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From Feature Story News, in New York, I'm Mitch McCann with the Week in Review. The White House
this week tried to reassure Americans as oil prices jumped to $118 a barrel on Thursday, nearly
three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. President Trump said that he would do
whatever was necessary to ease the crisis, but that it was temporary. The challenge is
no longer just reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point for one-fifth of the world's
oil supply, but now the attacks and counterattacks on oil and gas production across the region
have injected new uncertainty. Fiona Meigh reports from Dubai.
Let's start with Qatar, the foreign ministry saying there was extensive damage at its
main Rath-al-Afan gas facility and several other LNG plants were also hit. Qatar strongly
condemning the strikes, expelling Iran's military and security attacheons, giving
them 24 hours to leave the country. Qatar Energy CEO has said in the last few hours that
the sites accounting for about 17% of its export capacity are damaged and it could take three
to five years for them to fully repair. Here in the UAE, operations were suspended in
Abu Dhabi's Habshaan gas facility after missile debris fell in the area.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Higgsith said the war with Iran is on track, but he
declined to say how or when it will end. In a press briefing, Higgsith said Thursday would
once again be the most intense day of attacks in the nearly three-week-long conflict. Tony
Waterman has more from Washington. Higgsith has walked away from the four to five-week
timeframe he touted when this war began, an indication perhaps that it could stretch
longer as it intensifies and widens. General Dan Kaine said U.S. warplanes are now
flying deeper into Iranian territory to strike its military capabilities and there are reports
President Trump is considering deploying thousands of troops on the ground. Higgsith was adamant
that this conflict wouldn't become a forever war. When asked about a report that the Pentagon
is seeking an additional $200 billion to fund the fight, Higgsith said it takes money to
kill bad guys and replenish weapons stockpiles. The White House has temporarily rolled back
a law that prohibits foreign vessels from shipping oil and gas between U.S. ports
as the ongoing war with Iran has spiked energy prices. Kate Fisher reports from Washington.
President Trump is trying to combat spiralling oil prices with a 60-day suspension of the
Jones Act to increase the pool of ships that can move the fuels across the U.S.
But analysts say the move is largely symbolic and will ease gas prices by only a couple
of pennies at most. A gallon of regular unleaded gas already averages $3.84 nationally, according
to motoring organization AAA. That's an increase of 32 percent from a month ago. U.S. Vice President
J.D. Vance assured Americans it would not last forever. The president said this and I
certainly agree with it. This is a temporary blip. Meanwhile, Tehran is warning of imminent
retaliation against the energy infrastructure of the U.S.'s allies in the Persian Gulf.
After its own, giant South Pars gas field was struck.
The UK is working to contain a deadly men and giants outbreak that has killed two
people in the south of England. An urgent public health alert has been issued after the outbreak
in Kent, which is thought to have originated in a nightclub in the city of Canterbury,
and has led to the deaths of two students. Consultant virologist Dr Chris Smith says
it's a significant outbreak. We've had quite a few people who have ended up with the
infection confirmed, and we've now got thousands of people being brought in for vaccination
to prevent spread. It's significant, but at the same time, cases of meningitis, bacterial
meningitis, are not rare in our country. It's important that we take it seriously,
but take some reassurance from the fact that we know about it, and it's better than
if we do know than when you don't. An American individual and six Ukrainians
have been arrested in India on charges of carrying out terrorist activities in the
country. The US national has reportedly been identified as Matthew Van Dyke and
claims to have fought in Libya and Ukraine. Ishan Gag tells us more from New Delhi.
India's federal police say the seven men crossed into Myanmar to train local
militias who officials say have a history of backing insurgent groups in India.
They have been reportedly charged under India's stringent anti-terror laws
and have been ordered into judicial custody till March 27. The US national,
who's been identified as Matthew Van Dyke in news reports, appears to run what his
website calls a security consulting service. Ukraine, however, has reportedly
launched a protest with India's Ministry of External Affairs and is demanding
immediate release and consular access to six Ukrainian nationals.
Indian officials have yet to formally comment on the arrests.
From Feature Story News, in New York, I'm Mitch McCann, and that was the Week in Review.
Following morning reports indicating that Philadelphia High School for the Performing
Arts student Samantha Bylum deals with really weird social pressures on a daily basis,
onion reporters met with a 16-year-old Dan student who described feeling regularly
alienated from her peers for extremely bizarre reasons.
If you're not up to date on the latest urban street art or Esperanza spalding elbows,
the other students will eat you alive. It can get pretty brutal. Just the other day,
everyone cut class to go watch the million dollar quartet musical at the first theater,
but nobody told me. Now I'm the only one that hasn't seen Lance Guest's rendition of Folsom
Prison Blues. It's humiliating. According to Bylum, the school year shows no sign of
letting up as she continues dealing with the everyday stresses of auditioning for the
school's production of My Fair Lady, keeping up with the latest punk Afro-Fusion dance groups
and not having enough fishnet sleeves to wear throughout the week.
Honestly, I don't know how the other students deal with it.
Keep checking TheOnion.com for more as this story develops.
And with you on Free Talk Live tonight, you've got me, Bonnie, Riley O'Bill, and Colin.
And I have an announcement that I didn't want to wait till the second segment. Usually we don't
really read an ad until the second segment, but people that want to know about Forkfest
definitely will want to hear this now and not just like have me put it off. So
Forkfest 2026 has had multiple changes. Please pay attention as this info may be
new to you. June 22nd to the 29th at the Northern Waters Outfitters Campground in Errol,
that's E-R-R-O-L, New Hampshire. The owner has offered to host 100 campers at his campground,
which is being closed just for Forkfest. Anyone else who'd like to stay in the
surrounding area may come for a day pass for free. The only real restriction he's
given us for the event is no nudism, which I think we can deal with after the crazy
restrictions Rodgers started imposing. Forkfest.party, that's F-O-R-K Fest.party for more info in
Forkfest2026 at gmail.com to sign up as one of the 100 campers on staying at the campground.
Of course, you can stay wherever you want and you'll be able to come for a day pass,
but really exciting stuff. That's Forkfest.party for more information on that and
Forkfest2026 at gmail.com, if you just already know you're ready, you want to go
and you want to sign up. So I'm so excited about Forkfest. What about you two?
I'm pretty excited about it. I'm looking forward to going. I'm hoping to sell some
bread there. That'd be fun. Me too. This would be my, what is it, like 13th or 14th?
Porkfest? Yeah, I'm going to call this Porkfest. I know that FSP has something that
they're calling Porkfest, but it's just not the same as what Porkfest ever was. It's its own event
and its own right. I'm not going to talk too much crud on it, but I'm going to call this my Porkfest,
and then this is whatever it is, like the 14th one. And I'm looking forward to it because
it's going to be a big change. It's going to be different, which it hasn't been different
in the past. It's always been at the same place. Kind of a...
Roger Scamron, yeah, it used to be. What's the phrase I'm looking for? Like a
refreshing change of pace, you know, to be at a different place with kind of different rules
and set up and... They almost none of the people that usually go to Pork or Porkfest
have ever been to. Like this was a brand new town in my book, like a place I had never heard of.
I know you said you'd heard of it, but you have never been to this campground.
It's really exciting stuff. And I'm really excited. There's going to be a river there,
right there where we can do rafting, the owner said. The owner seems really chill.
Dogs are allowed. You're allowed to be armed if you'd like to be armed. Everybody should
be responsible with both those things. Like, I don't think dogs should be like off their
leashes because we can control ourselves just because we don't have a...
Central authority? Yeah, exactly. Is that what you're looking for?
Yeah, we don't need to have a central authority to tell us what to do. We can
keep it to their inject. How many vendors do we have right now that are signed up for food and
stuff like that? I mean, I wouldn't even call them vendors technically. More than the typical
Porkfest of the last few years. Okay, yeah. What is it? Like five, six or something right now?
Yeah, but those are like people like, I'm going to be vending all week and making food all
week. Yeah, exactly. So it's like, there will be no shortage. There are people planning
like entertainment. Yeah, I definitely am looking forward to this would be an interesting
excursion would be. And I mean, I know that the place is rafting place normally. I don't know if
he'll be doing the rafting that week. I haven't gotten any confirmation on that. But if so,
that'd be awesome because apparently what it would consist of is like he drives up the river,
drops you off with rafts and stuff, and you float down literally to the campsite and you
just get off there. And that would be fun to do maybe even a couple of times because I used
to do that all the time back in Missouri. Nice. Awesome. Yeah. Okay, so I titled the show tonight
everywhere except for X because we're actually streaming on X tonight for the first time.
But I titled the show tonight everywhere else. America Americans are now targets in Trump's
immigration crackdown because well, I mean, we've been knowing this was happening
that things like this was we're happening. But, you know, the Wall Street Journal is
writing an article about it. So maybe there are some interesting examples of actual US citizens
getting caught up in ice. So we have a caller on the line though. So I'm going to go to the calls
unscreened caller. You're on free talk live. What's on your mind?
Hey, Barney. This is Michael. I've called previously.
Michael. I was just listening. Yeah. I was telling you about how Ian and
and how I was trying to keep up with his case, but I had lost track and he kind of updated me
off air. But no, I was just, I was like a break up, just a topic of this kind of humorous
man. Kind of I never really saw it this way until Mark and Ian kind of basically let everything
in the in the public domain as far as politics be like a running joke. And if my dad,
he's like, he's getting gas the other day. And he's like, why don't they have them signs out here?
Now that the gas process is going up like they did when Joe Biden was here and said, uh, thank you,
Joe and all that was, you know, he's kind of, you know, apolitical. You know, Karen,
but yeah, that's what we were literally talking about this earlier today. That's why we both
laugh. Yeah, we laughed like you, if you're not watching the streams, you didn't maybe didn't
notice, but we, uh, Colin and I like, like gasp. We're like, oh my God, because we were talking
about this today. And we're saying that the left kind of needs a, I mean, sorry, a right needs a
taste of their own medicine. Um, not that I'm saying like it was wrong to do it to Joe Biden.
No, I don't think that at all, but it's fine. Joe, let's do the Trump now. Yes. Yes. They're
both funny and they're both valid. Absolutely. I'd like, I'd like to see, you know, maybe,
maybe a couple of weeks of people posting those same stickers saying I did that with Trump
and then maybe like a month down the road, a bunch of people post ones where it's like
Trump and, uh, Biden both pointing and saying, we did that, but then say we did that for Israel
or something like that. Oh, that'd be hilarious. That'd be absolutely hilarious. If people don't
know what we're talking about, it's just basically when the gas prices went up during the
Ukraine stuff, um, in like 2022 or whatever it was, maybe 2021, I don't know, uh, during
Biden, people made these stickers that had Joe Biden pointing up and it said I did that and they
would put those stickers on the gas pumps next to the price. So it was basically blaming Joe Biden
for the gas prices going up. Well, same things happening now. Trump is the president. We'd
really need that to be, uh, we need that. We need that. I mean, I'm not necessarily
saying get out and go do it because I don't know if that can be considered a crime. It's
is not vandalism because it's can be taken off and it's non permanent. That's what I've heard,
but I could be wrong. I wish I knew how to make stickers because then I would make a bunch of those
and stick them on gas pumps. I wonder if they sell them. I would like to make a point that, uh,
you know, the last, uh, the last, um, administration with Trump, how everybody
was saying, you know, how, how peaceful he is and so on and so forth. Well, they basically,
whenever they were reelecting him, they knew what they were going to do. They were
reelected and he's going to have a carte blanche do whatever he wants. He started wars now.
He's dropping bombs. Just like they all do. Just like Ian always pointed out. So, you know,
thanks guys. Y'all been calling it from day one and, uh, appreciate it. I love the show.
And I'll talk to you guys. Thank you. Thank you so much and thanks for calling in.
Always good to talk to people that we don't get to hear every single night. It's awesome.
Um, I definitely think that Trump, uh, disappointed a lot of people after being,
you know, the president that everybody said was like, oh, the most peaceful president of my,
uh, lifetime and stuff like that. And then starting a war, it's really crazy.
A couple of rug pulls here and there. You gotta have the rug pull.
Doge being a big giant failure. To me, I don't feel regretful voting for Trump to free Ross,
because I literally openly said a million times that the only reason I was doing it was to
free Ross. So I don't feel like I regret that or anything. It's like, I thought it'd be
awesome if there was a cherry on top where he also got rid of like some government
waste, but I didn't have like extremely high hopes for it. And, uh, I knew RFK was a huge problem.
Most of these people are like RFK definitely was a huge problem because he came with his own,
was it his own security or did he not allow, I know he didn't allow people with guns
during the Porcupine Freedom Festival near his speech, so.
Oh yeah. He had his own security too, which isn't really the problem. The problem was that
at Porc Fest, where people have always been allowed to walk around with their guns and
everything, uh, when RFK Jr. went out to speak at Porc Fest, which people just
disagreed with at all. I didn't really like it. I didn't like the idea of just coming
to speak at Porc Fest. Like what does he have to do with liberty, freedom, anything like
that? He's just a PSYOP and, uh, honestly, like a gun control maniac and hasn't done anything
that great in his position. He has, um, which I can't remember what the position is right now,
but it's not that like, it's not as like huge as people thought it was. He has like people
above him that own seed oil, uh, companies and stuff like that. And, um, anyways,
it's like health and human services, something like that. But anyways,
what I was trying to say was the thing that Freestaters had a problem with at Porc
Fest with RFK Jr. was that he wasn't going to allow people to have guns on them in the
crowd. It's like so stupid because I hate to say it, but there were plenty of
positions people could have taken outside of that area where they were, uh, tricking or,
sorry, checking for guns and he could have gotten us out. And guess what? He didn't
because we're an openly peaceful group of people.
Well, I mean, that doesn't mean some crazy or, you know,
state act or something could have snuck in to do the thing.
That doesn't mean that couldn't have happened already is what my point is.
And I'm not really as bothered in particular that he didn't want to have that stuff there.
I'm more bothered with the fact that, uh, our, our group, our organization, whatever you want to
say, that, uh, did all of that to make that possible, you know, like that's more bothering me
than anything else. Like it's not his request. It's the fact that, you know, our people,
you know, satisfied that request in a way that wasn't cool.
But even when you say it like that, it's like, it's as if you're giving some kind of
credence to like, Oh, I don't mind that he asked like, as if there's like a good reason to ask
that. It's like, I don't think so. It's like, Oh, his dad got killed with a gun, right? It was a gun.
Yeah. Yeah. Or wait, with just his uncle, maybe. I don't remember how his dad got killed.
Both technically. Okay. But anyways, what I was going to say was, um, it's like,
you and I know, and we should be like screaming it from the rooftops,
that gun free zones make people less safe, not more safe, just because there will always
be a crazy person out there somewhere who sees the president and wants to kill them.
Doesn't mean making a free gun free zone is the answer. And it was silly. It was, it's an open.
Yeah. No, I'm just saying that my, my criticism lies more in, uh, FSB porkfest
organization for, for going along with that. So for instance, I'll point to something else
and, you know, I mean, I can't prove this, but this has been told to be by some people
that, uh, the, the nudist camp was moved out of the area that they were in,
which was totally not an area. Nobody was ever bothered by them being in that area.
It wasn't like very publicly visible. They moved them out of that area up next to the seasonal
campers, which did cause an issue, which resulted in a seasonal camper, um,
like losing his temper over it and going out with a knife and trying to stab one of the
nudists. Oh, drunkenly. Yeah. And then he got, he got very unsuccessfully, but still,
please actually came in to take the guy away and whatever. But the thing is that
situation didn't need to happen because they didn't need to move those people there.
And why did they move them there? Well, supposedly, uh, the VEC had, had, uh,
requested that. He's like, Oh, I don't want the nudist people near where I'm going to be.
Well, I'm thinking conflating a couple of things. Cause the nudist people were by
Vivek and he had nothing to do, but he couldn't do anything about it the whole week.
But since he complained, no, they moved him the next, no. Uh, so all of the year that
Vivek and RFK Jr. were there, the nudists were right near Vivek and Vivek was mad and
complained to the organizers. But yes, that influenced the next year that they moved
him off and it caused violence because instead of being in their own little
lane, uh, instead of being in their own little lane, they're up by the seasonals,
which are not pork fest attendees. And it's like, well, you brought in someone who is
not a pork fest attendee and shouldn't have been Vivek Ramaswamy and he complained.
And you're like, why did they put Vivek somewhere else? Well, the thing about it is,
uh, like that's hindsight, it's 2020, but like in the, in the future, it's like,
the reason they moved him is cause they want more Vivek set pork fest. It's like so silly,
appeals to the conservatives for some reason, because, you know, the conservative base is a
large voting block and you got to appeal to the conservatives because they're going to move
toward libertarianism easier than people on the left. I don't like the decision, but I understand
where they're coming from. I think it's a terrible idea. Yeah. Well, and my point is that
those two different things, uh, both have a common thread in them, which is choosing,
you know, uh, a politician outsider over our own like community when, you know,
they're coming to us. So they should be in a way kind of fitting in with us, you know,
like when in Rome do, do as the Romans do. Like, oh, I woke up and saw two RV rows over some
nudists in a field and it's just like, you can't live with that for a week or however long
they stay. Cause it's not like they stayed there the whole week. Um, besides, I mean,
what's nudity isn't the bad thing. It's we're all naturally naked. And the other thing about it is
like no one, not the right wing locals that live in New Hampshire and start being like, you know,
I like these free stares. Wait, why do they have have stuff that I don't like at pork fest? Um,
not them and not the politicians. No one reads the tickets. When you buy a ticket at pork
fest, it's never changed. Um, there's a clause in there that says I agree that there will be
people exercising their freedom of expression up to and including new nudity. And I agree that
that doesn't offend me. And they, and then like, I think it's like, if I bring children, I'm not
going to get the words exactly right, but some like, if I bring children, I agree to not be
offended by them, like witnessing such free expression. And people still are like, Hey,
why is this happening? Because they're not reading what they're signing up for. And it's like,
whenever I've shown people who complain about this, they have like nothing to say back.
It's like, well, I just don't like it. Like, we should all get over yourself. Like, just don't go
to pork fest. Um, yeah, but this year at fork fest, since it's someone's like private property and
that private property owner doesn't want nudism, we are making sure to let people know that.
And you can go to fork fest.party for more info on that. Um, yeah. So anyways, um, I
is always like, we bring up the nudist stuff and it sounds like, oh, libertarians, we're
all nudists. It's a very tiny contingent. I've never done that. Riley has never
done that. It's my knowledge. Colin, you've never done that, right? No, no. And it's not
like I would be like, Ew, if you guys did, it's just like, I'm just pointing out that it's like,
it's a very small group of people that just were mostly like gay guys out in a field by
themselves naked, throwing frisbees. Um, the first pork fest I ever went to, I didn't even know
it was a thing until I was like, that guy is naked. And it was like, yeah, those are the
nudists. They like to like, they're frisbees in that field. And it like didn't not only
didn't bother me, it was so out of the way. I'd have to like get on binoculars to like
decide to be mad about that. Yeah. But instead, they moved him up in a place that made it
dangerous for, um, an actual dandy. And that's just so silly and dumb. And it was actually
predicted. Yeah. Yeah. Extremely predictable and actually predicted. So anyways, let's get
back into this topic of Americans now being a threat in Trump's immigration crackdown. That's
the title of this Wall Street Journal article. It says, a Wall Street Journal investigation
tracked the US citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain
and demonize dissenters. Uh-oh. Looks like they're using the excuse that like somebody they don't
like needs to be caught by ICE. Yeah. Yeah. Predictable. It's what government does. I mean,
it doesn't matter who's occupying the awful office. If Biden were to do the same thing,
which he would, you know, the right would have a field day. Well, you know, the right's
going to do the same thing that they're going to accuse the left of in four years and
no one's going to say a thing. Well, maybe the left will. But it's, it's obvious that these people
don't seem to care that they're going to be rounded up one day because they say something
negative about our dear leader. Yeah. A big thing about this is it might appear to the,
uh, the foolish that there's been a change in policy from the previous administrations.
But there really hasn't. If you know what the real end goals are. And so everything they do is
problem reaction solution where they, they create or foster a problem. The problem happens.
People react to that problem. You know, like, Oh, this is a problem. This thing that's happening.
We need to fix it. And then they conveniently are the ones always offering you a solution.
And you might think like in a very narrow terms, like, Oh, this is the solution to
this exact problem, but it's really setting up more of a system and a framework.
Is what they always wanted the whole time. Yeah. And a willing and a, and a,
and an acceptance in the people for the other thing that they're after.
So I, I remember I was in an argument with some like conservative person during COVID
because I was like, Hey, you know, like these vaccine passports, that's all bad
and stuff. Cause, you know, we shouldn't be being forced to have vaccines, you know,
in order to go get food and stuff like that. But I said, this is, this is just as bad
because what, you know, the, the Republicans and conservatives are talking about right now
with all this immigration stuff, that's just the same exact thing like voter ID, a national voter
ID. Well, what is that? It's a national ID that they can track you with. So, you know,
they're, they're, they're still aiming at that same goal. They'll use vaccines as an excuse
or a reason like, Oh, this is what we need to be, you know, whatever. We need to know
who's vaccinated and who's not, or, Oh, we need to know who's in the country or who's not
and all of that. And make sure you have your proper papers in order so you can be exercising
rights as a quote unquote citizen, which you know, in my opinion, a citizen is just another
type of slavery. Well, you know, the thing though is the problem can be a real problem,
but people have to recognize that one, the problem didn't come out of nowhere.
Like this problem with all of the immigration into the United States, that's not been
legal. And it's been like criminals and stuff like that. And it's been huge numbers,
like millions of people, whatever some people have estimates of like 10 million,
that was not just random natural immigration like we had 100 years ago where people came here with a,
you know, a $1 in their pocket and then built a life off of that. This is people that were
brought in by NGOs, the government's been giving them money the whole entire time,
you know, and setting them up with housing and cell phones and all this sort of stuff.
And, and so it's all a totally artificial problem in the sense that it was created.
It didn't just happen. These people, people did not just form those migrant caravans and
walk that far. You need food on a trip like that. You know, you need support. So all of that was,
you know, the artificial part of the problem. And then, oh, here's our solution. Oh, our solution
is we're going to create a nationalized police force, ICE, that's going to have all of these
powers and how dare you criticize them or stop them or get in their way or anything like that.
And it's like, well, that's actually not really the solution. Why don't you just
cut off all the welfare and stuff and maybe half of them just leave on their own and we
don't even have to do this? And why is it we have to do these big public displays where like
they're going after these groups in, in like the areas where people are going to fight them the most
like, like Minneapolis and stuff like that, when they could easily get a ton of help in red
states going after the illegals who are there and it wouldn't happen. And the local law
enforcement would just do all of it for them basically. Yeah. You know, and why, you
know, there's all sorts of examples like this that people confide where it's like,
huh, you know, really your goal isn't, you don't, you don't care about those people who've come here.
That's part of your plan in the first place. You just care about having a nationalized police force
that can violate people's constitutional rights that could disappear people without question.
Yes. Yeah. Exactly. And that's, that's what they're doing. They're disappearing people
and people are like, well, who is he? Where did he go? And why did you take him?
And, you know, the answers aren't forthcoming. And I mean, now here's the thing. Now,
if you're one of those idiots, retards, who's like watching the regular news,
they're telling you, oh, yeah, that guy was a, was a this or a that or this many times this.
And it's like, what do you know? What do you know? Have you, are you looking into the details?
Yeah. Nobody is. Well, the news told them. Well, yeah, the news told them. Exactly.
And plus the news is, we don't know if the news is telling us the truth either. I mean,
look how Ian Freeman was treated in the news media. So why should we trust the news media to
get their facts straight? Well, we know the news is lying not just because we have so many
examples of it. Maybe one of the two of you can recall this, but there was a law
passed, I think after World War II, that said the government cannot use the media to lie to
people and to spread propaganda like the news. And they repealed it sometime, I think, under
George Bush. I've never heard of that. Oh yeah. So I think I've heard about this.
Yeah. Look, look it up. Basically, it's now legal or well has been now for many years
for the media to be used to, to spread false things for propagandistic purposes.
Wow. And that's pretty recently too. So, but most of my life, more free talk live coming up.
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Oil prices jumped to $118 a barrel on Thursday, nearly three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war with
Iran. President Trump said that he would do whatever was necessary to ease the crisis,
but that it was temporary. The challenge is no longer just reopening the Strait of Hormuz,
a choke point for one-fifth of the world's oil supply, but now the attacks and counterattacks
on oil and gas production across the region have injected new uncertainty.
Fiona Mee reports from Dubai.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Higgsith said the war with Iran is on track,
but he declined to say how or when it will end. In a press briefing, Higgsith said Thursday
would once again be the most intense day of attacks in the nearly three-week-long conflict.
Tony Waterman has more from Washington. Higgsith has walked away from the four to five-week
timeframe he touted when this war began, an indication perhaps that it could stretch longer
as it intensifies and widens. General Dan Kaine said U.S. warplanes are now flying deeper into
Iranian territory to strike its military capabilities, and there are reports President
Trump is considering deploying thousands of troops on the ground. Higgsith was adamant
that this conflict wouldn't become a forever war. When asked about a report that the Pentagon is
seeking an additional $200 billion to fund the fight, Higgsith said it takes money to kill bad guys
and replenish weapons stockpiles. The White House has temporarily rolled back a law that prohibits
foreign vessels from shipping oil and gas between U.S. ports as the ongoing war with
Iran has spiked energy prices. Kate Fisher reports from Washington.
President Trump is trying to combat spiralling oil prices with a 60-day suspension of the Jones Act
to increase the pool of ships that can move the fuels across the U.S.
But analysts say the move is largely symbolic and will ease gas prices by only a couple of
pennies at most. A gallon of regular un-ledged gas already averages $3.84 nationally,
according to motoring organization AAA. That's an increase of 32 percent from a month ago.
From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann, and that was the Week in Review.
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Thank you guys. And with you on Freetalk Live tonight, you've got me, Bonnie,
Riley O'Bill, and me, Colin. So let's go to the phones and to the fun.
Sarah in New Mexico, you're on Freetalk Live. What's on your mind?
Yes, I just got a phone call at our HOA. We've already had like four cars parked right along
like a fire hydrant. And they've been doing this for like three years. There's always like
four to five cars. And, you know, it's obvious they're in violation. So, and it's like,
nobody really did nothing about it. And when I call the city directory, it turns out to be
that road is exactly the fire hydrant belongs to the city. And the street that goes through
our HOA is a city property that belongs to the city. So all I have to do is actually call
the 311 parking enforcement. It was a fire code parking enforcement. That's all it was. So
I'm glad we got that resolved. Yeah, me too.
I mean, what do you mean is that this street is kind of tucked away in the back? We have only
like three streets. And this is not the major street. This is one street in the HOA that goes
around the back. So it's hidden. And they've been doing this for three years. Like,
you know, something kind of mean, but me and my friends noticed doing Uber Eats. He just noticed
so many things when you're the person driving around technically working, but everyone else
is going about like much more normal days than you as an Uber Eats driver. And you just get
to notice things about a city. But anyways, one thing we noticed is like the more low end
parts of the city had so when you go into a neighborhood, there are so many cars parked
on the street. And I was noticing it too. And my friend who did Uber Eats and we'd be
on the phone all day in the lower lower end areas. There are so many cars parked in people's
houses. And when I finally figured out what it was, it was like, Oh, there's like it's like
instead of like one family with two kids in this house or something, it's like a family with all
their grown kids, all that like the grandparents to see what I mean. And that's why there's
like five cars per house, not enough parking for each one. Like if you ever are in like a
lower end area of a neighborhood and or you know, lower end neighborhood, as I'm trying to say.
And you're just like, Holy crap, like there's cars parked on both sides of this road everywhere,
like really bad. You know, it's most likely I think that's right. I didn't find any proof of
that, I guess. But I don't know. I think you're right. But the problem is like, what do you
do about that? Like just keep calling the cops on those people. Like most likely it won't be
a problem. You know, I mean, and if it is like calling you brought this up before, you
saw a video of police or firefighters busting out the windows on each side of someone's car to get
their hose through it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that sounds like they were being jerks to you, but I
don't know. Thanks for the call, Sarah. We have another caller on the line. So 603-2836160
is the phone number two getting on the conversation with us. Turd Ferguson in Pennsylvania,
you're on Freetalk Live. What's on your mind? Well, Sarah is probably the single worst caller
of all time. That's, I mean, that was the first thing I thought when I heard that. No, she's brilliant.
No, usually I like her calls. If she, she just solved the whole Iran conflict. If we just put
up fire hydrants all over that country, we were able to find them. We'll obliterate their economy.
We can put out the bombs before they land. Yep. There you go.
Sarah makes me sick. I just wish she wouldn't ever call the show again.
No, don't say that. Sarah's a good caller. 99% of the time.
Because, you know, if you could just be the man that sets her straight.
You won't be allowed to drive her anywhere, though. Yeah.
I am very good at setting women straight, putting them in their place.
But, um, you hear that, Sarah? You've got an offer. There you go.
Resident Evil 9 is truly a masterpiece. I mean, I'm just speechless with how amazing
this video game is. I thought that you were complaining about it or was it the movie?
No, no, I didn't get it in time was what happened. I pre-ordered it and it came late,
but I finally got it a couple of weeks ago and I've probably played through it already,
probably three times. I mean, it's really just incredible. It's just an incredible feat,
a work of art. And I'm just really impressed. But, yeah. Are you paid for advertising for
them? Yeah, right. No, but they should. But, um, the problem, the problem, the major problem with it
is that Joel Valentine is not in it. Um, after three play-throughs, I haven't seen her one single
time in any of the three play-throughs. I hear you have to play it 10 times through to unlock
the Easter egg. Yeah, exactly. She comes out of a birthday cake. Is that all you have to
tell us today, Tert? Oh, yeah, I guess so. Well, thanks for the call. I feel like it's like
to come in swinging at Sarah and then just tell us you played a video game. It's a little
weak, Tert. Yeah, actually, it's a little weak. You're in love with this fake woman that doesn't
exist, but we know Sarah's real. Yeah, Sarah's real. He could always have Sarah if he wanted.
Well, anyways, in the last segment- Tert wants to fancy himself as late as me and maybe he is.
I don't know. Wait, haven't we heard from somebody that she's actually hot?
Uh, I don't know. Yeah, didn't somebody from down in New Mexico tell us that-
David from New Mexico? I don't think so. I don't think he called her hot.
I heard this somewhere that somebody's like she's actually like good looking or something.
Really? I have never heard that. I didn't just make it up.
Okay, I heard it. I think you just imagined her good looking while she's talking and that's
where this is coming from. No, I did not. I did not. Sure, come on, sure.
Though I will tell you a rule for the world is beautiful women have ugly voices
and ugly women have beautiful voices. I don't know if I agree.
But anyways, more, I mean, in the last segment of Free Talk Live,
we were talking about this article from the Wall Street Journal. Americans are now
a target in Trump's immigration crackdown. And that's, you know, predictable. And I
want to hear what they have to say about it. They say prosecutors were ready for trouble
makers. Federal officer Dinko Rezadovic, that's almost like a joke. Like your name is Dinko,
really one. And then to Rezadovic, like I'm a resident, I'm from somewhere else, but hey,
I'm a resident Rezadovic. Oh my God. Anyways, great language to say is that a resident,
this reminds me, sorry to take a little detour, but it'll be quick. I was driving on.
I mentioned this before on the radio on time. I 10, I think, down like bottom part of
California and goes through over into Arizona and they have like a checkpoint there where they
ask for your paperwork as the, like your passports or whatever. And it's like sometimes
like El Paso. Uh, no, no. Well, there might be, there might be one there too, but,
but this one was like in California or California, Arizona border somewhere out there.
And I'm like, the guy who's like asking me this, it's like, can't see your passport. And
I'm like, dude, you don't have a right to ask me that. Like,
his family could have been from exactly where he was. I don't think so. I don't think so.
You just never know about it down in those regions. It was a Mexico call. Yeah, it was
Mexico. It was a Mexico. No, I mean, it was Mexico is what I want to say. Sorry.
I think I did say it was a Mexico. But anyways, I mean, that's funny and all. I have a similar
story. The one year El Paso, it's also I 10. I think that goes like completely across the
country, right? Uh, yeah, I think so. Yeah. Well, um, me and my friend Shelby,
she happens to be half Mexican, but she looks mostly like a white girl.
And I clearly look like a white girl. If you're only listening, well, I do. And
sound like one and everything sound like an American. And, uh, so does she. And we're
both from, from Texas, but she had moved to Las Vegas. So I'm helping her drive back
to San Antonio. And, um, when we got to the checkpoint thing and this was 2020,
I think it was like the end of 2020. So if that checkpoint's not there anymore,
well, I don't know, but when we got there, we were in the line and it took a long time.
We even saw like a drug dog like hit on somebody's car and they had to like pull over.
And Shelby really had to pee. So she was like, Oh my God, this thing forever,
this thing forever. And, uh, when we get to the line where the guy asks those questions,
they're like, where are you heading? And we've been in Texas for like over an hour,
maybe even two. I don't remember now, but we're like definitely in Texas.
We're never like any direction we went, we'd be in Texas for a very long time.
Even south, like not that long maybe, but we clearly weren't driving south through the desert
right over the border. Anyways, um, and, uh, the guy asks us the question like,
so where are you guys heading? And she just really had to pee. She's like, Texas.
And he's like, all right, go ahead. And I just thought in that moment I was like,
Oh no, like, why'd she say that? Like, Oh my God, she's sounding so guilty.
Like it's like that wasn't a good answer. Going to Texas, we're already in tech.
And he just didn't carry us like looking for how white you looked, I think,
or Americans. This is funny. I just remembered, I have a second story that I forgot about,
passing through that same one Arizona, California, wherever it happens to be.
And we're driving through and we pull up and this is during COVID times and stuff.
And we see the car in front of us and they're like opening the back hatches of it and
looking through and stuff. And I'm like, Oh gosh. And like, because I'm in this car with
other people, van actually, and the person who's driving it is like smoking so much weed,
like it smells like it. Like, and he and his girlfriend, they both look like,
you know, stoners and stuff like that. Like hippies. And I'm like, Oh God,
this is going to be like horrible. And so we pull up and they're just like,
okay, hey, and they're like, yeah, having fun or something. The guy's like,
yeah, having fun. And he's like, okay, go on. And I was like, what the heck.
So they are just looking to see if you look Mexican.
Well, no, I don't, I don't think it's just that. I actually think,
because I'm like, why didn't they hassle with this obvious, you know, easy,
like place to mess with people. But the car in front of us, what was the deal?
And I'm like, look at that. Like that's like a conservative person there.
They're probably like trying to justify their job. Like, yeah, we got to check everybody here,
Mr. Republican, you know, like, yeah, we got to really search you see,
because we're stopping stuff. And then like, we pull up in this hippie van and they're like,
yeah, hope you guys are having fun. You know, like,
I don't know what to make of that, honestly.
I forgot all about that. That's part of that epic trip where I had so many
eye-opening experiences. The one because I wound up in Mexico after that.
Oh, yeah.
Did you guys ever watch the video of Mark Edge doing his border check thing?
I never did. It's Free Talk Live's top, I think, like number one top or second to B
AMF. If you if you know, if you know, if you know, if you go to Free Talk Live and go
to videos on YouTube and then click most viewed, like top videos instead of just like most
recent, then it's either BAMF or it's Mark's checkpoint one. And I want to watch it. I just
never have. I went like when Ian first went to jail, I went and watched all the old vintage
Ian ones. And I was like, I could have been with Ian all this time.
BAMF, better ask mother first.
Stop, you scared me. Oh my gosh. No, that's not what it stands for.
Yeah, it was the thing I'm referring to. And I said, if you know, you know,
Mark stormed out of the this studio, he was sitting where Colin's sitting and Ian was sitting
where I was sitting and he hit the microphone and he stormed out because he was mad at Ian about
a conversation about Rich Paul, the activist, about activism in general. Yeah. And he believed Ian
like cut him off. So he's like, I would let you finish. And he starts cussing and he calls Ian
a BAMF and he, which sounds almost like a good thing, like a BA and but no, it wasn't a good
thing was a negative thing. And then he's like leaving and he keeps cussing. And Ian was
like, you're cut off, mister. He's a very angry man. It's coded here in New Hampshire quite often.
Yeah. So, okay, that was quite a detour. It's fine, though. I bring that up because, you know,
this isn't the first time the Department of Homeland Security has created border checkpoints.
And it won't be the last. And, you know, people assume that there will not be a police
state in America, but we are now in a police state. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the
police state. I hope you like your stay. Yep. Yep. Definitely. And this is just,
I've been hearing things about how ever since 2020, a local police agents haven't been able to get
that, or not agents, but local police precincts, whatever, haven't been able to get that many
people to want to join. And a lot of people are waking up to like the ridiculousness of
police in general. So, therefore, it's like harder to get people to join ever since 2020.
And that's awesome and hilarious. Well, I think they figured out their little solution to this.
They, them and those, they figured out their little solution to this is get people mad about a
subject, which is what you were describing in the last segment called problem solution.
Problem reaction solution. Sorry. Yes. Problem reaction solution. And the problem they
created was busing in a bunch of immigrants and make like putting them in random towns
in like Pennsylvania and stuff and like giving them all the jobs of the entire community,
giving them them free cars and phones. Well, everything's like this. Not teaching them how
to drive. But wait, wait, wait. What I was going to say is the solution they get is
all the Republicans or people displaced by these immigrants that are unnaturally coming
here. Like, because the thing is on Freetalk Live, we're libertarians. We're not
closed border libertarians or anything like that. We, I can't speak for everyone,
but I'm pretty sure that everybody here is okay with people freely traveling over invisible
lines to go make a better life for themselves when they intend to go to a new place where they
have more opportunities and do well. That's absolutely what I'm for. But the thing about
governments and non-governmental organizations, AKA just like nonprofits,
going in just shipping in a bunch of people who would never, ever have the ability or,
you know, gall or motivation to get to America, just going and grabbing them and be like,
hey, how do you, how do you want to go to, how much do you want to go to America? And like,
just be on welfare. And like, that is different. That it's like, when I first started actually
a welfare problem for sure. Yeah, welfare is a big part of the problem. When I first started
learning about these things, I felt silly for all of the years where I just went like,
oh, the stupid right wingers and their anti-immigration, because the thing is,
it's like, neither of us are defining terms. Neither side is defining terms. I always just
thought that all Republicans completely just hated like the Mexican family man who decides,
I don't want to be here anymore. I want to go to America and like start a restaurant.
Like that would be ridiculous to be against. That's so stupid. That's ignorant, gross to be
against. There's no reason what to be like, oh, this person doesn't share the same language as
me right this second, but he couldn't possibly like learn and, you know, become part of
our community. That's gross. What's not gross, in my opinion, is not wanting your like small town
of 10,000 people to get 20,000 people shipped in from another country who have no motivation to,
some of them, no motivation to work at all. Some of them, no motivation to ever
act like you or have any of the same values as you just shipped in overnight. Like,
that's not the same thing. And so I don't blame people for being mad about that,
but that's the reaction. Now they're mad about that, right? And then the solution is I like,
we already brought that up, but I think the thing they wanted all along was they are losing control
of like, they don't have a, they don't have a police force that will do anything they want for
the most part. And I mean the fed specifically to, and they used to be able to get local police
officers to work with them on things. And it's not completely easy. And there've been
states like New Hampshire that have attempted bills to make it to where our police in New
Hampshire can choose not to work with the feds and stuff like that. Back this up, you know,
and to say that it is both parties, the Biden administration was trying to turn the Capitol
police into a federal national, I mean they're already federal because they're literally in
the federal district of Columbia, but they were trying to expand them to where they could
be a nationwide thing that could go everywhere and do everything. And, you know, the people
could kind of see that for what it was, you know, and again, it was about going after dissidents.
So who was it going after Jan six people? You know, yep. And, and, and by the way,
as far as going after Jan six people, I mean, there was a person I know of who I personally
have met who was arrested, who wasn't even in DC that day. Why? Well, he was on the radio
and he said something. So yeah, it's like, like it's about going after dissidents and it's about
creating a nationalized force. And we have to keep in mind both sides are doing it. So anyways,
go ahead. Yeah, it's like the feds is always their own thing. They will masquerade as left or
right. But at the end of the day, they're the feds, they have their goals. And that's why I
really just can't be sympathetic to these like left libertarians or whatever you want to call
these libertarians who are like, I would have never ever voted for Trump even to free Ross.
Even I don't even care if Ross died in prison because if even if my vote was the one to change,
you know, that circumstance, I cannot relate to those people because they're just like,
because look at this Trump started war and Iran. How many times do we have to go through the
fact that they all work together? I mean, left and right in the feds are the same thing.
If Kamala Harris had been the president, we'd be going to war and Iran, maybe even more,
honestly, because they have different flavors. The thing about the thing that I don't think is
the thing that I think differently about is the people, the leftist, regular people that aren't
in the feds aren't politicians. There's a big difference. And I prefer the right to the left.
I'm just going to say it. I'm not the right. I'm not the left. But when that comes to
the feds, those are the same thing that they have to do it with different flavors. So it's
like this concept that's called A-B testing. Are either of you familiar with that?
It sounds familiar. Yes.
Okay. So what like, let's say Google and they have their homepage and you go there,
you know, Google dot com and it pops up and there's the search bar and there's the letters
Google and their different colors and all that. If they want to change it and say,
like, oh, we're going to put like, you know, advanced search or like image search or we're
going to add another thing that you can click or whatever. They don't just change it and
see how it works out. What they'll do is they'll change it for like half of the people
and they'll see how half of the people react. Like, oh, how long between when they typed in
Google dot com before they then went, you know, into the search bar or how long was it before
they did this? And they'll do this test and they'll see the differences. They'll see,
oh, this is a good change. Now we'll move forward with it. Right. And so they do this.
It's the same thing with the left or the right. It's like, oh, can we get everybody to get
national IDs, you know, that disallow them from going to grocery stores and things like that.
And can we do it with a vaccine passport? Oh, that one didn't quite work. People thought back
against that one. Well, what if we do it as a voter ID because of the voter ID problem, you know,
or, oh, well, what if we do it because everybody needs to prove that they're a citizen?
You know, so they'll try these different ways of doing it until one of them sticks.
And you know, it's the same thing with the wars, right? Like, what was the big thing that
the Biden administration was going to do? It was the Ukrainian war, right? And so,
well, Trump's backing us out of that, although not really, if you look into it. And instead,
he's doing Iran, you know. And that's another example of exactly what I'm saying. Like,
they got right wingers to come out and vote for Ukraine. I was wrong about that. I really did
think with his like, um, relationship with Putin that he could have ended the war, like he
said. Yeah, I was wrong about that. Well, now we're all distracted from Ukraine by the war
with Iran. So, I mean, he solved his problem somehow. And because I know that leftist ideology
is worse than righty ideology, I will even say that maybe if Kamala was in charge, we would have
multiple horrible things, really, really bad. I mean, we already have multiple horrible things,
but maybe we'd have more bad things going on. Like she wanted to make it to where grocery
stores weren't allowed to raise prices and stuff like that. Yes, yes, exactly. As much as I'm
very disappointed and angry with all the stuff that Trump's doing, I'm under no illusion that it
was going to be better under them. In fact, it might have been worse faster. Right. And I was
telling everybody, I said, you because right or sorry, during the actual like election season,
they were coming out and floating ideas again, it's kind of like a B testing,
but they were floating ideas about, oh, the grocery prices are up, the evil grocery
stores are screwing you over. We need to have price controls on food. And I'm like,
oh my God, as a person who understands anything about economics and history, I'm like to
literally kill us in like a holodomor, you know, without having food, because that's
what you get. Grocery stores have very thin margins like one 3%. Like they just are responding
to all the prices that are coming in from downstream. And so if you say, oh, they're
not allowed to sell the food for anything higher than this, you're just going to have shortages.
So yeah, I had, I mean, let me put it this way. I was hesitant in some ways to vote for Trump,
but I was not hesitant to not vote for. Yeah. Yeah, I was never going to vote
ever, ever again. And even if everything would have been exactly the same, but Trump never
said he was going to free Ross, I wouldn't have voted. But since I wanted to vote to free Ross,
I didn't feel bad about it because it's just like, first of all, when you vote for someone,
do you fill out a piece of paper saying, here's everything I want you to do and like,
you deliver it to him and he starts doing things on your behalf?
You definitely have to take the good with the bad for sure.
It's like this is annoying thing that leftist libertarians like to say on this regard. They
like to say that I'm responsible for things Trump did. But they also understand libertarian
like Lysander Spooner concepts that nobody else can represent you and do things on your
behalf without your permission, like express permission. So you can't have it both ways,
just because I voted for Trump and said everywhere, Twitter and free talk live and everything,
that I was only doing it to free Ross. And he did that. And it's awesome that Ross is free,
a human being not being tortured to death for the rest of his life, free Ian now.org,
by the way, because Ian is still not free. And it's just great that Ross is and versus,
you know, feeling superior. I understand, you know, maybe if you thought Trump had it
covered and he voted for the libertarian because they, you know, they're always trying to get 5%.
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on the Liberty Radio Network at lrn.fm. From feature story news in New York, I'm Mitch McCann
with the Week in Review. The White House this week tried to reassure Americans as oil prices jumped
to $118 a barrel on Thursday, nearly three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. President Trump
said that he would do whatever was necessary to ease the crisis, but that it was temporary.
The challenge is no longer just reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point for one-fifth of
the world's oil supply, but now the attacks and counterattacks on oil and gas production
across the region have injected new uncertainty. Fiona May reports from Dubai.
Let's start with Qatar, the foreign ministry saying there there was extensive damage at its main
Rath Lafan gas facility, and several other LNG plants were also hit. Qatar strongly condemning
the strikes, expelling Iran's military and security attacheons, giving them 24 hours to
leave the country. And Qatar Energy CEO has said in the last few hours that the sites are counting
for about 17 percent of its export capacity are damaged and it could take three to five years
for them to fully repair. Here in the UAE, operations were suspended in Abu Dhabi's
Habshaan gas facility after missile debris fell in the area. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete
Higgsith said the war with Iran is on track, but he declined to say how or when it will
end. In a press briefing, Higgsith said Thursday would once again be the most intense day of attacks
in the nearly three-week-long conflict. Tony Waterman has more from Washington.
Higgsith has walked away from the four to five-week timeframe he touted when this war began,
an indication perhaps that it could stretch longer as it intensifies and widens.
General Dan Cain said U.S. warplanes are now flying deeper into Iranian territory
to strike its military capabilities. And there are reports President Trump is
considering deploying thousands of troops on the ground. Higgsith was adamant that this conflict
wouldn't become a forever war. When asked about a report that the Pentagon is seeking an additional
$200 billion to fund the fight, Higgsith said it takes money to kill bad guys and replenish
weapons stockpiles. The White House has temporarily rolled back a law that prohibits foreign
vessels from shipping oil and gas between U.S. ports as the ongoing war with Iran has spiked
energy prices. Kate Fisher reports from Washington. President Trump is trying to combat
spiralling oil prices with a 60-day suspension of the Jones Act to increase the pool of ships
that can move the fuels across the U.S. But analysts say the move is largely symbolic
and will ease gas prices by only a couple of pennies at most. A gallon of regular
unleaded gas already averages $3.84 nationally, according to motoring organization AAA. That's
an increase of 32 percent from a month ago. U.S. Vice President JD Vance assured Americans it
would not last forever. The president said this and I certainly agree with it. This is a
temporary blip. Meanwhile, Tehran is warning of imminent retaliation against the energy
infrastructure of the U.S.'s allies in the Persian Gulf after its own giant south-pars gas
field was struck. The UK is working to contain a deadly men and giantess outbreak that has killed
two people in the south of England. An urgent public health alert has been issued after the
outbreak in Kent, which is thought to have originated in a nightclub in the city of Canterbury
and has led to the deaths of two students. Consultant virologist Dr Chris Smith says
it's a significant outbreak. We've had quite a few people who have ended up with the infection
confirmed and we've now got thousands of people being brought in for vaccination to prevent spread.
It's significant, but at the same time cases of meningitis, bacterial meningitis,
are not rare in our country. It's important that we take it seriously, but take some reassurance
from the fact that we know about it and it's better than if we do know than when you
don't. An American individual and six Ukrainians have been arrested in India on charges of
carrying out terrorist activities in the country. The U.S. national has reportedly been identified
as Matthew Van Dyke and claims to have fought in Libya and Ukraine. Ishan Gag tells us more from New
Delhi. India's federal police say the seven men crossed into Myanmar to train local militias
who officials say have a history of backing insurgent groups in India. They have been
reportedly charged under India's stringent anti-terror laws and have been ordered into
judicial custody till March 27. The U.S. national who's been identified as Matthew Van Dyke in news
reports appears to run what his website calls his security consulting service. Ukraine, however,
has reportedly launched a protest with India's Ministry of External Affairs and is demanding
immediate release and consular access to six Ukrainian nationals. Indian officials have yet
to formally comment on the arrests. From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann
and that was the Week in Review.
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And that's 6-0-3-2-8-3-6-1-6-0. I'm going to reread the ad about Forkfest from the
first segment because we just really need to get this word out since it's so
last minute compared to most Forkfest planning usually like a year in advance.
Um, so Forkfest 2026 has had multiple changes. Please pay attention to this new info because
it could be new to you. June 22nd to the 29th at the Northern Waters Outfitters campground
on Arrol, New Hampshire, that's with an E. The owner has offered to host 100 campers
at his campground which is being closed just for Forkfest. Anyone else who'd like to stay
in the surrounding area may come for a day pass for free. The only real restriction he's
given us for the event is no nudism, which I think we can deal with after the crazy restrictions
Rogers started imposing. That's the last campground. If you are unfamiliar with the
campground that Fork and Forkfest, this ad read is about Forkfest with an F.
Rogers is where those used to always be. So no news is, sorry, no nudism and I think
we can deal with that one rule. So Forkfest.party for more info and Forkfest
2026 at gmail.com to sign up as one of the 100 campers. With you on Freetalk Live tonight,
you've got me Bonnie Riley O'Bill and also that guy Riley you were you were muted. Sorry
about that. So you've got Bonnie on there Riley O'Bill and also that calling guy.
Bonnie was censoring me. How dare she dang it. I mean to censor you. I'm not going to censor
the callers that we have a caller named Tom on the line Tom you're on Freetalk Live.
Is this your first time calling? No, I used to call from Las California.
Oh, okay. Well, welcome back to being a caller. What's on your mind, Tom? The grocery store
margins? Oh, yeah, I googled it. I thought how can you run a business with a 1 to 3%
profit margin. And I googled it said produce is 30 to 50%
profit margin for the store and canned goods are 15 to 40%.
So but it did say 1 to 3%. So yeah, I can answer that.
Yeah, I can answer that for you and for anybody else who who doesn't know. So there's there's a
markup and then there's profit margin. So the markup means that they buy the food at a certain
cost. So you know, whatever it is, like a dollar for a can of tomato soup or whatever.
And then maybe they mark it up by let's say, you know, 100%. So let's say they say it's like $2
now on the shelf. But the profit margin, that's what's left over after they pay for all their
expenses. So yeah, they get a dollar when they sell it. But then they have to pay the
employees their wages, they have to pay for electricity for running the stuff in the store.
There's like insurance maintenance, you just all that stuff. And so the thing is the 1 to 3%
margin, that's what's left over after they've sold the can and paid all of the expenses.
Well, that makes sense. Yeah. Can I mention one more topic?
Yeah, that's totally fine. Yeah, because the Gaza war went on forever. And the Iranian
now we're starting that people are starving to death. They have to be starving to death.
And now they're talking about cutting off their power to every house, every citizen.
In Gaza?
Why nobody talking about the humanitarian aid?
Wait, wait, in Gaza or Iran?
Either one.
He's got a humanitarian aid now. But Iranians, as we've been in there three weeks,
whether they have control of the skies, why don't they drive the flyer C-130 over
when drop popcorn or Sprite, what do you call it, freeze dried shrimp or something,
they won't hit someone in the head.
Oh, that's a good way to put it. No, I didn't really think much about that. Honestly, it's like
Collins been really, really researching the whole Iran war. And to me, it's like,
sometimes I avoid researching depressing things. And then one day I'm just like,
alright, I'm up for it. I just like dig deep into it and have done that with the Iran
thing. And it's like, that's pretty depressing thought. But I bet you're right that like
there are people like with the supply chains disrupted in their areas because of bombing.
Well, I mean, first off, I think we could talk about what the motivations are of the various
parties and nobody's going to be dropping food in to Gaza because the people who the US isn't
going to do it. And Israel's not going to do it because that's not their goal. So that's not
going to happen. And it's the same sort of thing in Iran. But I think the whole world
is going to need to be aware of what's going to be coming down the pike with the straight of
hormones, which by the way, my joke is going to be, I'm going to call it straight of hormones
every time I saw somebody mistype it on YouTube. And now that's my new thing. It's the straight
of hormones. But anyway, yeah, the straight of hormones with it being shut down, it's not
just the oil. Apparently, a ton of fertilizer is manufactured in that area, which is something
I didn't even know. And that makes sense because it's easier if you have a product that you make
from a fuel, it's easier to like make it from the fuel at the spot and then ship the final product,
because then you're shipping less weight, right? So anyways, gross fertilizer is bad.
Yeah. Well, anyway, so there's going to be a shortage of fertilizer in a lot of markets around
the world. And it's going to end right now. And the thing too about it is it's not like,
once it opens back up and now the fertilizer comes through, you're all set. Like the fertilizer
needs to be applied at different times, depending on the crops and other conditions like that.
So a lot of crops that are getting planted right now are just not going to have the yield
that they would otherwise have had. So there's going to be like some sort of food shortages.
Also, none of them are self-sufficient in that regard.
Well, Donald Trump said his battle is not with the people of Iran, but with the government
and the thugs and the people that get to shoot people and beat them up and hang them in the streets.
So I think that contradicts your statement that what I'm saying is that they should have
humanitarian aid. Absolutely. My point is we went through it in Gaza and the people are starving
to death. I mean, he might say it's against the regime, but at the same time,
like they don't care about making the people suffer while they go after the regime. I mean,
that's what they're doing right now with bombing the or threatening to bomb the power plants and
already having bombed the natural gas supplies for Iran because, you know, so I mean, there's oil
and there's natural gas and they're used for different things and gasoline or the oil. Sorry,
usually these little things like that, but the natural gas is usually used for power plants
and stuff like that. So when they bombed that gas field in Iran, they they knocked out like 20%
of Iran's natural gas supply, which is going to impact their power plants. So they already don't
care about the people suffering, you know, and then they'll they'll say, oh, we're doing it so
that the people will rise up. But that's not really why, you know, it's hard to rise up,
okay. But again, it's a bunch of guys with machine guns, you know, if you're just an
average citizen. Anyway, thanks a lot. Have a good day. Thank you for the call. Yeah,
we need a caller like that more often. Yeah, it was really fun and thoughtful conversation,
more calls coming up. We have barter town on the line barter town. You wanted to talk about
an event coming up. Is that what you wanted to talk about? That's correct. Mayfest is the
predominant name that we're calling it here at barter town in May, if that's not terribly
obvious. And yeah, so I got interested to discuss that particularly. But obviously,
there's a lot of other topics that you guys might be more interested in discussing. I really
appreciate you doing that ad read for Forkfest, because I'm going to previous Forkfest attendee,
and that's great to hear that it'll keep going this year. In the past, it's been at different
times. And this year, it'll be at a different place. So that's really interesting to see
the evolution of that. It'll be the 10th Forkfest. Sorry to cut you off.
The 10th, I had no idea. I thought I haven't kept track of the years fly by.
It started in 2016. So that's how I figured it out. Because some people are thrown around nine.
No, but it started in 2016, the year Ian got kicked out of Forkfest. So it's 10.
I vaguely remember that. I remember back, so at Forkfest, where free talk live would set
up in their media room, and I'd go in there and listen to the live shows there.
I think there might have been a lot of interaction from the people attending Forkfest at the times,
where they'd go in, get on the show live, and I've had short periods of free talk live in the past
myself. So it's near and dear to my heart, all these festivals with freedom enthusiasts coming
together and celebrating what we've achieved as a community, as a society. And I think it's
a really great evolution for humanity, to be honest.
I just thought of something, you know, what they need to do on the advertising for Forkfest
is every year, add another, like, tine to the fork.
Tine? Oh my gosh.
Yeah. Or prong, whatever you want to call it. You know, so we're at 10, so we'll have like 10,
like, you know, finger things on the fork, right?
Prongs. That's ridiculous.
Well, sure. Yeah. So each year could have a new logo that that's interesting. There's
always more work that could be done. I agree in that regard. So for Forkfest, I remember
it's been after Forkfest, at least one year for July 4th, that I was there at Rogers,
and then most of the time lately, it's been before Forkfest a week before Forkfest.
And then this year at the new location in Forkfest, this year is going to be at a lot
of different locations from what I've heard, which is why I'm kind of branding Mayfest
with a lot of different names, including Forkfest Classic, which refers to Forkfest,
when it had like virtually no government at all. And it was kind of a free-for-all
anarchy festival at Rogers, where the back then the ownership and management at Rogers
was super hands-off and just let the attendees do what they want, because there was like
thousands of us paying 50 bucks a site for 200 sites. So that's what, $10,000 or $1,000?
So do you have a website for Mayfest in Bartetown before we go on? So if somebody's
interested in this, they can... Absolutely. Yeah. So it's on Facebook. It's where the
event page is. So my partner, Seersha Stone, has a Facebook event page for Mayfest.
And the tentative dates for Mayfest on Facebook event, I think it's May 1st to 15th. And so we'll
kick it off May 1st is going to be a full moon. So... On Mayday. We do a bonfire. We like to get out
there at night. So bonfire on a full moon at Mayday. And you have like the location and
everything if someone was to go there for information and they wanted to go?
Yeah. On Facebook, she's got that in the event page, a big description on there with the tentative
schedule. So it's pretty decentralized. We're just looking for people to contribute for a parking
spot. And then you can go out in the woods and camp. And that's kind of the basic structure,
the value for value we're looking for is just... And Collins actually parks his, if he doesn't
mind, he's parked here, I think, a one-month trial. We give him a free month a year,
couple of years back. And so he's welcome to discuss his visit if he wants to.
Oh, like did you enjoy enjoying your time? There was no festival. I just
stored there for a temporary time. Yeah, Barter Town is different than Mayfest.
So he's just asking about your experience at the area, not...
But yeah, it's in the middle of the woods. I'm sorry if I interrupt you.
No, it's fine. But we're just in the middle of the woods out in Grafton County,
kind of remote and rural and off-grid. And so we're looking for people that might
enjoy that kind of thing. It sounds like porkfest up in the North country is going to be similar to that.
Does the ad read include the... Bonnie, question for you. Does it include the price?
Because I don't think that's in there that it's only...
Oh, yeah. It's $10 per person per night. It doesn't include that. You're right.
Which is a good thing to point out because porkfest, if you had a Ted site or RV site,
or porkfest also. Yeah, exactly, yes. At Rogers, it would be, what, $40 to $50 or something like that.
And you had to do that every night. Also, they said you'd have to stay. If it was for porkfest in
particular, you'd have to do the book the whole week, even if you only came for the last two days
because you're restricted for whatever reason, like your work or something. And so that would
be $7 by $50. So you're talking like, you know, was that $420 or something, somewhere in that range.
But this is going to be a lot cheaper because it's going to be $10 per night
by a week. If you want to stay for a week, that's only $70. So that's like nothing, right?
And then, of course, the day passes are free. So it's only if you stay there.
I don't know why I didn't mention the price for people who are staying the night.
There are not, it's going to be pretty primitive camping. There's not any more hookups.
The people who were doing the vending got the hookups, aka electric and water.
Yeah. But there's no restriction on generators.
No restriction on generators. He said that the river makes enough noise that like it will
drown out the generator sounds even louder when he said, which honestly sounds kind of
relaxing to me, like to be like going to sleep and being able to hear the river moving.
Sounds nice. So what are some things that you guys do at Mayfest? You're going to have a bonfire?
Yeah. Well, I would like to touch on the pricing since Colin brought that up. Sorry,
I forget the other name, the Colin, Caller, whatever.
Oh, me, Bonnie?
The Balder gentleman there, what's his name?
Oh, yeah, it's Colin.
Okay. There's a different name, I think at some point.
Yeah, he's Balder than Riley, yeah.
Yes. No, I use my real name.
Yeah, I use my real name too.
I just don't use my full name, but whatever.
I don't think anybody does.
Okay. Anyways, you wanted to talk about pricing at Mayfest?
Yeah. Yeah. So it's just, we're doing it by the parking spot and we're not charging for
like people walk in or bicycle in, or I guess if you could get your motorcycle out in the
woods by your campsite, that would be free pretty much. So for cars, like vehicles that would
take up a spot in the parking lot, it's 20 bucks a day is what we're asking for vehicles.
You could have like 10 people in a van or something and then bring your utensils out
in the woods for 20 bucks a day.
Oh, that's better than, at Rogers, they started paying or charging people for parking per the
amount of people in the car. That's what she was trying to enforce on at least one person.
They're weird. That's the thing, this is why we're not doing it at Rogers this year.
They were like rules for some people and not others and stuff like that,
like weird crap like that going on. So yeah, thank you for the call.
Do you have anything else you'd like to add?
Bartetown? Mr. Bartetown?
Well, it's just a brief description of the event, Mayfest, May 1st to 15th at
Bartetown in Grafton County, New Hampshire in the woods, off grid, radical Voluntaryism,
the porkfest classic. It's basically what porkfest used to be,
which is just a bunch of freedom lovers on the woods.
Shire Society Declaration is the rule set. I appreciate a lot of you have run
Shire Society venues and I think that is optimal that we don't need a whole lot of
new rules like the, I guess the North country just has the one non-explicit rule with
the Shire Society Declaration about the close. But here we don't add extra rules like that.
All right, thank you for your time, guys.
And thanks for the show.
Yeah, thank you for calling. It's awesome that they're basically like competing,
I want to say, but not really, since these are different dates, events going on,
all different people who want to show off their communities in their own ways
in New Hampshire because New Hampshire is the site of the Free State Project,
which is an Inc. It's an organization, but it's also the site of the freedom migration of
individuals to New Hampshire. And it's the most successful libertarian movement in the world.
There's nothing else close. Like there's seasteading and stuff, but those are smaller.
Yes, there is. I go to events in other countries and meet people from all around the world
and they're atyping things, whether it's Liberland or Seasteading or whatever.
It's just not as big or successful. And I measure the success by how well the community can take
care of itself and provide for itself and how much of an economy they have. So one thing I've
seen with a lot of different communities that they have out there is it'll be like, oh,
some rich libertarian guy will be like, oh, I'm going to buy up this gigantic resort in this,
I don't want to say third world country, but this other cheaper whatever country,
I'll buy up this giant resort and we'll have gates around it. And oh, if you're a libertarian,
come and live here. And it's like, well, what are you going to do when you get there?
And it's like, how are you going to make money? How are you going to provide for other people
and stuff like that? And really, it winds up they just attract like wealthy crypto people.
And then their communities have to import everything to get food from the outside.
They have to get everything from the outside. And the only reason that this works is because
they're able to earn dollars somewhere else or dollars or whatever crypto, but they're able
to convert it into a local currency and buy stuff. And the thing is that people don't
really wind up forming as many connections with each other because the connections are just
based on friendship, but not based on like need and stuff like that. And so the thing with the
Free State project community is how large it is, is that there's like how many bars and restaurants
run by Free State entrepreneurs, rental companies where you can pay. Well, this might have changed
recently, but you could for the longest time pay in crypto your rent. And then those people
would have employees working for them and they would just pay them in crypto. So you were
getting like circular economies where, you know, that person would go to a community day
or a community market day and buy stuff from a Free State or a run farm, you know, and get
his food there. And you're getting like this, these virtuous, you know, self-reinforcing.
I have lamb in the freezer that was raised by a Free State or and I bought it with Bitcoin.
Yeah, nice. That's the way to do it. And so this bread from Riley with Goldbacks.
The thing is, this community doesn't need, you know, I mean, obviously it's not completely 100.
Like we don't have like our own oil fields. But, you know, we're, you know, eventually we'll get
that way. But New Hampshire, are there oil fields? Well, I mean, eventually we'll have
some sort of solution for that, whether it's, you know, our own power or making
making oil out of wood. I thought I said wrong the first time. Well, also
free trade is also an amazing thing. It's like, you don't have to be completely dependent,
independent, 100% all your own. Like you say, your own family, absolutely everything from scratch
here. It's great to do as many things as possible. But at the end of the day, free trade is a
libertarian, you know, value for reason. It eliminates avenues of control from the state.
Yes. So, I mean, like, like let's go back, I mean, this topic keeps coming up this evening,
like the vaccine passports. What was that going to be? Well, oh, you don't have this paperwork,
you can't go to this grocery store and buy your food. Now, once you create a system
like that where somebody's just looking at like a piece of paper and determining whether or not
you can buy food or not, doesn't matter whether it's a vaccine or not, maybe they just invalidate
your thing. So, maybe you did actually go out and get the vaccine, but because you're a
political dissident, they put a mark on your thing kind of like a no fly list, you go to
get food and now you can't get food. So, every time you can eliminate one of those
avenues of control and bring it into a community of like-minded people
means the less, you know, control they're going to have over you. And it means like,
like for instance, I mean, they're going to put out a CBDC. I mean, they want to, it might not
work, but they're going to try to do it. They're going to do something like that
to try and force people, you know, into a system and to do what they want them to do.
I don't know. I'm kind of rambling a little. Well, it just seems like what you're pointing
out, Colin, is that they want to have a society where everything's tracked and
where all, where what you buy and sells tracked and so almost impossible if we were to really live
under their system for me to sell bread without their permission, I'd have to get the permission,
fill the proper paperwork, things like that. So it's nice to be around people who
get the idea that, hey, maybe this is not a good idea to have tagged and tracked currency
wherever you go. Yeah. And have to like show your papers every time you enter a building
and things like that. More free talk live coming up. You can discuss whatever you want to
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The White House this week tried to reassure Americans as oil prices jumped
to $118 a barrel on Thursday, nearly three weeks into the US-Israeli war with Iran.
President Trump said that he would do whatever was necessary to ease the crisis,
but that it was temporary. The challenge is no longer just reopening the Strait of Hormuz,
a choke point for one-fifth of the world's oil supply, but now the attacks and counterattacks
on oil and gas production across the region have injected new uncertainty.
Fiona Mee reports from Dubai.
US Defense Secretary Pete Higgsith said the war with Iran is on track,
but he declined to say how or when it will end. In a press briefing, Higgsith said Thursday would
once again be the most intense day of attacks in the nearly three-week-long conflict. Tony
Waterman has more from Washington. Higgsith has walked away from the four to five-week time frame
he touted when this war began, an indication perhaps that it could stretch longer as it
intensifies and widens. General Dan Cain said US warplanes are now flying deeper into Iranian
territory to strike its military capabilities, and there are reports President Trump is
considering deploying thousands of troops on the ground. Higgsith was adamant that
this conflict wouldn't become a forever war. What's said, it takes money to kill bad guys
and replenish piles. The White House has temporarily rolled back a law that prohibits foreign vessels
from shipping oil and gas between US ports as the ongoing war with Iran has spiked energy
prices. Kate Fisher reports from Washington. President Trump is trying to combat spiraling
oil prices with a 60-day suspension of the Jones Act to increase the pool of ships that can
move the fuels across the US. But analysts say the move is largely symbolic and will ease gas
prices by only a couple of pennies at most. A gallon of regular unleaded gas already averages $3.84
nationally, according to motoring organization AAA. That's an increase of 32% from a month ago.
From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann, and that was the Week in Review.
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you've got me, Bonnie. Colin. And Riley is gone. He's gone. Yeah. On the break, they came in,
it was another raid, and they took him away. Don't say that because I have to ruin the joke
because you can't say that. People are going to believe it's another raid. Okay. People are
going to believe it's the fourth raid on this house. Fourth? What was the third one? It was
the City of Keen because of fun. Oh, that's, yeah, that one doesn't count. Okay. Well,
the third raid, whatever. We do have a caller on the line. The people that took Riley away,
it's a female fed. He did not see it coming. He didn't see it coming. Neither did we.
All right, so I'm just kidding about that. Riley had to step away. He only promised us
an hour of his time, and he gave us an hour and a half, so it was great.
But continue on with the show. 603-283-6160 is the phone number, and we have a caller on
the line. Unscreened caller. You're on Freetalk Live. What's on your mind? Maybe what's
your name and topic? Oh, my name is Ralph, and my topic is
President's Ultimatum to Iran. It's less than 24 hours from now. I don't know. Have you
heard about his 48-hour threat? Yes, he said that if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully
open, then he's going to obliterate their power plants in Iran.
And have you heard what the Iranian said to that? No. I saw it, but I don't recall.
Well, if he does that, then they're going to target all the fuel and energy infrastructure
in the surrounding countries that are supporting the United States. And that includes the
desalination plants, where they get their water from. I think it's like 90% of
the Gulf's water supply comes from 56 plants in the Gulf, and they're going to hit them.
So can you imagine that the 100 million people that are going to be
without water? Oh, my God, that's crazy. Yeah, that's going to change the
equation. And a lot of people are talking about Israel going to be forced to use
nuclear bombs on Iran. Because what we hear in our news media is that nothing's happened in Israel,
but I watch it. I listen to news from all over the world, from India, from all over.
And they're showing videos of the missiles getting through. There's no iron dome. It's more like
a bubble. Yeah, the iron dome system was only ever able to take out very small rockets,
like ones that can only go however many miles that were being launched in supposedly by
Hezbollah. I forget all the names of those groups in the Israel conflict.
But yeah, but they was never set up to take out ballistic missiles and stuff like that.
So yeah, everything Iran's shooting is basically getting through with the exception of the things
that they're stopping with the interceptor missiles from the US. Yeah, which they're running
out of. Yeah. And those are pretty costly. The drones that are coming through cost between
$10,000 and $40,000. And we're shooting up patriots and all that that cost like a million dollars.
So wow. It's not even not getting our money's worth just the cost. It's the
time it takes to make them. So I can't remember exact numbers, but it's something like the US is
only able to make like five or 700 interceptors a year, something like that. I don't know.
But the Iranians, they have whole scale industries that are turning these things out.
They could turn out thousands and they already have thousands stockpiled because they saw this
thing coming like 20 years ago and knew it was going to happen after the Iraq and Afghanistan
invasions. What are the countries that would be affected by the 100 million people you said
that would have no water? Well, you know, the Dubai is no more. Oh my God, there's like nobody
there. You know that that that place is as disgusting anyway as nothing but money and
all kinds of perversions going on there. That wouldn't even be considered Islamic. But
you know, they were they've been like spending just billions and billions of dollars building this
paradise in the desert that's all coming to an end now. Wow. It's really empty. Well, well, yeah,
a bunch of people on the beaches. Everybody has fled that can go and we have bases in all
these places. See, that's that's why they attacked them. It wasn't attacking the countries,
but if if our bases that are attacking them are in those countries, which is just right across the
gulf, it's just a matter of few miles. Why wouldn't they attack our bases? I've seen drones where they
and Baghdad, you know, we have like this huge complex and the Iranian drone comes in and
just flies around. You see this video just flying around looking for a good target and
there's a big radar insulation bang, you know, one of the radar insulations cost over a billion
dollars that they took out right away. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing that's not being mentioned when
people are talking about the cost of this war. And they're saying I forget what the last number
I heard was because obviously it's going up all the time, but something like oh,
six or 12 billion dollars. That's just talking about like the cost that they've spent like,
you know, doing doing things like getting people over there or flying the airplanes
or whatever. That's not including the costs of all the bases that have been destroyed and stuff
like that and what it would take to rebuild them. So it's it's easily in like, you know, I don't
know, hundreds of billions of dollars. Yeah. And here are these interceptor missiles that
are like in Asia, they're taking them out of Asia and shipping them over to the Middle East now,
which is pissing off like the South Koreans. Yeah. And then the North Koreans are starting
all kinds of missile tests. And, you know, the world is going to be changing really quick. And
this nut that we have for a president is just, well, he's nothing but for Israel. You know,
he's bought and paid for. I mean, just Miriam Adelson, you know, hundreds of millions of
dollars to his campaign. She controls him. You know, it's like, it's just disgusting
the stuff he's doing. We're like a pariah state just like Israel that nobody wants
anything to do with us. You know, here we talk about, oh, we're going to negotiate a peace settlement.
And yeah, we'll meet you Monday. And then Friday night, we go and bomb the hell out of him, you
know, and that's twice that we've done that. You know, and there have been other instances
like that. I mean, we're just so disgusting. And then the first strike where they hit
that the school with all these young girls, you know, those were all kids from the
military. See, a lot of people don't think that was an accident. And then for Trump to say, oh,
well, you know, Tom Hawk missile, they probably did it to themselves. I mean, this guy, yeah,
that's not true. He's like, he's like a, I'm not, you know, just who talks like that.
And now he's got this ultimatum that we're going to lose no matter what happens.
Because if he doesn't do anything, well, you know, even that is going to be like,
well, look at, look at just, just talk and talk and talk and doesn't do anything.
But he probably is going to do something. And when he's gotten desperate straights now,
you know, we know what happens when people get desperate. They, you know, pull out all stops.
I mean, like I said, they've, what they've got, like, we don't even know how many nuclear bombs
they have. Israel? Yeah, they don't officially have any, but it's like everybody knows that
they do. Yeah. Because and I've heard like that a bunch of them might have been given by the United
States. So I don't know if they're controlled by the US or, you know, given to them. And also,
we don't know what type of bomb they are. Like they're probably not, you know, intercontinental
ballistic missile types, you know, they might just be bombs that have to be dropped from
airplanes, which I don't think they're going to have the capabilities because right now Iran
is already able to shoot down fighter planes that go over their territory with some success. So,
you know, they might fly something over there, but there's no guarantees it gets through.
You know, I googled this Miriam Adelson person that Ralph brought up. And I was shocked because
her net worth is $36 billion with a B. Oh yeah. And her husband, before he died,
they own practically all of Las Vegas. That's where that money comes from. It's all disgusting
money that these people have. People ruin their lives. People ruin their lives for gambling.
People don't realize, I mean like Rothschild basically started Israel and Rothschild financed
Trump in his casinos. I don't know if you're aware of that.
He had his personal wealth on the line. And what was his name?
Think about it in a minute. He was working for Rothschild. He came to bankrupt him.
And this story was in the Wall Street Journal. And when he pulls up, he's seen Trump get out
of his car in front of him. And all these people mobbed him like he was a movie star.
And right then and there he called back and he said, I think this guy's going to be
worth more to us if we don't bankrupt him. So he saved Wilbur Ross, who he appointed
when he was president the first time as his commerce secretary. See, it's like he's so
involved with Israel. He's like the cult that controls Israel. See, that's what's going on.
A lot of these people aren't even, they don't even have submitting blood.
And they call other people who criticize them anti-Semites. You know, what crap that is.
They're Eastern European by blood. You can't even get a blood test in Israel without
special permission from the government. They probably didn't know that either, right?
No, it's just a bunch of disgust. They all change their names.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, who was Milovsky or something like that, you know. They come from Poland.
Why did they just get to live there? Why don't the people who actually live,
they get to live there, but they're treated like criminals and
you know, and then they refer to everybody else as Amalek. Have you heard that term?
Is that like the people that lived outside of the area in like Canaan or whatever,
where they lived when they were the Hebrews roaming the...
I think it's a group they were commanded to kill off.
And yeah, and Netanyahu has pulled that twice now that I know of in the last few months,
calling these other people Amalek, you know, firing up his troops so they'll go in,
they kill their children, they kill their animals, they kill everything, everything is Amalek.
And we're Amalek too, you know. We're just being used and dumped and we're going to be
flushed down the toilet pretty soon if we don't stop this.
All our people, all our representatives are on the take by APAC and...
Yeah, they have APAC...
Controllers, managers.
Yeah, yeah, everyone. They've figured out...
Well, except Thomas Massey, right?
Yeah.
Or is he still without an APAC manager?
Uh, I believe he's still without one.
But he'd be the only one.
But, you know, here's the thing too, you know, like I honestly kind of believe...
Well, first off, not that any of you can like look back at a record of me saying this,
because I wasn't even on the show then.
But when Biden disappeared for like a whole entire month before the election,
and then he came out and I saw this guy like,
oh, it's Biden's first speech in over a month and I'm looking at...
I'm like, that's not Biden. That's somebody else.
The guy talked completely differently.
Like, he had different speech patterns and stuff.
And so I think that, you know, he actually died then and they have a number of body
doubles they've been using.
And people of this theory that I'm...
You know, you can look into it because like,
there's different Bidens that have attached and detached earlobes.
You know, right?
And so anyways, I think the same sort of thing has happened with Trump.
Like, I think maybe he did get in this last time and, you know,
the first like couple months, I was like, oh my gosh,
it's stuff is actually going to be good.
Like the fact that he actually released...
Yeah, why?
He didn't need to do that at all.
He could have just said, yeah, I tricked you guys and you have to live with it.
Yeah.
But he...
I've never gotten anything from a government official.
Yeah.
You see what I mean?
Like that it just blows my mind.
Well, look at this.
If he said to the whole entire base,
I'm the anti-war president, you know, peace president.
But also, you know, he said at...
So taking you back to the convention.
LP, the LNC convention.
You guys should nominate me, your president,
and then I'll do these things.
Well, we, whatever, Libertarian Party couldn't have done it
because it was past the like filing point or whatever.
Yeah.
So he could always say, well, you guys didn't do that.
So I'm gonna do it because he doesn't want to and move on.
Yeah.
So but in any case, like, you know, it started off good.
It's like Doge, you know, looking into where all the money's going and all of that.
And the Ross, and there was a third or fourth thing that I can't recall right now,
but it looked good.
And then somewhere around the summer, you know, like four months in,
all of a sudden it's like, we're going to be bombing everything
and we're getting rid of Doge and we're getting rid of this
and we're turning all this stuff around.
And, you know, yeah, for all we know, they killed him.
Maybe they have a clone.
I don't know.
Or they have a bunch of lookalikes and or they're using AI videos
to create every time that he appears.
I don't know.
But I think the thing people need to think about is
like what is even the point of voting and waiting and wishing for this government
to do things that you want it to do?
Like at this point, I think the rug's been pulled on both sides so many times.
So extremely.
This is about the most extreme turnaround I think I've ever seen.
From a president.
Yeah.
That I think people need to say like, I think you need to just stop giving them our power
our energy, our money, our time and bring everything back down to a more local level
as local as you can get it.
And I think that that's what people need to do.
Because we're not going to get it any other way.
We're not going to vote it.
That's not going to happen.
You know that this is kind of like a religious war
because there's a cult that controls Israel.
And the more Christian Zionists than there are Jewish Zionists.
The evangelicals, they belong to a death cult.
They want the world to be destroyed.
The Christians want the world to be destroyed so Jesus can come back.
The Jewish Zionists want the world to be destroyed so their Messiah can come
and put them in charge of the whole world.
It's like they're wacko.
They've gone crazy.
Well, I think looking at it, like if I had to look at all the things that I've seen,
I would have to walk away from this saying like it's a death cult because I couldn't say
this stuff that's happening is for Israel.
How can we say that what's happening right now in particular is for Israel
when they're getting bombed to smithereens by the missiles
when Iran's going to be able to like knock out their gas infrastructure.
And just to clarify that, because they've been wanting to use America to go after
Iran for them for 20 years.
But do you don't understand what I'm saying?
Like they're they're suffering more than if none of this happened at all.
Like there really was no indication that Iran was going to do anything.
Well, maybe like the average person there is suffering more but the Zionists who,
like he said, want this to happen.
They want World War III.
Yeah.
That's what they want.
And they firmly believe that they're going to be in charge.
They're their savior or whatever they call them Messiah.
You know, this is coming and putting them in charge of the whole world.
That's what they believe.
And these Christian Zionists, they believe that Jesus is coming back.
But the world has to be destroyed first.
I mean, I don't know how you can, you know, use rational thought with these people.
You can't.
And do you know about the Sabotee and Frankus?
That was a cult within Judaism that developed around 1500 and 1600.
Yes, they believe that it's.
And then even later.
Yeah.
And and they their their religion is like they inverted everything.
Like the the better you are, the better it is.
Yeah, they think that like doing the worst things ever basically eventually brings in
good.
So they use that as an excuse to do worse and worse and worse and worse crimes against human beings.
Yeah, exactly.
And I mean, they they advocated and they they're not only advocated.
They were doing it.
They were having sex with their own family members.
You know, it's just like they're just wacko.
And these people are around nowadays.
That belief is, you know, it's like the from the Talmud where everybody else's dirt and
dogs and cattle that should be milked of everything they have.
And that that's the way they look upon us.
I'm not I'm not going to say that everything that you're saying is false.
But what I want to say is no, no, no, what I want to say is I think focusing too much
and being like, oh, there's these religious extremists over here and look at how evil
and bad they are and all of that and look at what they're doing.
I think we need to just be like, look at what they're doing and how do we not be part of it,
regardless of what their actual motivations are because I don't want to go off.
We're going to be we're going to be part of it.
Exactly.
The problem is that like, especially America getting involved not only puts us a target
on Americans just living here, but also America is like the biggest military in the
world by like 10 fold or something.
I well, okay.
No, no, no, the US spends more money on its military than all of the other countries
combined.
That doesn't mean it's the biggest military.
That's what we're seeing right now.
What we're seeing right now is really, really, really expensive US missiles being wasted
and not hitting their targets while really cheap missiles are getting through.
So the fact, you know, and we're seeing the same things true with the with this
like one or something like that, whatever the number is.
And it's like, yeah, but these aircraft carriers are not going anywhere near
the straits or near the Gulf.
They're sitting they're sitting somewhere out in the Arabian Sea because
they don't want to even get hit because they know they can get hit by these missiles.
And it's quite possible that that fire on the the was at USS Ford was was this isn't a
I mean, it's silly.
It's like, oh, a fire in the laundry room.
Like, oh, we forgot to clean the lint trap out like seriously.
And then they're saying, oh, it's so bad that good one.
Yeah.
No, I mean, yeah, it's laughable.
I mean, they're trained to put out fires on ship.
Like if somebody doesn't know this ship and where was it exactly?
Somewhere over there.
It wasn't in the straits.
It was an American ship.
And they claimed, oh, a fire just went off in our laundry room.
That's why we had to turn around and flee.
And everybody knows that the reality is likely they got hit by a missile.
That's that's one thing.
Well, the other thing too, there's a theory out there that it could have been a mutiny
because the apparently the the I was said soldiers, but the sailors who have been
on that boat have been out at sea for like the extremely, I don't know how long,
but extremely year.
And they were just used over in the Venezuela thing.
And so these guys might be like, hey, we're not going to be just sitting ducks over here.
Let's just like, it's a theory.
I don't know.
But this is why this is kind of what I was getting out with the other thing.
Like it's a theory, not that it's wrong, but all this stuff with, you know,
what their motivations are.
But whatever the motivations are, what we know is we need to decouple from it
and stop giving it our power and stop using it.
And then I mean, they're already we're running into two limits.
Like people are not signing up for the military, you know, so they're not going to be able to.
I mean, sorry, I'm kind of getting flabbergasted here because like
there's so many thoughts coming to me at once.
But people aren't signing up yet.
People don't want to die for Israel in American military.
So there are less people.
So then these people might have mutinied.
Well, okay, here's where I was going to go.
If they want to continue this war, it's going to have to be,
well, either it's going to stop like pretty soon because we're running out of stuff,
or they, the people who are running this country are going to have to go insane
and do drafts and rationing and a wartime economy and people forcing people in factories.
People are going to have to go into factories to make bombs and missiles and stuff.
Like those are kind of, that's where we're stuck at right now.
It's like one of those two options.
But the U.S. is not winning this thing.
But say the U.S. just says, hey, we're backing out.
Will Iran stop too?
Maybe, probably.
I mean, I don't know.
Let the two of them duke it out.
They're not going to surrender.
It's existential for them.
It's either they're going to be destroyed or they're going to win.
Interesting.
Well, thank you so much for the call, Ralph.
Lots of interesting stuff to talk about.
More callers are on the line.
And they still room for you.
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The White House this week tried to reassure Americans
as oil prices jumped to $118 a barrel on Thursday,
nearly three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli War with Iran.
President Trump said that he would do whatever was necessary
to ease the crisis but that it was temporary.
The challenge is no longer just reopening the Strait of Hormuz,
a choke point for one-fifth of the world's oil supply,
but now the attacks and counterattacks on oil and gas production across the region
have injected new uncertainty.
Fiona Mee reports from Dubai.
Let's start with Qatar.
The foreign ministry is saying there was extensive damage
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and several other LNG plants were also hit.
Qatar strongly condemning the strikes,
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Here in the UAE operations were suspended in Abu Dhabi's Habshaan gas facility
after missile debris fell in the area.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the war with Iran is on track when it will end.
In a press briefing Hegseth said Thursday would once again be the most intense day of attacks
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Hegseth has walked away from the four to five-week time frame he touted when this war began,
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General Dan Cain said U.S. warplanes are now flying deeper into Iranian territory
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suspension of the Jones Act to increase the pool of ships that can move the fuels across
the U.S. But analysts say the move is largely symbolic and will ease gas prices by only a
couple of pennies at most. A gallon of regular unledded gas already averages $3.84 nationally,
according to motoring organization AAA. That's an increase of 32 percent from a month ago.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance assured Americans it would not last forever.
The president said this and I certainly agree with it. This is a temporary blip.
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Rising price of gasoline and heating oil is really the fault of cops. There's everything
with the government. What would you get going here is you've got zoning restrictions. And,
you know, you got this country that is pretty much at war against anybody who's not driving a car.
The government is on it when they plow snow off the street onto the sidewalk
and leave it there to make way for people in cars, because people in cars are the ones that
matter. Hey, wait, wait, wait, one second. Are you single?
No. Oh, darn. I was going to say you and Sarah agree on so much right now.
And anyway, we get these people in cars and if the street is somehow the government's job,
how is it not the government's job for the sidewalk? Where exactly is the property line?
You know, if it's your land, then why should you have to sacrifice some of your land
taking private property for public use without just compensation?
And you know, to your point, one thing that's crazy about that is that they will come give
you a ticket if you're parked where your car is in your driveway, but blocking the sidewalk.
But yeah, they don't give themselves a ticket for not plowing the sidewalks a lot of time,
most of the time. And while they don't enforce pretty much the law that says that
you're supposed to shovel the sidewalk, but if it's your land, then why can't you put
in flower beds and forbid trespass? And if it's their land, then why should you have to
shovel their sidewalk? It's slavery or involuntary servitude, no matter what the court says about
it. You know, I'm talking about what the Constitution actually says, never mind the
garbage vomited forth by the courts. And then if they continue to maintain streets
without sidewalks and put up traffic lights without crosswalk lights, at some corners,
if you're staggering home from the saloon after having a drink or 10,
you're lucky to find a painted crosswalk. But when a freight train is crossing the street,
well, now that's different because people in cars could get killed. And so lights flash,
bells clang, gates drop, and the horn sounds because those are people who matter.
And then you finally, let's see, now there's a job, but the buses don't go there. There's
another job, but the buses don't start that early. You finally managed to earn a paycheck with,
of course, they imposed tough zoning restrictions to prevent people from living closer to where they
can work and shop and gather to drink. And that is the act of aggression by the government,
by the way, because demanding that they plow the sidewalk and saying, if you don't plow the
sidewalk, we're going to have a revolt. That's extortion for something of value,
but requiring them to abolish the zoning restrictions is not a form of extortion,
it's making them stop their aggression. It's defensive and not aggressive. So that's the
first chess move is to get rid of the zoning restrictions, which, by the way, also prevent
somebody from building an apartment house, do things amount on an apartment house. You put
build an apartment house with 100 units in it. It's going to leak a lot less heat if you just
look at the geometry of it all, a lot less heat than a hundred single family homes spread out over
what you'd be somebody's farm. And so you're going to use a lot less heating oil or kerosene,
as the case may be. And also more people will be waiting at each bus stop, but the people
the struggling families or have to pay check to paycheck because they in order to add an apartment
house, the local government requires them to add a parking lot. Typically for 100 families,
you'd have to have 170 parking spaces, which is ripping off people that don't have a car. And
it's also the local residents are the ones who are saying, we don't want that in our
neighborhood and ignore the fact that they own their yard. It's their yard. It's not their neighborhood.
The land somebody else wants to build an apartment house on it. It's their right to build an apartment
house on it. And so therein lies a big part of the problem is that the local bureaucrats are
taking their marching orders from a bunch of fat, ugly old ladies that watch soap operas and play
bingo and read tabloids and don't know the metric system. And they want to preserve
the rural character of our community. They don't give a fire truck about the plight of struggling
families and people who are placed out of the housing market forced to live on the street begging
strangers to spare change. And when they do all of this, then they see if somebody were to just
go ahead and build the apartment house anyway, the local zoning board people wouldn't show up
and stop the construction, fight the construction workers. I have heard of building inspectors
going onto the construction site and cutting extension cords that people weren't supposed to
be using. They're not supposed to be using it. They're supposed to put up the pipes and
everything for construction and use regular wiring on the construction site to power their power
tools on the construction site. They're not supposed to use extension cords. So the
building inspector cuts those. But that's about as aggressive as they're going to get. They have
cops going there when a poor defenseless cop gets taken out in a shootout. Well,
if one town in a state is allowed to impose zoning restrictions, that's the justification
to overthrow the state government because it's an act of aggression there. The first
chess move is to get rid of the zoning restrictions. And by the way, another point there is that
some crashes are the fault of cops because, well, actually it's the system in that case because
judges may be reluctant to impose lengthy suspensions on somebody because of the hardship
caused by the war on walkers, which isn't even limited to the government. You finally
managed to earn a paycheck without owning a car. That bank is closed. Oh, but the drive-up
window is open, but we won't serve you unless you're in a car because it's only open for people
who matter. And you know, most motorists... Glad to know I matter. ...and most motorists
driving down the road would never think of leaning on the horn and screaming profanities
that somebody up ahead who signals a left turn and stops to let oncoming traffic pass unless
that somebody is riding a bicycle on a public way. The nerve of them making me slow down when I
matter. I don't think other car drivers outrank bicyclists somehow. You know, it is an extension
of the attitude that grown-ups who are workable and unnecessarily children who are playing,
then getting to work without gasoline. There's a lot of bicyclists who act like they're the ones
that own the road. I mean, they won't obey any of the rules of the road. Or they go back and
forth. I'm a bike. I'm a car. I'm a bike. I'm a car. That pisses me off more than anything.
And the thing is, that's totally legal in New Hampshire. That pisses me off. But also,
I agree with what Tom is saying as far as like, if a bicyclist is just making a turn and
they have to slow down and a car behind them is like laying on their horn, because no, they
do it to other cars too. Because recently people getting dumber and dumber and more and more on
drugs. I think that's what it is. People drive. They should be promised that they will never have
to slow down or stop. If you're driving and then you put on your blinker and you try to
turn left and there's no other option, you just have to make the car behind you stop.
People get so pissed over that. And it's like, do you think when you're on a road,
it's like, unless you see a red light, you will never have to stop. What if a deer runs in front
of you? Yeah. The double standard, you want to open a shopping mall that look at all the parking
spaces that they're going to make you add. But what about a bicycle rack? Oh, no, because
people on bicycles don't matter apparently. And then they want like cry babies when somebody
gets hit by a drunk driver. But we don't want to follow them in our neighborhood.
The drunks could walk home. It's this whole attitude that people
aren't driving a car. It don't matter. There's a war on walkers and it spills over to judges not
extending, imposing lengthy suspensions for the ones who are committing all these crimes
behind the wheel. And it also is forcing people to drive under suspension because
they have to. They have to get to work. You know, they're going to be living on the street.
So they take a chance at having to go to jail for driving under suspension. So it's a whole
line of things that is not even always the fault of cost there, to be honest with you.
On March 2nd of 2006, there was a deadly crash where the drunk driver crashed into a car with
three high-run college students in Burton, Ohio. The drunk driver had 11 prior DWIs.
That means the cops did their job because they busted the guy 11 times. And what good does that
do if the government isn't going to stop them from driving drunk at 12th time and killing
some people? Wow, that's a really good point. Same thing with like lots of different violent
criminals. It's like, yeah, they might get arrested every single time they do it,
but the judges just let them out the same day. Judges are also just as bad as cops in my opinion.
It's like we're always like focusing on cops, especially on free talk live, about how horrible
and nasty they are because it's like in our faces every day. But as somebody who's filmed countless
cases, the judges are also thugs. The judges have gotten out of control of this country.
No, they probably always happen. They are thugs. They are a fake authority and they wear
black dresses and metal ribbons to make themselves look like they're the king of the room. They call
the court, my court. They'll kick you out for wearing a hat. Well, the legislatures all have
duties in their, you know, the constitutions and whatever to do what's the word I'm looking for.
Checks and balances? Well, yeah, but where you get rid of bad judges and stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah. Well, every state has this basically where the legislature can convene and look at
the way that a judge has been doing stuff and review them. That's the word I think I'm looking for
and take care of them. And none of them do. Like you can look and it's like,
what is the last time that any state has done that process? And none of them have and they
need to. I'm sure they did maybe 100 years ago, but like in recent times, no. I mean,
somebody could call it and correct me and tell me that, oh, 1990. And I'm like, whatever. But
it's a process that needs to be happening all the time because there's all sorts of judges who
are doing stuff that's against the law, against the rules of their own courts because the courts
have their own rules that they impose usually downward, like kind of from a Supreme Court,
state Supreme Court level down. But yeah, no, the judges are really bad.
And you have to stand it when they walk into the room because they and their feelings will get
hurt if you don't. And if you whisper to your friend next to you, you can get kicked out of a
courtroom in 10 seconds, like what happens to me in Massachusetts. And the Bayless will hit people.
I saw Bailiff hit a woman for filming what was happening to her friend during the Noble
Nine things with a footloose. Yeah, these these people are absolute road waiting for a
person to do one little mistake here there while driving that harms no one and was never going
to harm anyone. Just so they can go turn on their lights, get behind them, leave the lights on while
they're on the side of the road and blind everybody going by making a roadway danger of making the
roadway dangerous and harass and kidnap that person for the time being that they're on the
side of the road and when they take them away. And these people are pigs. These people are
thugs. And honestly, we don't need them. We definitely don't need unaccountable government
thugs to be the only people allowed to protect us. They get in the way of if we want to protect
ourselves or do something to protect ourselves. That's illegal. You need to have the cops do it.
Oh, but the cops have no duty to protect you. And that's been determined by the courts,
the judges, the Supreme Courts have decided, yeah, cops have no duty to protect you. They
have a duty to the government. So they're just the government slaves that
lured over us, even lower slaves. We have a caller on the line anonymous on screen caller
you're on free talk live. What's on your mind? But the joyous news be spread the wicked witch
of the Middle East is at last dead. And where I come from libertarians would celebrate that
just when like a gangster Maduro is arrested, they would celebrate a monster and monster being
in jail and not misruling millions of innocent human beings like Darth Vader is now just replaced
right away replaced instantly with a new one. So what's the wicked witch of the Middle East?
I didn't think you'd get the Wizard of Oz reference, but the fact that there's murderers
that replace murderers as dons of crime syndicates doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate
a mass murder being dead where a mass murder. Yeah, is that Bill O'Reilly or is that the guy I don't
know? This is the guy you don't know. Right on. And by the way, it's a stupid fruit and vegetables
checkpoint. I've never been asked for a pass. No, no, no, this is a different one. I know
the one you're talking about. This is a different one to California. No, there's there's this is
a different one from Arizona. Many times they have they have one where they can set them up
and put them down, right? Like they can set them up and then take them away. You're telling me
reject for your passport. I'm not down with that either. You should be glad I don't know. Well,
look, I know the fruits and vegetable one that you're talking about is finally not breathing.
He's a mass murderer, a theocratic gangster, and you guys are talking about us having started a war.
Okay, I hate Trump, and I want him to join Darth Vader in a cell in hell sooner rather than later.
And so should you. But the Don is no more conservative than he is Christian. But I love
those projortives that you like to use about the dirty word Republican. Like that's a bad
word. You should thank God that there's a, well, I don't want to go on. I actually called in to ask
Bonnie, who I admire you for one reason, you do stand by your bit con man, boyfriend,
who belongs in jail because he's a liar and a thief and a tax cheat. And but
He what did he lie about Ian didn't steal from anyone and he didn't lie about anything.
I thought this was skier, but this isn't. No, no, this is James Wittekine James Wittekine
threatens people's lives and I've never threatened to kill Mark Edges child and whole family. Let me
respond to that. Hey, Bonnie, let me respond to that since you just yeah, all you're gonna do is say
no, I didn't. But it happened on live radio. So like, I don't care. Let me respond to that.
You don't want me to respond to it because you're a liar. You have a broken. So what did
he lie about? You didn't answer me about that. What's that? What did Ian lie about? You
called Ian a liar and a thief? Who did he steal from him? What? What did he lie about and
accuse me of committing a crime three times that if I had, I'd be doing serious panic.
Not true because the cops didn't go after you because they don't care because the
victim in the case was Mark Edges, a conservative that they don't care about. Nope,
because you're a loser. Total loser loser. I'm not talking to him. James Wittekine,
he's been blocked from calling in the only person who's ever been blocked from calling
in to free talk live before because of the violent rhetoric that he's spewed at Mark.
Okay. I don't know. I didn't watch that episode. It's not one episode.
Okay. He's a chronic caller and he's like nonstop spamming, whatever. You can call 603-283-6160.
I don't mind talking a little bit about Ian, though, because Ian is not a liar. He didn't
lie about anything. He's like, like always the most consistent, honest person I've ever met.
Uh, like honest to a fault. Exactly. Like so honest. He doesn't lie. He tried his hardest
and less than 1% of all of his thousands and thousands of customers were getting scammed without
his knowledge through the cracks of his very, what's the word involved, um, trying to root out
scams where, where he had like a, the word I'm looking for is his policies, his policies that
he imposed on himself because he didn't have to use the, um, I guess they call it in bank,
the banking system's rules for, you know, your customer rules.
I'm not actually really sure that anybody actually really got scammed in the way that they,
the government is alleging that they did. I don't know if you've mentioned this or anybody
else has mentioned this on the air, but, uh, you know, I was in the, uh, the courtroom,
towards the end of the trial, not at the beginning. And, um, you know, what, what
of the, there were these old ladies, right, who had supposedly gotten involved in these
romance scams and they had, uh, which by the way, Ian wasn't the scammer.
He wasn't the scammer. He was a Bitcoin seller online with strict rules and people were
skirting around the rules by lying to him. And I've witnessed people,
those old ladies included one of those old ladies, uh, freaked out at him when he was
asking, so you're buying this for your husband. Do you know your husband in real
life? She was like, of course I know my husband. Why would you ask me that
and all that stuff? And at the time I was like, Ian, why'd you ask her that?
That sounded so rude. And he was just like, because I want to make sure that people
are actually buying the Bitcoin that want to buy Bitcoin, willing, uh, you know,
Bitcoin buyers, not people who are being scammed. And that woman went and testified
that Ian didn't ask him anything. That woman is a liar and Ian is not. And James
Wittekind also is. And also he has so many DUIs in, uh, Arizona. He probably
knows where all the checkpoints are. He just avoids them.
Yeah. He's, uh, he's wrong because there's, first off, there are these, uh,
fruit and vegetable checkpoints, but that's not the one I'm talking about.
Yeah. And I've been through it twice in my life. And they, they're not asking for
passports because most Americans don't have passports, only like a third,
a third or 30% or something like that of Americans actually passports, but they
asked, they asked if you are a US citizen and you know, because you've
talked about it, that you've been through the ones they have in Texas.
They have them, they exist. They set them up and I've been through the one
that's in California or Arizona. I'm not quite sure because it's like
a pretty long stretch where, you know, I don't know which, which one you're in.
And I've been through that twice. So he's, he's wrong on that. I'm not talking
about the fruits and vegetable one, which is also ridiculous too.
Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. The one time I ever went to
California was from Utah to Sacramento where my grandma lived. And they asked
us like, do you have this plant? Do you have that plant in your vehicle?
Because it's like, well, those are like invasive species, but I doubt it
really gets any, I doubt it does anything because if you have it and
you want to sneak an invasive species into, um, you know, California.
California. You could probably just say, nope, don't have it. Now I'm going to go
plant it in the woods. Just so stupid. But you know, maybe, maybe it's a little
more serious than I know about. I don't know. Um, but I don't really think so.
So no, it's, uh, it's just one of these things where they create some sort of
thing and they're never going to get rid of it. I mean, that's supposedly
because in California, not supposedly it's true that in California, they have
a huge agricultural industry. And I understand why they want to protect that.
You know, but at the same time, like those checkpoints are silly.
Well, James Wittekine just hates Ian because he's embarrassed and also to learn
everything you need to know about the case. More free talk live coming up.
603-283-6160 is the phone number.
So the protection of life, liberty and properties is what the Free State
Project all about, but it's an effort to move 20,000 people who understand.
It's about demonstrating to the entire country.
Yeah, we can have a free market, a truly free market.
Making it just a free, a great place to live.
It's the world's largest volunteerist libertarian community and it's only getting bigger.
That's amazing to be able to move to a place where other people like passionately believe
in being free and independent. What the Free State Project is managing to do though
is to put their money where their mouth is. It's physically getting up across the country
and saying let's go someplace and let's demonstrate the power of these ideas.
There's a lot of kind of philosophy that surrounds liberty.
There's a lot of thinking about it and talking about it.
But here in New Hampshire, people are doing it.
101 Reasons Liberty Lives in New Hampshire.
A documentary by Free State Project Early Movers.
Watch it free at 101reasonsfilm.com. 101reasonsfilm.com.
It was temporary.
The challenge is no longer just reopening the Strait of Hormuz,
a choke point for one-fifth of the world's oil supply.
But now the attacks and counterattacks on oil and gas production across the region
have injected new uncertainty. Fiona Mee reports from Dubai.
Let's start with Qatar, the foreign ministry saying there was extensive damage at its main
rath lafan gas facility and several other LNG plants were also hit.
Qatar strongly condemning the strikes, expelling Iran's military and security attacheons,
giving them 24 hours to leave the country.
And Qatar Energy CEO has said in the last few hours that the sites accounting for about
17% of its export capacity are damaged and it could take three to five years for them to
fully repair. Here in the UAE, operations were suspended in Abu Dhabi's Habshan gas facility
after missile debris fell in the area.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the war with Iran is on track,
but he declined to say how or when it will end.
In a press briefing, Hegseth said Thursday would once again be the most intense day
of attacks in the nearly three-week-long conflict. Tony Waterman has more from Washington.
Hegseth has walked away from the four to five-week timeframe he touted when this war
began, an indication perhaps that it could stretch longer as it intensifies and widens.
General Dan Cain said U.S. warplanes are now flying deeper into Iranian territory
to strike its military capabilities. And there are reports President Trump is
considering deploying thousands of troops on the ground.
Hegseth was adamant that this conflict wouldn't become a forever war.
One asked about a report that the Pentagon is seeking an additional $200 billion to
fund the fight. Hegseth said it takes money to kill bad guys and replenish weapons stockpiles.
The White House has temporarily rolled back a law that prohibits foreign vessels from
shipping oil and gas between U.S. ports as the ongoing war with Iran has spiked energy prices.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington.
President Trump is trying to combat spiralling oil prices with a 60-day
suspension of the Jones Act to increase the pool of ships that can move the
fuels across the U.S. But analysts say the move is largely symbolic and will ease gas
prices by only a couple of pennies at most. A gallon of regular unleaded gas already averages
$3.84 nationally, according to motoring organization AAA. That's an increase of 32 percent from a
month ago. From Feature Story News in New York, I'm Mitch McCann and that was the Week in Review.
Don't miss a moment of Freetalk Live. Get our archives daily via our podcast at feeds.freetalklive.com.
Freetalk Live is back. 603-283-6160. 603-283-6160. That's the number you can call to get in on the
conversation with us. Bring up whatever's on your mind unless you're James Wittekind
for tonight. I'll answer him again another time. Anyways, 603-283-6160 is the phone number to get
in on the conversation with us. We've had so many callers tonight. It's been really nice. I really
like having different people to talk to. I've never had this many callers, any of the times
that I've been on. Awesome, awesome. Maybe it's us streaming on X. It's the first time
we've ever streamed on X since I've been like the first host. I just figured it out today.
So, we're going to go to the phones. We have Dave Ridley from New Hampshire in my opinion,
but currently in Colorado on the air. What's on your mind, Dave Ridley?
Hey guys, have you been following this non-flap over the Freestaters trying to rent a building
for a couple hours? No.
Oh, are you talking about the thing that Kauffman did?
I don't know if it was Kauffman or not. The Freestaters tried to rent a
building in Concord during the Liberty Forum. Yep, the Science Center. It is Jeremy Kauffman's thing.
Freestate.party is the website. I mean, he did reserve a room with the McCullough Science
Center. I meant to say that the McCullough Science Center. Then the workers were mad,
but they said that they couldn't get out of the contract because they like to put a lot of
they like to put a lot of labels on Jeremy Kauffman and they're trying to say,
like, no, he's hateful. We can't rent to him.
And also just to clarify, there's like the Freestate Project official ink, right?
And then that thing was not actually Freestate Project official ink.
Yeah. In fact, he's trying to break away from it.
Definitely tons of people who are Freestaters were there, but yeah, just a clarification.
Dave, what did you want to say about it?
Yeah, it was just interesting. There's this thing, by their grievances, show you know them.
If the press is reporting, somebody tried to rent a building,
but their faction just killed, you know, 75 girls in an Iraqi or an Iranian school,
right? Like that. It doesn't make much sense to me that they would be upset at us for doing
something so minor when their faction does something so much more horrific. I guess there's
more like 150 girls that their faction killed recently.
Yeah, I find that nobody keeps anything in perspective. You know, I mean people who
are complaining about, you know, whatever like pronouns or something like that, and I'm like,
oh, I'm sorry, don't you like pay taxes that go to like blowing up people around the world?
Like, you know, not saying whatever your issue is, isn't right or wrong, but
can we have like some perspective? It's, you know, people are always throwing out the
baby with the bathwater. It's even worse when they flip flop from like one president to the
next. They don't care about something. And like all of a sudden the leftist care about
due process? When the heck did that start? Oh, yeah. I mean, even today I was driving.
Not that I'm saying I don't want them to. Obviously, I just want them to always care about it. Yeah.
I was driving around the other day and I saw somebody with a sign. It's like,
Trump is a podophile and I'm like, okay, maybe or maybe not. But like, wait,
did you just find out about this? Like dropped in 2016. Yeah. And all of the big
liberal commentators like John Stuart and stuff were like, it's a hoax. It's a hoax. Yeah.
But now I guess because it was mostly pointed at like Hillary Clinton and her team.
And I mean, I'm not saying, like, I do want to find common ground with people where we could work
together to get certain things done. But I don't think that these people could even be those people.
That's whatever. Can it really even be trusted to do that? You know, Dave Smith was talking about
on his show. He's like, yeah, somebody was calling him out being like, look at all this stuff
with the Iran war. It's like, you, this is because you voted for Trump. And he's like,
well, wait, but you know, you, he looks up, he's like, wait, you supported Biden. Like
you got all the Ukraine stuff too. So like, what the heck, you know,
anyway, sorry, going off on tangents. But yeah, what?
So in fairness, you know, I'm going to guess that these folks would say, well, that's not
our faction that did that. You know, we're Democrats or something like that.
But they're okay. All right. So the ones, the people that brought slavery back to Libya,
the people who started a war with, with Yemen and Syria, yeah, those guys, I remember those
Democrat guys. So under Obama. Yeah. So, you know, it's, it's just not have a couple of quotes
here that this is not anywhere near the worst article I've ever seen in terms of fairness,
you know, on the free status. But just the things that freak people out are just amazing.
So the lady at this, the McCulloch Shepherd Discovery Center in Concord,
like a space place sort of named after a lady who was killed in the one of the shuttle,
one of the flying coffin accidents. Yeah, the discovery, if that was what it was called,
like the, it was called the discovery, the shuttle exploded. The way the teacher,
the public school teacher went up in the air and she was going to be the first public
school teacher in space and then exploded. Was it Challenger? Was it Columbia?
Uh, it was made for World War I, which killed almost all of the pilots. But anyway, the,
uh, what they said was, um, uh, so the lady at the Discovery Center says, quote,
the values of this organization don't represent us. This is not who we are.
As she says, uh, and they, they, they described the group that tried to rent it as, quote,
a group that presented itself as a civic organization, which sounds pretty accurate.
Yeah. I mean, I'm sure if somebody looked up, they'd probably find out that I'm speculating here,
but they probably had something like a tranny story hour there or something in the past.
Yeah, that was a good point. You know, like, you know, and a thing too is like
the smartest thing for, I think they're called drag queen story hours. Yeah,
tranny story. Yeah. The smartest thing for an organization like that to do
is to limit everything they do to just one core thing. Like if it's the science center,
they should only have groups there who are talking about science, scientific breakthroughs,
doing presentations on it and stuff like that. But you know, they, they, what happens is they'll
get out of their lane and they'll do something with some sort of one sort of political group
or something. And then they'll say, Oh, but this other one doesn't represent what we do.
And it's like, wait, you know, I don't know. I'm speculating again, but I've definitely seen
this kind of stuff before. Yeah. I was going to say in New Hampshire,
free starters get hate in the media all the time, totally unjustly. Like today,
I saw an article on in depth New Hampshire majority leader as
free state jihad run faction, something like that. So he called it the free state jihad
hottest or something like that. And Dave Ridley, you probably remember this.
After Keen got their bear cat or ballistic armored vehicle or whatever tank that the
citizens didn't want, conquered wanted one. So when conquered was applying to get their
bear cat, they cited that they have dissidents that they need to worry about or domestic
terrorists is what they said. And they, they quote, or they, they listed free
staters, aka people who moved to New Hampshire to be a part of the freedom migration to New
Hampshire as domestic terrorists that they needed the bear cat for openly peaceful people
that they've never been able to catch planning violent crimes, despite trying.
If they're talking about us, we're, you know, and we haven't heard anybody, then we're winning.
But the, yeah, the, the, the other thing is that the, the, the conquered paper who was
reporting on the, again, this is one of their, the papers more fair art it and try to quote
them. But the, the, the, the conquered paper has a lot of explaining of its own to do,
because it, you know, a couple of years ago, and I don't know if she still works there now,
they accepted a, a reporter basically from the federal government. It was a former FCC chair
that started this, you know, probably a CIA front organization that's designed to influence media
inside the United States. And he sent a reporter to work at the conquered monitor and funded
her to be there. And she, she was the most authoritarian rider they've ever had in the
building to my knowledge. Oh wow. Sounds about right. That sounds like more openly corrupt than I
normally hear about, but yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that's all I have. Okay. Thanks for the call,
David. You're not allowed back if you don't bring more next time, Dave. No, no. One thing
that Dave really has is he has a new mini series of fiction series on his site. You can go
RidleyReport.com and you can watch that, Legends of the Free State. Oh, did you like it? Do you
like the trailer? I haven't actually been able to watch it. It's like every time I need to write it
down, because every time I do a show, me and Ian always talk about this, it's like you finish
the show and everything you talked about goes out your brain, down the trailer and make sure
I watch it. We can watch it together tonight, tonight after the show if you want.
All right. Okay. Thank you. RidleyReport.com for that. And we don't have another
caller on the line because James Wittekine just likes to sit there on the line like a loser
who's never going to get answered just with his face up to his phone sweating in anger.
It's hilarious. So I wanted to talk about this article from the Wall Street Journal.
This is news to me. It's kind of funny because it's like a news article headline.
What's behind the historic drop in U.S. crime? So there's a historic drop in U.S. crime.
I didn't know that. Did you? I heard something about this a couple days ago.
This is from about a week ago and it says explanations for the fall range from tougher
policing to societal changes like less alcohol consumption and more time spent alone. Oh,
that kind of makes sense. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't know what the breakdown is of the
reduction in each category of crime. It says, amid all the turmoil in the world,
one decidedly positive trend stands out. Crime in the U.S. is way down.
The homicide rate fell last year to at least a 125 year low based on projected final year data,
a milestone President Trump hailed last month in his State of the Union address.
Yeah. I know he took credit for it. It's because he's removed all these people from the country.
Which is silly because isn't the data from last year. It says the homicide rate fell last
year. Oh, just 2020. Okay. Well, he was President 2025. Oh, I'm like forgetting that we skipped or
we went over a new year. Even though it's March, it feels like it's still the first year. Yeah,
you're right. You're right. My bad. So yeah, he is going to take credit for that. And
there's no way to really prove that. I doubt it. But maybe these people talking about the
statistics have a way to prove or disprove it. Let's see. So continuing drops in a range of
other reported crimes such as robbery and theft point to a public safety rebound after the upheaval
spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because yeah, during COVID-19, during the lockdowns,
which is a better word for it, there was a spike in violent crime.
So overall, most crimes are lower than they were pre-pandemic, said Ernesto Lopez,
a senior research specialist with the Nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice and
co-author of a recent report on crime trends. The findings are based on data for a story.
Theories to explain decreasing crime range from an influx of federal funding to stepped up police
enforcement along with longer term societal shifts like reduced alcohol consumption,
which I've heard is a thing, and increased time spent alone watching streamers like
clavicle hit their face with hammers and stuff like that. Ian just learned about clavicle
clavicular, my bad clavicular, the looks maxer man who's a streamer who wants to be the most
beautiful he could possibly be. And he tries to teach people how to be the most beautiful
they can possibly be over his stream. Ian just learned about it on the radio and from prison.
He was like, have you heard of this thing? Looks maxing looks maxing. I mean, I started it,
but I never called it that. So yeah, first you get bald. And I mean, nothing, nothing.
Just kidding. Oh no, he's mad. So anyways, are you actually mad? I was just kidding.
No, I just don't have anything to say. I'm not going to defend the quantity of hair on.
Well, just be more looks maxy. Yeah, exactly. That's why I said I started it before anybody
else. So yeah, I think that people are spending more time alone and on the internet. And like,
there's always this idea that Gen Z doesn't date. Gen Z doesn't go to clubs.
Yeah. So no, I've heard all this. I haven't quite figured out what I want to think about it.
Because less alcohol should be kind of good. But at the same time, it's like less social.
Well, well, yeah, the thing about it is it lowers inhibitions and
there's good bad with that bad way to where it's like they don't know how to deal with
other people. And they're all online and they find all these little communities and they're
in these weird little niche communities and they don't know how to talk to anybody outside of them.
And they kind of just repeat like mantras to each other. And you know, and it's like,
yeah, you're kind of a loser. I mean, like, can you, can you like even, I mean, well,
I talk, we talk together about this all the time, like,
Like if you go to like a clerk.
Yeah, how horrible the clerks of the services these days. And I was
a dealing with somebody recently. And afterwards I saw that clip from idiocracy where he goes into
the hospital and he's still like, he's still like, you know, I don't know, I was in this military
thing about it. There's like the lady is on the other side of the counter and she never says
anything. And she has this look, this is radio. So you can't even see my face. I can't even
attempt to do it. But it's just like, yeah, just like, like, it's it's a combination of like,
I'm so bored. And like, what, what do I do? Do I hit this button or that?
So he has a way instead of having one of the like three typical requests, someone comes in for this
like fast food restaurant or it's the hospital or she's the cook at where she just instead of
having like a cash register in front of her, she has like buttons that are like very specific
pictographs. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, yeah. You know, like, there's just a picture of like,
yeah, picture of a cast and or a picture of the one with the baby's funny. It's like the
legs are just spread and a baby's dropping out. Oh my God. So basically like, it's like
all her job is to do it. Somebody comes in, she's like blood coming out of her head and
then she clicks the right picture. And since he is asking questions that aren't one of those
like three answers, she's just like her brain fries and she doesn't know what to do. But
it's not just that she doesn't know what to do. It's that she like doesn't care. It's
kind of like like you said cow like, and that's what it is. It's like, don't don't know and
don't care, you know. And, but anyways, yeah, like I did deal with young people all the time
that are like this. And it's like, what is, what is wrong with you? Like, you know, you're doing
a job. I mean, I understand, you know, your job isn't your life. No job that I've ever had.
Have I treated like that? But if I'm going to do a job, I have a respect for myself to do it
with a certain amount of professionalism. To me, it's even less about the job. But to
me, it's more about just being like a good person. I know that's not even
like you should be kind to everyone more just like, don't you like to enjoy living your life?
Like whenever I would work at like a Walmart, I didn't love doing the cashier thing. But
I talked to people like normal here. They're all they're all like not the ones that like don't
want to talk. They're all the young people are like Audrey Plaza with this just is this
look on their face all the time and no emotions or all of them. That's collectivism.
Well, anyways, so let's see why is this a drop in
crime? Well, I don't know that these are the theories they have. I don't know that we know
that they're the they're the case the lower alcohol consumption and increased time spending
loan. This is from Wall Street Journal says some researchers caution that victimization
surveys don't line up with the fall in reported crime. But is it suicide? What does that
mean? I was about to say, is it suicide up a lot? I mean, people aren't there are a bunch of people
that are just depressed. That's not a crime, is it? I know it's not a crime. I guess they'd
actually have made it. I just mean to say that I mean, to say that, you know, if you look at
society on whole the balance, you might say, oh, there's less like people attacking each
other. But there's like double the amount of suicides. So I can't really say you live
in a better society. That's a good point. But what exactly is a victimization survey?
I don't know. Like just asking someone, have you been the victim of a crime recently?
That's interesting. Maybe they said those surveys to people like me and I write down how
many victims I have a year. What? Excuse me. I did not say that. You don't admit how many victims
you have. That's why you haven't been caught. So it says some researchers caution that victimization
surveys don't line up with the fall in reported crime, possibly muddying the picture for some
offenses. One exception is homicides. Criminal justice experts say since most murders yield
a body, like you definitely know there is a victim. Last year homicide rates slid below 2015
levels to the lowest rate in a decade in more than half of 58 cities tracked by the major cities
chiefs association. So looks like Houston, Dallas, Tulsa, Kansas City and Denver to name a few.
Just New York City, Baltimore, Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami. Those are some big ones. Los
Angeles, Portland. So I'm just looking at a little map that's showing me if I'm not going to read them
all. Steep drop drop offs extended to cities that still have some of the highest per capita
homicide levels in the country. From 2020 to 2025, the homicide rate plunged 59%. Well,
that's kind of not fair considering you're going from a marked spike in 2020 and saying,
oh, it dropped 59%. But yeah, in Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans, Honolulu, El Paso and Austin.
Oh, no. Were the only cities among the 58 where homicide rates rose? Okay. Sorry. So I read that
sentence wrong, but the homicide rates plunged in Baltimore. Okay. So that was one part of
their sentence. And then. Oh, yeah. But by the way, this is another thing. El Paso in Austin,
Texas were the only cities. How horrible the writers are at writing sentences.
And then I can't even say it right. It was actually my fault. No, it was your fault? Okay. Well,
you're a young person and you can't read it. I didn't see that this one period was there. So
Honolulu, El Paso and Austin, Texas were the only cities among the 58 where homicide rates
rose for the period from 2020 to 2025. I think it was. That's pretty
horrific. I was just telling someone yesterday how much I hated Austin.
I was telling them, don't listen to the Texans if they say that,
oh, we didn't shut down in Texas. No, it was locked down like crazy, especially in cities. Every place,
every single state, the rural areas were fine. Yes. I can attest to that. If you were in a city
in Texas, it was, you know, Hitler. It was so bad. It was cops standing outside of Walmart
telling you, mess gone. And like, you'd have to walk through these stupid, pointless, like,
metal gates to go and like, not like you're going through TSA or something with no one in
front of you, no one behind you. And that's not like the worst of things, obviously. I couldn't
not work. I lost my job and I was like, no, I'm not going to be a freaking welfare whore.
So I continued doing, or I started doing Uber Eats. Well, that wasn't the beginning,
but I went back on to doing Uber Eats, made way more money than I was making at that job.
So that's good. And I saw empty highways. It was just like the end of the world and I
wanted more money doing Uber Eats because lots of people were ordering it and I can zip
around San Antonio. And it was just as an experience, probably no one else will ever
have ever again. I was like driving downtown San Antonio, drove right up to majestic theater,
parked right outside of it and went inside to drop off my order considering there was no one around.
You know what I mean? Like no one else is going to have that experience probably the
rest of my life unless there's like crazy nuclear work on that side.
I guess these are good things. I mean, no, no, homicide in the U.S. is down, but you
you know, and all it costs us is 150 girls in Iran somewhere. Like is that?
Oh, well, what I'm saying is just that like, there are a lot of people in Austin and it's
went up. Austin is horrible. I was going to, I hate El Paso as much. I have more experience
with Austin. And last night, somebody was asking me, Oh, what was Texas like? I heard it,
like didn't lock down. No, it'll lock down. And then they were like, you know what,
we're going to lift the mask mandate in early 2021, like February 2021 or something. And people
were like, well, yeah, let's go Texas. It's like we only have to wear a mask on her face for a whole
year. Our leaders are so wonderful. That's disgusting. We only have to close down our
churches for an entire year. We're the, we're the Texans. That's, that sounds like it should be
like sacrilegious to them. I mean, literally, like literally, but no, they were like, yep,
yep, sure. I don't want to get a cold. I don't want to get sick.
How many people did you see in Texas wearing cowboy hats and masks at the same time?
I don't remember that. I don't think that many people wear cowboy hats around.
I was talking to somebody and they were like, yeah, I saw this, you know, he's like, oh,
I went to Texas. I moved there and I was like, yeah, it's so cool. People walk around with
cowboy hats, blah, blah, blah. And then he's like, but then COVID happened and I'm seeing this guy.
I think I stayed in more of a Mexican area. He's like, the guy had a cowboy hat on and a mask.
I was like, wait, that's gross. You're just larping. You're just larping as a cowboy.
And I'm so happy that I found a phrase for this. I was talking to somebody about
like people in Texas who like want to act all cool and stuff like that and like wear the hat and all
that. But I'm like, yeah, I'm way more of like a cowboy, you know, rough, tough kind of person
than you are. And this person told me that there's a phrase more hat than cattle.
Oh, nice. And I'm like, that is so perfect. I'm using that now everywhere.
But it's not just like Texans. There are people that like, well,
anytime I was in Austin, I was like kissing the ground when I got back to San Antonio. And that's
not even like, like San Antonio isn't amazing as far as definitely not government. It's more
like the people that move there suck and there's so many of them. More Free Talk Live is live
next weekend. It's live Saturday and Sunday. And you can go to freetalklive.com for more.
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