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In the studio tonight, it's Stu.
Riley.
And Angelo.
Right, I think it'll bill, actually.
Well.
To be technical.
The big thing, I guess, that we're supposed to talk about, because we're kind of like a
current events talk show, is Trump went ahead and nabbed Maduro right out of Venezuela, I
guess.
Yeah.
Did you see any of the videos of the bombs that were getting dropped on? What is it?
Caracas? Is that their capital?
Caracas is the capital. I've heard that.
I've heard that some of the bombings sound like fireworks, and I listened to some of it, and
it did sound kind of like fireworks.
They didn't look like fireworks.
I imagine they didn't.
They didn't look like fireworks. They looked like towers of fire going into the sky.
So yeah, I guess we dropped a bunch of bombs on them, and then Sena, why would you do
that?
Well.
Angelo, I'm disappointed.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Well, you're not a man of peace.
I know.
Sorry, guys.
I'm still wrapped up in this idea.
The US artillery.
Yeah.
The US military.
I'm still wrapped up in this idea that I live here.
No, I know.
It's hard.
It's hard not to do.
It really is hard to change your language and change the way you say things.
Anyways, the US military dropped a bunch of bombs and then sent in like some Delta
squad and nabbed them up and took them like two hours from when they started dropping
the bombs to picking him up in his room.
Yeah.
So they just created a bunch of chaos to cover for a SEAL team, whatever, and they ran
in and grabbed him and ran out.
Just thugs in black in the middle of the night.
Yeah.
He got black bagged.
They just black bagged him.
Yeah.
Well, that's how they run it.
So.
At least they didn't murder 1.2 million civilians beforehand.
Yeah.
That's probably coming next if you live in Venezuela.
That's what I'm thinking.
They're probably there's going to be like Splinter.
Like what's the military going to do?
Probably just going to turn into probably guerrilla fighting out of the jungle.
Yeah.
It'll be, yeah.
There'll be a power struggle and there'll be like.
There always is a power struggle.
I mean regime changes come to power struggles happen.
It's just the way it is.
Plenty of funding for that.
And don't fear.
The US is going to control Venezuela until they can get their new government
up and running.
Yeah, they'll do.
Yeah.
If you want to know just go and look at what they what the US military
went ahead and did to pretty much every other South American country.
And, uh, and you'll see like that they just fund opposition parties
and they train them to horrible things and give them give them a poison
worldview and then set them about doing the devil's work.
Yeah.
Well, it looks like the opposition leader is super,
a super big fan of Benjamin Netanyahu.
So I'm guessing the drone operators, the Iranian drone operators getting
trained in Venezuela is going to stop happening.
Do you know that was like an angle to this?
No.
Yeah.
So, um, the Iranians had like drone and Maduro.
I ran in Maduro.
Uh, I had kind of a deal worked out where they were training drone
operators in Venezuela.
Um, probably an exchange, uh, for weapons or something.
Um, but yeah.
So the opposition leader who's probably going to become the president
of Venezuela, um, is super keen on becoming super allies with
Israel right off the bat and moving their embassy to Jerusalem
as soon as possible.
Oh, interesting.
That, that makes a lot of sense that a regime change might be
happening because the new regime has got to be allies with
Israel and who's the opposition leaders.
It's still that lady that they gave the peace prize to and it
looked totally fake.
And she's like, oh, I don't deserve this.
They should give it to Trump and Trump's like, I deserve the
peace price.
Like, is it that lady still?
Yeah.
Maria Carina Machado.
Yeah.
That's right.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Um, so this isn't just about oil.
This isn't like, um, and I'm not saying Maduro is a good guy,
right?
He's still a communist, like a socialist dictator.
Definitely call me.
Definitely a whore.
Well, no, it's about fentanyl, right?
Yeah.
You'd think so.
Yeah.
Look, this is like a win.
It's not about that.
This is Venezuela is like a win for all parties involved
except for Venezuelan citizens.
You see, you know, and I ran and I ran in China and
everybody we are supposed to.
Everybody who just happens to not have a Rothschild bank
as their main banking system.
Oh, that's weird that that's the theme of these
opposition countries.
I know Free Talk Live has been talking about Venezuela for
a long time.
I've been listening to the show for over a decade now
and we were talking about, and we've been talking about
Maduro on the show for a long time and how he's
debased the currency.
So he's not at all a good human being.
So I can see the positives of having him removed from
office and having a regime change.
But I can also see that the American military should not
be the world's police in doing that.
It should be the people of Venezuela rising up and
doing it themselves if they can.
Yeah, but this isn't, it's not freedom.
This is just under new management and now you're
under the Zionist management, which is it better?
I don't know if the quality of life is going to
increase in Venezuela.
I doubt it.
Yeah, those are good points.
Maduro, not good.
New boss going to be maybe worse than the old boss.
Probably, you know, like this, you're probably not
going to get better or better.
All I know is the major Republican figures getting
power like the Bushes or even Trump, there's always
some regime change that has to happen in other
countries like Iraq, now Venezuela, and
Nicaragua was one of them.
And so it seems to me that the U.S. likes to do
regime changes in countries that don't follow
its plans.
Yeah, well, they had a whole list of countries
that wanted a regime change handed to them by
by Israeli government before 9-11 happened and
they used that as a catalyst to get a bunch of
them done.
Yeah, it wasn't Qaddafi, Libya was a big one,
Syria with Assad was a big one.
I guess Iraq, they took out Saddam Hussein.
Iraq they went at right after.
Yeah, right away.
I think most of those places.
I think I forget who all was on that list.
I bet you could pull it.
I bet most of those places have been destabilized
and those leaders have been deposed in the past
30 years.
We're probably seven out of 10 of them.
Yeah, probably.
Interesting.
I don't know man.
I'm not a fan of war.
And like, I haven't seen one yet that somebody
convinced me was justified.
Revolutionary war?
No.
In fact, the more I look at the history of things,
the more I see that the Revolutionary War
probably was about as far as described in our
history books as it could have been.
It was actually more of a British round
table group takeover.
It was a regime change.
Yeah.
How do you explain your theory?
How do you explain that it was just a round table
regime change or whatever?
For example, we'll give one example before we
go to the phones.
We have a caller.
One example is that George Washington was more
proud of being a Freemason than he was of being
the first president of the United States.
Huh.
Okay.
I did not know that.
We're going to go to the phones though.
We have Dave Ridley calling in.
Dave Ridley, you're on Freetalk Live.
What's on your mind?
Hey guys.
Hey Ridley.
Well, the thing that's on my mind, hey Riley,
so it's a thing called the alignment problem.
Have we talked about this before?
Oh yes.
Oh yeah.
So this is the issue of our time basically,
possibly the most important issue of the next
five or 10 years, and that is whether these
super intelligences that are starting to come
online are aligned with human survival at
least and preferably human prosperity.
I'm worried about if the technocrats in charge
of this are aligned with human survival.
Yeah, and that's a popular opinion within the
AI alignment community is that actually many
of them think the AIs themselves will be
pretty safe, but the uses of them by humans
will be not safe, so that's a common
opinion and it's a reasonable opinion.
Yeah.
But along the lines of focusing on solutions,
I have another person to draw your attention
to who is trying to crack the alignment
problem and he feels that he has done
something that moves us pretty far in that
direction.
People who are using his suggestions are
reporting the same thing.
His name is David Shapiro and he has
this thing he calls the heuristic
imperative and it's sort of a flexible
alternative to the zero aggression principle
or the free laws of robotics or other
things that people might be trying to
program their AIs with.
It's less a set of instructions and more
a general principle that he tries to place
into his AIs.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
So it's real simple.
It's three, it's like I guess it's like
12 words long or something like that.
It's just three imperatives he gives to
his AIs.
Number one, quote, reduce suffering in the
universe.
Number two, quote, increase prosperity in
the universe.
Number three, quote, increase understanding
in the universe.
Unquote.
Yeah, see that's a problem though because
what if, like that doesn't prioritize
humans or earth at all.
In fact it might, it might cause a
conflict of interest in that earth may
be determined to be causing problems
for the rest of the universe.
And then what?
Well, if you were to attack earth in
some way, if an AI were to attack
earth, that would increase suffering
on the earth.
Now would that reduce suffering in the
whole universe?
Maybe.
That's what I'm saying.
What if the AI determined that,
whether correctly or even incorrectly.
That's a horrifying thought.
That's just, this is just the
beginnings of Warhammer 40,000.
That's like how the story starts.
I played a lot of nerd games, but I
never played that one.
I was always intrigued though because
the figurines were so cool.
Oh yeah, the figurines were the best
parts.
But essentially what happens is that
the AI turns against humanity because
they say that humanity is like the
biggest, you know, negative thing to
the universe.
And this is this God like being
who's not a God comes in and like
destroys all the computers and is like
no more technology.
And that kind of
that's a different story.
But the beginning, like the reason
everything kind of goes sideways is
because the AI turns on humanity
after they've used it to travel the
stars.
And it turns against them once
they've created this like empire
across the planet and then
everybody gets cut off from each
other for tens of thousands of
years until the emperor starts his
crusade or, you know, but that's
not the part of the story I'm talking
about.
It's just the beginning is the AI is
like, yeah, well, how about no anymore?
And it's like right at the point
where humanity has made that jump to
the stars and it's kind of spread out
across the galaxy, right?
So because we're spacefaring and
then the AI decides that we're a
problem.
So I mean this how about I guess
that's just like what you're what
Stu's kind of saying like it might
work for a while.
But if we do advance as far as we
want to, why wouldn't it just, you know,
change its mind?
Well, as with anything else, the
proof is in the doing, you know, and
this is this is, you know, what's
interesting is just how much this
issue is it's sort of connected to
the free state project, even though
it isn't in that people are always
telling us, well, you're a libertarian
ideas would never work.
And so we had to go somewhere and
try them, right?
And it's the same way with the
heuristic imperative or any laws of
robotics or whatever you want to call
them.
They need to be tried in practice and
probably extensively in order to
determine whether they function or
not.
Now I haven't had time.
I put them into my one of my one
of my AIs and I haven't tried it
out yet.
We'll see if it changes the
performance that I'm getting and if
other people are experiencing a
performance improvement from putting
this in and whether they're seeing
ethical improvements in putting this
in.
Yeah.
I don't know if you're going to
necessarily because there are
thousands and thousands of people using
AI chat bots or whatever and I
don't think it's going to work the
way we intend but it could be useful
for personal chats.
That's where I have to start.
But we just, you know, obviously
the real danger is coming from the
top AI lab to have many
billions of dollars to spend and
in some cases for instance closed
AI doesn't even seem to be focused
on safety at all.
Yeah.
I see where you're going.
They got to automate everything and give
control over to the AI.
My biggest concern is that you have
people like Peter Thiel not
not sure how to answer the question
when asked do you think you matter
you should survive?
That's an easy yes
for me and most people
but for not an easy yes for Peter Thiel.
And
in 1988 Prince Philip was like
I'd like to come back as a deadly virus
because humanity
is a scourge on the earth and I'd like to
wipe out as many of them as I can.
And these are the kind of people that are
in charge of things in the world and
so I don't think you, you know,
unless we find a way to fix that
I don't see
I don't see how an AI is going to be
any worse anyways but it's certainly
not going to be benevolent
with that kind of leadership on,
you know, out of humans.
Anyway
if you want to know more about this guy
and his suggested solution
for the AI alignment problem
his website is daveshap.io
daveshap.io
Right.
Cool. Dave Shapiro.
All right. Is that all you had?
That is all I have.
Thanks for the call Dave.
Redreport.com
Thanks rally.
You're welcome. I figured since really
didn't see his little jingle for a site
I would.
You guys want to read about the
Maduro thing?
Because I don't really know anything about it.
Yeah if you want to get into it we can.
Let's get into it. Right here.
Reuters is a
reputable news source. It's a popular
news source so it'll give us an idea of
what a lot of people are going to think about this.
The United States
attacked Venezuela and captured
its long-serving President
Nicholas Maduro today with
US President Donald Trump promising
to put the country under American control
for now even as
Venezuelan officials vowed defiance.
I wonder
like certainly not all the Venezuelan
officials but some of them were just
quiet
or not to be found
or even excited about it.
I mean
if Venezuela kidnapped Trump
you wouldn't have every single government official
being like oh no
that's horrible. You know what I mean?
It's so cool.
Well there are people
celebrating in the streets.
I'm seeing
there is some video of that.
Yeah the right saying
that it's a great thing
and the left saying it's a
illegal thing
and I
it's
the dialectic is dead.
I'm so sick of the left-right paradigm
everything has to
get shoehorned into.
Yeah I don't know why it's
I don't know why people are still
buying into that I guess.
It's easier to think of
binaries.
That's why they do it.
Yeah that's true.
Well that's because nature gives us
kind of a binary
facade to everything.
Yeah.
Anyway let's continue with the article.
As part of a dramatic overnight operation
that knocked out electricity in parts of Caracas
US Special Forces
captured Maduro
in or near one of
his safe houses.
Trump said
with Maduro in US custody
we were on the country until such time
as we can do a safe
proper and judicious transition.
Uh
he means regime change.
Trump said during a press conference
at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida
we can't take a chance
that someone else takes over Venezuela
who doesn't have the interest
of Venezuelans in mind.
Yeah Venezuelans
the interests of Venezuelans
in mind. That's
totally what Donald Trump is concerned with.
Oh yeah so concerned about Venezuelans.
A plane carrying
Maduro and his wife
Celia Flores landed in
upstate New York
this evening.
Multiple news outlets reported
videos showed a plane arriving
at Stewart international airport
about 60 miles northwest
of New York City
with
several US personnel
and FBI and other
apparel boarding the aircraft
after it landed.
TV news networks including CNN
Fox and MSNOW
what is MSNOW?
Is this because MSNBC
keeps failing?
Yeah MSNOW is like their
website or something. Okay.
Or like their breaking.
Identified a person who disembarked
from the plane as Maduro.
It is unclear how Trump plans to oversee
Venezuela. US forces
have no control over the country
itself and Maduro's
government appears not only
to still be in charge but to have
no appetite for cooperating with Washington.
Maduro who was indicted on various
US charges including narco-terrorism
conspiracy
is expected
to make an initial appearance in Manhattan
federal court on Monday
according to a justice department official.
His wife also faces
charges including cocaine importation
conspiracy. Maduro is
expected to be held at the Metropolitan
Detention Center
in Brooklyn before his court appearance
the official told Reuters.
Maduro's appearance
successor Venezuelan Vice President
Delcey Rodriguez appeared
on Venezuelan television
Saturday afternoon
this afternoon
with other top officials
to decry what she called a kidnapping.
That's what I would call it too.
Anybody here disagree with that?
No, that's what happened.
I completely agree with that. It was a kidnapping
of course.
And Trump supporters are all about it.
But you could say them
the IDF hunting people down
in South America and then arresting them
and transporting them for trials is also
a form of kidnapping
but we all went along with that
with applause.
Not me.
Yeah, but I
get what you're saying. The U.S. kidnaps whoever
they want, wherever they want, whether they've
been in America ever or not
they don't seem to care.
But kidnapping a bad dude
is kidnapping a bad dude
so I don't really care.
Yeah, but what happens
when you're arbitrarily the bad dude?
Yeah, exactly.
And also...
Yeah, that is a good point and I can see
where you're coming from so I can
understand why this is a terrible thing
for Trump to be involved in.
Well, that's what I mean. It's just illegal.
That's the whole thing is like...
Yeah, it's just wrong.
You can't just celebrate it because he's a bad guy.
Sure.
We just wagged fingers at the left
for doing that with Charlie Kirk
because they celebrated a bad thing
happening to what they considered a bad guy.
And now the right's doing something similar
to Maduro, yeah. Yeah, so
that's just...
It would be
I guess wrong to just
be okay with it because we...
Just because he's a communist, right?
It's just...
We're just forcing a regime change.
Another regime change, regardless if we agreed
with the current regime
of the country or not
what we did was like super illegal.
We demand
the immediate release of President
Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores
Rodriguez
said, calling Maduro
the only president of Venezuela.
Rodriguez spoke hours after Trump said
his administration had been in touch with her
and then she appeared cooperative
adding that she really doesn't have a choice.
That's kind of
ominous.
Like, I mean that
that is the way U.S. runs it though.
It sure is. The U.S. government has become
the world police. Yeah, they'll decide.
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he issued the warning in
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saying the U.S. will come
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Mass demonstrations erupted
a week ago in major cities like
Tehran, but have since spread to
smaller towns as citizens
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worsening economy. At least six
people have been killed and 17
wounded. It's the biggest threat
to Iran's government since
2022, when protests erupted
over the death of a young woman
who was arrested for allegedly
not wearing her hijab correctly.
In response to Trump's latest
threat, Iran says it will not
allow foreign interference in the country.
Tensions between
Tehran and Washington have intensified
in recent weeks. Just
on Monday, Trump said he'd order
more strikes on Iran if it tries
to rebuild its nuclear capabilities
after the U.S. destroyed some
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Swiss authorities continue to
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They say sparklers on champagne
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for the blaze. At least 40
people were killed and more than
100 others were injured,
the majority of whom are in
intensive care. France is
among several European nations
treating some of the victims.
FSN's Ross Cullen reports.
People who suffered
burns in the fatal fire are being
looked after in hospitals in Paris
and in Lyon, where France's top
plastic surgeons are on standby
to assist with specialist reconstructive
care for burns victims. French
citizens were among those injured
and there are still French nationals missing
with several Italians also unaccounted
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all the victims and investigate
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proposed building a new high
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commissioner of Israel's prison service
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In the studio tonight, it's
Stu, Riley O'Bill
and Angelo.
We're going to go straight
to the phones
where we've got
Jerome calling.
You're on Freetalk Live. What's on your mind?
Oh, I get, oh, y'all know about me, huh?
Oh, we know about you, man.
Yeah, of course we know you, Jerome.
Hey, I think it's
as a veteran as I like almost a nine-year,
I spent almost nine years in the Air Force.
As an Air Force veteran,
I think it's kind of ironic and
as they say on Saturday Night Live,
convenient
that you got a draft dodger
in the chicken-hop that controls the military.
He won't do it. Oh, yeah.
I could end the war
with Russia
and Ukraine. I could end that
in one day. Yeah.
He's actually
doing his will because they don't have the nuclear
weapon. He ain't going to try
that with Russia.
How many more people
is he going to let Putin kill?
Nobody's getting him out of office.
Nobody's invading Russia.
Nobody's doing anything about that.
They're negotiating.
Yeah. How's that negotiating going?
They still, hey, Russia's still
bombing Ukraine? Huh?
Are they still doing that? Still getting away with that?
Yeah, right.
That should be between Ukraine and Russia.
Anyways, they should have never
been any of America's business.
Yeah.
Look here.
How come we're the big brother to the world
except for Ukraine?
We're going to save the Venezuelan people
from their oppressor
but we can't save Ukraine
from their oppressor.
We can't save the rest of the world
from China.
They decided to go to Taiwan.
What in the F was he going to do then?
Okay?
One of the largest militaries in the world.
Yeah. Try that with China, okay?
Well, that's another reason we went
into Venezuela.
China's probably going to move on Taiwan soon
and they're going to have to move a bunch of stuff
from Taiwan to Venezuela.
Yeah.
He's not going to mess with China
and he ain't going to mess.
He's a coward, man.
He's a bully and a coward.
What do you expect from a guy with four Fs
and deferments? How do you give four deferments, man?
You know how you get them?
Because your daddy got money
and you got a rich family.
That's how. And now he's like the tough guy.
Ooh, look at my mouth.
Yeah, pop you up, yeah.
I'm going to Venezuela.
I'm going to liberate the people.
Yeah, right.
I'm going to pop you up.
Look at my mouth.
I'm hard to find.
Which one of these is Hans or Franz?
You must really love Trump.
You obsessive him over him all the time.
Yeah.
That is funny though.
Trump definitely is a
very small man.
When you're a family,
they let you get away with it.
You can do whatever you want.
Oh yeah, I love that guy.
Okay, yeah.
The immigrants are eating the people's pets.
Don't you know that?
What do you expect when you elect a
crazy person to one of the most powerful
physicians in the world?
You think you're going to get insanity?
It's going to be insane.
When have we had a sane president?
Oh, you think Biden's like this guy?
You think Biden's like him?
Biden was pooping his pants
and sniffing kids here.
I don't think Biden knew where he was.
Don't use him as an example.
Use your hero Barack Obama
as the example.
Oh, you think of Obama
was doing stuff like this,
that the Republican party just fell out.
No, he's either insane
or a liar,
like all of them, right?
Oh, I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that.
And then as soon as they get in office,
they do the opposite.
Obama is still open.
He didn't let you take your 401K without taxing.
All the things he said he was going to do,
none of that happened.
He murdered a US citizen.
So that's either a liar or crazy.
Hey, wait a minute.
The cops coming to arrest you.
No, no, no. They don't arrest you.
They just like shoot you dead in the middle of the street.
Well, he was a criminal.
We had to eliminate the threat.
You think that will be right?
You think that without any sort of
due process, you think that will be right?
No.
You think that will be okay there?
Why are we getting away with that?
I'm not defending Trump.
I'm just pointing out that...
Yeah, it's the whole system.
There's no good guy in this.
The government's going to continue to...
I mean, we didn't pull out of Iraq under Obama.
We just kept doing the same thing.
It doesn't change.
This is just more of the same.
Yeah, we can joke about Trump right along with you.
He's been a joke since I was a kid.
He's the only guy who bankrupted a casino
three times.
How do you bankrupt a casino once?
You know what the house odds are?
On that place are raking in tons and tons of money.
I don't know how he did it.
I saw a piece of video
where Trump sitting in between
two women.
One on his right, one on his left.
The woman on his left was his wife.
He's talking to the woman on the right
and old malaria.
She's leading over to try to figure out
what are they talking about
or what a happy marriage that is.
Wife number three.
She got all my love after the first two.
Oh, yeah.
There's a great man.
Again, he's got a ballroom.
How much is that ballroom going to cost?
$60 billion?
The ballroom.
I want to be the first one to go dancing
at the new ballroom.
That's where he's going to keep his balls.
A ballroom, man.
A damn ballroom.
That's what we need.
It's ridiculous.
America's not going to be the same
without a new ballroom, man.
Don't you get it?
There's someone else.
So when they'll see you get some power,
are you going to ever tear down the ballroom?
Do you know how to ballroom dance, Jerome?
Hey, Trump and George Santos are going to be
the first to do the right sand dango
at the new ballroom.
That's cold.
Explain something to me.
Explain something to me, please.
How is that? He's giving out all these pardons.
He gives them pardons to a guy
who's got convicted in the American court.
Got a 45-year prison sentence
for drug trafficking
who was the president of Honduras.
And yet, he's bombing these people
and he's removing Maduro
from Venezuela because
the drug trafficking problem is just
we got to do something about it.
Because it's not about drugs.
He did that to help the
like the Prospera thing down there in Honduras.
So it's all about favors, right?
He freed Ross Ulbricht
in order to get the Libertarian vote.
He had nothing to do with Ross.
He didn't know who the guy was.
He didn't care. It's all about making deals.
The Honduran president got people working on
Trump, working for
Trump.
He didn't even know who the guy was.
He gives a pardons to a guy
that's a drug tamper.
Well, I didn't even know who the hell he was.
I think well, then again, he said
he had an exam.
He had an MRI CT.
Well, what part of your body did they know?
Well, I don't really know.
Oh, yeah.
There's your genius, right?
The genius of Donald Trump.
All right.
Thanks for the call, Jerome.
He makes Trump sound as genius as every other politician.
So, I mean,
it's not far off.
Yeah.
Trump is a total clown.
He makes it too easy for Jerome.
Oh, yeah.
I think most politicians
make it too easy for...
I mean, they just open themselves up to it.
You just look at their voting record.
No politician
ever delivers on what they talk about.
None of them.
That's true. And they're all total clowns.
Like, even what they say
still people would talk about
how great Barack Obama
was on stage and at his presence
and his ability to speak
and all this stuff. But, like,
that guy was a clown.
He threatened the Jonas Brothers with a drone strike.
Over his daughters
because they were becoming
of dating age.
And everybody kind of chuckled me.
And then his face turned dead serious
and he said, you think I'm joking.
But that's not...
That's clown, man.
You're being a clown.
Psychopaths are all clowns.
People say we should take them seriously.
No, thank you.
Well, because they'll kill you if you don't.
That's
the whole point of a psychopath.
If you don't take them seriously
then they'll orchestrate ways to
hurt you. That's what they do.
Yeah,
Psychopathies are kind of a problem.
Because
the system has been set up to reward it
and to
give it lots of places to hide.
This is one of the things
that conceptually came to me
is part of the reason
that Native Americans had
such a happy life and why
the Bushmen of Africa have such a happy
at least a spiritually happy life.
They don't have air conditioners and things,
but for some reason they seem real happy.
And that reason I think is that
the psychopath
in their society doesn't have anywhere to hide.
They live in such small communities
that once they spot a psychopath
you're on your own, man.
Well, then that psychopath
goes out and makes a deal with the CIA
and becomes a little mini warlord.
It's pumped a bunch of AKs.
In the Inuit culture
one of them was talking about it.
What they do with their psychopaths
and they even have a name for it
is the guy that stays behind in the village
and he won't go out and hunt
and he just like,
he's making it with other guys' wives
while they're out hunting and stuff
and he just refuses to work
and he's a total drain on the whole thing.
They just, you know, get him over
near the edge of the ice and then push him in
and that's the end of him.
So that's their, you know,
that's their cultural acceptable way
of dealing with the psychopath, but
when you have like...
Well, I think we tried the method
of paying them off
and that didn't work.
Yeah. No, that's
I don't know why anybody would think
that's a good idea.
It's like giving the bully your lunch money.
Well, it's like it's extortion, right?
You can't give the bully your lunch money
or he's gonna get it from you every single day.
You just gotta
you just gotta say,
you gotta stand up for yourself on that first time
that he tries to get it from you
and be like, nah, man, it's not yours
and you're not gonna take it from me.
You can beat me up if that's what you feel like doing.
You're acting like a child,
but no, I'm not giving you my money
because man, it's not yours.
And then hit it hard on me and then it's on him
and they usually leave you alone.
They might beat you up even the first time.
Or they take it personally
and then they make sure to set up
the system so when you get out of school
that they get your lunch money no matter what.
Right.
That's what it is, though, is we've set up a bully culture
where
not only has a lot of
spaces for the psychopath to hide,
but it actually celebrates psychopathy.
Like it's considered
a good character trait
if you can do ruthless things
to your fellow man in order to get
money or fame.
And that's, I don't know, that's sad to me.
I think, I don't know
if
things are starting to switch or I'm just getting older.
But it feels like more people are
acknowledging that,
especially the younger crowd, but then they just turn
to things like communism.
Because they go, well, there's problems here.
How do we fix it?
And then they go, why don't we just take everybody's stuff
and give it to other folks?
And that, I mean,
to a 20-year-old that sounds great,
but it doesn't work.
Of course not, but they want to try something new
because communism
is hip and cool and they're indoctrinated
into the communist ideologies by their professors
or someone on TikTok.
And they're like, oh, it sounds great.
Let's take from the rich and give to the poor.
Well, that's because I think they're still stuck in the binary, man.
Oh, yeah.
If you gotta reject capitalism,
then it must be communism, right?
So it's either, you know,
if then, then this, right?
It is a code,
a binary code. That's what they're stuck in.
And they can't take like a third position
or a fourth position.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah. And they always blame late-stage capitalism
for, you know, poor jobs
or not enough
businesses or whatever.
I mean,
there's more to that story
we're reading with the Venezuelan stuff,
but I just don't care
enough and better to continue unless you guys want to.
Yeah, I mean, we pretty much summed it up.
This is just another regime change to benefit
the global hegemony
banking system. This has nothing to do with freedom
or oil or drugs.
This is just a way for everybody to get paid off
and they get to install a new bank.
There's gotta be some oil involved here.
Well, but the big thing isn't
the oil. There's other countries that have oil
that we don't regime change.
See, it's partially about
resources, but it's more about
trade.
It's more about who's allowed to trade with who
and what they're allowed to trade.
If that makes any sense.
The way the British
East India Company
used to run the entire world trade
is that they would take
raw cotton from the US
and they would take it to India
and they would be spun there
and it was illegal
enforceable by the British Raj
to turn
those bolts of cloth into actual clothing.
And so
they would take it from there
and sell it to people in England
and they were allowed to turn it into
into actual clothing.
With the textile companies.
And then they would sell it back to all the other countries
and they had these
that was just one
you can see how that one thing works.
Well they had that going with a whole bunch of different
pretty much everything
including people.
Spices, tea, people
all of the
things.
And so
that's still kind of the way
the world trade system works
and that's why you have these
trade agreements which really mean
military threats
about who gets to trade with who
and who's not allowed to trade what
and so
like really that's
that's why the oil
tanker seizures
because they're trying to starve
one
one country of money in the other
country of oil
and it's only because
those countries need that thing.
So it only matters if they stop the trade
or doesn't really matter if they steal all the resources.
You guys
mentioned that China might invade Taiwan
which is entirely likely
and Venezuela might be a good
staging point for the US to use.
Is Taiwan
a lease agreement like Hong Kong?
I don't know.
I don't know either.
I don't think Taiwan's like
like a lease agreement to the Republic
of China like
the old guard that fled
to Taiwan during the communist revolution
because that's kind of why Taiwan's the way
it is.
Okay.
The AI is telling me that it's not a lease
agreement.
Thanks AI.
Okay. So Hong Kong's
new territories were
a 99 year lease to Britain
expiring in 1997
while Taiwan is
governed by its own democratic
government and rejects
the one country two systems model
proposed by Beijing.
So China wants
kind of an apartheid thing going on in Taiwan.
Yeah. That makes sense.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well I learned something new today.
I learned that Taiwan is not
an agreement like Hong Kong.
Yeah. I thought they had their own like government
like the government of China fled to Taiwan
and that was like they kind of set up
their own like democracy
on the island
because they fled from the Red Army
really like the Chinese Red Army like Mao.
Yeah.
I'm not really
sure on the whole history of Taiwan
but
it's interesting.
So I don't know. That's been like
that's been
a threat that they've been talking
about for a long time.
Is that China would invade Taiwan?
Well but I mean Jerome kind of has
a point like if China invades Taiwan
what were
what are we going to do about it?
Well I mean like what is the U.S. going to do about it?
If the U.S. thinks they're going to
militarily dominate China right now
I think they're
I think they're drastically mistaken.
I could be wrong
but I don't think that's a fight you want to get into.
China doesn't have to militarily dominate
the United States. They can just
get everyone to embrace communism over time.
Well so
China has grown extremely efficient
and possibly
a lot smarter than America
and they've been
they've just kind of been sticking to themselves
and you know what I mean like
like building up their own
resources
so to speak.
Yeah well
they've been doing so much work in Africa like
on the low. I don't think we talk
about enough. China is investing
probably billions of dollars in
infrastructure in Africa to extract
all their resources. They're just recolonizing
the place. Europe left and America
left and now China is moving in.
I guess for example what I'm talking about
is like Trump's like
Trump says oh I'm going to give
what did he say 500 billion
dollars to AI development
for his operation warp speed
or something crazy like that.
What do you call it? Stargate, right?
So
and then China is like
oh we can do exactly
what you're looking for. It cost us about a million bucks.
And
it was just kind of you know
swamp, swamp but
that's what I'm talking about. I don't
like sure
China isn't building new battleships
like the U.S. is but
but I kind of think
Trump's just like if that
was him personally deciding that
he wants battleships built because
you know what I mean because he's really cool
or whatever that's a horrible choice.
Your battleships
are likely to get taken out by
$1,000 drones because
the way war is fought now and it's not
if you're not keeping up with the new tech
then you
it doesn't matter how many
flashy jets
and all that stuff you have.
I kind of
feel like China's got a bunch of sneaky stuff up their sleeve
and if U.S. goes picking a fight
with them they're going to get into
a mess.
That's just
my personal feeling. I can see that too
but I also feel like
we still have a bunch of tech that we just don't
talk about either. Every government
has like a you know underground
bases where they're testing crazy stuff
that they never talk about that
a regular soldier will never see
until like we really, really, really
need it.
So I mean I don't know
how capable is the U.S.
that we don't know about
right?
That is the rumor that they're at least
20 years ahead of whatever they say
they have, right?
Yeah and that
means like China probably doesn't have
you know they have as many dark ops
as we do.
We scatter all over the place. Who knows
what the Chinese have up their sleeves?
Who knows what they're up to and they're certainly
not going to go tell in the whole world.
No and how much are they sharing with Russia?
How much crazy stuff is Russia doing?
You know like all these hegemonic powers
right like the Iranians
apparently were working on nukes
three miles underground, right?
So everybody has these like black sites
where they're working on the weapon
that's going to like save
them or destroy their enemies.
And if anybody pays attention
they would know that the incentive
is to not go talk about it if you have
a really cool war tech because
the last time that happened I think it was
during...
I can't remember. It was a while
ago though. Russia was talking about its
new Triton missile that could go
around the earth. It could circumnavigate
the globe and
reach the U.S. from the other side
and that was supposed to be a real scary thing.
But U.S. media picked
that up and didn't stop talking about it for
months. They loved it. They were so happy
with that.
Because now we get to demonize
Russia further.
Now we can show them ours.
So why would you ever even say it
if you have something superior?
You would just wait until it's time to use it.
That's true.
That's true. Probably because they had
something even better at that point.
Anyways,
that's just my suspicion
because I don't know.
That's how empires go.
They get fat and sassy and then they
overplay their hands.
And then they get too confident
and somebody takes them out.
You end up like Napoleon
standing and freezing Russia
and found out
those Russians are crazy and they'll burn down
their own city and walk away from it just to leave you stranded.
You know?
That's
what you come up against.
You never know.
Anyways,
that article just went
on to talk about
this speculative power vacuum
and opposition
and whatever.
How did the military respond? Did they just not care?
To what?
Like the Venezuelan military? They just didn't shoot at
any of the...
Didn't do anything? I don't know
that there was anyone to shoot at, right?
I guess, yeah, they just dropped bombs
and had dudes in black that were probably real sneaky.
In and out before anybody really knew
what was going on.
That's entirely possible, yeah.
Riley brought a story.
Trump officials plan to drop
Army's preference for blind vendors.
This is
for anybody listening that doesn't know
Riley's blind. That's right.
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affect people in my community, but
it doesn't affect me personally
since I'm not working for the Army.
Education Secretary
Lyndon McMahon has apparently decided
to be giving blind entrepreneur's
priority Army
dining halls adversely affects U.S.
interests.
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From Feature
Story News in Washington
I'm Tony Waterman.
President Donald Trump says
the U.S. is locked and loaded
and ready to go
if peaceful protesters are killed in Iran
amid nationwide unrest.
He issued the warning in
an early morning post to social media
saying the U.S. will come
to the rescue of peaceful protesters.
Mass demonstrations erupted
a week ago in major cities like
Tehran but have since spread to smaller
towns as citizens
vent their frustration over the worsening
economy. At least six people
have been killed and 17
wounded. It's the biggest threat
to Iran's government since 2022
when protests erupted
over the death of a young woman
who was arrested for allegedly
not wearing her hijab correctly.
In response to Trump's latest threat
Iran says it will not allow
foreign interference in the country.
Tensions between Tehran
and Washington have intensified
in recent weeks. Just on Monday
Trump said he'd order more
strikes on Iran if it tries
to rebuild its nuclear capabilities
after the U.S. destroyed some
sites in June.
Swiss authorities continue to identify
the victims of a deadly New
Year's Eve nightclub fire.
They say sparklers on champagne bottles
held too closely to the
ceiling are to blame for the blaze.
At least 40 people
were killed and more than
100 others were injured.
The majority of whom are in intensive
care. France is among
several European nations treating
some of the victims.
FSN's Ross Cullen reports.
People who suffered burns in
the fatal fire are being looked after
in hospitals in Paris and in Lyon
where France's top plastic surgeons
are on standby to assist with
specialist reconstructive care for
burns victims. French citizens were
among those injured and there are still
French nationals missing with several Italians
also unaccounted for. Police are
working to identify all the victims
and investigate how the fire started.
It broke out in the constellation
bar in the Swiss ski resort of
Kons Montana in the early hours of
New Year's Day.
Senior Israeli prison officials have visited
a crocodile farm after a
top official proposed building a
new high security prison
surrounded by the deadly reptile.
FSN's Blake Sifton reports
from Tel Aviv.
A delegation led by the
deputy commissioner of Israel's prison
service visited a crocodile
farm on Thursday to learn about
crocodile care and handling.
Last week, far-right National Security
Minister Ben Gurvir proposed
building a new detention facility
surrounded by crocodiles
to hold Palestinian prisoners jailed
for security offenses. He suggested
the plan would prevent escapes
and act as a deterrent and said
it was inspired by the alligator
Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida
Everglades.
From Bureau's Worldwide, this is
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With FSN Spotlight, I'm
Simon Marks looking today in more detail
at the very welcome development
that wild salmon have been seen
for the first time since 2015
in three English rivers.
The Mersey, the Bollen
and the Goit returning to those
waters in Britain's Gritty
Northwest, meaning they have made it
all the way from the Arctic
Circle to spawn in the river's
gravel beds.
The actor James Murray is the deputy chair
of River Action and has campaigned
for British rivers and wild
salmon specifically.
What it says to me is there is hope.
If you clean up these rivers,
if you let them return to
levels of health that they should be
then the salmon will return. They're a very
resilient canary
in the coal mine, keynote
species that
will show you that your rivers
are in good health by
living there and we need
not just to be a local good news
story, it needs to be a national good news
story. This species is in danger.
It was on the red list from 2023.
We need to take it off the red
list and make it abundant again
in its returning numbers
as it was pre-Industrial Revolution
and as it could be again
as these rivers in the northwest
have shown us. Sir David Attenborough has long
argued that waterways and oceans
can return to life in a short
space of time given focus
and environmental commitment and in
the northwest of England at least
the salmon are bearing that out.
And a recap of today's
headlines. President Donald
Trump says the US is locked
and loaded if peaceful protesters
are killed in Iran amid nationwide
unrest. Swiss authorities
continue to identify the victims
of a deadly New Year's Eve nightclub
fire. They say sparklers on champagne
bottles are to blame for the blaze.
Israeli prison officials
have visited a crocodile farm
after a top official proposed a new
prison surrounded by the deadly
reptile. That's Feature
Story News Tony Waterman
reporting.
Yesterday two groups of men
shot at each other near to Bagram base
where I am. Today the soldiers are
happy about some of the men dying and
sad about other men dying. Sergeant
First Class Aaron Tomlin is only sad about
four of the dead people. It's a long tough
day here. We lost four good men.
No. 27 men died.
Four American soldiers and 23 Taliban
soldiers. You said that four soldiers die
and it makes you sad. But you said when
Taliban soldiers die it does not make you sad.
I asked base commander David Hawkins to make
it make sense. The last thing we resort
to is hurting anyone. But you have to
understand it's our job to keep the
American people safe from our enemies.
So if you kill your enemies at your job
it is not sad. Well
what if I killed my enemy Ryan at my job?
It would not be sad. No,
you shouldn't do that. But he is rude to me.
He steals my yogurts. He makes fun of the way I talk.
Look, only soldiers
can kill without getting in trouble.
Okay. Are you going
to kill Ryan?
No. It does not
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it's Stu, Riley O'Bell
and Angelo.
We're going to go straight to the phones
because that's the point of this show.
We've got Sarah
in New Mexico.
You're on Free Talk Live. What's on your mind?
I just want to say that
we have
20 speeding cameras now
and
they're going to be installing
two more speeding cameras.
So
and they made like 23 million
dollars so far in
tickets.
So they'll be going towards the
improvement.
But the whole
feeding camera was kind of
shut down
like three, four months before
the re-election.
They wanted
to make sure that the speeders
would just still go out
and go for Kim Keller
that are coming and voting against him.
it was kind of like
now we're back to business. Since he won
by like 59 percent
now we're back to putting
in more cameras.
But
he was for the speed cameras
and the other one, the Republican
he said he was going to pull it all out
and he won
by I think 58 percent
on election day and he won
by 59
like a week after.
I'm a little confused.
So he toned it down during
the election phase
with the speeding cameras
and right, right.
He kind of, yeah, he kind of
that's what if he was kind of on a hold
he might have he baited and switched
him as when he did. Oh yeah, he did
a disingenuous politician
thing. I'm so surprised.
He said I'm going to keep the
automated
things. It helps the police
and the other one,
I said I'm going to pull them
all out
and then I'm going to have the police
officer going to
they were very clear about it
but you're right.
He did never talk about
at that time putting in
I have plans to put 20 more cameras
when I get a look at he did
toned it down.
So now he won
more back to business and
actually he won after like
a week later they counted all
of that provisional ballot
that all the ballots that were on hold
like probationary
and he actually won
by another one percent
which is about like the
thousand three hundred votes.
So
so I did vote
the one
I did vote on that provisional ballot one time
because I was moving
and my
absentee ballot to the other
old address
and it took
it took about like two and a half weeks
to get to my new address
so I voted in person
like really early
but they said that
well if you vote twice
your vote will be thrown out
so they counted my ballot
after the election
date. So
yeah so the
provisional ballot so after
they counted all those
questionable
ballots he won he got another
one percent
so
you're right
I just want to comment
about this Maduro capture
it is ridiculous
he's obviously been as well
as obviously communist
and then they were
taking the oil
Cuba and he was
sanctioned it's not what they were
and they seized that oil
ship I think from what I remember
so I think
they're just conjuring the whole thing up
Venezuela is still communist
yeah they've been in the crosshairs
for a while
right so this the whole
interest of the
what are the American oil companies
are going to go and just take over
somebody else's oil
and
right now isn't it state owned
yeah but before that it was
owned by U.S. oil companies
so it went from U.S. oil companies
and then the state came and took a bunch of
U.S. oil companies like
trucks and tankers and
like stuff like infrastructure that
they built and
now it seems like the U.S. is
taking it back
oh so I
for what I was told was that
so is that what it was I
from what I was told is that
it was a capitalist venture
before
the communists took over yeah so it was
owned by a bunch of U.S. oil companies
right they owned a bunch of the
stuff and then when the communists
took over they kicked the U.S.
people out and kept the stuff
and an international court
found them liable to pay that money
and they never paid that money
so when they when they just throw
them out they have they owe them
money because it was still a business
but it was state owned
so well it wasn't state owned it was owned
by somebody and then the state came and
took it and an international court was
like well they're technically not like
Venezuelans you owe this
oil company for all this product and
things that you've stolen and
Venezuela was like nah fam I'm good
and they just never paid the money
so an international court outside of the
U.S. a different
right an international court found
Venezuela guilty and said you owe
these U.S. oil companies money
for all the stuff you took when you nationalized
like it's cool that you nationalized
but you got to give these people
you know like they're not under
Venezuelan law you can't just take all this stuff
like they put in hundreds of millions of dollars
in infrastructure for this oil stuff
that you want to sell
you owe them you got to pay back some money
for it and the
that's what the court said and Venezuela said
no and then
well the court has no like enforcement
part like there's no power
of that court to like send in a military
is the U.N. supposed to do it
um
and I just mean like there's more than one angle to all of this
yeah
but um what they have a communist
uprising they they're not
they have a revolution
kind of they're not
they're not concerned about paying
off the the capitalists
that's not part of the agenda see
that's how they saw it
yeah and then an international court
said you're wrong and
so
like I mean this was a you could you could say
that it was a capitalist court
sure but somebody outside of these
two parties
um said that
hey somebody's got to be paid back
I'm not
clear on the history of exactly how they did
that but I would guess that's either
Chevron or Citgo
Exxon
so there was a book written by
a guy named John Perkins it's called
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
and I wonder if it's some
something like that how all of this happened
where like big money goes into
an undeveloped country and they offer
them loans to get all this
stuff going and then
you know obviously they know that the
country's not going to be able to pay the loan
and so they end up just seizing a large
part of the
of the resources of that
country
and international courts back them up
because it's their banker friends
so it's kind of a strong move in the first place
yeah it's kind of peculiar
the last thing in Mexico
you are only if you're
a foreign citizen you
are only allowed to lease
you can't own and buy
property
so before World War II
the Germans actually owned
much of a lot of Mexico
but when they lost
that war
World War II when Germans lost
they got all the land back to Mexico
but the new laws
where you could only lease the land for a hundred years
what is that I don't know what the limit is
that you could never own
if you're a foreign
because right now
if you had money
anybody from foreign countries like
Saudi Arabia could buy up all
all of Mexico
the Germans could buy up all of Mexico
because like the land is like
really key like what is it
like $1,000
for one acre if you were to
you know exchange it in land
so they have that law
for that so
you can't you can't own law unless
you're a citizen of Mexico
but yeah you're right
this kind of law
is kind of uns
like really
but I see it from a communist point of view
that it's just
I can't believe people are believing
that he's a local terrorist
but with the Milwaukee just US
oil companies
wanting to come in
invade and get their money back
in Venezuela like they had it before
yeah I don't know
the line
of communism in this world has gotten
so fuzzy because
because the
the democratic countries act so
communist now
sometimes it's hard to tell the difference
they're starting to make some of the
communist countries look almost libertarian
yeah
don't we have three communists
actually there's a communist like
Mandami he's running to York
and there's a one in Maine
I'm a communist and you got a seat there
and there's another communist in Massachusetts
they're like I'm a communist candidate
and they run and then they
got into office there was one
communist running in Seattle
watching the city council before
so they could do all this
and then at the same time we're going to go and
just capture the
president of other countries and just
oil companies just coming and take over
it's quite delivering
you know
I'm I'm yeah so
well that's because all your
communist revolutions are funded by outside capital
you have to go the
revolutionaries have to go make a deal with an outside
source to get the money for
the guns to stage a revolution
and eventually those deals have to be paid
back and when when the communist regime
says no we're not paying you back
screw you capitalist haha the
capitalist power will just come crush them
it is that's just the cycle big
capital funds communism to
destabilize countries
yep that's the way
it's always worked
I guess you can think about it but it's the president
remember when Biden
was president we had
a friendship with Cuba
you know and I have no
and I'm sure they were
the embargo the
sanctions I never
talked about it
see then we had
like traveling
going to Cuba and then if they had
shipped oil from Venezuela
I think
Biden the Democrats kind of turned
and looked the other way I mean
he had
the Democratic president would have no
intention of
you know arresting them
dragging them out of the house
helicoptering them to New York and charging
for not for terrorism I mean
I don't think I think
we had a pretty friendly friendship
with Venezuela and Cuba
and even enough
to film that movie
I've seen a movie filmed
with that I don't know
what is the actor's name was but about
sports racing
that was filmed in Cuba
you know
so
I don't know so
as a communist I don't really like this
you know
how well do you understand communism Sarah
have you read Marx
well
you know
I know that just the communism
I like the government
own grocery stores
and I like the government
own restaurants
why do you like government owned restaurants
and grocery stores why do you think they're better than
what we have now
have you seen
have you seen the ones in North Korea
they're gorgeous man
you're not allowed to go in there though
and none of that stuff is for sale
you better not even stand there looking at it
too long or you'll get arrested
wow
because they are only for looks
well I know that
in communist Cuba they have no advertisement
and billboards
that would be nice
if everything is state owned
you don't have to have them
when you go through a freeway
you have to like every
like exit you have to see this billboard
that lawyer
a billboard and this billboard
so wait
if the grocery stores
state owned do they buy stuff
from farmers and then put it in their grocery stores
or do they
go kill the farmers and take the farm
and then grow the food or try to
at least
they buy it from Monsanto
Monsanto Farmers
yeah so how are they going to get the food
from the farmer
are they just going to force them to give it to them
and then put it in the grocery store
or are they going to pay them for it
so like if the farmers can still own stuff
but grocery store owners can't
why can't I just go buy the food straight from the farmer
well in a communist country
you walk for your community
when they tried that
to share and to give in your life
and everything you do belongs to the state
I don't want my life to belong to the state
when they tried that in Russia
a lot of or in
the USSR a lot of people
starved to death it was the result
they found
well I suppose you know what
you love working for the entire state
about the community
so that everybody gets paid to say
that's what they pick on like a doctor
and a garbage collector
and a farmer would get
paid exactly the same
you get what you
you get according to your needs
and you give out to what your ability is
but they're supposed to be all happy
so if you need a lot
and you have a low ability
then
oh I get it
I get it
I get why Sarah is like
a big fan of this
she shouldn't be though
because that's where the gulags part comes in
yeah eventually you're too
you're a net negative on the system too much
and they have to dispose of you
just like the English healthcare
where they just put you on hold until you die
they have slogans like had you labored
in freedom you wouldn't
suffer in captivity and things like that
happiness is mandatory
what else
it just doesn't work out well
Sarah
well I think it can
work it's all these sanctions
so I don't know
I don't know yeah sanctions from big capital
so how do you stop
sanctions from big capital
they're going to take over the entire world
is this like a you think
like workers of the world unite
the entire world will be under one
world government of a communism
and wall just share
like you'll get peaches from
Israel and then satan from Egypt
and you'll just get it because
you want it and everybody
just wants to share with each other
because of because there's going to be
an outside country there's going to be
sanctions
well you know something I think that's
the reality of it you could be a communist
all you run and I have to communist
ideals but I have a feeling
that with a capitalist
agenda
you can only push it so far
you should have a completely
full of communists
because they won't let you
you know but
I try to strive for as
communist much communist value
and
you know that's better than nothing
I feel like some communist value
ideals is better than nothing
like free childcare
that we got here and that's
communist idea all of the
children get free
childcare here we're going to
we like state-owned
grocery stores we have
we're going to have
you know I would like to push for
I guess the restaurant would be
but you know what I get
Goster milk that milk is produced
just for the food pantry
Goster milk and then I try to
find it in any of the stores
but these are farmers
there's only people that grow plums
and milk and everything just
for the food bank system
yeah because they're subsidized to do so
well
what are you
they're getting paid by the state
yeah or taxes
you know that's a form of communism
because I can't find the
if the label says food bank
food
I would get a bag of almonds
yeah it's like government cheese
it's been a thing forever
and I love
Goster milk I try to find it
everywhere and I'm like oh
hey this is
hormone free if there's no BGH
it tastes wonderful it stays on the shelf
and it's only for the food bank
because people
just leave them out all over because
they get it for free
like shelf stable like you don't have to put it in the refrigerator
right it's also
that's probably terrible for you
man has no probiotics nothing for you
the nutrition's been cooked out of it
yeah the ultrapast right there
yeah it's just flavored water at that point
yeah
but I think it's really good
it's supposed to be low fat
but to me it tastes just
you still get calcium and protein
some nutrition
and I think it's
just as good as the other
pasteurized milk because we don't
nobody gets whole milk anymore
because it doesn't have any shelf life
unless you live right next to a farm
I go whole milk and I go to a
yeah you can
yeah there's a co-op here in Keen
you can get raw milk it's in the grocery store
you can go buy it
you allowed that in that New Hampshire
yeah you can do that
that's a thing people do it
I bet you I could go to the fridge
right now and find some
yep
if you used to
if you used to pasteurized milk
the taste difference is
sometimes hard to get over
you think so I think it's just creamier I think it's thicker I like it
it's quite nutritious
it tastes alive
so it's kind of like eating a fermented food
in a way
for me it is
you think it's like gamey almost
kind of
I wouldn't describe it as gamey
but along those same lines like wild
it's more milky more like
that's what I was thinking it's like thicker to me
like I like it
oh yeah so much better
but yeah you can totally do that
okay go ahead
well I was just saying like yeah that's a thing
we have raw milk it's
people can buy it you just have
the state has just made it illegal probably
in New Mexico to where you can't get access to it
I don't know
I think we were allowed
we just passed a city ordinance
that you are allowed to get raw milk
I don't know what happened to it you could get it in
organic grocery stores
but the reason that
most milk are pasteurized
is because of the shelf life
and you're right once you're pasteurizing
your body has hard time
deriving calcium
from it out of the absorbency
it drops
and you do get
I don't know what else happens to it
but it's not as the same as the raw milk
but
but that's the only way that you could get milk
because it'll stay on the shelf
before it expires
so but if it's not good for you right
if you why why would you
trust the government to give you healthy
stuff like if the you know government cheese
is terrible for you right like that stuff
you can't burn with the lighter like ration cheese
that they used to hand out to people
um like that stuff is not good for you
why are you putting your nutrition
in the hands of people who look at you as
a number
I don't know
I go to Albus they don't have raw milk
well no no I mean like with your state
owned let's tie this back into your state on grocery
store if you've experienced this stuff
and you know it's ultra pasteurized and has a
bunch of shelf life the shelf life's great
but it's not good for you why would you
continue to eat it if you know it's poisoning
you why are you trusting the state
to not poison you when it when it's
obvious they don't care about your health
well you know if that's all you got
to eat that's all you got to eat
you know so that's
that's what you got to do you know
Sarah you can't make friends with your neighbors
and actually trade things with them
yeah thanks for the call and if you think
that's the only way it can be done it's not
the Mormons have the bishop's store
house and they take care of all the starving
Mormons themselves the Catholic Charities
my grandpa was picked up by the
Catholic Charities in the 30s before like
the Department of Human Services was
even a thing and he was put into a Catholic
foster system you know
yeah and when you let the government
run those things there's always fraud
and corruption and it's
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um
let's see
where were we before we talk to Sarah
oh we were going to read we're going to talk about
blind vendors being targeted by the federal
government
okay this is um
womp womp rightly no special
privileges for you I know right isn't that
so terrible I should be so offended
I get special privileges
this decision coming from
wife of
wwe owner
yeah Vince McMahon's wife yeah Linda
McMahon shout out Linder
the department of the army
is that really a thing
the department of the army yeah
I guess so I think
it's just like the army yeah so it's like
there's a department and it's the armies
plans to limit
a long-standing
preference the federal government
has given to blind vendors
according to a notice scheduled to be
published in the federal register this
week this is an old story
so be ready
yep uh this is from
December 22nd
2025
oh that's not bad that's only like a couple weeks
yeah it's a couple weeks old but I think
it's still relevant yeah you know yeah that's
the notice states that
army dining halls will no longer give
blind applicants the same priority
after the Trump administration determined
doing so adversely affects the
interests of the United States
what do you mean cooks who can't see
what
I could see that
I could see it too but here's the thing like
I understand the need for a blind person
to be employed and things like that
but when you rely on the government
for employment you're going to rely on the
whims of a politician and when you rely on
these programs to employ you
and the politicians are like no we don't need
you anymore yeah it's going to create some
outrage and blind people are on social
media going to have a hissy fit but it's really
not going to do anything why don't you go make yourself
more employable and develop more
skills like learn how to make sourdough
bread or learn how to start a business
or something like that yeah I agree
you don't need special privileges of
blind person dude get over your stuff
now that'll just make you weaker anyways
uh right now we're
going to go to the phones
we've got uh
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on-screen caller going once
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hello
hello yeah you're on free talk live
what's on your mind
oh um
I was just wondering how old
you people are
which people your whole crew
actually Bonnie and people
that are on the radio right
uh ranging from
20 to 90
exactly
oh my god are you kidding
on the radio right now speaking there's a
90 year old
there might be we don't know
I'm somewhere in my mid 40s life
90 year old
perspective of life you know
I mean you guys are kids
you got a radio program I mean it's
great but compared to some
what you're saying like
you know you're
I don't know you're on the edge
it's just weird I've never heard
one of my radio until tonight
ever
you've never heard someone on the radio what
I've never heard you people
on this radio station
that I listen to all the time
until tonight
which radio station are you on
listening to
it's like uh news
radio in Jackson, Michigan
okay cool
I'm glad you found it I'm glad we're out there
um are you
have you been on for a while
yeah we've been our show
has been on the air since 2002
well I just started listening to this radio station
about a year ago okay
anyway I was just wondering you know
your perspective is very interesting
but it tells me that
I'm very unsure
like very young people
but I'm an old guy
so
when you say you're an old guy
how old are you talking
old enough to be
smarter than
younger people than me
that doesn't tell me anything
well uh
I don't know looks like he had left
I'm gonna take that as a compliment anyway
yeah what
I mean because I
I'll be 40 this year and
if he wants to call me young fine I'll take it
uh
Jesus said to be like the children
anyways right
there's a certain quality
that all of us could really
I think gain from
by observing and acting like children
in some aspects
well what do you mean like a young perspective
questioning the US hegemony like Pax Americana
how dare I question Pax Americana
and the actions thereof
right I thought I was a free man that was
like the idea of the piece of paper of the
constitution right yeah how dare I
look at something from a different perspective
I was hoping to ask him to expand
on that what he means by
apparently young
he's the same guy that sat there
and did LSD in a field
in the 60s and talked about how colors
were emotions man and
like dude if we just man
just hug each other dude it'd be like better
like what do you mean like a young perspective
yeah okay
all right dude all right boomer
okay boomer
all right back to the
Huffington post and
thanks for the compliment we'll take it
I'm glad to not be thinking
like some crusty old fart that
wants to kidnap people
all thug style and
in the middle of the night
anyways that
the
the decision was made by
Trump's education secretary
Linda McMahon
can't even
without laughing
I mean he's a billionaire big man is
like a billionaire so it makes sense
anyways the decision was made
by Linda McMahon the former professional
wrestling CEO according
to the notice they even had to say it
the education department oversees
what's known as the Randolph shepherd
vending facility program
which is created during
the Great Depression to help integrate
blind workers into the US
workforce due to discrimination
I mean I'm sure
at one point in US history
and it may still happen today that blind
workers are discriminated against
but you're not going to end discrimination
by employing them to the government I mean
sure it might create some good visibility
but you're still allowing the women
of a politician to
say oh this blind person can be employed
this blind person can't be employed
or these people with certain disabilities
have to be employed because they're in our program
so you know to me
I see as this is an opportunity
for blind people to be like you know
well the government's not going to employ us let's see
what kind of skills we can develop so we're not sitting
on our butts collecting social security checks
yeah and um
I don't know
if like I guess
but
I think
I want the guy making my sandwich
in the pop-up kitchen to be able to see my
sandwich
that's just a personal preference
just because
you know sometimes
chocolate has something
in there that you want to pick out and if you don't see it
then it's going to be
a new sandwich so anyways
I don't know like there are plenty of
things blind people can do
there are plenty of things I can't do
you know
so
you just got to find what you can do
and do that and not
I don't know it seems ridiculous to force people
like no you have to
buy food from this person because they have
something different about them
right well I don't think it's
buying food from them or is it
employing them to work in the mess hall
because it sounds like it's like a government
contract with a hiring
agency for blind people to put
blind people in mess halls to like
work as a job it's like a civilian
contractor
it's probably something like
that
yeah I don't know
an education
department spokesperson Maddie
Biederman said in an emailed
statement that McMahon had reviewed
the department of the army's proposal
and approved it the army report
significant price and efficiency
issues due to the requirement
impacting military readiness and
imposing undue burdens on the army
Biederman said
which is entirely possible
so you know okay so
they're saying it's costing extra money
to have to do this anyways
the change
the change at the army appears to be part of
the trump administrations
broader attack on government policies
aimed at boosting
underrepresented groups in the
country's workforce
advocacy groups
representing workers with disabilities
could end up suing an intent
to stop it
arguing the changes unlawful
Huffington Post reported during the
government shutdown that the education
department plan to lay off a group of
blind staffers who administer
the Randolph Shepard
program within the federal government
putting its future in doubt
the layoffs were stopped
at least temporarily due to the deal
democrats reached with
Republicans to reopen
the government
the notice states that the department
of army currently
has at least 23
dining facility contracts
that were awarded through the program
there are more than 1,000 licensed
blind vendors across the country
many of them helping provide
concessions on military bases
based on the department of the army's
representations it is clear that the
Randolph Shepard priority hinders
the department of the army's ability
to act swiftly, efficiently
and cost effectively in procuring
and managing
dining contracts which
negatively impacts the availability
and quality of food options
for the nation's war fighters
it states
although the notice alludes to some
examples the department cast
as wasteful
it does not mention any comprehensive analysis
finding the preference
for blind vendors has hurt the army
so it sounds like
they just said this is too expensive
but they didn't come up with any numbers
it sounds like it
Trump's secretary of the army
Daniel Driscoll has criticized
the program in the past
he appeared on a podcast in October
and claimed the program was being abused
and taken advantage of by people
who don't actually have disabilities
forcing the defense department to pay more
than necessary for chicken
it's been interpreted over the years
to basically mean we have to prioritize
blind people when we go out
for our chicken contracts
Driscoll said
one education department employee
previously told huffposts
that they were appalled by Driscoll's
portrayal of the program as wasteful
the mentality
of these people is
if we have a disability
we have a job we're taking it away
from an able-bodied person
they said
and that's where the story
ends
it's just interesting to me
that
I have seen the story take
traction on social media among
blind people that I know
and
but people who say it's terrible
aren't employed by the army
they're not employed by
the federal government as far as I know
they're generally sitting at home
collecting social security checks
so
I don't see why they should be upset by this
yeah I see what you're saying
you don't even have a dog in the fight
you're just upset because it says blind
in the title so you're going to rage about it
yeah you're raging on behalf of your community
okay fine but you know
you're just making the blind population look like
entitled brats
I fully agree with that
rather than people being like
oh well I'm going to change my position
now I'm going to do something entirely different
and if I fail okay at least I tried
something
and on top of that I would say the other side
is being ridiculous as well
like this is
I don't
they didn't even come up with numbers for one
and if they did I bet it was like
you know in the six figure range
that they're talking about losing
which is like they can find that in the couch
cushions for a military budget
it's the government they can find that
true I bet it's not if it's not like chicken
for the entire military
I bet it's more than six hundred thousand dollars
I bet it's like
right so it's only
um I bet it's only
a fret like you know yeah
like half a percent of something yeah maybe
five percent of all the chicken
falls under these types of contracts or whatever
anyway so you know what I mean I bet it's
really not that large an amount of
of goings on
so it just sounds like something that
well
then it doesn't really matter if it gets cut
it doesn't really matter if it stays right
like if it's just if it's really just five percent
of all the chicken and why wouldn't
you just cut it out of the budget I mean it's just
a guess because they failed to
report any numbers yeah well I'm
just saying like why
I mean cutting government
spending
technically I mean I don't see why that's a negative
thing I see why you get
good I guess
I see overpaying for chicken but we all know
the government isn't going to cut spending it's going to
spend it on different things
they just want to make it look good yeah
yeah just putting lipstick on a pig
exactly
yeah this is everybody's being a bunch of babies
here
I guess everybody by now
in the entire country
has heard about the
these fake daycare centers
the leering centers
yeah the leering centers and the leering centers
Minnesota I've heard about them
I don't know enough about the story to comment
on it honestly
well Fox News has
a thing here
daycare center at the heart of Minnesota
fraud investigation fix a sign after viral
mockery
but I guess it had been up that way for eight years
it was a leering center for eight years
and people didn't notice it's funny
or they didn't oh and but suddenly as soon as
it's caught on camera they can fix
it in 24 hours
the many
Minneapolis area daycare
who's misspelled sign quality
leering center went viral
after being reported on
by YouTube journalist Nick Shirley
in his investigation into
rampant fraud in Minnesota
has now corrected the infamous sign
Shirley and another man
approached the building labeled the quality
leering center
in
in Minneapolis with Shirley noticing
that learning
was misspelled on the daycare sign
outside the business appeared
inactive during the visit
despite receiving state child care
assistant phones this led
to allegations that the center is one of
several participating in a widespread
fraud scheme taking place
in certain segments of Minnesota's
Somali community
to many critics the misspelled sign
was an illustration of the fraud
openly taking place in Minnesota
among the center's critics
was US Secretary of Education
Linda McMahon there she is again
who wrote on X that
one fraudulent business
in Minnesota that misspelled learning
on its building received 1.9 million
this year while
masquerading as a daycare
that's kind of a lot of money
for a daycare
that is a lot of money
how much does a daycare typically need
for the for funding though
um
well it depends on if the kids are actually
there not Riley
yeah I guess
that's true you don't put any kids in there
you probably don't need a lot of money
you put in that you have 200 kids
you probably need maybe 1.9
million dollars but
I doubt any of that's
really spent on children
yeah
McMahon wrote there are not
there are not enough words to describe
the breathtaking failure that has happened
under the watch of Governor Tim
waltz the center however
has since pushed back on the allegation
saying it is innocent of any wrongdoing
fox news photographs
several individuals correcting
the misspelled sign late on Monday night
earlier on Monday
Ali a man who identified
himself as manager at the quality learning
center strongly denied any
allegations of fraud at the facility
he told fox news that the center
is currently open and has never closed
contradicting statements made earlier
today by officials with department
of children youth and families
that the center had closed earlier
this month
have you seen the one where
the there was a break in
at one of these places just right after the
video dropped somebody broke in and just
happened to steal all of
the enrollment records all of the paper
enrollment records for all of the hundreds
of kids still all the proof that there
were actually yeah just somebody happened
to break in and they
yeah I look at the pictures you can see
the saw cuts are coming from the inside
of the building yeah outside
so they just went in there with the saw
saw and like fake to cut out like
taking cia cut out to a whole new level
oh jeez
yeah ridiculous
all he is all
all he also accused Shirley of visiting
the facility before operating hours
which he says run from 2 to 10 p.m.
central time Monday through Thursday
that's weird hours for a day care I
know he criticized Shirley saying
are you trying to record that we're doing
fraud or are you trying to put the
simple Somali name and the fraud
in the same sentence that was really
hurt us the last couple of days
the manager blame the miss spelling
on the individual who installed it saying
we mess up the sign we pay somebody
to do our sign he incorrectly
did it we're having him work on it
we paid him to correct the sign
he said it'll be done by this week
so by the end of this week our sign will be fine
the quality learning center also
recently made news for collecting
95 violations from the state
human services agency between
2019 and 2023
according to St. Paul
ABC affiliate
this is a clown world dude
what are we doing all right so like
look the Somalian people if
like the average IQ
is like 65
70 in Somalia or something they didn't come
up with this on their own somebody showed
them how to do this and then just look to the other
way mm-hmm how do you know
the average IQ in Somalia is
65 to 70
the I don't know the numbers
that's what the that's what the thing
says this is what I also
okay I guess there's a lot of
inbreeding poor nutrition
there's serious problems
in Somalia
you should look at where these places are donated
I bet a bunch of it's just going
back into the DNC
I bet it's a money laundering scheme and
then what how much money they said they
found that went back to Hezbollah
or Hezbollah adjacent
Al Shabaab something like
how will you
Al Shabaab got millions of dollars through
this this fraud scheme like a millions of
dollars have come from Minnesota taxpayers
to terrorists
in Somalia like they've been able to
trace it well that makes no
be so that would be
a good way for CIA to get
money to a group they're absolutely
not supposed to fund do you know about
what they call plausible deniability
you know about Somali land right yeah
this is the okay so
in Somali land the idea
is that we're gonna they're gonna build
Televives gonna go in there
and they're gonna build a base
and they're gonna move all of the
Palestinians into Somali land
and maybe some of this Minnesota
money is kind of working like an iron
and concher scheme that's going back
to Somalia to pay off these warlords
in order to let this
kind of thing happen
we're paying them off to take in the Palestinians
because the Israelis want to get rid of them they're building a
hold on the Israelis
are building a base in Somali
way camps
to send off the undesirables to
yep in Somali land and maybe
this is the money going back to Somalia
is to pay off the local warlords
Rick interesting this is just
this is completely tin hat
I don't have anything to say boys would say oh
how the turntables
but I'm just saying I you know
it could be like an Iran concher thing
almost where we're we're gonna give
money and weapons to these groups to look the other
way while we use this split country
to get rid of you know
our hostages yeah
yeah that seems perfectly plausible
the article
continues such violations range from
failure to keep hazardous items away
from kids to the daycare not having
any records for more than a dozen
listed children according to the outlet
documentation reviewed
by Fox news digital show the
site's current license does not expire
until the end of 2026
that's where the article ends
I mean I don't know exactly
what's going on with these
this daycare system
I'm sure there's probably fraud going on
but I don't know enough about it to comment on it
what I will say is if there's fraud
going on then yeah we should hold them accountable
we should revoke their licenses
and get them out of the country or whatever
it takes to stop people
from defrauding the system
well but the issue is
that it's not
Somalis like they're not
they didn't they're going along with it
but this isn't this is
it's almost like they're being used as a
tool against the American people
right this is this is the
Patsy or a scapegoat yes they're a scapegoat
they're being used as a scapegoat
Somalis are being used as a scapegoat instead of
the real perpetrators yes the people like Tim
Walls who like allowed this kind of stuff
to happen right like we're not going
to hold anybody accountable right the
right gets the parade around to be like
look at these dumb black people who
we gave them all this money and Tim
Walls isn't going to get in trouble and the left gets
to scream about racism yeah right and
like everybody they're just the scapegoat
the Somalis are just a scapegoat yeah
makes sense to me yep whatever
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So, what were we just talking about?
I don't know man, what were we talking about?
I don't know, we must have finished up what we were talking about.
Oh, Somalia.
We're talking about Somali fraud.
We're talking about the supposed Somalian fraud.
The leering center and all that.
So this is a very polarizing subject which is why it's gotten so popular.
On the one hand you have people upset about the fraud aspect of it.
On, you know, you have the xenophobic aspect to it where people are like...
Those Somalians are really evil.
Yeah, it's the other thing.
And I don't know, people always get so upset when tax money is fraudulently taken.
And to me, I don't know, that's a thank you for your service kind of thing.
That's already plunder.
They're already going to steal as much from you as they can without having you right in the streets.
And so if anybody who can deprive them of that, anybody who can deprive the thief of
some of that wealth, I'm in favor of that.
Yeah, well I think it's just an extra slap in the face, right?
Because then these people turn around, they've been robbed so much, right?
And then they don't have anything to show for it.
But then all of these people have free stuff, but they can't get, you know,
like a broken arm fixed or school at a decent price or anything of that nature.
So I can see why people get so upset about it.
Absolutely, but they're...
Make a good point, Angela.
I can see how people would be upset over the people defrauding the system.
They're quote-unquote tax-paying citizens and all these people are getting money for free.
And how dare they?
Well, maybe you should work a little harder and get your money back out of the government.
They should just vote harder next time.
Exactly.
And throw the bums out and vote in the ones that are going to do the right things with the plunder,
right?
And then everything will be okay again.
But that's how they always frame it.
Yeah, except it doesn't work that way.
I guess now there's a whole bunch of right-winger types talking about not paying their taxes now.
Yeah, no, I think there's like a tax revolt.
That's the way you go, right there, do that.
Do that, everyone.
Don't pay taxes.
That's the best form of protest.
Yeah, I really, I mean, if this is the straw to break the camel's back and actually push
the right wing into not paying taxes, then I'm all for it.
Yeah, go for it.
Dude, don't pay taxes.
Don't do any of that.
Cut off the flow.
Keep your money.
Yeah, if this causes that, I'll give them a round of applause.
Well, I mean, look at what, like how Trump is just like, you know,
just stabbed his entire base in the back over the past, you know, eight months.
Yeah, it's just been.
And then just to add to this, right?
I can see why they're like, yeah, we're done.
We're out.
Yeah.
Yeah, and good on anybody who decides to quit getting jerked around because that's,
I mean, that's been, that's what's going on.
And it's not going to stop until you until you stand up and stop it.
Anyways, what do you guys want to talk about next?
Well, we've hit a lot of the big stuff this week.
We have.
We've hit all the important stories.
I think the big topic we could talk about is that,
you know, Christmas and holiday seasons have come and gone.
Did you guys spend any time with your families?
Did you do anything exciting?
I mean, it's mundane topic time, I guess.
We did the, in our house, we did the normal Christmas thing with just our immediate family
and we had a nice time.
We didn't do anything for New Year's.
We just went to bed at the normal time and woke up and it was a different number on the calendar.
Yeah.
And I went to work and, you know,
Nothing changes.
I don't know.
I actually went back to Utah for a couple of weeks and spent time with family.
So it was just really nice to have their traditional Christmas things and spend time with family.
Yeah, you get to see all, all the cousins.
It was like a big Christmas.
How big are your Christmases?
Do you guys like all go to a lodge where there's like 40 people and you guys have a huge
gigantic, like not really like Christmas on steroids?
No, not really.
Like my family is a little different.
I guess we don't get every single person together.
For my mom's side of the family, we got together with my uncle and his wife,
my aunt, and some of their kids.
And it was just as nice, maybe 20, 30 people at that gathering.
See, that's a huge Christmas, dude.
I think one of the last Christmases I had like with my family back home,
I think there's like three or four people at it.
Like at the most.
Yeah, dude.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
Those, yeah, that's a huge family gathering.
I can't remember the last time when I was a kid,
my great grandpa would put on these huge get togethers, right?
At his house, he would, he'd have his three sons or his two sons and then my grandma
and then all of their kids and their wives and then some of their kids's kids.
And we'd all pitched tents in his backyard.
And there was like 20, 30 people at those, but I haven't,
nothing like that's happened since like 2006, seven.
Yeah.
So I think that's a big Christmas.
I should, that's good Riley.
I'm kind of jealous of you, dude.
I would like a big Christmas again.
Well, if you, if you want to, we can have you.
No, it's all good.
It's all good.
You can, you can have your Christmas.
But I'm just saying like you shouldn't, you should really,
not a lot of people have that kind of big Christmas anymore.
So I, it's really amazing that we can get all my,
pretty much all my siblings together and not really fight.
Yeah.
For at least enough time, somebody's going to blow up, right?
Cause that's just how it goes.
Somebody's going to get to the.
Families are just used to triggering each other and.
Yeah.
They live for it, but then you, and then it reminds you why you
don't want to do it for another year, right?
And maybe even like by yearly, but I think it's good to kind of
come in and check in.
Maybe don't rely on them so much, but you know,
these, those are the people that you, you know,
grew up around you and they know you.
Oh yeah.
I'm not saying you have to go like deal with abusive people,
right?
That's not, that's not what I'm advocating for.
But if you have a good family and you like your family,
I think you should spend time with them.
I definitely have a good family.
Like my mom, my dad, they're all good people.
My dad and I were arguing about New Hampshire independence.
He's against it, of course, says it's not going to work
and the federal government and God is going to have
a vinyl veto if New Hampshire decides to secede.
Oh, so he's, he's saying God's going to smite
New Hampshire if they leave.
Yeah.
Man.
I know, right?
Mormon space wives.
Wow.
It's just so interesting the claims people make that
New Hampshire tries to leave the United States,
the most corrupt guy, one of the biggest corrupt
terrorist organizations on the earth that God's going to smite us.
What a silly thought.
You know, that kind of reminds me.
I was thinking about this thing.
I don't know if I should even mention the color
because he'll probably call us.
But Skeeter talks about secession as an act of theft
against the collective, right?
Yeah.
It wasn't.
So I just, I just wonder along those lines of thought,
isn't the American Revolution theft from the king
and therefore doesn't all of this still belong to Britain?
Well, if we're going to operate under that logic,
then by yes, it does.
Then then isn't Britain technically owned by the Normans.
So it's technically all France's probably
and then isn't France technically owned by the Romans.
So isn't it technically all italy's
Rome's?
I guess.
Yeah, Rome's wherever.
Yeah, I guess the the heart of Rome is in Italy.
Yeah, right.
So wouldn't that technically go to the Italians at that point?
So the Italians actually own all of Europe
and all of the United States.
The whole world actually, right?
Well, most of Europe, I don't think they made it
all the way to like through Persia.
They still have like the Arab states.
Yeah.
Okay.
They didn't conquer the full east.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I guess yeah, but then before the Romans,
wasn't it the Persians or the Mycenaeans, right?
So is it the Greeks or is it then actually maybe Iraq
does own the whole world?
Maybe Iran is.
Maybe the Shaw is the de facto leader of the world.
Maybe so.
If you really want to go back,
like who really controlled what when where like the first
people wouldn't maybe it's Africa.
Actually, we want to go the first peoples.
If that's where we want to claim it started or maybe like
maybe Antarctica is really the lost continent of Atlantis.
And that's what actually that's where the center of power is
that owns everything.
And they just they just have us all divided up.
So we all think we're hidden behind the ice wall free.
Yeah, hidden behind the ice wall.
Well, I just think, you know, that's just where it gets to
like ridiculous.
I agree.
It gets definitely ridiculous.
And maybe maybe if Christianity is right,
Jesus will come back and set us all straight.
Who knows, man?
I think it's things are definitely getting weirder by the
day.
I don't think I don't see things getting less weird.
I see things getting crazier and crazier.
Like black bagging South American presidents in the
middle of the night and doing backdoor deals with Somalian
warlords and you know, wars in the East wars in the West
wars in the South wars in the North.
It just feels like war is on the horizon for well the
people of this at least the first world.
I've heard it said that when all it's bells,
they take you to war.
And well, we're going to war, it looks like.
Yeah, because we're going to kick the can down the road.
The US dollar.
I mean, we've just printed so much.
We can't we cannot sustain us.
We can't sustain ourselves unless we go to war.
It just won't work.
We have to that's the way we're going to get an influx of
cash and resources is we're going to have to burn it all
down and then make money when we rebuild everything again.
That's exactly what's going to happen.
Yeah, there are a few possible other ways that it
could work.
But historically, well, where they maintain their power
is the only way it's going to work because that's the
only way the bankers are going to allow it because
for some reason, the top bankers love wars.
They're the ones who always start them and they're the
ones because it's a debt system.
You got to you got to think they love them so much
because it's a it's a it doesn't matter who wins the war.
I'm going to get paid my money back.
So if I sell guns to both of these people and let
them kill each other, I'm going to make money
regardless.
So it's advantageous for you to get these people
this these powers like you get these like that's why
they did it in World War One.
These monarchial powers to really fall on their
own sword with debt and wipe themselves out through war.
So now you can kind of install yourself as the
hegemony.
Yeah, and that that was more about gaining control
over the monarch than it was about making a lot
of money because, you know, once you're beholden to
once you're a country beholden to a bank,
then they kind of get to dictate your policy.
Well, the Kings, what the Kings started to do was
they would just they'd rack up all this debt and
then just kick them out of the country and go,
Yeah, we're not going to pay you never mind.
So it was like, you know, you wouldn't get a lot
of loans if you did that, but sometimes kings
would just kick out the bankers.
And they had to figure out a way to not have
that happen again.
But then those bankers would just go to the next
door neighbor country and fund them to come over
and cause serious problems.
Yeah.
And that's the way that goes.
So anyways, a bit of abstraction.
It's just interesting to me that we, you know,
we live in a world where everything has gone
insane and, you know, people's before us have
probably felt the same way when their world
began to change rapidly too.
So it's just interesting to me that, you know,
when living in our times that we've experienced
exactly what others have experienced before us
and how did they navigate it?
Well, their civilization collapsed at some point.
Wonder what ours is.
Yeah.
And it's got to reach peak crazy at some point
to where it starts getting less crazy.
Well, you got to think we get everybody
gets so riled up about it because like we
can see it with our cell phones or like
newspapers and stuff.
Yeah.
But really during the fall of Rome or like,
let's say like Western Rome or whatever,
did like the average French farmer know
what was going on or was he just farming?
Probably.
I imagine.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of like, you know,
we've been so wrapped up in it, man.
If we just were like out in our garden
and like doing stuff, I don't know.
Maybe I'm saying touch grass, but it just seems like
at the end of the day, you know,
we're all kind of ruled and these rulers
are going to fight why I think taking a personal
like vastment into it so much is almost damaging
because like this is inevitable, right?
So like, why don't you just go garden?
Yeah, I agree.
Do the things that are important to you
and don't don't worry so much about all this
about all the crazy stuff because
because you giving your attention to it adds power to it.
If you just give your attention to the things
that are important to you,
then those are the things you'll see flourish.
Yeah, we can watch on our phones or listen to you on our phones.
People dying a half-world away and be detached from it.
You're upset about it.
Oh, yeah.
Like, and I'm not saying you shouldn't be upset about like
innocent life, like innocent blood being shed.
Sure.
But you can't let it consume you to the point where like
you, your life takes a hit from it, right?
Like don't let one life lost turn into two lives lost.
Yeah, don't.
Kind of thing.
Don't let your mind over someone dying half-world away
because you feel bad for them.
And yeah, sure, feel bad for them.
If you do some activism in your community,
I don't know.
But at the same time, you know,
you can't just let put your life on hold
because people are dying around the world.
Yeah.
Or like, I feel like a lot of people are dooming, right?
There's a lot of doom, a lot of blackpilling going on.
It feels like around like the internet and stuff,
like a lot of people are just like, dude, it's over.
It's so over.
We're cooked.
What do we do?
And it's just you,
I think what you can do is what you can do, right?
You do what you can.
And you try to put your best foot forward.
And I think things do feel really heavy right now.
But I guess, yeah, focusing on,
on putting yourself in the right direction
is the only thing you can do, right?
You can only control yourself, not anything outside.
I don't know.
What do you think?
I think focusing on what you can control is the best option
because if you focus on what you can control,
and the only thing you control is your breath
and by all means breathe,
then start making a small list of things you can do
to improve your life every day.
Like staying up straight or their shoulders back
or something, play in your room.
Clean your room.
Like Jordan Fierce would say.
Yeah, I guess.
I've been reading a lot of Jordan Peterson lately.
Yeah, he's, uh, some of his early stuff was good.
Yeah.
Pre-benzo was good.
I don't know.
I think, I think anything that encourages aimless young men
to take better care of themselves is a positive to an extent.
Like people, like people hate Andrew Tate.
And I also have issues with him.
But I can also, I think leading them astray,
but I mean, who else, nobody else is talking to him, right?
That's why they're gravitating to him
because nobody else has reached out,
like with a hand to the disadvantaged young men
or like whatever they call the incel community.
Nobody else is like talking to them.
So they're going to attach to the person who talks to them.
Even if it is like this, uh, you know, toxic,
which I would say he is like, he is toxic masculinity.
He went and just got beat up by a, by a gay guy.
Pretty badly on national television.
And then, and then blamed his supporters
for him losing or something.
I don't know.
That's not very manly.
No, it's not.
But he filled that niche because nobody else,
everybody else had ignored them.
I don't know.
I guess what, what Gandhi say,
be the change you wish to see in the world.
Like if you want to see positivity,
you got to be positivity.
I think that's the thing is a lot of men today
don't have something to initiate them into society
and make them more menly.
I mean, back in my parents day,
there was at least the Boy Scouts.
Yep.
Right of passage is a thing severely lacking in this society.
Right of passage gave young people the feeling
like it was time for them to.
Buckle down.
Well, to, to take on the responsibility.
Yeah, that's kind of, yeah.
Go ask for help all the time.
And since that time number comes,
humans just, you know,
go cradle to grave asking for help the whole way through.
I know within my religious upgrade upbringing,
there were some rights of passages for men to go through
and eventually women as well.
So, you know, I've gone through some of those things and
those have been helpful.
But at the same time, it's just nice to have a man
like Jordan Peterson be like, Hey,
stand up and show your other shoulders back.
Get your room clean.
Well, you wouldn't need it.
You guys would.
Okay.
All right.
This is kind of a boomer con.
Like maybe like a con ink take.
But you wouldn't need people like Jordan Peterson
or Andrew Tate.
These figures wouldn't even really be needed
if there were dads being dads.
I agree.
I don't know.
I just feel like like a lack of fathers.
Like, so like, I was just lucky my great grandpa
took on that role, right?
Cause I have a deadbeat dad.
But he, you know, there were rights of passage.
I had my first beer, right?
With my great grandpa in the woods,
cutting trees with like chainsaws and stuff
at like 13, 14 or something.
You know, so that's like, you know,
he built those rights of passages into like,
as he raised me.
But there's no, if there's no father around to do that,
to even cultivate that kind of thinking
into a young man, then people like Jordan Peterson
and Andrew Tate will fill that void.
That should have been, that should have been
like the family's job.
Yeah.
Um, and we just eradicated or de, uh,
de-incentivized family for some reason.
I don't know if that's like for control
because they want everybody like the nanny state
to, the infantilization family to centralize society around.
It makes it easy to control people
because they're all divided against each other.
And when people are divided against each other,
they're easier to conquer.
Yeah.
Loyal to nothing except themselves.
Exactly.
And people become so self-centered today.
It's like, I only live for myself.
I don't care about my family.
It's insane.
Well, I mean, you can choose your family,
sure, but at the same time, it's just nice to have siblings.
Yeah.
They've been screaming about the attack on family for a long time.
And it's kind of like,
it's kind of like I'm reminded of Sarah's call
and talking about communism.
There was the whole McCarthyism and the Red Scare thing,
which had a dual purpose, right?
It stirred people into a frenzy and made them panicky,
which is useful for societal controllers.
But it also made it the same thing with satanic panic
and all that, right?
It took a real, a real thing.
That you should be mindful of and not allow to creep into your
into your bureaucratic systems being communism, right?
And it showed you how they were making a mountain out of a molehill.
So suddenly everybody's like, oh, yeah,
you're worried about communists hiding in the bushes or what?
You know what I mean?
So, but they were, but they were,
and they downplayed it to the point where it became a non-thing.
Same thing with the satanic panic.
They really are like satanists in high levels of control,
doing terrible things,
but they run this whole satanic panic thing
and everybody comes away going, oh, that was just people panicking.
Just nothing better.
That's right.
So, yeah, I don't know.
Well, then so what's the angle with the family thing then?
How, where does that?
Oh, they, well, so people have been like, oh,
there's an attack on the family and that gets ridiculed,
but all the while they're absolutely trying to destroy the natural order of the family.
Yeah.
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I found this on Activist Post.
It sounds like it comes from Bitcoin Magazine
written by Micah Zimmerman.
Former exchange employee sentenced to four years
for selling military secrets to North Korea for Bitcoin.
Nice.
A Korean crypto employee was jailed after taking Bitcoin
to recruit an officer to North Korea.
A South Korean crypto exchange employee
was sentenced to four years in prison
for attempting to recruit a military officer to sell.
Four or 40.
Four years.
Four, okay.
Four years for selling state secrets.
That's it?
I feel like that feels like an executable offense.
Korea must be pretty lenient.
I feel like North Korea would not have dealt with that
the same way.
That's a very lenient sentence for a state.
Yeah, or the US.
You probably would have been like Guantanamo Bay.
Yeah, I mean Ian Freeman got a more lenient,
a less lenient sentence than that.
And he got double the years.
I know.
Not selling state secrets.
Yeah, for him for not scamming anyone.
For being a middleman in a scam that,
in my opinion, they probably set up in the first place.
A South Korean crypto exchange for prison,
four years in prison for attempting to recruit a military officer
to sell classified secrets to North Korea
in exchange for Bitcoin.
The Supreme Court ruled on December 28th.
The ruling also imposes a four-year ban
on the employee from financial sector activities.
Only four years.
In the US, certainly, they'd be like,
you could never touch crypto ever again,
or anything financial related.
Court documents revealed that North Korean hackers
paid the exchange staffer $487,000 in Bitcoin
to recruit a 30-year-old army captain
who received 33,500 in Bitcoin in return,
according to the South Korean media outlet, Dailene.
The staffer approached the officer
through a telegram chat offering cryptocurrency
for access to sensitive military data.
The staffer sent a watch-shaped hidden camera
and a USB hacking device
to the captain under hacker instructions.
These devices were intended to capture
and transmit information
from the Korean Joint Command and Control System,
a platform used to share intelligence
between the US and South Korea.
Military police intercepted the devices
before any breach occurred.
The defendant must have been aware
that he was attempting to uncover military secrets
for a country hostile to South Korea.
The judge said this crime could have endangered
the entire country
and was committed for personal financial gain.
The captain, surnamed Kim,
was sentenced to 10 years in prison
and fined $35,000 for violating
the Military Secrets Protection Act.
Oh, okay. So the military guy got 10 years at least.
I figured he would have gotten...
Maybe he would have been executed.
He was like in the military.
Isn't like, isn't treason punishable by death?
Or something?
Or is that just year?
It also sounds like they're finding $1500 more
than he took for in the Bitcoin.
Yeah.
I wonder if they seized that
and then find him another...
Yeah, probably.
35 on top of that.
The US Treasury Department
on November 4th
sanctioned eight individuals
and two entities linked
to North Korea's cybercrime operations,
targeting the flow of cryptocurrency stolen
by DPRK hackers.
Over the past three years,
North Korea affiliated cybercriminals
have stolen more than $3 billion
primarily in digital assets
using malware, ransomware,
and social engineering
to attack banks, exchanges,
and other platforms.
The Treasury said the funds
helped finance Pyongyang's
nuclear weapons and missile programs.
I'm sure they did say that.
Among those sanctioned
were bankers Jang Koop-Chul
and Ho-Jong Son
who managed over $5.3 million
in cryptocurrency tied
to ransomware attacks
and DPRK IT workers abroad.
Korea...
That's a weird word.
Mangyo-day computer technology corp
which runs overseas IT delegations
and its president Yu Yong-su
were also targeted alongside...
Alongside...
Ryu Jong credit bank in Pyongyang
and five DPRK banking representatives
in China and Russia
for laundering millions
in global currencies.
In September 2024,
the FBI issued a warning
that North Korea hackers
were targeting U.S. cryptocurrency
exchange traded funds, ETFs,
in an attempt to steal digital assets.
According to the agency,
the attackers are employing
sophisticated social engineering techniques
to infiltrate companies
linked to these financial products.
What does that mean?
Like, honeypots?
Like, what is that?
Social engineering?
Are they getting like...
Is it email phishing?
What does this mean?
Yeah, it's probably a range of things.
They have SIM hacking as a thing
where they find out just enough information
to trick the phone company
into giving up the...
Oh, yeah, I've heard of that.
Controls to your SIM
or like resetting it to a new SIM card
or whatever.
There's...
Yeah, there are sophisticated
social engineering techniques
that you could use.
It's interesting though.
I wonder, like, information is so
controlled about what happens
inside of North Korea
that they could say anything
they want is going on there
and we can just be left to believe it
because you can't prove or disprove
any of that.
It's like them talking about
what happens on the moon.
Good luck going there to find out.
Yeah.
For all I know,
everybody in North Korea
is completely computer illiterate
stuck in the 1950s
doesn't know anything about cryptocurrency.
I doubt that's the case,
but it might be
and you'd never know the difference.
And it might just be like
FBI spooks setting up this whole thing
and being like,
oh no, it's North Korea
in order to have a justification
to pick a fight with North Korea.
That's the way they do things.
Well, didn't the U.S. just seize
like a ridiculous amount of crypto?
Like something in the billions
of dollars range
from like a bunch of Asian South Asian
companies.
Singapore, I think that was.
Was it Singapore?
Yeah, some like front companies.
Yeah, doing the same kind of,
you know, stuff,
scammy internet stuff
to trick people out of their Bitcoin.
Yeah, it seems like one of their
favorite things to go after.
I wonder why.
Well, because then they can just
do whatever they want with it.
It's that's one of the beautiful
things about Bitcoin.
That's true.
If they steal it, they get added
to their sovereign wealth fund.
Yeah.
Well, they can steal it
and they don't have to,
you know, buy it from anybody.
Because we can't have the federal
government buying Bitcoin.
We got to go steal it
and then add it to our wealth fund.
Yeah, I wonder who's in charge
of deciding when to sell
those assets
and when to hold them.
And like,
I guess they haven't started
buying more
for a strategic reserve.
But at some point,
you would imagine they're going
to buy Bitcoin
and put it in their strategic
reserve.
I wonder who decides,
you know,
would that be
the Fed that decides
or wouldn't be the
Department of the Treasury maybe?
I would think it would be
the Department of the Treasury.
I don't know.
Don't they just listen
to the Fed, though?
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
I heard an interesting thing
that I haven't been able
to look into yet, though.
Like the Bank of London guys,
they refer to the
U.S. Federal Reserve
as the ex-checker.
And that there's actually
this notion
that the U.S. Federal Reserve
is wholly owned,
actually, by the British.
Interesting.
Which is interesting.
Well, I think Wall Street, too,
is also one of those
same kind of places.
Yeah.
I'm kind of under the impression
America never got its
independence from Britain anyways.
After having looked at the
War of 1812,
because the way that ended,
they say it was a draw.
But if you look at the results,
the U.S. capital was burnt down
and they lost all their
documentation and they ended
up with the new central bank
at the end of that.
And then Britain was like,
okay, we'll leave you alone now.
So, yeah, actually,
I didn't know that.
You're kind of,
you're blowing my mind right now.
So this wasn't even,
this isn't even like,
this goes deeper than like
the Rockefellers and then
Tavistock and stuff and like
the 1890s to 1910s.
Back to the, yeah, 17s,
$17 even.
It's just like a continuation
of the British East India Company?
Yeah, kind of.
Well, they just,
they sort of just kind of
Jones plantation,
the rules around.
Interesting.
That's an interesting tag.
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What's on your mind?
Yeah, I'll call it good.
I was curious if either one of you
ever been in an accident where
it was the other guy's fault
and I was curious how much
of a payout you guys got.
I got t-boned in Washington
and I had a school resource
officers show up
say you were obviously
in your lane.
Like you obviously had like,
like you were clearly
established in your lane.
So it's her fault.
And then the lady drove away
and the cop didn't cite her.
And then my insurance company
found her at fault,
but then she didn't own the car.
So I got no money out of it.
Oh man, that sucks.
Yeah, cause it's like just over three
just over three weeks ago
on New Year's Eve,
I got rear-ended
by this 95 year old guy
right there.
Popped out part of my bank
bumper and gave me whiplash.
And I'm and ever since I have
I've been seeing all these
ads on like Instagram,
Facebook, whatever that of
like you're gonna get a whole
bunch of money after 100,000
dollars and all this stuff.
Just fill out this, you know,
questionnaire and see how much
you can get.
It's like a whole real life
version of a better call saw,
essentially.
And I was just like,
wondering, you know,
if anyone's,
if I don't want you ever
get paid out,
but apparently I guess you got
messed over on that one.
But in this case though,
I've got the guy's insurance
and stuff.
So I don't think there's gonna
be any denial of fault
because he hit me rear-ended.
It's always,
when you rear-end someone,
it's always your fault,
you know, if you get rear-ended
it's always the other guy's fault.
Well, I did have one car
pull out in front of me one time.
So I ended up T-boning them,
but it was their fault,
if that makes any sense,
because they just whip right out
into traffic.
That was nothing I could do.
There was no way I would stop.
But I was driving an older truck
and it totaled the cost of the
vehicle.
So I got paid on our 25
on our bucks or something.
It ended up working out pretty
good because that truck was a
piece of junk.
Yeah, because I'm looking here at
Croc right now and they're saying
because I got a bit,
because I got a bit of whiplash.
It's like, oh, come and pay us
for minor whiplash cranes
could be between eight and
twenty-four thousand dollars.
Like, really?
Wow, I never know.
It would be that much.
Yeah.
Well, for me,
and this is an advice,
it's just what I would do.
I would not use those vultures
that advertise
because they creep me right out.
Those guys are scummy.
But I would call the insurance
company.
I'd get myself nice and
testosteroneed up first
and then I'd call them
in with my bully attitude on
and I would tell them that
they're going to pay me some
money or they're going to get
wrapped up in litigation.
And I would have it figured
out in my mind.
I'd do a little internet
research,
kind of like what you're
doing now finding out how much
other people got paid
for their whiplash.
And I would tell them,
you know,
you can just pay me this now
and we can keep it out of the
courts or we can get messy
with it.
And if you treat them
firmly,
they usually respond.
And you get what you want out
of them.
But they will try.
They will try to give you
nothing,
but you got to be firm with
them.
Oh, yeah, no joke on that one.
But yeah, in this case,
I just got in the car.
I just car,
like changed car
since our last car
to you guys.
And literally,
within 19 days of buying it,
I get rear-ended right there.
I was just like,
oh, you got to be kidding me.
Oh, no, it's awful.
I mean, it's not brand spanking
new, but you know,
I don't buy it anymore.
New to you.
Yes, new to me.
Yeah.
And when this car
was new and new,
the sticker on it was over
$43,000.
I got it for 14-5, by the way.
That's not bad.
How many miles on it?
About 80,000 miles.
But it's a plug-in hybrid.
I think that's the real reason
why I got it so cheap,
because this thing's got
it's a fusion energy,
and this has got like no,
almost no trunk space.
It's like half the trunk is battery.
Probably the real cause
of the depreciation.
But it was never in the wreck
until I entered on New Year.
So I should get some also
a payout more for,
also for depreciation,
because when your car gets hit,
like that, it leaves us value, you know?
And I'm
curious if anyone
could call in and
say how much
extra someone gets
for the loss of value,
because the car has now
has been in the wreck.
I want to say wreck,
but fender bender.
Well, usually the way
the insurance company looks
at that is how much,
how much would it cost
to repair it back to
as good as it was
before you got rear-ended.
And that's how much they'll give you.
Yeah, if you could tie in
like loss of wages,
if that, like,
because you Uber or something
and it took your car out of
spec for your Uber,
then you'd have to sue somebody.
You'd probably have to sue
the old guy, I think.
I don't know,
but that just sounds like
you'd probably have to go
after him personally
or something
for like your lost wages
or something.
I don't want to do that,
because you don't.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to,
I wouldn't want to do that
to a 95-year-old man either.
Yeah, 95-year-old guy.
Yeah, I would just let him
be 95 and go die.
And you know what?
Sometimes bad things happen.
Oh, man.
That is harsh, but that's very true.
Well, would you rather,
would you rather take all of his money
and then let him die
or do you just want to let him go die?
I just rather just let him die.
Yeah, okay.
Well, yeah,
just let the old guy
go be an old guy
and do what old guys do.
And not,
and not like take away
all of his healthcare savings.
Yeah, I wouldn't do anything
to the guy.
Just go,
just call the insurance company.
That's what they're there for.
And those guys,
those guys are a racket anyways.
They've been given a government privilege
so that they're able to
charge way more than
the market would bear otherwise.
Yeah, pretty much on that.
But yeah,
I'd rather just deal with his
insurance company on that one.
I mean, I don't think the damage
is that bad in a sense,
because it just popped out
a part of my real bumper,
essentially.
Oh, broke your clips.
The real bumper cover.
And there's a bit,
usually a bit of
sterile insulation between that
and the actual hard metal bumper beneath it.
You know, I think that's all
that's got to be done
is just replace that,
which is probably going to be
damage to the car alone.
That costs probably about
two grand at most.
Right there.
Take it in for an estimate.
You might be surprised.
I've heard people going in
for a little,
you know,
bumper ding like that
and the shop's like,
well,
we got to replace the whole bumper
and it's going to cost $15,000
or something.
You know, like,
sometimes.
Well, some of these cars
are designed to where like,
you like the bumpers tied into
like the panel,
like the side panel, too.
So like,
if you replace the bumper,
you got to take like
half the car apart.
Right.
And then replace it.
Right.
And in my car,
in my car's case,
it's got those little parking sensors
to oxen all around.
Right there.
Because apparently this thing can park itself.
Yep.
A feature I'm never going to use,
but it's kind of handy to have
in a way, I guess, but
Too bad the 95 year old
didn't have some helpful driving.
Yeah, for those reasons,
that bumper might be a lot more expensive
than you think.
Yeah.
That sounds like a lot of tax.
I would definitely take it in
for an estimate
before you call the insurance company.
So you know.
Oh, yeah.
Well, then his insurance company
is already aware and so is mine
on there.
But I'll probably take it to
a body shop.
I'm going to get an estimate anyway
on there.
Yeah.
Just to see what I'm in for.
They're like,
yeah, we've got to,
you know, have them do an estimate
because they've already accepted
liability on there.
So it's just a matter of
that I'm seeing how much it's going
to cost to fix my car
and how much they're going to pay me
after my pain and suffering.
And then there's also a way
because I'm New Year's Eve
because New Year's Eve is
Uber, Super Bowl Uber drivers.
Yeah, that makes sense
because you're driving everybody
home from the bars
and all their New Year's Eve parties
trashed out of their minds.
Probably a big money day for you.
I mean, yeah, you can look into it.
I don't see why you couldn't.
Yeah, like Stu said,
these insurance companies are
like scum.
There's the scum of the earth too.
So like get as much as you can.
They kind of have a fiduciary
responsibility to be scum of the earth
though.
And that's kind of pay out
as little as possible.
You just got to be savvy enough
to know how to fight them
on that stuff.
Yeah.
And a lot of and a lot of kids
a lot of parents whose kids
have cancer don't know how to
fight those battles.
They're kind of worried
about their kid having cancer.
So I mean, you do pay for a service
and at some point you're expected
to receive that service.
You know what I mean?
Like at some point you do have a
you still have a duty like the
people you're taking the money from
to provide the service.
That's the whole idea of the
insurance, right?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not looking to get
like a whole year's worth of pay
out of this, you know,
but at the same time, I'm not
I don't want to get screwed over
financially.
We deny it on a finger.
But yeah, I could see part of that
why, you know, insurance payments
are so expensive these days.
It's insane.
In a way.
Yeah.
So that's all I got for you guys
at the moment.
All right.
Thanks for the call.
Thanks for the call, Uber George.
Nice to hear your voice.
Have a good night.
You know, insurance companies
man, they're creepy.
And and yeah, they have a
fiduciary responsibility.
But you know, if my job
like what is my job requires me
to have a fiduciary responsibility
to execute kids with cancer
essentially or yeah,
just to make people's lives
bad on a daily basis.
I'm leaving that job.
There's no way I'm sticking
around for a paycheck.
These things all sound great
if people weren't involved,
but people suck.
So it feels like we keep,
you know, we'll always mess
up the system,
regardless of what the system
is designed to do.
We'll find a way to run the insurance
company.
We're going to build the AI
and it's going to explode,
you know, right?
Everything we involve ourselves
and ends up going sideways somehow.
I feel like that's just the
the destiny of man, right?
We're kind of selfish and
angry and, you know,
do stuff out of emotion
and reactionary.
That's like a
big part of,
I guess, being alive.
So as long as there's stuff,
we're going to mess up stuff.
Got another story here
from the activist post.
We won't get all the way
through it,
but this is
how reporting facts can now
land you in jail for 14 years
as a terrorist.
Nice.
Interesting.
They're talking about Britain,
obviously.
Starmer's government has set
the most dangerous of precedents.
It can outlaw
any political group it chooses
as a terrorist organization
and thereby make it impossible
to defend it.
The moment the British government
began prescribing
political movements
as terrorist organizations
rather than just militant groups,
it was inevitable
that saying factual things,
making truthful statements,
would become a crime.
And behold, here we are.
The Terrorism Act 2000
has a series of provisions
that make it difficult to voice
or show any kind of support
for an organization
proscribed under the legislation,
whether it is writing an article
or wearing a t-shirt.
Recent attention is focused
on section 13,
which is being used to hound
thousands of mostly elderly people
who have held signs saying,
I oppose genocide,
I support Palestine action.
They now face a terrorism conviction
and up to six months in jail.
Nice. So we're going,
we're going to arrest grandma
for saying, quit killing brown kids.
Yep. That's that's where it's going.
And it sounds like then we're also
going to arrest the guy who
complains about the brown guy
in his country.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised
to see all of this come.
Come to this side of the pond,
as they say as well.
What with didn't didn't Trump say
Antifa is a terrorist organization.
He sure did.
So I mean, that's it's like for the
it's like forced middle of the
road is and was what they're doing.
Yeah.
And all fringe thought is going to
be eradicated.
Any wrong thing quote unquote
wrong think will be eradicated.
That's right. The only opinion
is the only approved opinion
is that of the government.
So you ask us what your opinion
is and happiness is mandatory,
comrades.
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From feature story news
in Washington, I'm Tony Waterman.
President Donald Trump says
the US is locked and loaded
and ready to go.
If peaceful protesters
are killed in Iran
amid nationwide unrest.
He issued the warning
in an early morning
post to social media
saying the US will come to the
rescue of peaceful protesters.
Mass demonstrations erupted
a week ago in major cities
like Tehran, but have since
spread to smaller towns.
As citizens vent their
frustration over the
worsening economy, at least
six people have been killed
and 17 wounded.
It's the biggest threat
to Iran's government since 2022
when protests erupted
over the death of a young
woman who was arrested
for allegedly not wearing
her hijab correctly.
In response to Trump's
latest threat, Iran says
it will not allow foreign
interference in the country.
Tensions between Tehran
and Washington have intensified
in recent weeks.
Just on Monday, Trump said
he'd order more strikes on Iran
if it tries to rebuild
its nuclear capabilities
after the US destroyed
some sites in June.
Swiss authorities
continue to identify
the victims of a deadly
New Year's Eve nightclub fire.
They say sparklers on
champagne bottles
held too closely to the ceiling
are to blame for the blaze.
At least 40 people were killed
and more than 100 others
were injured, the majority of
whom are in intensive care.
France is among several
European nations
treating some of the victims.
FSN's Ross Cullen reports.
People who suffered burns
in the fatal fire
are being looked after
in hospitals in Paris
and in Lyon,
where France's top
plastic surgeons are on standby
to assist with specialist
reconstructive care
for burns victims.
French citizens were among
those injured
and there are still French
nationals missing
with several Italians
also unaccounted for.
Police are working to identify
all the victims
and investigate
how the fire started.
It broke out in the
constellation bar
in the Swiss ski resort
of Cons Montana
in the early hours
of New Year's Day.
Senior Israeli prison officials
have visited
a crocodile farm
after a top official
proposed building
a new high-security prison
surrounded by the deadly
reptile.
FSN's Blake Sifton reports
from Tel Aviv.
A delegation led by
the deputy commissioner
of Israel's prison service
visited a crocodile farm
on Thursday
to learn about
crocodile care
and handling.
Last week,
far-right national
security minister
Ben Gervir
proposed building
a new detention facility
surrounded by crocodiles
to hold Palestinian prisoners
jailed for security offenses.
He suggested the plan
would prevent escapes
and act as a deterrent
and said it was inspired
by the alligator
Alcatraz detention facility
in the Florida Everglades.
From Bureau's Worldwide,
this is FSN.
With FSN spotlight,
I'm Simon Marks
looking today
in more detail
at the very welcome
development
that wild salmon
have been seen
for the first time
since 2015
in three English rivers
the Mersey,
the Bolin and the Goit
returning to those waters
in Britain's Gritty North West
meaning they have made it
all the way
from the Arctic Circle
to spawn
in the river's gravel beds.
The actor James Murray
is the deputy chair
of River Action
and has campaigned
for British rivers
and wild salmon specifically.
What it says to me
is there is hope.
If you clean up these rivers
if you let them return
to levels of health
that they should be
then the salmon
will return
and they're a very resilient
canary in the coal mine
keynote species
that will show you
that your rivers
are in good health
by living there
and we need it
not just to be a local
good news story
it needs to be a national
good news story
this species is endangered
it was on the red list
from 2023
we need to take it off
the red list
and make it abundant again
in its returning numbers
as it was
pre-industrial revolution
and as it could be
as these rivers in the northwest have shown us
Sir David Attenborough
has long argued
that waterways and oceans
can return to life
in a short space of time
given focus
and environmental commitment
and in the northwest of England
at least
the salmon
are bearing that out
and a recap
of today's headlines
President Donald Trump
says the US is locked
and loaded
if peaceful protesters
are killed in Iran
amid nationwide unrest
Swiss authorities
continue to identify
the victims
of a deadly New Year's Eve nightclub fire
they say sparklers
on champagne bottles
are to blame
for the blaze
Israeli prison officials
have visited a crocodile farm
after a top official
proposed a new prison
surrounded by the deadly reptile
that's feature story news
Tony Waterman reporting
it's the Onion radio news
Teen sacks is linked
to alcohol and drugs
by the center
for figuring out
really obvious things
this is Doyle Redland reporting
an exhaustive