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The people's hotline drives the conversation every time. Right here, right now on the Dangerous Ones. The shots been fire, but the war ain't won. These white boys with money better learn how to run. The wild hits your back. The blood's on your tongue. You me baby with a [Music] day. Thank you for joining us. I'm your host Jim Drastic of 11 Films and as always I'm joined by executive director of Demcast USA Nick Kudson. And unfortunately we are without Tiffany this week. She is under the weather and will not be able to make it. But good news to report, our son is heading over to the house now and he's going to watch over mom until I get home. So that's good. And we're sending our love out to you, Tiffany. Get better. Um, we want to thank you for joining the movement to ditch the corporate mainstream media Sunday morning news shows for America's alternative, powered by you and the people's hotline, where your voicemails drive the conversation. Tell us your truth by calling 503212-4600. You can leave us a voice message 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can remain anonymous. You can also email us your story at shout@thedanger ones.com. That is sh o tthedanger ones.com. Don't forget to hit the like and subscribe and leave a comment right now to help us climb the robot algorithm and bring more voices like yours into the spotlight. It truly means a lot to us. And folks, we have a huge announcement this week. US Senator Ron Weiden will be joining us in studio in studio to I mean, come on. Come on. To take some of your calls to the people's hotline. So, please call this week 5032124600 with your calls for US Senator Ron Weiden of Oregon. And if you don't know, he is on the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Budget Committee, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee where he's the senior member. Uh he's also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, and he's on the Joint Committee on Taxation. Something you may not know about Ron Weiden, we do because we're from Oregon, and he's been a senator here for a long, long time, is he is very committed to town halls. He is. And he has done over,00 town hall meetings. That's dedication. That is dedication. You can't shake this cat, man. Uh which means he is doing one each year in every county in Oregon. There's 36 counties in Oregon. He does one open town hall for each county at least. Yeah. Every single year. Uh that is commitment. That's representation. That's representation. Uh unlike the Republicans who we're seeing a lot of footage lately just running out the door, right? My goodness. Um which was making me think of Ron, too. It's like my goodness, he must have seen it all. Like he's probably had people yell, you know, the whole gamut. Absolutely. I can't wait to ask him about, you know. Yeah. uh but he's going to be uh obviously in town doing some town halls and he has graciously agreed to come in and be a guest on the show and take some of your calls. Folks, take advantage of this opportunity. Call the number uh write an email and let's uh let's get that in front of uh Senator White. Yeah. And he was what he was uh notably called out uh by activists on our side with a thumbs up and uh by the other side with a thumbs down for skipping Trump's uh speech before Congress last week and doing it virtual town hall instead which I thought was like that was a good good move. I don't know how else to say it but pimp you know what I mean pimp move. Uh, and the guy has always been a very, very solid senator here in Oregon. Um, you know, Tiffany and I were born and raised in Oregon and ever since, uh, you know, we were in high school, he uh was either a congressman or a senator. And so, he has been a part of our lives really since we were younger. Yeah. And uh we just look up to the guy and and just really appreciate everything he's done for Oregon and the fact that he's so committed to town halls really mirrors what this show is like. Absolutely. Is about uh because we're committed to amplifying your voices and that and that's why we want to have calls specifically for uh Senator Widen when he gets here because that's his that's his jam. That's his jam, baby. I know. And I just know he's the kind of guy that we don't need to send it to him beforehand. He'll just, you know, he knows what he's doing. Yeah, he's fine. Um, also folks, um, if you would check out our Substack at tealandreport.com, that's www.tealandorreport.com. Right now, there is a new Substack from Tiffany. Although she is under the weather, she was still able to get her Substack out. It was amazing. Yeah, it was fantastic. It's called Billionaires, the symptom and cause of America's decay. And it is fantastic, folks. If you get a chance, check that out. She is just knocking it out of the park. She nailed it. Nailed it. Fantastic. And then, uh, Nick, next week you're going to be doing a new Substack, uh, an in-depth about what. I've got a couple kids. uh they're of tween/ teenage uh and you know I'm struggling as a father about like how to frame what's happening in the in the United States in the world right now uh to them and so I'm going to write about that raising kids during Trump 2.0. Yeah, that's what a great uh I I I would imagine so many people can relate to that. Yeah. Uh so look out for that at the teal andorreport.com. And folks, uh, you know, we've been doing this for a little while now, this podcast, and I think we've done about eight full episodes, and we have listened, and we from this moment forward are going to be driven by the people's hotline and your calls. Uh, because what we have found is not only is that what the people want, but it's also the best way for us to fight back is telling our stories. Y uh telling your stories and amplifying uh what is going on out there. We want to be we want to be a conduit for the voices of America like that. That's we're all we're we're all activists like Tiff Tiff isn't here but she you know we're the three of us are all activists have been for a really long time. That's where our heart is and uh and so we care a lot about the people and the impact that this administration is going to have on the people. So we want to put your voices front and center in absolutely everything that we do, every conversation that we have. So the entire show moving forward is going to be driven by both the people's hotline calls and your emails to shout at the dangerous.com. Yeah. And boy, we have had some whopper emails. Yeah, we're going to we're going to talk about one today. Yep. Yeah. Fantastic. Well, let's go ahead and get started with our very first call and it is from Tracy from Florida. Hey there, my name's Tracy. I am from Florida. I mean, that's bad enough. But now we have all this other [ __ ] going on. And I'm just calling to say [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] Because the only thing that is going to get me through this is Corona. And now Coronalite is being tariffed at 25%. Oh my god, can this get any worse? My husband may lose his job. My father-in-law may lose his social security. My son may be losing his VA benefits. I'm fearful of my nephew in the military right now. I did not I did not vote for this [ __ ] I did not vote for this [ __ ] And I don't want the world to crash. And I'm so sorry that this has happened to everybody. This sucks so bad. I just don't even know what to do except for I one of the reasons why I wanted to call you guys was to tell you or suggest that your callers, listeners check out mobilize. us to find events in their area. You can filter for your zip code or what have you and find events, protests, phone call opportunities, postcard opportunities in your area or abroad or um not not local. Anyway, thank you guys for offering this service. I've always wanted to call somebody on the phone and say [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] Have a great day. Bye. You're welcome. You're welcome, Tracy. Uh we're so glad we could provide that service for you. Uh truly and that's one of the great things about the people's hotline is it is uncensored. Um Nick, she brought up a great point. Mobilize us. You know a little bit about that. Uh I I do. Yeah. No, I mean we're we're like I said a minute ago, we're all activists here. So um just like ACTB Blue has become kind of the main donation portal for uh movement organizations and Democratic politicians and progressive politicians across the country. Uh mobilize us is a portal where uh organizations and campaigns uh input their uh opportunities for action, their um like like Tracy was saying, post postcarding opportunities, the phone banking opportunities, Zoom meetups, you know, protests in the streets, like everything. Uh and and like she said, you can search by geography, which is great. Um so you can find stuff that's in your local area. It's a great way of connecting with the local community if you want to do that. But you can also find virtual options uh virtual phone banks for for let's say you want to help with the Wisconsin Supreme Court race that's on April 1st. There's tons of opportunities for phone banking uh and text banking on on mobilize us. Just for fun, knowing that we were going to uh talk about Tracy's Call, I uh I picked a random state. I picked Alaska and I I put it into the mobilize us as a filter. uh just to see what was happening in the coming week. And so if you're in Alaska on uh Wednesday, March 12th from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. uh Alaska time, uh in Wasilla, which is which is which is Sarah Palin's uh hometown, right? Uh there is a uh protest happening uh where you can go and hold some signs on a street corner and protest to uh Doge and Trump and all the things that are happening at Nukem Park in on Wasilla Lake. Perfect. So I'm just saying there's there's lots of opportunities out there. It's a great resource. Um there's some other uh since she brought up you know mobilize us as a portal for taking action there's some other options out there that I could mention really quickly too. Okay. So, um, so if you're looking to connect with people on the local level, um, I would look up, if you haven't already, and many of you might already be members of local groups, but, um, Indivisible and Swing Left are longestablished groups that operate on a local level to help, uh, local people connect and take local action. Um, Five Calls we've mentioned before on the on the show and there's actually a caller later who who mentions Five Calls as well. Great. Um, that is a is a organization and an app that gives you um gives you script to read uh if you want to call into your elected representatives. Which one is that Nick? Which five calls. Five calls, right? Five calls. Yep. And uh Field Team 6 is a really good uh organization if you're looking if you're motivated at this point in uh American history to go out and and uh register more voters, specifically voters who will vote uh for Democrats. Uh that is what they do. They organize people to register Democrats. Hell yeah. Uh and then last but not least, I'm going to say Demcast. So go to go to demcast.com. Absolutely. Uh we uh we are in the middle of a vast propaganda war and uh and Demcast has been uh dedicated since 2019. This is my organization um to uh to fighting back against MAGA disinformation across all social media platforms. Uh getting into those comments sections, debunking their [ __ ] and also spreading prodemocracy messaging. You go to demcast.comteam to join up. I love it. And uh I love the uh five calls thing about the scripts because we have a caller later where that might uh come into play. Um I would also say uh folks uh Nick, can you tell me how much Indivisible Swingle Left and uh Mobilize US is paying us to say these things? That would be zero. That would be zero. We're doing this to help. We just want you guys to know what is out there. Mobilize. Check out also Indivisible, Swing Left, Five Calls, and Demcast USA. Please check out those resources. We get asked on a daily basis about how people can help. There is a great starting point right there. Um, so fantastic call from uh Tracy in Florida. Yep. Great. Thanks, Tracy. Yeah. Thanks, Tracy. Next, we've got Anonymous in Oregon. Local boy. Yeah. Yes, I was a lifty once. Okay, a lifty meaning a lift operator at uh Mount Hood Meadow Ski Resort. I was on my uh ride break and I had a heart attack right by a ski patrol. Luckily, I was in a situation where there were like multiple people all around me, so that saved my life. I was lifellighted from um Mount Hood Meadows to Portland Providence and I was saved. The Oregon Health Plan saved my life. That's all I want to say. Wow. Uh thank you anonymous uh from Oregon. real quick. We're going to actually combine his call with something else. But I just want to say really quick that my my dad was lifellighted once from uh Pacific City uh I'm sorry, from TMC, Oregon to Portland and because he had a an event and uh it you know that and the Oregon Health Plan uh saved his life as well. So, but that kind of brings us in to an email that we got. Yes. And Nick, do you want to go ahead and and talk about that? Yes, absolutely. I'm going to read this email from anonymous in Massachusetts. Um, and just for to help people understand what Oregon Health Plan is, that is the statebased uh health plan that is Medicaid funded. Okay. Okay. So, uh, this is an email from anonymous in Massachusetts. It's a little long, but it's really powerful and so we wanted to share it with you. I suffer from a disease called myastthenia gravis. I'm also recovering from prostate cancer. I finished radiation in October of 2022 and and spent quite a bit of time in the hospital for my mythenia gravis for life-threatening complications. I started a drug called Vivgart in December of 2022. I've been out of work since 2018 due to weakness and the loss of the use of my hands and double vision and closed eyelids. I look deformed and cannot work for more than an hour or two at a time. I've adjusted my life to being handicapped. The Vivgart Medicine that I started in 2022 was a change from bedbound to being able to do daily living activities. I'm on Mass Health as I have no job and make less than $6,000 annually. Mass Health was a godsend approving a drug that was so expensive so that I could do regular daily activities. I got my last appointment cancelled due to no payment from my previous infusion. I come to find out that they have not paid any of my last three infusions at $17,000 each. As of now, the plan is to go into a Myastthenia crisis, be admitted to the hospital, and get Vivgart as an emergency treatment. My eyes are closing. My hands are just barely working. needing help with toiletries. What's even more disturbing is I need to apply for disability and no one answers the phone. The safety net is gone. I'm interested in how pe how many people are in my situation as I am feeling my life is not worth the price of the medicine. I'll be dying soon if medicine is not approved. I write this as I watch a bunch of [ __ ] clapping for a dictator in the rotunda. Congratulations, Mr. Putin. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Um that that is uh that's pretty heavy, man. I I mean, what your initial thoughts since I know you've been kind of looking at this for a while. Yeah. I mean, you know, listening to Anonymous from Oregon, um, who, uh, who was lifellighted and and was saved by the Oregon Health Plan, Anonymous from Massachusetts, uh, uh, likewise those his life, I believe he's saying um, literally to Mass Health. Yeah. Which is Massachusetts state run uh, health plan. Yep. that is largely Medicaid funded. So these state health plans um for those of you who don't know are operated with a mixture of federal Medicaid funding and state funding and generally they serve well nationally uh Medicaid serves 72 million people. Jeez. Wow. Um and and it's uh yes it's seniors, it's people with disabilities. Um it's children uh and it is lowincome Americans. Yep. Who are served by by these uh by these resources. Um you might not like I think you even said the other day, right? Absolutely. You did not you did not know that Oregon Health Plan was Yeah. that was Medicaid. I I've I you know a lot of people don't realize that their local health plan, their state health plan uh that is not part of the ACA uh is is Medicaid. When you hear the word Medicaid, think that local plan in your state that you like. Uh here in Oregon, we have the Oregon Health Plan, which I think is pretty amazing. Uh a lot of people, he has Mass Health that is Medicaid. And you're right. I earlier this week when we were talking about this email, I didn't fully know that. Yeah. And and I think and a lot of people don't. And a lot of people don't. So when you hear uh your representatives and politicians and whatnot or anybody speak about Medicaid, it's not just this thing that is for elderly seniors and stuff like it does a lot of things and it sometimes has a different name and it's help it's helping prop up and keep people alive, right? Um, so in if you're in California, it's called Medical Cali. If you're in Tennessee, it's called Tenare. Uh, if you're in Oklahoma, it's called Sooner Care. And in Indiana, it's called Hooser Healthwise. So, um, you you you just might not know that that thing that's keeping you alive or keeping you afloat is is actually like largely made up of of federal resources. Medicaid makes up the majority of funding for these state-run health plans in all states. In wealthier states, it's like 50%. Oh, sure. Uh but in uh in the poorer states where there's less uh less resources being taken in uh for state taxes and so less resources in the state government. Um it's it can be up to 77%. Wow. Okay. So, so the federal funds are really like a backbone of these state-run health plans. Um and um you know it's hard to say exactly why uh anonymous in Massachusetts why the why the Vivgart payment stopped. Um, it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to think like, yep, okay, Doge has been [ __ ] with all these agencies, uh, including HHS, and HHS is where Medicaid payments come out of. And, um, Mass, you know, Mass Health could be having some turmoil internally, you know, and maybe there's some delays or maybe there's some confusion, right? And that's just that's the kind of [ __ ] that this sort of shoot shoot from the hip uh machete wielding you know uh cuts uh might be causing AC you know which could result in the death of people right so absolutely if I may just real quick um you know with you know but it also stems with a bigger problem too is um you know uh what is it VGA is that how you say it vgart VGA um uh you It's It's $17,000 a pop, folks. Come on. You know, let let me I would like to just kind of if I could just real quick tell you a personal health story. So, uh I'm 49 years old now. Uh when I was 36, I had an event and I went to where I couldn't breathe. I went to the uh the emergency room. They basically long and short of it after a couple days of being in the hospital uh said that you know they said you have uh you have a form of COPD. Thus you will be taking a steroid inhaler every single day uh of your life and um it's not like a rescue inhaler like when you have a little little small event or whatever but you have to take this daily steroid inhaler to breathe. Fast forward uh a little bit of time and um I believe I was I believe I was out of work and I had uh which I'm almost I mean in my entire life I'm I've been employed almost since I was born but there was a short time when I was not during that period and uh that inhaler is $350 w when you don't have insurance thus I could not in afford the inhaler. So how did I do that? How was I able to breathe every day? Well, it turns out there's this drug called Predinazone, which does the same thing. Uh, and it's about $10 a bottle. You can get a bottle of 50 of them for like 10 bucks. And it does the same thing. The only difference is is it's extremely hard on your body, and you're not supposed to be taking it for very long periods of time. Well, I didn't have the money to pay the $350 to breathe every day. Tiffany and I weren't making a whole lot of money back then and for not now, but you know what I mean. Uh but uh I didn't have the money and so I kept getting prescriptions for prennazone so I could still breathe. So I take a daily prennazone. Well, you do that enough times folks. I didn't know this is your femur bone can collapse because you'll develop develop a vascular necrosis which I did. my femur bone collapsed and at 41 I found myself needing a hip replacement. And you can imagine how much fun that was. And so my point to it is is that when a drug is is expensive, it has multiple effects, right? It's not just that it costs a lot of money and it might bankrupt my family just so I can breathe. But because it's expensive, I had to find alternative methods that are even ultimately worse for you. Yeah. And um yeah, and so I went through the whole experience of having a hip replacement and whatnot all because of high drug prices. And in my view uh that is criminal. You know, I understand companies making drugs and they they have every right to to profit off that. I understand that. But as a country, as a nation, we need to rein it in. This is this is insanity. $17,000. $17,000 per per a pop. Yeah. For this poor poor guy who's out there, you know, he's like, "My eyes are closing." Yeah. Guys, yeah. Listen, whoever makes the the rules, take a little bit of that out of my taxes to help pay for that guy's care. Help take a little bit out of my taxes to pay for somebody else's care. So, you know what? And then when I need help, help me out. You know what I mean? Let's help each other. That's society, man. That's what it's supposed to be. We've gotten away from that. It's it's ridiculous. You know, we pay two to three times more than uh the rest of We pay more than the rest of the world for drug prices. And you know, another one of the problems is too is we have a 12 to 15year uh uh monopoly on on patents, you know what I mean? So, when they come out with a drug, it's 15 years before a generic can come out. But what they do is before that generic can come out, they repatent something about the drug. So thus it sort of starts the clock over course, right? And uh and so it's just it's just completely corrupt and shame on all of them. And uh but we as a society, as a nation need to remember that when we are going to the polls. Yep. And for the people who we elect. Uh we spent I think uh I had the number here the it was uh nearly a half a billion dollars. They are the number one lobby out of all lobbies of course uh is the pharmaceutical lobbying big far nearly half a billion dollars. So, um, folks, consider calls like or emails, uh, like the one you just said and, uh, and the one from, uh, Anonymous in Oregon when you're going to the polls. And, and Anonymous in Oregon was super concerned about the idea that they're going to, um, like disrupt or take away the Oregon health plan, right? I mean, these are these are a call and an email that sort of come at a similar problem from different angles. Um, and folks should know, I'm just going to talk about the sort of plans for the Medicaid cuts, please, uh, at the federal level. So, uh, the US House passed a bill, um, this is a spending bill that would extend and expand the Trump tax cuts for for the wealthiest Americans at a cost of nearly $5 trillion, okay, over the next decade. And to pay for these cuts, uh, they and for some additional spending on border security, they want to, um, have some massive spending cuts across various federal departments. So, one of the biggest cuts, 880 billion, has to come out of the programs that are overseen by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to the bill. So that committee um if you take out Medicaid, Medicare and CHIP, which is the children's health insurance program that covers millions of kids across the country, the committee only oversees 381 billion of additional spending. So if they're going to cut if even if they cut literally all that 381 billion, they would have to cut 500 billion more dollars out of Medicaid. Medicare and CHIP to to reach that $880 threshold. So, they say that they're not going to and Trump has been saying uh Mike Johnson said like, "We didn't say Medicaid anywhere in this bill. Why are you guys saying that we're going to cut Medicaid?" But like literally, there is no way. The Congressional Budget Office says there is no way that they can reach the spending goals that they've set in this bill, which the House passed, without like deep deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP. So, these are our parents, our grandparents, our uh our low-income neighbors, our children. Um you know, these are these are people that we know in our lives that this is anonymous from Oregon, anonymous from Massachusetts. They they are not crazy for being scared about these uh these cuts impacting them. Anonymous in Massachusetts already feels like the cuts or the the [ __ ] that DOA is doing. Yeah. At the federal level is is already screwing with his with his treatments. So, um we got to make a lot of noise about this folks over the next coming coming few weeks. Uh, we need to be really loud with our representatives and our senators and let them know that, hey, if you cut our earned benefits, our f our federal safety net, we're coming for your jobs. Absolutely. And say it like that. Yep. Yeah. Because that's the best thing we can do is is make our voices heard. Let them know if they cut it, you're out. And you know, oddly enough, that is the one thing that scares them is not getting reelected, but uh uh so continue to tell these stories. Call the hotline, send us emails. We're going to continue to share them. These are really, really important to to tell. Yeah. And also, I'll put the uh the uh capital switchboard number onto the screen right now so you can have that. And also I would say too, you know, just really quick and then we'll move on is when Tiffany and I started 11 films, uh, you know, I I can't even imagine what we would have done prior to the ACA for health insurance. We would have had none, you know, I mean, we would have no health insurance. Uh, so I think so, and you know, they're coming for that, too, you know, so they I mean, they've Yeah. So, they've been talking about it forever and uh so they're not going to stop uh stop with just one thing. Um so, folks, we got to get more of these stories out because you hear enough of those stories, man. Y and and and the tide starts to turn a little, you know. And just so you guys know, I am in contact with Anonymous from Massachusetts and we're going back and forth and to whatever extent we can help him uh get through this, we are going to do that. uh we have his back. Uh we have everybody's back. Uh if there is a moment where a big public outcry on his behalf is warranted because we've identified exactly what the problem is with the with this with the treatment uh not being funded. Uh we will let you all know and hopefully we can all jump in and try and help it. Absolutely. That's a that's a great point. Thank you, Nick. Y um okay. Uh next we're going to move to uh retired from Florida. Uh yeah, I want to know uh what is going on with social security. I'm a retiree in Florida and I just got on social security and the way it looks, it's trying to be dismantled by this uh new administration. Now I paid into social security all my life and I just retired and I understand and that's what I live on. I understand they are trying to dismantle it. Now I am entitled to that money because I paid into it all my life. Well, I would like to know what is being done to try to stop this administration from uh ruining people's lives that are retired. Thank you. Well, thank you. Retired from Florida. Uh you know, and and you know, like you were saying about the Medicaid, you know, they're not saying they're going to cut anything, you know, like with that, but uh we all know that that uh is their goal. They don't want you to have it. Um, but I thought I would get together some facts about what is currently going on right now. So, we're all, you know, schoolish. Well, here's here's a here's a few facts about what's going on right now. Uh, they plan to cut a total of 7,000 jobs from the Social Security, the SSA workforce. Uh, so that would take the workforce from 57,000 to 50,000. Uh, and eliminate non-essential roles. Now, I have to tell you that that is about as that's vague. I know it seems like it's like, oh, well, you know what? You know what they consider non-essential roles is is even if you listen, even if you get rid of the guy who is emptying the garbages at night and sweeping the floor and stuff, every little job matters. Now, can certain things be uh, you know, streamlined? Absolutely. Of course. But we know what they're doing. They're trying to break it and then fix it just enough so they can see say, "Oh, see, we didn't we didn't cut anything. You're still But clearly, we're already getting a ton of calls of people not getting their checks on time, the website not working correctly." Um, they plan to merge 10 regional offices into four. Okay, so that alone sounds bad. That's not going to be good. I mean, there's a reason why it's the other thing, too. There's a reason why there's 10 folks. We all know the government isn't fast about anything. So when they had five offices and then they had to go to six, they probably needed eight at the time, right? You know what I mean? So they slowly grew over time. Well, now we're just going to right chop 10 regional offices down to four. There has been at least 10 local offices cut already since January of 2025. And I thought I would bring up just real quick uh where those are. Um, yeah, it's right here. It is. There's a couple in Texas. Actually, there's a couple of names in Texas I can't pronounce, but Victoria, Texas, Abalene, Texas, Dakadocious, Texas. Hopefully I said that right. Uh, there's one in New York. Uh, St. Louis, Missouri. Um, Tom's River, New Jersey is gone. Uh, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. West Nyak, New York. Cody, Wyoming. Sheridan, Wyoming, gone. office is gone. Local social security offices gone. Uh and they plan to cut uh about uh the $800 million in the budget uh for social security. That'll go well. Yeah, that's going to be great. And here's something I didn't know when I was looking into this a little bit. On March 27th, get this, be prepared. If you are getting social security right now, be prepared and and check your uh your eyes and your tees here because on March 27th, they have uh they're going to instate a rule that says you have to pay back 100% immediately if there was ever an error or overpayment. even if it was their fault, uh they will come after that money immediately even if it results in taking your entire check from you. So, let's say and there was there was a whole list of reasons, but you know, you you got married or or or uh they made an error on their side and they accidentally paid for this amount when your situation had changed. And in a lot of those cases, it's not a lot of money and they can do it over a period of time, right? They have ended that on March 27th. That will end. If you owe money to the Social Security office, even if it's not your fault, they will now take your entire check until it's paid off. Wow. Uh and a lot of people just like that is their only source of income. My dad in this country, my dad, true story, and I love my, you know, I love my dad. And my dad um uh I was talking to him one time. I I don't know if he wants me to tell this story, but I'm gonna tell it because I'm gonna get choked up, but like one time I was out at my dad's place out at the coast and and I said, uh, I said, "Oh, Dad, why don't you get one of those?" We were talking about a glass, drinking glasses. I said, "Why don't you get one of those drinking glasses at like uh the Dollar Tree? It's like a buck, you know what I mean?" And he and I told Tiffany the story, and he looked at me, he goes, "A dollar?" And he was like, "If I had an extra dollar, like like you know I James, I don't have a dollar." You know what I mean? And I and I went, "Oh crap." You know, I didn't quite realize the severity of of of my dad's, you know, these are fixed income people. And and uh and so any disruption, even a dollar, is a massive massive thing. So I just want to make everybody aware of that. March 27th, if for any reason you owe the uh social security any money, they are going to now take it in full until they're paid off. Very, very scary for a lot of people. And let's be honest, most of the time it ain't your fault. You know what I mean? You know, uh these these [ __ ] are ruthless. Yeah. you know, I was looking up resources where people can go for help and it's difficult because where you should be going is the Social Security administration, you know, and uh they're closing those and they're going to understaff those um and it's going to be it's we're already seeing it trickle in. It's going to get worse. Um and uh but there are some things out there. I mean, there's obviously legal advocacy groups and stuff like that, but these things take time. when you are missing even a dollar. I need it fixed now, guy. You know, I don't need it fixed. You know, I can't get into a lawsuit. You know, a lot of these people, you know, um but you can go to uh social security works.org and they have some resources that you can check out. You you want to know something on a just to bring bring it up a little. Yeah. Uh interesting about Social Security Works, which is a great organization. Uh it's one of one of the people who runs it is uh John Bowman who uh used to sing in the musical group Sha Na. No Bowser. No. The guy with the super deep voice. Oh my god. No. Yeah. Yeah. Rock and roll, man. So, yeah. Way to go. Yeah. Yeah. He's a he's a really good dude. He's a he's a lifelong activist and um and also a very talented musician. Okay. Moving forward. Here is Blue Dot from South Carolina. Hi. Um I'm a uh blue dot in South Carolina and just wanted to reach out and say that um first of all that it might seem that way seem the way that in red states that everyone has has drank the Kool-Aid so to speak and that's not true. Um there are um in general in the south and in red states there is uh you know large population of uh black indigenous people of color you know LGBT LGBTQI plus um people here you know and when you're talking around talking about [ __ ] around find out for red states like there there was people that did not vote for that and and did not you know, in the first place, did not vote for that, you know, like did not fall for it at any point or vote for this at any point. and you know like I I'm worried about me and my family and you know how this is going to affect us and the fact that you know on a national and a state level all of the people in charge that you know the Republican supermajority that's existed for you know 20 years now is uh is actively working against the best interest of most South Carolinians. Second of all, I just want to say to Lindsey Graham, you are a disgusting, vile human being. Sorry. Um, anyways guys, there there are people fighting the good fight in these red states, trying to do our best, trying to lift up the people in the community that actually need help instead of just these rich [ __ ] and oligarchs. We're doing our best. It's It's scary though, but we're going to keep fighting the good fight. And I know other people are too. And I know other people are disgusted. But anyway, thank you for letting me vent. It's just it's hard being, you know, in a place where it it really feels like, you know, the the entire world is against you. Thank you for all you do and uh I'm sending you guys a lot of uh light and love to your families and you know healing and soothing energy. Thank you. Right back at you, Blue Dot. What a great call. Great call. Yeah. Nick, do you have some words on that one? Yeah, for sure. I'm really glad that uh blue dot called in. Uh for those of you who don't who aren't familiar with that term, uh basically that means a liberal in a sea of red, right? So if uh you know sort of blue is blue is liberal, red is conservative or MAGA or whatever. Um and so a lot of people who are in that situation sort of refer to themselves as blue dots. And um we at Demcast like this this this call really resonated with me because we have digital volunteers from all over the country and it almost feels like disproportionately we have blue dot uh volunteers like all the time with Damcast. Yeah. These are people who um don't 100% feel comfortable, you know, go going out and and expressing their political beliefs because the MAGA [ __ ] are really scary, you know, like or for what or or like their entire family is is MAGA and and have been redpilled or whatever. Um so, but online activism is a is sort of a way that they can engage uh and be a part of the fight. So, um, I just I I I looked up because I knew we were going to talk about this some really important points here. So, the state that went most for Donald Trump in 2024 was Wyoming. Uh, 70.4% of Wyoming voted for Donald Trump. That means that almost three out three out of 10 other people in Wyoming did not vote for Trump. That's right. Uh and there there are 11 states. Utah, Tennessee, South Dakota, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, North Dakota, Idaho, Oklahoma, and West Virginia along with Wyoming. Uh those are the 11 states where uh six and 10 or more people voted for Trump. But that means that that four four and 10 did not, right? South Carolina, where blue dot was calling from uh uh went 55% for Trump. So that means that 45% of South Carolinians did not vote for Donald Trump. So we need to be careful. Um I see it online a lot like screw those red states, [ __ ] around, find out. You know, good luck when the [ __ ] hits the fan. Uh you know, you get what you voted for, you know, there. So there's a lot of like eye aimed at red states and that's really not fair because there's a lot of people a lot of people who uh who are very like patriotic Americans who live in who live in red states who who voted for Kla Harris or at least did not vote for Donald Trump and um and we need to have their backs too. Like I said earlier, um you know, in some of the poorer states, which are some of those states that I just read, right? Uh up to me, federal resources, uh Medicaid pays for up to 77% of their uh of their state's um health plan for for low-inccome people. Uh and these cut so these cuts are going to disproportionately impact some of these red states and some of our um you know whether or not they're blue dots or they're MAGA folks like people are going to be hurting um West Virginia, Alaska, Mississippi, and Montana are at the top of the list for states that disproportionately receive federal resources uh uh to run the programs that help their residents. Right. Right. So, um, yeah, let's have some empathy. Yeah. Um, really appreciate Blue Dots's call because that's that's a really important point. And I would like to just say publicly that I apologize because I I I almost I don't think I do that, but I think I probably do that in some ways. And I apologize. It's not right. it. She is absolutely correct that there are lots and lots of people in these red states who uh didn't vote for this are embarrassed by this. Uh you know and it's it's demoralizing to be you know you have state pride but unfortunately everybody in America or you know half of America is dogging on your state because it voted for Trump and I can understand how that could really really hurt and I so I just want to apologize if I ever did anything like that. I'm quite sure I am not perfect either and I've lumped red states in uh in a way that was probably inappropriate because you know like I said it's it's it's you know that's why we keep thinking we're going to get Texas because you know there's lot we're getting close in Texas right uh sure we keep you know the Bedto thing no that didn't work out and and then and then this last time uh didn't work out either but there is a lot of people who don't like Trump in Texas. Y, you know, but and we keep thinking like, oh, Texas, you're going to find out, you know. Well, there's a lot of people there who are also going to find out who had nothing to do with it, right? Yeah. Y uh great call. Great, great call, Nick. What a great uh episode. I'm so sorry Tiffany was not here. I Sorry. I'm sure that we The two dudes totally [ __ ] this one up. People are going to be like, I'm never I'm never watching that [ __ ] again. Oh, no. It's It's tough not to have her cuz she's uh she's the sort of heart and soul of the show. For sure. Uh for sure. And folks, please don't forget to call in with your questions for Senator Ron Weiden who's going to be in studio next week at 5032124600. Uh we we're so excited to show them callers from the people's hotline. It's going to be great. Please check out our Substack at tenonorreeport.com. And until uh next week, check us out on our social media, Blue Sky, Instagram, Threads, and yes, we do Tik Toks, too. Hey, we do all right, actually. We're not too bad. Uh it's probably mostly because of Tiffany, but still. And a new thing that we're going to start this week and uh moving forward is we're going to allow one more call to take us out. So, Soul from Texas, you have got the last word. Hello to the dangerous ones. Uh my name is Soul from Texas. Um I wanted to go ahead and call since I have a few thoughts and suggestions. Uh first I want to uh give a huge thank you to the Dangerous Ones podcast for informing the people about what is going on and creating a community here. I think you're doing a really great job and I really enjoy listening to your podcast. Um I just have a few thoughts I wanted to share. about a particular episode you had where there was confusion as to why people sat out this last election. And uh here's what I have to say and what I think. Um I'm pretty sure we all know why these people sat out the election. Um we do and I think some of us are in a state of shock and disbelief um that there are people out there who are willing to risk our democracy because of their own internal belief system. So we know why we do. Um so I wanted to give a few recommendations um for the people in general um that we need to start understanding and accepting the fact that there are people here in this country who are willing to risk or forego our nation's democracy. Um they're here. they are. Um once we do accept that then we can work towards building back what we have lost so far and prevent any further damage. Uh but we have to start the acceptance phase and then we can move forward. Um because we need to accept the fact that these people are not part of the solution. I've heard plenty of people on social media who keep saying we need to build bridges together or we need to find common ground because I feel there is common ground somewhere and they're having these discussions which eventually end up as debates with these particular people who do not feel the same way. Um so let's let's just be clear on this. Stop trying to build a community with people who will work to dismantle that same community. Really need to move forward without them until they themselves reach out to us when they are ready. Other recommendations, brush up on your civics if you haven't already. Everyone is going to need that knowledge to understand what is being dismantled and why. If you're a social media person and you see misinformation spreading, immediately provide facts and links to those facts. Don't write a whole paragraph as on why they're wrong. Don't write a whole paragraph on why you think or feel a certain way and asking them why they think or feel a certain way to they'll never believe you and they'll never ask the same questions you're asking either because they don't care. Just refer them to the facts and move on. Vote at local elections. If you haven't done so before, you better start doing it now. Run for them if you can. If you're interested, again, this starts from the ground up because let me tell you, the biggest issue we have in this country right now is this. We have a mental health and education crisis. And it's going to be a community effort to combat the consequences, the domino effects of this mental health and education crisis because it's the reason why we're in this [ __ ] mess already. So, stop trying to argue and get active. But yeah, thank y'all so much. Bye.

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