Convenience is a Killer

The Krewe is back at it, with more #weeklywhisky and more problems of the world that need to be solved. 

We'll unveil specials for the 4th of July in this Independence Day episode as well as look into the following stories which the mass media may not cover. 

From the mass arrests in Iraq to the "not happening" Biden library it's all about the convenience we look for in our lives that may be causing issues. 

Also, if you're downloading this, make sure you make your reservations to get a flight that may be an every 250 year event...Mr. Lester's is making that happen!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian. We're refusing to swipe left on hard truths in a world gone soft. This is Implicit Bias Radio, and I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. This show actually still believes a little friction builds character and a little liquid courage sharpens the wit. Whether you're listening on WGSO streaming on BuzzSprout or catching the replay while nursing a whiskey neat, buckle up, we're about to talk the seductive lie that comfort equals progress, and why that lie is quietly destroying us. It's it's like the time, if you actually think about it, that my dad spent three solid hours wrestling with a VCR that flat out refused to admit Tuesday even existed. You know, the thing just kept blinking that cursed 12 o'clock like it was mocking him. He didn't want the manual, he wanted victory. And damn if he didn't get it, sweat on his brow, cussing in that beautiful way that almost sounds like a prayer mixed with a threat. That, though, was the era of the struggle. Brothers and sisters, let me tell you, God made sure we are magnificent in our misery. We survived lead paint chips, we survived garden hoses that tasted like warm chemicals, and the pure psychological warfare of listening to a dial-up modem scream its lungs out just to load Netscape pages. We were forged in inconvenience. And it actually put steel in our spines, and we needed it. Now, unfortunately, we've got apps that tell us when to breathe, when to stand up, when our sleep score is suboptimal. We feel like wet cardboard in a Louisiana thunderstorm. And that, my friends, is the real implicit bias of our age. That quiet prejudice against anything that requires real effort. The modern plague isn't failure. It's this frictionless existence that we've been sold. We traded the callous thumbs of a man who actually turned pages in a real book for the mindless dopamine swipe on your phone. We want the gold medal essentially without the lactic acid burning in our quads. You know, look, we've become rounded edges. No corners, terrified of a little wind chill or a little sweat, optimized for comfort, which is just marketing speak for biologically idling, while the engine of our God-given potential rusts out in the rain. Look back at that 2,000-year-old book. Our ancestors weren't lounging in ergonomic chairs, eating avocado toast with oat milk. There was a raw, jagged edge to their wisdom. Proverbs 6-6 actually hits a little bit differently when you fully read it out loud. Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. The ant ain't hunting for life hacks or productivity apps. The ant is hauling a seed ten times its weight through the dirt because the season demands it. The comfort of the nest is only earned through the exhaustion of the field. Chasing comfort, unfortunately, invites a famine of the soul. Look, we used to understand this in our DNA. You think the old timers who built levees and drained swamps were looking for seamless experiences? Not quite. They fought mosquitoes the size of small birds, rebuilt after hurricanes that would make modern folks curl up in a fetal position and still found the time to cook a roo that actually required time and patience and fire. They knew something that unfortunately we seem to have forgotten. The most important things in life sit behind a door that's swollen stuck from humidity, or at the top of a hill that makes your lungs burn like you swallowed cayenne pepper. Success isn't the absence of resistance. It's the byproduct of enduring the things that we hate until we're the last stubborn SOB left who still knows how to do it right. Remove the resistance. You don't accelerate, you just lose your grip. It's like trying to play Freebird on a guitar with strings made of cooked spaghetti. It feels nice on the fingertips, but you're not shredding anything except your own dignity. You're just petting pasta while the real music dies. We've unfortunately traded the hunt for the prize. Remember waiting an hour to record your favorite song off the radio on cassette, you know, praying the DJ wouldn't talk over the intro. That anticipation actually built something. Now it's instant streaming, zero eight, zero investment. And somehow we're more anxious and empty than ever. We've become a civilization of pampered ghosts, haunted by the ghost of effort we used to put in. We think we're winning because we minimize the pain, but all we did was minimize our capacity to handle the things that actually matter. Our founding fathers knew this very well when just a very small percentage of the original 13 colonies spilled blood over a mere fraction of the taxes we pay today. When they determine that the government gets its power from us, not the other way around. And we get our rights from God, a dignity which no government can change or take away, which we are reminded of on this Independence Day. This, this is the implicit bias nobody talks about. Nobody's talking about this on the evening news. Our biases against, you know, all the very friction that actually makes us human. We medicate it, we app it away, we scroll past it, but the soul doesn't grow in a climate-controlled room. It glows in the heat of the day like the ant. When it grows, when we keep showing up for the podcast, even when downloads are flat, when you keep swinging in the hammer on that land project, even when the mosquitoes are winning. When you keep seeking the spirit, even when the whiskey is tempting you to stay comfortable. Liquid courage has its place, friends. A little divine breath, exactly when you need it. It's a glass that loosens the tongue and sharpens the wit, but it was never meant to replace the callus. Our founding fathers knew that. The good book knows that, and deep down we know it too. Comfort is a liar, friction is our friend. Stay biased towards the truth. Implicit Bias Radio is sipping weekly whiskey on this 4th of July episode. I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. Welcome back into the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer. We've got a great crew for you here this week with uh two faces that you'll recognize, one voice that you won't want to hear, and that's Walker, and two faces who I think it's both of your second appearances on Implicit Bias Radio. So let's start at the bar. It is great to have you back. We're gonna start with Chris Smith of Lafayette Marble and Granite. Wonderful to have you, and you're ringing the bell already, which is not supposed to happen.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

You're right. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

No, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

That's newbie nervousness, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

No, you are good to go. Great to have you back. Thrilled to have you here in the TSPL. And hopefully you like this weekly whiskey. We'll get to that in a second.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

I do.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

Sitting next to him is a man that you've come to probably know well, not necessarily by his voice, but because he is a great sponsor of the show. And we've actually done some stuff with the Lafayette ski team with him. He is Leonard Mare of for our New Orleans listeners, New Orleans Power Sports, New Al New Orleans Power Sports North Shore, and Lafayette Power Sports. For those here in Lafayette, it's great to have you back, Leonard.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

Thank you. Great to be back.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

Um, I understand there's only one reason why you show up, though.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

I just come for the free whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Which is not a bad reason to show up. And I think that's actually going to be his new nickname, which is just going to be free whiskey. Free whiskey. There you go. All right, sitting to my left, he is the Rust of Renegade, Caleb Morse. Caleb, we had a fantastic time at Mr. Lester Steakhouse last weekend.

SPEAKER_04 7:44

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really did. I even I got to talk to somebody afterwards. Uh, you might know him. And the next morning I explained to him, whenever you walk across, when you see someone approaching you that had too much to drink, you should square your shoulders, appear to smile, greet them in a chipper and happy attitude. That way they think that you're not hung over. And then I explained to this young man, I said, also, you should drink more water.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Well, look, there's there's all kinds of things that that happen, and that's okay. And look, uh look, it's meant we're having fun. It is.

SPEAKER_04 8:17

It was a great time. We had it, we had a great group of people, some phenomenal food. Uh, it was it was a wonderful experience.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Okay, so what I'm gonna tell everybody is this because the weekly whiskey special at Mr. Lester Steakhouse continues into July. It was on in June, and I'm gonna let you know, half of the barrel is gone. Half of implicit barrel is toast. It is not toast ed, it is toast at Mr. Lester Steakhouse. Over 126 bottles of 252 have turned into Kaiser Sose.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

Look, I I tried to put one or two bottles down that night.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

You came close.

SPEAKER_04 8:51

So, you know, I put in the good old college try.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

You can get your bottle still at Mr. Lester's. If you want the bottle in the restaurant, it's only 50 bucks. If you want a pour, your first pour is $5. Your second pour after that is 10, any pours you want, but it just makes sense. Buy the bottle. Just makes sense. That that's that's the best bang for your buck. It absolutely is on the 4th of July, when hopefully you are blowing something up in a safe manner somewhere. And Caleb, just for you, it's not a toilet. All right. I'm sorry, I had to. I didn't have anybody else to put it on. Could make it happen. I could have, I could have put that on Walker. I probably should have.

SPEAKER_04 9:27

No, no. I mean, it's it's all right. I stepped in a today.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

So if there's one thing I want to put on Walker, it's long pants instead of those short shorts he wears. All right. And notice he's not gonna even say anything. Not even gonna lean into the microphone.

SPEAKER_04 9:38

It's a wonder he'll lean into something else.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

That's a wonderful three agency, and I'm really proud of him. All right, so let's get to our weekly whiskey from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective. This from our partner in Karin Crow, Sean Pines in Karencrow sending us this beautiful Remus straight bourbon whiskey. We're at 108 and a half on the proof. Which the first question I'm gonna ask as we go to the bar, Chris, why don't you start us off? I never would have picked this to come in at 108.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Me either. It had a little bit of pepper on the front, but uh I got a lot of cinnamon, almost like a cinnamon bun on the nose. Um, it lasts a long, long time. Uh, some of those whiskies you'll have and the flavor kind of is up and down, kind of ramps. This one's nice and clean and smooth all the way through. I do like that pepper. It's not uh ethanol like you would get with pepper. No, not even close. But it's uh almost like a white pepper. Uh it pairs great with that cinnamon-ish, you know, kind of that run. Uh, and at the very end, it it's almost like cinnamon toast crunch milk. It's got that long, lingering legs that run through it. Um, yeah, I'm impressed. I've had some Remus, the uh the repeal and a couple of the other ones, the Gatsby, and those are good, but this one just seems just nice and even keeled and smooth.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

So I had the Remus Repeal 5 when it came out years ago. And it was, it might have even been the four. It was fantastic, but it was at 100 proof. Right. And the one thing that I thought I wanted was I wanted a little more proof on it. This to me gets us really close to that same flavor profile of the repeal. Right. But with the proof that makes it jump just a little bit. Yep. Just a little bit. Okay, let's go to the other side of the bar. So, Leonard, I'm curious. I I know you don't drink a ton of whiskey. No, I don't. Okay, so the question's gonna be because this is I actually I like. I like having a seasoned whiskey drinker on the show, somebody who has put down, you know, with us or without us a couple hundred bottles over the years. What do you think of this? Because sometimes this is a big thing. People want to be new to whiskey, and we don't just like things that experienced bourbon drinkers like, we like things that people new to it like as well.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

Well, I'm I'm definitely a rookie compared to the previous review, but uh I the the first taste in um got great flavor, uh, a little bit of burn on the end of my tongue, and uh and that carried on to the third or fourth sip I'm at right now. It's been great flavor and it's it's still lingering. I don't even need to grab another one.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

Not yet. Not yet. Not yet, because there's free whiskey, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:11

There is free whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

There is free whiskey, and of all the whiskeys that we get, there's a particular flavor profile we like. And we call it bourbon bourbon-y McBourbon. Yeah, right. This is a high corn mash bill. There's a lot of corn in the mash in the grain in the mash, which means you're gonna get a little bit sweeter of an offering, or you should at least expect that.

SPEAKER_03 12:30

I did get that.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

I was about to say, I think this is a little sweet. I actually kind of like that. As Caleb is over here with his eyes closed.

SPEAKER_04 12:37

I'm getting them. Well, I'm you're over here sitting thinking about something being real sweet in your mouth. I'm enjoying the whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

So All right, Caleb. So let's go ahead. Let's let's see what this tastes like when Mama burned the cinnamon buns in the south part of her oven, located on the bottom rack, not the top rack. I mean, we're just waiting on it.

SPEAKER_04 12:56

You're right, though. I mean, you you get you get cinnamon, like cinnamon toast on the nose. I love the the cinnamon toast crunch milk flavor on there because you get it. It's got length, it's viscous, there's weight to it. It's not easily forgotten. This wants to be consumed and wants to be enjoyed for a long time. Um, I get a distinct flavor on the palate, though. And think of your favorite gas station when you're traveling along I-10 that's not in Louisiana. And when you pull up to it, you go in, and there's 10,000 open fuel pumps. It's like gas station heaven, right? Okay, so I think you've actively described the type of station we're talking about. Yep. And when you walk in, they're known for their beef jerky, but the little known thing that not everyone goes for is their roasted nuts. And they do pecans and cashews and a few others, but they do a roasted, like a roasted sweetened peanut. That's what I get on this flavor.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

Caleb would know a lot about the taste of roasted nuts.

SPEAKER_04 13:47

I've had a few in my mouth. And here, I get that roasted sweetened, not candied, because you know a lot of times people put too much sugar on there when they roast them, but like just barely sweetened peanuts. Uh, almost like there was a candy when we were kids. I don't remember. Walker's probably way too young to remember this. Y'all may. Uh you can get them in the little five cent cardboard boxes. And it was a peanut with like a Dr. Pepper colored thing around the outside with busting. I know the one you're talking about. Boston baked beans? Boston baked beans. And it's almost that kind of flavor because it's just it's sweet enough, not overly sweet. It's real, real palatable. And at 108-proof, it does not drink as 108-proof.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

No, this is so incredibly smooth on the proof. I get on the flavor of this one. So the first sip to me was very different from the third, right? And the first sip I got almost that spicy cherry soda flavoring on it. So, like a little bit of stone fruit on it, but dark stone fruit like plum. Right? Even maybe a little bit of prune sweetness on there that I got. And then it gave way to that beautiful, I think, that white pepper. I think you hit it on the nose, Chris. You get that wonderful pepper. And the legs, the finish is, I mean, it's phenomenal on this. This is something that I would put on my bar and want to drink neat all day long, whether it's hot or cold outside. It's something that I would put on the bar and make a fantastic cocktail out of. Now, if I'm making a cocktail, it doesn't need as much simple syrup.

SPEAKER_04 15:17

Yeah, it's got that sweetness. Now, if you like your stuff candied and heavily simple syrup, probably about half the normal amount. Maybe even a quarter of the normal amount. Yeah, I bet you this would probably make a phenomenal old-fashioned or even mint julep uh because of that sweetness to it. You wouldn't need near as much.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

I could see this as a mint julep because that bold, deep flavor that it possesses, offsetting the mint.

SPEAKER_04 15:41

Got a little hint of spearmint in the back end too, so it'd probably pair really well.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Well, and it's got that baking spice. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 15:46

So that's that rye.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

It's 30 36% rye. I was gonna say, did anybody catch the mash pill and how much rye was in it? This is by definition a high rye bourbon. For a bourbon to be classified as high rye, it's got to have over 25% of rye grain in the mash pill. This is in the 30s.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

Yeah, that's what I was about to say with it. I said it tastes more like a high rye than a bourbon to me. So uh I didn't know the mix, but it definitely has that feel to it.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

It absolutely does. And to me, I mean, the flavor on this is phenomenal. And I can't wait for us to play What Would You Pay, presented by Box Drop of Lafayette, because the the what would you pay on this I think is gonna rochhambeau some people in this room pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_04 16:23

Well, and Leonard, so when when we talk about the high ride and the flavor distinction, right? Yeah think of that as stepping up to like a thousand CC when you've been on like a 420 or a four uh you feel it and you're like, this is great. Then you finally get on the big boy one, like that that I think you'll have one called the general, and you finally take off on something like that. You're like, oh, now I see the difference.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

I'm gonna take it to the water, Leonard, because you've got like your your regular personal watercraft uh that is like zero to what 30 knots in like five seconds or something like that. And then you've got the big boy one that goes what zero to thirty how quick?

SPEAKER_03 16:56

2.1 seconds.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

Yeah, that's that's your high rise, and that's that's what I love.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

Well, that that's a good description. It does feel supercharged.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

And that's a great way to think about it as opposed to turbocharged, which by the way was like a Harvard Business School word of the year, a year or two ago, which is just dumb. So let's go ahead and play what would you pay? And we're gonna rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code. So the Morse whiskey rating code for those who are either new to the show, or maybe you don't remember because you had a few too many of our whiskeys, is this red, I wouldn't drink it even if it was free. Yellow, I would only drink it if it was free. Green, I would buy this. Blue, I would seek this out. And then to play for the What Would You Pay Championship Belt Chain, presented by Box Drop of Lafayette, it's simply closest to the hole on the dollar amount. The price of this at Champines in Carn Crow, our Acadienna, one of our Acadiana implicit biased liquor collective partners. And since this is a store pick, this is their barrel. You can only get this, as with all of our store picks at that particular store. So let's start at the bar. So, Chris, we're gonna start with you. Where do you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code? And what would you pay for the what would you pay championship belt chain?

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Uh, I'm gonna call it a blue. Uh, I'm in Champagnes all the time. That's one of my usual haunts. Uh, and I've walked by this bottle quite a bit. Just kind of, I've had the Remus and I've had enough on my bar, but I am absolutely go over there and buy this the next time I'm through. Uh, didn't look at the price even, so I'm kind of dry on that. Uh, I would say it's probably 65, I'm just gonna guess. Okay. Maybe a little bit less because they do a good job over there keeping some really good whiskeys at some good price. But uh for the juice in the bottle, I'm gonna say it's 65. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 18:35

Caleb, we'll go with you while they switch microphones. It's a beautiful presentation, by the way, too. Like the bottle looks really nice. I like the coloring, probably because I like gold and red. Um, man, I'm I'm gonna be stingy. I'm gonna give it a green. Oh, you are lying and you know it's I'm being stingy. You are lying and you know it. I'm being stingy. I feel and it's look, part of it is I have a predisposition right now, and we've given out so many blues because we've had some really primo juice. If it's that good, it's just that good.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

Yeah, I'm not touching that one. Uh well, you know. Unfortunately, because you did. Joey, please, I did.

SPEAKER_04 19:06

Uh so yeah, I'm gonna give it a green. I'm gonna give it a green. Uh and uh 80 bucks. I think this is very, very much so worth $80.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

$80. All right, Leonard, where do you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code? And what would your best guess be as to where this bottle would fit in in the price range for the what would you pay championship belt chain?

SPEAKER_03 19:25

Well, I think I would seek it out. I I think I would uh go out to buy it because I want to try the dual purpose and then try it over a uh a rock of ice. Uh there you go. The uh uh my favorites an old fashioned, so um I can't wait to see how that would taste with a few a few less sweet things.

SPEAKER_05 19:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

Um price. I really don't know, but I I would go 69 since it's uh one of their exclusive.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

So we have 65. We have 69. Caleb's not making a comment.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

Walker looked at me and gave me sweet eyes. I was not surprised. I was I was very surprised for sweet eyes.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Caleb, you said 85, correct? Yes, sir. Okay, so first of all, you're already outvoted. This is not going to be a 2-2 because I knew you were lying. This is a blue. I cannot lie at how shocked I was when I tasted this. Not that I didn't expect them to have really good offerings from Champines and Karan Crow, but some bottles, when you look at them, you're like, oh, like Chris said, you can just walk past it. It's unpresuming. It is incredibly unpresuming. And that's one of the things I like about it. This reminds me of when we had our first like $38 blue on the show. It is unassuming, it is unpretentious, it is just great liquid in the bottle. And at $46.80, this is an absolute win for anyone who wants to drink great whiskey. $46.80 is nothing.

SPEAKER_04 20:52

I'm gonna have to reevaluate my whiskey pricing here because I think I've gotten spoiled as a problem. That that is a phenomenal bargain for what this is. Oh, there's no doubt. Even though I didn't give it a blue, like it's because you're a liar. I'm not gonna say I'm a liar. I have I I have a I'm predisposed right now. The price is changing as not gonna change. It's good though.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Well, think about it. For $80 you thought was that, you're looking at half it for the juice. I mean, that's just a phenomenal. It makes it a better bargain.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

It doesn't mean I like it more.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

No, no, I get that.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

But it does mean that you really, really like it because you had to thoroughly enjoy it. You had to convince yourself not to give it a blue, and what is the problem. You are correct about that. It's not what you have to convince yourself of.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

Look, I'm not arguing against it. I'm telling you that I came in here, like what I told myself when I pulled up and and it slid my truck sideways, uh, that whatever it was, if it was great, I was gonna give it a green.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

And see, that is just not the way this is supposed to be approached. This is an in the moment thing, and you know this.

SPEAKER_04 21:51

Everything's in the moment. That moment was then too.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

How fair is this to the whiskey? It is not fair at all for you to say I'm gonna be asking. Fair doesn't make sense. That's like these. Fortune 500 companies that say, oh, we've got exceeds expectations on the rating chart at your year review, but you cannot get an exceeds expectations because, oh, well, we only can give that to a certain number of no, you either exceed the expectation or you don't.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

Well, it's it's exceeded the expectations.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

It's either a blue or it isn't. Because you predetermined that it would not be a green no matter what somebody else did.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

Yeah. Everyone here gets a second pour but one.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Fair. And that is going to bring us to our break before we start solving the problems of the world on this independence day on implicit bias radio. Independence day episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Kavon Bordelon. Welcome back to the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer, where we have to send a shout-out, Caleb. We have to send a shout-out to Donald Day.

SPEAKER_04 22:47

Okay, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

And you know why. Chris, did you meet Donald Day?

SPEAKER_04 22:51

$5,000 in gas.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Dear Lord. So Donald Day was one of our listener winners of tickets to summer supper at Mr. Lester Steakhouse last weekend. Donald drove in from Ruston, Louisiana four hours to come to a party at Mr. Lester Steakhouse that lasted three. So he drove four one direction for a three-hour party, spent the night, and drove four back the other direction.

SPEAKER_04 23:21

Well, there's more to his story, too, because forgive me if I'm wrong, was it was it Illinois? He is originally from Illinois, yes. And and look, he moved his dad's from that from that area, came back down. So there's a lot that goes with it. And I think it just shows that the gravity that Louisiana has. Because the the people here, and I told him this, the scenery, it's beautiful in its own right. Look, I love the swamp. I really do. I love the mountains.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

The basin is gorgeous in its own way. If you haven't seen it, especially in the early spring or the mid-spring when it's just started to turn green. It's still cool outside. It's gorgeous.

SPEAKER_04 23:56

Yep. And he came back to Louisiana. And look, the people in Louisiana are what draw you in. They are. You can't find the melting pot of people that we have here anywhere else in the United States. You can't find the personality we have here. You can't find the attitudes, the friendliness, everything else. You can have someone that will cuss you lower than a dog and then give you their shirt off their back. Correct. Within three feet of one another. And I really appreciate having them come in. I appreciate the conversation we have to have with him. Great conversation, great guy. And it just shows the diversity of listenership that we have too. And I was very impressed, I know you were as well, that he would give up that much of his time. Yes. We're thankful to have with us.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

I'm not just impressed. I am incredibly thankful, honored, and humbled that he listens as religiously as he does. I'm thrilled that he won. And I'm incredibly humbled that he actually finds us entertaining, whether he's laughing with us or laughing at us. Don't really care. But the fact that he actually lets his child listen as well. We try to keep it family friendly. We know our humor is sophomoric at best, but it's what we do.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

So did you hear him just say that you were taller than he thought?

SPEAKER_00 25:03

No, but that's that's funny. I made that wouldn't be wouldn't surprise me. Would not shock me at all. And yes, Smith is up there talking like he's doing any better. All right. So as a July 4th, Independence Day episode, this story has to be the one right out of the gate. Because this to me is one of those great American redemption stories, not just once, but twice. So for those who've read Mike Lindell's book, you know where Mike Lindell, you know, the My Pillow guy, you know where he came from. I mean, apparently at one time the guy was addicted to narcotics, he had a rough life and creates the my pillow and becomes worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And then the 2020 election happens. And Mike Lindell leans into the truth. Not somebody else's truth, not what the media won't report. He leans into the truth and then gets sued into oblivion for it. He made comments about the 2020 election being rigged, made comments about Dominion voting systems doing nefarious things in order to rig the election. And what happens? People start dropping the My Pillow. Well, like Walmart, I think, dropped him. There were other major retailers who dropped carrying my pillow because of his statements.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

Definitely target.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Definitely target. Then a couple weeks ago, we find out that maybe, just maybe, Mike Lindell is a second time redemption story in the United States. So please don't believe us on this. Well, the how much was the Dominion? 1.3 billion dollars. They were suing him for 1.3 billion. That's almost $1 for a fraudulent vote.

SPEAKER_04 26:52

I made that up. Don't sue me for that much.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

No, but it's when you look at it and you're like, first of all, $1.3. So what you have to understand is when you file a lawsuit like that, you're going to file for revenue lost, so damages, and then punitive for the equation, because there's an equation on most lawsuits, for the equation to work out to $1.3 billion. Do you know how much Dominion voting systems has to be making from running elections in the United States?

SPEAKER_04 27:27

I love how you said running elections.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

They are. They are running elections, aren't they? They are in the business of running the electoral process in the United States, which then is supposed to yield a true result. But it turns out the really funny part is they sued Mike Lindell for $1.3 billion. I mean, I am picturing some dude who is a Bond villain with a skull cap and a hairless cat going $1.3 billion, right? I'm thinking Mike Myers made a new commercial. I can dig that. And then take a guess what they did. They dropped it. They dropped the lawsuit out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

You know, sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

SPEAKER_00 28:14

Now let's be clear. And I'm gonna ask this question. We've got a bunch of business owners in here. Why might there be reasons why you would file a lawsuit and then drop it? There are legitimate reasons why you would do that, even though you might you might be right.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

When you're acting rash sometimes. So you've acted rash. What else, Chris? Yeah, you're trying to scare somebody off. You want them to be quiet and just run away. You're trying to just uh smokescreen something.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

So why would a company the size of Dominion not worry about the fees that it costs them to file said lawsuit in the lawyer time and all that? Why would they not worry about that?

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Uh they don't want the facts because the fees may be less than what's caused by getting these facts out. So if you can scare someone off so they don't have the facts, then so that might be why they drop it, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:58

But here's here's another my my what I'm getting at is this what does it cost a company like Dominion to file said lawsuit as opposed to what it might cost somebody like Mike Lindell, right? Because Dominion, Dominion has what in-house legal counsel, they have all of their attorneys, they have a legal department at Dominion. So they don't have to go out and hire new attorneys. But it's a training environment at that point, correct. So their cost to create the lawsuit costs what it costs to file the court papers. And look, taxpayers are paying for that. Don't worry about it. At the end of the day, they are. So it costs them nothing, which is one of the reasons why they might file the lawsuit in the first place. They might not want people talking about it, so they're gonna do it as a diversionary tactic or a suppression fire tactic. Joke's on you, I'm hard-headed. Yeah. And then they they get rid of it. Now, to your point, it could be a legitimate thing where they looked at it and said, man, the the cost here is just getting exorbitant. This is gonna go years because a lawsuit like this is going to take potentially decades to sort out. Or Leonard, if you filed a lawsuit, what might be the biggest reason that you wouldn't want the lawsuit actually going to deposition, discovery? What is the possibility of what you might be scared of?

SPEAKER_03 30:28

It proven the truth.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 30:32

Did y'all see how Lindell posed a $5 million challenge with that? So uh at one point during all this, he did a prove me wrong or prove mic wrong thing, where if you could prove him wrong about the being in voting, he was going to give the person five million dollars.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Let me guess how many people claim that.

SPEAKER_04 30:51

One person tried, it was a software expert. He said he met the challenge, and Mike said, Okay, prove it. And he proved it by taking Mike to court. And uh the eighth circuit, the eighth circuit said there is no proof.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

So now the really interesting part is a report has been released. What people have to understand though is that this is not a government report, but it is a government like they had some oversight to this. There was some certification, third party to look at this and say, this report's real.

unknown 31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

And a few things that were figured out. So, first of all, and this is the big one, because we all remember being told the machines are not connected to the internet.

SPEAKER_04 31:35

No, they were not for long.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Maybe while they're not powered up. While in transport. Yeah, maybe while in transport they're not connected to the internet. Yeah. What did the report actually find in Certify?

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Yeah, it was definitely connected to the internet.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

They came with modem chips on the motherboard. Like prepped and ready.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Not just prepped and ready. I mean functioning? Functioning. Snap. This is why this is important on Independence Day. Because at the end of the day, if if our vote isn't counted correctly, our vote means nothing. The Save America Act is the most important legislation that any American who was born of American parents as opposed to a birthright citizen might have in their lifetime. Because at the end of the day, the Save America Act would ensure that the vote is authentic, real, counted correctly, and you know, it's that whole notice the semantics that one party likes to play. Every vote should count. Um, no, no, every legal vote should be a vote. Yeah, every legal vote should count.

SPEAKER_04 32:50

I remember the first time I got to vote absentee ballot, and then I was all pumped up, all excited, and then they were like, hey, the 40-foot connex got stolen. And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. A whole connex? Yeah. Well, let us vote again. No, it's too late. And that's when I realized, like, you know what? Some people just don't care about reality. They don't care about genuine human or American citizenship rights. Or true democracy.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Well, this is the this is the big one. For some people, understand though, they play semantics, right? They like to take words. The word war is real. And they will say things like, every vote should count. So wait a minute, you're telling me that somebody who votes in Switzerland in the American election, that should count? Because that's one of every vote. What they want you to think is that legal votes aren't being counted. And that's not the case. So the semantics there are a big thing. The other big semantic that they like to play with, the other word war that they engage in is it's a threat to democracy. Oh, it's about democracy. It's our democracy. It's democracy. It's democracy. When at the end of the day, they don't care about democracy. Because what they do is they take their own little group and they go, oh, you know what? Democracy is ruled by the majority. And we have a minority of people, and we want to make sure that the minority gets to dictate to the majority how the majority lives their life. And that's an issue.

SPEAKER_04 34:20

Well, every citizen, every citizen should be a threat to democracy.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

Every citizen should be a threat to government. That's a different thing. Valid, valid, valid. And that's why we get the one-minute finger. Well, we'll come back with more implicit bias radio. Radio. Yeah. Wow, that was impressive, Walker. Like I was actually not necessarily quite ready to jump back into this segment, but I guess here we are, final segment, hour one of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Borderland. We got a great crew here in the Mr. Lester's TSPL. Caleb Morse is here. Chris Smith of Lafayette Marble and Granite is here. Free whiskey, Leonard Moray of Lafayette PowerSports, New Orleans Power Sports, and New Orleans Power Sports North Shore is here as well. It's great to have you on the TSPL. How's the whiskey so far?

SPEAKER_01 35:04

Very good. Very good. Fantastic. We uh looking at the bottle. We're uh a little bit past halfway, so everybody's enjoying it. But we got some kitchen up to do.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Yeah, well, there's plenty of whiskey here in the TSPL, as Leonard pointed out, and it's free for those who have shown up. So we are diving back into it. Walker's even here for this episode, which is the first time we're talking to Walker in this hour. Glad to be here. Uh yeah, he sounded glad, didn't he? I am glad to be here. You do not sound like that. Well, look, while y'all are chatting, I want to pick while y'all are chatting.

SPEAKER_04 35:31

I want to pick on Leonard for not pick on Leonard, but pick your brain for a moment, okay? Yeah. Out of curiosity. I mean, with all the locations you have and everything else, summertime like this right now. Y'all's y'all's main summer staple sellers. Look at that. Have they been the same this year or have they deviated this year with the economy and that kind of stuff?

SPEAKER_03 35:47

Out of curiosity. Week of 4th of July is our busiest week of the year. So uh jet skis, C-Do's, wave runners going out, uh, boat customers all over the place, ATVs, UTVs. It it goes strong through the spring and summer. Uh, peak of summer is right now. So for us. There you go. Very good.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Okay. I'm just curious.

SPEAKER_03 36:08

That's all.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

All right. So speaking of buying things, read a really interesting theory about something Lego allegedly figured out. About the difference. I don't think it's allegedly. Okay. I don't have Lego on the record saying it. So I'm saying allegedly Lego figured it out. I found the study. It okay, then they did, and it totally makes sense. Which is the really cool part. And the basic of it is this. And I think this has to do more with the difference between the thought of young males and the thought of young females, and where young men go and where men go with their thought process versus females and their thought process. And for those who have grown up where you've got maybe an older daughter, younger son, you might have seen something of this nature. So, for example, this is what Lego figured out. And it had to do with Batman Lego figurines. When they gave Batman to little boys, boys became Batman. They played as I am Batman. Right? When girls were given the same Batman toys, and then they they did different toys. It wasn't just Batman that they used, but Batman was the one that jumped out. Little girls made Batman them. So instead of being able to put themselves in other people's shoes and say, if I was Batman, here's how awesome it would be. Everything became about, oh, I don't care that this is Batman and he's awesome. I'm this. And they put lipstick on Batman, they put makeup on him, they did girl things with Batman.

SPEAKER_04 37:54

It was part of the story. Yeah. So, like for boys, it was more mission-oriented. Like, I'm Batman, I'm going to do this. These are my assignments. This is what I'm I'm fighting, I'm fighting the bad guy, going for the Joker. Where girls, it was like, hey, Batman's coming over to have tea. We're going to prepare for that. It was more relationship. And I think part of that, I had a just had the epiphany, might be related to the sin of pride. Because when we think about, look at the differences between male and female, and we tend men, even like I'll be honest with you, I didn't think I had a pride problem until this year. And then God showed me that that pride has many different faces. It does. Um it's very rare to have a woman with a pride problem because they're predisposed to nurture and care for a group, right? The family unit, where men and boys were like, I must do this to provide for my family. Right? So we were trying to get and that that stems from, I think, a a pride or a biblical standpoint, a pride issue. And it's very unique that Lego found this because Lego was one of the first toys that was launched to that was really truly unisex. Correct. And then shifted to being very predominantly a male toy.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

Probably because of the I must build this. Well, I must build what's on the box. I must build this set. I right, I want to accomplish the goal. Chris, I'm curious to your thoughts about this. You said you had thoughts on the story because you looked it up.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

Yeah, so uh I've seen this not with my I have three daughters. So we had Legos, but they were definitely following the package for the most part. But when I'm growing up, uh, if it's a G.I. Joe, Transformers, anything else, we would have those. Me and my brother would destroy them pretty much because we would be in action and one against the other. But then my sister would get a hold of those same things. She would just take those, and it was tea parties and all this, and we would come in completely offended that our toys are getting used in this way. So I can see just compartmentalizing it wise, that the women do put themselves in either the toys uh person by using them to go shopping or anything else, and things that they would do, like their dreams, their aspirations, would be projected upon the toy, and it did not matter the face.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Here's the interesting part to me. The interesting part to me is that when young boys were playing with these toys, they set themselves aside and became someone else. When young girls were playing with these toys, it's all about them. Oh, they stayed relevant. No, they didn't stay relevant, they forced their world upon everything else. Whereas the boy said, Oh, I'm in Batman's world, right? Okay, yeah. The girl said, Batman has to come into mind. Do you know? Which is just interesting.

SPEAKER_04 40:36

Do you know what the the goal of the study was? I don't remember. No. To sell more Legos. Of course. Let's say Yeah, let's say it's 50-50, right? We know it's not, but let's say it's 50-50. And boys were predominantly, or boy families were the predominantly the purchasers of Legos. And Legos said, well, how do we sell more to little girls? So they hired all these psychologists, everyone else, and try to figure things out. And what they found was the psychology of it was a byproduct. Look, their goal was marketing to sell more Legos to the little girls because it would sell more Legos, put more money in their pockets. But we got a really unique look at the data on this.

SPEAKER_00 41:11

Leonard, I'm curious as to your thoughts if you even got a chance to look at this one or if the okay, so I'm curious to see your thoughts on this one.

SPEAKER_03 41:17

I actually have an opinion. I'm not just here for the bourbons. But the uh um Lego um dipped into how do we sell more to crossbreeds and uh how do how do we get to the um 50% of the population? But when I was a kid, I had a Batman belt, Kate. You you bought into it 100%, you were Batman. Um I never grew up. So seeing my daughters, um they never had a Batman and never had a son, so they they kept going, excuse me, with the uh uh with all the toys they had, so I never brought it in. I do have an opinion on Lego. They bought out Cypress Gardens, which was the first um ever amusement park in Florida, and they put it as a back burner, never closed it down, still allow ski shows. But Lego came in and purchased the property and put Lego land in front of it in Orlando, and uh they were trying to keep what was old and bring in what was new, and they've successfully um put it in a in a different realm. But uh I have all girls, just like you protested. And uh no, they didn't they they didn't invest in Batman anything.

SPEAKER_04 42:34

So uh well and look, Lego is I don't want to say double down, but they've they've changed their marketing too since this was done, right? So uh I'm sure everyone in this room will agree with me. Boys and girls are different, and not every one of them is as different as as they all can be. So there are tom tomboy girls and so forth, and there are less masculine boys, right? It it it happens and there it exists, and that's okay. But Lego has now gone through and said, hey, well, let's strip some of this down, and they have Lego friends, and they have uh Well, okay, but that's also partially because Lego Well, it's being this whole more I don't want to say gender flu progressive. Company. And and look, and when they swapped and started doing that, they did the exact opposite of what their goal was. When they did this study, they said, let's sell more Legos. And then they said, Well, let's let's ignore the biological or physiological or psychological differences between boy and girls and we'll make them this way. And the market dropped. So why not understand and recognize that we're different and that's okay?

SPEAKER_00 43:41

It's not just that, it's this, and this has always bothered me about big companies. When you are a 15, 16, 10, $5 billion company, you know, there was an old saying that an old boss once told me. He said, Son, you should dance with the girl that brought you. These companies become so concerned about growth in the sectors where they don't have it that they then abandon the customers they do have. They are so worried about the bird in the bush as opposed to the bird in the hand that what they end up doing is they end up lighting themselves on fire in the name of growth. Is that what happened to Lincoln logs? I don't know about Lincoln logs. I know it's what happened to Bud Light.

SPEAKER_04 44:27

But oh, there you go. Yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_00 44:30

I mean, look at so many businesses that have done this. And at the end of the day, you know, people are different. Boys and girls are different. If one group got you there, try and get the others, but don't do it at the expense of the one that got you where you are today. Which means that we are thankful that you are listening, you are watching on YouTube X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. Please like, share, follow, because our two is always more fun on Implicit Bias Radio. We do it so you don't have to. This is Implicit Bias Radio, and we taste the bottles. I was thinking about this as we were talking during the break here in the Mr. Lester's Top Secret Podcast layer. We taste the whiskey so you don't have to. You know just what to go by, and you know you're gonna get a good bottle. Man, this pick, this Remus Champagnes of Caren Crow, Louisiana pick is absolutely fantastic. And I think we said it. It is an unassuming presentation. Leonard said, you know, you walk by the bottle, you might not know what's in it. It doesn't just jump up and say, hey, come grab me. This one, this one absolutely should be grabbed. I mean, we should grab this one. Like, no, I'm not going there. Anyway, we'll go back and have some fun with this as we kind of revisit this. But while I introduce you to the crew, we're also gonna tease you just a bit because we're gonna tell you there's a very special. If you have downloaded this episode via podcast, whether it's on Apple, Google, Spotify, there's a very special 4th of July offering at Mr. Lester Steakhouse that we're gonna introduce you to. First, let's introduce you to the crew who's here in the Mr. Lester's TSPL. Caleb Morse, it's great to have you back in the TSPL. And it's nice to be inside. Did you oh it was hot last week, but it was cool to smoke cigars out on the porch. I was very happy about that.

SPEAKER_04 46:15

I really was.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

Yep. Nice though to be in the AC and thanks to our landlord. So we don't have to C-I-L-L, my landlord. For those who know the Eddie Murphy joke, yeah, back on Saturday Night Live when it was funny. Thanks, Caleb. At the bar, Chris Smith of Lafayette, Marble, and Granite. Chris.

SPEAKER_01 46:31

Yep. Fantastic. Um great being here as always, man.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

I was about to say, hopefully you have a good time and we're we're all enjoyable and we are all enjoying the weekly whiskey that we have, along with Mr. Free Whiskey. Would you buy this for a dollar?

SPEAKER_03 46:45

I'll take it free.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

You'll take it free. Well, you get it free here. But you know, there was that old movie that I'd buy that for a dollar. Hopefully, this would qualify because you get almost as many pores at $46.80 for this blue here on Implicit Bias Radio. Go back if you haven't already, subscribe to the podcast. You can go back to the weekly whiskey segment, hear the full review of this Remus, and understand why. It's at a great price, great offering, and people need to go get it. Okay. So as we think about this Independence Day, did anybody go watch the movie Citizen Vigilante? And I'll I'll give you the scenario behind it in just a second.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

I didn't watch it, but uh, when you sent the article, I uh I caught a bunch of synopsis of it and other reviews. And uh yeah, people are a little bit upset about it.

SPEAKER_00 47:30

People are a little upset. So I'll give you the background. Leonard, I don't I think you shook your head no. Okay, so here's what happened and why we are where we are today with the movie Citizen Vigilante. The movie was banned in Europe, basically. For lack of a detailed explanation, several countries in Europe, if not all of Europe, banned the movie Citizen Vigilante. And the reason why is because the premise of the movie, and I love that we talked about Batman in the final segment of Hour One, because this almost ties in. Basically, what's the origin story of Batman?

SPEAKER_04 48:10

His parents are killed and he wants vengeance.

SPEAKER_00 48:13

Correct. Well, his parents are killed in Gotham City, where the police are corrupt. They're corrupt, and the DA doesn't do anything and punish people. Correct. The politicians are corrupt, so he can no longer rely on government. So Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. You can't say like Batman. You gotta say, I'm Batman. Yeah. Whatever. So basically, the premise of Citizen Vigilante is the Citizen. It's the United States.

SPEAKER_04 48:40

Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 48:41

No, it's in Europe. It actually takes place in Europe. Interestingly enough, the main character who is Citizen Vigilante is an American. Oh, fed up with that everywhere. Shocker that an American would save Europe. Anyway, let's go back to the story. The premise behind it is the American who is Citizen Vigilante is looking for justice. Specifically amongst the immigrant or illegal immigrant population in Europe who are committing vast crimes and not being punished. Now, this is what I have to say for the movie Citizen Vigilante. I watch the movie and I love a movie where you have subtitles. No, it doesn't need subtitles, it's in English. Wait, Europeans speak English? A lot of them do. Yes. For those who might not know Caleb, because I'm sure you didn't. Consistent principles of the main character throughout the movie. The judge who lets the criminal go is just as guilty as the criminal. And held to the same standard and the same punishment. But Citizen Vigilante does not have one thing Batman did have. What did Batman have that was his weakness amongst all the criminals? Chris, do you do you remember what it was?

SPEAKER_01 49:56

Absolutely. Huge Batman fan. So he he never killed anybody. He had a code.

SPEAKER_00 50:00

Citizen Vigilante kills everyone. Yes. Kills everyone. Well, no, that's his code. That's his code. Well, okay, but the the innocent driver who he uses to prove a point that has been. There's no such thing as innocent.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

You're either active or passive.

SPEAKER_00 50:17

But at the end of the day, the movie at the end is dedicated to all the victims of crime, the rape victims, the violent crime victims in Europe, because of the policies that are going on in Europe.

SPEAKER_04 50:31

So and what they did is uh Germany has the FSK, right? And the FSK is their ratings board. That ratings board is what tells them if it like we would R N C 17, that kind of stuff. Uh over there, they said, well, we're just not going to give it a rating. So instead of literally banning it, they said, we're not going to rate it. Why? Because banning it takes a lot more work. If they don't rate it, it's them taking a stand and look, we're standing against vigilantism. And they said that they did that because it promoted violence against immigrants. They did it because it would promote violence against a certain group of immigrants against the government.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

But violence against other people is condoned and okay. So that's okay. But violence against a particular group, that's a problem. But violence against everybody is not an issue.

SPEAKER_04 51:20

Originally they said that it was uh it was Nazi propaganda. That's correct that's what they tried to say. And they said, well, it's not really Nazi propaganda. It's just this other group. Similar but different.

SPEAKER_00 51:32

Very similar but different. Chris, you got a thought?

SPEAKER_01 51:34

Yeah. So uh I've watched certain segments of it and people's comments on it. And uh the way that it's been presented is it's violence against the Muslim population. Yet he took everyone's discretions and treated them equally. It wasn't just the migrant population who was committing a lot of the crimes and some of the major crimes, but those allowed them to get off those around that were European citizens or judges or those that were in higher authority that were allowing this to happen were were suffering the same exact fate.

SPEAKER_00 52:07

So this is this is the point of I think where people aren't calling out and recognizing. The movie does not advocate for violence against Muslims. The movie does not advocate for violence against judges. The movie advocates for violence against those who would give away the freedoms of the people who create and support society in exchange for the rights of people who will violate the rights of others. In other words, this is a philosophical film that makes a point. And that is what scares the hell out of them. The fact that somebody can stand up and say that philosophy needs to be punished, that principle needs to be punished, that principle is guilty, that principle is the problem. That's what scared the hell out of them.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

Well, you have to look. Like, it's very fortuitous actually. Do you know what happened this last week? There was a lot of stuff that happened last week. There was a mass shooting at a mosque. Yes, right? So we had this mass shooting at a mosque. Uh, there was a company that was asked to do uh security assessments and threat assessments at mosques. And many, many people said they wouldn't do it because it was at a mosque. And that that in itself shows that there's there's ignorance that exists with it, right? So uh Americans, we believe that all people are created equal. So we're equally smart and we're equally ignorant. That you can't have one without the other. So we have to accept people for who they are, where they are, and understand that mankind is a conglomerate of individuals.

SPEAKER_00 53:54

At the end of the day, it's the principle of those who break the law suffer the punishment, right? Correct. Not those who think differently. And as Christians and Catholics, we we we try to live there, right? None of us are perfect. We all try. But we are not supposed to hate, dislike, judge, or act against someone who has shown us no ill or threat.

SPEAKER_04 54:20

Well, what does our savior say? The greatest of these is love. Yeah. We're called to love one another despite ourselves and despite themselves.

SPEAKER_00 54:29

Here's the really interesting part of this whole story to me because you have the people who say that they are for freedom censoring certain things. You have principles that are put forth that those same people don't like. You have facts because the movie is dedicated to the victims of violent crimes who are not receiving justice. You have a report in Europe that has come out and said, we estimate that there are, I want to say, like 260,000 rapes. And please don't believe us on that. Go look that up. Um, the report is out there. You can judge that on your own. But this is what really jumps out to me is that in the end, you can't stop the truth from getting out. You can't stop it from happening. So the creator of the movie, who was not happy, obviously, that his movie was being restricted and in some places banned, in some places kind of a shadow ban, decided to do something radical with his product.

unknown 55:34

Right.

SPEAKER_01 55:35

Well, there's been multiple movies throughout. Uh Dirty Harry's one when they were in the 70s, uh Vigilante going out, uh, cops weren't doing anything, needed somebody in the media to take charge. Uh I remember one of my favorite movies, uh, it was Michael Douglas. Um was it um Falling Down? Falling Down, yes. Just fantastic movie. Somebody that had enough. This is it. Right. You're gonna try assaulting me, I've got you, right? It's the same thing over there, yet they are being uh more restricted by their government than the people would want. So the people are actually speaking out in a low budget type movie and getting grief about it.

SPEAKER_00 56:14

This to me is why it really falls in line with convenience is a killer. It was convenient for the German movie rating board to just say, Yeah, we're just not gonna rate it. They made it comfortable for themselves. And what did they end up creating? They created an online monster. The number of people who have seen this on X and have watched this now on the internet, because the creator of the movie said, Fine, you want to keep me out of theaters? I'm gonna give it to everyone for free.

unknown 56:43

Right.

SPEAKER_04 56:44

When you look at the other, there's books and other movies they banned, right? Uh 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in a Rye. This one I'm not familiar with, but it's it's Brave New World. I'm not familiar with that one. I'm not familiar with that one either. Uh movies, Clockwork Orange. Where was that banned? Germany. Really? Yep. And uh Temptation of Christ. I knew that one was banned in certain places as well. So, I mean, it goes through to show that like a lot of times when these bans happen, people yearn for freedom. Well, and the freedom that we're granted here by our creator. Weren't there issues with V for Vendetta as well?

SPEAKER_00 57:22

I think so. I think so. I mean, we're really going starting to go, man, they are really putting this movie in rare air by doing everything they can to keep people from seeing it, and now people are watching it. And I think this is probably what scares the European as well as American governments the most. One of the lines in the movie is, and it's actually funny because I did not even consider that when we when we started this segment where I said we do this so you don't have to. The the main character says, I do this for you until you learn to do it for yourself. Which, if you think back to the reason why we are here on July 4th, when this episode will air on the radio. What was the percentage of the 13 colonies that participated in the Revolutionary War? 3%.

SPEAKER_04 58:12

It's actually less than 3%.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

Less than 3% of the citizens participated in the Revolutionary War.

SPEAKER_04 58:18

Well, when you look at the original Sons of Liberty, seven people. Seven people helped start the Revolutionary War.

SPEAKER_00 58:26

And I think that's the point. I mean, this even goes back to the limp biscuit concert theory, which is the powers that be see a rage amongst a majority of the population and go, if they decide to throw us out and hang us by our necks, we're gonna be done so fast it'll make our heads not just spin, but separate potentially from the rest of our bodies.

SPEAKER_04 58:51

That's because the people should hold the power and we give it up. We give up our power because it's convenient. Because look, the government knows better. They should they know what you should eat, you should drink, you should smoke or not smoke. When in the reality of it is that we're we're educated enough, we can do what we think is morally right. I mean, the the business owners in here, y'all do y'all do business the way you do it because the law says you have to, or because you think it's morally correct?

SPEAKER_01 59:17

It's definitely morally correct. I mean, we we didn't get into business to make money. If you go and chase the dollar, you're never gonna catch it. You need to do what's gonna really enhance your team and the world. I'm doing it for someone else.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

So I wrote this down before the movie came out, and I said, I want to talk about this on the show. But what you said where we abdicate our power, we give our power away. This is a little bit of a different spin on the, you know, strong men create good times, good times. I think this is more accurate, though. Vigilance creates apathy. Apathy creates terror, terror creates vigilance. And right now, they are trying to keep us in apathy so they can keep us afraid of the terror. If the terror becomes vigilance, now all of a sudden, those who have their desires on ruling the world are really gonna be in trouble. Did we get the one-minute finger and I missed it or something? Walker seems to be not paying attention over here. But ultimately, I think that's where we are. I think we are really close to vigilance. People seeing it, people now becoming, for lack of a better term, awake to what the powers that be are doing.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:39

I think they're they're about to start creating security. Well, and look how many people we have now. They're like, look, I'm tired of grocery stores, I'm tired of this, I'm tired of that, I'm tired of the game. Now he gives the one regulating so much. And they want to be more self-sufficient. And that's what it comes down to is what is wrong with an American citizen or a or a world citizen being self-sufficient?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

Absolutely nothing. And that that is our implicit bias. We'll have a whiskey special for you when we come back after this break. A 4th of July weekly special should be something once in a year. This one maybe once in a lifetime. As we welcome you back to the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer. I'm Kavan Bordelon. We've got Caleb Morse here. We have Leonard Mare. He is free whiskey on the show. And okay, Leonard, you got something else over there. What you trying?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:27

I'm empty.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:28

You're empty? What are you trying up there? Do you know what that bottle is, or do you just pick up the bottle?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:31

It's redemption.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:32

It's redemption. So there's a redemption cognac cask. Lower proof, but you're gonna get a lot of good flavor. I'll be curious to know what you think about that. That's like a little 86 or yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's not quite what this one is. But look, I said there's a once in a year. This is maybe a once-in-a-lifetime weekly whiskey special at Mr. Lester Steakhouse at Cypress Bayou Casino. For those listening on podcasts, congratulations. You can make your reservation if they have any left by Saturday, because here's the special. Caleb, what are the colors of this country? What colors do we say don't run? Red, white, and blue, baby. There are three whiskeys that are highly desirous that also encapsulate red, white, and blue, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:15

Yeah, I mean, well, red would be 107. Weller 107 antique. Which is just a superb whiskey. White. What white?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:26

I think there's four letters. There are, and they stand for create your private bourbon. CYPB, a white label weller, usually comes in. It's a different proof every year. This offering, I believe, is 90 proof, but the flavor on it is as Ferris Bueller would say, so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend goating.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:48

Well, that's the thing. When you go, they they rotate, they change, so it's it's never the same. Hard to find. And then blue. Blue hits a it's a little higher proof.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:58

I mean, that would be what they call full proof. It would be. It would be Weller Foolproof, and get it while supplies last. It is a one-night only special, a flight of the three at Mr. Lester Steakhouse, celebrating Independence Day, only available on the 4th of July. 25 bucks for Weller CYPB. Well, let's go red, Weller Antique 107, white CYPB, and blue foolproof.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:24

And look, it's only a tenth of our nation's our nation's age.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:28

Well, they didn't want to charge 250, so they figured 25. You still get that 250.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:33

At 250, they probably still sell a few.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:35

They probably would for those three offerings together, because finding those three offerings together almost anywhere in the state of Louisiana is, as Renee would say, unobtaining them. What a special. If you had the opportunity to make your reservation, go down there. You might even be able to just go down and have a cigar and have a flight. But again, remember, and this is the big thing because as we all know, that's thus allocated. It is while supplies last on and only on the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:08

I was talking to a gentleman earlier too about it. He was fussing about allocations because he's like, look, we do this, we try hard, and then we get it, and then our distributors send it somewhere else. But here we have somebody who looked, Mr. Lester's taken care of and taking care of you.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:24

And look, we love that they shared this information with implicit bias radio so we could promote it for them, let people know what's out there. Hope they enjoyed. Okay. So, first of all, Leonard, what do you think of that redemption cognac cask?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:36

That was actually pretty good. I I did like the Remus. Um still enjoying it. I could still taste it. I added this on top of it, and it's pretty damn good.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:47

Well, very different profile flavors because uh 36% rye, a lot more spice with that cognac cast, a little bit sweeter. You're gonna get that whiny, that whiny viscous finish on it. Yeah, much lower proof, but it it tends to be a little more peppery, even though it's a lower proof.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:04

All right. So let's talk international affairs because you know, one of the things we like to celebrate here is the United States, especially on the 4th of July. But man, Caleb, you you spent, in my understanding, what, six years? Yeah, almost seven. Almost seven, a six to seven year lifetime in the Middle East and specifically in Iraq. And Iraq seems to be getting some things under control that a lot of people have maybe been hoping for in the US in the last week, week and a half.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:36

Look, they've had a corruption problem for a long time. When you look at the billions of dollars that Americans have spent there on rebuilding their infrastructure, uh there was the Hadith.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:49

Did you just say infant structure?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:50

Maybe I did.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:52

Um And look, give given the level of how they operate, it might be correct.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:56

Yeah, and look, there were there was the Hadith Dam there, uh it was Marine Corps installation there. At the time, I was either attached to 1st Marine or 2nd Marine Division. And we spent all this money on building up a hydroelectric system. So Iraq has a big problem of rolling blackouts because their infrastructure is busted, it's broken. We tore a bunch of it up, not gonna lie to you. But then they also demolished it themselves. They would go through and steal the copper, do all this other stuff. They have a huge problem with unemployment. But the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Oil, Ministry of Energy are all rife with corruption.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

So it's interesting that you say they have people demolishing things and stealing copper. You're not talking about people who live at the American level of poverty. The poor in America in the 80s averaged four TVs and two cars in their homes. Yeah, no. That's what we classified as poor.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:51

The poor people there live in uh we we drove by a village and it was uh in in in Baghdad. It was in one of the Mahalas, the neighborhoods, and uh it's one of the oldest known structures known to man. And the mud huts there, I'm using the term mud hut loosely, have been there for a millennia, and people are still living in them. Were they made out of hemp creep? Something similar. I'm just I mean something similar. We talked about it last week. That's why I asked it by the way. Something very similar. Uh you think they actually had refrigeration systems back then, like Iraq itself is the seat of a lot of knowledge and information. Uh the Euphrates, the Tigris, beautiful area.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:31

Cradle of civilization.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:32

Yeah. And when you look at the people that are living, they are destitute.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:37

So this is what I find interesting. We think about how Americans live and people are called poor here. And we look at the corruption here, we look at the amount of money that's siphoned off the top, we look at politicians who get elected and they're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. And within three years or six years, they're worth tens of millions of dollars. We think about that corruption. According to one estimate, so we talked about the Iraqi corruption problem. In one night, 45 government officials were arrested by the Iraqi military. And initially, people thought it was a coup d'etat. And it wasn't. It was the actual person in power cleaning things up. As of this recording, one estimate has the amount of physical cash that has been confiscated at over 900 billion dollars in Iraqi dinar and US dollars. Almost a trillion dollars. Think about how much money that is.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:40

What you have to realize too is this is a country that has the fifth largest oil reserves in the world. They have so many natural resources. Everything like it is a it can be, and parts of it are still beautiful. But yet people are so concerned about me and not we that they are out consuming and are consuming other people.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:08

That is what scares me the most, right? What scares me the most is that we look at this dynamic and we think about the 1% at the top in the United States. At least the disparity between the 1% in the US versus the 1% there. The 1% in the US is probably living with air conditioning and plumbing. The 1% there might have water. Mud huts. So take that step back and now go, man, what's really going on? Because this is the this is what jumps out from the entire situation, which is Caleb, we have heard forever that the Iraqi dinar was going to be revalued.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Well, I know people who have a million dinar right now here in the U.S.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:04

So let's let's talk about the disparity between the Iraqi dinar and the US dollar. It's like one US dollar is worth like 45 million Iraqi dinar.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:11

Yeah. It's it's not that bad. That's hyperbole. Whatever the number is, my buddy bought like $200 worth, and it's like one million dinar, right? And it was an entire C bag. When we say C bag, that's the big canvas bags. Um he's like, when it hits, it's gonna be great. What you have to realize is that when it hits, it will be a different denotation. It will be a different valuation, it'll be a different bill, just like we did. Just like we did. When you look at the the Confederate bucks that existed. Yep. Whenever they changed that and then they went to the the U.S. bank note became what it is. Confederate notes now just have value for collectability, not because of value. Well, even U.S. banknotes have that. Walker, what are you doing with that finger? It says this is not not for legal tender.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:53

Oh, he's pointing back at I love how he completely retracts that instead of telling us, yeah, that's the one-minute finger. Penultimate segment after this, right? Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:00

Go counter Denar.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:02

Yeah, he he can't count past 10. Anyway, we'll be back right after this. Implicit bias radio rolls on. Do not miss the specials at Mr. Lester Steakhouse on this weekend. Trust me, you'll find it on our Facebook, their Facebook. You don't want to miss it. What you also don't want to miss is the crew that we have here and the music that we use in the well, so they're called bumps. So for those who don't know like how radio works, how television works, there's a little bit of cushion in between the commercial breaks and the actual talk. And that's when they play music. They call that literally a bump. Or there's a little banner that comes out that says this hour brought to you by something like that. Those are put in. And I'll tell people why I love giving people inside baseball. They put those in for this reason. Because it's really hard to gauge exactly how long your conversation is going to go. So they give you a few seconds where they can shorten the music or lengthen the music or do whatever they need to do in the edit booth so that when they drop the show, it hits an exact time frame. And we use very specific music on this show. Leonard, I I know that you've listened to this show a lot. Uh do you like the music we use? I do.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:14

I do. It's fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:15

Do you remember any of the songs that we use as music? Not a single one. Not a single one. That's okay. Caleb, I know you know some of the music. Do you know any of the songs? Uh Bad Company. So Bad Company, yes, that is one. Do you remember anything else? Uh I can't say the name. Can't what do you mean you can't say the name? No, no, but we're gonna get in FCC trouble. Well, you can say part of the name. I'm trying to think of which one you can do. I was gonna make one up.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:38

Yeah, well, that's what I'm buying time.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:40

I was about to say, yeah, it just doesn't.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:41

Thank you for calling me out.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:42

You're you're welcome. No, so look, our our title music is When the Levies Break by Led Zeppelin. And that's there's there's tributes in there, like my son's a huge Led Zeppelin fan. This show is basically it's because the levy broke. We tried not to do this show forever. Haven't we used uh My Heart Will Go On by Celine before? That would be a huge no. I think Leonard's about to spit whiskey out of his nose on that one. No, no, no, Celine Dion. I think we've got some AC DC. We do have AC DC. We've got some Allison Chains. We've had Thunderstrike a few times in there. Yep, we've got some Van Halen. I mean, we've got pretty good, pretty good. Really good stuff. Um, and actually, it's probably time for us to go back and look at some of that. Like the title track won't change, but we probably need to change some of those just to keep some variants in there. But the really interesting part is you know what's not in there, and it could be, but what type of music is definitely not in the bumps of our shin and juice. There's no Snoop Dogg, even though Snoop's got some great tracks. Yep, so does Drew. There's no NWA.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:40

Oh wow, yeah. There's no Easy. Easy Easy.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:43

There's definitely no Two Live Crew for those who remember Two Live Crew. Yeah, that would that would get us in the FCC problem.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:50

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:50

But you know what the really interesting part is? For the first time in a decade, there's no rap songs in the Billboard Top 200.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:01

So, whenever we were talking about this earlier, I looked it up, and you're right, the Billboard Top 200 has no rap songs. But you know what is the the largest growth of music genre in the top 200 right now? I don't. Faith-based music.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:17

That's really interesting. That's surprising. Why does that surprise you, Leonard?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:23

I don't listen to it. So Okay. Well, I mean, no, think about this. Is it that you don't listen to it or you don't realize you're listening to it? I don't realize it. So, like, I I listen to uh Christian Thrash Metal.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:35

Well, people don't realize that Creed.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:36

Why would you look at me like that, Walker? Like, I listen to I listen to Heavy Met of it. Oh, I listen to Christian Thrashmetal, man. Creed was a Christian grunge band. Christian rock. Well, maybe not grunge, Christian rock. Yes. So there that surprised you too?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:50

No, I just looked up.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:51

Walker just has a perpetually surprised look on his face. There are, sorry, Kennedy. Um there are there are many, many bands, many, many groups that that have Christian themed music that aren't what we would consider Christian music. And look, there's a ton of it out there. It's just finding what resonates with you. But like right now on the the Billboard Top 200, there's between 20 and 30 that are significantly known or known as Christian music. How many more mention Christ? I don't know. But we've seen we've seen yeah, we've seen a big resurgence in that. And when you look at like Does this prove the point of what we're about to talk about?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:26

It does. I think it really does. I don't disagree with you. I mean, I'm following the logic that you're putting down. So we have covered on this show the intelligence intervention into music in this country.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:41

Strange Fashion Pumpkins was right.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:44

Strange happenings in the valley, where they go into the 1960s, the birds, the mamas, and the papas, Frank Zappa, who all lived in the same little valley where you eventually had the Manson murders, and the fact that the birds, the mamas and the papas, um almost Buffalo, uh Buffalo Springfield, almost all of their parents were military intelligence. They all had ties in some way, shape, or form. Crosby Stills and Nash, they all had ties, even down to Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, who's father huge. Well, his father was the abbey of the ship that was allegedly attacked in Vietnam to start the Vietnam War.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:23

Allegedly, come on, like nothing actually hit their ship at all.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:28

So, I mean, when you start putting that together and you go, okay, was the intelligence community affiliated or influencing what was going on? Influencing might be the right word. And then there has long been the standing thought that it was the CIA that created rap and propagated, especially gangster rap in order to control masses, as well as to create a crack and cocaine epidemic in the inner city in order to generate funds that were off the books to create their own essentially their own black budget army. Then you now have no rap songs in the top 200 on Billboard, a resurgence of Christian music, and you go, huh. Well, if they were funding it, maybe that's why it's gone. But what you have, what you're putting together, Caleb, is this is that if they were funding one to be put in place over the other, the other has to come back in order for the theory to be true. In other words, 100%. In other words, was USAID laundering money to keep certain forms of music in the ears of American youth as opposed to keep Christian rock, Christian music, which is now having a major resurgence, into their ears and changing the way that they think. To quote a wonderful song, we don't need no education. Leonard, you got a thought on this, I can tell.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:56

No. No. I'm here for the free bourbon. But it it it's a um it's a thought pattern as to that's I can't imagine the CIA or anybody being involved in music.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:11

But well, I mean, they've come out and the CIA hadn't come out and said it, but we've had many artists, such as um his name right now, the lead singer of Smash and Pumpkins. Billy Corrigan. You said that the CIA was part of all this stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:22

Oh, Ice Cube has said it, Kanye has said it. I mean, you start going and looking at all the different musicians who've said these people are involved in doing things. That's crazy. And please, I mean, uh to all our listeners out there, as we always say, please don't believe us, go look this up because but Chris Cornell, Cooker, Kirk Cobain, all these people.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:40

Oh no, if you want to start going down that rabbit hole, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:43

I mean, if you want to go down the rabbit hole of the 27 club, which was Hendricks, it was Cornell. No, it was not Cornell, it was Cor Cobain. I mean, when you start looking, it was Jim Morrison. There's just how many times does it go from being just possible to being highly probable?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:02

Well, eventually I have to say that there's a pattern here, that something exists. And we ignore it because what we're told to ignore. Hey, look, something's over here. Follow the follow the dancing monkey. And that's what happens to us is our government goes through and says, pay attention to what I want you to pay attention to. Look at the sock puppet. And we had all these this music. Well, I mean, if you don't think the government was involved in music, what do you think happened in the 90s with InSync Backstreet Boys and everything else? Oh, I you think they were talented?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:32

No, I just thought that was activists trying to get a marriage law passed. That's a whole nother thing. But and this is why when we say you get the opportunity to put the stuff down and talk to your family, you get the opportunity to not be comfortable, to not have convenience, get uncomfortable, have conversations, and do things that require physical activity. It's why look, so Leonard, when I was out with you and the UL ski team here. By the way, for those who don't know, you're not listening inside of Louisiana, maybe just inside of Lafayette, the University of Louisiana Lafayette has a multi-tier national championship.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:07

Phenomenal ski team. Six in a row.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:09

Six in a row. They've won like 30 some odd tournaments in a row. 30 plus. Just being out there was so refreshing because like we put phones down and we're just having fun doing stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:22

They were the best of the best. I I can't even imagine that here in um Louisiana for a ski team.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:30

Were you all over here that by the by the the training uh, yeah? Airport lake, yeah. Yep did y'all see the big gator there or no? No.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:37

Actually, I think they just had that gator removed. Oh man. Got a little aggressive. Well, he was incentived not to fall. Yeah, well, he was. But at the end of the day, the conversation that we had out there on that boat, whether it's in the boat, whether it's in the blind, whatever it is, take that time and get out there. Yeah. And you've got to use, I mean, something like you sell, Leonard. And that that's what we say. And it's it's part of our implicit bias. One segment left, it's gonna be tons of fun because this one we're making fun of somebody. And I think you're gonna like it.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:07

Cheers.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:08

Final segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. Great crew here in the Mr. Lester's T S P L, Caleb Morse, Leonard Mare, who's just here for the free whiskey. And let me tell you, this last segment is gonna be tons of fun. Not before, though, we tell you about the Saturday only special at Mr. Lester Steakhouse, Cypress Bayou Casino. Three pours, red, white, and blue. Weller Antique 107. Yep. Weller CYPB. Weller foolproof. A three-poor flight. That foolproof, too. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:44

Caleb, you want to tell them how much? Think about the number that would not you would normally pay for one pour and you're paying less than that for three. $25 for a three-poor red, white, and blue flight.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:00

Absolutely freaking amazing. Okay. So you know what your $25 could do instead of getting you a good pour? There's something else you could do with that $25.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:11

Are you gonna talk about lot lizards? Because I'm not sure where this is going.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:14

No, you could ensure that Joe Biden still doesn't have enough money to build a presidential library. I told you we were making fun of somebody. I told you we were gonna make fun of somebody. And look, I'm not making fun of Joe. I'm not making fun of the fact that Joe is potentially incoherent and sick. We we don't make fun of those things. What I am making fun of Joe for is this Joe is a career politician who went on record bribing a foreign government to make sure that his son didn't get prosecuted with a billion dollars of your money. I'm making fun of the fact that Joe would tell people who wanted to buy government access that there had to be 10% for the big guy. That's what we're making fun of. And now, seemingly, Joe Biden may be, according to multiple reports, the first United States president who will not have enough money to build a presidential library.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:06

And not just by a little bit. Not not like I was trying to compare it real quick to like how much it cost in the state of Louisiana to run for state level office. And you can do that for in the $300,000 to $350,000 price range. Um Joe, so when you look at presidential libraries, there are the majority of them are privately funded.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:26

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:27

And they raised a phenomenal, good for you, Joe, $4 million.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:34

That's look, for you and me, that's a lot of money. Oh, that's a ton of money. That's you ever seen a million dollars in person?

unknown 1:23:40

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:40

And you notice he doesn't turn his own mic on.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:42

Anyway, yeah, yeah. He'll never see a million that way.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:45

How about this? I am 53 years old. You give me $4 million after taxes today. I don't physically have to work for the rest of my life. Yeah, call the interest on it 5%. You're still losing money, but yeah, 5%. That's $200,000 a year in interest. Which is which is a great salary. Which is a which is a great salary, right? But let's compare that to what Barack Hussein Obama. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't say that right. Barack Hussein Obama paid for his presidential library. What's that estimated number, Caleb?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:27

I'm pulling it up right now because it was it was way more. It was over 400 million. I thought it was closer to nine. It is, it's like 865. I haven't typed that fast.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:38

Dear Lord. So go ahead, Leonard.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:41

Somebody's making money.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:43

Oh, yeah, yeah. Leonard, ring the bell. That is money on this show because you and I are thinking the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:49

Yeah, 850 million. There is the estimate in 2018. And they're charging every entry. Yeah, well, you know what? That's for him. $50. Uh, if you can prove you're a local resident resident, it's gonna be a $35 fee, but you have to show an ID.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:06

Hey, or they're asking. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. In order to vote, they don't want you to show an ID. But in order to get the resident discount in Chicago to visit the Barack Hussein Obama Library, you have to show an ID, a valid ID.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:24

To live in Illinois.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:25

That you live in Illinois. Oh, that is insane. So I'm like you. I look at this building where the Obama Presidential Library is, and I go, there is no way, number one, that it cost $900 million, almost 900 million, to construct and finish that building. There's no way. No, hold on. It's gotta be a money laundering thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:46

Let me tell you, there's a museum in there. Doesn't say what it is. There's a restroom, I'm sure. There's a digital presidential library. Which means it's cheaper. No, no, no, no. Look, you know how much memory sticks cost nowadays? There's at least one terabyte. There's a community center. There's a branch of the public library.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:08

But we we build public libraries here. It's a branch. My question is But it's not publicly accessible.

unknown 1:26:14

What?

SPEAKER_04 1:26:14

You have to pay to go in.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:16

Okay, so here's here's the go ahead. I've got questions.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:19

There's an athletic facility. All it is is a home court.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:22

Well, he's got a basketball court because that was his thing, the basketball court at the White House.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:26

It's a home court. It's just a basketball court. Okay. That's it. So one.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:30

So I'm going to tell you like I told the contractor who told me about a house many years ago here in southern Louisiana where the guy said, Oh, we're getting, you know, this is going to cost $175 a square foot. Now, this is back in like 2001. No, take that back. It was 2006 because it was after Katrina. And I remember looking at him and saying, Okay, I want you to show me the $100,000 effing bathroom in that house because there is no way it costs that much because the guy said, Oh, it's building materials, it's this, it's that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Somebody's making money somewhere. And here's the other thing that really jumps out. What does Obama have on private organizations to make them donate a billion dollars to his library that Joe no longer has?

unknown 1:27:12

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:13

Remember. Would it be influence? That's the big question. These presidential libraries are being built off of private donations. Thank you, Leonard.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:22

On public property.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:23

On public property. And these private companies are pledging money for what reason? Show me, show me a major corporation that's going to give a million, five, ten million dollars when they get no ROI, when they are publicly traded. Yet they will cut their own employees' pension plans to make sure they can give that money away. Are they getting something back?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:46

Somehow.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:48

Well, it's I don't know about how I say this. It's a it's a blank waving contest at this point in time. It's who has the biggest library because we have Obama's is 850 million. Bill Clinton, 165. I disagree. GW, 500.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:04

I completely disagree. I don't think this is a proverbial in the can contest.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:09

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:10

I think this is all a huge money laundering scheme. That's what I think. I think these are money laundering schemes that you will find are benefiting certain NGOs and charities. This is my thought process. That means that you think the government's corrupt. I don't think the government's corrupt. I think that the people in the government? Ring the bell, please. Please ring the bell, Leonard. Yes, I think it's Would you look at that? How convenient, which is the whole theme of this show, right? They've got convenience built in. They've paid for convenience when it comes to getting the laws they want passed, to getting their agendas pushed. They've paid for convenience. And now all of a sudden, just like it was convenient for the Germans to say, oh, we don't want to give a rating to Citizen Vigilante. Now it's coming back to Biden. And to me, you want proof that the deep state is being rooted out. The fact that Joe Biden cannot get enough private donations, it means that his influence is gone. Remember, the Clinton Foundation is now belly up because their money got dried up as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:13

That's that's only because Epstein is not with us.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:15

Do you remember how many? Do you remember how many NGOs were in the state of Minnesota up until about six months ago? Uh it was more than days in the year. 42,000 NGOs housed in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:30

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:31

Think about how many of them were involved in all of this, and that is how much corruption has to be rooted out. And it's why we need you to, as my father would say, feel your oats. Let them drop on this Independence Day. Don't put up with it, and remind the government that it gets its power from you, not the other way around. We'll see you in seven. Cheers and happy Independence Day from this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio.