WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.940 or 1-793-0191. 00:14.180 --> 00:19.600 From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review. In a stunning 00:19.600 --> 00:24.420 late-night operation, the United States captured Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro and 00:24.420 --> 00:28.680 his wife in Caracas, the pair were then transported to New York City, where they appeared 00:28.680 --> 00:33.480 in court, facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges. President Donald Trump said that 00:33.480 --> 00:38.340 the raid was part of large-scale strikes against Venezuela. Mary Trini Minna was in Caracas, 00:38.600 --> 00:39.600 as it all unfolded. 00:39.780 --> 00:47.220 This morning, Venezuelans woke up with several blasts across the city with airplanes and 00:47.220 --> 00:53.240 helicopters passing through across the city of Caracas flying over. What we know so 00:53.240 --> 00:59.920 far is the information provided by the Venezuelan government. They say the attacks took place 00:59.920 --> 01:07.180 in three different states of Venezuela, La Guayra, Aragua, and Miranda. Miranda is located 01:07.180 --> 01:13.260 in the metropolitan area of Caracas. I heard the blast earlier in the morning. Right 01:13.260 --> 01:20.340 now, the city remains in camp with authorities calling to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty 01:20.340 --> 01:27.940 of the country and remain in camp. The government says they will declare a state of emergency and 01:27.940 --> 01:34.060 then we hear about the information provided by Donald Trump saying they captured the 01:34.060 --> 01:39.020 leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores. 01:39.380 --> 01:43.960 A U.S. immigration agent shot dead a female driver in Minneapolis this week kicking 01:43.960 --> 01:49.160 off a political firestorm. Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city where 01:49.160 --> 01:53.340 around 2,000 federal officers have been deployed. Nick Harper reports. 01:53.960 --> 01:58.480 The shooting in Minneapolis has become the latest political touchstone with the left and 01:58.480 --> 02:01.980 the right viewing the videos in contradictory ways. 02:02.840 --> 02:07.960 Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting in self-defense that the woman 02:07.960 --> 02:13.140 was trying to run him over. They called the driver a violent rioter, with Donald 02:13.140 --> 02:18.780 Trump describing her as violently, willfully and viciously attacking the ICE officer. 02:19.460 --> 02:24.460 Those on the left and protesters say this was murder, with Minnesota's Governor Tim 02:24.460 --> 02:29.780 Wolff saying it was a consequence of the federal government trying to generate fear, 02:30.080 --> 02:33.560 headlines and conflict. It was reported this week that a complete 02:33.560 --> 02:38.250 intonate shutdown was imposed in Iran after mass protests against the country's 02:38.250 --> 02:42.210 clerical leadership. What started as demonstrations against Iran's 02:42.210 --> 02:46.810 struggling economy has now become a wider movement with agitations now being reported 02:46.810 --> 02:50.890 in all 31 provinces of the country. Ishan Gag tells us more. 02:51.130 --> 02:56.190 Videos verified by local media show large crowds of anti-government protesters marching 02:56.190 --> 03:01.130 through Iran's capital Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling for the removal 03:01.130 --> 03:06.290 of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Though demonstrations started 03:06.290 --> 03:11.270 in Iran in late December against rising inflation, Thursday's protests are believed 03:11.270 --> 03:16.350 to be triggered by calls from Iranian crown prince and a key opposition leader Reza 03:16.350 --> 03:20.850 Pahlavi. Amnesty International says more than 20 people have died in the protests 03:20.850 --> 03:25.630 since December 31st and concerns remain about further clashes between protesters 03:25.630 --> 03:29.770 and Iranian security forces. The French Foreign Minister says he will 03:29.770 --> 03:33.790 work with European allies to create a plan should the United States follow 03:33.790 --> 03:38.850 through on its threats of taking control of Greenland. The Trump administration has renewed 03:38.850 --> 03:43.410 its interest in the semi-autonomous Danish territory stating that it's needed for matters 03:43.410 --> 03:46.670 of national security. William Dentselow reports from Brussels. 03:47.450 --> 03:51.490 France's Foreign Minister says he's discussing the issue of Greenland during a meeting 03:51.490 --> 03:56.750 with German and Polish counterparts. Speaking on local radio, Jean Noël Barreau 03:56.750 --> 04:01.890 said that France wants to take action but to do so in coordination with European partners. 04:02.550 --> 04:08.010 This comes as US President Donald Trump says he's discussing a range of options to acquire 04:08.010 --> 04:13.030 Greenland, including the use of the military. Washington says it needs the territory to stave 04:13.030 --> 04:18.530 off an increased threat in the Arctic posed by Russia and China. Several European leaders 04:18.530 --> 04:24.110 append a joint statement this week saying that the region's security is a collective issue 04:24.110 --> 04:30.430 and that Greenland belongs to its people. 380,000 homes were left without power on Friday 04:30.430 --> 04:34.110 after Storm Goeriti hit France. The north of the country was worst hit, 04:34.330 --> 04:37.130 with all train services in the region of Normandy cancelled. 04:37.590 --> 04:43.050 Ross Callan reports. In Normandy, heavy rain is sweeping across the region and winds in 04:43.050 --> 04:47.910 excess of 200 kilometers an hour have brought down trees on railway lines and electricity 04:47.910 --> 04:52.270 cables. Dozens of people have been injured across the country and the top official in 04:52.270 --> 04:56.590 the region around the port city of Calais has ordered the public to shelter in place for 04:56.590 --> 05:01.770 now. The stormy conditions will continue into the weekend. On Saturday, six regions in the 05:01.770 --> 05:06.690 northeast of the country are expecting more snow and ice with yellow weather warnings in place. 05:07.070 --> 05:11.190 From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Itch McCann and that was the Week in Review. 05:26.790 --> 05:31.330 We are lucky to be joined today by the little prodigy himself along with Tyler's parents, 05:31.470 --> 05:36.650 Jack and Christine. Good morning, guys. Tyler, most kids your age are in middle school and 05:36.650 --> 05:42.330 probably think that alcohol doesn't taste good, but not you. Yeah, I like to drink liquor or beer 05:42.330 --> 05:47.870 or whatever. There's way more beer at college than I might have. I bet there is. Your professors 05:47.870 --> 05:52.610 and classmates, everyone there at OSU says you just fit right in. You must have a lot of new 05:52.610 --> 05:56.530 friends. Yeah, I'm just like everybody else. I go to class, I show up wasted, I leave early. 05:56.790 --> 06:01.650 Wow. So many impressive moments. You're active in a fraternity, you've streaked at four baseball 06:01.650 --> 06:06.890 games, you've broken an arm falling off a house, you've even made the wall of shame at a hooligan. 06:07.210 --> 06:13.230 Then I was stupid crazy. That was special day. Yes, is the Onion News Network. 06:14.450 --> 06:19.150 Our Matrix server is about as free as internet chat can be. Join the existing rooms or 06:19.150 --> 06:40.720 create your own at chat.freetalklive.com. 6-0-3-2-8-3-6-1-6-0 is the number to call 06:41.180 --> 06:47.360 to get on the air to tell us what's on your mind. Tonight, we're going to be talking Minneapolis. 06:47.840 --> 06:54.380 We're going to be talking Venezuela. Hell, we're going to talk Greenland because why not? 06:55.060 --> 06:57.840 Greenland is the hell of a place. It's a place that sells green. 06:57.840 --> 07:04.740 Packs Americana in full swing. We're in for it. 07:05.240 --> 07:12.640 Get some cooler uniforms. I mean, Trump wants to add two states. He wants the state of Canada 07:12.640 --> 07:19.200 and he wants the state of Greenland. He wants to be the most powerful dictator in the world 07:19.200 --> 07:23.760 and dictate to a powerful empire. He wants to be the greatest Roman general or the Roman 07:23.760 --> 07:28.380 emperor and the human, oh wait, this is America. Hell, you can call it whatever you like. 07:30.140 --> 07:40.380 Yeah, that seems to be the plan. I don't know. I thought the reaction from Greenland today was 07:40.380 --> 07:47.800 great. It was, no thank you. That's the perfect reaction. No thank you, sir. No, we really 07:47.800 --> 07:56.320 don't want to be part of your country and I can't imagine any country unless, no, I take that back. 07:56.620 --> 08:03.600 Like the most impoverished countries, they would go, okay, being a U.S. state and assuming all that 08:03.600 --> 08:11.920 debt would be a step up. Well, it gets you access to more stuff. More debt. Yeah. And it might 08:11.920 --> 08:15.980 get you protection and things like that. We're going to go to the phones where we've 08:15.980 --> 08:19.580 got Dave Ridley. Dave, you're on pre-talk live. What's up, man? 08:20.720 --> 08:28.660 Oh, yeah. We talked a couple weeks ago, I guess, about the bill by Glenn Bailey 08:29.180 --> 08:35.280 to the New Hampshire Secession Bill. Yeah, I remember. I think I was there. 08:35.700 --> 08:40.380 Yeah. I think I was on the shouts here. I can tell you I was not, but I'm eager to talk about it. 08:41.640 --> 08:48.460 So, I have an update on that. Glenn has also, he's a state rep in New Hampshire. He has also 08:48.460 --> 08:54.080 sponsored another secession related bill that I just learned about. It's actually a house resolution. 08:54.860 --> 09:00.840 I just said, quote, a resolution affirming the state of California's request to divide into two 09:00.840 --> 09:06.300 states, unquote, sponsored by Glenn Bailey also. There's that state of Jefferson talk? 09:07.620 --> 09:12.540 I don't know. I was just starting to look it up when I called and you picked up. 09:13.000 --> 09:17.600 I don't know the details about it, but that's just, I just know he's submitted another bill 09:17.600 --> 09:23.920 related to secession. Yeah. The ones that I'm familiar with more recently in California seem 09:23.920 --> 09:31.460 to involve three to five different states and areas. I have no idea what this one is, but 09:32.320 --> 09:39.120 it's okay. I support it. I don't even know anything about it, but if the state of California 09:39.120 --> 09:46.820 wants to divide up into somewhere between one and eight billion different states, why not? 09:47.080 --> 09:52.840 They're a state. They have rights under the Constitution. They shouldn't get permission 09:52.840 --> 09:58.840 from the feds either. No, and they don't need it, but whatever they want to do, that's fine. 09:58.840 --> 10:04.900 Actually, the Constitution does say things about creating new states. 10:05.780 --> 10:12.120 Yeah, there's like a procedure. There is. Yeah. And there needs to be support of the 10:12.120 --> 10:18.500 House of Representatives and it goes through with all the speed the government acts at. 10:19.760 --> 10:25.840 But no, I think that's great that California, I support every secession movement in the 10:25.840 --> 10:32.620 United States. Furthermore, I support everyone overseas and I support them even within this room. 10:32.780 --> 10:38.280 I think I may secede from our panel today. You're just going to get up and walk out. 10:38.480 --> 10:42.740 I'm going to, no, I'm going to be my own independent voice on Freetalk Live tonight. 10:43.240 --> 10:47.140 Oh, I see. But I need to secede from you guys to do that. So 10:47.660 --> 10:53.180 all right, Bill, I am lifting a finger in salute to them. I won't tell you which one. 10:53.180 --> 11:01.720 Go ahead, Dave. So just by way of background, his his secession bill was a House Bill 1441. 11:02.540 --> 11:07.580 It's quote an act establishing a commission to study the economic, legal and sociological 11:07.580 --> 11:14.060 aspects of New Hampshire exerting its sovereign state rights unquote. And by that, he really does 11:14.060 --> 11:19.940 mean independent because the bill goes into detail about stuff like having our own currency and so 11:19.940 --> 11:24.940 yeah. Now, I skim the bill and I think it's great. I mean, 11:25.480 --> 11:32.420 this to me is a proper step. You know, it's it's not like we're going to say we're leaving, man. 11:32.880 --> 11:38.340 And that's it. And expect to get support for it. But if there's a study group and they can 11:38.340 --> 11:44.500 illustrate some of the benefits of secession, which I have no doubt will be plentiful. 11:45.030 --> 11:52.400 And there will be honest, there will be some reasons why people can say no, we really shouldn't 11:52.400 --> 11:58.420 based on what comes out of the study group. You know, that that could be not that there are 11:58.420 --> 12:04.140 arguments overcoming those. But that's what I expect to come out of it. Yeah, at least 12:04.140 --> 12:09.600 there's some data like some concrete. Well, as concrete as government can be, 12:09.600 --> 12:15.600 right, but something you can point to, right, and list the pros and cons and saying, you know, 12:15.980 --> 12:20.340 if you look at this on a whole, it's either a good, good idea or a bad idea. And 12:20.340 --> 12:26.240 and then you have something to take on to your next bill in another session. I think it's a good 12:26.240 --> 12:34.160 move, a smart move. There is another small piece of NH exit news in that NH exit has made 12:34.160 --> 12:42.480 the top or the cover of the Wikipedia page on on the secession, or at least the page on secession 12:42.480 --> 12:51.360 in the United States shows a picture of Derek Freeman holding it fed out of NH sign. Yeah, I 12:51.360 --> 12:58.360 remember that. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. And somebody had posted that. And I was like, oh, 12:58.360 --> 13:03.420 that's so cool. It's like a slightly dated pick. But I love that. 13:05.540 --> 13:10.920 That is all the NH exit news I have. That's the update. I thought you were 13:10.920 --> 13:17.700 calling to tell us it's done. And we no longer are part of the United States. I look forward to 13:17.700 --> 13:22.720 that call from you. Well, it might not come from me. And it might not come in my time. 13:22.720 --> 13:28.800 But someday that's that's a spirit. Thanks a lot, Dave. Thanks. Bye bye. 13:30.720 --> 13:39.040 Yeah, I mean, at this point, the United States, this this grand American experiment, 13:39.300 --> 13:44.680 you know, this idea that that we'll get it right on the first real attempt at 13:45.370 --> 13:54.980 at a democratic constitutional Republic, we'll get it right the first time. And this will be the 13:54.980 --> 14:02.960 United States. Well, but it's not technically the first time, though, have we made an effort exactly 14:02.960 --> 14:06.900 like this? What? What else are you pointing? Well, we had like the Articles of Confederation, 14:07.140 --> 14:12.360 and oh, yeah, like we had like other countries before this one. I understand that. But 14:12.360 --> 14:22.720 this was the first attempt at a constitutional Republic that this had never really been done 14:22.720 --> 14:28.420 that this was something new when America came about first with the Articles of Confederation. 14:28.780 --> 14:35.500 This was an experiment. This was something that nobody had ever done. I mean, keep in mind, 14:35.500 --> 14:43.580 most of the European countries were monarchies. And there were various smaller scale attempts at, 14:43.620 --> 14:48.900 you know, forming some sort of Republic or but they weren't based on 14:50.600 --> 14:56.620 democratically elected and in individuals and things like that. This is this whole thing 14:56.620 --> 15:03.620 was brand new. And that's what was so exciting about it. And that's what, you know, inspired 15:03.620 --> 15:11.440 the French and inspired the thinkers of the day to consider this as a real possibility. So 15:11.440 --> 15:18.120 but I don't think we can look back on it and say it worked. I do want to bring up that there was a 15:18.120 --> 15:27.080 TV series on John Adams that I came across. And the character of Thomas Jefferson basically said 15:27.080 --> 15:31.960 that he did not believe that the children that his children and grandchildren should not 15:31.960 --> 15:36.540 be bound to the agreements that he made. And I tend to agree with that. So, you know, 15:36.560 --> 15:43.160 binding us to a constitution that our ancestors made is just an absurd thing that we just keep 15:43.160 --> 15:47.680 perpetuating time and time again. And when we keep perpetuating this myth that we have to bind 15:47.680 --> 15:52.720 ourselves to this agreement without altering it, or changing it or abolishing it and 15:52.720 --> 15:57.720 striking off on our own and declaring independence to me just max of absurdity, 15:57.720 --> 16:02.320 because here we are tying ourselves to an outdated agreement that we need to change. 16:02.680 --> 16:08.880 And if we don't change it, we're simply stagnating in history. I mean, 250 years 16:09.800 --> 16:16.080 after the Declaration of Independence, we're, I can't believe in some ways I can't believe 16:16.080 --> 16:21.640 we're going to hit the 250 year mark. It surprises me. I know it's very surprising 16:21.640 --> 16:27.840 after the Bicentennial. I was like, well, I guess that'll be the next last big one. 16:29.040 --> 16:38.240 But yeah, it's only being propped up by, by what? Oil, money, banks, war, war, bloodshed, 16:38.580 --> 16:43.660 carnage. I feel like that's how most countries are propped up throughout history though. 16:43.660 --> 16:51.380 Yeah. I just, I mean, yeah, well, our ideas are radically different, but I just think, 16:51.500 --> 16:58.880 like America isn't like some, maybe the idea of a constitution is, but the idea of an overarching 16:58.880 --> 17:05.060 government that wages wars across the world and is in mountains of debt is not something new. 17:06.180 --> 17:10.540 That's, that's a Roman Empire. Well, that's every empire. That's every single one that's 17:10.540 --> 17:16.680 ever fallen, which is all of them in the history of ever wages wars, places that it overextends 17:16.680 --> 17:21.640 itself. It gets into mountains of debt. It has to hire outside mercenaries to be their hammer. 17:21.820 --> 17:27.700 And eventually it all goes kaput. Yep. But we're still being propped up by, 17:27.900 --> 17:33.880 by all these things. And that's what is frustrating to me. If, if we were, 17:34.660 --> 17:38.700 if we weren't printing money, I think that would be the big difference. 17:39.260 --> 17:46.060 Well, we would just, we would just change the metallurgy of our coins, man. They would be the 17:46.060 --> 17:51.800 same thing. I get it. You can, you can, but if you weren't manipulating the currency to the 17:51.800 --> 17:59.840 extent that the United States has done, this isn't shaving, you know, a 10,000th of a gram 17:59.840 --> 18:05.680 off of a Roman coin. Well, no, this is like melting. This is like making your gold coin 18:05.680 --> 18:09.900 half nickel and then saying it's still worth what the gold was worth, right? So you've, 18:09.900 --> 18:13.360 you've essentially just doubled your money. And then if you do that again, 18:13.920 --> 18:19.900 and you buy by force, you keep it at the prices. If it was 100% gold, well, now it's 18:19.900 --> 18:28.680 5% copper, 75% nickel. And, you know, it's alchemy. Yes. We're just creating things, 18:28.720 --> 18:33.240 which is literally what it is. We're creating things out of thin air. We're going to go 18:33.240 --> 18:36.600 to the phones where we've got Ricky. Ricky, you're on free talk live. 18:37.900 --> 18:41.100 Thank you there, brother Chris. Well, how are you? 18:41.720 --> 18:45.500 I'm doing all right, brother. I'm glad to hear that. Yes, sir. 18:46.580 --> 18:49.280 And brother Ryler, good evening. Good evening, brother Ricky. 18:50.340 --> 18:55.860 Well, tell you what, I like the idea of the session. I like it a lot. In fact, 18:56.400 --> 18:59.940 I'm ready tonight because I'm wearing my battle flag as we speak. 19:01.120 --> 19:05.300 Okay. So I'm ready to go. Which one? What, what is your battle flag? 19:06.160 --> 19:12.260 That'll be the battle flag in North Virginia Army. Okay. North Virginia. I wear the right one. 19:12.380 --> 19:19.400 It was very expensive, $256. It was handmade put together. It's very expensive. There's only 19:19.400 --> 19:25.020 one place in the country where you can get them. Are you going to plug them now? So is it like 19:25.020 --> 19:32.320 is it like a niche? I can do that. That's Alabama flag and banner. There you go. 19:32.480 --> 19:37.220 That sounds like the people who would make that. I mean, I can see it, but I can feel it. I mean, 19:37.320 --> 19:43.700 I get so many compliments on it. I mean, from what I understand, it's incredibly accurate, 19:44.080 --> 19:51.300 beautiful colors, you know? But that's not what I called for tonight. 19:51.300 --> 19:56.080 No problem. Go ahead. I just wanted to comment on that because I think 19:56.880 --> 20:03.380 succession is a good idea and it goes back to what really the founding fathers intended 20:04.260 --> 20:11.220 if we did that. If we succeeded, everything could be better or we could actually be a 20:11.220 --> 20:16.240 republic. That'd be a nice thing. I always say this, a republic was a glimmer in somebody's eye. 20:16.240 --> 20:22.320 Sure. But anyways, when I called for tonight, I think it was you, brother Angelo, 20:22.420 --> 20:28.960 that commented on this recently. Was he the commentant on the point that it's about the Europeans 20:28.960 --> 20:38.160 and alcohol? What part about it? As far as how they handle alcohol with young people. 20:39.240 --> 20:43.380 Oh, yeah. I think we mentioned that. I did hear this episode. 20:43.380 --> 20:48.300 About how like, well, we let younger people drink just because they handle it. Like they get over 20:48.300 --> 20:55.720 their, you don't have a bunch of drunk 21 year olds. Don't ruin all my brother Angelo. 20:56.680 --> 21:05.580 Now, here's the thing. Now, in my case, my dad was a truck driver. He was nobody special, 21:05.700 --> 21:10.100 but I got to give him credit here and I got to thank him for it. And it's something that 21:10.100 --> 21:17.180 takes time. I remember I had my first sip of beer when I was five years old, five or six, 21:17.420 --> 21:23.360 something like that. And I thought that was pretty good. In my case, I liked it. And I remember 21:23.360 --> 21:31.720 when I was probably about 10, I had my first beer with my dad. Now at 12, there was a further 21:31.720 --> 21:39.480 progression. At 12 years old, I can have a beer any time I wanted as long as I asked. 21:40.560 --> 21:50.300 And then by the time I was 14, I remember at 14 years old, I didn't have to ask just don't drink 21:50.300 --> 21:58.340 the old man's last beer. And I'll tell you what, I never, I never, I never snuck into bars and 21:58.340 --> 22:06.960 I started drinking bourbon, which I like probably about 15, 16 years old, but I never snuck into bars 22:06.960 --> 22:12.220 or anything like that. And I never had the desire. If I wanted something to drink, I just drank at 22:12.220 --> 22:20.700 home and I wished it more parents. I think parents either too afraid or just don't have the 22:20.700 --> 22:27.400 dexterity to be parents. And I wished that more parents would introduce their youngsters 22:27.400 --> 22:32.060 into alcohol. We'd solve some of the world's problems, at least in this country. 22:33.280 --> 22:37.480 Yeah. I see what you're saying. The issue is that you really want to know it's the government. 22:37.900 --> 22:41.500 It's the problem here. Yeah. Because drinking alone is sad. 22:42.060 --> 22:46.780 I don't know about that. I mean, hold on. I mean, it was, I mean, technically, 22:47.160 --> 22:51.800 I was under my parents' tutelage, my dad, and he really took a lot of care in it. 22:51.800 --> 22:56.680 But the thing is, I mean, at the time it was 21 in Pennsylvania. 22:58.080 --> 23:02.500 I'm saying you want to, you want to drink with your friends, right? So if you bring another 23:02.500 --> 23:06.600 kid over to hang out with you and you guys drink beers and that kid goes home. 23:06.600 --> 23:12.500 Oh no, that didn't happen. Oh no, no, no, that never happened. I had too much respect for it. 23:12.720 --> 23:16.520 This is somebody else's child. You know what I mean? 23:17.620 --> 23:23.720 Well, yeah, you do, but like that's the reason that these types of rules are even in place is because 23:24.860 --> 23:28.980 you know, you get caught furnishing or something. And because I know in a lot of states, 23:29.220 --> 23:32.700 I think in Oregon, you can let your kids drink as long as they're in front of you. 23:32.860 --> 23:38.880 That's like a legal thing. I think everywhere you can let your kids drink at home if you are 23:38.880 --> 23:44.200 there to supervise. Like supervising, yeah. And there's no issue with that. It's just 23:44.200 --> 23:51.040 this idea that, you know, you have to wait until you hit a magic age. And if parents are 23:51.040 --> 23:55.680 see that, I disagree with that entirely because who the hell's the government? The government 23:56.280 --> 24:01.640 are the ones that say, okay, here's how old you have to be to drink. Here's how old you 24:01.640 --> 24:08.140 have to be to smoke. Here's how old you have to be to view pornography. Who the hell are they 24:08.140 --> 24:14.620 and where do they get their statistical data that decides these things? It should be up to the parents. 24:15.040 --> 24:20.020 Well, they're the government. They have the smartest guys in the room. They're the experts. 24:20.460 --> 24:27.180 It is ridiculous. But again, what does government have to do with it? Government preaches and makes 24:27.180 --> 24:34.280 laws and convinces parents that they must, if they want to be good parents, you will never 24:34.280 --> 24:40.720 give your kid alcohol because there's a reason. I will say this. Now, when it came to smoking, 24:41.320 --> 24:46.960 I was actually legal and it was a technicality and I'll tell you why. See, I always wanted 24:46.960 --> 24:52.800 to be an adult. So my childhood is not very memorable because to me it was just getting 24:52.800 --> 24:57.800 in the way until I got to 18 and got my rights, you know? It was just getting in the way for 24:57.800 --> 25:03.000 me. So I would be treating like an adult. I started drinking black coffee at 10, I remember. 25:03.000 --> 25:08.420 Then I still do that. I just had a couple of just a few minutes ago. But the thing is, 25:09.120 --> 25:12.820 I'll tell you something. When it came to smoking, it was a very interesting story. 25:15.020 --> 25:21.260 It worked out good at my age. I originally started smoking cigars and you only had to be 25:21.260 --> 25:28.920 15 to smoke cigars. So I was actually legal. And by the time I started smoking cigarettes 25:28.920 --> 25:35.480 till I was 21, you know? So it actually became, so I was way over age, so it became, 25:35.880 --> 25:39.540 it was a convenient thing. So I was actually legal for that, but it didn't really matter 25:40.460 --> 25:44.640 because my dad was a cigar smoker and I think it would have been cool with it. 25:44.980 --> 25:50.720 But in my case, I was legal, but it shouldn't matter. We're talking something that's a plant. 25:50.980 --> 25:57.760 We're talking even beer, which is something that almost qualifies as a food item. 25:59.440 --> 26:03.700 So I mean, it's really ridiculous. My question for everybody is, 26:04.240 --> 26:09.640 you know, why should those of us who can be responsible with their drug habits or drug usage 26:09.640 --> 26:16.300 be punished for those who aren't responsible? No good reason. I totally agree with that, 26:16.480 --> 26:21.560 brother Riley. You're absolutely right. And unfortunately, let's look at drugs. 26:21.900 --> 26:28.480 Now I've spoken in the past on the air about my use of drugs, you know, here and there. 26:29.060 --> 26:33.580 And I could take them or leave and I've never been an addict. I've been a drug user. 26:34.080 --> 26:40.720 But the thing is, that's where you get it. You know, people that are drug users are not 26:40.720 --> 26:47.820 drug abusers or addicts. And I think you're absolutely right on that where that category 26:47.820 --> 26:54.700 gets punished. And I agree with you as far as legalization, brother Riley, by the way, 26:54.700 --> 27:00.420 on everything. So what happened with like Switzerland? They made heroin legal. 27:01.940 --> 27:06.740 Switzerland did that? Yeah, I thought it would improve everything because you wouldn't, 27:06.920 --> 27:14.300 you would improve everything because there's an example. I used to use methamphetamine at one time. 27:14.740 --> 27:20.580 And I wouldn't do it now. It's incredibly dangerous of this fentanyl and all that stuff. 27:20.580 --> 27:25.940 Right. I wouldn't think about doing it all. I haven't used meth since 2017. 27:26.800 --> 27:33.000 I wouldn't even consider it. And by legalizing it, you would clean all that up, I think. 27:33.660 --> 27:40.520 Yeah. Well, I mean, that is the theory and most of the good results are coming out of countries 27:40.520 --> 27:46.020 that have made those switches. They've said, you know, we need to treat heroin addiction 27:46.020 --> 27:53.720 more as a medical problem instead of a judicial problem. And suddenly they, it all drops. The 27:53.720 --> 27:58.620 usage drops, the overdoses drop. Yeah. So let me play devil's advocate for a moment. 27:59.140 --> 28:04.180 What about Portland? Portland is a case study in which they decriminalize drugs and all of a 28:04.180 --> 28:08.580 sudden, you know, people are, you know, in the streets doing terrible things, living terrible 28:08.580 --> 28:13.320 lives. Why do we want to decriminalize drugs when this is the result? Well, you know, what 28:13.320 --> 28:16.760 happened in Portland? Dude, I was just living there a year ago, right? So like I was just there. 28:16.840 --> 28:21.900 I was just living in Salem. I worked in Portland. I saw it firsthand. Just just a year ago, 28:21.920 --> 28:27.380 I was there. I saw the devastation boots on the ground. I want to hear what we just, 28:27.420 --> 28:31.080 they quit enforcing all laws. It wasn't that they weren't enforcing drug laws is that they 28:31.080 --> 28:36.140 quit enforcing every law. Right. So they didn't just decriminalize the drugs. They 28:36.780 --> 28:42.500 decriminalized vagrancy. They decriminalized trespassing. The police would abuse 28:42.500 --> 28:48.300 people who scared the tweakers out of their, like, off their property. Right. So it was more like 28:48.300 --> 28:53.560 they propped up the drug addicts instead of just legalizing it. They enabled them to do more crime. 28:53.760 --> 28:55.680 All right. Ricky, you want to stay on till 28:56.600 --> 29:01.340 I do after this commercial message? Great. I do because I got more to say about that. 29:01.340 --> 29:02.620 Good. I'm going to put you on hold. 29:04.980 --> 29:09.700 Uh, 603-283-616-0 is our number. 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From Feature Story News, 33:09.600 --> 33:12.800 in New York, I'm Itch McCann and that was the Week in Review. 33:53.800 --> 34:03.400 Ricky from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania about drug use and alcohol use and you were just getting 34:03.400 --> 34:10.880 ready to talk about your experiences because, Angelo, you were in Oregon in the Portland area 34:10.880 --> 34:17.140 specifically when they tried to legalize everything and they just did it. 34:17.760 --> 34:20.980 Yeah, and I think by everything they legalized everything. 34:21.920 --> 34:27.980 And regular citizens that tried to fill the void that the police left would be had the 34:27.980 --> 34:33.720 book thrown at them, right? And get railroaded and arrested and drowned in fines and charges. But 34:33.720 --> 34:41.140 the vagrant would just be let go. Because the police realized their justification was that 34:41.140 --> 34:45.260 the homeless guy isn't going to show up to court anyways. So arresting him is a waste 34:45.260 --> 34:49.600 of our money. But if you beat him up for pooping on your front porch, 34:50.620 --> 34:53.100 you're going to get arrested and thrown in jail, right? 34:53.820 --> 34:58.280 Yeah, but you know what? Here's what I was going with and definitely I think Riley, 34:58.440 --> 35:05.060 like the chime in on this, you have decriminalization versus legalization. 35:05.300 --> 35:07.100 They are two very different things. 35:09.020 --> 35:12.740 They are definitely different things. I think decriminalization would be 35:12.740 --> 35:14.960 much better path in legalizing. 35:15.600 --> 35:16.040 Really? 35:16.660 --> 35:20.120 Yes, because if you legalize something, then you have to put taxes and things like that, 35:20.180 --> 35:21.280 but decriminalize it. 35:23.100 --> 35:28.180 They say that. They do say that, but I disagree. I mean, but go ahead. 35:29.060 --> 35:32.700 I would just say that decriminalization is a much better path because then you 35:32.700 --> 35:36.140 don't worry about all the legal loopholes and the things you have to put on it. 35:36.640 --> 35:41.420 Well, I said it on occasion. I mean, I don't know what's going on here in Pennsylvania. 35:41.960 --> 35:46.920 In Pennsylvania, it was last, it was like, I don't know, two years ago. 35:48.040 --> 35:52.960 It looked like it was going to be going that ways and then it just died. 35:53.080 --> 35:59.320 We have a lot of Republicans in the house of representatives in the Senate forget it 35:59.320 --> 36:04.000 and they're not for it. And they were talking the taxes and all that crap. 36:04.160 --> 36:09.080 And I was totally against it. And I said to many of people exactly what Riley's saying, 36:09.860 --> 36:14.920 I'd rather see it be illegal than have all the taxes for that matter. 36:15.260 --> 36:18.040 I would just love to see it not on the books at all. 36:18.740 --> 36:26.440 Talking about marijuana specifically, just erase all references to it and that's the world I want. 36:26.600 --> 36:26.960 There you go. 36:27.260 --> 36:35.440 Chris, if they could make something like parsley or oregano or all that stuff, 36:35.520 --> 36:38.520 where they could control it, they would do that too. 36:38.520 --> 36:39.160 They do. 36:39.180 --> 36:42.600 They just can't. And I see very little difference between the two. 36:44.240 --> 36:50.700 Like Darryl W. Perry used to always talk about, you know, you need to treat marijuana like tomatoes. 36:51.280 --> 36:52.400 That's how he would do it. 36:52.620 --> 36:54.740 Regulate marijuana like tomatoes, he would say. 36:55.080 --> 37:00.960 And I, and I decided to delve into this and found the hundreds and hundreds of pages 37:01.540 --> 37:04.860 in U.S. code dedicated to regulating tomatoes. 37:05.580 --> 37:05.860 Size. 37:06.500 --> 37:10.680 That, that, that, that is true. And you know, I mean, 37:12.600 --> 37:16.000 I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen with Pennsylvania. 37:16.400 --> 37:17.860 It seemed to have just went away. 37:18.060 --> 37:20.700 Yeah, they were, they jumped quickly to medical. 37:21.100 --> 37:24.280 Medical was a pretty quick move, relatively speaking. 37:25.080 --> 37:27.840 They did that. But yeah, I get it. 37:27.960 --> 37:32.400 Well, I think when the homage voted, you know, you're not all 100 of them. 37:32.400 --> 37:36.420 100,000 of them, 200,000, that's enough to, in, in Pennsylvania. 37:37.060 --> 37:39.360 I don't think it's that big a block. Yeah. 37:40.220 --> 37:44.400 Not compared, compared to the Republican and Democrats. I mean, 37:45.280 --> 37:49.280 Does anybody know what happened federally? That went away too. 37:49.500 --> 37:51.780 That was rolling pretty good for a while. 37:52.000 --> 37:54.100 Well, I thought he dropped the schedule down to, 37:54.260 --> 37:56.800 didn't he reschedule it to schedule three or something? 37:57.080 --> 37:57.380 Yes. 37:57.620 --> 37:58.720 The reschedule to three now. 37:58.880 --> 37:59.720 Which is horrible. 38:00.280 --> 38:02.420 Not only my benefit, but the listeners. 38:02.820 --> 38:04.980 Angela, what is exactly that need? 38:06.580 --> 38:10.020 It has something to do with like it's considered, 38:10.660 --> 38:12.620 I Googled it when we were talking about it. 38:13.200 --> 38:15.680 Something new. It has like a medical use. 38:16.160 --> 38:18.840 It's like, but it's less scheduled than co, 38:18.900 --> 38:21.620 it's like less worse than cocaine, but it still has a. 38:22.220 --> 38:22.900 The thing is. 38:22.900 --> 38:23.780 Yeah, I don't, I don't know. 38:23.840 --> 38:25.340 They, but they did reschedule it. 38:25.460 --> 38:26.120 I just know that. 38:26.200 --> 38:28.880 Right. Which absolutely is the worst thing that could have happened. 38:28.880 --> 38:31.060 Now worse would have been staying at the, 38:31.160 --> 38:34.220 this is as deadly as fentanyl. 38:34.220 --> 38:36.760 Which is how they had scheduled it to, 38:37.020 --> 38:38.500 okay, there is a medical use, 38:38.700 --> 38:42.840 but we still need to be the ones who regulated it. 38:42.840 --> 38:44.700 It's, it does away with, 38:44.900 --> 38:47.660 if it's federally regulated on any schedule, 38:47.660 --> 38:49.660 it's federally regulated. 38:50.200 --> 38:52.300 Meaning I've no curse. 38:52.560 --> 38:55.360 I've known my share of people, including myself. 38:56.280 --> 38:59.360 I've never heard anybody getting hurt by weed. 39:00.660 --> 39:02.480 You know, just plain old weed. 39:02.640 --> 39:04.720 I've never seen anybody get hurt by it. 39:04.840 --> 39:06.620 Well, that is an argument. 39:06.900 --> 39:08.080 I've never even heard of it. 39:08.300 --> 39:11.080 I've never, never heard of it either, 39:11.080 --> 39:13.900 which is why so comedians have made this part of your, 39:13.900 --> 39:15.360 of their gigs. 39:15.660 --> 39:19.860 I mean, like what happens if you see a fight 39:19.860 --> 39:21.360 and you're at a stadium, 39:22.060 --> 39:25.320 you can pretty much guarantee that they're drinking alcohol. 39:25.600 --> 39:25.960 Yeah, hell yeah. 39:26.340 --> 39:28.040 You never see two stoners. 39:28.060 --> 39:28.760 But you know what? 39:29.320 --> 39:32.460 I've heard of people getting hurt by aspirin and Tylenol though. 39:33.720 --> 39:34.180 Probably. 39:34.940 --> 39:37.200 Oh, I mean aspirin will eat a hole in your stomach 39:37.200 --> 39:38.120 if you drink too many. 39:38.180 --> 39:40.080 I knew something that was a chronic Tylenol user. 39:41.380 --> 39:42.020 You know? 39:42.220 --> 39:42.720 Not good. 39:43.520 --> 39:44.300 No, it's not. 39:44.620 --> 39:45.900 No, it almost killed my great grandma 39:45.900 --> 39:48.060 because she didn't want to take the hard drugs 39:48.060 --> 39:50.360 because she was averted to it right from the propaganda. 39:50.360 --> 39:54.260 So she would take like Advil in a leave for her arthritis 39:54.260 --> 39:56.300 and she ended up giving herself an ulcer 39:56.300 --> 39:58.420 and she almost just like bled out internally, 39:58.420 --> 39:59.900 not even knowing what was going on. 40:00.000 --> 40:00.420 Oh, wow. 40:00.900 --> 40:05.100 Yeah, so the stigmatization has actually probably, 40:05.360 --> 40:06.960 you know, harmed a lot of people too. 40:07.640 --> 40:09.220 And the fact that people now, 40:09.500 --> 40:12.480 I mean, they can't get, they can't manage pain. 40:13.940 --> 40:17.840 Doctors are terrified of prescribing an opiate. 40:17.840 --> 40:21.680 So people go around with pain because we're all following 40:22.300 --> 40:26.480 this one size fits all view out of Washington DC 40:27.160 --> 40:29.940 from a bunch of people who are not even doctors. 40:30.240 --> 40:31.180 It's insane. 40:31.300 --> 40:32.460 Well, I'll tell you something. 40:32.860 --> 40:35.300 Dr. Commonwealth will tell you his advice. 40:35.620 --> 40:36.040 Try weed. 40:36.720 --> 40:37.740 Good answer. 40:38.580 --> 40:39.000 Good answer. 40:39.180 --> 40:40.540 Hey, Ricky, thanks for the call, man. 40:42.960 --> 40:45.940 Yeah, it's absurd and this is, 40:46.480 --> 40:49.280 but the thing is, is we can talk about the drug problem 40:49.280 --> 40:52.200 and we can say why is this all coming out of 40:53.000 --> 40:56.500 think tanks and stupid people who aren't doctors anyway 40:56.500 --> 40:58.700 and it doesn't hurt anybody. 40:59.120 --> 41:03.460 We can have that argument about 50,000 other topics. 41:03.880 --> 41:06.460 Why is it all being done in Washington 41:06.460 --> 41:10.640 and why do they feel that policies and laws 41:10.640 --> 41:16.100 are one size fits all across 330 million people 41:16.800 --> 41:20.740 across 50 states that span 3,000 miles? 41:21.780 --> 41:24.540 Yeah, I mean, further, if you go into Alaska or Hawaii, 41:24.740 --> 41:28.620 I mean, it's, it's asinine and, you know, 41:28.620 --> 41:30.820 maybe the experiment would have worked 41:30.820 --> 41:33.020 if we would have stuck to 13 states. 41:33.440 --> 41:36.020 So maybe at this point we wouldn't have been 41:36.020 --> 41:37.480 in this much of a problem. 41:37.820 --> 41:38.040 Go ahead. 41:38.180 --> 41:39.480 I was just going to ask, you know, 41:39.480 --> 41:41.580 if there are any, you know, conservative Christian 41:41.580 --> 41:43.580 types out there who hear us and say, 41:43.640 --> 41:46.720 well, drugs are demonic, then I have a question for you. 41:46.980 --> 41:48.600 If you're an advocate of the Second Amendment, 41:48.780 --> 41:50.080 which was a Second Amendment, 41:50.360 --> 41:51.800 which is the right scheme of their arms, 41:51.880 --> 41:52.920 which I'm assuming you are, 41:53.600 --> 41:57.240 guns are extremely dangerous and they literally kill people. 41:59.060 --> 42:02.100 Solicibon is less dangerous than a gun 42:02.100 --> 42:04.560 and yet it's treated like it's the most criminal act 42:04.560 --> 42:06.680 to possess a mushroom or grow a mushroom 42:06.680 --> 42:08.140 that will alter your consciousness. 42:08.700 --> 42:10.740 Why do you think that you have the right 42:10.740 --> 42:12.860 to tell me what I can and can't do with my consciousness 42:13.440 --> 42:15.020 and you get to carry a gun? 42:15.800 --> 42:16.660 Answer me that. 42:17.240 --> 42:20.000 Well, first of all, guns don't kill people. 42:20.240 --> 42:21.000 I kill people. 42:21.440 --> 42:22.100 That's true. 42:22.220 --> 42:22.720 You are an agent. 42:24.000 --> 42:26.920 But yeah, and why is, why is 42:27.540 --> 42:29.120 solicibon still schedule one? 42:29.660 --> 42:33.520 Why is it seen as having no medical viability, 42:33.620 --> 42:35.180 no reason to use it? 42:35.500 --> 42:37.400 High level of addiction. 42:37.400 --> 42:39.960 Yeah, I've taken mushrooms and I haven't died from them. 42:40.220 --> 42:40.300 So. 42:40.640 --> 42:44.960 No, I've nearly died from laughter after taking mushrooms. 42:45.740 --> 42:47.440 This is a real problem. 42:47.560 --> 42:47.880 Oh, yeah. 42:48.360 --> 42:48.940 It's a real problem. 42:49.020 --> 42:53.680 I woke up with a, my side hurt from laughing so hard 42:53.680 --> 42:55.280 after taking mushrooms. 42:55.960 --> 42:58.340 There should be a warning label on them. 42:59.040 --> 43:00.180 Get the gigs. 43:01.120 --> 43:02.880 Will cause extreme laughter. 43:03.460 --> 43:06.640 I watched a guy dress up 43:06.640 --> 43:10.380 as his father and his best friend dressed up as his father's brother 43:10.380 --> 43:11.900 and it was the funniest thing. 43:12.560 --> 43:14.960 After that, we just laughed at the refrigerator 43:14.960 --> 43:17.100 for probably a good two hours. 43:17.480 --> 43:18.180 Just at the fridge? 43:19.320 --> 43:21.000 Well, it wasn't just the fridge. 43:21.100 --> 43:24.080 It was the fridge plus all the funny things 43:24.080 --> 43:25.320 that were stuck to the fridge. 43:25.640 --> 43:26.140 Oh, I see. 43:26.200 --> 43:26.760 It was just. 43:27.820 --> 43:28.480 Oh man. 43:28.820 --> 43:28.880 Yeah. 43:29.000 --> 43:31.660 You got lost in the fridge decor for two hours. 43:31.940 --> 43:32.540 Is this what I'm hearing? 43:32.740 --> 43:33.080 I guarantee. 43:33.140 --> 43:34.480 That just clicked for me. 43:34.480 --> 43:37.660 The whole thing was, it was a whole evening. 43:37.880 --> 43:40.260 All I know is a sunup came and we went home. 43:40.940 --> 43:41.400 Yeah. 43:41.460 --> 43:42.240 That's kind of how it goes. 43:42.520 --> 43:43.020 It does. 43:43.200 --> 43:44.440 That sounds like a fun night, man. 43:45.540 --> 43:50.140 Yeah, but the idea of one size fits all that it's, 43:50.220 --> 43:52.260 you know, this is one of my biggest problems 43:52.260 --> 43:54.880 with the Department of Education was they came up 43:54.880 --> 43:57.700 with these standards that will be taught in every school. 43:58.560 --> 44:02.420 And I'm sorry, but kids learn in different ways. 44:02.420 --> 44:05.860 And, you know, kids in a very rural area, 44:05.860 --> 44:10.760 like the one I grew up in, we, first of all, 44:10.780 --> 44:13.860 what was important to teach in schools was very different 44:13.860 --> 44:17.200 than what you would want to teach in Minneapolis, 44:17.220 --> 44:21.840 which is hide from guys in ice outfits, for example. 44:22.740 --> 44:24.460 Or how to spot a fake daycare. 44:25.680 --> 44:26.280 Right. 44:26.920 --> 44:28.140 Another good one. 44:28.820 --> 44:30.140 So let's. 44:30.140 --> 44:32.500 Well, I just think, oh, to Riley's point, 44:33.560 --> 44:36.200 when you, when you were like any Christian conservative types, 44:36.260 --> 44:38.540 I think the issue, calling them demonic, right? 44:40.040 --> 44:42.920 Just maybe play a little bit as a devil's advocate, right? 44:43.020 --> 44:45.140 I don't think, I wouldn't think anything should be illegal, 44:45.360 --> 44:45.480 right? 44:45.560 --> 44:48.160 I don't think the government should mandate what you 44:48.160 --> 44:50.840 put into your body or can or can't do with yourself. 44:52.560 --> 44:56.520 But as somebody who would want, or like, 44:56.600 --> 44:58.480 let's say you are Christian and you wanted to follow 44:58.480 --> 45:01.700 the faith, then you, you yourself would avoid taking 45:01.700 --> 45:03.900 those substances because you feel like they can open 45:03.900 --> 45:05.100 you up to dark forces. 45:05.420 --> 45:06.740 And you're well within your right to do so. 45:06.940 --> 45:07.360 And so, yeah. 45:07.360 --> 45:08.460 Don't force your decisions on me. 45:08.500 --> 45:09.680 That's what, I can agree with that. 45:11.820 --> 45:13.880 But I just mean, like, you know, there's other 45:13.880 --> 45:15.920 ways to do it without using the government. 45:16.400 --> 45:16.600 Right. 45:16.700 --> 45:16.920 Oh yeah. 45:17.420 --> 45:17.820 Right. 45:18.800 --> 45:23.320 It's, it's insanity and, and what I, I think the, 45:24.700 --> 45:29.900 what I saw, I saw it on, on social media, a lot of 45:29.900 --> 45:34.280 conservative types arguing, you know, saying, well, 45:34.440 --> 45:37.460 the problem was she was interfering with lawful 45:38.380 --> 45:41.780 execution of search warrants and arrest warrants. 45:42.100 --> 45:43.920 And, you know, she did that. 45:44.200 --> 45:49.040 And I'm like, okay, and you can use that as the 45:49.040 --> 45:52.100 excuse to why the situation came about in the 45:52.100 --> 45:58.020 first place, but it's hard for me because in this 45:58.020 --> 46:02.360 case, even if the shooting of this woman was 46:02.360 --> 46:07.280 completely legal and they're undoubtedly going 46:07.280 --> 46:10.260 to find out that it is completely legal, that, 46:10.260 --> 46:12.360 that it was no biggie. 46:12.660 --> 46:14.300 She interfered with us. 46:14.480 --> 46:17.180 So, and she had a car and the car is a deadly 46:17.180 --> 46:18.660 weapon, it's just like a gun. 46:18.660 --> 46:21.820 So, we had to kill her, even though our own 46:21.820 --> 46:27.700 policies say never to take out a car that way, never 46:27.700 --> 46:32.620 fire guns at moving vehicles or at a vehicle because 46:32.620 --> 46:36.100 you're undoubtedly going to cause way more damage 46:36.100 --> 46:38.900 and possibly put more at risk if you do that. 46:39.320 --> 46:42.800 Even if all those things are true, my issue, 46:42.940 --> 46:45.180 and this kind of goes back to the, the topic 46:45.180 --> 46:48.860 of government completely is legality does not equal 46:48.860 --> 46:49.560 morality. 46:50.460 --> 46:55.300 And I don't care what your excuse is, you can say 46:55.300 --> 46:59.480 you feared for your life, but if you could easily 47:00.390 --> 47:04.260 take a step to the left and be completely safe 47:05.080 --> 47:10.540 from a car, then morally there was no justification. 47:11.440 --> 47:13.400 I don't know how they could live with themselves. 47:14.000 --> 47:17.360 You know, if you just, if you know that you could 47:17.360 --> 47:21.540 just step to the left and be completely safe, 47:22.700 --> 47:25.740 does that justify three bullets to the, to the 47:25.740 --> 47:26.000 bucket? 47:26.500 --> 47:28.460 I don't, I don't get that at all. 47:29.120 --> 47:32.180 And, but that's one of those things that people 47:32.180 --> 47:34.840 are going to argue and they're going to argue 47:34.840 --> 47:36.080 about it and argue about it. 47:36.200 --> 47:40.200 And, you know, that's one thing living under 47:40.200 --> 47:44.520 any regime, it eliminates the opportunity for us 47:44.520 --> 47:48.480 to question the moral question that doesn't play 47:48.480 --> 47:49.400 into this at all. 47:49.580 --> 47:51.480 It's strictly a legal question. 47:51.880 --> 47:55.120 And yeah, I can see where you're coming from. 47:55.440 --> 47:57.420 And I also, but I also think about like, 47:57.960 --> 47:59.680 well, they tell you to like fight it in court, 47:59.820 --> 48:01.860 like not to, like if they are going to arrest 48:01.860 --> 48:04.960 you, just shut up, just shut up, let them arrest 48:04.960 --> 48:06.240 you if they're going to violate your rights, 48:06.280 --> 48:08.020 let them do it, and then you get them on the 48:08.020 --> 48:08.660 back end, right? 48:08.660 --> 48:10.720 You don't run away and make the situation worse 48:10.720 --> 48:11.400 for yourself. 48:11.500 --> 48:12.560 My first thought. 48:12.740 --> 48:14.180 Because that's how you get shot, right? 48:14.460 --> 48:15.200 That's how you get shot. 48:15.220 --> 48:16.560 You are going to get shot if you try to run. 48:16.760 --> 48:19.820 Like we know this, so you're right, 48:19.980 --> 48:22.140 libertarians say, shut up, just shut up, 48:22.360 --> 48:23.620 let them, you're going to get arrested, 48:23.760 --> 48:24.340 it's going to happen. 48:24.640 --> 48:26.360 Just shut up, they're going to violate 48:26.360 --> 48:28.520 your rights, make sure it's documented, 48:28.680 --> 48:30.080 and then come for them on the back end 48:30.080 --> 48:30.940 because you don't want to keep digging 48:30.940 --> 48:32.100 yourself into a bigger hole. 48:32.280 --> 48:34.420 Or have to put you in a hole that. 48:34.500 --> 48:36.420 Or yeah, or have to be put in a hole. 48:36.760 --> 48:36.840 Right. 48:36.840 --> 48:38.600 You got to take the battle to the court, 48:38.700 --> 48:41.700 not the, you got to beat the rep, not the riot. 48:41.760 --> 48:44.580 So, you know, there's not like, 48:45.300 --> 48:46.760 it's just a bad situation. 48:47.000 --> 48:50.780 I think, you know, everybody did things 48:50.780 --> 48:52.560 that could have been done differently, 48:52.560 --> 48:55.420 and I think it ended up with the loss of life, 48:55.520 --> 48:56.460 and that's tragic. 48:57.700 --> 48:59.720 And the government shooting somebody's never good. 49:00.580 --> 49:02.840 So somebody posted on social media, 49:02.840 --> 49:04.700 and I really liked it, and I really 49:04.700 --> 49:06.860 wanted to talk about what he had posted, 49:07.060 --> 49:09.200 because it was so thoughtful, and, 49:09.880 --> 49:13.000 of course, I have no wifi until our long break, 49:13.200 --> 49:15.240 and then I'll try to get it working. 49:15.840 --> 49:17.140 But I'll paraphrase. 49:18.900 --> 49:21.340 The problem is, is we treat the government 49:21.340 --> 49:24.240 as something other than a gang, 49:24.660 --> 49:27.020 and we need to treat them as a gang. 49:27.620 --> 49:30.140 If you are in gang territory, 49:31.060 --> 49:33.280 and they're trying to do whatever, 49:34.020 --> 49:36.600 you don't want to mess with the gang. 49:36.840 --> 49:40.000 It doesn't matter if it's Cripsbloods or ICE. 49:41.260 --> 49:44.260 They are armed, and they're gonna take 49:44.260 --> 49:47.060 whatever action they want to get the result they want. 49:49.380 --> 49:53.900 So, either you are really, really focused on 49:54.620 --> 49:56.840 the action that you are about to take 49:56.840 --> 49:59.900 is so important to you that you're willing 49:59.900 --> 50:01.580 to give your life for it, 50:02.280 --> 50:06.140 then by all means, do whatever you feel you need to do. 50:07.240 --> 50:12.320 But if it's not, be like a libertarian and say, 50:12.960 --> 50:14.700 I'll get them on the back end. 50:14.880 --> 50:17.760 Or just avoid the area, stay in your house. 50:17.840 --> 50:21.480 Right. Or better yet, secede from the United States. 50:22.520 --> 50:24.240 Yeah, but that's the point. 50:24.520 --> 50:27.660 I mean, she did not have to die. 50:28.340 --> 50:30.160 No. Didn't she? 50:30.160 --> 50:31.460 She's not in front of the neighborhood, right? 50:31.560 --> 50:34.660 Didn't she drive from hours away to do this? 50:34.760 --> 50:35.760 To take part in this, yeah, yeah. 50:36.860 --> 50:39.660 Yeah, there was no good reason. 50:41.680 --> 50:44.320 It doesn't sound like her and I would be 50:44.320 --> 50:45.940 on the same team politically, 50:46.780 --> 50:49.280 or even philosophically or anything. 50:50.660 --> 50:53.160 But I do appreciate people standing up 50:53.160 --> 50:57.320 for the people that are out there working hard. 50:57.480 --> 51:00.140 And I'm sorry they haven't got all the paperwork yet. 51:00.160 --> 51:04.780 But yeah, I'm sorry that she died. 51:05.240 --> 51:05.900 And that's it. 51:06.260 --> 51:10.580 And I really have some serious questions 51:10.580 --> 51:14.260 for Mr. Ross, the ice agent who took her life. 51:14.900 --> 51:17.360 Were you really afraid for your life? 51:18.140 --> 51:22.700 I think that's what the ice agent would say to cover his butt. 51:23.060 --> 51:26.440 But the reality is that, yeah, it's sad that she's dead. 51:27.160 --> 51:28.200 It shouldn't have happened. 51:28.950 --> 51:35.200 But this government agency that the so-called president 51:35.200 --> 51:39.560 has allowed to become this enforcer of certain rules 51:40.660 --> 51:44.700 goes around unmasked like a violent gang 51:44.700 --> 51:48.860 and is throwing people in cages like a violent gang would. 51:49.600 --> 51:51.640 There's going to be blowback at some point. 51:51.900 --> 51:56.800 Yeah. And there is already and sadly we're seeing it. 51:56.800 --> 51:58.480 But yeah, that's the thing. 51:58.700 --> 52:06.460 I mean, if people would quit looking at them as this benevolent 52:06.460 --> 52:11.960 organization and saying, you do realize all the horrible things 52:11.960 --> 52:15.800 that your government does to you in addition to shooting 52:15.800 --> 52:20.520 women in the street for protesting and trying to stop people 52:20.520 --> 52:22.960 from putting people in cages 52:22.960 --> 52:25.260 because they haven't got all the right paperwork. 52:26.560 --> 52:28.280 I get that completely. 52:29.660 --> 52:31.400 Well, such is the nature of governments. 52:33.020 --> 52:36.860 We keep getting, we keep acting shocked that we would, 52:37.140 --> 52:41.500 you know, like this is just, this is the game. 52:41.780 --> 52:43.220 This is the par for the course. 52:43.540 --> 52:45.580 We come out with outrage all the time. 52:45.740 --> 52:48.040 Like this is what governments do is they kill people 52:48.040 --> 52:51.720 and they steal things and they empire and they expand. 52:52.380 --> 52:53.300 It eats. 52:53.620 --> 52:54.520 And people act surprised. 52:54.520 --> 52:55.860 Yeah. And we act surprised. 52:56.020 --> 52:59.360 Why are we still surprised that speaking for myself? 52:59.440 --> 53:00.520 This is an act. 53:00.960 --> 53:01.400 Yeah. 53:01.440 --> 53:03.200 Yes. Nothing surprises me. 53:03.220 --> 53:06.140 Yeah. I just, well, I mean, like, well, the fake outrage, 53:06.280 --> 53:08.800 like internet outrage, we're going to get on Twitter 53:08.800 --> 53:12.780 and scream about this and be like, see, see, see, oh, all right. 53:12.820 --> 53:16.040 You know, this is just, this is, this is Pax Americana. 53:16.240 --> 53:17.160 You have arrived. 53:17.500 --> 53:19.040 The empire is in full swing. 53:19.120 --> 53:21.800 We are taking the Western hemisphere and we're gearing 53:21.800 --> 53:25.460 up for a global conflict with China and Russia. 53:25.700 --> 53:28.720 That's why we're clutching our quote unquote bread basket. 53:28.960 --> 53:31.100 That's why Russia wants Ukraine so bad. 53:31.440 --> 53:34.320 Everybody's reaching into their back pockets and trying to, 53:34.600 --> 53:37.520 mother hens are grabbing what they think are their chicks 53:37.520 --> 53:40.240 and bringing them under their wings because they know 53:40.240 --> 53:43.360 things are about to get really crazy, really fast. 53:43.460 --> 53:45.780 Because this dollar that we've kicked down the street, 53:46.000 --> 53:48.600 we've kicked the can down the street so far 53:48.600 --> 53:51.540 that the only way that things are going to write itself 53:52.110 --> 53:53.840 right at a geopolitical scale, 53:54.060 --> 53:55.780 we can talk about this session all we want. 53:56.060 --> 53:58.340 But in the, in the big world, right, in the, in the, 53:58.340 --> 54:02.440 when you zoom out, when the U.S. empire falls, 54:02.440 --> 54:05.420 it's going to be a giant power vacuum and things are going 54:05.420 --> 54:08.420 to get really ugly for a lot of, a lot of the world. 54:08.660 --> 54:09.740 You make a good point, Angelo. 54:09.860 --> 54:11.640 And I think a lot of our listeners seem to understand 54:11.640 --> 54:14.340 that the American empire has been propping up the world 54:14.340 --> 54:15.800 for a long time. 54:15.800 --> 54:18.660 And when it collapses, which it inevitably will, 54:18.840 --> 54:20.380 it's going to take the rest of the world with it. 54:21.220 --> 54:24.180 But is it really all of America? 54:24.780 --> 54:27.240 Like, I don't really feel like I'm part of 54:28.140 --> 54:28.800 that's America. 54:29.040 --> 54:31.300 Well, you are, because we, we use the interstates, 54:31.420 --> 54:32.100 get our stuff here. 54:32.340 --> 54:34.180 The truckers get our stuff here, right? 54:34.280 --> 54:36.600 When that stuff stops moving, we're going to feel it, 54:36.640 --> 54:38.620 regardless if we've emotionally 54:39.960 --> 54:42.880 cut ourselves off from, from, from them, right? 54:43.020 --> 54:45.140 We've, we've verbally said it, 54:45.140 --> 54:46.140 but we're still here. 54:46.340 --> 54:48.760 We still have the trucks bring the food to the grocery store 54:48.760 --> 54:49.580 that we shop at. 54:49.840 --> 54:52.600 I understand all this, but what I'm saying is the people 54:52.600 --> 54:55.300 that are pulling the strings that are encouraging Trump 54:55.300 --> 55:00.020 and Trump going into all these different wars and, 55:00.060 --> 55:02.580 and making threats and doing all that, 55:02.720 --> 55:06.220 that's not the average American doing that stuff at all. 55:06.380 --> 55:07.120 No, it's the people who- 55:07.120 --> 55:09.580 That is a very small group of people 55:10.180 --> 55:13.120 at the very, very, very, very, very, 55:13.120 --> 55:14.980 very top of our society. 55:15.690 --> 55:18.960 And we're being manipulated just like every other country 55:18.960 --> 55:23.040 is being manipulated by their very top, top, top people. 55:23.220 --> 55:24.420 And that's the thing. 55:24.660 --> 55:28.080 It's not being done because we want it. 55:28.440 --> 55:33.140 Some will profess that they, you know, love this politician. 55:33.480 --> 55:34.620 Well, some people really do want it. 55:34.740 --> 55:36.660 I promise you, there's probably some like 55:37.220 --> 55:39.780 super right-wing boomers who are frothing at the mouth 55:39.780 --> 55:39.980 that- 55:39.980 --> 55:43.040 I guarantee you that it is certainly not a majority. 55:43.500 --> 55:46.280 No, probably not now, because all the young men 55:46.280 --> 55:50.400 realize that we have to go be the ones to try to take it. 55:50.580 --> 55:51.240 And I don't think- 55:51.240 --> 55:54.100 I think that's a very unpopular opinion right now, 55:54.200 --> 55:55.440 because we're questioning- 55:55.440 --> 56:01.220 Yeah, well, we're questioning why we would, we would go. 56:01.560 --> 56:02.920 And I see this- 56:02.920 --> 56:05.180 It's a common trend among young men is like, 56:05.300 --> 56:08.320 dude, we'll totally go do the things, 56:08.740 --> 56:10.780 but we don't want to do the things for Israel. 56:10.780 --> 56:13.160 We'd rather do the things for American interests 56:13.160 --> 56:14.820 that we know are American interests. 56:14.900 --> 56:15.240 Right. 56:15.280 --> 56:16.840 But those are just going to be the interests that the 56:16.840 --> 56:19.300 politician tells you are the Americans. 56:19.940 --> 56:21.800 Politics and big money. 56:22.400 --> 56:24.320 And yeah, it's sad. 56:24.660 --> 56:25.940 And I think you're right. 56:26.080 --> 56:29.560 I think you're right that we're going to get sucked into something horrible. 56:30.220 --> 56:32.720 Man, I just look at this stuff and I go, man, how, 56:32.820 --> 56:35.800 who else can we try to push hard against? 56:35.920 --> 56:37.620 Now we're pushing hard against Europe. 56:37.620 --> 56:43.600 Who we've been like as close of allies as you could possibly be for, 56:43.640 --> 56:45.040 I don't know how long. 56:45.500 --> 56:50.240 Well, allies or sugar daddies, we paid for the entire defense budget. 56:50.580 --> 56:51.060 I get that. 56:51.280 --> 56:54.680 But allies, I mean, they were our front step to Russia. 56:54.980 --> 56:59.360 I mean, that's, and that, we got something out of all this too. 57:00.040 --> 57:04.720 After Russia kind of fell, you could argue that, you know, 57:04.800 --> 57:06.020 it was kind of one sided. 57:06.020 --> 57:09.800 But well, I think the US, the USSR is dead. 57:11.460 --> 57:15.240 Putin's taking like the fourth position in like pan Eurasianism. 57:15.620 --> 57:16.880 He's not even a communist. 57:17.140 --> 57:19.640 He's trying to create like something else. 57:19.840 --> 57:21.240 Alexander Dugan talks about it more. 57:21.760 --> 57:26.140 His little, his little, his version of Rasputin, 57:26.200 --> 57:28.080 he's got like his own Rasputin that's kind of been 57:28.080 --> 57:31.020 okay, whispering in his ear, but he's looking at like a fourth. 57:31.640 --> 57:34.860 He's taking the fourth position in a pan Eurasianism. 57:34.860 --> 57:35.820 He's not even a communist. 57:36.040 --> 57:39.780 I don't think the communist influence in Russia is what it was 50 years ago. 57:40.360 --> 57:42.660 No, but the money is still there. 57:44.460 --> 57:47.520 603283, I'm 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on the Liberty Radio Network at lrn.fm. 01:00:13.930 --> 01:00:16.250 From Feature Story News in New York, 01:00:16.510 --> 01:00:18.210 I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review. 01:00:18.890 --> 01:00:20.550 In a stunning late-night operation, 01:00:20.770 --> 01:00:22.710 the United States captured Venezuela's 01:00:22.710 --> 01:00:25.450 President, Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Caracas, 01:00:25.450 --> 01:00:27.810 the pair were then transported to New York City, 01:00:28.090 --> 01:00:29.010 where they appeared in court 01:00:29.010 --> 01:00:31.850 facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges. 01:00:32.130 --> 01:00:33.710 President Donald Trump said that the raid 01:00:33.710 --> 01:00:36.210 was part of large-scale strikes against Venezuela. 01:00:36.650 --> 01:00:39.510 Mary Trini Minna was in Caracas, as it all unfolded. 01:00:39.690 --> 01:00:44.290 This morning, Venezuelans woke up with several blasts 01:00:44.290 --> 01:00:47.710 across the city with airplanes and helicopters 01:00:47.710 --> 01:00:51.410 passing through across the city of Caracas flying over. 01:00:52.270 --> 01:00:54.290 What we know so far is the information 01:00:54.290 --> 01:00:57.430 provided by the Venezuelan government. 01:00:57.930 --> 01:01:01.150 They say the attacks took place in three different states 01:01:01.150 --> 01:01:05.130 of Venezuela, La Guayra, Aragua, and Miranda. 01:01:05.690 --> 01:01:09.650 Miranda is located in the metropolitan area of Caracas. 01:01:09.890 --> 01:01:12.830 I heard the blast earlier in the morning. 01:01:13.050 --> 01:01:16.910 Right now, the city remains in calm with authorities 01:01:16.910 --> 01:01:20.190 calling to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty 01:01:20.190 --> 01:01:22.390 of the country and remain in calm. 01:01:22.390 --> 01:01:26.770 The government says they will declare a state of emergency, 01:01:27.290 --> 01:01:30.570 and then we hear about the information provided 01:01:30.570 --> 01:01:34.190 by Donald Trump saying they capture the leader 01:01:34.190 --> 01:01:38.930 of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores. 01:01:39.310 --> 01:01:42.170 A US immigration agent shot dead a female driver 01:01:42.170 --> 01:01:45.330 in Minneapolis this week kicking off a political firestorm. 01:01:45.850 --> 01:01:48.850 Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city 01:01:48.850 --> 01:01:51.830 where around 2,000 federal officers have been deployed, 01:01:51.830 --> 01:01:53.390 Nick Harper reports. 01:01:53.830 --> 01:01:55.930 The shooting in Minneapolis has become the latest 01:01:55.930 --> 01:01:58.910 political touchstone with the left and the right 01:01:58.910 --> 01:02:01.890 viewing the videos in contradictory ways. 01:02:02.770 --> 01:02:06.030 Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting 01:02:06.030 --> 01:02:09.530 in self-defense that the woman was trying to run him over. 01:02:10.050 --> 01:02:12.530 They called the driver a violent rioter, 01:02:12.650 --> 01:02:15.910 with Donald Trump describing her as violently willfully 01:02:15.910 --> 01:02:18.670 and viciously attacking the ICE officer. 01:02:19.090 --> 01:02:22.170 Those on the left and protesters say this was murder, 01:02:22.770 --> 01:02:25.750 with Minnesota's governor Tim Wolves saying it was 01:02:25.750 --> 01:02:28.830 a consequence of the federal government trying to 01:02:28.830 --> 01:02:31.410 generate fear, headlines and conflict. 01:02:31.790 --> 01:02:33.470 It was reported this week that a complete 01:02:33.470 --> 01:02:36.630 internet shutdown was imposed in Iran after mass 01:02:36.630 --> 01:02:39.110 protests against the country's clerical leadership. 01:02:39.670 --> 01:02:42.150 What started as demonstrations against Iran's 01:02:42.150 --> 01:02:44.530 struggling economy has now become a wider movement 01:02:44.530 --> 01:02:47.690 with agitations now being reported in all 31 01:02:47.690 --> 01:02:48.990 provinces of the country. 01:02:49.390 --> 01:02:50.790 Ishan Gag tells us more. 01:02:51.010 --> 01:02:54.270 Videos verified by local media show large crowds of 01:02:54.270 --> 01:02:56.930 anti-government protesters marching through Iran's 01:02:56.930 --> 01:03:00.230 capital Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling 01:03:00.230 --> 01:03:03.290 for the removal of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah 01:03:03.290 --> 01:03:04.090 Ali Khamenei. 01:03:04.650 --> 01:03:07.250 Though demonstrations started in Iran in late 01:03:07.250 --> 01:03:10.330 December against rising inflation, Thursday's 01:03:10.330 --> 01:03:12.610 protests are believed to be triggered by calls 01:03:12.610 --> 01:03:15.330 from Iranian crown prince and a key opposition 01:03:15.330 --> 01:03:16.830 leader Reza Pahlavi. 01:03:17.230 --> 01:03:19.630 Amnesty International says more than 20 people 01:03:19.630 --> 01:03:22.250 have died in the protests since December 31st 01:03:22.250 --> 01:03:25.170 and concerns remain about further clashes between 01:03:25.170 --> 01:03:27.510 protesters and Iranian security forces. 01:03:27.970 --> 01:03:29.970 The French foreign minister says he will work 01:03:29.970 --> 01:03:32.510 with European allies to create a plan should 01:03:32.510 --> 01:03:34.470 the United States follow through on its 01:03:34.470 --> 01:03:36.610 threats of taking control of Greenland. 01:03:37.170 --> 01:03:39.010 The Trump administration has renewed its 01:03:39.010 --> 01:03:40.750 interest in the semi-autonomous Danish 01:03:40.750 --> 01:03:42.990 territory stating that it's needed for 01:03:42.990 --> 01:03:44.490 matters of national security. 01:03:44.490 --> 01:03:46.610 William Dantelow reports from Brussels. 01:03:47.310 --> 01:03:49.790 France's foreign minister says he's discussing 01:03:49.790 --> 01:03:51.670 the issue of Greenland during a meeting with 01:03:51.670 --> 01:03:53.230 German and Polish counterparts. 01:03:53.870 --> 01:03:57.130 Speaking on local radio, Jean Noël Barreau said 01:03:57.130 --> 01:03:59.870 that France wants to take action, but to do so 01:03:59.870 --> 01:04:01.790 in coordination with European partners. 01:04:02.510 --> 01:04:05.610 This comes as US President Donald Trump says he's 01:04:05.610 --> 01:04:07.870 discussing a range of options to acquire 01:04:07.870 --> 01:04:09.910 Greenland, including the use of the military. 01:04:10.330 --> 01:04:12.630 Washington says it needs the territory to 01:04:12.630 --> 01:04:14.830 stave off an increased threat in the Arctic 01:04:14.830 --> 01:04:16.590 posed by Russia and China. 01:04:17.330 --> 01:04:19.990 Several European leaders append a joint statement 01:04:19.990 --> 01:04:22.310 this week saying that the region's security 01:04:22.310 --> 01:04:25.230 is a collective issue, and that Greenland 01:04:25.230 --> 01:04:26.550 belongs to its people. 01:04:26.950 --> 01:04:30.030 380,000 homes were left without power on 01:04:30.030 --> 01:04:32.070 Friday after Storm Goeriti hit France. 01:04:32.450 --> 01:04:34.030 The north of the country was worst hit, 01:04:34.230 --> 01:04:36.110 with all train services in the region of 01:04:36.110 --> 01:04:37.050 Normandy cancelled. 01:04:37.590 --> 01:04:38.390 Ross Callen reports. 01:04:39.170 --> 01:04:41.510 In Normandy, heavy rain is sweeping across 01:04:41.510 --> 01:04:44.470 the region and winds in excess of 200 kilometers 01:04:44.470 --> 01:04:46.850 an hour have brought down trees on railway 01:04:46.850 --> 01:04:48.450 lines and electricity cables. 01:04:48.850 --> 01:04:50.450 Dozens of people have been injured across 01:04:50.450 --> 01:04:52.270 the country and the top official in the 01:04:52.270 --> 01:04:54.470 region around the port city of Calais has 01:04:54.470 --> 01:04:56.690 ordered the public to shelter in place for now. 01:04:56.990 --> 01:04:58.850 The stormy conditions will continue into 01:04:58.850 --> 01:04:59.350 the weekend. 01:04:59.730 --> 01:05:01.990 On Saturday, six regions in the northeast 01:05:01.990 --> 01:05:04.110 of the country are expecting more snow 01:05:04.110 --> 01:05:06.310 and ice with yellow weather warnings in 01:05:06.310 --> 01:05:06.630 place. 01:05:06.990 --> 01:05:08.690 From Feature Story News, in New York, 01:05:08.910 --> 01:05:10.570 I'm Itch McCann, and that was the 01:05:10.570 --> 01:05:11.150 weekend review. 01:05:13.550 --> 01:05:15.750 But first, our parenting expert Rebecca 01:05:15.750 --> 01:05:17.710 McCallum is here with some advice. 01:05:18.010 --> 01:05:18.790 Good morning everybody. 01:05:19.270 --> 01:05:19.990 Good morning Rebecca. 01:05:20.430 --> 01:05:22.090 Now Rebecca runs a popular parenting 01:05:22.090 --> 01:05:23.510 blog called Mom Magic. 01:05:23.730 --> 01:05:24.170 That's right. 01:05:24.510 --> 01:05:26.250 It's about the everyday parenting choices 01:05:26.250 --> 01:05:28.010 that could make a big difference on our 01:05:28.010 --> 01:05:28.330 children. 01:05:28.730 --> 01:05:30.090 Rebecca, I read the blog a lot. 01:05:30.190 --> 01:05:31.970 My first question is, who the hell do 01:05:31.970 --> 01:05:33.210 you think you are telling me how to 01:05:33.210 --> 01:05:33.890 raise my kids? 01:05:34.290 --> 01:05:35.930 You know, I have a degree in early 01:05:35.930 --> 01:05:38.230 childhood education, but my greatest 01:05:38.230 --> 01:05:39.930 education has been raising three 01:05:39.930 --> 01:05:41.490 beautiful kids of my own. 01:05:41.910 --> 01:05:43.970 Okay Rebecca, what other bullshit do you 01:05:43.970 --> 01:05:45.870 have to share with us this morning? 01:05:46.070 --> 01:05:47.590 I talk about this in my book, and it 01:05:47.590 --> 01:05:49.070 does take a lot of effort, but 01:05:49.070 --> 01:05:51.370 parents really should teach their 01:05:51.370 --> 01:05:52.430 child a second language. 01:05:52.890 --> 01:05:54.210 My daughter Hazel and I are learning 01:05:54.210 --> 01:05:54.970 French together. 01:05:55.290 --> 01:05:56.710 Wow, you know, I'll bet a lot of 01:05:56.710 --> 01:05:57.970 moms watching right now are thinking 01:05:57.970 --> 01:05:58.630 f**k you. 01:05:59.170 --> 01:06:00.830 Well, I get that a lot, but the 01:06:00.830 --> 01:06:02.010 window during which language 01:06:02.010 --> 01:06:03.630 acquisition skills are at their peak 01:06:03.630 --> 01:06:05.090 is really very slow. 01:06:05.110 --> 01:06:05.170 Sure, whatever you're doing, I wish 01:06:05.170 --> 01:06:05.890 I had done that. 01:06:06.030 --> 01:06:07.250 You win, but guess what I just 01:06:07.250 --> 01:06:07.590 remembered? 01:06:08.090 --> 01:06:08.970 You're not my boss. 01:06:10.550 --> 01:06:12.850 Yes, is the Onion News Network. 01:06:14.570 --> 01:06:16.790 Don't miss a moment of Freetalk Live. 01:06:17.150 --> 01:06:18.570 Get our archives daily via our 01:06:18.570 --> 01:06:22.110 podcast at feeds.freetalklive.com. 01:06:43.500 --> 01:06:46.240 Our number two coming to you 01:06:46.240 --> 01:06:48.300 we've been doing radio, and last 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01:08:01.380 But we are talking 01:08:02.220 --> 01:08:03.100 Minneapolis stuff. 01:08:03.260 --> 01:08:05.620 We are talking some Venezuela stuff 01:08:05.620 --> 01:08:07.320 that's been talked about a lot on 01:08:07.320 --> 01:08:08.100 Freetalk Live. 01:08:08.740 --> 01:08:10.340 I want to talk about Greenland a 01:08:10.340 --> 01:08:11.960 little bit and all of this, 01:08:12.060 --> 01:08:13.240 the common denominator, 01:08:14.260 --> 01:08:16.180 seems to be the federal government 01:08:16.180 --> 01:08:17.560 and these places. 01:08:18.140 --> 01:08:19.820 Well, Greenland is a hell of a 01:08:19.820 --> 01:08:20.060 place. 01:08:20.280 --> 01:08:21.340 It's a place in seldom green. 01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:22.880 It makes me wonder why we want it 01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:23.240 so bad. 01:08:24.240 --> 01:08:25.140 Minerals, bud. 01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:26.080 Minerals. 01:08:26.460 --> 01:08:27.940 And they'll let the minerals, I 01:08:27.940 --> 01:08:28.140 guess. 01:08:28.460 --> 01:08:30.380 And it's in a good position. 01:08:30.900 --> 01:08:32.860 If you're looking at defending 01:08:32.860 --> 01:08:34.520 the United States of America. 01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:35.340 That's Russia. 01:08:35.660 --> 01:08:36.180 It's like, right? 01:08:36.360 --> 01:08:37.200 This is what's in the way. 01:08:37.440 --> 01:08:37.680 Right. 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:37.940 Right. 01:08:38.180 --> 01:08:39.280 It's it's a good place. 01:08:39.780 --> 01:08:40.500 And Canada. 01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:41.900 Let's not forget Canada. 01:08:42.160 --> 01:08:43.440 Canada is a target too. 01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:43.880 There. 01:08:44.540 --> 01:08:46.920 Trump has been talking since he 01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:48.400 became president before he 01:08:48.400 --> 01:08:49.320 became president. 01:08:49.940 --> 01:08:52.040 Before he became president again. 01:08:52.580 --> 01:08:53.660 That's really confusing. 01:08:54.940 --> 01:08:57.020 I read something somewhere or 01:08:57.020 --> 01:08:58.840 heard something that Benjamin 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:00.700 Franklin like really, really tried 01:09:00.700 --> 01:09:03.820 to get Canada to sign on and 01:09:03.820 --> 01:09:04.180 leaving, 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:07.460 leaving like declaring independence 01:09:07.460 --> 01:09:08.420 with us. 01:09:08.460 --> 01:09:08.960 From the queen. 01:09:09.280 --> 01:09:09.720 From the king. 01:09:09.740 --> 01:09:09.760 Yeah. 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:10.260 From the king. 01:09:10.260 --> 01:09:10.700 Yeah. 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:13.420 And I think I can't remember 01:09:13.420 --> 01:09:14.860 what the exact story was, but it 01:09:14.860 --> 01:09:15.640 almost sounds like they were 01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:17.140 sabotaged from the inside on 01:09:17.140 --> 01:09:19.100 purpose to not get it passed. 01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:20.520 Like somebody was held up on 01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:21.920 purpose to not get there in 01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:22.220 time. 01:09:22.420 --> 01:09:23.020 That's interesting. 01:09:23.020 --> 01:09:25.120 Because like the Canadians would 01:09:25.120 --> 01:09:26.680 have been down, but something, 01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:28.440 somebody threw some weight around 01:09:28.440 --> 01:09:29.680 and changed people's minds. 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:31.660 It wouldn't surprise me. 01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:33.380 And on the back end somewhere 01:09:33.380 --> 01:09:34.420 things in the past. 01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:35.220 Yeah. 01:09:35.460 --> 01:09:37.840 I just don't see another 01:09:39.120 --> 01:09:41.240 another country that kind of has 01:09:41.240 --> 01:09:43.040 their stuff together like Canada 01:09:43.700 --> 01:09:45.720 or, you know, Greenland, which 01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:48.880 you know is an autonomous region 01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:50.300 of Denmark. 01:09:50.300 --> 01:09:54.000 Why would they want to come and 01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:54.860 join America? 01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:58.160 And I just don't, and maybe 01:09:58.160 --> 01:09:59.740 somebody has some ideas on that. 01:10:00.240 --> 01:10:01.380 I don't know. 01:10:01.540 --> 01:10:03.040 I just don't see it. 01:10:03.120 --> 01:10:04.440 I don't see what they could 01:10:04.440 --> 01:10:07.500 possibly gain from joining. 01:10:08.040 --> 01:10:10.580 What I think is kind of a 01:10:10.580 --> 01:10:11.900 maxed out country. 01:10:12.120 --> 01:10:14.740 I don't think there's a lot of 01:10:14.740 --> 01:10:17.920 room for us to get ever any better. 01:10:18.140 --> 01:10:19.400 If you can get there all 01:10:19.400 --> 01:10:22.240 garky enough money in the time 01:10:22.240 --> 01:10:24.080 being to make it look like 01:10:24.080 --> 01:10:26.260 they're set up, you can probably 01:10:26.260 --> 01:10:26.900 buy them off. 01:10:27.040 --> 01:10:28.000 It's a small enough place. 01:10:29.780 --> 01:10:31.160 You could probably, you could 01:10:31.160 --> 01:10:33.460 probably throw your weight around 01:10:33.460 --> 01:10:37.220 a little bit monetarily and make 01:10:37.220 --> 01:10:37.740 that happen. 01:10:38.140 --> 01:10:38.940 That's what mobs do. 01:10:39.160 --> 01:10:41.400 If they can't, first they'll 01:10:41.400 --> 01:10:42.100 try to make a deal. 01:10:42.600 --> 01:10:43.680 And if they don't get the 01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:45.660 numbers they want, then they'll 01:10:45.660 --> 01:10:47.820 try to just buy you out outright. 01:10:47.940 --> 01:10:48.160 Right. 01:10:48.160 --> 01:10:49.660 And if they can't buy you out 01:10:49.660 --> 01:10:51.160 outright, well then they'll do it 01:10:51.160 --> 01:10:52.520 by force and they'll get rid of 01:10:52.520 --> 01:10:54.120 you and then we'll just move in. 01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:56.200 I don't think, I think there, 01:10:57.380 --> 01:10:59.740 if things don't change, what the 01:10:59.740 --> 01:11:00.900 federal government is doing 01:11:00.900 --> 01:11:02.600 is they're just telling people 01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:03.540 what's going to happen 01:11:04.060 --> 01:11:05.780 and we can either do it the 01:11:05.780 --> 01:11:07.680 easy way or we can do it the 01:11:07.680 --> 01:11:08.380 hard way. 01:11:08.440 --> 01:11:10.380 But these things are maybe not 01:11:10.380 --> 01:11:12.260 in the next year or the next 01:11:12.260 --> 01:11:14.560 four years, but it's in the 01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:16.980 20 to 30 year, 50 year time 01:11:16.980 --> 01:11:18.580 table to kind of 01:11:20.160 --> 01:11:21.620 have to see the red, white, and 01:11:21.620 --> 01:11:23.560 blue expand across the 01:11:24.360 --> 01:11:25.900 western hemisphere or at least 01:11:25.900 --> 01:11:27.340 attempt to attempt to. 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:28.760 I can see that. 01:11:29.080 --> 01:11:31.640 And I know that China's been 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:32.680 playing that game too. 01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:34.700 I mean, we don't talk about China 01:11:34.700 --> 01:11:35.380 and Africa. 01:11:36.080 --> 01:11:37.360 Oh, they're so heavily invested 01:11:37.360 --> 01:11:39.000 in so much stuff there. 01:11:39.180 --> 01:11:40.540 And they are, they are gobbling 01:11:40.540 --> 01:11:42.200 up parts of the globe and 01:11:42.200 --> 01:11:43.420 with insane debt. 01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:44.260 It's the debt. 01:11:46.280 --> 01:11:47.520 Insane interest rates. 01:11:47.640 --> 01:11:49.020 I don't know why I lost that term 01:11:49.020 --> 01:11:49.520 for a second. 01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:51.240 So the insane interest rates 01:11:51.240 --> 01:11:52.580 that the Chinese are putting 01:11:52.580 --> 01:11:53.880 on these African countries for 01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:54.900 this infrastructure that 01:11:54.900 --> 01:11:56.000 they're building that they 01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:57.760 built for free will quote 01:11:57.760 --> 01:11:58.220 free. 01:11:58.640 --> 01:11:59.500 You're going to pay us back 01:11:59.500 --> 01:12:01.100 with this insane amount of 01:12:01.100 --> 01:12:02.340 interest that they know these 01:12:02.340 --> 01:12:03.280 countries are going to default 01:12:03.280 --> 01:12:03.640 on. 01:12:04.040 --> 01:12:04.860 So what happens when they 01:12:04.860 --> 01:12:06.520 default will China takes 01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:07.940 control of that infrastructure 01:12:07.940 --> 01:12:08.420 again. 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:09.500 They'll come collect on the 01:12:09.500 --> 01:12:09.860 debt. 01:12:10.980 --> 01:12:12.700 The same way that we took 01:12:12.700 --> 01:12:13.960 these Venezuelan tankers 01:12:14.260 --> 01:12:15.640 or tried to. 01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:17.360 My question is who's going to 01:12:17.360 --> 01:12:18.920 when the U.S. defaults on it 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:20.040 that who's going to collect. 01:12:22.200 --> 01:12:24.360 I that's that's it's a given 01:12:24.360 --> 01:12:26.740 that the debt is so large now 01:12:26.740 --> 01:12:28.400 that it couldn't be paid off. 01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:33.460 And there's no sign of any 01:12:35.300 --> 01:12:36.500 moderation that. 01:12:36.940 --> 01:12:38.220 I mean, what was I hearing 01:12:38.220 --> 01:12:38.480 about? 01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:39.700 Oh, it was this morning. 01:12:41.200 --> 01:12:43.680 Trump is preparing a new 01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:44.700 defense budget. 01:12:46.400 --> 01:12:48.580 He wants to increase the 01:12:48.580 --> 01:12:50.220 number by half a trillion 01:12:50.220 --> 01:12:51.580 dollars over what 01:12:52.460 --> 01:12:54.040 the joint chiefs of staff 01:12:54.040 --> 01:12:55.120 say they need. 01:12:56.920 --> 01:12:58.260 That sounds like he wants 01:12:58.260 --> 01:12:58.840 enough to. 01:12:59.240 --> 01:13:00.480 To maybe go to war. 01:13:00.780 --> 01:13:01.380 Yeah, it does. 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.600 But but does nobody realize 01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:07.140 that there is no money. 01:13:07.360 --> 01:13:09.060 I mean, we're just printing 01:13:09.060 --> 01:13:09.520 stuff. 01:13:10.340 --> 01:13:11.900 It is the emperor's new 01:13:11.900 --> 01:13:12.200 clothes. 01:13:12.200 --> 01:13:14.800 It's it's it's like musical 01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:15.340 chairs. 01:13:15.620 --> 01:13:17.200 I mean, we're all still dancing. 01:13:17.500 --> 01:13:18.580 We're all still dancing. 01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:20.060 But there hasn't been any money 01:13:20.060 --> 01:13:20.940 for a long time. 01:13:21.180 --> 01:13:22.840 No, there hasn't been any money 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:23.740 since we did. 01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:24.860 The billionaires, Chris, 01:13:25.140 --> 01:13:26.520 and maybe the billionaires will 01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:27.660 will help pay off our debt. 01:13:27.980 --> 01:13:29.400 Oh, that's a good one. 01:13:29.980 --> 01:13:30.520 No, right? 01:13:30.700 --> 01:13:32.920 Yeah, it's so economically 01:13:33.700 --> 01:13:34.220 unfeasible 01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:36.800 from the billionaire point of 01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:37.000 view. 01:13:37.160 --> 01:13:38.620 I mean, it's it's ridiculous 01:13:38.620 --> 01:13:40.900 and it's just not 01:13:41.440 --> 01:13:42.900 a solvable problem. 01:13:46.300 --> 01:13:47.780 I just laugh. 01:13:48.060 --> 01:13:49.760 I mean, because it can't be fixed. 01:13:50.140 --> 01:13:51.600 The only thing you can do 01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:52.580 is grab resources 01:13:52.580 --> 01:13:54.320 and that's what we're doing. 01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:55.120 Yeah, that's it. 01:13:55.300 --> 01:13:55.580 That's it. 01:13:55.860 --> 01:13:56.940 You can only you can only 01:13:56.940 --> 01:13:58.640 because at the end of the day, 01:13:59.160 --> 01:14:00.600 right, the money is just 01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.040 a placeholder for things 01:14:03.040 --> 01:14:04.240 that we consider valuable. 01:14:04.660 --> 01:14:06.120 At one point was gold 01:14:06.120 --> 01:14:07.480 and then we changed it to oil 01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:08.600 and then we changed it 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:09.700 to the United States guns. 01:14:10.270 --> 01:14:10.520 Right. 01:14:10.940 --> 01:14:12.600 We believe in the guns of the U.S. 01:14:12.660 --> 01:14:13.820 And that's why we use the dollar. 01:14:14.240 --> 01:14:14.380 Yeah. 01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:17.160 But at the end of the day, 01:14:17.160 --> 01:14:18.780 it's the carrot. 01:14:19.440 --> 01:14:21.000 What you need is the food. 01:14:21.320 --> 01:14:22.320 You need the resources 01:14:22.320 --> 01:14:23.780 for your people 01:14:23.780 --> 01:14:26.660 in order to make things move. 01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:27.820 It doesn't matter how much 01:14:27.820 --> 01:14:29.840 the computer says you have. 01:14:30.300 --> 01:14:32.140 It's how much tangible assets, 01:14:32.360 --> 01:14:33.500 things that you can hold 01:14:33.500 --> 01:14:36.080 and manipulate within this 3D space 01:14:36.080 --> 01:14:37.140 we're in right now 01:14:38.220 --> 01:14:40.700 to make your life easier. 01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:43.080 And you need it right now. 01:14:43.280 --> 01:14:45.420 The United States has a ton of food. 01:14:46.140 --> 01:14:47.640 Well, I just go back to basics. 01:14:48.480 --> 01:14:49.740 We do have a ton of food. 01:14:50.100 --> 01:14:50.940 Well, I'm just resources. 01:14:51.480 --> 01:14:53.320 Keep getting illegal immigrants 01:14:53.320 --> 01:14:54.680 to come in and pick it. 01:14:56.180 --> 01:14:57.520 Well, I think we waste 01:14:57.520 --> 01:14:58.560 so much food as it is. 01:14:58.680 --> 01:14:59.740 Don't we throw so much away? 01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:00.260 We do. 01:15:00.700 --> 01:15:02.180 Like in produce and stuff. 01:15:02.280 --> 01:15:03.160 Like we don't can anything. 01:15:03.580 --> 01:15:05.360 The United States geographically 01:15:05.360 --> 01:15:06.460 is in a good position. 01:15:06.460 --> 01:15:07.660 Yeah, we have enough food. 01:15:08.260 --> 01:15:08.620 Yeah, yeah. 01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:09.380 I'm not, I'm not. 01:15:09.580 --> 01:15:09.820 Yeah. 01:15:10.040 --> 01:15:11.100 I'm just saying resources, 01:15:11.420 --> 01:15:12.220 food as a 01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:13.920 just a resource, 01:15:14.220 --> 01:15:15.320 something that everyone would 01:15:15.320 --> 01:15:16.540 understand as a resource, 01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:17.340 right, is food. 01:15:17.400 --> 01:15:18.760 But a necessary one. 01:15:19.360 --> 01:15:21.520 I will say it's more necessary 01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:24.740 to life than rare earth magnets 01:15:24.740 --> 01:15:26.240 or something like that. 01:15:26.240 --> 01:15:26.920 Well, that's what we need 01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:27.920 for our electric vehicles. 01:15:28.300 --> 01:15:29.720 Oh, that's what we need for. 01:15:29.740 --> 01:15:30.340 That's how we're gonna save 01:15:30.340 --> 01:15:31.060 the planet, Chris. 01:15:31.300 --> 01:15:31.920 Didn't you know that? 01:15:32.120 --> 01:15:33.500 We're all gonna switch to electric. 01:15:33.980 --> 01:15:35.180 We're all gonna switch to electric. 01:15:35.180 --> 01:15:36.760 We're gonna all use silver 01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:38.120 to create the batteries 01:15:38.120 --> 01:15:39.060 and silver is going to go up 01:15:39.060 --> 01:15:40.300 in price and won't be wealthy. 01:15:40.440 --> 01:15:41.600 You know, I'm gonna own a car. 01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:43.780 You're gonna rent a Waymo service, 01:15:44.160 --> 01:15:45.340 right, driverless cars, 01:15:45.900 --> 01:15:47.500 and you'll rent access 01:15:47.500 --> 01:15:48.840 to have the car pick you up 01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:49.660 when you need it to. 01:15:50.080 --> 01:15:50.880 With what? 01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:52.460 Like your phone, 01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:53.300 your digital ID. 01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:54.680 No, I mean with what money? 01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:57.440 Well, you'll use your Amazon bucks. 01:15:58.700 --> 01:16:00.000 Oh, that'll be it. 01:16:00.220 --> 01:16:01.540 The US dollar is gone, 01:16:01.800 --> 01:16:03.380 but now you can use your Amazon bucks. 01:16:03.380 --> 01:16:05.420 Yeah, you can use your Amazon wallet 01:16:05.420 --> 01:16:06.900 to get to your Amazon. 01:16:07.180 --> 01:16:09.720 The Amazon van charges you rent 01:16:10.220 --> 01:16:12.660 to get you to your Amazon office 01:16:12.660 --> 01:16:14.480 where, you know, your Amazon warehouse. 01:16:16.240 --> 01:16:17.620 That's a really good book. 01:16:17.800 --> 01:16:18.500 There's a book called 01:16:18.500 --> 01:16:19.560 Warehouse, 01:16:20.260 --> 01:16:23.140 just about this huge mega corporation 01:16:23.140 --> 01:16:24.480 that at this point, 01:16:24.620 --> 01:16:26.300 there are so many warehouses 01:16:26.300 --> 01:16:28.780 that the warehouses just become towns 01:16:29.540 --> 01:16:31.720 and everybody where you live 01:16:31.720 --> 01:16:33.080 and work, it's all the same. 01:16:33.380 --> 01:16:35.500 I've been driving through the desert, 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:37.120 right, out West, 01:16:37.300 --> 01:16:38.240 like the big open spaces 01:16:38.240 --> 01:16:39.120 and out of nowhere, 01:16:39.200 --> 01:16:40.920 there will be an Amazon facility 01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:44.060 the size of a college campus, 01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:46.140 just out in the middle of nowhere 01:16:46.140 --> 01:16:47.660 off the side of the interstate. 01:16:48.240 --> 01:16:50.380 And it really does look like a small town. 01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:52.840 Yeah, there's like four or five outbuildings. 01:16:53.020 --> 01:16:53.960 There's, you know, 01:16:54.020 --> 01:16:54.960 the central like warehouse. 01:16:55.480 --> 01:16:57.120 There's like food options near, 01:16:57.120 --> 01:16:58.240 like right next to it, 01:16:58.260 --> 01:16:59.060 like it's like a little. 01:16:59.440 --> 01:17:00.680 Yeah, you go inside, 01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:01.780 there's a food court. 01:17:01.820 --> 01:17:02.680 It's almost like a boom town, 01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:03.660 like a Wild West, 01:17:03.820 --> 01:17:05.960 like you're riding on your horse 01:17:05.960 --> 01:17:06.660 and you look out in the, 01:17:06.660 --> 01:17:07.480 like the distance 01:17:07.480 --> 01:17:08.580 and there's just like a saloon 01:17:08.580 --> 01:17:09.640 and like a watering hole, 01:17:09.680 --> 01:17:10.440 but that's what it is. 01:17:10.460 --> 01:17:11.300 It's an Amazon warehouse, 01:17:11.380 --> 01:17:12.940 like just propped up 01:17:12.940 --> 01:17:14.020 and the only reason it's there 01:17:14.020 --> 01:17:16.160 is because it has to be 01:17:16.160 --> 01:17:18.120 or like it is, if that makes sense. 01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:19.940 And in this book, 01:17:20.180 --> 01:17:21.700 the novel was, you know, 01:17:22.440 --> 01:17:24.160 the economy was so bad 01:17:24.160 --> 01:17:27.020 that they were like literally the only ones, 01:17:27.180 --> 01:17:28.760 it was the only place you could get a job 01:17:29.540 --> 01:17:32.620 was to go to work at one of these warehouses. 01:17:33.260 --> 01:17:33.780 Huh. 01:17:34.200 --> 01:17:35.180 And you lived at the warehouse 01:17:35.180 --> 01:17:38.520 and yes, it was dystopian, 01:17:38.860 --> 01:17:40.740 but it's not, 01:17:41.720 --> 01:17:43.180 it's kind of coming true. 01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:44.560 I don't know, 01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:47.600 yeah, the bigger question is 01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:50.300 how far can Pax Americana go 01:17:50.840 --> 01:17:51.740 before it crumbles? 01:17:52.120 --> 01:17:52.920 They would say to Mars. 01:17:54.100 --> 01:17:56.420 You know, if the powers the government would say, 01:17:56.860 --> 01:17:57.740 Elon Musk would say, 01:17:57.820 --> 01:17:59.260 we're taking this spaceship, 01:17:59.480 --> 01:18:00.520 we're riding it to Mars, 01:18:00.740 --> 01:18:02.220 is what has how far they'd want it. 01:18:02.220 --> 01:18:03.720 The colonize the rest of the universe. 01:18:03.860 --> 01:18:04.680 Yeah, they would say, 01:18:04.700 --> 01:18:05.220 they would say, 01:18:06.120 --> 01:18:06.880 you know, 01:18:08.120 --> 01:18:10.740 what was the manifest destiny to the stars? 01:18:11.040 --> 01:18:11.500 100%. 01:18:11.500 --> 01:18:16.220 I think my only remaining hope for Elon is that 01:18:16.880 --> 01:18:18.000 that he does Mars 01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:19.680 and it becomes the, 01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:21.120 the ultimate succession. 01:18:22.500 --> 01:18:24.760 It's like, okay, thanks. 01:18:24.900 --> 01:18:26.760 Yeah, imagine that in 2000 years, 01:18:26.880 --> 01:18:28.660 there's a civil war between Earth and Mars. 01:18:28.860 --> 01:18:29.440 Yeah, yeah. 01:18:29.440 --> 01:18:32.240 About who has autonomy over themselves. 01:18:32.480 --> 01:18:33.140 Yeah, exactly. 01:18:34.080 --> 01:18:35.800 I don't think that would 01:18:36.380 --> 01:18:37.460 go over well. 01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:39.420 I mean, it's just inevitable. 01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:42.860 I mean, how much of this is just human nature 01:18:42.860 --> 01:18:44.320 because we've been doing 01:18:45.100 --> 01:18:46.400 the big thing, 01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:49.520 get your government as big as you possibly can 01:18:49.520 --> 01:18:51.420 for what, 2000 years now? 01:18:51.760 --> 01:18:52.620 3000 years? 01:18:52.840 --> 01:18:53.540 Because you're right, 01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:54.760 technology advances. 01:18:55.040 --> 01:18:55.700 Because at one point, 01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:57.160 the government was as big 01:18:57.160 --> 01:18:59.120 as the biggest guy in the tribe 01:18:59.120 --> 01:19:00.060 could swing his club. 01:19:00.180 --> 01:19:02.200 And that's, you know, it ends. 01:19:02.280 --> 01:19:03.140 But once you, you know, 01:19:03.200 --> 01:19:04.240 you build technologies up, 01:19:04.300 --> 01:19:05.140 you can expand that. 01:19:05.180 --> 01:19:06.560 And I think as we build up technology, 01:19:07.200 --> 01:19:08.520 we're just going to keep expanding 01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:09.840 because we haven't really taken it 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:10.740 as far as it can go. 01:19:10.900 --> 01:19:12.860 Because as far as big government can go 01:19:12.860 --> 01:19:13.380 is global. 01:19:14.020 --> 01:19:15.860 Like almost like a star trekking 01:19:18.260 --> 01:19:20.920 type collectivist global governance, 01:19:21.260 --> 01:19:21.560 right? 01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:22.520 Because what will happen, 01:19:22.700 --> 01:19:24.400 if we do take to the stars, 01:19:25.420 --> 01:19:27.500 then the elites would see things 01:19:27.500 --> 01:19:28.960 as countries as meaningless. 01:19:29.820 --> 01:19:29.840 Right. 01:19:30.240 --> 01:19:30.400 Right. 01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:31.180 Because if you could, 01:19:31.400 --> 01:19:32.640 yeah, why bother with the country 01:19:32.640 --> 01:19:33.740 when I can have a planet? 01:19:33.760 --> 01:19:35.340 Yeah, I have a solar system. 01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:36.540 Why would I not? 01:19:37.180 --> 01:19:38.540 And in fiction, 01:19:38.800 --> 01:19:40.560 I mean that is a lot of it. 01:19:40.760 --> 01:19:41.020 I mean, 01:19:41.580 --> 01:19:42.460 in some ways, 01:19:42.640 --> 01:19:43.940 and in some books, 01:19:44.020 --> 01:19:47.060 it goes very authoritarian. 01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:49.980 Most of the books are, 01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:50.420 you know, 01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:50.980 cheery. 01:19:51.340 --> 01:19:52.260 So they say, no, 01:19:52.420 --> 01:19:53.740 it, you know, these, 01:19:53.900 --> 01:19:55.340 they all work together 01:19:55.340 --> 01:19:58.640 and they created this ever-expanding, 01:19:59.260 --> 01:19:59.740 you know, 01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:02.480 society amongst the stars. 01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:04.160 And I don't know, 01:20:04.200 --> 01:20:06.100 I'm worried about here and now 01:20:06.100 --> 01:20:09.580 and whether we'll make it to 2050. 01:20:10.040 --> 01:20:10.120 I mean, 01:20:10.240 --> 01:20:10.580 But they're not. 01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:11.840 I know they're not. 01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:13.060 That's what everybody says. 01:20:13.180 --> 01:20:14.440 Why are we doing these things? 01:20:14.520 --> 01:20:15.560 Because we're not looking. 01:20:15.740 --> 01:20:17.020 They don't look to tomorrow. 01:20:17.500 --> 01:20:18.240 These huge, 01:20:19.420 --> 01:20:22.760 these like the operating families, 01:20:23.100 --> 01:20:23.300 right? 01:20:23.460 --> 01:20:24.600 The ones who have these billions 01:20:24.600 --> 01:20:25.660 and billions of dollars, 01:20:26.060 --> 01:20:26.540 they, 01:20:26.740 --> 01:20:28.640 they're not worried about tomorrow 01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:30.720 because their day-to-day won't ever 01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:31.320 really change. 01:20:31.460 --> 01:20:32.420 They have so much money, 01:20:32.860 --> 01:20:35.220 whatever happens in global economies, 01:20:35.420 --> 01:20:35.680 they're, 01:20:35.680 --> 01:20:36.520 they're insulated. 01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:37.140 So they, 01:20:37.140 --> 01:20:37.940 they are planning 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:39.500 for a hundred, 01:20:39.640 --> 01:20:40.360 200 years. 01:20:40.660 --> 01:20:41.780 Like what is my family? 01:20:42.180 --> 01:20:43.240 How do I keep my family 01:20:43.240 --> 01:20:44.240 in this powerful position 01:20:44.240 --> 01:20:45.960 for 300 years on? 01:20:46.100 --> 01:20:46.380 Sure. 01:20:46.520 --> 01:20:47.260 So, you know, 01:20:47.340 --> 01:20:47.540 they're, 01:20:47.540 --> 01:20:48.580 they're doing things 01:20:48.580 --> 01:20:51.240 on timetables that the us, 01:20:51.240 --> 01:20:52.860 who have to go to work every day 01:20:52.860 --> 01:20:54.260 and have to worry about how much 01:20:54.260 --> 01:20:55.200 money we have in the bank 01:20:55.200 --> 01:20:56.060 to pay our bills. 01:20:57.360 --> 01:20:58.780 They don't care about those things. 01:20:59.060 --> 01:20:59.960 So their time is filled 01:20:59.960 --> 01:21:00.580 with other, 01:21:00.660 --> 01:21:01.860 with other endeavors, 01:21:02.580 --> 01:21:02.980 right? 01:21:03.160 --> 01:21:04.540 Because they don't have to go to work. 01:21:04.700 --> 01:21:05.580 Like going to Mars. 01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:06.020 Yeah. 01:21:06.060 --> 01:21:06.640 Like going to Mars. 01:21:06.800 --> 01:21:07.020 They can, 01:21:07.120 --> 01:21:08.060 they can do frivolous things. 01:21:08.220 --> 01:21:09.080 Like go to Mars or, 01:21:09.520 --> 01:21:11.020 or work on. 01:21:14.660 --> 01:21:15.340 Oh, okay. 01:21:15.660 --> 01:21:16.060 Sorry. 01:21:16.540 --> 01:21:17.240 I'll work on like 01:21:18.860 --> 01:21:21.860 drugs or viruses of some sort 01:21:21.860 --> 01:21:22.280 or, 01:21:22.380 --> 01:21:22.880 you know, 01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:25.240 secret AIDS clinics. 01:21:25.500 --> 01:21:25.780 Who knows? 01:21:26.440 --> 01:21:27.900 We're going to go to the phones 01:21:27.900 --> 01:21:29.620 where we've got an anonymous scholar, 01:21:29.820 --> 01:21:30.440 anonymous scholar, 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:31.640 you're on free talk live. 01:21:33.540 --> 01:21:34.960 Perpetuating lies, Chris. 01:21:35.540 --> 01:21:36.280 Perpetuating lies. 01:21:36.280 --> 01:21:37.820 Stop telling your stupid audience. 01:21:38.080 --> 01:21:38.860 Oh, man. 01:21:39.340 --> 01:21:41.620 Stop telling your stupid audience 01:21:42.140 --> 01:21:43.340 that the national debt 01:21:43.340 --> 01:21:44.520 cannot be paid back. 01:21:45.040 --> 01:21:46.020 There's always an amount 01:21:46.020 --> 01:21:47.160 of GDP growth 01:21:47.160 --> 01:21:48.820 and or government surplus 01:21:48.820 --> 01:21:50.040 that can make the system 01:21:50.040 --> 01:21:50.520 solvent. 01:21:50.900 --> 01:21:52.480 And stop assuming 01:21:52.480 --> 01:21:53.920 that paying the debt off 01:21:53.920 --> 01:21:55.580 is even a good thing. 01:21:56.260 --> 01:21:56.560 Okay. 01:21:56.600 --> 01:21:58.120 Which is not what I want to talk about. 01:21:58.840 --> 01:21:59.760 Why'd you bring it up? 01:22:00.180 --> 01:22:01.960 And why did you insult yourself 01:22:02.640 --> 01:22:04.500 as a member of our audience? 01:22:07.240 --> 01:22:08.660 And then talking about 01:22:08.660 --> 01:22:10.160 the your targeted audience, 01:22:10.780 --> 01:22:12.220 the gullible libertarians. 01:22:12.540 --> 01:22:14.180 So far it seems to be working. 01:22:14.740 --> 01:22:15.500 Such like, 01:22:15.900 --> 01:22:17.420 such as freedom 01:22:17.420 --> 01:22:20.340 and morality comes from, 01:22:20.640 --> 01:22:21.420 I don't know where 01:22:21.420 --> 01:22:23.180 and also I don't know 01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:25.940 also that Roger there 01:22:25.940 --> 01:22:27.800 and I'm not doing nothing wrong. 01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:29.880 But this is not what I want to talk about. 01:22:29.920 --> 01:22:31.500 So, no, I just read a reel. 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:33.240 I want to hear it from a good authoritarian 01:22:33.240 --> 01:22:36.420 because you are a dedicated authoritarian. 01:22:37.940 --> 01:22:38.200 You are. 01:22:38.820 --> 01:22:39.220 Yeah. 01:22:39.420 --> 01:22:40.860 You guys are authoritarian too. 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:43.920 That libertarian comes with its own 01:22:43.920 --> 01:22:46.040 authoritarian clause, right? 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:47.460 Okay, go ahead. 01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:48.280 You guys know that, right? 01:22:48.820 --> 01:22:50.200 This is what this is kind of related 01:22:50.200 --> 01:22:51.400 to what I want to talk about. 01:22:51.420 --> 01:22:52.060 Please. 01:22:52.360 --> 01:22:54.880 The landowner is the landowner's authority, 01:22:55.420 --> 01:22:55.900 right? 01:22:56.300 --> 01:22:57.960 They can set almost any rule they want. 01:22:58.380 --> 01:23:00.840 I think it's virtually any rule they want, right? 01:23:01.860 --> 01:23:02.580 Why wouldn't I? 01:23:03.540 --> 01:23:04.520 I'm a landowner. 01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:06.380 I can set any rule I want. 01:23:07.220 --> 01:23:09.380 Yeah, you can make kids 01:23:09.380 --> 01:23:11.300 doing fentanyl in your land legal, right? 01:23:12.080 --> 01:23:13.020 Why would I do that? 01:23:13.040 --> 01:23:13.720 You can have childhood. 01:23:14.060 --> 01:23:15.260 You can have child prostitution 01:23:15.260 --> 01:23:16.340 on your land legal, right? 01:23:16.580 --> 01:23:17.480 Why would I do that? 01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:20.360 This is that's absolute freedom. 01:23:20.920 --> 01:23:22.000 Why would I do? 01:23:22.060 --> 01:23:23.420 Why would I do these things? 01:23:24.820 --> 01:23:27.280 Because you believe in absolute freedom 01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:29.200 of a landowner. 01:23:29.880 --> 01:23:32.660 I have power doesn't mean I want to 01:23:32.660 --> 01:23:35.120 exercise all the crazy things you talk about. 01:23:35.480 --> 01:23:36.540 Why would I do that? 01:23:36.540 --> 01:23:37.140 That's freedom. 01:23:37.680 --> 01:23:39.380 Why would I want to? 01:23:39.940 --> 01:23:42.000 Don't you believe a landowner 01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:43.860 can do whatever he wants with his property? 01:23:44.760 --> 01:23:47.640 If I wanted to, I can do whatever I want. 01:23:48.200 --> 01:23:50.400 But the point is, I don't want to. 01:23:52.300 --> 01:23:53.980 That's what you fail to grasp. 01:23:55.020 --> 01:23:56.700 Why do you assume that? 01:23:56.760 --> 01:24:00.460 You allow others who want to do it, right? 01:24:00.740 --> 01:24:04.140 No, they can do whatever they want on their land. 01:24:04.260 --> 01:24:05.940 If Riley want to have voluntarily, 01:24:06.100 --> 01:24:08.440 voluntary child prostitution on his land, 01:24:08.900 --> 01:24:11.700 that's okay in then capistan, right? 01:24:12.380 --> 01:24:13.740 No, there are morals and values 01:24:13.740 --> 01:24:14.680 that people must follow. 01:24:15.500 --> 01:24:16.360 Do they have to? 01:24:16.360 --> 01:24:18.980 You don't believe in absolute freedom. 01:24:19.580 --> 01:24:21.400 I believe in absolute freedom 01:24:21.400 --> 01:24:24.320 to the extent that morals come into play. 01:24:24.860 --> 01:24:26.640 You can have absolute freedom, 01:24:27.230 --> 01:24:28.960 but remember when you start infringing 01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:31.180 on other people like a child, 01:24:32.200 --> 01:24:34.360 then that's not absolute freedom. 01:24:35.340 --> 01:24:39.380 What if they have to follow your rules 01:24:39.380 --> 01:24:40.720 if you're on your property, though, right? 01:24:40.800 --> 01:24:42.060 In your hypothetical, 01:24:42.500 --> 01:24:43.720 in your insane hypothetical, 01:24:43.720 --> 01:24:45.260 you're saying voluntary, 01:24:46.140 --> 01:24:47.840 I'm not even going to go there. 01:24:49.040 --> 01:24:54.100 You're saying I could allow all kinds of crazy things 01:24:54.100 --> 01:24:55.340 that I don't agree with, 01:24:55.460 --> 01:24:57.820 so morality absolutely comes into it. 01:24:58.600 --> 01:24:59.920 My own personal morals. 01:25:00.660 --> 01:25:07.240 Your morality advocates for pure unadulterated freedom. 01:25:08.060 --> 01:25:10.560 This is what that new guy, Brokey Broke, 01:25:11.160 --> 01:25:11.800 what's your name? 01:25:12.400 --> 01:25:12.960 Brokey Broke. 01:25:12.960 --> 01:25:15.100 You became an ad cap 01:25:15.100 --> 01:25:18.020 because you wanted children to have more agency, right? 01:25:18.900 --> 01:25:20.580 You were in school and you couldn't go to the bathroom 01:25:20.580 --> 01:25:21.320 because you're a kid. 01:25:21.860 --> 01:25:22.340 Sure, yeah. 01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:27.260 So you believe children should have full freedom? 01:25:27.820 --> 01:25:29.280 This is why you became an ad cap, right? 01:25:30.240 --> 01:25:32.540 I think what it did is it had me 01:25:33.380 --> 01:25:34.620 look at the structures, 01:25:35.240 --> 01:25:36.720 how authority was dispensed, 01:25:36.980 --> 01:25:38.820 and I disagreed where it came from. 01:25:39.500 --> 01:25:39.660 Sure. 01:25:39.900 --> 01:25:40.860 So it made you question. 01:25:41.040 --> 01:25:42.060 Yeah, it made me question. 01:25:42.060 --> 01:25:42.700 Where it comes from. 01:25:43.860 --> 01:25:47.720 Well, and I'm rejecting that authority. 01:25:48.580 --> 01:25:49.800 I'm saying, I don't think. 01:25:50.020 --> 01:25:52.620 The landowner doesn't have authority. 01:25:53.580 --> 01:25:54.860 No, he's talking about school. 01:25:55.100 --> 01:25:58.780 And the landowner doesn't set all the rules he wants. 01:25:59.520 --> 01:25:59.860 Sure. 01:26:00.180 --> 01:26:01.240 Whether he can do drugs, 01:26:01.440 --> 01:26:03.180 whether people on his land can do drugs, 01:26:03.300 --> 01:26:04.780 whether it's a child he can do drugs. 01:26:05.380 --> 01:26:07.340 Why do you draw that line? 01:26:07.460 --> 01:26:08.120 Who can do drugs? 01:26:08.280 --> 01:26:10.900 What's so different about right now today? 01:26:10.900 --> 01:26:12.680 People do this already. 01:26:13.300 --> 01:26:16.080 There's nothing, that's kind of my point. 01:26:17.140 --> 01:26:21.260 Now, if you bring in the concept of co-ownership, 01:26:22.200 --> 01:26:24.960 we can determine what's legal or not, 01:26:25.280 --> 01:26:28.220 and it's totally in line with libertarianism. 01:26:28.460 --> 01:26:32.060 So you want to be a big HOA over at Capistan. 01:26:32.400 --> 01:26:36.080 We already are, and we already are an HOA, right? 01:26:36.080 --> 01:26:41.200 HOA, those associations copied the democratic, 01:26:41.420 --> 01:26:45.560 the modern democratic structure of the people 01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:48.280 determining what's legal or not on their land. 01:26:48.400 --> 01:26:51.320 Now, they copy kind of an authoritarian state. 01:26:51.600 --> 01:26:52.800 But that's not what I want to talk about. 01:26:53.240 --> 01:26:54.100 Sure, it's not. 01:26:54.240 --> 01:26:56.520 As soon as you get a question you can't deal with. 01:26:56.880 --> 01:26:57.200 Go ahead. 01:26:57.780 --> 01:27:02.440 No, you're not dealing with any of the concepts I'm talking about, right? 01:27:03.200 --> 01:27:04.680 A group, right? 01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:06.820 A group can own a piece of land. 01:27:07.720 --> 01:27:07.800 Yes. 01:27:08.160 --> 01:27:08.840 Do you agree or not? 01:27:09.240 --> 01:27:12.240 A group of people can co-own a piece of land. 01:27:13.160 --> 01:27:13.520 Yes. 01:27:13.680 --> 01:27:16.540 And if they can determine the rules on that land, 01:27:16.700 --> 01:27:18.360 which is absolute freedom, 01:27:19.080 --> 01:27:21.960 what's stopping them from making drugs illegal on their land? 01:27:22.120 --> 01:27:23.580 What's starting that? 01:27:25.180 --> 01:27:29.440 You assume that the people I would associate, 01:27:30.240 --> 01:27:34.520 so let's say I went into some kind of a trust with a group of other people 01:27:34.520 --> 01:27:36.740 to buy a particular parcel of land. 01:27:36.820 --> 01:27:41.700 We are now owners of this parcel of land and we have rules. 01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:46.000 First of all, I'd never go into it without setting up some method 01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:49.720 for dealing with these. 01:27:50.080 --> 01:27:52.780 Yeah, decision-making and dealing with things. 01:27:52.900 --> 01:27:59.120 Like if one landowner decided to do nothing except spout all the stuff 01:27:59.120 --> 01:28:02.380 you do, I would have a mechanism there that we could, 01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:05.940 he would agree, could be voted out and leave. 01:28:06.460 --> 01:28:08.160 Why would that not be a thing? 01:28:08.640 --> 01:28:12.300 Who would go into a contract with no exit clause? 01:28:13.480 --> 01:28:16.120 Or no way of dealing with other people? 01:28:16.900 --> 01:28:17.920 With people you don't disagree with? 01:28:19.140 --> 01:28:19.960 Now, why couldn't you do that? 01:28:19.980 --> 01:28:20.700 This is all fine. 01:28:20.760 --> 01:28:24.020 This is all fine and dandy when you assume like everybody's an adult 01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:28.260 at every point in time and there's no natural birth occurring. 01:28:29.120 --> 01:28:31.640 So what happens to, can you answer me this, Chris? 01:28:32.160 --> 01:28:34.840 What happens to a newborn in this society? 01:28:35.940 --> 01:28:37.300 Tell me how you treat a newborn. 01:28:37.820 --> 01:28:42.680 Oh, we just throw them outside and let them fend for themselves, probably. 01:28:42.980 --> 01:28:43.500 That's okay. 01:28:45.020 --> 01:28:45.680 That's okay. 01:28:46.100 --> 01:28:46.840 Aw, man. 01:28:47.200 --> 01:28:48.360 Isn't that what the Norwegian do? 01:28:49.280 --> 01:28:53.740 Don't the Denmark or something put their babies outside on purpose alone? 01:28:54.040 --> 01:28:54.720 Have a good one, Skeeter. 01:28:55.300 --> 01:28:56.660 I think it's a great idea. 01:28:57.000 --> 01:28:58.540 I mean, that's how I was raised. 01:28:58.540 --> 01:29:02.080 I didn't get to come inside until I was like six years old. 01:29:03.920 --> 01:29:06.620 603-283-6160 is our number. 01:29:06.800 --> 01:29:07.480 Give us a call. 01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:09.260 This is Free Talk Live. 01:29:33.150 --> 01:29:34.270 Get it. 01:29:34.570 --> 01:29:39.390 Suppose the company's main number is 555-5000. 01:29:40.010 --> 01:29:44.570 You should call 555-5012. 01:29:45.410 --> 01:29:47.850 When someone says, 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01:30:43.210 --> 01:30:45.530 across the city of Caracas flying over. 01:30:46.370 --> 01:30:49.270 What we know so far is the information provided, 01:30:49.670 --> 01:30:53.010 but the Venezuelan government, they said the attacks 01:30:53.010 --> 01:30:56.090 took place in three different states of Venezuela, 01:30:56.630 --> 01:30:59.270 La Guaira, Aragua and Miranda. 01:30:59.830 --> 01:31:03.790 Miranda is located in the metropolitan area of Caracas. 01:31:04.010 --> 01:31:06.930 I heard the blast earlier in the morning. 01:31:07.170 --> 01:31:11.770 Right now, the city remains in calm with authorities calling 01:31:11.770 --> 01:31:15.130 to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty of the country 01:31:15.130 --> 01:31:16.530 and remain in calm. 01:31:16.710 --> 01:31:20.850 The government says they will declare a state of emergency. 01:31:21.670 --> 01:31:24.710 And then we hear about the information provided 01:31:24.710 --> 01:31:28.930 by Donald Trump saying they captured the leader of Venezuela 01:31:28.930 --> 01:31:33.050 Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cecilia Flores. 01:31:33.470 --> 01:31:36.950 A US immigration agent shot dead a female driver in Minneapolis 01:31:36.950 --> 01:31:39.450 this week kicking off a political firestorm. 01:31:40.030 --> 01:31:42.970 Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city 01:31:42.970 --> 01:31:45.950 where around 2,000 federal officers have been deployed. 01:31:46.630 --> 01:31:47.370 Nick Harper reports. 01:31:47.930 --> 01:31:50.070 The shooting in Minneapolis has become the latest 01:31:50.070 --> 01:31:53.050 political touchstone with the left and the right 01:31:53.050 --> 01:31:56.010 viewing the videos in contradictory ways. 01:31:56.010 --> 01:31:59.550 Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting 01:31:59.550 --> 01:32:03.030 in self-defense that the woman was trying to run him over. 01:32:03.670 --> 01:32:06.070 They called the driver a violent rioter, 01:32:06.270 --> 01:32:09.450 with Donald Trump describing her as violently, willfully 01:32:09.450 --> 01:32:12.210 and viciously attacking the ICE officer. 01:32:12.530 --> 01:32:15.310 Those on the left and protesters say this was murder 01:32:15.310 --> 01:32:17.690 with Minnesota's governor Tim Wolfs, 01:32:17.750 --> 01:32:20.630 saying it was a consequence of the federal government 01:32:20.630 --> 01:32:24.110 trying to generate fear, headlines and conflict. 01:32:24.110 --> 01:32:27.170 It was reported this week that a complete internet shutdown 01:32:27.170 --> 01:32:30.270 was imposed in Iran after mass protests against 01:32:30.270 --> 01:32:31.810 the country's clerical leadership. 01:32:32.350 --> 01:32:35.650 What started as demonstrations against Iran's struggling economy 01:32:35.650 --> 01:32:38.370 has now become a wider movement with agitations 01:32:38.370 --> 01:32:41.630 now being reported in all 31 provinces of the country. 01:32:41.930 --> 01:32:43.250 Ishan Gag tells us more. 01:32:43.470 --> 01:32:46.470 Videos verified by local media show large crowds 01:32:46.470 --> 01:32:49.330 of anti-government protesters marching through Iran's 01:32:49.330 --> 01:32:51.370 capital Tehran's street on Thursday, 01:32:51.370 --> 01:32:54.630 some calling for the removal of Iran's supreme leader, 01:32:54.870 --> 01:32:56.210 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 01:32:56.370 --> 01:32:59.350 Though demonstrations started in Iran in late December 01:32:59.350 --> 01:33:02.630 against rising inflation, Thursday's protests are believed 01:33:02.630 --> 01:33:05.610 to be triggered by calls from Iranian crown prince 01:33:05.610 --> 01:33:08.290 and a key opposition leader Reza Pahlavi. 01:33:08.530 --> 01:33:11.210 From Feature Story News, in New York, I'm Itch McCann, 01:33:11.390 --> 01:33:12.690 and that was the Week in Review. 01:33:24.290 --> 01:33:38.120 Free Talk Live. 01:33:39.580 --> 01:33:44.820 Number is 603-283-6160 in the studio. 01:33:45.020 --> 01:33:48.500 It's my self-press for 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01:34:34.620 No, you don't understand. 01:34:37.460 --> 01:34:42.920 His real point is like in Ancapistan, 01:34:43.180 --> 01:34:45.920 which is not a real place I looked for at one time. 01:34:47.080 --> 01:34:50.820 Well, I guess he's trying to theorize our favorite place of 01:34:50.820 --> 01:34:53.720 Ancapistan in Libertarian society or whatever. 01:34:53.900 --> 01:34:54.980 Yeah, he does that. 01:34:55.040 --> 01:35:00.940 But the idea that if you believe in total freedom, 01:35:01.660 --> 01:35:04.900 and I believe in just basic freedoms, 01:35:05.100 --> 01:35:08.100 just not total absolute, 01:35:08.620 --> 01:35:13.740 like nothing I want to do is ever going to infringe 01:35:13.740 --> 01:35:16.280 on what somebody else likes or dislikes. 01:35:16.580 --> 01:35:19.240 That's, well, I won't say likes or dislikes. 01:35:19.320 --> 01:35:21.180 I'm not going to infringe on their freedoms 01:35:21.810 --> 01:35:24.420 and their free to not associate with me 01:35:24.420 --> 01:35:26.600 and I'm free to not associate with them. 01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:28.340 So I just don't care. 01:35:28.940 --> 01:35:30.500 And his whole thing about, 01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:31.760 well, you're a landowner. 01:35:31.960 --> 01:35:34.360 You could make anything legal on your land. 01:35:35.680 --> 01:35:37.260 And sure, I could. 01:35:37.500 --> 01:35:39.040 You can shoot your guns. 01:35:39.520 --> 01:35:41.700 The real question is should you? 01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:46.940 Because there has to be morals and values governing society 01:35:47.440 --> 01:35:48.780 or governing yourself. 01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:51.680 Because if there are no morals and values 01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:52.780 governing your life, 01:35:52.900 --> 01:35:54.760 you're nothing more than a worthless human being. 01:35:55.020 --> 01:35:55.700 Well, they do. 01:35:55.700 --> 01:35:59.240 And they guide me even though there's no decree 01:36:00.010 --> 01:36:05.340 saying I have to recognize that my morals have to guide me. 01:36:05.440 --> 01:36:06.380 They just do. 01:36:06.640 --> 01:36:07.840 They're just there. 01:36:08.060 --> 01:36:10.060 They are part of my makeup. 01:36:10.180 --> 01:36:12.240 So it doesn't really matter. 01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:14.580 And I surround myself with people 01:36:15.150 --> 01:36:19.460 for the most part who share my morals and my ideas. 01:36:20.180 --> 01:36:25.280 And I want to surround myself with people like that 01:36:25.280 --> 01:36:27.020 because there's less conflict. 01:36:27.640 --> 01:36:28.060 Right. 01:36:28.180 --> 01:36:31.240 This is the first amendment defined as freedom of association. 01:36:31.680 --> 01:36:33.440 You don't have to be around people. 01:36:33.600 --> 01:36:34.480 You don't want to be around. 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:35.080 Sure. 01:36:35.480 --> 01:36:37.280 But I don't even have to look at that. 01:36:37.540 --> 01:36:38.440 I just do it. 01:36:38.760 --> 01:36:39.400 You know what I mean? 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:40.020 Yeah. 01:36:40.800 --> 01:36:44.160 I respect that they decided to put that in there. 01:36:44.700 --> 01:36:45.700 That was a good thing, 01:36:45.700 --> 01:36:49.160 along with the fact that my rights to defend myself 01:36:49.160 --> 01:36:50.660 shouldn't be infringed. 01:36:50.980 --> 01:36:51.940 That was a good thing. 01:36:52.360 --> 01:36:52.980 All in all, 01:36:52.980 --> 01:36:57.840 I think it's a horrible disaster in its outcome. 01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:02.340 I love the Declaration of Independence. 01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:05.820 I love reading that thing and sitting there and going, 01:37:06.600 --> 01:37:08.020 this is all they were. 01:37:08.220 --> 01:37:09.040 They were angry. 01:37:09.280 --> 01:37:10.060 And they were angry. 01:37:10.260 --> 01:37:12.800 And they enumerated all the reasons they were angry. 01:37:12.980 --> 01:37:14.440 And they wanted to leave. 01:37:15.280 --> 01:37:21.400 But I could write 100,000 page-long Declaration of Independence 01:37:21.870 --> 01:37:25.060 if I were to enumerate everything I disagreed with 01:37:25.060 --> 01:37:29.380 and feel that the U.S. government has done against me personally. 01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:33.040 We're going to go to the phones where we've got Paul in Arizona. 01:37:33.500 --> 01:37:34.800 Paul, you're on Freetalk Live. 01:37:35.820 --> 01:37:36.540 Hi there. 01:37:37.020 --> 01:37:37.540 How are you? 01:37:37.640 --> 01:37:39.060 Yeah, I was listening to your conversation. 01:37:40.280 --> 01:37:40.800 Yeah. 01:37:41.460 --> 01:37:44.240 The idea of doing what you will on your own property 01:37:44.240 --> 01:37:45.840 is an interesting concept. 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:51.020 I know that there's a lot of people talking these days 01:37:51.400 --> 01:37:52.940 against freedom. 01:37:53.680 --> 01:37:55.440 And they always want to quote, 01:37:55.980 --> 01:37:58.900 misquote this old Pagan statement. 01:38:00.020 --> 01:38:02.140 And they only quote the second half. 01:38:02.340 --> 01:38:03.760 They leave off the first half. 01:38:04.760 --> 01:38:06.160 The complete statement is, 01:38:06.660 --> 01:38:10.240 as it harm none, do with thou wilt. 01:38:10.740 --> 01:38:12.220 That is the whole of the law. 01:38:13.320 --> 01:38:15.400 Harm none includes yourself. 01:38:16.420 --> 01:38:17.180 I like it. 01:38:17.400 --> 01:38:22.260 So this does not open the door to profligate drug abuse 01:38:22.260 --> 01:38:23.780 and all this other crap. 01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:26.680 No, you're supposed to treat yourself with respect. 01:38:27.620 --> 01:38:28.360 All right? 01:38:28.740 --> 01:38:31.520 You should not be limited in your horizons, 01:38:32.300 --> 01:38:36.100 but you should always be a good citizen, 01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:42.000 a good member of society, and do no harm. 01:38:43.060 --> 01:38:43.960 I agree. 01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:45.420 I agree. 01:38:45.420 --> 01:38:49.260 And that's how I try to live my life. 01:38:50.300 --> 01:38:52.000 And you're not. 01:38:52.180 --> 01:38:52.320 Yeah. 01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:53.400 Go ahead. 01:38:53.820 --> 01:38:59.460 No, it's just it just frustrates me when I see government 01:39:00.060 --> 01:39:06.280 not trying to obey that same very simple edict. 01:39:07.540 --> 01:39:08.300 Yeah. 01:39:08.500 --> 01:39:11.160 That should apply to them too, as it harm none. 01:39:11.440 --> 01:39:11.820 Okay. 01:39:12.160 --> 01:39:12.560 Yes. 01:39:13.620 --> 01:39:17.520 Now, if you're not doing harm, but doing what you will, 01:39:18.780 --> 01:39:21.740 no one should be able to raise an arm against you. 01:39:22.020 --> 01:39:22.600 I like it. 01:39:22.860 --> 01:39:23.340 I like it. 01:39:23.440 --> 01:39:25.360 Now, you said that was a pagan origin. 01:39:26.460 --> 01:39:31.200 They may express their displeasure at what you're doing. 01:39:31.680 --> 01:39:33.980 They may disagree with your ideas. 01:39:34.520 --> 01:39:39.320 They may think that their beliefs are in conflict 01:39:39.320 --> 01:39:41.500 with what you want to do with your life. 01:39:41.500 --> 01:39:46.440 But unless they can put their finger on actual harm 01:39:46.440 --> 01:39:50.640 being done to anyone, they have no cause of action, 01:39:50.780 --> 01:39:54.200 as it were, to act against you. 01:39:54.500 --> 01:39:54.740 Yeah. 01:39:55.120 --> 01:39:59.720 I like that particular phrase that you brought up, 01:40:00.260 --> 01:40:06.500 and it's just so common in free thinkers throughout history. 01:40:06.700 --> 01:40:07.280 You know what I mean? 01:40:08.240 --> 01:40:08.580 Yeah. 01:40:08.580 --> 01:40:13.360 It's something that you have Cicero talking about. 01:40:13.480 --> 01:40:15.180 You have John Locke talking about. 01:40:15.420 --> 01:40:20.520 You have the government pretending to talk about, but they don't. 01:40:20.540 --> 01:40:20.680 Yeah. 01:40:20.740 --> 01:40:22.480 Well, you have so many right-wingers saying, 01:40:22.700 --> 01:40:25.040 oh, well, just do what you will. 01:40:25.380 --> 01:40:26.560 You know, that's the whole of the lot. 01:40:26.640 --> 01:40:28.320 Well, no, that's not the whole of it. 01:40:29.320 --> 01:40:31.300 They leave off the no harm part. 01:40:31.880 --> 01:40:34.800 Oh, to be fair, you have left-wingers doing the same thing. 01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:37.820 Yeah, I'm excluding them. 01:40:39.140 --> 01:40:45.060 Let me close with another shameless plug for a book that I did not write, 01:40:45.280 --> 01:40:49.500 and nor do I get any affiliate marketing benefits from, 01:40:50.440 --> 01:40:53.440 but it's called What Is Our Problem? 01:40:54.520 --> 01:40:58.900 by a gentleman by the name of, oh, what's his name? 01:40:59.120 --> 01:41:00.580 Just popped right out of my head. 01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:02.360 Urban. 01:41:03.060 --> 01:41:04.020 Is it Keith Herb? 01:41:05.280 --> 01:41:08.120 Now, I think we may have talked about this before. 01:41:08.120 --> 01:41:15.620 Yeah, yeah, it's a manual for society. 01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:17.540 It's a self-help manual for society, 01:41:18.480 --> 01:41:25.420 and I find it to be extremely, extremely useful in understanding 01:41:25.870 --> 01:41:29.020 a lot of what's going on in the world, 01:41:29.260 --> 01:41:37.240 and gives you some good recommendations on how to proceed from there. 01:41:38.120 --> 01:41:38.800 Well, good. 01:41:40.460 --> 01:41:42.800 And I haven't read this yet. 01:41:43.140 --> 01:41:45.440 I know that I took a call from you one time, 01:41:45.520 --> 01:41:50.980 and we talked about it, and I did not find it easily or quickly 01:41:50.980 --> 01:41:53.500 or before I forgot about it. 01:41:54.100 --> 01:41:54.720 But I will. 01:41:54.960 --> 01:41:55.360 I will. 01:41:55.540 --> 01:41:55.920 I will look into this. 01:41:55.920 --> 01:42:00.480 Apparently it is on Amazon, and what's our problem? 01:42:00.480 --> 01:42:08.740 And yes, it's quite enlightening. 01:42:09.380 --> 01:42:15.160 I find it a refreshing view on how we can change our perspective. 01:42:17.020 --> 01:42:21.140 Like Scott Adams keeps talking about how you can reframe things 01:42:21.140 --> 01:42:23.300 and get much more value out of it. 01:42:23.580 --> 01:42:25.760 Yeah, I see it. 01:42:26.320 --> 01:42:28.380 Hey, Paul, thanks for the call. 01:42:29.040 --> 01:42:30.820 All right, now do you have a live show tomorrow? 01:42:31.560 --> 01:42:33.280 There will be a live show tomorrow. 01:42:33.380 --> 01:42:36.080 Good, because a lot of times you only do one a week. 01:42:37.220 --> 01:42:38.840 We typically do two weeks. 01:42:39.000 --> 01:42:40.860 I don't know if your station's carrying the other one or not. 01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:42.620 Yeah, we try to always do two, 01:42:42.780 --> 01:42:46.520 but things come up occasionally, and we'll do a rebroadcast. 01:42:46.800 --> 01:42:47.560 And that's okay. 01:42:48.060 --> 01:42:49.960 We should be on tomorrow night, too. 01:42:50.660 --> 01:42:51.100 Great. 01:42:51.480 --> 01:42:52.340 So feel free to call back. 01:42:52.460 --> 01:42:55.500 I'll have another subject to talk about then. 01:42:55.880 --> 01:42:56.220 Nice. 01:42:56.720 --> 01:42:58.120 Hey, man, thank you for the call. 01:42:58.380 --> 01:42:59.960 All right, you're welcome. 01:43:00.100 --> 01:43:00.520 More than welcome. 01:43:00.740 --> 01:43:01.220 Take care. 01:43:03.720 --> 01:43:06.920 Yeah, I remember him talking about this particular book 01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:09.600 and thinking, I'm like, man, that looks really good. 01:43:09.640 --> 01:43:12.320 And then I got doing the show notes afterwards 01:43:12.320 --> 01:43:16.220 and then thought about everything I have to do tomorrow. 01:43:16.760 --> 01:43:18.700 And poof, it's gone. 01:43:20.200 --> 01:43:21.320 Yeah, boop. 01:43:23.320 --> 01:43:28.760 Um, so we're, you and I were talking kind of Pax Americana 01:43:28.760 --> 01:43:29.860 and where does it go? 01:43:30.360 --> 01:43:37.520 And can you foresee a happy ending to all this? 01:43:38.680 --> 01:43:40.740 Riley, I'll ask you the same question. 01:43:40.900 --> 01:43:43.580 Is there a happy ending to the United States? 01:43:43.580 --> 01:43:44.940 I'll let Angela answer first. 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:46.540 He's younger. 01:43:47.980 --> 01:43:49.260 My perspective? 01:43:49.260 --> 01:43:51.980 He still has rose colored glasses. 01:43:52.180 --> 01:43:55.120 I think we're, I think it's a foobar. 01:43:58.460 --> 01:44:01.700 Really, the whole, obviously the experiment's failing. 01:44:03.340 --> 01:44:04.480 Can you rein it in? 01:44:04.620 --> 01:44:05.840 Can you vote your way out of it? 01:44:05.940 --> 01:44:08.920 Like, can you stop all the corruption and right? 01:44:09.120 --> 01:44:13.660 If we just don't harder, man, we can get out of this, 01:44:13.780 --> 01:44:15.120 you know, just keep voting. 01:44:15.120 --> 01:44:20.360 Uh, no, I think it's, uh, the writing has been on the wall. 01:44:21.820 --> 01:44:27.100 This, the cracks are starting to become caverns 01:44:27.100 --> 01:44:31.680 and everybody can see it, especially the younger people, 01:44:31.780 --> 01:44:32.120 right? 01:44:32.280 --> 01:44:33.460 Like our bridges are falling apart. 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:39.040 Our electric grid is strange. 01:44:39.260 --> 01:44:41.340 There's rolling blackouts in places like California. 01:44:41.340 --> 01:44:44.660 Like think about it in LA, parts of the city get their 01:44:44.660 --> 01:44:47.980 entire electricity turned off in the 21st century. 01:44:49.740 --> 01:44:54.060 And that's, you know, that shouldn't happen, right? 01:44:54.240 --> 01:44:58.220 That shouldn't be the case if we're the most glorified, 01:44:58.300 --> 01:45:01.000 you know, empire that ever was. 01:45:02.100 --> 01:45:04.380 And this is happening in other countries. 01:45:04.700 --> 01:45:08.500 I mean, every week we hear about, you know, blackouts 01:45:08.500 --> 01:45:11.740 occurring in Europe and blackouts and some parts 01:45:11.740 --> 01:45:16.260 of the world haven't even got to the point where they ever had stable electric. 01:45:16.740 --> 01:45:17.180 Yeah. 01:45:17.300 --> 01:45:18.660 Had the ability to have a blackout. 01:45:18.860 --> 01:45:19.060 Right. 01:45:19.620 --> 01:45:20.580 There's no, there's no lights. 01:45:20.700 --> 01:45:23.240 We look forward to the ability to have blackouts. 01:45:23.680 --> 01:45:26.120 Um, yeah, because that would be a big move. 01:45:26.160 --> 01:45:31.820 And to me, you know, and, and why do I talk about secession so much? 01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:35.560 It's because we want to be able to say we have had enough 01:45:35.560 --> 01:45:36.520 with the federal government. 01:45:36.980 --> 01:45:39.460 We do not want to be part of your system any longer. 01:45:39.460 --> 01:45:42.340 We refuse to participate in your system any longer. 01:45:42.520 --> 01:45:44.520 Well, that's because the system's imploding 01:45:45.080 --> 01:45:51.620 and your gut reaction is to get as far away from the explosion as possible. 01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:52.920 The damage is possible. 01:45:53.100 --> 01:45:56.960 So by, by seceding, I'm separating myself from the issue 01:45:56.960 --> 01:46:02.820 before it becomes so intolerable that I, I can get swept away in it, right? 01:46:02.900 --> 01:46:06.920 Like to secede as like a group means we don't like the way you're going. 01:46:07.120 --> 01:46:08.600 We think you're going to do something wrong 01:46:08.600 --> 01:46:10.680 and we don't want to be there when it goes wrong. 01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:12.340 That's the whole point of what we're doing. 01:46:12.680 --> 01:46:15.860 This is my, my viewpoints a little different. 01:46:17.440 --> 01:46:21.260 I think it's just strained under size. 01:46:22.200 --> 01:46:26.640 Yeah, it's just this, this guy got too fat. 01:46:26.900 --> 01:46:28.400 He got too big. 01:46:28.640 --> 01:46:30.980 So he's saying the government's too bloated. 01:46:31.500 --> 01:46:35.980 It's not only the government, the government that's now trying to 01:46:35.980 --> 01:46:41.040 come up with common laws for 330 million people. 01:46:41.420 --> 01:46:48.380 I just think there's a point where things don't work unless you decentralize. 01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:54.820 Unless you, unless you break it apart into pieces and let them, it's like a corporation. 01:46:55.680 --> 01:47:01.080 And sometimes these mega, mega, mega, mega corporations get so big. 01:47:01.220 --> 01:47:04.480 And they actually, a lot of times it's because they're so successful. 01:47:05.040 --> 01:47:12.840 They decide to break off a department, a, a product group to its own, its own company. 01:47:13.180 --> 01:47:19.620 And they'll break them up because they realize that they don't work well under 01:47:20.620 --> 01:47:23.200 trying to manage something of this size. 01:47:23.660 --> 01:47:26.180 And that's the point I'm out with the U S. 01:47:26.700 --> 01:47:29.700 Well, I get that, but I'm saying I agree with you on these points, 01:47:29.700 --> 01:47:34.060 but the power never abdicates the power willingly, right? 01:47:34.060 --> 01:47:38.860 It's going to, it's going to thrash and scream and hurt as many people as it can 01:47:38.860 --> 01:47:42.380 in order to maintain its grip on power. 01:47:42.500 --> 01:47:43.720 It never abdicates the throne. 01:47:43.900 --> 01:47:46.320 It has to be, you know, it has to be removed. 01:47:46.580 --> 01:47:51.940 So by succeeding and getting away from that inevitability, right? 01:47:52.160 --> 01:47:55.220 When, when, when the old man has dementia and he starts, 01:47:55.400 --> 01:47:58.660 and he's having flashbacks and punching nurses, right? 01:47:59.180 --> 01:47:59.300 Personal. 01:47:59.440 --> 01:48:02.660 Well, everybody, everybody, you know, kind of backs away. 01:48:03.280 --> 01:48:05.040 Um, we're like, we're done with dad. 01:48:05.200 --> 01:48:05.720 He's too much. 01:48:05.840 --> 01:48:06.180 We're leaving. 01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:07.440 I can't deal with it. 01:48:07.540 --> 01:48:10.040 And that's, you know, that's kind of where we're at. 01:48:10.160 --> 01:48:14.560 I think with, with the United States is the old man is punching nurses 01:48:15.700 --> 01:48:19.680 and the kids kind of want to be like, dude, this old man's nuts. 01:48:19.880 --> 01:48:23.660 Like, let's just get out of here while we still can before he starts punching us. 01:48:23.840 --> 01:48:24.220 Right. 01:48:25.160 --> 01:48:28.180 Harder than he has been for the past, you know, 100 odd years. 01:48:28.380 --> 01:48:29.880 How long has the Federal Reserve been around? 01:48:29.880 --> 01:48:37.020 So let's say the U.S., you know, brings Venezuela in as a state. 01:48:37.220 --> 01:48:39.680 Do you think they really notice if they lost New Hampshire? 01:48:40.000 --> 01:48:40.180 I think. 01:48:40.540 --> 01:48:41.160 No, I don't think so. 01:48:41.400 --> 01:48:43.080 I think Venezuela has enough oil resources. 01:48:43.180 --> 01:48:43.360 Maybe that's it. 01:48:43.500 --> 01:48:44.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:48:44.240 --> 01:48:44.540 They got all the oil. 01:48:44.540 --> 01:48:45.740 It'd be a black on the empire. 01:48:45.880 --> 01:48:46.500 They wouldn't allow it. 01:48:46.600 --> 01:48:47.380 I know that. 01:48:48.280 --> 01:48:51.200 I don't like to, I don't like that answer, but you're right. 01:48:51.480 --> 01:48:51.880 You're right. 01:48:52.560 --> 01:48:57.000 Well, then I, I love the succession ideas too, 01:48:57.060 --> 01:48:59.540 but like the reality is the empire won't allow that. 01:48:59.880 --> 01:49:06.240 They would rather, they would rather all see us hanging in the street than allow for 01:49:06.240 --> 01:49:09.460 something like that to happen and like have it be like national news. 01:49:10.020 --> 01:49:10.060 Right. 01:49:10.600 --> 01:49:16.220 So all the, that I can hope for is that another state gets there. 01:49:16.440 --> 01:49:21.080 Any other state, they, they do something, even if it's just changed states, 01:49:21.220 --> 01:49:27.360 changing boundaries or California breaks up or Texas goes it alone. 01:49:27.360 --> 01:49:31.060 I, I, and this is not a near term thing. 01:49:31.280 --> 01:49:39.600 I know that, um, but I, I just don't see any chance of, of things continuing. 01:49:40.200 --> 01:49:41.400 Successfully, they won't. 01:49:41.660 --> 01:49:45.560 And we're going to go to the phones where we've got Sarah in New Mexico. 01:49:45.840 --> 01:49:47.320 Sarah, you're on free talk live. 01:49:49.060 --> 01:49:53.560 So, you know, I don't understand, you know, the X on a mobile, they say 01:49:53.560 --> 01:50:01.740 the Venezuela is too unstable for us to go in and take over the oil companies. 01:50:02.160 --> 01:50:05.900 I, I don't understand what are they really afraid of? 01:50:06.100 --> 01:50:10.240 I don't know if they're afraid of, they're afraid of how much money they would have 01:50:10.240 --> 01:50:12.800 to sink into it to make it viable. 01:50:13.660 --> 01:50:15.520 Chevron is still down there. 01:50:15.600 --> 01:50:17.120 They've been there the whole time. 01:50:17.680 --> 01:50:18.480 Oh really? 01:50:18.700 --> 01:50:18.900 Yeah. 01:50:19.180 --> 01:50:21.440 Chevron has, has always been there. 01:50:21.440 --> 01:50:23.960 It's not like there are no oil companies. 01:50:25.380 --> 01:50:30.720 But under Chavez, he nationalized all the oil companies. 01:50:31.160 --> 01:50:35.840 So there used to be, um, you know, don't quote me on these, but there were 01:50:38.300 --> 01:50:40.200 other oil companies down there. 01:50:40.360 --> 01:50:46.200 Let's say mobile was down there and Chavez or maybe it was Maduro said, 01:50:46.760 --> 01:50:50.440 all right, right now all oil companies are nationalized, 01:50:50.680 --> 01:50:57.440 which simply means that we now own all your equipment and we're going to produce it and take 01:50:57.440 --> 01:51:05.380 the benefits and take all the money that we get from selling, selling the oil that you created, 01:51:05.780 --> 01:51:08.000 you created the infrastructure that you created. 01:51:08.500 --> 01:51:10.540 That's the biggest fear of the oil companies. 01:51:10.740 --> 01:51:13.560 They don't want to get that pulled on them again. 01:51:13.560 --> 01:51:17.440 And a lot of them are, are pretty afraid to go back there. 01:51:17.820 --> 01:51:23.020 And they're talking about we want to have guarantees from the U.S. government 01:51:23.580 --> 01:51:28.080 that you will protect our assets if we put money into Venezuela. 01:51:29.360 --> 01:51:31.400 So they are literally. 01:51:31.520 --> 01:51:35.640 Well, they have a, they have a, like a socialist communist revolution. 01:51:36.440 --> 01:51:39.620 And actually, um, Hugo Chavez took over. 01:51:40.100 --> 01:51:40.360 Yeah. 01:51:40.520 --> 01:51:43.240 I mean, the oil companies, once they run out, 01:51:43.560 --> 01:51:45.460 like fear of force. 01:51:45.860 --> 01:51:47.560 I mean, they just did a wrong job. 01:51:47.940 --> 01:51:49.100 Ask them to leave politely. 01:51:49.500 --> 01:51:56.640 No, they said guys with guns went there and said, these are no longer your oil wells. 01:51:56.760 --> 01:52:00.620 This is no longer your refinery. 01:52:01.140 --> 01:52:05.700 At the point of a gun, they were ordered to leave or die. 01:52:06.360 --> 01:52:10.540 That's what the communist revolution did in Venezuela. 01:52:12.360 --> 01:52:12.840 Right. 01:52:13.100 --> 01:52:19.420 And they used force, Trump used force bombing and arrested Maduro by using force again. 01:52:19.860 --> 01:52:20.460 I, I. 01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:24.500 And what they're saying is that just because you get rid of that hit figure, 01:52:25.320 --> 01:52:29.280 you know, it doesn't automatically change the whole country. 01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:33.320 You know, as, as Trump thinks that he did, you know what I mean? 01:52:33.580 --> 01:52:34.840 I mean, I agree with you. 01:52:35.300 --> 01:52:39.220 It's not going to be, I don't think Trump, I think Trump's planning to put 01:52:39.220 --> 01:52:40.660 troops in Venezuela. 01:52:41.080 --> 01:52:44.200 I think this was an opening move in a chess game. 01:52:44.500 --> 01:52:44.760 Yeah. 01:52:45.140 --> 01:52:46.860 To get more American bases. 01:52:47.720 --> 01:52:50.540 What American bases do we really have in South America? 01:52:51.220 --> 01:52:53.720 I'm asking because I don't know why I don't know. 01:52:54.080 --> 01:52:54.640 I don't know either. 01:52:55.080 --> 01:52:55.720 Probably Brazil. 01:52:56.960 --> 01:52:58.320 Maybe, maybe something. 01:52:58.700 --> 01:53:04.100 I don't know, but I know that the Trump will want a foothold, 01:53:05.700 --> 01:53:08.640 not thousands of miles away from the U.S. 01:53:09.600 --> 01:53:10.080 So. 01:53:10.120 --> 01:53:15.720 Well, I just, we're going to have the, if that's, um, so like, I mean, do you think 01:53:15.720 --> 01:53:22.140 that's what it's going to take for them to, they're going to use our military force to 01:53:22.140 --> 01:53:23.360 move in the oil companies? 01:53:23.560 --> 01:53:25.040 I think that's where it's going. 01:53:25.500 --> 01:53:30.460 Well, unless the people, unless the people of Venezuela let them do it without force, 01:53:30.740 --> 01:53:30.980 right? 01:53:31.120 --> 01:53:32.860 Like that's what I was talking about earlier. 01:53:33.220 --> 01:53:38.440 America has looked at the world and said, we are either doing this the easy way 01:53:38.440 --> 01:53:44.060 or we're doing this the hard way and you, we're going to leave the decision up to you, 01:53:44.240 --> 01:53:49.840 smaller countries, about how you want to go about this because it's happening regardless. 01:53:50.260 --> 01:53:54.760 And we can either make it super painful for you or we can make it super easy for you 01:53:54.760 --> 01:53:56.320 because that's what bullies do. 01:53:56.420 --> 01:53:57.420 That's how they operate. 01:53:57.980 --> 01:54:04.860 And a lot of these people in Venezuela still remember having nothing to eat under communism. 01:54:04.860 --> 01:54:09.260 They still remember having to eat zoo animals. 01:54:11.020 --> 01:54:12.600 That's what communism brings you. 01:54:12.780 --> 01:54:13.020 That's not bad. 01:54:13.260 --> 01:54:18.780 See, but before they had the revolution under capitalism, they had nothing to eat then. 01:54:19.080 --> 01:54:24.920 Or if they're doing so well before, why would they have a communist revolution? 01:54:25.540 --> 01:54:27.280 They wanted something better and different. 01:54:27.560 --> 01:54:32.940 Because they wanted more and communism works very well, 01:54:32.940 --> 01:54:37.360 forgetting the people at the top, all the things they want. 01:54:37.620 --> 01:54:41.860 It doesn't work well for the regular people, for the proletariat. 01:54:42.040 --> 01:54:42.600 It doesn't. 01:54:42.740 --> 01:54:43.480 It does not. 01:54:44.220 --> 01:54:46.660 It's idealistic. 01:54:47.140 --> 01:54:50.900 It's so idealistic that they can convince people. 01:54:51.400 --> 01:54:53.200 Sarah, did you ever read Animal Farm? 01:54:54.460 --> 01:54:55.580 I never did. 01:54:56.180 --> 01:54:56.620 Read it. 01:54:56.740 --> 01:54:57.840 I would recommend it. 01:54:58.220 --> 01:55:01.860 And it's a really good story and it's, it's- 01:55:01.860 --> 01:55:02.400 You love it. 01:55:02.400 --> 01:55:03.620 It's a good kid's story. 01:55:03.840 --> 01:55:04.720 Yeah, it is. 01:55:04.720 --> 01:55:11.060 Well, I'm just going to bring up one more thing that right now it's illegal to put speeding cameras 01:55:11.060 --> 01:55:14.040 on our federal highways like freeways. 01:55:14.820 --> 01:55:15.140 Oh, good. 01:55:15.700 --> 01:55:16.740 And that is the most absurd. 01:55:17.220 --> 01:55:17.600 You know why? 01:55:18.120 --> 01:55:20.440 Because they're doing the most amount of speed. 01:55:21.280 --> 01:55:23.900 And if there's a wreck, it causes the most amount of wreck. 01:55:25.080 --> 01:55:25.760 And just because- 01:55:25.760 --> 01:55:27.060 And speeding cameras are going to fix this? 01:55:27.080 --> 01:55:30.960 The federal government, they're prohibited from putting speed cameras. 01:55:32.400 --> 01:55:37.660 So city could put speeding cameras, escape, each state could put speed cameras there, 01:55:37.720 --> 01:55:41.140 but they have to have hands off on the freeways. 01:55:41.340 --> 01:55:42.680 Our state doesn't. 01:55:43.820 --> 01:55:45.220 They're illegal in New Hampshire. 01:55:46.620 --> 01:55:54.440 Oh, your state decided to ban cameras, city, or the whole property? 01:55:55.040 --> 01:55:57.820 I mean, the whole- 01:55:57.820 --> 01:56:05.040 agency cannot have a camera pointed in any direction that can read a license plate, 01:56:05.580 --> 01:56:12.200 which means like my town hall has cameras for burglars and stuff like that, 01:56:12.320 --> 01:56:17.840 but they're all, they have to be very careful that they cannot be placed in places that can 01:56:17.840 --> 01:56:19.160 read license plates. 01:56:19.720 --> 01:56:20.920 Isn't that crazy? 01:56:22.040 --> 01:56:24.320 And we also don't have to wear a drive. 01:56:24.640 --> 01:56:26.340 We don't have to have seatbelts. 01:56:27.880 --> 01:56:29.860 Your state is very bizarre. 01:56:30.500 --> 01:56:30.720 It is. 01:56:30.900 --> 01:56:33.280 But, see, your state is not like our state. 01:56:33.600 --> 01:56:34.380 We have- 01:56:34.380 --> 01:56:37.540 Interestingly, we also have very few fatalities. 01:56:38.940 --> 01:56:43.520 Well, here's the thing, we have to have license plate reader, do you know why? 01:56:44.300 --> 01:56:49.660 All the murmurers from all the other states come out to New Mexico and hide out here. 01:56:50.320 --> 01:56:53.660 And do you know how you used to find them after they murder somebody again? 01:56:54.460 --> 01:56:58.520 See, it's like, oh, we had a murderer living in our state for 10 years. 01:56:58.960 --> 01:57:02.200 I mean, that happens in a place like California, and they have cameras everywhere. 01:57:02.480 --> 01:57:04.480 They should make that then state motto. 01:57:05.200 --> 01:57:08.200 We got the most murderers, and murderers welcome. 01:57:09.540 --> 01:57:10.520 Big outreach. 01:57:11.080 --> 01:57:11.420 I know. 01:57:12.400 --> 01:57:19.240 Well, this Mexico has been settled by criminals from like 100 years ago or more. 01:57:19.240 --> 01:57:24.840 It's a criminal state because when they were going to get hung in the 13 colonies, 01:57:25.060 --> 01:57:28.300 they ran out here, and they stopped looking for them. 01:57:28.820 --> 01:57:35.880 It's always been that culture of all the murderers came out here, and that's the reason 01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:38.660 we have to have license plate readers. 01:57:38.820 --> 01:57:40.500 Well, the entire country used to be that place. 01:57:40.600 --> 01:57:40.940 Right. 01:57:41.200 --> 01:57:43.140 Now you're America's Australia. 01:57:43.380 --> 01:57:44.020 That's a good thing. 01:57:44.220 --> 01:57:45.780 Sarah, thank you so much for the call. 01:57:46.500 --> 01:57:49.180 Uh, 603-283-6160. 01:57:49.400 --> 01:57:50.360 We still got time. 01:57:50.580 --> 01:57:51.520 You can get in touch. 01:57:51.740 --> 01:57:52.560 Give us a ring. 01:57:52.760 --> 01:57:53.380 Let's talk. 01:57:54.120 --> 01:57:55.480 This is Free Talk Live. 01:58:04.040 --> 01:58:05.160 Free Talk Live. 01:58:05.520 --> 01:58:11.520 The amount of young people being brought up on criminal charges, sex offender charges, 01:58:12.080 --> 01:58:15.600 for taking nude photos of themselves and putting them online. 01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:20.060 It's just so sad to see these people having their lives just rolled right over the 01:58:20.060 --> 01:58:24.000 top of by these prosecutors that want to make it look like they're doing something good, 01:58:24.120 --> 01:58:26.600 but 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The pair were then transported to New York City, 02:00:27.980 --> 02:00:31.740 where they appeared in court, facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges. 02:00:32.060 --> 02:00:35.600 President Donald Trump said that the raid was part of large-scale strikes against 02:00:35.600 --> 02:00:39.400 Venezuela. Mary Trini Minna was in Caracas, as it all unfolded. 02:00:39.400 --> 02:00:45.220 This morning, Venezuelans woke up with several blasts across the city. 02:00:45.560 --> 02:00:51.320 We heard airplanes and helicopters passing through across the city of Caracas flying over. 02:00:52.200 --> 02:00:57.460 What we know so far is the information provided, but the Venezuelan government, 02:00:57.620 --> 02:01:01.880 they say the attacks took place in three different states of Venezuela, 02:01:01.880 --> 02:01:09.600 La Guaira, Aragua, and Miranda. Miranda is located in the metropolitan area of Caracas. 02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:16.040 I heard the blast earlier in the morning. Right now, the city remains in calm with 02:01:16.040 --> 02:01:22.020 authorities calling to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty of the country and remain in 02:01:22.020 --> 02:01:29.380 calm. The government says they will declare a state of emergency, and then we hear about 02:01:29.380 --> 02:01:34.660 the information provided by Donald Trump saying they captured the leader of Venezuela, 02:01:34.940 --> 02:01:42.140 Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Celia Flores. A US immigration agent shot dead a female driver 02:01:42.140 --> 02:01:47.200 in Minneapolis this week, kicking off a political firestorm. Video of the shooting sparked 02:01:47.200 --> 02:01:52.760 further protests in a city where around 2,000 federal officers have been deployed. Nick Harper 02:01:52.760 --> 02:01:57.500 reports. The shooting in Minneapolis has become the latest political touchstone with 02:01:57.500 --> 02:02:04.100 the left and the right viewing the videos in contradictory ways. Law enforcement officials 02:02:04.100 --> 02:02:09.480 say that the agent was acting in self-defense that the woman was trying to run him over. 02:02:10.020 --> 02:02:15.860 They called the driver a violent rioter, with Donald Trump describing her as violently willfully 02:02:15.860 --> 02:02:21.700 and viciously attacking the ICE officer. Those on the left and protesters say this was 02:02:21.700 --> 02:02:27.420 murder, with Minnesota's Governor Tim Wolfs saying it was a consequence of the federal 02:02:27.420 --> 02:02:33.140 government trying to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It was reported this week that a 02:02:33.140 --> 02:02:38.180 complete internet shutdown was imposed in Iran after mass protests against the country's 02:02:38.180 --> 02:02:43.380 clerical leadership. What started as demonstrations against Iran's struggling economy has now 02:02:43.380 --> 02:02:48.920 become a wider movement, with agitations now being reported in all 31 provinces of the country. 02:02:48.920 --> 02:02:55.000 Ishan Gag tells us more. Videos verified by local media show large crowds of anti-government 02:02:55.000 --> 02:03:01.000 protesters marching through Iran's capital Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling for the removal 02:03:01.000 --> 02:03:07.160 of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Though demonstrations started in Iran in late 02:03:07.160 --> 02:03:12.560 December against rising inflation, Thursday's protests are believed to be triggered by calls 02:03:12.560 --> 02:03:18.020 from Iranian crown prince and a key opposition leader Reza Pahlavi. Amnesty International 02:03:18.020 --> 02:03:23.480 says more than 20 people have died in the protests since December 31st and concerns remain 02:03:23.480 --> 02:03:28.600 about further clashes between protesters and Iranian security forces. The French foreign 02:03:28.600 --> 02:03:33.660 minister says he will work with European allies to create a plan should the United States follow 02:03:33.660 --> 02:03:38.740 through on its threats of taking control of Greenland. The Trump administration has renewed 02:03:38.740 --> 02:03:43.480 its interest in the semi-autonomous Danish territory stating that it's needed for matters of 02:03:43.480 --> 02:03:49.240 national security. William Dentolo reports from Brussels. France's foreign minister says he's 02:03:49.240 --> 02:03:53.160 discussing the issue of Greenland during a meeting with German and Polish counterparts. 02:03:53.780 --> 02:03:58.740 Speaking on local radio, Jean Noël Barreau said that France wants to take action, 02:03:59.080 --> 02:04:04.160 but to do so in coordination with European partners. This comes as US President Donald 02:04:04.160 --> 02:04:09.680 Trump says he's discussing a range of options to acquire Greenland, including the use of 02:04:09.680 --> 02:04:14.780 Washington says he needs the territory to stave off an increased threat in the Arctic 02:04:14.780 --> 02:04:20.420 posed by Russia and China. Several European leaders have penned a joint statement this week 02:04:20.420 --> 02:04:26.520 saying that the region's security is a collective issue and Greenland belongs to its people. 02:04:26.920 --> 02:04:32.480 380,000 homes were left without power on Friday after Storm Goeriti hit France. The 02:04:32.480 --> 02:04:36.520 north of the country was worst hit, with all train services in the region of Normandy 02:04:36.520 --> 02:04:42.920 cancelled. Ross Callen reports. In Normandy, heavy rain is sweeping across the region and winds in 02:04:42.920 --> 02:04:48.380 excess of 200 kilometers an hour have brought down trees on railway lines and electricity cables. 02:04:48.780 --> 02:04:52.520 Dozens of people have been injured across the country and the top official in the region 02:04:52.520 --> 02:04:56.640 around the port city of Calais has ordered the public to shelter in place for now. 02:04:56.940 --> 02:05:06.500 The stormy conditions will continue into the weekend. On Saturday, six regions in the 02:05:06.500 --> 02:05:11.200 from feature story news in New York. I'm Mitch McCann and that was the weekend review. 02:05:13.740 --> 02:05:18.460 I know I shouldn't, but these muffins are delicious. We'll share our favorite recipes later 02:05:18.460 --> 02:05:22.840 in the hour. But first, our guest says, don't give in to road rage. Stay calm behind the 02:05:22.840 --> 02:05:27.600 wheel and coolly plot your road revenge. Danny Preston is a defensive driving instructor who 02:05:27.600 --> 02:05:31.240 teaches people how to control their temper behind the wheel. Welcome, Danny. Thanks 02:05:31.240 --> 02:05:35.560 for having me. There's nothing I hate more than getting cut off. That drives me nuts. 02:05:35.560 --> 02:05:39.240 I want to scream out my window. Getting into an argument with a stranger isn't going to 02:05:39.240 --> 02:05:43.080 accomplish anything, but stress you out. Well, how should you respond instead? 02:05:43.280 --> 02:05:49.860 By 1996, some guy gave me the middle finger after I cut him off. I recognized him from TV. 02:05:50.180 --> 02:05:54.380 That's when I decided to become a defensive driving instructor, developing the skills I 02:05:54.380 --> 02:05:58.960 needed to eventually be invited on his show as an expert. Once you're there, it's just a 02:05:58.960 --> 02:06:03.720 simple matter of switching out his muffins with the ones you made yourself. How many 02:06:03.720 --> 02:06:08.820 did you eat? What? I don't know. Thank you so much for sharing your tips, Danny. 02:06:09.060 --> 02:06:13.100 Danny is not my true name. This is the Onion News Network. 02:06:13.840 --> 02:06:18.600 You can help spread the ideas of liberty with our Patreon for just $5 per month at 02:06:18.600 --> 02:06:21.300 amps.freetalklive.com. 02:07:05.650 --> 02:07:11.830 Well, I think we're on a... Maybe one day. Maybe one day. If we're lucky, 02:07:12.850 --> 02:07:19.090 a messiah will come back and save us. Okay. I'm hoping that's the case. 02:07:19.290 --> 02:07:24.210 That would be a good outcome. I know Christians believe it's Jesus and that's fine, 02:07:24.390 --> 02:07:31.070 but we'll see what happens in my lifetime. So yeah, Mormons, man, I'm going to offend 02:07:31.070 --> 02:07:38.850 somebody here. Offend away. So if Jesus Christ are Lord and Savior, if you're a Christian, 02:07:39.370 --> 02:07:48.430 we're to come back to descend from heaven and start his third reign or second reign or 02:07:48.430 --> 02:07:57.810 fourth reign or whatever it is. Does that fulfill Mormon prophecy? I mean... 02:07:57.810 --> 02:08:01.250 Mormons believe that... Tell me about this because I just don't know. 02:08:01.490 --> 02:08:04.110 Mormons definitely would believe that Jesus is coming again. 02:08:04.910 --> 02:08:11.330 And I think they, if I remember correctly, as Mormons, they teach that America is the 02:08:11.330 --> 02:08:15.950 promised land and Jesus is actually coming back to America. Have you broke the news to them? 02:08:16.890 --> 02:08:23.210 No. What news should I break to them? The whole America is the promised land. 02:08:23.590 --> 02:08:31.970 I'm not convinced. Maybe this is why I'm not a Mormon. Okay. Okay. But Jesus will return. 02:08:32.450 --> 02:08:36.430 You're going to come back to Missouri because that's where the Garden of Eden supposedly was. 02:08:37.270 --> 02:08:43.890 Missouri? Yeah. Like the Ozarks? Yeah, like Jackson County. Yeah, they tried to start 02:08:44.830 --> 02:08:49.510 in Missouri and Missouri like shot them a bunch and kicked them out. 02:08:49.510 --> 02:08:52.270 Missouri kicked them out. Right. They kicked us out long ago. 02:08:52.450 --> 02:08:56.810 Was this... Which prophet was this? Joseph Smith back in the day. 02:08:57.150 --> 02:09:00.430 So do the Mormons look to Missouri as some 02:09:01.270 --> 02:09:07.650 lost territory that must be reclaimed? Yes. Really? Yes. Especially Jackson County, Missouri. 02:09:08.130 --> 02:09:12.650 So it's like they're Israel almost? Like they're the diaspora from their holy land? 02:09:12.810 --> 02:09:17.130 I think so, yeah. Like they're cast out. It's been a lot longer than 40 years. 02:09:17.130 --> 02:09:23.130 They did get cast out. Yeah, they were cast out. Yeah, they got cast out the whole country. 02:09:23.310 --> 02:09:28.010 We caught up to them. Well, not we. The government caught up to them. 02:09:28.590 --> 02:09:33.170 They had to set up outside of the lines. Right, right. Interesting. 02:09:35.450 --> 02:09:38.630 So definitely a Zionistic sort of thinking within Mormonism, 02:09:38.890 --> 02:09:42.650 I think that Jesus is going to come back, but he's also going to come back to Jerusalem too. 02:09:42.650 --> 02:09:47.610 So, you know, he'll go in two places at once. Yeah, he'll have maybe not one. 02:09:48.030 --> 02:09:54.190 He'll have a summer place. He's going to have a summer home in Gaza in the rebuilt Gaza. 02:09:55.190 --> 02:09:58.850 At the Temple Mount and it's going to have a winter home in 02:09:59.370 --> 02:10:03.250 Missouri where the new Jerusalem is going to be built. What about Utah? 02:10:04.310 --> 02:10:08.730 I don't know. Is it just a vacation home? I guess it's got great skiing. 02:10:09.350 --> 02:10:11.750 Right. It definitely has great skiing. So maybe Jesus will go skiing. 02:10:11.750 --> 02:10:17.530 He's going to go shred the gnar, dude. I mean, I bet if you go to some of those mountains, 02:10:17.650 --> 02:10:19.950 you're going to see a lot of dudes who you would think look like Jesus. 02:10:20.510 --> 02:10:26.290 I know a lot of the snowboarders, but I don't know if he's my son has had that look. 02:10:26.870 --> 02:10:31.630 Believe me. Oh yeah, I think it's a, if you grow up like near the mountains and you do that 02:10:32.050 --> 02:10:35.590 kind of thing, it's a phase that most people are going to go through. 02:10:35.670 --> 02:10:39.830 If you snowboard, you'll get to like the long hair in the Jesus look for a little bit. 02:10:40.230 --> 02:10:44.170 Sean White look. He was a ginger though, right? 02:10:44.410 --> 02:10:46.890 Yeah. But I mean he, the hair was down like the middle of his back. 02:10:47.070 --> 02:10:56.150 Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, so yeah, it's like Jesus could have his own snowboard brand. 02:10:56.430 --> 02:11:00.630 Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He could. That's interesting. 02:11:00.770 --> 02:11:04.810 Grace Industries. I love it. Grace Industries. 02:11:05.290 --> 02:11:09.070 I love it. It'll be like a cross, but it'll be the nails and it'll be super heavy metal. 02:11:09.070 --> 02:11:12.830 Looking right. Cause it's a skateboard brand. Oh man. 02:11:13.270 --> 02:11:18.130 We like thorns all over the nails in the cross, right? Like you, you can see it, right? 02:11:18.230 --> 02:11:21.870 Yeah. Yeah. Skateboard, little grunge style skateboard brand. 02:11:22.550 --> 02:11:27.310 This is too crazy. That's it. I'm becoming a Mormon. 02:11:27.690 --> 02:11:32.250 All right. Can you explain Mormon space wives to me? Is that just a, what is that Riley? 02:11:32.410 --> 02:11:36.290 I have no idea what Mormon space. Okay. Cause I've heard the Mormon space 02:11:36.290 --> 02:11:40.790 wives referenced. I don't like you get like, I don't know the Mormons believe they get their own 02:11:40.790 --> 02:11:44.990 planet at the end of this like to work on like, how does that? Here's the thing, 02:11:45.110 --> 02:11:50.370 what I remember about growing up as a Mormon, we do believe that we can become like God. 02:11:50.930 --> 02:11:55.130 Okay. And as such, we can create our own worlds and populate them with people. 02:11:55.130 --> 02:11:59.690 So I guess in a way we get our own planet. I don't know. Okay. 02:11:59.690 --> 02:12:06.610 Okay. I could see the appeal of Mormonism. Yeah. I saw this in a Reddit post one time 02:12:06.610 --> 02:12:14.010 with like a, through like a story thread about the, the, the story was this guy had died and he 02:12:14.010 --> 02:12:20.650 goes to heaven. Um, and God shows him like a couple of different rooms of like places he could go 02:12:20.650 --> 02:12:27.370 and ones like, you know, food and gluttony and like ones like nature. Okay. Um, and like 02:12:27.370 --> 02:12:32.310 all these different like places that you could spend eternity at and they get to the last one 02:12:32.310 --> 02:12:38.530 and it's just like a desk and, uh, God is talking to the guy who died. Um, and he's like, and this 02:12:38.530 --> 02:12:46.850 is the last one you could choose. Um, and, uh, the guy was like, whoa, all right, I'll choose 02:12:46.850 --> 02:12:50.950 that one for some reason. And God was like, what? And he's like, yeah, I want to do the desk, 02:12:51.030 --> 02:12:55.290 like what's going on with the desk. And God like sits him down at the desk and he looks 02:12:55.290 --> 02:12:59.610 into the desk and it's his own universe that he has to work on. And then God sits at the desk next 02:12:59.610 --> 02:13:05.950 to him and says, go ahead, dude, this is, this one's yours. Nice. And for you to, you know, 02:13:07.010 --> 02:13:11.390 build on your own. So I mean, I heard all of that. And like, so is that Mormonism then? 02:13:13.430 --> 02:13:18.770 Uh, kind of, kind of not really kind of not really. Like, I know the church has walked back 02:13:18.770 --> 02:13:23.710 to walked back on that belief for a bit now saying, oh, well, we actually don't get 02:13:23.710 --> 02:13:27.910 our own planets. Oh, okay. So the invaluable teachings of Joseph Smith are somehow valuable. 02:13:28.390 --> 02:13:29.230 Yeah. Wow. 02:13:29.650 --> 02:13:33.290 Baton switch, man. I was told I would get my own plan. All right. 02:13:34.090 --> 02:13:37.110 Well, you wait till you hear about the 72 virgins, man. 02:13:37.610 --> 02:13:39.090 That's an Islam, dude. 02:13:39.290 --> 02:13:41.970 Wait till you find out about how those aren't coming either. 02:13:42.330 --> 02:13:45.890 Yeah. Yeah. It's always, uh, lots of promises. 02:13:46.630 --> 02:13:48.230 Um, that's what religion is promises. 02:13:48.730 --> 02:13:53.410 Well, and promises and the afterlife and the government is filled with promises. 02:13:53.410 --> 02:13:53.970 Yes. 02:13:54.330 --> 02:14:00.610 This is just a common thread. Um, yeah, I, I don't know. I've, I've, 02:14:00.730 --> 02:14:07.050 the only person other than, than you Riley that I was really close to for a time 02:14:07.050 --> 02:14:10.610 was my band teacher and in high school. 02:14:11.790 --> 02:14:18.150 And, uh, he was a lot of fun, um, without using any names. Yes, we did drink and 02:14:19.150 --> 02:14:24.110 maybe part took of other substances together. Um, 02:14:25.850 --> 02:14:33.030 but his wife did not really enjoy that being a lifestyle choice for him. Sure. 02:14:33.250 --> 02:14:37.770 And she just basically said, I'm leaving. I am moving to Utah. 02:14:38.170 --> 02:14:42.430 I think she was a Mormon already. If he was any kind of Mormon, 02:14:42.570 --> 02:14:45.970 it was a Jack Mormon because he didn't really follow anything. 02:14:45.970 --> 02:14:53.730 But he decided to follow his wife and his family to more, uh, to Utah, to Mormon down. 02:14:54.290 --> 02:14:59.110 Um, no, to Utah. And, uh, I talked to him a couple of years after that and he's like, you know, 02:15:00.470 --> 02:15:06.930 religions all have lots of promises and they all have lots of answers to lots of different 02:15:06.930 --> 02:15:12.730 things. But he looked me dead in the eye and he's like, but the Mormons really have it. 02:15:12.730 --> 02:15:17.270 They have all the answers. I'm like, well, okay. 02:15:17.290 --> 02:15:20.690 I think that's the nice thing about religion is it gives you all the answers. 02:15:20.770 --> 02:15:24.270 And so you don't think about anything. You don't have any questions to think about. 02:15:24.590 --> 02:15:29.310 You can have solace and, and that's nice for a religion to do. But 02:15:29.930 --> 02:15:33.690 when you take thinking out of the equation and, and you're not allowed to ask any 02:15:33.690 --> 02:15:37.330 questions other than beyond what the religion tells you what the answers are. Well, 02:15:37.330 --> 02:15:41.290 yeah. And it creates impotence in your own mind. 02:15:41.470 --> 02:15:48.230 I used to describe myself as an agnostic. Um, I don't think I'm an agnostic. I, 02:15:48.270 --> 02:15:55.410 I do believe that there is a God, me personally. I, I do believe that, that there is some power 02:15:55.410 --> 02:16:02.070 higher than myself, that there is some intelligent design to this whole thing. 02:16:02.420 --> 02:16:07.590 I believe all that. Um, but I really have a problem with organized religion. 02:16:07.590 --> 02:16:18.230 And I just can't say that okay, Christians take on how things work is any better than 02:16:18.230 --> 02:16:25.510 Buddhism or Hinduism or Islam or or Mormonism or anything. I just, 02:16:26.470 --> 02:16:32.690 and it goes even further when I start looking at different flavors of Christianity and saying 02:16:33.180 --> 02:16:40.210 are the Catholics right? Are the Lutherans right? You know, it's just, I get that. And 02:16:41.060 --> 02:16:50.710 I just like the fact that I can feel peace, um, knowing that I have autonomy. Um, 02:16:50.710 --> 02:16:56.390 but I also realize that there may be somebody, everybody's got a boss, right? 02:16:57.350 --> 02:17:02.490 Um, maybe that's the case. And maybe, maybe that's where I am. I don't know. 02:17:03.130 --> 02:17:07.310 Like I'm with you on organized religion. I'm not a huge fan of organized religion. 02:17:07.510 --> 02:17:12.250 I do believe that there's a, that there's God somewhere. Maybe God is inside us. I don't know. 02:17:12.830 --> 02:17:16.130 Maybe we're just all pieces of God experiencing. Maybe we're just all God 02:17:16.130 --> 02:17:21.410 experiencing as self-simultaneously. I have no idea, but regardless of that, 02:17:21.750 --> 02:17:26.590 you know, organized religion just hands you a book or books and says, here are the answers. 02:17:27.070 --> 02:17:31.130 We don't need to think about anything else. Just listen to us. We'll give you all the answers 02:17:31.130 --> 02:17:38.370 to all the questions you have thus creating this prison, if you will. This prison of your 02:17:38.370 --> 02:17:43.290 mind to say you can't go beyond this mark. One thing I value about, you know, 02:17:44.010 --> 02:17:48.550 my spiritual path is that I get to ask more questions and think about things deeper. And I 02:17:48.550 --> 02:17:52.890 don't know what I believe is true. Right. I'm not going to hang my hat and say, this is the truth. 02:17:53.210 --> 02:17:59.070 This is the ultimate truth that, that we are all God and experiencing itself simultaneously. 02:17:59.590 --> 02:18:02.290 Okay. That's a nice belief. Something has to be true though. 02:18:03.150 --> 02:18:06.830 Well, something right, right? Cause the truth exists. Sure. 02:18:07.730 --> 02:18:14.410 And so one of, not all of these things can be true. Right. I understand you talking about 02:18:14.410 --> 02:18:22.970 different, like the different flavors of Christianity. I don't know. I've been like church 02:18:22.970 --> 02:18:30.110 history, you know, you can go all the way back to like the council of Nicaea, like 325, right? 02:18:30.210 --> 02:18:35.030 And then the schism in 1050 that even created the Catholic church. And like there's a whole, 02:18:35.030 --> 02:18:40.130 like I think as Westerners, we don't even talk about like Eastern Orthodoxy. Nobody even talks 02:18:40.130 --> 02:18:46.370 about that whole other side of the church, the side that, you know, claims holy apostolic 02:18:46.950 --> 02:18:52.670 succession from, from the apostles. And there's, so there's a whole history of a church going 02:18:52.670 --> 02:18:57.890 a different direction than the Catholics did for like 2000 years, right? For at least, 02:18:57.910 --> 02:19:02.370 no, at least at least the past 1000 years, going a totally different direction 02:19:02.370 --> 02:19:10.330 and with the way they, they went about, went about their, their church, right? Like it's a 02:19:10.330 --> 02:19:16.210 decentralized church, the bishops control their own areas and then they confer with each other, 02:19:16.310 --> 02:19:19.630 right? So Orthodoxy is, is, is working on a totally different wavelength than, 02:19:19.790 --> 02:19:25.410 than like the papacy of Rome, almost acting as like an emperor of, of Christendom. 02:19:25.410 --> 02:19:30.490 Yes. So I don't know. You want to talk about like a self autonomy. 02:19:31.810 --> 02:19:35.650 That feels pretty self autonomous, right? And then, then you're not forced to be a part of 02:19:35.650 --> 02:19:39.290 that church either. If you don't want to be as well, right? So if you really want to get away 02:19:39.290 --> 02:19:45.610 from like, if you, if you lean towards the Christian idea of things, right? And you, and 02:19:45.610 --> 02:19:52.250 but you have issues with like the Pope or with, you know, Martin Luther, Archbishop of Canterbury, 02:19:52.250 --> 02:19:57.030 or like every, you know, if we keep changing the book every time, like every generation, 02:19:57.250 --> 02:20:02.550 we have to fight about what the rules are. Then the religion is just kind of a war machine, 02:20:02.890 --> 02:20:09.770 right? And it's not, there's no respect for, for what it was agreed upon, right? And maybe 02:20:09.770 --> 02:20:13.790 you disagree with that idea. No, but like there has to be a truth. There has to be 02:20:13.790 --> 02:20:18.230 something that is real because if, if we have to fight about what's real every generation, 02:20:18.230 --> 02:20:24.570 what is a man every generation, then we never get past that point. We can never move past that 02:20:24.570 --> 02:20:29.070 because we're always arguing about what, what the rules are to even begin the ball game. And then 02:20:29.070 --> 02:20:34.790 the game never gets played and we never, we stagnate, right? That's why America is stagnating. 02:20:34.950 --> 02:20:40.450 We, we can't agree on what the rules are for who, right? We live in a two tier justice system. 02:20:40.850 --> 02:20:45.550 We can't agree on the rules. So nothing else is getting done. And we're all stuck on arguing 02:20:45.550 --> 02:20:49.930 about what the rules should be. Constitutions, conservatives would argue, well, we just need 02:20:49.930 --> 02:20:54.890 to get back to the constitution. Right. But that's exactly what got us into this mess. 02:20:56.070 --> 02:21:02.150 The constitution, none of this would be, and you think about, you know, I was googling a little 02:21:02.150 --> 02:21:09.610 bit on constitution and immigration today. Because I did want to talk about this. I mean, 02:21:10.250 --> 02:21:16.690 what's actually written in the constitution about immigration says that Congress will define 02:21:16.690 --> 02:21:23.910 certain things and they will come up with a system of this. But then you have, 02:21:24.370 --> 02:21:30.790 you've got the third branch, you've got the judicial, which rules and says they interpret 02:21:30.790 --> 02:21:37.910 the constitution to mean this. And that's where a lot of where we are today came from, 02:21:37.910 --> 02:21:44.570 not through legislation, but through the judicial branch. And they said that, yes, absolutely, 02:21:45.350 --> 02:21:52.010 your, your cockamamie plan is absolutely constitutional or you can't do this and therefore, 02:21:52.090 --> 02:21:59.310 because this and I, I, and when I think of things that are, you know, the, 02:21:59.870 --> 02:22:05.770 the constitution may be all well and good, but if you have different groups that can 02:22:05.770 --> 02:22:13.110 subvert it because your, your self-professed checks and balances don't hold up 02:22:14.690 --> 02:22:20.490 against the legislative, against the executive, against the judicial, then you don't have a 02:22:20.490 --> 02:22:26.070 constitution. Well, didn't the founding fathers even maybe not explicitly within the constitution 02:22:26.070 --> 02:22:30.870 or like the doc, the framing documents, but they, they were very much in supporters of, 02:22:30.870 --> 02:22:36.430 if this doesn't work, scrap it and write a new thing. If this gets out of hand, 02:22:36.990 --> 02:22:41.350 this is just our idea. If this gets out of hand, forget it. We were wrong. 02:22:41.610 --> 02:22:43.530 That's why you're allowed to amend the constitution. 02:22:44.350 --> 02:22:49.110 Right. Right. Um, or, or completely, some would argue completely do away with it. 02:22:49.250 --> 02:22:54.570 Yes. Like our, our constitution in New Hampshire allows us to do 02:22:54.570 --> 02:23:01.110 if a government becomes too oppressive, doesn't do what it's supposed to do, 02:23:01.250 --> 02:23:05.910 doesn't do what the people want it to, you have to throw it off. 02:23:06.310 --> 02:23:11.450 Yeah. If it violates it's, it's side of the contract in New Hampshire, at least the New 02:23:11.450 --> 02:23:17.110 Hampshire constitution says we do. Yeah. And lots of other, you know, original 13 states had 02:23:17.110 --> 02:23:19.870 the same sort of thing. Hold on. 02:23:20.010 --> 02:23:23.450 Have they been amended out at this point? That sounds like something Massachusetts would 02:23:23.450 --> 02:23:29.950 have gotten rid of very quickly. No. No. Um, let me get this on. 02:23:30.870 --> 02:23:31.790 Trying to 02:23:34.010 --> 02:23:36.090 keep talking. Well, 02:23:37.970 --> 02:23:43.650 I just think it's a good idea to hold to the principle of altering or abolishing your 02:23:43.650 --> 02:23:47.310 government if it's too unwieldy. Yeah. That was like the whole point. Right. 02:23:47.410 --> 02:23:50.190 They said the tree of liberty has to be watered. 02:23:50.970 --> 02:23:55.770 And I don't know. Maybe, maybe that's why they said it had to be watered with blood because they 02:23:55.770 --> 02:24:00.150 understood that power never abdicates and it has to be taken away. 02:24:02.070 --> 02:24:05.470 These guys had just got done fighting the revolution, right? They had just got done 02:24:06.250 --> 02:24:12.590 watching their houses get burned to the ground by, by British troops to have a shot at doing 02:24:12.590 --> 02:24:20.050 this, right? And that's, um, that's what it costs. It costs blood. Um, and that's what 02:24:20.050 --> 02:24:24.950 I mean when you say, is there a good way out of this? No, because the way out costs blood, it does. 02:24:25.670 --> 02:24:33.230 Um, and it is, uh, it just, uh, I don't think people want to, want to take it that far. 02:24:33.750 --> 02:24:40.150 All right. I pulled it up. Uh, the 10th amendment. So the New Hampshire constitution, 02:24:41.170 --> 02:24:52.230 which predates the US constitution, we declared, um, we separated from England before the US did, 02:24:52.670 --> 02:25:00.270 New Hampshire did. And when they drafted this, they, they put their bill of rights right upfront. 02:25:00.270 --> 02:25:08.130 So the first 10 articles of our constitution or the more than that, uh, deal with, uh, individual 02:25:08.130 --> 02:25:17.230 rights, article 10, right of revolution. And there is one, uh, we are one of, uh, several states in 02:25:17.230 --> 02:25:24.390 the original 13 that had this government being instituted for common benefit protection and 02:25:24.390 --> 02:25:31.850 security of the whole community and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, 02:25:31.850 --> 02:25:39.530 family or class of men. Therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted and public 02:25:39.530 --> 02:25:48.090 liberty manifestly endangered and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may 02:25:48.990 --> 02:25:56.630 and of right ought to reform the old or establish a new government. The doctor doctrine 02:25:56.630 --> 02:26:05.810 of non resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive 02:26:05.810 --> 02:26:13.990 of the good and happiness of mankind. So number one, I love the fact that that's in New Hampshire's 02:26:13.990 --> 02:26:24.170 constitution and I love the wording. If, if it is, if you are not actively resisting against 02:26:24.170 --> 02:26:32.470 a government that is not defending your rights, if it is performing arbitrary powers over you, 02:26:33.750 --> 02:26:41.910 it's absurd, which I'll use another word. It's stupid, slavish and you're acting like a slave 02:26:42.450 --> 02:26:48.150 and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. It's not good for you or your neighbors 02:26:48.150 --> 02:26:55.130 not to do anything about it. And I, I, for sure. Well, and that's kind of what I was saying. Like, 02:26:55.310 --> 02:27:02.630 before you read that, I wasn't, I wasn't trying to, there wasn't, I wasn't trying to justify any 02:27:02.630 --> 02:27:09.090 kind of violence, right? But they were, they, they were. Um, and, and, but the, the government 02:27:09.090 --> 02:27:13.930 will cause it, right? You want to talk about gangs, right? You get jumped in and you get 02:27:13.930 --> 02:27:19.090 jumped out. So if you want to leave, you're going to get beaten, right? Probably within an 02:27:19.090 --> 02:27:23.550 inch of your life. If you really want to get out, right? So if, if it is a gang and this, 02:27:23.550 --> 02:27:28.450 this packs of marijuana, global hegemony is a gang, then you trying to leave, they, they 02:27:28.450 --> 02:27:32.190 will beat you with an inch of your life, throw you in prison, maybe even kill you. 02:27:32.310 --> 02:27:36.530 And if you're not willing to go through all of those things, well, then nothing's going 02:27:36.530 --> 02:27:41.850 to happen. It's just not going to change. And I don't know if the average, average Joe 02:27:41.850 --> 02:27:46.570 is there yet. I don't think they're there yet. I think they will get there. 02:27:47.070 --> 02:27:51.790 Maybe the average Joe wants good healthcare, but they don't realize that government isn't 02:27:51.790 --> 02:27:56.870 going to be the one giving it. Well, yeah, but the, the average Joe is going to go straight into, 02:27:58.130 --> 02:28:02.190 into socialism, right? That's their, that's their knee jerk reaction. 02:28:03.610 --> 02:28:06.910 There is some indication of that. Well, because they want to feel safe. They 02:28:06.910 --> 02:28:10.970 want to feel like, oh, we got to have a safety net. No, you don't get a safety net. Safety 02:28:10.970 --> 02:28:15.210 nets are, you, you got to create your own safety net. You can't have someone else provide you a 02:28:15.210 --> 02:28:20.410 safety net because they can just cut the cords and send you off into outer darkness, so to speak, 02:28:20.750 --> 02:28:25.090 by cutting your cords and making sure that you don't get their safety net. 02:28:26.070 --> 02:28:31.690 Yeah. I think it's just a question of education and, and we need to 02:28:32.410 --> 02:28:38.890 keep doing this show and keep talking about it all the time that, that there is no 02:28:39.790 --> 02:28:46.570 future in where we're headed. It doesn't work. It hasn't worked. You know that it hasn't worked. 02:28:46.850 --> 02:28:50.910 And there's no fixing it without sacrifice. Right? You have to sacrifice some of your 02:28:50.910 --> 02:28:57.170 earthly pleasures in order to gain autonomy, freedom. And it's going to be tough. It's 02:28:57.170 --> 02:29:03.570 going to be hard. And it may come to who knows what, 603-283-61. Six zeros, our number. Give 02:29:03.570 --> 02:29:17.120 us a call. Free phones on free talk live. Hey, you are going to love the movie victimless 02:29:17.120 --> 02:29:23.120 crime spree. It's hilarious, heartwarming, and carries a ton of inspiring freedom messages, 02:29:23.520 --> 02:29:28.540 feeling down about the lack of liberty in your life. You need to put on this film with some 02:29:28.540 --> 02:29:33.380 friends and have a good laugh. It's a true story about me and my friends in New Hampshire 02:29:33.380 --> 02:29:39.900 living free, singing, dancing, and getting arrested. Of course, it's all on video and the bad guys, 02:29:40.160 --> 02:29:44.940 the cops, judges, bailiffs, and sheriffs, they all play their part like it's out of a movie or 02:29:44.940 --> 02:29:50.100 something. You would think we scripted the whole thing, but it's real life. Go ahead and 02:29:50.100 --> 02:29:55.000 have a watch. And if it's been a while, have another look. I guarantee you'll notice things 02:29:55.000 --> 02:30:00.100 now that you didn't notice before. And the best part is that you're going to walk away 02:30:00.100 --> 02:30:06.920 feeling a renewed sense of your own power. You are the master of your destiny, 02:30:07.420 --> 02:30:13.060 and you will be free in your lifetime. Victimless crime spree. 02:30:14.000 --> 02:30:19.580 From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review. In a stunning 02:30:19.580 --> 02:30:24.540 late-night operation, the United States captured Venezuela's President, Nicholas Maduro, and his 02:30:24.540 --> 02:30:29.100 wife in Caracas, the pair were then transported to New York City, where they appeared in court 02:30:29.100 --> 02:30:34.200 facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges. President Donald Trump said that the raid was part 02:30:34.200 --> 02:30:39.520 of large-scale strikes against Venezuela. Mary Trini Mena was in Caracas, as it all unfolded. 02:30:39.580 --> 02:30:45.500 We heard airplanes and helicopters passing through across the city of Caracas flying over. 02:30:46.400 --> 02:30:58.960 What we know so far is the information provided, but the Venezuelan government, 02:30:58.960 --> 02:31:06.900 Miranda is located in the metropolitan area of Caracas. I heard the blast earlier in the morning. 02:31:07.120 --> 02:31:13.740 Right now, the city remains in calm, with authorities calling to the citizens to preserve 02:31:13.740 --> 02:31:19.960 the sovereignty of the country and remain in calm. The government says they will declare a state 02:31:19.960 --> 02:31:25.820 of emergency, and then we hear about the information provided by Donald Trump saying 02:31:25.820 --> 02:31:33.000 they capture the leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores. 02:31:33.420 --> 02:31:38.660 A US immigration agent shot dead a female driver in Minneapolis this week, kicking off a political 02:31:38.660 --> 02:31:44.300 firestorm. Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city where around 2,000 02:31:44.300 --> 02:31:49.480 federal officers have been deployed. Nick Harper reports. The shooting in Minneapolis has become 02:31:49.480 --> 02:31:54.580 the latest political touchstone, with the left and the right viewing the videos in 02:31:54.580 --> 02:32:00.660 contradictory ways. Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting in self-defense, 02:32:00.920 --> 02:32:06.020 that the woman was trying to run him over. They called the driver a violent rioter, 02:32:06.200 --> 02:32:12.160 with Donald Trump describing her as violently, willfully and viciously attacking the ICE officer. 02:32:12.460 --> 02:32:17.460 Those on the left and protesters say this was murder, with Minnesota's governor Tim Wolves 02:32:17.460 --> 02:32:22.340 saying it was a consequence of the federal government trying to generate fear, 02:32:22.340 --> 02:32:28.180 headlines and conflict. It was reported this week that a complete internet shutdown was imposed in 02:32:28.180 --> 02:32:33.820 Iran after mass protests against the country's clerical leadership. What started as demonstrations 02:32:33.820 --> 02:32:38.960 against Iran's struggling economy has now become a wider movement, with agitations now being 02:32:38.960 --> 02:32:44.540 reported in all 31 provinces of the country. Ishan Garg tells us more. Videos verified by 02:32:44.540 --> 02:32:49.600 local media show large crowds of anti-government protesters marching through Iran's capital 02:32:49.600 --> 02:32:55.540 Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling for the removal of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali 02:32:55.540 --> 02:33:00.720 Khamenei. Though demonstrations started in Iran in late December against rising inflation, 02:33:01.200 --> 02:33:05.540 Thursday's protests are believed to be triggered by calls from Iranian crown prince 02:33:05.540 --> 02:33:10.280 and the key opposition leader Reza Pahlavi. From Feature Story News, in New York, 02:33:10.480 --> 02:33:12.660 I'm Mitch McCann and that was the Week in Review. 02:33:14.720 --> 02:33:20.040 Yep, we still do email. Drop your email address in the entry box at freetalklive.com 02:33:20.040 --> 02:33:22.540 and you'll be kept in the loop with Freetalk Live. 02:33:57.730 --> 02:34:02.830 here on Freetalk Live. That means that Jesse went to amps.freetalklive.com 02:34:03.230 --> 02:34:09.750 and signed up to support the show. Amps stands for Advertise, Market, Promote and Support. 02:34:10.330 --> 02:34:15.950 So thanks to Jesse and everyone who supports us. Again, that's Amps.Freetalk Live. If you'd 02:34:15.950 --> 02:34:22.450 like to become an amplifier and check out the perks and benefits, again, that's 02:34:22.450 --> 02:34:33.450 amps.freetalklive.com. In studio, it's Chris Raleo Bill and Angelo and we have been all over the 02:34:33.450 --> 02:34:42.830 board as we are want to do. We've been talking Minneapolis. I know it's sadly that poor officer 02:34:42.830 --> 02:34:48.690 that shot that woman is in hiding now. Dang, what do you do when you shoot somebody, Chris? 02:34:48.690 --> 02:34:59.350 It hasn't happened yet. I'm out. I'm not sticking around to see what's happening. I'm hiding. 02:34:59.630 --> 02:35:03.450 He did fear for his life, so I guess he still fears for his life. Absolutely. 02:35:04.250 --> 02:35:15.070 Well, so do mob bosses. So do lieutenants of mafioso families. They probably fear for their 02:35:15.070 --> 02:35:21.670 lives too. I get it. So here's some people that are making exactly what they feel clear. 02:35:23.230 --> 02:35:30.730 This comes to us from The Guardian. Headline is Greenlanders don't want to be Americans, 02:35:31.030 --> 02:35:38.110 say political leaders amid Trump threats. Greenlanders don't want to be Americans 02:35:38.110 --> 02:35:43.810 and must decide the future of the Arctic Island themselves. Politicians in the 02:35:43.810 --> 02:35:49.610 self governing Danish territory have said after Donald Trump warned that the U.S. would quote, 02:35:50.350 --> 02:35:57.970 do something whether they like it or not unquote. The leaders of five political parties in the 02:35:57.970 --> 02:36:04.350 Greenland Parliament issued a United statement on Friday night soon after the U.S. president 02:36:04.350 --> 02:36:11.610 reiterated his threats to acquire the mineral rich island. Quote, we don't want to be 02:36:11.610 --> 02:36:17.050 Americans. We don't want to be Danish. We want to be Greenlanders, unquote, said the group, 02:36:17.110 --> 02:36:25.250 which includes the island's prime minister, Jens Frederick Nielsen, quote, the future of Greenland 02:36:25.250 --> 02:36:32.650 must be decided by Greenlanders, unquote. Well, of course, the guy that has the power in Greenland 02:36:32.650 --> 02:36:37.530 doesn't want to lose his power in Greenland. That makes sense. You know, the king of the 02:36:37.530 --> 02:36:43.510 country says, no, I want to stay king. What if they vote on it? What if it is put to a referendum 02:36:44.090 --> 02:36:50.370 and Greenland votes to join? Well, they've got some stats, at least some polling, 02:36:50.450 --> 02:36:56.850 so we'll take a look at that. Stressing the desire of the people of Greenland, a former 02:36:56.850 --> 02:37:07.510 Danish colony to have self determination, they said, quote, no other country can meddle in 02:37:07.510 --> 02:37:13.370 a hasty decision without procrastination and without interference from other countries, unquote. 02:37:14.010 --> 02:37:21.990 The statement was signed by Nielsen, his predecessor as prime minister, Mute Beegede, 02:37:22.830 --> 02:37:35.550 and Pele Broberg, Aliqua Hammond, and Aqualo C. Jermayeson. Man, I have no doubt that I just 02:37:35.550 --> 02:37:42.710 butchered a whole string of Greenlandic names. My apologies. I don't think I could do any better, 02:37:42.710 --> 02:37:49.250 so. At a meeting. Is there like a bunch of like dots over letters in random places? No umlots. 02:37:49.450 --> 02:37:54.890 All right. No umlots, but at a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House earlier 02:37:54.890 --> 02:38:01.750 on Friday, Trump had said Greenland was crucial to US national security, quote, 02:38:01.750 --> 02:38:08.050 we're not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland. That's what they're going to do if we 02:38:08.050 --> 02:38:15.150 don't. So we're going to be doing something with Greenland either the nice way or the more difficult 02:38:15.150 --> 02:38:23.530 way, unquote, he told reporters, or you know, one could say you could think about the diplomatic 02:38:23.530 --> 02:38:31.290 way. You could actually just work with Greenland and they would probably love to get some cash 02:38:31.290 --> 02:38:37.910 for all their valuable minerals and they would probably love to lease you some land for missile 02:38:37.910 --> 02:38:42.070 defense. Aren't they already in NATO? Yes. We already paid for all that anyways. 02:38:42.870 --> 02:38:50.050 There. So I mean, I, this is, this is theater. This is whatever you know, whatever Trump says, 02:38:50.190 --> 02:38:57.090 easy way or nice way, whatever the, the Green Green Landy and say Greenlanders is that 02:38:57.650 --> 02:39:03.710 is that is it? What is their Greenlanders, Greenlanders, whatever the Greenlanders say, it's 02:39:04.210 --> 02:39:10.190 it's all moot because the US government is going to kick their door in and take it over 02:39:10.190 --> 02:39:17.590 because if they don't and there does and we do get into this, this, uh, this global type conflict 02:39:17.590 --> 02:39:22.430 between Russia and China, Russia or China are going to kick the door in on Greenland 02:39:22.430 --> 02:39:27.390 and take it over themselves, right? That is what Vladimir Putin would do if it can't, you know, 02:39:27.550 --> 02:39:32.410 if it really did come to a war time. Right. But he's got to take the Baltic States first. 02:39:32.970 --> 02:39:37.190 Yeah. He's got to get through Ukraine first. He's got to get that. He's got to get Estonia, 02:39:37.490 --> 02:39:44.610 Latvia. He's got a lot of ground to reclaim before he thinks about like it does no good to 02:39:44.610 --> 02:39:49.330 have an island, not as a bordering island. He's got to, well, I'm not saying he's going 02:39:49.330 --> 02:39:54.190 to make a move on it tomorrow. I know, but it's like the gamer risk. Well, exactly. He's making, 02:39:54.350 --> 02:40:00.210 we're making the moves first. Right. Right. And that's what, but what we're saying, all of this 02:40:01.650 --> 02:40:06.150 Greenland, they're, nobody's stopping this. We're not stopping this train. This is what 02:40:06.150 --> 02:40:11.510 I'm saying. Like Greenland has a population of, why do I think it's something like 40,000? 02:40:11.730 --> 02:40:15.190 We'll have to Google that. It's something super small, but Donald Trump is obviously 02:40:15.190 --> 02:40:21.030 spat in his base's face. He says, I don't care about you. We're doing Pax Americana. 02:40:21.250 --> 02:40:25.150 And that's maybe, maybe that's what he thought. He promised the American people we're going to 02:40:25.150 --> 02:40:30.470 do America first, but America for the world. Right. Um, and we're going to put ourselves 02:40:30.470 --> 02:40:35.410 first in these positions. I can see why Trump would do such a move, but it doesn't look good 02:40:35.410 --> 02:40:40.210 on the world stage either. Well, no. And I think, I think Donald Trump is saying world stage 02:40:41.230 --> 02:40:45.690 world stage be damned. Absolutely. Right. I'm doing what I believe is America first. 02:40:45.870 --> 02:40:52.090 And maybe America first is grabbing all these resources. How many more terms do you think 02:40:52.090 --> 02:40:58.470 Donald Trump has in him? That's a good question. He could probably do one more term, 02:40:58.610 --> 02:41:01.550 but if he's going to run in front of their term, Barack Obama should be allowed to run 02:41:01.550 --> 02:41:02.470 for another term too. 02:41:02.470 --> 02:41:06.770 No. And no, any last president. 02:41:08.650 --> 02:41:13.110 That's, that's who don't, I think Donald Trump is. I don't, I think if, if, uh, 02:41:14.650 --> 02:41:19.590 right, right. If war kicks off, he's not leaving, right? Right. FD heart didn't leave, 02:41:19.590 --> 02:41:24.270 but it was legal for him to keep running. Right. So, um, they've just made it 02:41:24.270 --> 02:41:30.370 illegal for him to keep. He's not leaving. Uh, right, especially if, uh, the deep, 02:41:30.370 --> 02:41:36.030 what he considers the opposite is so against him that as soon as they get in back into power, 02:41:36.030 --> 02:41:40.490 they'd reverse a bunch of his stuff. He won't, he, he's not going to advocate the throne. Power 02:41:40.490 --> 02:41:48.130 does not let it go. Plus he just, he's naming like the Kennedy center of the Kennedy Trump 02:41:48.130 --> 02:41:54.130 center. Right. So he can't go. He's, he's doing a new ballroom. I mean, this is big 02:41:54.130 --> 02:41:59.310 stuff. He's making renovations. He's there. No, he'll be, he probably is, uh, 02:42:00.750 --> 02:42:05.730 is Caesar, but that's the nature of republics, dude. That's the nature of them. That is what, 02:42:05.890 --> 02:42:10.810 that is the end result. So I don't know. I mean, we're right at the 250 mark. Yes. We're right 02:42:10.810 --> 02:42:15.150 at the 250 mark. Um, you can celebrate it. I think that's what he's going to do. Yeah. And 02:42:15.150 --> 02:42:21.490 maybe he does. Uh, I, I, I don't know. Um, what do you do if you've already rejected the 02:42:21.490 --> 02:42:25.850 authority of the U S government to begin with who cares who the king is, right? If 02:42:25.850 --> 02:42:29.730 you already thought the whole system was a joke, then what does it really matter 02:42:29.730 --> 02:42:33.990 if they named the guy king or not? You already knew none of it was real. Um, and it was just an 02:42:33.990 --> 02:42:39.590 excuse to use violence against you to get, to extract the wealth from your hands and put it 02:42:39.590 --> 02:42:47.350 into the hands of others. Um, to do what they feel is best with it. And I dare say, I hate to 02:42:47.350 --> 02:42:54.390 say this, somebody will give me hell for it. I think conservatives could kick liberals butts 02:42:54.390 --> 02:43:01.770 in a fight. I think so too. Oh, probably. Yeah. Probably. If you, well, I just think about 02:43:01.770 --> 02:43:08.190 the, the people, the people who are closer to my shape than the skinny shape, you know, 02:43:08.410 --> 02:43:15.110 all you and I share a shape. Um, right? But, uh, I feel like, uh, it's just the youth, 02:43:15.330 --> 02:43:19.470 right? What side? Because that's who has, who really has the monopoly on violence. 02:43:19.610 --> 02:43:22.310 We talk about the government and stuff. It's the young men because they're the 02:43:22.310 --> 02:43:27.470 only ones who are really capable at any levels that mean anything are young men. So it's whoever 02:43:27.470 --> 02:43:33.650 the young men decide to back is who wins that, that fight. And right now it looks like most 02:43:33.650 --> 02:43:39.150 young men are conservative. Yes. So, um, that, I think that gives you your answer. Right. 02:43:39.690 --> 02:43:47.050 Trump is actively discussing, uh, actively in quotes, discussing, making a potential 02:43:47.050 --> 02:43:52.990 offer to buy the island with his national security team, the White House confirmed earlier this week. 02:43:53.630 --> 02:44:00.410 Greenlanders have repeatedly expressed their refusal to be part of the U S with 85% of the 02:44:00.410 --> 02:44:09.630 population rejecting the idea to a 20, 25 poll. Uh, polls also show only 7% of Americans 02:44:10.350 --> 02:44:17.110 support the idea of a U S military invasion of the territory, which the Danish, uh, Prime 02:44:17.110 --> 02:44:24.530 Minister, Mette Fredrickson recently said would mean the end of quote NATO and therefore post 02:44:24.530 --> 02:44:31.530 second war world war security unquote. She has urged Trump to stop threatening to take over the 02:44:31.530 --> 02:44:37.150 country saying the U S has quote no right to annex any of the three countries of the Danish 02:44:37.150 --> 02:44:45.990 kingdom, meaning they still have a king. Um, or are they just saying is kingdom colloquial, 02:44:45.990 --> 02:44:53.190 whatever the word. Yeah. Uh, is that just like a catch all they're trying to do is Denmark has a king. 02:44:53.690 --> 02:45:00.850 They are a monarchy. Wow. Um, well, that's nuts. That's gotta be like, well, I guess he's like 02:45:00.850 --> 02:45:05.310 a neutered monarch then they all are. Yeah. Well, we did that during World War one. We make 02:45:05.310 --> 02:45:10.990 sure the banking system said no more monarchs getting out of debts by just kicking us out of 02:45:10.990 --> 02:45:15.930 their country. Right. We're gonna, we'll just destroy the monarchies. Well, it looks like we're 02:45:15.930 --> 02:45:19.850 heading back to one right now though. Well, is this one that's installed by the bank? 02:45:20.990 --> 02:45:24.990 What's that? This is the King, King Trump. King Trump. Is this one that's installed 02:45:24.990 --> 02:45:29.750 by the banks though? So what means surprise me because I mean interest rates. I don't know 02:45:29.750 --> 02:45:35.170 if that would, if Trump would be their number one pick. Regardless, he's still in there though. 02:45:35.250 --> 02:45:40.170 I just think, I know he's in there. I just think he's kind of unhinged. I mean, just completely 02:45:40.170 --> 02:45:44.690 unhinged. Well, how, why did they let him in? He's gotta be, somebody has to have some control 02:45:44.690 --> 02:45:48.310 over what he does. There has to be. Oh, he's using the Epstein files. Dude, they got a lot 02:45:48.310 --> 02:45:51.830 of dirt on him. Exactly. There has to be somebody that's pulling more strings than 02:45:51.830 --> 02:45:56.430 just King Trump. They're using Trump's ego to their advantage because he would love nothing 02:45:56.430 --> 02:46:02.350 more than to be King of America, right? That would stroke his ego. He might die from that 02:46:02.350 --> 02:46:09.110 emotional orgasm that he's been given, right? With his ego. His heart might just stop. 02:46:09.530 --> 02:46:13.770 I love the term emotional orgasm. Yeah. It might just, might stroke his ego so hard, 02:46:13.830 --> 02:46:18.130 his heart would just stop. They're playing into that. I don't think people, 02:46:18.290 --> 02:46:20.310 I think the people around him, people like Peter Thiel, 02:46:23.090 --> 02:46:28.690 Steve Bannon, well, not so much Steve Bannon or other guy. You know, those people that are behind 02:46:28.690 --> 02:46:33.530 him in all of the pictures and it's, why is this guy spending so much time with the president when 02:46:33.530 --> 02:46:37.870 this guy is not elected? You know, like his advisors that aren't even in his cabinet 02:46:38.630 --> 02:46:42.490 types. And I guess all presidents have people like that, but I think the people who have 02:46:42.490 --> 02:46:47.350 positioned themselves at this moment, there were full tilt packs. Americana dude, 02:46:47.350 --> 02:46:52.730 this is the American empire. This is it. Trying to see where I'm at. 02:46:54.190 --> 02:47:01.490 This was about Greenland asked about Trump statement. The head of NATO's forces in Europe, 02:47:01.670 --> 02:47:08.170 US general, Alexis Grigny, which said he did not wish to comment on whether the alliance, 02:47:08.290 --> 02:47:13.730 which includes Denmark, would survive without the US. But he responded on Friday by saying 02:47:13.730 --> 02:47:20.950 NATO was far from being in a crisis. Quote, there's been no impact on my work in the military 02:47:20.950 --> 02:47:28.450 level up to this point. I would just say that we're ready to defend every inch of alliance 02:47:28.450 --> 02:47:36.030 territory still today. We have given them all of the tech. We own all of their technologies. 02:47:36.510 --> 02:47:40.690 You think we don't have a way to just turn it off? I guarantee you that's built in the 02:47:40.690 --> 02:47:46.250 back end. It's the same thing the Chinese do with their tech. We've footed the bill for their 02:47:46.250 --> 02:47:51.910 entire defense budgets. Everybody points to places like Denmark and Sweden, how great socialism is. 02:47:52.270 --> 02:47:57.090 Just wait until they have to start buying their own guns and watch how quickly the hospitals 02:47:57.090 --> 02:48:03.170 quit getting funded. The US has operated a military base in the northwestern tip of Greenland 02:48:03.170 --> 02:48:08.590 since the Second World War, where more than a hundred military personnel are permanently 02:48:08.590 --> 02:48:16.030 stationed. Existing agreements with Denmark would allow Trump to bring in as many troops as he wanted 02:48:16.030 --> 02:48:24.050 to the island. Existing agreements with Denmark would allow Trump to bring in as many troops as 02:48:24.050 --> 02:48:32.530 he wanted to the island. So legally, like Trump could just roll in with a hundred thousand 02:48:33.250 --> 02:48:37.930 troops and... Did we figure out the population in Greenland? I'll look it up right now. Please. 02:48:38.530 --> 02:48:49.030 But Trump told, dang it, I lost my page. Yeah, this is... Hold on, I'm sorry, I apologize, 02:48:49.570 --> 02:48:56.950 lost my space. But Trump told reporters on Friday that a lease agreement was not enough. 02:48:57.490 --> 02:49:03.170 You can't just lease Greenland. Countries have ownership and you defend ownership, 02:49:03.630 --> 02:49:09.510 you don't defend leases. He said, quote, and we'll have to defend Greenland. 02:49:11.410 --> 02:49:18.250 Trump previously made an offer to buy the island in 2019, but was told it was not for sale. 02:49:18.770 --> 02:49:22.710 Since then he claimed that Greenland, which has vast natural resources including 02:49:22.710 --> 02:49:30.010 rare earth minerals and potentially huge oil and gas reserve, quote, is covered with 02:49:30.010 --> 02:49:37.390 Russian and Chinese ships all over the place, unquote. It might be. That would make sense. 02:49:37.650 --> 02:49:44.350 China has a massive dark fishing fleet. There's Chinese vessels all over the world doing, 02:49:44.790 --> 02:49:48.670 quote, unquote, illegal fishing along other countries' borders. I have no doubt. 02:49:48.670 --> 02:49:53.870 So it would make sense that, yeah, there probably are a bunch of Black fleet Chinese and 02:49:54.770 --> 02:49:59.490 Russian ships all over Greenland. That's because there's only 57,000 people in Greenland. 02:49:59.950 --> 02:50:03.250 That's the whole population. That's the population. I thought it was something like 40, but... 02:50:03.250 --> 02:50:09.930 Well, maybe 10 years ago it was 40. But yeah, I mean, that's the size of Concord, New Hampshire. 02:50:11.230 --> 02:50:17.430 All the people that live there, 60,000 people. So literally, yeah, it would not be difficult. 02:50:18.670 --> 02:50:23.850 You could do that with 500 men, probably. The question would NATO come to the defense of Greenland? 02:50:25.630 --> 02:50:28.630 They might say some harsh words. No, because they want to keep the money. 02:50:29.090 --> 02:50:33.330 I don't know, man. They might say some harsh words toward the U.S., but they can't do anything 02:50:33.330 --> 02:50:37.990 about it. They would have harsh words. There would be lots of harsh words bantied about. 02:50:38.610 --> 02:50:44.450 It's the same thing that they did, right? If Trump is Caesar and he is, what would we 02:50:44.450 --> 02:50:49.670 call him, Hitler? Now, is that... Well, they've been calling Hitler forever, right? But if he's 02:50:49.670 --> 02:50:56.250 this Hitler figure, then all you're going to see is harsh words. But the difference between 02:50:56.250 --> 02:51:04.190 Germany and America is that America has been funding all of these people for decades. And 02:51:04.190 --> 02:51:09.330 if they bite the hand that feeds, like what I said, the hospitals are going to 02:51:09.910 --> 02:51:14.150 not be funded because they're going to have to buy their own guns. And they're going to 02:51:14.450 --> 02:51:20.090 those governments are going to turn on their people so fast. Well, they've already begun. I mean, 02:51:20.090 --> 02:51:27.890 all the European countries with Ukraine as the trigger have all up their military spending, 02:51:28.250 --> 02:51:34.210 up to, I mean, with the U.S., when we were providing everything during the entire Cold War, 02:51:34.850 --> 02:51:39.450 then they... Didn't Germany just double their defense budget or something I read? 02:51:39.450 --> 02:51:47.130 All the European countries are all increasing. So NATO is trying to gear up for what may be a fight, 02:51:47.230 --> 02:51:56.090 not with Russia, but it could be with us. It's insane as it sounds. I mean, 02:51:57.370 --> 02:52:04.110 it's not going to be long before I think NATO sees U.S. as more of a threat than they already do. 02:52:04.550 --> 02:52:07.950 Well, that's because they're upset about the money getting taken. It's the same. 02:52:07.950 --> 02:52:14.450 Why did the Vandal States, why did the Golic States of Rome suddenly turn on Rome? Well, 02:52:14.450 --> 02:52:18.630 because the money got cut off. And now you're an enemy. If you're not going to pay us off to not 02:52:19.110 --> 02:52:22.090 fight you, well, then we're going to fight you because we want the money. 02:52:23.710 --> 02:52:27.550 And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if Europe turns on America. I think 02:52:27.550 --> 02:52:30.010 Donald Trump is that... You say that it's all about the money. 02:52:30.150 --> 02:52:33.750 It always comes back to that dollar bill. It always comes back to money because 02:52:33.750 --> 02:52:37.330 money makes the world go real. Well, resources, really, right? Money, 02:52:37.330 --> 02:52:44.150 but no, it's resources. In Europe, historically, actually, yeah, Europe is tiny, 02:52:44.450 --> 02:52:49.850 comparatively, like in a landmass. Europe is full of empires because there's not enough 02:52:49.850 --> 02:52:56.850 resources in Europe. So if the resources from Europe stop, they freak out because they need 02:52:56.850 --> 02:53:01.130 resources. So they're either going to, you know, they need somebody to import them 02:53:01.130 --> 02:53:06.830 or they have to go out and empirically get them and bring them home because they just aren't there. 02:53:07.390 --> 02:53:12.610 Yeah. And they're probably in the biggest, easiest place to be strangled. 02:53:13.090 --> 02:53:19.170 And we saw that even with Putin's little adventure with Ukraine. I mean, they were like, 02:53:19.230 --> 02:53:21.910 how are we going to heat our homes without Russian oil? 02:53:22.290 --> 02:53:26.190 They just shut down all their nuclear plants, too. They just turned off the last one in 02:53:26.190 --> 02:53:30.170 Germany before that war kicked off. Good thinking guys. Yeah. Yeah. 02:53:31.030 --> 02:53:34.450 But yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. 02:53:34.850 --> 02:53:41.070 Hopefully without nukes flying, hopefully not gone wood. I don't really want to see nuclear war. 02:53:41.490 --> 02:53:44.390 I don't think I just, you can't, there's no resource in rubble. 02:53:44.870 --> 02:53:50.150 Right? I agree. I just think that's the, yeah, they're very scary and maybe at a tactical, 02:53:50.150 --> 02:53:54.150 like a tactical size, terrifying, but a global ending. 02:53:55.070 --> 02:53:58.070 The only people I could see doing that's like Israel with their Samson option. 02:53:58.290 --> 02:54:01.230 Like if you guys want to quit playing with us, we're just going to blow everything down. 02:54:02.450 --> 02:54:07.910 So, uh, Houseful of, what was that movie that came out on Netflix? 02:54:09.790 --> 02:54:13.710 Houseful of dynamite. Do you guys watch this? No, I didn't really. 02:54:14.650 --> 02:54:17.930 You're fine to use the word watch. I know what I know. 02:54:18.410 --> 02:54:21.390 So Houseful of dynamite, the premise was simple. 02:54:22.730 --> 02:54:30.030 It starts off with an army base in charge of missile defense in Alaska and bloop. 02:54:30.190 --> 02:54:36.870 Something shows up on the screen. They are tracking one ICBM, one missile 02:54:37.450 --> 02:54:44.590 coming towards the US mainland and how do they react? They try to stop it. 02:54:45.230 --> 02:54:50.610 And the US government, it shows different things from the White House position, 02:54:51.050 --> 02:54:59.670 the position of the military, and this whole thing. It's like they spend a half hour on each 02:54:59.670 --> 02:55:09.150 point of view. But yeah, if you get the whole world hyped up thinking war is coming, 02:55:09.830 --> 02:55:18.570 if one missile flies by accident, then is there any pulling it back? And that's the question they have. 02:55:18.790 --> 02:55:27.150 Can we not retaliate if this one missile is just the first one? Or do we retaliate? 02:55:27.270 --> 02:55:33.950 Because it kind of came from a Chinese direction. Do we have to launch against the Chinese? 02:55:34.690 --> 02:55:42.450 And how many of these things, what do you do? And it was a really good, I'd encourage watching it. 02:55:42.470 --> 02:55:46.050 I just don't, I just think at the end of the day, the people who turn the keys and press the button, 02:55:46.650 --> 02:55:51.690 like the guys who will launch, they understand that you can't rule over rubble. 02:55:51.890 --> 02:55:55.630 I understand that. I mean, the Russians did. The Russians proved that with their, 02:55:55.650 --> 02:55:59.890 that infamous story about the test that went wrong. And when it came down to it, 02:55:59.950 --> 02:56:03.730 the guys who pressed the buttons didn't do it. Nobody wants to do it. 02:56:03.950 --> 02:56:11.850 But the question is, if in a global exchange, or if, if everybody is hyped up to that point, 02:56:11.870 --> 02:56:18.150 do you have faith that nobody will launch? No sub commander on any Russian, 02:56:18.150 --> 02:56:27.030 Chinese or American sub will say for the fatherland. Not one of them will turn the key. 02:56:27.330 --> 02:56:30.670 It's not all controlled centrally. It's a very decentralized. 02:56:30.670 --> 02:56:34.090 Well, that's why you, that's why it takes most places have like two or three keys. 02:56:34.570 --> 02:56:38.750 Sure. And not one will possess two psychopaths. 02:56:40.110 --> 02:56:43.470 Yeah. Well, I know. Hopefully, hopefully there's a few good men. 02:56:44.190 --> 02:56:47.190 You know, yeah, I guess I do too. 02:56:47.650 --> 02:56:49.650 You know, but then that's your, you have to have, 02:56:51.110 --> 02:56:54.890 how do you, how do you, how do you do anything? Right? If it comes, you have, 02:56:54.990 --> 02:56:59.130 at some point, you have to put your faith into other people and it, you know, 02:56:59.830 --> 02:57:02.830 right? You have to, it's just, or you can't get anything done. 02:57:03.010 --> 02:57:08.230 Yeah. Right. And, but that's the thing. I don't worry about this stuff so much. 02:57:08.830 --> 02:57:16.870 Like I didn't worry about nukes flying after Russia went, you know, and kind of gave up and 02:57:16.870 --> 02:57:23.330 crumbled under its weight of communism. I had a period in my life where I wasn't worried 02:57:23.330 --> 02:57:30.550 about that happening. But now we are ramping back up to Cold War tension levels. 02:57:31.170 --> 02:57:36.430 This is something that is different. That's all we got for you tonight. 02:57:37.510 --> 02:57:43.190 I appreciate everybody tuning in. It's been three hours of radio. We'll be back tomorrow night, 02:57:43.250 --> 02:57:50.870 not us personally, but others. 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