Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Navigating Truth in the Digital Age: From Kennedy to Game Day Fun
Imagine a world where the truth is constantly questioned, shaped by the lens of social media and the ever-evolving technology of AI. Today, we're navigating the intriguing realm of American society, past and present, from the Kennedy assassination to today's media transparency debates. Our morning coffee chat challenges the reliability of the information we consume and emphasizes the crucial habit of verifying facts through multiple sources, especially in this digital era.
As the aroma of breakfast mingles with game day excitement, we swap stories about grandparenting joys and the delightful chaos of little Cameron's recent visit. From playful food battles to the celebrated love for ice cream, we laugh over regional food traditions and gear up for the big Georgia vs. Auburn match. Wrapping up with a whimsical look at motorcycles and the sidecar dilemma, we weigh the thrill of control against the quirky charm of "the bucket." With laughter and a hint of nostalgia, today’s episode is a perfect blend of heartwarming stories and spirited debates.
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Hello, good morning. Welcome to Saturday, the weekend, which means we have the wonderful Mr Gent with us, gosh, or the gent over here yawning loudly.
Speaker 2:Good morning everyone. What a beautiful day it is making all kinds of morning noises. Sixteen you grunt and you're grown.
Speaker 1:I asked you if you were ready before we came. I was.
Speaker 2:This is being ourselves, isn't it? Yeah, okay, then Okay.
Speaker 1:People like that Just being a regular couple conversation in bed at 6 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2:We don't plan, we don't prep, we just come at you, baby. That's true. We come at you Come at you, baby we come at you.
Speaker 1:We come at you Exactly right, unprepared.
Speaker 2:Exactly right.
Speaker 1:But we do have our coffee.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do that. Well, we're prepared in that tone. Yes, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:We've already done our morning puzzle, which was easy.
Speaker 2:And we smoked it, smoked it.
Speaker 1:We smoked it. I love it when you do old hip language.
Speaker 2:Old hip Right on.
Speaker 1:It's even better, though, when you do current hip words Absolutely, and it surprises me sometimes that you know it. That's what cracks me up.
Speaker 2:You have to incorporate the new and the old to be that. That just shows that you're well-rounded. Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1:You know I'm saying I got it word it's so weird, though, because when you do it I'm surprised by it, but it's also it's like it's kind of it kind of turns me on a little bit. I'm just a little too TMI, tmi. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 2:Word.
Speaker 1:What are we going to talk about this morning? We're going to talk about football. Later we're going to end it with some football because it is Saturday. It is football season, but we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2:And remember we didn't plan to talk about that, it just popped into her head.
Speaker 1:no, okay so what you?
Speaker 2:want to talk about.
Speaker 1:I don't know there were some things. There were some things I can't I don't know. Okay, well, obviously we can talk about the state of the state of america and all the crap that's going on. This this is. I have lived for 57 years now, almost 58 years, granted. Probably the last 30 years I've kind of only been paying attention, but that's a short amount of time, I think. And how much things have changed in that 30 years.
Speaker 2:It's just crazy. Have they really changed or have you just become aware of them? I think they've changed. Let's just think back to like 1960. Oh god something I wasn't around.
Speaker 1:I was born in 66 what?
Speaker 2:year was kennedy assassinated 63 okay, let's think back to 63. Now you, we're still trying to figure out was it one shooter, two shooters, and how come none of those files have been released? And who's covering up?
Speaker 1:I think it was 63, if I'm wrong, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:So there's been deep state going on since when At least that long right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so really it's been going. But is it just more in our face because we have social media and we can see more of it? Or has it just been there? Or is it just bubbling to the point where they're so blatant about having deep state operations that they don't care anymore? I think it's probably a combination of all of that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's been going on for a long time it has been going on, but I think there used to be a line that some, even the corrupt people, wouldn't cross. But now there are no lines. Yeah, I don't know, it's just bizarre. Yeah, I mean this whole FEMA thing, this Hurricane Helene, whatever you want to pronounce it, I don't know, it was just bizarre because I remember not too long ago when we had hurricanes and they would cover it all over the news, 24 hours, seven days a week. I know you hate that term 24-7.
Speaker 1:He hates that term.
Speaker 2:You can say 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you just can't term 24-7. He hates that term. You can say 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you just can't say 24-7.
Speaker 1:Okay, but they would cover it on national news forever and ever and ever. That it would go on for days and days and days. And I knew something was weird when the national news wasn't even covering it. It was like blank. It's like what is happening, even covering it. Yeah, it was like blank, it's like what is happening, what is happening I knew something was up, but I wow, this is crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, here you go. Government wants to cover up a bad look and right now they're having a very bad look so they tell the media don't cover it?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean really, really, I think that's probably what this will make us look bad.
Speaker 2:Do not make us look bad, you know, look the other way and paul ryan on the board of fox news and again it's, it's. You know, if it weren't for social media, we wouldn't see a lot of the things that are going on and here's the thing about social media.
Speaker 1:People my age and older some would would get on there, and you know they're. We grew up in an age where before we had social media, so any kind of anything off from legacy media was weird and probably conspiracy theorist. That's how my brain, that's how I was kind of brought up to believe. So here we are, people our age watching stuff on social media. I think we're coming around to it though. I think, and we see that and we're like is that even real? You know, with the age of AI now and people, do you know what I'm trying to say?
Speaker 2:Well, when I read something I don't trust.
Speaker 2:Its first thing, you know I'm going to go look for alternate sources and see. You know, you know there was one yesterday that I read that was like oh my goodness, are you kidding me? And I looked up and it was like you know it was coming from a credible source. And then, you know, I looked a little closer and it said blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it didn't say parody, but it said something to that. It was like, of course, I went and started reading the comments to see how many people were so gullible they fell for it, I was like yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So you see, I mean to me, I was raised in an era that when we got our news, we got it from ABC, cbs, nbc.
Speaker 2:That's it. That's it, that was it.
Speaker 1:And we believed it, sure, or I did. I was young. They were all incredible people on TV telling us the news that's the only way we got our news back then and newspapers, when people were actually on the ground reporting news.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a lot of that's changed too. I think a lot of the people who you know gone.
Speaker 1:I won't say rogue, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:They all have agendas now instead of reporting the truth.
Speaker 1:Right, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, and so when I see something on social media, I'm thinking well, they'll, you know that's. I'll give you a prime example. Give me a prime example. When COVID first hit, yep, okay, it was all over the news, even the cable news, which has become legacy news too Sure. Cnn came about, fox News came about. To me they're all legacy news. Now too, when I say legacy, they're like the established, you know, government news too, when I say legacy they're like the established government news.
Speaker 1:whatever, Now I call it the government news.
Speaker 2:Government news.
Speaker 1:So when COVID first hit, it was all over the mainstream media Legacy news, government news. So when I started looking through social media, scrolling through Twitter, I keep seeing people regular people with their cell phones going into hospitals and showing us videos of empty hospitals. And they were like don't panic, there's nobody at the hospitals, are not overwhelmed. Look, here's a video. Blah, blah, blah. And I would not believe it. Why, why did I not believe that? That you believe?
Speaker 2:they were full and there were people dying why did?
Speaker 1:why did not not believe that one person on twitter showed me a video of his hospital? Why did I not believe that?
Speaker 2:I don't know that's, that's, that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I'm gullible, because I'm stupid no, well, I've, I've just come to realize that you know there's there's there's deep state that we're never going to get rid of. And you know our government, uh, you know it's just way too big, yeah, it's just way too big. That's something that's going to pretty much cause the downfall of our country. Big government is doing away with all the freedoms that we have and we're watching it happen in front of us when you look on and you see there was a comment that somebody I think one of the lawyers who was talking about free speech was talking to Representative Goldman and he brought up something that was blatantly communist, socialist thing that a guy got put in jail for and then was released because they said you can't put somebody in jail for saying that. And Goldman said we don't need some lawyer telling us what free speech is. Well, yeah, apparently you do, because you know you were backing the side of communism, goldman.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But, you know, when it's gotten to the point where your legislators are on the side of Limiting speech and allowing that limitation, you know saying. You know we have to have free, we have to have limitations on what people can say because it, you know, it affects the agenda that we have to strive for as a government.
Speaker 1:That's scary.
Speaker 2:That says to me you know, that's what you're supposed to have, Number one that should terrify everyone. You shouldn't. If you're being able to limit that power, you're too powerful.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You know, I still go back to the whole situation where our Constitution was written and our leaders when they talked about having people represent their states in Congress and represent their states in the Senate. They were supposed to serve a term, leave the job that they had, leave their business, come up, serve a term and then go back home. It wasn't supposed to be an institutional power that you made a career of. But when you see all of the benefits that they voted themselves and benefits that will carry them and make them wealthy throughout their lives because they came up, that's creating too much power for them.
Speaker 1:I'll even say that I don't even want them to leave their jobs. I want them to keep their jobs. I want them to go home every night to their family and their jobs and their community and come up here and vote when they have to vote because they need to be at home with their constituents.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very good point. They would come up, spend four weeks, weeks, then go back with their constituents and then come back and do yeah, absolutely, I agree wholeheartedly with that. But and that's what I meant by leave your job leave the job for three weeks, come up, do the business, go back on yeah that type thing. But you know, when they voted themselves so much power um that they've ingrained themselves into having to be deep state when they don't know they are, they are.
Speaker 1:Which begs me, which I have to ask. Hopefully, God willing, I'm praying, I'm going to do my part vote for Trump. Should Trump win this election and become president again, Then are? Then? Are we going to everybody? Is everybody going to turn around, start talking good about the government again just because Trump is president?
Speaker 2:No, because I think what will happen is he will start trying again like his first, like his first administration. He'll try his best to start getting things done and he will be stonewalled in a lot of areas, you know, because it's not a four-year process that's going to clean this out.
Speaker 1:And he only has four years and he's only got four years. But thankfully.
Speaker 2:So you know, you think well, hopefully, maybe you know, we can get DeSantis in there next or Let JD do it. Or JD in there next, you know.
Speaker 1:JD has proven himself.
Speaker 2:You know one of those two to continue on doing what needs to be done to save our constitutional republic.
Speaker 1:Let me take that back. I don't know if JD has proven himself yet. He's only served two years. I don't know exactly what he's done in office, but I know he looks good on the screen and he says the right words. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see so we'll see, we'll see, it's all that goes too but yeah, anyway, we're getting I want people to still be critical absolutely if trump wins, I still want people to be critical of the government, absolutely absolutely my eyes have been opened and they're getting more and more open every day.
Speaker 1:Speaking and it terrifies me, it's scary, yeah, because I'm like this can't be. Is this really happening? It's like I can't believe what I'm actually seeing.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely, absolutely, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Speaking of opening eyes.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're getting the grand cam today, yay.
Speaker 1:Yay, and we actually had them earlier this week. You actually had him earlier this week, you actually had him earlier this week.
Speaker 2:Yes, I did, that was something else.
Speaker 1:Our kids had a little minor emergency with the other grandma. Everything's okay, but we had to. They brought Cameron over. I was at work, but they had to bring Cameron over. They had to all go do something.
Speaker 2:They had to go to work and since I was here doing stuff, I said bring the little tyke over. Bye, googly, moogly. So right before they were coming over, I headed to the grocery store and got ding-dongs and ice cream.
Speaker 1:He sure did, absolutely you sent me that video of him when I was at work. You sent me a video of him sitting there eating ice cream and cake. I thought, oh my gosh, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I asked his mom. I said hey, has he had anything? Well, he's nibbled here and there. I said, oh, no problem, I'll feed him lunch. I broke out the cake and the ice cream and said let's go to it. And he ate a little bit of the ding-dongs, but he really liked the vanilla ice cream and it was so funny watching him eat it because he learned at an early age what brain freeze was. He'd take a big bite and those eyes would turn up and his mouth would just go.
Speaker 1:It's so funny I know, but I know we tease and kid around about feeding him ice cream and cake and all this stuff. We have got to start feeding him some other good stuff. And it's twice, I know, but it's twice now that we've mentioned the grocery store and the two times we've mentioned it he has mentioned vegetables.
Speaker 2:Vegetables in my tummy.
Speaker 1:And separate occasions, different days, that's so funny.
Speaker 2:Well, he likes, he loves fruit.
Speaker 1:He does love fruit.
Speaker 2:He loves fruit, yep, but we can't get him to eat meat. I know, and that's you know. To tell you the great grandparents we are. One time when he came over, I cooked a bunch of bacon and we said, well, let's fool him, yeah. So we sat him down in his little high chair and Gerald sat in her little seat in her chair over there and I sat in her chair and we fixed us both a plate of bacon and gave him a plate of bacon and said, hmm, this is good, both a plate of bacon. And gave him a plate of bacon and said, mmm, this is good. And he picked it up and he took a little bite and he put that frown on his face and put it out of his mouth and was like, nope, not having any of this bacon stuff. And I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:We've got to do something about this kid, I know. He doesn't like bacon. So today we're having a good football food. We, Today we're having a good football food. We're going to have what we like to call in the South, pigs in a blanket, which aren't your true northern pigs in a blanket but little smokies wrapped in croissants.
Speaker 1:What are pigs in the blankets in the North?
Speaker 2:Sausage links wrapped in pancakes.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's what that is. Yeah, I grew up in southern Ohio and I always thought what you said pigs in a blanket. I never looked at it as sausage and pancakes.
Speaker 2:You're a hill person.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm a hillbilly, okay. I don't know, that's different.
Speaker 2:What I thought of as pigs in a blanket was you know link sausage wrapped in pancakes.
Speaker 1:I've never heard it called that before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but ours are little smokies wrapped up in crescent roll.
Speaker 1:That's how I've always known it to be.
Speaker 2:You know you can dip them in honey, mustard or barbecue sauce, or, just like me, just you know when I used to drink straight up baby. But anyway so we're going to make smokies like that, and apparently he does like fish sticks and French fries. Yeah, that's what we've heard, so we've got that too, but I'm going to try to fool him into eating little smokies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Good luck We'll see, we'll see what happens. Yeah, douse them in some ketchup or some honey mustard. Yeah, he might, he may go for it, so I'm going to try See what happens. Anyway, all right, yeah, but that's so we can. You know, that's our part of our football food. Today we're going to have Cajun crab dip and homemade pico de gallo. Oh my God, it's so good made pico de gallo.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, it's so good. Yeah, I like making my pico de gallo.
Speaker 2:I always call it pico de mayo, pico de mayo. I was getting confused, because you like it, however much you've made, you want five times more, right, yeah, pico de mayo, cinco de mayo. So anyway, we're gonna have that for football speaking of football, tell.
Speaker 1:Give us the rundown what's happening, the times, who are they playing, how they fare. Give us the rundown of football sports segment with the gent.
Speaker 2:Georgia plays Auburn. Today Auburn is coming to the beautiful hamlet of Athens, georgia, which would be even better if they get rid of their mayor. Anyway, never mind, this is not politics, this is sports and what should be a Georgia win. But several years ago and the trend has ended a little bit more because Georgia's kind of beaten up on Auburn the last few years but it used to be Auburn would come to Georgia and Auburn would win, and then Georgia would go to Auburn and Georgia would win, and it just seemed like that was always what happened. But this year it should be a little bit different game. Georgia should win and coming off the loss at Alabama, I think they're going to be a little bit pissed off about it. Of course, auburn came off a pretty bad loss last week too, but it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't really know about much about all the rest of the time they're playing at 2 30 today, so we'll still have the boy then yeah, yeah, yeah, I figure that'll be feeding time okay, all right, sounds good that'll be feeding time.
Speaker 2:We'll get him assimilated to all that stuff. But you know there are football games all day long and there's some good matchups. I remember looking at and reading. But I what? Is it 6 o'clock in the morning here? Yeah, 6 o'clock in the morning. I'm more worried, not worried. More concerned, not concerned. More into drinking coffee and just watching, getting ready for the day.
Speaker 1:Can I ask how you're doing on your pool?
Speaker 2:Oh yes, I'm leaning.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:No, actually I'm in second place. All right, there's somebody.
Speaker 1:I know who the guy is, but I didn't know if we were allowed to talk about that or not. Is that legal to do? Oh?
Speaker 2:it's a football pool. It's not gambling. Yeah, it's just a football pool, all right and you know how gambling so wide open and out there now anyway you can. You know you can bet on anything anywhere. Pretty much I don't know sports book, sports booking still isn't legal in alabama, but you know they still have. You have the certain indian reservations that have. You can't say that native american, native american look at me being all liberal.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. Go ahead, say what you want. It's America. Free speech.
Speaker 2:And Eskimos live in Alaska.
Speaker 1:Anyway, your pool, your football pool.
Speaker 2:I'm in second place, but me and the guy who's leading and I are way out in front of the third place people right now. So that can change on the dime, you never know, but it's good to be leading right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens when the year comes. We won some money last year. Maybe we'll win a little bit of money this year, but it's going good so far.
Speaker 1:Oh, it looks like, don't forget.
Speaker 2:Trump's going to be in Butler Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1:Trump's going to be in Butler with Elon Musk. With Elon Musk yes, that'll be on. I wonder what time they'll be on.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I bet there'll be more security.
Speaker 1:And I bet we'll be watching football and not him at 2.30.
Speaker 2:Well, he's not going to be on at 2.30. How dare him. He wouldn't interrupt. I know that's true. He wouldn't interrupt the Georgia game.
Speaker 1:That's true time he's speaking, and then you know we can. Okay, we can go from there, all right. Well, do you have a question of the day? All right, the gent has the question of the day.
Speaker 2:I was driving down the road the other day and I saw one of the I won't say old-fashioned, but motorcycles with a sidecar on it. So my question to you is if you owned one, would you be the driver of the motorcycle or the rider in the sidecar? I'd be neither. Which would you prefer? I?
Speaker 1:can't imagine riding the sidecar of a motorcycle.
Speaker 2:That'd be so scary that's the thing about it was anybody in it? You want to be in control of the motorcycle or just in the, you know the, the, taking your chances in the sidebar, in the bucket beside it.
Speaker 1:The bucket beside the motorcycle. Was anybody in it?
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know, I think somebody was driving the motorcycle.
Speaker 1:Well, obviously.
Speaker 2:May have been a dog in there, no.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:You know, I just remember seeing it going. Oh, that's cool. I think there was somebody in it? Yeah, I think there was.
Speaker 1:Obviously I'd be in the passenger.
Speaker 2:I don't know how to ride a motorcycle yeah, I'd have to be the driver of the motorcycle. I don't know if I could ride in the sidecar no, I would. I would not want to I'd have to be heavily drugged yeah, exactly, all right, that's it for us go dogs thanks for listening.
