Shaking Hands

Ever find yourself comparing the simple pleasure of tending to a tomato plant with the complex maze of social and political issues flooding our airwaves? That's exactly where this latest Give Zero episode takes us, as we unravel the interwoven threads of hefty financial aid to distant lands while our own soil grapples with rising living costs and congressional conundrums. We raise our glasses (or light one up) in salute to our loyal listeners and tip our hats to the new ears tuning in. Let's not forget the charming tale of the Mrs. and her heartwarming cat rescue mission, complete with a high-tech litter contraption.

As the conversation unfolds, we question the cultivation of young minds in academia, pondering whether ideologies are being sown without the necessary life experience to nurture them. From echoes of past environmental fears to the present-day influence of Silicon Valley on our democracy, we navigate the terrain of today's societal anxieties. Listen as I recount my own dance with social media censorship and muse on the art of basic human interactions, those seemingly simple yet crucial skills that connect us all. Join me as we continue our quest to champion the significance of personal touch in a world increasingly detached, and together, we'll keep the flames of fundamental human connection alive.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

You're listening to Give Zero where everything matters, but your feelings? Under the past several years, ukraine's gotten $360 billion dollars. Congress has gotten a few percent pay increase. You got $7 eggs of $5 gas, fentanyl, open borders in World War 3. You're welcome America, now your host, who gets absolutely zero Fox Joey Bruno.

Speaker 1: 0:48

Hey, y'all do it. Welcome to Give Zero, america's number one threat podcast. I be your humble host, jb, I hope you're doing well. Or, as I like to say, hey, I did, hope you're doing good. Thanks for joining us. Glad to have you back with us here. Oh, we have been overwhelmed to the response of the last episode.

Speaker 1: 1:17

Many of y'all herotes me and you've asked me to espound on a piece of the last episode a little bit. Don't like to do that too much because I don't want to hear myself go on and on, but I'll touch on that here as we go a little further. So, welcome If you want to write me. Give zerocom gives the number zero. Gives0, the number zerocom. You can send me a message. That way, if you know who I am and where I'm at on social media such as it is, because usually I'm slung off all the platforms. But if you can find me, I hang out at truth. There's a little thing over there on X for the show. Say hi, send me a message I don't bounce people too bad and say hello. And if you got a question or comment or something like that, sling it at me. Well, glad to hear it. And again, in the last episode. I asked you ladies to sit that one out just for a piece. But thank y'all the majority of the emails that I got back on that episode were from you, ladies, and thank you for the fantastically sweet and kind I don't want to say applause, but the positive comments and the way to go, jbs and all that kind of stuff. Thank you, that doesn't, oh boy good. It made me feel good. Let's do our rituals real quick for those that are new here, and we're adding new people every day. So thank y'all for finding us and sticking out, sticking around with us and hanging out, and just thank y'all. We're glad to have you as part of the Give Zero family.

Speaker 1: 2:46

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Speaker 2: 3:43

Mm.

Speaker 1: 3:45

Mm. Oh good stuff. Ouch Mm. One of the benefits of adult beverages versus black coffee you can only get an adult beverage so cold, so it works. There's no limit to how damn hot you can get a cup of coffee. Holy smokes. Wow, that's a spicy spicy cup of coffee.

Speaker 1: 4:16

And the intro to the last episode. The lovely Mrs JB was strolling through the house. I tried to catch her on my microphone and she ain't gonna have no part of that foolishness. Uh-uh, I ain't done it, no way, nope, nope. Talking to our friends throughout the world is not Mrs B's jam Sucks to be her, because she's missing that on a good time. I know she listens, though. I know she listens. She's listening right now. She's hearing the things that we're saying to each other. She needs to get on the microphone as much as she talks and gets on me. So let me tell what she did. Well, I have a snotty nose in your ear, I'm sorry. So, all right.

Speaker 1: 4:59

So she's a crazy cat lady. We've gone over this. We've covered this. She runs a cat rescue. Yes, she's legal 501c3eio, got her letter from the IRS, got all her paperwork. She does it all above board. I'll give the girl solid credit for that, but I won't give her credit for the fact that she's a fanatic. Do you guys think I'm a psychopath? You have no idea. Okay, so she bought her cats because she has a few inside cats. We're in a huge farm, so there's room for all the cats. Trust me, they're all in good shape. We don't have 47 cats in the house or whatever. I think she has 12 cats In either case she's got enough. So she bought them.

Speaker 1: 5:44

One of these Looks like a clothes dryer that they poop in. It spins around and drops the crumbly jumblies and the in the use litter into this little wastebasket thing, I guess, and you take the wastebasket part out and whatever. It looks like a train wreck. To me this is a problem waiting to happen. So, anyway, she puts this death trap out there for the cats, and by death trap I mean this thing looks like a cement mixer and it's. It scares the hell out of me and I'm not a cat. I don't have to climb inside of it to do my business. This thing is just like, well, I don't know what this thing is. Oh, they'll love it.

Speaker 1: 6:25

I said you better set up a spare litter box because if that thing wears them out as bad as it's weirding me out, and they pissing poop in this floor, you're, you're toast, you are toast. Guess what happened? Take a wild flying guess what happened. Yep, surprise, jb was right again. So I go into the bathroom the other morning and I step right in cat piss in the middle floor. Now these little jewels get on my nerves. They have never had an accident like that ever, and it's because of this thing in there. I gently brought this to her attention after I cleaned it up. I gently brought this to her attention with zero acknowledgement that I'm right. Yeah, like that's good. We're married. You never get that shit when you're married, right. So tonight she's over there by this thing and I happen to stroll up there mentioning I'm about to go to the restroom and download some coffee I had earlier, and so I'm like I'll tell you what I'll do. How about I just piss in that clothes dryer thing, that spaceship?

Speaker 2: 7:46

You can't do that, you can't. You can't do that, you can't go, you can't. That's not for people.

Speaker 1: 7:52

I'm ready to pop it out and just whiz right in that jugger because, oh man, I still got good aim. I could ring that little circle. It's about a foot and a half wide. I promise you I can hit that.

Speaker 2: 8:02

You can't do that. That's where the cats pee. You can't pee as a person where the cats pee.

Speaker 1: 8:14

You know what my next line was? Well, the little sons of bitches did it in my bathroom. That's how the fight started.

Speaker 2: 8:38

I love coffee.

Speaker 1: 8:44

So the other day I sat on the show and, by the way, they impeached my orcress a little while ago. For what it's worth, the house did Um film at 11. We'll study that more. I don't know if impeaching this Jack Hull is, even though he's a dickhead, is a good idea or not, because you know, lord knows, something should be done. But they've got their plausible deniability. That's how them assholes work. He's going to sit there and point to the fact that I broke no law, while Joe Biden, with the stroke of his pen, changed the law that Trump had in place that stopped this border bullshit. So he's done a shitty job. There's no doubt.

Speaker 1: 9:27

Now, if you go by the book book, yeah, he's. Yeah, because he's sworn oath to the Constitution. Constitution says, hey, the federal government's going to defend the border. Okay, we're not going to just willy nilly sue Texas for defending the border because we won't do it. That kind of bullshit. But either here nor there, I'm just not sure that. Uh, yeah, there's a time for impeachment, but it's becoming a habit, and so I'm not real sure what to make that. I'm just not real sure how I feel about that and I'm not waiting for some talking head to tell me how I should feel about it. I personally am not sure how I feel about this. There's gotta be some. You can't depend on the justice department to do anything. Cause our jacked up justice department. So I'll, I'll leave that as it is.

Speaker 1: 10:22

Let's get to the subject. So the other day, on the last episode I was talking about, men need to get their heads out of their backsides and start being men again, and that's an arc in what I say and what I talk about in that. Um, while we talk about politics a lot and we go around in circles about the characters that are the politicians and the maneuvering and the fact that you know, look there's, we are America, we are Americans. Cans, it's governed of the people, by the people, for the people right, this is what matters is me and you sitting here talking having beer, coffee, wine, gin, blowing a crazy hooter head out there on the back deck, whatever. So I don't give a crap about the A-holes in the suits and ties up there on Capitol Hill. I just don't give a shit. I don't. I give a crap about you. I give a crap about us, our children, our grandchildren, our friends, our family and things like that. And so there's that.

Speaker 1: 11:34

So, but if we can ever legally vote again in this country um, constitutionally vote again in this country, we still have to deal with the social problem. That is, the social problem that allows and incubates this type of stupidity on Capitol Hill, as well as the news, the people in mainstream media that do this, the people in tech that squelch and voice of opposition. I mean this is democracy today. Democracy today is is look, if I'm in charge and I don't like what you say, I'll shut you up. So we're all hearing the same thing. So that way we are unified. That's not democracy. We get rid of your talk, your point, your candidate, your whatever, and we just neutralize them or get rid of them. That's not democracy. But we've gotten into the social habit and we're going to talk about one of that is as to how that's a thing.

Speaker 1: 12:50

You go to the times piece after the 2020 election and they told you how the election was stolen. They flat out told you how it was. The times Times, my time magazine. It's there. You can look it up online. The article's still there. They're proud of this piece. Why? Because, for the greater good.

Speaker 1: 13:10

Here's how we destroyed the election process to save an election, oh, okay, okay, this is nothing, but Marxism is what it is and there's a lot, a lot, a lot that I could go into over here, because I've studied this. I ain't bright, as you well know, but I made it a point to really go under the hood and look at some of this stuff and there's a lot of history and a lot of names and a lot of people that got in there. A lot of this, that and the other, but it still, it still spawns from a higher education system. All of it does and if you're rolling your eyes right now, bear with me, because I didn't think that it did. I knew it was a part of it, but I didn't. There's no way, because not everybody, everybody goes to college, right, right, but you'll soon see how that works in a second, and thank God it works. I want to show you so.

Speaker 1: 14:28

You had the, the sixties, and you had the hippie movement and all this stuff that. The other Seventies, you had women's lib. Eighties and nineties, you started having political right to political correctness. Now, hold up thought.

Speaker 1: 14:49

While I tell you this, because I know everybody has children, so I like this example, let me tell you something that I can grow. I have a farm, but I do not necessarily have a green thumb. I can grow tomatoes with the best of them, good at it. I can grow them by the billions. Why? Because tomatoes are a delicious, yummy little plant. Of course, being a Italian boy, kind of cool to have tomatoes around, but tomatoes are darn near idiot proof. I'm not sure you can over water tomatoes. You can, but you'd have to make it a point to try to over water a tomato. The two other things that a tomato needs is dirt and sunshine. If you've got a place where you've got some dirt and you got some sunshine and you got some tomato seeds and you got some water, you can sit on your ass and have tomatoes forever. I'm sure there are expert tomato farmers that will argue that point and talk to me about acidity of the soil and all this EIAO, but it is at its most basic, tomatoes are like growing weeds. You can just do it.

Speaker 1: 16:22

Now let's step back to college. So you got women's studies and all that kind of stuff and this, that and the other Yada, yada, yada. And you have these Marxist doctrine, do CTRI and E doctors, not doctor, doctor doctoring doctrine, mentality, people in there teaching in our schools To a bunch of much brain kids. I love my youngsters out there in my audience. I love the youngsters and I'm saying youngsters because I'm almost 60.

Speaker 1: 17:08

Youngsters out there in the workplace and friends that I know and everything, and they're in their late teens or their early 20s and life's good and everything on your body defies gravity and you're good looking just because you're young and everything else you know whole world ahead of you. Love these people, love their energy. I love the vibe of them. It's me young, but the elevator ain't found the penthouse quite yet. Not a bad thing, but a truism. Okay, they're a little more mileage before that engines broke in real good, and they're being fed a steady diet of this stupid and at some point they start accepting this stupid based on false premise.

Speaker 1: 17:59

Okay, there's this utopia out there that if mankind wasn't in the way, if we weren't destroying this planet, if it weren't for the suppressive matriarchy that is the world, you hear all this stuff about wars and all this about this and all this about that and so and y'all can change this, if only, and then fill in the stupid blank Now, when you're 20 and you don't know your butt from a hole in the ground because of mileage, not because of intellect, because of mileage. I can tell you from the 70s and all, when we were all going to freeze to death because of global cooling, my friends alive then, remember that that was on the cover of time magazine, that was in National Geographic, that was in everything. Carl Sagan, great astrophysicist, was talking about that nuclear winter. If there is a bomb, go off and it covers the, it'll do this and we're going because of, because of manmade pollution and everything, we're going to be facing that same 29th Ice Age. Anyway, coffee, I remember. Take it from the good book. There is nothing new under the sun. And they start seeding that brain with.

Speaker 1: 19:39

All of you are, in your own way, a revolutionist. You can chase this world for the better, and all these jackholes grow up and become Bill Gates or leaders of companies or whatever else they're doing. Why? Because rich people are terrible, yes, but if I become one, I can become the leader. Millions and millions and millions of people have died because of Marxism. But if I were in charge of the world, it would be different. We haven't tried real Marxism yet. If I were supreme leader of the world, things would be. It'd be better. While you scream kumbaya for democracy out of the other side of your mouth. So you start steering democracy in your own way because Bill Gates is in charge of his little world.

Speaker 1: 20:49

Lizard boys over there in charge of Facebook. Why, if you have an opposing view on something, we'll call it misinformation and you shall not post anymore. You've lost your social media account, JB and give zero. If you don't know the story, I got bounced from Facebook and X Twitter at the time because, during the height of COVID, I went to the CDC website, cut and copied the actual screen grab of their, of their information on it and didn't say a word and just posted them to both platforms. Didn't say anything, just posted a screen grab from the CDC's own crap. So that was misinformation and I'm bounced. Well, all righty then Tells me COVID is real and here's where we are today.

Speaker 1: 21:51

You combine all that thinking, that masturbatory intellect and people tend to group. Again we're getting back to tomatoes. It's the natural way things work. That's why in school, you have all the jocks together and you have all the cheerleaders together and you have all the band geeks together and I was a band geek and you've got all that stuff together in little cuddled up groups. Some of it overlaps in some places, but for the most part it's there. Well, so do the social misfits, the goth people, the people that swear to God. They're vampires too. The people that are gay or they're trans or they're XYZs Thou shalt identify me as that. Well, at some point the rules and the laws start supporting that kind of crazy ass.

Speaker 1: 22:38

Tom Fuller-y, buried in a cell phone, cannot communicate with another human being. Going back to my lovelies that are in their 20s, I have several of these at work that I love these people dearly. The idea of shaking a hand with someone and I'm drop dead serious when I say this shaking a hand with someone, or making a phone call to a client, a business owner, something like that, dude, they literally tremble. They are so far outside of their comfort zone and I don't mean alright, look, I know it's your first day on the job. I need you to climb in this space shuttle and get this thing into orbit and we'll call you up and try to talk you down when the time comes. It's not nothing like that. It's like well, cool, you got a business card to this person. Call them up and see if you can send an appointment with them. Brain lock, brain lock. It's sad. It's sad One to one.

Speaker 1: 24:00

They're the greatest things in the world. Love them, just sit there and have lunch with them, talk with them, visit with them and everything else. They are literally non-socially functioning, unless maybe they've got their meds with them, and I'm not chastising anyone. These are people I dearly love, but this methodology, this mentality, has damaged them, and otherwise these will be flourishing people. And let me tell you why it's important that they flourish. Let me tell you why it is hyper important to get that damn cell phone and tick-tock and everything else the social media influences out of their damn hands.

Speaker 1: 24:52

And here I am, I broadcast on a media platform. Okay, I realize the gravity with which I speak when I say get it out of their hands, because they're on a steady diet of inwardness. If they're in the room with the rest of us and they're asked to make a phone call, they can't do it. They I don't. Everybody's listening to me, nobody's. Oh, they are listening. They are literally socially paranoid To the point. It's crippling. And if they're going to be able to feed themselves in this world and go out and take care of things in this world, they've got to be able to do those simple tasks. They can't.

Speaker 1: 25:49

And here's why they've got to learn to do this, because the answer to this, what's going to save us as a society and a species and a nation, is this getting back to being a tomato, sunshine, dirt water. Everything else is on autopilot. As a human being, you are designed to socially interact. It just are. I'm a loner by nature. I'm fine with that. But I enjoy a crowd, I enjoy entertaining a crowd, I enjoy being with people, I enjoy watching people entertain me. I like that a lot, perfectly fine otherwise. But I can choose that I'm not forced into either one of those and I'm comfortable in either environment. And here is why Remember COVID.

Speaker 1: 26:52

So this is where they screw up. This is where this is where the clout swabs of the world have screwed up, because they are so the new world order types that the both parties, but mostly, honestly, the Democrats they have overplayed their hand because they are overconfident. Because that's what you do Whenever you are a jackass you become overly confident and they convince themselves that we're almost there, we've got. If we can just get this last little pebble to move, we can pull the mountain down. So they have a generation or two that's living inwardly inside these cell phones, living inwardly inside their own being, cannot function socially, can't do it without a safe space, can't do it. If you call them something besides male, female, female, it male, xyz chromosome, male, whatever the fuck they got next, they're right there at the pinnacle. Combine that with fake January 6th bullshit and the infiltration of all that down with MAGA and so on and so on and so on, and they are just what. And it's not just in the United States, it's around the world. If we can just get them to crash that last little bit, we've got them. And here comes COVID.

Speaker 1: 28:16

There are people to this day that have not returned or will not return to the workforce because all they want to do is work from home behind their computer screen and try to figure out how to operate a living that way. Now, if you're disabled and you're trying to make a living and you're doing something like that and you're just trying to still be a functioning part of society, there's no shame in that game. Get you a work from home job. If you can find a company that can feed you and can appreciate the good work you do, then you put forth that effort and you do it. But if you have to do that because you cannot socially function otherwise. You're a lost soul and you are the soul they built and the soul they need you to be, because you just won't go and die on your own. So we'll use you as a tool to destroy society. We'll use you as a tool to get the Marxism to its max.

Speaker 1: 29:25

They need you terrified and these kids are terrified between worrying about the planet which is going nowhere. If you're 20 years old and you're listening to this, it's not going anywhere. It's just not. It's just not. It's a lie. It's skewed data. It's skewed numbers. They're cherry picked and if you want to take the time to educate yourself, go look. If you want to be a coward and shiver, I can't help you. Nobody can help you. You can hug and coax love.

Speaker 1: 30:04

There is no way to fight someone's imagination. Fear feeds itself. It's on a zero calorie diet and gets fatter and fatter. You get the global warming stuff. They look at their pocket books that are empty. They look at the crazy that goes on in the world. They shudder at the idea of dealing with human beings, because human beings are the problem. Everything else with them is a problem. Because you know all the stuff I've learned and been taught and been exposed to and told over and over and, over and over and over. It's a lot. Now throw an election year for most parts of the world and a big old dose of World War III brewing and stewing down there, yeah, you got a hot mess for people that are crushing on the inside because they've been lied to and it's unfair. I've seen a few people wash out at our, at our, at our work, because they crush under the weight of that cowardice, despite my coaching and my coaxing and my showing and this that the other. They cannot stay held together Now, like that little tomato plant. Here is the magic bullet.

Speaker 1: 31:47

During covid, what saved us wasn't a jab. What saved us wasn't some government official going OK, you can go outside now, it's all good. It's all good. We declared it good, good, go, good go. I said so, it's good, go, rock on, leave your life. Let's call bars closed, go home, go home.

Speaker 1: 32:14

It was the people of basics, old farts like me. The majority of them still have some sense for the old farts that have seen this bullshit a billion times, got it to our children. It's the same bullshit, and the problem went away. Now the problem with this, though, is this. We're running out of people that have spines. We're running out of people that can socially talk to someone else and go what the actual hell? And the people that they asked that to have actually done the homework go. No, this is bullshit. I don't know if there's enough left of the current generation, the one slightly behind it and one before it 35 year olds and under 40 year olds and under that, have the spine to go. No, that's horseshit. We should have listened to the old farts. They were right and I wonder about that.

Speaker 1: 33:40

I worry about that, and the reason it's worth worrying about Is because there are those somebody's out there that are scheming right now to silence the next set of voices in the name of democracy. They're going to run that company and my version of socialism will work, or my radical thinking is the best and it's okay. We can justify breaking the election To save democracy, to save fairness, to do this, to do that, to do the other thing. I'm an old farm, my games almost up. What about those 20 year old friends of mine? When their necks are in the news? Who saves them whenever they have to sit in the corner of the floor to make a phone call Bald up in their blanket. Who saves them if they don't save themselves? I don't know, because when we're gone it's their will and it's their ship to steer and we've seen a bunch of folks go along with jabs and everything else Fall under the guise of social justice, where they have the grit enough to rebel against that and find it inside themselves. Because once we get rid of the idiots in Congress and the White House and whatever else and replace them with the next set of idiots, do we have enough tomato plants out there in the field that can just thrive off of sunshine and water and dirt? And did the basics Because no matter who's sitting in what political seat, the air quote intellects of our society are still out there preaching lies with a very captivated and captive nose and a phone can't shake a hand audience.

Speaker 1: 36:18

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