Easter Special!

This week we celebrate Easter as well as the developing war in Iran

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Hey everybody, this is OnlyDance Podcast coming to you on a Sunday, April 5th, is our Easter special, boys, ladies and gentlemen. We're gonna be going over a few topics. Obviously, it being Easter, we're gonna cover Easter. We're gonna cover some uh pretty gnarly topics like the NASA Artemis 2 launch. Uh give you guys an update on the Iran conflict. Um, so without further ado, it being Easter, I think we should be beginning with Easter things. Uh Ricky, we covered Easter before on the podcast. Um, you know, we talked about how when we hide the eggs for the kids, do you put money in them? Do you put candy? What kind of candy? Uh things like that. So uh just kind of go with what your and Tommy's day is playing like.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

So his mom was the one who brought the eggs over, uh, and that's who decided where to put them and stuff. It was raining here, so the Easter bunny was not outside, uh, but inside. And so typically, yeah, there's always one with money. Um, and it's usually like a golden egg, like it's gold or you know, it looks special.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Special.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

But I think the Easter bunny forgot this year, so that did not happen. How about y'all?

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Okay, so the way that our custody agrees my marks that I don't get them until 6 p.m. today, so she has them, and I think her her father is taking them to church and they're gonna do some uh Easter egg hunting. But my mom, she made them baskets, and then when I get them, we're gonna go to my mom's and then we're gonna hide some eggs and then let them find them and have a good time. I think she got a couple, the kids got a couple gifts from Mariah, so I know I'm gonna get them something. I'm hoping that my mom's Easter basket is gonna take that place of that, so that I don't have to really go do much before. You know what I mean? That's what grandmas are for, baby. That's what grandmas are for, baby. And you live right here next to them, that's absolutely gonna happen. So that's what we're gonna do. So that's kind of the uh our Easter breakdown. But our next topic, guys, is Iran. Um that there was a missing Amen who was rescued um by U.S. forces. This is like the second jet that was shot down by Iran forces. Uh, and since the this conflict began, there's uh been 13 U.S. service members who have been killed and over 365 wounded. Um, Ricky Khan, what are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Uh so you know, I think going into war, I know it's crazy for Trump and Pete Heggs to say, look, people are gonna die. But it's the truth, right? So, like, any like if you're if people are uncomfortable hearing that, then I think they need to re-evaluate whether they support war at all. And I by that I mean like it's one thing for the people who don't support this war to be upset. That's typical, like that's obvious, right? You don't support the war, you're gonna be upset at anything. But if you did support the war, or if you do support an invasion of some sort, or whatever you want to call it, and you hear the president say that and you're upset, something has to give. Like you're just your priorities aren't aligned. If you support the war, that means people are gonna die. There is no way that nobody dies, Americans. So that's what supporting the war means. I'm sorry, but like that's what it means, right? And so, you know, you look back in Iraq and Afghanistan, these invasions, these you know, you know, troop deployments, people were gonna die. And if you supported the war, that's what it means. Um, now in those cases, there was uh reasons, whether or not those reasons were good. History has come to tell us that they were not, basically being that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, and you know, the invasion of Iraq was for the most part uh an attempt at regime change. And so now we're here, we're here in Iran, and you know, it's been 25 years since 9-11, yet we're still doing the same thing. It's you know a quarter century later. Um, but anyway, all that to be said, people are dying, jet aircraft are being shot down, millions of dollars of equipment. Trump just asked for$1.2 trillion. And after Pete Hexf asked for$500 billion, and so you know, you're looking at this, I'm looking at this and being like, this is a lot of fucking money. But, you know, we can't pay our school teachers, you know, we can't pay, you know, people that provide services that are actually beneficial to society, you know. So, like, not to say that this war isn't important, you know, maybe it is, maybe it's not. I I don't think it is, but if you're out there and you think it is, okay, fine. But how does it affect your life? Because all I'm seeing is just negatives. Gas prices are going up, electricity is going to start skyrocketing. Iran now has the benefit of controlling the Strait of Hermoose. They're allowing tankers to go through, um, providing oil for Asian countries, specifically India. Uh, they're allowing these tinkers to go through as long as they pay a toll fee, and this toll fee is denominated in Chinese wan. Basically, it's a political move to get the uh the shredded hormous off of the petrol dollar and onto the Chinese wan, which is not in America's strategic interest. So I looked into this because I was very interested. Like, why are we reliant on the petrol dollar so much? But basically, it's a way of controlling our currency, it's a way of controlling the cost, the price of it.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

And so exactly.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

So, if other countries are buying our money, that's going to decrease the supply and that's going to increase the cost. And that's good for Americans because just like supply and demand, like now our money's worth more. But if all of a sudden we have to compete with Chinese wan, now less people are buying our money, our money's worth less. There's less demand for our money. What's going on? Our prices have to go down to compensate. And so that looks like that's gonna be the the standard after this is all said and done, and for what purpose? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

So the average price of gasoline in the United States climbed to four dollars and ten cents a gallon. That's a 30% jump. That's insane. I'm I'm gonna say it here. If this continues, I wouldn't be surprised to see five dollars a gallon. Absolutely. Absolutely. And at one time we thought that was impossible, but it's already four dollars and ten cents. That's the average price of gasoline across America. And you and now our people are starting to see what the benefits of electric vehicles are, because I mean that's that's just insane. And there's so much uncertainty with this administration when it comes to this conflict and uh the economy and prices in general, that you know, it's like you shouldn't, you know, people like the peace of mind with the oil, the ice engine, because you know, hey, gas is always gonna be there, and the gas is always gonna be there, but now look what you have to deal with. You have to deal with inflation, you have to deal with the the whims of a president who decides to enter into whatever conflict he he pleases, and because of that, he the price of gas is now four dollars and ten cents a gallon. That's the average. So uh, you know, I'm I'm lucky. Uh no, Ricky's lucky to have electric vehicles, we don't have to deal with that, but you know, maybe it's time you guys start looking. Um, they of course now this this administration didn't like the tax credits on energy vehicles, so that$7,500 is gone. And I made sure to get taken advantage of it before it happened. So I'm sorry that you couldn't, you know, you couldn't get that, but that's not to say that can't happen again with the new Congress um to try to entice consumers to adopt EV vehicles. Um, but again, this is just four dollars and ten cents a gallon, it's insane. Um, before you move on to our next topic, Ricky, do you want to hit on that?

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Yeah, so electric vehicles, man. You know, I remember whenever gas prices were crazy, people were like, okay, we're gonna start switching to get to electric or hybrids. Uh, and then gas prices kind of kind of got settled. This is like after COVID. And I remember thinking, people were like, oh, we're back to big vehicles again. And I remember thinking, like, why? Like, okay, even like, but by that I mean car manufacturers started making big vehicles again, right? Trucks and large SUVs, uh, instead of like the crossover type hybrids. And I remember thinking, like, okay, gas prices are low for now. Like, gas prices, at least in my lifetime, have been erratic. They've been low, they've been high, they've been low, they've been high. It goes back and forth. How can you budget around that? That's ridiculous. Now, when you as a as an American citizen in this country, when you use electricity, there's a lot of regulation that goes behind the electricity, right? The prices, uh, the the methodology. So, like, for example, uh in some places, if there if the utility company was going to uh divert electricity from some places to other places, there's a hierarchy of where they're allowed to do it, right? And residential is like up there as compared to like businesses and stuff like that. Um meaning that if it came down to some people get electricity, some people don't, the the American house will be higher on the list, meaning you will have transportation. Now, I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but I'm saying like there's a lot of rules that go behind the scenes of electricity, and I trust that process more in terms of like getting electricity to my house. When's the last time you flipped the lights and it didn't come on? And it wasn't a problem with your actual house. And you know what I mean? Like if it was the city's problem, and of course, electricity goes out because of storms and stuff like that, but like I think that the pricing of electricity is a lot stable, a lot more stable than gas, and it's a lot lower than gas. The only problem I see is that maybe eventually there's gonna be some people that are like, hey, these electric vehicle uh owners aren't paying their fair share, and we gotta start taxing them. And Georgia does that. Georgia taxes electric vehicles. Like, I have to pay an extra$250 a month or a year uh to register my vehicle because it's an electricity.

SPEAKER_01 9:55

Like because they tax because if we don't get because we don't pay the gas tax, exactly we're gonna get you on the front end when you have to register a vehicle, which I I had to do. So when they say, Oh, I pay no, I pay taxes too, I and I pay them one lump sum. Yep, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

So I think uh it's a good alternative, obviously. Um, but also too, it's just a lot more fucking stable, dude. I don't have to worry about what's the gas price today, or like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't even look at the gas prices when because I had my vehicle during COVID, I don't remember the COVID gas price. Like, I know that was a big deal for COVID, like people were their gas prices were crazy. I didn't even really think about that because I was just plugged up.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Yeah, and then like the in the post office, like all across America, they're adopting these new gen vehicles they're called ducks, and they're all electric. And I'm like, man, these is I mean, we got them at like the right time because I like USPS is already facing uh a lot of mounting debt, and I can only imagine how much more debt it'd be if we didn't get these new vehicles. And these new vehicles happened um under the Biden administration and carried on under the Trump administration that's go uh 100% electric, but I think that there was uh some give and take, and it's gonna be some gas vehicles as well. But uh our next topic, guys, is the NASA Artemis II launch to the moon. It's a 10-day mission expected to fly over the moon on Monday. It was launched on April 1st. I know uh maybe Tommy saw that launch, and Ricky has yet to share that video with me, even though he said he would. Um so I'm still waiting on that. But this is pretty exciting, guys, because we went over the Artemis I launch on this podcast, and this is the Artemis II launch, and this is pretty unique because you know we haven't been to the been to the moon in a very long time, and people are thinking, and I think that fuels conspiracy theories. And oh well, why if we went there again? Well, there's a lot of reasons why we haven't went there again, but we're back, we're back in the race to the moon, baby. We're looking to the stars, and this is uh a great opportunity to kind of look with your kids, try to go over it because you know, different math things you can figure out with your kids, but also you know, this I don't know. I really like those movies like Interstellar, and there's that other one, the Hail Mary. I I suggest you guys watch them because it gets you get you, you know, thinking again and you know looking toward the stars for the future and you know, just really motivate the next generation of Americans and of people in general to you know, maybe look into space, looking to be an astronaut. Because it, you know, when we were young, the top thing you could be, top dog was an astronaut, and that somehow since changed. Because I remember this commercial, like, oh, there was a guy coming on the beach, yeah, yeah. And it was like a lifeguard or a a cop or a fireman, and then and then there was astronaut, like no nobody beats an astronaut. So um that's just pretty exciting. Uh, Ricky, how many of your thoughts on that historic and last Artemis II launch?

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Yeah, uh, if it's funny you bring up that commercial because like I love that commercial, dude. Because I'm like, nothing beats an astronaut, like that's the best of humanity. Um, they're smart, they're strong, they're disciplined, they're uh brave, you know. Uh yeah, so Artemis 1 was uh that was three years ago or yeah, three and a half years ago, November of 22. And they launched a rocket to go around the moon and come back, just like this one is, except this one is manned. So last Artemis one was unmanned. This one has four humans. Um, I was really interested in their biographies because that tells you like that's like the path on how to become a pilot or astronaut rig. And so I read a lot about them. There's two pilots on there, there's one electrical engineer, and then there's another engineer. Uh, and so, like, you know, it's just crazy. And one's a Canadian, I believe. Oh no, there's three pilots actually. Canadian pilot, an American engineer, electrical engineer. She's a woman, and then two uh Navy pilots, American Navy pilots. Uh Tommy was down in Florida for spring break, uh, and it just so happens that the launch was happening around the same time. So he got to see it, and it was gorgeous, dude. Like I saw the video of it, I just sent it to you. Like you could see the shuttle, like you can't really see it lift off necessarily, but once it gets high enough, you can start seeing the smoke from it, and then it goes above head. Um, and you know, his grandpa on his mom's side was a pilot, and so you know, he knows some guys that went into the astronaut program, and it's crazy because, like, like you said, you know, why is it now that we don't really think about it anymore? Um, and I don't know. I I don't remember any maybe it was the Columbia launch, right? The one that was like a disaster. I think that's probably a big reason why maybe that's it, but I don't know. I think also, too, you know, Americans got maybe we got uh lazy with space, right? Um, and we started focusing on war, right? Like 2001, like 9-11, like since the uh since the global war on terror, like I don't know how many times we've gone to the moon. It's been 50 years since we've gone to the moon, but how many space fights? And you know what I mean? And honestly, like you have to you have to kind of give some credit to Elon Musk as well. He he uh he started up another uh a lot of uh interest in space. Those raptor interests are pretty pretty intense, exactly. And so like now it's more common to be interested in space um than it was whenever I was growing up. I don't remember I couldn't tell you one astronaut's name growing up, except besides Neil Armstrong, you know. Um, but yeah, movies like Interstellar, Project Hal Mary, The Martian, um, you know, there's just a lot of good space stuff happening right now, and it's good for me because as a father, because I get to see Tommy being interested. He gave me this mug here, and he loves math, and this is like it's just it just says be greater than average, but um, you know, he likes he likes the challenge of math, and so I tell him all the time is like, well, the smartest people on the planet aren't doctors, they're not lawyers, you know, they're fucking physicists. You know, those are like the truly the smart people, like they speak in a different language. No one can like only other physicists can be like, Yes, I know what you're talking about. Any any average smart person can be a doctor or lawyer, but it takes a special mind to be that next level up, which is what I think like physicists, uh certain types of engineers and astronauts, like that that's a whole different level, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Yeah, and and I I'm on that this is I think pretty historic, and let's just our sights on the moon, and it's pretty cool. But our last topic, guys, is gonna be Pam Bonnie was fired. And that was I think it was coming, I think it was coming a mile away with her handling over the Jeffrey Epstein pullout, the files, and it's just been a disastrous ever since, and we're not really talking about that anymore. And I think you know, this kind of rears its ugly head. Uh, I think she deserved to be fired, but that doesn't still help with the files that the files that are still being redacted, the files that's still yet to be released, all these things, and and it it brings up an important point because there was this gentleman who was Trump's spiritual advisor who was just released from prison serving after serving just six months sentence for raping a 12-year-old. And that flies in the face of accountability. And you justipose that with a gentleman, uh African-American male who got caught with marijuana, serving a 35-year prison sentence. That is insane. Like that just tells me priorities. What's more important to you? Marijuana possession or raping kids. You care more about punishing marijuana people than fucking raping pedophiles and pedophiles and pieces of shit people. And I think that that needs to be a change. I think that's what the what do you call it, the three-strike rule, the the war on you know, on drugs, those sentencing crimes, those heavy sentencing, that should be reevaluated to this. I think that like you that's a real crime. Like uh, and I'm not saying, and then I'm not saying that drugs aren't a crime, obviously they are, but marijuana versus you know, something hard like cocaine or heroin, yeah. The fentanyl, the things that kill Americans all the every daily, um, that's different. So I just me personally, I think there should be a reckoning and a realignment of how we prosecute pedophiles and people who decide to take advantage of our youth. And I think there should be mandatory minimums for that. And getting off in six months, and I mean, that just that just reeks of who you know, because he was Trump's spiritual advisor, he got a sweetheart deal. He was able to do it. Even Jeffrey Epstein got a sweetheart deal because this was this was known, and he got a basically a slap on the wrist. I mean, freaking Glaxine Maxwell's in Bryan, but a club fed prison here in town, because who she knows? Her her um her vast wealth was able to get a very good lawyer to uh our advocate for her to be in this you know club-fed prison. I don't know. This is just uh I think it's sickening when I think about it, but I'm happy Pam Bondi's fired. Who knows who's next? But uh we'll obviously keep you updated.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

Ricky, what are your thoughts? So we talked about it on the cabinet episode, uh, which if y'all haven't listened to it, I recommend going back and listening to it. Um, where we go line by line on every one of President Trump's cabinet members. Um, Chrissy Noam was fired, and now Pam Bondi. Uh, it's it's like it's a great thing that she was fired, uh, mainly because as the Department of Justice, like the head attorney, she has been doing nothing but damage control since the beginning of this term, and that's not what she's supposed to be doing. She's supposed to be going after the nation, the nation's largest criminal organizations, right? She's like the head DA for the government, and working together with you know the FBI, they're supposed to investigate and prosecute these people, and that has not to happen. Um, instead, it's like running interference, running deflections, and like look at all this other stuff that we're doing. I think Cash Patel is next, um, just because of how shitty he's been in terms of like not just public uh like discourse in terms of like what he's actually said, specifically about the Epstein Files, but just in general about like what he's actually uh been investigating or lack of investigating, for example, the Charlie Kirk assassination. Um he specifically told told Joe Kent not to look into any kind of foreign connections with that. And if you remember, Joe Kent was the director of national counterterrorism who resigned over the uh Israeli connections with this attack on Israel, and so additionally, you know, Pam Bondi and the F so the FBI together with the Department of Justice was supposed to investigate Joe Kent after having resigned and after having been critical of Trump. That's not fucking okay, right? We talked about that here. Um, that there's this weaponization of the Department of Justice, and Pam Bondi at the end of the day, is that head. Now, got it, she's taking her orders for Trump, but this just goes to show like she doesn't care about justice, she doesn't care about the mission, she doesn't care about the country, she cares about her orders from her king and how to stay in positions of power. And so the the thing that stuck out to me at this time was everybody kind of saw how shitty she was doing with Epstein, and now we're on to this war in Iran. Why now? Like, why was she did Trump think it was gonna fly under the radar? Did Trump say, like, hey, like this, you know, she's fucked up, she's not a good per like, not a good soldier for me. I'm just gonna go ahead and get rid of her. And this is the best time strategically to do it because this makes it look like a house of cars is crumbling because you got the everything in Iran's going bad. Christy Noam got fired. Her husband, there's been some salacious uh I think we talked about it, I can't remember, but there's been some salacious uh we didn't talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

We and they and the Republican, the right is so anti-trans and anti this, and then we find out their husband is a cross dresser.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Yeah, well, rules for D, not for me. You know what I mean? It's like I I don't think we ought to do it. Yeah, yeah. You kidding me? And you know, and you know, you know my opinions, man. Man, I'm I'm you know different strokes for different folks. Don't knock it to you, try it. Who the fuck am I? You know, I'm just a guy. Um and if that's what he likes to do in his spare time, outstanding. You know what I mean? Like more power to you. But the problem is, and you know, this is just again, I'm just kind of spitballing here. Is if you are that high up in in politics and this is what you're doing, uh, that is a that is ripe for uh blackmail, right? Like that is ripe. That that means you can be compromised easily, right? Kind of like, hey, you can trust me with all this money even though you're in debt. It's like, well, hold on, you're in debt, you can't handle this money. And so if you are, you know, the director of homeland security and you're supposed to be protecting the homeland, are you really capable of doing that if you are at the same time in charge of this machine, if you are also vulnerable to outside influence in the form of blackmail through your husband, if that makes sense. That's the issue with it. I don't have any issue with it in terms of like, I don't approve of it or whatever. Hey man, people like to party. Shit gets weird, cocaine's a hell of a drug. I get it, you know what I mean? But when you're that high up and you have the nation in your, you know, the nation's safety in your helm, you should probably be fucking squeaky clean because someone's gonna look into it, and if they get that, now you're beholden to them, right? And I'm talking about the Epstein class, I'm talking about the people that like to blackmail, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Yeah, and I and I think that this, you know, this part of the reason why there's a background shutdown when you become a cop, they look at your credit score because they don't want someone who has a lot in debt because you can be blackmailed. I think that's like the top primary concern when you know, you just so it's not that you know it's bad or good, just you can be that could be used against you, like Ricky was saying. But you know, I want I want to talk about this before we get off. Is you know, Trump decided to enter a conflict with Venezuela when the allegations of Jeffrey Epstein reached fever pitch. Then it got down, and then oh, it got brought back up again, and then we went to attack Iran. The Epstein allegations reach a fever pitch, and now he started into another conflict. So it seems like it's and it's a great way to distract the American people because the news media is going to follow this war now, because it's news that you have to. So Trump has created, I think, a new playbook that's at the cost and at the expense of American soldiers, and that's not good. And I hope that that's not true. But from me looking at it, every time we talk about the Epstein allegations, he enters into another conflict. And then when they reach fever pitch, so guys, this is OnlyDads Podcast. We want to thank you for tuning in. If you have any tips, comments, or suggestions, please reach out to us at only dadspodcast at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Ricky got the last word. Uh, happy Easter, everybody. Spend time with some family, go hang out. It's a gorgeous day. There's more to be happy about than to be upset about. Happy Easter.