Think for yourself dagnabbit!

The Krewe puts the screws to the Presidential address claiming foreign entities are trying to rig our elections...

We'll outline why you don't hate the mainstream media enough, how certain networks REFUSED to cover the address, even "fact checking" the documents which were declassified.

The Krewe will even agree with Democrats on this episode as we discuss independent political thinking.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

It is that time. Yes. Implicit bias, radio family. Pour yourself something, Amber, settle in because we are talking about bits and bridles and the dangers of comfort of letting somebody else yank your head around. Psalm 32, verse 9, King James, no filter straight away. This is why we have a show. This is why we do what we do, because the Bible told us, be ye not as the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Hopefully you understood that. Look, God isn't subtle here. He's actually saying very straightforwardly, don't be the animal that only moves when metal is jammed between our teeth and when our head is yanked to look somewhere else, wanting us looking where somebody else wants us to look. At the end of the day, God didn't design us to need a handler. He stepped back and then said, now use the gifts you've been given. That unfortunately is not a suggestion for us. That is the whole assignment. But unfortunately, we live in an age that profits from exactly the opposite. Every screen is a bit, every outrage cycle is a bridal. Somebody on the news or on the timeline decides what we're supposed to be furious about this week. And if you pause just long enough to ask, is this actually true? You know what? Now all of a sudden we start to figure out if it lines up with what we know about human nature, about justice, about the God who made us? Well, guess what? If we ask that, we're already behind. Why? Because these things, they just get tighter. The narrative handlers start calling us dangerous for the crime of thinking before we stampede at their orders. We're not necessarily interested in being well-behaved mules on this show, and we hope you're not either. Remember that scene in Real Genius where, you know, the kid is staring at the empty bottle and realizing the party just got philosophical the hard way? That's unfortunately us most days. Somebody keeps handing us that cup of collective emotion and expecting us to drink deep without even checking the label. Here, be outraged about this. Share this, cancel that, don't ask questions. And too many of us, we swallow whatever's put in our mouths and think later if, unfortunately, we think at all. God's not looking for that. He's actually looking for a people who can stand in the middle of the noise, open the book, and actually understand, not parrot, not perform. Understand at a deeper level. That's why the psalm pairs the warning with the promise right before it. I will guide thee with mine eye. He actually offers us counsel instead of control. He wants us to close, right? He wants us close. He wants us to choose not to be forced. Look around. How much of what lights people up these days would survive five minutes of honest critical thinking measured against the guidelines God provided? Half the time, the outrage of the hour doesn't even survive a news cycle. It's disposable fuel for the attention economy. And we keep putting the bit in our own mouths because, to be quite honest, it feels easier than the hard work of actually discerning what we're reading. Hair metal already actually tried to warn us. Twisted Sister wasn't just screaming into a camera for the fun of it when they belted, we're not gonna take it. No, that was actually a generation refusing to be herded. Guns N' Roses looked around about the same circus and yelled, welcome to the jungle. Why? Because we are in it. And the question is whether we're going to let the jungle trainers decide which way we run. Now I'm not saying ignore the world completely. I am saying stop outsourcing our moral compass to people who've never met us, who don't answer to the same God we claim to serve, and the bit and bridle are for the creatures that have no understanding. We were given understanding. Using it is not rebellion against authority. It's actually obedience of the highest order. Ferris Bueller told us life moves pretty fast. If we don't stop and take a look around once in a while, we could miss it. That applies to more than just high school. If we never slow down long enough to actually test the latest demand against traditional life, against truth, justice, the dignity of the person made in God's image, the difference between right and wrong that doesn't shift when the polling, you know, we'll spend our lives being steered by whoever holds the reins in this week. Bill and Ted wanted us to be excellent to each other, and unfortunately, that's just the start. Excellence requires knowing the difference between the path that leads somewhere good and the one that just feels good while somebody else is yanking the bit. Critical thinking is not cynicism, it's the adult version of faith. It's taking the guidelines seriously enough to apply them when the pressure's on. And here's the bottom line. And we mean this with every drop of whatever's left in this glass. We need to stop waiting for someone else to tell us what to be upset about. God already told us what to be upset about, and he told us what matters. He put the measuring stick in our hands. We should use it. We should test the spirits, we should test the headlines, test the influencers, test our own first emotional reaction. If it doesn't line up with the understanding he gave us, maybe, just maybe, we should spit the bit out. We were not made to be controlled. We were made to see. And if that makes the handlers nervous, well, good. They can keep their own metal, they can keep all that stuff that they want to put around our heads and jerk us around. We've actually got something better. We're not gonna take it, not the forced outrage, not the second-handed morality, not the lazy surrender of the mind God gave us. Be not as the horse or as the mule. Think, then walk. That's the assignment. Now, let's get to it with our implicit bias. Weekly whiskey time on implicit bias radio. I'm your host, Gavon Borderon. Be neither horse nor mule, and we might have four of those on the show this week. Maybe five if you well, definitely five if you include walker. Anyway, I'm Gavon Bordelon, whether I'm a horse or a mule. I don't know. I don't care. But let me introduce you to the crew that we have with us here this week. Caleb Morse is contemplating that question. You say a mule because you can't say the other word. Well, we can say jackass because that is technically the name of the animal, right? Yeah. When we are referring to the animal, but even, I mean, every translation that I have is mule, not jackass.

unknown 7:08

Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

Okay, I'll stick with that. So Caleb's obviously a mule. All right, let's go to the bar where we have, we'll start with Jude Savoir. Jude, I mean, look, y'all plan the matching blue shirts.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

God, we did it again. Jude, this is the one that you made for me. It's a good looking shirt.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

You need to talk into the bike just so we can. It is a wonderful looking shirt, by the way. That is Jude Savoir of Bayou Crafting. It's a pleasure to have you back with us, Jude. And I was gonna say Jack, but of all trades.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Off. No argument.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Renee, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist, the CWAT.

SPEAKER_04 7:47

And if you didn't hear, this is the shirt shirt that Jude made for me. He does my shirts now. And so go to Buy You Crafting and they can hook you up.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

There you go. Speaking of hooking people up, let's start with you, Renee. Before we even get into the weekly whiskey, what cigar would you pair with this new rift pick from New News in Milton, Maurice, Scott, Youngsville?

SPEAKER_04 8:08

Well, I was thinking before I even tried it, I was thinking about what cigar we were going to talk about. And not knowing what whiskey we were going to get. Now that I taste the whiskey, eh, I was a good choice, the one I decided. It's the Camp Aladino. Okay. It's a cigar that's very, very limited. The only people that can carry that cigar is people who have been to the farm in Honduras. And my daughter and I, Bailey and I, went in April. So now we got, they just shipped the cigars in. We got uh three boxes now, and we can get more. But it's just a great mild, mild to medium, more to the mild side cigar. And I think it would go very well with it. And if you ask me what's in the cigar, it's gonna be brown tobacco. I just bought one of those.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Yeah, so they have do they have one called the Supreme Leader Aladino? No, no, they don't. Caleb knows what the joke is.

SPEAKER_04 9:02

It's Aladdin.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

It's the Supreme Leader Aladdin. I am Supreme Leader Aladdin.

SPEAKER_04 9:07

But yeah, uh, Justo and his dad blended this cigar and they are not disclosing what tobaccos they put in it. Really? Yep. Undisclosed. I'm guessing they're gonna there's gonna be some Corojo in it because they grow a lot of Corojo. They grow Corojo for just about everybody. Might even be some Pinoreno tobacco in it. Wait, that's the one you told you told me about recently, too. Right. They're they're the only ones that grow that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

So what about what flavors in that cigar would meld well with this particular whiskey?

SPEAKER_04 9:38

It's uh it's the tobacco flavor that goes with the whiskey flavor. It just, I think it goes, I think it'll just work very well. Way to show that expertise, Renee.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Hey, here's the thing. I simplify things so you don't get overcomplicated. Here's the fun part. I would love to pick on Renee for being wrong. I can't. He just can't convert the thoughts into words or the flavors into words.

SPEAKER_04 10:00

I don't pick up those flavors. I can just taste it and go, yeah, that'll work. And it almost ultimately.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

So let's start uh at the bar on the whiskey with Jude Savoie. So, Jude, you are you're not necessarily a proof guy. This does not come in at uh light proof. And I say that because on this show we've always said life begins at 107. Life is well begun when you get to this particular new riff from New News and Young'sville, Scott, Milton Maurice. It really presents well as far as I'm concerned.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

It absolutely does. Um, one of the things that Renee and I were talking about a second ago, when you take your first like real good smell of this glass, it comes across very spicy, very hot, but the sip does not taste nearly as hot as the smell. Would you agree with that?

SPEAKER_05 10:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

And so when you when you first take it, you're like, mmm, you're waiting on like this big old, hard just alcohol-y, you know, burn, but it's not like that. Very smooth. Um, got a little notes of chocolate, um, like way up front on the palate. Uh slight hint of like a little spicy, I don't want to call it nutmeg, but something on that line or clove, but very good overall.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

You actually took one of the words out of my mouth, which is nutmeg. I get a lot of that that baking spice in this particular offering. Spice. Like an all spice, yes. And but specifically, nutmeg is the one that jumps out. Almost even a hint towards the, and you said chocolate, almost that chocolate espresso coffee-ish. Oh, that'd be a good way of putting it type of profile that I get on this. And to your point, I find that it drinks extremely easily for the proof. What proof would you think this is? I don't know if you saw it. Um I didn't see it. If you saw it, let me know. I'm gonna put it maybe 119. Okay. Let's go to Renee because Renee, who would always say I'm the proof princess, but has really begun to enjoy stuff after 107.

SPEAKER_04 11:52

Yeah, and it's it's fooled me a little bit. But I'm thinking this one is 125.6.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

125.6.

SPEAKER_04 12:01

That's awfully specific, Renee. In the ballpark. In the ballpark. Okay. Um, yeah, I mean, I like this one. It's like Jude said, it was it's very heavy on the nose. I mean, it's like, oh, I don't know, it's gonna burn, burn my mouth. How's it like? Oh. But it actually it's it's smellower than it smells. It really is, but I still think it's about a 125.6. You think it's a 125?

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Okay. Yeah. Point six. He's he has asked for a glass. He's a working man now with apparently a legitimate job. Walker, what do you think?

SPEAKER_05 12:36

It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

He was ready for it, so he prepared. I haven't done it in a while, so I figured, you know, it was time for the rock to make an appearance here in the TSPL.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

I enjoy this one. Uh, really do. It's smooth, it doesn't burn whatsoever. Um I get heavy caramel. Okay. Uh, but other than that, I mean, easy drinker.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

So I absolutely agree that this is a very easy drinker, if you ask me. And I like the way Renee said it can fool you sometimes. I think this one, this one will absolutely fool people because the proof on this is not light. Jude's close. Caleb, I think, knows the proof because I think he looked at it. So I can go ahead and reveal that this is one cheater. This is 117 on the proof. 117 and change. What? 117. 0.3. Yep. So it's 117.3. Missed it by that much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Price is wrong, Bob. Renee, Renee, your count of the proof on this is pretty much like the count in California, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, which nobody can prove is off. And of course, the CBS would tell you fact check, false.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

You're 144% over. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Yeah. Which, by the way, man, okay, before we go back to the whiskey, fun argument with AI today, because I actually was curious as to the number of voters on the rolls in Wisconsin versus the number of eligible voters in the state. And it literally said, yes, there are more on the rolls because some of the rolls are inactive. Okay. And it said this is common in every state. And then I asked it another question and it said, no, this, I said, list the states where this is common. It said, well, this is not common at all. And I'm like, wait a minute. So I got to argue with AI, where I'm like, and AI actually admitted you are correct. That was an inconvenience error because of the way that we source the information.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

AI is not always right. The other day I had an argument with one too. And I was like, what do you call a person that plays a guitar? It's a guitarist. What do you call a person that plays a bass? A bassist? Where is this going? What about somebody who plays a piano? A pianist? What do you call somebody who races? Somebody who races? A race car driver. Well, no, you could run and be a racer. Why wouldn't you be a racist? Yes. Yeah, that's true. That was my argument. AI was like, no, it doesn't roll, it doesn't relate to that. I'm like, how does it not relate to that?

SPEAKER_00 14:55

So wait, you mean somebody who races used to work at ESPN and just got fired recently? Hold it for that. Sorry, rabbit hole. All right, let's go back to the whiskey because this new riff I like. Now, first of all, I like new riff stuff. Their liquid has been very, very good, especially over the last year, year and a half. On this one, I do get caramel. It's front-loaded to me. The one thing that I like with a whiskey is that you should get that savory enough to kind of make you salivate, that should sit kind of in the back of the jowls and it should linger. I don't get a long finish on this. I get a very clean finish. I get a very easy drinker. Don't make eye contact with me while you say these things. Almost ring the bell is funny. Almost too easy to drink. Right? It's got all the flavors you're looking for. It's got all the notes you're looking for, but to me, it is front loaded. I do get that caramel, I do get that nutmeg, I do get that oakiness that you want in a good bourbon. This to me has everything you're looking for. And as a pick, what I like about it is it is unique. You will not get another one like this.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

So Caleb, I'm sorry, go ahead. I was just gonna say, I do get the clean finish. Like it's not a real, I don't want to say greasy, but like it's not oily. Yeah, it's it's it doesn't have that linger that it just keeps giving you that that very high hint of proof.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

And I personally really like an oily bourbon because you get just that that beautiful taste that sits forever on the palate, right? All right, Caleb. What does this remind you of? What what raw honey at your mama's house on the east side?

SPEAKER_03 16:36

In the swamp tonight, guys. It's a little dirtier. So look on the nose, I get I get cherry sours on the nose, definite cherry candy in the nose. Um I get a citrus zest, uh, like a satsuma or orange zest. It's real light, but it's there, it's prevalent. Uh a little bit of vanilla, light caramel on the nose. Um, but then on the palate is where it really gets me. Uh it's really smooth for the scent profile. It's also viscous compared to the mouthfeel. I find that it it on the tongue it tastes thin, but yet it lingers at last. And then instead of just getting regular caramel, I do get that savory, but I get a very distinct Cadbury egg. That is the chocolate caramel, like creamy flavor.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Hold on. How can it be chocolate caramel when I don't think Cadbury uses any actual cream or chocolate in that thing they call a Cadbury chocolate caramel?

SPEAKER_03 17:29

It's made in China. It's unicorn hooves, right? So it's like, you know, they garden them up and they put them there, and that's the flavor you get. Okay. But I get that Cadbury, that Cadbury egg flavor. And it's it's that almost marshmallowy kind of flavor, and it goes, it's just so smooth. And it's so very surprising because at 117 proof, I expected it to be hotter. And for as thin as the flavor is, and I say thin and I don't mean like forgettable, but as thin as the and soft and gentle as the flavor is, I expected that heavy ethanol burn, and you don't get it. It's such a surprise.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

This to me is the genius of this bottle, and it's this because Caleb, I know you will remember this. It was one of the first bottles we ever did because I pulled it off of my bar and it was a couple years old. But it was that pinhook rye humor that we had. At 114 proof, you never would have thought it carried that kind of proof. I don't think if you sip this, you're gonna think, oh, this is 117. You're gonna think, man, this drinks like it's 90 to 100.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

Yeah, I'd have thought 100 on the high side. I I would never have guessed 117. Uh, that it drinks so well for 117 proof.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

The only way I can explain the way that this drinks. So if you've ever gone to California, if you've ever been in one of those places where they do food very, very different than we do here in southern Louisiana. Opium dens? No, not quite that. But they do it very clean. The food is just incredibly clean. It's all organic, it all is very straightforward. Or vegetarian places, salad bars. Close. But in California, they'll do it with seafood, they'll do it with actual beef, right? They'll do it with Wagyu, they'll do it with all this other stuff. And it it just eats so clean that you're like, man, it's a totally different experience. This drinks so cleanly, it's almost like a totally different whiskey experience. And as we get deeper and deeper into the first glass, it drinks that much better and better and better.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

You know what's what's what's funny about it is as clean as it is, New Rift doesn't overly filter their product. So that kind of tells you to the rawness of what you're getting, why it's it's untainted, it's unmanipulated, you're getting more of the natural flavors out of it. I see, I see it. Yeah. And he said you just get to enjoy more of what is actually there. New Riff's real notorious for this. They don't want to remove what they give you, they want you to try it as it really is.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

So are you trying to say that this is some California tree hugging hippie whiskey? Nope. No clean and organic.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

No, what I what I think I am saying though is this to exactly what Caleb just called out. They do such a good job of their original ingredients, their distillation process, their aging process, that they don't need to overdo it. Yeah. They can present to you exactly what the distiller that intent was and put it in a glass, and it is incredibly, incredibly enjoyable. As Renee finishes off his first class over there, and we're not even through the segment. I'm impressed.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

So tell me this. Well, not tell me. Tell the implicit nation a little bit about New Riff, where they are located, you know.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

I mean, no, look, they're they're in Kentucky, right? I mean, they are just one of the newer locations, one of the newer distilleries that's been out there. But their stuff has been highly desired now for four or five years. When bourbon was really kind of at its peak, here in Louisiana, New Riff was kind of like the Easter bunny. You saw pictures of it, you heard about it, people told you it existed, but you never actually saw it yourself.

SPEAKER_05 21:04

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

And then when it landed here in Louisiana, people started to get a hold of it. And look, every pick we've had from New Riff has been absolutely outstanding. And this new news pick from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective, I think this one lives up to the hype. Like it literally just continues the trend of lining them up and knocking them down because the juice they're producing is just that good. And for them to have been around as relatively short term as they are compared to most distilleries, it's really quite amazing as how good their stuff is, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

So can we get a field trip?

SPEAKER_00 21:40

I'm sure you would trip together.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

That's a wonderful question.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

I would love for us to get a field trip. We got people, we can make a phone call. Make a phone call then.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

Yeah, I got a big Buick. We can go to New News. Look out, Blaine.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

Here we come.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

All right. So it's time for us to rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code and play what would Pay for the what would you pay championship belt presented by Box Drop of Lafayette? So, Renee, let's start with you. Is it a red? I wouldn't drink it even if it was free. A yellow, I would only drink it if it was free. A green, I would buy it, or a blue, I would seek this out. And what would you pay for this? 117 proof new riff single barrel bourbon whiskey out of Kentucky.

SPEAKER_04 22:23

What's the age on it? You have an age statement? I do not see an age statement. Something more than six months. Yes. Well, no, it's got to be more than two years. Correct. Um I'm giving it a green and I'm gonna say $89.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

A green and eighty-nine dollars.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

All right. I I'm torn between a green and a blue right now. Okay, because I think this is something that could easily go around the table at a party.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Do you have to convince yourself it's a green or a blue? Because whichever one you have to convince yourself, it's not.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Well, I then if that's the case and we go on the Caleb Moore's rating scale, I would say it's a green. Okay. I'm gonna say 6497. Okay. 6497. I'm trying to be Renee, you know. But I mean, listen, it's a good, I've drank a lot of new riff over the last six months to a year uh with different people. So it is very much getting in the scope of things in South Louisiana for sure. But I would say that it's gotta be a green for me. Uh I'm not gonna say the proof does it for me, but to drink it, I think this is an all-around just good. Wait, the proof brought it down to a green or the proof. I would say the proof probably brought it down to a green. Interesting. Yeah. Because usually it's the other way around. I just I like the taste of it. The juice is good, as you say. It's worth the squeeze of buying it. Okay. But I do find that it maybe it's the hotness on the smell, maybe it's the back end, something.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

But yeah, your skirt just doesn't like it. Okay, okay, possibly.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

Look, I'm I'm not a Viking though. I I want to give it a green, I'm not gonna lie to you. But it's so contradictory to itself because it's soft yet aggressive, it's robust yet thin. Like this, I have to give it a blue because it doesn't make sense to my palate, because it's it's it is just superbly done. The balance you get out of it, I I just can't I can't say someone else has done it to this level. So blue and uh $95.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

So look, I we're not gonna have a tie because my vote counts more than anybody at the bar, which means this is a blue, right? There is no doubt to me, if I were to think about the liquid that we have had on this show, we had a bottle that was not a pick last week, and we're not gonna throw shade on anybody. But for the price and what we had on the show, that was a blue. This absolutely has to be a blue. When you consider the flavor profile of those things, this is just that good. And Walker's giving me the one-minute finger. So for the what would you pay championship belt chain, let me go ahead and present it to Jude Savoy. What? This is $59.99 at New News.

SPEAKER_04 25:04

And we're disenfranchised voters over here with Kavan, you know, overriding our vote.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

You're just you're just illegal aliens voting. And I am recognizing it and calling it what it is. We are part of the 144 overage percentage. Which means we will be back on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. Put the chain on, punk. That should have been bonus content on Implicit Bias Radio. For those who have the ability to find it, there are some Dark Knight Return parodies out there that are definitely not fit for the family, but are funny for those who might find it appropriate. It is time for us to dive into the stories and the topics that you know what? This really is the definition of you will not find on the mainstream media. Because they want you to be the horse, they want you to be the mule, they want you to need bit and bridle. And we are going to talk about, because we recorded last week's episode before the speech happened, the presidential address last Thursday from Donald J. Trump outlining foreign election interference. Now, there's a lot to unpack here. But I say a lot. I mean this might be the rest of the show. It's that much. Renee, I need one takeaway. The first thought when you saw that this address was going to happen to the nation, what's the big takeaway for you from the address, from everything surrounding it, whatever it might be?

SPEAKER_04 26:29

None of the media cut covered it, except for one. Fox is the only one I think that covered it. That's where I watched the address that. But none of the mainstream media's even played it.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

So to be fair, yes, NBC, ABC, CBS, for I think this is the first time in history that they have not aired a presidential address to the nation.

SPEAKER_04 26:49

Right.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Talk about them wanting to tell you what to think.

SPEAKER_04 26:53

Well, they just don't want it, they didn't want Trump to tell us what was going on.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Okay, so that's your takeaway. Jude, what's your takeaway? Different from Renee's.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

One word. Duh.

SPEAKER_00 27:05

Okay. Look, that is so for I had somebody actually text me during the address because I was in Texas when it happened. And they said, Man, I'll bet your DMs are blowing up. I'll bet people are texting you guys. And I said, honestly, no, our audience has been waiting for this for years. This is not anything new to us. Our audience kind of knew what was coming because our audience will think for themselves. They don't just listen to us, they don't trust us, and that's fine. We want it that way. But they're gonna go look and they're gonna go see. So a lot of the stuff that he actually put out there was somewhat known.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

So, like my my wife doesn't keep up with a lot of this, and we were sitting down, and of course, I put it on, and she's like, Are you listening? I'm like, I don't I don't necessarily have to, because this is something that has been there known and understood for years, but now that it's being publicized, of course, the people who he were he was calling out don't want to cover him. Fair. And so all I could say was, I already knew this. You and I have had that conversation before, where it's like, we have known this for what, 2017?

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Oh, at the very least. Yeah. At the very least. When it started really coming. Yeah. Okay, Caleb, what's your one big takeaway that's not Renee's or Jude's?

SPEAKER_03 28:17

So when you think about OPSEC, right, operational security, you don't want to advertise your vulnerabilities. And what not caught me off guard is that we publicly said the system is very vulnerable. The electronic voting system, our voter documents, our voter registration, all of it is very vulnerable. A lot of it is available publicly. So that's what that's kind of what got me. Is it it he said the he set the private words out loud.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

Is there one caveat to that though, which is you don't show your weakness unless there's one of two scenarios. Either you've already secured the weaknesses.

SPEAKER_03 29:01

I would hope that's the case.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Or you are continuing to bait them into a trap of your weaknesses.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

And look, he he came out, he said that China, Russia, Korea, North Korea, and all these others, like they they already have access to these vulnerabilities. They've had it for years. Yeah, so he, even though he's saying it out loud, he's not saying no one else knows about it. He's saying these are the countries that have already exploited that weakness. And I think that that is the biggest takeaway. They have exploited these weaknesses. They know about them, they have gotten their data from them, and we have allowed it to happen.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Here's an interesting comment that has been made by our current president. We caught them all. He said this before. He said it a couple of times. We caught them all, we have it all, we've got everything, we caught everything they were doing. So the question now becomes, Caleb, to your point, is this now revealing the weaknesses, or is this actually starting to build the public case, which you have to do because I think we all know, and and I love, we're gonna walk down this path because we're gonna go back to Renee's point in just a minute, and that's really what we're gonna focus on for the rest of this segment. But there's a complete progression of information here that should allow for even the most clinically dense individual who does not believe this to actually have to open their eyes and go, oh wow. And we actually got there a lot quicker, I think, than some of the others. We're gonna talk about that a little bit later, but I I want to go back to Renee, and this is kind of the big first takeaway for me because my big takeaway, and what we said this six years ago now that we've been on the air past six years. People who call themselves journalists are going to go to jail. I said this six years ago. And somebody said, why? I said, because we're gonna find out that they have been getting paid to run false stories to interfere with elections, and those stories. So let's let's go to Renee's point. Renee, your people didn't cover it, right? Because these are your people, CBS, ABC, NBC. Right? But my point is, so they don't cover it. What's the first thing they come out and do? The first thing they come out and do, CBS within 20 minutes of the documents being released. By the way, I tried to get on the internet at the end of the address and got an error 429, too many requests. So maybe they were lucky and got in, maybe they weren't. But my point is they come out and say, fact check, false. Hold on a minute. Let's talk about all the stuff that you told us that was false. Let's talk about the water main break. That was false. Let's talk about the fact that the machines weren't connected to the internet, that was false. Let's talk about the fact that people were not in some way, shape, or form stuffing ballot boxes that they were, that was false. We talked about, oh, record donations through Act Blue. We know now that that was false. I mean, the court documentation is there, and these networks propagated and ran and pushed every fing lie that they could, but would not air them saying, oh, this information. And some had this had the gall to say, oh, this information's been known for a while.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

Well, yeah, but I mean, especially the China interference. Hillary said that during the 16 election. Ring the bell.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

Hillary said it, Biden said it, Harris said it.

SPEAKER_04 32:28

They all said, oh, we know that they're that's why they well, that's why they lost to Trump was because of China. Well, that's what they were saying.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

No, that's not what they were saying. Remember what they were saying, which we also know was a lie. Three words Russia, Russia, Russia. Oh, yeah. Well, that too. Which we now know, and amazingly enough, AI actually confirmed it right out of the gate. Who paid for and created the Russian dossier that alleged Donald Trump was colluding with Russia in the 2016 election?

SPEAKER_04 32:57

Yeah, it was Hillary's campaign.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

The documentation is out there. The government documentation is.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

Well, elections have been manipulated for as long as our country has existed.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 33:39

If you think that no one has bent an election to their will, you obviously don't know the history of mankind. Because most people, I'm not gonna say all, most people are for sale and they just haven't figured out their price yet. So be of moral, be of good moral ground where there is no price. If you're the kind of person that says, well, for a million dollars, I would do this, then you're bought and paid for. Just the person that made the offer yet. Don't put a value on your integrity because that's what these people do, regardless of what side of the fence they're on, right? Regardless of how they vote or anything else, a lot of these people are already bought and paid for.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

Well, here I think is the big secret that they really don't want people thinking about. Because it's funny. The terms have changed. It used to be Republican Democrat. And that's all fine and dandy until some of us realized that it's a Republican or a Demopublican. They're all on the same team. So do you wonder why that same team, the Republicrats, the Demopublicans, all hate our current sitting president? It's because he's actually a different party. That's what they call MAGA. It just had to cannibalize one of the parties in order to recreate a two-party system because we'd gone away from a two-party system. And what we are seeing here now is proof that it was a one-party system. You got Republicans that are getting elected, I guarantee, through fraudulent votes, through vote rigging, through electioneering, just like you have Democrats. And that's the big drawback. And that's why. So right before the address, I actually threw a little thing out there that said, hey, look, if you think you already believe this, make them prove it. Actually want to see the receipts. And we have seen some of those receipts. We're going to talk about some of those receipts on this show. If you really just despise and you suffer from TDS at a clinical level, keep an open mind and show us that you are not a horse, you are not a mule, you do not have a bit in your mouth or a bridle on your head. You can actually think for yourself. And unfortunately, so many of those people refuse to believe the truth when it is literally sitting on top of them and dancing a jig while it does it. That is just the sad part. We're going to talk about some of the receipts, some of the proof. Final segment of hour one after this, Walker. Yep. When we come back on Implicit Bias Radio. Final segment of hour one of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio, and we are thinking for ourselves why? Because we are reading source documentation and we are actually digging in and saying, you know what? I wonder if the president was telling the truth when he said everything he said about foreign election interference. We have on this show in the Mr. Lester's TSPL, a great crew for you this week. We have Caleb Morse, he is the rustic renegade. At the bar, we have Jude Savoie, also known as Push Pop. And we have Renee Gerard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. What's that, Renee? Push pop? Yeah, that apparently came from a buddy of his.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Don't even try.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

What would you rather, push pop or puddin' pop? Yes, mama.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

I'm uh I'm intrigued. That's off-air.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

Yeah, yeah, that's probably an off-air. Anyway, so back to kind of where we left off in the last segment, which is how do we know that the president was actually telling us the truth? Well, receipts are pretty easy when documentation is declassified and released. And I'm gonna give you one name, and everybody in here probably knows the name. My listeners may not, but the name is Nikki Flores. Renee, you know who Nikki Flores is? Renee does not. Jude says he knows who Nikki Flores is. Jude, who is Nikki Flores? Oh man, now I'm gonna get tested.

SPEAKER_02 37:26

Uh what was the guy that got uh he got caught in not Russia? You don't know. Caleb, who is Nikki Flores?

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Weren't they the uh deputy director or something of the FBI intelligence, counterintelligence? She was she was with the NSA. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

And she was in effect running the foreign influence task force. And she actually said in an email, in an email, Nikki Flores says, I'm effectively running a shadow government within the FBI. Period. End of sentence. Now, there's potentially context, right? The argument's going to be, oh, it was a joke. That's not a joke you can make when also with context it says we are massaging PDB's presidential daily briefings to keep information from the duly elected president of the United States. So it's one thing if I were to look at the guys in the Mr. Lester's TSPL and go, hey, I'm running a shadow government, but I've got nothing to prove it.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

I found one of I found her most famous quote.

SPEAKER_00 38:37

But if in another email I actually said, oh, we're massaging the daily briefings to the president. So Caleb, what's the what's the famous quote?

SPEAKER_03 38:44

2019, she said, these attacks on our elections and these efforts by foreign adversaries to influence our opinions and so division with this country touch us all, every citizen.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

2019. Yet she admits to running a shadow government within the United States FBI. And the emails also admit that they are, quote, massaging, changing the language in presidential daily briefings to keep the words election out of it so he doesn't get involved.

SPEAKER_02 39:13

So the first time I heard about Miss Flores was with Julian. Flores, F-L O R I S. Was with uh Julian Assange had wrote a piece. That's what I was trying to remember. I couldn't remember the name. And that's where when he started explaining about everything that he was doing, that her name came up. And so that's where I started to kind of pick up on her and how she was running a behind the scenes, you know, kind of scheme.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

So this is the this is the first part of how we know that the president was right. The deep state exists, it exists in unelected bureaucrats who outlast elected officials. Now, do we need continuity of government? We do. Do we need institutional structure with regards to following the orders of the people who are giving them? Yes. And that's the big thing because these bureaucrats get in position and seem to think, man, I'm gonna outlast this president, so I'm just gonna do what the heck I want, and that's gonna be okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:14

Well, we have all these people behind the scenes that are let not legislators, but they're on their boards, they're on their panels, they're their attorneys and so forth. And they have their administrative staff. They this administrative staff has been doing this for decades, and we're like, yeah, it's no big deal. Well, everything they touch, all the policies they're part of carry over generationally. So just because you elect someone new, if the staff behind closed doors that are writing legislation and briefing the legislation aren't changing, are you really electing anyone new?

SPEAKER_02 40:45

No, and that's the whole thing. That's that's the dirty little secret. When you when you get elected to Congress, um, and this is not going to be a popular opinion, but we call them hill rats, right? So the hill rats work in the offices of the congressional staff, is what they are. They go from office to office depending on who is elected at the time. They're the ones that control everything. They can brief their elected officials on whatever's going on at the time, but understand the real business gets done by the Hill Rats and the staff, and it's the same thing across all government.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

James O'Keefe actually dropped a video the day that we recorded this episode where he is having a conversation. I'll let people go watch it, with the guy who apparently is like the director of business operations for the United States Navy inside of the Pentagon. And this guy is telling him, oh, I'm in charge of the execution of executive orders, so the implementation of executive orders. And I'm just holding back on all this stuff because as soon as this president is out, I'm just gonna change it because I don't like it. Now, this is a guy who is allegedly on a date with another guy, not knowing that the other guy is a journalist. But he is admitting to the dirty little secret, not that he's on a date with the guy. Wait, was he still he is still employed? No, no, no. What was the date legitimate? No. Okay. That's the whole thing. I was just curious. So the subject thought the date was legitimate. The subject thought the date was legitimate. It was an investigative journalist that he was on a date with and didn't realize it. And was then he spills the beans. Was this the first date? I have no idea. Well, and I think a lot of that-that's a question that doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 42:20

Some of these, some of these bureaucrats, they get there, and because nobody sees them, after a while, they want to start flaunting their power. And that's what it sounds like this guy was doing. He was telling his his new uh friend that this is what I can do, and this is what I do. I'm not all these executive orders that Donald Trump's signing, I'm not acting them on them. I'm gonna hold them back. And when he's gone, then I can throw them in the trash.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

That is exactly what this guy is is saying. And to that point, it kind of proves the theory that the hill rats are trying to run everything. The rats in DC actually control the asylum, and that's the problem. Because nobody elected these people.

SPEAKER_04 43:03

I know for a fact I've I've been on the hill and talking to when we go and lobby for tobacco issues, the guy leading us around was a hill rat. And he says, most of these congressmen have no clue what they're voting on. Let me ask you. On the way to the chamber in the morning, their chief of staff says, This is how we we stand on this bill, this bill, this bill, this bill. Congressman knows nothing about what's in those bills. His chief of staff tells him how to vote.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

Well, that's because they're thousands of pages, right? And they have all these people that they supposedly trust. But oh, and these guys jump from congressman to congressman depending on who's paying more. I'm very certain that the two of you gentlemen at the bar have both been to the the whiskey bar that's within walking distance.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

I thought you were gonna say the blue oyster club.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

Well, now there's there's a whiskey bar that's within walking distance uh of the house. And I haven't been there. That is where uh I I was invited to go there to talk to someone before I knew what all the This was. And while I'm talking to him, he's explaining to me that this is where 90% of the work is done.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:05

And I'm like, well, who are these people? He's like, well, these are all AIDS. And I was like, like the disease? He goes, No. Well, you could argue. You could argue. Yep. He's like, they weaken the immune system. He goes, We come here, we discuss things, and we give direction on how to vote.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

Which is so difficult. It's why you got the famous Nancy Pelosi quote. We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. Well, that's not the way this is supposed to work. Right. That is not the way this is supposed to work. So we now have number one, we have news media that, in my opinion, is flat out complicit. CBS, ABC, NBC, NBC, they know that people got paid. Gee, I wonder if they were some of the people that got paid to run these stories. And we're going to talk about their licenses. We're going to talk about how we now have tangible proof from outside of DC that what we heard from DC is actually on point. We're going to have more fun. We're going to have more weekly whiskey specials when we come back on Implicit Bias Radio in hour two. Hour two is always more fun on Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Borderland. We've got a great crew for you here in the Mr. Lester's Top Secret Podcast layer, which by the way, oh, quit your complaining, you little punk.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

It's hard to be the winner.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

Pudding pop up there can't handle the weight of what would you pay championship belt chain. When you're good. He's not used to that much weight in the front of him. Well played, Caleb Morris. Well played. All right. So before we dive into the topics as we go back to kind of what Renee was talking about, because this to me is the biggest point, maybe, of the entire presidential address. We'll go back to this in a minute. We got to talk about what's going on at Mr. Lester's. There's not much left. I was initially told that implicit barrel at Lester's was gone. I was able to find out. They probably have enough to get through this weekend and maybe next Thursday or Friday. It's not much. Literally, when I tell you it's less than 50 bottles remain out of 252 that was implicit barrel at Lester's, I highly recommend you go get it. They're still doing $5 first pour, $10 pours after that, and $50 bottles in the restaurant. Just that simple. $50 bottles in the restaurant. If you want to get implicit barrel, a $17.92 single barrel picked by the crew of Implicit Bias Radio. Caleb, what are you looking up over there? You're trying to get one more bottle served?

SPEAKER_03 46:30

I need one more bottle. I have two kids and I want to have one for each of them because it's that good.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

So is this a request that you're going to make with a certain chef? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Add another bottle, please.

SPEAKER_00 46:41

So before we start doing that, let's just say I'm hearing rumblings. I'm hearing rumblings. Is it the lettuce from Taco Bell? It is not. Thank goodness. That that would have been that would have been rumblings over my right shoulder from Walker. No.

SPEAKER_03 46:57

Is that why he's wearing long pants? Could be.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

Could be. Well, I figured it was because all his shorts were dirty. Anyway, this I'm hearing rumblings of an implicit barrel 2.0. I look forward to this. I really do. And 3.0. I'm hearing rumblings of multiple implicit barrels, some at Leicester's, some available locally here in Lafayette, Louisiana for retail purchase. These things are coming. I don't want to give away too much, but because honestly, I've I like I said, I've got rumblings. So right now it's officially rumors. That's all we've got.

SPEAKER_03 47:31

Well, how's this? Let's let's create more rumors. Reach out to the whiskey collective and tell them, like, hey, we want the guys at Implicit to help choose barrels.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Well, so first of all, new news has one right now. The same people that have this new rift pick still has a pinhook that was picked at Implicit birthday last year. They don't have much of it, but they've got a few bottles of that left. I mean, I'm talking, what, probably 20 bottles, so maybe three, three and a half cases, four cases. Not much, but you can still go get it. It's fantastic. The others, let's just say, things are, as people suffering from the what cyclosporin outbreak would say, things are on the way. They're happening whether you like it or not.

SPEAKER_04 48:11

Taco Bell lettuce.

SPEAKER_00 48:13

Correct. Okay. So back to the topic, which is this. So what I want you to think about is this the networks have said, oh, that president is only now saying this because fact check quote CBS, fact check false. This is just from the communist news network.

SPEAKER_04 48:35

Who rumor has it soon might be controlled by CBS.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

Correct. ICE detains five-year-old. That was a hoax. Hegseth kill everybody, quote, that was a hoax. Trump destroying the White House, that was a hoax. Proof of starving Gaza babies, that was a hoax. Israel troops murdered food seeking. That was a hoax. Palestinian hoax there. Trump tariffs will explode prices. That was a hoax. Maryland manned? That was a hoax. Uh let's see. If, oh, if if Doc is the White House, right? The documents in the White House hoax. Right? Elon Musk Nazi salute. That was a hoax. Um, let's see, what's a good one? The Springfield bomb threat, that was a hoax. Trump called for Liz Cheney to be executed, that was a hoax. The very fine people story, that was a hoax. Violent crime is down under Biden, that was a hoax. Um, let's see, what else? Oh, Kamala Harris was never America's borders are, that was a hoax. Russia collusion, that was a hoax. Hands up, don't shoot, that was a hoax. Jussie Smolet, that was a hoax. The Covington KKK kids, that was a lie. We already did verifying people. Uh, let's see. Trump trashes the troops, that was a lie. We gotta stop calling these hoaxes. These are flat out lies. Right? Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer, that was a lie. Um, let's see. Border agents whipping illegals. Yeah, Kyle Rittenhouse is a lie. That was not, that was self-defense. Yeah, but it was murdered.

SPEAKER_03 50:14

Murder can be justified, but it's still a murder. So anyone killed somebody.

SPEAKER_00 50:18

Okay, so what? So CNN is is 0.5 out of 25 by now. They are so far below the Mendoza line, this isn't even funny.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

Yeah, yeah, but like if you have the option to say, look, I'm I'm a uh a self-defense justified killer. Yeah, okay, I'm a murderer.

SPEAKER_00 50:33

Yeah, one sounds better. So let's keep going. The border agents whipping illegals, that was a hoax. The NASCAR noose, that was a lie. I forgot about that one. That was Trump assaulted Secret Service agents, that was a lie. Grabbed the steering wheel of the beast, that's a lie. Now, that was testimony that was given and they reported that. But you're supposed to verify what you are told. They verified nothing. Why would you verify anything? Just throw it at me.

SPEAKER_04 51:01

I mean, you went you went to journalism school. Didn't they teach that when you went to school? Oh, they did. They taught verify.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

Wait, I went to journalism school. I thought you were ballerina. Here's a good one. You just you went to school? Yeah, I did. Okay. Every now and then. Yeah. It's not like Iraq, where you go like till you're about four and then they kick you out. Yeah. Anyway, that's because you're from there. Hunter Biden's laptop is fake. That was a lie. And everybody knew that was a lie. Uh I'm not keeping track, but I think that's like 27. Mass graves of native children in Canada? That was a lie. All right. Um, let's see. Trump told people to drink bleach. That was a lie. I mean, how many things do they have to keep telling you if this is who has the bit in your mouth and the bridle on your mouth? They're not gonna stop either. Do you have how many more lies do you have to hear before you finally go, maybe they're not right?

SPEAKER_03 51:55

They're not gonna stop. Like man, mankind and corrupt people aren't gonna stop giving us wrong information.

SPEAKER_04 52:03

Well, and I mean, people's gonna continue to watch it, and they're gonna continue to get revenue from advertisers because people are watching. And until we stop watching, it'll continue. How about this one? Well, the sheep are gonna continue to get the vaccine.

SPEAKER_03 52:16

Right, right. Well, this like that that's this is the point.

SPEAKER_00 52:19

And that and that's the whole point of the monologue, right? Which is think for yourselves. These are the same people who told you Joe Biden was sharp as a tack, which by the way, I love that an appeals court today finally shut down a request from Biden's lawyers to keep under seal his deposition. Now we are going to get to see just how bad it was. We are going to get to see this. And when we do, it is not an indictment, believe it or not, of Joe Biden. It's an indictment of that holes in the media who lied to you, knowing they were lying, and said, We are supposed to tell you what to think.

SPEAKER_04 53:00

They're going after Jack Smith now.

SPEAKER_03 53:01

They better call it. Well, the problem, the problem we're gonna have is Joe Biden could have been out there drooling from the mouth, having jello drip down his shirt, and there are still people that would say, Yeah, yeah, I got him.

SPEAKER_04 53:12

He's the best, he's the best we've ever had.

SPEAKER_03 53:14

Look, call the spade a spade. If if Trump, if uh Teddy Roosevelt, if FDR, uh who name a president, if they behave that way, you should call them out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:25

I mean, you should so so I'm actually. I mean, it's like Kavan says all the time go research it yourself. Look it up yourself.

SPEAKER_00 53:34

So I'm actually gonna give credit where credit is. Y'all are gonna hear this and probably want to drop dead. I 100% agree with at least the way the story has been framed. I 100% agree with the Democrats on something that happened or was announced today.

SPEAKER_02 53:49

Take another sip, please.

SPEAKER_00 53:50

Yeah, I know. You're like, what the hell? Well, now I'm curious. So the language for the Clarity Act, which will be the structure, the rules, and regulation around cryptocurrency and where a new financial system will go. It's happening, whether you know it or not. It is happening as we speak. They actually said Democrats got Trump to agree that no elected official can support create profit from their own stable coin. So, first of all, I am completely of the belief that this was a rope-dope to get Democrats to push for it, but I don't care who pushed for it. This is good. This is good that lawmakers can't go to DC, write a law that benefits themselves. There's no way Nancy Pelosi voted for that.

SPEAKER_04 54:34

How are they gonna stop doing that? They've been doing that for eons. By the time that comes up, Nancy will be gone because she's leaving in January. And she's a boat. She's not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 54:43

This all should come up before January. This should come up in the next three weeks. But look, I agree with Democrats.

SPEAKER_04 54:51

There's no way Congress passes a bill in three weeks. That just does not happen. Well, this is it takes them two to three years to have a bill.

SPEAKER_00 54:57

Well, this bill, this bill has been on the table for two to three years. Yeah, but this is not new. This is going through the Senate, reconciliation in the House, it will then reconcile in the Senate before it's signed. It's last three steps. We all know that there's way more than three steps to getting a bill passed. This has been in the works for a very long time. But my point is, at the end of the day, right is right and wrong is wrong. And if you believed all of that that was wrong at some point, you have to take a step back from the mirror and go, maybe my entire view of this is wrong.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

Well, but the problem, Kaban, I want to go to that because you said, you know, naming all these hoaxes, understand we're calling out C V uh CNN on this. That's just CNN. But the problem is, it's the same problem in all of our universities because they're teaching them to believe these people at their word or not use an implicit bias.

SPEAKER_00 55:46

No, they're teaching them that anything other than what their worldview is is someone else's implicit bias that is wrong. Correct.

SPEAKER_02 55:54

So they believe every word that comes out their mouth. So you addressed thinking for yourself, right? They don't. They're taught not to. That's why there is starting to have a little hate against traditional style college education.

SPEAKER_03 56:07

Well, and look, we have people that are that are educating our youth that have no experience.

SPEAKER_05 56:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:13

You know, we we talked about you earlier going to school, right? I went to college. Uh, I did, I was going for counterterrorism, and we were doing Middle Eastern stuff. Oh, hey, I want to do some stuff. You know, it stuck with who I was. And um the professor was talking about how Middle Eastern politics are done. And at the time, I'm living in Baghdad.

SPEAKER_04 56:32

I'm like, And he's never even seen the desert.

SPEAKER_03 56:35

She, and she was 23 years old. She had gone to the college that she was a teacher at, professor at, graduated, got a job as a professor. Good for her. Great job. And she's trying to tell me how things work. I'm like, no, that's not how it works. I literally we we escort over two briefcases full of like $175,000 cash, and this happens. No, that would never happen. I'm like, I can show you receipts. Like, that's that's how it works. No. And when I got my F, I got a zero on that report. I was like, telling the truth. Yeah. And I was like, you know what? I almost dropped a bad word. Screw this. This isn't worth it.

SPEAKER_02 57:10

That piece of paper is not worth my integrity, and I'm not gonna, it's not for sale. Listen, I let my wife go back to school after we had been out of high school for 10 years. She took a couple of business classes. That was awfully gracious of me, by the way. It was wonderful. To let her. I did. Because she wanted to go back to work, and I said, listen, go to school, treat it like work from seven to five. You you do school, right? You make that your job. But she was in some business classes, and I thought it was hilarious. You have a professor teaching business who's never owned a business, correct, never been in business, who wrote a book for his business course, who doesn't know anything about business, teaching businesses to kids who have never taught, uh, have never worked in a business that they're learning about. So you don't learn a damn thing from these people. Well, here's the interesting part. You pay a lot for it.

SPEAKER_00 57:52

I think Caleb really hit the nail on the head, and this is why that media elite thinks they are so smart, because what you have is a self-propagating system. Yes. Right? You have people who go to school, they never get a real job, they get a job teaching. They are taught what they teach, what they were taught, and they then instill those things, and those things are then put out into the real world where that echo chamber just keeps echoing and echoing.

SPEAKER_04 58:17

See, back when I went to college, you know, when we have to wear the robes and stuff and use the stone chisels.

SPEAKER_00 58:23

Is that when they invented the wheel Renee?

SPEAKER_04 58:24

Right, exactly. I mean, we we had like my accounting professor was a CPA, a practicing CPA, and he taught accounting. And the business professors were people that had businesses and did the teaching on the side.

SPEAKER_00 58:44

So that I I think that is what, and but we are way off on a tangent, but it's okay. That's where I think colleges need to go back to. Yeah. Colleges need to get rid of tenure and bring in actual experience. Not, oh, I'm eating. Because the majority of these professors have never done what they're teaching. And let's and let's start here. Let's start with if you are a mathematics professor, you know what? There's not a lot of fields where they're like, hey, we're gonna pay you to math. That doesn't happen.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

Yeah, it does. That's the oil field. It does. Yeah, it does. It's I have a good friend of mine that got a mathematics degree and wound up working at Texas Instruments. Okay. Doing math stuff.

SPEAKER_00 59:20

Okay, but my but my point is those are few and far between, right?

SPEAKER_04 59:24

Insurance companies, the actuary takers, it's all mathematicians. But here's the point.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

If it's architecture screw in the parking lots, then math is two plus two equals four. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_02 59:32

Unless you're from certain places, it's 22.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Well, but my point is, my point is, math is tangible, math is direct results. Yeah, right? It's finite. Teaching business, teaching business is not, oh, well, I've never been in business, but I can teach business. No. Teaching communications is not. Well, I've never actually spoken in public at big events or in front of a camera, in front of hundreds of thousands of people, but I can teach. No, you need to have a certain level of experience doing a lot of these things. There are some that are theoretical. I mean, if you're teaching theoretical mathematics, you're probably still engaged in theoretical mathematics. Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:07

Yeah. Well, and I want to bring it back home to CNN, right? It's the same thing with the hoax. You're teaching these kids only how to follow what they're being told. Okay. There was a movie back in the day with Back to School with uh Rodney Dangerfield. Rodney Dangerfield. Oh, wow. That's right. It was. How do you remember that? That's wait. Absolutely. And he did it in New Jersey.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:29

Wait. And the Steel Pier. And even better, Robert Downey Jr. was in that movie. Iron Man was there with his teeth all messed up before he had him talk to the city.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:41

Greatest comedian. No respect. But if you exactly, if you watch the class and the one scene, he explained to that business professor that he didn't know a damn thing about what he was talking about. And well, let's just sell a widget. You know, but it's the simple fact that real business is different from sitting in a classroom and teaching something you've never done before.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

And and and that's a great call out for this reason. The world that we live in is not theoretical. If you're raised in the echo chamber, you keep repeating the echo chamber, it becomes the truth. It's not the case. We now know that, and we know it from multiple parties. We know it from Democrats, we know it from Republicans, the Chinese, the Russians, um, dear lord, the Venezuelans, the North Koreans have all been trying to rig our elections. Big shocker here, right? But only now when Donald Trump says it, is it a problem? That's really interesting. We now know that there are more voters on the voter rolls than there are actual voting citizens in the United States. Why? Because we know that there's a quarter of a million in four states.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:42

That's only 40 and 50% more than people that are registered, though. I mean, it's a small number.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:46

Yeah, and it's only four states, right? Not 50 states, which is why. And now you go, gee, I wonder why they wanted to get away from the Electoral College. Because this makes total sense when you put the map of states where voter ID is required and the way that those states vote versus states that do not require voter ID and how those states vote. I'm not gonna tell you what it looks like. What I'm gonna tell you is go look it up because all of a sudden you're gonna go, oh my gosh, this makes sense. This now makes total sense as to why certain states vote certain ways and why a state that elected Ronald Reagan twice somehow in 10 years went to being an uncontrollable blue state from a state that elected Ronald Reagan, not just as governor, but as president.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:33

That's why they keep all those extra people on the rolls, is so that they can have extra votes to control an election.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:41

One minute, and we are gonna drop the final bit of proof that shows yeah, it's going on, it's enough, and it should matter to you when we come back on implicit bias radio. I stabbed you first. This is implicit bias radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. Somebody will get that joke. They'll find the Batman thing and understand it. We are having way too much fun in the Mr. Lester's TSPL with Caleb Morse, the Rustic Renegade.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:07

I'm I'm in my mind, I'm like nine inches.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:12

It really locks in the flavor. It steals in the flavor. Marinage. At the bar, we have Jude Savoie of Bayou Crafting. We have Renee Gerard, Louisiana's always certified master tobacconist. And we are in the Mr. Lester's TSPL somewhere in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. Okay, so it's time for us to kind of put the crown jewel on the entire speech from the.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:33

I love how you said crown jewels.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:36

Well, it could be the family jewel, but that would be too big.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:38

Anyway, here's it would be gold.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:42

Here's the cherry on top from Donald Trump's speech, which is almost a week ago as we record this episode. In the last 24 hours before recording this episode, the state of New Jersey, a Democrat, has admitted that they have over 6,600 illegal aliens on their voter rolls. And here's the really fun part. They say, the governor says, oh, it was due to a quote software glitch. The software company has already responded and said, BS, that is not a glitch in our software. You knew it. So here's the first part of this. Number one, and I love where people are going because the goalposts y'all notice have moved. The goalposts went from, oh, this didn't happen to, well, it happens, but it's not enough. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought it didn't happen. No, now it happens and it's not enough. Where, see, I I was a young man once, I was a young boy once, which means that I thought I could get away with telling my parents a part of the story and hoping they wouldn't look into the rest.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:57

Renee, that's when they had stone tablets.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:59

Yes. I'm not quite that old, but close. So you mean to tell me that in the state of New Jersey, there's only 6,600 illegals?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:11

Well, it's 6,600 that they admit to.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:14

Ring the bell, Renee.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:16

And look, the company, it's Adema or however you pronounce it right. So and there, that's the electronic voting system. So that their advocate came out and said, well, no, no, no. Our software did what it was designed to. And it identified these people as illegal aliens, non-residents, so forth. A user, a human being must click approved.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:44

Yeah. I mean, in the registrar voter's office, you gotta go and prove who you are to register. At least you should, but here's the Louisiana. At least that's how it go goes in Louisiana.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:55

That's Louisiana. And here you go to vote and they're like, Well, let me see your ID. When we saw the video. We saw everything else. Let me show you my ID. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't show me that. What's your address? 123 Easy Street. Well, how do you pronounce how do you spell that? Easy. Well, let me just show you my ID. No, no, no, no. Don't do that. I can't see your ID. Because they can't see the physical verification because then now they're privy to the information.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:18

And the point here, Renee, is somebody went and approved it, regardless of whether or not they were supposed to.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:25

Yeah, whether it was legit or not.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:27

So the look, to be fair, the federal government has come out and said, we have identified over 35,000 that are on your voter rolls. And interestingly enough, we had who was the former director of ICE, not Bovino, the one before him. The one that was removed before Bovino.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:49

I don't remember who that was. Mr. Peanut.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:51

Nope. Regardless, former director of ICE estimates how many illegal aliens there are in the United States. Take a guess how many he estimates are in the U.S.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:00

20 million.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:01

No, I'd say 30. 30 million. He estimates almost 100 million. So think about what this does when you have governments, state governments giving out social security numbers. So wait, hold on, hold on. Federal government's giving out social security numbers to illegal aliens who then, once you have a social security number, can go get bank accounts, can go get a ID card, all 100 million people. You're saying one-third of our population is illegal? That is the estimate, according to a former ICE Director.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:31

That's scary.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:32

That's a really frightening number, right? And look, again, we have always said if you want to come here legally and you want to be a contributing member of the United States of America, it's not Mexico North. It's not, oh, we're going to America to send money back to Guatemala because we're for Guatemala. No, you come here, you're an American. We are 100% behind you doing it legally, the right way, the right process. If you want to be one of us, we want you. If you want to come here and say, I'm not one of you, but I want all the benefits of being you, that doesn't work.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:01

Yeah, don't come to my country and then carry a Palestinian flag on a graduation stage. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure y'all saw that video. Oh, yeah. Like you want to come here, you want to uh give to our society and be a part of the working, you know, class and give to our country. I'm in.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:15

But man, if you come over here and you still got allegiance to another country, don't give up the culture, but assimilate to who we are.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:22

Why would you leave your crappy country to come here to try to make our country as crappy as where you came from? Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:30

That's stupid. That's as bad as voting one way, moving because the way you voted made that state horrible. And then you continue to vote the same way.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:37

Yeah, exactly, which is why Texas is shambles right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:40

They say don't California my Texas? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:42

Don't California my Louisiana? At the end of all of it, what I think we now know, because we've offered proof. I mean, and if you've missed part of this show, find us on X Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, find us wherever you get podcasts, Apple Podcasts. You can watch the video. I'm sorry that you have to see Jude, but that's okay. Me too.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:00

I'm sorry. I'll make up for it. Renee, I'm sorry you gotta sit next to me. I love you though.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:04

I'm just messing with you, Jude. I'm sorry they got to see me. But my point is, I think over the last hour and 15 minutes, we've laid out a pretty good case for the fact that, yeah, we got some really shady stuff going on in our elections. We've got people inside the system who are doing everything they can to usurp the voting will of the American public. Because look, understand, when you have a woman like we talked about at the FBI in hour one or at the NSA in hour one, she is not usurping the president. That is not who she is usurping. She is usurping the vote of the American people. So when these people say, oh, every vote should count, I want my vote to count too, which means when I vote for a president and he says, do this in the Navy, do this with USAID, do this with policy, that is me saying that. And this person going there and saying I'm operating a shadow government is usurping the will of the people, not the will of the minority. And if you're in the minority, sorry, but as a famous politician, I'm not going to say president because I'm not sure it's legal, once said elections have consequences.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:12

I just want my vote to count on implicit bias and you not overrun it.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:16

No, it it counted. No, it was second. It did. It just overwrote us. It did. It wasn't it wasn't unanimous. It wasn't if you're if you'd have voted blue, it would have been unanimous.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:27

No, but you you overwrote our vote. Me and Jude feel disenfranchised.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:31

We had to have a tiebreaker. We had to have a tiebreaker.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:36

He's hating on your education. We were just discussing it.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:40

Here's the deal. You want to know the person whose vote really doesn't count, Renee? Walker. Walker, because I didn't ask him. I vote for Walker because I don't trust Walker's vote. So that's okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:50

You know what? We should start trusting his vote. I mean, that 1970s porn stash, I mean mustache, really drives home the point.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:56

You like that, huh?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:57

I do. It feels wonderful in my face.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

Caleb, I'm so glad. I thought you were gonna say it felt wonderful somewhere else. And I'm glad you didn't say it because I'm sure he's got that flavor saver for a reason. It's PG. You know, the smell of swamp ass is something you know, keep it pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:16

He got a pretty good mountain.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:19

So this proof, though, a democratic governor coming out and admitting, yeah, we got too many. Tip of the iceberg. Oh, yeah. This is going to be, in our opinion, the tip of the iceberg. And that's only one state. That's why I say it's the tip of the iceberg.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:36

The numbers are and the numbers not true, but it's only one state. Think of all the other ones they did.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:41

Wait till they get to New York. Oh, that's a small state.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:44

Wait till they get to no New Jersey is a populous state.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:47

New Jersey has a big population.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:49

Yeah. I I'm meaning for the simple, like compared to like a new California. Correct. Things like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:55

Correct. But no, look, I think when you get to New York and California, when you really start identifying those, which actually, by the way, we had the story. Hold on. I love that you say wait till California, because we need to pull this one up. This is an incredible headline that I found, and I've got to go to this quickly. California had an interesting scenario. Oh, not too long ago. Walker, why are you giving me the one-minute finger? Because we've got great stories. All right, I'm gonna find the story. We'll come back. We'll talk about the truth bomb, where the assistant attorney general Harmeet Dillon confirmed what Patriots have known for years in Los Angeles on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. Penultimate segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. That means it is the second to last segment for this week's episode. Welcome back into the Mr. Lester's TSPL. Great crew here for you. Renee Girard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. He's at the bar, he's waving for those on the radio who can't see it, and Renee doesn't realize it. Also behind the bar is Jude Savoie, who is laughing because he thinks I won't make fun of him, but watch me do this too. Anyway, please. And then see, here's the thing. I'm just gonna let people see you, and that's all I have to do. Then we're gonna go to Caleb Morsi is the Rustic Renegade. Caleb, it's a pleasure to have you back with us again as it is every week. I thoroughly enjoy this.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:08

You know, of all the things that I do in my life, this is top 10. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:13

Top 10. I thought what top three would be better.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:15

Look, no, no, look, there are other things like taking a shower, uh riding a tractor, uh coming to Piper's Haven and buying cigars.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:23

You know, I went the other day.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:24

Yes, like that surprised me when you and Miss Jackie showed up. It was a like she told me that I had the car of timeout to go see you because we went to smoke the other day. I was like, um I smoked, we had a wonderful weekend, and we relaxed. And she's like, What cigar do you want to smoke? And I said, Well, I have one for a special occasion that I've been saving. And the fact that I got to enjoy an entire weekend with my wife, we smoked, uh, it was an Opus X forbidden.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:51

I'm glad it was a cigar you told me you smoked.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:54

And uh and I was like, Look, this is what I'm smoking. She goes, Holy crap, if we're smoking that, it's a great time. Like it is, but I need to go see Renee to get more cigars. And she forced me to take time to spend time.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:04

Yeah, I noticed she was driving that thing. Yeah, she was. She was she was driving you around. Yep, driving Miss Daisy.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:10

Yeah. All right, so let's go back to the topics because this is the topic, as I said, that um certainly helps us out when we think about the number of people who are on voter rolls. So Adam Carolla has a podcast. I loved Adam Carolla, especially when he was doing like the man show, which is before Jimmy Kimmel lost his manhood. I mean, I feel like Jimmy Kimmel's the water boy. Mama, he took my manhood. I mean, like, we we know this, right? And apparently Adam Carolla got all of Jimmy Kimmel's.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:36

And on Adam Carolla's podcast, this is I don't know if I don't know if Jimmy if he got all of Jimmy Kimmel's. I think Adam had it all, and Kimmel was just getting some of Adam's.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:47

Could be, could be. But on his podcast, now this is really interesting. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon confirmed what Patriots have known for years. Los Angeles was forced in a 2017 lawsuit to admit they had over one million illegal voters sitting on the rolls.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:12

No, they didn't necessarily vote, but they were on the rolls.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:16

But hold on. Their voter rolls are 144% of the total number of eligible adult residents. Stop and think about that for a minute. So you wonder how jumped in ballot boxes. You wonder how Spencer Pratt getting votes lost because votes were coming in 25 days after the election day.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:36

Yeah. Right? Yeah, it takes California a month to count their votes.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:39

San Diego County, as we should say it, San Diego, which I believe translates to Wales. Anyway, 138%. California as a whole, 1.7 million ghost voters in California.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:05

What's votes?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:06

That's votes that they can use the way they want it to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:10

It's just California.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:13

So when you think about the margin of the city.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:15

Well, in certain in certain cities in California, they allow illegals to vote. They encourage them because they say, oh, well, their kids are going to our school, so they need to be able to vote for a school board. It's only supposedly for local elections, but once you're on the voter rolls, how can they differentiate between local, state, or federal elections? How dare you ask questions?

SPEAKER_00 1:16:39

Well, Renee apparently doesn't have a bid or a bridle. And that that's why we do this show. You mean he goes bareback? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:47

Didn't they make a movie about that?

SPEAKER_00 1:16:49

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I believe Renee starred with Heath Ledger in My Little Poem.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:55

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I believe it was called Bareback Mountain that Renee's came in. Anyway. Okay, so I I'm gonna leave that there because we needed to get that information out so people could know. Because now it's Barback Mountain?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:07

And look, she said, she said that they have people that they're they're pursuing who have gone to prisons and registered prisoners to vote so that they could in turn have them sign petitions because they got caught signing petitions without being registered voters. Huh. And they were paying people in prison to let them register them to vote to vote the way they wanted to vote because they had no control over it, because they were in prison. Whereas it's illegal for felons to correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:36

Okay. So, which brings us to, of all things, an attorney. Sonny Holstein. Sonny Holstein is an attorney.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:46

Now, she's wait, wait, did you say Holstein? Yes. Well, she's not really a cow, she's not as big as the rest of them. She's not as big as the rest of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:56

Her name is Holstein.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:57

This is the Holstein Holstein. I don't care. This is the this is the fun part because Don't you know who I am? If you want to know how much these people hate you, how much more intelligent they think they are, how dumb they believe we are, all you have to do is go look at what Honey Sonny Holston has said, Sonny Holstein, Sonny Holstein, I don't think whatever she has said, and then what she actually does. She's not a coward, right? Remember, we on this show say sits next to cowards. Remember, we say, believe none of what they say, believe only what they do. This is a woman who screamed about privilege of certain people because of the way they look. And then when her son, who was in a known drug area in an empty warehouse after hours, which is not a wholesome thing and it's jogging, and is about to get arrested by the cops, literally says to them on body cam, Renee, what'd she say?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:53

She said, Don't you know who I am?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:56

I'm a former prosecutor. Uh the exact quote is my name is Sonny Hoston. I'm one of the co-hosts of the View. Yeah. And I'm a former federal prosecutor. And then she talked about her son taught fourth grade geometry.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:12

Underprivileged kids, fourth grade geometry.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:14

I didn't learn geometry in fourth grade. Now, look, I went to a public school in South Louisiana.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:18

Let me ask this question. Because I'm I'm still on the topic here, which y'all can't stay on, but that's okay. I'm still on it. I'm roundabout. Here's here's my question. So when someone expects that someone will bend the laws because of who they are, what would the definition of that word be? Or what would the word be that hits that definition? You white privilege.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:37

Yes, that's what people would call that.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:39

But accept that she's not white.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:40

Oh, but it's privileged. Is it like Kamala though? Everybody thought she was black, but she's really a Hispanic.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:45

No, no, I that I don't know. I don't care. Didn't Kamala's family from sunset? At the end of the day, I don't care. Right. What I do care about is the double standard, the hypocrisy, and the expectation. Expect we are this stupid that we are so dumb that we will listen to her say one thing in order to get ratings and do another because that's who she actually is.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:11

Because on the show before that, before this instance, she was saying that the law is the law and everybody, nobody is above the law. That's another thing. But she was talking about everyone else, not Donald Trump. Yeah, not at the time. But then when her son gets arrested, so wait, he calls his mom, and his mom gets on the phone, and then she shows up and so hold on.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:32

So what you're saying is, Renee, the president is not above the law, but Sonny Holstein's son is.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:36

Right. And that's that's what she wants. Okay, that's what happened.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:40

We've got to be clear about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:42

Right. Well, I never did hear. Did he act? Did the officer continue the arrest? No.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:48

Or did he they said they weren't gonna arrest him because he was complying, he wasn't argumentative, he wouldn't anything else. So they just charged him with trespassing.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:55

So why didn't they arrest her for creating such a I was about to say, here's that would have been a great interference with the question?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:01

Here's my question. Ring the bell. That was funny. Here's my question. How old is her son? Grown ass man age. Oh, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So you're telling me. Hey, mommy's gotta save the date, okay? You're telling me that the man isn't a man. He's gotta have mommy show up. Hey, mommy's money, but. Speaking of mommy, Walker is now signaling that we need the one-minute finger, so I best his mommy told him something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:26

That's what the back of his car says. Mommy's money.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:28

We'll be back on Implicit Bias Radio final segment right after this. The lengths to which companies will go is sometimes cutting off their nose in spite of their face. This is the final segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Kavon Bortle, and we got a great crew here in the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer, where this story, I think the term would be poetic justice. Poetic justice. And look, I kind of hate that it's Ford Motor Company because I actually kind of like Ford Motor Company, but it's just the stupidity that big corporations engage in.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:03

Yeah, I don't think it's necessarily just Ford, it's just big corporate America.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:08

Big corporate America. Ford's the one that got caught. So here's the basic story. The names aren't really important. You can go look this up. But a guy who works for big company XYZ goes to their little commissary where they can buy snacks and it allows you to check things out on your own. The whole self-checkout is a different rabbit hole, which is just more ironic if you ask me. But he goes to the self-checkout and the self-checkout fails to give him a receipt. But you know what's interesting? If you have notifications enabled on these computers that sit in our pockets, these computer surveillance devices that are in our pockets every day.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:44

And also because of self-checkout, they have video cameras everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:47

Correct. But my point is on these, if you have notifications enabled and you have your bank card on your phone, it will often show you, hey, you got charged. So the guy goes to buy what, a dollar ninety five cookie?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:03

Grandma's.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:04

Now, this is the fun part. The guy was an employee for 14 years, 15 or 10 years. It's been a while. 11 years. He'd been employed there for over a decade and goes to buy a dollar ninety-five cookie. Well, it shows another one. He's diabetic, his blood sugar is dropping. So thank you, Jude. So, I mean, there are mitigating factors here of why the company should do a thing. It is. And we all know what it's like when you need an emergency cookie. Much like when you need an emergency bathroom, like Walker just got up and ran away because apparently he had too much of that Taco Bell lettuce. Anyway, it happens. Ford looks at this and says, um, you stole a cookie.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:47

We have a problem.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:49

Because the system, the computer system, messed up on their end.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:53

Well, and here's the problem Ford doesn't own the machine. No. It's Aramark, which if you live in South Louisiana, who Aramark is.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:00

Everybody knows Aramark.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:01

Yep. Yeah, they do Aramark. They're the one responsible for it, but Ford has a zero tolerance policy. And we all know how great zero tolerance is. Look, if your kid says, I love to go hunting in elementary school and they get expelled because they said 30 out six, that's zero tolerance. It's intolerance, is what it is. It's a lack of human knowledge and understanding conversation and context. It's a lack of human compassion.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:28

It's not just human tolerance, it is a lack of human compassion. Common sense. Yes. So Ford fires this guy because Eramark says, oh, this guy stole a $1.95 cookie. We have a zero tolerance. This guy's fired. Well, here's the fun part. This guy has a bank record that shows that Eramark collected the $1.95 for the cookie. Now, this brings to mind those who've seen Hamburger the movie. Anyone remember this movie? Jude, you remember the movie? Nobody else will. There's a very great scene. Put those cookies back, mother, right? That's what this reminds me of. They don't know that anybody has actually stolen a cookie, but the computer told them somebody stole a cookie. So they're going to believe the computer, not the person. And now Ford, Ford is gonna have to pay.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:19

Look, Ford, once they did their due diligence, and Ford didn't do it, he did it. He proved to them that he was let go for no reason that he had.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:28

He actually showed them before they let him go, hey, I paid for this. And they said, Nope, you didn't.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:33

You're fired. Still. He had to go through the judicial system, and Ford said, Oh, yeah, we made a mistake. We'll offer you back pay. His back pay was $33,000. And he said, Well, yeah, but that doesn't change what you did to me. Correct. That doesn't make me whole. You embarrassed me, you put me out on public display, and you discredited all my years of service. For $1.95. For $1.95 that saved his life.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:01

Which I got a big problem with this. Okay, Ford Motor Company is a big, big union company. What do unions do? They encourage employment. Why did they let cheap Aramort have a self-checkout thing instead of having a union employee standing at that cash register to bring up all of these sales?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:25

How about this one, Renee? How did the United Auto Workers not get involved in this dispute in between a worker and Ford on behalf of the worker?

SPEAKER_04 1:26:35

Well, because most unions will only support you if it's a work-related. This was not work-related. It wasn't because he did not put the lug nuts on wrong for forward for forward on break.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:51

Yeah, that was a different subject. But here's the argument, and here's where I'm going to disagree. I guarantee you that breaks and snacks and availability are all part of that freaking union contract. So don't tell me that that's not a union issue. It's hat it happened at work. So not only should have taken a lot of things. But it wasn't a failure of Ford.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:09

It's a failure of his union.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:10

It's a failure. I would sue the union as well, as well as Ford. I don't know. He might have.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:16

I mean in the story, it didn't say. What I know is this. Damn news media didn't record at all. The lack of human judgment.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:23

This dude's about to get paid, and I pray that it's enough to truly hurt the company. And here's why. Because companies don't change their behavior. Ford, a company of that size, is not going to change its behavior writing a check for $10 million. They're not. That's a rounding error of a rounding error. If it's if it's $50 million as a punitive damage, that might change their behavior. If it's if it's $100 million, that's going to make a dog problem.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:51

Is it just Ford that's at fault here? Or is it Ford and Aramork and UAW for not taking up the cost?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:00

If I am the employee, I am filing suit against all of them. Why? Because look, there's no doubt that this is what attorneys can do. Right. Attorneys go, where's the money? Who's got the money here? Well, guess what? Arramark is not a small company. And the fact that Aramark accused this man of stealing, which is what initiated all of his problems, means that Arramark, if I am the employee, Eramark is target number one. Ford is target number two, and UAW is target number three. And they are all liable. And I am suing all of them for damages. I mean, think about the psychological damage that this man's children underwent because he was going to lose his job because they told his kids, oh, your dad's a thief of $1.95. This is where we do need attorneys because corporations get out of hand like this. They are entitled to their belief of we are we are entitled to the work that the employee gives and let's face it, fixing the wage. Don't tell me that they don't do what's called a market study in order to say, oh, well, people doing this work in this area are making about. That's not a market study. You know what that is? That's wage fixing. That is exactly what that is. Don't tell me that they don't engage in price fixing amongst, well, we know that, you know, Chrysler is gonna roll out this car at this price, and our similar model is gonna be about, they're all within the same freaking pricing. Well, that's why they all roll out around the same time. It's also why you may see MSRP different, but all of a sudden there's an existing discount that lasts forever. Like the Sandlock, forever. Much like this last segment should be forever. But Walker's messing it up and giving us the one minute finger. So we're gonna have to have some bonus content. We got some fun stories, including including a fart blaster. Everybody loves a good fart joke. So find us on Buzz Sprout, find us on Apple, subscribe to the bonus content, find us anywhere you find your podcasts, and man, tell them hey, we need more of that implicit bias radio. Cheers.