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Day 13,654 - Decisions & Consequences.mp3
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00:00:06 Kevin
Hey, gang, Kevin here. Life 22 and it has been a hot minute. Hot minute since we've been in the studio. We've got a lot going on. Just figured give you an update. We're almost at the tail end of all family August transitioning from all family August into.
00:00:21 Kevin
Into September, which is back to school September, and we're coming up on that, we'll do the podcast on Monday, which is memorial.
00:00:31 Kevin
Labor Day I always screw the.
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Two up.
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So anyways.
00:00:37 Kevin
Before I head off to work for the day, I wanted to touch base with you guys on some updates and I know we're going to have some breaking news later this evening. Most likely if my sources confirm and.
00:00:50 Kevin
With that said, it's just you know most of you guys are like, why has Kevin not been on doing this podcast so consistently every time he does want to comedy gold?
00:00:59 Kevin
We love them, we love them. We love them. Start to do a Trump moment on you. But you know they're the greatest podcast of all time. No, I'm just kidding. But we do. I do have something serious to talk to you guys about. I don't know if any of you saw my most recent podcast where we were. I was kind of griping about property rights.
00:01:19 Kevin
UM.
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And my heart goes out to.
00:01:25 Kevin
The the Wade family, my heart goes out to the Wade family or the the green family. Wade was in our auto detailer in his.
00:01:35 Kevin
In in his neighborhood for the last five years.
00:01:40 Kevin
During COVID, I remember being an Alderman. I remember people like what do we do for work? What should we do? We're being forced to stay home. We should work from home. Their employers are telling them to work from home. Anytime you work from home.
00:01:53 Kevin
According to our zoning law, like you should have an at home business, it doesn't matter if your W2 employee or somebody else then.
00:01:59 Kevin
That employer should be rezoning your house on your behalf to be an office.
00:02:07 Kevin
All those those stay at home moms that were like ohh I can cause crafting became a big thing because you weren't able to leave your home. So there's a lot of people that bought cricket machines. My wife had been doing cricket machines for years and it's just funny that like, you know, I have some commercial space that she can operate out of. Does she do some of it at home?
00:02:26 Kevin
Like she no longer does it. I think I briefly talked about this legally. According to our zoning code, she could be fined every day that she was making crafts at home.
00:02:35 Kevin
Even if it was.
00:02:36 Kevin
You know, because she went to sell one of them.
00:02:41 Kevin
I don't know why there's an excerpt for a yard sale then. If they're gonna hold strict to these.
00:02:46 Kevin
These measures on on business.
00:02:52 Kevin
On different businesses and stuff, you know, like, hey, if you're a business and you operate and you sell anything from.
00:02:56 Kevin
Your home. You you have to be rezoned. If you're in, you know residential. You have to go in front of the zoning board. There's just a whole pile of things that just have to be done according to these zoning laws. And that's why I don't believe these zoning laws are constitutional. I've talked to a few lawyers while the Supreme Court has ruled on them. Well, that's, you know, that's great. Except for the fact we have this Constitution that says, like, we are going to limit.
00:03:18 Kevin
Like these are all the powers that people have. You can add a bunch of laws, but every so often we should reset them because we really shouldn't have more than like 50 laws across the country and all of a sudden we got, like, 2 bazillion laws and everyone's.
00:03:29 Kevin
Oh, but that's just the way things are. It's like, no, no, no. They they even say in the constitution, like you should not be doing this like you should have very limited laws like, oh, we have to tweak this law. OK, well, that's acceptable thou you know, thou shall not murder like, OK, we have all these murder laws and we have to critique them. Well, is this murder? Is that murder? Is this negligence. And we kind of expand on the law.
00:03:50 Kevin
To make it work, but we shouldn't be adding like a Brazilian laws and all of a sudden it's like because America was founded so that you could do whatever you wanted within reason, and that within reason is supposed to be like the tiniest little portion. It's like I can do whatever I want, but I can't murder somebody and infringe on their rights in that regard. Right. And that's what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be a Gray area, and it supposed to be a very tiny one.
00:04:13 Kevin
Like you're supposed to do whatever the hell you want. You wanna walk down the street like.
00:04:16 Kevin
Like you wanna walk down the street with no shoes on and they have a law that says you have to walk down the street shoes on. Where the hell in the the Constitution does it say that you can't walk down the street without shoes on? Well, they give that power to the state and the state decided that people should be wearing shoes when they walk out. Like, who cares, man, like, let them get ringworm like that's on them.
00:04:36 Kevin
I don't know. People are just nuts. This is nuts. This is, it's crazy. But now all of a sudden, you know, you've got this this board that just like, told this family that.
00:04:45 Kevin
They can't. Like they they can barely make ends meet with both of them trying to work full time. He can't work after hours. The one thing he's good at is, you know, he details cars for a living at his nine to five job. What happens when that dries up? He's not allowed to do it at his home. They completely denied him. They, you know, they said, you know, like, well, they going back and forth on if they should have restrictions.
00:05:05 Kevin
UM.
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They talk about how you know, the people that show up give more weight than the people who don't. And then they hemmed and hawed. The entire proceeding about, well, what about the people who didn't show up well, if they hold less weight, they almost don't exist. They exist because they file the complaint, but they don't show up. It's almost like we should take that as a negative against it. So it's almost like those people in for it because they didn't show up.
00:05:30 Kevin
And and then it's like, you know, you have these rules that you say things like that and you say if you show up that's gonna like if one person shows up and 100 people don't, we're gonna take that one person at a good 50% of the ruling and it's like.
00:05:44 Kevin
30 people showed up.
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And.
00:05:47 Kevin
You know, everybody was in favor of him. There was one. There was one. There was one couple that that I know when I respect and they just, you know they said, you know, if he could just not do it after 9:00 at night they they were like other than that everything's fine and they were willing to make concessions and they were willing to do this and they willing to do that and it's like yeah but what about all the people who didn't show up it's like there's four more neighbors in the entire neighborhood didn't show up and I actually spoke to a bunch of that around the corner that actually also got letters and they're like.
00:06:12 Kevin
We would, if we'd known, we would have done it too, because like we appreciate him and all this other stuff and it's like.
00:06:18 Kevin
OK. But so now that governments gotten involved, which it shouldn't be, so now all of a sudden what happens when their rent payment or their mortgage payment or their tax payment doesn't get made because they're they can't cover their bills with how much they are currently working, you just took away like with this they can do that and they can buy their kids.
00:06:39 Kevin
A Christmas gift they can buy their kids birthday gifts. Without this, they can't do that and they fall behind on their bills. So.
00:06:48 Kevin
The government just stepped in and just told somebody that they they can't work, so now he's gotta go, like, leave his house at night to go work at night security job or something. Just so that his family doesn't end up homeless on the street. That is ridiculous.
00:07:01 Kevin
And he's a father like me, and we will do whatever we have to to make our to help our family survive. But like in a situation like this, I hope that they take this right to the Supreme Court and sue the Christ out of the governmental entity that caused this. Like, I just to me, it's like you just so if those.
00:07:22 Kevin
If I go out in the morning and I stand in front of your car to prevent you from going to work and then you lose your job like I should be held responsible. Like, oh, well, you had the right to stand on the street like, and I get that right. And then we'll go down this rabbit hole where trying not to sound like a hypocrite here because I have the right to stand in the street. But if I'm also like, my actions also have consequences.
00:07:42 Kevin
Right. Like I have free speech rights and I also have to understand the ramifications of my speech.
00:07:50 Kevin
And the issue with that is when you turn around and you say, hey, I'm going to impede your ability like I have the right stand the street, which also caused you to lose your job at work and now you can't make ends meet. And now you're out on the street, homeless and then eventually, like you've been giving all of your food to your kids. But then the food runs out, and then your kids starve to.
00:08:10 Kevin
As a parent, I'm coming after you like that's that's my mentality because you just you just starved my child to death. Like that's it like I mean ohh. You could go get a different job. Like no, that shouldn't be he. This is what he likes to do. This is the American dream. You should be able to do what you like to do and make money at it and be able to prosper and be able to survive.
00:08:31 Kevin
And there's where the in limits come in, because I'm sure some of you were like, well, what about the drug dealers in your neighborhood with your neighborhood watch? Like. Yeah. OK. So they did they really, like doing their drugs and all that other stuff? OK, well, that's part of.
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The parameters that fall into that small category of.
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Don't murder.
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Because that's essentially what drug dealers are drug dealers and murderers.
00:08:50 Kevin
They're handing drugs out to people knowing that, like, especially with this final stuff like they know and they are adding fentanyl to it and the customers are begging for more fentanyl so they can get closer to that high, they're closer to the death. They're like the guys who choke themselves, like the closer they can get to suffocating and then come back to life. That's where.
00:09:06 Kevin
They get their high. That's where they find it.
00:09:09 Kevin
And so my biggest issue is like all these people and just where they're thinking like man, like you like that, that's a completely different argument. And I'm playing devil advocate against myself. I know no one's brought it up yet, but I also, I'm also constantly criticizing myself to make sure that I don't come across like a hypocrite. And sure I will. Sometimes everybody does.
00:09:28 Kevin
Everybody's a hypocrite to a degree, right? But there are parameters in place for this stuff. If you're repeating someone's ability to go to work like you're specifically just said, you cannot work you. You just said that. Well, I mean, what, what? What? Like, I just. I I'm. I'm trying to wrap my head around it like.
00:09:49 Kevin
If that family becomes homeless, loses their their house and their home and everything I think at age, I think that the government entity should be held criminally responsible.
00:09:59 Kevin
That's, you know, that's that, like, it's ridiculous. And then the the, you know, if you know, and I know a bunch of those people on those boards and I know they're just trying to do the right thing. And they were just thrown. They were juxtaposed into a position they said, hey, you wanna do this, like, yeah, I'll give back to my community. And they don't read.
00:10:13 Kevin
Is that like we were like? I was raised in a in a society where zoning was acceptable. The problem is that zoning was a farce that was shoved through by one political party over another, or a group of people that said, well, I should have the right to infringe on other people's rights. And then nobody had an issue with it. And then it got through. But the problem is, it shouldn't have existed like I think I should build a murder.
00:10:33 Kevin
People and we have this giant murder board. You just submit who you want to have murdered. It's. But it's the same thing. It's an infringement on people's rights. Infringement on someone's free speech rights. It's the same in his fringe on their life itself. That is it. Because if you have the right.
00:10:48 Kevin
If, if we are willing to send, like if we ran out of soldiers and I've gone over this argument in the past, if we've run out of soldiers to.
00:10:56 Kevin
If we run out of soldiers to to send to war, to go fight, eventually we start sending the we start drafting all the able bodied males and then eventually we start drafting the women and the children because essentially like if you're losing a war.
00:11:08 Kevin
Like it is US or them and that's how it works. And So what ends up happening is you end up like you would to the point that you would have a population of 0 is when you win or when you lose a war officially. And so like, if if for, for freedom and free speech and our constitutional rights, if we are willing to take population 0, which is.
00:11:28 Kevin
The parameter of the United States, we will we as a populace will defend our our freedoms, our beliefs and our constitutional documents to our to our end, to the point that we don't exist anymore. Then that would be the inevitable conclusion. When you walk down that path and that is.
00:11:46 Kevin
I don't understand why people can sit there and say well, like well, so we're, if we're willing to do that then, but then all of a sudden inside we've inside of our own government, we've got this, this cancer that says, oh, we can tell people they can't have a yellow house. No, the moment that you tell somebody that they can't have a yellow house in a certain neighborhood or they can't have it, they can only have a certain color house in a certain neighborhood.
00:12:06 Kevin
Is the moment that you've pretty much just accepted that, like also murder is is acceptable? You know, we can we can choose and infringe on anybody's rights in any way, because once you do it once, you can do it whenever.
00:12:16 Kevin
And So what I'm saying is you need to backpedal. You need to realize that this entire system is flawed. You need to realize that it needs to be overturned and it needs to be just abolished. And then we can go back to being a free America again. I say you take a small town like only in New York and you try it and you say, hey, let's get rid of zoning. What the hell, man? Why?
00:12:36 Kevin
Well, you know. Ohh. Hey, somebody wants to build a garage. Somebody wants to do this. Somebody. Well, you can't have two garages on your property. Who gives as it's my property. I can do what I want.
00:12:46 Kevin
My my house could be all garage.
00:12:49 Kevin
I turn my house into a garage. Like, uh, yeah, no, I I live in. I live in the basement and I've got 4. It's an entire 3 Storey car garage, you know? Like, that's I could I could do that because it's America.
00:13:03 Kevin
I just it's it's nuts and I think it needs to be overturned.
00:13:10 Kevin
I think all of this stuff needs to be overturned. I think that the people that sit on the board should realize that, wow, OK, I did not, you know, Kevin brings up a very good point. I did not realize that this is a.
00:13:21 Kevin
I did not realize that this is a.
00:13:25 Kevin
Like this is a a grave injustice against humans and and the Constitution and what we stand for as Americans. And you know, wow. I'm gonna step down. I'm going to work with guys like heaven to abolish this.
00:13:40 Kevin
Travesty in in law and be able to yeah. So. And I also don't want any part in being held criminally responsible when one of those kids starve to death, you know, he'll probably make it work. But the problem is that you've just caused him to go down that road where he potentially couldn't.
00:14:00 Kevin
He potentially couldn't. You were. You're literally pulling food out of his kids mouth. And I say literally because that's what you're doing as soon as you stop somebody from going to work. Soon as you make them lose their job as soon as you. That's why cancel culture is such a hideous thing. Oh, I'm going to cancel you because blah, blah blah like.
00:14:15 Kevin
Into the lady down the street like, you know, a part of going to the zoning board. The neighbors complain.
00:14:21 Kevin
To the person you're supposed to complain to the person, and then you can go to code enforcement and then when code enforcement has no remedy remedy, then it gets to the zoning board and that's that. Like, I don't even think any of that should exist except for the neighbor who has an issue, goes to the person. This for the one person who caused all this didn't even go.
00:14:36 Kevin
To the person you don't get to be passive aggressive in this world, because guess what? You were the accuser that caused this. You're the one who has to stand up and face them. And if you don't face them.
00:14:47 Kevin
Then your. Then your argument means nothing, and that's what the 5th and that's what. That's what. That's the whole thing is for. If you don't have the right to. If you're not going to if you're not going to publicly accuse somebody, or if you are gonna publicly accuse somebody and not gonna stand behind it, then it means nothing. It means nothing.
00:15:03 Kevin
UM.
00:15:04 Kevin
I spoke with somebody the other day about how people, how people take these these arguments and they or or they'll take like the the same way. If you don't show up to the meetings like they don't hold any weight to it. They also don't show like if people, if people like write a letter like I think I think my Uncle Joe should get out of jail.
00:15:25 Kevin
Blah blah blah. Like, OK, great. And then when it comes time for his probation hearing and you don't just, you know, his parole hearing and you don't show up like that piece of paper means almost nothing to the the system because you weren't willing to show up and actually like stake claim and put your name down.
00:15:41 Kevin
That this person deserves to get out, and one of the one of the people I I've I've been speaking to also talked about. That happens all the time with, like, pedophiles trying to get their stuff dropped and it's like you get you, you know, you have all this person was joined our church and they're super nice and it's like. But then when it comes time to it, that letter they don't show up. And I and I don't blame them because I wouldn't show up either.
00:16:01 Kevin
Because I also think that there should be ramifications if you do show up because the same way that your word means something.
00:16:08 Kevin
The same way that your word means something. It also means that you have to.
00:16:14 Kevin
Like your.
00:16:18 Kevin
If you showing up means more than you also have to take on the responsibility of what that more means if that makes sense. If you are taking on this like this reality that like you know that you standing up means more to.
00:16:36 Kevin
That that, that holds more weight. You also have to handle the weight of that responsibility that you've just insisted on. So the the insistence on the fact that you want to have.
00:16:48 Kevin
Like you, you want this pedophile to get these charges reduced or you know who wants him to drop off a registry so that people don't know that he had passed crimes or get it knocked down to a lesser crime or or lower himself on that charter, or be able to live within so many distance of the school if that person relapses or your Uncle Joes and stabby Joe is what they used to call him. You know what I mean? And you just, you know, you got him out on parole and he stab somebody else. I think you should also be held.
00:17:11 Kevin
Are responsible because you got this person out when the system was working as intended and it protected the rest of us from these.
00:17:18 Kevin
These people that should not be functioning members of society, I think as soon as you open your mouth to do that.
00:17:23 Kevin
I think that like you need to put your money where your mouth is. And I think that you need to start seeing some charges for that the same way that actions have consequences the same way this board is about to starve to death of family, the same way that the neighbor who made a complaint was, it wasn't able to back it. I think if she stood up and said this is my issue and blah blah blah and I think she should have to. I think she should.
00:17:43 Kevin
They I don't think you're allowed to be a puppy and not tell people what you think. And if you if you do then you know your opinion at home under the covers you hide under your covers and you speak your own opinions to yourself into the echo Chamber of comfort.
00:17:57 Kevin
Comforter. It it's great you have that right. But the problem is that it doesn't hold the weight. This is how this is how the gravity of the world works. If you don't, it doesn't hold any weight. If you're not willing to publicly speak it and not hide under the covers and you have to say it so everybody can see you.
00:18:14 Kevin
That's why I'm now a big proponent of I'm a big guy. I'm a big proponent of marriage. You stand up in front of all your friends and family and state this is the person I'm spending the rest of my life with. I love this person. I'm not going to, you know, I'm not gonna have any infidelity towards this person. There's just.
00:18:28 Kevin
Ton of things like that in our world that hold more weight and when you're not willing to do things like that, you're not willing to make those sacrifices.
00:18:38 Kevin
I can't remember one of the founding fathers. I think federalist papers. It was, I think Thomas Jefferson. Maybe I'll have to double check this, but.
00:18:46 Kevin
Your rights mean nothing without duty, so if you don't have the duty, the integrity, the moral, the moral strength and fortitude to hold through, and, you know, hold yourself to a higher standard.
00:18:56 Kevin
To to defend women, children, families, to protect your marriage, to protect your your God and your country. Then your rights mean nothing. So you can sit there. Say, I have human rights. Well, what does that mean? If you're just a lazy, good for nothing. That just shoots heroin and just O deed on the street. Well, I guess your life means nothing to you. So I should mean something to me. And that's really what it comes down to. And that's that's my interpretation of that duty.
00:19:18 Kevin
Just to 1° of it.
00:19:21 Kevin
I've gone on a pretty long rant this morning, but I I think it's. I think it was well worth it, so I'm just. I'm just just.
00:19:28 Kevin
You know, my heart goes out to this family that you know, and it's like now because all of a sudden now it puts upon people like me. Right? Because now I'm going to do what I can to help this family out so they don't starve to death because that is the duty that I feel to my community. Somebody who's just trying to work and do hard work and do the right thing.
00:19:48 Kevin
And then people who, you know, run a legal counseling centers out of their home right up the block. You know, just because they didn't get a zoning permit to repermit their. Well, mine doesn't have a pressure washer. I'm just giving a devil's advocate for a.
00:20:03 Kevin
For an argument, I'm sure that person would make. I don't make. I don't make noise well.
00:20:10 Kevin
You know, tough noogies.
00:20:13 Kevin
Tough noogies a business is a business. That's how you went at him. Live by the sword, die by the sword. That's how it works. So I'm just. I'm livid because I'll end up taking. I'll end up doing what I can to to help this family.
00:20:25 Kevin
Survive. And I know there's a bunch of other people in that neighborhood that will do the same. It is just ridiculous that things like that happen. We have more important crimes to be fighting where, you know, it's just like everywhere across the country were were short officers since the 2020 riots. Nobody wants to be a cop anymore and it's like, and then New York State comes through when they harbor people.
00:20:46 Kevin
They tie people's hands behind their backs on actual crimes and then then, like the government resources are still in place and they're like, well, we got to go after somebody. Let's get the poor kid who's detailing cars in his driveway in the evening and and on weekends.
00:21:02 Kevin
Every other weekend like he's he's doing what he can, man.
00:21:07 Kevin
I don't. I just I'm. This is my follow-up gripe. So alright gang, I'm sure we'll still have breaking news. Like I said earlier.
00:21:14 Kevin
Later this evening and we will talk to you guys next time on life 20.
00:21:18 Kevin
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