This is the Unfiltered Union. I'm Lynds. And I'm

Russ. Here is this week's episode.

HD. HD. It did not

need all that. It does. Look at it. Look at it. You can high def

see my zit. That's how we're gonna start

it? Yeah. It's annoying, man. I don't know. Like, we

record a podcast episode every 2 weeks, and this is the

week that I decide to turn into a teenager. Well, the I mean, that's what

happens. Right? Especially when you're eating all the that we're eating. 'Tis the

season. We did eat, and we did eat good on

Thanksgiving. It was. It was so good. It was nice.

It was good. So I cooked a turkey on a Traeger. Right? Oh, here we

go with your ego. It was so good. It was one of the best turkeys

I've ever had. And everybody told him so. Oh, yeah. It was so

good. I injected the turkey with

creole butter. Our kiddo

was so grossed out. Yes. It was weird. So the the the

injector, it's like a big needle. Mhmm. And you

stick it into the breast, and you essentially pump it full of

butter. I gave it to our kid because she was like, I wanna do

it, and I let her do it. And she physically shook,

like, alright. That's gross. And I was like, well, don't do it no more. She

said, no, but I want to. It was the weirdest thing.

She was, like, grossed out, but at the same time, she liked it. I

mean, it did taste really good, though. It was good. Very good. I'll stroke your

ego a little bit. Turkey's hard to cook and not

let it get dry. Right. But that was super good. It was a very good

turkey. Yeah. Say it one more time. Also had Now say it one more time.

It was really good, honey. We also had pumpkin pie. We

had these little praline things. We had cake. Cake

because it was, like a belated birthday for me. Yep. So it was

all the things. Right? So it's not it's it's not

because of you. I still looking down.

Staying out of the cup. Yeah. So we got a new light. We got a

new camera. This light is the size of your anus.

Wait. The planet? No. Oh, okay. Your anus. Oh, okay.

It's brighter than the Florida sun. It is. It is. I I do

feel like every time we do a podcast episode, we must apply sunscreen.

Feel like we just keep amping up our little studio here in our extra

bedroom of our house. We do. We're acting

our pay grade, though. Yeah. It's it this light's so

big that I can't really walk around in

here, and I feel the heat from it. That's how close it is. But I'm

glad for the heat because I'm freaking cold right now. Florida's stupid.

It is going through a mood swing because it is so cold. It's

making me mad. It was, what, 49 this morning? Morning. Yeah. And

you decide yeah. I don't know what hair crawled up your ass, but

good lord. Oh my god. Time to get up.

I gotta go eat. I'm like, no. We don't wanted hot coffee.

We have a Keurig. We do, but I wanted hot coffee and hot

breakfast, and it was we talked about it last night, so it was time. So

I get up and go get breakfast. We did talk about it last night, and

that's our our weekly tradition, I guess,

is either on Saturday or Sunday, we go out to breakfast. Family

breakfast. Yes. Family breakfast. Because I honestly, I feel like

especially on the weekends, that is all of our favorite meal of the

day. Mhmm. Yes. Big breakfast. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yeah. And then during the week, it's, you know, family dinners, but typically,

that morning on a weekend Yeah. Give me some hot coffee because I was

frozen. And speaking of family dinners, we've begun

just recently. I know it took a while, but putting our phones away.

Yeah. I mean, I think we've tried to do that for a while, but we're

making a point of it, for sure. We are actually physically putting our

phones somewhere where it's out of reach, and you can't

hear it, you can't respond, and

it makes a big difference. It does. But the things that we do

for entertainment at the table just keeps seems to keep

devolving into it. The game that we do.

So we mouth random sounds.

We don't say it. We don't physically say it out loud, but we

mouth it. And then there just like

that, and then the other people have to guess what you were saying.

It's the weirdest thing, but it is fun. We do that.

We try to make each other laugh. We do, Alexa,

jeopardy. Mhmm. And then, Alexa, 20 questions.

Alexa, who, smarter than a 5th

grader. Mhmm. We enjoy all those Alexa games. They're pretty uh-oh.

Don't say that too loud. No. She's listening. But I I think overall,

you know, we're trying to really get in the spirit right now, especially

with the cold weather. I'm not. Why? You guys are

nuts. You are so humbug. I am not. Nuts. You say

that, but I am not. You know I'm not humbug. It's just not

December yet. We'll get to that in a moment. But

we recently, along with family members, went to,

Busch Gardens, and we did the Christmas Town experience. Yes.

And for the most part, I'm not gonna

say I was super, super impressed. I think

Disney is a lot better, like decorations and Christmassy

stuff, but there were some highlights, I think. You

can't even compare it to Disney. I can't. No. You cannot.

Disney and Universal are, like, top tier. Like, they go they're

huge parks. They go all out. They have a huge huge budget. You can't

even put Tampa Bay Busch Gardens in the same

category. Yeah. But the fact that we spent

$1100 for the year for 3 season

passes makes me think that, yes, we should

we can put it on that level. No. Because it's very expensive. It like that.

It's very expensive. Ew. I mean, we have I will

say, we have gotten our money's worth. We've been to so

we have platinum passes, which is their top level. It comes with free

parking, which I think is at least $30 every time

you go per car. And then we went to

Preferred parking. Preferred parking. Yeah. So you get the up front parking. You don't have

to ride the little Tram. Peasant mobile.

I'm not saying that as a as a as an insult, but it's

it sucks. It's a perk. Yeah. It's a perk. You can walk right to your

car and not have to wait in line after you're done at the park.

Anyway, we went to SeaWorld. We went to Busch

Gardens a bunch of times. We went to Aquatic Aquatic

Club Aquatica. There you go. We didn't go to Aquatica. We went

to Adventure Island. There you go. The only one we haven't been to Is Aquatica.

Is Aquatica, not club.

Okay. So yeah. But we also get a bunch of

passes with our membership, so we get to take family members. I think

it's paid for itself. But It has just based on we went where

did we go? We went to Busch Gardens a couple months back, and we

had a party of 9. Yep. So you think

included. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But so 6 additional people. That's

a lot. Mhmm. Yep. We've done that, what, twice? Three

times now? Yeah. We brought your your side of the family, then we brought

my side of the family to SeaWorld. Mhmm. And we spent the day

at SeaWorld with my parents. Yep. So it definitely

has paid for itself, but I still don't think it

was up there with Disney. I don't know

how the heck they do all that stuff. Imagine. It is.

It really is. I I don't think you can compare Busch Gardens to Disney. But

I'm just saying based on pricing. But the overall

experience that we had at Christmas Town at Busch Gardens this year, I think

was I I enjoyed it. I mean Was it worth going

to? I say yes. Yeah. At least once. Yes. And the

reason why I say that, Christmas on Ice, the they have

the little skate show. It was good.

I'm not gonna lie, though. When we walked into that auditorium to watch it, I

was like, this is going to suck. Well, okay. So they have,

like, 2 feet of the ice showing, and you're like, what is that? But

then they have the screen. Right? And the screen you're playing interviews with the performers

Yeah. And trying to get you in the Christmas mood, and then the screen rolls

up, and then it's like a 50 foot ice rink. But the fact that it

was at first just those, like, 6 feet, I couldn't I was like,

what are they gonna do? On that little p s.

Yeah. I was like, what are they gonna do? Because I I thought it was

just gonna be a show on the screen, to be honest with you. What I

thought too because it was covering everything, and then all of a sudden that

lifts away. I was like, ah, I see what you did there.

Yeah. It was real that part was probably my absolute favorite

because watching our kiddo watch the show

Yeah. That was awesome. She was so focused

on it. She was, you know, oh, ah, on everything.

Yep. Did you see that? Like And the first thing she said when

we left was, I wanna learn how to skate. So you

know it had an effect on her when she's all into it and she

wants to go out and now ice skate. Absolutely. I that

was probably one of my favorite parts. I mean, you know, the lights throughout the

park were really pretty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then they had a couple of other

experiences where it was missus Claus reads a bedtime story and

then, you know, You can meet an ice

princess. You can, you know, different experiences. But

then we got towards the end of the park, and it was the North Pole

experience with Sienna. That was the best part to

me. I mean, I agree. That part was really good. Yeah. I mean, I

guess it was the best part because of how interactive it

was for our kiddo. Uh-huh. Like, the Christmas on ice thing,

yeah, she loved it, but she's not involved. She's just watching.

This, like, every it's it's this

building. It looks like a house that's in the middle of the park,

and they completely dress it up as you're in the

North Pole. It's called the North Pole experience. And you walk

in, and there's elves everywhere. Not

real elves. Where are they? They're North

Pole elves. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, and they're asking the kid, has

your elf arrived yet? They try to remember your elf's name.

They talk about, you know, what you're about to do. They really try and get

the kid involved with the experience. And then you start walking down

the holly way. It's so funny. It's covered

in holly. It's very cute. And you get to a door, and you

have to use your magic in order to open the door, and out

pops Santa. And Santa was amazing.

Like, they were doing funny faces together and taking pictures, but then also had the

serious ones, the way they interacted together. Like, it was a

really cute experience. I think so too. I think it was really good. The only

thing was I think Santa was a little tuned up. Just a little

bit. He slurred a couple times, and I don't blame him. I'm not

with kids all day. I'm not knocking him for it because I probably would too

if that was, you know, my gig. But, yeah, he was a little tuned

up, and I he slurred a couple times, and I was like, Santa.

Little too much eggnog, Santa. You like that Jack Daniels, don't you,

Santa? I mean, I think seeing the

lights throughout the park and those two things were, like, the big standout.

Yes. So, I mean, I've I've thought it was good. It was good. I just

I don't think I would ever I would go again to

bring, like, our nephews and stuff, but I wouldn't

see, Disney, I would go to the same park again. Over and over

and over. I got I I wouldn't purposefully go

to Christmas town again unless they announce something

new or something like that. Yeah. Or you're bringing somebody new to

me. Like, I wouldn't bring us 3 again on

purpose. Me. I I just don't it was okay.

It was good to see once. Yeah. And that that's the other thing too is

it's getting chilly out, so the animal stuff is a

lot of it's closed. Yeah. Understandable. But

don't go there and think you're gonna see all kinds of their animal

experiences and all that. But, I mean, it was good. I would

definitely recommend it at least once.

Awesome. So the great debate right

now is whether or not you put up your Christmas decorations.

I think that's, you know, on all social media is,

do you put up do you put up Christmas

decorations before, Thanksgiving or after

or on a specific, you know, December 1st, for example?

And I think for us, for me specifically, it's the day after

Thanksgiving. That's when everything goes up. You can start putting up your

Christmas decorations, which we started to do. We

finally finished today. But all of our Christmas decorations are

up. See, and, I thought about this a little

bit. I don't think you should do it until December, but

at the same time, you have time off for

Thanksgiving. Right. So that makes sense to me.

But I do think it's early when you're putting stuff up and it's

not even December yet. I don't deal with that. I don't like

the stores that decide in October to put

out Easter stuff. That's so much, but I

take your point. But, I mean, overall, I think when it comes

to decorating, it should be the day after Thanksgiving. But our

kiddo was actually having an argument with one of her friends Mhmm. As to whether

or not her birthday, our kiddo's birthday, is a couple of days

before Christmas, is the is

part of a winter birthday, or is it a fall birthday?

So her birthday being in, you know, the early well,

a few days, 5 days before Christmas, we'll say. And

that's technically before the the winter season starts.

No. No. It's it's a winter birthday.

But winter starts on or around December 21st. I think it

will be the 21st this year. Who decided that? Because that's God.

Crack hit.

Well, you might wanna take a couple steps

back away from me because I'm about to get struck by lightning. Well, it's

based on Sorry. It's based on the way

the Earth tilts. Right? Who decided to tilt it that way? It don't make

sense. God. Sorry.

So December is winter. I don't care what

anybody says. I don't care what the flippy flip of the earth is.

December is winter. Well, so in my head, I think I agree with you too

because it's like when you think of winter, you think

of, you know, Christmas. Yes. So when do you start decorating for

Christmas? Yes. I don't Again, to me,

right after Thanksgiving, we can call it winter. I I agree.

I think, like, Thanksgiving to me is the last day of

fall. I agree. Or the end of fall. Yes. And then we

are diving into winter directly thereafter. And

It's cold. But it's like the holiday

season. Right? You don't get just saying December 21st is the

beginning of winter. That's like 3 days before Christmas. Yeah. I

don't and especially people that aren't in

Florida, you're suffering from winter season In October.

In October. So yeah.

Mhmm. Winter is in December. Agreed. December

1. Yep. Agreed. That flippy flop earth thing is

dumb. That's science,

scientist. Yeah. Well, I'm a scientist. It sounds like it.

Yep. So did you see what the new

toy craze is for this year's Christmas gifts? No. I bet. I

can guess one of them is probably something to do with that Wicked movie.

Yes. Yes. Wait. What's your other guess?

I don't know. You said you can guess one. That's the

only one that I'm guessing. Okay. Good. So, yeah, the

Wicked dolls are out, you know, for purchase. And

most recently, they just had they had a little kerfuffle a little

kerfuffle with their packaging. I've read about this and there ain't no way this

happened on accident. Right. There ain't no way. How

many people do these packaging

things go through before they get released for mass production?

Right. Before they head out the door for people to buy. If you haven't

heard, there was a QR code on the box for these dolls.

That's took you straight to a porno site. How?

I don't know. How does that happen? So Like, that's not even a

good, like, to me okay. Maybe they had mock ups and

placeholder QR codes to design it and stuff, and they

that's not even a good placeholder. That's not

safe for work. So all the people working on that at work

should be fired for going to porn sites. It

doesn't even make any sense if that was a placeholder. It's like That's what I'm

saying. At one point, somebody had to have checked. Yeah. Somebody's like, oh,

boop. Uh-oh. No. I don't think I don't think it was on

accident either. A 100% it wasn't. Somebody did something along

the way. Somebody trolled, and it made it probably

a lot further than they expected. AI did it. They were like AI

did it. That was AI's rick roll.

But I, you know, I was thinking back on it. They say a lot of

innuendo is in a lot of different Disney movies, a lot of

different kids things because they put it in there for for the parents.

But Kristen Bell, the actress who voiced Anna in

Frozen came out recently and said that she put,

why have a ballroom with no balls? She did it on purpose

for the parents. I'm just like, okay. But why? That

that that honestly didn't connect for me at all until Well she

said that. I'm, like, oh, okay. Maybe. There's a difference between innuendo

and a direct link, I think. True. Like,

one is straight up. Scan this code. Go to porn site.

1 is, it could be taken a certain way. Yeah. If they put that

QR code up in the middle of a Disney movie. Right. If a poster in

the background on in in Woody's room had a QR code

taking you to whatever porn site, that that is

not that's not innuendo. Uh-huh. That is That's blatant.

Yeah. So I'm pretty sure that it was on

purpose. I think so too. Collect them. You

know that you're getting pulled off the shelf. If I had one of those things,

I'd be sealing that thing up in a airtight, watertight

container and putting it somewhere dark so that it doesn't

get, you know, sun faded and selling that thing

when the time comes because that is going to be worth beaucoup

bucks. I can't imagine why it would be worth that, but I get

your point. It'll be worth that much because it is a legit

collector's item that they stopped producing. They pull the ones that

existed, and you essentially have

something that no one else can get. I guess.

It's it's dumb, but that's what people like.

Pokemon is another example. Like, if there's a misprint, if they

spell something wrong on a card, those are worth more money.

It's like, but that thing's broke. Yeah.

That's why it's worth more. There's 7 of them versus 10,000 of them.

I guess. Can you imagine someone giving it who hasn't heard about the

box issue, hasn't heard about the QR issue, actually giving that to their

kid. No. Hopefully, their kid can stay young enough to not have a cell

phone to scan it with. But, I mean, what kid doesn't have a tablet these

days? Turn off Seriously. Turn off your QR code scanners on your

kid's tablets. Turn off the camera. Camera. So I

was thinking back in the day Does it hurt yourself? Sometimes.

But not about this. So back in the day, we used

to go from the clubs, the bars that we would The

clubs. Back in our twenties, and then we

would go to IHOP and have, you know, early

morning breakfast,

after, you know, a night of drinking. Right? I was typically GD. I

Yeah. You never drunk. And Drunk? You never drank? I mean,

not often. And it's just You would I think. Well, if we

would go out, we would go out to this place called Norris Mhmm. In

Northern Virginia, and it was like a hookah bar.

It's about the size of a shoebox, so you couldn't do nothing in there but

sit down and drink. And you would you would have one at

the beginning of the night, and then we would I would be

getting plastered, and you would be you know, that was it.

Because you didn't really you never really liked drinking at all. No. I I more

go for either atmosphere, dancing experience. It wasn't just

it was your friends too. Right. Yep. Now I've never been a big

drinker. I have my moments, but not like that. But anyways, so, you know,

after a night out, we both responsible. Right. I would I would

typically drive us, to IHOP, and we would all

get, you know, late night breakfast Yep. Sober up, drink some coffee,

have some pancakes Yep. And then go home. Try to nurse the

hangover. Right. It's, you know, it's the sobering moment. It's the end of the night.

Yeah. It was like our it was our what do you call

it, down, downtime or unwind time. There

you go. Yeah. We were all hyped up. We were all partying, and now it's

time to take a step back. It was like the next phase of our

nightlife. Right. Well, we are now

combining IHOP with Applebee's.

Stupid. They're removing my unwind.

Exactly. Because I'm gonna go get me a Long Island iced tea from Applebee's.

But they also have all those specials. Right? They had, like, dollar margaritas

or whatever. Yes, like, all specials that they would have. Y'all wanna go to

IHOP to to unwind and kinda, you know, refresh yourself.

Night. End the night. It's time to go. And it's like, hey.

We have happy hour all the time. Dollar margarita.

Well, give me 7 with my eggs.

That's what I'm saying. Like, I couldn't imagine back then in in our twenties

when it was end of the night, you go to IHOP, but now they have

Applebee's. I'm I'm telling you. I would never be able to get you to go

home. No. Well The party would never end. Last call would

kill it. That's one thing that I would say. Where you live. Right?

Guess. Because in I thought Virginia last call everywhere was

2. Yes. But here in Florida, I think Miami, I don't

know what time last call is. I don't think there is one, to be honest

with you, because I had a friend who frequented Miami.

And, yeah, he said he would drink all night. Right.

So I don't think I would ever get you to be able to go home.

Like No. Well, you'd have to drag me out of

it. Right? That's so embarrassing. I look back on that stuff too, and I'm

like, well, you're young. You love it. I know,

but it's so gross. But then to think you would be

at an Applebee's Yeah. Already ended up. Yeah. Because

knowing me, I would have went to the IHoppaBees

and got me eggs and pancakes and bacon with a Long

Island iced tea. It doesn't make sense. I'd be eating my

breakfast while drinking, getting more drunk. It doesn't

make sense. They're ruining it for me. I'm going to Denny's.

Yeah. Denny's. Waffle House. Waffle House. That's the Florida

classic. Yeah. Waffle House Warrior Princess.

That lady was so strong. She was legit. Out the air. She got

a chair thrown at her, and she knocked it out of the air like it

was nothing. Uh-huh. Savage. Adrenaline. Savage. I

would if I would've done that and somebody knocked a chair

out of the air that I threw, I'm like I'm out. Out. I'm like You

got it. You you win. You win. I record me saying

it. You win. Uh-huh. Yep. Have a good night. Whatever

I was trying to do, I'm not doing it no more. Here's your tip.

You don't even have to serve me. I will pay how much did my meal

cost that you didn't serve me? I will pay for it, and I will give

you a tip. Kinda like

Oh, we're we're we're this is kind of a weird segue.

So now we're talking my segues are just like We're talking about a

movie now. Yes. So movie Yeah.

Caddo Lake, we recently watched it. Yes.

And just just forewarning, spoiler alerts, they're

coming. Spoiler spoiler spoiler. I

hate time travel. It breaks your brain

at the time. Like it, but I hate it at the same time.

So your favorite type of movies are like sci fi. Right? I love sci fi.

That's why we chose this movie. Right. Plus, it had,

like, a resurgence, I think. Yeah. It came out a while back, but it's

now streaming. So that's why we watched it too. It, like, kinda, like, popped up

on all these feeds. And, plus, I kept seeing it on, like, social media. Go

watch the movie. Go watch this movie. And I'm like, it sounds kinda

cool, but no. Every time we watch

something that has to do with time travel, it's like playing

200 questions, like, trying to get you caught up on

what's happening. I feel stupid. That's a

100%. But you're not. No. But I feel stupid. I still

feel stupid from that movie, and we watched it, like, 2 weeks ago. Well,

like, I feel like we had this conversation She still has to feed me.

Stop. We had this similar conversation

about Terminator, like, with the new Terminators. Stop.

And I'm trying to think of what the other ones were, but

anything time travel related Dark matter? Right. The

brain gets broken. So I'm gonna spoil a little bit here. Here we

go. When it comes to this movie. Right? There's a young girl, let's say

it's 2024, and she's 9 years old. And

she goes back in time. Well, I can see you calculating

this. She goes back in time to the 19 fifties,

we'll say. And from 1950 to

2024, she grows up. Right? She lives her life and she

has a child in that span of time, we'll say in 1990.

So she has a child in 1990 and she

that child then grows up to be a man And that

man gets with another woman, has another child, and then that

another child, the grandchild of the woman who went back in time,

is also traveling in time.

And becomes the stepsister to the girl who went back in

time. How does how does he exist though when

he's the one who brought her back in time? He exists

because she grew up. But he doesn't make

sense. So she's born in today's day,

but she went back in time and lived her life and was able to have

a child. But how was she born in today's day when you just said she

went back in time? I don't understand that at

all. She was born If she was born today, she couldn't have an

adult male kid that brings

her back in time. But she can because she grew

up, had the child in 1990, that child grew

up, and then she went back in time. She didn't. It's a movie. It's

fake, and I hate it now. I really like it though. Thinking about

it. Because she actually didn't she died a few

years before he started to to time travel. Right?

So thinking about it, I wonder if she actually died

when her new self was born. Well, that's couldn't

be in the same twice.

But yeah. But if that was true, then that one the stepsister wouldn't be

in the same timeline twice because she was.

She saw herself, remember, and she had to hide from herself. Right. She saw herself

when she was a baby. And she saw herself as a teenager

because remember she walked in the house, said mom, da da da da. Right. But

that's different from being born in that time. Like

Why? I don't

understand. Regardless, really good movie. It

will break your brain. I did like it. I I know I'm kinda trashing it

just based on time travel, but it was really good and really well done.

I the ending wasn't great to me,

but it was an ending that was necessary because it completely closed

all the loops. Yep. Lots of closure. Yes. It's not one of the ones that

you feel walking out like, oh, what happened? What the heck? What's this? What's

that? Yeah. It it was the ending was necessary. I won't say it

was good, but it was necessary because they I think it was good. They buttoned

up everything. Yeah. Makes you mad. But It makes you mad, but it

was it was good. I liked it. I definitely recommend it if you like sci

fi type movies because it was it was definitely trippy.

Speaking of sci fi.

I'm kinda worried. Elon Musk and

The hell, he's real. But everything he

does is, like, science and And phi? Yeah.

I guess. Science and phi. Him and Elon

Musk and Vivek Ramaswami. Thank you. I

think. That individual, are now heads

of the Department of Government Efficiency. AKA Dodge.

You break my brain every time you say that. It's a it's a

100% on purpose. Elon doesn't do

stuff like that on accident. Like, I I can't I

don't know why I never realized, never saw that until you said it. He

loves memes. I mean, he's already said he wants dodge

Dodge coin to take over the world, and all of

his models of Tesla's equal

sexy. Model s, model 3, model

x, model y. Not model t. Not model t. I did that

earlier. But he yeah. He does all this stuff on

purpose. There's if it's something like that public

facing, it's not on accident. I can't believe it when you said that

though. I feel like my brain was blown. Like, I did not put that together,

t o g e. He's a big supporter of of that

shit coin. Well, I will be curious to see what

happens in this next realm because the

Department of Government Efficiency, dodge,

is is all about, you know, cutting

cutting the fat and slimming down the government.

And I overall, what

Trump said 4 years well, more than 4 years ago now, when he first got

into office was drain the swamp. So I think with

Elon Musk and Vivek. Thank you,

Vivek. It's going to be a good balance, and hopefully, they can

actually accomplish something. They will. I think they will this

time. I think Trump

if you listen to him on Joe Rogan earlier, like, couple weeks back,

right before the elections, actually, he talked about

how he was brand new to all this politics stuff, and he

didn't realize how big it was and how corrupt it was,

and everybody's out. It's a business, essentially.

Everybody's out there and stabbing each other in the back, and he

he admits. And it's it's very rare to hear

Trump admit wrong. Seriously. Like, it's rare,

but he did. He admitted to picking some shitty

people. Yeah. And he I don't think

he's making that mistake this time because he's picking people like Elon.

The swamp don't like Elon. They were already talking

about dismantling

x, Kamala Harris and,

like, her campaign and a bunch of other stuff had had a

Look up. Had had

a bunch of internal documents that we're talking

about dismantling Elon Musk's x because

they don't like freedom of speech. I don't care what you

think. They were trying to suppress speech.

A 100% trying to. Everyone can have their own opinion.

That's what we're about here at the Unfiltered Union. But It's having your own

opinions. You can say it, and who cares? See. No big deal. See. But that's

exactly why I

did not really like that side this time

because of the fact that they didn't like this the opinions

that were against theirs. They said it. I

mean so I think all of this, you know, how

things went during the election, how things were going,

you know, what's going on right now in the UK, Great Britain, whatever

the heck it's called these days, where they are, you know,

trying to control speech. Yes. It's terrifying. People in jail over it.

And, I mean, I get the point and purpose of it, but I think

with what they're trying to do with the department of government efficiency

Yeah. I went off on a little tangent there. You did. So I'm bringing you

back. It's okay. We'll come back. But with with

the dodge, it's going to be interesting to see if they can

actually do what they said they were gonna do 4 years ago. I think 6

year 8 years ago. This time, I don't think Trump is going to pull

any punches. He's not worried about getting reelected. He's

choosing people that aren't swamp creatures. Swamp creatures?

Yeah. That's what they are. They didn't like RFK. Mhmm. They didn't let him

run against Joe Biden in this current administration during

the democratic primary, and then

they Picked. They just picked.

So he's I don't think Trump is choosing like he

chose last time. I can maybe agree with

that, but, I mean, RFK to me is a huge

win. Oh, yeah. So is Elon. We'll

see. No. He's gonna be good. I like him. I hope they

can do what they say they they were gonna do 8 years ago.

Hope they can do that with the Dodge. The

Dodge. But with RFK, I feel like

we're gonna get good outcomes of that. I really hope

so. I think he's definitely

vocal and a big proponent of

American health. Yes. And when what cracked me

up the most about all this was when Trump chose him and

Trump won, big pharma stocks took a shit.

Uh-huh. Good. They're scared.

Mhmm. They should be. They shouldn't they shouldn't have that

much pull in in gov in in politics.

Right. Like, the fact that there's a lobby out there

pushing for all this stuff, these chemicals to be put in

your body is insane. It's like the food lobby and the

pharma lobby are all in cahoots with each other. Let's keep

Americans sick by giving them shitty food, then they go

go to big pharma and get blood pressure medicine because

their blood pressure's through the roof because they eat garbage all the

time. Well, have you seen for the loop. Have you seen the TikToks where

people actually compare fruit loops between Canada

and the US? I guarantee you ours are full of straight

garbage. Uh-huh. Not only the ingredients, but just even the looks of them.

Like, putting them side by side, the US one is, you know, real vibrant

with all these beautiful vivid colors, and then the can

Canada one is kinda dull looking. So Supposedly,

the Canadian flavor is way better than the American.

Well, it's So it's like you make it look pretty, but it tastes like garbage

and is garbage for you. Yeah. Well, even if it didn't taste like

garbage, it's like you just because it tastes good, doesn't

mean it's good for you. And our

vibrant colors are due to Dyes. Chemical

dyes that aren't intended to be consumed by us.

And the other cool thing that he wants to do is remove fluoride from all

the water systems in the US. Did you see Winter Haven, Florida? Yeah. I did.

I told you about that. Did you? Was it you? Winter Winter Haven set they're

actually removing it. I think starting January 1st, they're removing it from all

water systems within that area. I love

it. It's like, what, an hour and a half away from us. Yeah. You're not

supposed to ingest fluoride. I'm not no I'm not a scientist, but

fluoride is a is not

for human consumption. Right. Like, it's good for your teeth,

but brush them with fluoride. It'll seep

into it and, you know, harden your teeth and stuff, but you're not supposed to

eat it every day, and it's in your water. You use

that all the time. To wash, to cook, to Yeah. All the

things. Right? So I I am really excited. I hope big

things happen and change with him in office. I do too. And I

hope he goes after not just the food people, but also big pharma

for keeping keeping America sick.

Absolutely. I I think I really hope there's big changes. I

I think there will be. He's gotta I'm telling you, he's it it feels

different this time just because of the people he has

chosen. They're they're clearly outsiders.

Mhmm. RFK was disenfranchised by his

own party. Which is crazy. Which is crazy because he's Who are

they gonna have next election season? It's it's gonna be a it

they're gonna have to really think and sit back

and think about their party. Yeah. I can't imagine, like, who they would put

up next. Like, there's not, in my head, a

viable candidate. And everyone that tried this

last time before, you know, Biden dropped out and Kamala

happened, like, yeah, they rejected. It's like RFK,

I think, could actually do some damage. RFK

probably he would have been a lot of a tougher fight for Trump

than Kamala was. Yeah. A 100%.

The current administration was not favorable to

most of America clearly because the popular vote went

to Trump. Right. And that is rare for the popular vote to go

towards a Republican. Rare.

But it happened, and that shows a rejection of Democrat

policies, and I'm curious to see what they do

next time. Will they learn? I don't know. They

should, but we'll see. I'm just

sick of feeling like it's Game of Thrones out there in the political world.

It's crazy. Game of Thrones? Speaking of Netflix.

I don't That's not even the right network.

My segues are off. Yeah. They are. I'm confused.

Did you see that Jake Paul and Tyson fight? Oh

my god. Did you? I did see the Jake Paul and

Tyson scriptedness. I

mean, I do you think it was scripted? Let's start

there. Do I think it was? Yes. A 1000%. I agree. I

think that Mike Tyson took a $20,000,000 dive,

and I don't blame him. I don't either. If At all. If you're gonna

say, hey, Russ. You have to go stand in a ring with this

dude. Last as long as you can. We'll give you $20,000,000 at the end no

matter what happens. I'm a stand in there. Uh-huh.

But the reason why I think it was scripted, go look up the

training videos of Mike Tyson. They posted, you know,

promo shots of him and him training. The dude looked phenomenal.

Yes. For a 58 year old man. Crying. Yeah. For a 58 year old

man. He looked I was like, this dude's going to kill him. Mhmm.

And then you see the way he was moving in

practice. And then all of a sudden in the fight, you

see, his typical thing was, like, to get small and then explode on

you. Mhmm. He would do that, and then he would rear

up to do, like, an upper cut or a or a right or left hook,

and then he would pull it. Yep. And then he would immediately immediately bite

his glove. Yep. I was like, this dude is so angry right

now. He wants to kill him, but he knows he won't get paid. I think

it was just his reminder to himself, like, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't

hit him. Be that 20,000,000. You need $20,000,000, don't hit him. I mean,

I I don't know. I feel like I would have taken the dive too. Do

you think it hurts his legacy? I

I don't. Would you care?

Would should Mike Tyson care? Or I'm saying if you were

Mike Tyson, would you care? Well, it sounds like he needs the

money. He does. He So From what No. He shouldn't care

or probably doesn't care. But at the same time, it's like, does that hurt his

legacy? And I honestly don't think it does because everybody knows it was a dive.

Well, it's not just that. It's like, 58 year old man just got

paid $20,000,000 for you

know, for 8 rounds. For 8 rounds. I mean, yeah, he got punched a bunch

of times. His face hurt, but and?

Right. Exactly. It was it was a it I didn't like

it. I thought it was stupid, and the Netflix servers were dumb as hell.

Yeah. Streaming quality I can't. God. If they do that

during during the Christmas break and where when football is is

on during Christmas day, when everybody's at home and they're sitting around the

TV after opening presents and stuff, there's gonna be

riots. Well, see, I think they should have done it, like, the reverse.

Right? Because everybody in the world wanted to watch that

fight. Yeah. For sure. Whereas, I I feel like football becomes

more regional and not everybody in the world is

gonna watch it. So it would have been more of like a soft launch for

what they could handle. Exactly. Because now you need to

buy more servers in Ashburn, Virginia, which is where all of the servers are in

the world. Yeah. Well, and not just that. It's like

your production of this fight was

complete horse poop. God. The production

was awful. It was so it was awful. My segues are bad or bad. It

was comically bad. Where are we? We're supposed to be

focusing on her so I could talk about her entrance into the stadium. I was

like, what the hell? Horrible. And then even the

commentators, the way they would talk to each other, the one main

guy who was, you know, introducing all the fighters, and then I forget what the

lady's name is, the actress lady and the other guy that was with

her. So it's those 3, but the loud mouth white

guy, he just kept getting closer and closer. And she was like She

did not like that, dude. And I'm like, I'm you know he's spitting all

over me. Right. She's like, and

you know that is just spraying. Uh-huh. So, I

mean, like, overall, production was

horrible. So I hope the NFL takes over production.

Well, that I do think because the NFL has those

you know, TV and all that stuff in the bag already, they know how to

do it. It'll be fine in that aspect. My concern is

performance of the servers. Right. Buffering. Buffering.

Well, did you hear that people are actually class action lawsuit?

Yeah. But Against Netflix for over 50,000,000? I don't understand

what they We're all getting a dollar. What do they expect is gonna happen?

How many people do you think subscribe to Netflix? All of them. Like,

but sorry. Like, say it's a 1000000000 people. What is

50,000,000 gonna do for you? 500,000,000 people. Okay.

It's Yeah. Do you don't get not you're to

me, you're suing them for no reason because you can first off, you're gonna

watch it later, and I don't think they're promising you

anything, like, performance wise. Like,

okay. It crapped out. Watch it tomorrow. Yep. Well, watch it

tomorrow. Let them keep that 50,000,000 and buy more servers.

I I don't I I don't understand

people. I mean, maybe they give everybody an hour extra of

of Netflix premium. Yeah. I mean, like, an hour. Wait.

What's an hour, though? Like, one show? Like Yeah. But seriously

movie, one They extend your your monthly bill for by one day. There

you go. And then there you go. You got a free day. It's crazy. But

the idea that that arena, that stadium was sold out Yeah. I don't

know. Like, I I can see that this is just gonna keep going for Jake

Paul. A 100%. Why wouldn't it? He's the money train right

now. People are hating on the dude,

but you have out his brother. You have to admit

that he's making a lot of money doing this

crap. Uh-huh. Even if it's a scripted fake garbage,

he's making a a lot of money. He is the money man.

That's for sure. He I mean, I I don't think they've

released actual numbers of what he made, but I heard it was a lot.

I'm sure. But he also more than Tyson. Has to pay

everybody. So you're saying what he actually took home, though? Yeah. Way way

more than, like, Tyson. A lot. But I did

I'd well, I watched highlights, but the girl fight prior to

Mike Tyson, that was that was the one to watch, really. Yeah. Well, it

crept out on us. Yeah. But I did watch highlights, and that was a

bloodbath. I do think the

the fighter that didn't win should've won just like the first

fight. I think the Irish girl that won, she

shouldn't have won. I think the other one did a lot better, but Oh,

didn't see it. They have to they gotta make a story. They gotta make you

come back for round 3. Me me. Me me.

Meanwhile, you've got, Jones out there.

Jon Jones? Yeah. He's kicking people's asses left and right.

Uh-huh. And he's already talking about his next fight. So

Jake Paul should go fight him. Oh, 2 heavyweights.

Yeah. Go fight him. Stop being a bitch and fight somebody who can actually fight.

Uh-huh. Who won't take a dive? Right. Well,

I'm not I'm not saying Mike Tyson can't fight because he clearly can fight.

Yes. But But who won't take a dive? Yeah. He doesn't need your

money, Jake Paul. Well, I think I I think he should fight

McGregor. McGregor's billionaire now or something like

that, so he won't need your money. Although I don't know. Like,

I still feel like McGregor He's a shit. Did you hear about all that stuff

that just happened to him? No. He got he had to pay

up some amount of money for

I can't remember. Assault something or other. Dear god.

Not surprised. Poor man. Poor man. Meaning, just,

like, he can't stay out of trouble. He's I think it just

follows him. I swear to my goodness. Well, you know,

maybe it'll straighten his ass up. Hopefully. Because

sometimes people need a kick in the ass Wake

up call. Wake up call. And maybe he needs that because I

think he he's got a lot going for him.

Uh-huh. Did he sold that liquor brand or whatever?

And I can't remember. He's got a record label. I think he

signed exhibit. Really? Yeah. He brought him back

Awesome. Next to the z exhibit, West Coast Customs. I miss

that. Pimp my ride. Miss that so much. Yeah. Me too. He

signed him and stuff, but it's like, dude, just fucking

relax. Yeah. He I think he did a statement, like, I made

mistakes because he cheated on his wife. Mhmm. He said I made

mistakes. I cheated on the girl I love the most or whatever, and it's

like, dude, what are you doing? Oh, we talk about it all the time,

though. When people get rich, they get bored. They gotta go you don't you

can't you can buy anything you want, but then

you start going towards that taboo shit Yep. That's

unattainable by money, but it's,

like, morality type shit. Right.

It's creepy. Yep. So moral of the story, don't get rich. Don't get

rich. Or or you could take a dive like Tyson. I

would probably do that though, for real. Alright,

Jake Paul. I'm calling you out. Come fight me. I'll do it for 10,000,000.

I'm cold. Love you. Bye.

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