Are We Being Served Truth? Stories of Pilots, Schools, and Suspicious Steaks

Something doesn't add up with the Delta pilot arrest story. When ICE agents stormed a commercial aircraft after landing in San Francisco, they headed straight for the cockpit, handcuffed the co-pilot, and led him down the aisle in front of shocked passengers. The official explanation involves child sexual abuse material charges, but why would immigration enforcement be handling this case? And why target just one individual with such a dramatic operation? The questions surrounding this bizarre incident deserve closer scrutiny.

Meanwhile, Tennessee schools are implementing a head-scratching attendance policy where doctor's notes no longer exempt students from being counted as absent. After just eight missed days, children could face juvenile court proceedings. The stark contrast between this approach and recent pandemic policies—where schools insisted sick children stay home—highlights a troubling inconsistency in how we balance education and health concerns. 

Perhaps most revealing is a cattle rancher's social media exposé about "fake steaks" being served at restaurants. Though not plant-based alternatives, these deceptive offerings consist of lower-quality meat cuts glued together to mimic premium filet mignon. The telltale signs? Perfect round shape, unusually large size for a true filet, and suspiciously low prices. As consumers, knowing what's actually on our plates matters more than ever.

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Chapters

• 0:29 Weekend Update and Hobbit Movies
• 1:34 Delta Pilot Arrested After Landing
• 4:55 Tennessee's Strict School Attendance Policy
• 8:38 Fake Steaks: Restaurant Meat Deception
• 11:28 Question of the Day: Pizza Preferences

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Well, hello, good morning, welcome. One and all Hope you had a great weekend. We had a wonderful weekend. We had the grand cam on Saturday, spent some of the day outside in the little kiddie pool. It was so much fun watching him and having him with us. It's oh, I just love him so much. He is a one little personality, I tell you that, but we also.

Speaker 1: 0:45

We also are watching the Hobbit movies, actually all of the Lord of the Rings, but you guys suggested that we have to watch the Hobbit movies first. Now, we did not know when we first started this venture that each movie was three hours long. That's a long time. However, the first one that we watched didn't seem like it was three hours now. It kind of started off slow, but it got better real quick, and we watched the second one yesterday. So the third one's coming up, but this is the way the second one. The way the second one ended is like, oh my gosh, such a, such a cliffhanger.

Speaker 1: 1:12

All right, we need to move on to the stories of the day that I have chosen to uh, talk about or read. All right, let me go over here to the new york post. This is where I'm getting most of the stories. The first one I want to talk about is this delta airline pilot who, uh ice agents took into custody as soon as it landed at a california airport. The pilot was arrested on board delta flight 2809 around 9 30 pm Saturday, just as the aircraft touched down into San Francisco from Minneapolis and was preparing to deplane. According to a local report, or HSI boarded the full plane, then stormed the cockpit, cuffed the co-pilot, arrested him, walked him down the aisle and ushered him off the plane. One alarmed passenger who saw the whole ordeal said and this she kills me with what she said a group of people with badges, guns and different agency vests markings were pushing their way up the through the aisle to the cockpit. Passenger sarah christiansen told the san francisco chronicle oh, she goes on. After the pilot was led away by the entourage of officers, another group came to cart his bags away at the flight. Crew had apparently no idea what was happening with the other pilot, telling passengers that he was baffled as they were by the arrest. Christensen said the arrest was on charges of child sexual abuse material.

Speaker 1: 2:54

Fox News reported HSI is a division of Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ice, and has helped lead many of the immigration raids and arrests since President Trump began rolling out a mass crackdown on illegal immigrants. So was this guy an illegal? Apparently? I mean, he had to have been. How is he flying a freaking commercial plane being an illegal? So I think there's a whole lot more to this story.

Speaker 1: 3:25

Christiansen called the incident shocking and unnerving. Oh, listen to what she says. Next, ready, it was rage inducing to see someone being disappeared right in front of me. She said, borrowing language frequently used by critics to describe ICE arrests of illegal immigrants. Ma'am, this is what I voted for, so just stuff it where the sun doesn't shine. Okay, sweetheart, because this is what I voted for.

Speaker 1: 3:55

Now there has to be more to this story, because why would they? I mean and it's weird, because it's ICE immigration and they stormed this plane to get this one man off? I mean what? Normally they're not invading? Normally they are going into places that have multiple people. So this is a strange story to me. I need to keep an eye on it. Definitely, this is just a weird, weird story with just going to get one particular pilot. It's just, I don't know. It's weird and I need your thoughts on that. Okay, we need to move on to the next story, which is your thoughts on that. Okay, we need to move on to the next story, which is a doctor's note.

Speaker 1: 4:42

Is won't save sick kids from court under new tennessee school policy. You know, back when our kids were growing up and going to school, back in the normal days, before all hell broke loose on earth, when we were living in normal times. Yes, there was such a time, people, when we lived in normal times, when our kids were in school and they woke up with a cough or sniffles or whatever, we sent their asses to school because we, we were like you got to be tough, you got to go to school because you, when you get out in the real world, you're going to have to go to work when you don't feel good, either, you know, unless you're just dying with a temperature of high fever on your deathbed or not on your deathbed, but you know when you're there's a difference between having some sniffles, having a cough or whatever compared to having that real, real, a real illness. So, anyway, we would send our kids to school. But now you know, and then COVID came along and the school, the government, everybody made them stay home, masked the children, made them stay home to do Zoom schooling and now that we're trying to get back to normal, now they have the nerve to say look, you need to come to school with the sniffles and a doctor's note will no longer suffice for your excuse of being not being in school. So let's go read about it a little bit. This is in tennessee, by the way.

Speaker 1: 6:16

Doctor's note won't save sick kids from court, from court under new tennessee's. What? What? Doctor's note won't save sick kids from court? What we mean from court? An overly strict new attendance policy for a tennessee school district says a doctor's note no longer excuses a student's absence and threatens to send kids to juvenile court after just eight missed days. Do they mean in a row or eight total? That is kind of excessive. Under the new rules, uh, all absences are treated the same, whether a student is out with strep throat or just skipping class.

Speaker 1: 6:57

Oh, that's not right. If your child is sick and has a doctor's excuse, you will take it. Yes, you will From me. Yes, you will F you. Thankfully, I don't live in Tennessee and my kids are already grown out of school, but I think this is wrong. Doctor's notes are still accepted under the new policy. Wait, what? So I'm confused. I skipped a bunch of stuff. It says if you have the sniffles, that is fine. Michael atkins, lawrence county's director, said during a june school board meeting you are going to have them when you go to work one day. We have all gone to work sick and hurt and beat up. Yes, we have. Yes, but do you not remember not too long ago that you are the ones that made the kids stay home from school and made them get vaccines? Do you remember that? Yeah, don't try to come at me with this new stuff now. No, doctor's notes are still accepted under the new policy, he told the post, but they do not remove an absence or exempt students from being counted and federally required. See, that's just wrong. You can go finish reading that. We need to move on.

Speaker 1: 8:06

There's this other story I'm not going to get into right now. It's on my X-File I hope you go read it and it's called Muslim Brotherhood's Grand Jihad is Growing Just Over the US Border. Please go read that. It's in the New York Post. Please go read it. It's scary.

Speaker 1: 8:24

All right, cattle rancher claims restaurant serves fake steak. Here's how they get away with it by scamming customers. All right, I read this. Oh, so it's not really. It's a fake steak, but it's, I don't know. With the way, the way I read it, I thought well, what do you mean? Fake steak? You mean it's not really meat, it is meat, it's just a different kind of the cut. All right, cattle rancher claims restaurant serves fake steak. Here's how they get away with scamming customers. So in the world of various kinds of meat alternatives, it can be hard to tell what's real and not. These days.

Speaker 1: 9:00

A cattle rancher recently took to social media to share what he discovered to be a glued meat product. Now, what he means by that is that he ordered a filet, but he could tell when it was served it was too big and it was too perfect. So what he said is they took cuts and scraps from the different part of the filet of the beef and, I guess, glued it all together with something I don't know. So let's read on. The Rockin W Ranch Cattle Company is a family-owned Angus beef ranch that prides itself. Okay, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1: 9:34

In an Instagram post that he has that has sent waves across the meat loving community, one of the company's cattle ranchers is seen picking apart an eight-ounce steak filet he ordered at a steakhouse in Rutherford, oklahoma. He said I should have known at first because it's really hard to get an eight-ounce filet. That's truly a filet, because they don't get that big in animals very often. The expert is heard explaining in the video. When it came perfectly round I should have suspected something. I ate a little bit and excuse me. I ate a little bit of it and thought, man, something's not right. So you can definitely tell this is a glued together, probably a sirloin that's been tenderized and glued together to look like a filet. So it's still meat. It's not like fake stuff. Glued together to look like a fillet, so it's still meat. It's not like fake stuff, but you get it. So since I raise and process around 100 cattle per year, I know it is rare to get a fillet that big off of an animal. Two fillets when cut off an animal are never perfectly round. And three the price is another giveaway. When you can get an eight ounce fillet prepared in a restaurant for 28, you should be suspicious. He said I'm not proud of what the beef industry does but honestly, the manipulation is not the ranchers, it's the corporations that buy cattle from sale barns where the ranchers sell their cattle. So yeah, we get that. So there you go. Be beware when you go order a steak. Make sure you know what you're getting.

Speaker 1: 11:11

All right, we need to move on to the question of the day. Okay, this is going to be pretty easy. What is your ideal pizza toppings, your idea? I'm sure I've asked this before, but what is your ideal pizza toppings? And do you eat the crust? All right, the l, and you do, is also. Is it deep dish? Is it, uh, thin crust? Is you know what? What is what's what's what would be your perfect pizza? All right, gotta go. Thanks for listening. Bye.