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From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review. In a stunning
late-night operation, the United States captured Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro and
his wife in Caracas, the pair were then transported to New York City, where they appeared
in court, facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges. President Donald Trump said that
the raid was part of large-scale strikes against Venezuela. Mary Trini Minna was in Caracas,
as it all unfolded.
This morning, Venezuelans woke up with several blasts across the city with airplanes and
helicopters passing through across the city of Caracas flying over. What we know so
far is the information provided by the Venezuelan government. They say the attacks took place
in three different states of Venezuela, La Guayra, Aragua, and Miranda. Miranda is located
in the metropolitan area of Caracas. I heard the blast earlier in the morning. Right
now, the city remains in camp with authorities calling to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty
of the country and remain in camp. The government says they will declare a state of emergency and
then we hear about the information provided by Donald Trump saying they captured the
leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.
A U.S. immigration agent shot dead a female driver in Minneapolis this week kicking
off a political firestorm. Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city where
around 2,000 federal officers have been deployed. Nick Harper reports.
The shooting in Minneapolis has become the latest political touchstone with the left and
the right viewing the videos in contradictory ways.
Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting in self-defense that the woman
was trying to run him over. They called the driver a violent rioter, with Donald
Trump describing her as violently, willfully and viciously attacking the ICE officer.
Those on the left and protesters say this was murder, with Minnesota's Governor Tim
Wolff saying it was a consequence of the federal government trying to generate fear,
headlines and conflict. It was reported this week that a complete
intonate shutdown was imposed in Iran after mass protests against the country's
clerical leadership. What started as demonstrations against Iran's
struggling economy has now become a wider movement with agitations now being reported
in all 31 provinces of the country. Ishan Gag tells us more.
Videos verified by local media show large crowds of anti-government protesters marching
through Iran's capital Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling for the removal
of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Though demonstrations started
in Iran in late December against rising inflation, Thursday's protests are believed
to be triggered by calls from Iranian crown prince and a key opposition leader Reza
Pahlavi. Amnesty International says more than 20 people have died in the protests
since December 31st and concerns remain about further clashes between protesters
and Iranian security forces. The French Foreign Minister says he will
work with European allies to create a plan should the United States follow
through on its threats of taking control of Greenland. The Trump administration has renewed
its interest in the semi-autonomous Danish territory stating that it's needed for matters
of national security. William Dentselow reports from Brussels.
France's Foreign Minister says he's discussing the issue of Greenland during a meeting
with German and Polish counterparts. Speaking on local radio, Jean Noël Barreau
said that France wants to take action but to do so in coordination with European partners.
This comes as US President Donald Trump says he's discussing a range of options to acquire
Greenland, including the use of the military. Washington says it needs the territory to stave
off an increased threat in the Arctic posed by Russia and China. Several European leaders
append a joint statement this week saying that the region's security is a collective issue
and that Greenland belongs to its people. 380,000 homes were left without power on Friday
after Storm Goeriti hit France. The north of the country was worst hit,
with all train services in the region of Normandy cancelled.
Ross Callan reports. In Normandy, heavy rain is sweeping across the region and winds in
excess of 200 kilometers an hour have brought down trees on railway lines and electricity
cables. Dozens of people have been injured across the country and the top official in
the region around the port city of Calais has ordered the public to shelter in place for
now. The stormy conditions will continue into the weekend. On Saturday, six regions in the
northeast of the country are expecting more snow and ice with yellow weather warnings in place.
From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Itch McCann and that was the Week in Review.
We are lucky to be joined today by the little prodigy himself along with Tyler's parents,
Jack and Christine. Good morning, guys. Tyler, most kids your age are in middle school and
probably think that alcohol doesn't taste good, but not you. Yeah, I like to drink liquor or beer
or whatever. There's way more beer at college than I might have. I bet there is. Your professors
and classmates, everyone there at OSU says you just fit right in. You must have a lot of new
friends. Yeah, I'm just like everybody else. I go to class, I show up wasted, I leave early.
Wow. So many impressive moments. You're active in a fraternity, you've streaked at four baseball
games, you've broken an arm falling off a house, you've even made the wall of shame at a hooligan.
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We're going to be talking Venezuela. Hell, we're going to talk Greenland because why not?
Greenland is the hell of a place. It's a place that sells green.
Packs Americana in full swing. We're in for it.
Get some cooler uniforms. I mean, Trump wants to add two states. He wants the state of Canada
and he wants the state of Greenland. He wants to be the most powerful dictator in the world
and dictate to a powerful empire. He wants to be the greatest Roman general or the Roman
emperor and the human, oh wait, this is America. Hell, you can call it whatever you like.
Yeah, that seems to be the plan. I don't know. I thought the reaction from Greenland today was
great. It was, no thank you. That's the perfect reaction. No thank you, sir. No, we really
don't want to be part of your country and I can't imagine any country unless, no, I take that back.
Like the most impoverished countries, they would go, okay, being a U.S. state and assuming all that
debt would be a step up. Well, it gets you access to more stuff. More debt. Yeah. And it might
get you protection and things like that. We're going to go to the phones where we've
got Dave Ridley. Dave, you're on pre-talk live. What's up, man?
Oh, yeah. We talked a couple weeks ago, I guess, about the bill by Glenn Bailey
to the New Hampshire Secession Bill. Yeah, I remember. I think I was there.
Yeah. I think I was on the shouts here. I can tell you I was not, but I'm eager to talk about it.
So, I have an update on that. Glenn has also, he's a state rep in New Hampshire. He has also
sponsored another secession related bill that I just learned about. It's actually a house resolution.
I just said, quote, a resolution affirming the state of California's request to divide into two
states, unquote, sponsored by Glenn Bailey also. There's that state of Jefferson talk?
I don't know. I was just starting to look it up when I called and you picked up.
I don't know the details about it, but that's just, I just know he's submitted another bill
related to secession. Yeah. The ones that I'm familiar with more recently in California seem
to involve three to five different states and areas. I have no idea what this one is, but
it's okay. I support it. I don't even know anything about it, but if the state of California
wants to divide up into somewhere between one and eight billion different states, why not?
They're a state. They have rights under the Constitution. They shouldn't get permission
from the feds either. No, and they don't need it, but whatever they want to do, that's fine.
Actually, the Constitution does say things about creating new states.
Yeah, there's like a procedure. There is. Yeah. And there needs to be support of the
House of Representatives and it goes through with all the speed the government acts at.
But no, I think that's great that California, I support every secession movement in the
United States. Furthermore, I support everyone overseas and I support them even within this room.
I think I may secede from our panel today. You're just going to get up and walk out.
I'm going to, no, I'm going to be my own independent voice on Freetalk Live tonight.
Oh, I see. But I need to secede from you guys to do that. So
all right, Bill, I am lifting a finger in salute to them. I won't tell you which one.
Go ahead, Dave. So just by way of background, his his secession bill was a House Bill 1441.
It's quote an act establishing a commission to study the economic, legal and sociological
aspects of New Hampshire exerting its sovereign state rights unquote. And by that, he really does
mean independent because the bill goes into detail about stuff like having our own currency and so
yeah. Now, I skim the bill and I think it's great. I mean,
this to me is a proper step. You know, it's it's not like we're going to say we're leaving, man.
And that's it. And expect to get support for it. But if there's a study group and they can
illustrate some of the benefits of secession, which I have no doubt will be plentiful.
And there will be honest, there will be some reasons why people can say no, we really shouldn't
based on what comes out of the study group. You know, that that could be not that there are
arguments overcoming those. But that's what I expect to come out of it. Yeah, at least
there's some data like some concrete. Well, as concrete as government can be,
right, but something you can point to, right, and list the pros and cons and saying, you know,
if you look at this on a whole, it's either a good, good idea or a bad idea. And
and then you have something to take on to your next bill in another session. I think it's a good
move, a smart move. There is another small piece of NH exit news in that NH exit has made
the top or the cover of the Wikipedia page on on the secession, or at least the page on secession
in the United States shows a picture of Derek Freeman holding it fed out of NH sign. Yeah, I
remember that. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. And somebody had posted that. And I was like, oh,
that's so cool. It's like a slightly dated pick. But I love that.
That is all the NH exit news I have. That's the update. I thought you were
calling to tell us it's done. And we no longer are part of the United States. I look forward to
that call from you. Well, it might not come from me. And it might not come in my time.
But someday that's that's a spirit. Thanks a lot, Dave. Thanks. Bye bye.
Yeah, I mean, at this point, the United States, this this grand American experiment,
you know, this idea that that we'll get it right on the first real attempt at
at a democratic constitutional Republic, we'll get it right the first time. And this will be the
United States. Well, but it's not technically the first time, though, have we made an effort exactly
like this? What? What else are you pointing? Well, we had like the Articles of Confederation,
and oh, yeah, like we had like other countries before this one. I understand that. But
this was the first attempt at a constitutional Republic that this had never really been done
that this was something new when America came about first with the Articles of Confederation.
This was an experiment. This was something that nobody had ever done. I mean, keep in mind,
most of the European countries were monarchies. And there were various smaller scale attempts at,
you know, forming some sort of Republic or but they weren't based on
democratically elected and in individuals and things like that. This is this whole thing
was brand new. And that's what was so exciting about it. And that's what, you know, inspired
the French and inspired the thinkers of the day to consider this as a real possibility. So
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
TV series on John Adams that I came across. And the character of Thomas Jefferson basically said
that he did not believe that the children that his children and grandchildren should not
be bound to the agreements that he made. And I tend to agree with that. So, you know,
binding us to a constitution that our ancestors made is just an absurd thing that we just keep
perpetuating time and time again. And when we keep perpetuating this myth that we have to bind
ourselves to this agreement without altering it, or changing it or abolishing it and
striking off on our own and declaring independence to me just max of absurdity,
because here we are tying ourselves to an outdated agreement that we need to change.
And if we don't change it, we're simply stagnating in history. I mean, 250 years
after the Declaration of Independence, we're, I can't believe in some ways I can't believe
we're going to hit the 250 year mark. It surprises me. I know it's very surprising
after the Bicentennial. I was like, well, I guess that'll be the next last big one.
But yeah, it's only being propped up by, by what? Oil, money, banks, war, war, bloodshed,
carnage. I feel like that's how most countries are propped up throughout history though.
Yeah. I just, I mean, yeah, well, our ideas are radically different, but I just think,
like America isn't like some, maybe the idea of a constitution is, but the idea of an overarching
government that wages wars across the world and is in mountains of debt is not something new.
That's, that's a Roman Empire. Well, that's every empire. That's every single one that's
ever fallen, which is all of them in the history of ever wages wars, places that it overextends
itself. It gets into mountains of debt. It has to hire outside mercenaries to be their hammer.
And eventually it all goes kaput. Yep. But we're still being propped up by,
by all these things. And that's what is frustrating to me. If, if we were,
if we weren't printing money, I think that would be the big difference.
Well, we would just, we would just change the metallurgy of our coins, man. They would be the
same thing. I get it. You can, you can, but if you weren't manipulating the currency to the
extent that the United States has done, this isn't shaving, you know, a 10,000th of a gram
off of a Roman coin. Well, no, this is like melting. This is like making your gold coin
half nickel and then saying it's still worth what the gold was worth, right? So you've,
you've essentially just doubled your money. And then if you do that again,
and you buy by force, you keep it at the prices. If it was 100% gold, well, now it's
5% copper, 75% nickel. And, you know, it's alchemy. Yes. We're just creating things,
which is literally what it is. We're creating things out of thin air. We're going to go
to the phones where we've got Ricky. Ricky, you're on free talk live.
Thank you there, brother Chris. Well, how are you?
I'm doing all right, brother. I'm glad to hear that. Yes, sir.
And brother Ryler, good evening. Good evening, brother Ricky.
Well, tell you what, I like the idea of the session. I like it a lot. In fact,
I'm ready tonight because I'm wearing my battle flag as we speak.
Okay. So I'm ready to go. Which one? What, what is your battle flag?
That'll be the battle flag in North Virginia Army. Okay. North Virginia. I wear the right one.
It was very expensive, $256. It was handmade put together. It's very expensive. There's only
one place in the country where you can get them. Are you going to plug them now? So is it like
is it like a niche? I can do that. That's Alabama flag and banner. There you go.
That sounds like the people who would make that. I mean, I can see it, but I can feel it. I mean,
I get so many compliments on it. I mean, from what I understand, it's incredibly accurate,
beautiful colors, you know? But that's not what I called for tonight.
No problem. Go ahead. I just wanted to comment on that because I think
succession is a good idea and it goes back to what really the founding fathers intended
if we did that. If we succeeded, everything could be better or we could actually be a
republic. That'd be a nice thing. I always say this, a republic was a glimmer in somebody's eye.
Sure. But anyways, when I called for tonight, I think it was you, brother Angelo,
that commented on this recently. Was he the commentant on the point that it's about the Europeans
and alcohol? What part about it? As far as how they handle alcohol with young people.
Oh, yeah. I think we mentioned that. I did hear this episode.
About how like, well, we let younger people drink just because they handle it. Like they get over
their, you don't have a bunch of drunk 21 year olds. Don't ruin all my brother Angelo.
Now, here's the thing. Now, in my case, my dad was a truck driver. He was nobody special,
but I got to give him credit here and I got to thank him for it. And it's something that
takes time. I remember I had my first sip of beer when I was five years old, five or six,
something like that. And I thought that was pretty good. In my case, I liked it. And I remember
when I was probably about 10, I had my first beer with my dad. Now at 12, there was a further
progression. At 12 years old, I can have a beer any time I wanted as long as I asked.
And then by the time I was 14, I remember at 14 years old, I didn't have to ask just don't drink
the old man's last beer. And I'll tell you what, I never, I never, I never snuck into bars and
I started drinking bourbon, which I like probably about 15, 16 years old, but I never snuck into bars
or anything like that. And I never had the desire. If I wanted something to drink, I just drank at
home and I wished it more parents. I think parents either too afraid or just don't have the
dexterity to be parents. And I wished that more parents would introduce their youngsters
into alcohol. We'd solve some of the world's problems, at least in this country.
Yeah. I see what you're saying. The issue is that you really want to know it's the government.
It's the problem here. Yeah. Because drinking alone is sad.
I don't know about that. I mean, hold on. I mean, it was, I mean, technically,
I was under my parents' tutelage, my dad, and he really took a lot of care in it.
But the thing is, I mean, at the time it was 21 in Pennsylvania.
I'm saying you want to, you want to drink with your friends, right? So if you bring another
kid over to hang out with you and you guys drink beers and that kid goes home.
Oh no, that didn't happen. Oh no, no, no, that never happened. I had too much respect for it.
This is somebody else's child. You know what I mean?
Well, yeah, you do, but like that's the reason that these types of rules are even in place is because
you know, you get caught furnishing or something. And because I know in a lot of states,
I think in Oregon, you can let your kids drink as long as they're in front of you.
That's like a legal thing. I think everywhere you can let your kids drink at home if you are
there to supervise. Like supervising, yeah. And there's no issue with that. It's just
this idea that, you know, you have to wait until you hit a magic age. And if parents are
see that, I disagree with that entirely because who the hell's the government? The government
are the ones that say, okay, here's how old you have to be to drink. Here's how old you
have to be to smoke. Here's how old you have to be to view pornography. Who the hell are they
and where do they get their statistical data that decides these things? It should be up to the parents.
Well, they're the government. They have the smartest guys in the room. They're the experts.
It is ridiculous. But again, what does government have to do with it? Government preaches and makes
laws and convinces parents that they must, if they want to be good parents, you will never
give your kid alcohol because there's a reason. I will say this. Now, when it came to smoking,
I was actually legal and it was a technicality and I'll tell you why. See, I always wanted
to be an adult. So my childhood is not very memorable because to me it was just getting
in the way until I got to 18 and got my rights, you know? It was just getting in the way for
me. So I would be treating like an adult. I started drinking black coffee at 10, I remember.
Then I still do that. I just had a couple of just a few minutes ago. But the thing is,
I'll tell you something. When it came to smoking, it was a very interesting story.
It worked out good at my age. I originally started smoking cigars and you only had to be
15 to smoke cigars. So I was actually legal. And by the time I started smoking cigarettes
till I was 21, you know? So it actually became, so I was way over age, so it became,
it was a convenient thing. So I was actually legal for that, but it didn't really matter
because my dad was a cigar smoker and I think it would have been cool with it.
But in my case, I was legal, but it shouldn't matter. We're talking something that's a plant.
We're talking even beer, which is something that almost qualifies as a food item.
So I mean, it's really ridiculous. My question for everybody is,
you know, why should those of us who can be responsible with their drug habits or drug usage
be punished for those who aren't responsible? No good reason. I totally agree with that,
brother Riley. You're absolutely right. And unfortunately, let's look at drugs.
Now I've spoken in the past on the air about my use of drugs, you know, here and there.
And I could take them or leave and I've never been an addict. I've been a drug user.
But the thing is, that's where you get it. You know, people that are drug users are not
drug abusers or addicts. And I think you're absolutely right on that where that category
gets punished. And I agree with you as far as legalization, brother Riley, by the way,
on everything. So what happened with like Switzerland? They made heroin legal.
Switzerland did that? Yeah, I thought it would improve everything because you wouldn't,
you would improve everything because there's an example. I used to use methamphetamine at one time.
And I wouldn't do it now. It's incredibly dangerous of this fentanyl and all that stuff.
Right. I wouldn't think about doing it all. I haven't used meth since 2017.
I wouldn't even consider it. And by legalizing it, you would clean all that up, I think.
Yeah. Well, I mean, that is the theory and most of the good results are coming out of countries
that have made those switches. They've said, you know, we need to treat heroin addiction
more as a medical problem instead of a judicial problem. And suddenly they, it all drops. The
usage drops, the overdoses drop. Yeah. So let me play devil's advocate for a moment.
What about Portland? Portland is a case study in which they decriminalize drugs and all of a
sudden, you know, people are, you know, in the streets doing terrible things, living terrible
lives. Why do we want to decriminalize drugs when this is the result? Well, you know, what
happened in Portland? Dude, I was just living there a year ago, right? So like I was just there.
I was just living in Salem. I worked in Portland. I saw it firsthand. Just just a year ago,
I was there. I saw the devastation boots on the ground. I want to hear what we just,
they quit enforcing all laws. It wasn't that they weren't enforcing drug laws is that they
quit enforcing every law. Right. So they didn't just decriminalize the drugs. They
decriminalized vagrancy. They decriminalized trespassing. The police would abuse
people who scared the tweakers out of their, like, off their property. Right. So it was more like
they propped up the drug addicts instead of just legalizing it. They enabled them to do more crime.
All right. Ricky, you want to stay on till
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We heard airplanes and helicopters passing through across the city of Caracas flying over.
What we know so far is the information provided by the Venezuelan government. They say the attacks
took place in three different states of Venezuela, La Guayra, Aragua, and Miranda. Miranda is located
in the metropolitan area of Caracas. I heard the blast earlier in the morning. Right now,
the city remains in calm with authorities calling to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty of
the country and remain in calm. The government says they will declare a state of emergency
and then we hear about the information provided by Donald Trump saying they capture
the leader of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores. A US immigration agent
shot dead a female driver in Minneapolis this week kicking off a political firestorm.
Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city where around 2,000 federal officers
have been deployed. Nick Harper reports. The shooting in Minneapolis has become the
latest political touchstone with the left and the right viewing the videos in contradictory ways.
Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting in self-defense that the woman was trying
to run him over. They called the driver a violent rioter, with Donald Trump describing her as
violently willfully and viciously attacking the ICE officer. Those on the left and protesters
say this was murder with Minnesota's Governor Tim Wolfs saying it was a consequence of the federal
government trying to generate fear, headlines and conflict. It was reported this week that a
complete internet shutdown was imposed in Iran after mass protests against the country's
clerical leadership. What started as demonstrations against Iran's struggling economy has now
become a wider movement with agitations now being reported in all 31 provinces of the
country. Ishan Gag tells us more. Videos verified by local media show large crowds of anti-government
protesters marching through Iran's capital Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling for the removal
of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Though demonstrations started in Iran in late
December against rising inflation, Thursday's protests are believed to be triggered by calls
from Iranian crown prince and a key opposition leader Reza Pahlavi. From Feature Story News,
in New York, I'm Itch McCann and that was the Week in Review.
Ricky from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania about drug use and alcohol use and you were just getting
ready to talk about your experiences because, Angelo, you were in Oregon in the Portland area
specifically when they tried to legalize everything and they just did it.
Yeah, and I think by everything they legalized everything.
And regular citizens that tried to fill the void that the police left would be had the
book thrown at them, right? And get railroaded and arrested and drowned in fines and charges. But
the vagrant would just be let go. Because the police realized their justification was that
the homeless guy isn't going to show up to court anyways. So arresting him is a waste
of our money. But if you beat him up for pooping on your front porch,
you're going to get arrested and thrown in jail, right?
Yeah, but you know what? Here's what I was going with and definitely I think Riley,
like the chime in on this, you have decriminalization versus legalization.
They are two very different things.
They are definitely different things. I think decriminalization would be
much better path in legalizing.
Really?
Yes, because if you legalize something, then you have to put taxes and things like that,
but decriminalize it.
They say that. They do say that, but I disagree. I mean, but go ahead.
I would just say that decriminalization is a much better path because then you
don't worry about all the legal loopholes and the things you have to put on it.
Well, I said it on occasion. I mean, I don't know what's going on here in Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania, it was last, it was like, I don't know, two years ago.
It looked like it was going to be going that ways and then it just died.
We have a lot of Republicans in the house of representatives in the Senate forget it
and they're not for it. And they were talking the taxes and all that crap.
And I was totally against it. And I said to many of people exactly what Riley's saying,
I'd rather see it be illegal than have all the taxes for that matter.
I would just love to see it not on the books at all.
Talking about marijuana specifically, just erase all references to it and that's the world I want.
There you go.
Chris, if they could make something like parsley or oregano or all that stuff,
where they could control it, they would do that too.
They do.
They just can't. And I see very little difference between the two.
Like Darryl W. Perry used to always talk about, you know, you need to treat marijuana like tomatoes.
That's how he would do it.
Regulate marijuana like tomatoes, he would say.
And I, and I decided to delve into this and found the hundreds and hundreds of pages
in U.S. code dedicated to regulating tomatoes.
Size.
That, that, that, that is true. And you know, I mean,
I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen with Pennsylvania.
It seemed to have just went away.
Yeah, they were, they jumped quickly to medical.
Medical was a pretty quick move, relatively speaking.
They did that. But yeah, I get it.
Well, I think when the homage voted, you know, you're not all 100 of them.
100,000 of them, 200,000, that's enough to, in, in Pennsylvania.
I don't think it's that big a block. Yeah.
Not compared, compared to the Republican and Democrats. I mean,
Does anybody know what happened federally? That went away too.
That was rolling pretty good for a while.
Well, I thought he dropped the schedule down to,
didn't he reschedule it to schedule three or something?
Yes.
The reschedule to three now.
Which is horrible.
Not only my benefit, but the listeners.
Angela, what is exactly that need?
It has something to do with like it's considered,
I Googled it when we were talking about it.
Something new. It has like a medical use.
It's like, but it's less scheduled than co,
it's like less worse than cocaine, but it still has a.
The thing is.
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
They, but they did reschedule it.
I just know that.
Right. Which absolutely is the worst thing that could have happened.
Now worse would have been staying at the,
this is as deadly as fentanyl.
Which is how they had scheduled it to,
okay, there is a medical use,
but we still need to be the ones who regulated it.
It's, it does away with,
if it's federally regulated on any schedule,
it's federally regulated.
Meaning I've no curse.
I've known my share of people, including myself.
I've never heard anybody getting hurt by weed.
You know, just plain old weed.
I've never seen anybody get hurt by it.
Well, that is an argument.
I've never even heard of it.
I've never, never heard of it either,
which is why so comedians have made this part of your,
of their gigs.
I mean, like what happens if you see a fight
and you're at a stadium,
you can pretty much guarantee that they're drinking alcohol.
Yeah, hell yeah.
You never see two stoners.
But you know what?
I've heard of people getting hurt by aspirin and Tylenol though.
Probably.
Oh, I mean aspirin will eat a hole in your stomach
if you drink too many.
I knew something that was a chronic Tylenol user.
You know?
Not good.
No, it's not.
No, it almost killed my great grandma
because she didn't want to take the hard drugs
because she was averted to it right from the propaganda.
So she would take like Advil in a leave for her arthritis
and she ended up giving herself an ulcer
and she almost just like bled out internally,
not even knowing what was going on.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, so the stigmatization has actually probably,
you know, harmed a lot of people too.
And the fact that people now,
I mean, they can't get, they can't manage pain.
Doctors are terrified of prescribing an opiate.
So people go around with pain because we're all following
this one size fits all view out of Washington DC
from a bunch of people who are not even doctors.
It's insane.
Well, I'll tell you something.
Dr. Commonwealth will tell you his advice.
Try weed.
Good answer.
Hey, Ricky, thanks for the call, man.
Yeah, it's absurd and this is,
but the thing is, is we can talk about the drug problem
and we can say why is this all coming out of
think tanks and stupid people who aren't doctors anyway
and it doesn't hurt anybody.
We can have that argument about 50,000 other topics.
Why is it all being done in Washington
and why do they feel that policies and laws
are one size fits all across 330 million people
across 50 states that span 3,000 miles?
Yeah, I mean, further, if you go into Alaska or Hawaii,
I mean, it's, it's asinine and, you know,
maybe the experiment would have worked
if we would have stuck to 13 states.
So maybe at this point we wouldn't have been
in this much of a problem.
Go ahead.
I was just going to ask, you know,
if there are any, you know, conservative Christian
types out there who hear us and say,
well, drugs are demonic, then I have a question for you.
If you're an advocate of the Second Amendment,
which was a Second Amendment,
which is the right scheme of their arms,
which I'm assuming you are,
guns are extremely dangerous and they literally kill people.
Solicibon is less dangerous than a gun
and yet it's treated like it's the most criminal act
to possess a mushroom or grow a mushroom
that will alter your consciousness.
Why do you think that you have the right
to tell me what I can and can't do with my consciousness
and you get to carry a gun?
Answer me that.
Well, first of all, guns don't kill people.
I kill people.
That's true.
You are an agent.
But yeah, and why is, why is
solicibon still schedule one?
Why is it seen as having no medical viability,
no reason to use it?
High level of addiction.
Yeah, I've taken mushrooms and I haven't died from them.
So.
No, I've nearly died from laughter after taking mushrooms.
This is a real problem.
Oh, yeah.
It's a real problem.
I woke up with a, my side hurt from laughing so hard
after taking mushrooms.
There should be a warning label on them.
Get the gigs.
Will cause extreme laughter.
I watched a guy dress up
as his father and his best friend dressed up as his father's brother
and it was the funniest thing.
After that, we just laughed at the refrigerator
for probably a good two hours.
Just at the fridge?
Well, it wasn't just the fridge.
It was the fridge plus all the funny things
that were stuck to the fridge.
Oh, I see.
It was just.
Oh man.
Yeah.
You got lost in the fridge decor for two hours.
Is this what I'm hearing?
I guarantee.
That just clicked for me.
The whole thing was, it was a whole evening.
All I know is a sunup came and we went home.
Yeah.
That's kind of how it goes.
It does.
That sounds like a fun night, man.
Yeah, but the idea of one size fits all that it's,
you know, this is one of my biggest problems
with the Department of Education was they came up
with these standards that will be taught in every school.
And I'm sorry, but kids learn in different ways.
And, you know, kids in a very rural area,
like the one I grew up in, we, first of all,
what was important to teach in schools was very different
than what you would want to teach in Minneapolis,
which is hide from guys in ice outfits, for example.
Or how to spot a fake daycare.
Right.
Another good one.
So let's.
Well, I just think, oh, to Riley's point,
when you, when you were like any Christian conservative types,
I think the issue, calling them demonic, right?
Just maybe play a little bit as a devil's advocate, right?
I don't think, I wouldn't think anything should be illegal,
right?
I don't think the government should mandate what you
put into your body or can or can't do with yourself.
But as somebody who would want, or like,
let's say you are Christian and you wanted to follow
the faith, then you, you yourself would avoid taking
those substances because you feel like they can open
you up to dark forces.
And you're well within your right to do so.
And so, yeah.
Don't force your decisions on me.
That's what, I can agree with that.
But I just mean, like, you know, there's other
ways to do it without using the government.
Right.
Oh yeah.
Right.
It's, it's insanity and, and what I, I think the,
what I saw, I saw it on, on social media, a lot of
conservative types arguing, you know, saying, well,
the problem was she was interfering with lawful
execution of search warrants and arrest warrants.
And, you know, she did that.
And I'm like, okay, and you can use that as the
excuse to why the situation came about in the
first place, but it's hard for me because in this
case, even if the shooting of this woman was
completely legal and they're undoubtedly going
to find out that it is completely legal, that,
that it was no biggie.
She interfered with us.
So, and she had a car and the car is a deadly
weapon, it's just like a gun.
So, we had to kill her, even though our own
policies say never to take out a car that way, never
fire guns at moving vehicles or at a vehicle because
you're undoubtedly going to cause way more damage
and possibly put more at risk if you do that.
Even if all those things are true, my issue,
and this kind of goes back to the, the topic
of government completely is legality does not equal
morality.
And I don't care what your excuse is, you can say
you feared for your life, but if you could easily
take a step to the left and be completely safe
from a car, then morally there was no justification.
I don't know how they could live with themselves.
You know, if you just, if you know that you could
just step to the left and be completely safe,
does that justify three bullets to the, to the
bucket?
I don't, I don't get that at all.
And, but that's one of those things that people
are going to argue and they're going to argue
about it and argue about it.
And, you know, that's one thing living under
any regime, it eliminates the opportunity for us
to question the moral question that doesn't play
into this at all.
It's strictly a legal question.
And yeah, I can see where you're coming from.
And I also, but I also think about like,
well, they tell you to like fight it in court,
like not to, like if they are going to arrest
you, just shut up, just shut up, let them arrest
you if they're going to violate your rights,
let them do it, and then you get them on the
back end, right?
You don't run away and make the situation worse
for yourself.
My first thought.
Because that's how you get shot, right?
That's how you get shot.
You are going to get shot if you try to run.
Like we know this, so you're right,
libertarians say, shut up, just shut up,
let them, you're going to get arrested,
it's going to happen.
Just shut up, they're going to violate
your rights, make sure it's documented,
and then come for them on the back end
because you don't want to keep digging
yourself into a bigger hole.
Or have to put you in a hole that.
Or yeah, or have to be put in a hole.
Right.
You got to take the battle to the court,
not the, you got to beat the rep, not the riot.
So, you know, there's not like,
it's just a bad situation.
I think, you know, everybody did things
that could have been done differently,
and I think it ended up with the loss of life,
and that's tragic.
And the government shooting somebody's never good.
So somebody posted on social media,
and I really liked it, and I really
wanted to talk about what he had posted,
because it was so thoughtful, and,
of course, I have no wifi until our long break,
and then I'll try to get it working.
But I'll paraphrase.
The problem is, is we treat the government
as something other than a gang,
and we need to treat them as a gang.
If you are in gang territory,
and they're trying to do whatever,
you don't want to mess with the gang.
It doesn't matter if it's Cripsbloods or ICE.
They are armed, and they're gonna take
whatever action they want to get the result they want.
So, either you are really, really focused on
the action that you are about to take
is so important to you that you're willing
to give your life for it,
then by all means, do whatever you feel you need to do.
But if it's not, be like a libertarian and say,
I'll get them on the back end.
Or just avoid the area, stay in your house.
Right. Or better yet, secede from the United States.
Yeah, but that's the point.
I mean, she did not have to die.
No. Didn't she?
She's not in front of the neighborhood, right?
Didn't she drive from hours away to do this?
To take part in this, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, there was no good reason.
It doesn't sound like her and I would be
on the same team politically,
or even philosophically or anything.
But I do appreciate people standing up
for the people that are out there working hard.
And I'm sorry they haven't got all the paperwork yet.
But yeah, I'm sorry that she died.
And that's it.
And I really have some serious questions
for Mr. Ross, the ice agent who took her life.
Were you really afraid for your life?
I think that's what the ice agent would say to cover his butt.
But the reality is that, yeah, it's sad that she's dead.
It shouldn't have happened.
But this government agency that the so-called president
has allowed to become this enforcer of certain rules
goes around unmasked like a violent gang
and is throwing people in cages like a violent gang would.
There's going to be blowback at some point.
Yeah. And there is already and sadly we're seeing it.
But yeah, that's the thing.
I mean, if people would quit looking at them as this benevolent
organization and saying, you do realize all the horrible things
that your government does to you in addition to shooting
women in the street for protesting and trying to stop people
from putting people in cages
because they haven't got all the right paperwork.
I get that completely.
Well, such is the nature of governments.
We keep getting, we keep acting shocked that we would,
you know, like this is just, this is the game.
This is the par for the course.
We come out with outrage all the time.
Like this is what governments do is they kill people
and they steal things and they empire and they expand.
It eats.
And people act surprised.
Yeah. And we act surprised.
Why are we still surprised that speaking for myself?
This is an act.
Yeah.
Yes. Nothing surprises me.
Yeah. I just, well, I mean, like, well, the fake outrage,
like internet outrage, we're going to get on Twitter
and scream about this and be like, see, see, see, oh, all right.
You know, this is just, this is, this is Pax Americana.
You have arrived.
The empire is in full swing.
We are taking the Western hemisphere and we're gearing
up for a global conflict with China and Russia.
That's why we're clutching our quote unquote bread basket.
That's why Russia wants Ukraine so bad.
Everybody's reaching into their back pockets and trying to,
mother hens are grabbing what they think are their chicks
and bringing them under their wings because they know
things are about to get really crazy, really fast.
Because this dollar that we've kicked down the street,
we've kicked the can down the street so far
that the only way that things are going to write itself
right at a geopolitical scale,
we can talk about this session all we want.
But in the, in the big world, right, in the, in the,
when you zoom out, when the U.S. empire falls,
it's going to be a giant power vacuum and things are going
to get really ugly for a lot of, a lot of the world.
You make a good point, Angelo.
And I think a lot of our listeners seem to understand
that the American empire has been propping up the world
for a long time.
And when it collapses, which it inevitably will,
it's going to take the rest of the world with it.
But is it really all of America?
Like, I don't really feel like I'm part of
that's America.
Well, you are, because we, we use the interstates,
get our stuff here.
The truckers get our stuff here, right?
When that stuff stops moving, we're going to feel it,
regardless if we've emotionally
cut ourselves off from, from, from them, right?
We've, we've verbally said it,
but we're still here.
We still have the trucks bring the food to the grocery store
that we shop at.
I understand all this, but what I'm saying is the people
that are pulling the strings that are encouraging Trump
and Trump going into all these different wars and,
and making threats and doing all that,
that's not the average American doing that stuff at all.
No, it's the people who-
That is a very small group of people
at the very, very, very, very, very,
very top of our society.
And we're being manipulated just like every other country
is being manipulated by their very top, top, top people.
And that's the thing.
It's not being done because we want it.
Some will profess that they, you know, love this politician.
Well, some people really do want it.
I promise you, there's probably some like
super right-wing boomers who are frothing at the mouth
that-
I guarantee you that it is certainly not a majority.
No, probably not now, because all the young men
realize that we have to go be the ones to try to take it.
And I don't think-
I think that's a very unpopular opinion right now,
because we're questioning-
Yeah, well, we're questioning why we would, we would go.
And I see this-
It's a common trend among young men is like,
dude, we'll totally go do the things,
but we don't want to do the things for Israel.
We'd rather do the things for American interests
that we know are American interests.
Right.
But those are just going to be the interests that the
politician tells you are the Americans.
Politics and big money.
And yeah, it's sad.
And I think you're right.
I think you're right that we're going to get sucked into something horrible.
Man, I just look at this stuff and I go, man, how,
who else can we try to push hard against?
Now we're pushing hard against Europe.
Who we've been like as close of allies as you could possibly be for,
I don't know how long.
Well, allies or sugar daddies, we paid for the entire defense budget.
I get that.
But allies, I mean, they were our front step to Russia.
I mean, that's, and that, we got something out of all this too.
After Russia kind of fell, you could argue that, you know,
it was kind of one sided.
But well, I think the US, the USSR is dead.
Putin's taking like the fourth position in like pan Eurasianism.
He's not even a communist.
He's trying to create like something else.
Alexander Dugan talks about it more.
His little, his little, his version of Rasputin,
he's got like his own Rasputin that's kind of been
okay, whispering in his ear, but he's looking at like a fourth.
He's taking the fourth position in a pan Eurasianism.
He's not even a communist.
I don't think the communist influence in Russia is what it was 50 years ago.
No, but the money is still there.
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I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review.
In a stunning late-night operation,
the United States captured Venezuela's
President, Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Caracas,
the pair were then transported to New York City,
where they appeared in court
facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges.
President Donald Trump said that the raid
was part of large-scale strikes against Venezuela.
Mary Trini Minna was in Caracas, as it all unfolded.
This morning, Venezuelans woke up with several blasts
across the city with airplanes and helicopters
passing through across the city of Caracas flying over.
What we know so far is the information
provided by the Venezuelan government.
They say the attacks took place in three different states
of Venezuela, La Guayra, Aragua, and Miranda.
Miranda is located in the metropolitan area of Caracas.
I heard the blast earlier in the morning.
Right now, the city remains in calm with authorities
calling to the citizens to preserve the sovereignty
of the country and remain in calm.
The government says they will declare a state of emergency,
and then we hear about the information provided
by Donald Trump saying they capture the leader
of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.
A US immigration agent shot dead a female driver
in Minneapolis this week kicking off a political firestorm.
Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city
where around 2,000 federal officers have been deployed,
Nick Harper reports.
The shooting in Minneapolis has become the latest
political touchstone with the left and the right
viewing the videos in contradictory ways.
Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting
in self-defense that the woman was trying to run him over.
They called the driver a violent rioter,
with Donald Trump describing her as violently willfully
and viciously attacking the ICE officer.
Those on the left and protesters say this was murder,
with Minnesota's governor Tim Wolves saying it was
a consequence of the federal government trying to
generate fear, headlines and conflict.
It was reported this week that a complete
internet shutdown was imposed in Iran after mass
protests against the country's clerical leadership.
What started as demonstrations against Iran's
struggling economy has now become a wider movement
with agitations now being reported in all 31
provinces of the country.
Ishan Gag tells us more.
Videos verified by local media show large crowds of
anti-government protesters marching through Iran's
capital Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling
for the removal of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei.
Though demonstrations started in Iran in late
December against rising inflation, Thursday's
protests are believed to be triggered by calls
from Iranian crown prince and a key opposition
leader Reza Pahlavi.
Amnesty International says more than 20 people
have died in the protests since December 31st
and concerns remain about further clashes between
protesters and Iranian security forces.
The French foreign minister says he will work
with European allies to create a plan should
the United States follow through on its
threats of taking control of Greenland.
The Trump administration has renewed its
interest in the semi-autonomous Danish
territory stating that it's needed for
matters of national security.
William Dantelow reports from Brussels.
France's foreign minister says he's discussing
the issue of Greenland during a meeting with
German and Polish counterparts.
Speaking on local radio, Jean Noël Barreau said
that France wants to take action, but to do so
in coordination with European partners.
This comes as US President Donald Trump says he's
discussing a range of options to acquire
Greenland, including the use of the military.
Washington says it needs the territory to
stave off an increased threat in the Arctic
posed by Russia and China.
Several European leaders append a joint statement
this week saying that the region's security
is a collective issue, and that Greenland
belongs to its people.
380,000 homes were left without power on
Friday after Storm Goeriti hit France.
The north of the country was worst hit,
with all train services in the region of
Normandy cancelled.
Ross Callen reports.
In Normandy, heavy rain is sweeping across
the region and winds in excess of 200 kilometers
an hour have brought down trees on railway
lines and electricity cables.
Dozens of people have been injured across
the country and the top official in the
region around the port city of Calais has
ordered the public to shelter in place for now.
The stormy conditions will continue into
the weekend.
On Saturday, six regions in the northeast
of the country are expecting more snow
and ice with yellow weather warnings in
place.
From Feature Story News, in New York,
I'm Itch McCann, and that was the
weekend review.
But first, our parenting expert Rebecca
McCallum is here with some advice.
Good morning everybody.
Good morning Rebecca.
Now Rebecca runs a popular parenting
blog called Mom Magic.
That's right.
It's about the everyday parenting choices
that could make a big difference on our
children.
Rebecca, I read the blog a lot.
My first question is, who the hell do
you think you are telling me how to
raise my kids?
You know, I have a degree in early
childhood education, but my greatest
education has been raising three
beautiful kids of my own.
Okay Rebecca, what other bullshit do you
have to share with us this morning?
I talk about this in my book, and it
does take a lot of effort, but
parents really should teach their
child a second language.
My daughter Hazel and I are learning
French together.
Wow, you know, I'll bet a lot of
moms watching right now are thinking
f**k you.
Well, I get that a lot, but the
window during which language
acquisition skills are at their peak
is really very slow.
Sure, whatever you're doing, I wish
I had done that.
You win, but guess what I just
remembered?
You're not my boss.
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Riley O'Bill.
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What up?
Angelo, what up?
I like that.
And Riley O'Bill.
That's I like that too.
Yes.
Man, we've been we were
we got some topics we want to talk
about and we're kind of scatter shot
on what they are.
But we are talking
Minneapolis stuff.
We are talking some Venezuela stuff
that's been talked about a lot on
Freetalk Live.
I want to talk about Greenland a
little bit and all of this,
the common denominator,
seems to be the federal government
and these places.
Well, Greenland is a hell of a
place.
It's a place in seldom green.
It makes me wonder why we want it
so bad.
Minerals, bud.
Minerals.
And they'll let the minerals, I
guess.
And it's in a good position.
If you're looking at defending
the United States of America.
That's Russia.
It's like, right?
This is what's in the way.
Right.
It's it's a good place.
And Canada.
Let's not forget Canada.
Canada is a target too.
There.
Trump has been talking since he
became president before he
became president.
Before he became president again.
That's really confusing.
I read something somewhere or
heard something that Benjamin
Franklin like really, really tried
to get Canada to sign on and
leaving,
leaving like declaring independence
with us.
From the queen.
From the king.
Yeah.
From the king.
Yeah.
And I think I can't remember
what the exact story was, but it
almost sounds like they were
sabotaged from the inside on
purpose to not get it passed.
Like somebody was held up on
purpose to not get there in
time.
That's interesting.
Because like the Canadians would
have been down, but something,
somebody threw some weight around
and changed people's minds.
It wouldn't surprise me.
And on the back end somewhere
things in the past.
Yeah.
I just don't see another
another country that kind of has
their stuff together like Canada
or, you know, Greenland, which
you know is an autonomous region
of Denmark.
Why would they want to come and
join America?
And I just don't, and maybe
somebody has some ideas on that.
I don't know.
I just don't see it.
I don't see what they could
possibly gain from joining.
What I think is kind of a
maxed out country.
I don't think there's a lot of
room for us to get ever any better.
If you can get there all
garky enough money in the time
being to make it look like
they're set up, you can probably
buy them off.
It's a small enough place.
You could probably, you could
probably throw your weight around
a little bit monetarily and make
that happen.
That's what mobs do.
If they can't, first they'll
try to make a deal.
And if they don't get the
numbers they want, then they'll
try to just buy you out outright.
Right.
And if they can't buy you out
outright, well then they'll do it
by force and they'll get rid of
you and then we'll just move in.
I don't think, I think there,
if things don't change, what the
federal government is doing
is they're just telling people
what's going to happen
and we can either do it the
easy way or we can do it the
hard way.
But these things are maybe not
in the next year or the next
four years, but it's in the
20 to 30 year, 50 year time
table to kind of
have to see the red, white, and
blue expand across the
western hemisphere or at least
attempt to attempt to.
I can see that.
And I know that China's been
playing that game too.
I mean, we don't talk about China
and Africa.
Oh, they're so heavily invested
in so much stuff there.
And they are, they are gobbling
up parts of the globe and
with insane debt.
It's the debt.
Insane interest rates.
I don't know why I lost that term
for a second.
So the insane interest rates
that the Chinese are putting
on these African countries for
this infrastructure that
they're building that they
built for free will quote
free.
You're going to pay us back
with this insane amount of
interest that they know these
countries are going to default
on.
So what happens when they
default will China takes
control of that infrastructure
again.
They'll come collect on the
debt.
The same way that we took
these Venezuelan tankers
or tried to.
My question is who's going to
when the U.S. defaults on it
that who's going to collect.
I that's that's it's a given
that the debt is so large now
that it couldn't be paid off.
And there's no sign of any
moderation that.
I mean, what was I hearing
about?
Oh, it was this morning.
Trump is preparing a new
defense budget.
He wants to increase the
number by half a trillion
dollars over what
the joint chiefs of staff
say they need.
That sounds like he wants
enough to.
To maybe go to war.
Yeah, it does.
But but does nobody realize
that there is no money.
I mean, we're just printing
stuff.
It is the emperor's new
clothes.
It's it's it's like musical
chairs.
I mean, we're all still dancing.
We're all still dancing.
But there hasn't been any money
for a long time.
No, there hasn't been any money
since we did.
The billionaires, Chris,
and maybe the billionaires will
will help pay off our debt.
Oh, that's a good one.
No, right?
Yeah, it's so economically
unfeasible
from the billionaire point of
view.
I mean, it's it's ridiculous
and it's just not
a solvable problem.
I just laugh.
I mean, because it can't be fixed.
The only thing you can do
is grab resources
and that's what we're doing.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
You can only you can only
because at the end of the day,
right, the money is just
a placeholder for things
that we consider valuable.
At one point was gold
and then we changed it to oil
and then we changed it
to the United States guns.
Right.
We believe in the guns of the U.S.
And that's why we use the dollar.
Yeah.
But at the end of the day,
it's the carrot.
What you need is the food.
You need the resources
for your people
in order to make things move.
It doesn't matter how much
the computer says you have.
It's how much tangible assets,
things that you can hold
and manipulate within this 3D space
we're in right now
to make your life easier.
And you need it right now.
The United States has a ton of food.
Well, I just go back to basics.
We do have a ton of food.
Well, I'm just resources.
Keep getting illegal immigrants
to come in and pick it.
Well, I think we waste
so much food as it is.
Don't we throw so much away?
We do.
Like in produce and stuff.
Like we don't can anything.
The United States geographically
is in a good position.
Yeah, we have enough food.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not, I'm not.
Yeah.
I'm just saying resources,
food as a
just a resource,
something that everyone would
understand as a resource,
right, is food.
But a necessary one.
I will say it's more necessary
to life than rare earth magnets
or something like that.
Well, that's what we need
for our electric vehicles.
Oh, that's what we need for.
That's how we're gonna save
the planet, Chris.
Didn't you know that?
We're all gonna switch to electric.
We're gonna all use silver
to create the batteries
and silver is going to go up
in price and won't be wealthy.
You know, I'm gonna own a car.
You're gonna rent a Waymo service,
right, driverless cars,
and you'll rent access
to have the car pick you up
when you need it to.
With what?
Like your phone,
your digital ID.
No, I mean with what money?
Well, you'll use your Amazon bucks.
Oh, that'll be it.
The US dollar is gone,
but now you can use your Amazon bucks.
Yeah, you can use your Amazon wallet
to get to your Amazon.
The Amazon van charges you rent
to get you to your Amazon office
where, you know, your Amazon warehouse.
That's a really good book.
There's a book called
Warehouse,
just about this huge mega corporation
that at this point,
there are so many warehouses
that the warehouses just become towns
and everybody where you live
and work, it's all the same.
I've been driving through the desert,
right, out West,
like the big open spaces
and out of nowhere,
there will be an Amazon facility
the size of a college campus,
just out in the middle of nowhere
off the side of the interstate.
And it really does look like a small town.
Yeah, there's like four or five outbuildings.
There's, you know,
the central like warehouse.
There's like food options near,
like right next to it,
like it's like a little.
Yeah, you go inside,
there's a food court.
It's almost like a boom town,
like a Wild West,
like you're riding on your horse
and you look out in the,
like the distance
and there's just like a saloon
and like a watering hole,
but that's what it is.
It's an Amazon warehouse,
like just propped up
and the only reason it's there
is because it has to be
or like it is, if that makes sense.
And in this book,
the novel was, you know,
the economy was so bad
that they were like literally the only ones,
it was the only place you could get a job
was to go to work at one of these warehouses.
Huh.
And you lived at the warehouse
and yes, it was dystopian,
but it's not,
it's kind of coming true.
I don't know,
yeah, the bigger question is
how far can Pax Americana go
before it crumbles?
They would say to Mars.
You know, if the powers the government would say,
Elon Musk would say,
we're taking this spaceship,
we're riding it to Mars,
is what has how far they'd want it.
The colonize the rest of the universe.
Yeah, they would say,
they would say,
you know,
what was the manifest destiny to the stars?
100%.
I think my only remaining hope for Elon is that
that he does Mars
and it becomes the,
the ultimate succession.
It's like, okay, thanks.
Yeah, imagine that in 2000 years,
there's a civil war between Earth and Mars.
Yeah, yeah.
About who has autonomy over themselves.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't think that would
go over well.
I mean, it's just inevitable.
I mean, how much of this is just human nature
because we've been doing
the big thing,
get your government as big as you possibly can
for what, 2000 years now?
3000 years?
Because you're right,
technology advances.
Because at one point,
the government was as big
as the biggest guy in the tribe
could swing his club.
And that's, you know, it ends.
But once you, you know,
you build technologies up,
you can expand that.
And I think as we build up technology,
we're just going to keep expanding
because we haven't really taken it
as far as it can go.
Because as far as big government can go
is global.
Like almost like a star trekking
type collectivist global governance,
right?
Because what will happen,
if we do take to the stars,
then the elites would see things
as countries as meaningless.
Right.
Because if you could,
yeah, why bother with the country
when I can have a planet?
Yeah, I have a solar system.
Why would I not?
And in fiction,
I mean that is a lot of it.
I mean,
in some ways,
and in some books,
it goes very authoritarian.
Most of the books are,
you know,
cheery.
So they say, no,
it, you know, these,
they all work together
and they created this ever-expanding,
you know,
society amongst the stars.
And I don't know,
I'm worried about here and now
and whether we'll make it to 2050.
I mean,
But they're not.
I know they're not.
That's what everybody says.
Why are we doing these things?
Because we're not looking.
They don't look to tomorrow.
These huge,
these like the operating families,
right?
The ones who have these billions
and billions of dollars,
they,
they're not worried about tomorrow
because their day-to-day won't ever
really change.
They have so much money,
whatever happens in global economies,
they're,
they're insulated.
So they,
they are planning
for a hundred,
200 years.
Like what is my family?
How do I keep my family
in this powerful position
for 300 years on?
Sure.
So, you know,
they're,
they're doing things
on timetables that the us,
who have to go to work every day
and have to worry about how much
money we have in the bank
to pay our bills.
They don't care about those things.
So their time is filled
with other,
with other endeavors,
right?
Because they don't have to go to work.
Like going to Mars.
Yeah.
Like going to Mars.
They can,
they can do frivolous things.
Like go to Mars or,
or work on.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
I'll work on like
drugs or viruses of some sort
or,
you know,
secret AIDS clinics.
Who knows?
We're going to go to the phones
where we've got an anonymous scholar,
anonymous scholar,
you're on free talk live.
Perpetuating lies, Chris.
Perpetuating lies.
Stop telling your stupid audience.
Oh, man.
Stop telling your stupid audience
that the national debt
cannot be paid back.
There's always an amount
of GDP growth
and or government surplus
that can make the system
solvent.
And stop assuming
that paying the debt off
is even a good thing.
Okay.
Which is not what I want to talk about.
Why'd you bring it up?
And why did you insult yourself
as a member of our audience?
And then talking about
the your targeted audience,
the gullible libertarians.
So far it seems to be working.
Such like,
such as freedom
and morality comes from,
I don't know where
and also I don't know
also that Roger there
and I'm not doing nothing wrong.
But this is not what I want to talk about.
So, no, I just read a reel.
I want to hear it from a good authoritarian
because you are a dedicated authoritarian.
You are.
Yeah.
You guys are authoritarian too.
That libertarian comes with its own
authoritarian clause, right?
Okay, go ahead.
You guys know that, right?
This is what this is kind of related
to what I want to talk about.
Please.
The landowner is the landowner's authority,
right?
They can set almost any rule they want.
I think it's virtually any rule they want, right?
Why wouldn't I?
I'm a landowner.
I can set any rule I want.
Yeah, you can make kids
doing fentanyl in your land legal, right?
Why would I do that?
You can have childhood.
You can have child prostitution
on your land legal, right?
Why would I do that?
This is that's absolute freedom.
Why would I do?
Why would I do these things?
Because you believe in absolute freedom
of a landowner.
I have power doesn't mean I want to
exercise all the crazy things you talk about.
Why would I do that?
That's freedom.
Why would I want to?
Don't you believe a landowner
can do whatever he wants with his property?
If I wanted to, I can do whatever I want.
But the point is, I don't want to.
That's what you fail to grasp.
Why do you assume that?
You allow others who want to do it, right?
No, they can do whatever they want on their land.
If Riley want to have voluntarily,
voluntary child prostitution on his land,
that's okay in then capistan, right?
No, there are morals and values
that people must follow.
Do they have to?
You don't believe in absolute freedom.
I believe in absolute freedom
to the extent that morals come into play.
You can have absolute freedom,
but remember when you start infringing
on other people like a child,
then that's not absolute freedom.
What if they have to follow your rules
if you're on your property, though, right?
In your hypothetical,
in your insane hypothetical,
you're saying voluntary,
I'm not even going to go there.
You're saying I could allow all kinds of crazy things
that I don't agree with,
so morality absolutely comes into it.
My own personal morals.
Your morality advocates for pure unadulterated freedom.
This is what that new guy, Brokey Broke,
what's your name?
Brokey Broke.
You became an ad cap
because you wanted children to have more agency, right?
You were in school and you couldn't go to the bathroom
because you're a kid.
Sure, yeah.
So you believe children should have full freedom?
This is why you became an ad cap, right?
I think what it did is it had me
look at the structures,
how authority was dispensed,
and I disagreed where it came from.
Sure.
So it made you question.
Yeah, it made me question.
Where it comes from.
Well, and I'm rejecting that authority.
I'm saying, I don't think.
The landowner doesn't have authority.
No, he's talking about school.
And the landowner doesn't set all the rules he wants.
Sure.
Whether he can do drugs,
whether people on his land can do drugs,
whether it's a child he can do drugs.
Why do you draw that line?
Who can do drugs?
What's so different about right now today?
People do this already.
There's nothing, that's kind of my point.
Now, if you bring in the concept of co-ownership,
we can determine what's legal or not,
and it's totally in line with libertarianism.
So you want to be a big HOA over at Capistan.
We already are, and we already are an HOA, right?
HOA, those associations copied the democratic,
the modern democratic structure of the people
determining what's legal or not on their land.
Now, they copy kind of an authoritarian state.
But that's not what I want to talk about.
Sure, it's not.
As soon as you get a question you can't deal with.
Go ahead.
No, you're not dealing with any of the concepts I'm talking about, right?
A group, right?
A group can own a piece of land.
Yes.
Do you agree or not?
A group of people can co-own a piece of land.
Yes.
And if they can determine the rules on that land,
which is absolute freedom,
what's stopping them from making drugs illegal on their land?
What's starting that?
You assume that the people I would associate,
so let's say I went into some kind of a trust with a group of other people
to buy a particular parcel of land.
We are now owners of this parcel of land and we have rules.
First of all, I'd never go into it without setting up some method
for dealing with these.
Yeah, decision-making and dealing with things.
Like if one landowner decided to do nothing except spout all the stuff
you do, I would have a mechanism there that we could,
he would agree, could be voted out and leave.
Why would that not be a thing?
Who would go into a contract with no exit clause?
Or no way of dealing with other people?
With people you don't disagree with?
Now, why couldn't you do that?
This is all fine.
This is all fine and dandy when you assume like everybody's an adult
at every point in time and there's no natural birth occurring.
So what happens to, can you answer me this, Chris?
What happens to a newborn in this society?
Tell me how you treat a newborn.
Oh, we just throw them outside and let them fend for themselves, probably.
That's okay.
Aw, man.
Isn't that what the Norwegian do?
Don't the Denmark or something put their babies outside on purpose alone?
Have a good one, Skeeter.
I think it's a great idea.
I mean, that's how I was raised.
I didn't get to come inside until I was like six years old.
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Well, we had a sketer call.
They're kind of like all the other sketer calls.
Pretty much the same.
But that's not what I called to talk about.
No, you don't understand.
His real point is like in Ancapistan,
which is not a real place I looked for at one time.
Well, I guess he's trying to theorize our favorite place of
Ancapistan in Libertarian society or whatever.
Yeah, he does that.
But the idea that if you believe in total freedom,
and I believe in just basic freedoms,
just not total absolute,
like nothing I want to do is ever going to infringe
on what somebody else likes or dislikes.
That's, well, I won't say likes or dislikes.
I'm not going to infringe on their freedoms
and their free to not associate with me
and I'm free to not associate with them.
So I just don't care.
And his whole thing about,
well, you're a landowner.
You could make anything legal on your land.
And sure, I could.
You can shoot your guns.
The real question is should you?
Because there has to be morals and values governing society
or governing yourself.
Because if there are no morals and values
governing your life,
you're nothing more than a worthless human being.
Well, they do.
And they guide me even though there's no decree
saying I have to recognize that my morals have to guide me.
They just do.
They're just there.
They are part of my makeup.
So it doesn't really matter.
And I surround myself with people
for the most part who share my morals and my ideas.
And I want to surround myself with people like that
because there's less conflict.
Right.
This is the first amendment defined as freedom of association.
You don't have to be around people.
You don't want to be around.
Sure.
But I don't even have to look at that.
I just do it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I respect that they decided to put that in there.
That was a good thing,
along with the fact that my rights to defend myself
shouldn't be infringed.
That was a good thing.
All in all,
I think it's a horrible disaster in its outcome.
I love the Declaration of Independence.
I love reading that thing and sitting there and going,
this is all they were.
They were angry.
And they were angry.
And they enumerated all the reasons they were angry.
And they wanted to leave.
But I could write 100,000 page-long Declaration of Independence
if I were to enumerate everything I disagreed with
and feel that the U.S. government has done against me personally.
We're going to go to the phones where we've got Paul in Arizona.
Paul, you're on Freetalk Live.
Hi there.
How are you?
Yeah, I was listening to your conversation.
Yeah.
The idea of doing what you will on your own property
is an interesting concept.
I know that there's a lot of people talking these days
against freedom.
And they always want to quote,
misquote this old Pagan statement.
And they only quote the second half.
They leave off the first half.
The complete statement is,
as it harm none, do with thou wilt.
That is the whole of the law.
Harm none includes yourself.
I like it.
So this does not open the door to profligate drug abuse
and all this other crap.
No, you're supposed to treat yourself with respect.
All right?
You should not be limited in your horizons,
but you should always be a good citizen,
a good member of society, and do no harm.
I agree.
And that's how I try to live my life.
And you're not.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
No, it's just it just frustrates me when I see government
not trying to obey that same very simple edict.
Yeah.
That should apply to them too, as it harm none.
Okay.
Yes.
Now, if you're not doing harm, but doing what you will,
no one should be able to raise an arm against you.
I like it.
Now, you said that was a pagan origin.
They may express their displeasure at what you're doing.
They may disagree with your ideas.
They may think that their beliefs are in conflict
with what you want to do with your life.
But unless they can put their finger on actual harm
being done to anyone, they have no cause of action,
as it were, to act against you.
Yeah.
I like that particular phrase that you brought up,
and it's just so common in free thinkers throughout history.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It's something that you have Cicero talking about.
You have John Locke talking about.
You have the government pretending to talk about, but they don't.
Yeah.
Well, you have so many right-wingers saying,
oh, well, just do what you will.
You know, that's the whole of the lot.
Well, no, that's not the whole of it.
They leave off the no harm part.
Oh, to be fair, you have left-wingers doing the same thing.
Yeah, I'm excluding them.
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Just popped right out of my head.
Urban.
Is it Keith Herb?
Now, I think we may have talked about this before.
Yeah, yeah, it's a manual for society.
It's a self-help manual for society,
and I find it to be extremely, extremely useful in understanding
a lot of what's going on in the world,
and gives you some good recommendations on how to proceed from there.
Well, good.
And I haven't read this yet.
I know that I took a call from you one time,
and we talked about it, and I did not find it easily or quickly
or before I forgot about it.
But I will.
I will.
I will look into this.
Apparently it is on Amazon, and what's our problem?
And yes, it's quite enlightening.
I find it a refreshing view on how we can change our perspective.
Like Scott Adams keeps talking about how you can reframe things
and get much more value out of it.
Yeah, I see it.
Hey, Paul, thanks for the call.
All right, now do you have a live show tomorrow?
There will be a live show tomorrow.
Good, because a lot of times you only do one a week.
We typically do two weeks.
I don't know if your station's carrying the other one or not.
Yeah, we try to always do two,
but things come up occasionally, and we'll do a rebroadcast.
And that's okay.
We should be on tomorrow night, too.
Great.
So feel free to call back.
I'll have another subject to talk about then.
Nice.
Hey, man, thank you for the call.
All right, you're welcome.
More than welcome.
Take care.
Yeah, I remember him talking about this particular book
and thinking, I'm like, man, that looks really good.
And then I got doing the show notes afterwards
and then thought about everything I have to do tomorrow.
And poof, it's gone.
Yeah, boop.
Um, so we're, you and I were talking kind of Pax Americana
and where does it go?
And can you foresee a happy ending to all this?
Riley, I'll ask you the same question.
Is there a happy ending to the United States?
I'll let Angela answer first.
He's younger.
My perspective?
He still has rose colored glasses.
I think we're, I think it's a foobar.
Really, the whole, obviously the experiment's failing.
Can you rein it in?
Can you vote your way out of it?
Like, can you stop all the corruption and right?
If we just don't harder, man, we can get out of this,
you know, just keep voting.
Uh, no, I think it's, uh, the writing has been on the wall.
This, the cracks are starting to become caverns
and everybody can see it, especially the younger people,
right?
Like our bridges are falling apart.
Our electric grid is strange.
There's rolling blackouts in places like California.
Like think about it in LA, parts of the city get their
entire electricity turned off in the 21st century.
And that's, you know, that shouldn't happen, right?
That shouldn't be the case if we're the most glorified,
you know, empire that ever was.
And this is happening in other countries.
I mean, every week we hear about, you know, blackouts
occurring in Europe and blackouts and some parts
of the world haven't even got to the point where they ever had stable electric.
Yeah.
Had the ability to have a blackout.
Right.
There's no, there's no lights.
We look forward to the ability to have blackouts.
Um, yeah, because that would be a big move.
And to me, you know, and, and why do I talk about secession so much?
It's because we want to be able to say we have had enough
with the federal government.
We do not want to be part of your system any longer.
We refuse to participate in your system any longer.
Well, that's because the system's imploding
and your gut reaction is to get as far away from the explosion as possible.
The damage is possible.
So by, by seceding, I'm separating myself from the issue
before it becomes so intolerable that I, I can get swept away in it, right?
Like to secede as like a group means we don't like the way you're going.
We think you're going to do something wrong
and we don't want to be there when it goes wrong.
That's the whole point of what we're doing.
This is my, my viewpoints a little different.
I think it's just strained under size.
Yeah, it's just this, this guy got too fat.
He got too big.
So he's saying the government's too bloated.
It's not only the government, the government that's now trying to
come up with common laws for 330 million people.
I just think there's a point where things don't work unless you decentralize.
Unless you, unless you break it apart into pieces and let them, it's like a corporation.
And sometimes these mega, mega, mega, mega corporations get so big.
And they actually, a lot of times it's because they're so successful.
They decide to break off a department, a, a product group to its own, its own company.
And they'll break them up because they realize that they don't work well under
trying to manage something of this size.
And that's the point I'm out with the U S.
Well, I get that, but I'm saying I agree with you on these points,
but the power never abdicates the power willingly, right?
It's going to, it's going to thrash and scream and hurt as many people as it can
in order to maintain its grip on power.
It never abdicates the throne.
It has to be, you know, it has to be removed.
So by succeeding and getting away from that inevitability, right?
When, when, when the old man has dementia and he starts,
and he's having flashbacks and punching nurses, right?
Personal.
Well, everybody, everybody, you know, kind of backs away.
Um, we're like, we're done with dad.
He's too much.
We're leaving.
I can't deal with it.
And that's, you know, that's kind of where we're at.
I think with, with the United States is the old man is punching nurses
and the kids kind of want to be like, dude, this old man's nuts.
Like, let's just get out of here while we still can before he starts punching us.
Right.
Harder than he has been for the past, you know, 100 odd years.
How long has the Federal Reserve been around?
So let's say the U.S., you know, brings Venezuela in as a state.
Do you think they really notice if they lost New Hampshire?
I think.
No, I don't think so.
I think Venezuela has enough oil resources.
Maybe that's it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They got all the oil.
It'd be a black on the empire.
They wouldn't allow it.
I know that.
I don't like to, I don't like that answer, but you're right.
You're right.
Well, then I, I love the succession ideas too,
but like the reality is the empire won't allow that.
They would rather, they would rather all see us hanging in the street than allow for
something like that to happen and like have it be like national news.
Right.
So all the, that I can hope for is that another state gets there.
Any other state, they, they do something, even if it's just changed states,
changing boundaries or California breaks up or Texas goes it alone.
I, I, and this is not a near term thing.
I know that, um, but I, I just don't see any chance of, of things continuing.
Successfully, they won't.
And we're going to go to the phones where we've got Sarah in New Mexico.
Sarah, you're on free talk live.
So, you know, I don't understand, you know, the X on a mobile, they say
the Venezuela is too unstable for us to go in and take over the oil companies.
I, I don't understand what are they really afraid of?
I don't know if they're afraid of, they're afraid of how much money they would have
to sink into it to make it viable.
Chevron is still down there.
They've been there the whole time.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Chevron has, has always been there.
It's not like there are no oil companies.
But under Chavez, he nationalized all the oil companies.
So there used to be, um, you know, don't quote me on these, but there were
other oil companies down there.
Let's say mobile was down there and Chavez or maybe it was Maduro said,
all right, right now all oil companies are nationalized,
which simply means that we now own all your equipment and we're going to produce it and take
the benefits and take all the money that we get from selling, selling the oil that you created,
you created the infrastructure that you created.
That's the biggest fear of the oil companies.
They don't want to get that pulled on them again.
And a lot of them are, are pretty afraid to go back there.
And they're talking about we want to have guarantees from the U.S. government
that you will protect our assets if we put money into Venezuela.
So they are literally.
Well, they have a, they have a, like a socialist communist revolution.
And actually, um, Hugo Chavez took over.
Yeah.
I mean, the oil companies, once they run out,
like fear of force.
I mean, they just did a wrong job.
Ask them to leave politely.
No, they said guys with guns went there and said, these are no longer your oil wells.
This is no longer your refinery.
At the point of a gun, they were ordered to leave or die.
That's what the communist revolution did in Venezuela.
Right.
And they used force, Trump used force bombing and arrested Maduro by using force again.
I, I.
And what they're saying is that just because you get rid of that hit figure,
you know, it doesn't automatically change the whole country.
You know, as, as Trump thinks that he did, you know what I mean?
I mean, I agree with you.
It's not going to be, I don't think Trump, I think Trump's planning to put
troops in Venezuela.
I think this was an opening move in a chess game.
Yeah.
To get more American bases.
What American bases do we really have in South America?
I'm asking because I don't know why I don't know.
I don't know either.
Probably Brazil.
Maybe, maybe something.
I don't know, but I know that the Trump will want a foothold,
not thousands of miles away from the U.S.
So.
Well, I just, we're going to have the, if that's, um, so like, I mean, do you think
that's what it's going to take for them to, they're going to use our military force to
move in the oil companies?
I think that's where it's going.
Well, unless the people, unless the people of Venezuela let them do it without force,
right?
Like that's what I was talking about earlier.
America has looked at the world and said, we are either doing this the easy way
or we're doing this the hard way and you, we're going to leave the decision up to you,
smaller countries, about how you want to go about this because it's happening regardless.
And we can either make it super painful for you or we can make it super easy for you
because that's what bullies do.
That's how they operate.
And a lot of these people in Venezuela still remember having nothing to eat under communism.
They still remember having to eat zoo animals.
That's what communism brings you.
That's not bad.
See, but before they had the revolution under capitalism, they had nothing to eat then.
Or if they're doing so well before, why would they have a communist revolution?
They wanted something better and different.
Because they wanted more and communism works very well,
forgetting the people at the top, all the things they want.
It doesn't work well for the regular people, for the proletariat.
It doesn't.
It does not.
It's idealistic.
It's so idealistic that they can convince people.
Sarah, did you ever read Animal Farm?
I never did.
Read it.
I would recommend it.
And it's a really good story and it's, it's-
You love it.
It's a good kid's story.
Yeah, it is.
Well, I'm just going to bring up one more thing that right now it's illegal to put speeding cameras
on our federal highways like freeways.
Oh, good.
And that is the most absurd.
You know why?
Because they're doing the most amount of speed.
And if there's a wreck, it causes the most amount of wreck.
And just because-
And speeding cameras are going to fix this?
The federal government, they're prohibited from putting speed cameras.
So city could put speeding cameras, escape, each state could put speed cameras there,
but they have to have hands off on the freeways.
Our state doesn't.
They're illegal in New Hampshire.
Oh, your state decided to ban cameras, city, or the whole property?
I mean, the whole-
agency cannot have a camera pointed in any direction that can read a license plate,
which means like my town hall has cameras for burglars and stuff like that,
but they're all, they have to be very careful that they cannot be placed in places that can
read license plates.
Isn't that crazy?
And we also don't have to wear a drive.
We don't have to have seatbelts.
Your state is very bizarre.
It is.
But, see, your state is not like our state.
We have-
Interestingly, we also have very few fatalities.
Well, here's the thing, we have to have license plate reader, do you know why?
All the murmurers from all the other states come out to New Mexico and hide out here.
And do you know how you used to find them after they murder somebody again?
See, it's like, oh, we had a murderer living in our state for 10 years.
I mean, that happens in a place like California, and they have cameras everywhere.
They should make that then state motto.
We got the most murderers, and murderers welcome.
Big outreach.
I know.
Well, this Mexico has been settled by criminals from like 100 years ago or more.
It's a criminal state because when they were going to get hung in the 13 colonies,
they ran out here, and they stopped looking for them.
It's always been that culture of all the murderers came out here, and that's the reason
we have to have license plate readers.
Well, the entire country used to be that place.
Right.
Now you're America's Australia.
That's a good thing.
Sarah, thank you so much for the call.
Uh, 603-283-6160.
We still got time.
You can get in touch.
Give us a ring.
Let's talk.
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The amount of young people being brought up on criminal charges, sex offender charges,
for taking nude photos of themselves and putting them online.
It's just so sad to see these people having their lives just rolled right over the
top of by these prosecutors that want to make it look like they're doing something good,
but they're not doing anything that's helping anyone.
There's no victim in this case when you hear the term child pornography.
What should come to mind, if anything, should be the idea of forcing children
into sexual scenes and videotaping or photographing.
Adults forcing children or somebody.
Even if it's a child forcing another child, it's I think the force is the issue there.
If you're talking about a 15-year-old girl voluntarily choosing to take a nude photo
of herself to send to her boyfriend or to post online, no one forced her to do that.
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Well, I think we're on a... Maybe one day. Maybe one day. If we're lucky,
a messiah will come back and save us. Okay. I'm hoping that's the case.
That would be a good outcome. I know Christians believe it's Jesus and that's fine,
but we'll see what happens in my lifetime. So yeah, Mormons, man, I'm going to offend
somebody here. Offend away. So if Jesus Christ are Lord and Savior, if you're a Christian,
we're to come back to descend from heaven and start his third reign or second reign or
fourth reign or whatever it is. Does that fulfill Mormon prophecy? I mean...
Mormons believe that... Tell me about this because I just don't know.
Mormons definitely would believe that Jesus is coming again.
And I think they, if I remember correctly, as Mormons, they teach that America is the
promised land and Jesus is actually coming back to America. Have you broke the news to them?
No. What news should I break to them? The whole America is the promised land.
I'm not convinced. Maybe this is why I'm not a Mormon. Okay. Okay. But Jesus will return.
You're going to come back to Missouri because that's where the Garden of Eden supposedly was.
Missouri? Yeah. Like the Ozarks? Yeah, like Jackson County. Yeah, they tried to start
in Missouri and Missouri like shot them a bunch and kicked them out.
Missouri kicked them out. Right. They kicked us out long ago.
Was this... Which prophet was this? Joseph Smith back in the day.
So do the Mormons look to Missouri as some
lost territory that must be reclaimed? Yes. Really? Yes. Especially Jackson County, Missouri.
So it's like they're Israel almost? Like they're the diaspora from their holy land?
I think so, yeah. Like they're cast out. It's been a lot longer than 40 years.
They did get cast out. Yeah, they were cast out. Yeah, they got cast out the whole country.
We caught up to them. Well, not we. The government caught up to them.
They had to set up outside of the lines. Right, right. Interesting.
So definitely a Zionistic sort of thinking within Mormonism,
I think that Jesus is going to come back, but he's also going to come back to Jerusalem too.
So, you know, he'll go in two places at once. Yeah, he'll have maybe not one.
He'll have a summer place. He's going to have a summer home in Gaza in the rebuilt Gaza.
At the Temple Mount and it's going to have a winter home in
Missouri where the new Jerusalem is going to be built. What about Utah?
I don't know. Is it just a vacation home? I guess it's got great skiing.
Right. It definitely has great skiing. So maybe Jesus will go skiing.
He's going to go shred the gnar, dude. I mean, I bet if you go to some of those mountains,
you're going to see a lot of dudes who you would think look like Jesus.
I know a lot of the snowboarders, but I don't know if he's my son has had that look.
Believe me. Oh yeah, I think it's a, if you grow up like near the mountains and you do that
kind of thing, it's a phase that most people are going to go through.
If you snowboard, you'll get to like the long hair in the Jesus look for a little bit.
Sean White look. He was a ginger though, right?
Yeah. But I mean he, the hair was down like the middle of his back.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, so yeah, it's like Jesus could have his own snowboard brand.
Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He could. That's interesting.
Grace Industries. I love it. Grace Industries.
I love it. It'll be like a cross, but it'll be the nails and it'll be super heavy metal.
Looking right. Cause it's a skateboard brand. Oh man.
We like thorns all over the nails in the cross, right? Like you, you can see it, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Skateboard, little grunge style skateboard brand.
This is too crazy. That's it. I'm becoming a Mormon.
All right. Can you explain Mormon space wives to me? Is that just a, what is that Riley?
I have no idea what Mormon space. Okay. Cause I've heard the Mormon space
wives referenced. I don't like you get like, I don't know the Mormons believe they get their own
planet at the end of this like to work on like, how does that? Here's the thing,
what I remember about growing up as a Mormon, we do believe that we can become like God.
Okay. And as such, we can create our own worlds and populate them with people.
So I guess in a way we get our own planet. I don't know. Okay.
Okay. I could see the appeal of Mormonism. Yeah. I saw this in a Reddit post one time
with like a, through like a story thread about the, the, the story was this guy had died and he
goes to heaven. Um, and God shows him like a couple of different rooms of like places he could go
and ones like, you know, food and gluttony and like ones like nature. Okay. Um, and like
all these different like places that you could spend eternity at and they get to the last one
and it's just like a desk and, uh, God is talking to the guy who died. Um, and he's like, and this
is the last one you could choose. Um, and, uh, the guy was like, whoa, all right, I'll choose
that one for some reason. And God was like, what? And he's like, yeah, I want to do the desk,
like what's going on with the desk. And God like sits him down at the desk and he looks
into the desk and it's his own universe that he has to work on. And then God sits at the desk next
to him and says, go ahead, dude, this is, this one's yours. Nice. And for you to, you know,
build on your own. So I mean, I heard all of that. And like, so is that Mormonism then?
Uh, kind of, kind of not really kind of not really. Like, I know the church has walked back
to walked back on that belief for a bit now saying, oh, well, we actually don't get
our own planets. Oh, okay. So the invaluable teachings of Joseph Smith are somehow valuable.
Yeah. Wow.
Baton switch, man. I was told I would get my own plan. All right.
Well, you wait till you hear about the 72 virgins, man.
That's an Islam, dude.
Wait till you find out about how those aren't coming either.
Yeah. Yeah. It's always, uh, lots of promises.
Um, that's what religion is promises.
Well, and promises and the afterlife and the government is filled with promises.
Yes.
This is just a common thread. Um, yeah, I, I don't know. I've, I've,
the only person other than, than you Riley that I was really close to for a time
was my band teacher and in high school.
And, uh, he was a lot of fun, um, without using any names. Yes, we did drink and
maybe part took of other substances together. Um,
but his wife did not really enjoy that being a lifestyle choice for him. Sure.
And she just basically said, I'm leaving. I am moving to Utah.
I think she was a Mormon already. If he was any kind of Mormon,
it was a Jack Mormon because he didn't really follow anything.
But he decided to follow his wife and his family to more, uh, to Utah, to Mormon down.
Um, no, to Utah. And, uh, I talked to him a couple of years after that and he's like, you know,
religions all have lots of promises and they all have lots of answers to lots of different
things. But he looked me dead in the eye and he's like, but the Mormons really have it.
They have all the answers. I'm like, well, okay.
I think that's the nice thing about religion is it gives you all the answers.
And so you don't think about anything. You don't have any questions to think about.
You can have solace and, and that's nice for a religion to do. But
when you take thinking out of the equation and, and you're not allowed to ask any
questions other than beyond what the religion tells you what the answers are. Well,
yeah. And it creates impotence in your own mind.
I used to describe myself as an agnostic. Um, I don't think I'm an agnostic. I,
I do believe that there is a God, me personally. I, I do believe that, that there is some power
higher than myself, that there is some intelligent design to this whole thing.
I believe all that. Um, but I really have a problem with organized religion.
And I just can't say that okay, Christians take on how things work is any better than
Buddhism or Hinduism or Islam or or Mormonism or anything. I just,
and it goes even further when I start looking at different flavors of Christianity and saying
are the Catholics right? Are the Lutherans right? You know, it's just, I get that. And
I just like the fact that I can feel peace, um, knowing that I have autonomy. Um,
but I also realize that there may be somebody, everybody's got a boss, right?
Um, maybe that's the case. And maybe, maybe that's where I am. I don't know.
Like I'm with you on organized religion. I'm not a huge fan of organized religion.
I do believe that there's a, that there's God somewhere. Maybe God is inside us. I don't know.
Maybe we're just all pieces of God experiencing. Maybe we're just all God
experiencing as self-simultaneously. I have no idea, but regardless of that,
you know, organized religion just hands you a book or books and says, here are the answers.
We don't need to think about anything else. Just listen to us. We'll give you all the answers
to all the questions you have thus creating this prison, if you will. This prison of your
mind to say you can't go beyond this mark. One thing I value about, you know,
my spiritual path is that I get to ask more questions and think about things deeper. And I
don't know what I believe is true. Right. I'm not going to hang my hat and say, this is the truth.
This is the ultimate truth that, that we are all God and experiencing itself simultaneously.
Okay. That's a nice belief. Something has to be true though.
Well, something right, right? Cause the truth exists. Sure.
And so one of, not all of these things can be true. Right. I understand you talking about
different, like the different flavors of Christianity. I don't know. I've been like church
history, you know, you can go all the way back to like the council of Nicaea, like 325, right?
And then the schism in 1050 that even created the Catholic church. And like there's a whole,
like I think as Westerners, we don't even talk about like Eastern Orthodoxy. Nobody even talks
about that whole other side of the church, the side that, you know, claims holy apostolic
succession from, from the apostles. And there's, so there's a whole history of a church going
a different direction than the Catholics did for like 2000 years, right? For at least,
no, at least at least the past 1000 years, going a totally different direction
and with the way they, they went about, went about their, their church, right? Like it's a
decentralized church, the bishops control their own areas and then they confer with each other,
right? So Orthodoxy is, is, is working on a totally different wavelength than,
than like the papacy of Rome, almost acting as like an emperor of, of Christendom.
Yes. So I don't know. You want to talk about like a self autonomy.
That feels pretty self autonomous, right? And then, then you're not forced to be a part of
that church either. If you don't want to be as well, right? So if you really want to get away
from like, if you, if you lean towards the Christian idea of things, right? And you, and
but you have issues with like the Pope or with, you know, Martin Luther, Archbishop of Canterbury,
or like every, you know, if we keep changing the book every time, like every generation,
we have to fight about what the rules are. Then the religion is just kind of a war machine,
right? And it's not, there's no respect for, for what it was agreed upon, right? And maybe
you disagree with that idea. No, but like there has to be a truth. There has to be
something that is real because if, if we have to fight about what's real every generation,
what is a man every generation, then we never get past that point. We can never move past that
because we're always arguing about what, what the rules are to even begin the ball game. And then
the game never gets played and we never, we stagnate, right? That's why America is stagnating.
We, we can't agree on what the rules are for who, right? We live in a two tier justice system.
We can't agree on the rules. So nothing else is getting done. And we're all stuck on arguing
about what the rules should be. Constitutions, conservatives would argue, well, we just need
to get back to the constitution. Right. But that's exactly what got us into this mess.
The constitution, none of this would be, and you think about, you know, I was googling a little
bit on constitution and immigration today. Because I did want to talk about this. I mean,
what's actually written in the constitution about immigration says that Congress will define
certain things and they will come up with a system of this. But then you have,
you've got the third branch, you've got the judicial, which rules and says they interpret
the constitution to mean this. And that's where a lot of where we are today came from,
not through legislation, but through the judicial branch. And they said that, yes, absolutely,
your, your cockamamie plan is absolutely constitutional or you can't do this and therefore,
because this and I, I, and when I think of things that are, you know, the,
the constitution may be all well and good, but if you have different groups that can
subvert it because your, your self-professed checks and balances don't hold up
against the legislative, against the executive, against the judicial, then you don't have a
constitution. Well, didn't the founding fathers even maybe not explicitly within the constitution
or like the doc, the framing documents, but they, they were very much in supporters of,
if this doesn't work, scrap it and write a new thing. If this gets out of hand,
this is just our idea. If this gets out of hand, forget it. We were wrong.
That's why you're allowed to amend the constitution.
Right. Right. Um, or, or completely, some would argue completely do away with it.
Yes. Like our, our constitution in New Hampshire allows us to do
if a government becomes too oppressive, doesn't do what it's supposed to do,
doesn't do what the people want it to, you have to throw it off.
Yeah. If it violates it's, it's side of the contract in New Hampshire, at least the New
Hampshire constitution says we do. Yeah. And lots of other, you know, original 13 states had
the same sort of thing. Hold on.
Have they been amended out at this point? That sounds like something Massachusetts would
have gotten rid of very quickly. No. No. Um, let me get this on.
Trying to
keep talking. Well,
I just think it's a good idea to hold to the principle of altering or abolishing your
government if it's too unwieldy. Yeah. That was like the whole point. Right.
They said the tree of liberty has to be watered.
And I don't know. Maybe, maybe that's why they said it had to be watered with blood because they
understood that power never abdicates and it has to be taken away.
These guys had just got done fighting the revolution, right? They had just got done
watching their houses get burned to the ground by, by British troops to have a shot at doing
this, right? And that's, um, that's what it costs. It costs blood. Um, and that's what
I mean when you say, is there a good way out of this? No, because the way out costs blood, it does.
Um, and it is, uh, it just, uh, I don't think people want to, want to take it that far.
All right. I pulled it up. Uh, the 10th amendment. So the New Hampshire constitution,
which predates the US constitution, we declared, um, we separated from England before the US did,
New Hampshire did. And when they drafted this, they, they put their bill of rights right upfront.
So the first 10 articles of our constitution or the more than that, uh, deal with, uh, individual
rights, article 10, right of revolution. And there is one, uh, we are one of, uh, several states in
the original 13 that had this government being instituted for common benefit protection and
security of the whole community and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man,
family or class of men. Therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted and public
liberty manifestly endangered and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may
and of right ought to reform the old or establish a new government. The doctor doctrine
of non resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive
of the good and happiness of mankind. So number one, I love the fact that that's in New Hampshire's
constitution and I love the wording. If, if it is, if you are not actively resisting against
a government that is not defending your rights, if it is performing arbitrary powers over you,
it's absurd, which I'll use another word. It's stupid, slavish and you're acting like a slave
and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. It's not good for you or your neighbors
not to do anything about it. And I, I, for sure. Well, and that's kind of what I was saying. Like,
before you read that, I wasn't, I wasn't trying to, there wasn't, I wasn't trying to justify any
kind of violence, right? But they were, they, they were. Um, and, and, but the, the government
will cause it, right? You want to talk about gangs, right? You get jumped in and you get
jumped out. So if you want to leave, you're going to get beaten, right? Probably within an
inch of your life. If you really want to get out, right? So if, if it is a gang and this,
this packs of marijuana, global hegemony is a gang, then you trying to leave, they, they
will beat you with an inch of your life, throw you in prison, maybe even kill you.
And if you're not willing to go through all of those things, well, then nothing's going
to happen. It's just not going to change. And I don't know if the average, average Joe
is there yet. I don't think they're there yet. I think they will get there.
Maybe the average Joe wants good healthcare, but they don't realize that government isn't
going to be the one giving it. Well, yeah, but the, the average Joe is going to go straight into,
into socialism, right? That's their, that's their knee jerk reaction.
There is some indication of that. Well, because they want to feel safe. They
want to feel like, oh, we got to have a safety net. No, you don't get a safety net. Safety
nets are, you, you got to create your own safety net. You can't have someone else provide you a
safety net because they can just cut the cords and send you off into outer darkness, so to speak,
by cutting your cords and making sure that you don't get their safety net.
Yeah. I think it's just a question of education and, and we need to
keep doing this show and keep talking about it all the time that, that there is no
future in where we're headed. It doesn't work. It hasn't worked. You know that it hasn't worked.
And there's no fixing it without sacrifice. Right? You have to sacrifice some of your
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From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review. In a stunning
late-night operation, the United States captured Venezuela's President, Nicholas Maduro, and his
wife in Caracas, the pair were then transported to New York City, where they appeared in court
facing a series of narco-terrorism-related charges. President Donald Trump said that the raid was part
of large-scale strikes against Venezuela. Mary Trini Mena was in Caracas, as it all unfolded.
We heard airplanes and helicopters passing through across the city of Caracas flying over.
What we know so far is the information provided, but the Venezuelan government,
Miranda is located in the metropolitan area of Caracas. I heard the blast earlier in the morning.
Right now, the city remains in calm, with authorities calling to the citizens to preserve
the sovereignty of the country and remain in calm. The government says they will declare a state
of emergency, and then we hear about the information provided by Donald Trump saying
they capture the leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.
A US immigration agent shot dead a female driver in Minneapolis this week, kicking off a political
firestorm. Video of the shooting sparked further protests in a city where around 2,000
federal officers have been deployed. Nick Harper reports. The shooting in Minneapolis has become
the latest political touchstone, with the left and the right viewing the videos in
contradictory ways. Law enforcement officials say that the agent was acting in self-defense,
that the woman was trying to run him over. They called the driver a violent rioter,
with Donald Trump describing her as violently, willfully and viciously attacking the ICE officer.
Those on the left and protesters say this was murder, with Minnesota's governor Tim Wolves
saying it was a consequence of the federal government trying to generate fear,
headlines and conflict. It was reported this week that a complete internet shutdown was imposed in
Iran after mass protests against the country's clerical leadership. What started as demonstrations
against Iran's struggling economy has now become a wider movement, with agitations now being
reported in all 31 provinces of the country. Ishan Garg tells us more. Videos verified by
local media show large crowds of anti-government protesters marching through Iran's capital
Tehran's street on Thursday, some calling for the removal of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei. Though demonstrations started in Iran in late December against rising inflation,
Thursday's protests are believed to be triggered by calls from Iranian crown prince
and the key opposition leader Reza Pahlavi. From Feature Story News, in New York,
I'm Mitch McCann and that was the Week in Review.
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board as we are want to do. We've been talking Minneapolis. I know it's sadly that poor officer
that shot that woman is in hiding now. Dang, what do you do when you shoot somebody, Chris?
It hasn't happened yet. I'm out. I'm not sticking around to see what's happening. I'm hiding.
He did fear for his life, so I guess he still fears for his life. Absolutely.
Well, so do mob bosses. So do lieutenants of mafioso families. They probably fear for their
lives too. I get it. So here's some people that are making exactly what they feel clear.
This comes to us from The Guardian. Headline is Greenlanders don't want to be Americans,
say political leaders amid Trump threats. Greenlanders don't want to be Americans
and must decide the future of the Arctic Island themselves. Politicians in the
self governing Danish territory have said after Donald Trump warned that the U.S. would quote,
do something whether they like it or not unquote. The leaders of five political parties in the
Greenland Parliament issued a United statement on Friday night soon after the U.S. president
reiterated his threats to acquire the mineral rich island. Quote, we don't want to be
Americans. We don't want to be Danish. We want to be Greenlanders, unquote, said the group,
which includes the island's prime minister, Jens Frederick Nielsen, quote, the future of Greenland
must be decided by Greenlanders, unquote. Well, of course, the guy that has the power in Greenland
doesn't want to lose his power in Greenland. That makes sense. You know, the king of the
country says, no, I want to stay king. What if they vote on it? What if it is put to a referendum
and Greenland votes to join? Well, they've got some stats, at least some polling,
so we'll take a look at that. Stressing the desire of the people of Greenland, a former
Danish colony to have self determination, they said, quote, no other country can meddle in
a hasty decision without procrastination and without interference from other countries, unquote.
The statement was signed by Nielsen, his predecessor as prime minister, Mute Beegede,
and Pele Broberg, Aliqua Hammond, and Aqualo C. Jermayeson. Man, I have no doubt that I just
butchered a whole string of Greenlandic names. My apologies. I don't think I could do any better,
so. At a meeting. Is there like a bunch of like dots over letters in random places? No umlots.
All right. No umlots, but at a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House earlier
on Friday, Trump had said Greenland was crucial to US national security, quote,
we're not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland. That's what they're going to do if we
don't. So we're going to be doing something with Greenland either the nice way or the more difficult
way, unquote, he told reporters, or you know, one could say you could think about the diplomatic
way. You could actually just work with Greenland and they would probably love to get some cash
for all their valuable minerals and they would probably love to lease you some land for missile
defense. Aren't they already in NATO? Yes. We already paid for all that anyways.
There. So I mean, I, this is, this is theater. This is whatever you know, whatever Trump says,
easy way or nice way, whatever the, the Green Green Landy and say Greenlanders is that
is that is it? What is their Greenlanders, Greenlanders, whatever the Greenlanders say, it's
it's all moot because the US government is going to kick their door in and take it over
because if they don't and there does and we do get into this, this, uh, this global type conflict
between Russia and China, Russia or China are going to kick the door in on Greenland
and take it over themselves, right? That is what Vladimir Putin would do if it can't, you know,
if it really did come to a war time. Right. But he's got to take the Baltic States first.
Yeah. He's got to get through Ukraine first. He's got to get that. He's got to get Estonia,
Latvia. He's got a lot of ground to reclaim before he thinks about like it does no good to
have an island, not as a bordering island. He's got to, well, I'm not saying he's going
to make a move on it tomorrow. I know, but it's like the gamer risk. Well, exactly. He's making,
we're making the moves first. Right. Right. And that's what, but what we're saying, all of this
Greenland, they're, nobody's stopping this. We're not stopping this train. This is what
I'm saying. Like Greenland has a population of, why do I think it's something like 40,000?
We'll have to Google that. It's something super small, but Donald Trump is obviously
spat in his base's face. He says, I don't care about you. We're doing Pax Americana.
And that's maybe, maybe that's what he thought. He promised the American people we're going to
do America first, but America for the world. Right. Um, and we're going to put ourselves
first in these positions. I can see why Trump would do such a move, but it doesn't look good
on the world stage either. Well, no. And I think, I think Donald Trump is saying world stage
world stage be damned. Absolutely. Right. I'm doing what I believe is America first.
And maybe America first is grabbing all these resources. How many more terms do you think
Donald Trump has in him? That's a good question. He could probably do one more term,
but if he's going to run in front of their term, Barack Obama should be allowed to run
for another term too.
No. And no, any last president.
That's, that's who don't, I think Donald Trump is. I don't, I think if, if, uh,
right, right. If war kicks off, he's not leaving, right? Right. FD heart didn't leave,
but it was legal for him to keep running. Right. So, um, they've just made it
illegal for him to keep. He's not leaving. Uh, right, especially if, uh, the deep,
what he considers the opposite is so against him that as soon as they get in back into power,
they'd reverse a bunch of his stuff. He won't, he, he's not going to advocate the throne. Power
does not let it go. Plus he just, he's naming like the Kennedy center of the Kennedy Trump
center. Right. So he can't go. He's, he's doing a new ballroom. I mean, this is big
stuff. He's making renovations. He's there. No, he'll be, he probably is, uh,
is Caesar, but that's the nature of republics, dude. That's the nature of them. That is what,
that is the end result. So I don't know. I mean, we're right at the 250 mark. Yes. We're right
at the 250 mark. Um, you can celebrate it. I think that's what he's going to do. Yeah. And
maybe he does. Uh, I, I, I don't know. Um, what do you do if you've already rejected the
authority of the U S government to begin with who cares who the king is, right? If
you already thought the whole system was a joke, then what does it really matter
if they named the guy king or not? You already knew none of it was real. Um, and it was just an
excuse to use violence against you to get, to extract the wealth from your hands and put it
into the hands of others. Um, to do what they feel is best with it. And I dare say, I hate to
say this, somebody will give me hell for it. I think conservatives could kick liberals butts
in a fight. I think so too. Oh, probably. Yeah. Probably. If you, well, I just think about
the, the people, the people who are closer to my shape than the skinny shape, you know,
all you and I share a shape. Um, right? But, uh, I feel like, uh, it's just the youth,
right? What side? Because that's who has, who really has the monopoly on violence.
We talk about the government and stuff. It's the young men because they're the
only ones who are really capable at any levels that mean anything are young men. So it's whoever
the young men decide to back is who wins that, that fight. And right now it looks like most
young men are conservative. Yes. So, um, that, I think that gives you your answer. Right.
Trump is actively discussing, uh, actively in quotes, discussing, making a potential
offer to buy the island with his national security team, the White House confirmed earlier this week.
Greenlanders have repeatedly expressed their refusal to be part of the U S with 85% of the
population rejecting the idea to a 20, 25 poll. Uh, polls also show only 7% of Americans
support the idea of a U S military invasion of the territory, which the Danish, uh, Prime
Minister, Mette Fredrickson recently said would mean the end of quote NATO and therefore post
second war world war security unquote. She has urged Trump to stop threatening to take over the
country saying the U S has quote no right to annex any of the three countries of the Danish
kingdom, meaning they still have a king. Um, or are they just saying is kingdom colloquial,
whatever the word. Yeah. Uh, is that just like a catch all they're trying to do is Denmark has a king.
They are a monarchy. Wow. Um, well, that's nuts. That's gotta be like, well, I guess he's like
a neutered monarch then they all are. Yeah. Well, we did that during World War one. We make
sure the banking system said no more monarchs getting out of debts by just kicking us out of
their country. Right. We're gonna, we'll just destroy the monarchies. Well, it looks like we're
heading back to one right now though. Well, is this one that's installed by the bank?
What's that? This is the King, King Trump. King Trump. Is this one that's installed
by the banks though? So what means surprise me because I mean interest rates. I don't know
if that would, if Trump would be their number one pick. Regardless, he's still in there though.
I just think, I know he's in there. I just think he's kind of unhinged. I mean, just completely
unhinged. Well, how, why did they let him in? He's gotta be, somebody has to have some control
over what he does. There has to be. Oh, he's using the Epstein files. Dude, they got a lot
of dirt on him. Exactly. There has to be somebody that's pulling more strings than
just King Trump. They're using Trump's ego to their advantage because he would love nothing
more than to be King of America, right? That would stroke his ego. He might die from that
emotional orgasm that he's been given, right? With his ego. His heart might just stop.
I love the term emotional orgasm. Yeah. It might just, might stroke his ego so hard,
his heart would just stop. They're playing into that. I don't think people,
I think the people around him, people like Peter Thiel,
Steve Bannon, well, not so much Steve Bannon or other guy. You know, those people that are behind
him in all of the pictures and it's, why is this guy spending so much time with the president when
this guy is not elected? You know, like his advisors that aren't even in his cabinet
types. And I guess all presidents have people like that, but I think the people who have
positioned themselves at this moment, there were full tilt packs. Americana dude,
this is the American empire. This is it. Trying to see where I'm at.
This was about Greenland asked about Trump statement. The head of NATO's forces in Europe,
US general, Alexis Grigny, which said he did not wish to comment on whether the alliance,
which includes Denmark, would survive without the US. But he responded on Friday by saying
NATO was far from being in a crisis. Quote, there's been no impact on my work in the military
level up to this point. I would just say that we're ready to defend every inch of alliance
territory still today. We have given them all of the tech. We own all of their technologies.
You think we don't have a way to just turn it off? I guarantee you that's built in the
back end. It's the same thing the Chinese do with their tech. We've footed the bill for their
entire defense budgets. Everybody points to places like Denmark and Sweden, how great socialism is.
Just wait until they have to start buying their own guns and watch how quickly the hospitals
quit getting funded. The US has operated a military base in the northwestern tip of Greenland
since the Second World War, where more than a hundred military personnel are permanently
stationed. Existing agreements with Denmark would allow Trump to bring in as many troops as he wanted
to the island. Existing agreements with Denmark would allow Trump to bring in as many troops as
he wanted to the island. So legally, like Trump could just roll in with a hundred thousand
troops and... Did we figure out the population in Greenland? I'll look it up right now. Please.
But Trump told, dang it, I lost my page. Yeah, this is... Hold on, I'm sorry, I apologize,
lost my space. But Trump told reporters on Friday that a lease agreement was not enough.
You can't just lease Greenland. Countries have ownership and you defend ownership,
you don't defend leases. He said, quote, and we'll have to defend Greenland.
Trump previously made an offer to buy the island in 2019, but was told it was not for sale.
Since then he claimed that Greenland, which has vast natural resources including
rare earth minerals and potentially huge oil and gas reserve, quote, is covered with
Russian and Chinese ships all over the place, unquote. It might be. That would make sense.
China has a massive dark fishing fleet. There's Chinese vessels all over the world doing,
quote, unquote, illegal fishing along other countries' borders. I have no doubt.
So it would make sense that, yeah, there probably are a bunch of Black fleet Chinese and
Russian ships all over Greenland. That's because there's only 57,000 people in Greenland.
That's the whole population. That's the population. I thought it was something like 40, but...
Well, maybe 10 years ago it was 40. But yeah, I mean, that's the size of Concord, New Hampshire.
All the people that live there, 60,000 people. So literally, yeah, it would not be difficult.
You could do that with 500 men, probably. The question would NATO come to the defense of Greenland?
They might say some harsh words. No, because they want to keep the money.
I don't know, man. They might say some harsh words toward the U.S., but they can't do anything
about it. They would have harsh words. There would be lots of harsh words bantied about.
It's the same thing that they did, right? If Trump is Caesar and he is, what would we
call him, Hitler? Now, is that... Well, they've been calling Hitler forever, right? But if he's
this Hitler figure, then all you're going to see is harsh words. But the difference between
Germany and America is that America has been funding all of these people for decades. And
if they bite the hand that feeds, like what I said, the hospitals are going to
not be funded because they're going to have to buy their own guns. And they're going to
those governments are going to turn on their people so fast. Well, they've already begun. I mean,
all the European countries with Ukraine as the trigger have all up their military spending,
up to, I mean, with the U.S., when we were providing everything during the entire Cold War,
then they... Didn't Germany just double their defense budget or something I read?
All the European countries are all increasing. So NATO is trying to gear up for what may be a fight,
not with Russia, but it could be with us. It's insane as it sounds. I mean,
it's not going to be long before I think NATO sees U.S. as more of a threat than they already do.
Well, that's because they're upset about the money getting taken. It's the same.
Why did the Vandal States, why did the Golic States of Rome suddenly turn on Rome? Well,
because the money got cut off. And now you're an enemy. If you're not going to pay us off to not
fight you, well, then we're going to fight you because we want the money.
And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if Europe turns on America. I think
Donald Trump is that... You say that it's all about the money.
It always comes back to that dollar bill. It always comes back to money because
money makes the world go real. Well, resources, really, right? Money,
but no, it's resources. In Europe, historically, actually, yeah, Europe is tiny,
comparatively, like in a landmass. Europe is full of empires because there's not enough
resources in Europe. So if the resources from Europe stop, they freak out because they need
resources. So they're either going to, you know, they need somebody to import them
or they have to go out and empirically get them and bring them home because they just aren't there.
Yeah. And they're probably in the biggest, easiest place to be strangled.
And we saw that even with Putin's little adventure with Ukraine. I mean, they were like,
how are we going to heat our homes without Russian oil?
They just shut down all their nuclear plants, too. They just turned off the last one in
Germany before that war kicked off. Good thinking guys. Yeah. Yeah.
But yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
Hopefully without nukes flying, hopefully not gone wood. I don't really want to see nuclear war.
I don't think I just, you can't, there's no resource in rubble.
Right? I agree. I just think that's the, yeah, they're very scary and maybe at a tactical,
like a tactical size, terrifying, but a global ending.
The only people I could see doing that's like Israel with their Samson option.
Like if you guys want to quit playing with us, we're just going to blow everything down.
So, uh, Houseful of, what was that movie that came out on Netflix?
Houseful of dynamite. Do you guys watch this? No, I didn't really.
You're fine to use the word watch. I know what I know.
So Houseful of dynamite, the premise was simple.
It starts off with an army base in charge of missile defense in Alaska and bloop.
Something shows up on the screen. They are tracking one ICBM, one missile
coming towards the US mainland and how do they react? They try to stop it.
And the US government, it shows different things from the White House position,
the position of the military, and this whole thing. It's like they spend a half hour on each
point of view. But yeah, if you get the whole world hyped up thinking war is coming,
if one missile flies by accident, then is there any pulling it back? And that's the question they have.
Can we not retaliate if this one missile is just the first one? Or do we retaliate?
Because it kind of came from a Chinese direction. Do we have to launch against the Chinese?
And how many of these things, what do you do? And it was a really good, I'd encourage watching it.
I just don't, I just think at the end of the day, the people who turn the keys and press the button,
like the guys who will launch, they understand that you can't rule over rubble.
I understand that. I mean, the Russians did. The Russians proved that with their,
that infamous story about the test that went wrong. And when it came down to it,
the guys who pressed the buttons didn't do it. Nobody wants to do it.
But the question is, if in a global exchange, or if, if everybody is hyped up to that point,
do you have faith that nobody will launch? No sub commander on any Russian,
Chinese or American sub will say for the fatherland. Not one of them will turn the key.
It's not all controlled centrally. It's a very decentralized.
Well, that's why you, that's why it takes most places have like two or three keys.
Sure. And not one will possess two psychopaths.
Yeah. Well, I know. Hopefully, hopefully there's a few good men.
You know, yeah, I guess I do too.
You know, but then that's your, you have to have,
how do you, how do you, how do you do anything? Right? If it comes, you have,
at some point, you have to put your faith into other people and it, you know,
right? You have to, it's just, or you can't get anything done.
Yeah. Right. And, but that's the thing. I don't worry about this stuff so much.
Like I didn't worry about nukes flying after Russia went, you know, and kind of gave up and
crumbled under its weight of communism. I had a period in my life where I wasn't worried
about that happening. But now we are ramping back up to Cold War tension levels.
This is something that is different. That's all we got for you tonight.
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