As a child, I never imagined that the values instilled in me would one day be the compass guiding my every decision. Today, we embark on a profound exploration of those very principles, diving into the evolution of personal values from the innocence of youth to the complexity of adulthood. Together, we navigate the delicate balance between being true to ourselves and exercising kindness, and I'll share my anecdotes on how the values we cherish unfold in our everyday actions.
Join me as we confront the civic responsibilities tied intrinsically to our values, where the act of voting isn't just a right, but a reflection of our beliefs in motion. I'll recount tales from the polling booth that highlight the weight of local elections and the power inherent in every vote cast. Through discussions on loyalty, knowledge, and access to information, we uncover how these elements shape our political landscape and why engaging in the electoral process is a commitment to our principles. Listen closely as we dissect the influence of personal values on voting behavior and their broader implications in our lives.
Real talk: life is fleeting, and how we manage our time is the truest indicator of what we value. In this foray into the practical applications of our principles, we tackle the discipline of time management and the ethics of consumption choices. From considering the meaningful allocation of resources to assessing the media we consume, our conversation traverses the importance of direct communication as we age. We also face the tough issues, including the complex relationship many have with food, and the challenges posed by corporate practices, supply chain woes, and the call for fair wages. This episode isn't just about reflection; it's a call to action for living a life aligned with what's truly important to us.
Thanks for listening!
As a child, I never imagined that the values instilled in me would one day be the compass guiding my every decision. Today, we embark on a profound exploration of those very principles, diving into the evolution of personal values from the innocence of youth to the complexity of adulthood. Together, we navigate the delicate balance between being true to ourselves and exercising kindness, and I'll share my anecdotes on how the values we cherish unfold in our everyday actions.
Join me as we confront the civic responsibilities tied intrinsically to our values, where the act of voting isn't just a right, but a reflection of our beliefs in motion. I'll recount tales from the polling booth that highlight the weight of local elections and the power inherent in every vote cast. Through discussions on loyalty, knowledge, and access to information, we uncover how these elements shape our political landscape and why engaging in the electoral process is a commitment to our principles. Listen closely as we dissect the influence of personal values on voting behavior and their broader implications in our lives.
Real talk: life is fleeting, and how we manage our time is the truest indicator of what we value. In this foray into the practical applications of our principles, we tackle the discipline of time management and the ethics of consumption choices. From considering the meaningful allocation of resources to assessing the media we consume, our conversation traverses the importance of direct communication as we age. We also face the tough issues, including the complex relationship many have with food, and the challenges posed by corporate practices, supply chain woes, and the call for fair wages. This episode isn't just about reflection; it's a call to action for living a life aligned with what's truly important to us.
Thanks for listening!
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Speaker 2:How you feeling. I'm feeling okay. I still got like the snot and head congestion. I honestly think that it's been. I think I was sick for a couple of days, but now I think it's just walking allergies. So you know, it's fine. It's fine. I need to go get an allergy shot and hopefully that will help.
Speaker 1:So Everything's fine, we're all fine. I still have time to go get an allergy shot, tell me about it.
Speaker 2:I mean I'm like, okay, let me work around your schedule. It's not happening.
Speaker 1:So I started allergy shots last week and I have figured out since that I need an hour and a half To get an allergy shot, I know. So I can't schedule Clients Right, like I can't just pop in and go do it, because it's like a 30 minutes, yes, five up the freeway. Then usually I don't get seen. It takes them about Five minutes. You know, just be generous to get me back, which is quick, right, cause you just check in and sign in and they call you back Right. Then, yeah, 20 minutes at the office and, yes, they go over if they're busy. So sometimes it's 25 minutes. So it's 30 minutes there, 30 minutes minimum at the office and 30 minutes back if there's no traffic. So it's an hour and a half. I tried this.
Speaker 1:So Wednesday I don't have clients in the morning, I'm not going to be there, I'm not going to be there, I'm not going to be there, and I've been trying to just keep that that way. But Friday I had like a break when I was like, okay, I had one clay early of our break and then I was supposed to have another. Nope, didn't, didn't happen, lovely In the office. So Anyway, they were like if you do it twice a week, you'll you'll have more. What are we talking about today, other than you sound like as half?
Speaker 2:Okay, so we are talking our defined this is values, and and this is just the conversation we came up with while chatting the other day because there's so many things that Can Control how you are as a person or I mean Maybe not even control, but Things that give you a guide and I think values is like super important. Um, we had different values Growing up. Then we have now, um, our values weren't really our values growing up. I think we're going to be able to, you know. We're going to be able to, you know, be able to do things that are not really our values.
Speaker 1:Growing up.
Speaker 2:I feel like when you're a kid, you don't really have, you don't get to define them yourself, you don't get. You don't get to have yes, you don't get to have your own. You get to do the values that you're taught and what is told to you, um, and so once you become an adult, you can go oh, okay, let me figure out what my values are. Um, and what values are is the individual beliefs that motivate you to grow up with Um, and so I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing, honestly. Um. They serve as a guide for human behavior. Generally, people are predisposed to adopt the values that they are raised with. That is generally true. However, I feel, like A lot of people, the values that they grow up with Evolve or change a bit as they get older. Um, and then what are the values?
Speaker 1:Um Religion, politics, yes, Um socioeconomic class.
Speaker 2:Um, your, your hair cut looks really short.
Speaker 1:It is geography. Well, I told her Cause this was getting super long on top, yeah. And then, um, this was super short and she kind of just went short all over it and I'm like that's fine Cause. Then if I really want to grow it out, it's all at least the same links.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, it's cute. Um whatever I don't care, I don't care.
Speaker 1:I don't have any of it, so I'm like whatever you have a little bit.
Speaker 2:Um so yeah, the values will determine like how you behave. Yeah, how you behave. Um, there's so many um Values, I mean, I think, my personal values. I wrote down some of them because I feel like these are my values now. Um, but trying to be authentic Is a value. Um, I feel like, if Like, be real, you know, be who you are.
Speaker 1:Um, say what you think. I think that that's not always a good thing To say what you think.
Speaker 2:I have done that For a lot of my life, um, but it can be. There are times to just shut the fuck up and, um, sometimes, well, opinion, sure Right, you don't always have to give your opinion.
Speaker 1:Sure, sure. Um, I do think, when you're saying authenticity, your, your, your meaning, your, your opinion, your opinion, your opinion, your, your, your, your, your, your opinion, when you're saying authenticity, your, your, your meaning Like Honesty, yes, about who you are, right, right, and I do feel like I try and live that way and be that way.
Speaker 2:Um, kindness, I try and be a kind person, I kind of human. Um, I don't like to Be mean to people. I think that's, that's something that makes me feel like shit. You know, um, my kids would say that I am mean to them. Um, mo, mostly that's because I'm being authentic. You're not.
Speaker 1:You're not being.
Speaker 2:But I don't think sometimes before I say it, so it comes out Harmful. And I'm Don't ever intend to be harmful. I have, literally I don't ever want to be a person who, you know, hurts somebody else, you know, or is the reason that they feel bad about themselves? Because that's just Not something that I want to do. Also, compassion Um, I like to feel that I can have compassion for people.
Speaker 2:Um, there's so many people In this world that are so much worse off Then you. You know, I feel like when we were growing up, um, we had compassion, but also we were judgy as fuck. So, um, there was a lot of times we were compassionate towards, you know, the homeless or Um, mentally challenged. Um, you know all the little service groups they had, the poor people which we were poor, so poor, but yet there were people worse off than us, you know. So, health, I mean, when we were little, I don't think we knew that we were poor. Um, once we were digging through dumpsters and trying to find food. I think we realized that we're a little more poor. Our lights got shut off. You know things like that. We're like, oh okay, this is a problem.
Speaker 2:Um, the other thing that I think is a value for me is being dependable. Um, like I, I want people to be able to count on me, um, especially friends. Um, and yeah, loyalty, definitely I'm loyal to a fault, yeah, and that's, that's a fact. I think you can be loyal to a fault, yeah. So I mean, loyalty isn't always reciprocated and I feel like when you have this sense of loyalty to you and you are so Loyal to something, a job, a, a person, and they don't reciprocate that loyalty Like a culture.
Speaker 2:It can be bad for your mental health, for sure. Um, I feel like loyalty was something we had growing up, um, for sure, and I think my idea of loyalty has changed. Um, blind, there's blind loyalty, and then there's loyalty that's just Stupid, Stupid, that would be blind loyalty, and then I think that's a good thing. So I don't think that that is can be that can also be a bad value, you know, if you do it in the wrong context. Um, and then. So those are just a few of my values that I wrote down.
Speaker 2:Um, I, I think that having that like sort of rule book or way to live your life Is helpful In situations where you're unsure of what to do and think, well, listen, do I, is that the kind thing to do, or is that compassionate, or is that, you know, if you think back to the things I mean and write them down, I've written them down, but I really had to think about it and I said, okay, these are things that are values to me. Um, so anyway, but, like I said, some of those values I learned growing up and I think that's a good thing. They were different, but kind of the same, you know.
Speaker 1:So I feel like you're kind of on the brink of like. Are they values or characteristics of your personality, or moral like things? So I'm gonna just give you a little challenge here. Okay, do you value reading books? Do you value sports?
Speaker 2:Okay, so yes, okay, okay, I do value those things, but they're not my values. I think there's a difference between what you value, or what you think is important, versus how you live. Is a value Values that you live? I know this is like all the same word, but you put stock let's say, put stock in something like you believe that this is so?
Speaker 1:what if we just say, like where do you spend your time, money and energy, yeah where do you spend your time?
Speaker 2:I spend my time, money and energy in living my children, my grandchildren, my job I'm gonna say probably my job more than anything else, which is a problem.
Speaker 2:A job or a career, yes, a career, my career, because most of my waking hours are spent working, but I do also family. I don't have a ton of friends that I do a bunch of things with outside of work or family, and so I feel like those are my two things work and family. But yes, have hobbies. Yes, have things that I would like to do. I don't spend enough time on them. So what are your? What do you think your values are? I don't have any.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, yes. Oh my God, that's amazing, I love you, I mean, I think that ours are probably aligned more than we care to even admit. Yes, because a lot of those are, I really think. And I feel like you said before, we don't get to pick them when we're young.
Speaker 2:But also, if you look at, if you study child development at all, by the time you're two, your personality is basically stuck, like you're already who you're gonna be by the time you're two, and there's going to be very little change in who you are Now the circumstances Well, maybe not change in who you are, but there can be changes, because I know in the past 10 years I have changed tremendously how Just in the way I do everything, the way I think, the way I look at this world, the way I value my children and I think that sounds like- perspective right, I don't think you changed necessarily, but I bet your viewpoints on those things change, change my perspective, sure, okay, and maybe change the way I approach things. Sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, like, for instance, you could value time with your kids over buying them stuff when they're little.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Right. So the value of time changes right in relationship to your buying them, presents or something right to it.
Speaker 2:Well, my kids are all different and I think their love language has changed, but they didn't really value time spent with them sometimes Because I was with them a lot. I went to every performance that they did at school. I went to all of their things. I had them involved in shit. I was at everything all the time and that's why I chose my career is so. It gave me the freedom to do those things. But I think when they were younger, at least one of them that I can think of her love language was she wanted things more than anything else, and I don't think she's that way anymore. But if I wasn't buying her stuff, she didn't think that that was a good thing. So anyway, we could get on so many things with value.
Speaker 1:So one of the we should kind of bring up, like why we were talking about it and I wanted to title this episode not about voting, but also about voting, because we were chatting about it and I was like, well, really the big message is that we need people to vote, like more people voting, more voices. The more we have input, the more it's a democracy, because if you just don't vote one, shut the fuck up.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah the fuck up, ed Two, you don't have as much agency over any choice, or you know you're not gonna, you shouldn't care if you don't vote, and if you don't vote, then you really don't care. And I do understand how the voting process and everything is just traumatic for a lot of folks. But also, yeah, it was just kind of again, it's not about voting, but it is about voting Well, it's because it's more about.
Speaker 1:vote your values is what? Because we're not encouraging anyone to do anything that right. We're not saying you should, you know, do this or that, which we were told how to vote when we were young. Yes, I don't care what you vote for, I care that you vote Great. I think you should vote your values. So that's sort of where we got onto this idea of value.
Speaker 2:Yes, because it was the primary, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were talking about the primaries and just you know nothing crazy just discussing it, and I thought it would be kind of timely if we sort of talked about well, excuse me, our voting experience a little bit and then also kind of like, but not again, just so everyone knows we're not telling you to vote one way or another or yeah, I know, I think everyone do anything like we're not in.
Speaker 1:We're not trying to influence anyone other than you say. Before you put your vote down, do you know what the values of that person system bill amendment are? Do you understand values and make sure that you're voting along your value lines when?
Speaker 2:you fall, you're not in the best of your ability, because there may be nobody that follows what you believe, but which is absolutely the case in most scenarios.
Speaker 1:In my opinion, yes, I mean, I'm a current member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and not yet once have I seen a candidate who falls in that category. And so Well, my God.
Speaker 2:The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's a thing, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, that's amazing. It's a thing. Go look it up. It's hysterical. It's just a parody on religion in general, but it's kind of fun. Yeah, but it makes it fun and it makes it silly.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, when we were growing up, I remember around any time there was a voting, there would be a ballot and this was in the cult. That would be filled out, a sample ballot filled out and stapled to the bulletin board so everyone could go study how they should vote.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm pretty sure they handed them out too. Like you could take a copy of that.
Speaker 2:But I do remember, in this particular hallway there was just like this bulletin board with all of the you know things and how, how the leader would vote, and this is what you should be voting for, because and that is so fucked up.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is, I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
Speaker 2:Yes, it blows my mind that they got away with that and like. It's like as if you know you don't have a mind of your own and so you're going to vote the way somebody else wants you know, or what they want the proxy. Yes, it's so messed up. But anyway, I remember that and I remember everybody studying it. When I turned 18, I voted for the first time. I was so excited to vote. I have voted at every possible election I can. There's been a couple of local ones I've missed because not paying attention, but I do try and vote at everything and local elections, honestly, are the most important.
Speaker 1:Well, they impact you the most.
Speaker 2:They impact you the most, for sure, and so like local is so important. So I really try and pay attention the older I get especially, just because it affects everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well and you can get a couple crazies, like just one or two crazies, and they're paying attention and they show up and they, they get control of everything. So then you have absolutely no say, especially in local, where it can get super, super dense. Meaning you know there's five people show up to vote and three of them are their friends, and guess who's? Guess who's controlling running, running the circus, you know.
Speaker 2:Right, right.
Speaker 1:So it really those are even more important in terms of, like, showing up and caring because it is going to affect you and what you know if they put in a train track right next to your house or ban books at the fucking library which is so goddamn stupid. I mean, there's a thing. If you don't want a book, then don't check it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Nobody's telling you over the books in the school libraries in this. You know where I live. There is this. I mean, it's been a major ordeal and it's just so crazy. I'm like it's a little mind blowing because I think books are not bad and I mean, if you want to filter what your children are reading, then look at what they're like, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go ahead, do it, nobody's telling you.
Speaker 2:Don't try and control everybody, because your child, you want them to be Well. And also, I'm never a fan of restricting your children and restricting anything is stupid yeah. Well, the more you restrict, the more they want to break out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And also, like knowledge is power and knowing things is so, so important.
Speaker 1:So knowledge is a value.
Speaker 2:You think Could be.
Speaker 1:We value knowledge.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I value knowledge I do I value at least and maybe it's not knowledge, because it's not like the accumulation of information, right Knowledge meaning I know a lot about a lot, right but more the understanding or wisdom to interpret that knowledge and apply it to everyday life. Yes, so if you read a book and it changes some part of you or changes the way you see something, right, that's understanding wisdom.
Speaker 1:It's you know, you took the knowledge and you applied it. You know it's yeah. So I think that's a value of mine. I value loyalty, but only if it's like, if it's like earned and I don't know how else to say that without sounding like a douche canoe. But what I'm saying is that I'm going to be loyal to you if I know that there's a good chance, it's reciprocal, like right. So I'm not. I am not at all loyal to my employers. No, At all. Right, Like because I am working there for a job. Yep, the only thing that I get from that is a paycheck, and that's not to say that I don't care about my job. I do care about my job, I care about teaching, but I don't have loyalty to someone who's just paying me to do a certain task.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's fair. I think family I have loyalty to, yeah, I think like I can beat you up but nobody else can beat you up. And if anyone else tries? They're getting kicked out of that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, so oh my.
Speaker 1:God, I love that. It's so true. But and that goes with you know, I think most siblings too. They're all like that.
Speaker 2:Yes, so if you happen to remember that type of shit, because we literally fought so much but we would defend each other to the death itself- yes, we kick the shit out of each other all the time. Like let me, let me get you alone, yeah.
Speaker 1:There is that loyalty, but I don't think I'm loyal to like not a whole lot of friends. I mean I will be, but it's not, as I think, sick of a bond.
Speaker 2:You know I'm going to say that I'm loyal until I get to friends, Because I'm the kind of friend that would. If I'm your friend, I'm gonna do everything in my power to help you out, or to you know, oh, and that's not even for friends with me.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's even like some acquaintance. I'm like yeah, you can use my car.
Speaker 2:Sure, yeah, but if you, if it is not reciprocated and I'm not saying that you have to do this for me, for me but.
Speaker 2:I'm in a bind and I need something and you're like, yeah, which has happened and is why I don't have some friendships any longer? Yeah, because I have been in that situation where I have been over backwards for a person, because I love them and I care about them and they mean something to me, and I have done multiple times, went out of my way to help them, and then one time I needed help and they were like no, sorry, I can't do anything for you. And I'm like, okay, I don't know if it's like a fuck you, but it's like you're not my friend anymore, you know, like I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I call that quietly quitting. Yeah, yeah, right, you quietly quit the friendship where you're like, yeah, I don't have time, I just don't. I think the older we get to you, the more we understand, like as a human species, that we have limited time. I say that all the time when I'm hanging out with boyfriend. Yeah, because I'm like I don't know how much time I have.
Speaker 2:I really don't, I don't know how much time you have, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So you know it's about like treasuring the small moments and then also like being cognizant of where you spend a majority of your time, and that's a value when do you spend your time, when do you spend your money? Which is why I brought up sports, because I was like that's the least thing that you and I have in common is. I think so Is like any kind of professional sports, although I do enjoy I love watching Beach Volleyball but it but I won't like. First of all, there's very few televised games and then also.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to like stop my day, stop my day. Or like devote a whole entire day, like Sunday, like to right, I don't do that either.
Speaker 2:I mean, but I do enjoy watching it. I'll watch a game. You know I'll go to a game. I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars, although that's a fucking lie, because I've done it before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to win, we went to a Dallas football game with all of our children a couple of years ago and it was a great game. I won the game a couple of years ago and it was like, just for the tickets, like $2,500, and I'm like, oh my God, like it kind of made me physically ill, though, to spend that kind of money, but I'm like, well, it's something that we can do with our kids, and you know what I mean. We all enjoyed it. I'll accept my oldest. She's not a huge sports fan either. I think it was a little mini vacation with the family. So I'm like I guess I justified that way, and my husband is also a massive fan.
Speaker 1:Well, you could, I mean you could have gone to Disney and still spent $2,500.
Speaker 2:Oh, for sure.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's just the choice, you know it's a choice that you made and you did, and I get it where you're like. Oh my God, this is a lot of money. But it's a value to you. Guys liked it, you guys had a good time.
Speaker 2:It was entertainment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, but I think of like in the. I think the other thing. That's so funny. I love, I do like podcasts and one of the big reasons why I like podcasts is because I can listen to it double time and you also can curate for yourself what you want to listen to so you can skip over if they have commercials. You can just be like fuck. That you also can like look, search out people you want to listen to or that have a different perspective.
Speaker 2:I don't know. You also can do something else while you're listening.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, because it's a listen, not a watch. Yes, absolutely. Love Me too, being that like fast and the one she was. She was just on this morning. She just wrote a book to Kara Swisher. She's like the tech reporter for Silicon Valley who's like a really well known like. She's interviewed everybody like Steve Jobs what's his face, face face plant Zuckerberg, and then what's the Matt guy Somebody's yelling at me right now, steve Jobs, and you know I'm talking about no, I have no idea.
Speaker 2:I don't follow the tech stuff that much.
Speaker 1:Oh, the guy who made Apple and like shit, shit, shit Bezos. I'm like everyone who's big like owns Amazon owns all the okay.
Speaker 1:But she's also like I. She says and I really liked what she stated this morning and this is where it goes to what I'm talking about with the time and like how much time do we have? Where is our value system? And she, her dad, fought in Vietnam. He got back, he bought a house. They had three children. She was five years old and he killed over from an aneurysm oh dear God, when she was five.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so she attributes a lot of her like, um, like her busyness, and she's always like don't waste my fucking time. I'm going to ask you the question that everybody's wanting to know secretly. I'm not going to treat your feelings, you know, like I'm stepping on eggshells. I'm going to ask the question, I'm going to say the thing that everybody's thinking and I don't want to waste my time, yeah, with bullshit. So if you're going to bullshit me, I'm going to call you on it. I'm going to say you're bullshitting me.
Speaker 1:Can we now talk about this honestly? And I really think both you and I have that Quite a bit, and you more so as you've gotten older. I've always had it, but you've gotten it more now as you get a little bit older, which I like, because I'm like, yeah, I don't want to waste my time. I mean, every once in a while it's fun, you know, to just fuck off right, fuck around and find out kind of thing.
Speaker 1:But I think the older we get, the more we do realize we don't have enough time. So that time like time, money, energy kind of thing gets compressed into like what do you really fucking value, you know, and for I think us it's like family. Yes, friends, you know a little bit of work, I think. I think we value the ability to work when and how we want to. That gives us the freedom to be able to spend more times on the things that we want to do. Yeah, travel Value, I value travel. I value culture, I value reading, I value, you know, a good cup of tea, A good cup of coffee.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I value coffee.
Speaker 1:I value food Like I and more and more I like good food. I don't want to waste my time on crap Like fast food. Like just to eat. To eat, you know, I'm like no no, I don't. I don't subscribe to that. I want something like good. I don't know how many meals I have left. I want them all to be fantastic.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, well, luckily you're married, or you're not?
Speaker 1:married.
Speaker 2:You're with someone who loves to cook you good food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, real quick reframe. Luckily I'm not married, not married.
Speaker 2:Oh, actually, randy's a very good cook too, but like, yes, he has to. I mean he's, he's really good. But I think we're both pretty okay, you know, with cooking. But time is the thing. So, like, if you don't have time, you know you got to have time to cook and you have to have time to make what you want, yeah, so that's always our issue is we're like, oh, we need something fast, but we don't want to go out to eat. So what do we cook real quick, you know, yeah, and so you don't always eat the best stuff, but like we, you know, everything we eat is pretty good. Yeah, I will be honest about that.
Speaker 2:Thankfully, I don't have to worry about food anymore, like how I'm going to get food or yeah that kind of thing, Because I'm like, okay, we have, we have enough, we can buy what we need. You know, definitely a blessing. I have had a terrible relationship with food my whole life. Oh same yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't think you can grow up like we did and not in one way or another.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I'm just getting past that because, with having a bad relationship with food, my relationship with food is fine now, but it's taken me a long time to get there. So anyway, that's not a value. Well so, but I guess we value food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you're talking. You're talking directly to class. Yeah, for sure. Because, well, and I think I really like, like. So we had what? Two years of COVID and then, like all the prices got jacked right, oh yeah, and then we got that supply chain and everything went ridiculously sky high.
Speaker 1:Right? Himflation Now is it? Is it? Is it that they're just charging more because they can? Now? And that's what pisses me off too, right, because I'm like at that point, if you're not paying people a living fucking wage and you're in imploding the food and gas prices, I'm sorry that's that's a civil war waiting to happen, right? I mean, if you're, if you're living below poverty line which we did for our whole childhood you can't take prices like that and expect to survive, right? You're going to be having a hard time and that pisses me off more than anything.
Speaker 1:But okay, then the vote, your values kind of theme we have going on here would be to support policies, legislation and people who are going to fight for not having people price gouge, even just because they can. And you're also going to vote for people that support a living wage, not a minimum wage right, and companies that hire you based on the fact that they want you to be there as a career and support you and give you retirement and give you good benefits and pay you a decent salary. Right To protect your rights as a worker. And all that shit.
Speaker 1:You're going to vote along those value lines, because that is what a society is.
Speaker 2:Here's a prime example. So my brother-in-law this is about five, six years ago, maybe a little longer went to work for a big corporation that we all know and hate and love Retail right, and I'm not going to name the name, but I just don't know if that's a problem. So, anyway, he went and worked there and in his fucking onboarding they gave him forms to fill out for government assistance because they said you will qualify for this if you work for us. Like how fucking jacked up is that? Like I was, like what? And so like food stamps for government help, insurance, like they don't want to provide you with insurance but they're making billions Bank.
Speaker 2:I know they're getting so much profit.
Speaker 1:So that's this is the problem, though. They're not required to do it, and a lot of corporations are not taxed. If we just simply tax our corporations, we would pay for meals for children for fucking eternity. We would be paying for a lot more things than we are right now, and it's just simply because we're not taxing big corporations and they can get away with that shit because there's no regulation on it. The government is not telling them they have to pay their fair share. They're not telling them that they have to provide workers with healthcare. They're not telling them they have to provide a living wage, not just minimum wage. The government is allowing them to do that. So, in their defense, they're just doing the best thing for them to make a profit. Yeah, which is wrong, absolutely wrong.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so wrong. But shame on them, because you know what, if you're making that billions of dollars, you should bring in your employees. Yeah, but you should pay your employees at least enough. Well, you should. You don't have to qualify for that.
Speaker 1:You're not going to do that unless the government forces them to do it, because that's capitalism. They're going to make the profits as high as they can while keeping their costs as low as they can. Yeah, yep, and the government is going to allow them to do that, as long as we, the people, let them do that. So that's why I say, based on you know your value systems, you got to okay. Well, if you know Walmart, amazon, you know Prime I'm thinking of all these other bigger corporations Apple they do their fucking manufacturing in China. I mean, really it's hard to get away from, but still you know, then that's important, you know. And then also you need to vote on forcing our government to tax these corporations, which would take care of almost all of that. Like that would literally solve the problem, because once they're paying taxes, taxes would go up for a little bit. But also, there we're just not paying the cost of things right now and I don't think people get that.
Speaker 2:Okay. What do you think? What do you think of the speaking of that? What do you think of the Kellogg shit? Are you following that? The Kellogg shit, kellogg? Oh my God, you haven't seen any of this. Okay, so this guy was like it was the CEO, I believe, of Kellogg's got on the thing and he's like, if you're broke, eat cereal for dinner, like, and then meanwhile bragging that they have made more profits in the last year than ever before with their company.
Speaker 1:It's every corporation right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, so everybody is. So everyone, not everyone, because obviously you've never heard of this, but people are like quit buying Kellogg's to start making the prices go down. So the amount of products that are sold by Kellogg's is insanity. I know, do you know?
Speaker 1:I have a fun fact about Kellogg's.
Speaker 2:People are buying the generic, or they're buying you know something else, or they're making their own. There's like it's all over social TikTok, you name it, but it is kind of hilarious. It's like I watched this video yesterday about how target has like every Kellogg's product on sale. They went down, for every product is, like you know, on sale, but I don't know that it'll actually you know first I could do anything Right.
Speaker 1:I could do anything.
Speaker 2:Kind of interesting that people are like okay, screw you, but telling people to eat that for cereal which there's like zero nutrition in cereal.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. So let me tell you a little bit about cornflakes. What the what you? Know about cornflakes and sugar, corn and sugar. Right so the government subsidized farm owners and this goes back to the 1800s, right so Kellogg's was originally developed by a doctor to prevent sex drive in women.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, how did I not know this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, corn heavy corn products reduces your libido. Wow, and so at the Chicago's World Fair of 1893, cracker jacks were introduced, kellogg's cornflakes were introduced. There was a couple of massive things that were introduced at this World Fair. The reason I know this is dance. There were East Indian dancers brought over from like and this was like the first time dance actually like a foreign dance. You know, ethnic dance forms, which all dance forms are ethnic dance forms, appeared from a different country in the fair. So it was a big, huge crowd draw. Oh, the Ferris wheel was introduced. I'm trying to think this was crazy. This is also like H H Wells was also on his killing spree, the serial killer that gasped people. Oh my gosh, yeah, so it was a. It was a routine to time, but Kellogg's cereal was introduced to a swage or a tamp down females libido.
Speaker 2:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, yes.
Speaker 1:And so then, after that and it was a black, man like to stop reproduction or what, just to stop, like at that time too, and I can't. I think it was about that time. So cocaine was actually sold in like drug stores and stuff, and it was actually in Coca Cola at the time. And then women would go to the doctor to get masturbated. Oh, not kidding, oh my gosh. So doctors were like what the fuck?
Speaker 1:And then they had the government was subsidizing corn production and they would pay the farmers to grow more corn than they have, this over influx of too much corn. So then they were like okay, we got to market the shit out of this, we got to find a way to use it for people to eat it, and part of this had to do so. It and I say 1892, but it kind of went all the way through like the 1930s and 40s. So once we get after World War two, then we had all of these soldiers coming back for more and like I think it's in the 20s that right before we went into World War two, that half of the population, like the male population in the US, would not have qualified for the military because they were underweight, because of that depression in the 40s.
Speaker 1:So they were like we got to get calories, calories, calories, calories, calories into these people so they can put on weight and they can be fit for battle, right. So that's where like corn, sugar cane came into the picture. And then it's a black man and I fucking pissed that I can't look up his name. He came up with like corn syrup Any product you can possibly think of that could be made with corn he made, and he had like all these tons of inventions of things we use every day that has corn product in it, you know, or sugar cane. So anyway, it was this massive overload of like calories and all that shit. So it's all a shit show and the FDA should have never approved any of that because it's absolutely nutrient deficient.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's nothing in there that's going to yeah, other than caloric intake. So there's no nutrients, it's calories, that's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, interesting little.
Speaker 2:But All the bits, all the bits. Okay, yeah, so I feel like I think we've covered the values Sort of we have. We have talked about it around it on it, you know all the things, but, like our main point, which, when talking before talking about values, we were talking about voting Before doing this podcast, and just the importance of voting, please go vote, vote your values, don't gripe about what's going on If you don't take the opportunity to vote. This is like an important a year. Every year is important, every election is important, and I've stated that it's your only rights in the US anymore to vote. Rachel says it's not a right, so or it's not the law.
Speaker 2:There's not right. It is currently a right. You can vote, so use that and go vote Because I mean, I have friends who are in their 40s and 50s who have never voted and I'm like what the what is wrong with you? Like go vote, it's so important.
Speaker 1:Has they been fed an idea that they don't matter?
Speaker 2:Well, and here's yes, so that is the idea they don't matter and also they don't care. So if you are somebody who, I mean they don't care because it doesn't affect me, it affects everybody.
Speaker 1:I mean everybody should be so obviously they don't know anyone who needed an abortion or needed.
Speaker 2:Right. Well, if you're a grown adult and you don't have children growing up in this world and you're about to die, there's a possibility that it's not going to care. Yeah right, Except for tax laws services retirement. Medicare Social.
Speaker 1:Security.
Speaker 2:Sure, so I think it affects everybody. We've all got to vote. Please vote. I don't care what you vote for, but vote, just vote.
Speaker 1:Just vote your values.
Speaker 2:Search the stuff, look up the stuff. I mean, I am not an in depth looker upper. I haven't been my entire life until I'm going to say probably seven or eight years ago, I started realizing how much voting effects and, like I said, I've always been a voter, but I never. I would just mainly vote party or something. I don't vote just party anymore. I vote for who I think is the best candidate and I also vote based on, like laws and things that are coming into play. I vote how I feel that's yeah, yeah, vote your values.
Speaker 1:Um my values, absolutely yeah, and you know it's kind of annoying too, and I've noticed this more and more as I because I've also voted like in every single election I've ever had. Also, um, I think we were taught that and I think that's one great thing, value wise, we take, took away is voting for the process, the process of it.
Speaker 1:It's, it's still, even though it gets slammed, you know it's still a process and it is painful, arduous you know just minutia and it gets so frustrating at times, but it is still available to us. Yeah, to most of us. To most of us, I will say that, in terms of like restrictions, I've just gotten up the wazoo, which is ridiculous. In this country should be a freaking holiday. Everyone should be able to vote. There shouldn't be long lines. You should be able to do it at your leisure, you know? I mean, we have technology.
Speaker 2:Now, why can't you just vote from a cell phone Right? Literally? Do it like American Idol, the shit out of it, american Idol, the shit out of it, because those results are 100% accurate. 100% accurate, oh my gosh, no kidding.
Speaker 1:But there is, like you know, now there's like six hour long waiting lines in some places because they've closed free things and they, you know, don't have enough help or they can't get water standing in mind.
Speaker 2:And I think it is the law that you have to allow your employee to go vote on voting day.
Speaker 1:So it depends on the state Okay so in the.
Speaker 2:United States.
Speaker 1:It is but it's gonna be a local thing it should be a paid day off.
Speaker 2:Yes, for everybody, so they can go vote.
Speaker 1:Well, or just making a national holiday, right? Yes, yes, it should be. But, yeah, I do think. But I was gonna really quick. I know we're getting on time here, ish, yeah, but more and more it's harder to look stuff up, and I blame that on, like, section 230, the internet laws and stuff, because people are just going ape shit with this. But we had a account I think it was city no, I'm trying to think of it so I don't misspeak here but it was a county commissioner board board. So you had to pick 16 people on one of the San Diego County commissioner board, right? So they and I think so it's more like they were gonna be making choices or decisions. You know, obviously it's a board. So there, you know, there's a lot less risk.
Speaker 1:It's not just one person, you know, going in there right, but there were of the, you had to pick 16 of them and I think there were like 23, 24 total on the on the ballot that you had to pick from. Well, and I was like I don't know, these people are they're gonna make all these decisions about San Diego County Board of Supervisors or whatever. It wasn't Board of Supervisors, I think it's commission, and that I could hardly find any information on any of them. Yeah, like. So I went to the board, the actual San Diego dot gov, you know voting thing. Like, of the 23, 24, however many people was on the ballot, like three or four of them had a statement on there. Wow, the rest of them had nothing, and I'm like that, but then I go. Well, was that intentional? Did they not want to put up more information?
Speaker 1:so they don't get at risk of, you know, getting hate mail getting targeted, and I'm like that's fucked up because that's not democratic. No, you know so and I'm like, well, this sucks, and it really is like a takeover of you know, just the whole process, which is not, you know, not, not good for us. Anyway, just go vote, guys. That's all we're seeing.
Speaker 2:Go do it and look it up, vote, do your part, have some values, know what your values are and yeah, that's kind of an interesting rabbit trail ish, but all in the same kind of general direction topic. Okay, we'd love to hear from you. You can message us on Facebook Sister's declassified. Instagram also at sister's declassified Is sisters underscore declassified, and then you can send us an email at sisters declassified at gmailcom. We would love to hear from you Comments, suggestions or we'll take suggestions if you want to hear about something. That's what you want to hear us spit about. Yeah, if you've got questions, we have answers, maybe we have anyway.
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