Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
From Coffee Chats to Conflict: Exploring Middle Eastern Strife, Football Fever, and Financial Freedom
What do coffee, cats, and geopolitical strife have in common? This Saturday morning chat starts off cozy with discussions about our favorite brews, feline friends, and brain-teasing puzzles before taking a sharp turn into the complex world of Middle Eastern conflicts. We dissect Israel's recent military actions against Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon, unearthing the deeper implications for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the tug-of-war for regional dominance, and the role of extremist ideologies. As we navigate through these heavy topics, we also reflect on the freedoms within Israeli society compared to its neighbors and deliberate on the necessity of upholding strong Christian values amidst the changing tides of Western society.
Switching gears, the atmosphere lightens as we share the excitement leading up to the much-anticipated Alabama-Georgia game in Tuscaloosa. We reminisce about past matchups, laugh over a quirky anecdote involving Alabama fans, and discuss our game-day plans, complete with football-themed snacks and the joy of welcoming a new baby into the family. From there, the conversation transitions to the importance of creating multiple income streams for financial stability, topped off with a playful exploration of the concept of invisibility. Join us for a rollercoaster of emotions, thoughtful insights, and engaging stories that promise to leave you both entertained and enlightened.
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Hello, good morning, happy Saturday.
Speaker 2:That was a strained hello, hello, hello. Good morning. What a beautiful day outside. How are you doing?
Speaker 1:I'm doing great.
Speaker 2:Good, what's going on?
Speaker 1:Not much. Just woke up. What's up with you?
Speaker 2:I've been up for a while Drinking coffee, watching the stuff on the the tv couldn't hear it because I couldn't turn the volume up. I didn't want to wake you up, but the cat's been rubbing all over the place. Cat, uh, anyway, the cat's been rubbing all over the place and just hanging out waiting for you to wake up so we could get to doing puzzles and solving world problems and just all kinds of good things.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of world problems, what is going on? I understand that Israel did a pretty big strike, was it yesterday? And then Netanyahu was at it, gave his speech and somewhere, and he got on a plane and went home and they said typically he would not do that because of shabbat is it shabbat? Yep and uh, but he went, apparently.
Speaker 2:you know he needed to get back apparently, while he was flying back, the strikes were hitting. They took care of the leader of the hezbollah I can't remember his name I looked at it just a second ago so I could remember it and I can't remember his name but apparently took him out in a strike in Lebanon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had a flow chart up of all the people that have been taken out so far.
Speaker 2:And it was a hierarchy chart, you know, from top to bottom. You know, I guess not top to bottom, but you know, branching out from the leader down to I don't know what they call them I'll say his generals to his generals, generals and all that stuff. And you went about three steps down and there was only one character down at the bottom that hadn't been and they had it on their eliminated, eliminated, eliminated. And they had it on there, eliminated, eliminated, eliminated. So I imagine that terrorist organization is kind of up in arms right now as to how to proceed and what to do and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:But they struck in Lebanon. So is Lebanon, where they are housing all of these terrorists.
Speaker 2:No, it just depends. You know there were some that were, you know, apparently part of hezbollah, that were in qatar living lavish lifestyles, yeah, with the money that we and other, uh, charitable places send them for their people, for the people of of Palestine. They live driving their Ferraris and having a good old time. But no, this organization was mostly supported by Iran. It's a proxy of Iran, of course, and they just take sanctuary where they can get it, and you know they just take sanctuary where they can get it.
Speaker 2:And you know, israel is the lone bastion of non-Islamic lands there.
Speaker 1:So who are the people living on the Gaza Strip then?
Speaker 2:People living on Gaza Strip were Palestinians. The Palestinians have never had a homeland. That's a gifted homeland from, basically Egypt that they were there. But the terrorist organization Hezbollah came in and it's kind of like a gang taking over a sector of a city. You know they came in and they ruled the people, you know, and they have free elections. The free election is you're free to come, vote, but you will vote for us or we'll kill you. And that's your freedom of choice. You know you have a choice to die or you can vote for us.
Speaker 2:And you know they take it over and you know they sell their ideas and their you know idea that you know all Jews must be killed and all Christians must be killed. That's the way they think and it's kind of you know, ironic not ironic, but it's kind of funny. I was. You know, as you look at the Jewish state of Israel or the state of Israel, and you see that on their Knesset there are Arabs and there are Muslims and there are gays and throughout the country there are, you know, I don't know how many Muslims live in the country, but there are a lot of Muslims, and in Israel there are a lot of gays and there are a lot of Muslims, and in Israel there are a lot of gays and there are a lot of other nationalities.
Speaker 2:Gay is not a nationality, though I said, there are a lot of other nationalities and all that live I shouldn't say nationalities, but races, creeds and colors that live in Israel. But if you're not a Muslim extremist in the surrounding countries, you die. Yeah, Now, who are you going to support? Well, let's say gays for Palestine, gays for Hamas, gays for you know, whatever, whatever. This doesn't seem quite right. Something seems twisted.
Speaker 1:Of course. Well, that's how they are.
Speaker 2:But the big idea you know that we were talking about earlier that I was thinking of, is that you know all of this strife has been going on for thousands of years Read the Bible.
Speaker 2:And it will continue on. But you know, in the West we think that you fight the war and you win the war and it's over, right, whereas they fight the war, that battle's over, but the idea continues and that idea is never going to end, right, it's never going to end. There will always be the idea that we must kill Jews and Christians.
Speaker 1:So what do you do?
Speaker 2:Well, peace through strength. You know we make sure that we're strong militarily. We, you know, continue to put out Christian ideals, make those ideals strong. And you know you just put that barrier up.
Speaker 1:Well, we're pretty much dead here in America as far as Christian I mean. Even the churches have softened with their message about what the message is supposed to be. Yeah, and you know, then we cave and tolerate all this other crap that's not even Christian, you know, in the name of being Christian, intolerable, which is stupid yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, to We've lost, To it's kind of like To be able to take care of something. You have to be strong.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So if you have a weak attitude towards something and you become weak yourself, nailed it. That will take you over Nailed it. You have to be strong before you can take care of other things.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry to say we are not strong anymore.
Speaker 2:We have dwindled that. That idea has been, that idea is gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll just say I tell you is strong and that's the all the other things they'll, they'll tq part of the lgbtq, the tq, the evildoers, the anti, they're all the other anti stuff they are. They are stronger.
Speaker 2:At this point in time, they seem to be Seems like it. They may just be more vocal. That's the play on that.
Speaker 1:It also kind of it ties in threads, in sort of, with the other thing that we were going to talk about. I was talking about how I feel old, invisible, as a woman. The older you get, the more invisible you get, it seems to other people? It seems like yeah. And then I think I texted you the other day how come no one ever listens to our generation? It feels like nobody listens to our generation. Everybody younger than us knows everything. They know it all. Right, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And then you said Well, remember when we were young, we knew it all. Remember that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you know, I got to thinking about that and I think I said something like this back to you. I said that you, you know, when we were young, or I kind of put it in this fashion my, my brain is a 256, whatever. Remember the old 256 computers no well, the first computers had 256, you know whatever, whatever memories which now you know. Whatever, whatever memories which now you know, your iPhone has that in the left top corner of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean that's how different those processors work, so much faster computer. As my parents and my preachers and my elders and all these teachers and all spoke, I didn't process any of that information. I heard everything they said, right, but I never processed any of it.
Speaker 2:But the processor caught up at a later time in my life and I went back and it's like okay, yeah, I hear, I, I heard what you said. Now I get it, now I've processed it. Damn, I wish I had a faster computer when I was younger in my brain so I could have processed that and gone. Ah, okay, and I think that's the way it is now. You know, they hear what we're saying, but they won't process it until a later time.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And my dad used to say has been saying when I was younger and I understood it later, as I got older and he said the older I get, the smarter my parents get, and I didn't understand what he meant at the time, obviously, until I got older.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the older I get, the smarter my parents were. I realized how smart my parents were. It's not that they were See those, they're sons, it's not that they were really so, so smart. It's just, they had experience too. They knew.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, and then you know does it really affect me and you on our day to day living?
Speaker 2:No, it doesn't, Because I think at some point in time you have to accept who you are and be happy with who you are.
Speaker 1:And if they don't want to leave, listen to you, that's their problem and I don't mean that I meant all the world's problems and everything you know with the trans and the terrorists and the gangs and the migration and the border crossing. I mean so far it hasn't affected me and you on our daily living, so should we even be worried about it and talking?
Speaker 1:about it does affect me on my daily living, every day when I go to the store, and that and that person can't make change right well, that too, and the prices are gigantic you know, and uh, that killed, that killed me.
Speaker 2:I remember when you were at the store up in Ohio and you tried to tip yes, this has a little bit of something to do with it, but not a whole lot, maybe a little bit, but it killed me. So, you know, you tried to tip the person at the Starbucks and that person said we don't take tips, we're a union.
Speaker 1:Now keep in mind this is not Starbucks, but Starbucks was inside the Kroger.
Speaker 2:Right, but Starbucks is.
Speaker 1:I don't think Starbucks is unionized. Starbucks is unionized. No, it's not. In some places they did, yes, they did, I thought, because Kroger was probably unionized, I think that they did it up.
Speaker 2:There were some places up in the north that Starbucks did unionize.
Speaker 1:I didn't know you could unionize certain stores and not all of them.
Speaker 2:I think you can have certain sectors unionized. I may be wrong, you may be totally right, but anyway, the point being, you know we don't tip, we're a union, and I thought God bless you. You know, here you are, you know being able being sucked into the mundane. You know I don't have to, I don't even want to go into this now why. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, you started it, now you have to.
Speaker 2:Well, to me that means that, you know, to me, in that nature, right there, it's just a socialistic idea.
Speaker 2:You know, all I have to do is put a coffee up there. I don't have to be kind, I don't have to be nice, I don't have to do anything because we're not going to get tips and everybody's equal, and everybody has a wage and everybody works for the wage and that's all we do is we work for our wage. Whereas in the South and I'm going to say this because it was North versus South kind of thing you know, you go to these places and you have people that are, you know, super, super nice and friendly, and they've got your order ready and they know who you are, and guess what, you give them a little extra tip and they don't have to share it with somebody. But then you've got other people you know that are and you might give them a little tip, but you don't give them quite as much tip. Why? Because the other person earned it and this person didn't. But if we're a union, well guess what, everybody gets the same price and you don't get anything extra.
Speaker 1:That's it Done. We got snobby and rude people down here in the South too. That's what I said.
Speaker 2:I didn't say that. Right, I said that. I said that you know you got people that are great and you get good tips and the other ones here that don't, and guess which ones advance, the ones that do a good job and are friendly and do their job well, the ones that don't guess what they don't. But again, I said it that way it doesn't matter what we do, we put out the coffee, we put the coffee out. Everyone is equal, everyone has an equal age. That is fair.
Speaker 1:That's boring.
Speaker 2:Anyway, coffee's good this morning.
Speaker 1:Yep, all right. Do you want to move on to the question of the day, because I have one. All right, but before we move on to the question of the day I forgot. Well, the JIT has something else to say, and then we need to talk about something else.
Speaker 2:Yes, we have two things. Number one go to Fox and Friends and look at Pete Hegseth's socks. After you look at them, go to your Twitter feeds and at Pete Hegseth and tell him his socks make him look like a Dr Seuss character and you can't take him seriously.
Speaker 1:All right, by the time people listen to this, fox is going to be off the air.
Speaker 2:Well, just go tell him that he needs to wear different socks. Oh, they're terrible, terrible. They're stripes, they're striped socks.
Speaker 1:He looks like an elf out of the Wizard of Oz. He looks like a doll, the lollipop girl.
Speaker 2:He looks like a striped sock.
Speaker 1:And his tie is striped too.
Speaker 2:With the star bellies and the plain bellies. He's a striped socker. Oh my gosh. Yeah, trying to go through the machine to get the.
Speaker 1:Oh, but he's hip and happening. You know he's a hipster doofus.
Speaker 2:There's a big event happening in Alabama today.
Speaker 1:Yes, there is. It's the Georgia-Alabama game. The.
Speaker 2:Georgia-Alabama game today in Tuscaloosa. The last time Georgia played Alabama in Tuscaloosa, we were there, yep, we sure were, and it was a Georgia victory in overtime and oh, it was a beautiful victory.
Speaker 1:I can't believe that's been like over 10 years. Oh yeah, have they not played against each other in the same arena in 10 years?
Speaker 2:No, not in Tuscaloosa, they haven't.
Speaker 1:That's bizarre. No, it's just like.
Speaker 2:I said they're.
Speaker 1:You would think they would have played each other sooner in the arena. In the arena, I didn't say arena. You know what I'm talking about In Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 2:Well, you remember they were on a revolving schedule because they weren't in the same divisions in the conference. So you know it's about a 14-year. It was about a 10 to 14-year schedule where they revolved. Yeah, so we played them like three or four times since. But you know, they played Georgia and then we played in Tuscaloosa and they beat us in Georgia and we beat them in Tuscaloosa. It was Nick Saban's second year as head coach of Alabama. Yes, yes. And as I always like to say, the funniest thing was on the way home, as we listened to the radio, listening to all the Alabama fans saying how they had to get rid of Saban and he was terrible and they had to get rid of him. I just laughed and laughed and laughed the whole way home. It kept me awake. But yeah, big game. We'll see what happens. I'm looking forward to it. I'm nervous about it.
Speaker 1:I'm nervous for you because, oh my God, I like a happy husband. Yes, I may have to go somewhere, I may have to go shopping or something, but then again I don't want to because it's Saturday night and the freaks are probably out.
Speaker 2:It's 630 at night. You can come back here and watch movies, that's true. You might hear me yell and hear the cat.
Speaker 1:I may do that. We'll have football food, which is chili dogs and slaw dogs.
Speaker 2:Yes, we're going to have that.
Speaker 1:Oh, we get the baby today.
Speaker 2:And we get the baby today.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm so excited we get a little camp, camp.
Speaker 2:So we got a big day going, we got to eat breakfast and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we need to go because you know I'm over. Question of the day. All right, you're ready, okay, all right, this question of the day is actually accidentally from the boy blob on Twitter. If you're not following him on X, go follow him, the boy blob. He put this out there just as a question on his X feed and I thought it would be a wonderful question of the day. So here we go. He didn't submit it to me or anything, I just copied it off of his X feed and I told him I was going to steal it and use it and he said that would be fine. All right, here we go. Do you want to ask it?
Speaker 2:And remember he hashtagged this deep. Okay, so this is going to be something you'll want to. This is not a oh, I like, I like cream in my coffee thing. Here it is. What one life lesson or piece of advice would you choose to retain? If there were certain reincarnation or another life after death, what would you choose?
Speaker 1:Carol, oh my gosh, I honestly don't know. I have a couple of things that automatically popped up in my head. The first one was save your money. Do not use credit.
Speaker 1:The second one, the second one that kind of popped in my head was listen to the people around you and focus on something and go for it. Focus on something you want to do for the rest of your life and go for it. Focus on it, focus, focus, focus to do for the rest of your life and go for it. Focus on it, focus, focus, focus. Pay attention and don't drink.
Speaker 2:Mine would be income streams. Oh, multiple income streams, that's how you make your money in life. Multiple income streams, that's interesting and of course, my characteristic I would keep would be invisibility.
Speaker 1:That's not a life lesson. Invisibility is not a life lesson.
Speaker 2:Watch this Invisible. Anyway, I was trying to keep it light.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:People should know that I don't have the trait of invisibility.
Speaker 1:This is all too long. It's 20 minutes. I'm already over my overage, but that's okay.
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs have a great day.
Speaker 1:Bye.
