:

Look at all that Gary stuffing in his face.

:

Gary's always shoving meat in his face.

JC:

Meat and veggies.

JC:

Meat and veggies.

:

But let's talk about the inaugural.

:

Oh.

Mark G:

But I mean, y'all tell me you can't live on an American soul.

:

So my wife just said, whoops, sorry.

:

Hold on, J.C.

:

my wife just sent me a message.

:

My wife says, I think I saw an X post from him where he pulled it.

:

And Elon said, oh, wait, where he Pulled at Elon and he said, okay, I'll buy TikTok.

:

So, yeah, Mr.

:

Beast is talking about buying Tick Tock too.

:

Okay, yeah, yeah.

:

Now what are you saying?

Mark G:

Yeah, I don't think we can live on.

Mark G:

Just pull everybody out of every country, get them out.

Mark G:

We can't live off oil.

Mark G:

Are you kidding me?

Mark G:

What's produced in Texas and off the shores, blah, blah, blah.

Mark G:

All kinds of, we can't produce corn, we can't produce.

Mark G:

I mean, I know rednecks.

Mark G:

Let me just be honest with you.

Mark G:

I know rednecks, right?

Mark G:

A lot of them, A lot of them, they, they grow corn, cotton, soybeans, all that bullshit.

Mark G:

What are we missing?

Mark G:

What am I missing something?

Mark G:

What are.

Mark G:

What am I missing?

:

I think Gary's labor opinion and view is legit.

:

I think it is a labor cost because if you're paying x amount employees 20 bucks an hour to produce, that's fine.

Mark G:

You don't have to pay them that much if you suck it ball back in the United States.

Mark G:

I get what Gary's saying on the damn labor cost, okay?

Mark G:

You suck it back in and it's not gonna be the, the same labor cost.

Mark G:

It's not gonna be the same 725.

Mark G:

How do we live?

Mark G:

Just say 20 years ago, 30 years ago, when I was born, gas was 25 cents.

JC:

What I'm saying, it goes beyond, it goes beyond just the cost of labor.

Mark G:

It.

JC:

It really comes up with where the raw materials are coming from.

Mark G:

They can all come from the United States.

JC:

Everything we're getting know if that's 100 true.

JC:

I don't know if we have, what can we produce?

Mark G:

That's.

Mark G:

That's what I'm asking you.

JC:

I don't know the answer to that.

JC:

But I, Yeah, I, I feel pretty confident that we, we don't have.

JC:

And I don't think we have lithium.

JC:

Just as like a random example, I don't think we have lithium mines in America.

Mark G:

I think we do.

Mark G:

Well, we don't have mines, but I think we can get lithium from here.

:

You.

:

I'm over here searching.

:

Is lithium in the U.S.

:

yeah, I'm pretty sure Nevada is the only operating lithium mine in the United States.

:

However, lithium is found all over the country, including states like North Carolina and California.

Mark G:

There you go.

Mark G:

I mean, we're not.

Mark G:

Our potential.

Mark G:

You see what I'm saying?

:

Right?

:

But then, then again, you're looking at the thing as Gary say is trying to protect our own land where China, Africa and all them have kind of already destroyed their company with all this mining and stuff going on for them to get the raw material.

Mark G:

I get it.

Mark G:

We have sucked from other countries so much that they're ready to fight, man.

Mark G:

I mean it's, it's, it's a battle.

Mark G:

That's why we're at where we at right now.

Mark G:

The wars that are fixed to happen is because of our right.

:

Oh, exactly.

:

Like oil.

:

One of the biggest reasons why we went over in Iraq was for oil.

:

It's a big oil fight.

:

There was no weapons of mass destruction.

Mark G:

We don't need them.

Mark G:

We got a biggest.

Mark G:

If you look at the map per general, like just, just Google the maps, space them out and say, oh, Saudi Arabia.

Mark G:

No, America's got the most bullshit that you can ever ask for.

Mark G:

Like they got all, they got gas, they got all this bullshit.

Mark G:

This is random.

Mark G:

It might be out of Oregon.

Mark G:

Gas might be out of Mississippi.

Mark G:

I don't know.

Mark G:

I'm just spitballing, but I'm just saying.

JC:

So if we do we.

JC:

So let's say hypothetically America has every single mineral possible.

JC:

Let's just say we.

JC:

So say we have 85 of them, right?

JC:

So say we have 80, 80 to 85% minerals and raw materials and stuff like that.

JC:

Is, is it worth mining in America if it destroys the landscape, the environment, waterways and things of that nature?

Mark G:

Look at what it's doing already.

Mark G:

I mean, we ain't drilling, we ain't doing nothing.

Mark G:

So you'd rather ruin another country?

JC:

I'm not saying I would rather anything.

JC:

I'm saying is it, is it worth so?

JC:

Is it worth so?

JC:

This is, I think the reason we do these things, right, is because the scars.

Mark G:

Idiots.

JC:

Well, they're underdeveloped, right?

JC:

They're underdeveloped countries and they have raw material.

JC:

So you know, it's being exploited.

JC:

That's what's happening.

JC:

They're exploiting raw natural resources in other countries.

JC:

Is it worth doing that here with the cost of damage to the natural environment?

JC:

So if your water, if all the waterways in America end up like how they are in India where they are tainted and full of chemicals and all the, the wildlife in them die and then everything within a 12 mile radius of the Mississippi river is dead, that's okay because we'll have lithium.

Mark G:

Hey, but my thing is, okay, so we're drilling in Africa and we stop drilling and say, hey, we're going to throw some tariffs on you for your drilling.

Mark G:

That we are drilling.

Mark G:

We are drilling.

JC:

Well, we're not putting tariffs on Africa, we're putting tariffs on China.

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In Russia.

JC:

And Russia.

Mark G:

And Canada.

Mark G:

And Canada.

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Yes, that's right.

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Canada now.

JC:

Yeah.

:

But hey, they're gonna be our 51st day, remember?

Mark G:

I'm just saying, just say hypothetical, I was drilling in damn Africa.

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Right.

Mark G:

And now we're gonna put tariffs on you.

Mark G:

Hey, y'all ruined our land and you're gonna tear.

Mark G:

Because eventually it's got to stop.

Mark G:

Eventually something's got to stop.

JC:

Oh, I mean, whatever trajectory is happening right now is not sustainable.

Mark G:

Right.

Mark G:

I mean, you get what I, I.

JC:

Fully understand what you're saying.

JC:

The, the, the, the devaluation of the dollar when they printed 80% of our fucking currency in the past four years, that's what has been the major driver for inflation in the recent years.

JC:

I couldn't speak to what's been happening over the last 30 years causing whatever massive inflation we've seen.

JC:

But I hear what you're saying.

JC:

My question is there's, it's a multi pronged question, I guess.

JC:

So it's like what, what has spawned all of the gathering of these natural resources from countries like, like Africa or China or whatever?

JC:

Is it specifically for the cost of the labor and the, the lower cost of the product?

JC:

Or is it partly because we don't necessarily want to destroy our landscape because we have so many regulations and rules for like clean water, clean air, lack of pollution.

JC:

We don't want toxic, we don't want toxins in our waterways killing our fish, killing our wildlife.

JC:

Like, I don't know what the biggest.

Mark G:

I'm an avid hunter.

Mark G:

That's gonna happen, right?

Mark G:

So if regardless, we go over there, over here, it's gonna happen.

JC:

What's gonna happen?

JC:

Our waterways are going to be polluted.

Mark G:

Yeah, 100%.

Mark G:

It's not far from it.

Mark G:

100.

JC:

So you think the quality of the Mississippi river right now is the same?

Mark G:

The Mississippi river is nasty, right?

JC:

It might be nasty.

JC:

But imagine, imagine if it was worse.

Mark G:

I don't know if it can.

Mark G:

It's going to get worse.

JC:

But what if it was full of like, you know, these, whatever these quote unquote forever chemicals are.

JC:

That's in the plastics.

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Thank you so much.

Mark G:

I'm example, I'm off to Mississippi.

Mark G:

I wish I could smell my water right now.

Mark G:

It smells like straight chlorine.

Mark G:

Interesting.

JC:

So now imagine if your water caught on fire like it was doing in Flint, Michigan a handful of years ago.

Mark G:

I, yeah, Flint, Michigan was a different.

JC:

But that's, that's, that's the level that I'm talking about.

JC:

So imagine, imagine if what was happening in Flint, Michigan happened in every household across the entire country because we wanted to do raw materials here.

Mark G:

We got people that run it or like dump pollutions in.

Mark G:

They're.

Mark G:

They're like dump Clorox or whatever.

Mark G:

The, they dump in a water to make it purified.

JC:

Well, they, they didn't do that.

JC:

Right.

JC:

So you're, you're talking so why.

JC:

I don't know who's, who's getting lost.

Mark G:

They wanted to make money.

JC:

Like I hear what you're saying.

Mark G:

It is what it is.

Mark G:

But Flint, Michigan dropped the ball and they got caught.

Mark G:

It's like Jackson, Mississippi Google that about their water.

Mark G:

Jackson only Jackson Google that billions of dollars have been stolen out of the damn whole fund.

Mark G:

And they never fixed a pipe.

JC:

Yeah.

JC:

So there's beyond corruption.

Mark G:

So now everybody's bull water nose.

Mark G:

I'm like, come on man, you could have fixed this long time ago.

JC:

America has a lot of problems.

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I say, I think we can all agree right now that America has a shitload of issues and we got to figure out how to make our products.

:

Even if we got to get materials from other countries, how can we make this stuff a little bit cheaper for everybody to bring our economy back to where it was at so everybody can start affording goods and food and everything else.

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That's what we truly need to get done.

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And that is why.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Everybody is about making money.

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Right?

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But at the same.

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Everybody is about making money.

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But.

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And it is, it really is.

:

It's insane.

Mark G:

Frustrates me.

Mark G:

Get your politicians out of the office.

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I'm a, I'm a firm believer of a term limits on everybody that's in office.

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I believe we should have term limits on our congressman.

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Yeah.

Mark G:

Four years max.

Mark G:

I go, I would, I would even years.

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I would go even further than the four years I would, I would give them.

:

So a president's got a.

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No, no, listen, listen, listen.

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No listen.

:

All right, you say it, but listen.

:

Okay, so listen.

:

They do run our country, right?

:

But four years, that doesn't even give the run through the full presidency.

:

We'd be out of people to run office.

Mark G:

Joe Biden would be great if you had a damn good House and Senate behind.

:

So.

:

So the problem is if you went with the four years that you did, you'd be switching out your Congress, your, your Senate and your House before presidency's over with.

:

If a president was elected for a second term, you got eight years.

:

So he's going to get a whole new House and Senate is what you're saying.

:

You're all set with a president to get a whole new House and Senate.

JC:

So hold on.

JC:

Can I, can I play devil's advocate on this one?

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Go for it.

:

Okay, we can argue now.

:

So go for it.

JC:

No, no.

JC:

So, so I hear you and I, I, I agree and I disagree.

JC:

So the problem is the corruption, right?

JC:

That's the problem.

:

They can't, they shouldn't buy stocks when they're in there neither.

JC:

That's, that's irrelevant.

JC:

That this goes without saying.

JC:

100.

Mark G:

What kind of corrupts you go get in four years.

JC:

So no, here's my, so here's my point.

JC:

Say, hey, here's my point to counter.

Mark G:

That Congress in there for 50 years.

Mark G:

Hold on, Let me.

Mark G:

Nancy Pelosi can't even walk to the goddamn style she needs to kick off.

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Goddamn.

Mark G:

There's a Republican that can't walk to the front court.

Mark G:

Come on, man.

JC:

And wasn't there one that was in a.

JC:

One was in like a nursing home for six months and they didn't even know.

:

Right, Mindy?

Mark G:

Exactly.

JC:

So, yeah.

JC:

So that's.

JC:

Okay, so hold on.

Mark G:

Americans don't know that.

JC:

So let's take it back.

JC:

Let's take it back for the blurp.

JC:

So maybe age limit terms for sure.

JC:

Because once you get past a certain thing, for sure, get out.

JC:

Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

JC:

How long does it take for somebody to be really good at their job?

Mark G:

If you ain't mastered your job in five years, you need to be fired anyway.

JC:

Okay, so it takes five years to reach mastery.

JC:

The golden rule is 10,000 hours, which is about eight years.

JC:

That's usually what it says.

JC:

Right.

JC:

So 10,000 hours is the general rule of thumb for mastery of a craft.

JC:

Okay, so hold on.

JC:

So is it that we need to get them out?

JC:

Hold on.

JC:

Do we need to get them out every four years or eight years?

JC:

Or do we let them master their job?

JC:

But we what, we audit where every single penny goes, so that way we know there's no mismanagement of funds.

JC:

It's the corruption and it's the mismanagement of funds that's the problem.

JC:

It's not that in their job for too long.

JC:

That's what I'm saying.

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Audits.

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And that's why I like Doge.

JC:

If you have something like Doge or somebody or something that has a line item audit where every single dollar is spent, I feel like that.

JC:

And if, like, if $22 billion goes missing, they're out.

JC:

Everybody on that cabinet is gone.

Mark G:

Now, if $22 billion goes missing, guess what it's because the Senate took it.

JC:

So this is what I'm saying.

JC:

We don't have an audit, we don't have an audience.

Mark G:

Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas.

Mark G:

Look at his page.

Mark G:

Just Google that right now.

Mark G:

Say when he came in, see when he came out.

Mark G:

All right, now I'm gonna give you Bernie Sanders.

Mark G:

Google that.

Mark G:

He's independent.

Mark G:

He's independent from Delaware, I think.

Mark G:

Google Nancy Pelosi.

Mark G:

She is a die hard liberal.

Mark G:

Google it.

Mark G:

It's astronomical what you're gonna see.

Mark G:

They don't give a about us boys.

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No, they don't.

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They care about themselves.

JC:

Right?

JC:

So it's corruption.

JC:

It.

JC:

So the corruption is going unchecked and.

Mark G:

That'S why we trying.

Mark G:

Why do you want to keep and stay longer?

Mark G:

I'm saying eight years.

Mark G:

I'm saying, hey, if a president of the country, the country that we live in, the God bless we live in eight years.

Mark G:

All right?

Mark G:

That's the most you can stay.

Mark G:

Right?

Mark G:

Am I right?

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Right.

Mark G:

Bernie Sanders, how long has he been in?

Mark G:

Nancy Pelosi, how long has she been in?

JC:

Far too long.

Mark G:

Roger.

Mark G:

Roger Wicker, who's from Mississippi, might I add, how long has he been?

:

Far too long.

:

But here's right.

:

So I get what Gary's saying about playing devil's advocate.

Mark G:

I do think I get what Gary's saying.

Mark G:

Right.

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Get it now I get what you're saying and I think this is the reason why.

:

I think this is the reason why DOGE is going to be so good for our government.

:

Right?

:

Because Doge is going to be an outside source from our government looking in to see where the spending is.

:

And I believe to have somebody manage the money that our government's dealing with and the stuff we need outside agencies versus I don't want the House and Senate to look at the money.

:

They shouldn't be touching it.

:

It should be an outside source that we hire to look into this, which we're not.

JC:

It's essentially like an escrow company.

:

Yes, exactly.

:

That would be phenomenal if we had an outside source doing that.

:

I think it'd be a lot better my money.

Mark G:

And I get it.

Mark G:

I try to corrupt them motherfuckers everywhere I can.

Mark G:

I don't want a government.

Mark G:

And I think if people finally wouldn't do what I'm doing and if the more money you make, the more money they take trying to Jew out of you.

Mark G:

See what I'm saying?

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Right?

Mark G:

I go to an X amount and I'm like, all right, I'll pay them $30,000 a year, boom.

Mark G:

And that's what I'm gonna get to.

Mark G:

Last year was 77.

Mark G:

I was like, oh, we should have bought two cars.

Mark G:

I could buy vehicle and get 100 write off.

Mark G:

That's stupid.

Mark G:

Think about it.

Mark G:

Think about that.

Mark G:

Let me turn my phone off.

:

I was wondering.

:

I'm like, I'm not getting no notifications on my end.

:

What the.

Mark G:

But do you see what I'm saying?

Mark G:

I mean if you did right by Americans they wouldn't you in the wrong long run.

Mark G:

I, I really truly believe 100 of Americans would not you in the long run.

:

No.

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If you did the Americans right and you treated Americans and stopped worrying about third world countries would be golden.

:

Our country is.

:

I will agree that I.

:

The American politicians are more focused for our veterans.

Mark G:

Like at least have a meal.

Mark G:

Don't sit on a Bridgeway and not eat 100.

Mark G:

Dude, we could, we could get goddamn veterans at least.

Mark G:

Military veterans at least.

Mark G:

Let's just start there.

Mark G:

There's.

Mark G:

I don't know how many Google that Mark.

Mark G:

How many veterans are there that are, that are homeless?

:

I can tell you that the, the number of 22 a day has gone up.

:

That is right.

:

So if you look at the veterans right now.

Mark G:

Right.

:

So one veteran number that I know is, is there's a saying of 22 veterans take their life every single day.

:

Because the mental health institution for the VA is horrible.

:

Right.

:

So and that's horrible.

:

But that number is even higher now.

:

I think it's up to like 36 veterans a day, if not higher that taking their own life.

:

Yeah.

:

And it's because of the VA system.

:

So horrible right now.

:

And the mental health of our veterans are horrible.

:

And they're not trying any experimental progress to help our veterans out.

:

Like look at Joe Rogan's talking about using mushrooms and stuff.

Mark G:

That was on a submarine.

Mark G:

That works for me.

Mark G:

I got him on my health plan benefits and all that work.

Mark G:

That works for me because he could not get in.

Mark G:

Every time he came, went to the va, he had a heart attack at work.

Mark G:

That's one of my cooks that I told you about.

Mark G:

I was like, hey, I got issues.

Mark G:

I got.

Mark G:

I couldn't make it.

Mark G:

He had a heart attack.

Mark G:

He goes there.

Mark G:

When they came and picked him up, I was like, take his ass.

Mark G:

Ummc.

Mark G:

I'll pay it.

:

But to go to what you were saying there, J.C.

:

all right.

:

We've given how much money to Ukraine billions of dollars right out of those.

:

Okay.

:

e dealt with as Of January of:

Mark G:

They would be millionaires.

Mark G:

That'd be millionaires.

:

Those, those veterans could have absolutely had a home built for them and said, here, thank you for your service.

:

Here's a home for you and your family.

:

You know, we're taking care of you.

Mark G:

No mortgage this country.

Mark G:

I would not hold that against you.

Mark G:

I would be like, yep, that right there.

Mark G:

He ain't got to work.

:

And the sad part is it's, it's organizations that are doing this for these veterans, but they don't have enough money to work off donations.

:

Right.

:

So they can only do X amount of homes for.

Mark G:

Ukraine.

:

No, I, listen, I do not disagree with you on this.

:

I 100% agree with you that we should be doing this.

Mark G:

I, I get, I get really hot about this.

Mark G:

That's one thing.

Mark G:

I get really hot about giving my taxes.

Mark G:

I like, I quit paying taxes.

:

Our taxes, our taxes should be spent on American soil for Americans, for our veterans and so forth.

:

I agree with that 100%.

:

It's just like we had a governor here in Maine.

:

I, I, I wish I could remember before this.

:

Janet Mills is in.

:

I can't remember his name, but he was a great veteran because one of the things he did was he wanted Maine to stop dishing out so much money into welfare.

:

And the way that he did it was worked out a welfare program for people saying, listen, you can be on welfare, but you're only on it for X amount.

:

And then you got to get a job and then you got to work.

:

I have no, no, I have no problem welfare neither.

:

I do have a problem with people that want to do lifetime welfare and work.

:

If you can work, you should work.

Mark G:

Nowadays, it's like, oh, my God, I'd rather sit on my couch and smoke dope.

:

Right?

:

Paula Page, my wife, said, because, listen, I'm the first person.

:

And here, here's some, here's a fun tip I haven't told you yet, J.C.

:

really, so I'm hoping I can get to the story.

:

I'm not sure how much of a story I can get to with them, but Tuesday, I'm filming another podcast that will be aired about a week later with Howie Mandel.

Mark G:

With me.

:

No, without you.

:

I'm gonna be on a podcast with Howie Mandel.

Mark G:

He's a germaphobe, by the way.

:

Yes, he absolutely is, which is going to be great.

:

I'm going to try with him, along with Harlan Williams.

:

It's a new show that they're still.

:

But listen, besides that, that's a fun one.

:

But my story's unique, right?

:

My story is unique because I was somebody who was on the welfare system, and I had to fight my ass off to get where I'm at today to be able to buy my home and be off welfare.

:

But I.

:

I see the sense and the need of welfare.

:

It does help out families and it helps them, but that's what it's a tool for poor.

:

It's a tool to help them get off their.

:

Get on their feet and make it uncivilized.

:

Right?

Mark G:

There's.

Mark G:

Here in Mississippi.

Mark G:

You don't need the.

Mark G:

And now they're talking about another stimulus check coming out.

Mark G:

Y'all see that?

:

No.

Mark G:

Yeah.

:

Why do we need another stimulus?

:

What the.

:

A stimulus gonna do?

Mark G:

It's coming out in week, two, week or two.

Mark G:

Google that.

:

I did not hear about no extra stimulus.

:

What the.

:

Americans don't need another stimulus check.

Mark G:

We're going broke, boys.

:

Right?

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Small.

Mark G:

Telling you.

Mark G:

Because we're stupid.

:

So we're like, we are so smalls.

:

Just posted on Discord.

:

He says he's going, so can someone explain why China's cost of living is so low, but they are thriving?

Mark G:

Because they all like, iPhone, where's it from?

Mark G:

China.

Mark G:

Batteries.

Mark G:

China, right?

:

They get all of our money.

Mark G:

Yeah, they get all our money.

:

But the funny part is, the weird part is those.

:

How much monies does the CCP take from their citizens, though?

JC:

So they are the ccp.

JC:

Well, China is a.

JC:

They are a capitalist country, but they're an authoritarian country.

JC:

So they're like.

JC:

They have a very interesting setup.

JC:

I'm not pro China, by the way, but they do have a very interesting setup.

JC:

They are.

JC:

They are an authoritarian country.

JC:

They are under constant surveillance, right?

JC:

They have their social credit score.

JC:

They have all of these things, right?

JC:

Keeping the.

JC:

Keeping their.

JC:

Their people in check.

JC:

But they're also a very capitalistic country.

JC:

So there's a lot of people who are like, their middle class is thriving.

JC:

There's a lot of people who run their own small businesses, and they make more than enough money to survive.

JC:

And I'm assuming that that's because.

Mark G:

Look at their small business, Mark.

Mark G:

I mean, Gary, look at their small business.

Mark G:

What are they making?

Mark G:

Just say 200,000, $300,000 a year.

JC:

Like the equivalent.

JC:

They're equivalent to, like, our currency.

Mark G:

Google.

Mark G:

Watch it.

Mark G:

It's astronomical.

Mark G:

You're like, wow.

JC:

Well, I think a lot of it has to do with when Clinton put I can't remember what it was.

JC:

Whatever Clinton put in place in the 90s, we've American NAFTA.

JC:

Right, NAFTA.

JC:

So when.

JC:

When NAFTA.

JC:

When NAFTA.

JC:

When NAFTA was enacted and put into play, we, we.

JC:

Our companies shifted all of our manufacturing over there and we built.

Mark G:

We didn't shift.

Mark G:

We moved.

Mark G:

Because it was cheaper to go over there.

JC:

Yes.

:

Yeah.

JC:

And that's what I'm saying.

JC:

It was the.

JC:

The cost of labor was cheaper.

JC:

But kind of going back to your point earlier, everything when it was made over here, it was like the corporations.

JC:

Okay, so the corporations margins might have been less than they are billion.

Mark G:

Nobody should be a billionaire.

Mark G:

I'm a firm believer.

Mark G:

Nobody should be a billionaire.

Mark G:

I want everybody to make millions.

Mark G:

If you can make it, Mark, I hope you make it.

Mark G:

Gary, I hope you make it.

Mark G:

But nobody should.

Mark G:

Should be billionaires.

Mark G:

Billion with a B.

Mark G:

That's stout.

JC:

If, if somebody's a billionaire, they have to be doing something that's like changing the world.

Mark G:

And they.

Mark G:

I'm sorry.

JC:

And a lot of the billionaires are not doing enough to change the world.

JC:

Let's be honest about that.

JC:

Right?

JC:

Like Elon is changing the world.

JC:

He's changing rocket technology.

JC:

He's got neural link.

Mark G:

He's got boring company to sweat shops in China and Mexico.

JC:

Yeah.

Mark G:

And they're paying $2 an hour.

Mark G:

Okay, great.

Mark G:

And now we want to do minimum wage here at is 725 right now.

Mark G:

But they're trying to move it up to like 15.

Mark G:

No, no.

:

That's gonna destroy a lot of small businesses.

JC:

So it's like, that's the thing that's kind of crazy.

JC:

Yeah.

Mark G:

Pull everything back.

Mark G:

You got to pull everything back.

Mark G:

We can make everything here in the usa, facts.

Mark G:

It's a fact.

Mark G:

We can make everything here.

Mark G:

I guess I got.

Mark G:

Dude, I get so mad about.

Mark G:

I'm $4 to bowl a game.

Mark G:

All right.

Mark G:

I'm the cheapest entertainment in probably United States.

Mark G:

Google what it takes to bowl a single game in just say California.

JC:

Hold on, I'm gonna look up how much it is here.

Mark G:

Yeah, I'm $4 a game.

:

I thought you're gonna say you're $4 on the corner.

:

I was gonna say, damn, you are cheap.

Mark G:

No, $4 a game.

JC:

Okay, so it's six.

JC:

Hold on.

JC:

So between six and $7 per person per game here, depending on.

JC:

Depending on the day and depending on every day.

Mark G:

I'm $4 every day, every hour you open.

Mark G:

All right, I'm $4, 425 sorry.

Mark G:

425.

Mark G:

Don't forget.

Mark G:

I was 75.

Mark G:

I was 275 eight years ago.

:

Now, my question is.

:

I.

:

That's a great price.

:

But now you.

:

I know you probably don't make much on the bowl, and.

:

But you're probably making more off your food and beverages inside of there, though, right?

:

That's probably where you're making more of a food.

Mark G:

My food's 30%, just like any.

Mark G:

It doesn't matter if it's damn.

Mark G:

California, New Mexico.

:

Right.

:

It's a 30% up mark on.

:

Right.

Mark G:

30%.

Mark G:

That's what I do.

Mark G:

Liquor is.

JC:

Liquor's the money.

JC:

Yeah, Li.

JC:

Liquor's the.

:

Liquor's the money.

:

Yeah, liquor is the money.

JC:

Hey, but that's.

JC:

That's not even just him.

JC:

That's.

:

That is everybody.

:

Single bar, everybody.

JC:

Every single place ever.

JC:

The liquor is what makes money, what.

Mark G:

Every place does on liquor.

Mark G:

Now, California's gonna be a little difference, but I like, just say prime example.

Mark G:

Guy came in to me and he said, hey, what.

Mark G:

Can I buy this whole.

Mark G:

What the damn name of the wine?

Mark G:

It starts with A.

Mark G:

It's like Absent.

Mark G:

I can't remember.

:

Is it a bottle of Absent?

Mark G:

No, you.

:

What alcohol?

JC:

Is it an Al.

JC:

Is it a liquor?

Mark G:

Yeah, no, it's.

Mark G:

It's.

Mark G:

It's wine, but.

:

Oh, it's wine.

JC:

Oh.

JC:

Know anything about wine?

Mark G:

Yeah.

Mark G:

I cannot.

:

All right, we'll just say it's a bottle of wine.

Mark G:

J.C.

Mark G:

it's a bottle of wine.

Mark G:

I charged $7 a glass.

Mark G:

He's like, that's the best price.

Mark G:

He came from California.

Mark G:

He's like, that's the best price I've ever had.

Mark G:

That's apothic.

:

Apoth.

:

I've seen that in the.

Mark G:

He got.

Mark G:

He was like, I want to buy the whole bottle.

Mark G:

I was like, well, I mean, there's usually four glasses.

Mark G:

It's 28 bucks.

Mark G:

I was like, I give it 26 bucks.

Mark G:

He's like, deal.

Mark G:

He pays $60 for it in California.

Mark G:

What the, man?

Mark G:

That's.

Mark G:

I was like, holy shit.

Mark G:

I was like, I paid.

JC:

California has, like.

JC:

I think it's an 11% sales tax.

Mark G:

It's stupid.

JC:

Yeah.

JC:

When.

JC:

When I went to California, like, I do zins, right?

JC:

I do Zen.

JC:

When I went to California, I get a.

JC:

I get a thing, as in for four bucks.

JC:

It's four bucks a can here.

JC:

And I think it was 11 or some when I was in California for one.

:

So you're saying this says four bucks a ten for you in California.

JC:

Four bucks.

:

That right there in Maine is eight dollars and change that.

:

Maine has one of the highest sales tax on tobacco products.

:

Well, it's not tobacco, but they consider tobacco products.

Mark G:

Same exact, same exact price.

JC:

Same, same exact product.

:

Yeah, you can buy cigarettes.

JC:

So this is $8 in Maine.

:

Yeah.

:

So like if I.

:

Yeah.

:

And if I go to Massachusetts, right.

:

And try to buy my wife her cigarettes banned everywhere.

Mark G:

These right here are banned everywhere.

Mark G:

And I'm good.

Mark G:

But.

:

And in Maine for.

:

Well, in Maine I can buy my wife a carton of smokes for about 100 bucks, right?

:

A pack of a pack.

:

A pack of her cigarettes is right around $8 a pack.

:

Now let you think that's high.

:

I haven't got there yet.

:

Go down two borders from new to Massachusetts for a pack of cigarettes.

:

In Massachusetts for Marlboro's is right around 14 a pack.

Mark G:

Yeah.

:

God damn.

Mark G:

But why?

Mark G:

But why?

JC:

And I'm paying four bucks for these.

JC:

And I'm like, this is an expensive.

:

They're taxing the hell out of people.

:

And it's funny because, right.

:

They always.

:

Here's a funny thing about the local governments.

:

So they always tax the.

:

Out of tobacco products.

:

But now go into the liquor factor and think about, they barely tax liquor.

:

They tax it, but they don't tax it as crazy as they do with tobacco products.

Mark G:

Way worse for you.

Mark G:

I'll go ahead and tell you this right here is way worse than this hundred.

:

100%.

:

I have no denying.

:

No 100% is way worse than that.

:

Alcohol kills way more people than they do vape.

:

They're trying to ban all flavored vape and I'm a former vaper and I was against that.

:

And it's insane to me because I go to the store, right.

:

Vape's not going to kill as many people as alcohol does.

:

Right.

:

Alcohol kills people from drinking and driving.

:

It kills people from alcohol overdose.

:

You can overdose on alcohol.

JC:

Oh, yeah.

:

It kills people from domestic abuse because people who get drunk will go out and cause domestic abuse and beat the living out of their spouse or whoever else.

:

It causes so much damage.

:

But yet they won't talk about that aspect.

:

And I can go right now to any liquor store and I've got cotton candy, vodka, I've got chocolate moonshine.

Mark G:

Put this on.

Mark G:

Tick tock, you're out.

:

Yeah, it's just ridiculous to me.

:

It's ridiculous to me on how they attack people.

Mark G:

I'm like, God damn it, here I go again.

Mark G:

I got banned for seven days for this.

JC:

Because you were hitting it.

JC:

Because you were hitting it.

Mark G:

Yeah, just if I didn't.

Mark G:

That's why I always hit off the side.

Mark G:

It.

Mark G:

I'm done now, right?

Mark G:

So this right here, I can sit there and drink this summit.

Mark G:

It's like a damn water.

:

I do have another question on Discord and I'll answer this one because I don't think JC and Gary knows this, but Smalls was asking, hey, can someone tell me why we can't see lives on Tick Tock of our friends in other countries?

:

So as of right now, you're unable to see live streams and you're unable to go live in the United States because of.

:

Here's what.

:

What happens when TikTok shut down their servers.

:

When TikTok shuts down.

:

JC, will you let me explain?

:

Shut your mouth for a second.

:

Suck on your bottle.

:

Okay, so listen, when TikTok shut down their servers, it was like flipping a switch.

:

It shut it down instantly.

:

And when you shut it down for as long as they did, it deleted everything from the world wide web.

:

It's like buying a brand new domain domain.

:

So it takes time for everything to register up.

:

Now Tick Tock has to slowly roll back all the services so we're unable to see any live streams and so forth.

:

Unable to go live because it's still registering throughout the services throughout the US and we probably won't see anything until 24 to 48 hours before anything as far as viewing live streams and going Live stream works, it's because it's still registering throughout the servers and that's what's happening with that jc which equals Tick Tock.

:

But I'm just.

:

That's the, that's the reason why you're.

Mark G:

Unable to see life Tick Tock.

JC:

Yeah, I mean I deleted it and I really didn't, I didn't use it much.

JC:

I really used it for, for our, for the podcast.

Mark G:

That's it.

JC:

And I would, I would check it every few days.

JC:

Like it just wasn't.

JC:

I don't know.

JC:

I like Instagram, I like X, I like Reddit.

:

See, I like Tik Tok is because, listen, I am, I'm a social person, right?

:

So what I liked about the aspect of the app was I was able to get social on there.

:

I was able to go live, do videos, do these battles with people, get to meet new people.

:

I wasn't always about like, hey, give me all your cash, give me.

:

I wasn't really like that.

:

It's great, Great, right?

:

Because I helped build my studio.

:

But.

:

And the simple math is I liked it because I was Able to meet new people, meet interesting people.

:

And a lot of these people I've met, I've become personal friends with and we got freaking contacts with them, we got numbers, we do a lot of fun.

:

That's why I started doing a lot more game streaming because I just want to have fun.

Mark G:

That's how I met you, Mark.

:

And that's what I like about the app is it builds that friendship and some of the good things that the app.

:

The app does have its good, but it also has its bad.

:

The algorithm is scary as.

:

The.

:

The algorithm is scary as and how well it does.

Mark G:

I think that's what shot him around right there.

Mark G:

I think that's what got it banned.

:

Yeah.

:

And the algorithm is scary as, right, because the question is too, does bite dance?

:

Well, we can go back to the banning wise now too.

:

Did the reason why it got banned was number one, folks.

:

Remember Trump did try sh.

:

Shutting down TikTok at one point during his first administration.

:

He tried to shut it down, it got shot down.

:

The Democrats said, no, no, we're not getting rid of it.

:

It was voted out.

:

They did not ban it.

:

And then what happened was during the invasion of Israel, when Hamas invaded Israel and started murdering and slaughtering people and the war started, people got more live streams of anti Israel.

Mark G:

Which we shouldn't been in, right?

:

No, we shouldn't have been in.

:

But I'm just saying.

:

But what I'm saying though is, what I'm saying though is once that happened when you opened up Tik Tok, most live streams you saw were pro Hamas live streams.

:

People were pushing out, they were pushing out Hamas, pro Hamas live streams.

:

And then that's when the Democrats and the Republicans came together, said, whoa, what the fuck, we're pro Israel.

:

Why the fuck are we all seeing all these pro Hamas live streams now?

:

And then all of a sudden it was time to ban TikTok because they're looking at the algorithm going, OK, wait, if they can push out this shit here, if they can push out pro Hamas and make every American see these pro Hamas live streams, this is some scary fucking shit.

:

So they can control what we see.

:

So they just don't want the propaganda that China could sit there and say, oh no, we want this to be pushed, right?

:

Because they part, they call out election interference and like that.

:

So they're like, wait a minute, if they could push this out, that's dangerous.

:

And I agree, that is dangerous.

:

So how do we come across to try to get this algorithm so it doesn't push out that type of.

:

And we had that problem with Instagram.

:

Look at all the teenage.

:

Oh, dear God.

:

Look at all the teenage.

:

I can't be serious.

:

When you got a damn dog in the screen.

:

Look at all the teenage girls that committed suicide back in the day because of Instagram, right?

:

Instagram was.

:

Yeah, all the filters, all these, like, models and stuff like that.

:

And these teenage girls who may not be that popular in high school are seeing these.

:

They try to be like these models they see, but in all reality they can't.

:

Right?

:

They just can't.

:

So they see that, they're like, oh.

:

And they think their life's in the dumps.

:

They don't think they have a worth, so they take their own life.

:

And that's scary as fuck.

:

We're putting this shit on our youth and that's scary.

:

We do need to focus on how we protect our fucking children.

:

As a father of four boys and one daughter, I'm scared for the future of my children.

:

And I do wonder, how do we protect our children?

:

And that's what we should absolutely be fighting for.

:

Should we be fighting for ourselves?

:

Maybe just a little bit, but we should be fighting more for the children because the children are our fucking future.

:

And we do need to leave something for our fucking kids.

:

And by having these apps telling our kids this.

:

And listen, folks, I'm all about bullying.

:

I'm sorry, I am.

:

I think bullying builds characters on fucking people.

:

And I'm not against bullying.

:

I was bullied in school.

:

I'm still here and I'm still living.

:

Once in a while, bully, you know, yeah, you, you need it.

:

It builds character.

:

But at the same time, we have a.

:

A generation of fucking kids and adults who are extremely fucking soft these days that can't take a little banter and they get all fucking.

:

Their pussy hurt and they fucking run off and cry and they want to do harm to themselves.

:

It's ridiculous.

:

We have a mental health fucking problem in our country and we do need to focus on that.

:

And that's why I'm all for fucking rfk.

:

And also the mental health does roll out with some of the food fucking problem that we have in our country with obesity, shit like that.

Mark G:

He rolled out.

Mark G:

He rolled out.

:

No red dye 40.

Mark G:

What is it?

Mark G:

Red 6.

:

No red dye 40.

JC:

I think it is red dye 4 or red 6.

JC:

But they really also need to get to red 40, in my opinion.

JC:

Get all the food dies out.

JC:

Really?

JC:

Like if you need to put a bunch of so food that's highly processed, I'm not really a fan of it.

JC:

Like, I just.

JC:

I mean, I get it.

JC:

You like chips and you like candy bars and so do I.

JC:

But the truth of the matter is those things are toxic.

JC:

It's like.

:

I don't.

JC:

I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna go off on my, my normal kid.

Mark G:

Go, go.

Mark G:

I want you to go off because I'm.

Mark G:

I'm really feeling what you got right now.

JC:

Well, I mean, I.

JC:

So it's like my family isn't very healthy and a lot of it is lifestyle choices, shitty food, no exercise.

JC:

The.

JC:

The whole country is.

JC:

We have.

JC:

At least 40% of our population are obese.

JC:

And I mean obese.

JC:

Like they are grossly overweight and grossly under muscled.

JC:

Everybody's a diabetic or pre diabetic or they've got some sort of cholesterol problem.

JC:

When literally just eating whole foods and getting a little bit more movement in your life and getting a little bit of fitness can get probably 70% of people off the meds that they're on.

JC:

It affects your mood, it affects your heart, health.

JC:

It affects everything.

JC:

And all of these processed foods are poison.

JC:

We have kids that are 8 years old and they are obese.

JC:

That is a crime against humanity.

JC:

Children and their parents, their parents are morbidly obese too.

JC:

And it's a lifestyle problem because everybody's eating McDonald's and Jack in the Box and candy bars.

JC:

And like there's.

JC:

I have a little convenience store where I go pick up these things and there's like, when I go in there, I'll go in there at random times and it's like I always see the same people and they're always getting the same.

JC:

They're getting candy bars that are getting bags of candy, they're getting bags of chips, two liters of soda.

JC:

And it's like these are kids who are spending.

:

Hold on, hold on.

:

Can I say something?

:

I can tell you all right now, quitting soda is one of the biggest things anybody can do for their weight.

:

Just alone soda alone, quitting it will make you drop significant amount of weight.

:

Both my wife, both my wife and I have quit soda and holy.

:

Just from quitting soda, you lose a ton of weight.

:

Having a once in a great while as a treat is great.

:

Trust me, I love moxie.

:

But once in a great while.

Mark G:

Your wife hates my wife, hates me.

:

By quitting soda will drop your waist significantly and you do feel better than.

JC:

40 grams of sugar per can of soda.

JC:

That is a ungodly amount of so sugar.

Mark G:

Yeah.

JC:

40 grams of sugar at a time.

JC:

And that's only a can.

:

That's like a can.

JC:

A can is 12 ounces.

Mark G:

Drink your goddamn.

Mark G:

With water.

JC:

I.

JC:

I mean like to.

JC:

To piggyback off what you said.

JC:

Sugar in sodas is a death trap.

JC:

Candy bars, chips, all of that, that's highly processed.

JC:

All the food coloring, dyes that are in there, they're not good for you, period.

JC:

As a treat, fine.

JC:

The problem is people don't have it as a treat.

JC:

They have it as a staple in their diet.

:

Now here's the thing as well.

:

We have to.

:

We do have to admit it does suck.

:

People do need to figure it out.

:

But we have to admit that sugar in itself is also a drug.

:

Sugar in itself is also a drug and can go with the addiction receptors of your brain.

:

It isn't a addiction.

:

It's just like battling any other addiction.

:

So is there a problem?

:

Yes.

:

How do we resolve this problem?

:

How do we get this problem fixed?

:

We got to figure this out as a.

:

We can do this as a nation.

Mark G:

Because they told us to be an addiction.

JC:

Like if you need sugar, eat a apple, eat a banana, right?

:

That's right.

:

But Gary, Gary, I.

:

Brother, I love you.

:

But hey listen, it's easier for you to say than it is.

JC:

They taste better anyways.

:

It's easier for you to say because you eat healthy and live healthy.

Mark G:

With Gary, right?

:

I.

:

Hey listen, you could be with Gary.

:

It's easier for you to say.

:

And I'm.

:

I'm fat.

:

I still need to lose some weight.

JC:

A little chunk too, but I just eat too much.

:

It's easy for you to say and act upon, but it does take some work as it market.

:

It's not past my damn bedtime.

:

It's still a addiction and you do have to fight through it.

:

How long did it take you to fight and argue with me?

:

Made with me to make me start focusing on my health a little bit to get the weight loss that I got because I was that up.

JC:

You.

JC:

I talked to you for a long ass time and you didn't make your change because I said anything.

JC:

It was your doctor who told you you're a fat and your liver's gonna fail that made you decide to make the change.

JC:

I had zero effect on you because I yelled.

Mark G:

I will tell you for at least gonna do opposite.

Mark G:

I'm gonna like ah you.

Mark G:

How about that?

:

All right, gentlemen, we're gonna hold on.

:

I digress from this conversation.

:

We got somebody in discord.

:

They just posted something up.

:

Let's get your opinions on this one.

:

Look, we got so small on Discord says that NBC is now claiming Trump is going to end birthright citizenship, which means no more anchor babies.

Mark G:

And I'm not.

:

So.

Mark G:

Nice question for me.

:

I'm gonna tell you that's, you know, so listen here.

:

Here's my problem.

:

If both parents are illegal aliens within this country and they have a baby together within the United States, I feel as if you are not going to separate that family.

:

So the baby does get to go home with the parents back to their country of origin.

:

Unless they are claiming.

:

What.

:

What is it there?

:

I can't think of the word right now.

:

Unless they are claiming.

:

Yeah, yeah.

:

If they are in trouble in their country or their lives are being threatened within their country, if they were to go back there that they were absolutely going to die, then, then we will try to keep them here in America and help them out, but otherwise we will not separate families.

:

And I'm against separation of families.

:

I think it's horrible.

:

So I, I think if that's the.

Mark G:

Case, move the dad back, the mom.

:

The kid, they legit, you'd keep the woman and child.

Mark G:

Move the dad back.

:

Okay.

Mark G:

Should have pulled out.

:

Gary, your opinion.

JC:

As with my problem, as with most things, I think it's complicated if they're here.

Mark G:

Yeah.

Mark G:

Very complicated.

JC:

If, like, look, so there are illegal people here who are contributing and there are people here who are illegal and they're causing problems.

JC:

I don't know how to vet them.

JC:

I really don't.

JC:

I don't have the answer for that.

JC:

If there's a way to accurate vet them and they are contributing and they're not drinking and driving and causing problems and involved in drug activity and theft and gang activity and like that.

JC:

And they're here for good reasons and they really, like, maybe it's the asylum thing and they're just really here to better their life and to contribute to America and they want to learn English and they want to get their citizenship and they want to pay taxes if we still have to pay taxes.

JC:

If they want to positively contribute to the country, I'm all about it.

JC:

Keep them here, let them live here.

JC:

Zero problem with that.

JC:

If they are in, involved in any criminal activity, get them the out.

:

Technically, though, they are part of illegal activity.

:

If they came across our border illegally.

JC:

I mean, like crime.

JC:

I mean, crime.

JC:

If they're stealing, if they're causing fights, if they're in gangs.

Mark G:

Look, yep.

JC:

A lot, A lot of the businesses in America, period, are employing illegals.

JC:

If and and it's like, look, yeah, they came here illegally.

JC:

If they're doing good, if they're contributing, I have no problem with it.

Mark G:

It.

JC:

The problem is how do we vet.

JC:

How do we contribute to them?

JC:

If they came here illegally and then we gotta.

JC:

We gotta find out they're here illegally, then we gotta get them to, like, go through the process of paying, you know, whatever fees they gotta pay to take their citizenship tests or whatever.

JC:

And if they gotta.

JC:

If they gotta have a fine or something to, like, you know, it cost nothing.

Mark G:

That cost nothing.

JC:

I mean, it costs money to take the test.

JC:

My wife.

JC:

Test.

JC:

My wife came from Taiwan legally, had a visa, and she took her citizenship test, and she's a citizen now.

JC:

And it costs money, I'm telling you.

JC:

Now costs money.

JC:

So.

JC:

But she came over here legally.

JC:

So if they want to get in here illegally to better their life, genuinely better their life, and to contribute positively to the America that is, we need to find a way to vet them.

JC:

Yeah, they need to pay a fine or whatever for breaking the law, getting here illegally, and then they need to, you know, pay or whatever.

JC:

I don't know how we do it.

:

So why don't we just do.

:

A simple fact is, if you're a male, you come over here illegally, and you want to be an American citizen, you've got to serve in a US Armed force.

:

Armed forces for four years to gain your.

JC:

I don't know, dude.

JC:

I don't know.

:

Let's build our military.

JC:

How do we know they didn't come over?

JC:

How did we come over here?

JC:

How do we know they didn't come over here for negative things?

JC:

And then if they get in here, they get our training, they learn our secrets, and then they give all that back.

JC:

I'm not about that.

JC:

I'm not about that.

:

They're gonna gain our secrets as well just by being on American military secrets.

JC:

If we don't make them go into the military.

JC:

We need a strong military of people who are loyal to America.

JC:

We don't need them to come over here from Venezuela and be like, I'm illegal.

JC:

Let me join your military, learn our military tactics and secrets and plans.

JC:

And then they defunct America and go back to Venezuela and go, this is what I learned.

JC:

This is their tax.

:

Well, then we just fixed the Ukraine issue, didn't we?

:

Instead of giving Ukraine money, we shipped the men off to Ukraine, say, here, go fight this war with Ukraine.

:

You come back.

JC:

It's also not.

Mark G:

Russia would have stopped.

Mark G:

Russia would have stopped at that point.

:

Oh, yeah, they would Absolutely.

:

Stop.

:

We.

:

We can have them go fight these wars again.

JC:

It comes down to vetting.

:

I don't.

Mark G:

Nobody's gonna shoot nuclear weapons.

Mark G:

Nobody.

Mark G:

I don't.

JC:

I don't think we're gonna have a nuclear war.

JC:

I don't.

Mark G:

Nobody's gonna do it because nobody wins.

Mark G:

Nobody.

:

Nobody wins at all.

JC:

If somebody.

JC:

If somebody fires a nuke, they're doing it with the idea of ending humanity as a whole, and they're a straight up psychopath.

JC:

That's it.

JC:

If anybody, there's no winner.

JC:

Yeah.

JC:

Too many nukes right now.

JC:

If anybody fires a nuke, you could.

Mark G:

Send a million troops over there or however many troops we got over to.

Mark G:

To Ukraine and Russia would have stopped.

Mark G:

Facts.

Mark G:

Fact.

Mark G:

I don't give a damn what anybody says.

Mark G:

Fact.

Mark G:

You start dropping these people, just parachuting out.

Mark G:

Oh, God.

Mark G:

God damn.

Mark G:

Yeah, it's over.

Mark G:

It's over.

JC:

I mean, I don't know.

JC:

I.

JC:

I don't know enough of the history.

Mark G:

Russia is not going to fight us.

Mark G:

Russia, China, they will fight us.

:

So.

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Breaking breaking news on X.

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Elon Musk has officially announced he's going to make a dedicated video feed.

Mark G:

I get frustrated on this.

Mark G:

What?

Mark G:

What do you do this time?

:

I just told you, I get frustrated.

JC:

What does that even mean?

JC:

He's gonna make a dedicated video feed.

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Similar to Tik Tok.

Mark G:

Okay.

Mark G:

That'll have nothing to do with life.

:

No, no, I'm changing.

:

I'm changing it up a little bit.

:

We're trying it real world.

:

But, you know, it's funny, we were.

:

We were supposed to talk about Tik Tok originally.

:

They move into Trump's inauguration and the possible threat on Trump's life still.

Mark G:

Yeah, we bypassed that.

:

We absolutely did bypass that.

:

We went like, we were on a right track when we started, and then we took a hard turn to the fucking left.

:

We got to try to veer back onto the road here.

:

Because when Trump first arrived in Washington D.C.

:

his caravan of vehicles all had drone scramblers on top of them.

:

Yeah.

Mark G:

Because Washington's not going to cover him.

:

Well, not only that.

:

Not only that.

:

So here.

:

Here's another thing about China.

:

You ready for another thing about China?

:

Dgi.

:

All right, so dgi, the drone company that sells all the popular drones that you can buy at Walmart, Target, Best Buy, whatever, has taken away any restrictions on their drones.

:

They used to have restrictions on their drones where you couldn't fly X amount of feet within the airport or X amount of miles from an airport where you couldn't fly them around.

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The White House.

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Anything where there was an event the drones would restrict you so you couldn't fly.

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Fly from there.

:

DGI has lifted those restrictions.

:

Yeah.

:

Our airplanes as well.

:

So now they've lifted those restrictions.

:

And now you can fly your drones in all these restricted areas.

:

You can fly your drones over the White House.

:

You can fly your drones over airports up close and personal to airplanes.

:

There's no restrictions right now on these DJI Drones.

Mark G:

I'll tell you what, I'll try.

Mark G:

I'll try that theory.

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Dji.

:

Dj I'm saying Jay.

JC:

Oh, it sounds like you're saying dgi.

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No, I'm saying dji dji I.

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I just.

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I'm saying it fast.

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I'm saying J.

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I'll tell you what.

Mark G:

I will fly my tomorrow up to.

Mark G:

I got my pilot's license because they.

Mark G:

To make you do that.

Mark G:

I will fly that up until it can't stop tomorrow.

:

So you haven't heard about the restrictions yet.

Mark G:

Like maybe it's gonna be like covering.

Mark G:

But I'll.

Mark G:

I'll find that.

Mark G:

We'll find.

Mark G:

It's a myth buster.

Mark G:

Fly that up.

Mark G:

Because I guarantee at about 2 miles that starts coming down quick.

:

Does it?

:

I haven't fly.

:

I gotta wait till the weather gets a little bit warmer before I can fly mine.

:

It's a little bit too cold to fly.

:

It'll kill the battery real quick.

:

But there's that.

:

But let's also talk about the inauguration tomorrow.

:

There.

:

There's multiple reports of where the inauguration is going to be done.

:

Right.

:

The inauguration is not going to be done in the field no more because it's too cold.

:

Too cold.

:

Which I get.

:

But I also think.

:

I also think it's the safety of him, too.

:

He's the only president the past few years have had multiple assassination attempts on him.

:

So I don't blame them to try to have it a little bit more secluded.

Mark G:

But then the boys there, hey, my boy's there.

Mark G:

I was supposed to be there during the inauguration.

Mark G:

I was supposed to be there.

Mark G:

I sold my ticket to somebody.

:

So a friend of mine who's in the discord right now is a first responder and he said they've also gotten reports that there are very credible threats right now that they sent out a memo to all first responders.

:

So, I mean, there is a credible threat.

:

And I think the reason why they are posting all these different locations where Trump's going to do a swearing is as well to confuse the people that could be possibly trying to do an attempt on his life.

:

It's just, it's very, it's very insane.

:

And I got to say, the next four years, we all going to be concerned on the safety of Donald Trump and J.D.

:

vance in all reality, because as we're looking right now, if Trump does go down, obviously J.D.

:

vance will become president.

:

But if J.D.

:

vance goes down, I think it then goes to the speaker of the House, which is dipshit there.

:

What the hell's his name?

:

Mike?

Mark G:

It's terrible.

Mark G:

He's terrible.

Mark G:

It needs to be gone.

:

He does need to be gone.

JC:

Did you hear about Vivek getting booted from Doge?

:

I don't know, because Trump said something today, said that Vivek was going in Doge with fucking Elon.

:

Trump mentioned it today in his speech.

JC:

Ok.

JC:

I read earlier today that they were saying that I guess Vivek wasn't doing any of the heavy lifting on, on the early preparation building in.

:

Yeah, I saw that as well.

:

That's why I was like, oh, and then he's also going to be running for mayor, governor of like, Ohio or something.

:

He was going to be running for governor.

:

So I saw that as well.

:

But Trump mentioned Vi Ramaswamy today in regards to Doge.

:

So I don't, I don't know.

:

There's a lot of conflicting, Ah, the.

JC:

Misinformation on the Internet, you got.

:

And, and that's the thing, right?

:

There really is no such thing as misinformation or disinformation if you really think about it.

:

There's, there's everybody's thought process and their opinions until the news fully comes out and then we have it.

:

But in all reality, I don't think there is such a thing as misinformation and disinformation.

:

And my wife is.

:

For people who are driving to Maine.

:

My wife is telling me the roads are her words.

:

The roads are.

Mark G:

Coming to Mississippi.

:

Come to Mississippi.

:

I couldn't probably purchase another house if I wanted to, but we're going to be living in Maine for a while.

:

We just got a lot of work done on this house.

:

We got windows that we're going to be paying on this house and solar panels.

:

Now what, what's that look?

:

I said solar panels.

:

You look at me all.

:

Listen, solar panels going to save me some money.

:

Yes, solar panels.

:

Jc all right, so, jc, let me tell you this.

:

Let me tell you a story, J.C.

:

in Maine we have one, we have one electrical company.

:

It's called cmp.

:

We.

JC:

Isn't that a monopoly?

JC:

Isn't that illegal?

:

That's all we're allowed.

:

We only got one, One energy company, cmp.

Mark G:

Here we go.

Mark G:

It's illegal monopoly.

:

Okay, so one electric company, cmp.

:

That's the only one we got.

:

My electric bill for a CMP is roughly between five to six hundred dollars a month for my electric.

Mark G:

On your house?

:

On my house.

Mark G:

My bowling alley is only $700.

:

Right, that's what I'm saying.

:

So, and that is a majority of people who live here in Maine, their electric bill is right around, I would say between 4 to 600 is a medium in the state of Maine for an electric.

Mark G:

Again, yet again, when I was saying bring it back to Miss America, bring it back to Mississippi.

:

So the reason why I did solar panels is because the solar panels will cut that price down in half.

:

It brings my electric bill to right about 350.

:

So saving myself about $300 to me seems like a win.

:

And that's why I went solar.

Mark G:

Hashtag win.

:

All right, Small says why do we pay 600 when China pays $7?

Mark G:

Yeah, exactly.

Mark G:

Smalls.

:

Oh, look at this.

:

So I got another text message.

:

My brother in law is apparently listening.

:

My wife's probably listening in the car.

:

So he's hearing us.

:

He just sent me a message.

:

Did you know CMP is owned by the Saudis?

:

If you follow the ladder up a couple of companies.

:

So apparently Our Electric Co.

:

CMP is owned by the Saudis.

:

And I will agree that there is an issue with foreign entities owning American companies.

:

You have China buying up a ton of land in Maine in the United States.

:

Regardless, is, there's a lot of that, that, that problem too.

:

Look at jc.

Mark G:

Get rid of damn federal tax.

Mark G:

I'm so fed up.

Mark G:

I'm, I'm done.

Mark G:

It's like get rid of federal income tax.

Mark G:

Because that was started for wars, right?

:

Yes, it was.

Mark G:

Are we in a war?

JC:

I mean, we're in a proxy war.

JC:

We're probably in a couple of proxy wars.

Mark G:

That's over there.

Mark G:

That's over there.

JC:

But we're involved indirectly.

JC:

We're involved.

Mark G:

You're talking about World War II.

Mark G:

That's what I'm talking about.

Mark G:

Like we were involved in World War II, right?

:

Taxes was created to pay for wars at the time.

:

And the taxes were supposed to go away at the end of the war.

:

But, but the, the, the, the government was like, ooh, this money's good, let's keep it rolling money.

Mark G:

And these goddamn are hoarding our goddamn money doing.

Mark G:

Let's play planko over here.

Mark G:

We're gonna play pinko.

Mark G:

And I'M oh, I made $2 million.

JC:

Yay.

Mark G:

You.

Mark G:

I told them all off.

Mark G:

I've told them all off.

:

I, I mean, I don't think anybody's, I, I don't think anybody's Disagreeing with you, J.C.

:

i think everybody's tired of paying taxes and we're definitely being raped, both local and federally on our taxes.

Mark G:

Then you don't have to worry about $7 an hour.

Mark G:

$7 an hour would be a godsend.

Mark G:

Think about it.

:

It would be if people brought down the cost of certain things.

:

Like, look at, look at the cost of like rental properties right now after.

Mark G:

You take taxes out.

:

Right?

:

But now we got to look at the inflation that's already happened though, too.

:

So you got to look at the cost of living, look at the cost of an apartment.

:

So we're taking everything back?

:

No, I'm hoping, listen, I hope we can bring everything back.

:

But do you think landlords are going to go back?

:

Do you think landlords are gonna ever go back on their rental properties?

Mark G:

I would go back to the dollar.

Mark G:

Bowling.

Mark G:

So I'd go back to the dollar.

:

I mean, it's just by your, your mortgage, your mortgage is not going to go back, right?

:

Your mortgage company.

:

If your mortgage goes up and your taxes go up, they're not going to go back on your taxes.

Mark G:

The banks have no choice.

Mark G:

Once everything starts settling out, they're like, oh, okay, and the banks are gonna, the, the Fed's gonna go.

:

But your local property taxes keep moving up, right?

:

So that's another.

:

Your property taxes haven't gone up at all.

JC:

My property tax has gone up.

:

I say our property taxes went up.

:

We're paying, we're paying for a parking garage right now in my, my city, our property taxes went up to pay for this parking garage that was supposed to make big money.

:

And they're barely making any money off of this parking garage.

:

But now the money that the city paid for this parking garage is being dealt out to all the citizens and their taxes to pay, which is criminal, in my opinion.

:

Yeah.

:

Oh, exactly.

Mark G:

Everything's criminal.

Mark G:

God damn.

Mark G:

When are people gonna wake up and just slap each other and be like, this is dirty.

:

Because they've been, they've been growing up on, they've been growing up with it ever since.

:

So therefore they're used to it and they just think it's I want there.

Mark G:

And just talk to all me like, oh no, it's God damnest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Mark G:

They taking our money.

JC:

Yeah, they are.

Mark G:

They're Taking my money for.

JC:

Yeah, they're wasting it.

JC:

It's being lost.

JC:

It's being invested in horseshit.

JC:

It's going into their pockets.

JC:

Yeah.

Mark G:

When are people going to realize that the president has no idea he is not the big chump.

Mark G:

We could have had Kamala or Kamala as the organator.

Mark G:

What it was saying.

Mark G:

But you could have had Kamala.

:

Dear God.

Mark G:

She wouldn't have made a difference if you would have just got the goddamn far right.

Mark G:

Far left.

Mark G:

Independence out.

Mark G:

Get them out.

Mark G:

Get them out.

Mark G:

I don't give a.

Mark G:

Get them out.

Mark G:

Get them out.

:

Get them out.

Mark G:

Their time's up.

Mark G:

Get the senators out in the House.

Mark G:

Sin and House gotta go.

Mark G:

They can only have.

Mark G:

And I will tell you as much as I hate the Cruz even put in for.

Mark G:

Was it eight years, ten years or some.

Mark G:

I can't remember what Cruz did.

Mark G:

Get them out.

Mark G:

Buy Bye, Felicia.

Mark G:

And everybody turned him down.

Mark G:

He lost because the Senate and House had to vote on the.

Mark G:

Well, God damn.

Mark G:

I mean, if I'm getting.

Mark G:

If I'm thinking about losing my job.

Mark G:

No, I'm not gonna.

Mark G:

If I'm thinking about losing my cakewalk job, would I.

Mark G:

Would I.

Mark G:

Would I vote against that?

Mark G:

Not.

Mark G:

I'm not going to vote against it.

Mark G:

It's up to us.

Mark G:

And that's what they don't understand.

Mark G:

It's up to us.

:

Right.

JC:

Yeah, but the people don't realize, don't acknowledge the power that they hold over the government.

JC:

And that's exactly.

JC:

That's like a pretty big problem.

Mark G:

Nobody understands what they hold over the government.

JC:

It.

Mark G:

Yeah, like.

Mark G:

Like Gary just said.

Mark G:

So.

Mark G:

I mean, dude, we gotta change up.

Mark G:

We gotta change up.

:

We do.

:

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have been rocking it out for two hours.

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Discord.

:

Hang around with us for a few minutes.

:

We'll.

:

We'll shoot the.

:

With y'all for a moment.

:

But for everybody else that's on the social media, make sure you follow me.

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Click on the link in the bio.

:

Join the Discord where you can watch unedited talking at the beginning of the show and a little bit after the end of the show.

:

We're testing it out right now.

:

Discord.

:

Right now.

:

It's going to be free for everybody in Discord.

:

Y'all can tune into Discord.

:

Oh, my wife just told me she almost got stuck at a red light.

:

I almost got stuck at a red light.

:

Damn.

Mark G:

Get stopped.

Mark G:

Just stop.

Mark G:

Don't get stuck.

:

I don't want to pull her out.

:

I've got.

:

I've got a toe on my Other car.

:

Maybe she should have taken the other one, but she hasn't driven that one as much.

:

Oh, man.

:

Oh.

JC:

When you said she almost got stuck at a red light, I'm thinking, like, what?

JC:

She almost hit a red light?

:

No, no.

:

So, like, right now, we are getting hit with a snowstorm right now, and the numbers have been conflicted in what we're gonna get.

:

But if I look out this window right now, I'm gonna say there's at least 4 to 5 inches of snow on the ground already.

JC:

Really?

:

Yeah.

Mark G:

Got my window in Mississippi.

Mark G:

I ain't got.

:

All right, now, before, my wife just confused the out of me.

:

Hold on.

:

What I was saying, folks, Click on the link in the bio.

:

Make sure you're signing.

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Joining our Discord.

:

Right now, it's free for everybody to join in and talk with us with an UN unedited.

:

And eventually we're going to figure out the audio issue where y'all can actually join in on Discord and talk to us via audio and join in with the discussion at the end of the show so we can all have fun and shoot.

:

That is coming in the very near future.

:

You just got to figure out a few more kinks and we'll have that rocking and rolling for y'all.

:

But otherwise, we are going to go ahead and end this on social media.

:

Discord, hang around.

:

I appreciate y'all tuning in.

:

Let's go ahead and end the social media aspect of this show because I really got a piss.

:

But before I do, listen, folks, we are switching political figures.

:

So my words of the night is this.

:

To anybody who is a Biden, support Porter.

:

Listen, just like any baseball game, a football game, you lost.

:

It's four years.

:

After four years, you get to vote again.

:

Did we dealt with Biden for four years?

:

Well, you can deal with Donald Trump for four years.

:

At the end of the day, we are all American or we are all human.

:

We will get through this.

:

There is no reason to cause division between your family or your friends or co workers.

:

You all got something in common.

Mark G:

Senators, out.

:

Jc, you got your moment to speak your last words in just a second.

:

But be kind to each other, God damn it.

:

That's what I'm trying to say.

:

Gary.

:

What do you fucking got?

JC:

Stop being fat pieces of.

JC:

Eat some healthy food and go work out.

:

All right, jc, what do you got to say?

Mark G:

I don't work out.

Mark G:

I don't work out at all.

Mark G:

But hey, kick your senators out.

Mark G:

Kick your congressman out.

Mark G:

All of them gone, them bitches.

:

And look at that nap.

JC:

Look at all that red.

Mark G:

You've been listening to the Mark G Show.

Mark G:

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Mark G:

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Mark G:

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Mark G:

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Mark G:

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Mark G:

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Mark G:

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Mark G:

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