"We Blame Society, But We Are Society"

In this episode, Kevin and Sully talked about the 09/11 Victim
Compensation Bill that Jon Stewart went to Congress for. He gave
quite the speech and they discuss that in length. They also touched
on crime across America. Kevin pulled up a list of the Top 100
cities with the worst crime per capita, in the nation.

September 11th was an anomaly because it was one of the biggest
terrorist attacks on American soil, but there's really nothing else
to compare it to other than Pearl Harbor.

Yeah.

If you Google terrorists acts in United States, you can go back to
the late 18 hundreds, they're right along. I mean it's not like
it's never been around, you know, I don't think that's going away.
Whether or not it happens on purpose, I don't know.

We'll leave that discussion to Shred. That's his area of expertise.
But I think that the best we can do, and kind of based off your
advice that you gave last week and again earlier in this episode is
to help your fellow man a little bit more. You know, if you know
your neighbors going out of town, uh, watch over their house, you
know, their garage door didn't go down when they left for work in
the morning. Go over and shut the garage door for him. Don't
pretend like you didn't see it. And then you know, even if you
don't fucking like the people, because I'm a, I'm a believer in
Karma and I believe what you put out into the universe, you get
back and someday something will happen that we'll come back to help
you for doing that nice gesture for your fellow person. But I think
with that though, you have to have a belief system.

And I don't mean to get off topic, but do you think the problem is
there's no belief system anymore? Like I, and I don't mean like as
in a higher power like getting all churchy, but like you said from
the dawn of time, there's always been some sort of figure watching
you I guess I'll call it, and I think there was no
accountability.

Maybe you're thinking, yeah, like the difference between good and
bad. Like you know what you're doing is wrong. Just seems like
people are losing their moral compass, I guess I'll call it.

Well, I grew up Catholic. I had the 10 commandments you know, not
to get all churchy.

And I was just about to say like even aside from that, like if you
took out the 10 commandments and just say like 10 good rules to
live by that pretty good rules to live by.

Like you should listen to your mom and dad. You shouldn't bang your
neighbor, you shouldn't kill somebody. You shouldn't. You know what
I mean?

Right.

Like they're all good laws and good rules to have for society. Did
social media have a lot to play in the, in that change? I don't
know. I think it did back in the day when you didn't go and bang
your neighbor, you didn't go and bang your neighbor because you
knew it wasn't right. Oh, well she's on Snapchat. Twerking.

Exactly. Yeah.

You're on social media now. Whether it's Snapchat, Instagram,
you're seeing these pictures and then you send her a message. "Oh
my God, that's cool." Or, "oh my God, that's cute." And then all of
a sudden she replies back and she sends you a message of, "Oh, you
like that?" Yeah. And then that shit blossoms. And I think, you
know, again, you just got to stay true to your morals. I guess if
you go and do that shit and you want to do that shit,
whatever.

But we've gotta be aware of the consequences that come with
that.

I fall back on Karma. Something will eventually happen to you,
whether it's the next day, the next week, the next month, the next
year, something will eventually come back around. And I'm not
saying that you're going to die or anything like that, but, uh,
Karma works in mysterious ways. I'm a firm believer in that. You
know, like you said, don't fucking Bang your neighbor. Don't
fucking do stupid shit and be kind to your fellow man. Help them
out. Help them out for, we're doing, we're, we're fucking movement
now. Peace, love, and rock and roll. All right. I gotta go lock my
fucking doors now and yeah, I gotta I gotta go see what my
neighbors doing. Get out the binoculars. Yeah, look at that. Hey,
they just sent me a tweet, I guess, if that's all right, I'm gonna
head over there.

(The above is a partial transcript of this episode. Any grammatical
errors, Kevin & Sully will blame someone else)