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So again, there's a call. The phone number here is 2.
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But there are no taboo topics here.
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In the studio tonight, it's myself, Stu.
And Riley O'Bill.
So what's new, I guess?
Well, last week was Liberty Forum.
Oh, that's right, they did that.
Yep, I was there. I saw Mark Edge there.
Bonnie was there. I was selling some bread.
And I saw Silver Dave there. We were talking about Silver Bits.
Cool.
And yes, I don't know if you've heard.
Did you pick any up?
I did. I've got some Silver Bits.
I don't know if you've heard, but he has this thing that he calls an Agamag.
Yeah, well, I've seen it.
I watched his video of him down in Mexico.
Yeah.
He's got a cool YouTube channel. Everybody go check it out, Silver Dave.
And yeah, he just like ching, ching, ching, ching, flips them out to the cab drivers and stuff.
And they get so excited that he's paying in Silver.
I know, it's really cool to actually be able to put your hands on one and feel it and feel what they're like
and put Silver Bits in it and see what that's like to take Silver out of it.
It's just really cool.
Did you get one of the Mags?
Yeah, I did.
Oh, cool. How much are those?
They're like 45 bucks.
Okay, that's probably worth it if you're going to pay people in Silver because it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
It's very slick to be able to just whip out Silver like that and pay people.
And plus, the Silver Dave's Silver Bits are the, from what I understand, the best deal on fractional Silver that you can get.
It's one-tenth of an ounce of 999 Silver.
They're gorgeous.
They're so cool.
They feel really nice. They feel really smooth to the touch.
They have decorative designs that I can feel, but I can't tell what the design is because it's a little too small.
But they do feel really nice.
Yeah.
I picked some of those up a while back just because I thought they were so cool.
And I think I still have one of the, I don't know if they're like half ounce or quarter ounce.
They were one of the very first ones he was making for fractional Silver.
And they're not highly polished and kind of rough edges and they look nothing like the ones do now.
They're very sharp now.
Well, I've also heard that he's expanding his warehouse a little bit, his space, so he can make more Silver.
Yeah, sounds like so.
So it sounds like New Hampshire's going to be flowing with Silver.
I like Silver too. I prefer it to Gold.
Although Goldbacks are cool.
And especially with them doing the half Gold back now, but even those are.
They're actually doing a quarter of Gold back too.
Yeah, well they need to. They're going to have to do a tenth too.
Gold keeps going the way it goes.
Yeah, it might be a while before they get to the tenth, but you know, Gold's going to keep going up eventually.
And people need to realize that Gold and Silver do hedge against inflation.
People are going to have better purchasing power if they have Gold and Silver.
Yeah, it's not that Gold is getting more valuable in terms of what it would get you in the world.
It's that the dollar is becoming weaker and weaker all the time.
And I'd say that the Gold and Silver markets are more nuanced than just the dollar weakening.
There's demand. There's all sorts of factors playing into them.
And there's newfound uses for them and various things that can affect it.
I think we all know by now about the bankers, the English bankers that controlled the price of Gold.
It was like a conspiracy theory and not true for a long time until it was.
And so now everybody knows that the price of precious metals is just controlled by a few bankers.
But it looks like maybe some of their grips slipped recently with the price hiking right up there.
Or maybe it was a controlled, who knows? Who knows what these guys, they do what they want.
I know Silver in the last month has traded between $80 and $100.
So we'll see where it goes from here.
Yep, it was well below $50 for a very long time.
Oh yeah.
It got as low as I think $13 or something.
Don't like that. Maybe $11.
And so, you know.
The lowest I remember buying Silver out was around $18.
Yeah, the lowest price I got any out was $17.
And of course it's never that. There's always a premium for getting physical Silver
because the spot price of Silver is just...
That's what it costs to get a paper certificate saying you own some Silver.
But if you want to have it in your hands, it's going to cost you a little more.
Right.
Anyways, I guess what else is new? They're blowing up new stuff.
Yep, they're bombing Iran. They've been talking about this for 20 years now.
Yeah.
Maybe longer.
Because oh no, they're building a nuke.
Yep.
How dare another country build a nuke?
Oh, except that they're totally not.
I didn't think they were either.
It seems like...
Yeah, they're building weapons to defend themselves against Israel.
But Israel's the aggressor in this war, not Iran.
No, to me it looks like Iran is, or Iran, I guess is how you say it,
is playing this one pretty smart as far as not lashing out against the beast immediately
and just kind of holding their own.
Yeah.
Seems like they're playing it pretty smart.
Trump has said that...
This is not going to turn out well.
I don't think it's going to turn out well either.
I know that Trump has said that the U.S. has been victorious, which who knows.
Yeah.
But also...
Did it take Bush three years or something to preemptively announce the end of the war?
Yep.
Victory.
Pretty much.
And Trump came right out and did it within a week.
I know.
He wants to get this war when I'm done.
Yeah.
Allegedly.
Well, yeah, there's rumors too that he doesn't even want the war
and he's just doing it because I've got a golden pager.
Yeah.
Yep.
If you know what that reference is.
Anyways.
Another thing I want to talk about is that I saw the title of a YouTube video from a talk show
host by the name of Glenn Beck.
And he was talking...
And the title was that, you know, this Iran war is a religious war.
And I just want to point out that, okay, it might be a religious war for them,
but it's also a religious war for us too because I say us.
I mean, the royal us, not you and I, but for a lot of people, this is a religious war
because they want to have Armageddon comes with their...
So Jesus will come back and it's, you know, the battle of Armageddon is one of the signs
of Jesus returning.
Now that being said...
I'm very familiar with all this.
Now that being said, it's my opinion and not doctrine.
So I mean, I don't...
I can't establish this quote-unquote doctrine here that Jesus doesn't have to come
back with a war of Armageddon.
Okay.
Just because people prophesy that there was going to be a war of Armageddon,
doesn't mean we have to bring Jesus back with a dumb war.
We can actually become better people and Jesus is still going to be coming back.
If he's coming back at all.
Best I can tell all of this biblical end of times Armageddon stuff
is things that were written down by men and then set up and carried out by men.
And it's just a plan that a small group of people want to carry out
and they've been working at it for allegedly thousands of years,
but it may be as short as 800.
Yeah.
I think people want a Messianic...
I think history has anything...
It has any credibility.
Yeah.
People want a Messianic figure to come see them politically, spiritually
or whatever and, you know, Christians say that Jesus was a Messianic figure
and the Jews didn't recognize it.
Everybody wants a great man.
Oh yeah.
But Jesus isn't even supposed to be that great man.
He's not...
The second coming is not supposed to be what saves you.
Jesus already saved you if you're a Christian.
Yeah.
He already did what was necessary to save you
and all you have to do is take him into your heart and then you're saved.
Yeah.
So why...
Take him into your heart and follow him.
So why do you need him to come back?
You don't even need him to come back.
If you're truly saved by Jesus, you don't need a second coming.
I think people want him to come back so he can cleanse the world of sin.
Yeah, but I think Jesus would advocate that you just do it.
That you just put demand and into it.
Quit participating.
Quit playing games.
Quit it, you know?
Yeah.
Instead of saying, oh, we need to get rid of pornography.
You know, maybe you should not watch porn in your own life.
There you go.
Just don't look at it anymore.
Maybe you should...
If you believe that God told you not to drink coffee,
do that for your own self.
Don't wait for someone else to do it for you.
Don't wait for the world to be cleansed of sin.
It's always going to be here.
That's what free markets do.
And if it's a Jesus thing, ask Jesus.
Should I, you know...
Is it okay if I engage in a little pornography today, Jesus?
And if Jesus tells you no, then don't do it.
Yeah.
And, you know, use that as your guide.
But certainly people got to quit hoping for a great man to come
and save them and put everything right.
Yeah.
This is a big part of the reason I kind of had to turn in
my anarchy card because people just...
You know, I was a little too optimistic, I think,
of people's ability to be good without anyone making them do it.
So...
Why do you think people need someone to make them be good though?
Because, let's see, that's a pretty good question.
Why would people need somebody to make them be good?
Do you think it's conditioning?
I think a lot of it is conditioning.
I think this is something that has been kind of
bred into the epigenetic expression of humanity
to where you're not encouraged to think for yourself
or to do anything differently, right?
Your question authority.
A four out of five dentist recommends crest
and what the hell is wrong with that fifth one
and why isn't he recommending crest?
You know what I mean?
Get in line, kind of a thing.
And I think it's...
I don't know if this goes back to our tribal roots
when you had to do as the other hunters did
in order to be successful at the hunt
or if this is just a new thing
that came out of public school and learned helplessness.
I know, like all the biblical end of time stuff,
that doesn't go back thousands or even hundreds of years,
like less than 300 years.
This is...
In the world stage, it's a relatively recent thing
that they've been talking about all the end of the world
is coming in the second, you know, second Jesus
and all this stuff.
Yeah.
So it's, I don't know, to me it's pretty clear
this is just some stuff that people want to do
and they act like it's God's will,
which is no different than, you know,
Son of Sam or whatever.
Like God told me to do it.
Yep.
Yeah, sure he did.
Yeah.
God's telling me that you're a little nuts.
Muslims would say the same thing,
that their God told them to do things too
and so it's just a religious war
and religion is just a subjective experience.
Religion is supposed to, in my opinion,
teach people how to be better people
and point them toward the divinity in humanity
instead of...
And religion is supposed to help people take care of the poor
and point people toward divinities I was saying earlier
but it's not doing that.
It's creating a war.
It's creating a comparison contest of
my God can beat up your God
and I see this within Christianity.
Women have been deemed a non-Christian
for who knows how long
and they just want to be accepted by the Christian world
and so, you know, it just seems like Christianity
is also a mess just like Islam
just like every other religion
and we're all fighting against each other
trying to do a comparison.
Yeah, it's because all these religions
become more like social clubs
and it becomes more about whether you're accepted
when the whole idea of the Jesus thing
has nothing to do with a physical church
that you go to or a group of people or anything.
It's a one-on-one relationship between you and Jesus.
Right, exactly.
So I think most Christians are getting it wrong.
I get the feeling that things are similar
in the world of Islam where you have a bunch of...
You know, you got Sunni and Shia, right?
But then you got a whole bunch of divisions within those two
that also differentiate a lot of things.
Right?
Yeah.
So, you know, not all of them even do the...
Women have to cover their face
and, you know, like they all have very different
cultural rules.
So, I don't know.
To me, all religions anyway,
they were aimed at getting people to be good
without anyone making them.
Right, it was a celebration of doing what's right.
Yep.
And anytime you have a club,
somebody's going to come and hijack it.
I know, and you've got to be in that proper club
otherwise you're not good enough.
You're going to hell.
And Jesus never said, you know,
you've got to build me a church.
He never...
He didn't say go...
In fact, I think he probably would have said
this is a bad idea.
Don't do a church of Christ.
Well, I don't know, that could be argued
because in Matthew 16, 18,
he talks about building a church on a foundation
when he was talking to Peter.
Yeah, but what kind of foundation is he talking about?
Revelation.
That's the way I would interpret that.
So, like an ideological foundation.
I guess, maybe,
but I think it comes down to
having the spirit
or how would I put this in terms of people understanding?
Like having the ability to connect with the divine
in order to
receive that revelation
or a connection with the divine
and what you should do with your life
and how you should govern your life with principles.
That's the way I would look at it.
I'm a little rusty on the old sticks,
but one of the things
that Joseph Smith liked
and I kind of liked too was the notion
and I'm pretty sure it came from the Bible somewhere
that wherever you go
and if God is with you
then his temple is there.
So that was like Joseph Smith's idea
of the sacred grove and stuff.
You just go out in nature all by yourself.
There's no one but you and God and that's the temple.
So to me it seems like
a dedicated place
or a dedicated group of people
is not
necessarily against the teachings of Christ
but it's certainly not
necessary to celebrate
the teachings of Christ
if that makes sense.
It makes sense, yeah.
It is quite disturbing to me though
that the military leaders
have been telling the soldiers
this is a religious war.
I know it is really disturbing
but they're making it
a religious war because
they're claiming that Muslims
in Iran are making it a religious war
and maybe they are.
But you're also making it a religious war
and your religious war isn't any better than theirs.
No.
It's such a mess, right?
I know, it is.
We should be doing better but we're not
and we can't be complete
anarchists without rulers
because people have been
conditioned to believe in authority.
And I'm still confused as to why
I guess I kind of get it.
I'm confused as to why
it still holds
with so many Christians that they should be
they should have this weird
protectionist
feeling over Israel
and
Jews in general.
They know the truth Jesus has been here
and they don't tell the Jews
they're wrong because that would be impolite
but they have this weird kind of
I don't know
big brother sort of
complex about
Israel.
For some reason they feel like they always got to be on
Israel's side.
Yeah, I think it comes back to the quote
unquote blessings that
Israel was supposedly promised in the Old Testament
or in the Torah
and
I think that
Islam and Muslims
have something similar
they believe that Ishmael
was the rightful heir of God's blessings
instead of Isaac.
I think it comes down to
this war.
Yeah, but it's all nonsense because
I agree.
Because you and I both know that
God's real chosen people are the Mormons.
Exactly.
That's the
they are the most white and
delights them and they are
God's chosen people of
the lost tribes
of Israel.
Yes, they're bringing
Israel back together again.
Mm-hmm.
So anyway
let's see
you want to rate a story about this?
Let's do a story man.
All right, this is
um
activist post because I like this page.
It's a pretty ramp up of
news source. This story is titled
Iran the last stance against
Baal
or Baal or however you pronounce it.
I've heard it pronounced Baal, I've heard it
pronounced Baal.
Here we go.
Alexander Tugin argues that the
U.S. Israeli attack on Iran signals
the collapse of international law in a
new era where global politics
is governed by raw power.
If Iran fails it could
embolden similar actions across
other states especially Russia.
What happened on the first day of the
U.S. and Israel's war
against Iran fundamentally
changes the balance of power
in the world and rule
and the rules of international politics.
Trump has already said that the international
law does not exist. What is moral
is what I consider to be moral
in principle in the wake of
the abduction of Maduro and the
establishment of direct external
control over Venezuela and now
after the strikes on Iran
with the targeted destruction
of the military, political and religious
leadership of the country a
sovereign power that was willingly
in negotiations with the United
States it is no longer possible
to talk about rules, laws
or any norms of international relations
in the world. Indeed
now only the right of the strong
the right of the quick applies
whoever strikes faster or acts
faster is right. Everything else
becomes merely supplemental justification.
That is
it is now important to strike a decisive blow
against the enemy break his resistance
destroy his leadership and strike
at his main military and energy facilities
after that you can frame it
however you want justify it however you
want and spend a long time sorting it out
and that's
that is how they do these things. Yeah just go
in blow things up break a bunch of stuff
pal's bodies and they're
like well you know we had
to because of this and that and they get
you know they get to make up the stories they go
along.
Meanwhile if you look into it
reality doesn't match up anywhere near
the story they give you. I'm not saying
that the Iranian government
was a good government
or that the people in Iran
are doing well under their current government
I don't see a lot of evidence
that they were worse than the
American government. Sure.
And people are like oh they're starving their citizens
and I'm like the United States
have them under sanctions how are you going to blame that on them?
Yeah. Like the United States was starving them.
Yeah. So I don't know
maybe
maybe they were bad government or maybe they were good.
It was really hard to find anything out.
But then again our government was terrible government too so
I mean. Uh huh
Certainly I don't
support you know like
government
so government's all messed up
because you can't have
somebody making rules for somebody that they don't
know. Right. And that's where the
problem lies because you're going to take
away consent
of people in
external
you know externalized circumstance
that's different than what
why you're prescribing the rule for
and uh a lot of tragedy
happens that way
uh
not to mention all the corruption
and fraud and abuse that goes along with such
large
consolidation of power. Yeah.
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some of the week's top stories.
The International Energy Agency
greenlit the release of a record
400 million barrels of oil
from emergency reserves
in a bid to curb rising prices
sparked by the war in Iran.
FSN's Tony Waterman
reports from Washington.
It's not clear what types of
oil will be made available
or how quickly it will hit the market.
That will ultimately determine
how impactful this release is.
But it is the largest
joint release in the IEA's history
accounting for roughly
a third of the group's emergency stockpiles.
An indication of how
serious of a situation they believe
this is with concerns of a
global recession rising.
Oil prices have whipsawed
since the start of the war
spiking as high as $119
a barrel. News of the release
had little impact on crude prices.
The decision already
baked in.
Donald Trump said he was not happy
with Iran's new pick for supreme leader.
But in an interview with the New York Post
he refused to say
what he would do about it.
Majtaba Hamani was chosen
by a group of clerics to replace
his late father who was killed
on the first day of the war.
FSN's Nick Harper reports
from Washington.
Bear in mind that Majtaba Hamani
is someone that was sanctioned
back in 2019
by the US Treasury Department
due to his activities
in the Iranian regime.
The US has throughout this whole process
made it clear that
if the person that Iran chooses
to run the country is not someone
that's been specifically signed off on
by the US President
that person would have a target on their
back in the same way that the former
Ayatollah had as well.
The fact that we have now someone
in charge of Iran that the United States
feels it cannot work with
there seems I think little hope for diplomacy
and therefore the fear is
that what we've seen in the last 10
days will only grow
and potentially widen.
The Kremlin welcomed the US decision
to issue a temporary waiver
allowing the sale of Russian oil at sea.
FSN's Darya Bonderchuk
reports from Moscow.
Moscow's special economic
envoy Kirill Dmitriev said
that the US exception
for countries to buy sanctioned Russian
oils stranded on tankers at sea
is a de facto recognition
that without Russian crude
the world market cannot remain stable.
Under the 30-day waiver
these shipments can be delivered and sold
until April 12.
Earlier US Treasury Secretary
Scott Besson said the exemption
would only cover oil already in transit
and would not provide significant
financial benefit to the Russian
government. The Kremlin commenting
on the US Treasury decision said
Russia and the United States share the same
interest in stabilizing energy
markets.
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As this person has done from
San Antonio, Texas
you're on free talk live.
What's on your mind?
You know it allows
people to make rules for others
objective value.
Are you okay?
Just the way you started that
sounded like you might be vomiting
or something's not okay.
I changed my intro for more than a while.
You know, Stu
you can't have objective morality
you know you can't have objective morality
without objective value.
Have you ever thought of that?
I know you don't think for yourself
but you know probably help to think about that.
How do you know that?
Because you just regurgitate the same things
I hear over and over again.
You're talking about morality
you don't even have a sense of morality.
How do you derive morality?
Which doesn't cause harm.
Morality is
morality is given to us by evolution
to align with its goal.
How do you define it?
Morality
is a tool given to us
by evolution
in order to align our actions with its goal.
With its goal.
With evolution's goal.
Evolution and equilibrium.
Evolution has a process.
Evolution has wants.
What do you think it's process?
Evolution is a being.
It's a sentient being.
It's in terms of equilibrium.
I just put the term
desire on it.
But it's an equilibrium that we're being pulled toward.
And our actions are always getting corrected
toward this.
How do you know that?
What's your evidence for this?
You can calculate it with game theory.
You can google it.
Google it.
Moral relationship
between morality
and evolutionary stable strategy.
But this is not what I want to talk about.
I'm sure it's not.
You know what I hate most?
You just want to spout some nonsense
and move on to something else.
I want to talk about something profound.
Something profound I'm discovering.
Let's see where this goes.
You know what I hate most
about Bitcoin Maximus?
And it's the main reason.
Yeah, neither are Bitcoin cashers.
Oh, Monero people.
Yeah, if you're strictly for one crypto
you're probably not very smart.
Yeah, that's okay.
What makes the perfect crypto then?
If you think for yourself.
I like where you go with that.
A competition in the money market?
Yeah, but you should be able to derive
from objective value, right?
The objective property.
No, because what I want a crypto coin to do
may not be the same thing
that Riley wants a crypto coin to do.
So we value them differently.
That's different.
So here's your problems.
Do you keep talking about
people's opinions
differing as
proof that value is not objective, right?
First,
value is the ultimate cause of prices.
It will explain equilibria.
It doesn't mean
people will value things differently.
So objective value
is what your opinion
and what you prefer.
Objective value, on the other hand
is what you should prefer.
It's not
dependent upon your opinion.
And it can probably
be calculated by someone else.
And that's how
planning for others comes about
with objective value. But it's not what I'm talking about.
What makes Bitcoin
fallible? Why, hey, Bitcoin
Maximal is so much, right?
It's to think that deflation
is that it's
not only does a perfect money
need no privacy, it needs
to eliminate privacy
because it needs to measure objective value
and productivity, right?
But it's the fact that
Bitcoin Maximal is thinking that deflation
is the natural state
of a monetary system.
It isn't.
Because I just discovered
the perfect
monetary growth
mechanism of the perfect money.
You agree with that, right?
Deflation is not
a natural state, just like inflation.
These are two
sides of an
unoptimal
these are
two ends.
These are both deviations from
the most optimal thing.
They're both synthetic
and artificial in that
they're constructs of
evolution.
They're constructs of
human ideas.
No, they're not constructs of
perception. The perception of actual
things that...
doesn't exist in nature.
Money's
reputation.
Money's just reputation.
You got to realize that. That's why privacy
will never work with money because
it inhibits
information
by your reputation.
Your money is your
productivity reputation.
It's not accurate though.
Society gives you reputation
to go ahead
and command goods.
Not in a natural state though.
This is just
what we've set up amongst ourselves.
It's not. It doesn't exist anywhere else
in nature.
It's only a human thing.
It does.
Does reputation exist in other
animal kingdom?
Yes, but you can't spin that.
You can't spin yourself out of reputation
because you were addicted to drugs.
You know what I mean?
You can't spin yourself out of
reputation if you're
top chimp in your troop
because
you wanted to spin it on
hookers and blow.
Look, I'm talking about
the...
We're starting to deviate.
I'm talking about...
let's get away from what money is.
I won't let you run through
your nonsensical thing
that builds on fallacy after fallacy
and leads to...
I want to talk about something more profound.
You need to make sense out of it though.
The optimal money growth
and the money. It needs to grow
with GDP.
You don't want deflation.
You don't want inflation.
You want stable prices.
You don't want money
that encourages you to hoard capital.
That's what deflation does.
So you think that...
It makes you artificially want
not to invest your money.
That's not a horrible idea.
Tying a currency to the GDP.
What's that?
It's not a horrible idea.
It's not only not a horrible idea.
It's the perfect idea.
It's far from perfect.
Wait.
There's two parts to this.
Hear me out.
Not only do you need to increase
the money supply according to
the growth
and contraction of GDP,
but you need to allocate it
properly.
When you create this new money,
where should it go?
You're going to have a hard time with that.
Because so much of what
makes up GDP is just nonsense
and fluff.
Nobody actually making anything.
I'm not talking about
our conventional GDP metric.
I'm talking about actual productivity.
Evolutionary productivity toward the perfect evolutionary
being.
We're never going to agree on what that is.
What's that?
Whatever money
measures it best will
survive.
Where can I get in touch with evolution
and ask it exactly what I should be doing?
Jump off a cliff!
What?
Jump off a cliff. Have your whole
genetic family jump off a cliff.
Why haven't you done this?
You'll see evolution in
your face.
Why haven't you done this?
How do you know what evolution
was?
No, no, I use game theory.
I can use mathematics on Libertarian.
Then why wouldn't I answer?
Why do you suggest suicide?
Look at the second half of the money.
He's a little weird.
When you create or destroy money
according to production,
let's just say it measures productivity nicely.
You have to allocate it
properly or else it defeats
the purpose.
You guys don't like it when government
prints money and they just use it
to fund wars.
Since this is
reputation, you want to allocate
that new money to those responsible
for the growth or contraction
of GDP.
All you have to do is double
profits and losses
on every transaction.
That's the perfect money mechanism.
But you need to eradicate privacy
to accomplish this.
You need to see
what people invest in
when they take on a business project.
This might be the most nonsensical thing
you've said so far.
What are you talking about?
You've got to double losses
or gains on any venture.
How are you going to determine
what's
the value of doing the venture?
You know what I mean?
Let's go like what?
When you eradicate
privacy, right?
This is what the public blockchain
was meant for.
It's meant to show
everybody the history of your actions.
Yeah, our actions.
A credit score or social credit score
will be able to evaluate
all your actions
including your investments in your
business projects.
What capital you've used in your business
and what it produces
versus what it produces.
Then it can calculate
except that Skeeter doesn't get her decided
what boosts my score and what doesn't.
Here's the beauty
of my crypto social credit score.
There's a competition
of scoring systems.
Oh really?
You can create
your own scoring system
that evaluates everyone's actions.
If you want a predicated
non-aggression and hippie bull crap,
You're free to do so.
But evolution will punish you
if it does not measure
productivity accurately
because you will
misplan
according to
if you choose to use their credit score.
You know the other beauty
of my social credit score system
is that you don't have to pick
which social credit score
to spend in.
Since
they all credit scores.
Imagine you have a credit score.
You develop a credit scoring system
and I've developed my own
that tries to measure
evolutionary productivity.
When you spend in one currency
since it's on the public block
since they both
translate the public blockchain
once you spend in one currency
you also spend in the other.
So someone can price their goods
in my system
and you can spend in my currency
but it also
affects your reputation
in the other currency.
Number one, there's no theft
because there's no privacy.
You can't steal reputation
when it's public.
Number two, you don't have to worry about
which coin you're investing in all the time.
When you have a lot of money
this is a problem.
You don't have to worry if you're in the right crypto all the time.
You don't want to have to worry
about storing
seed phrases and passwords all the time.
You don't have to...
This is the perfect currency.
There's no inflation. There's no deflation.
So there's no artificial incentive
to hoard or invest.
Right?
It's perfect if it's most
profitable here. You should invest.
By hoard, do you mean safe?
No, not invest.
What's your opinion of
what they call...
There's a difference between investing
and hoarding
which is not doing anything with capital
which is what deflation
encourages.
What's your opinion of what they call
private capital formation?
I don't know.
That sounds like the venture capital.
What is that?
Just like when somebody saves up their money
in order to start a business
without having to ask the bank for help.
Oh, well, if it doesn't prove...
If it doesn't...
All I care about is productivity.
If borrowing money...
Whatever they have to hoard
in order to get to that point.
Well, you said
they're trying their best
not to go to the
capital market to borrow money.
I don't understand that unless it maximizes
productivity somehow. That's all I care about.
Right?
If you being too stubborn
to go to the capital market
and trying to say...
Fractual reserve lending decreases productivity.
Not necessarily stupid.
Sure does.
No, it doesn't.
It's robbing from all of us.
It's making us all have to go to work
for more hours
and by crap your stuff.
Let me tell you why you're wrong
because you don't understand...
When you print money
that doesn't guarantee prices go up.
You understand that?
It depends how you distribute the new money.
If you print it and leave it in a box
it doesn't affect prices.
No, not only that.
If you give it to the bankers
and they just leave it on the balance sheet...
If I double the...
If I double the money supply
but I
redistribute the new money
to more productive people, which it doubles output.
What happens to prices?
Stay the same.
Those people are consumers, though.
No, no, consumption is also production.
They're going to spend those new found dollars
into the economy
with half of the scrutiny
that they previously did.
What are you talking about?
That's what causes the prices to go up.
They're willing to pay more
for things because now they have more...
In evolutionary...
There's no consumption.
What?
There's no consumption in evolutionary economics.
There's only production.
Nobody's going to eat.
That's part of production. That's a capital investment.
You're investing in yourself
so that you can live to work.
You eat to work. You eat to breed.
So your kids can work.
You have to look at it in its real form.
Why are you eating?
You're maintaining
your body capital to work.
You're telling where nobody's going to eat for joy?
No, that's a malfunction.
We know that evolution...
You can do that, but that's not efficient.
Especially when it doesn't line up with...
Why did evolution give us taste buds?
Do you ever do anything just for the joy of it, Skeeter?
Of course I do. I'm malfunctioned.
Evolution cannot program this
automatically perfectly.
But it'll correct our behavior
for perfection.
What in your mind makes you think
that would be perfect?
How come you're not asking
why did evolution give us
more interest in philosophy
than I am the nuts and bolts
economics.
That's why Austrian economics
fails.
That's your problem.
You only ask what works
and not what would be best.
Tell me, Stu,
what has philosophy produced
that science and math and economics
hasn't already
outperformed it in?
What has philosophy done?
It doesn't do anything but confuse people.
There's no logic
or a logic story handled by math.
Everything else is handled
by science and economics.
There's no need for philosophy, right?
You're doing things inefficiently.
This is why you don't know game theory.
You're studying, I don't know what
philosophers, or you're just sitting
in your armchair and thinking you're thinking.
When there's already analytical tools
that smarter people than you
have already developed,
you refuse to look at.
You're telling me
that platonic
thought is obsolete?
No,
it's already developed
by mathematics.
Platonic thought
is not mathematics.
What's that?
That's not a mathematical thing.
Math isn't just about numbers.
It's pure logic.
Arguments in the realm of mathematics
making an argument.
Is that why there are imaginary numbers?
That's behind you, right?
I don't want to get into number theory.
That's not philosophy.
Forget philosophy, right?
Plato is heavy on the logic side of things,
but there's also...
Why do you think evolution...
Why do you think you have taste?
Like, there's a reason why all humans
don't value eating
poo poo, right? And flies do.
There's a reason...
there's an evolutionary reason for that.
And you choose to ignore that.
You're not even looking at it staring
in your face. All our tastes
of food are constrained within
a very small
percentage of what exists
in the world.
It's what's edible. That's objective.
It's nutrition, stupid.
Right?
Evolution gave us taste what to be attracted
to macronutrients.
Don't get that, but sugar is a nutrition
and it still tastes good.
That's just because technology
is faster than genetic evolution.
It takes a while for us to correct
through natural selection.
Eventually we'll have the perfect...
I really can't...
It's simple like the evolutionary...
What are you reading? Are you trying to think
too much of on your own?
You're not looking at...
Yes, I'm trying to think
too much on my own. I need your help, Skeeter.
Please, help me think.
Like, you're not...
We're deviating from the topic.
I just gave you
the most profound
monetary mechanism, right?
No, it's nonsensical.
The doubling?
It's nonsensical because
you're just assuming
the prices are concrete
that they're just going to
automatically be set.
But they're not.
You have to allow
enough of the marketplace
to interact and input
what they assign
value on a dozen eggs
in order to determine
what the average of that is
and then get your price of eggs.
You can't just say eggs are worth $2.34.
It doesn't make any sense.
Like, that's not how this works, man.
No, there's an objective
value to eggs.
There's an objective value to each good
and how it's used.
The market first works
with prices.
A person is allergic to eggs.
Values them at a negative value,
whereas I value them at
somewhere positive.
So
everything's
all value to derive
because the goal
is objective, not the means.
So let's say
both of you are in different positions.
Let's say
you had to evacuate the house
the quickest way out
or the most optimal way
which would save most lives
is objective.
What you should do might be different
from Riley because of
your physical positions.
Here's why philosophy is important.
in Skeeter's world, all we look at
is the end of the journey.
We never look out the side windows
and see what's going by us.
We never enjoy the actual journey part of it.
The journey is the destination.
That's what you're doing.
We never talk about how we get to that end.
That is the only point of life
is to just live it.
The point of existence is to enjoy it.
Here's the problem, right?
You can't have more than one goal.
One ultimate goal.
You can't have more.
It becomes irrational at that point
if you use logic, right?
Because if you have more than one goal
they can contradict each other.
Sure.
An individual should probably have the highest goal
for that reason, yes.
But that doesn't mean that all of our goal has to be
the same.
Yeah, because
it starts not to make sense.
How does it not make sense?
It makes perfect, beautiful sense.
Like I keep bringing up
I keep exposing
one of your goals, right?
You don't want to be free.
You guys claim to be libertarian
but anytime there's an opportunity
to be free, like c-standing, right?
You can defend yourself, right?
That doesn't work.
There's no guarantee
someone's going to aggress against you.
Everyone's going to leave you alone.
No, they will not.
There's nothing to take from you over there.
There's nothing for you to take over there.
They will blow you up immediately.
I guarantee you'll probably die
before someone aggresses against you out in the sea.
Tell that to those
that couple that set up shop outside of Thailand
and got
threatened to be blown up.
They set up shop
in their territorial waters.
Oh, come on, man.
You have to go 400 nautical miles
out to sea.
You think I could just
go out one mile out to sea from
to not be bothered by you?
Okay.
I don't care about freedom.
Obviously.
I'm not the one who says
freedom is the most important thing.
The ultimate goal, right?
Maybe you should stop telling others what to do.
No.
You guys are the one
claiming that freedom is the most
important thing.
I want to be free from someone telling me what to do
and you're one of these people telling me what to do.
This has been
one of the funner calls from Skeeter.
It sure has been entertaining.
Still as nonsensical as ever.
Thanks for the call tonight, Skeeter.
I'm sure you can do better than that.
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From Feature Story
News in San Francisco, I'm
Iris Spitzer with a look back
at some of the week's top stories.
The International Energy Agency
greenlit the release of a record
400 million barrels of oil
from emergency reserves
in a bid to curb rising prices
sparked by the war in Iran.
FSN's Tony Waterman reports
from Washington.
It's not clear what types of oil
will be made available
or how quickly it will hit the market.
That will ultimately determine
how impactful this release is.
But it is the largest joint release
in the IEA's history
accounting for roughly a third
of the group's emergency stockpiles.
An indication of how serious
of a situation they believe this is
with concerns of a global
recession rising.
Oil prices have whipsawed since the start
of the war spiking as high
as $119 a barrel.
News of the release had little
impact on crude prices.
The decision already baked in.
Donald Trump said he was not
happy with Iran's new pick
for supreme leader.
But in an interview with the New York Post
he refused to say what he would do about it.
Mashtaba Hamani
was chosen by a group of clerics
to replace his late father
who was killed on the first day
of the war.
FSN's Nick Harper reports from Washington.
Bear in mind that Mashtaba Hamani
is someone that was
sanctioned back in 2019
by the U.S. Treasury Department
due to his activities
in the Iranian regime.
The U.S. has throughout this
whole process made it clear
that if the person that Iran chooses
to run the country is not someone
that's been specifically signed off
on by the U.S. President
that person would have a target
on their back in the same way
that the former Ayatollah had as well.
The fact that we have now
someone in charge of Iran
that the United States feels it cannot work with
there seems I think little hope
for diplomacy and therefore the fear is
that what we've seen in the last 10 days
will only grow
and potentially widen.
The Kremlin welcomed the U.S.
decision to issue a temporary waiver
allowing the sale of Russian oil
at sea.
FSN's Daria Bonderchuk reports from Moscow.
Moscow's
special economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev
said that the U.S. exception
for countries to buy sanctioned Russian
oils stranded on tankers at sea
is a de facto recognition
that without Russian crude
the world market cannot remain stable.
Under the 30-day waiver
these shipments can be delivered and sold
until April 12.
Earlier U.S. Treasury Secretary
Scott Besant said the exemption would only cover
oil already in transit
and would not provide significant financial
benefit to the Russian government.
The Kremlin commenting on the U.S. Treasury
decision said Russia and the United States
share the same interest in stabilizing
energy markets.
From Bureau's Worldwide, this is FSN.
The Pentagon reportedly
concluded that an attack on a girl's
school in Iran that killed more than
165 people at the start
of the conflict was the fault
of the U.S. military.
The New York Times reported that a preliminary
investigation said
outdated information may have resulted
in the Tomahawk missile strike.
FSN's Simon Marks
reports from Washington.
U.S. officials familiar with the findings
of the investigation say the strike
on the elementary school was an American
era. It was built on the grounds
of a former base for the Revolutionary
Guards in Minab in the south
of the country and was incorrectly
listed as a military target.
President Trump has previously claimed
the Iranians were responsible for
the Tomahawk strike, but there's no
evidence to support that claim
and the probe's outcome will boost calls
for the U.S. to face war crimes charges
over the killing of more than 100 children
and teachers as the war began.
Some Asian airlines raised
fears and added fuel surcharges
as the Middle East conflict
is driving up jet fuel costs
and disrupting travel. The war has disrupted
a key oil export
corridor, driving up airline costs
and pushing up ticket prices
amid concerns about a broader impact
on travel demand.
FSN's Laura Westbrook reports from
Hong Kong.
Thousands of flights have been cancelled
since Israel and the United States
attacked Iran at the end of last month.
The war has caused restrictions
on operations at key transfer hubs
in the Middle East. There are fewer
seats available after major Gulf
carriers suspended flights
and that's contributing to ticket prices
going up between Asia and Europe.
Spiking fuel prices are also
putting pressure on carriers.
Australia's Qantas in Air New Zealand
were among the carriers that announced
price increases while Hong Kong's
Cafe Pacific says it's adding
flights to London and Zurich
as airspace closures and capacity
constraints drive up airfares.
Those were some of the week's top
stories. Iris Spitzer reports.
Now how much money will all those closeted
Republican convention goers bring into the city, Marie?
A lot. The average area prostitute
normally makes around $200 to $300
a week jerking off truck drivers behind
the bus station. I see. Next week they
are expecting to make 30 times that amount
sucking off secretly gay Republicans.
Wow! You figure the fact that these delegates
are so repressed and filled with self-hatred
they tend to like the filthiest
kinkiest sex acts imaginable
which tends to cost more. The
average well-adjusted gay man has no
desire to smear fecal matter all over his
partner's face to be beat up by him, but
that is exactly the sort of thing that these
repressed conservatives are willing to pay top
dollar for. Okay, as well as the services
of transsexuals I understand. A lot of the
Republicans repeatedly call the prostitutes
faggots or some crying after they've had
sex with them. I suppose the prostitutes are
shoring up on their politics so they can
talk to the Republicans. Ha ha
Andrea, what do you think this is? Pretty woman?
They're just there to get f***ed, right?
Thank you, Marie Byron. RNC's
always a good time.
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In the studio tonight, it's Stu.
Riley O'Bell.
And we're going to go
to the phones
where we've got Sarah
calling in from New Mexico.
Sarah, you're on Free Talk Live.
What's on your mind?
Oh, yes.
Um, so
oh, you know what I mean?
I go to a prayer group
like every Wednesday.
There was a girl
that just walked in
and I said,
you know, I don't see you at Sundays.
What do you do?
So she says, I hold a Bible study
with women at my house.
And, you know,
the feeling that I got was,
well, if she's good enough
to hold a Bible study,
I think she needs to be a pastor.
I always felt that,
but I never said nothing to her.
So I think three,
I think two months later
or whatever,
and then we were praying
like last Wednesday,
and then they were saying,
well, did you get a job
that we were praying for?
And then it found out
me and it's like, huh?
Sorry, I just left.
Go on with your story.
So, and I said, I just said,
you know, hey,
that confirms that
that's calling for you to be a pastor.
That's why you can't find a job.
If you were,
if you were supposed to have a regular job,
you would have one already
because they've been praying for her to have a job
and it's not happening.
And obviously she's very intelligent.
She's very well qualified.
So I had to say, you know,
I have a feeling
that God's coming to be a pastor.
So last Wednesday,
I told her that there's
Windmack,
there's a school, Bible college
in Colorado Springs
and she knew about it.
I think it was a pastor Windmack or something.
So I don't know
if she's going to do it, but
yeah.
So I just want to say that
these feelings that I get
I think it's kind of true.
You know, sometimes
is it like a spirit
of prophecy or something?
You think you're
prophetic because
someone can't find a job
because someone can't find a job
and you think they should be a pastor?
Yeah.
I'm putting it together.
Have you tried applying for jobs?
Do you know how competitive job market is, Sarah?
Yeah, but she's very intelligent
and she's very competitive,
but you know,
that doesn't mean she should
automatically be a pastor.
This is the feeling that I'm getting.
Yeah, but your feelings are irrelevant.
Yeah, but you know,
I'm skeptical that God is speaking
through you
to communicate his desire
for another of his earthly children.
I'm not saying it's not possible.
I'm just suggesting
that Sarah needs to take more into account
than just oh, she should be a pastor
because that's why she's not getting a job.
I've seen it long, long time ago
that was like a
television broadcast
and then there was
a man pastor.
He says, I was trying to find a job
with the same story and I could not find a job
anywhere. I wanted to be a good provider
for my family
and then it finally dawned on him
that God was calling him to be a pastor
and this was like 40 years ago or so.
The perfect grift was
to get Christians
to give him money in the name of God.
That's what finally dawned on him, Sarah.
That's the perfect grift.
Well, you guys don't believe
in tidying it up for me?
No, I do.
Tithing absolutely works. Do you know why?
It works because of your faith
because you believe it's going to work.
That's the only reason it works.
It's not God blessing you.
It's a matter of your faith.
If you feel that
you put in good,
it's called sowing feed,
you're putting one-tenth of your money
into good things.
You put into a church
where they help people
that you believe in
and you believe that you're right.
It's a matter of belief in your attitude
of what you're willing to
open opportunity
for yourself. That's partly true.
That's right because the Mormons
pay 10% of their tidings
in order for...
They lovingly refer to it
as fire insurance sometimes
because it's one of the things
you have to do to get into heaven.
But also,
they're given a promise
that if they pay their tidings,
they'll always have what they need.
Once I figured out that it didn't
have anything to do with the money
and it only had to do with the faith,
I've always had what I needed
and I don't pay tidings.
I do what I feel is right
and a certain amount of my time
is dedicated to what
if there is a God
I interpret his intentions
to be
and
I feel like God's going to take care of me
and guess what, he always does
if it is a God. I don't know.
Universe takes care of me.
I always have what I need.
It's just a matter of my faith
that I will have what I need.
I really believe in tidings
and offering.
But I do not believe in
giving it to the Mormon church.
That's the difference.
If you gave the Mormon church your money
you wouldn't receive any blessings
for having done so because you don't believe in it.
That's my point.
What's that thing?
I think that.
Whereas the Mormons do get blessings from it
because they do believe in it.
Yeah.
I would go into a sincere church.
Remember
Tammy Baker and her husband
were found
to steal
millions of dollars
for their...
I don't know
Lamborghini
or whatever. I don't know what they have
but they were obnoxious with the money.
Those kind of ministry
they were founded
like siphoning off millions of dollars.
That's mostly pastor types too.
Most of them.
You can find a couple of honest, very small parishes.
One sign
is that
there won't be very many people there
if it's an honest sort of operation.
There just won't be that many people
because they don't have the money
and the flash to draw people in.
And there aren't that many people that are
seeking a true church setting.
They just
want to be part of a club called Christianity
or something.
Well, you know
it's very peculiar.
I went to the stage brush
and a lady told me that
the roots are
Southern Baptist.
But people feel so good
with the music.
Nobody ever... All the women goes
hey, there is no
women pastors, no women
teachers, no women
elders in this church.
And nobody goes hey,
nobody brings it up and that happens to be true.
And nobody even
knew that they claim
we're non-denominational.
Nobody knows that
they're
sort of Baptist.
I think there's a church that wants to hold on
to slavery at that time.
Is that true?
But they have a regular Baptist
and the Southern Baptist is the one
that we like slavery.
We're Christians that I want slayed.
And that's the reason why they broke off.
Is that a Texas state?
A Texas
church.
But you know what?
So in this stage brush
group you tell me they don't talk about
the fact that
there are no women clergy
and they don't talk
about the Southern Baptist
roots of
the organization.
So
Yeah, nobody knows and nobody questions.
So then what do they talk about?
How is that anywhere near any kind of
a real
religious setting if they don't even talk about
whether roots are and what their ideals are.
People just get mesmerized
with all the music
and the preaching
of all the minutes.
There's just New Age nonsense.
There's a thing.
And then I'm the one that lady
pointed out, hey, though I have never
heard there is no
women pastors.
And it's like, I just realized it because
then she pointed it out.
But
I've heard
wasn't Southern Baptist
church known for the bigotry
that like that's what I
kind of got from it.
But see, but they
got that money.
They bought a building
when they bought it, 11 million
dollars, probably like 30 years
ago.
Who's got that kind of money other
than
Southern Baptist church, right?
Or they had a...
Mormon church does. The Mormon church has plenty
of money. They got all kinds of properties
in Florida and like all over the place.
Tons of money.
Yeah.
Big stock options in like Coca-Cola company.
They're all open business.
Oh, yeah.
But I thought there were anti-Caffeine.
But why would they have
stocks in Coca-Cola?
Indeed, why would they?
That's one of the easier cognitive
dissonance questions.
They're not really anti-Caffeine, though.
Yeah.
So the way the Mormons deal with this
is that the word of wisdom
doesn't say anything about caffeine.
It says hot drinks, like tea
and coffee.
I guess they're going to drink my coffee cold.
But it's totally messed up because you can't
have a cold coffee either.
No iced tea, right?
But you can have Coca-Cola.
Yeah, that's rather strange.
But that's one of the easier ones.
If you want to get into the heavy things
that make no sense about Mormonism,
they usually reserve those for
what I call the shelf.
They just put them up there and deal with them later
or never.
There's bizarre things like
how come all the money goes up to the hierarchy,
the people that were
real, real high up in the church
and they were busted for
were they buying penthouses,
really expensive penthouses
and then
the Mormon church still
gives them 1%.
It's very bizarre.
You know,
if you know your church is
corrupt, I would start
typing and offering to some other
That's the problem. All other churches
are corrupt too.
Well, I don't believe it.
But anyways, I just got a really good
feeling about it
and
I just kind of feel like
I don't know why I felt that
and nobody else in the plural group
come in and joined me
and confirmed it with me.
I don't know why
I got this feeling and I'm the one
that told her about it.
And then in the
meanwhile, she's going to go to
yoga school to be a yoga instructor
or something. I'm like, no,
go to a Bible college. That's not where
he wants you to be.
a lot of people that have calling
on their lives, they keep doing
other dumb
other dumb things
that they don't want to.
I mean, what could what you got
do? I mean,
I think there's a guiding
influence in the universe
that, you know,
for simplicity, it's easy to call
it God
that has a preference
as to what we should be doing and
sometimes
you listen to it and you do the
thing and it looks like it made no sense.
Well, you didn't do you any good, but
the lesson you learned sometimes
isn't the one you were expecting or
you know, like the blessings you get from
it or not the ones you thought you would get
kind of a thing.
So I don't know, everybody's got
different paths in the world too, certainly.
you don't believe in the tithing
the
you can't, God does not need the money.
I don't believe in any structured church.
So if you want
one tenth of your money as a
thank you offering to invest
the case of God's going to keep
what you have and bless
you even more.
Well, that's like
God means a new G6.
God
does not need any money thing or anything
from us. He follows the universe.
He does need our money.
Why do we have to give money to a church?
Why can't we just serve our neighbors?
Why?
No, but
okay, giving money, they could use it
it's not going through God.
You know what I mean? The church
when they feed you, they know they pay
they lecture you that you know
that it's God giving you
a meal.
If you give somebody a money
they don't think that it's God giving them money.
You give them money. They don't
God doesn't get the glory.
I mean it has to be a place
where his word
the doctrine of being
that's the most important part
you know
Yeah, I guess
so it's
I don't know Sarah
I was on that
joke or rodeo we have
the calling the jokes
and then what I
was looking to the we what I see
made a we run because I guess
my joke was so good
and one of the person said
oh boy my my jokes are like
to another level it has
dimension well obviously
you know my jokes have a deeper meaning
I'm just trying not to be just
funny I want to have
kind of a moral of a story
so my joke was
that I was at the hotline
and I was crossing in a car almost hit
me and my the
joke was silly me
I actually thought they were going to
stop for me at a red light
what a joke
so but
he did not find a joke in it
he thought it was a political commentary
but I thought it was
joke and somebody else said
it was a joke it's another
level next step level
of a joke you know it's
comical but has a meaning
I don't see any comedy in it
sorry
well the joke
the joke is that it's silly
to me the joke is that somebody
yes that somebody would step out in front
of a car thinking it was going to stop for them
why would you do that
no I have
they had the red light
it's a hot signal
it actually stops the car
supposedly how does it stop the car
does have a cable that comes down and grabs
the car and stops it like a
you know like a fighter jet
landing on an aircraft carrier
that's a funny part about it
it goes from flashing yellow to red
they're supposed to stop
they're supposed to but there's nothing guaranteeing
they will so don't step out in front of it
until you know it's going to
it's that easy
comedy of it
what's funny about that
the silliness of it
I actually believe that they were going to stop
that's the comical part of it
they don't stop
at the intersection
they don't stop for stop signs
are they going to stop for the
hot light signal because it's a red light
they run the red light everywhere
in Albuquerque
so I really thought
that they were going to stop for me
well
thanks for the call tonight Sarah
Sarah has
interesting
interesting life
yeah
the red light
is going to stop the truck
it's not
sorry light colors don't stop
big chunks of steel
but people will stop because they say
oh red light
that's why I was told that I should stop
but red light
humans can be domesticated
hmm
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you know I bet somebody else could call
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I'm sure they could
let's see
where were we before all of the
all of the shenanigans
we were talking about Iran
we sure were
we were reading this article
which I think is
written by Alexander Dugan
some people know
who that is
and here
let's see he was saying
that basically
international law is out the window
and what
and might makes right is the new
order of the day
so this article continues
I think now
I think that now almost everything depends on how long
and how decisively Iran can resist
if it continues to wage war
even after the destruction of its political
leadership if it is not
surrender does not raise the white flag
does not capitulate then this could
in badly for the west itself
after all then everyone else will start acting
in exactly the same way
paying no attention to anything and overestimating
their own potential
regardless of their legal
status this will give free reign
to many regional powers which will do whatever
they want this could very quickly
lead to the use of nuclear weapons
perhaps in the
Pakistan Afghanistan conflict
perhaps in others there are definitely no
rules anymore
in short if Iran
continues its resistance
under new leadership this could have very serious
consequences for the west itself
affecting trump the u.s. and NATO
countries but if the situation
with venezuela repeats itself
either the new leadership declares
surrender or the military
simply unable to continue fighting
then the war will be short if this
proves to be the case then we
should expect a similar scenario there
is no doubt that trump in the west seeing
that this scheme works will simply
turn to eliminate russia's main political
and military political
leadership as their next move
seems logical
today it is already clear
that we are acting indecisively
following the same model we could
be stuck right in the middle
of the next negotiations with
kushner and whitkopf
perhaps even with a nuclear weapon
therefore i believe the situation
is critical for us we do not
stand up for venezuela or iran
and china is also remaining neutral
but in such
a case china will be next
after us and then the kingdom
of epstein will reign over the
whole space of mankind
with blood and horror on the earth
i would like to emphasize
that today we can already say
that we are not just dealing with the liberal west
liberalism has quickly faded
away and disappeared from the agenda
no one talks about liberal values
or democracy anymore
all that is in the past now the cult
of now the cult
of ball reigns supreme
the cult of the golden calf
the cult of global power
the cult of united states and israel
this is a civilization
of violence satanism cannibalism
perversion and pedophilia
and this pedophilic
civilization of ball
is dropping its masks before
our very eyes and going on the attack in urnist
from all
points of view what is happening now is very
reminiscent of the end times
if we do not find the strength within ourselves
to comprehend the situation we will find
ourselves in a catastrophic
position many insist
that this is no time to panic but sometimes
it's better to take what is happening seriously
than to assume that we will get through it unscathed
now it is clear that we will not
get through it unscathed
around is the last thing standing in the way of a
direct war between the civilization of ball
and russia
that is not the end
of this article we will continue
on the other side
this is an interesting way of
framing it up i mean if you're
i know it's really interesting russia right now
this is kind of how things look to you
and you're sort of just
looking to see what happens next
what does iran do how long can they hold out
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the international energy agency
greenlit the release of a record
400 million barrels of oil
from emergency reserves
in a bid to curb rising prices
sparked by the war in iran
fsn's tony waterman reports from
washington
it's not clear what types of oil
will be made available
or how quickly it will hit the market
that will ultimately determine
how impactful this release is
but it is the largest joint
release in the iea's history
accounting for roughly a third
of the group's emergency stockpiles
an indication of how serious
of a situation they believe this is
with concerns of a global
recession rising oil prices
have whipsawed since the start
of the war spiking as high
as $119 a barrel
news of the release had little
impact on crude prices
the decision already baked
in
donald trump said he was not happy
with iran's new pick for supreme
leader but in an interview
with the new york post he refused
to say what he would do about it
mashtaba hamani was chosen
by a group of clerics to replace
his late father who was
killed on the first day of the war
fsn's nick harper reports
from washington bear in mind
that mashtama hamani is
someone that was sanctioned
back in 2019
by the u.s. treasury department
due to his activities
in the iranian regime
the u.s. has throughout this
whole process made it clear
that if the person that iran chooses
to run the country is not someone
that's been specifically signed off
on by the u.s. president that person
would have a target on their
back in the same way that the former
ayatollah had as well
the fact that we have now someone
in charge of iran that the united states
feels it cannot work with
there seems i think little hope for diplomacy
and therefore the fear is
that what we've seen in the last 10 days
will only grow and potentially
widen
the kremlin welcomed the u.s. decision
to issue a temporary waiver
allowing the sale of russian oil
at sea fsn's daria
vonderschuk reports from moscow
moscow's special economic
envoy karyl dmitry have said
that the u.s. exception
for countries to buy sanctioned russian
oils stranded on tankers at sea
is a de facto recognition
that without russian crude
the world market cannot remain stable
under the 30 day waiver
these shipments can be delivered and sold
until april 12
earlier u.s. treasury secretary
squad besant said the exemption would only
cover oil already in transit
and would not provide significant financial
benefit to the russian government
the kremlin commenting on the u.s. treasury decision
said russia and the united states share the same interest
in stabilizing energy markets
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this article is
words from alexander dugin
he's talking about the viewpoint
of russia and what happens
in the outcome of this
current conflict
between
the us and israel
against iran
and most people
seem to think that russia is a paper tiger
but it's really not
it has pretty strong military
i imagine
everybody who's gone in there
to conquer the place
ended up failing miserably
that's for sure
i don't know how much conquering
they're in a position to go do
but certainly nobody's
nobody's going to militarily
take over russia anytime soon
yeah
from all points
from all points of view what is happening now
is very reminiscent of the end times
do i read this part
i think you did
if we had enough will and determination
although i have serious doubts
about this
we would have to start acting according to the same rules
that everyone else besides us is already acting on
that is we could eliminate
the military and political leadership of ukraine
and without paying attention
to any cost
we could solve the tasks of the special military operation
by the way
against the backdrop of names
world powers are using
like shield of juda
operation epic fury
and seal of the flood
i would rename our modest
special military operation
sort of
catechon
and that would
and that would immediately change a lot
i don't catch the reference to that
you're right
i'm not sure i do either
should we look it up and let's do it
let's look it up and sort of do this live
yeah let's do it live
the sword
of catechon you said
of ketchup
ketchup on
how's it spelled
let's see there's a sort of
catechon
k-a-t-e-c-h-o-n
yeah i'm not sure what that is
yeah
let's see here
you know rush is such a strange
culture
strange in what way
just
they got
i don't know it's so much different
like it's so much
like a western culture
that the differences
are just very loud
i like the russians
i like their humor
and
they seem a lot more down
to earth and like
ready to spin up a farm
than a lot of americans
they seem a lot more real
there's definitely
sad things about russian culture too
the sort of catechon
if that's how it's pronounced
refers to the metaphorical use of power
law enforced by a restrainer
catechon to prevent
the rise of the antichrist
at the end of times
okay
okay so that would
that would be russia
taking out the
the quote-unquote antichrist
uh-huh
the antichrist would be
you know the west
and nato and israel i guess
i guess in this situation it would be
there we go
we got some clarity on that
as far as operation epic
fury i really like
that some people have been calling this operation
epstein fury
i haven't heard that
but that's really funny
because trump is just so mad about this whole
epstein thing that he's dropping bombs
where he shouldn't be
yeah it would make sense that
epstein fury would be a good name for this
yep
alright uh article continues
but i'm afraid we don't dare do that
and we'll continue with the same old
song and then i repeat missiles
will fly into moscow right in the middle
of negotiations with kosher wittkopf
literally following the
iranian scenario
the civilization of ball is simple
it repeats the same scenario
over and over again and they work every time
because everyone thinks that this only
applies to gadoffy
hussein
milosevic
nazralla a sod
or a kameini but not to themselves
thus step by
step the civilization of ball
achieves its goals
therefore
either we mobilize urgently
or the situation will become extremely
difficult and if we still harbor
any illusions
then there's some kind of profound falsehood
at large within our own camp
this is especially noticeable against the backdrop
of what is happening in iran
which is a
catastrophe
of global proportions
wonderful people remarkable spiritual
leaders have been killed
for comparison it would be like
the patriarch of moscow the president
the chief of the general staff
and all the key ministers
were killed at the same time along with
more than a hundred schoolgirls innocent
souls killed by missiles
after such an event it is possible
to remain indifferent
is it possible to remain indifferent
and pretend that it does not
particularly concern us that it is
not our business therefore
if we endure this and remain silent
then next time they will do
the same to us that is why
I am absolutely certain that
in the current situation we should immediately
declare a state of emergency
at least at the highest level of government
after all the situation is becoming
simply critical for us
that's where the article ends
I can absolutely see why
Russia might feel
as though
America
would just be like hey let's
have a negotiation
talk and then as soon as the talks
come ends bombs start
dropping because that is
the way they've been doing this
it's absolutely
despicable the way that the west
particularly
the US and Israel have been
conducting this war
they shot
an iranian ship with torpedoes
after it was leaving a war games
exercise it was not in any
like there was no
potential combat happening there
they just drove a submarine up to it
torpedoed it and then drove away
they're supposed to like you know help
any survivors out of the water they didn't even do that
they just took off
and the US also bombed a school
in Iran too
and they were like no that was Iran
no that wasn't Iran that was the US
yeah killed 156
schoolgirls is what I hear
that's not
a very nice thing to do
it's not it's a terrible thing to do
mm-hmm and
you know
I just haven't heard any justifications
for this war
for you know for the west
waiting this war and also
I don't think you're going to win
that's
that's a mountainous terrain it's up against
Russia
um
you know they have rifles
and stuff you're not going to go in their boots
on the ground and take over that place
the way you tried to and failed in Afghanistan
and
weren't was it a you
by the way Trump that was saying
you know like these wars in the Middle
East or a terrible idea
and regime change needs to
end we gotta go do it play in
that game and all this stuff he definitely
was but apparently he forgot his
his words and you know
I guess everything changed
so flip the script and I guess
for what I hear is
his rationale on this was all I
had to do it because if I didn't then Israel
was going to nuke them
which is not
that's not helping you man
they've been saying that for 20 years
that is not and the Israel hasn't been
nuked yet no he was saying
if we don't do this Israel
will nuke Iran
I see what you're saying and he did it
to prevent the use of nuclear
war all right
which is not I mean that's not
good man why are you buddies
with people that are threatening to start nuclear war
it's because Israel's
God's chosen people we gotta
make friends with God's chosen people otherwise
will be destroyed God's chosen people
sure have some
funny practices they sure do
they sure violent practices too
yeah and they have
they have funny little colloquial
names for them such as mowing
the lawn yep
which is a
disgusting term they use when
when they decide it's time to go out and trim
back the amount of Palestinians
that exist on the planet
um right now we're going to
go to the phone so
we've got Dave Ridley
you're on free talk live
what's on your mind hey guys
censorship
yeah
what about censorship
so I called in a couple weeks ago
to let you or maybe one week ago
I had um
I'm producing a
science fiction television series
I say television in quote
marks it might or might not ever make
it's a real television but it's going to be designed
for television if it makes sense right
so I released a trailer
for it a week or two ago
and um
I thought it would be useful to
uh talk about some of the
travails I had to go through to get the imagery
completed for this PG-13
trailer okay
so one that has some examples
of imagery that was banned
by the mainstream
image generator platforms and I had to go to
Venice to get it done
Venice has uncensored models
um because it's venice.ai
and so here's
if I had quote that church
shill so it's a picture of church
shill so the quote church shill
is in a bombed out farm
he is naked except for the
blue poilu
french soldier type helmet
shown in the attached image
it didn't want to do that
occasionally I could get attempts
to do that
and then when it generated the image
it's just a guy in a bathtub
with no shirt on right
it's rated G actually
and
so um
uh it
after it generated the image
I would put the image up again to have it
edited and it would refuse to edit
its own image
interesting
that it had just generated
you know so this violates
our community guidelines
or whatever okay I'll fine
I'm just going to Venice I'm getting it done on Venice
and so
uh Venice turned out to be
the thing that allowed me to actually
complete this now instead of
a year from now
okay
did you only have to try the two
platforms
well I have okay I have
an account on po.com
it's poe.com which I am
happy with uh they allow you
access to a lot of other models
and one of the one of the models that they allow
you access to
is a model that was created
by one of the censorship companies
but I guess Venice
has a
an uncensored copy of the model
or something like that they must have been
I don't know if they're doing it I guess they must
have come up with an agreement or maybe they're doing it
maybe they're allowed to do it somehow
but their uncensored version
of this mainstream
model will do
what you ask it to does that make sense
mm-hmm yeah
uh so it's
it's proving to be a
you know pretty
helpful company Venice is
run by a free stator by the way
oh nice
that's cool
so their deal is that
they don't try to build their own models
they just try to take existing models
that are open source or that they're allowed to use
and they just provide
an interface to those models
but it's not you know it's not perfect
there there's some it's like
with anything else like with youtube and odyssey
there are all these things that youtube has
that odyssey just can't match
yep
and it's the same way
with the mainstream models
that have hundreds of billions of dollars
if you're using Venice to compete with those
it's a much smaller company
and you know it may be more difficult
to get certain things done
but I tell you what if you've got
anything that they're trying
to censor then that's when
Venice becomes a lot easier
a lot of a much better option
if that makes sense
the other image
did you listen to last weekend's show
with
mark edge and tall bill and myself
I listened to part of it
but I don't think it was more than 10 minutes
so I have
I have it in queue to
download
but tall bill was talking about
what he uses for AI
and since I'm
not real familiar with all this stuff
he was saying that basically it's a
self-hosted
AI
that you can you build it
into the model that you want it to be
have you heard anything
that works like that
well the most
the closest thing I've heard to that
is that I think it's anything
LLM
will allow you to hand you
you give them a model that you
want to change
and you just tell them what you want to change about it
or you add all this text that you want to add
to it or instructions or whatnot
and they will take those instructions
and turn them into a fine tune for you
I think they'll do one for free
but the problem with that is
there's really not much privacy in it
because you're dumping it onto the internet
and handing all this data over them
so if you've got anything private
in your model
then that might not be a good match
but last I heard they were doing that
and I never sent them a model
I didn't know exactly whether it would
be worth the trouble and you can only do it once
for free but that
sounded like an interesting
thing but I don't know if that's what you're talking about
yeah I don't know it's just
the idea of like
Iron Man had Jarvis it was like his own
AI that was not going to
let go of his secrets and it was only going to work for him
I'm interested in the idea of
AI going that way
to where you kind of have your own instance
that can you know is kind of
as all knowing as these LLMs
can be and
and doesn't snitch on you and won't lie to you
and will give you
the results that you ask for no matter how offensive
kind of a thing
that would be nice and I think at some point
it will be developed but I'm not sure it exists now
yeah I'm not
sure either that would be a lot more fun
though and useful than what
currently does exist certainly
can be frustrated when you're just
you just want a simple image it's not
even going to offend more than maybe
you know 100 people on the whole planet
and for some reason the AI is telling
you no this is not acceptable
I can't do that
have any of you
have any of you seen the trailer
so far
I have not taken time to look at it
or listen to it
yeah always looking for feedback
but it's RidleyReport.com
it's a two minute trailer for
Legends of the Free State
cool we'll check that out
and put it in the show notes
is that all you had for us Dave
that's all I've got
alright thanks for the call
RidleyReport.com
alright cool
I like Dave Ridley Culls
I do too he's a really cool guy
yeah he's got interesting
things to say
when I first moved to New Hampshire
Ridley was one of my roommates
oh cool
I met him a few times
so I'll pair it
various events and
I got to witness his
pilgrimage dressed as Gandhi
from here to
Hinnaker I think is where he went
or Manchester
or somewhere over there
maybe it was conquered
that was a pretty cool thing though
that is pretty cool
Ridley is a cool guy
we're going to now
get into the story that
Ridley brought from Deseret
News good old
Reputable news source
Mormon Publications in Utah
Iced by Salt Lake City Warehouse
sparking concern
an immigrant
detention center is coming
I guess they don't
want one of those in Salt Lake
Salt Lake lanes a little more
left than most of the state
and so most likely not
yeah I guess Salt Lake
have a little bit of a problem with it
most of the state though I think would be
perfectly happy with that
why don't they build it down there in Bicknell
or Loa those guys would be happy
about that
they would be
so they don't want their small towns to stop
Leverkin
spelled like hurricane
Immigration and Customs
enforcement has bought a warehouse
structure in an industrial area
on Salt Lake City's west side
reigniting debate about whether
the city will become home to an immigrant
detention center
the 145.44
million dollar deal for the building
and 24.9 acre
partial it sits on at
6020 west
300 south
it's out in the junkyard
district was finalized
on Wednesday according to
online property records
the property sold to ice
by an entity identified as
r-r-e-e-f-c-p-i-f
6020 west 300 south
the former owner
since just three to four miles southeast
of another property that had been
reportedly
eyed last January as a potential
ice detention center
officials from the federal
immigration agency didn't
immediately respond to Query's
Thursday seeking comment
but the transaction
is sparking concern among some who
worry about the possibility of an
immigrant detention center coming to
Salt Lake City
I am deeply disturbed
to learn that an 833,000
square foot warehouse near the
Salt Lake City airport has reportedly
been purchased by the federal government
for what would likely become a
massive ice detention facility
Salt Lake County Mayor
Jenny Wilson said in a statement
this time the obstacles
may be greater but our commitment
must be just as strong we cannot
allow aggressive and often
unlawful federal enforcement
tactics to take root in our community
but yet she was the same one
who allowed you to be detained in your house
for a disease
and uh
a bit of a news flash
for you Mayor Jenny Wilson
Utah has been
uh knuckling under the
to the feds for
uh let's see when
when did they outlaw polygamy
it was the 1890s
yeah so quite a while now
uh if you want to stand up to them now
it was before 1896
because I know Utah became a
state in 1896 so at least around
1890 yeah it was in the 1880s
when the argument was
was going around and then
so yeah sometime in the 1890s
is when they
when Utah officially said
fine we'll listen to you on that one
even though they didn't stop
nope they didn't stop at all
in fact they continued until
you know other people
were communicated or whatever
mm-hmm yeah
and then the uh the zealots
that wanted to practice openly
when made it worse than it was in the first place
so good job making that illegal
yep good job you created war in
jeff's and Paul kingston
yep that's your fault
congratulations federal government thank you
one more list on one more item on the list
of grievances
Eva Lopez Chavez a member
of the solid city council in democratic
hopeful for the for the first
district us house seat
called the development deeply
alarming she asked utah's
congressional delegation to
washington dc to investigate the transaction
and provide more details about the plans
for the site
I will use the full extent of my authority
to combat the conversion of such a warehouse
into a human detention facility
I am eager to learn more about this exchange
of real estate and prevent any
assistance to this facility
Lopez Chavez said in a statement
it is an abomination
that any real estate
entity would willingly sell their
asset knowing the consequences of inviting
the department of homeland
security into their backyard this is
an attempt to promote violence not
safety while you're shaming the
real estate entity
come on seriously the
real estate entity yeah like
you know how those guys operate their
vultures your
it's an abomination come on
just
all right these politicians
that's what you're mad about that a real
estate agent would sell the
property to ice not that like
none of the other stuff is your concern
okay anyways the utah democratic party
in utah senate and house
democrats joined the critics
though what exactly is to come
of the facility remains publicly
unclear a statement from the party
lauded the
contribution of immigrants we strongly
oppose any effort to use facilities in
our city to scale up immigration detention
or deportation operations
we call on federal officials
to immediately disclose their plans
and abandon any proposal that would
put utah communities and the hard-working
families who sustain them at risk
reads the statement
uh
yeah i mean
ice is gross
you don't want them in your backyard but like
as far as people who
do want them in their backyard
that's at least
that's at least a third of salt lake
yep at least a third
at least two thirds of utah
yeah i live there i'm
i'm pretty sure at least a third of salt lake is just
cheering that on like yeah let's get some ice
helping here
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the international energy agency
greenlit the release of a record
400 million barrels of oil
from emergency reserves
in a bid to curb rising prices
sparked by the war in iran
fsn's tony waterman
reports from washington
it's not clear what types of
oil will be made available
or how quickly it will hit the market
that will ultimately determine
how impactful this release is
but it is the largest
joint release in the IEA's history
accounting for roughly a third
of the group's emergency stockpiles
an indication of how serious
of a situation they believe this is
with concerns of a global
recession rising
oil prices have whipsawed since the
start of the war spiking as high
as $119 a barrel
news of the release had little
impact on crude prices
the decision already baked in
donald trump said he was
not happy with iran's new
pick for supreme leader
but in an interview with the new york post
he refused to say what he would do
about it
was chosen by a group of clerics
to replace his late father
who was killed on the first day
of the war
nick harper reports from washington
bear in mind that mashtima
hameini is someone that was
sanctioned back in 2019
by the u.s. treasury department
due to his activities
in the iranian regime
the u.s. has throughout this
whole process made it clear
that if the person that iran chooses
to run the country is not someone
that's been specifically
signed off on by the u.s. president
that person would have a target
on their back in the same way
that the former ayatollah had as well
the fact that we have now
someone in charge of iran
that the united states feels it cannot work with
there seems i think little hope
for diplomacy and therefore the fear is
that what we've seen in the last
10 days will only grow
and potentially widen
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decision to issue a temporary
waiver allowing the sale of russian
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have said that the u.s. exception
for countries to buy sanctioned russian
oils stranded on tankers at sea
is a de facto recognition
that without russian crude the world
market cannot remain stable
under the 30-day waiver
these shipments can be delivered and sold
until april 12 earlier
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said the exemption would only cover
oil already in transit
and would not provide significant financial
benefit to the russian government
the kremlin commenting on the u.s. treasury
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share the same interest
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from bureaus worldwide this is fsn
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concluded that an attack
on a girls school in iran
that killed more than 165 people
at the start of the conflict
was the fault of the u.s. military
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said outdated information
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findings of the investigation say the
strike on the elementary school was
an american era it was built
on the grounds of a former base
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in the south of the country and was
incorrectly listed as a military
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claimed the iranians were responsible
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key transfer hubs in the middle east
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and europe spiking fuel prices
are also putting pressure on carriers
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were among the carriers that announced
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kathie pacific says it's adding
flights to london and zorek as
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riley obel
we're rating a article
from the mormon news publication
desert news
um about
ice buying a
big warehouse on the west side of the valley
and
it's all like valley
the democrats are not very
excited
this article continues
the democrat democratic
house and senate lawmakers express
concern about what would accompany
development of a detention facility
these centers arrive
with massive enforcement operations
that tear through communities
and the conditions that exist within
these centers are violent and
inhumane reasons the lawmakers
statement
is on solid cities diverse west
side is particularly problematic
they said expressing concern that many
families will now live under constant
terror
yeah that's uh
the west side of solid is where
the mexicans live
so there's that
when rumors emerged
in mid january of the earlier proposal
which called for converting a vacant
warehouse at
1197 north
6880 west
into a 7500 bed
immigrant detention facility
those quickly coalesced demonstrating
as a location
they later demonstrated at the solid city
offices of the owner of that
6
6880 west property the richie
group the richie group
later said it didn't plan to sell the land
ice though the possibility
had emerged on a leaked document
circulated among immigrant
advocates around the country
the deed for the transaction
from wednesday for the 300 west
site says
r-r-e-e-f-c-p-i-f
60
20 west 300 south
the owner before ice
is a delaware limited
liability company with officers
in offices in chicago
the registered agent
in utah for r-r-e-e-f
c-p-i-f
60 20 west 300 south
is mid-vale based
c-t corporation system
according to online
utah business records
there you go so
uh
so essentially a real estate
broker or someone decided hey we gotta
make a little money and
sold some property
yeah who knows
or i mean
so it's obviously held by shell company
yeah now
to obfuscate who the actual owner is
wouldn't surprise me in the least if the church
owns it and is gonna get a whole bunch of money
to help out ice
it wouldn't surprise me either because they do have a
lot of shell companies
and uh they know about the shell company
game they learned it very well from israel
they learned a lot of things from israel
you know there's an orson hide
park in israel i did
yep uh orson lie item
as i like to call him
lie item
i hear that he went to israel
to dedicate the land to the returning
of the jews
so as though they actually needed
dedication for that
mormons poking
their heads up in the weirdest places
uh all right
well there are gary antons among the mormons
and people who don't understand the term gary
anton it's just this
in the book of mormon there are these
secret organization
robber types
who get together like the mafia
and you know have their secret meetings
and whatnot oh it sounds like the federal
government
and other people
also with uh
with all these concerns
coming from the lawmakers
in salt lake about
you know violent entities tearing
through their communities where were they
when they launched the war on drugs
uh like
you're gonna shut down all the
jails and you're gonna shut down that
no they're not gonna do that because drugs are bad
we gotta get them off the streets we gotta use violence
to do so
yeah um i'm thinking you're
full of crap
thinking you do not
actually mean any of the stuff you're saying
you're just virtue signaling so you can
get yourself reelected exactly but
i mean when would a politician ever do something
like that i must be completely
out of line
oh come on stew politicians
only want to serve you and serve the
people except they really don't
hmm yeah they
really don't they really don't care
at all about you and i
they claim to him
but they certainly don't
mm-hmm
well
you know
what else you want to
talk about
i think we've exhausted the war
front i think we've exhausted
you know talking about ice
we could talk about
we could talk more about warmers and that's
always an interesting topic for me but
yeah i
don't know uh i don't know how much
the listeners like it we don't seem to
get a lot of calls now
that's okay it is kind of a niche
little thing
it's exciting to you and i because
our families
fully immersed
immersed us in it in our youth
yep
well at least i was born of goodly parents who
tried to teach me right
yes born of goodly parents
did you ever see the
what was it the
the book of laban i think it was called
there was so many
wrote a spoof book called the book of laban
i was like i lay
then having been born of
nagging and pestering parents
or like something like that
is written from his point of view
oh that's funny i haven't seen that
that's pretty fun
uh yeah it was pretty funny
but uh
yeah i don't know
you know i think it's interesting to
point out that in this world
world of insanity
with epsin and
you know secret groups
and secret
cup balls and things like that
the deep state is people like to call them
and to the average person
who's hearing about this and they're enraged
and they want someone to
lock up the the people
who are responsible well the people
who are responsible are the
the ones who are
supposed to be the jailers in this
case but they're not going to lock their friends up
are they
yeah seems kind of unlikely
so
if you want to be the if you want a great
man to come save you it's not going to happen
the best thing you can do is
you know raise a family
have a good homestead
or a farm or whatever
you know live off the land the best you can
or go to work and
invest in your future and your children's
future
alright i've got a story here that
we can get into on a completely
different topic this is
founded at activist post
as i do most of my stories but this comes
from coin desk jesse hamilton
um the title of this article
is those who cheered us bitcoin
reserve have spent
a year watching trumps order
languish womp womp
president donald trumps
moved to establish what he called a
strategic bitcoin reserve within the
federal government was greeted with crypto
sector celebration
at the start of his administration
the industry cheered it as further
cementing the arrival of bitcoin
as a mature asset
but a year has passed and there's still no reserve
trumps administration
performed the initial job of accounting
for the government's crypto holdings
but the u.s. bitcoin reserve is no closer
to forming because
of the outcome of one concept
in the march 6
2025 order
the need for any legislation
to operationalize
any aspect of this order
trumps treasury
department lacks the needed
authorizations for building the specialized
accounts that requires
action from congress the white houses
acknowledged with trumps crypto
advisor patrick witt
saying the situation presents
novel legal questions
that must be answered
lawmaker such as
senator sythia lumas
have pitched reserve legislation
and the current best chance
for passage according to people
familiar with the legislative strategy
made to be to get it
into the national defense
authorization act
at the end of the year
but trumps white house
would probably have to re-adopt
the issue as a priority cause
in order to make that happen
conjecture about the planning
and funding of the reserve
and its cousin a separate digital
assets stockpile also
ordered by trump to gather every other
type of cryptocurrency
has ebbed and flowed
about the planning and funding of the reserve
come on so this is
exactly
my biggest problem with government
is conjecture
about the planning and funding
of the reserve you know
that in order for the government
to have a strategic bitcoin reserve
they're gonna pay like
they're gonna pay something like
50 million dollars a year
in salaries
and another
500 million in
wallet infrastructure or something
when they could hire me
for 5000 bucks
and I'd create a wallet
that was you know full of entropy
offline on an air gap
computer that nobody could hack
and then they could
you know do whatever they want with their private keys
that's just so wasteful
it is not that big of a deal to hold crypto
you just put it in a wallet
it's not but the government has to make it a complicated process
make sure you have your private keys
and don't give them up
that's all it takes
it's not that hard
anyways last month
CMBC markets
talking
CMBC markets talking head
Jim Kramer
spouted a rumor that trumps people were poised
to start filling the reserve
when PTC hit
60,000 despite the lack of a place
to put it or money to buy it with
Jim Kramer is a total idiot
from what I hear
I've never listened to any of his stuff
I haven't either
from what I've heard
if you listen to what he says
and then go with the opposite of it
then you'll be
right more often than not
the president's crypto officials
continue to demer
when asked how much bitcoin the feds actually
possess
though some estimates put it at more than
300,000
totaling more than 20 billion dollars
the major disappointment from the crypto sector
about trumps bitcoin order
was that it didn't come with any new government purchases
of the leading crypto asset
it instead encouraged
creative policies that would allow the government
to add to the stockpile without
spending taxpayer dollars
wit trumps advisor
hasn't been willing to share the leading
ideas for obtaining more bitcoin
for the fund which is meant
to be held for long term appreciation
not technically as a strategic
reserve that would imply its contents
would be released to mitigate any
emergencies
the strategy is going after
pig farming operations
in Asian countries
from what I gather
because every couple of weeks you hear another story
about US government seized all
a bunch of bitcoin from a
scam operation
in Indonesia
or Thailand
that's how they're billing their reserves
they're stealing bitcoin from other
quote unquote scammers
that's the strategy and that's why he's not willing to share
the leading ideas for it is that it's theft
yep
and I'm sure the money that
the bitcoins that Ian has
are in that pile somewhere
theft it right into that pile
never getting them back
theft that's what it is
theft dealing that's when you take
things that don't belong to you
I don't know if your mother ever taught you that
government but that's what that is
and it's not a nice thing to do you should really
stop
the White House
didn't respond to a request for comment
on the halt in progress but it further
underlines that executive order
is a mainstay of Trump's administration
don't have the power of law
and often act as little more than a high level
steer from the president
if Trump's congressional allies come up
with a pitch for the reserve bill to be tucked
into the defense bill later this year
that legislative process usually
concludes in December
the must pass
funding bill is often used as what
DC and Satters like to call a
Christmas tree
I think I'm gonna be sick
a piece of legislation on which
they hang a wide array of unrelated
bill ornaments because the package
has to get passed
if that's the plan it would happen
in this session's lame duck period
the point at which some members
of Congress will have been voted out
of office or chosen to retire
like Loomis but haven't
yet come to their departure dates
was everybody hearing this
that this is how things work
and you're still okay with this
uh huh
Loomis' own Bitcoin reserve bill
calls for a spending program
that gets the US to a holding of
a million tokens about
5% of the total eventual supply
the Wyoming Republican
who is the inaugural chair
of the senate banking committee's
first digital assets subcommittee
has so far only managed
to get the legislation into the committee
but the paddle's major priority
is another crypto matter
passing the digital asset
market clarity act
that's where this article ends
hmm
interesting
hmm
so the US government
Trump ordered the US government
to build a Bitcoin reserve
and
now the Bitcoin reserve is
must be funded by stolen Bitcoins
but yet they haven't
got the legislation for it to happen
I don't think this thing's gonna happen
um
I don't think it's going to happen
either
maybe a will, maybe a won't
but it's pretty obvious that
uh
Trump let his crypto fans down
on that one
well he's let all of his fans
well many of his fans down
but there are still people cheering for him
hmm
are there?
seems like almost all of his bases
completely eroded at this point
there are people still cheering for Trump
between those
the mega people that thought
make America great again meant
no more wars of aggression
they're now disillusioned
those who thought
that that Barnum's statement meant
um
you know
cheaper goods at home
disillusioned
let's see what else do they think
that maybe that Barnum's statement
could actually mean
this is the problem people you keep falling for
when somebody says something like make America great again
and you don't ever ask them
to define what that means
America what?
like the land, the people
uh America
American interests
and what are American interests?
American foreign interests
what do you mean by America
and then what do you mean by great
do you mean great like
a bigger nuclear stockpile
do you mean like great economically
I mean it's certainly not great economically
Trump wants inflation
uh huh
do you mean great like white and the lights
because
you might mean that
with all of your ice stuff
uh and then
you know like
again
again compared to when
so there's a lot of
you know vagueness
there in a statement like that and you gotta
quit following for these things people
stop trusting these people with titles
to come save you they're not
going to come save you
nope they're not
and uh
and I like I get it
if you voted for the guy cause
cause he said he'd free Ross
that's I mean I get that you're making a deal
yep you are
but then once you've done your part
and once he's done his part then
you know
you don't have anymore
allegiance to the guy
you shouldn't feel like
you gotta back him up now
just cause you voted for him
this is nonsensical thinking
uh yeah anyways
let's do another crypto
story shall we let's do it
Russia considers simplified
licensing path for bank
run crypto exchanges
okay so that would be like
Wells Fargo running a crypto exchange
yep sounds about right
except the Russian equivalent
uh huh
but aren't the banks government owned in Russia
I think so
huh
interesting
but then again I think the government owns
the banks here too they do
well they absolutely do
through the federal reserve thing
yep I mean
I don't know so the government doesn't own
the federal reserve either they just
the federal reserve pretends to be government
but they own all the banks
so
whatever that equals
it's they did that on purpose
by the way making it such a confusing situation
that you'd never be able to make sense of it
so you wouldn't know that they're robbing more from you
than you ever even had
yeah
Russia's central bank is weighing a plan that would
allow banks and brokerage firms to operate
cryptocurrencies
uh huh crypto currency exchanges
through a simplified licensing
pathway tied to their existing
financial permits according to
remarks from governor
elvira
nab
I'm not even gonna try that last name
under the proposal financial
institutions could obtain authorization
to run crypto trading platforms
through a notification process
rather than applying for a new
standalone license
the approach would allow firms that
already hold banking or brokerage
licenses to expand into digital
assets services
using their current regulatory
status
back in january anatoly
aksavov
aksakov
head of the state duma committee
on the financial market made comments
that russia was preparing to introduce its first
comprehensive regulatory
framework for cryptocurrencies like
bitcoin with lawmakers
aiming to finalize the draft
for a parliamentary vote by the end of
the person whose name I couldn't
pronounce presented the idea
during a meeting between the central bank
and a russian lending
institutions according to reports from the
interfax news agency
the governor
framed the proposal
as an effort to integrate crypto
currency activity into russia's
existing financial infrastructure
seems like smart move
to me
to
I mean
if you think about it
if your bank were just offering you
crypto trading solutions
I think a lot more people would
get into the crypto situation
I think they would too because
they would see that as a valid option
because the bank is promoting it rather than
oh some
company somewhere selling this digital thing
and I don't know anything about it so I don't want to buy it because I don't trust it
because it's coming from somewhere else
and people foolishly trust their banks
they would likely
invest in it and that would make them
in Russia or in America that would make them
in a better financial situation
than holding their native currencies
the ruble or the US dollar
because both of those are
not what you want to save in
we have proposed allowing banks and brokers
to obtain crypto exchange licenses
through a notification process
and to act as intermediaries based on
their current banking licenses
she said adding
that the sector's existing compliance frameworks
could help protect customers entering
the crypto market the central bank
has also outlined limits designed to
manage financial risk during the early
stages of integration under
the proposal banks exposure
to cryptocurrency activities would be
capped at 1% of their capital
I wonder
maybe this article is going to get into it
I'm curious to see if they're going to
if it's going to be
actually like crypto exchange
or if it's just like rubles for Bitcoin
and you can't have any other coins
kind of a thing
that'll be an interesting discussion
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From feature story news in San Francisco
I'm Ira Spitzer with a look back
at some of the week's top stories
the international energy agency
greenlit the release of a record
400 million barrels of
oil from emergency reserves
in a bid to curb rising
prices sparked by the war in Iran
FSN Tony Waterman reports
from Washington
it's not clear what types
of oil will be made available
or how quickly it will hit the market
that will ultimately determine
how impactful this release is
but it is the largest joint
release in the IEA's history
accounting for roughly a third
of the group's emergency stockpiles
an indication of how serious
of a situation they believe this is
with concerns of a global
recession rising
oil prices have whipsawed since the start
of the war spiking as high
as $119 a barrel
news of the release had little
impact on crude prices
the decision already baked in
Donald Trump said he was
not happy with Iran's new
pick for supreme leader
but in an interview with the New York Post
he refused to say what he would do
about it. Majtaba Hamani
was chosen by a group of clerics
to replace his late father
who was killed on the first day
of the war. FSN's
Nick Harper reports from Washington
Bear in mind that
Majtaba Hamani is someone
that was sanctioned back in
2019 by the US
Treasury Department
due to his activities in
the Iranian regime
the US has throughout this whole process
made it clear that if
the person that Iran chooses
to run the country is not someone that's been
specifically signed off on
by the US president that person
would have a target on their back
in the same way that the former
Ayatollah had as well
the fact that we have now someone
in charge of Iran that the United States
feels it cannot work with
there seems I think little hope for diplomacy
and therefore the fear is
that what we've seen in the last 10 days
will only grow and potentially
widen. The Kremlin
welcomed the US decision to
issue a temporary waiver allowing
the sale of Russian oil at sea
FSN's Daria Bondarchuk reports
from Moscow.
Moscow's special economic
envoy Kirill Dmitriev said that the
US exception for countries
to buy sanctioned Russian oils
stranded on tankers at sea is a
de facto recognition that without
Russian crude the world market
cannot remain stable. Under the
30 day waiver these shipments
can be delivered and sold until
April 12. Earlier US Treasury
Secretary Scott Besant said the
exemption would only cover oil
already in transit and would not
provide significant financial benefit
to the Russian government. The Kremlin
commenting on the US Treasury decision
said Russia and the United States
share the same interest in stabilizing
energy markets.
We were reading an article about Russia
allowing their banks to
function as cryptocurrency
exchanges. Which I think
is kind of a good idea but
my feeling is that it won't be
everything I would hope it would be.
Yeah it would be a
mess because
government wants the
banks to have the banks do it and
banks are already owned by the
government in Russia pretty much.
Yeah and banks are always so
hesitant
to do anything like this.
They might have all the permission
they actually need but they would be
scared to actually do it because
you know like
you never know when you're going to break a rule
especially in a bureaucracy like
Russia
America being no better in that
aspect.
They tell you go ahead but then
they got all these rules and you got to
have a whole team of lawyers to read through
the fine print and then your team of lawyers
comes to you and says I think we're okay
to proceed like this.
But certainly let's watch our back for any
letters from the ministry
of finances.
Yeah.
Let's start by seeing how banks
operate within the one percent cap
and then see whether we need to move
forward. She said the licensing
proposals
the licensing proposal forms part
of a broader effort by the central bank
of Russia and the Ministry of Finance
of the Russian Federation
to establish
a clear legal framework
for digital assets in the country.
In late 2025 the central bank
submitted a regulatory
concept to the Russian government
that would
formally recognize cryptocurrencies
and stable coins as currency
assets that can be bought and sold
through regulated intermediaries.
The framework would allow trading
through exchanges
brokers and trustees operating
under existing financial licenses.
At the same time
the proposal maintains
a strict ban
on the use of cryptocurrencies for
domestic payments.
A position the central bank has held for years.
Digital assets
would function as investment instruments
rather than alternatives to the
national currency. See there it is
that thing where I was like
I don't think this is going to be as good as I'm hoping.
Yep. There it is.
Don't you dare
register with your neighbor for a loaf of bread.
Traff legislation reflecting
the concept is expected
to reach the state Duma during the spring
legislative session.
Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebyskov
has
indicated that lawmakers
could review the bill as early as
March with the main regulatory
framework scheduled to take effect
on July 1st, 2026.
The proposed rules would also
introduce a tiered system
governing who can access crypto
markets of course. Of course it's
going to have a tiered system
determining whether or not I can buy
some cryptos with my rubles.
Qualified investors
would face no limits on purchases.
Non-qualified investors
would be restricted to buying up to
300,000 rubles
or roughly $3,800
in crypto assets
each year through a single intermediary.
They want to control how much you get to
put into crypto. I guess so
but it sounds like and they know it
that they're not actually controlling
because it's $3,800
in crypto assets
each year through a single intermediary
so you're only limited
to the amount of intermediaries you can
find.
Whereas
those who are qualified can just buy
all they want from their one
preferred intermediary.
Especially like
I'm sure they're aware
that if you just buy the stuff
on the street from a guy who's got it
there's
unless they report on themselves
there's no way for you Russian government
to know that they bought it.
And that's the way to get around it.
Russia updated the definition of
qualified investor last year
individuals may now qualify based on
several criteria including a master's
degree in finance
annual income of at least
20 million rubles
or meeting property
ownership thresholds set by
regulators. And that's
better than US, right?
They have one requirement
and say you have I think $10 million
in a bank account or something
probably to be a qualified
investor. That's
one of the rules that makes me absolutely
furious. How dare you tell
me that just because I don't
have as much money as you
I can't invest in the thing that's
obviously going to make money.
Come on man.
That's capitalism
for you though, right? Those who have the capital
get to make more and those who don't
don't. Unfortunately
that's the way capitalism runs.
Russia
updated the definition of
and I know that's not real capitalism
whatever we can argue about all you want
give us a call
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and let's argue about what
real capitalism is.
Russia updated the definition of
qualified investor last year.
Yeah, okay
I just read that. Those wealth
requirements are scheduled to rise
in 2026 when the property
threshold increases from 12 million
rubles to 24 million rubles.
Well, that was the
thing that might have been good for
Russia but it sounds like they just
they're just going to mess it all up
because that's what governments do.
Yeah, they do.
Unfortunately.
Got anything else you want to talk about?
Not enough top of my head. I feel like
we've exhausted all the topics that I want to talk
about and we could talk about
your plans for St. Patrick's Day
if you want.
I'm very confused by the whole St. Patrick's
Day thing. Apparently it's
let's see if I got this right.
This was an English dude
that went to Ireland
and cast all the snakes off the island.
Allegedly.
But then
if you look at the real story it's nothing
like that. Yeah.
But it's an excuse
to drink way too much green beer
for Bostonians.
It is.
It's an excuse to drink
a lot of green beer
and an excuse to throw a party
and believe in leprechauns
and pots of gold.
Yeah, I don't really do that
holiday.
Some of the holidays I do, some of them I don't
that one, not so much.
Dear kids, do that holiday?
St. Patrick's? No.
My kids are not going to drink green beer.
Okay.
Or go to Mardi Gras.
What about do the leprechaun
thing like leave a
shoe out or something?
That's just part of regular life.
The fairies come and visit them
and leave stuff in their little fairy mailbox
from time to time. That's cool.
What kind of fairies?
Probably woodland sprites.
Not exactly sure you'd
have to ask them. Alright.
They do
enjoy their visits from the fairies
for some reason they only come in the middle
of the night though. Well the fairies
got to operate in the middle of the night because
they can't be seen by people for whatever
reason.
Alright, here's the
thing Riley wanted to talk about.
Let's see if we can get through this one.
This is Feds move to dismiss
charges against army veteran
who burned American flag near White
House.
This is a story from
March 14th
The Justice Department has moved
to dismiss charges against
an army veteran who set fire
to an American flag near the White House
last year to protest President
Donald Trump's executive order
on flag burning.
So he's exercising his freedom of speech
to burn a piece of cloth
a sky cloth.
Yeah, some people get
I don't know.
I get it you're upset because
he just banned free speech
because burning the American flag
is free speech.
Whether you like that or not
free speech doesn't mean
speech that we all like it means
speech that somebody
wants to say
even if it's offensive.
So
yeah
so this guy was very upset about
Trump saying you can't burn the flag anymore
Jay Kerry
55 of
Arden North Carolina
who has said
he served in the army from 1989
to 2012 and was
deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan
was arrested on August 25th
after he set fire to a flag
in Lafayette Park which the
National Park Service oversees
Earlier that day Trump signed an executive order
requiring the Justice Department
to investigate and prosecute
people for burning the American flag.
Kerry was charged
with two misdemeanors
that aren't focused on the act of
burning a flag
igniting a fire in an undesignated
area and lighting a fire
causing damage to property
or park resources
I guess this must have been the park's flag
I guess so.
He pleaded not guilty in September
Friday's filing did not explain
the decision
to move to dismiss and the US
Attorney's Office for the District
of Columbia did not immediately
respond on Saturday
to an email seeking comment
they usually don't tell you
when they dismiss the case why they've done so
and it's usually because they're
embarrassed about something
I wonder why they should
at least give some rationale
why they want to dismiss something
that should be important
I would guess because it's
embarrassingly
in violation of
America's celebrated
tradition of
free speech
so
they should have known better
in the first place and
I'm guessing what happened is they just kind of
tucked it away
until later now that it's later
they're like we're going to dismiss this quietly
and hope nobody notices
that's my guess
the Supreme Court
has ruled that flag burning
is a legitimate political expression
protected by the Constitution
Trump's
order asserted that
burning a flag can be prosecuted
if it is likely to incite
imminent lawless action
or amounts to
fighting words
I set out to demonstrate
that the First Amendment is secret
and that no administration has the right
to supersede our constitutional rights
Kerry said in a statement
from the Partnership for Civil
Justice Fund
I was targeted for federal prosecution
because of that
I'm glad to stand with all those who are fighting
for our fundamental rights
and hope that this victory can help the next person
who takes a stand
it shows people that the Constitution
still matters Kerry said when
reached by telephone on Saturday
Mara Ver Hayden
Hillard
one of Kerry's lawyers
and fund co-founder
said the prosecution shouldn't
have been brought
definitely shouldn't have been
the government's attempt to criminally
punish a protester based on
expressive conduct
targeted for prosecution by presidential
order
posed a grave threat to First Amendment
freedoms
she said in a statement
the government's
about face is a critical
vindication of those rights
this case also lays the groundwork
for defending those across the country
who are targeted for vindictive
prosecution by the Trump
administration in an effort
to silence and punish
viewpoints it doesn't like
no it's not
this isn't going to help you in that
regard in any way
that guy wasn't even charged with
anything in regard to free speech
he was charged with
setting fires
this is stupid
and also they'll
trample over your rights anytime they feel like it
you give them the power to protect it
they'll protect it until
they feel like they don't want to
and then they'll trample right over them
I don't
I don't give them
that power
my rights came from nature
or from God or however you want to look at that
and they're up to me
to protect
that I mean that was the original
deal right government was
it was it was an exchange
they're going to protect my
natural and God-given rights that are
mine and not theirs and they don't grant them
to me they were just there to protect them
right and I was
going to not be a
jerk to them and
help them out as much as
was reasonable
that was the original deal
they
they violated that contract a long time ago
pretty much as soon as it started
I know
so
that's about enough of that
um
alright
we've talked about how
the government has been ruining our lives
and taking us to war
what do you think a good solution to this whole thing is
like I've suggested
building a farm and raising a family
but do you think that's the best solutions
to
that's the Ernie Hancock idea of
occupy the land and I think it's brilliant
but I don't think it's enough
I think we either find a way
to form micro nations that
that are
gamified out sufficiently
that they have built-in protections
um
and are able to
compete on a parallel
you know sort of trajectory
um
either we find a way
to decentralize our own governance
or
or it's just going to keep getting worse
yeah
how we decentralize our own governance
I don't know people have tried
plenty of really good ideas like
freedom sells is a good idea but
um
how do you get everybody to sign up for that
that's hard to convince
a lot of people to sign up for something they don't
really understand or
even if a lot of people do
how do you maintain them
right and that's another thing
it seems like more work
needs to be done to the
to the infrastructure there
so there's
more capacity for
linking cells together and
um
gaining
the synergy of the added
individuals that have grouped together
for a common cause
uh
maybe it could even
be incentivized somehow through
cryptocurrency I feel like
that's a
large key to freeing ourselves still
is the cryptocurrency thing
not bitcoin necessarily
and any
any crypto you
make you gotta
any crypto is
vulnerable to being hijacked
just like bitcoin was
so
the only thing that gives me
um some optimism about the crypto
thing is that it's a new
way of doing it you can spin
up your own code
and the system can
operate as long as everybody using
it agrees that
that their you know that their rules
are the ones they want to follow
um
that's a pretty amazing thing
that's got huge potential for humanity
if we can figure out how to use it right
uh before we're all
you know put into the
pod matrix style and
harvested for our warmth or
whatever because that's where um
you know skitters evolutionary
capitalism that's where that
leads because what's
what's most efficient of humans
is to back off and let the machines do
everything yep uh
but that's not that's not living
and that kind of defeats the entire
purpose of being human
so you might as well just like wipe out all the humans
and take the viewpoint that they're
a cancer upon the earth or whatever
like this as
is such a popular opinion among the
well educated of
this world uh
yeah
that that's a notion that blows my mind
but yeah even like
you know um
i think it was prince charles dad
who said that when he died he wanted to come back
as a super gnarly
virus that wiped out
it was like more than half of the world's
population or something because he just hated
humans so much oh wow
i've heard that that's really
really crazy
yep and that's
the way that um your
your rulers
that you call leaders
look at you
as a cancer
upon the earth that they would rather just get
rid of yeah
so
um yeah
keep hoping for them to
care about you and to make things
right i think the best thing we
can do is you know like you said
decentralize but also
create a better parallel system than
what the government has and that's always hard to
do because it's hard to get people together
to build something for a common cause
when we have this system already here
like government
yeah slavery is so much easier right
it is why would
we abolish the current form of slavery
when it seems to be
working out so well for everybody
oh except that it's not
oh but it's so great
everyone has jobs and everybody
could be so upset about whatever
the topic of the day is yeah
and also like
when you got entertainment galore
just turn on the
turn on the television
yep proper youtube app
you can find any anything you want
you got such wwe
characters as pete hegseth
yeah batting some nonsense or
you know like
uh christy gnome just got new
hair extensions or whatever
and that's always fun to look
at right entertainment
yeah oh and christy gnome was fired
recently was she yeah
i didn't come
sooner enough she was horrible
i don't know why she had
a job in the government let alone
like at dunkin donuts probably
incapable of doing anything
well she was the former governor
of south dakota i believe
okay
and they didn't lock anybody down
very hard there so
the champion of freedom in a way
but you know still
still evil for working for a tyrannical
organization to me she
she seems like maybe she's
not evil just dominant and effective
just um one of
those people who have been
given the easy path in life
because of how they look or who they were
born to or yeah you know
whatever like they won
they won the birth lottery
so for some reason their entire
life is just going to be charmed and
they're never going to have anything
hard to deal with
that's what that's what she seemed
like to me
uh
hegseth is nuts marco rubio's
nuts
donald trump is still
hilarious and
nuts
so much funnier than
you know
uh let's see
hillary was not going to be funny at all
and no
camala you could laugh at her
but not funny
her her insane
cackling and
nonsensical ramblings
about bend diagrams and stuff
that was not
that wasn't going to play well but
trumps entertaining he makes me laugh
ha ha
well it's definitely entertaining to watch
you know people either
really really love him
and love what he's doing
and say to poor people harder or
whatever we go to war because
we need to save the iranian people
or for whatever reason
they love him
and then you got the other side he gets all
bent in a tizzy and they say
i need to leave america i feel unsafe because i'm trans
well three years later
and come back and i'm i'm safe now
yeah that's that's a
nonsensical way to look at things there
none of what
none of the agendas would have been
different under hillary or
any you know anybody else like
things went under
biden the way it would have gone
had that been trumps term
yeah anyways
like the the script
is written and
the actors may change
but it doesn't like
what's gonna happen is what's gonna happen
they're just entertaining you along the way so
that you don't get out of your seat
and walk away from the show because they need
your attention to make the whole thing
come off otherwise they just
they just look like a bunch of jokers
doing backyard wrestling
so
you might want to consider
withdrawing your attention
from it and
focus your efforts on something that are
you know real life
yep and that's the thing is people want to
pay attention to the political show
going on on the political television
if you will
and forget all about the things at home
like how do i plant a garden
how do i feed myself with
fruits and veggies
how do i make sure i'm healthy you know things like that
and i'm guilty of this too i'm not
talking to the american people
and the listeners here is though
i'm holier than thou and perfect at everything
i
i need to get healthier i'm turning 40 this year
and so you know getting healthy is important
and making sure that my body lasts another
20 30 years
or 40 years if necessary
yep we could all do better
there's always room for improvement
even for
for those who seem like they're doing it
perfectly everybody
can point out
at least a couple of spots where they can do it better
yep
so
yep i'm excited about growing some
vegetables this year
we're gonna give it our best shot
see how that goes
that'll be awesome yep
homegrown vegetables always taste better
probably because they're not
mechanically made at the store
or not made at the store but
grown in a green house where they're competing
for chemicalized soil
dreamston glyphosate
which is now a matter of national security
thanks again trump
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