What Happened to Politicians? A Boomer's Perspective from Grey Hair Dave
Grey Hair Dave shares his candid thoughts on the current political landscape, expressing his frustration with the negative campaigning that dominates elections today. He reflects on the changes in politicians over the years, acknowledging that while some may have good intentions, many seem more focused on personal gain than serving their communities. Dave emphasizes the importance of understanding the issues at stake and encourages listeners to be informed voters who know what candidates stand for, rather than being swayed by mudslinging advertisements. He passionately argues that voting is a privilege that should not be taken for granted and urges everyone to participate in the upcoming elections. Throughout his rant, Dave intertwines personal anecdotes and humorous insights, making it clear that he values honest and constructive political discourse over divisive tactics.
The latest conversation with Grey Hair Dave dives into the current political landscape as the United States approaches election day. Dave expresses his frustration with the state of politics today, drawing a contrast between the politicians of yesteryear and those currently seeking office. He candidly shares his thoughts on the intentions of modern politicians, suggesting that while many may start with good intentions, the drive for power and financial gain often overshadows their commitment to public service. The episode is a heartfelt rant against negative campaigning, where Dave critiques a recent political ad that resorts to personal attacks rather than presenting substantive policies. He emphasizes the importance of voting and engaging in the democratic process, urging listeners to consider what candidates can do for their communities rather than focusing on mudslinging. As he shares his own reflections on the political climate, Dave also offers a personal perspective on why he has chosen not to pursue a political career, highlighting the scrutiny and negativity that comes with public office.
Takeaways:
- Grey Hair Dave expresses frustration with modern politicians, highlighting their focus on personal gain over public service.
- He underscores the importance of understanding what candidates will do for the community rather than their negative campaigning.
- Dave encourages listeners to participate in elections and vote, stressing the privilege of voting as a right that can be lost.
- He reflects on the current political climate, emphasizing the need for candidates to present positive policies instead of attacking opponents.
- Dave discusses his own reluctance to enter politics due to the scrutiny candidates face today and the negativity in campaigning.
- Lastly, he invites listeners to support Boomer Podcasters and educate others about what podcasts are.
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Transcript
Welcome to five minutes with grey hair Dave, the podcast where grey haired Dave talks about what is happening in a baby boomers life and in his life, present and past.
Host:So sit back and relax.
Host:Here is grey hair Dave.
Grey Hair Dave:Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well.
Grey Hair Dave:What you think of that.
Grey Hair Dave:So welcome back to five minutes with gray hair Dave.
Grey Hair Dave:I like eleven labs.
Grey Hair Dave:I really do.
Grey Hair Dave:It gives me a lot of laughs, you know, I'm saying it's fun.
Grey Hair Dave:How are you folks?
Grey Hair Dave:I hope you're doing well.
Grey Hair Dave:This is great here, Dave.
Grey Hair Dave:I, I know that I said I was going to do this once a week and that's what I'm going to do.
Grey Hair Dave:I just wanted you to let you know that I have recorded the second episode of, or actually it's the first episode of Boomer podcasters on what is a podcast.
Grey Hair Dave:Gotta let people know what a podcast is, right?
Grey Hair Dave:Because there's going to be those out there who might want to do one and don't really know what it is or how it all works.
Grey Hair Dave:So I spent about 25, 30 minutes explaining it and found out that about 30, 25 to 30 minutes is going to be what, what the show is.
Grey Hair Dave:It's not like this.
Grey Hair Dave:I do call myself gray hair Dave there because I am gray haired Dave everywhere.
Grey Hair Dave:So that's the way it is.
Grey Hair Dave:So it's two weeks out, it's Tuesday.
Grey Hair Dave:Two weeks from today is election day in the United States.
Grey Hair Dave:If you're from other countries in the world that listen to me.
Grey Hair Dave:Oh, thank you so much.
Grey Hair Dave:You don't know how much your listening means to me.
Grey Hair Dave:It really, really, really warms my heart to see people from Russia and Austria, Great Britain, all over the world listening to me.
Grey Hair Dave:And I hope to increase those numbers by doing a little bit of advertising soon, or as they say, marketing.
Grey Hair Dave:But, you know, we'll get to that.
Grey Hair Dave:Like I was saying, it's two weeks away from the, from the election.
Grey Hair Dave:And here's, here's what I really, really want to rant about today.
Grey Hair Dave:This is what it's going to be about, okay.
Grey Hair Dave:These, these cut, these politicians that they call themselves, and they are really, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna say that they're not politicians, okay?
Grey Hair Dave:They're not what I would have called a politician 30 years ago or 40 years ago, but they're politicians and they, I believe they have good intentions for the most part.
Grey Hair Dave:Do all of them have great intentions?
Grey Hair Dave:I don't believe so.
Grey Hair Dave:I believe some of them want to go for the gig.
Grey Hair Dave:Okay.
Grey Hair Dave:If you're going to the house of the Senate, you're making over three, you know, you're making six figures and, you know, you've got a little bit more power and all this and all that.
Grey Hair Dave:I mentioned this in a previous recording that I did today that I'm not going to use that there was a time that I had thought about running for public office.
Grey Hair Dave:Now I thought about it for all about a day or two.
Grey Hair Dave:I really did thought about what I'd want to talk about, what I'd want to be, what I'd want to, what I'd want to do for people, because I believe that being a politician is doing for people.
Grey Hair Dave:You're running the government or you're running a portion of the government.
Grey Hair Dave:Are you involved in running into government?
Grey Hair Dave:Why in the world would all you worry about is what's in it for me when in reality it should be what's in it for you, the people of your community?
Grey Hair Dave:Why wouldn't you be doing it for your community, your state or your country if you're from the US?
Grey Hair Dave:And the more I thought about it, the more I thought and thought and thought.
Grey Hair Dave:And I looked at it and I went, man, I don't know that I want to go through the scrutiny that they put people through now.
Grey Hair Dave:People right now that are running for office are somewhat disgusting.
Grey Hair Dave:Not all of them.
Grey Hair Dave:There's one who's running for senator Congress, because I don't really care.
Grey Hair Dave:I saw her first commercial.
Grey Hair Dave:I went, oh, my God, she's running against an incumbent and what does she do now?
Grey Hair Dave:This is not her personally doing this, but her staff or whoever is doing her videos.
Grey Hair Dave:Put it out there and put the incumbent's head on a snake like he slithers around.
Grey Hair Dave:He's that slimy.
Grey Hair Dave:Well, that person ain't getting my vote.
Grey Hair Dave:I don't care what, I don't care what her policies are, what she wants to do for us.
Grey Hair Dave:All I know is she is as limey as that commercial.
Grey Hair Dave:Yet she went on that commercial and said, and I approved this ad.
Grey Hair Dave:I'm sorry.
Grey Hair Dave:No, I don't, I don't, I don't get that.
Grey Hair Dave:You know, I understand it's got to go negative at some point.
Grey Hair Dave:And, and I didn't want to go through that.
Grey Hair Dave:I don't, I don't want to put my family through that.
Grey Hair Dave:I don't want to put my friends through that.
Grey Hair Dave:The people I love, I didn't want to put them through it, so I, I didn't.
Grey Hair Dave:Now the big one here in the US is the presidential race.
Grey Hair Dave:Now I am sick and tired of the one.
Grey Hair Dave:Every time she's asked a question, all she does, well, Donald Trump this and Donald Trump answer the question.
Grey Hair Dave:She doesn't answer the question.
Grey Hair Dave:Donald answers the question.
Grey Hair Dave:Donald Trump answers the question.
Grey Hair Dave:But it takes him too long to do it.
Grey Hair Dave:He goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
Grey Hair Dave:I don't like that Donald Trump is that way.
Grey Hair Dave:She's that way.
Grey Hair Dave:Which tells me she's going to do nothing but blame somebody else.
Grey Hair Dave:She blamed him for things that happened five or six years ago.
Grey Hair Dave:It's got nothing to do with what's going on today, especially when she's asked a question about jobs.
Grey Hair Dave:How's she going to help create jobs?
Grey Hair Dave:Well, Donald Trump didn't do this.
Grey Hair Dave:And down Donald Trump, he's on engines like, can we throw any more mud?
Grey Hair Dave:It's, it's disgusting is what it is.
Grey Hair Dave:And it's, it's, it's gone down to the point where these people are spending millions and millions and millions of dollars on advertising, okay?
Grey Hair Dave:And now the state races are spending millions and millions and millions on advertising.
Grey Hair Dave:And it's negative.
Grey Hair Dave:It's all this one lady has been negative against the incumbent senator here since day one.
Grey Hair Dave:It wasn't, here's what my policies are.
Grey Hair Dave:Here's what I want to help you do, or here's what I can do for you.
Grey Hair Dave:It's all about what he hasn't done or what he's, how do you ever expect to get elected when you're doing that?
Grey Hair Dave:I don't understand.
Grey Hair Dave:Now, there are those people out here in the world who don't think like I do, who don't say, well, you know, he, she's, you know, it's just mudslinging.
Grey Hair Dave:They think that she's right or that that person's right or that guy's right because they're telling you all the trash.
Grey Hair Dave:And, okay, I get that.
Grey Hair Dave:I understand that.
Grey Hair Dave:That's, that's how small you want to believe.
Grey Hair Dave:I want to know what they're going to do for me, for, for Dave, for gray hair Dave, what's going to happen?
Grey Hair Dave:How's it, how are you going to help gray hair Dave?
Grey Hair Dave:I'm a firm believer that if I was asked a question and I was one of the candidates for president, and they said to me, Dave, you know, what's your economic policy going to be?
Grey Hair Dave:I want to create more jobs.
Grey Hair Dave:Well, how are you going to create more jobs?
Grey Hair Dave:I'm going to help small business.
Grey Hair Dave:I want to find a way.
Grey Hair Dave:My team is going to find a way to help small businesses grow and grow locally and grow regionally and grow nationally, even worldwide.
Grey Hair Dave:And as soon as they start growing into a mid sized company, they promote business ownership to their cat, to their employees, and maybe help one of their employees start their own small business.
Grey Hair Dave:And it grows because the more a company grows, the more people they have to hire.
Grey Hair Dave:It's just, it's inevitable.
Grey Hair Dave:And I believe that that will help bring the economy back because we'll have more people working who want to work and people who work where they want to work and enjoy the work, stay at the work.
Grey Hair Dave:That will reduce the welfare rolls, all kinds of things.
Grey Hair Dave:And that's, that's my policy.
Grey Hair Dave:That would be mine.
Grey Hair Dave:But I can't do that because I don't want to.
Grey Hair Dave:I don't want to go through the bologna that goes with it.
Grey Hair Dave:But, uh, anyways, that's, uh, what I wanted to talk about today.
Grey Hair Dave:Uh, sorry for ranting and raving about it, but that's, that's my show and that's what I want to do today.
Grey Hair Dave:Now, there's a lot of podcasters out there, too, who are doing, they're joining in, and I'm not one of those.
Grey Hair Dave:Okay?
Grey Hair Dave:I'm telling you right now, I am not an independent, but I'm not going to tell you whether I'm a Democrat or a Republican.
Grey Hair Dave:That's none of your business.
Grey Hair Dave:That's my business.
Grey Hair Dave:I will tell you that I'm not an independent.
Grey Hair Dave:I have nothing against independence.
Grey Hair Dave:We need them.
Grey Hair Dave:But do yourselves a favor, especially if you live in the US and anywhere else you get a chance to vote, because it's a privilege that can be taken away.
Grey Hair Dave:Think about it.
Grey Hair Dave:If you go to jail, especially on a federal crime, you lose your voting privileges.
Grey Hair Dave:Sorry, you committed a crime, you're done.
Grey Hair Dave:Or a federal crime, you're done.
Grey Hair Dave:No, you don't deserve it.
Grey Hair Dave:But there are some countries you don't get to vote.
Grey Hair Dave:Look at the dictatorships around the world.
Grey Hair Dave:They don't get to vote.
Grey Hair Dave:You know, all they get is beat up anyway.
Grey Hair Dave:So if you're in the US, do me a favor.
Grey Hair Dave:Vote early if you can.
Grey Hair Dave:If you want to vote by mail, vote in person on time, on, you know, two weeks from today on this, because I'm recording this on Tuesday, Tuesday the 22nd.
Grey Hair Dave:It'll be the first Tuesday in November.
Grey Hair Dave:It'd be time to vote, but vote, please.
Grey Hair Dave:You know what?
Grey Hair Dave:If you don't vote, you can't complain.
Grey Hair Dave:That's my theory, too.
Grey Hair Dave:If you don't vote about vote for something or vote on on the issues or on the people running, you don't get a chance.
Grey Hair Dave:It's not your right to complain about them.
Grey Hair Dave:It's not hard don't, it's not hard to go vote, folks.
Grey Hair Dave:So that's my rant for today.
Grey Hair Dave:If you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, doesn't know where to find one, how to play it, you know how to, how to subscribe or follow, what genre to listen to, do us all a favor as podcasters and help them out, please.
Grey Hair Dave:Also, don't forget to smile at somebody today.
Grey Hair Dave:It will make their day and it'll make your day.
Grey Hair Dave:So on behalf of Gray haired Dave at Gray hair Productions, don't forget to check out Boomer podcasters.
Grey Hair Dave:It's at boomerpodcasters.com and it's on all the podcasting apps.
Grey Hair Dave:I appreciate you listening and I appreciate you.
Grey Hair Dave:You all have a great day.
Grey Hair Dave:Bye.
