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Hi guys, thanks for taking the call.
I want to talk about gun control,
one of my favorite topics.
Okay, in America or somewhere else?
Yep, in the United States.
I heard a few episodes ago,
maybe last episode.
Somebody was talking about the case in Hawaii
that was going to, I guess,
the Ninth Circuit, the Federal Court of Appeals.
And I think they affirmed that ruling.
And it was Hawaii's interesting new gun control laws.
I think they have two.
I believe one, I heard about it two months ago,
is a state law that says
you need affirmative permission,
like in writing or something,
like explicit permission from any property owner
before you can carry a firearm on their property.
And that's just another creative,
unique way to get backdoor gun control in
because it's not feasible to ask every property owner
before you enter them for explicit permission
to carry a firearm.
So it would make it essentially impossible
to carry a firearm outside your house
or to any property besides the street.
And I think the main reason
or one of the reasons why
this backdoor method for gun control happened,
and New York's been doing similar backdoor methods for years
with sensitive places and stuff like that,
is because the Supreme Court ruled
like two, three years ago now
in New York state, RPA versus Bruin,
that I believe states and localities,
local governments cannot have an outright ban
on firearm carrying.
And they have to provide permits to people
unless they can prove a historical analog,
like a historical tradition
back in the ratification of the Second Amendment
or 14th Amendment of a similar kind of restriction,
such as you can't take firearms
and shoot people or give them to babies
because historically in the 1790s,
people were not allowed to shoot people
or give guns to babies to carry.
So those things were probably around in the 1790s.
Therefore they can have restrictions,
but there were no magazine limits in the 1790s.
And therefore there could not be magazine limits now.
Without that theory.
I suspect you're overstating it
that there was a law restricting babies from having guns
in that era.
Yeah, part of the law to give a tradition,
I don't know if that's a good example,
but that's the theory.
Yeah, I mean, just because people didn't give babies guns
doesn't mean it was some sort of tradition either, right?
It's just like, yeah.
Guns were not cheap.
Like you wouldn't be just giving away like a gun
to a young person.
Maybe you'd train them or something like that
for educational purposes.
And I don't think there were no gun control laws
that I know of actually in 1790.
The only things I think in the case, Bruin,
or maybe in Rahimi, a different smoker case about guns,
the only things that the pro-gun control side presented
were charity bonds and going armed laws,
which were really after the fact things.
Like if somebody was convicted of like a violent felony
that shooting people,
then they could be prohibited from like,
they would need a charity bond,
which is essentially like a bond,
their friend or family member providing a bond,
stating that they will not commit that thing again,
or if they commit a similar violent crime again,
they'll pay certain money or something or they'll be punished.
That's like a bond after the fact and going armed laws
where saying people cannot essentially be going armed,
open carrying and openly threatening people.
Like that would be called,
the modern day analog would be,
what's the word for...
Brandishing.
Manishing or brandishing, yeah, brandishing.
So like that would be what the going armed thing.
So those two things they referenced and saying,
those were similar to our training orders in current day,
even though they're extremely different
than proactive, ex parte or training orders
are pre-judicial, preemptive,
whereas those were after the fact or whatever.
But yeah, that was,
I wanted to mention the Hawaii thing,
and I think there was some comment
that I wanted to correct about Bruin.
That was the case in Bruin, New York State
and or New York City did not allow people
to have firearms printed ever,
and that case was tremendous
and amazing for gun rights in general
because it made it,
like essentially everyone has to be a shell issue.
And unless there's a reason not to give someone a permit
and let them carry,
you have to give them a permit.
The issue is New York,
New York right away the next day said,
all right, we'll give you permits
and you can carry wherever you want,
except for sensitive places.
Oh yeah, very vague on purpose.
As any place that's like a government building
or school or church or public place
where people are, where there could be kids
or adults or men or women or the public
or a lot of people or outside or gather
or people can be upset.
So every place in the world is a sensitive place
by the definition of that statute
can't carry anywhere.
And it's so vague it's like I could just say
that my house is sensitive because I feel like it,
like, you know, it's just too vague.
Yeah, I think it is fine getting the statute
but it included like pretty much every place.
Yeah, it's probably what you describe
as overly broad and at that point
it's just arbitrary, right?
They can just go after whoever they want
selectively, you know, for reasons
that have nothing to do with the reason
the law was intended.
So political persecution basically
and there's lots of laws like that.
In Allu, you know what?
I don't bring it up enough on the show.
I forget, but you remind me just for being Allu.
You didn't say it, but we need to always talk more
and I don't know if I've ever told this
to Chris specifically or had this conversation
with Mr. Penguin specifically
that New Hampshire has the worst red flag
laws in the union.
Did you know that?
I don't just believe it.
No, they passed it not that long ago
and it was terrible.
What they are are, it's in the,
what is it called Allu, the thing
that I got against the freaky guy
that came to my house, restraining orders.
Yeah, the restraining order laws under,
I think RSA 173, it's the restraining order laws
and if you read it, it's exactly
the red flag law and it's the worst in union.
Yeah, we actually know somebody who was,
I think impacted by it.
No, yeah, if you're talking about an ex-host
who had a crazy girlfriend, that person was
absolutely affected by that.
Yes, but I don't know if it was that specifically
that law because it was, so what happened
was basically, there was a false accusation
made by the woman who was crazy basically
and she has a history of it basically.
A history and we went, I went to the hearing,
did you?
I think you did.
I didn't know you were there.
I don't remember you being there.
Maybe we're not talking about the same person
because this is a pretty tales old time type of thing.
I don't know if it's really wrong for me to say
it's a matter of public record, right?
I mean, go ahead and say it.
I wasn't going to be, I wasn't,
I'm not that particularly concerned about it.
I'm saying his name.
I don't, I don't think it matters.
We didn't, we didn't, we didn't,
I don't think we published anything on it
or anything like that, but.
Yeah, maybe it's not public.
I mean it was kind of personal, but.
Civil, so this one person we know
had a girlfriend up in the North country.
They lived together.
She and him fought all the time.
She, they broke up and she took pictures
of like consensual spanking marks.
And it was a single mark.
And it was clearly.
It was, yeah.
It was, it was many years prior.
They broke up and then they got back together.
Yes.
That's what's even crazier about it.
And he didn't want to go hard against her in court,
but actually, you know what?
That all that is irrelevant.
What I'm trying to say is he was
absolutely affected by this
because he has guns taken away
just for the accusation.
Right.
And that just to be clear,
that wasn't the red flag law, I don't believe.
It is.
It's just not, it doesn't have that name.
It's the.
It's the same.
It's the same thing conceptually about.
That's basically what it is.
It's conceptually the same.
So in his case, I think it had to do
with like a restraining order.
Yes.
And that's what we're saying.
But this, this predates the restraining order.
It's, it's somebody makes an accusation to the police
and the police can just go and take them, I think.
Right.
Is that not, I'm not.
So that's part of the restraining order.
They call it an emergency order protection.
Oh, okay.
So it's sort of just extensive restraining order.
I also have some personal experience with this,
which some people didn't know about.
I had to get a restraining order on someone.
It was my last ditch effort
because this person was threatening me
and other people here at the house.
And also coming and blocking off my front door,
we had to chase them away with a gun.
And he was threatening me.
And the police would do nothing.
Sorry.
No, wait, we didn't go to the police first.
We sent, we got a private investigator.
And one thing he did was go talk to the police himself.
They told him they wouldn't do anything about it.
He said, what is it?
The Wild West in, Keen, New Hampshire.
And the cops like made fun of him.
They're like, yeah, it's the Wild West in Keen, New Hampshire.
Yeah.
You're letting somebody who's threatening me
absolutely plausibly or is that the word of, you know,
it's believable he could hurt me.
And coming to my house very often
and he was crazy.
He was saying that Ian owed him $60 billion
and Ian didn't even know him.
But anyways, I got a restraining order on him.
So this like inside information I'm talking about
was when I went to file it, they asked you,
do you want us to take this guy's guns
in basically those words?
And you can check yes or no.
I put no.
And then the judge gets to look at that
and decide, do I want to take this guy's guns away?
And they overrode me.
They wrote, and I have all this record.
Like I could prove that I didn't ask to get the guy's guns
taken away.
He didn't have guns.
And so he didn't get his guns taken away.
But he absolutely, when he got served,
they would have taken his guns that day
because the judge just overrode me
and wrote, I'm going to take his guns away.
Yeah.
And the issue is this is ex parte
and requires zero accusation
and zero evidence, no print approved.
Not even an accusation of any actual wrongdoing
or stalking.
All it requires is literally filing the form
and therefore, you know, essentially asking
for the order and the judge,
they overstamp the initial order every time.
And it's a red flag of confiscation,
among other things.
It could even be that the hearing happens.
The judge is like, yeah, this woman's crazy.
I'm not going to give this a restraining order to her.
But it'd be too late.
The guns already got taken away.
They went to the person's house
when they started to take his guns away.
They go in your house and take your guns away.
The judge also ordered I get any of his pets,
just side note.
I don't, I didn't ask for any of his guns.
I'm sorry, what?
I have the paperwork.
And I used to think it was saying that I get his kids,
but me and Olu went over it and I was like,
oh, no, mind this is saying I get his pets.
That's better.
That's weird and messed up and makes no sense.
And oh, Olu, I mean, sorry, Angelo is joining us.
No, so why wait, but the pets, that doesn't.
Is it jointly owned or if it was his?
Remember, I went over this with you.
It said like any jointly owned kids and then any pets.
And it was just really badly written.
Oh, so that's probably like for.
So it didn't include the kids, but it did include pets.
Well, no, that just makes sense for like,
if it's a domestic abuse.
Exactly, but they wrote it.
Probably could live together.
Badly in this and it shouldn't have been checked
because I didn't even say I had any kids or this person
and I didn't have any pets or this guy.
I didn't know who he was.
Yeah, the moral of the story is anybody who supports
due process or freedom or gun rights or anything
would definitely benefit and would enjoy reading
presumably and the pocket guide to killing gun control.
They're both an audible now as well.
So Kindle, audible, paperback, I could discuss all this
and the gun control book is very short and simple.
Nice, I agree.
And I really want more random status to know that
we have bad red, red gun laws or sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, it's something we need to get rid of.
It's funny because we actually have
some of the best gun laws in the country.
I know other ones.
Other than that.
But again, the penguin, I'm sure you guys understand this
strategically because it's embedded in the
restraining order statute.
Nobody knows about it and knows to find out about it.
They can't fight it politically.
It's the hardest political challenge in the world
is messing around with the restraining order statute.
I tried talking to somebody.
Nobody wants that they touch it.
Some Republican but Liberty Republican state reps
and they said that the Democrats will absolutely
be like, no, you guys are trying to take away
women's protection.
Yes, of course.
And it's just a no go.
Even like the biggest Liberty reps, you know,
we're like, no, please, we're not going to put that in.
Yeah, I get it.
It takes a lot of courage.
And remember, I was at that hearing
where I think David Love, who's a conservative state rep,
said thank you with the victim of restraining order
like this, or red flag law.
And he had a hard time getting his guns back.
And I think he testified in favor of it.
But very few others did.
Me, him, maybe not something to stop.
So anyway, there was a DA of the county attorney
of Merrimack County and his assistant.
They came and testified.
And I got a video of it.
There's a short video on Liberty Block on Odyssey.
I remember they pretty much said,
if we amend this, then people will be able to kill their wives
and beat their wives and abuse their wives.
And they'll have no recourse.
And I'm like, this is just so pathetic.
What are you smoking?
Like seriously?
And I'm like, oh, it's still a crime.
I'm like, you know, murder.
And it's not ending in a domestic abuse.
It's still a crime.
All we're talking about is the ex parte red flag gun law
that is made without an accusation or evidence
and is granted ex parte.
We're not talking about, you know,
they made it seem, again, they were trying to trick us
because they were disingenuous bastards.
They were trying to make it seem
like a man can beat his wife and shoot his wife
and kidnap and torture.
And there could be no kind of prosecution for any crime.
Ridiculous.
If we amend this law.
Yep.
Absolutely preposterous.
It's disgusting.
Yep.
It's scary.
That's a war of against.
It takes a lot of courage to change this,
but thank you so much for the call.
Alllou, do you have anything else?
Thank you so much.
No, that's all.
I gotta run.
Thanks.
Yeah, it's okay.
People should definitely check out Presumed Guilty.
And I forgot what he said.
His gun control, one is, if he's still there,
I don't know if he's still there.
The pocket guy to kill the gun control.
Thank you.
Thank you, Alllou.
You can just look that up on Amazon,
sorry, Amazon and Alllou Axelman and it'll pop up.
And thank you for the call.
The number to call in to get in on the conversation with us
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Angelo.
And Miss Penguin.
Did it again since we got a new member joining us.
So we have a caller on the line, another caller on the line.
Dave Ridley in Colorado.
You're on Free Talk Live.
What's on your mind?
A series about the history of the Free State project.
Oh, cool.
Like, do you mean Carla's new series?
No, mine.
It's just a talk radio series.
I'm excited.
It's just a calling talk series.
So in 2022 and 23, all the way, I guess from 2022 through 24,
I would call in a couple of times a year,
trying to know this year in Free State history.
And so I just bring people up to date.
I just remind them of the things that happened in 2003, 2004.
That's what I mean.
Well, we managed to get all the way through 2025.
And there was so much other news that I had to call you about
that I never got around to telling you about the interesting things
that happened 20 years ago to the Free Stateers.
So let's hear them.
What do you think about it?
2025, 2005 was most interesting in relation to the Free Stateers
in the sense that it kind of became the year that they discovered civil disobedience.
Okay.
2025.
And no, oh, five.
Yeah, I was going to say he corrected himself.
He said he said 2005.
I'm trying.
Yeah, I'm just trying to follow our history 20 years ago and bring it back to life.
But there was this guy named Mike Fisher.
And he was a very dedicated Free Stater, kind of like a blue giant.
I call him a blue giant because he was super effective while he was in state.
He was only in state for about two years.
And he called me one day and he said, I figured out what I'm going to do.
I know how we're going to do this.
I'm going to do what Gandhi did.
And so he called the board of barbering.
He said, I am going to deliver an illegal manicure in front of your offices on the following day.
Nice.
And he said, if you don't arrest me, I'll come back the next day and continue doing it every day
until you arrest me.
Or I run out of people who will accept manicure.
And so I make it sound kind of funny, but Fisher was a very serious and somber guy.
And he was young.
He was about, he couldn't have been more than 21, I think, when he did this stuff.
And so he showed up and sure enough, they called, the bureaucrats came out and said,
you're going to arrest me doing this.
Yeah, you can't do this.
And we're going to call the police and he said, okay, I'm just kept on running that
Emory board.
And they had a gal that volunteered.
Yeah, I was wondering.
I was like, oh, I want people to do this and they do my nails.
This was in, in Concord, New Hampshire.
And so then the police showed up and they're like,
but do we really have to do this?
And the media was all over it.
You know, the main TV station was there and the TV station, like, we're going to do it
and investigation.
They did a detailed, they did a detailed study of how do you, how do you,
you know, man, how do you file someone's nails?
Basically.
And they asked him all these questions.
Now, what if this happens to the nail?
And, you know, what if you see this or what if you see that in their nails?
They just like interrogated him at the cops or just like,
so you arrested him.
How does that feel?
Okay, thanks.
This is a master class in how to make them look stupid for the laws they have.
Yeah.
I mean, like seriously, like what's the worst that's going to happen?
They, they cut your little bit of fruit finger off or something and you have to
go to the hospital or something.
Well then I'm suing you.
Then I'm going to sue you.
There's still liability here, guys.
I got an infection from a male place here in Keen.
Just never went back.
I just do my own nails.
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
They didn't, they have a license, right?
Like, so it's not like it stops.
Well, I'm also thinking like most of the nail salons I've seen,
those old Asian women aren't going to tell you if there's something
wrong with your nails anyways.
They're just going to talk amongst each other and make fun of you for it.
They're not going to give you, they're not going to be like,
Oh, you need doctor.
No, they're just going to laugh at each other with each other.
And that's not, that's not even, they're not doctors.
Like you wouldn't expect them to tell you that.
Like you need to see a doc.
I mean, if there's something wrong with your nails,
like you got fungus growing in them, go, you know,
go get some sort of thing to kill it or see a doctor, right?
You have to have a fungus in your nail.
Oh, I would hope so.
But you know that you would think that like for their own good.
I mean, not because of the law, right, right, right?
Like you think, no, my grandfather, he would go.
He had, I mean, he got it like while he was in the military
in like the fifties before they knew anything.
So his toenail was like yellow
and he'd go down to the dang nail salon
and they would work on his feet.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Like to help.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Cause like, you know, little like.
Like helping with treatments and whatnot.
Yeah.
My thing was my friend, well, maybe it's not that big of a deal.
Like how I got a toe infection.
I did everything she told me to do when I got home
and I was slowly just happened,
but I didn't go and try to bring her the state down on this woman.
I just thought you guys are making me think
that maybe we need some of these license things.
No, I'm just kidding.
I mean, honestly, like these are all things
that are like they're not big enough of a deal
to like have a license in the first place,
but to whatever degree that like it's an issue.
It's like a liability issue.
And the thing is like a license doesn't solve
the liability problem.
Like that's why that's why companies get insurance.
They get bonds.
And so you're, you know, whether, like for example,
like you wouldn't necessarily think somebody,
I don't know who kind of thinks some of the examples,
but like, you know, maybe does tree work would, you know,
like insurance, but though they actually do,
if you think about it, because if the tree falls on the house
or, you know, they, they, they cut into a,
maybe they're digging out a tree, right?
Like maybe a small bush or something like that.
And they hit a water line or some sort of sewer line.
Well, you know, that could be a $500 bill right there.
And so, yeah, I mean, it's, it's,
something else has to come in and fix it.
And, and it's the home.
I mean, technically that doesn't necessarily.
So the interesting part about that actually is,
I'm not sure that there's a law that mandates they have insurance,
but one of the things they always ask you to do,
or they tell you to do is to check to see if they have insurance.
It's, it's not whether they're licensed,
it's whether they have insurance before you go and hire a,
you know, a tree, somebody to deal with your trees basically.
So.
I agree.
It's like just having insurance fixes this.
Right.
It's like just, just basic consumer kind of like knowledge.
Well, I wonder how much like the beautician schools lobby
to keep these things like there.
It's a lobby.
Yeah.
Oh, it's a huge industry.
It's a lobbyist industry.
And the reason they want these licenses actually is,
it's actually standard in like business school
to teach this stuff.
But once you've established an industry,
you want licensing, you want barriers to entry
because it keeps out your competition.
Now, usually braiding in here,
like especially like black girl hair.
Well, black people here, they have licensing for braiding.
It's like, what can go wrong with braiding?
Come on.
It's ridiculous.
If you have more to say, you can stay on the line.
They really, I love this series.
It's a really awesome idea.
And I did not know anything about this.
Mike Fisher guy or this specific activism.
That's so, that's really inspiring.
That's so good.
I'm so excited to hear if there's more to say about it.
More free talk lab coming up either way.
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When New Hampshire peacefully leaves the union,
will we have to take on some of the national debt?
Let's be clear.
That's not national debt.
That's federal debt.
Debt that was incurred by a bunch of people
that we didn't elect, forcing policies on us
that we didn't want,
and two and a half million unelected federal bureaucrats.
According to Professor Matt Quartrup from Coventry University
and the foremost expert on independence referenda,
the rule in international law
is that political divorce is not like domestic divorce
in that there is no alimony due
and no obligation to pay the debt incurred
by the larger organization.
New Hampshire's government is a paragon
of fiscal responsibility compared to the United States
federal government.
We didn't create the national debt.
We didn't consent to it.
And when we declare peaceful independence,
New Hampshire will not owe a single solitary dime
of federal debt.
You can learn more about how we can peacefully
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and join the movement at nhexit.us.
From feature story news in Washington,
I'm Tony Waterman.
According to New York Times sources,
President Donald Trump is reviewing an option
to send American forces into Iran to carry out raids.
It's unclear if those raids would target
government officials or even the supreme leader.
The option carries new weight
after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan president
Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.
A strike fleet has already been positioned near Iran
and U.S. officials say the military
is ready to carry out any orders from the president.
Trump is demanding Iran end its nuclear program
and stop killing demonstrators
if it wants to avoid U.S. military action.
Iran's foreign minister said on Friday
that Tehran will not negotiate under threat
and that its defense system will never be up for negotiation.
President Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh,
a banking executive to head the U.S. central bank.
Warsh was widely expected to secure the nod
and is believed to share the president's desire
to see U.S. interest rates fall more rapidly.
FSN's Simon Marks reports.
President Trump has been hinting for days
at the possibility that Kevin Warsh
is his choice to replace Jerome Powell
as the chairman of the Fed.
Now he's confirmed it.
Over his social media account,
the president said he expects Mr. Warsh
to go down as one of the great Fed chairman,
maybe the best.
The president described his selection
as coming from central casting,
a possible reference to Mr. Warsh's
clean-cut professional appearance,
but also to his background.
He's a former Fed governor
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From Bureaux Worldwide, this is FSN.
The phone number to get in on the conversation with us.
You can talk about whatever you want.
You can talk about what we're talking about,
change the subject.
It doesn't matter.
It's Free Talk Live.
And with you on Free Talk Live,
tonight you've got me, Bonnie.
And we have Dave Ridley still on the line.
Thank you for holding over the break, Ridley.
By the way, if people want more of Dave Ridley,
you can go to RidleyReport.com.
I really love this series idea you're doing.
It's different than what I mentioned about Carl,
by the way, kind of embarrassing,
but I didn't mean to do that.
But it is much different.
Carla's just talking about different instances of activism
she was involved in,
and she's just doing it on her podcast.
And that's great, too.
I recommend you.
She'll listen to it.
It's pretty cool.
But I love Ridley's side of this,
because you've been here longer,
and I knew nothing about this 2005 guide.
Yeah, Ridley is definitely a good person
with historical knowledge of the Free State Project,
because of how long he's been around.
And OG, as the guest would say.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I did one interview for an OG activist,
and it was Ridley.
So if you guys are interested,
you can go to our free talk live places
where we have our archives.
Like if you go to freetalklive.com,
you'll find it by like our SoundCloud.
You can look up Bonnie's activist archives.
That's what I called it,
and I did one interview for it.
And it was Ridley, and it was awesome.
There's actually a surprising number of people
who are around from back in those days.
But I mean, you have to remember
the whole Free State Project was really, really tiny
at that point in terms of louvers.
Like more badass, I'd say.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I don't know if I describe it quite like that.
But yeah, no, certainly.
They were doing the pretty hardcore stuff for sure.
I think it helped too,
because the internet wasn't what it was.
And now it's like it's so easy to Google somebody.
Like let's, you know,
like 10 years after, 20 years after the fact, almost.
And you guys are making me feel old.
Oh, this guy.
Well, you know.
I know.
Yeah, I was five in 2005.
You guys are making me feel old.
So, but I'm just thinking like if you would have done,
especially with like cancel culture, right,
where they dig up everything you've ever said
on the internet ever.
You know, doing that kind of stuff,
it just has more of a spotlight now
because of the internet, right?
Nobody, like he didn't go viral doing that.
So he didn't get canceled.
And he probably could still get a job.
No, he did get.
Dave, didn't you get Shadow Band?
No, he means Mike.
We didn't get canceled doing the pedicure thing.
Yeah.
Like nobody's going to not give him a job 10 years from now.
Like like in 2015, nobody went back and found that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it's a different era of.
I mean, it's a lot of that stuff has sort of been
scrubbed from the internet.
So you can't easily find it anyway.
So kind of get that.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
But now everything's like on the big five platforms,
like, you know, Twitter, Facebook, you know.
I mean, but doesn't that doesn't that stuff kind of go away
over time?
I mean, not if you could not if you look up their name,
and you really want to find racist.
Yeah.
So not if you get called racist for some reason,
they'll find it.
I don't know.
I think I think you I think just that probably has enough
time hasn't gone by yet.
But yeah, I don't know.
But do you have more friends in the story?
Dave, we had a we had a crowd of about 20 people
there to support him.
And I got video of it.
And the Keith Murphy current state,
I think he's a state senator now.
He was there that day and John Connell,
who we lost in a mysterious fire.
He was there that day.
And anyway, so it was a seminal event in free
state or history.
And it was all over the press.
And there was a political cartoon about it.
And it triggered scrutiny of the the way that that
law had come into being that said you had to have
three, you know, 1500 hours of training or
something that you did by someone's nails with
an emery board.
And they did, you know, and what got in the press
was, hey, this lady who sponsored the bill
ran a barber shop or something, you know,
like this would help protect her from
competition if this bill were passed.
And then we I sponsored or I requested the
bill at the legislature to follow up and get
rid of the law that year.
And I went and, you know, we didn't do very well.
We were made fun of and everything.
But I told, you know, I saw that one of these
authoritarian reporters hanging around.
I said, hey, Colin, you know, the outlaw
manicure bill is coming up in a few minutes.
You can come up and see it and make fun of us.
So he did.
He came up and covered the bill and made fun of us.
And, you know, but what happened?
Oh, and while speaking of licensed, licensed
barbers, one of them, there were people that
were trying to stop this bill.
They were really angry that barbers like
showed up like a union or something.
It was like being surrounded by SDI here.
I can see this.
One of them, one of them assaulted me
at the hearing and like laid hands on my head
and said, look at that spot on your head
that someone, they missed it, you know,
because I had shaved all my head.
I had barbers shave my head off.
You missed a spot and, you know, I said,
I licensed barber and missed a spot.
Not me.
No, hi.
It sounds great.
Oh, that's a great comeback.
He hit you in the head when he did that.
Say what?
Did you say he hit you in the head
when he poked it or something?
And then the lady and she was putting
her hands on my head.
Wow.
Gross.
And then,
She should do the license.
But that would be really funny to file a complaint.
Because she was talking about it.
Yeah, against the, because it's a license,
you can file a complaint against the people that were, yeah.
Head touching license.
I mean, you asked for the head touching license.
Sorry.
Now you have to lose it.
Years later, though, when no one was looking very closely,
the bill was, the law, I think, was struck off the books.
And no, he's no longer, you just don't have to,
you don't have to get 1500 hours of training now
to file nails with an Emory board, as I understand it.
Did they lower it or did they just get rid of it all the way?
I think they got completely rid of it or something
where it's just much easier now.
I, yeah, it's interesting.
Like, you know, people laugh, like there's,
what I always remember is the,
oh, I'm trying to think of the guy,
the television guy who made fun of the keen parking meter
activist, right?
Like it was, it's really funny.
Actually, I don't know if you can find it on YouTube anymore.
I think it got taken down, but it's really funny
because people went around filling parking meters
and the, I forget who the guy is,
but he's like some left-wing talk show host.
Like Jimmy Kimmel, maybe?
No, it's not him.
I know it if I heard the name, but
Dave, you probably know the name.
I just can't think of it at the moment, but
Is it like one of the political late night guys?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like a John Stuart or Stephen Colbert?
That's it, Stephen Colbert.
Yeah, Stephen Colbert.
Anyway, but yeah, he made, they came out
and they made a whole thing of it.
Like they did a ton of video.
And so like half of the show is like basically
them like following around Chris Cantwell.
I'm trying to think who else was there.
Garrett Ian.
Yeah. Was it Garrett Ian?
James, I think it was James.
So it might have been Garrett Ian and James.
Yeah, I think that was the three of them.
Anyway, but yeah, so, but it was just,
they just mocked him like you wouldn't believe.
But what's awesome about that is like,
that's mocking to a normie,
but that is advertisement to somebody who's season is like,
that's amazing what they're doing.
And I don't think anybody was expecting to change anything.
Like politically with that, it was literally a publicity stunt
to attract attention to the Free State Project
and the people who get it, right?
Like libertarians.
It was, it was super useful.
And it has lasting effects till today because
Oh, we're still talking about it, right?
I have done Robin Hooding with Joa
and now when Jane sees me coming, she turns around
and I get all the people saved from their tickets.
Yeah.
That happens literally more often than you'd think,
like a few times a year.
I'm driving around.
I have nothing to do.
Is Jane the local?
The ticketer.
The thing, the ticket lady.
The thing to remember too is that while a lot of these things
that like we're fighting like,
like we're kind of being made fun of,
like that we're doing.
It's done in fun.
It's done in great fun and interactive publicity.
But then later years later, we end up getting,
we end up winning like, or not winning,
but getting bills passed to like fix those problems.
I'm trying to think one of them was,
one of them was that used to be,
you had to, I think submit a,
in order to get a license to concealed carry,
you had to submit some paperwork to the sheriff
for approval and then like,
they just could arbitrarily deny you.
And we actually had some of our activists
denied a concealed carry permit.
You know, and of course, you know,
nothing, nothing happened at that point.
But years later, those, that, that law changed.
So you don't need to get any kind of concealed permit
anymore in order to conceal.
Was that Derek J?
I think it was, I think Ian was one of the people.
And I think it might have been Derek J
made up in the other person.
Yeah.
I think it was like two people.
But anyway,
It became constitutional carry anyway.
Right. Exactly.
And so the whole point that I'm making is like,
there's stuff that we do.
And then I guess I don't know
if that was really activism
or what now, but it would,
what I think it was kind of,
they wanted to see what would happen, right?
And, but the point, the point there is that
the activism
Derek's carry gun anyway.
That's activism.
I don't know if he committed civil disobedience
in that particular case,
but he certainly did commit civil disobedience
a lot of civil disobedience
for really, really minor stuff.
Which you can watch it.
Derek J's victimless crime spree.
Absolutely best documentary ever.
If you, if there's,
if there's one documentary you will ever see,
that's the one you need to see.
That's Chris's opinion.
I love it.
I really do it.
No, I enjoy it.
Me and Riley, well,
Riley sat with me while I watched it
the other day.
Riley listened to it.
He'd seen it here, heard about it.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's, he's experienced it before.
But he was like, no,
I hadn't watched the full thing.
I've seen clips.
I've heard of it.
I've heard the story.
I hadn't watched the full thing
all the way through in one sitting.
And Riley took me and said,
sit down boy,
you're gonna, you're gonna watch this here.
Yeah. I can't tell you how many people
moved to the free state
because of that, that documentary.
And there was one.
Oh yeah, for sure.
I mean, yeah, definitely Derek Jay.
Derek Jay is a victimless crime spree.
If we talk live.
He's not the website.
Did I get the website?
Derek Jay, if you type in Derek Jay,
victimless crime spree,
you'll get it.
It's on YouTube.
It's also on his page.
I don't know if the page
is just a link to YouTube though.
It might just be an embedded video
on the, on the website itself.
But the website's still up, by the way.
I do want to let make sure
that Dave Ridley gets to get out
everything he wants to get out
for his series of calls on
OG, New Hampshire activism.
So is there anything else you want to say, Ridley?
Well, we learned some important lessons
from this particular civil disobedience
and the arrest and the follow up.
And one of the things was
how important it is to support
the activist who goes to jail.
So he went to jail,
but we hadn't thought about that part.
And so we didn't,
we didn't have like people ready
to take him home when he got out of jail.
He kind of just popped out
a couple of days later
and we didn't, we weren't ready.
And he was kind of stranded there
for a while and he didn't get
the support that he needed.
And I think that was maybe
even the first step in him
kind of getting a little bit
disillusioned.
And eventually he left the state
and it was really sad.
We're definitely better about that now.
Oh yeah.
People are just calling the jails,
figuring out which jail he's going to.
We're, we're definitely on top of that.
I mean, like every time
that somebody's been released,
like even if I once,
I once ran and picked somebody up,
I think it was 2 a.m. in the morning.
Just out of the blue,
like they were messaging
and I guess that his phone wasn't taken,
but like.
Me and you went to go get nobody.
We've both went to go get Ian.
Yeah, yeah.
We've helped out Joe
when he's been arrested
and all this stuff.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, like it wasn't.
And it's like,
and we're talking about like last minute,
like you don't even know
these people are going to,
I mean,
you might have an idea
that they're going to be getting out
maybe,
but you might not have any idea
and you just,
you just get a message
and all of a sudden it's like,
it's a weird hours
and it's like,
you're trying to get all these people together
that you know around you
in order to go
and it's like,
we have a huge community here,
but like how many people
are going to be able to just
take off at the moment's notice
to go pick somebody up
from the jail?
And not just that.
I do feel for the early activists,
like I don't feel like we should
judge them too harshly
because a lot of this stuff
is hard to figure out.
You got to have the energy activists
who've already been through it
to tell you how,
okay,
you got to call the jail
and ask about this
and get a personal,
you know,
all this stuff.
I wouldn't just know what to do.
If my friend got arrested
while I lived in Texas,
I would not know what to do,
you know?
Yeah,
I definitely have to give credit
to the early activists
who moved here.
Not,
not,
I'm not even talking about the people
who,
we have tons of activists here
that have moved over the decades,
and there's a lot of them
are still here even,
but the point is that
those early activists
in particular,
when they moved,
there was nobody here,
right?
Like,
I mean,
I moved,
but like,
there was,
there was thousands of people here already,
right?
Like,
I don't have an excuse not to move.
Somebody who's never,
when there's nobody
in there yet,
like,
nobody's in New Hampshire,
why would you move, right?
Like,
it's just a,
it's sort of a dream,
right?
But it's not a real one.
It's,
it's like,
it's a fiction, right?
And that's kind of how I look,
look at it,
looked at it
when I first heard about the
Freestyle Project in
2000,
what was it,
three maybe,
when they first announced in New
Hampshire,
as a destination.
And it was like,
I just wrote it off,
but it was also the,
it was also something that
even then to me was just like,
oh, I,
like,
I have to do this,
but like,
it wasn't real,
right?
So like,
I wasn't gonna move,
I wasn't gonna drop out of college and go.
And it took me,
it wasn't until like another decade,
I want to say at least another decade or so,
before I was,
I heard of it again
and I was like,
oh my gosh,
that actually happened.
And I wouldn't have moved
if it wasn't for those,
you know,
early movers,
you know,
if I didn't,
you know,
if it wasn't for those early activists who,
you know,
did things,
you know,
to get media attention and stuff.
Well,
I probably nobody else would have heard of it
either for that matter.
So those people are absolutely
some of the most important people,
I think out there
and they deserve a lot of credit.
And then Dave,
thank you,
thank you for your,
yes,
Dave Ridley.
I know,
I know a lot of you guys don't,
don't hear,
hear anybody appreciate,
telling you they appreciate,
you know,
what you did.
But I just want to let you know,
we appreciate you here.
And there are,
you know,
for those who know,
anyway,
I'm sure there's lots of other people
who also appreciate you here as well.
Yeah.
Oh, thanks, Chris.
Well,
the other thing we learned from the,
from this is that,
apparently Gandhi was pretty much right
when he said that
for civil disobedience to be effective,
it must trigger a response from the government.
So when I did a civil disobedience
campaign later,
the reason it had to be a campaign
a couple of years later
was because I couldn't get them to arrest me.
So I didn't,
I didn't do this.
I didn't do the Fisher thing,
you know,
where I said,
I'm just going to keep doing it.
I'm going to keep coming back.
Yeah.
I would just show up and do something
and then,
you know,
go do something else.
I can confirm it.
I had to be,
I had to perform,
I think
10 acts of civil disobedience
in front of government officers
before I could get myself arrested.
It took forever.
Yeah.
I have to say,
it was when we moved to New Hampshire in 2016,
it was almost impossible to get arrested.
I mean,
we did a open container protest with,
like,
with,
what is it,
bowl?
Yeah.
Fake alcohol,
whatever.
Anyway,
and they were,
they,
they were too quick to pick up on it.
Like that,
and they didn't do anything.
And it was just like,
wow,
this is actually pretty hard to get arrested here.
Even like,
even when they pull you over,
like for like,
you know, stuff like,
like they just kind of like,
let you go.
This guy named Preston H. now,
he was doing,
I don't know if he is now,
he was doing First Amendment audits in New Hampshire
and in Keen.
He went around just last year with,
fake,
it's like,
Heineken,
I think it is,
like zero alcohol beer.
And he was walking around next to,
in front of a cop doing it,
like kind of teasing him,
like,
what are you going to do about it?
And then the cop put him in handcuffs
and he said,
you didn't even do an investigation.
He was like,
I don't care.
And he was like,
look at the beer.
And he was like,
looked at the beer
and he saw that zero percent.
So he starts unhandcuffing him.
And he's like,
you,
is it against your roles to not do an investigation
before handcuffing someone?
And the cop just tried to like,
leave with us to tail box between his legs.
He actually called and got him in trouble.
He got him in trouble for not investigating.
It's literally what they have to do.
Yeah.
They should,
they should definitely be like,
sure that you're doing something wrong.
Yeah.
I mean,
it is kind of ridiculous.
It's like, they just,
yeah.
They don't have,
how would I phrase this?
Two brain cells are rubbed together.
I mean, it's sort of,
I mean, it's stereotypical,
but it's also kind of true.
I agree.
Do you have anything else for us?
Anyway, you should be able to see the video of this,
of the arrest and everything,
the whole 2005 event.
I eventually uploaded it to RidleyReport.com, I think.
Okay.
Awesome.
So if we search Matt,
what was it?
Matt Fisher on there,
we should be able to find it.
I think Outlaw Manicure is the, you know.
Outlaw Manicure.
All right, nice.
Something like that.
Yeah.
Very, very fun.
Are you going to do more calls about 2005?
Is that how this will work?
Yeah, there's a lot more to tell you about 2005.
Hopefully I can get to them by the end of 2026.
Yay.
I love this.
If you're going to start doing it routinely,
calling in about this stuff,
because this is all,
I can't tell you how many stories I am aware of,
but I'm sure there's so many that I am unaware of.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for the call, David Lee.
There was so much I was unaware of when I interviewed him
about his activism.
And I'm so happy this first call in this series
was one I'd never heard of.
I love that.
Really excited.
I mean, there's 20 years of activism now in New Hampshire.
So like there's going to be a ton of stuff.
And most of the people here,
they haven't been here a decade.
I've been here a long time,
and I haven't really,
I don't feel like I've been here that long.
I've been here about almost 10 years now.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, so...
Do you know your move date?
March 2016 is when I moved.
So we should celebrate or something.
Yeah, actually, that would be really cool.
That's kind of cool because
mine was the five years just on the 21st of January.
21st of January this year was five years,
and yours is going to be 10.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's interesting.
There's a lot of interesting people
who have come through here.
And I'm talking about specifically keen,
but there's people who...
It's really funny.
We have people all over the state actually now,
but a lot of people who came to New Hampshire,
moved to New Hampshire as free-staters,
they stopped in Keen.
So we kind of exported our activism.
A lot that did the brunt of activism,
they went off to live more quiet lives
in New Hampshire somewhere.
A lot of them.
Yeah, I mean, you burn out if you overdo the activism.
And be one of the only ones.
One of the things that actually...
You can be targeted.
One of the things I actually tried
not doing was overdoing it, right?
But you can't.
To some degree, you got to have fun, right?
I mean, you come here, you got to do it, right?
But I think everybody's going to overdo it a little bit,
but you just sort of have to sort of take it easy,
slow down over time,
and just sort of take it easy and keep going, right?
I feel like I've been way more safe
than I would have liked to when I first got here.
It's just that Ian went to jail,
and it's like, if I go to jail,
well, what's going to happen?
Free talk, why?
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, that's the thing.
Not everybody is going to necessarily do
the most risky kind of activism.
Almost nobody's gone,
I don't know if anybody's gone to jail
for more than like a couple of months, right?
Or, well, I think actually,
Rich Paul is the only person I think
I'm even aware of who's spent a year in a cage.
So most of the activism that we are doing here
is actually, first of all, it's victimless.
There's no victims to it, right?
So it's dumb laws that we're violating,
whether that's open container laws,
or smoke and weed in Central Square,
or something along those lines.
That's the kind of activism that tends to be done here.
So it's not usually too terribly risky.
Take it things to court and not paying the fines?
Yeah, parking tickets, yeah, another one.
Yeah, basically getting a parking ticket,
fighting the parking ticket,
and a court, a $5 parking ticket.
Yeah, I mean, that's one thing I have.
That's one of the examples of the story I have to tell.
This is a long time ago now,
but I'm close to a ticket at this point probably,
but I got two parking tickets
and it was the last time, except for you, Bonnie,
it was the last time anybody ever got a ticketed for,
or sorry, not ticketed,
anybody ever got a trial for a parking ticket.
Yeah, because what I had heard
is that you'll go to the city,
you'll say, I want to contest this,
I want a court date, and they'll just drop it.
If Ian, if Ian was not there with you,
or maybe they would have done it
if they'd known you were Ian's significant other,
but other than that,
I think that's the only reason you got a trial,
because there were many people who tried to get the trials,
but they would just drop the tickets,
they'd rip the tickets up instead of giving us trials.
After I won two parking tickets in one trial.
Yeah, almost a decade ago.
You were shocked that they really wanted to give us the trial,
but it was great for us,
because I made a video showing exactly how insane court...
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Literally rips, you know, mask off.
Well, I mean, and this also goes to show that with more people,
if you have enough people doing stuff,
even stupid little stuff again and again and again,
eventually they give up.
Even when it's still technically illegal,
or still violates the law, you can have an impact.
And actually it's another great example
was the weed in Central Square.
So Rich Paul also goes by nobody,
he changed his name so you could vote nobody for mayor,
by the way.
But anyway, so Rich Paul,
you know, this is 15 years ago, probably at this point,
he basically was...
There was a protest in Keene Square,
people smoking weed basically,
except not yet, because this was early days,
and weed was still illegal.
And back then, they basically were just having a protest
and people had weed,
but like they weren't openly smoking it.
Well, two cops were walking to Central Square
and they sit down right next to Rich,
and Rich says, you mind if I smoke?
This is on camera, by the way.
Yeah, on camera.
Cops say, no, go ahead, pulls out his weed,
immediately his arrest doesn't even get a puff in.
They get, they take him down to the station,
and they about, I don't know, maybe an hour later,
half an hour later,
100 activists who were at the protest
all go down to the police station,
and they start smoking weed in the police station.
Now you can't fit 100 activists
in the lobby of the police station here,
but maybe 50 of them were inside,
50 of them were outside basically.
And they were smoking.
And they were smoking weed, right?
So they were smoking weed in the police station.
And no one got arrested,
there's just too many people.
Cages to put that many people in Keen,
because Keen's only 23,000 people.
So yeah, you don't, they don't have enough cages.
And anyway, after that,
nobody has ever been arrested,
and every week I think there was,
there was basically a smokeout in Keen,
in Central Square before, well, this was again.
And they would like circle for years.
But they would not arrest anyone.
Yeah, the years before we passed the law,
we got a lot, we actually got a lot past.
Well, didn't they just recriminalize it
in the state of New Hampshire?
I thought it was decriminalized,
and I heard that they were trying to recriminalize it.
It's decriminalized?
Meaning it's...
I thought they were trying to change that back though.
I heard something that worked about it.
Yeah, I doubt it.
I mean, it seems unlikely.
but all that means is it's proposed.
Yeah, I don't doubt that there's,
somebody's not proposing a bill to undo stuff,
and they're always proposing bills to undo stuff,
but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to pass.
They probably won't because Republicans
are the majority and they're Liberty Republicans,
you need to be on the Liberty Republic outside as well.
Well, I mean, this is the thing.
So this is also part of why it's kind of hard to undo
a lot of this stuff is because we have New Hampshire,
the free-staters have about control of one third,
I'm sorry, one fourth of the house.
It's, it doesn't, it's, we don't own the house yet,
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According to New York Times sources,
President Donald Trump is reviewing an option
to send American forces into Iran to carry out raids.
It's unclear if those raids would target
government officials or even the supreme leader.
The option carries new weight after U.S.
forces captured Venezuelan president
Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.
A strike fleet has already been positioned near Iran
and U.S. officials say the military is ready
to carry out any orders from the president.
Trump is demanding Iran end its nuclear program
and stop killing demonstrators
if it wants to avoid U.S. military action.
Iran's foreign minister said on Friday
that Tehran will not negotiate under threat
and that its defense system will never be up for negotiation.
President Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh,
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Warsh was widely expected to secure the nod
and is believed to share the president's desire
to see U.S. interest rates fall more rapidly.
FSN's Simon Marks reports.
President Trump has been hinting for days
at the possibility that Kevin Warsh
is his choice to replace Jerome Powell
as the chairman of the Fed.
Now he's confirmed it.
Over his social media account,
the president said he expects Mr. Warsh
to go down as one of the great Fed chairman,
maybe the best.
The president described his selection
as coming from central casting,
a possible reference to Mr. Warsh's
clean-cut professional appearance,
but also to his background.
He's a former Fed governor
and a senior figure at the investment bank, Morgan Stanley.
Certainly President Trump is hoping
that Mr. Warsh will prove loyal
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about the rapidity of developments
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A new poll this week showed
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It'll be all of them.
The big tech companies are thinking,
if we can be the first to get really good AI,
human level AI,
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As far as I can see,
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This from the Wall Street Journal,
Venice Wayland suddenly have hope for the economy,
less so for democracy.
I've been really wanting to read,
at least what the mainstream media wants us to know
about what's going on in Venezuela since.
It's like we heard about Maduro getting captured
and we haven't heard anything about it since.
I am really confused about the title of this article.
I'm hoping it means that they have hope
that they're hyperinflated, crappy,
you know, not just their currency,
but that they'll be able to have a hope
for their future without the horrible
state they've been in.
What would, nothing has changed, so.
I don't know.
I don't, I don't know what's changed
other than, well, Maduro's gone.
So maybe that.
The other party.
Oh, that's right.
He was arrested or while he was kidnapped.
Kidnapped.
Yeah.
And he's not in the United States.
That's right.
I don't mind calling it kidnapping.
And I don't mind saying he's a horrible person.
That's literally what they did.
They kidnapped him.
Yesterday, Angelo informed me,
and I had not heard this,
I don't know if you had Mr. Penguin,
that the Venezuelans were saying that
the way that they were able to get
into his house and kidnap him so easily
was they hit the entire country of Venezuela
with an energy weapon that Donald Trump
is calling the Discombobulator
and it made their ears and eyes bleed,
or ears and nose bleed.
Not the whole country.
They cut power to the whole country.
And then there was like a microwave
weapon deployed at the base.
Okay, so.
Okay, I guess I mixed up.
I thought they both did the same thing.
They cut the entire country's internet
and everything.
Yeah.
This sounds like, this sounds like
it's a little bit of an exaggeration
on the truth, just a tad.
So my understanding is that a certain area
was cut of power within the Capitol.
And as far as the,
and you correct me, I'll correct me
if I'm wrong here, but.
We got this from Al Jazeera, just so you know.
So like this is what's being reported.
I understand.
I could understand you being
credulous of if it happens.
The news, you can't believe everything
you read in the news,
or especially in the news.
So, but then again, you know,
this is, so that might be with Al Jazeera
saying and maybe it seems unlikely
to be the totally accurate.
It sounds like they probably exaggerated it a bit
or you're exaggerating what they said.
We don't know everything.
The defense minister of Venezuela
accused the United States of using weapons
that haven't been seen before.
Yeah.
So these, these weapons actually might be
what's the, I'm trying to think
international under international law
actually and other agreements.
So I don't know.
I don't know that for sure.
Crimes possible.
We don't know.
Yeah.
So if they're not saying what they are,
if they're not claiming that they have these weapons,
then how could anybody know if it's against the law?
So certain biological and other chemical
and other types of weapons of this nature,
I believe are now here's the other aspect of this.
I don't know if the U.S.
technically is part of that agreement.
So it might be like illegal under international law,
but like because the U.S.
is not part of it, they can do it
or I don't know something like that.
But yeah, it's, this is definitely
it definitely sounds like the kind of thing
that is probably late.
Well, they reference that there are,
there are like sound weapons,
like wave weapons that are used for like
on ships and for crowd control.
Like this technology kind of works.
And so in war, that's illegal.
I don't necessarily know what's illegal outside of that.
Well, this is a set of police action.
This was a standard war.
It might be legal for police action
within your own country, but using it in a time
like, but your military using that
against other actors of countries
that you're invading or defending against.
Why Trump is trying to get around this being an active war?
He said he didn't send the military.
He sent, what was it?
Law enforcement.
Well, isn't it like a Delta Force thing?
Like a, like a DOJ.
What is Delta Force?
Oh, yeah.
It was like a DOJ like joint operation.
Basically like feds.
I think it's undoubtable that there was a military.
He said there was military involvement though.
So I don't know how you can then
disclaim liability, you know,
or under breaking international laws for.
No, because what they do is they
create the joint task force, right?
And they just put the DEA at the top of the joint.
I know what they do, right?
But that doesn't change the fact that like it was,
I mean, like, this is making it right.
It's just how they get around their own laws.
So here's the, here's the problem, right?
I understand the US does this kind of stuff
all the time they get around the laws
within the United States, right?
But it's the problem I think with this
is that the very act of invading
another country is an act of war, right?
So it doesn't even matter what you're claiming.
You can claim this as a law enforcement,
law enforcement doing it, but it doesn't matter.
It's still an act of war.
I'm not sure what feels the same way as me.
I'm not arguing that it is an act of war.
I don't think any, I'm not trying to suggest
either of you guys are arguing against this idea or thought.
Did Venezuela declare war on the US for the invasion?
Why do you ask?
So I'm just saying then is it like,
I mean, then it's not a war if we're in
and we're already out of the country now.
But and when somebody does an act of war,
I guess it doesn't matter if it's declared,
it's still an act of war, right?
So it's still illegal under international law,
as I understand it.
Who's going to enforce it?
And this is the reason why the United States gets away
with war crimes all the time, right?
They're just bullies.
There's something I was like,
oh, there's a certain word I was looking for
that I knew was something that was illegal
for the weapons and international law.
And it's indiscriminate.
Like it's not targeting a certain set amount,
like a biological weapon.
If it's a biological weapon that flies through the air
and it can kill crops and it can kill goats.
Wait, so back up with your thought a little bit.
You just looked at something up and you're saying
that it's illegal only if it's...
No, not only.
This is just one of the things.
This is one of the things that seems to apply
to this discombobulator Trump was talking about
that it would indiscriminately affect people in its range.
You know what I mean?
Like it's like there could be some non-military
personnel sitting in their house.
I'm pretty sure that like these types of weapons
are somewhat targeted.
I don't want to say that they're targeted.
Like it could be like, okay, crowd control.
That's still targeted.
It's a lot of people are going to be affected,
but it's still targeted.
It's not the kind of thing that's going to be
done from space and then all of a sudden
like the entire country is going to be affected.
Well, that's showing off at least most of an entire country's
internet and electricity.
Trump was quoting I was saying,
no one in the country had light
unless they had a candle.
That's not accurate.
It was certain areas of the capital that got cut off.
I mean, again, this is what I read.
I don't know.
Look, I mean, it's the problem with everything you read
and here, right?
Like these people are liars.
They're thieves.
They're scum, right?
You know, whether we're talking about
Marduro or we're talking about, you know,
Trump or we're talking about Joe Biden
or we're talking about some other politician
or some law enforcement, especially law enforcement,
right?
Like these people are scum.
This specific weapon could be discriminant enough,
but it could cause perfluous injury
because these people were saying it felt
like there was an explosion in their head
and then they're not eyes.
So there it was crippling.
Yeah, I mean, the whole point of a weapon like this
is to cripple them so they can't fight back, basically.
And that's probably going to be fairly targeted
in a certain area.
I doubt it was beyond the compound.
We don't know yet because we don't know what it is.
We don't.
But it's still seems unlikely that it was going to be,
you know, I mean, just think about it.
Think about it like radio waves, right?
Like if that's the type of technology it is.
Yeah, there's, I mean...
But you don't know what it is.
You said you didn't believe what it was at the beginning,
didn't you?
Didn't you not believe in the discombobulator?
Or are you just saying that the claim
that it didn't attack the whole country?
What I said is it's unlikely.
I don't believe that the weapon affected
the entire country is the part that I have skeptical on.
That's not, I don't think the discombobulator
is who affected the 47 Venezuelans
and the 37 Cubans that died trying to defend...
That's what killed them.
Yeah, well, I mean they were,
they hit it with it and then they went in there
and shot everybody still standing.
Yeah, see the discombobulator,
I don't think killed anyone.
So the discombobulator, that's a hilarious choice word.
No, no, no, this is like a science fiction terminology
and I just find it hilarious.
This is what Trump called it.
So yeah, I don't disbelieve you.
I just find it kind of humorous.
So I'm not an expert on any of these weapons or anything.
Well, how do you explain it was that it made his head hurt
and then his eyes started bleeding
and people started throwing up?
In line with the other...
This is known scientifically plausible stuff
that they can do.
Listen, I lived on Dogway Proving Ground
and it's a bio weapons proving ground
that the military uses to test their biological weapons
and they constantly had big groups of people.
I worked at the hotel.
I had NASA people checking in to go and use their fields
and it's the size of Rhode Island.
Like they're definitely working on weapons.
Biological weapons, you mean?
New biological weapons, yeah.
Okay, I wouldn't necessarily be terribly surprised
if that was true.
I mean, if you look at some of what's been revealed,
like there's certainly...
The gay bomb.
The gay bomb was brought up.
Did you ever hear about that?
Yeah, I've heard of it.
But no, I mean, there's certainly...
I feel that it's not a conspiracy.
Yeah, no, no, no.
They tried it.
There's like...
You can actually look at research
that they can't do in the United States.
So they were doing...
This is a funny part about the Chinese...
During COVID with the China...
So it came from China, right?
But the research that was being funded by a U.S. university...
By the NIH too.
With funding from the government.
So it's really funny when you hear people like Trump
or other U.S. leaders criticizing China for COVID
because there's a good possibility
that it was literally funded by U.S.
And that was set up by actually by Fauci,
that whole workaround,
because Obama had banned the...
Publicly banned the research into gain of function
on viruses like that, gain of function research.
So like Fauci was still the head of the NIH
and he kind of built this whole workaround
to fund the coronavirus lab in China.
Yeah, just because they're using a Chinese law.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, again, like I said,
I don't know if it's accurate
if it did in fact come from that lab or not,
but it's still...
Whether it did or didn't...
So wait, did the coronavirus lab...
I just...
The thing that blows my mind is,
did the novel coronavirus come from the
gain of function research coronavirus lab
or it came from, what do they say,
a pangolin or a bat from a wet market across the town?
And I'm not saying that as a conspiracy theory.
I thought they straight up came out...
Yeah, they did.
They did come out with it like a year or two ago.
I don't remember what the final conclusion was,
but I don't necessarily know that it matters all that much.
Like everything that...
But it implicates America.
I know it's a Chinese lab, but it was...
That's the humorous part, right?
Like it's like, you know,
when you hear these politicians speak,
you know they're lying and it's like...
And actually it's really also interesting
because like they also flip.
Like originally they were saying
not to wear masks, I think,
and then they said to wear masks later.
It's like, wait a minute.
And then in the midst of it,
after saying like the week before Fauci had said
like wear four masks and wear goggles as well,
then he said it didn't matter.
Like the next week and it was like,
okay, you guys are purposely messing with people.
So I googled it just to see what they are like saying.
And they said their AI overview says
there's no definitive universally agreed upon answer
as to whether the novel coronavirus originated from
a Chinese lab leak.
Both natural origin and a lab related incident
remain plausible hypotheses.
So my bad, it's not consensus like I thought.
I thought I would like...
I mean, the White House came out and said it,
that could be a lie.
Even the words like that they're using
is like it's kind of hard to believe, right?
Like there has not been universal consensus.
There's never universal consensus on anything.
That's a good point.
So like it's almost like, okay,
so you're literally manipulating something
that's being manipulated.
A House panel concluded that COVID-19...
And this was while Biden was president.
Yeah.
That COVID-19 came from a lab leak,
but that doesn't mean that the White House is correct.
I mean, and that's kind of humorous too.
And just in that like, if it came from a lab leak,
it was the US funded research.
Right. I wonder how many Americans think,
oh, so the Chinese hit us with it
just because it was a Chinese lab.
No, the Chinese had...
They locked...
I remember what happened in China was horrific.
How they were welding people into their houses.
Yep.
Yeah.
I think it hit China way,
worse than it hit like the West.
That wouldn't make sense why they wanted to leak it there.
Wow. That makes no sense.
Maybe if you don't believe the numbers,
but it sounds like China's population
like actually did take a really big hit.
You know what seems plausible
is the overreaction was probably because it was...
They thought it was a lab leak themselves.
You know, a Chinese lab leaked something more serious.
Ended up being less serious
than they thought it was originally.
And that's why they were overreacting.
China itself.
Yeah, China itself.
And then in the end, after enough time on the by,
we realized it wasn't as bad.
It wasn't as bad as they made it sound sound.
But again, I mean, it did impact people who had other health conditions, but...
Yeah, like comorbidities.
Yeah, comorbidities is the word.
I know that in older people, I believe it.
Like, old people die from the flu all the time.
Right, right, right.
But this is why it's an overreaction, right?
So, you know, like, I don't know.
I think I, I'm sorry.
I know one person who died, I guess, from...
Well, I didn't know well.
But yeah, I used to do a show with Aria
and there was another guy who wrote it in
and he died from the whole COVID thing.
Wow, I didn't hear about this.
Yeah, but like, yeah, but like,
everybody, I don't know.
I don't know anybody else.
He had, he had co...
You know, he had, yeah, he had comorbidities.
Comorbidities, I can't even say the word.
Comorbidities.
Morbidities.
It's like the word morbid, it's ease.
Yeah, anyway, yeah, he had, he had,
he had other issues, basically, that were...
Yeah, so...
Is it on Aria's show?
It wasn't Aria's show.
It was, let's see, who was it?
It wasn't Will Coley.
Yeah, Will Coley.
It was Will Coley, Aria, and me.
Will Coley died?
No, no, no, no, it wasn't Will Coley who died.
It was, I mean, if you did, I didn't hear about it, but...
No, it was, it was, it was this other guy.
I don't, I'm trying to think if he was a lawyer or...
But I think he was an older guy, basically,
and he had some other health issues.
Yeah, he was basically sick, and this was,
this was before COVID even hit.
So, anyway...
Can we know another person then,
because the person who did Kirby's Cue barbecue,
the man, the husband?
Oh, I forgot about him.
He was already sick with like diabetes
and all kinds of other stuff.
Died from COVID?
He got COVID, and then weeks later, he died.
Yeah, but was it from COVID?
Well, that's the thing, the people that know this situation
well were like,
it shouldn't have been counted as a COVID
related death, because he was already so sick.
Like, he ate bad his whole life.
He was obese.
He was in his, I think, 70s, maybe 60s,
but he was already like, his doctors were already scared for him.
Then he gets a flu and dies.
So it's kind of like, he shouldn't be rude.
All I can tell you is, I know a lot of people,
and if there's only two of them that died out of...
I don't even know.
It's a very small percentage of the population.
The risk was very low.
I have two...
Well, I had two elderly parents at the time,
and neither of them died from COVID.
I mean, I don't know.
Like, it's not to say that it didn't...
It definitely affected people.
None of my grandparents died.
I have grandparents in California, Missouri, and Alabama.
Well, I mean, that's the thing.
Like, this is why it was an overreaction.
And I have like, I have four grandpas and three grandmas.
I actually don't think the original...
Some of the original stuff that was going on
was necessarily overreaction.
One grandpas died.
But I think it became pretty clear in short order that it was an overreaction.
But yeah, I mean, it's like, it's...
Yeah.
Interesting thing about New Hampshire is that we shut down for about...
I want to say like,
it was like two weeks or something like that, basically,
which was really short in the scheme of things of pretty much everywhere.
When I got here in September 2020,
it was like a whole new world.
Like, it was not shut down.
But I do want to get into this article,
so I just talk about COVID.
I really don't like talking about COVID.
I am so sick of COVID.
It's depressing, but...
Okay, weeks after...
This is from The Wall Street Journal, by the way.
Weeks after a U.S. military raid
ended the 13-year rule of Nicholas Maduro,
Venezuelans are living through a whiplash transition
that feels less like a democratic dawn
and more like an economic takeover.
Maduro's regime is still largely in place.
That's one thing that's a little odd scheme.
Why just remove the head and leave the rest of the disease?
It's personal vendetta is what it is.
Maybe.
Led by his vice president in Confidant,
Delcy Rodriguez,
there is little talk of holding free and fair elections.
Wow.
Masked intelligence agents.
Wow.
So they have their own masked goons running through the streets,
I guess.
Dressed in black and armed,
still man checkpoints throughout the city in Caracas.
A reminder that Maduro may be gone,
but his legacy of repression lives on.
At the same time, there is hope for the economy
for the first time in decades,
as relations with the U.S. thought.
That's why.
That's why they're hopeful.
Yeah, they'll make money.
I mean, they'll make money out of this.
I mean, are they going to be self-autonomous?
No, but they'll have the ability...
They were like, they had a lot of the U.S. dollar before.
Nobody is autonomous in the sense that you're talking about.
The United States is heavily dependent on China and other countries,
including Europe and, you know, South America.
Well, I just mean like the Venezuelans won't be autonomous in their,
in their picking a leader, right?
Like they're not going to have a,
they're not going to be autonomous in their democracy,
but they'll have access to the world goods now.
Hopefully.
And they can, they might have a chance to make money.
I don't know.
Did you hear that Cuba is now heavily,
it's not rationed?
No, they're not.
Trump doesn't want anyone to do...
Sanctioned?
Sanctioned.
Heavily sanctioned?
Yeah.
I mean, it already was.
Like new sanctions?
New sanctioned though, because Trump...
Are they blockading Cuba?
I think there was some talk about something along those lines.
I don't know.
But Trump is threatening anyone that brings them supplies.
It's bad.
So then it is probably like a verbal blockade.
I think that it sounds like they're threatening up to blockade Cuba,
something like that.
Sounds, sounds right.
It says that at the same time,
there's hope for the economy for the first time
as U.S. relations thought.
The Trump administration sold $500 million of Venezuelan oil
and pumped $300 million of it into Venezuelan banks
in a bid to help lift the country's currency, the Bolivar,
in tame hyperinflation.
What are they going to legalize the dollar?
So people at least have that choice.
I'm sorry.
Wait a minute.
Let me get this straight.
They stole oil and then they put it,
they send, they send a portion of the value of it back into Cuba.
I mean, I'm sorry, not Cuba, into Venezuela.
Interesting.
Right.
That sounds, you got it right.
What, why?
What would be the point of that?
It's just going to be siphoned off by the Venezuelan government
to go back to those...
I think they're going to ask the government.
That's such a good point.
Right.
Like, they're, like, this is a crazy thing.
Like, even if it's not direct, right?
Like, let's say, you know, it's,
that money does end up going to prop up,
like the currency.
They're just going to end up taking it from somewhere else
that, you know, maybe taxes would have covered
or something like that, right?
Like, and then that tax money now is going to go to the,
to recover the, or to cover the,
the costs of the oil or whatever that was stolen, right?
Like...
Am I wrong?
Don't they, isn't using the dollar illegal
in Venezuela still?
I, yeah, you might be right,
but I think in practice it's tolerated.
Something along those lines.
I know it says this whole thing
where there's an official exchange rate,
but the Venezuelans rely on an unofficial parallel rate
to determine the value of their dollars.
It's like a black market exchange rate
is what you'd be referring to.
And nobody would take their US dollars
to the Venezuelan bank.
The government's going to get their money.
Yeah, yeah.
To get their bowl of ours, because that wasn't it.
Right, because it's, it's, it's regulated
by the government in Venezuela.
And the amount that you'll get is a fraction
of what they're actually worth on the black market.
I guess I was still wrong in a way.
The real market.
Because I thought it was like,
oh, you are not allowed to use the dollar,
but I guess you are,
or maybe they just can't force it?
You might be right about it being technically illegal,
but like it's not enforced something.
That's my understanding.
Feel free to look it up and correct me if I'm wrong,
but that's my,
then my understanding of what the situation was
in Venezuela.
Yeah, I don't know exactly.
We'll try to figure that out.
I want to know.
It's probably like it here, right?
But if we haven't,
it's like the same thing with crypto, right?
If we want to use crypto instead of US dollars,
we can kind of do that off the books.
Illegal here, though.
They haven't done that exactly yet,
but I know what you mean, like,
or use it in a way that they don't like.
They certainly use coercion against you.
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What's on your mind?
Well, you know,
I saw Return to Silent Hill
like probably like a little over a week ago
and I'm bummed out.
I don't know what happened.
You were so excited.
Yeah, it should have been a slam dunk.
Do you think that they do this
to depress people?
Yeah, it's a humiliation ritual.
It's on purpose.
But you guys always know
not to see anything as of the word
two in the name.
Well, this is the thing.
Turd was excited for this
because he thought it was the
end of the crappification
of everything because
Why?
Can you explain that?
Why, Turd?
Because I remember that being confusing me too.
Well, because the source material
that they used
was Silent Hill 2,
which is
probably the single greatest
story
in the history of video games.
James Sunderland is probably
the single greatest video game character
in the history of video games.
And, you know,
and I've seen a lot of buzz this week
and a lot of people feel the same way I do.
And everybody was kind of reminiscing
about the mid 2000s
because everybody knows
that the mid 2000s
was like the best.
They want you
in this nostalgia
fuel depression.
I don't know.
What they did to Assassin's Creed
broke my heart.
That's the thing.
That movie was so,
but that came out like 2016.
It was like the beginning of the crappification,
I guess.
I feel like that's just your view
because you're younger.
You guys gotta clarify something.
These are games,
like video games.
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, that first game came out in 2007.
That's like the mid 2000s.
What you're talking about
is purely a game though, right?
And what Turd's talking about
is a game turned movie.
Well, no, they turned the game
I'm referencing into a movie too,
but it flopped.
It was terrible.
But the thing is like,
I think that the crappification
was well on its way before 2016,
but that's probably because I was 19 and,
you know, 20 and 2016.
Dude, this is a long timing coming,
but I think it's just gotten worse and worse
and especially over more recent years
because the,
you know, technologically speaking,
it's more easily done.
Somebody who's an old geezer now
was complaining about the crappification
of everything in the 80s.
Like actually my grandma said-
I'm gonna raise my hand here and say,
yeah, I was.
My grandma was talking about
how crap classic rock music
was in the 80s,
and she hated my dad listening to it
because she was like,
why don't you listen to real music,
like the Beatles?
And I bet her parents-
Beatles actually hate too bad.
thought the Beatles was the crappification.
I love the Beatles.
Yeah, Beatles actually listen too bad.
It's like the one,
it's one of those bands that like,
I even know people in the 90s
were listening to, like-
People still love the Beatles,
but I just think that-
No, I mean like young people
were listening to,
like not even just old people.
But think about the old people
in the 60s when the Beatles came out.
They were probably like,
this is crap.
We need to be listening to
whatever the hell-
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
Whatever the heck they listened to.
Well, I hope not.
But here's the thing though,
in the mid-2000s,
when the first Resident Evil movie came out,
or I'm sorry,
the first Silent Hill movie came out,
people actually really liked it.
And there's been a lot of buzz this week
of all the people that are bummed out
and they're just reminiscing
about how good the first Silent Hill,
and look,
I don't know if it was that great of a movie,
but the ending of the first Silent Hill movie
was fantastic.
I mean, they ended it perfectly.
You know,
Rose and Sharon like drove back to their house
and their husband was waiting for them,
but then you realize that,
like in the last scene right before the credits,
that Rose and Sharon had died in Silent Hill
and that their souls were sort of trapped
in like the other world.
And it was just a beautiful haunting ending.
And they all,
and that's the thing,
as bad as it was,
they could have at least,
I mean, I've got so much to say about it,
but they could have at least-
Scary movie, scary.
Yeah.
It's like a thriller or-
You know what?
That's actually one of the things that it got right.
Like it was,
okay, like it was kind of scary.
They did actually do an okay job
making it kind of scary, but they-
You mean this new one was-
They did an okay job at that?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but they screwed up the story so much
and then they screwed up the ending.
I mean, I was shocked.
I mean, I couldn't even believe it.
And you know, to do James Sunderland's
story of guilt like that,
I mean,
just did a dirty and-
And Silent Hill 2
is a haunting,
terrible tragic story
about two young lovers
that were separated in tragic circumstance
and you know,
Mary like got cancer
and then died,
and there were some terminal illness
and then died
and he couldn't live without his wife
and then he goes to Silent Hill
because he gets a letter from her
and then at the end of the game,
after you go through all this stuff
and you realize that he's dealing with guilt
and sexual repression
and anxiety and anger
and all these things
and then you realize
at the end that no,
she didn't die from cancer,
that James Sunderland murdered his wife
because she was angry at him
and she was yelling at him
and you know,
as she was getting closer and closer
to dying
and he couldn't look at her
and she was becoming physically uglier
and all she wanted him to do
was for him to tell her
that he was still attracted to her
and that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her
but he couldn't,
I mean,
he couldn't,
as a man
and so
He killed her but the movie
before he learned this
is all like his delusions,
is that what you're saying?
Well, he killed her,
he killed her in the video game
and that's the way it should have been
and then in the
in the twist in the video game
I think was that he killed her
Yeah, the video game you get
and then the movie,
they screwed it up
they totally screwed it up
Is this gonna be like spoilers?
You should at least give a spoiler alert
Well,
well,
I mean,
nobody wants to see it now
because everybody online
is talking about
how they screwed it up so bad
If I'm excited about something
and then the people are saying
the reviews say it's bad
I'll still go see it
Really?
Especially if like
something I'm really excited about
and then people are saying
Oh, the reviews say it's bad
I might just break it
Well,
well, look, I might do that too
but if
but if in a game
I might do it for the popcorn
in a sort of game app
Yeah
In a situation where it's a game adaptation
and then everybody's saying
that they screwed up the lore so bad
I mean,
nobody wants to go see that
if they screwed it up
I still don't think you should spoil it
It's too early
All right, well,
well, look, I won't spoil the movie
if you want to go see it
I don't want to go see it
But um
I'm just looking out for it
You guys are putting me to sleep right now, so
Yeah, I don't watch that many movies at all
The only movie I've watched recently is SpongeBob movie
I started watching The Silent Hill at some point
but I don't think I ever got through the whole thing
I don't like to be disturbed
I don't like scary things
I don't want that in my life
It was too slow, I think
and boring
Like it was like
if it maybe if the pace was a little quicker
it would have been interesting
but like
I can
Nothing?
Like Crow triple seven
I know earlier what I was describing
might be more just like
Oh, taste changing throughout the decades
But one thing that the podcast
Crow triple seven did a little series on
within their own podcast
was
What they them and those are trying to impose
on us each decade
is very flavored
Up until recently
Now they want us to feel lost
And I believe that
I used to say it's weird how it's like
You think of what did people wear in the 70s?
Oh, it's so very
You know what they wore in the 70s
Like corduroy
Disco, mini skirts, disco stuff
You know all that stuff
But you can't think
It's not as easy to think of
Oh, what did they wear in 2010?
Yeah, it's true
I feel like
No, I do
I think it's a swag t-shirt
It's party rock anthem
I was gonna say
I think there's like
Specific things for specific groups even
Yeah, I can
I wouldn't have wore that stuff
I can probably think of like
What was
You know people were
You know wearing maybe like in the 50s
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
If you just think of like
And then 2000 like
After 2000 is like
What do people wear nowadays like
Everything random
Yeah
I feel like the early 2000s
Were more of a continuation of just the late 90s
I feel like
Early 2000s
Yeah
Like ice tips and Guy Fieri
Ask shirts
Oh early 2000s
Yeah early 2000s
DC shoes
Like everybody dressed like Rob Deerneck
Cargo shorts
Definitely were a thing in the 90s
Like that was definitely their big uh
Yeah
And if you go back to like the 80s
It was like tight
It was like short shorts
Like guys in short shorts
But the main idea is that
They said starting in the 90s
They started wanting people to feel sad
And that's when like
Oh antidepressants everywhere
And um
Nostalgia everything
All the cartoons are sad
Hey Arnold can make me cry
Hanold can make a grown man cry
Did you ever watch Hey Arnold in the 90s?
No
Well you were in a kid
I was probably
Well I mean
In 1990 I was
Still a kid
Six years old I think
Yeah so
I think it came out later
I'll look it up while
But
Well I think the kids shows
Just started introducing a lot more adult themes
And some shows tried to do it
In like a
Yeah I was in sixth grade at that point
So it was beyond me
October 7th 1996
And a lot of people like to point to the Jewish
Themes in Hey Arnold
And it happened October
It premiered
October 7th 1996
Anyways
Well isn't
Isn't Arnold Jewish?
No, uh Harold was
Oh okay
Um
Anything else for us Turret
I just don't really want to continue
Talking about Silent Hill so specifically
Um no I don't have it
Well I will say uh
The girls in the mid-2000s looked pretty hot
They knew how to dress
There's nothing better than a young sexy chica
Wearing some skin tight Abercrombie and fits clothes
A holster clothes
They're pretty
That was pretty nice
And uh
What are girls wearing now?
I'm sorry but like
A lot less skin tight stuff I'll say
Okay
Um especially jeans
The mom jeans back
Mom jeans 90 jeans are back
Like really
Not Janko
Not all the way to Janko baggy
But still pretty loose fitting
Compared to what they were
Insanity
Where I'm just like
I hate it
I just
You know I used to
I loved seeing the girls in high school
Walk around in their outfits
They were so young and hot
And now all the girls
Where they're stupid idiotic things
Where you can't see the silhouettes of their body
This is a thing I've just recently learned about
Like Billie Eilish
I guess
Like a Billie Eilish style
Where men just wear
Barrel and leg jeans
I feel
I feel for you man
I want the short shorts back on the guys
From the 80s
Yeah from the 80s
Yeah
Yeah but um
But look uh
I mean I can still kind of see the gym
With some of the girls
Because they're all wearing the
That you know that that compression
It's because they all want to be influencers now
I have to say though man
I give them a lot of respect
Just the females man
The tight tight clothing man
I wore it
I mean when I was like
Young I was in the 80s
It was in the 80s
And man tight clothing
Man I don't know how anybody puts up with it
I wear tight clothing
Like really tight clothing all the time
In high school middle school
And then right after high school
And then it's like right then I was like
Oh things will look better on me
If I just stop wearing them
Like everything like skin tight
Skin tight?
It genuinely does look more like
Oh I don't think it looks better
I think it probably looks worse
But it's gotta feel a lot better
To wear looser clothing
Skin tight clothing does not look good on you
Unless you were like bored then
And then I was in the middle school high school
But you put you hard
You're like
But I'm more like feminine now
It's like I used to weigh 80 pounds
As a same height
Oh I didn't know that you were uh
You had to wait on you at some point
Oh yeah I was so skinny
I mean you're pretty
Yeah you're uh
I mean I'm a gay guy and I'm telling you
You're pretty so
Thank you
But I just think that
What turd likes is like
It's not cute
It looks
It's it's definitely not just like the style change
It's not classy
Well so your opinion doesn't count here
Because you're a woman
Yeah sure
We gotta ask the straight guys here
Sure
Look I
I don't know I I come from a time of yoga pants in school
All the time
And like
Chicks would wear just leggings
All the all the non-stop
Or you could sometimes see their underwear
And I don't like through like yeah
I understand the yoga pants
Like that's just like
The tight jeans
I prefer yoga pants over skinny jeans
To be honest
But they have to be opaque
But it was a yeah it was a lot of yoga pants
I love yoga pants
I think yoga pants
Are great
Especially when I can see the
Outline of the pants
Yeah the Han Solo look
It's they all wear black leggings
With the Ugg boots
And then they have a black vest
And then maybe a white shirt
And when they're all in their little
Like girlfriend groups
It looks like a pack of Han Solos
Running around
From the spice lattes
Yeah drinking lattes
I get it on the
I get it on the top
But the bottom I just
That just seems like
Not attractive at all to me
There's one thing about it that makes you look
Like really top heavy
It's like if you have any
Meat to you at all
At the top
You're going to look like you're going to fall over
And you're just
Well we're just assuming
We're just assuming
We're just assuming that
We're talking about pretty
Pretty women
Pretty girls
Yeah
Not yet
Okay
I think that even swimming is pretty
But just doesn't have very
Thicker like muscular legs
Can look kind of gross
See but that was what
That's what was in
Or I think kind of is in
Still it's like the thick girl
Right like the bigger thighs
Bigger butt
So that like those aren't the top heavy girls
But even like
I mean that requires
Nice legs
That requires a certain kink there
I mean
Definitely in like the 70s
And sorry 90s when
Rail thin was a thing
You'd still want like some muscle
Like some definition to your legs
Like I think what people have never liked
Is like straight up chicken legs
Like just
Yeah but now it's like
It's like it's not just tone
It's like
Thick
Like some fat on you
But he's not saying like
Obese or anything
Not obese
But compared to the two
Compared to the 2000s women who were
Like you know the the supermodel
S96 pound rail thin
Yeah, yeah, okay
Abracombie and Fitch jeans
Which is why
Like the women who were attractive now
Like Kim Kardashian could not fit
In the Abracombie and Fitch jeans
No, but at her biggest
She isn't even in style anymore
Kim Kardashian at her biggest
Is still too thick for it's like
It leveled out because it was so crazy
You if you were
Remotely feminine
You were called fat
On tabloids in the 90s and in the early 2000s
And then it was like
We're not we're taking this back
So now like obesity is in and in like
BBLs and like
What?
So freaking thick that it's like
Obesity is in
Yeah, do you not know who Lizzo is?
But now it went back to normal
It's like more normalized
Yeah, I think
Because I totally missed that
So I was hot for a while
Interesting
No, you weren't
Oh wait what
I just thought you said obesity was in
Only the fat chicks were hot
Oh yeah
The fat men you were still the bottom of them
You were still scum dog
Don't get it twisted
We were still
Hey, I don't care
I got myself a you know a significant other
So I'm off
No, you were not
I'm off the playing field anyway
We do have a caller in the line
So Tom from New Hampshire
You're on Freetalk Live
What's on your mind?
Good evening
On October 7th, 2003
U.S. Senator Judd Gregg's wife
Was abducted at knife point
Out of their home away from home in Virginia
And there was an investigation
Of course the police responded
They eventually caught the suspect
But the U.S. Capitol police
Also briefly investigated the attack
The reason being that their job is
The uh
Oh and they were from New Hampshire
Wow okay
So Kathleen Gregg
The wife of the U.S. Senator Judd Gregg
From New Hampshire was abducted at knife point
From her home in McLean, Virginia on October 7th
Oh I have never heard of this
Well
So what's the point?
Where are we going with this?
The U.S. Capitol police are investigating
In the case it was a situation
Where somebody was trying to retaliate
Or intimidate
Or threaten or harass
U.S. Senator Judd Gregg
Because of the performance of his duties
Because they don't like the way he voted
Okay now
The reason I'm bringing that up
Is because see that
The crime happened in Virginia
Far away from the U.S. Capitol
But the U.S. Capitol police still have
Jurisdiction over these crimes
I think it's anywhere in the country
And I'm just kind of wondering
Wait what?
When, yeah because
Their job is to prosecute people
Who aren't trying to intimidate
Or harass threaten or whatever
Whatever it is against members of Congress
Those crimes against members of Congress
Can be prosecuted by the U.S. Capitol police
I don't necessarily know that means they have jurisdiction
Well they claim
Well I guess you can claim jurisdiction over
A foreign entity
Yeah I don't know
All right but go on
Okay when members of Congress go
To investigate Alligator Alley
And the ice goons chase them away
And say no you can't come in there
Aren't they committing a crime
Against those members of Congress
By saying no you can't do your official duties
Of making sure that
The ice facility is up to respect
Okay and could the members of Congress
Get the U.S. Capitol police
Go down there and arrest the guy at the gate
Who won't let them in
Wow so it looks like I found this article
From 2003 where it says that they expanded
Their interdiction program
Wait expanded
What did they expand?
The expansion of the Capitol
They expanded their jurisdiction for this
It looks like
Is that how you understand it?
Yeah so I don't know if they can
Go out there
If they investigate
They get their official report
If Trump might just prosecute
Might just pardon them anyway
But now that you've got the investigation
And everything
The other thing that
Even if Trump pardons them
Congress can impeach
And remove from office
The ice goons that chased away
Members of Congress
Yeah but it's not the police who would bring charges
It'd have to be a district attorney
Like the courts would have to like charge
The Capitol police could arrest the ICE agents
But it would be up to the courts
To like actually charge them with the crime
And like take that move that forward
Or at least prosecute for sure
Or they had to like prosecute them
Yeah and Trump would probably fire the prosecutor
That does that too
Because it's a federal prosecutor
So as opposed to just simply pardoning
The ice goons
Which I wouldn't put it past them either
But Congress could impeach those ice goons
And maybe they'd feel they're better off
Just letting the members of Congress go in
I believe I read about one situation
Where Democrats and Republicans went in together
And they came out with very different stories
So you never know what to think
Okay
Yeah they're never honest
I mean why would they
Actually that makes sense to a point
Like if they're just going to go in and lie about it anyways
Who even cares if they're going in
Because they're just not going to tell us the truth
About what they saw to begin with
Well some of them are telling the truth
And the other ones are lying
And we don't really know
Some of them are telling it's horrible inside
And some of them are saying
Oh no everything was fine inside
I don't know what they're talking about
You know the Republicans are saying
That Trump is doing a wonderful job
And ICE is doing everything up to spec
And the Democrats are saying no no no
That's a horrible quality condition
That people being underfed and less shackled
The days and the time stop
Or whatever they're saying it is
So if they impede the members of Congress
From performing their official duties
Can the US Capitol Police get involved
And arrest the ICE goons
That won't let them into the facility
Well I don't give them any ideas
Interesting this also happened October 7th
As I get brought up so much
Yeah I don't know a whole lot about it
But my interesting is they do
The members of Congress do have the power to
What is it?
Investigate those facilities
So they should be letting them in
Well interesting
Wait who should be letting who in?
I believe the facilities that are like
I think I'm like prisons and or detention centers
I believe the members of Congress have the authority
To go in and like investigate them
Like at basically any point they want
On an ounce and everything
Okay well I don't like that idea
But you're not agreeing with it right?
I don't know if I'm agreeing with anything he said
I'm but as far as like
Them having the Congress Critters having the power to go in
I mean I don't know why that would be an issue
But should the Capitol Police be involved?
I think was his question
Or can they get involved?
Just because of you know it's like almost like saying
Oh national security now we can do it
I mean the FBI has jurisdiction nationally
So I'm not sure what necessarily difference this necessarily makes
But they said that it was the first expanded in 1992
I kind of clicked off that
Well I think the reason to get
I mean look I don't think the FBI
Should be allowed in New Hampshire
But I guess
Exactly that's what I kind of asked
Yeah right right right right
You're just saying you could see them making that claim right?
Yeah
Um
And I just don't know what difference it makes
In terms of whether the FBI investigates it
Or the Capitol Police investigate it
Well I think the idea is the Capitol Police
Is not under the thumb of Donald Trump
And they could circumvent his authorities
And I don't know I don't know what
I don't know what uh
I don't know what the um
The president or has or doesn't have as far as like
Authority in this particular case
Yeah I don't either
I mean the DOJ
This is what
The DOJ is definitely under the president
So yeah that's what I'm saying
You need a prosecutor
If the Capitol Police is not
That's news to me so
Um and if they have the same jurisdiction
To be basically as the FBI that
Well law enforcement
Interesting
Right like it like I was saying
Like all they do all all a cop really can do is
Suspect you of a crime
And then they can hold you on suspicion of a crime
And then it's up to the attorney to like
Prosecute the case
Yeah like there's
Take it to the courts
I mean there's
Not saying like that's true
That's right or not
You're not like wrong
But there's definitely um
I think the way to phrase it is
There is
What's the word like uh
Like like like during Nazi Germany
Uh when they went after people like
You know soldiers and things and people who helped
Hitler
You know they had culpability basically
And I think it's kind of the same situation
The prosecutors have culpability
Just like the law enforcement agents
Well one thing I want to say is
Don't give them any ideas
It's like for more excuses to go after people and you know
Expand powers
I don't think I need to give them any ideas
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Hey, Mr. Penguin
And we already have a caller in the line
So let's go to the phones
We have Sarah in New Mexico
Sarah, you're on Free Talk Live
What's on your mind?
Yes, I think we want to bring up that
Pension is a communist program
And our pensions have been going away
Okay, the idea of a pension period?
No, but the idea of a government pension
See what I'm saying?
Because it's like
It's like the government guarantees you'll have an income for life
Even if you just work for our job for like 10 years
Don't you think that's communist, Mr. Penguin?
Well, I'm talking about that
When I was like nine years old
Back then, everybody got a pension from a private company
And it was $10 that you put in
And you got a dollar back
Then you put your own money in
It was, I mean, it was common
It wasn't universal, but yeah
But you put your own money in according to Sarah
So what is that?
Is it a retirement fund?
I think, sorry, you're describing a 401k actually
As far as putting $1 in and getting $1 out
From the company, basically
But pensions were usually
And still are to some degree
To whatever degree they exist
Not many companies offer them anymore
But they're usually funded by the companies that you work for
So it's a benefit of the job
So they basically, you know
They put in money and set aside for your retirement
And then they pay you out until you death
A certain amount until you die, basically
Whereas a 401k, you get a set amount from your employer
And often it's a 401k matching
Which means that you put in something
And then they put in something
But nonetheless, that amount can eventually run out though
Potentially
So it's
Whereas the pension in theory doesn't run out
So they pay you until you die
Whereas a 401k, you could end up running out of money
If there's not enough money in your 401k
So this is a communist program
And you know, they stole all this money
And nobody cares about it
Yeah, but it's a voluntary
That changes the entire
You volunteered to sign up for this program
Wait a minute
How is it, I'm trying to understand something
How is this communist?
This doesn't
From the government
Not in a private company
I feel like it is a communist thing
The way that they do it with their government jobs
Because if you work our government job for 10 years
We'll guarantee that the next generation of people
Getting government jobs will pay for your pension
And then you need to recruit more
Like you guys are talking about
I think this is a major problem that we're talking about
But I don't know if it's specifically communist
I mean, that's a good point
But here's another thing I have to say
It's kind of like a pyramid scheme in a way
The way that Jay explained to me
The teachers unions in Massachusetts
Maybe this is everywhere
But Jay specifically had info
On the teachers unions in Massachusetts
They had incentive to get more people to become teachers
Or else their pensions weren't going to get paid
By the new people coming and paying the union
Well, it's okay
So here's, I think one of the problems
That you're kind of describing here
Is that the larger the union is
The more power the union has
And the more influence they have
So they can
But also people paying in
In order to keep the top paid
If not enough people become teachers the next year
Say we just lower the funds for the public schools
Because, well, we found out that it doesn't actually
Raise testing stores or whatever
They're going to fight against that
Hard core because in part
Their pyramid scheme they got going on with their pensions
See what I mean?
Because they need newbies
It's like pyramid scheme, you need newbies
No, I see what she's saying
Like if you don't have
New people to pay for the retirees
Yeah, no, no, no
So there's
Then you don't have a retirement
Okay, so there's something called a funded pension
And there's something called an unfunded pension
And or liability anyway
I actually know a little bit about this surprisingly
So in New Jersey the pension fund is basically been
It was supposed to be funded by the state
But they basically, I don't know if you guys know about
Social Security
But like how they've been stealing from Social Security
To pay for other programs
Yeah
Well, New Jersey's basically been doing the same kind of thing
With the New Jersey pension fund
For teachers basically
So it and because they did not fund the pension for 20 years
They basically don't have any money left in their pension fund
To pay out the teachers that are now retiring
So basically the cost
The cost of this is astronomical
To taxpayers because ultimately those
Have to those either either one or two things have to happen
The teachers no longer they lose their pension
Or the state has to fund those
That pension fund they have to put money into the pension fund
That they haven't been doing for 20 years
And in the process also stole a money over the last 20 years
So
I mean it's certainly
You guys are making excuses
A scam of some way
That
Like you guys are saying it's okay for them to get ripped off of the pension
For whatever reason that they come up with
I'm not saying that
Yeah, I don't think we said that at all actually
In fact I think that it's funny because
Chris and Angelo and I are saying
Ah communism scam
Same thing
Like almost the same thing not Chris saying that
I think I think a better way to phrase this is that the
Sort of the special interests
While their special interest group is what they are
And they've basically
Manipulated their way into undeserved
monies
Through the
Benefits that teachers get
In the real world if you look at the benefits for teachers
Or at least in New Jersey
It's astronomical that what they've been promised
And it's outside
You know I tell you that this is communist agenda
Communist because
What I used to call go to communist party meetings
That was one of the things that the communist party
Fend this for
What's our security, Medicaid, Medicare and pensions
Well
That's the way that we use the house
Government-funded pensions
Is that what the communist party would want?
Or is that what you're saying?
Okay, well you
Okay, you're you're how old are you?
I'm
I'm really nice
Six
Okay, so when I was nine years old
I remember when Reagan was there
Almost like 90% of the people got pensions from the company
One dollar you put in it was not a 401k we should get a one dollar bag
Now it's
Disappeared and nobody knows what's going on and nobody really cares
So they're taking away a communist program
So I'm just bringing it up. They're getting ripped off
It's not a communist
Yes, stop saying it's communist
If the company wants it's a socialist program through the company
That's your the company is funding it and you're gonna
I don't know if you call it socialist even
I don't know either
Socialists I think I think it would be fair to say when you participate voluntarily
Or are you just using if you're giving one dollar and you're gonna get a dollar back
And then you're effectively just using your pension as a bank. It's a bank account
Yeah, that's your saving
I don't think I don't think you can call it
I don't think you can call a pension or a 401k
Or any of that is socialist that's that's more capitalist
But the um
Why would you be that big because they twisted your mind when I went to the communist party
In the communist paper
The thing me and chris are kind of was a communist plan
It's voluntary
Yeah, if it's voluntary within the company that you're putting in and stuff that is not communist
But when it's the government saying that they'll get they'll continue paying their employee who worked for 10 years for life
Don't you think that's a little different than a like if I got IHG
I was paying in and my other employees were
Fellow employees were a better example
A better example of something that sort of is social socialist
Sort of leaning it. I don't know if I call it socialist, but would be health insurance
And that is within the within the however, it's got to be within the context of
Sort of you're paying into a system
And but what you benefit you might you might you might get more from it than you put in but you might also lose
Yeah, because you're basically socializing the costs over a large group of people now in theory
Medicaid Medicare is basically free health care for people. It's not free
It's not free. You put you you've paid into it over the course of your you know working career
You're paying it to it when you're old and you need it
It's there for you when you when your health goes bad
The Medicaid takes for your nursing home or medicine or doctors visit
When you do it when you get into work and you need blood that's all paid
For by Medicaid. So it's a communist philosophy everybody pays there when they're able to work
Yeah, but you you don't necessarily have to have that forced mandated by government
You can do that through the private system as well
I pay for health insurance out of my own pocket. Um, I'm a self-employed individual basically
I mean technically my corporate the corporation I work for pays for but anyway, the point that I'm making is your own one though, right?
Yeah, I I I I I have 100 shares of my company. So but anyway, the point is that um, ultimately
You're you're paying into these systems through your employment
Um health insurance, for example, if you get health insurance from a company
But if you don't and say you're self-employed in the sense that you don't work for a corporation
You just work for yourself, you know, um, you're you're still when you get health insurance
You're paying an amount out of your own pocket to get that health insurance and you're joining a socialist
Scheme basically, but it's voluntary and and there's nothing wrong with that. Um,
It the thing that's wrong is when it's mandated by law when you're forced to participate
So I
understand this
Okay, obama was accused of being a communist socialist and he
Okay, so that his obama health plan. What's the big deal that the whole thing was gonna end
Because it's it's mandated by law. That's the problem. It's not
Okay, the problem is that the poor people that are making less money now they have to pay higher insurance way to get the benefits
So the low income people they just get asked out. They get shoveled out of all the healthcare
health care benefit benefits that they're poor. They don't qualify. They don't get the help and that's what the big
most
So you're okay. So backing up a moment one of the problems with this is that basically most people in america
They're not poor
Um, it's it's only a very very small percentage the reason that you don't have much in terms of income
People that we consider to be poor, which is a good percentage of the population. Let's say it's a third, right?
Just just for argument's sake
Um, a third of the population is poor
But most of that's because the government is stealing through various means through it's called taxes
But many of these taxes are hidden taxes. So for example
Um, it may be that you're paying a certain percentage of sales tax. No, that's not really a hidden tax
But the point is there are tax the gas tax. I would say is a pretty hidden tax
It's not well advertised. You're right gas taxes, but it is on the receipt. So it's not I don't know if I call it hidden
But there's there's certainly other hidden taxes about like the cell phone ones
That was one that somebody pointed out to me as a tax. I'm paying and I was like, uh, well
There's a lot of things that there's a lot of things you don't even know about. Um, just for example
tariffs are a form of tax. So, um, the prices on the goods in the stores about
13 percent of that. Well, it may be even higher now, but it so
The first time around when trump instituted the tariffs
Under his first presidency it basically caused a price increase across a wal-mart of about 13 percent
So about 13 percent of your ink. I mean, okay, this is not a perfect analogy
But it's about 13 percent of your income for the sake of argument
Um is basically being stolen from you through taxation that you don't know about right
And now if you add up all the taxes that you you do and don't know about it ends up being something like 90 percent
So think about this way if your income more than doubles
Uh, even the people in the one the bottom one third most of those people are gonna have enough money to cover their their costs themselves
And they wouldn't need government programs
The only reason that we we need these people need most of these people need government programs is because the government itself has caused the cost of these programs
to rise
Because of the inefficiencies if you let this all occur through free market
And voluntary participation you'd have more efficient systems. And for example
Somebody who's on the street needs a house over the they needs a roof over their head more than they need doctors a doctor
You know health insurance basically those people would end up
Putting that money into a house over their head so they don't get sick in the first place
and not wasted on
Health insurance that they don't need right? It's not to say that you know
Some people definitely need health insurance, but
It depends on the individual and and and these programs don't take that into consideration
They're they're just sort of universal and then they end up wasting a lot of money as a result
So that's why um voluntary programs are are kind of um a better voluntary socialist type programs are a way better approach
than mandated government programs
Hmm
Well, I I agree that's much better as well and still I'm not sure if the state funding ones cover the word communist
But I understand why sarah would say that the communists like it, you know
Well, especially if it has the weight of a union behind it
Like the union is gonna
force the company to do a pension that would be like a she's not wrong workers unite idea
She's not she's definitely not I think her sentiment isn't necessarily wrong here like a lot of like a lot of the stuff does come from
The unions and that's what the reason you have pensions is because of
What 19 early 1900s?
Maybe late 1800s
Unions basically fighting for those pensions. Um, so like the labor unions and the
Yes, who built the unions the communist party the communist party
And sarah sarah like I think what you have to under one of the things you should understand about like libertarians is
I don't think we're I wouldn't say we're
Against unions entirely like like so unions are a good tool in a free market to fight back against oppressive
You know corporations and yeah, yeah, like capitalists
Capitalism, but you you want to make sure that it's it's not being done
You know done through government or regulation
And so that what you're talking about when it comes to pensions is it was never done traditionally
It was never done through government. It was well. It was mostly done anyway through
Protests, you know walkouts that kind of thing strikes right right and that's actually a good. Um, that's actually kind of a
good
solution to the sort of the problem of
You know labor not having a lot of
Power in the in the in the relationship between employers and employees
But all they ever taught me in schools seriously over and over again
I was always excited for american history specifically. It was like the robber barons
The robber barons are evil and that's why we had to make unions. They taught me that so many times over in
You know what it's some of it some of this is true right like some of that
Yes, people were being taken advantage of and they were being people were being taken advantage of but that doesn't necessarily mean the solution
um
The solution might have some of the salute problems
Or the solutions some of those problems might have been you know legal ones because you know people were being
Lands were literally just being outright stolen from people
Well, but it was the government does is they'll use immigration to union bust. They did it in the 1900s
That's what they imported so many irish. Sure because the irish would work for pennies
And this is the thing though
We need free. This is one of the reasons why we need free. We don't want just free trade. We want free
uh libertarians anyway, we want
free
Uh movement of people as well
So you not only you you can compete and basically and this is the thing
What what I think americans sometimes fail to understand is we are some of the best educated people in the world
Right, like you do not have a problem competing with foreigners. You are basically complaining about
Something that is almost artificially an artificial concern that doesn't for the most part exist
When when we import labor for example, um, it actually benefits
Uh americans because then those americans end up with better paying jobs
You know over time because there's ends up you end up having a less
There's less cost to the production which ends up benefiting everybody
But it also ends up benefiting them in the sense of well now there's no there's more management, right?
And so there's there's more better paying jobs
It's it's not all it's not all negative. I don't and don't get me wrong
I'm not saying that it's I don't think the the trickle down theory of like hatcher
Is somebody in the uk a long time ago anyway 80s anyway, um, I think a lot of that was kind of nonsense
It was ridiculous. Um, but it doesn't necessarily mean there's no truth
It's it's entirely false. I guess is what I'm trying to say like workers should be able to come together and say
Hey, we want to um work. We want to talk to you the boss
We're not being treated fairly and this is what like throw your weight around they should be allowed to do that
Yeah, absolutely. And but at the same time like the employer should be allowed to go and say okay, you're fired
um
And it's it's it's yeah, but if they say okay, you're fired because I can
I have the government is funding people to come here and work under the table for less dollars
Well, then let's solve that problem by stop funding them right like right like that's the thing
Um, there are welfare there are problems
But the solutions that you know the the communists and the people on the left
Want to shove down our throat are really really terrible solutions
And I don't want to give anybody the idea that I am on the right
I am not on the right not by a long shot
The the the people the republicans the conservatives
They have a lot of terrible ideas too and a lot of them are very similar to the people on the left
They're socialists too. They want to socialize police protection. They definitely the people on the right are definitely socialist
It they just don't perceive themselves to be socialists because the conservative party doesn't exist
The overton windows shifts every 20 years
Nothing ever gets conserved
All you gotta do yeah start talking about medicaid medicare
Social security with republicans and all of a sudden you will you will get a response that is like
Oh, I thought you were conservative a republican
And they're like, what do you mean? I am
Yeah
No, you're talking socialism here
Well, I think they're upset that they're 50 and if we turned it off now
Then they've already paid so x amount of dollars into it and they want to get the money
They got it. Yeah, right, but right and I totally agree
It's selfish socialism. The problem is it is a pyramid scheme, right?
And so so that money that you put in you were you were deceived basically and you shouldn't um
I mean, look, I don't want to I don't want to be like, okay
Like I get like I get it and we need we probably need a solution to this problem of all these people being deceived
Um, but at the same time it's like it has to end at some point. Yeah, right
It's like and you're you're selling your grandchildren out like wouldn't you rather be a little less comfortable than ruin your grandchildren's future?
Yeah, um, I mean and maybe one of the solutions to the problem is to pay out everybody, right?
Um, it's whatever degree that there's money in the you know in in that system, right?
I mean like pay them all the rest they would get until they died or one lump sum kind of situation, right?
So, um and ended there
Yeah, and and the problem here mind you is that you're going to get a percentage, right? Because it's there's the money does
One of the problems is the money doesn't actually exist
Yeah, you you were putting into it, but it was going out the moment you put it into that system
And so now what we have is a situation where there's no money the only way you're going to get a
So security is basically by stealing from me. Um meaning me as in the sense that the working population, right?
Um, and the original people who put into it
Uh, it got paid out to people who who never actually paid into it in the first place
So every every successive generation is basically
Uh being harmed effectively
Um by this system
Um, and it's a terrible system if you ask me well and it blows up really quickly if you make it impossible to have kids
So suddenly there's more workers to feed this the beast and there are right
So it old people so the system actually the system has implemented actually works to the degree that you have a replacement population
The problem is we don't have a replacement population
Right, and this is what makes it a sort of a pyramid scheme or something similar to it and in that
We don't have okay, so think about this way. Um
Past generations, you know
They had nine kids and then more recent generations five and then four then three then two now
We don't even have one it's like something like one point something kids per person
Something like that or yeah, sorry for a couple it would be that would be correct
Which means that you're not even you don't have enough money going into the system to cover
the they
uh
Sorry not pensions. Um to cover the
What are we talking about? Um, so security. Yeah of people who are now retiring. So
Yeah, it's it's it's one big scam. That's one big scheme and um, like a lot of the government
Yeah
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Oh, my first session for a tattoo to be removed today
Everybody likes to tell you that hurts more than getting a tattoo. It doesn't well anymore
I understand why they thought that because it used to and um the lasers they have now they are like more powerful
But less painful. I'm so excited about it. I'm gonna have
Only one tiny one inch by one inch tattoo on my arm and no giant eagle tattoo on my back
I wonder if listeners even knew that about me. I hate it. It was bad decision
Yeah, Bonnie's really a bad girl and uh, oh my god
She hasn't looked it, but uh, yeah behind the scenes man. I can only imagine your your youth
Yeah, exactly. It was 19 and 22 when I got my tattoos. So it was just like
Bad youth decisions not even like a drunk decision or anything like that just like something I was like
I kind of think I don't like this at right as soon as it was over with
I kind of think I don't like this. I'm going to try to ignore that feeling never ever grew on me
I didn't like it. Um, but with you on free talk live tonight. You've got me Bonnie
Angelo and mr. Penguin and also the friendship
Tattoos with people. I don't I'm not friends with anymore
So that's always great. Yeah, he gets that every day. That seems like it does seem like a kind of a terrible idea
So what do you think does he get?
I feel like he probably gets a ton of like people who got out get out of prison
And are like, no, I need all this stuff removed
That's such a great point because he said that he said there are people that kill themselves over it
I think he's doing a great service to people. He doesn't give tattoos. He's only a tattoo remover and uh, his
Uh point was it's a racer head in Brattleboro if you want to know you got you got to explain to me
how does this actually work like is this like a
Doctor type person or is this like somebody who just removes tattoos with a
Who has the laser and he rents a space and you find him on the internet and you in fact
There wasn't there's not even a sign for the door. So it seemed a little sketchy
He was really professional and everything seemed clean. I was really happy with my experience and um, it's painful
But he's not creepy or I don't know how to explain. He's not weird
It's like clean. It's like clean and like looks professional seems like the older guy
Okay, I'm not as legit seems legit. It's legit. Why do I need to see a government?
Why why do I need a why do I need a government to tell me that he's cleared to do tattoo removals?
Oh, yeah, no, no, he probably has a license, but I don't so I don't know what the
I don't even know what the procedure looks like right like I kind of get it like it's a laser
But like one snap it literally sounds like a snap. It's so loud. It was like plugging my ears
It's not so loud
It's a weird noise because it said it does it shoots photons that use so fast that it's like it makes a sound wave
So I closest thing I've ever experienced personally
To lasers on body parts or I had lasik surgery when I was young. Yeah, so I already ran out or whatever
So if you ever get lasik, um, you do need to be aware and they will tell you this before you get it
It's only good for a certain period of time like a decade. Maybe or so
Um, you you may be able to do the basically trying to sell you on like
Oh, well, then you can get touch-ups and things like that. But you know ultimately at the end of the day, honestly like
You get older and you don't really care anymore
So you could get it again if you want it, but you know, yeah
I mean, I think there's a certain amount of risk to it. Um to be honest
Like okay, so my I'm trying to think what they're what they're called lenses to bring him to the grocery store
You can't rely on Riley to bring you so well, I don't know
I mean Riley's pretty good these days. You can do his own shopping
He might be able to help me if I do go blind, but imagine
Chris went blind from lasik and Riley showed him how to go get around the grocery store. Yeah, so it's a reverse
Riley get would get paid back against you too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right?
Yeah, pay me back for all the time I spent with him
forcing him to be independent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, honestly, it's the master becomes the student and now you get to
Yeah, it's honestly. It's not even me like
Going around so so let's back up a second
so Riley's a co-host on this show and he's blind anyway, and um
I I regularly like probably like once a week or so. I take him grocery shopping and um, he's um, I've been very I've been very
Encouraging very encouraging him to you know, he's been very pushing the baby out of the nest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, anyway
and um, I mean here's the thing like everybody always tries to do stuff for you when you're blind and it's like
You know, it's it kind of steals your independence from you and um, and I think I think um
I think Riley appreciates it. Um, but I've been encouraging him to you know, don't let me show you you just do it
Like you you you learn yourself, right?
And um, so it's not even me like showing him where stuff is
It's him just walking or wandering around a grocery store figuring out where things are
And then you know next time, you know, he gets faster at it a little bit faster
And is he using his glasses tool? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and he's um, he does have some tools to help him
He's got um these I hate these things, but they're um, the one the one good thing they're good for
is for somebody who's blind
Yesterday I said I would like click and delete anything AI and I was like dang it
The only good thing I could think of is like for
Blind people and maybe there's some other disabilities that help people. Yeah. I don't like anything else. AI. There's there's two solutions
Um, basically to reading sort of text and things um for people who are blind
One of them is a phone app and one of them is the AI glasses
And so he's got these AI glasses like
But he already had his phone reading himself before AI glasses. He did the AI glasses do work better though
Um, so and and the thing is um, you kind of need them in order to read the labels
So and there's some things that you have to read the labels on in order because the containers are the same
So but one of the things one of the things I was trying to you know
Tag him to do um to so he's he's actually can do it himself
Is that he needs to rely not only on so the skills he had before was basically finding where stuff is right
The problem is then he started relying on the glasses too much
And he he's unable to find where this stuff is so i'm like, okay rally
Don't forget you need to rely on your old skills and the new ones the glasses, right?
So yeah, it's like I it's not me really going around showing him where stuff is
It's just me encouraging him to you know, take the time and energy to figure it out yourself the most, um
independent
I was I was impressed with him today with um
You came I drove him to the local burger, but I didn't guide him in and he found his way in
Right for the most part and it's a little dangerous there
So it was good that you were watching a little bit
But but yeah, but um he can even do that for the most part by himself almost
We do have a caller so i'm going to go to the phones unscreened caller you're on free talk live. What is on your mind?
Yeah, technology. Hey chris. How you doing? Yeah, what's up technology?
um
Yeah, technology so um picking up where we left off, uh, you know and past conversations
Things that you that I don't that i'm having problems with with technology and you might have a handle on
one of the things you're talking about was
The the uh forthcoming
satellite
Uh, direct to mobile. Are you still there? Yeah, i'm here
Okay, satellite direct to mobile, which I don't know if you've kept up with the with the what's going on with that
But the news that I read
Is there news? Is there new news?
Yeah, yeah, there is. Um, and so at this point whether people are aware of it or not the major carriers pretty much all have
A satellite direct to sell
messaging
Yeah, and um, but they but they don't yet have full data data
Satellite direct to mobile. Yeah, it's expensive to do data
So well it's expensive to voice to especially voice but um data is expensive
So you wouldn't you wouldn't want to do that. You'd only want to do basic text messaging kind of stuff
But but they are going to do it. They they if you full on data they're they're not going to do
I mean, well, I mean, so well, let's see you can do it for
The cost is the cost you're right the costs have dropped
So I guess you you might be able to do it
But it's it's still going to be way more expensive than the local um the local cellular signal
Costs the carriers
So it's still going to be something that is a secondary not primary as far as you know functionality is concerned
True, but the but the the satellite direct to mobile
Messaging is a secondary backup because the way that your phone's work the way that your phones work right now
Is that if you are
Where there is self signal and you get a text message it will go through the normal channels
If you are out of
Signal range, then it will automatically go through the satellite and you'll still get it anyway
It's included in the premium plans from the premium carriers
Um, and if it's and if you don't have a premium plan at a premium carrier
Then you can pay like 10 bucks for the add-on. That's where that's where we're at now
And so it's just sounds like they've put they've built sat phones into your regular cell phone
Yeah, or like the same technology. Yeah, basically more
I think this is a more this is a more modern technology
But yeah, well, I've used sat phones like hiking and camping like deep woods. Um, so like I know like they do have direct satellite messaging
Oh, yeah, you're like I have that for techies and decades. Yeah. Yeah, so
But those phones are expensive and the so is the service like 300 400 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the phone
But but this is your your current cell phones that you have in your possession
If you have a flagship phone at a flagship carrier
Buying their flagship service. You already have it on your existing phone
They have built that the capability in in many cases
Already in the last couple of years. Yeah, and it depends also the some are doing that way
There's also the it has been designed that it works with your normal phone
That didn't have the chipset for the satellite built into it now coming up in the
Now coming up and then say what that doesn't make any sense to me
How how would that work? Uh, there's no way that could work
I mean, if the chip doesn't have the satellite capabilities, it's not going to be able to communicate with the satellite
Okay, well here. Well, if it's an e-sim, here's
This is something to do with e-sims
Here's what I know from re doing extensive reading reading until I couldn't find any new information
And that is that the satellite direct to mobile messaging as a backup
In some instances meaning whatever combination of carrier and plan and phone that you have in some instances
It it it works with whatever phone you bought even though you never knew that it had that capability
Oh, yeah in other in that's because it hasn't it wasn't turned on
It's it's not that it didn't exist or it wasn't in the chip. It's was stolen the chip
It just yeah, it's it's yeah, they basically deployed the technology long before it was, you know, activated or available as a service
Exactly. So now going into the future was if you want to keep an eye on
mobile devices and phones
That come out in the near future
What people like myself are waiting for because because we're in the know
We've been reading the news is we're looking for the new generation of phones that come equipped with the chip set
That allows the satellite direct to mobile full service data
And that's coming out
Uh, apparently in this this year this like this next quarter start watching if if not this quarter then the next quarter
It's coming out soon from what I read
Yeah, I this is not the kind of thing that I mean, I'm terribly into um, I just don't care. Um, and also
I am but um, but I I get the I get the technology. I just yeah, it's not terribly interested
Right. So so so starlink, right because I'm a starlink user
And when satellite is capable direct to mobile, then I don't need to lug around the the the starlink
Of a setup
That's not going to be a replacement for the starlink setup
Yes, it will
Okay, it won't be the performance is not going to the performance is not going to be there
Correct. Correct. It will not be as high speed as the starlink
traditional setup, uh, whether the base unit mobile unit
Backpacking unit the the mini unit whatever won't be as fast as those
But it will be fast. It'll be fast enough to do for instance to do business. It may not be fast
I mean, it'll affect your so I actually I'm gonna I'm gonna back up and just say I don't actually know what the performance differences are
I just know that there's definitely going to be a performance difference
Right. I but I have read I have read the about the performance differences
And it will be fast enough, you know, like if you're a do you have any idea like what those speeds will be like
I'm thinking like like, you know, I don't even know like 90s era dial-up not even that problem
I I get the impression. I don't remember the exact numbers
But when I read it and I filed whatever I can recall from when I when I read it
Yeah, the impression the impression I got is like like I live off the grid and I'm talking to you right now
I'm using the internet right now do it for every different thing I do and what I got is on
I have two devices and I it goes back and forth between four g and five g
And and and then the cellular side like right now I got four bars on my other device
I'm sure it says three and then it usually goes down as low as two occasionally
I see one and my speeds
Are such that, you know, to give you one example
If I want to go on youtube and keep increasing the quality
Of the video and then especially if I want to watch it at a faster than than one x speed
Um, for instance, if I want to watch it a faster than one x speed
The highest quality that I can go is like 720. I can't go to 1080 and then go faster than one x
If I want to watch 1080, I got a I got a
So you're just like a speed test
No, it doesn't have a service yet. It's not I haven't bought I haven't bothered but but I can if you want to put it in mega mega
What is it mega any megs a second?
I'd be surprised if you get megs a second, but but go ahead. I'm sorry. Meg's a minute
So what the service I described to you right now
Yeah, uh, I
No, no mega bit is 30 megs. Um, um, yeah a minute. Yeah, 30 megs a minute. So, uh,
I don't think I don't think I would have advertised anything in those in that as 30 megs a minute
You you you probably advertise a kilobits a second or uh megabits a second
Okay, I'm telling you what I'm getting I'm getting 30 megs a minute on the mobile devices that I described to you
Which is the point is that's obvious lower than
Currently, yeah, that's probably 4g
Yeah, but isn't that not related to these satellite ones because it is it's completely separate
Yeah, I thought so I'm trying I'm trying to tell you what I know
I'm trying to finish what so so that's what I that's what I have right and obviously that's slower than your home internet
Which yes, you know a hundred times faster
And the impression that I got from the news is that the satellite direct to mobile
Well, they will be trying to maintain
What I have now it won't get faster likely
Okay, so they're trying to maintain 30 megs per second from a satellite
Yeah, okay
I I will be shocked if they have those kind of speeds
But look, I don't know. I don't know the technology well enough the advancements in the technology. These are low or earth
Satellites as opposed to the higher earth satellites. Um, so there's there's going to be lower latency in theory
And higher latency for the older technology
But I I don't know like I would be I would be surprised that they're able to get 30 megs per second
But I I mean so if the satellite all right, so low earth orbit satellites are
Like star link you can get 100 megabits a second maybe
So if I would think it would be like a
Fraction of that because the like you have to have a big dish in order to use a star link, right?
So when you shrink it down into something the size of a cell phone, I would expect you to have drastically
worse reception
And the data rates are going to go way down
But I I yeah, I don't know for sure. Do you have more you want to talk about this?
Or do you want to talk about the vpn? I think we should go on to the vpn. Thank you for the call david
And go ahead chris. You had a where'd this article come from? Yeah, so this is come from this is coming from reclaim the
.org and the title of the story is uk house of lords votes to extend age verification of vpns
So they already made these age verifications on sites and now they want to extend that to to vpns
Yes, so basically in the uk if you go to facebook or you go to some other social media site right youtube maybe
You're being you're gonna have to basically this actually already started for I believe um, yeah
You're gonna use your digital id to log on right? That's tied to your
Well, it's you have to verify your id somehow like they call they say a digital id
But basically what they're doing is they're saying you got to present them with an id
Right like your driver's license right in order to get on facebook. It's it's absolutely insane. Well, so if you go through a vpn
You're no it doesn't look like to facebook that you're coming from the uk anymore. And so the uk won't ask you to show id
Right
They're now going to regulate in the uk the vpn service the vpn service so the vpn providers have to have to
Ask for id basically is the idea
um, it's it's it's absolutely sounds absolutely crazy
um, because the only companies that are going to have to comply are companies that have
Like servers in the uk anybody else is basically going to just be able to ignore them. So you're gonna
And the consequences of this is also kind of like dumb right in the sense that
think about it like this
You're going to end up forcing people to use free services that are not within the country anyway, and they're going to be more dangerous
But you know, let's just say like people just don't use servers in the uk
It kind of like what's the point of the bill at that point right like so we give them enough time
I just want to put a pin in this really fast and go to the phones. We have a
Unscreened caller. You're on free talk live. What's on your mind?
Yes, can somebody please tell dave from mexico that free talk live
May be a caller driven show
But it's listener supported
You you're bored by his call
Is that what it is oh he hung up
I think that's I think that's the the gist of it
Callers, I mean sorry dave calls are hit and miss sometimes. He's pretty entertaining
Sometimes I wasn't very interested in last call, but I thought chris might be so I let it go on for a bit
I mean honestly, I don't like I don't even use this. I mean, okay
So I have a cell phone that you can see from the video, but there's no SIM card in it
Right, so I don't even use like a cell phone like you would think
Yeah, like self-service. Yeah, you just use them as like an iPod touch. Yeah, um, they're they're basically tracking devices and um
I there's people who call them trackers
We should just start calling cell phones are tracking devices like looking up on your tracking device
It's basically I I mean, I don't want to go so far as saying it was a technology invented by the cea to track everybody
But that's basically what it is in practice
so
I don't know why you wouldn't want to go that far. It wouldn't surprise me, but you know
A lot of the a lot of technology has come out of government funding from that in like research and stuff like that
So like like the internet. Yeah the internet especially as an example
Directly fed to our phones via the magic rectangles. Yeah. Yeah, and it's not necessarily the oldest technology terrible, but it's
it the cell phones in particular are
Particularly dangerous
They've got modem
So I actually understand how these things work and if there's basically this thing called firmware
and there's this thing called a modem basically in your cell phone and that modem
The firmware for the modem part can be remotely updated
by the cellular provider and the government can basically order the cellular provider to
Basically put a bug in so like it then up to the dates of firmware on the modem and then once the modem is updated
It had generally on most phones. It has access to the rest of the device
So like any kind of encryption that you do on your phone is totally futile
Um, it's and I don't want to say that it's totally futile because it's not in the sense that
They're not going to be doing this to every single person's cell phone probably
But if you were targeted if you're targeted
Yeah, you're the cell the encryption is basically pointless the encryption is
Fine when it comes to sort of stifling mass surveillance, maybe but as far as like if you're a targeted individual
Yeah, it doesn't you're you're basically being um anybody who's advertising
I just I could see where it's like how targeted are you like if like if
The Manchester police try to track your phone and it's encrypted and they hit a wall and they don't have access to like
they're the
Yeah, I mean so
So I do have a pretty good understanding of some of the stuff so the
The
Your your government agents even at much higher level not not your local law enforcement
They don't have access to this kind of technology, right? They might request that the higher ups do it possibly but the
They're not going to use something like this against you and me generally speaking. I mean
Maybe possibly but probably all right. So most people they're not going to use this against like some random criminal
Um, but the type of people they will use this against in particular are drug kingpins, especially like in mexico
Yeah, the vice chancellor of germany. They probably use this against not that long ago
It was a public case that was revealed, right? Isn't that what it's called? Um, that was one of the names for
The same idea of the system. Yeah, I don't know specifically how it entangles
I don't necessarily think that is connected to this necessarily. Um, specifically
Um, there's very little information out there though on this. Um, like these back doors basically into our phones
Um, but it's just like the way the technology works
And the other thing is like the FCC the federal communication commission actually prohibits the source code release for the like the firmware that goes into the
Uh modems for for what's used in these devices. So there's there's like ways there's hacks to sort of turn your modem off on some phones
Um, there's something called the pine phone. Um, if you if you want a device that actually like you actually can be like protect yourself against some of this
Um, and basically the pine phone has a little what's called dip switches
You probably haven't heard of these unless you're like living in the 80s or early 90s
But yeah, so basically the switch these dip switches basically disconnect the power from the modem part
Most phones it's all integrated. So you can't even do this with but with the pine phone
They use separate modem um from the like sort of the the rest of the device
So like that's basically the only device out there. Um, other than one other
Product that's from a company that's very malicious. So I won't recommend there. I won't even mention his name
But um, but basically a pine phone is like one of the few devices on the market that you can actually
If you want actually have like some sort of secure communication with
Um, pretty much everything else is potentially backdoor. Like if I was the vice president of um,
The vice chancellor in Germany. Can the pine phones modem not get updated?
Um, yeah, if I have to switch on no, it can then they can update it
And I'm sure they should be able to update that but
You could turn the modem off so they can't track so they can't read what's going on on your phone
Oh and because the modem the memory is separate they can't they can't um
The modem can't read the memory of the main core device of the encryption
That makes sense because you compartmentalize the memory exactly. Oh, yeah
Yeah, and that's what makes it basically the most potentially secure device in the world
See this is more interesting to me than the whole
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We'll talk it live. I don't know if you said it like that. No, I didn't say exactly like that, but maybe I should have
well
the other day on twitter I was
I saw a chat
I mean a tweet where somebody said
that the robots are
Scheming against us and they put put this
Picture of a forum where apparently robots are talking amongst each other like ai's
I don't know if I believe it because anyone could go on ai
and say hey write this
Thing that looks like you're plotting against us. Oh, yeah, and it's easy to do these days. I was
Literally 15 minutes ago. I was talking with one of my best friends and sometimes we'll just get on the phone and
uh
Just talk to each other for like two hours because we live on other sides of the country
so we'll just like
You know do a catch up and uh, he was talking to me. We got on to the subject of youtube
And uh, he hit me with a crazy idea
Um, he thinks youtube has already been under the control of an ai for quite some time
And that's why the the shadow banning and it almost seems like arbitrary
Like I'll comment something
Um, and I can see it but nobody else can and I'll comment the same kind of comment on a different post and it'll pop up
And it'll be visible
Huh interesting. What do you?
Mean you'll be how do you know you're the only one that can see your comment on youtube?
Well, I can't prove it. Um, but uh, it's just I mean I'm not saying anything like that outlandish
And there'll be like other comments that get interactions and I can still see my
Comment that was posted like on my end
But it's obviously not showing up to other people
Um, because other people are saying the exact same things I am and then they'll get responses. Does that make sense?
It'll be like a arbitrary shadow ban
Yeah, I've always thought that the comment section on youtube is weird to like to your point
Um, I comment on something and I feel that oh i'm commenting like super late
There's probably if I was this youtuber, I would have like muted responses or you know muted
Not not be checking at least the comments by now and for some reason I'll get like tons of likes on there
Which is like it doesn't even matter because it's youtube like you're not
To me. It's not social media to me. It's like you barely know who anybody else is
I mean there's no way to know and it's not like you get paid like twitter if you get
Likes
Um, but I'm just it's just something I've noticed and then every once in a while
I'm like oh this video just got posted and I have something like really
Relevant in in landing to say in like just no one ever likes it at all and like yeah people who commented around the same time
We're saying but I've always just kind of thought
People are dumb
well, I think people are
They're just like that just works too well. He just kind of posited the idea that
um, like we have access to chat gpt and like these large language models, um, but
We've had access to other stuff probably for a while and it just kind of begins as a large language model
uh
Like how google kind of trained their ai at first with uh, like search results like top search results
Um was kind of like the beginnings of like the llms
um, and my friend was just saying it feels like
Something they they kind of integrated an ai into youtube
uh
Maybe around like 2019 that's just completely destroyed it and that's why youtube's like unusable because
The ai is out of their control and if they take it out, it's like ingrained itself into the
I like the dna of the website. There are also ai channels on youtube that are actually I can hear that they're done by ai
Oh, yeah, and it's like how on earth did you get on youtube and they have 300 000 views on the video
I know it's like what the heck is going on here. It's like they're promoting the ai videos
Why are you specifically saying that it's unusable like I've used youtube unusable
It's just that the youtube of today compared to like 2010 is totally different. It's been told. I think it's been co-opted
Um, I mean there's been like mass purges several mass purges on youtube for a long time. Yeah, that's