of attacks today, several rounds of of interceptions of booms in the morning and then again in the
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air defenses. Of course, airspace across the Middle East is closed in the UAE, in Qatar,
in Kuwait, elsewhere in Jordan. Days later, U.S. President Donald Trump said American
operations against Iran could last four to five weeks, but warned that the U.S. had the capability
to go far longer than that. Mr Trump was speaking at the White House as part of a Medal of Honor
ceremony. Nick Harper reports from Washington. Speaking at the White House, Donald Trump said
that this had been the last best chance to strike Iran. He said the U.S. was eliminating
the intolerable threats posed by a sick and sinister regime. He detailed U.S.
objectives, including destroying Iran's missile capabilities, annihilating its navy,
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running campaign, adding that the U.S. had projected it could last four to five weeks,
but suggested he was prepared with the U.S. capability to go far longer than that.
At least 80 bodies were recovered by Sri Lankan authorities after a torpedo fired by
U.S. submarines sank in Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth
said it was the Islamic Republic's prize ship and said it was the first such strike since World
War II. Kate Fisher has more from Washington. Sri Lanka's Navy said it had recovered 87 bodies
and rescued 32 people from the crew of 180 after receiving a distress call from the vessel,
one of Iran's newest warships. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that one of his key objectives is
to wipe out Iran's navy. The strike, more than 2,000 miles from Tehran, stretches the battlefield
to its furthest point since the war began. Iran has targeted countries with missiles as far away
as Cyprus and Turkey. The U.S. Defense Department has formally labeled the artificial
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court. Iris Spitzer reports from San Francisco. The Pentagon followed through on its threat to
label Anthropic a supply chain risk escalating the dispute over how the U.S. military can
use its technology. The Defense Department says Anthropic's restrictions could prevent
the military from using its AI tools for lawful missions, but the company has been pushing for
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He has posted on social media after polling wrapped up on Thursday thanking the people
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other contenders including KP Sharma Oli who has refused to call September's unrest a referendum
on his previous term. And he says he's still very much in the contention for a fifth term.
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from New Hampshire. As soon as I figure out what button to push, Dave, you're on free talk live.
Still having that problem, Mark, after 20 years? Thank you very much.
Pointed out for everybody. I'm calling from Colorado actually, but
have you been keeping up with the conflict between the feds in New Hampshire over vehicle
inspections? Yes, this is a great story. This is truly a New Hampshire story. Go ahead, Dave.
Yeah, so I just have some updated details on that because I figured you'd already been
covering it. Tell the whole story now because the people are listening.
Yeah, the backstory is that New Hampshire, I guess they passed legislation to
get rid of the vehicle inspection regimen, so you didn't have to get your vehicle to
inspect it anymore. Get a little stupid sticker on your car and say that they hunt you down,
they pull you over, they give you a ticket for not having the right color sticker.
Sticker police. Yeah, and the fed stepped in with an activist
judge and said, oh, you're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to have
legislation in New Hampshire that does that. And so in response, this is where the free
staters come in. There is a free stator who is the New Hampshire majority leader in the
state house. He's a Republican, Jason Osborn, former advertiser on your show and mine.
Yes, I believe he has declared himself a free stator. He says,
you're a free stator. I'm a free stator. We're all free staters now is what Jason says.
And I agree with him. I think everybody from New Hampshire is a free stator.
Well, he's even more of a free stator than that because he used to go, he's been to pork
fest many times and he's very connected to us. But the thing he did was so when the feds did
they said, okay, well, let's just make, let's just change the law so that, yeah, okay, we
have vehicle inspections and all that stuff. But the penalty for not getting your vehicle
inspectors is down to just $1. Just let's do that. Very good. And so the Republicans initially
backed that approach and started moving forward with that approach and then changed their mind and
said, no, let's just do, let's just do litigation and all these different things that will not get
us out of the vehicle inspections. Let's do a bunch of things that will fail instead.
So tell me, what's that mean? What will fail? So basically,
there's a list of the things that they're apparently going to do, but it's an example of
how it would work. I just don't quite understand. Okay, to fight the federal, they're basically
just going to sue in federal inspection because most states don't have a vehicle inspection
or overturned it. The feds came in and said, no, you can't do that because some moneyed
interests that we're making, you know, profits off of this said, wow, we need to save this.
So the feds are like, no, no, you must have vehicle inspections, even though they
sure instead of just lowering the penalty to $1 so that cops won't enforce it because it's not
worth the trouble, they say instead that they're going to, you know, fight it in court every step
of the way. We're already paying the lawyers. So, you know, they're either doing this or
they're doing something else, but the state lawyers are getting paid already. So you might
as well have them fighting here. And even if they lose, which they will, then they'll keep
on dragging it out. And at some point the feds will give up. Well, the question is whether the
state of New Hampshire has the right to pass a law, isn't it? Ultimately, you know, they
they had a law saying we need inspection stickers. Now they're passing a law that says we don't.
I think that's worth litigating. Now, if they fail, they could still pass a bill that
moves down to $1, right? I think that's a stand worth taking. I don't see why they
couldn't just do both. Yeah, do everything. I would just tell them to go pound sand.
We pass this law and you can just, you know, whatever, but sometimes it's bad.
I'm already in that camp of co-pound sand. I wouldn't inspect. I wouldn't get my vehicle
inspected anyways. And they can pull me over for it and I'll go to court and I'll tell
the judge. Have you? No, not yet. They just don't. I see this coming. So one day down the road
and then we'll talk about it. There is a lawsuit open. So I don't think they can just
ignore it and say go pound sand. Somebody has to go to court and say something.
Okay. I believe. Not entirely sure how it all works, but I do believe that if Florida doesn't
have a vehicle inspection, and New Hampshire does, then New Hampshire has the right as a state
that writes a strong term here, but has the power as a state to decide that it will no longer
have vehicle inspections. And the feds whose job it is to enforce post roads, the military,
weights and measures, they have just no standing in this.
Yeah. I was reading some of the forums in Vermont for what people do about state inspections,
because it's a scam everywhere. And they'll fail you for things that are non-existent or
just for because they don't like the color of pants you're wearing. And so a lot of people
just drive without having their car inspected and it's not that big of a deal. People go
decades without ever catching any flak about it whatsoever. I had an agricultural vehicle.
And therefore, I just didn't have to worry about inspections.
But any truck you want, it doesn't even have to be a truck, just an agricultural vehicle.
And it has to be, you have to be within 25 miles of your home, although I never once
had anyone ever say anything about driving more than 25 miles from my home.
And you just have to be doing something that's farm related.
I kept a, in my truck, I would always have an empty egg carton. Here you go,
doing farm related stuff. This was in Florida? No, this is here in New Hampshire.
And you were supposedly not supposed to drive it outside of the state of New Hampshire.
However, what's Vermont know about an agricultural plate in New Hampshire?
That's right. It just happened to have the letters A and G next to each other.
They can check your registration. I think that's about it.
Perhaps they could. I can assure you, Florida couldn't.
And now this wasn't the kind of truck that I would, the truck that I drove,
wasn't the kind of truck that you would drive, say to Florida.
But I'd certainly drove it in hither and nigh, daily, and no problem. I have a farm.
I am, I farmer. What do you want from me? Yes, this is my truck. It's an agricultural vehicle.
Well, anyway, this is just, this is the latest federal abuse that is a reminder
why we as New Hampshire rights should have an independent country.
And this, you know, instead of playing whack-a-mole with the fed on every different little issue
that they want to fight us on, just disconnects from them. You know, if you get the whole,
the whole, how was the right term? Get the, get everything out, get everything fixed at once
by declaring independence or at least having a referendum on independence.
So Dave, you know, we're going to play the mark the statist game.
I am not a fan of the notion of New Hampshire's seceding from the United States.
It's not because I don't think that a state is sovereign,
comparative to at least the federal government. It's because I think it's just so impractical
in this world where states are federalizing and, you know, creating agreements amongst
each other so that people can travel more freely and move about and work in different places and
things like that, that making smaller and smaller states without these, you know,
sort of federal agreements is, is difficult. And we have a federation. It's called the federal
government. Now what I could see that would make a lot of sense and make the people of
New Hampshire very free would be somehow moving from the status of state to the status of U.S.
territory. Now this has never been done. There have been plenty of U.S. territories, well,
the handful, I think it's like the Philippines and the Marshall Islands and a Utah and Arizona
were territories. They were territories that were turned into states, right? And then we've
had territories that turned into sovereign countries. We've never had a state turn
into a territory. And territories enjoy in many cases their own tax regimes. You can go to
Puerto Rico, you don't pay property, capital gains tax, the CNMI, the Commonwealth of Northern
Mariana Islands or what I call the U.S. Marianas, they have their own tax code,
all kinds of things. So they have their own immigration, have all kinds of their own things.
It allows them to have way more control, way more sovereignty.
And I think that would be good for everybody. I don't know what it would look like,
but I think it would be far less likely to, oh, I don't know, get false flagged because I think
if you tried to secede and had a vote for it, a group of guys would come in with short haircuts
and boots and say, we're free staters. They'd set a few cars on fire and maybe burn down a
town hall and then you'd never see them again. And that would run your chances.
I think the most likely avenue for New Hampshire to be its own country is just
when the U.S. inevitably falls apart. The federal government is like Spider-Man trying
to hold the train back in that one Toby Gumpire movie. It can't last forever.
And so there will be a time when the play is, we establish our own sovereignty of some sort.
I agree, secession is incredibly unlikely. There's just going to be some sort of
inevitable balkanization of the U.S. I think it's too big.
But we do have to be ready.
Yes, we have to be ready.
Right.
And listen, I think we should be so ready that we're already promoting it right now.
New Hampshire is the greatest country in the world.
I think it's also beneficial to threaten.
You know, I mean, your wife might treat you a little better if you say,
you know, I could just walk out the door.
At some point or another, she's going to sick of it though.
Dave?
Yeah. And as Russell Canning would say, if you want to become a U.S. territory,
I think you should do that.
That sounds like a great idea.
Why don't you do that?
We've done something here.
We've pushed legislation forward.
It's come forward now three times for New Hampshire independence or a referendum
or study committees or whatever.
We've had it every session for the last three sessions.
And maybe you should have a piece of legislation that you attempt
that turned us into a territory.
I don't know.
I don't know what works best,
but I know that we've got to be doing some stuff that's outside the box
because the box isn't working.
I agree.
The whack-a-mole is unsustainable.
I think that it's larping to try to put a bill in
and not put the money behind it that it takes to get a bill passed.
We all know how this game is played.
This game is played with money.
And if you want the thing done, you need to get the politicians on your side
and get it done the way it gets done.
In New Hampshire, it's not just money.
That bill wouldn't have passed.
The inspection bill wouldn't have passed.
It's not that.
We can have good bills introduced by regular people.
You know, the guys who are pushing the inspection law,
those are regular guys from Manchester.
Yes, but they worked within the system
and got the politicians on board early.
It's an overton window issue.
But what I'm saying is they didn't have massive funding.
They just had willpower.
They don't need it.
They have because they're within the overton window.
Everybody hates the inspection.
Sure.
If you go around and ask the people of, you know,
various towns within New Hampshire,
do you want to secede from the United States?
I suspect you will get lower than 50 percent.
How you ask the question matters.
Sure it does.
If you say, do you like the idea of New Hampshire
as a free and independent country
without any of the interference from Washington?
I've never heard someone say yes.
I'm sorry, say no.
And I've asked that question a bunch.
I like the sound of that.
But I think that, fine.
All I'm trying to say is that if you want it to go through,
you need to get it to go through the house.
And if you want it to go through the house,
you need to pay the money.
If you want it to go through the Senate,
you need to pay more money.
If you want it to get signed by the governor,
you need to get more money.
If this is a good idea, a million bucks
should be nothing to raise to do it.
Again, I don't think it's,
I don't think a bill is going to be the way to do it.
Okay.
How would you do it?
Ah, well, again, what I want to do is...
If you're one that says it's impractical,
so I'm making you solve your own problem.
No, what I would say is you want to be,
you want to be waiting for the opportunity
and basically priming the culture to say,
New Hampshire, like I said,
New Hampshire already is the greatest country
in the world that he's talking about.
The U.S. has basically lost its spirit.
It's interesting, and Dave hasn't mentioned this,
but I know he would, is that above the New Hampshire State
House are the words, the Republic of New Hampshire.
It doesn't say the state of New Hampshire.
It doesn't say the commonwealth of New Hampshire.
It says the Republic.
And that sounds very much to me
like its own sovereign place.
And it was.
New Hampshire was, if I remember correctly,
the first state to secede from England.
So they did it on their own.
They left.
They were the only free country for that moment
until some of the others followed them.
I think it was just a few short months.
Yeah, it wasn't long.
It took a longer time to pass anything at that time.
We didn't have AI to solve our problems.
Dave?
But we...
Go ahead, Dave.
We, first of all, I'll answer a couple of your questions.
The Survey USA poll, I think it was 2022,
showed 42% support in New Hampshire
for an independence referendum.
And I don't...
The other thing is that, you know,
independence is not...
It's a Hail Mary pass that does not have to be caught.
You gain something each step closer towards independence.
The legislation that was proposed in 2021
and came before the legislature in 2022
generated a massive amount of publicity
for New Hampshire liberty and for the Free State Project.
And even just putting a few people
in front of the federal building on Brexit,
during Brexit week, got us 40 or 50 media articles.
So these things, if nothing else,
they get a lot of publicity and discussion.
I absolutely see it.
And I think that the federal government
needs to realize that a state can leave.
Now, I don't think that first state ought to be New Hampshire.
If states are going to leave the still-existing
United States federal government,
and I do agree all governments fail
on a timeline long enough,
and the United States government will fail,
and that in the event of the failure
of the United States government,
the state government would simply take over.
So I get where we're coming from on it.
But that first state ought to be Texas, Florida.
California.
Be the perfect one.
Someone big enough to kind of...
Yeah, California is big enough to have their own economy
and not feel so isolated.
Well, also if the left does it first,
they can't then use the power of the federal government
against a small right-wing state like New Hampshire.
Because that's what I would fear is if
if New Hampshire tries to do it,
obviously whether it's going to be Donald Trump
or Joe Biden or whoever in there,
they're not going to respond well.
But if somebody's going to do it,
I would rather it be left to state first
that the precedent is established.
And then if there's like a Joe Biden
or Kamala Harris in power,
they can't say that it doesn't apply
because they just let their own people do it.
That's what they'll say, yeah.
They just let their own people do it.
You know what they're going to do?
There is no danger of the ball rolling out of control uphill.
I think we can put all of our effort we want to
into New Hampshire becoming independent.
It's not going to happen sooner than we want it to.
That's fair.
And additionally, if you look historically,
the first one's out of the safest, right?
New Hampshire was first out last time
and it was the safest state to be
pretty much all the way through the revolution.
Estonia was the safest place to be.
It was the first one out of the Soviet Union, I think.
Slovenia was the first out of Yugoslavia.
They were safer to be than any of the other republics
except Macedonia, which never succeeded.
So it's just you want to be first out the door.
If you do not want to be the last one out the door,
when it comes to independence,
or you end up like Chechnya,
they were the last one out of the door
with the Soviet Union.
That's interesting.
I have not heard this argument before.
The first one out is the safest.
I am going to think about what you have said,
but you've given a lot of examples here.
Why would that be?
Any explanation?
I don't know precisely why that is,
but it just seems to be the historical precedent.
Gotcha.
One more question, Dave.
What should New Hampshire do about that awful flag?
Keep it, make some changes.
Make some changes, how so?
But changing flags, that's what Soviets do.
Okay.
You don't want to change it, ever.
Lots of states change flags.
We have enough real things to change.
We don't need to change that.
You just wouldn't change the New Hampshire flag,
even though it looks like Virginia's and New York's
and Maine's and Vermont's and...
The blue background with the state seals.
They call it an SOB, seal on a blanket.
It's a blue blanket.
A friend of mine came up with a flag.
You can look at it at the granitrepublic.com.
The granitrepublic.com.
I've seen this flag and I like it.
It's a good flag.
It's the pine tree flag is like half of it,
and then there's a gold and a blue and a red stripe.
Yep.
And so obviously...
They mean things like gold is, I don't know,
state sovereignty.
The gold symbolizes prosperity.
The blue is for cooperation,
and the red is for sacrifice and blood
so that it takes to get there.
And then the pine tree flag right on it.
It's for the pine tree revolution,
which occurred started in New Hampshire.
And that was 100 years before the regular
Revolutionary War.
And it was essentially...
I don't think it was 100, but it was a while.
Yeah.
Decades before, and we'll go with that,
before the Revolutionary War.
And it was just people saying,
these are our trees.
It's our land.
It's our trees.
I think it was 1772.
Really?
It was in where?
Yeah.
And they tarred and feathered the guy
who came and tried to...
I guess that the problem had gone on for so long.
I did read something about this,
but it has been like 10 years.
Yes.
You know, pardon me if I...
Well, the problem had gone on for 100 years for sure.
Yeah.
You know, the people of New Hampshire
have been living here for 100 plus years,
and the king would come through and...
Not the king?
Go on all their land and take...
Well, not the king.
Just a tax collector.
Yeah.
And you know, say these are the trees.
You can't use those trees.
And if you use the trees,
and they were the best trees...
Yep.
And everybody's using wood.
Yep.
They're taking the best white pine,
the straightest, the tallest.
They're saying this is ours,
and they would use them for the masts
of these big ships.
Well, and my understanding is the forests
in New Hampshire then were not like they are now.
We went through a huge amount of deforestation.
If you look around New Hampshire,
all the trees are the same height,
because 90% of New Hampshire was deforested
up until like 100 years ago.
We let a lot of it grow back.
But there was...
In the stories from the first settlers,
they would say you could ride in the forest
four men on horseback between the trees
in the forest.
And there was...
It was a total, you know,
covers.
It was really, really ancient deep forests here
at that time.
Yeah.
So the...
What happened was,
first you had the pine trees come in, right?
And then the deer will eat the top.
They'll, you know, the white pine will come in.
Then the old, the hardwoods,
the oaks, the maples,
these kind of things grow up underneath it.
They need a little less light,
and the pine trees don't cover very well.
So then the hardwoods go up.
And it takes them a couple hundred years.
And then in the dark, in the shade,
the hemlock come up.
And they slowly rise and rise and rise.
And this is what you're talking about.
These hemlocks have a big canopy.
And they would come in and basically starve
over the course of hundreds of years.
They starve the, you know,
the hardwoods of the light,
and then they make this big, giant canopy.
You're right.
Absolutely.
These forests were...
There's a lot of space in here.
Like the redwoods.
More like this, by understanding.
Yeah, much more.
But not quite as tall.
Not nearly as tall.
The number, 603-283-6160.
Thank you for the call, Dave Ridley.
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The United States and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran
this week after the U.S.
had assembled a large military buildup in the Middle East.
The large-scale strikes claimed the life
of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei
and destroyed much of Iran's military capability.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said
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Now here in Dubai, we've had several rounds of attacks today,
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and then again in the afternoon.
It's unclear whether those were drones
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But of the hundreds that have been fired at the UAE,
the vast majority have been intercepted by air defenses.
Days later, U.S. President Donald Trump said
American operations against Iran could last four to five weeks,
but warned that the U.S. had the capability
to go far longer than that.
Nick Harper reports from Washington.
Speaking at the White House,
Donald Trump said that this had been
the last best chance to strike Iran.
He said the U.S. was eliminating the intolerable
threats posed by a sick and sinister regime.
He detailed U.S. objectives,
including destroying Iran's missile capabilities,
annihilating its navy,
and ensuring the country can never have a nuclear weapon.
But he warned that this could be a long-running campaign.
At least 80 bodies were recovered by Sri Lankan authorities
after a torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine
sank in Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
said it was the Islamic Republic's prize ship
and said it was the first such strike since World War II.
Kate Fisher has more from Washington.
Sri Lanka's navy said it had recovered 87 bodies
and rescued 32 people from the crew of 180
after receiving a distress call from the vessel
one of Iran's newest warships.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said
that one of his key objectives
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The strike, more than 2,000 miles from Tehran,
stretches the battlefield to its furthest point
since the war began.
The U.S. Defense Department
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Iris Spitzer reports from San Francisco.
The Pentagon followed through on its threat
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can use its technology.
The Defense Department says Anthropic's restrictions
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From Feature Story News, in New York, I'm Mitch McCann
and that was the Week in Review.
Look, I have relatively recently taken a position
as on the Board of Advisors with a cryptocurrency project.
Now, what I want you to do is understand,
Freetalk Live was the first media mention
in the world of Bitcoin,
that to some extent,
you know, one of the founders of Ethereum
claims to have heard about
cryptocurrency on Freetalk Live.
It's possible the Vitalik heard from his dad
who had heard an episode of Freetalk Live
and talked about cryptocurrency that he heard about it.
So second hand, I'm not entirely sure of this story.
I haven't, Vitalik hasn't corroborated it to me,
but I kind of pieced it together.
So we, to some extent, Freetalk Live
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They may have broken Vitalik's unbreakable triangle, right?
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Is it proof of work?
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I'm going to go to David in New Mexico.
Screen air.
Thank you.
David, you're on Free Talk Live.
I got squinted at the board here.
All right.
Hey, it's nice to have somebody running the board there
that is respectful to callers most of the time.
I said click.
Oh, he was trying to prove me wrong.
That's why I added most of the time at the end.
There is a qualifier.
Just in case you would have some shenanigans in mind.
What's on your mind, Dave?
Oh, well, lots of stuff.
Well, I want to talk about what you guys are talking about.
But first of all, let me get my little quips in here.
First of all, I like Deep Forest.
I love their music.
Anybody listen to them?
Never heard of them.
Is that what is that?
Is that called Deep Forest?
It's an AI band.
You were talking about Deep Forest.
It's a minute ago.
Deep Forest.
Oh, Deep Forest.
I haven't heard that band.
I have no idea.
Never mind.
Yeah.
They're climate change bands.
They were?
That was a stupid joke.
I said they're a climate change band.
Deep Forest.
There you go.
Yeah.
They definitely should be banned then if they're on that band.
They're cutting a new album.
No, they're pro-climate change.
They're pro-climate, meaning...
Well, I can take that two different ways.
Which way are you meaning it?
Like they're fans of it.
They like it.
That's why they call it Deep Forest.
I could take some global warming.
Yeah.
You know, in fact, it's a bad idea.
New Hampshire is in a better position than, say, Maryland.
Right?
Because when the snow falls in Maryland, it melts.
And then the nighttime comes.
It goes back to freezing and it turns to ice.
That doesn't happen in New Hampshire.
Because the snow falls and it doesn't reach freezing.
It doesn't get above freezing for months.
And so we don't have as much black ice as many states do.
That's a good point.
You're either in Florida or you want to be above Massachusetts.
Yeah, well, no kidding, Mark.
It's all white people up there.
Of course you don't.
I like the cold because it keeps the weak people out.
The weak?
The weak keeps the weak away.
Well, as they say in Minnesota, it keeps the rip-rap out.
Yeah, that's right.
You want to be homeless?
Go to Florida or California.
Yeah, exactly.
But hey, Mark, what were you saying about
you got no black guys there?
We have no black guys.
Black ice.
God, this is deforested all over again.
One more racial joke and you are gone.
Oh man, all of me switched to a different.
Oh, I got religious jokes.
So the actor is a true story.
You're talking about what Colorado City, Hildale.
You're talking about the fundamentalist Mormons.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
The fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ.
Yeah, and their sons.
And also, I want to follow that up with the Amish
because that's the solution to your problem.
But minus the religion.
I've often thought that.
I'll tell you in a minute.
Yeah, but the sons getting kicked out of Colorado City
and Hildale and the town of Virgin, Utah.
Anyway, so a friend of a friend was one of those sons.
And so he got kicked out and run out of town
because of that exact reason.
Not enough women to go around, especially if they're under 13.
Right.
And he moved down to Phoenix.
And he met, he started running, you know, met a few strippers.
And what he would do for fun is he would recruit
some of his stripper friends to ride up the,
on the way to the lake, at the page, was it the lake?
Anyway, Pager is on of the lake there.
What's the lake?
I don't know.
How can I forget?
So he'd take strippers to the, the, the religious town?
And they were on the way to the lake
and they would swing through
his old hometown, Colorado City.
And they would strip down to their bikinis
and they would blast loud music
and they'd be dancing in the bed of the truck,
playing this music as, and they would drive up and down
Main Street and all around town.
That's hilarious.
Now do that.
Yeah.
They, they, I mean, in these towns,
they're, the government's completely controlled
by these religions.
And so the cops are this religion
and presumably there are cops.
And how does that work?
Yeah.
Well, this was back in the day.
I'd, well, he, it, it worked.
They may have had no cops.
They didn't do anything.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't know what they did,
but they didn't do anything to him.
Okay.
You know, and I, I don't even know
if they had town cops.
I mean, in the, I lived in a town 10 years ago
here in New Hampshire, didn't have a cop.
So, you know.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, a lot of towns don't have cops,
but you know, especially if you're like,
all homogenous fundamentalist Mormon,
what do you need a cop for?
What do you need it for?
Agreed.
Right.
And if you do need law enforcement,
then you just call the county.
So, but they, they didn't,
they didn't give them any problem.
He just rubbed it in their face,
and then they moved on, went to the lake,
and continued their party.
Yeah.
But anyway, oh, and hey, you were talking
about something, something earlier about,
about your, your ripping on, on,
on bestiality.
And I need to remind you that bestiality
is spelled B-E-S-T.
Bestiality?
Yeah.
Best.
But why would they name it bestiality?
They spell it if it wasn't a good thing.
Dave's the reason it's illegal.
Yeah.
Well, a man's best friend or whatever.
Let's go to Chad.
Chad's Bistro.
What's, what's going on here?
We'll screen the call.
Chad's Bestro.
Bestro?
Chad's Bestro.
You're on Freetalk Live.
Oh, this is, I pushed the wrong button.
What, of course.
Chad, you're on Freetalk Live.
If this is Chad.
Hey, how's it going guys?
Yeah.
Um, I just wanted to talk about
Forkfest a little bit.
Sure. Forkfest.
Absolutely.
Then Forkfest is a little bit crazy this year.
I know it's now decentralized,
which kind of fits right in with
what we're doing with Forkfest.
I can't say I know everything about
what's been announced about
Forkfest, but as I,
this is the Porcupine Freedom Festival
put on by the Free State Project.
And in some manner or another,
it's your Porkfest.
You come to New Hampshire,
you go around,
you see a bunch of different things,
and then that's Porkfest.
Decentralized.
It's Build-A-Bear.
That's what it is,
because they ruin it with Roger's campground.
That's not really what Porkfest has been,
although I do think that could be a cool event.
Porkfest is actually centralized.
Like we're going to have people
from all over the country
who are anarcho-libertarians
coming to congregate and network
and, you know, party and come up
with ideas for what we can do in the future.
But it didn't work out this year,
so Porkfest, I think, is it
if you want that kind of atmosphere.
So we're doing a week up in Errol
with a bunch of like-minded people.
We have a whole campground
that we've taken over,
or that the owners are allowing us to use,
that where we can have an Agora
and do all the things
that we would like to do in Porkfest,
although probably on a much smaller scale this year.
Right, so if you people want more information,
they go to forkfest.com
and there's also, I presume,
at that website,
forkfest2026 at gmail.com
is how you sign up to be one of the 100 campers,
because this is a very small select group
that first come first serve, as I understand it.
Yes, yeah, there's 100 people
that can stay at the main campground.
However, there are hotels, cabins,
campgrounds in the area.
This is a very rustic campground,
so if you have an RV, especially a big RV,
because it has to be under 26 feet
to stay at the main campground.
And if you want sewer and electrical
and all the full hookups,
there are a number of campgrounds
around the area.
But for the, like the core of it,
and we're not going to have a day pass,
so you don't have to pay to get in
if you stay elsewhere,
but the core of it is going to be at,
yeah, the northern waters base camp,
which is right on a river there.
It's got a kind of hard name to pronounce.
I don't remember it exactly,
but it's in Errol, New Hampshire,
right near the border with Maine,
and not even too far from Canada.
And I think it's going to be a really,
really cool event.
What are you looking forward to the most?
I think that everyone should look forward
to it the most.
It's going to be,
it's going to be the spirit of pork fest.
You know, so I, yeah, it's going to be fun.
What are you looking forward to the most at the event?
I mean, the socializing, obviously.
I mean, you coming from the normie world
and going to pork fest is an eye-opening experience
for most anarcho-libertarians.
And I think that this is going to be
probably the spirit of that,
although like I said, very much smaller.
And I do like what they're doing with the event
that they have put on now.
It's kind of short notice,
but I think traveling around New Hampshire
and seeing all the things that can be seen is cool.
It's just not really pork fest.
You know, I mean, it's going to be fun.
And I hope it brings new movers there,
but it's not really what pork fest has been in the past.
It isn't what pork fest has been in the past.
And I don't know whether it'll work or not work.
I'm, you know, here's what I can say.
Pork fest, the Porcupine Freedom Festival,
which is a little different from pork fest.
Pork fest is people who just couldn't get enough
and wanted an extra week, essentially.
Well, the pork festers are two communists
and you need to have a more anarchist festival
than you can, yeah, that's pork fest.
Sure, but few people went to pork fest
and didn't go to pork fest.
I'm not saying it didn't happen,
but, you know, maybe maximum 15% of the pork festers
would leave for the Porcupine Freedom Festival.
Does anyone disagree with that statement?
It's probably bad.
Now, yeah, very few.
Very few.
It was typically to lead into it,
although in the past it has been after as well.
So, and I think that it should be over time.
I think we have to get a lot of solutions,
but I think that also there's some lessons
to learn about Rogers Campground,
not wanting to do business with the Freestate Project.
We're pretty centralized.
And that put us in a big disadvantage
when Crosby, who owns Rogers Campground,
decided for whatever reason
that he didn't want the Freestate Project,
didn't want a festival to do with the Freestate Project.
That, I mean, suddenly we're stuck
and no other campground wanted us.
Thank God for the Northern Waters Outfitters Campground
in Errol, New Hampshire.
Yes, which is owned by a libertarian guy.
He's very much along the same wavelength
as Freestaters and anarcho-libertarians are going to be.
So we're going to have, you can have open carry there,
dogs off the leash, obviously, unless they're mean.
You know, it's kind of open.
It's not going to be like typically they have campsites there,
but they're just letting us camp all over the whole property.
So however you want to set up, you can.
We're still going to have our vendors and everything,
which is a lot of what this year,
because we were going to do pork or forkfest there,
but they were really hesitant to allow us to do vendors
and things like that.
So all of the kind of open like Agora type stuff,
this is going to be the event for that,
where it's coming camp for a week
and, you know, meet your friends, talk about stuff
and be very open-ended.
The only rule that hasn't been a rule at porkfest
in the past sometimes is the nudity.
So I mean, there's not, we're not going to have a nudist there,
but everything else is pretty much open season.
You know, funny thing about porkfest,
I've gone many, many years to the Porcupine Freedom Festival.
I've never seen a naked person.
I've seen a guy walking around.
Oh, you haven't had enough time there.
Indeed.
They're there.
I believe you.
I know they are.
Most people aren't naked.
I just haven't seen them.
Yeah, and they keep them relegated to the corner.
You know, they put them in a little air.
Listen, there was a whole fiasco
about nudity at porkfest a couple of years ago.
And I understood the concerns,
but the nudists got very upset.
They said, you know, this is imposing on freedom.
It was like, nobody's complaining
about the nude Olympics because they've had every year
they have in the in the backfield,
the nude Olympics at porkfest.
Nobody's ever complained because as long as you're
not near people's families, nobody cares.
Right. The, as I understand,
the problem was they put the nudist in this case
too close to the permanent residents of the campground.
There was one year they put them right in the middle.
Yeah.
This is a bad move.
I don't plan that.
Yeah, they should have been on the other end.
Yeah.
And Rogers Campground's a big place.
It was just bad planning.
And this is what my main complaint
complaint about the Porcupine Freedom Festival is,
is that they switch managers of it too often.
So the institutional knowledge that's built up
over one, two, three years of doing it
is then lost again.
And again.
Indeed.
I'm not saying you have to have the same person
do it every time, but there's just no,
this is how you do it kind of thing.
And the, the, the torch isn't past.
They, you know, the, there needs to be sort of
an assistant manager and a manager doing it.
And that way when the, you know,
manager decides I'm sick of it,
then the assistant manager can take over
and get a new assistant or maybe there's
two assistants, whatever it is.
Continuity of pork.
Yeah. They need a continuity.
And agreed.
It just doesn't work.
I do sort of wish they hadn't called
this new thing pork fest.
They should just put pork fest on hold.
They could bring it back anytime.
They've sort of changed the soul of it.
I don't know.
And I hope the very, you know what?
Pork Fest, the Porcupine Freedom Festival
has been the number one recruiting tool,
the Free State Project, since it started.
Yep.
And big draw.
It's huge.
People get to come and experience.
I don't know.
Maybe kind of what it's like to be in a,
live in a libertarian world.
Not what it's like to live in New Hampshire,
because that is not yet a libertarian world.
Correct.
But what it might be like.
And people often who are visiting from outside the state,
they feel a euphoria to the point that they're just like,
I'm not going home.
Or I'm going home.
I'm getting my stuff and I'm coming right back.
Happens more often than you might think.
It's spoiled.
And it, yeah.
Every year.
And you know, it might be an exaggeration
to say dozens of people,
but it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say,
some years it's been dozens of people.
Yeah.
It's really, really incredible.
And there's honestly nothing like this event.
I hope that we can figure out how to do it.
But this year, I'm most excited about Forkfest.
And you can do Forkfest and whatever the Free State
Project is calling Forkfest too.
You can do it all.
Are you doing the same week?
This is June the 22nd through the 29th.
So basically, yeah.
I think Forkfest is 21st to 28th.
Excellent.
And you can, you know, come here, do this event.
You can go around the state.
As I understand, to do Forkfest,
you got to get like four stamps in your passport.
So they want you to go to four different locations
and do something.
I don't know.
I haven't been paid to promote
the Porcupine Freedom Festival.
And I don't know a lot about the Porcupine Freedom
Festival, but I can tell you that Forkfest
probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for.
Sure.
Free Talk Live.
And frankly, maybe Porkfest wouldn't exist
if it wasn't for Free Talk Live.
And maybe the Free State Project wouldn't exist
with if it wasn't for Free Talk Live.
I don't know.
I don't.
I can't A-B test any of these statements.
What's that?
Yeah, that's quite possible.
It's possible.
Free Talk Live has been a huge influence
on the whole thing.
So if you want to find out more,
go to Forkfest.party.
And I'm sure the email that you would send to
is right there.
So New Hampshire.
I wanted, I did some interviews
while I was at the Liberty Forum,
you know, with, I talked to Jason Sorens.
I talked to Eric Brayke.
I've talked to Jason Osborne.
And I've talked to a variety of people.
Carla Garrick, who was Queen Quill,
one time president of the Free State Project,
longtime board member, didn't get a chance to get her.
She was, her voice was a little scratchy,
but I could get her later.
Talked to Jeremy Kaufman last week,
because I think all of these people want
the same thing.
I think they want
to have people who are libertarians,
big tent libertarians, move to New Hampshire,
and work as hard as they want to work
for a society where the maximum role of government
is protection of life, liberty, and property.
And I don't hear any kind of dispute there.
I do think that different people
have different ideas of what a libertarian might be,
different methods for getting from one location to another.
But from my standpoint, I'm on the side of anybody
who wants to see smaller government
in the state of New Hampshire, whatever that might be.
And I don't, you know, I'm not extending an olive branch.
I'm saying I've always been on your team.
Right.
Whatever it is, I'm on your team.
I may disagree with you on some minutia
of libertarian thought.
But I'm on your team.
If you largely want libertarian, you know,
libertarianism in New Hampshire,
you want the smallest state government,
you want the freest state government in New Hampshire,
I'm with you.
And I think that I saw Jason Osborn's speech
in front of Liberty Forum, where he said
that he doesn't want to be the one
who moves the Overton window,
because moving the Overton windows hard.
But it's moved.
It's moved in the 20 years I've been here.
Things have changed inside of New Hampshire.
It's moved since he's been, the House Majority Leader,
I think might be 10 years.
I think it was six.
Yes, the majority of the last decade.
Yeah.
So he's been in the New Hampshire House for 10 years.
Oh, yeah.
Then thank you for correcting, because you're right, I'm wrong.
I introduced him last night.
This is the only reason I know.
Oh, awesome.
He, yeah, so in that time frame,
he doesn't want to spend his valuable time.
It's difficult to get a law passed.
He doesn't want to spend his time on a law
that he doesn't think is going to make it
through the Overton window.
He wants to get on the side of the ones that do.
And he's going to leave it to the activists
who want to move the Overton window to go ahead.
So people like Dave Ridley, who want to see secession
in New Hampshire, look, I'm skeptical.
But that doesn't mean that I'm not on your side.
I'm not on your side.
And I think Jason Osborn is too.
And I really was impressed with his speech.
I was really impressed.
You know, he didn't use his power to say,
look, you people do it my way or the highway.
That's what I expect from politicians.
I did not hear that.
What I heard was I am your servant,
and I'm hoping to help you build a freer place.
And I don't think most people are getting that.
Like who gets to go?
Who gets to be a part of a club where the
house majority leader comes and speaks to you
and said, look, I'm on your side,
and I'll listen to you and I'll help you.
I the government is so accessible in New Hampshire
and so not accessible anyplace else.
If you're a libertarian,
if you consider yourself a libertarian,
and that living in a libertarian society
or moving towards libertarian society
is important to you.
And especially if you live in New England
or upstate New York.
Which I always thought of as New England,
but I guess nobody else does.
I think you should look at the Free State Project.
Now, I don't think it's right for everybody
under every circumstances.
And if you consider it,
and for whatever reason you decide it's not for you,
that's fine, but you should consider it.
You should take a look.
You should determine whether it's right for you.
And maybe you want to sign up
because, Stu, you moved to New Hampshire,
but you didn't sign up for the Free State Project.
Yeah, and I'm very skeptical about any success
in using the system to make yourselves freer.
But I've been proven wrong a little bit here and there.
There is definitely some movement toward freedom.
I'd be willing to legislate up here.
I'd be willing to bet whatever you want to bet.
And I'll give you 10 to 1 odds
that that list for the Free State Project
has probably already fallen into hands of people
that you wish that it didn't fall into.
So not signing the list makes sense to me.
I wouldn't encourage anyone to necessarily go
and sign up on a website.
I don't think that that's what's important.
And it wasn't necessarily for that reason.
I just don't.
I haven't found a lot of groups
that I would be comfortable being part of in this world.
And so I'm more of a loner, but I like freedom.
And so I thought I'd move to where other people like freedom.
I try to avoid voting under every circumstance I can,
just because I don't think that I'll ever statistically
be the one to make a difference.
Sarah's voting.
Sarah is voting.
Sarah's making a difference by voting because Sarah votes.
It's exactly right.
That's all I'm saying.
I vote because Sarah votes.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with voting.
I'm not.
I'm just kind of whatever.
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Thank you for having me.
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