Episode 180 – Joe Soloski Has Game That Won’t Stop

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oh
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this is america’s day
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this is democracy’s day a day of history
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and hope
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of renewal and resolve today
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we’ve learned again yet hear me clearly
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we’ll write the next great chapter
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a story we learn it again might sound
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something like a song that means a lot
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to me
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it’s called unity to those beyond our
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borders america has been tested and
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we’ve come out stronger
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i know speaking of unity can sound like
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a fantasy without unity
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there is no peace we come so far still
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have far to go
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this is a great nation we are good
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people restoring america requires so
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much more than words we can see each
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other not as adversaries for the
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neighbors
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folks this is the time of testing we all
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understand
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the world is watching folks this is a
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time of testing
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love and healing today we’ve learned
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again
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yet hear me clearly we’ll write the next
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great chapter a story we learned again
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might sound something like a song that
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means a lot to me it’s called
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unity at this hour my friends democracy
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has prevailed
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through struggles sacrificing setbacks
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our better angels have always prevailed
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for those that might have the idea that
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i hate joe biden
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i do not i love you there is truth and
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there are lies you hear me clearly
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then together we shall write an american
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story a story that might sound something
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like a song that means a lot to me
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it’s called come on there’s one verse
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that stands out and it goes like this
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black white all colors all backgrounds
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what i mean
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come on man men women gay straight
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everyone deserves a shot
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so
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glad to glad to be able to get him on uh
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ladies and gentlemen joining us
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right now live from pennsylvania is uh
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libertarian gubernatorial candidate
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joe soloski joe thanks so much for
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coming on man i appreciate it spike
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matt thank you very much for the
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invitation no absolutely we’re glad that
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you could take time out of your schedule
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to join us today yeah
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so any time joe so anytime we have a
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libertarian on our show for the first
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time we always ask
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what is it would you say that brought
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you to libertarianism and to the
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libertarian party was it kind of an
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aha moment or sort of a gradual
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evolution over time what what what
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what got you into being a libertarian
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for me
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it was gradual um i was a republican for
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40 years and i watched that party
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constantly erode and disappoint me
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and when when i finally hit 2016 i i
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could tell their values their principles
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didn’t match mine in the least and i was
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looking for another party
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a place where i could call home and feel
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comfortable and the libertarian party
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and its policies
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its platform fit me to a t so it was a
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very
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easy change for me and uh one of the
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best moves i ever made i
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uh i get to sit back now i used to get
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mad at
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the democrats or even get mad at my own
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republicans now i get to get mad and
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laugh at them both it’s a great place to
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operate from
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you could just always be right now now
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whatever happens you’re like yeah that’s
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what i said would happen they’re just
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all terrible yeah
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that’s it’s a free very free it’s very
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it’s very liberating not having to
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defend terrible candidates anymore
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so talk to us about what’s going on in
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pennsylvania go ahead
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i was going to say about how about how
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long ago did you make the switch
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about how long ago did you real did you
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join the libertarian like realize you
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were a libertarian and then you joined
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the party
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i think i i was i’ve been pretty
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liberty-minded all my life i felt this
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way back in the 80s
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i actually thought the republican party
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had some of those principles back then
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but again i watched them constantly
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erode uh june
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2nd 2016. that’s the day
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that’s the day i uh registered as
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libertarian
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i saw that trump was going to be the
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imminent
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uh nominee and i thought forget it i’m
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jumping off that train
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and yeah best move i ever made best move
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i ever made
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well we’re glad to have you so yeah
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absolutely you’re
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you are in uh pennsylvania and obviously
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things must be you you’re obviously
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seeing some things that are very
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troubling for you to decide that you
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want to run for
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governor of the entire state talk to us
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about what’s going on
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uh under on in in pennsylvania right now
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that led you to want to do that
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our current governor wolf has been
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using a pretty heavy hand especially in
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the last
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year with his covet 19 lockdowns
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he’s decimated businesses his policies
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have
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had too many people died in this state
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especially in
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senior care elder care homes because of
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their policies
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these are the things that need to end i
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have been trying to showcase
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uh drastically reducing curtailing
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the emergency powers of the governor and
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amazingly
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our state legislature not only uh
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just a few weeks ago floated a a
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new amendment to be put on the ballot as
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a referendum to alter
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our constitution and to indeed limit the
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governor’s powers and
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everything that they put in it is
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exactly
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what i’ve been harping on for months so
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it feels pretty good to see that they’re
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doing that
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other things for example i’d love to see
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us eliminate
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our personal income tax here in this
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state
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just today governor wolf
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came out and said that he wants to
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increase the personal income tax by
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almost 50 percent and he feels he needs
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that money
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to fund public schools uh it’s such an
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irony uh in the last year schools are
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closed
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uh they’ve had less activity than ever
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yes their revenues have gone down
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because of these lockdowns and
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everyone’s revenues have gone down
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pardon me i said everyone’s revenues
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have gotten
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right absolutely absolutely and
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there rather than look at cost cutting
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spending cuts which we desperately need
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our
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our budget’s gone up 75 percent in this
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state
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in less than 20 years we don’t have a
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revenue problem here we’ve got a massive
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spending problem
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yeah i never see them recommend a
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solution
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that’s a spending cut and giving the
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taxpayers a break they always just want
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more money and they’ve gotten that a lot
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over the last 20 years from different
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industries
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and now this i’m sorry our personal
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income tax should be zero one of my
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goals as governor
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is to make pennsylvania a tax haven i
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want to see pennsylvania like florida
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like texas where companies want to
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locate here
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and the increased employment alone is
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going to cause us to have
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more than adequate tax revenues but
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all at a lower rate or an elimination of
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rates it’s
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it’s not that hard to understand because
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as i tell people
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even i can understand it right
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yeah so um no go ahead matt go ahead
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i i live in florida um and you know we
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don’t have an income tax here before
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this i lived in tennessee and we didn’t
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have an income tax sales tax was like
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ten and a half or eleven and a half
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percent or whatever
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um but uh you do you see a lot of
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businesses
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try you know they want to relocate here
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to open up for the
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better uh for the better taxes uh but
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you also see that you
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get a bunch of people from
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pennsylvania new york massachusetts who
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all come down
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illinois is a big one on my side um on
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my coast
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and they all come down looking for the
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uh
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lower taxes for you know to spend spend
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less money
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but then they go and they vote for all
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of the same things that they voted for
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up there
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that they are now running from and it’s
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one of the it’s one of the bigger issues
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we have here
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yes is that and do you think that uh
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pennsylvania
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should you should you be able to pass no
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income tax in pennsylvania which i’m all
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for
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100 do you think that would become more
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of an issue for you guys with new york
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being right there
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and you know rhode island like all of
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new england basically
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it’s always possible those are the kind
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of things that you can’t
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you can’t predict right there’s
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no framework to determine that but you
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know
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new york’s tax rates uh they’re worse
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than
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ours as bad as ours are
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they’re worse so if people come here
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over the state line because it’s more
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attractive you like to think
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that you know normal common sense people
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like us
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you like to think that they’re going to
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look at it and say that’s exactly the
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thing that i
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don’t want to vote for again i don’t
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want that problem again
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but you’re right if if they move in and
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they decide ah we want all the freebies
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it’s just going to be a continually hard
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uh
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battle to wage and we’ve got to try to
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win it every time
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right no i agree i am trying to picture
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joe i’m trying to picture the average
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pennsylvanian
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who’s as you said everyone’s revenue has
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gone down
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they have either faced job cuts or
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potential
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uh or or or our cuts to their hours
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or uh they have had to take a you know
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retail job because their their higher
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paying job
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has been furloughed uh so now they’re
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working for doordash
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uh or something like that instead of
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working for like an airline or a company
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that was making them a lot more money
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uh or a manufacturing job that was
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making them a lot more money
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or if they had a small business probably
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losing it during this time or at least
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seeing a major reduction in revenue
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and then being told great news everyone
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we’re gonna
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raise your income tax by roughly half
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it is mind-boggling to me
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that this is how government thinks right
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like this is how government thinks is
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is you know i i the parallel i always
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use is imagine if you know you’re you’re
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sitting at your kitchen table and you go
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honey we uh we need
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we need to you know uh you know we’re
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not making as much money as we’re
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spending
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we need to rob our neighbor and also
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increase our debt limit on our credit
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cards and and
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and and just unironically thinking that
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that’s the way to fix it
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now let’s talk about because i think you
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know
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we probably will not be breaking any new
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ground three libertarians are
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talking about how much we agree on taxes
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uh but
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let’s talk about these lockdowns um i i
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drew i
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flew across the country last year and
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talked to people uh
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including in pennsylvania about how
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these lockdowns are affecting them but i
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i want to hear from a pennsylvanian
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what has it been like having the
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government tell you whether or not
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you’re essential
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in order to protect you it’s
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polarizing to say the very least some
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people
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actually are praising the man saying
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he’s looking out for us
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but what i see is one business after
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another closing
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permanently and their dreams dying uh
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that’s
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not ever a good thing but then you look
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at all of the ancillary problems
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we’ve got increased depression increased
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family strife
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marital strife domestic abuse child
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abuse
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these are all problems that
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were the exact result of these horrible
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lockdowns
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and our obviously unemployment’s up
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benefits are up
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claims are up everything has been in a
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bit of a tail spin
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and we’ve had to fight the governor left
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and right
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amazingly he was
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taken to court at one point and one of
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the pennsylvania courts found his
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lockdown measures to be
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unconstitutional which i thought
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fantastic it was almost following what
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was happening in michigan
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but then he appealed and he had another
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court
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basically back him and he’s now running
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roughshod over the rest of us the state
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legislature
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has attempted to override him they put
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bills on his desk to
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end these lockdown measures but
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unfortunately
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he has to sign them to put them into
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effect and all he does is veto
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them it’s a bad system and that’s why we
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need that
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uh that referendum on it to amend our
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constitution
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i agree i agree i think that’s a very
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powerful thing
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i was gonna say michigan did the same
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thing where the court said it was
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unconstitutional and then
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uh gretchen whitmer was just like i
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don’t care i’m still i’m still doing
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this
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she secured it exactly it was it’s
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almost a perfect parallel
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yeah she pulled in andrew jackson and
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said i don’t care what the courts say
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i’m just gonna do it anyway
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and uh i love the justification that
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these governors use
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uh where they’ll say we have to do these
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lockdowns
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the covet cases are getting worse during
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these
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lockdowns
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i i’ve taken issue with that every step
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of the way
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and when uh initially as you recall
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there was limited testing due to
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availability
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and all of a sudden there was a more
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testing available
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and up spiked the cases and i said
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well yes if you’re going to test more
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you’re going to get
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more cases aren’t you it just goes hand
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in hand
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but uh people who didn’t want to hear it
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refuse to hear it so my approach will be
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totally different on my first day in
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office
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if any of these lockdown measures are
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still in place i will
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nullify every single one of them and
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pennsylvania’s going back to work
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we’re going to be open again
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that’s good that’s what that’s what
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pennsylvania needs go ahead matt
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so switching gears just just slightly
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here there are a bunch of comments
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in in the chat here or in the comment
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section here
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and they say things like i’ll read the
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most recent one uh
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once a cobra bit joe soloski’s leg after
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five days of excruciating pain the cobra
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died
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um like there are a bunch of these in
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here and they are really funny
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like is where is this coming from
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because
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they’re making you like a chuck norris
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of the libertarian party which i’m all
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for
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i’m all for that i’m all for it i’m just
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like
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every time one comes in i’m like don’t
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laugh you’re paying attention to
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what joe is saying here i’m flattered
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and i’m also honored uh for anyone
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putting those comments in there
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i haven’t seen them but thank you very
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much i’m truly flattered
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oh yeah i was like is this part of their
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campaign like is this what they’re doing
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because this is brilliant this is great
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now now i’ve got to get a a chuck norris
23:06
outfit but i’ll get to work on that
23:09
joseph soloski is going to celebrate
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winning by dribbling a bowling ball
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[Laughter]
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these are great i’m voting for so
23:19
someone else someone else said uh uh i’m
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voting for joe’s beard
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so you’ve got a vote just just just on
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the beer it’s based on them
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it’s a good beer it’s a good beer well
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okay
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they’re back in style so kind of go
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kind of going back um to what we were
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talking about before i have family
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in uh pennsylvania um sadly to say
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i already know they won’t be voting for
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you because they won’t vote for anybody
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that i would vote for
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um let’s just say they’re a fan of the
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lockdowns
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um but uh like they live in um
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they live in philadelphia and they have
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they’ve got kids who they homeschool
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because the privates are because the
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public schools
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are too overcrowded and they
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can’t afford private schools so they
24:07
homeschool them um
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in doing so wouldn’t the 50 tax raise in
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order to help fund schools more wouldn’t
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that
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just [ __ ] the people who are trying
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to do who can’t put their kids in
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schools already
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it’s certainly not going to help them
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our property taxes
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that already are supposed to be funding
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our public schools
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are too high i’ve known people
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personally
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that have lost their homes because they
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can’t pay their darn
24:35
property taxes even after they’ve paid
24:38
for their homes
24:39
when their homes get seized it’s a
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horrible situation
24:43
now they’re trying to say let’s carve
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out this piece
24:46
of these income taxes for this it sounds
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nice to a lot of people
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but it’s going to be a disaster what we
24:53
also
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desperately need is to completely
24:56
overhaul education
24:57
in this state we need to overhaul the
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tax system that funds it
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the property tax system is probably the
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most
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inequitable system i’ve seen in my
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lifetime and
25:08
just so you know i’m a cpa by profession
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i operated my own practice for 27 years
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in the pittsburgh area before
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moving to the central part of the state
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outside of state college right now
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um i’m for the most part retired and
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enjoying bringing people to the liberty
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movement at this stage of my life
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when i look at the property tax system
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it’s it’s horribly inequitable
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it needs to be eliminated and replaced
25:35
with something better
25:36
and i understand there is no
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fair tax system none i’ve never seen
25:43
one but we can certainly eliminate the
25:46
horrific taxes the horrific tax systems
25:49
and try to replace them with something
25:51
better but for heaven’s sake we need to
25:54
be slashing
25:55
spending slashing government spending at
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every turn because
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that’s what’s that’s what’s killing us
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in this state we
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operate at too high of a cost and
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they’re bleeding the residents dry
26:08
yep exactly yeah exactly absolutely
26:11
i’m looking at some statistics here uh
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on
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the total number per capita of covid
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cases since this
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uh since this uh this pandemic started
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and what is amazing to me
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is that for virtually all the
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for virtually all states with a few
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outliers
26:31
almost all states are within about a
26:34
20 to 30 percent swing of the total
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number of cases
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this is whether they’ve never had
26:40
lockdowns at all or whether they’ve had
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very severe lockdowns or whether it’s
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been kind of a hodgepodge in between
26:46
what really strikes me is that the rate
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of uh
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covid cases uh total uh in
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uh pennsylvania is roughly seven percent
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the roughly seven percent of the
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population of pennsylvania has gotten
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coveted
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accord according to this data um or has
27:04
been confirmed to have gotten covered so
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it’s probably higher
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in south carolina it’s roughly
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eight percent and we’ve had no lockdowns
27:13
whatsoever uh and we’re also a hub for
27:16
we’re also a hub for tourism uh now you
27:18
may say well you know that difference
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between seven percent
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and eight percent proves that we need to
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do these lockdowns well
27:26
california’s is also eight percent
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uh and they have had a much worse uh
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situation overall
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with covid uh michigan’s where’s
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michigan
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michigan’s is also uh around six percent
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they’re all within each massachusetts
27:43
which has had some of the most
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restrictive lockdowns
27:45
around eight percent florida which has
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had
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did have some lockdowns early on last
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summer and has had
27:52
almost nothing since then um just under
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eight percent
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this is there there is no data
27:58
demonstrating
27:59
that making everyone stay home unless
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they go
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and crowd into massive retail stores a
28:05
few times a week
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all real close together that that
28:09
somehow
28:10
is protecting us from the the the what
28:13
appears increasingly to be a largely
28:14
natural spread
28:16
of a virus um what what are your
28:18
thoughts on this because we are not
28:19
covid denialists we believe kovid’s real
28:22
we believe it’s a very serious thing
28:23
that should be taken seriously
28:25
we just think that these lockdowns
28:27
telling everyone
28:28
stay home until further notice is not a
28:31
serious way
28:32
to long-term address a pandemic what are
28:34
your thoughts on that
28:36
my thoughts are identical i’ve said all
28:38
along it’s a
28:40
real virus it’s a real illness
28:43
it has big complications but so do a lot
28:46
of other things that we’ve never locked
28:48
down for
28:49
and we could start to make a list of
28:51
those things very very easily
28:54
i feel the lockdown measures as far as
28:57
controlling the spread of the virus
28:59
are mostly ineffective and i know that i
29:00
can take every possible
29:04
every possible caution i could literally
29:07
lock myself in my basement and i could
29:10
still get covered
29:11
that doesn’t make me immune it’s not
29:13
going away
29:14
we have to deal with it as best we can
29:17
but you know what we’ve got to live our
29:20
lives we’re not
29:21
meant to live in fear and again when i
29:24
mentioned the ancillary problems of
29:27
depression suicides are up marital
29:30
strife
29:30
family strife abuse
29:33
those things i’m willing to bet are far
29:36
worse on people than the illness itself
29:40
so i’m in total agreement with you and
29:43
if i was
29:44
governor tomorrow everything here in
29:46
pennsylvania
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when it comes to these lockdown measures
29:49
would change
29:50
overnight well well that’s what we’re
29:53
trying to work on one more
29:54
two more bits of data because i i’m say
29:56
i i have the benefit here of sitting
29:58
here and looking at my uh
29:59
my computer being able to pull out some
30:01
stuff uh going back to the statewide
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data
30:04
north and south dakota have very similar
30:07
populations
30:08
north dakota has been a lot more
30:10
restrictive in the way that they have
30:12
dealt with covid19 they haven’t had full
30:14
lockdowns but they’ve had a lot more
30:16
uh mandates and and and limitations on
30:19
gathering sizes and things like that
30:20
whereas south dakota has largely said
30:23
here’s the information do what you will
30:25
with it
30:26
north dakota’s rate of spread of of uh
30:28
kovid
30:29
is actually slightly higher than south
30:32
dakota’s
30:34
wow here’s another and here’s another
30:37
one
30:39
so no go ahead no go ahead go ahead when
30:42
you point out those two states i think
30:43
it’s only right
30:45
give credit where it’s credit where
30:46
credit’s due we’ve been talking about
30:47
governors
30:49
governor christie gnome has done a great
30:51
job in south dakota
30:52
leaving her state open leaving decisions
30:56
to her residents
30:57
and not trying to heavy hand them i
30:59
admire her for that
31:01
and more governors should be following
31:03
her lead and trying to emulate her
31:07
and and now to be to be clear there are
31:09
they do have both states have a higher
31:11
rate
31:12
it’s almost as though it didn’t really
31:14
matter whether they had lockdowns or not
31:15
and they were just
31:16
possibly because of their low
31:17
populations and the fact that some of
31:20
their populations are very heavily
31:21
centralized into a handful of very small
31:24
tight-knit communities would lead for
31:26
them to have uh
31:27
to have more rate of lockdown or maybe
31:29
some other factor
31:30
um i’m trying to find this data that
31:32
came up recently
31:33
for the people that say but what if it
31:35
could save lives well we know
31:37
that according to a a study from
31:41
the i’m pulling up their name according
31:43
to a study
31:45
from uh authors in duke university
31:47
harvard medical school
31:49
and johns hopkins university which you
31:52
know these are well-known
31:54
uh uh wing nut groups of science deniers
31:57
uh they they said that they are
32:00
estimating
32:01
that 1.37
32:04
million more people will have died
32:08
from the as you call it the ancillary
32:10
effects
32:11
of they said the pandemic but let’s be
32:13
clear it’s from the lockdowns
32:15
1.37 million more people
32:18
will die than from the actual virus
32:21
itself
32:22
over the course of the next uh either 10
32:24
or 20 years
32:25
this is a long-term thing joe and a lot
32:27
of people don’t talk about this
32:29
the fact that when a uh when you
32:32
disrupt a community by putting most of
32:35
the people there
32:36
out of work for a year plus there
32:39
are health and safety and wellness and
32:42
crime and all sorts of other effects
32:44
that last not just then
32:45
but for several years later and i’m just
32:48
so
32:49
happy to hear that you are talking about
32:51
this i i
32:52
as you’re talking i’m already
32:54
envisioning how i’m going to be able to
32:55
go to pennsylvania to help you campaign
32:57
and uh it’s it’s a great it’s a great
33:00
excuse to go back there i had a great
33:01
time there when i was doing the ballot
33:02
access petitions
33:04
and uh i i can’t wait to come back and
33:06
help you joe before we let you go
33:07
because you’ve been a fantastic guest
33:09
and thank you so much for coming we want
33:11
to give you a chance to plug
33:13
your campaign how can people help you if
33:15
they if they’re inspired by what they
33:16
hear
33:17
if they want to watch you dribble that
33:18
that that uh uh dribble that bowling
33:20
ball
33:21
how how can they help you where can they
33:23
find you and what can they do to help
33:26
but let’s let’s not forget the cobra
33:28
wrestling too yes
33:30
well of course the cobra wrestling of
33:32
course who could forget
33:35
well my my website is joe soloski.com
33:39
that’s j-o-e s-o-l-o-s-k-i
33:43
joe soloski.com yes i’m on facebook
33:47
joseph p soloski for governor and yes
33:50
i’m on instagram i’m on twitter
33:52
my media people they’re the ones
33:54
dribbling
33:55
circles around me as far as getting our
33:58
message out there they’re doing a
33:59
phenomenal job
34:01
but uh your first spot to stop to check
34:05
me out
34:05
is joesalowsky.com you can donate there
34:08
you can check out the issues i’m running
34:10
on
34:10
email me please i’ll get back
34:13
to you i’ll talk to you answer your
34:16
questions
34:17
i want you to be an informed voter and i
34:19
really do want to earn your vote
34:20
gentlemen i can’t thank you enough real
34:22
real quick joe before you go
34:24
uh you said that you’re uh that you’re
34:26
basically retired but you were a cpa
34:28
yes all my life are you sure you weren’t
34:30
a dj
34:33
well i don’t know matt let me see
34:35
[Laughter]
34:38
it’s been a dream it’s been a dream
34:40
since i was 15
34:41
and uh if i ever have a great like you
34:44
have a great speaking voice
34:46
and yeah it sounds like you would be
34:48
somebody like that’s
34:49
you know like a voiceover artist or
34:52
something with all the hits from the 80s
34:55
let me offer this to you if you ever
34:57
need some voice over
34:59
i’ll make myself available to you yeah
35:01
we definitely
35:03
you will be hearing from us because we
35:04
absolutely do need that hey
35:06
joe thank you so much everyone joe
35:09
soloski.com j-o-e-s-o-l-o-s-k-i
35:13
dot i’m not as good as him but uh
35:15
joesalowsky.com
35:16
if you live in or anywhere near
35:18
pennsylvania you actually want to get
35:20
out there and help him physically
35:22
be sure to get in touch with joe i’m
35:23
sure there’s all sorts of fun stuff that
35:25
they can have you doing
35:25
if you’re able to help online to share
35:27
the message for joe soloski joe
35:30
siloski.com joe
35:31
thank you so much for joining us thank
35:34
you gentlemen
35:35
i truly appreciate it appreciate you
35:37
coming thank you
35:38
and folks so we’re going to be doing a
35:39
brief intermission and uh
35:41
and we will be right back but on our
35:44
intermission we’ve got some
35:45
very exciting news about an upcoming
35:48
re-edition to muddy waters media but
35:51
we’ll be back in just a couple minutes
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i am
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the whole damn world i don’t need
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anybody’s help yeah i am waving while i
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drive don’t bother swimming
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cause if there’s today enough for one
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there must be
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now
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is
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folks welcome back it is me
38:06
it’s still us it’s just the same it’s
38:08
just me and matt uh
38:10
so yes the writer’s block
38:14
the original spin-off to
38:17
muddied the muddy waters of freedom
38:19
starring
38:20
this guy over here guy on left matt
38:22
wright
38:24
will be back guy in center and guy on
38:27
left there
38:28
guy on entire screen on the
38:31
writer’s block uh matt tell tell us a
38:33
little bit about the writer’s block for
38:35
folks that are newer to muddy waters
38:36
media and haven’t seen it before tell us
38:38
okay so this is weird i could not see uh
38:41
the video through the entire for like
38:43
through the soloski part and i had
38:45
my hair sticking up i
38:48
okay that’s better um i thought you
38:51
wanted it that way i would have said no
38:53
i i yeah
38:53
no i just couldn’t see myself um uh
38:57
so the writer’s block was the original
38:59
spin-off of muddied waters of freedom
39:01
um uh and i think you had the
39:05
second show that was ever part of
39:07
muddied waters media
39:08
and then i had the spin-off um and it is
39:12
a
39:12
long-form interview show where i bring
39:15
on libertarians and we kind of talk
39:16
about how they got into libertarianism
39:18
what projects they’re working on what
39:19
things
39:20
uh that the people in the libertarian
39:22
party can do to help
39:23
um and occasionally i just bring people
39:26
on and we talk about music movies tv
39:28
whatever um but uh just for a way for
39:32
libertarians to spread what they’re
39:34
passionate about what projects they’re
39:35
working on
39:36
um so if you know of anybody who wants
39:39
to
39:39
be on muddy waters media
39:43
send us an email because facebook
39:46
doesn’t let me use the app anymore
39:48
um so send us an email for some reason
39:52
your you can use the the you can use the
39:55
uh
39:56
you can use everything else you can
39:57
literally use the browser
39:59
you can you just can’t use your app yeah
40:02
um so send us an email because i’m not
40:04
going through the browser that thing is
40:06
awful
40:06
uh muddiedwatersmedia uh
40:10
and send all requests to come on to the
40:13
writer’s block with me
40:14
guy on left matt wright there
40:17
um but yeah we are going to be launching
40:19
that in a couple more weeks
40:20
i saw a couple people in the comments uh
40:22
earlier say that i have a new background
40:26
yes i do yes me and superfan
40:30
i guess super fan sarah anderage and i
40:32
uh
40:33
moved into a new place over the weekend
40:36
um
40:36
and because she has like crazy jew power
40:41
um she got everything moved in
40:45
unpacked all the garbage is gone
40:48
it looks like we have lived here for
40:51
months
40:52
that’s true power that’s jew power
40:56
um yeah so i have this new background uh
40:59
there’s another part that’s up there but
41:00
you can’t see it because i did not think
41:02
about
41:03
where the camera would be when i put
41:04
that on the wall
41:06
yeah there’s a gun there is there is a
41:09
gun there there’s there’s a gun right
41:11
there from like 1875.
41:14
and just this is an exact replica of the
41:17
declaration of independence
41:20
and a gun but all they see is the
41:22
calendar of me without a shirt on
41:24
right well yeah i’ve always got spike
41:26
over my shoulder
41:28
looking over you so we got uh uh you
41:31
know we’ve got a lot so
41:32
uh joe soloski very very popular guest
41:35
people are real excited about that
41:36
by the way you got a shout out uh sean
41:38
said that when your hair is messy
41:39
but looks like it’s supposed to be that
41:41
way you’re actually doing it right
41:43
that was the thing i couldn’t tell i’m
41:44
like is that i think he’s
41:46
doing a thing so i just let it i was
41:48
like all right well you know
41:52
and then and frankly it was one time
41:53
that my hair wasn’t the worst
41:55
so i also took that too so
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right um so yeah facebook announced a
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new set
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of terms of services that they are
42:57
planning on launching soon um and they
42:59
will
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permanently be stopping the pro
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so that means that’s weird
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wait what the hell just happened i don’t
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yeah there’s also one on me week um
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so this actually came from uh
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from uh so it it this happened in phases
43:49
the they’ve been uh
43:53
facebook has been catching a lot of
43:55
flack
43:56
um and from both the left and
44:00
from really both sides but mostly from
44:02
the left
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uh because uh the uh
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it’s been alleged that you know the main
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platform that was used
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uh for people to uh organize the capital
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riots
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uh was on facebook even though most of
44:18
them were heavily using gab and parlor
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and melee and a bunch of other ones
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more importantly there’s been more and
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more
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wait for it government scrutiny
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where the government has been
44:32
threatening to get involved
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and this is something that is often left
44:37
out of the equation
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is the carrot and stick approach that
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government uses
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with really everyone but in this case
44:45
social media outlets
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so they threaten them well no that would
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be the carrot they threaten
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them with the stick of you know we may
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have to tighten up the regulations and
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hold you responsible for things that
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people say on your social media platform
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and then they put out the carrot of well
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if you
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uh get involved in this content
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know through uh
45:09
uh the north atlantic partnership
45:13
uh then you can you know you can
45:16
continue
45:16
to be dominant in your field or we could
45:19
regulate you
45:20
and then this puts this puts the social
45:22
media groups which
45:23
they’re fine with being regulated as
45:25
long as it ensures that they’re the
45:27
the primary social media that people are
45:29
using
45:30
that puts them in the position of going
45:32
okay fine
45:33
you you you you know you you push my
45:35
hand i’m i’m gonna i’m gonna go ahead
45:38
and and heavily regulate
45:39
you know what we’re allowing and we’re
45:40
gonna make political content
45:42
less and less accessible uh um
45:46
mark zuckerberg actually said uh in an
45:49
interview
45:49
people don’t want to see political
45:51
content well if that were true then you
45:53
wouldn’t
45:54
have to do anything right you wouldn’t
45:57
have to suppress political content if
45:58
people didn’t want to see it
46:01
from my experience in facebook um which
46:04
has been for quite some time um
46:07
on and off uh because of mark zuckerberg
46:10
uh
46:10
but from my experience whatever you are
46:14
into that’s what you see the most of
46:16
like once they started doing it
46:17
once they got rid of real-time comments
46:20
on the newsfeed
46:22
and they made it oh these are the things
46:23
we think you want to see
46:25
once they did that it was they were
46:28
they were collecting your data and
46:29
making an algorithm of what it is that
46:31
you
46:31
um on what it is that uh you
46:38
sarah’s like in the other room and she’s
46:40
texting me to make sure i’m okay because
46:42
that’s how jewish she is are you okay
46:47
but um be
46:51
because they started collecting your
46:52
data and putting it into an algorithm
46:54
and then
46:54
the things that you would like or the
46:55
things that you would stop on for a
46:57
second you didn’t even have to like it
46:58
they started showing you that kind of
47:00
stuff more
47:00
and the fact that people continue to see
47:03
more and more political stuff means that
47:05
was the stuff that they were interested
47:06
in
47:06
so mark zuckerberg saying this makes no
47:09
sense
47:10
because it was his own algorithm that
47:12
figured that out
47:16
right and that’s the yeah that’s the
47:20
problem is that they’re also
47:23
not sussing out and explaining
47:26
what they’re using they’re just saying
47:28
oh well our data shows us
47:30
that people don’t like this well if
47:31
people didn’t again if people didn’t
47:33
like it
47:33
you wouldn’t be this is like when they
47:35
say well we have to
47:36
increase these lockdowns because the
47:38
coveted cases are rising
47:40
during our lockdowns it’s what we have
47:42
to uh you know we have to suppress
47:44
political content people don’t want to
47:47
see it
47:47
then they keep doing it but they don’t
47:51
want to
47:53
now like facebook hasn’t defined what
47:55
will be political or
47:57
a political group in their minds and not
47:59
so
48:01
will they pretend like because this is
48:03
all leading to getting rid of them
48:05
that is the end goal i think um
48:09
so you know will they they’ll get rid of
48:10
the libertarian groups first so the
48:12
muddy waters group
48:13
will probably go away at some point i
48:15
hope it doesn’t
48:16
um we put a lot of work into it but yeah
48:18
i hope so yeah at some point it will
48:21
probably go away
48:22
now does that mean that uh
48:25
aoc’s campaign team will lose their
48:28
group
48:30
or does that mean that donald trump’s
48:32
re-election team will lose their group
48:34
well yeah no that one will happen they
48:36
already did yeah yeah they already did
48:38
um so what will they be defining as
48:41
political will they be defining
48:42
religious groups as political will
48:44
they’d be defining gun groups as
48:45
political will
48:46
yeah and until they come out with the
48:48
definition on what’s political and
48:50
what’s not political
48:52
nobody really knows and they can just
48:53
start banning groups
48:57
straight down the board or at least not
48:58
sharing them and telling people that
49:00
these groups are here
49:02
yeah well which is a big which is a big
49:04
and especially if they’re
49:05
if certain types of politics they’re
49:07
saying yes we’re going to show that to
49:08
you but then other ones they say no
49:10
then that’s a that’s sort of a deep a a
49:13
lack of platforming that’s happening
49:14
there
49:15
um the other part of that is we’re
49:18
starting to hear
49:18
more and more of this term domestic
49:20
extremism
49:22
because domestic terrorism didn’t quite
49:24
ring true
49:26
right it’s hard to say when someone says
49:28
i think we shouldn’t have any taxes or
49:30
lockdowns
49:31
to say you’re a terrorist that’s a bit
49:33
much
49:34
but you’re an extremist that’s a lot
49:37
more
49:38
subjective we really don’t have a
49:40
defined term
49:42
if you you might think that’s extreme
49:43
you might think it’s not extreme i think
49:45
it’s extreme to say we should rob
49:46
everyone
49:47
uh so no i but but
49:50
expect to see more and more of that
49:52
where they’ll say well we’re gonna allow
49:53
political speech
49:54
just not domestic extremist political
49:57
speech you know
49:58
like being against common sense gun
50:00
control or
50:01
common sense taxation policy or you know
50:04
a
50:04
fair distribution of of of
50:08
assets and resources to those who need
50:10
it the most all of this is they’re going
50:12
to say
50:12
well we’re not you know we’re not
50:13
suppressing politics we’re just
50:15
suppressing extremism
50:16
and of course they will define extremism
50:19
as a
50:19
very very narrow range of
50:22
probably centaurus centrist center
50:26
left center rightish politics and
50:28
anything outside of that
50:30
is extremism and if you’re on the far
50:32
left yeah you’re next
50:34
actually it’s already happening to you
50:36
so you know if
50:37
if you’re one of these people that’s you
50:38
know saying we need to oppose joe biden
50:40
because he’s a racist and he’s
50:42
not going to do what we want and we need
50:45
to seize the means of production yeah i
50:46
know that
50:47
you’re not going to be allowed to say
50:48
that like that’s that’s awesome
50:51
he sees the means of production but
50:52
everything before that no like
50:54
only unironically yeah yeah i mean if i
50:57
if you uh
50:58
are only ironically if you want to
50:59
remind people that uh
51:01
you know joe biden wrote the 1994 crime
51:03
bill he was the one that wrote the bill
51:04
that made it
51:05
uh so you can’t claim your uh
51:08
student loans on on your
51:13
bankruptcies brains not working yet uh
51:16
on your bankruptcies
51:17
uh talked about racial jungles and
51:20
that kamala harris literally had been
51:22
put to death to help her
51:24
uh court records if you say those things
51:26
on facebook you’re not going to be
51:27
allowed there
51:28
oh yeah no that’s extremism mentioning
51:30
that kamala harris
51:31
put two men on death row and tried to
51:33
have them killed even though she had
51:34
evidence that they didn’t do
51:36
their crime that’s definitely extremism
51:38
now her doing that that’s not extremism
51:40
her
51:40
you saying she did that is you
51:42
definitely can’t extreme so that that’ll
51:43
that’ll be fun now we got it we got a
51:45
donation from uh joe makes drifts
51:47
uh oh joe makes drifts uh uh for for
51:50
five dollars thank you so much joe
51:52
and he asked any thoughts on h.r 127 and
51:55
i i actually do have some thoughts on hr
51:56
127.
51:58
um i’m going to be posting about it
51:59
tomorrow on on go go ahead
52:02
we have a question about that later
52:06
in the chris reynolds section oh okay
52:09
stay tuned
52:10
because we’re gonna be i had to screen
52:11
all of them
52:13
okay yes
52:16
uh so uh so we will we will actually be
52:19
addressing that later
52:20
uh speaking of addressing things late
52:24
nancy pelosi uh technically didn’t do
52:27
anything illegal
52:28
uh but she did do something that was
52:30
completely unethical matt
52:32
yep uh her husband paul um which by the
52:35
way
52:36
that dude looks like like he looks like
52:39
a paul
52:40
when i looked at him like i googled him
52:43
and i went
52:43
yeah that’s a paul like there is no he
52:46
was born and they
52:48
i’m gonna pull up a picture of paul
52:49
pelosi paul pelosi
52:51
um her husband paul
52:54
bought up to one million dollars of
52:57
tesla stock when the price was 640
53:01
cents by last thursday it was 838
53:07
a share which is roughly i’m not great
53:10
at math
53:11
a 33 increase 35 percent increase
53:15
um somewhere right in there um
53:18
it went up right after biden released a
53:21
plan to make
53:21
the federal auto fleet which is more
53:23
than 645
53:25
000 cars all electric
53:29
oh that’s a paul yeah that’s a paul
53:32
that dude is a paul
53:38
so he did some insider trading go ahead
53:39
sorry matt didn’t mean that yeah
53:41
so he did some insider trading um so
53:44
paul and nancy made 25 stock market
53:48
maneuvers
53:48
uh which are called call options that
53:51
will allow
53:52
mrs pelosi nancy to buy tesla at
53:55
five hundred dollars a share until march
53:57
of 2022
54:00
wow it’s currently worth
54:03
8.38 there’s no reason to think it will
54:06
not continue to grow steadily
54:08
because of the spaces that uh that elon
54:11
musk and tesla
54:12
and his uh his umbrella of companies
54:15
is under which are largely electric
54:18
vehicles
54:19
uh electric home uh uh at home electric
54:22
uh
54:24
like solar panels and things like that
54:26
so renewables
54:27
and space travel commercial space travel
54:30
and space uh equipment delivery which
54:32
are all three of the fastest growing
54:34
sectors
54:35
in the economy and she’s going to be
54:37
able to buy it
54:39
at five hundred dollars a share for two
54:42
more which is
54:43
slightly more than half what it’s worth
54:45
now
54:47
right for more than an and for
54:50
for an entire for another year and two
54:53
months
54:55
yes one year two months and she is
54:58
actively affecting legislation that will
55:00
make sure that tesla makes a lot of
55:02
money amazing yes
55:04
um her spokesman said
55:08
in a comment that her husband not the
55:11
speaker
55:12
made the tesla bets and the speaker’s
55:14
political relationships
55:16
were irrelevant
55:19
certainly these two never talk
55:22
yet they either never talk or don’t live
55:24
anywhere in
55:25
the same vicinity of each other and
55:28
don’t use cell phones or the internet
55:31
and aren’t standing near each other
55:32
right now right right now
55:34
right right in this very very photo
55:40
there’s no way wow that’s now what’s
55:43
incredible is that this is
55:44
actually not illegal now liz warren wall
55:47
street warren
55:48
who recently introduced a bill that
55:49
would ban stock market trading by
55:51
congress members
55:52
did not she was oddly unavailable for
55:54
comment about this
55:56
yeah weirdly because so we all remember
55:59
uh at the beginning of covid
56:03
oh god what was her name the senator the
56:05
the former senator from georgia that
56:06
just lost lossler
56:07
kelly lawson kelly laflin kelly loffler
56:09
got into the heat along with some others
56:11
um for making a bunch of stock market
56:14
trades right before
56:15
uh kovac came over and the pan like the
56:17
pandemic hit
56:18
um and that was when elizabeth warren
56:21
decided that she needed to put this bill
56:23
in that
56:24
you know members of congress can’t do
56:25
this
56:27
odd that now that it is nancy pelosi
56:31
she is silent i have no
56:35
i can’t see what the pattern is there
56:37
why she wouldn’t do it that just seems
56:38
really really weird and i don’t
56:40
understand now some of you might be
56:42
saying hey
56:43
that sounds oddly like stock
56:45
manipulation
56:46
is there any other stock manipulation
56:48
that’s gone on that you’d like to talk
56:50
about yes we’ll be talking about that uh
56:52
we’ll actually be closing the show with
56:53
that so after the chris reynolds segment
56:55
we will be uh doing uh doing talking
56:57
about the
56:58
game stock controversy that’s been going
57:01
on
57:01
speaking of just
57:05
there is no funny segue to this
57:09
so we talked about we have talked about
57:12
uh the fact that the united states
57:14
government
57:15
has given burma 135 million dollars
57:21
in financial incentives to the
57:25
government of burma to stop ethnic
57:27
cleansing
57:28
uh and to stop um and to stop
57:32
uh violence gender-based violence
57:35
uh now they did this even though the
57:37
government of burma is largely
57:39
run by the military with a very weak uh
57:42
figurehead head of state uh who has
57:45
little to no power to actually do
57:46
anything
57:47
uh who is a woman uh so they gave this
57:49
money to the burmese government
57:51
who responded oddly enough by committing
57:54
an
57:55
ethnic cleansing against the current
57:57
villages that’s a
57:58
an ethnic group in um in burma in
58:02
myanmar uh in villages and
58:05
over 4 000 people have been displaced uh
58:07
they also followed up by demonstrating
58:09
their commitment to ending gender-based
58:11
violence
58:11
by arresting uh their female prime
58:14
minister
58:15
after she defeated uh the their pick the
58:18
military pick
58:20
uh the commander-in-chief of the
58:21
military for the prime ministerial
58:22
position
58:23
with 90-plus percent of the popular vote
58:27
right she was arrested on charges of
58:29
voter fraud now i know
58:31
donald trump is definitely somewhere
58:32
taking notes matt
58:34
he is he is definitely out there because
58:37
so the the uh commander-in-chief of the
58:39
military
58:40
um he ran he he ran to be the
58:44
prime minister or whatever they call it
58:45
there um
58:47
he lost massively yeah
58:50
to the former prime minister um and we
58:53
i did not put her name in here because i
58:55
don’t know how to pronounce it and i’m
58:56
tired of stumbling over the names
58:58
um but she has like five names
59:02
um but so
59:05
she won with like 90 90 plus percent of
59:08
the popular vote
59:09
it was like a 93 uh 93
59:12
margin or something um so the
59:15
commander-in-chief of the military said
59:18
well this is obviously voter fraud it’s
59:21
not
59:22
this isn’t like okay there were a few
59:24
thousand votes in georgia
59:26
and a few thousand votes in pennsylvania
59:28
this was
59:29
93 of the popular vote
59:33
no this is obviously voter fraud so he
59:35
arrested members of their parliament
59:38
who are all on her party side and
59:41
her and just essentially took
59:44
over the took over uh the country and
59:48
appointed himself to be the new leader
59:51
of the country
59:52
as well as commander-in-chief of the
59:53
military many people think that because
59:56
in
59:56
uh in miramar um
60:01
in miramar that
60:05
no it’s miramar miramar it’s miramar
60:09
i i spoke with somebody last night for
60:12
an
60:12
hour and he let me know that the correct
60:16
pronunciation is miramar and everybody
60:18
that says myamar is wrong
60:21
um
60:24
yeah he’s like every time i’m watching
60:26
cnn and somebody says
60:28
myamar i get annoyed because it’s
60:31
miramar
60:32
uh here’s here’s how they say uh
60:35
this name by the way
60:40
on tsuchi okay onsen tsuchi
60:44
yeah if you look at the last comment
60:45
that came in from facebook
60:47
uh myanmar myanmar
60:52
myanmar on sun tsuchi
60:55
the prime minister well former prime
60:57
minister
60:59
the recently the former prime minister
61:02
so
61:03
this is so uh they have a
61:06
sorry they have a mandatory uh
61:08
retirement age in the military over
61:10
there of 65 which the commander-in-chief
61:13
happens to be turning 65 but they don’t
61:16
have that for
61:16
the prime minister prime minister office
61:19
yeah
61:20
so by him doing like a lot of people
61:22
think that he did this so he wouldn’t
61:24
have to retire and he’d still be able to
61:26
rule over the military
61:29
he got seven percent of the vote
61:34
well he got less than seven percent
61:36
there might have been other candidates
61:37
but he got
61:40
imagine if joe and i after the election
61:42
declared that trump and biden were
61:44
frauds
61:44
and used the military to depose everyone
61:48
and take over that’s kind of what just
61:50
happened
61:51
in myanmar oddly enough we didn’t get
61:55
135 million dollars to do that
61:57
but this uh foreign military
61:59
dictatorship did
62:00
now joe biden thankfully joe biden made
62:03
a very strong statement
62:04
against uh this and promised to take
62:07
serious action
62:08
against this military dictatorship and
62:10
the coup that they’ve implemented
62:12
and i had a nurse at nurses
62:15
at walter reed hospital who would bend
62:18
down and
62:19
whisper in my ear and go home and get me
62:22
pillows they would make sure they’d
62:24
actually
62:25
probably nothing ever taught in uh you
62:27
can’t do it in the covered time but
62:29
they’d actually breathe in my nostrils
62:30
to make me move
62:32
get me moving powerful
62:36
uh one very uh powerful
62:40
big stuff from joe biden there big power
62:42
moves being made by the the new alpha
62:44
president
62:44
uh one action he could have taken was to
62:47
not
62:48
give 135 million dollars to a
62:52
military dictatorship that was actively
62:54
engaging in
62:55
ethnic cleansing and genocide against
62:57
their own people
63:02
but
63:06
now but now
63:09
he’s going to take action against those
63:11
responsible
63:13
as and then when pressed on it jinsaki
63:16
said we’re going to circle back
63:18
um
63:22
she said ask my brother more on that
63:25
more on that
63:26
so jinsaki’s not in our notes but
63:29
has everybody here gotten a chance to
63:31
watch some of the white house press
63:32
briefings
63:34
i watched her say i’m gonna i watched a
63:36
super cut of her saying she was gonna
63:37
circle back
63:38
yeah she so i watched one in its
63:41
entirety
63:42
one day and you know how you have those
63:45
people
63:46
uh bill clinton is like the best example
63:48
of this
63:49
um where you would ask him a question
63:52
and he wouldn’t answer it but you felt
63:54
satisfied with what he said
63:55
you have those people that have that
63:57
skill she does not have
63:59
that skill she has that
64:02
she has the i’m not going to answer your
64:04
question skill
64:06
but not that the satisfaction part
64:09
right not that other part that’s really
64:11
really important
64:13
uh when you want to do that because she
64:16
is
64:16
awful at that so what we’re going to do
64:18
is we’re going to circle back to that
64:20
and i’m going to
64:21
confer with that department and once i
64:23
get an answer
64:24
i’ll come back here and i’ll give you uh
64:27
an update
64:28
although we don’t know when that update
64:30
is going to come so once we get back to
64:32
it
64:33
uh and if you can remind it’s just like
64:35
say
64:36
anything say a word it was like when the
64:39
joe biden masked i think it was because
64:42
of the joe biden mask fiasco from
64:44
oh gosh yeah i think that after that
64:47
she’s like don’t say
64:48
anything don’t ever speak
64:52
a real word because for anybody who
64:54
doesn’t know joe biden signed an
64:56
executive order saying that masks were
64:58
mandatory on all federal property and
65:00
then was later seen
65:02
without a mask at the
65:05
lincoln memorial yeah one of them i
65:08
think lincoln memorial
65:09
i think it was lincoln on federal
65:10
property with a bunch of people
65:13
who also weren’t wearing masks all well
65:16
within six feet of each other
65:17
hours after signing it just and when
65:21
asked about it she
65:22
said i think that we have bigger issues
65:23
to deal with than that
65:26
and like kovid like yeah covid or
65:29
uh well that seemed to be the biggest
65:31
issue for the last year
65:34
so potentially either you are now
65:37
downplaying it
65:39
because it’s not supposed to be played
65:41
up as much as you’ve been doing it
65:42
or you have
65:46
no logical answer for us yeah what
65:50
what is she gonna say to that yes uh he
65:52
thinks his law
65:53
his own law can be ignored uh and he can
65:56
make his own decisions as to what is or
65:58
is not safe
65:59
that would be one which i agree with
66:02
yeah
66:03
uh another one would be uh he does not
66:06
take this seriously um and thinks this
66:09
is all security theater
66:10
yeah that’s a good one um he’s a massive
66:13
massive hypocrite
66:14
yeah uh also um he thinks you’re
66:18
stupid um and uh
66:21
or he doesn’t know where or who he is
66:24
often right would be he didn’t all of
66:27
these would be accurate
66:28
where or who he is he also had no clue
66:30
what happened to his mask and nobody
66:32
wanted him to feel bad so they all took
66:34
theirs off
66:35
i would have believed that
66:38
what’s going on what’s going on well
66:40
you’re not worried about what a mask
66:41
come on man
66:43
come on man all right fine we’ll just
66:45
take the mask off
66:46
you know i’ve said many times you know
66:47
during this time of social distancing
66:50
uh everyone has wanted to stay away from
66:53
joe biden at least six feet
66:54
for years now and i just feel terrible
66:57
that he now has to often reciprocate
67:01
i love that joe uh now speaking of
67:03
reciprocating
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sure uh this now we are going to the
67:09
segment one of my favorite segments and
67:11
probably yours too
67:12
which is in fact a few of you really
67:14
like it uh which is the
67:16
personal injury attorney chris reynolds
67:17
attorney at law anchor call in moment
67:20
i want joe celoski to be the one to do
67:23
the the personal injury attorney chris
67:25
reynolds attorney at law
67:27
anchor cullen moment he was good man
67:30
he was good so i’m going to ask him to
67:32
read that
67:33
uh and send us an audio of it so we can
67:36
just use that
67:37
every single time and i’m also going to
67:39
ask him to say
67:41
and and now uh matt wright and spike
67:43
cohen
67:44
like and put it into the video and now
67:47
the
67:47
muddied waters of freedom with your host
67:50
matt wright and spike cohen
67:55
he’s good he’s a can being a cpa well
67:58
i’ve got some bad news
67:59
about your taxes but i do think that
68:03
we’ve found
68:04
a legal loophole but don’t worry
68:06
cullerton
68:07
right now will get no taxes for the rest
68:10
of their lives
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caller 10 yes
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actually that’d be pretty cool i want to
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be caller 10. um i would really want to
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be caller tim
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so we’ve got a few here and we’re just
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going to go ahead and get started by the
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way for those who don’t know personal
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injury the pers
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personal injury attorney chris reynolds
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attorney at law that’s not how you get
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68:32
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you more
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so let’s get started with the first one
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here from alex boyer
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hello hello alex from virginia calling
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in on the chris reynolds personal injury
69:11
attorney attorney law anchor calling
69:12
why can you hear that i can sounds like
69:15
it’s coming through your computer though
69:17
why is that coming through my computer i
69:20
don’t know
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so hey matt tell them that story that
69:29
you think is real funny
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well i figured this out
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oh yes that story that i think is real
69:37
funny that story
69:39
so let me tell you all let me tell you
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all about the time that i ended up on
69:43
stage with the rolling stones
69:44
um so i was living in tennessee right
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and uh while i was working at this
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italian restaurant
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uh called mafiosis it’s on 12 south in
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uh in tennessee um erin nashville
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tennessee
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uh i became friends with this guy named
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jesse yeah i’m really close like we you
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know went out drinking a bunch
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obviously i don’t drink anymore as we
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talk about often on the show
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um but we uh
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we became really close we hung out a
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whole bunch one day he comes up to me
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and he says hey
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i need a favor and i said well yeah what
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is it he goes can you help uh
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alex from virginia no go ahead no tell
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your story
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man that’s a long story i didn’t know
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how long it was going to take you okay
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funny matt right i know that’s
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that’s like the funniest thing so here’s
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our first uh
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here’s our first uh it’s our first
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question here calling in on the chris
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rounds personal injury attorney attorney
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in law anchor calling moment i have a
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question today for you guys regarding
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united states v sprague a 1931 supreme
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court case
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one of the decisions that the court came
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to was that the
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10th amendment did not add anything
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to the constitution
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and it quote
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has no limited special operation as
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is contended i was wondering what
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you two think about that and
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whether or not that may have been an
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abuse of power
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by the supreme court in the federal
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government
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thank you
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i’m reading this right now so uh it was
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i actually
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i actually spoke with a personal injury
71:38
attorney chris reynolds attorney at law
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earlier today
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okay good um now he summed up
71:44
a u.s first sprague as defend defendants
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were convicted under prohibition found
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in the 18th amendment
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they argued that the 18th amendment
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wasn’t properly ratified
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the question is whether the 18th
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amendment was properly ratified and made
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part of the constitution
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amendments can be ratified pursuant to
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article 5
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either by three quarters of congress or
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three quarters of the state conventions
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if the proposed amendment affects the
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personal liberty of citizens then it can
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only be ratified by the state
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constitutional
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constitutional conventions and not the
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legislatures
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according to article 5. so in other
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words can
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congress amend the constitution when the
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amendment affects the personal liberty
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of citizens
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or should this be only permitted by the
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people
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at state conventions
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and the court said it can be done by
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congress it doesn’t have to be
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well so they determined that article 5
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gave congress the power to decide
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whether any proposed amendment to the
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constitution can be ratified by the
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legislature
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or by the state conventions so the court
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held that the 18th amendment was
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properly ratified because congress said
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it was okay for the 18th amendment to be
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ratified by the legislature
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um so basically the congress said that
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the congress could do it
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yes now nice personal injury attorney
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chris reynolds attorney at law said
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uh this reads as a terrible decision the
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purpose of article 5 is to make sure
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that only people can
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agree to amend the constitution if it
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affects personal liberties
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but the court essentially allowed
73:23
congress to amend the constitution
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in a way that affected personal freedoms
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without consent of the people
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and the reasoning seems very dubious to
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chris
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um this was an example of an activist
73:34
court essentially legislating from the
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bench
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and i have to say i agree with my
73:40
attorney
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yeah the courts went took article five
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and went
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yeah that would mean a lot of these
73:50
amendments aren’t any good so no
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now thankfully congress has moved past
73:56
uh something as ridiculous as
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modifying the constitution now they just
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create a a
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regulatory agency and let them uh
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legislate effectively through
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regulations at the
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executive level so we’re well past that
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so uh thank you for that question uh
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alex and uh
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next one is from will mcelveen
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will mclevene here with corn pop my best
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friend riding shotgun
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i was just curious what do y’all think
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about this bill being introduced by the
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democratic texan for gun legislation
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i read through it and it’s quite
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ridiculous if you have to actually
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put a word on it um yeah
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just curious what y’all’s thoughts are
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on that i can’t remember the exact
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number
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of the law but i did share it on
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facebook i believe last night
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um curious as to y’all’s thoughts on
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that i think it’s [ __ ]
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but that’s you know that’s a southern
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guy who loves his guns
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of course i don’t have any because i
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lost them all in the great boating
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accident of 2012. sad we all did it
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i remember seeing you terrible thing i
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remember thanks
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love y’all it was a terrible terrible
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time matt do you have any thoughts on
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this because i have a
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lot yeah i’ve got so uh it’s uh
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bill hr147 i believe
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one two seven hr 127.
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um so hr 127 basically what they’re
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saying is that uh you have
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if this bill were to pass um
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all gun owners have three months to
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register all
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of their firearms with the atf
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not only that if anybody wants to
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purchase a new gun i’m not sure if it
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if it goes to people who already own
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guns but you have to apply
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for a permission slip to buy guns
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and in order to get that permission slip
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you have to go through a psychological
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eval
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from a psychologist that is approved by
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the attorney general of the united
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states
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the psychological eval they will be
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questioning your spouse or significant
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other they’ll be questioning
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uh two family members and then two
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people that are like on your periphery
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um when they when you register all of
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your weapons they will be
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putting them into a register
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that anybody can look at now
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when i was talking to one of my buddies
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about this yesterday he said i’m worried
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that
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if i registered and somebody saw that i
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have a really rare
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weapon that you can’t really find
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anymore somebody would try to go and
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steal it
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that’s not yeah i’m that’s not what i’m
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most concerned about though
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i do agree that would happen
76:44
what i’m most concerned about is if you
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spike cohen make your neighbor upset and
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they go on there and they’re like oh i
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wonder what weapon spike cohen has
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and then they call the police and say
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that you’re a danger and then you get i
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don’t know if you have red flag laws
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there
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um but then you get red
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yeah we do no but but even without red
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flag laws you could call and say
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uh spike cohen just pointed his hot
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pink sks
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at me and i’m scared help and hang up
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and then the police come in and you know
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shoot at my house like
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that’s that’s you know and and sadly
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again
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well will was there i lost my hot pink
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sks in the uh
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right the thing in in the boating
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accident right yeah in the great boating
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accident of 2019 or whatever
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um oh and by the way uh if in order you
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know
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uh what do you want to bet that the uh
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psychiatrists who are
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more lenient and reasonable in their
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assessments
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about whether someone should or should
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not have a gun don’t get approved by the
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attorney general
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and how long is that gonna take so
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not only that but should you not comply
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with the three-month rule
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or you don’t comply with getting the
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psychological eval or whatever
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it is an 800 fine
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every year
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so you i’m pretty certain that they’re
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not giving away these psychological
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evals you got to pay for that
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plus you have to pay for your permission
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slip to buy guns
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plus you got to pay taxes on all of the
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guns that you already have
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you’re going to have to pay the fines
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for all of those and then
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if you don’t do any of these things
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you’re going to get with hit with an 800
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fine this is classist
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because they’re making sure that people
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in lower income
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uh lower income neighborhoods do not
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purchase weapons
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and here’s why we can also call it
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racist as we know the original gun laws
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in this country
78:49
were first written to pr to stop
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pretty much freed slaves from owning
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weapons to protect themselves against
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the clan
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and people who were lynching them
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actively on a regular basis
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and uh every single gun law cinch like
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most other laws
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are wildly disproportionately enforced
79:07
against people of color as well as the
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poor
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and immigrants and gender and sexual
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minorities and so forth a black person
79:13
is
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uh somewhat less likely than a white
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person to own a firearm and they are
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seven times more likely to be convicted
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of a gun crime and when i say gun crime
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i mean owning a gun i don’t mean
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uh you know uh using a gun in the
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furtherance of a crime i mean just
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owning it to begin with uh so
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this would be if hr 127 passes
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uh it would become the single biggest
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act of gun control in american history
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uh it would absolutely be heavily
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enforced against those
79:43
just like all other laws are those with
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the least ability to defend themselves
79:47
in court
79:48
the poor minorities pretty much uh it
79:50
would also make things much worse in
79:52
marginalized and poorer communities
79:54
because now pretty much only the police
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and
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criminals can have guns the police
79:59
because none of this affects them and
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criminals because they don’t care what
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the rules are and
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poor people who could absolutely not
80:06
afford all the costs built into this
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uh the licensing the insurance you have
80:10
to carry and everything else
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will not uh be able to afford a weapon
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so they’ll either have to become a
80:15
criminal by owning one
80:17
and risk going to jail and you’re about
80:19
to found out for how long
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risk going to jail uh or end up just not
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owning a gun and being
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at the mercy of the police and criminals
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um
80:28
here’s a few things i i wrote some notes
80:30
here uh it does require all federal gun
80:32
owners to get a federal gun license and
80:34
this is retroactive you are not carrying
80:36
fathered in doesn’t matter who you are
80:37
unless you work for the government
80:39
uh gun licenses are incredibly expensive
80:41
so
80:42
ownership is much less accessible for
80:44
those who actually need protection the
80:46
most the less likely you are
80:47
you are to be able to afford protection
80:49
uh the more likely you are or to
80:51
afford someone else protecting you the
80:53
more likely you are not able to afford
80:55
uh now being able to uh legally own a
80:58
weapon there is an 800
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annual insurance plan it’s absolutely
81:02
going to go up every year
81:03
all government insurance plans start
81:05
here and go up but even at 800
81:07
that’s still a massive barrier for poor
81:09
people to be able to defend themselves
81:11
this is before we get into the cost of
81:12
the weapons themselves
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uh it heavily discriminates go ahead
81:16
real quick before you uh
81:18
somebody in the comments uh missy
81:20
purnell there it is
81:21
uh said what about second amendment
81:22
sanctuary states now
81:24
this will be enforced by the atf which
81:27
this isn’t going to be being enforced by
81:29
local law enforcement it will in some
81:30
states but in the states that are second
81:32
amendment uh sanctuary states or
81:33
sanctuary cities
81:34
local law enforcement won’t enforce it
81:36
the atf it just means they won’t
81:37
participate
81:39
yeah and and if something this big
81:41
passes department of homeland security
81:43
money
81:44
uh going to the states and cities will
81:46
absolutely be tied to
81:48
uh supporting and enforcing this this
81:49
will be their new baby
81:51
and uh it will be the new thing that joe
81:53
biden and kamala harris will be able to
81:54
use to fill up their
81:56
precious prisons with slave laborers and
81:58
so this will
81:59
absolutely be heavily heavily enforced
82:02
again
82:02
in the cities where that are filled with
82:04
the people that
82:06
have stuff used against them all the
82:07
time
82:09
imagine marching uh against police
82:12
brutality and abuse i don’t know all of
82:15
last summer
82:16
and then wanting only them to have guns
82:19
uh so this will also heavily
82:20
discriminate against anyone
82:22
who has a mental illness in or in other
82:24
words anyone who’s ever had to see a
82:26
therapist
82:27
or had to get mental health treatment
82:29
who has had depression
82:31
who has dealt with addiction like you
82:33
know victims of abuse
82:34
people with depression veterans with
82:36
ptsd
82:38
uh child sexual assault survivors people
82:41
that have had to deal with some very
82:43
incredible stuff that would make them
82:44
want to be able to defend themselves
82:46
and now nope at federal law they can
82:48
never do so
82:50
this bans larger caliber ammo uh which
82:53
is mostly used for hunting and sport
82:56
it’s pretty much
82:57
never used against people no one uses a
82:59
50 caliber round against people it’s a
83:01
massive waste
83:02
of money and resources um
83:05
it uh puts a really weird arbitrary
83:07
limit of 10 rounds on magazine capacity
83:09
uh that would make most magazines
83:12
illegal especially pretty much
83:13
all rifle magazine or the vast majority
83:15
of rifle magazines
83:16
illegal uh illegal ownership of as much
83:19
as one
83:20
single round of ammunition of any kind
83:24
can get you up to 20 years
83:28
in prison who do you think is going to
83:30
be targeted the most
83:33
it’s 20 i thought it was 15. up to
83:37
20 years in prison and hundreds of uh uh
83:39
i think a hundred thousand dollar fine
83:41
20 up to 20 years in prison now if
83:44
you’re a corrupt cop
83:46
how much easier is it gonna be to drop a
83:48
nine millimeter round
83:50
than a bag of cocaine this is
83:54
terrible imagine if you’re on parole
83:57
trying to get right and a corrupt cop
83:59
decides he wants to put you away for the
84:01
rest of
84:02
of your life how easy is that going to
84:04
be
84:05
one round of ammo
84:09
can land you in prison for 20
84:14
years
84:16
and and uh uh ownership of a uh of
84:19
of a legal uh item that you haven’t been
84:21
approved to have
84:22
i think it can get you uh that might be
84:24
the 15 one because it was under 20.
84:26
um of course it places absolutely no
84:28
restrictions on police or government
84:30
agents
84:31
who are tens of times more likely to
84:33
actually kill someone
84:34
than a civilian gun owner and i mean
84:36
this is just scratching the surface of
84:38
this
84:38
horrific law the good news
84:42
if you want to call it that is that the
84:43
likelihood of this passing is low
84:45
the bad news the bad news is that
84:48
this can very much be used um
84:52
to as a baseline to try to make
84:55
something more
84:56
reasonable which would end up being a
84:58
massive infringement i i think that this
85:00
is one of those
85:01
create such a shock with one thing that
85:04
then you bring in something else that
85:05
otherwise would have seemed ridiculous
85:07
but compared to this thing it’s nowhere
85:09
near as bad and people go
85:10
okay well i guess we’ll have to go
85:12
through with it uh and then
85:14
you jump all over that second thing the
85:17
nra
85:17
will fight this thing tooth and nail and
85:21
when the second thing comes out they’ll
85:22
go
85:25
does it still include protections for
85:27
our sponsors
85:28
in the gun manufacturing industry yes
85:31
okay you’ll notice that this has nothing
85:33
about ending uh
85:34
protection from uh law ending protection
85:37
against lawsuits
85:41
this has nra sponsors a watered-down
85:44
version of this
85:45
written all over it
85:48
yes and if you’re against it then
85:51
thankfully
85:52
social media is going to consider you a
85:53
domestic extremist
86:01
so the good news there those are our
86:03
thoughts those are our thoughts
86:05
uh all right here here’s the next one
86:09
here’s this is from billy pierce
86:12
howdy fellers billy pierce from houston
86:14
texas here again
86:15
i’d like to thank chris reynolds uh the
86:17
personal injury attorney for sponsoring
86:19
this uh
86:20
this segment um guys i’m considering
86:22
running for office again here in texas
86:24
as a way to help my community as a way
86:27
to help the my friends and my neighbors
86:29
and as i’m considering this i want to
86:32
instead of taking a shotgun approach
86:34
and sort of talking about the entire
86:35
libertarian platform
86:38
like some people do i want to
86:39
concentrate on two or three issues
86:42
that people really care about and
86:44
hopefully entice them to learn more
86:46
about libertarianism as a as a
86:47
philosophy
86:49
but start with the things that they care
86:51
about the most
86:52
so what two or three issues do you think
86:55
that people today
86:56
care the most about not what we wish
86:59
they would care about but what do you
87:01
think people
87:01
care the most about today thanks guys
87:05
so you you toured
87:08
the country yeah last summer for
87:11
something
87:12
um i just wanted to get out
87:15
the travel the airline flights the
87:17
pricing was a little bit lower
87:19
the hotels were you know lower capacity
87:21
so you know i had time
87:23
and you know i figured i’d travel you
87:25
know and talk to people
87:27
so you um you probably have a
87:30
wider breadth of knowledge on what it is
87:33
that people
87:34
everywhere is looking for like i know my
87:37
community i know my community like
87:39
billy’s from
87:40
houston i believe um yeah
87:43
well texas yeah yeah yeah i i think he
87:46
ran for uh
87:47
theft collector in the county that
87:49
houston’s in
87:50
um i believe so um but
87:53
um so i’m not sure
87:58
what the local makeup is
88:01
i’m not sure what it is that they’re
88:03
really concerned about i know here
88:05
i know here where i am people are
88:08
concerned about
88:10
um whether or not they’re gonna have
88:12
money to pay rent yeah
88:14
um they’re concerned about police
88:17
overstepping bounds police brutality
88:19
police
88:21
corruption you know that and
88:25
for the third major thing uh honestly
88:28
in saint st p pinellas county
88:31
legalization of marijuana because
88:32
we have medical but not full
88:34
legalization so i think those would be
88:36
the big three
88:36
here now you have a wider you have a
88:39
wider
88:40
knowledge and did you go to houston
88:43
uh i just outside of houston to
88:46
conover i think it’s called uh texas i
88:49
was just outside of houston
88:51
um so what i heard overall uh there was
88:54
there’s some overlap there
88:55
overwhelmingly i heard
88:57
concerns and anxieties about covid and
89:00
the lockdowns
89:01
and how to get out of this and and it’s
89:04
hard to separate those things
89:06
um it’s hard to separate covid from the
89:09
lockdowns from mass mandates to
89:11
health policy it’s really because of how
89:14
all-encompassing it is and it is a
89:16
comprehensive issue with a comprehensive
89:18
solution set of solutions
89:19
but that’s a big one covid messaging was
89:22
it conroe
89:25
conroe what’d i say i don’t know but uh
89:28
bill
89:29
billy and connor both asked if it was
89:30
conroe yes it was conroe texas yeah a
89:33
huge audience there too
89:34
everything in texas was huge like i was
89:37
just
89:38
everything they say about everything’s
89:39
bigger in texas mostly true yes
89:41
unless you’re in alaska yeah
89:48
alaska actually brags about that often
89:50
they’re say
89:51
everything’s bigger in texas unless
89:52
you’re in alaska unless you’re in alaska
89:54
well where i’m about to find out in
89:56
april when i go to gold rush
89:58
uh on april 17th um
90:01
in wasilla alaska uh so overall so
90:04
kovid was one uh another big one was
90:06
just general
90:07
economic anxiety and a lot of that had
90:10
to do with the lockdowns
90:11
it’s hard to you know isolate these
90:13
things as individual things
90:14
but a lot of economic anxiety about like
90:16
am i going to be able to afford to make
90:17
ends meet
90:18
am i going to lose my job am i going to
90:21
be able to make more money
90:22
to be able to afford you know it was
90:24
already tough for me before all this to
90:25
be able to make ends meet
90:26
uh you know uh i have debt piling up
90:29
like you know
90:30
just general kitchen table stuff about
90:32
how are we going to make
90:33
this match up with this or maybe even be
90:36
a little bit higher than this so that
90:38
one day we could
90:38
actually have some money in our pockets
90:40
and not just be paying bills for the
90:41
rest of our lives
90:42
um and then i guess the third thing
90:45
would be
90:46
uh it in a lot of areas those were
90:48
really the two big ones and if there was
90:50
a third thing
90:51
it was all related to criminal justice
90:53
reform the police and and you know
90:55
uh and all the ancillary stuff about
90:57
that i’m gonna use the ancillary from
90:58
now on thanks to joe
90:59
solaski um but uh so but i would i’d say
91:03
if you have to pick two from that
91:04
the big ones were everything related to
91:08
covid
91:08
and everything related to economic
91:10
anxiety if you can tell people i’m gonna
91:12
i’m i have solutions we as libertarians
91:15
have solutions
91:16
to fix the problems and get us out of
91:18
this coveted mess
91:19
quicker and with less damage to us
91:22
economically
91:23
and and and put us in a better economic
91:25
footing then
91:26
you’re going to be golden um i think
91:28
that you’ll do great now with that
91:30
said you know you saw how big of a
91:32
difference there was between what i saw
91:33
just nationally
91:34
uh and what you know matt saw in his you
91:37
know in his specific general area
91:39
so it depends on what you’re running for
91:41
the one thing i would tell you is the
91:42
most important thing you can do
91:44
billy is reach out to community groups
91:47
i’m sure you’re already doing that in
91:49
your wherever your your presumed
91:51
jurisdiction of what you’re running for
91:52
is going to be if it’s for congress
91:54
that district if it’s for you know your
91:56
county that county if it’s for your
91:58
school district whatever whatever it is
92:00
talk to the people in that area the
92:01
groups in that area
92:03
and and see what is it that their
92:04
concerns are um
92:06
because you often especially if it’s a
92:08
more localized office
92:09
you can talking to individual
92:12
communities and groups and individuals
92:14
can hear what they have to say give a
92:17
good answer to them
92:19
then give your main talking points that
92:21
you want to hammer away on
92:22
and win votes as a result of that you
92:24
know libertarians win you know bill
92:26
you watch my you watch culture winning a
92:27
lot you you hear what the people are
92:29
saying
92:29
be involved in your community listen to
92:31
what they’re saying uh you know be
92:33
in front of them so that they know that
92:34
you have solutions and ideas and
92:36
and you can win it so um here’s the next
92:39
real quick
92:40
real quick joe makes drifts
92:44
um thank you for the five dollars he
92:46
asked uh how do i have a boating
92:48
accident
92:48
whilst the lakes are frozen asking for a
92:51
friend
92:52
which is weird because he said how do i
92:54
uh but
92:56
when you come down to florida the friend
92:58
said how do i
93:00
right right um when you come down to
93:02
florida when you or your friend
93:04
come down to florida in two weeks i will
93:06
take you out on my friend’s
93:08
boat and should we have an accident
93:16
hey thank you that’s up uh and here’s
93:19
the next one from
93:21
josh hey matt and spike here josh mccoy
93:24
is here i wanted to share some
93:26
information
93:27
about um the child support social
93:30
security and medicaid
93:31
administrations um so
93:35
my ex and i have um
93:38
split custody of my daughter and
93:41
she and i would love would have loved to
93:43
been able to
93:44
you know um take care of her without the
93:46
state’s [ __ ] input
93:48
so um but unfortunately they
93:51
have like um precedence in my state to
93:54
um rule on de facto judgment of required
93:58
child support
93:59
child support payments because of course
94:02
we all know that the
94:04
states are matched by the social
94:06
security administration for every child
94:08
support dollar that is paid yep
94:10
thereby incentivizing them to always
94:13
de facto rule that people are going to
94:16
pay child support even when
94:18
the couple is willing to work things out
94:20
themselves
94:21
is this second one a continuation of
94:23
that okay
94:26
continuing my rant about child support
94:29
um max and i were trying you know we’re
94:32
not wanting to
94:32
oversee child support payments and we
94:34
felt this way because
94:36
you know we could take care of our child
94:38
without the state
94:39
without the state’s input um
94:42
and who else wouldn’t feel this way i’d
94:44
feel that you know only a [ __ ]
94:46
[ __ ] who shouldn’t have had kids in the
94:47
first place would feel this way
94:49
and most often child support is only
94:52
pushed on people
94:54
who should not have had kids in the
94:55
first place in my opinion in
94:57
any ways there are people that often
94:58
deadbeat who do not
95:00
want to support their child
95:03
meanwhile you know they’re forcing it on
95:05
cup on people
95:06
who want to be active in their child’s
95:08
life are active
95:10
and are doing everything they can to
95:12
support them and meanwhile they’re just
95:14
saying well nope we want your [ __ ]
95:16
money
95:18
well you kind of answered your own
95:19
question josh and first of all i’m sorry
95:21
that you’re going through that it’s an
95:22
absolute nightmare i i was gonna i was
95:25
gonna say you can definitely hear
95:27
um how upset he is
95:30
yeah in these messages and and i
95:33
honestly i feel i’ve got a lot of
95:34
friends who
95:35
are they’re very active in their kids
95:37
lives and
95:39
uh the here in florida here in florida a
95:43
lot of
95:44
times um
95:48
the the dads get kind of screwed
95:51
like and it’s because of the social
95:54
security administration matching dollar
95:55
for dollar
95:56
and i feel for all of them especially
95:59
the like
96:00
you know the hard-working dads who are
96:01
doing it and they
96:03
they’re doing it so they can pay and
96:04
they want to spend time with theirs
96:06
with their kid um and i get it and i get
96:09
it and it
96:10
and it sucks um and for you i i
96:13
deeply you know i feel for you i yeah i
96:16
can’t even imagine
96:17
i can’t no no um
96:21
here here it oh go ahead go ahead i was
96:24
going to say as far as how to fix that
96:27
i know how to fix it okay cool we get
96:29
this so
96:30
surprise surprise get the federal
96:31
government out of it we have a system
96:34
where as josh uh josh was mentioning the
96:38
federal government matches up to a
96:40
certain amount
96:41
every dollar that comes in through the
96:43
child support system
96:44
to the states the money doesn’t go to
96:46
the kid
96:48
the money goes to the state why because
96:51
screw you that’s why why would it go to
96:53
the kid
96:54
who needs it you schmuck it goes to the
96:57
state of course
96:58
so the state gets this money presumably
97:00
to
97:01
help operate their family court system
97:03
even though they’re very well funded
97:05
um and so when a judge
97:08
sees a couple that’s trying to work it
97:12
out between them
97:13
saying yes we’d like to share custody we
97:16
you know we’re in a position where
97:18
you know we’ll work out the terms of
97:20
who’s helping
97:21
you know who or or we can split it
97:23
equally we’re fine with that we just
97:25
want to be able to both be in the kid’s
97:26
life
97:27
the courts will often say nope we’re
97:29
going to give primary custody to whoever
97:31
makes the least amount of money
97:33
which is more often than not the the the
97:35
mother but not always but more but more
97:37
often than not
97:38
and we’re going to give the lead we’re
97:40
going to give little to no custody
97:42
to the father or to to the one who’s
97:45
making the most money
97:46
and because they aren’t getting any or
97:48
very little direct shared custody
97:50
they are going to have to pay more in
97:53
that child support so we can make more
97:54
money from it
97:55
and they get a piece of the child
97:56
support too so not only do they get a
97:58
you know money from the federal
97:59
government they get to get a piece of
98:00
the child support too they
98:02
literally tax the money for the children
98:04
okay
98:05
and so what that leads to is more and
98:08
more mostly
98:09
childless but just largely single parent
98:12
or or
98:13
fatherless but also largely
98:14
single-parent homes and
98:16
unfortunately there are a lot of uh you
98:18
know uh statistically it’s not to say
98:20
all single parent families or all single
98:23
parent children of single parents are
98:24
gonna
98:24
have a bad situation but we do know
98:26
statistically that having
98:28
two active and involved parents in a
98:30
child’s life uh
98:31
is it leads to typically better outcomes
98:34
not always there are certainly examples
98:35
of both and it’s not
98:36
it’s not so much that you know if if
98:38
you’re i’m not trying to condemn anyone
98:40
to anything just we know the statistics
98:42
that doing this over the course of
98:43
millions of families
98:45
leads to worse outcomes right so
98:49
it’s one thing to deal with deadbeat
98:50
parents it’s another thing to tell like
98:52
like josh said to tell parents that are
98:54
more than willing to work it out between
98:55
themselves
98:56
no you are not allowed to we are going
98:58
to make you not see your kid as much and
99:00
we’re going to make you take money that
99:01
you didn’t want
99:02
uh and you’re and because we get more
99:04
money as a result of that here’s how we
99:06
fix it get the feds out of it and then
99:07
that
99:08
that matching money the money’s not
99:09
going to the kids it’s going to the this
99:11
this corrupt family court system
99:13
okay that’s number one get him out of it
99:14
completely there’s no reason the fed
99:16
should even be involved in it
99:17
in the first place number two allow
99:20
recording of proceedings in
99:22
all court proceedings you have a right
99:25
to record what is happening to you in
99:28
court
99:29
now that would be great for all court
99:31
cases
99:32
but a family court is a perfect example
99:35
where
99:36
because it in many states because it is
99:38
considered a civil matter
99:40
uh they often don’t even have a court
99:41
reporter there’s no
99:43
actual reporting of what’s even
99:45
happening much less any kind of video or
99:46
anything else
99:47
you should be able to walk in there and
99:49
freaking live stream
99:50
your or at least record your proceedings
99:53
or at least demand
99:54
a third party recording of your
99:57
proceedings
99:57
at the very least uh and then finally
100:00
finally we need to
100:01
and probably through legislative means
100:03
end this absurd
100:05
patriarchal outdated idea called uh
100:08
which is called the uh um presumed
100:12
uh mother is primary parent i forget
100:15
what it’s called but it’s basically
100:16
a court doctrine that’s been around
100:17
longer than any of us have been alive
100:19
which is that courts
100:20
typically determine that all things
100:21
being equal the mother is the
100:23
better parent who is better suited to
100:26
raise the child because
100:27
women are more nurturing and men can’t
100:29
okay it’s just it’s a completely
100:31
outdated idea
100:32
uh it does not match our society where
100:34
the vast majority of households
100:36
both parents are working um and
100:39
what it does do is it acts largely as
100:42
a presumption against the father having
100:45
any right to be involved in the child’s
100:46
life especially if they’re the one
100:48
making more money
100:49
so what there should probably be from a
100:50
legislative standpoint
100:52
is ending that and replacing it with
100:53
presumed shared parenting
100:55
unless there is a reason a compelling
100:58
reason
100:58
to think based on the facts of the case
101:01
that one parent or the other
101:03
is actually better suited to be a parent
101:06
unless there’s a situation with abuse
101:08
unless there’s a situation with
101:09
addiction
101:10
or you know whatever fraud you know
101:13
whatever unless there’s an actual reason
101:15
to think
101:16
that one parent is better suited or one
101:18
parent is much worse suited than the
101:20
other
101:21
the presumption should be especially if
101:23
both are in are in their saying
101:25
we want to be actively involved in the
101:26
child’s life the presumption should be
101:28
that both parents have shared owner
101:32
presumed shared uh custody i said
101:34
ownership before
101:36
shared custody of the child those
101:39
three things would do such incredible
101:41
reform to the family court system
101:44
that we wouldn’t see nearly the abuses
101:46
we’re seeing right now
101:48
so i have a friend whose name i won’t
101:50
mention because he’s called in and been
101:52
on the show before so i’m not gonna
101:53
uh spread that but i have a friend who
101:58
when he was going through his divorce
102:00
and they were going through that portion
102:01
of it
102:02
the year before he had only made roughly
102:05
and i don’t know the exact figure but
102:07
like 21 000
102:09
it was a bad year for him and when they
102:12
went through
102:13
the child support portion of it uh
102:16
they gave him every wednesday and
102:19
every other weekend um was how often he
102:23
could see the child
102:24
and then on top of that uh
102:28
twelve hundred dollars a month for a guy
102:30
that whose tax record showed he made
102:32
twenty one thousand dollars or whatever
102:34
it was
102:35
and then the mom moved an
102:38
hour away so now he has to drive
102:42
on wednesdays two hours round trip
102:45
and if he wants to bring the child back
102:47
it’s four out like if he wants to bring
102:48
the child back to do something it’s four
102:50
hours round trip
102:51
um just so he can see his kid
102:54
every wednesday um
102:58
it is a broken broken system
103:01
yeah and a lot of it is
103:05
the uh children’s courts the family
103:07
courts
103:09
yeah and it’s it’s it’s incentivization
103:11
at the federal level whether that was
103:12
the intention or not
103:14
what it has led to is incentivizing the
103:16
tearing up of families
103:18
and and the the the because there is no
103:21
accountability oh here’s the other thing
103:22
we need to do
103:23
and we talk about ending qualified
103:25
immunity for police officers and
103:26
government agents absolutely and cps
103:28
workers absolutely
103:30
but what we don’t talk about is that
103:32
judges and prosecutors as well as
103:34
politicians
103:35
have something called absolute immunity
103:39
they don’t even have to qualify it
103:40
they’re just immune we need to end
103:42
absolute immunity we need to end
103:44
immunity for people in government
103:46
if they hurt people then they should be
103:49
held every bit as accountable as you and
103:51
i would be
103:51
if we hurt people or damage them or or
103:54
kill them or you know violate their
103:56
rights or whatever and
103:58
judges and prosecutors and family court
104:01
advocates and so forth should be
104:03
absolutely held to the same standard as
104:05
anyone else and a great way to do that
104:07
would be to end their immunity and
104:09
introduce uh
104:10
a right a universal right to recording
104:14
uh of the proceedings so these are all
104:17
so here was a stat that elizabeth
104:19
coquiard brought up
104:21
it is more likely for an american
104:23
household to have a
104:25
dog in it than a father
104:35
i just i mean that that’s insane
104:40
i don’t even
104:43
billy said he was a full custody single
104:45
dad for a year with five daughters
104:48
whoo
104:54
now i know why you’re such a kind man
104:57
he your patience levels are off the
105:00
charts
105:02
i mean five kids in general but
105:04
especially all of the same gender
105:05
goodness
105:06
i’m sorry the same sex um
105:09
wow matt hicks has eight dogs thank you
105:11
matt
105:12
um speaking of which
105:16
we now have a few calls from matt blazer
105:19
legend legend
105:20
matt laser legend hicks here we go
105:23
hey guy on left and spike this is
105:27
matt hicks calling in on the personal
105:28
injury attorney chris reynolds attorney
105:30
at law anchor calling moment
105:32
tm or something like that
105:36
um i’m still on my way home from school
105:38
right now driving
105:40
and uh it’s boring school is boring
105:44
and the driving part it’s also boring
105:47
uh whatever um i’m sure you guys
105:50
are talking about the gamestop
105:52
phenomenon and the short squeeze action
105:54
that’s going on right now
105:56
um mad props to all these uh
106:00
reddit cowboys that are trying to stick
106:01
it to the man and all of this
106:03
but um can you maybe take a couple of
106:06
minutes if you haven’t already and
106:07
discuss what happens on the other side
106:09
of a short squeeze
106:10
there’s some people that i think are
106:12
going to get caught holding the bag
106:14
hashtag laser legend so
106:17
do do you want to address that during
106:19
our sake our next segment yeah we’ll
106:20
we’ll go into that during the segment
106:23
yeah so we’re actually going to get into
106:25
how that works
106:26
um so uh yeah so that’s
106:30
uh that we’ll talk about that but that’s
106:32
an excellent question because a lot of
106:33
people are trying to figure out like why
106:35
are people buying
106:36
game stock stock and then sitting on it
106:39
and
106:39
why are they holding and what’s gonna
106:41
happen and what are diamond hands and
106:43
all that stuff so
106:44
we’ll we’ll talk about that shortly but
106:45
thank you for the question uh here is
106:47
the next one from matt
106:48
hicks laser legends hey
106:52
guy on left and spike this
106:55
is matt hicks calling in on the personal
106:59
injury attorney chris reynolds attorney
107:00
a law anchor calling moment
107:02
tm still driving home
107:07
still not there yet
107:10
kind of bored so i thought i’d ask you
107:12
guys some more questions um
107:15
it’s a serious one for you how exactly
107:21
does one go about
107:25
handcuffing and pepper spraying a
107:27
nine-year-old girl
107:29
oh god asking for a friend
107:33
hashtag laser legend so for anybody who
107:36
doesn’t know what
107:37
uh matt hicks is referencing here in
107:40
rochester new york
107:41
um a police officer
107:45
let me get that video saw a oh do you
107:48
have the video
107:49
no here you you talk about it i’ll pull
107:51
it up okay
107:52
so a police officer uh saw a
107:56
nine-year-old girl who was
107:57
by herself in a neighborhood um
108:01
and according to the police officer
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he said that she’s that he said that she
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said
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uh she was feeling suicidal
108:12
now i know
108:15
that the proper way
108:18
to talk to somebody who says they’re
108:20
feeling suicidal
108:21
is to chase them through the streets of
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rochester
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call seven of your buddies to show up in
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six separate cop cars
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pepper spray cuff and throw them in the
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back seat of the car
108:34
now when it’s nine year old girl it’s
108:36
especially important to do this
108:38
because this is what
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will help somebody who says that they’re
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suicidal to uh
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not be suicidal anymore uh especially
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when they’re a nine-year-old girl
108:51
especially when they’re a nine-year-old
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girl um
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because that just makes the most amount
108:56
of sense in
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my mind um when the police union
109:01
when the rochester police union it’s not
109:02
the rochester police union i don’t
109:04
remember the exact
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title of it yeah but the police union
109:07
that represents rochester police yeah
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right uh when they were asked asked
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about it
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uh what they said was
109:18
she could have been hurt worse yeah
109:22
yeah it could have been so everybody
109:23
knows this is not going to be a fun
109:25
video that we show yeah viewer
109:28
discretion here
109:30
right uh this is bad how long is this
109:33
video
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it’s this one is short so there is a
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another video
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that is much longer uh and that
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is uh it shows the entire thing it’s
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like 10 minutes long
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and uh and it shows the whole scuffle
109:48
and everything else
109:49
uh this shows the actual moment of the
109:51
pepper spraying now a lot of people go
109:53
oh well you know the girl she she kicked
109:55
a couple times and she was
109:56
you know yelling and stuff again
109:58
nine-year-old girl
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screaming for her father she was
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screaming for her dad
110:03
and uh and was very scared and was going
110:06
was having a mental health crisis and
110:07
they knew that when they were arriving
110:09
that she was being suicidal and so
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uh but here’s why i want to show this
110:15
because there are a lot of people out
110:16
right now going i don’t care how old a
110:18
kid is if they’re kicking me
110:20
and if they’re being violent then i get
110:22
to get to pepper spray them
110:26
i want to show this video to show
110:30
that not only was she not pepper spray
110:32
not only was she not kicking
110:34
not only was she not like being violent
110:37
she had cuffs on and she was
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sitting in the back of the car her crime
110:44
well i’ll let you see the crime for
110:50
yourself
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i will
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just stop for a second and take your
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deep breath hey
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just stop i will get your dad
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peppers baby no please don’t stop
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dear
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this is
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she’s nine she wasn’t she just
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she wasn’t listening because she’s nine
111:57
and she was feeling suicidal and she was
111:59
screaming for her dad and they’ve been
112:00
trying to put her in a cop
112:02
car why they wouldn’t send out someone
112:05
with the police to like talk to her
112:07
about what was going on would have taken
112:09
a lot less resources
112:10
than having like a freaking dozen car
112:12
however many cops end up showing up
112:14
and all these cars show up for the grave
112:17
danger of a nine-year-old
112:19
who was already handcuffed
112:22
and her crime was your hair is doing the
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thing again
112:26
her crime was uh was that she uh you
112:30
can’t hear me her crime was that
112:31
she didn’t want to bring her
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legs into the car so they could leave
112:38
and the way that a bunch of adults dealt
112:40
with that your hair is doing the thing
112:41
again
112:42
the way that a bunch of a bunch of
112:44
adults dealt with
112:45
uh a nine-year-old not wanting to comply
112:48
who was no danger to them at all and who
112:52
had her hands behind her back
112:53
tethered on in in cuffs and was
112:57
already in the cop car they just needed
112:59
to swing her little legs over
113:01
they pepper sprayed her twice two of
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them did
113:06
now a lot of people in the comments are
113:07
saying and i didn’t know this part
113:09
actually
113:10
uh that the cops said you’re acting like
113:12
a child
113:13
to yes girl to which she responded
113:16
i am a child yeah that’s earlier on yeah
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yeah and accurate um that’s
113:24
everything about this story is terrible
113:26
when i when i first saw the story today
113:28
uh earlier today i was appalled and i
113:31
said
113:32
if we have a chance to talk about this
113:34
uh i texted spike and i said if we have
113:36
a chance to talk about this let’s do it
113:38
um and then i heard matt hicks’s message
113:42
because i have to screen his messages
113:43
now
113:44
um but i knew that we were 100 going to
113:48
talk about this one
113:49
and it was
113:55
it’s heartbreaking that anybody goes
113:58
through this
113:58
but the fact that they had the audacity
114:00
and the goal to do this to a
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nine-year-old girl
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and then have the police union come out
114:05
and say she could have been hurt worse
114:09
is one of the most immoral statements
114:11
i’ve ever heard
114:12
unethical statements i’ve ever heard in
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my life
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yep it’s
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we talk about defunding the police which
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typically
114:23
means diverting some of the resources
114:27
that are being used on all this over
114:28
enforcement
114:29
into mental health services and things
114:30
like that what we don’t talk about
114:32
is defunding the police unions and the
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way you do that
114:37
is by ending qualified immunity when you
114:40
end qualified immunity
114:42
the police unions very quickly have to
114:45
either shift
114:46
towards accountability of officers or
114:48
they will lose
114:50
everything and i’m fine with either of
114:51
those outcomes or both
114:54
this is a problem of people who know
114:56
every
114:57
single one of the people involved in
115:00
that situation there that
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abuse and torturing of a child
115:05
who was feeling suicide who here has
115:07
ever dealt with a panic attack
115:10
like a really bad one where you feel a
115:12
disconnection from reality
115:14
and don’t know if you want to live
115:16
anymore i’ll raise my hand
115:19
now imagine if police now imagine you’re
115:22
doing it who here has had one of those
115:23
when you’re a kid
115:25
like 9 10 11 12 years old and you have
115:28
no context about what’s even happening
115:30
you just think you’re going crazy
115:33
because now
115:34
if i dealt with a panic attack as an
115:35
adult i can calm myself down
115:37
recognize what’s happening you know do
115:39
do coping mechanisms and
115:41
coping strategies and things like that
115:43
and eventually it goes away if that if
115:44
that happens thankfully i’ve been stable
115:46
for a very long time but
115:48
as a child you’ll know what the hell is
115:49
going on now imagine if in the midst of
115:51
that
115:52
you have cops pulling you into the snow
115:56
and then pepper spraying you and putting
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you in a vehicle
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yep now one of the one of the commenters
116:02
said
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that the uh patricia a lot of people
116:06
here are raising their hands
116:07
about this and this is i mean it’s
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serious guys uh patricia berthodd
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i hope i’m saying or bertad i hope i’m
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saying that right um
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said where was it um
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uh the female cop was the only
116:19
compassionate one
116:21
it may appear that way at first glance
116:25
there’s a ter we use the term good cop
116:28
good cop bad cop
116:29
she was being the good cop keep in mind
116:32
she also pepper sprayed the kid
116:35
or attempted to she either pepper
116:37
sprayed the kid or attempted to we don’t
116:38
really know
116:40
what she was doing was saying hey listen
116:42
to me
116:43
listen to what i’m saying and in fact at
116:45
one point i don’t know if it’s in that
116:46
video she says
116:47
you’re losing their patience
116:50
and she then said you either get in the
116:52
car or it’s pepper spraying the eyeballs
116:55
what she’s doing is saying and and like
116:58
shawn said she didn’t do anything to
116:59
stop it from happening because they know
117:01
they never do they don’t that’s a whole
117:03
other subject
117:04
why we need qualified immunity because
117:06
then the officers would have to hold
117:07
each other accountable
117:08
so that they don’t become a co-defendant
117:10
we need to get rid of qualified immunity
117:12
oh yeah why we need to end qualified
117:14
immunity because of that so here’s the
117:16
here’s the problem
117:17
here’s what she was doing i’m the nice
117:19
cop
117:20
listen to me because if you don’t listen
117:22
to me the
117:23
not nice cops are going to be really
117:25
abusive to you
117:26
uh oh you didn’t listen to me now
117:28
they’re going to hurt you now they’re
117:29
going to hurt you
117:31
it is literally good caught bad cop
117:36
and and jimmy lee mentions a a
117:38
nine-year-old doesn’t have a concept of
117:40
what do you even mean by their patience
117:42
what up their pa of what what what are
117:45
they gonna do
117:45
and again you’re again put yourself in
117:48
the situation
117:48
you are contemplating death as a kid
117:51
because you’re having this massive
117:52
mental health crisis
117:54
okay so who knows she may have a
117:55
chemical imbalance she may be dealing
117:57
with
117:57
problems at home you know she was
117:59
yelling for her dad maybe there’s a bad
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divorce happening who knows what’s
118:02
happening
118:02
that’s got this kid this worked up okay
118:05
and you’re hearing the police are going
118:06
to lose their pain does that mean
118:08
they’re going to kill me
118:08
like you you really you’re you’re losing
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their patience
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now get in their car
118:19
who here thinks anything’s gonna happen
118:21
as a result of this other than maybe one
118:23
or two officers being demoted or
118:25
possibly one cop being fired who here
118:27
thinks there’s gonna be real
118:28
accountability for the fact that we have
118:30
video
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of a yeah paid suspensions possible
118:34
there might be a firing as a result of
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this
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oh wow her dad’s dead according to conor
118:39
cudmore
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i i don’t know yeah i i don’t know i
118:44
didn’t do i like
118:45
i read yeah i don’t i don’t have time so
118:47
i didn’t do like all the research on it
118:50
but but but imagine for a second
118:54
wow that makes it a thousand times worse
118:56
if that’s the case that does make it
118:57
yeah that does make it a lot worse if
118:59
that’s the case
119:01
so at any rate uh whether or not that’s
119:04
that’s the case
119:07
who here thinks that anything imagine
119:10
it’s us
119:10
okay everyone that’s watching this you
119:12
me you me matt
119:14
you know all the people watching you at
119:15
home we go and and you know a couple
119:17
dozen of us
119:18
or a dozen of us however many are on
119:19
there we go and we and you know kids
119:21
not doing well and we think well we’ll
119:22
fix this we’re gonna put her we’re gonna
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chain her
119:25
her hands behind her back throw her in
119:27
the back of a car
119:29
and then we’re going to threaten a
119:30
pepper sprayer she doesn’t listen to us
119:32
and then then we’re going to pepper
119:33
spray her and we’re going to drive her
119:35
away and put her in a cage
119:38
what would happen to us
119:42
would any of us see the light of day
119:44
ever again
119:46
no what would the prisoners do to us
119:50
when they heard what we what we did
119:53
so three of the officers have been
119:56
suspended
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well while they were investigating so
120:03
one officer was suspended two were
120:05
placed on administrative leave
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um
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suspension was ordered by uh after
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warren met with police
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uh the mayor mayor warren met with
120:18
police
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um eternal investigation is ongoing the
120:22
spokesman did not
120:24
respond to a request for additional
120:25
details
120:27
i i think it’s likely that the officer
120:30
who sprayed her
120:31
from behind which is like a suspension
120:34
if that’s one’s on suspension he is
120:37
likely to get fired
120:39
who here thinks he’s going to see any
120:41
jail time for that or even a prosecution
120:43
or get sued successfully sued who have
120:46
to pay out a
120:48
lawsuit now who here thinks that the
120:51
rochester taxpayer will likely have to
120:54
pay out
120:55
a settlement
120:59
that’s likely but actual accountability
121:02
of the people who did it
121:05
i hope i’m wrong i hope we’re all wrong
121:08
i hope it happens
121:09
qualified immunity is a major step
121:11
against it
121:12
and the empowerment of police unions
121:16
that qualified immunity uh
121:20
creates is is a major
121:23
a major step in the the one thing that
121:26
we have on our side
121:27
is we all have high definition
121:30
cameras now now this was a body cam
121:35
so that’s often that’s a good thing too
121:38
uh but this is the
121:41
this is a big one because there’s a lot
121:43
of stuff that doesn’t happen on body
121:44
cams
121:46
uh so conor says you the union guy
121:50
was mad that people were mad about it
121:51
and i’ve got a quote here from mike
121:53
mazzeo
121:54
the union president and he says i’m not
121:57
saying there are not better ways to do
121:58
things
121:59
but let’s be realistic about what we’re
122:01
facing it’s not tv
122:03
it’s not hollywood we don’t have a
122:05
simple
122:06
situation where people we
122:10
where we can put our hands and have
122:13
somebody be instantly handcuffed and
122:15
comply
122:16
so for a nine-year-old girl a
122:20
nine-year-old girl
122:22
he couldn’t put his hands on her and
122:24
have her just suddenly be handcuffed and
122:25
comply
122:27
so the next logical solution
122:30
granted may not have been the best one
122:33
because he says they’re i’m not saying
122:34
there are not better ways to do it but
122:37
that was the best one that they could
122:38
come up with in the moment was
122:41
to have seven police officers throw her
122:43
in the back of a car
122:45
and pepper spray her how about
122:48
sit her down in her home
122:52
and have a conversation with her
122:55
about why she feels this way
122:58
and and i i will often hear because
123:01
someone mentioned she wasn’t under
123:02
arrest exactly
123:04
why not just
123:07
talk to her okay
123:11
and a lot of people will go oh well you
123:13
know you don’t you don’t uh
123:14
you know poke a rabid bear or so why
123:16
would you do that to cops well thank you
123:18
for
123:18
uh dehumanizing police and comparing
123:21
them to rabid animals
123:22
uh they are human beings they can make
123:24
choices
123:25
um but let’s say that’s the case let’s
123:28
say that the police
123:28
are so inhuman uh that they’re unable to
123:31
talk to a child who clearly
123:33
is dealing with some heavy heavy stuff
123:35
especially if her dad just died
123:38
okay why not bring someone in who can i
123:42
talked
123:42
on the trail i talked to mental health
123:44
workers who said i don’t want to hear a
123:46
thing from the police
123:47
about you know oh uh we have to go
123:50
straight to violence if someone’s being
123:51
physical especially if it’s a kid
123:53
i talk to mental health workers who are
123:55
you know
123:56
you know women who are much smaller than
123:58
me who have said i have had
124:00
i have had you know a 200 pound man
124:03
getting physical
124:04
in front of me and trying you know
124:05
trying to intimidate me uh in during a a
124:08
therapy session
124:09
and i had to put a you know a pillow or
124:11
a chair between me and him
124:13
and talk him down and de-escalate until
124:15
he could eventually sit back down
124:17
and we could have a nice conversation
124:19
and he could apologize
124:21
and then we could figure out how to make
124:23
sure that never happens again now i’m
124:24
not saying anyone should have to be
124:26
in that much of a situation someone’s
124:28
coming right at you that’s one thing
124:29
especially if there’s a
124:30
size disparity or something like that
124:32
but the fact that
124:35
there are people who can do that
124:38
tells me that if you are larger than
124:40
someone and armed
124:41
with both pepper spray and a gun and
124:44
cuffs and all this other stuff
124:47
there is no reason especially when she
124:49
was cuffed
124:51
that they can’t say hey why don’t we
124:54
why don’t we sit down here in your home
124:57
and we’re going to give you
124:58
time to go through your thing and you
125:00
can scream or whatever else and then
125:01
we’ll talk about it and if they’re not
125:03
equipped to do that then bring in
125:04
someone who can
125:05
bring in a social worker or mental
125:06
health expert that can and for those of
125:08
us who are
125:09
fiscally conservative could go well but
125:11
that costs a lot of money it doesn’t
125:12
cost anything close to what that just
125:13
was
125:14
all the expenditure of having all those
125:16
people out there with their cars and
125:17
everything else
125:17
instead of having a you know a paid a
125:21
licensed social worker come out and say
125:24
hey what’s going on and and who knows
125:27
de-escalation techniques
125:29
for kids and how to deal with them i
125:31
thank god
125:33
that when i was going through my mental
125:35
health issues as a young kid
125:36
which were triggered by a divorce
125:40
or the beginning of a divorce that i
125:43
didn’t have a situation like this
125:46
and it’s very likely that the only
125:48
reason that i didn’t have a situation
125:49
like this
125:50
is because i was in a house and the
125:53
neighbors couldn’t hear me screaming
125:56
because this could have likely ha i
125:58
don’t know why who called the police or
125:59
what happened
126:00
but this could just be because they’re
126:01
in the kind of housing that other people
126:04
are hearing screaming and talking about
126:05
death and killing and whatever and they
126:07
call the police i don’t know the mom
126:08
might have called the police i don’t
126:09
know what happened
126:10
but there’s a likelihood it was for a
126:13
family situation is what
126:15
yeah why they were called yeah there
126:18
needs to be a completely different way
126:20
of looking at
126:21
if we are to be protected and served
126:25
by government and by the police then
126:27
there needs to be a presumption that we
126:29
actually need
126:30
protection and help in serving and if
126:33
they can’t do that
126:34
then they need to stop saying that’s
126:36
what they are if the only reason they
126:38
show up is to
126:39
violently make us comply with the words
126:41
that are written on a sheet of paper
126:43
or whatever their personal opinion is
126:44
about how things should be going which
126:46
often is what happens
126:47
this kid didn’t break any laws right
126:51
if that’s the case mike todd brings up a
126:53
good point and he says
126:54
no wonder kids are afraid to ask for
126:55
help so when like
126:57
you hear about a story like this or you
126:59
know
127:00
kids have the internet like they they
127:02
can see these things just as easily as
127:04
we do
127:06
misty rotherman says when she worked in
127:08
tps cps
127:10
her de-escalation training was done at
127:12
the local police department and it
127:13
included mental health patients
127:15
they’re trained no excuses thank you and
127:18
we often hear this excuse
127:19
uh well maybe they just need more money
127:21
for training no one needs to be trained
127:24
to be told don’t pepper spray a
127:26
handcuffed nine-year-old girl from
127:28
behind because she’s not
127:30
listening cause she’s scared and if you
127:33
do need that training
127:34
you need to have never been a police
127:36
officer in the first place
127:38
i’m not sure you should work at costco
127:41
you might actually need to be in jail
127:45
if that’s your go-to
127:48
i i i know we have other questions but
127:52
this is
127:53
i i this is yeah this one
127:57
we we so we unfortunately we have to
128:00
actually move on
128:01
because we still have the game stuff we
128:03
still have other things in an entire
128:05
other segment
128:06
but this is a perfect example
128:09
of they need to be held accountable you
128:12
need to end qualified immunity
128:14
there’s needs to be a shift of of
128:17
if you’re going to have the government
128:19
fund police
128:21
the your city and state government’s
128:22
fund police instead of just a
128:24
community-based policing model
128:26
then some of the more of that funding
128:28
needs to go away from this violent
128:30
enforcement
128:31
and the violent compliance measures
128:33
towards
128:34
actually helping people mental health
128:37
professionals
128:37
people who can deal with this the vast
128:39
majority of 9-1-1 calls are mental
128:40
health
128:41
and addiction why the hell are armed
128:43
people who are predisposed to violently
128:46
making you comply
128:48
if you if you’re not if you’re not going
128:49
to comply immediately
128:51
why why is that who we would have show
128:53
up
128:54
right we’re not the land of the free
128:56
we’re the land of the domesticated
128:57
and we need to we need to stop this and
129:00
and
129:01
that’s what defund the police means
129:02
defund the police means
129:04
treat people like how they should be
129:05
deserved if you’re going to take their
129:06
money
129:07
and give them a police department and
129:09
give them services then actually serve
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them with that if you can’t
129:12
give them their damn money back so they
129:13
can do it themselves let’s go to the
129:15
next one the next question because this
129:20
hello there guy on left and spike
129:23
this is matt hicks calling in on the
129:25
personal injury attorney chris reynolds
129:27
attorney at law anchor calling momentum
129:30
still driving and still sober but i’m
129:32
almost home so uh
129:35
you know that that just means that the
129:37
message quality is going to decline
129:39
rapidly um this question
129:42
is for guy on left yeah you buddy
129:47
what’s your favorite animal at the zoo i
129:49
mean you have the coolest job ever
129:51
what’s your favorite animal hashtag
129:53
laser legend
129:57
so i don’t work at a zoo i work at a
129:59
water zoo
130:01
at a fish zoo a fish
130:07
a seafood zoo a seafood yeah a seafood
130:11
zoo
130:12
um and as far as what is my
130:15
favorite animal there that’s a man
130:18
that’s a tough question
130:19
um
130:22
so there’s this exhibit uh called um
130:26
heart of the sea and there is a turtle
130:30
in there that is a green seed nope it’s
130:32
not a green sea turtle that’s a lie it’s
130:34
a sea turtle of some kind that i don’t
130:35
remember the exact species of
130:37
whose name is sheldon and uh i
130:40
have multiple photos of sheldon
130:43
um because anytime i walk into the room
130:46
he swims
130:47
over to me and just swims back and forth
130:49
in front of me while i take photos of
130:51
him
130:52
so obviously he is much like me and sees
130:55
a camera and wants to be on it
130:58
um but
131:01
he is probably my favorite
131:05
is that him or is that shelly that’s
131:08
shelly
131:10
i don’t shelly’s fine but you know snow
131:14
this guy right here
131:18
this guy he’s sheldon he’s just a
131:22
wonderful person a wonderful turtle and
131:24
does he kind of follow you around when
131:26
he can see you
131:27
yeah that’s so uh at the ripley’s
131:30
aquarium in
131:31
in myrtle beach the aquarium that my
131:33
wife and i go to a lot
131:35
they have a sea turtle who follows my
131:37
wife around
131:40
like especially if there aren’t a bunch
131:41
of b usually if it’s like a ton of
131:42
people there
131:43
then the turtle gets kind of distract
131:45
often the turtle will actually go
131:47
uh into into like a dark corner because
131:49
it don’t want to be around a lot of
131:50
people
131:51
but when there’s fewer people there
131:53
without fail the turtle bee lines
131:55
to to my wife and uh
131:58
and we have the kind where you kind of
132:00
go under it’s like a tunnel type thing
132:02
where it’s where the
132:03
fish can go over you and this the turtle
132:05
will just
132:08
and just stay around her it’s so cool so
132:10
that that would the penguins are cool
132:12
too man
132:13
yeah yeah i i only so i met uh
132:17
cliff the other day yesterday and yeah
132:20
cliff was
132:20
cliff was pretty dope they’re silky are
132:23
you
132:24
here are you naming these tur these
132:26
animals or are they already named
132:28
uh so if i posted on facebook with a
132:30
name i made that up
132:31
um but sheldon is the turtle’s actual
132:35
name
132:35
and cliff is the penguin’s actual name
132:40
okay oh gosh what happened no
132:44
no what god what what happened what is
132:46
happening
132:47
i don’t know uh so anyway yeah so that’s
132:50
the fish zoo all right so here’s our
132:52
last question and then we’ll talk about
132:54
game stonk
132:55
uh here’s our last question from josh
132:58
hey matt and spike and joe josh mccoy is
133:01
here i was just listening to joe speak
133:03
about how
133:04
some of his criticisms seem they have
133:07
been listened to by his legislature
133:09
and how they’re limiting the powers of
133:11
his governor
133:12
which reminds me of what’s happened in
133:15
my state
133:17
in not really politics but in the public
133:20
university
133:21
which has funded by the state and the
133:23
federal government
133:24
they um in 2012 i was campaigning for
133:27
ron paul
133:28
and i was saying that the problem with
133:30
the university and tuition rising price
133:33
like tuition rising was because the
133:36
administration
133:37
was basically pot you know loading their
133:39
pockets and
133:40
there’s also too much you know
133:42
administrate like top down
133:43
administration
133:44
causing all the um
133:48
budget issues and then when they had the
133:51
accreditation board look at it
133:53
they agreed with what i said and it’s
133:55
funny ten years later
134:00
yeah that sounds about right it’s almost
134:03
as though
134:04
when the government is in charge of
134:05
education that you often have
134:08
accountability issues
134:09
because and this would be i mean we
134:12
could then get into a whole
134:13
i could get into an equally passionate
134:15
diatribe about what happens when the
134:17
government got in and set pricing
134:19
and created all these grants and and and
134:21
got involved in lending
134:22
removing the price equilibrium from
134:25
education
134:26
so that now they can charge whatever
134:27
they want they also then aren’t
134:28
accountable
134:29
there’s a whole i i have to stop
134:32
so uh for derrick rhodes
134:37
here’s cliff oh man
134:43
that is so cute yeah
134:47
yeah that i was out on a vape break and
134:50
he just kind of
134:51
walked by with his handler the person
134:54
who takes him from
134:56
the exhibit to where he
134:59
exercises goes i don’t know what he was
135:01
doing and
135:03
she said i have a couple of minutes i’m
135:04
just going to put him here and he just
135:06
kind of
135:07
ran around me for a little bit he was
135:08
pretty cool um
135:11
i mean no sheldon but you know he’s
135:14
pretty cool
135:16
that’s awesome that’s awesome so here is
135:19
what a lot of people have been sitting
135:20
around waiting for
135:21
and that is us talking about the good
135:24
news which is that we got
135:26
alexandra caggio cortez and donald trump
135:28
jr and ted cruz
135:30
and ed cernovich and freaking
135:33
probably trump but we can’t hear from
135:35
him anymore and uh
135:37
pretty much everyone except for
135:40
wall street warren liz warren and uh
135:43
basically the biden administration
135:44
uh and and hedge funds to agree on which
135:47
is that wall street
135:48
sucks a lot and here’s a perfect example
135:51
of that
135:52
uh at the beginning of the year
135:56
gamestop for those who don’t remember
135:58
gamestop probably because
136:01
you’re a damn kid and you need to get
136:02
off my lawn gamestop
136:04
was where especially in the early uh mid
136:07
and
136:07
late 2000s where uh you could trade
136:11
video games uh you could go and and and
136:14
sell a video game that you already have
136:16
and or exchange it for another video
136:17
game
136:18
both used and new uh and it kind of gave
136:21
you a lot more flexibility and obviously
136:22
gamestop made a lot of money you you
136:24
weren’t making money doing it but you
136:26
could
136:27
spend less money getting games and
136:29
turning in old games without having to
136:31
try to sell them online or or whatever
136:33
and uh and their their slogan is power
136:36
to the players so the whole idea is you
136:37
know you have more options and
136:39
flexibility
136:40
and gamestop has largely
136:44
has really been losing revenue over the
136:46
years
136:47
as a result of the fact that
136:50
uh more and more video games are
136:53
down direct download so you you download
136:56
it or you stream it
136:57
uh so more games you actually have to
136:59
have an internet connection
137:00
because you’re actually streaming the
137:02
game you’re not online and um
137:04
and there’s many reasons for that you
137:05
know a higher uh
137:07
faster internet speeds faster broadband
137:10
so
137:10
so you can download more content larger
137:13
uh hard drive spaces on game consoles
137:16
and pcs
137:16
so there’s just there’s not it’s really
137:18
just a market thing that it’s just
137:20
there’s just not as much demand
137:21
for game stock uh uh
137:24
for game stop and and that type of of a
137:27
wave of physical media in general and
137:28
then gamestop which is built on it
137:30
uh and then there’s another uh uh
137:32
another uh
137:33
uh well we’ll talk more about amc later
137:36
but at the beginning of the year
137:37
gamestop stock was sold for about 17
137:42
a share the reason for this is because
137:45
uh a bunch of hedge funds uh the largest
137:48
one being uh
137:49
melvin uh melvin capital and melvin
137:52
financial but some others as well
137:55
um they decided that they were going to
138:00
kill gamestop gamestop still exists it’s
138:02
just not as popular
138:03
they decided that they were going to
138:04
kill gamestop and we’ll talk some more
138:07
about that in a bit why they decided to
138:08
do that
138:09
the short answer is because they want to
138:11
rob people
138:12
but they uh they they wanted to kill
138:14
gamestop and so they announced
138:16
through cnbc and all of the different
138:19
uh you know wall street media uh
138:21
corporate media
138:22
that they were going to uh uh short game
138:26
stop they were gonna they were they were
138:27
going and
138:28
basically without getting into the
138:29
details which we will later what that
138:31
means is they’re going to sell shares
138:33
of gamestop and basically you know
138:35
crater the value
138:37
of gamestop um and so
138:40
as a result people started selling their
138:42
shares now you might say to yourself
138:43
that sounds like market manipulation to
138:45
go on the your
138:46
preferred media and announce you’re
138:48
going to do something that’s going to
138:50
make you a bunch of money
138:51
so that you then panic other individual
138:53
investors into following you
138:55
so that you make even more money yeah
139:00
yes correct so
139:04
there is a subreddit or group on reddit
139:07
called
139:08
wall street bets who decided they were
139:11
going to show the hedges
139:13
a thing or two about pre prematurely
139:16
short selling
139:17
a stock so they told all their
139:22
all their followers
139:25
to buy gamestop shares at
139:29
bottom basement pricing because everyone
139:30
else was selling they
139:32
they bought on the dip
139:35
and well when the market closed on
139:38
friday
139:39
it was trading at 325
139:42
and ended up reaching as high as 400
139:45
dollars
139:47
most of the people go ahead i i saw a
139:49
meme
139:50
uh the other day that said that it was
139:52
selling at 4 20 69 and i don’t know if
139:54
that’s true but if games
139:56
yes someone got the screenshot it
139:58
briefly was at 420
140:00
and 69 cents which is nice
140:03
that’s what we sold a hat for
140:08
yeah we could have bought one gamestop
140:10
share at near its peak
140:12
uh it has gone down slightly but it’s
140:14
holding uh and and
140:16
and so here’s what’s happening we need
140:17
to explain before we go any further
140:20
what what all this is because a lot of
140:22
people are like what is
140:23
short selling how does it work
140:28
and why are they holding and why aren’t
140:30
they selling their profits
140:32
and what the hell is going on so here’s
140:35
how it works
140:36
it’s a scam the hedge funds don’t own
140:39
anything
140:40
when they short sell what they do is
140:42
they go to investors and they go hey
140:43
look we’re about to crush this stock
140:45
we’re going to make it worth nothing but
140:47
what we can do is split the profits
140:49
so instead of you getting to have a
140:50
stock that’s worth something based on
140:52
market value we’re going to go and
140:53
manipulate the market
140:54
through our media contacts because we
140:56
own wall street and the
140:58
politicians and there’s nothing you can
140:59
do about it but we’ll make you some
141:01
but we can at least make some money and
141:03
here’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna
141:05
borrow your stock for zero dollars
141:09
and then we’re gonna sell it at whatever
141:11
we can at
141:12
at a reduced price from what its current
141:15
accepted value is
141:16
thereby causing other people to do it
141:19
and then
141:20
the difference between we’re going to do
141:21
an option so that
141:23
we will profit the difference between
141:25
what we sold it at
141:26
with these call options and what people
141:28
end up uh selling it for and and buying
141:31
it at on the on the dip
141:32
and we’ll split the profits with you now
141:36
um for anybody who’s seen the movie
141:37
margin call with uh
141:39
kevin spacey and a bunch of other people
141:42
basically imagine if i yeah so imagine
141:45
if i went to your house
141:47
everything i’m about to describe is very
141:48
very illegal
141:51
imagine i went to your house i said hey
141:52
look pal i’m about to go on the media
141:53
and say this is the worst neighborhood
141:54
in town and
141:55
i run the bank and i’m very well known
141:57
in this area everyone’s going to believe
141:59
me i’m going to say this town
142:00
sucks i’m going to say that everything
142:02
is wrong with this neighborhood and uh
142:03
you know if i were anyone i’m going to
142:05
and i’m going to announce that i’m going
142:06
to be selling uh the homes that i own
142:08
here
142:09
but i got some good news for you give me
142:11
the title to your house
142:14
i’m gonna sell it right now
142:17
and i’m gonna announce uh that you know
142:19
everything’s going downhill
142:21
and then we’re going to make a lot we’re
142:22
going to make a lot more money
142:25
than everyone else is going to make when
142:26
everything falls apart
142:28
you’re probably thinking that sounds
142:29
like some kind of weird racketeering
142:32
grifter thing yeah no it’s actually yes
142:35
and it’s also very highly illegal if i
142:37
were to do that and get caught doing it
142:39
but if it’s the stock market
142:43
that’s perfectly legal why because it’s
142:45
the stock market
142:46
because it’s wall street you can’t sell
142:51
something that you don’t own
142:54
unless it’s wall street you can’t coerce
142:58
the owner of something else to let you
143:00
sell it on their behalf and keep part of
143:02
the money
143:03
under the threat of making them lose
143:05
everything
143:06
unless it’s wall street well here’s the
143:09
here’s the wrinkle in that
143:10
if a bunch of gamers who just got 600
143:13
checks and
143:14
don’t have any financial prospects or
143:16
future and don’t give a crap about
143:17
anything
143:18
dump all their money into that stock and
143:20
keep make the value shoot up
143:22
you just lost a fortune because you have
143:24
to pay off those option calls
143:28
and the longer it goes on the longer
143:30
those those contracts go
143:32
and the more you got to keep paying
143:33
until you lose everything
143:36
that’s what they’re doing they’re eating
143:38
the rich
143:41
they went on robin hood and on reddit
143:43
and and and
143:44
coordinated together which is perfectly
143:46
legal because everyone kept saying
143:48
i’m not giving stock advice i just like
143:50
the stock
143:52
that’s perfectly legal if i say to you
143:54
hey let’s all buy this stock because i
143:56
like it oh and by the way if we do it
143:57
it’s going to crush
143:58
we’re going to take all this money from
144:00
this billionaire hedge fund that’s
144:02
destroying people’s lives and businesses
144:05
and uh we’re gonna make a fortune off of
144:06
them
144:07
it’s their money we’re gonna take their
144:08
money perfectly legal but i’m not giving
144:11
you any financial advice
144:12
i just like the stock
144:16
perfectly legal that’s what they did
144:19
and even now the game stock stock has
144:21
gone down somewhat
144:22
but it’s still really high and most of
144:25
the
144:26
buyers are refusing to sell because they
144:29
know that as it goes on
144:30
and on and on and on and on
144:33
eventually they will crush those hedge
144:36
funds
144:38
then they can sell and when the crush
144:40
hedge funds and they sell
144:41
that the stock will probably tumble back
144:43
to what it probably should be which is
144:44
probably i don’t know 20s 30s 40s
144:46
whatever i i’m not a financial advisor
144:47
i don’t know what gamestop stock is
144:49
worth it’s probably worth much more than
144:51
17
144:52
which is what the hedge funds we’re
144:54
bringing it down to but i really don’t
144:55
know it
144:56
ain’t worth 400 bucks like game stock is
144:58
a declining company
144:59
what they’re doing is crushing and
145:01
they’re doing it with amc
145:03
and blackberry and nokia and a bunch of
145:04
other companies and
145:06
what they’re doing is saying hey we
145:09
figured it out kind of shocked me
145:11
the bath and beyond express uh what
145:14
they’re doing is they’re going for all
145:15
the stocks of companies that are kind of
145:17
just falling
145:18
like for various reasons they’re losing
145:20
market share slowly they’re still okay
145:22
or okay they’re still able to survive
145:25
but we don’t know how for how much
145:26
longer and so they’re using these as
145:29
as as as ones that the hedge funds have
145:31
targeted to put out a business sooner
145:33
and really to rob investors so somebody
145:37
ah
145:39
there it is uh somebody on youtube real
145:41
fast computer
145:42
uh said sounds like you’re proposing
145:45
that wall street is regulated more
145:49
no just the opposite it’s regulations
145:51
that are allowing wall street to do
145:52
what’s now happening
145:54
which is now the sec is stepping in and
145:56
threatening to limit trades
145:58
uh they’re threatening to change the
145:59
rules that won’t allow uh
146:01
redditors to to to say hey let’s all buy
146:04
something together
146:05
now you can go if you want a hedge fund
146:07
you can go on the media and say hey
146:08
let’s all sell everything together
146:10
but if you want to say hey let’s let’s
146:11
take their money from them
146:13
by by beating them at their game and
146:15
calling their bluff
146:16
then that’s going to be that’s probably
146:18
going to be illegal wall street warren
146:20
came out and said that she’s going to
146:22
introduce some new regulations and
146:24
legislation
146:25
and then robin hood which is one of the
146:28
most popular trading apps
146:30
actually stopped users from being able
146:32
to
146:33
uh buy they can sell but they can’t buy
146:36
or
146:36
trade uh any of these other uh stuff
146:39
any of the stocks game stock am gamestop
146:42
amc
146:43
blackberry bed bath and beyond nokia and
146:45
a bunch of other ones
146:46
they released a statement when they did
146:47
this saying we continuously monitor
146:49
the markets and make changes where
146:50
necessary in light of recent
146:52
volatility stock going up
146:56
in light of recent volatility we are
146:58
restricting transactions for certain
146:59
securities to position
147:01
closing only meaning you have to sell
147:02
them to the hedge funds
147:05
including and they named them the
147:07
different uh stocks we also raised
147:09
margin requirements for certain
147:10
securities
147:11
why turns out that the underwriter the
147:14
the brokerage firm that robin hood uses
147:17
is owned by citadel
147:20
citadel is a major partial owner
147:24
of melvin capital the uh the the
147:27
um the uh the
147:30
the hedge fund that’s being hurt the
147:32
most by these moves okay
147:34
right here’s where it gets even better
147:37
joe biden’s new treasury secretary who
147:39
used to be the chair of the federal
147:41
reserve
147:42
is janet yellen
147:45
she recently got a million dollars
147:49
to speak to speak
147:53
not to to speak a few times
147:59
for citadel
148:02
to give a speech surely that money
148:04
wouldn’t be used for any other reason
148:07
which when asked about it jinsaki said
148:09
we’re going to circle back to that
148:11
but then she also said she is one of the
148:14
foremost
148:14
uh financial minds in the country and
148:17
it makes sense that she would get paid
148:19
for these appearances
148:21
800 grand
148:28
yeah like 856
148:31
000 no it’s interesting you say you said
148:33
gensaki right
148:36
saki saki saki gensaki that name sounds
148:40
familiar jensaki
148:47
huh that sounds a lot like
148:51
jeffrey sake who’s one of the main
148:54
portfolio managers
148:56
at citadel i wonder if that’s her oh
148:59
it’s her brother
149:10
liz warren was talking about oh by the
149:11
way if anyone’s wondering bernie sanders
149:13
will absolutely screw you on this
149:15
he’s taken the wall street warren
149:16
position which is that uh
149:18
well the the market is too much like a
149:20
casino right now with these wild swings
149:23
that’s why we need to step in and
149:24
regulate
149:25
when you regulate the market you make it
149:27
so that only the big institutional
149:28
players are
149:29
able to effectively trade stocks
149:33
when you add taxes and things like that
149:35
for individual shares
149:36
you make it so that only the people that
149:38
already have millions and billions of
149:40
dollars
149:41
can afford to play in that space you
149:43
tell individual investors
149:45
who right now could eat their lunch
149:49
you tell them no you if you want to be
149:51
in the market you have to just do
149:52
whatever the hedge funds and the big
149:54
banks tell you to do
149:56
so no i’m calling for the opposite of
149:58
regulation i’m calling for a completely
150:00
deregulated capital trade market and
150:03
securities trade
150:04
market where everyday investors could
150:06
band together
150:07
and we talk about eating the rich they
150:09
could eat the rich
150:10
in their lunch every single day on the
150:12
market by working together and saying
150:14
hey
150:15
hey guys let’s all do this but i’m not a
150:17
financial advisor i just like this stock
150:20
they could destroy the hedge funds and
150:22
they could destroy the entire
150:23
system of theft and graft and coercion
150:26
that they’ve created
150:28
which is why this is all happening now
150:31
the good news is
150:32
again we did get aoc and djt jr
150:35
is that too dizzy seco why that or is
150:38
that
150:41
oh no that’s donald donald trump jr
150:44
okay no i know it is but i don’t know if
150:46
they uh go by that
150:47
so we got them he’s donald j trump jr
150:50
on i wasn’t typing all of that up
150:54
yeah now it turns out that the central
150:57
heating unit in hell must have broken
150:59
because they
151:00
do agree aoc tweeted this is
151:02
unacceptable
151:03
we now need to know more about robin
151:05
hood’s decision to block retail
151:06
investors from purchasing stock
151:08
while hedge funds are fully able to
151:09
trade the stocks as they see fit as a
151:11
member of the financial services
151:13
committee i’d support
151:14
a hearing if necessary now unfortunately
151:15
after that she wrote and
151:17
tax the rich right
151:21
taxes are passed on to consumers taxes
151:24
make this much worse
151:25
if you put taxes on capital trade it
151:27
will ensure that the hedge funds are the
151:29
only ones that are doing it but
151:30
again uh donald trump jr also tweeted
151:34
it took less than a day for big tech big
151:36
government
151:37
and the corporate media to spring into
151:39
action and begin colluding to protect
151:41
their hedge fund buddies
151:42
on wall street this is what a rigged
151:44
system looks like folks
151:45
hashtag a bunch of ash i’m not reading
151:47
all those um
151:50
and uh uh dave portnoy
151:53
who’s the head of bar barstool sports
151:55
said somebody is going to have to
151:57
explain to me
151:57
in what world robin hood uh and others
152:00
literally trying to force a crash by
152:02
closing the open market is fair
152:03
they should all be in jail uh and of
152:05
course i uh
152:06
started a uh well it wasn’t really a
152:08
petition but i started
152:09
a fake petition uh to change
152:12
the name of robin hood to either uh
152:15
sheriff of nottingham
152:17
or sir hiss
152:21
now uh ted cruz did tweet his support of
152:24
aoc’s tweet
152:26
something that’s probably never happened
152:28
before also
152:30
yeah and he responded with a
152:34
i agree with this or this i don’t know
152:36
pointing down when he retweeted it yeah
152:38
yeah yeah he’s like yeah this or
152:39
whatever yeah
152:40
right and uh aoc responded with
152:43
i’m happy to work with republicans on
152:45
this issue where there’s common ground
152:46
but you
152:47
almost had me murdered three weeks ago
152:50
so you can sit this one out
152:52
apparently she thinks that she’s jfk and
152:55
ted cruz is his father
153:02
i don’t think ted cruz was trying to
153:04
murder you there aoc yeah
153:06
yeah now uh robin hood
153:09
is now kind of changing their tune a
153:11
little bit
153:12
uh and they’re saying that they did so
153:14
they uh the
153:15
the owner of robin hood vlad tenev
153:18
the seat the ceo of robin hood vlad tenf
153:21
said that in an interview with elon musk
153:25
uh he said that they
153:28
shut it down to comply with sec
153:30
standards and they got a call at 3 30
153:32
telling them to halt trades on those
153:34
particular stocks
153:42
if that’s true then this isn’t even then
153:44
this has less to do with citadel
153:46
and more to do with uh with the
153:48
government but here’s the problem with
153:49
this
153:50
we just detailed how intertwined they
153:53
are
153:55
why wouldn’t they say that at the
153:56
beginning why would you say that
153:58
after you get the one star reviews after
154:01
people have been leaving
154:02
why are you saying that now
154:06
yeah i don’t believe it here’s how
154:10
here’s how we’ll know if that’s true or
154:11
not
154:13
vlad is supposed to be testifying on
154:15
february 18th
154:16
in front of the house financial services
154:18
committee if he says that
154:20
then then it’s probably true if he
154:23
doesn’t
154:23
find time to mention that then it is 100
154:27
false because
154:31
he’s going to be staring down aoc who
154:32
likes to position herself as a populist
154:34
hero even though she’s not
154:35
she’s as much of a toady as the rest of
154:37
them she’s just millennial flavored
154:40
um and she’s going to straight up say
154:43
why did you do that if he gives any
154:46
answer if he starts talking about oh you
154:47
know market liquidity you know
154:49
the rally and you know go to the market
154:51
stability if he does any of that
154:53
and he doesn’t say because you told me
154:54
to or the sec told me to
154:57
then that’s a lie because he’s not going
155:00
to perjure himself
155:01
more than likely not this publicly
155:05
this is uh
155:08
this is a perfect example we do not have
155:10
a free market
155:12
we have a monopoly game where most of
155:14
the players
155:15
have to play by the rules of the game
155:16
and a few of the players get to go to
155:18
the
155:18
get to go to the bank and say yeah give
155:20
me a billion dollars of monopoly money
155:21
for this round
155:23
and then they get to go to some of those
155:24
smaller players and say everyone here
155:25
give me a hundred bucks or i’m gonna
155:27
tank your uh your your the values of
155:29
your your properties that you’re holding
155:31
and they get to do all of that and if
155:33
somehow those players get to band
155:35
together
155:36
and turn it back on them they make it
155:37
illegal
155:39
they put regulations in place that make
155:41
it that they can’t even play anymore
155:43
right they still got to give their money
155:44
to it but they can’t actually play or
155:46
participate anymore
155:47
this is just they tell
155:50
especially young people this was mostly
155:52
young people they tell young people
155:55
well you know stop eating so much
155:57
avocado toast and invest your money
155:59
and the stock mark you know all your
156:00
money that you’ve got uh all this money
156:02
that you’re sitting on
156:03
and uh and invested in the stock market
156:05
so the kids said all right
156:07
i’m going to put a couple hundred bucks
156:09
in the stock market
156:10
don this and take all the hedge funds
156:13
money
156:13
and all of a sudden well not like that
156:17
i hope that this works i hope that they
156:20
crush melvin capital and this isn’t
156:22
about melvin capital i hope that they
156:23
crush the hedgies
156:24
and i hope that they get a ton of money
156:26
out of it i hope that they get
156:28
really really wealthy did you see how
156:31
quickly
156:31
um news media was going to
156:35
uh racism for this oh god
156:38
i actually tweeted a prediction here i’m
156:39
going to pull that up i’ll read it i
156:41
don’t have to
156:42
i don’t i don’t remember who it was if i
156:44
had to guess cnn but
156:45
i i don’t remember who it was there were
156:48
a few that put out some stuff trying to
156:49
tie it to the capitol hill riots and all
156:51
this nonsense
156:52
chris was one of them somebody said it’s
156:54
very odd that somebody tries to destroy
156:56
a jewish owned hedge fund
156:59
uh by doing this game by
157:02
buying a bunch of game stop uh stock uh
157:06
on national holocaust remembrance day
157:09
and i was like because that’s like yeah
157:12
you are you are drawing a line
157:15
it’s not really a straight one but
157:17
you’re you’re getting it there
157:20
yeah where is this thing i made a
157:23
prediction and i shed
157:25
that i said prediction major media will
157:27
begin dropping articles linking wall
157:29
street bets
157:30
to white supremacy and domestic
157:31
terrorism apps will halt trading so that
157:34
wall street vets picks can plummet and
157:35
the hedge funds can steal their money
157:37
back
157:37
new regulations will be put in place so
157:39
this never happens i wish
157:41
this was wrong literally all of this
157:43
happened within like 48 hours
157:47
in fact it turned out that the uh the uh
157:50
apps halting trading had happened a
157:52
matter of a couple hours before i had
157:54
tweeted this i tweeted it in the morning
157:55
i didn’t realize they had literally done
157:57
it overnight
157:58
um
158:01
another another thing that you’re going
158:02
to hear a lot of because you have to get
158:04
past the narrative messaging
158:06
right so all of a sudden you’ll start
158:07
hearing the same terms over and over
158:08
again like we were talking about
158:09
domestic extremism the one thing we’re
158:11
hearing right now is
158:12
the markets are like a casino right now
158:14
these wild swings is like a casino
158:17
this is the opposite of a casino this is
158:19
where a ca
158:20
a casin a real casino is a market where
158:23
individual investors
158:24
slowly and steadily lose their money to
158:28
the house
158:30
that’s a casino that’s what the market
158:32
usually is
158:33
what we have right now is a situation
158:35
where somehow
158:37
those individual investors come in game
158:39
the system
158:40
and get their money back now it’s a
158:44
problem
158:49
now interestingly it’s not illegal i
158:51
actually think it is in vegas but in
158:52
most other places
158:53
it’s not illegal to game gambling if you
158:56
can figure out a way to game gambling
158:57
good for you
158:58
right now the casinos will try to kick
159:00
you out but you’re not breaking any laws
159:01
but if you do something similar in the
159:03
stock market
159:06
now unless you’re the hedge fund then
159:07
that’s perfectly legal right
159:12
it’s just this is and this will never
159:15
end until we kick republicans and
159:17
democrats out of office get the federal
159:19
government out of this stuff
159:21
open the markets give people their power
159:23
back no one
159:25
we are this is not about left versus
159:27
right or republican versus democrat or
159:29
white versus black or anything this is
159:30
about the 99.99
159:33
of americans who have little to no
159:35
institutional power
159:36
in this country and who are paying
159:38
almost all of the bills
159:39
and who own relatively little compared
159:42
to the point
159:43
zero zero one percent of americans we’re
159:46
talking
159:47
maybe i don’t know it’s probably even
159:49
less than that what’s it thirty
159:51
something like that
159:55
i’m trying to do the math here uh
160:00
yeah we’re talking a few thousand people
160:02
that
160:03
own well over half of everything
160:07
or close to half of everything but more
160:09
importantly control
160:11
virtually all of the actual
160:13
institutional power
160:14
in this country and really around the
160:15
world and until we topple
160:19
the figurehead politicians that they put
160:21
in place the con artists they put in
160:23
place
160:24
and dismantled their system of
160:25
self-serving thieving of the rest of us
160:28
it’s never going to end it’s just going
160:30
to keep getting worse
160:32
but we can fix this by taking our power
160:34
back
160:35
and dismantling everything they built
160:37
and then taking our freedom back
160:39
and taking our money back
160:44
and this is just another example
160:46
somebody in the facebook comments
160:48
um was pushing convention of the states
160:53
this is a terrible idea so i understand
160:57
i used to be a supporter of convention
160:58
of states
160:59
uh and i get the the idea well
161:02
we the people are gonna take the power
161:05
back
161:06
this isn’t how to do it and here’s why
161:09
if you if you look at history every
161:12
convention of the states
161:14
going back to the first one
161:18
was really bad for the american people
161:22
the first convention of states was the
161:23
constitutional convention where they
161:25
replaced
161:26
the articles of confederation which was
161:28
a far superior system
161:30
whereby government had very little power
161:32
at all and could not tax you at
161:34
all and had to actually have 100
161:37
unanimous approval of a constitutional
161:40
uh convention or the the the
161:44
oh gosh what uh continental congress uh
161:47
had to get together i think that’s what
161:48
it was called right
161:49
and they had to actually uh 100 approval
161:53
to change the laws
161:55
so then the first time that they had a
161:57
chance to the federalists got together
161:59
with alexander hamilton
162:03
and illegally
162:07
here’s here’s here’s a gold pill for
162:09
everyone hey kids
162:10
did you know that the creation and
162:12
ratification of the constitution
162:14
was an act of treason i’m not talking
162:18
about treason against the crown that
162:19
already happened with the
162:20
uh declaration of independence and the
162:23
the revolutionary war
162:24
and the and the replacement of the uh uh
162:27
colonial uk government with the american
162:31
uh uh articles of confederation
162:33
government i’m talking about treason
162:35
against the united states of america
162:38
and it’s not with the creation of
162:39
treason
162:41
no no no no this was the second treason
162:43
this time against his own country that
162:44
he just helped create
162:45
well no this was the second time against
162:48
his own country
162:50
who were we talking about hamilton yeah
162:53
oh i thought we were talking about uh
162:54
george washington but yes
162:56
right yeah handsome this was the second
162:58
time for him because while he was the
163:00
uh secretary of treasury he went to
163:03
england without permission from
163:04
washington
163:05
and negotiated a treaty
163:08
without secretary of state
163:11
or uh the president’s permission and
163:16
doing so was an act of treason
163:19
yeah so then he did it again by usurping
163:22
the government
163:23
illegally and replacing it with the
163:25
constitution and the constitution
163:27
is a far worse document it gave
163:29
government the powered attacks
163:31
it gave government the power to create
163:32
laws without
163:34
any kind of unanimous approval uh and
163:37
to appease the anti-federalists and
163:39
basically keep the anti-federalists from
163:41
rounding them all up and executing them
163:43
for treason they added the
163:45
bill of rights and we’ve seen what
163:46
that’s good that’s done
163:48
oh it also added the habeas corpus
163:50
clause which in a really impressive
163:52
lawyerly weasel-wording way makes it
163:54
sound like the government can’t
163:56
uh violate our right to due process and
163:59
hold us indefinitely but then it gives a
164:01
bunch of
164:02
reasons why they can and ends by saying
164:04
or any conditions that may require it in
164:06
other words if the government wants to
164:08
hold you
164:08
if they decide they look at the
164:10
situation and say
164:11
that they have to hold you forever
164:13
without trial and not even giving a
164:15
reason
164:16
or letting you talk to a lawyer or
164:18
letting you talk to anyone
164:19
or even telling anyone they have you
164:21
they can do that legally
164:23
by the habeas corpus clause
164:26
now it makes sense why the supreme court
164:28
didn’t do anything about the
164:30
people in gitmo or american citizens
164:32
being taken to foreign countries to be
164:34
waterboarded
164:35
or any of that stuff it’s perfectly
164:36
legal and constitutional
164:38
that might be too much for tonight uh
164:41
all that to say
164:44
that’s too much for tonight we could
164:45
definitely go down a lysandre spooner
164:47
path tonight but i think we will
164:49
what instead i will do is tell you this
164:52
what the confe
164:52
what the convention of states would do
164:54
would be to authorize
164:55
your state legislatures to get together
164:58
and rewrite the constitution
165:02
because if the problem is that
165:03
politicians
165:05
haven’t been obeying the constitutional
165:08
limitations
165:10
then surely we can trust those same
165:11
politicians
165:13
to rewrite the whole thing from scratch
165:15
now you’re probably already saying no
165:16
spike that’s not true
165:18
uh they we can actually limit what
165:20
they’re able to
165:21
change about the constitution yeah you
165:24
can say that
165:26
but that doesn’t mean they have and then
165:27
once once it gets there doesn’t mean
165:29
they have to do it
165:30
they can they can do it under whatever
165:32
pretext they want when they get together
165:34
they can completely once that trigger
165:37
has been pulled and that
165:38
particular pandora’s box has been open
165:40
they
165:41
can people are telling me to keep going
165:42
not tonight uh once those people get
165:45
together
165:45
uh they can once those people get
165:48
together
165:50
they can change the constitution from
165:52
stem to stern
165:54
and what do you want to bet that the
165:56
people that have been enforcing
165:57
lockdowns all year
166:01
are going to end up with a document
166:03
that’s even worse than the one we’re
166:04
working with
166:05
right now 100 it’s
166:09
the the odds of it not going that way
166:12
are
166:12
beyond infinitesimal imagine coming off
166:16
of
166:16
your most recent committee meeting where
166:18
you sign off on the
166:19
the most recent increase of police power
166:22
and the most recent
166:23
increase in the the minimum number of of
166:26
your city your residents that need to be
166:27
in jail to
166:28
uh you know to keep your private prison
166:30
and private uh uh
166:32
private uh slave labor contracts going
166:34
with unicor
166:35
and private prison companies and you’re
166:37
working with the police unions to
166:38
implement new laws
166:39
and protections against police so that
166:41
they don’t have to face accountability
166:43
for police brutality
166:44
and you know new new restrictions on
166:46
your ability to go outside and
166:49
live your life and and new powers given
166:51
to the governor to decide whether or not
166:53
you’re essential but then they’re gonna
166:54
all get together on a
166:56
national convention and limit themselves
167:02
and i don’t know if this is true but
167:05
jimmy lee is pretty
167:07
accurate in what he states and he said
167:08
in the comments jeb bush is on the
167:10
committee of convention of the states
167:12
and i believe it yeah i believe it i
167:15
believe it
167:16
um i just wanted to preface i didn’t
167:18
want to say it
167:19
with 100 um but
167:23
is that the person that you want
167:25
negotiating for you
167:27
jeb do you want jeb exclamation point
167:29
please clap
167:31
please change the constitution
167:34
please please do it please please change
167:37
the constitution
167:38
justiko mitchell i’m not sure if that’s
167:40
how you say it right jessico justico
167:42
let wall street bets rewrite the
167:44
constitution you know what i’ve
167:46
if i had to choose between wall street
167:49
bets
167:50
and uh and uh and and and
167:53
your state legislator i live in south
167:57
carolina which supposedly is a very
167:59
pro-constitution state with pro
168:01
constitute we can’t even get
168:03
carry of firearms without a license
168:07
we haven’t had a balanced budget god
168:09
knows how long
168:12
you can go to jail effectively for the
168:15
rest of your life on a weed possession
168:17
charge like
168:18
i don’t i don’t hear crap about you know
168:22
i i and i hate to say and i’m not trying
168:23
to be rude because i was one of these
168:25
people until a few years ago
168:26
when i was like we need to rewrite it
168:28
and people were like think that through
168:30
i’m like oh oh god no
168:33
oh god no you know there’s a lot of
168:36
people in here asking us to
168:37
keep keep going with the uh with the
168:39
whole thing about the constitution
168:41
the bottom line is we maybe that’s
168:43
something that we can do is like a big
168:44
special
168:47
a big no treason special a big no treat
168:50
that people would be able to watch for
168:51
five bucks a month
168:52
um i
168:55
yeah uh rupert says what source can i
168:58
use to verify this articles of
169:00
confederation versus constitution
169:02
google articles of confederation and and
169:05
and and like read it um it’s it’s uh
169:08
unlike the constitution not a very large
169:10
long document
169:11
and it just pretty much it said uh
169:13
government had no power
169:15
to uh to conscript for an army
169:18
you had they had to voluntarily draw up
169:21
military
169:21
don’t forget your government right now
169:23
this constitutional republic
169:25
can make you join the military anytime
169:27
they want to that’s why they
169:29
force you into selective service are
169:30
they going to no because you have no
169:32
business being on the military and they
169:33
know that but they can
169:34
and they can conscript you for any other
169:36
service that they want
169:38
will they do that they need to
169:40
absolutely
169:41
uh things like the national defense
169:43
reauthorization all this not
169:45
none of that existed under uh under the
169:48
articles of confederation
169:49
it needed 100
169:53
approval for changes so if there’s even
169:55
one
169:58
thomas massey or justin amash or even an
170:01
ilhan omar depending on the subject
170:03
if there’s even one in there going yeah
170:04
screw you we’re not doing that
170:06
it isn’t happening there was no
170:09
executive it was decided by the
170:11
legislature which
170:12
created there was no ability to
170:14
centralize power into an executive it
170:16
was really
170:17
disabusing people of the idea of this
170:19
being there being this head
170:20
this this this person there was a
170:22
president of the uh
170:24
of the of the convention that you know
170:25
helped keep things in order for the
170:27
actual
170:27
the congress uh but they and i think
170:29
they did technically act as head of
170:31
state
170:32
uh but they weren’t a they weren’t a
170:34
ruler like we have now
170:36
uh the the constitution created
170:38
effectively a ruler um
170:41
what else couldn’t they do uh they had
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to ask the states for money
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you want to talk about giving power back
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to the states they had to ask the states
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for money
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yeah also a lot of people say yeah but
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during the articles of confederation
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there was slavery for how much longer
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what do you think kept slavery going why
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do you think that some of the biggest
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voices for continuing
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for switching to the constitution were
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on the slave holding side
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because they wanted to use the power
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of the federal government to enforce for
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example the what they ended up creating
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with the
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fugitive slave act which made it illegal
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for someone to flee
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their owner even if they that their
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owner even if they their captor
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even if they ended up in a state where
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it was where it was illegal to own
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someone
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under the article articles of
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confederation that would not have
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happened
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under the articles of confederation
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there could not have been any gun laws
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passed
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that uh that had that could that could
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prohibit newly freed slaves from owning
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firearms
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there would have been no restrictions
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put in place to uh to make requirements
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for the types of medals used
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for firearms which drastically drove up
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the price of firearms which made it so
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that most poor people
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couldn’t afford their own firearm that’s
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something we don’t talk about a lot
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none of this stuff could have happened
172:05
the marginalized in this country would
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have been able to
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steadily and easily completely usurp the
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power
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of those who really held a very tenuous
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hold on power
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and it was already starting with the
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veterans refusing to pay off the war
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debts
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of the continental congress and that’s
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what
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forced that’s what forced
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the uh hamilton and washington and the
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rest of them
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into going in and uh starting the
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madison and the rest of them
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into going in and replacing it with the
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constitution i’ve already gone much
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further than i shouldn’t have
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uh then i should have because it’s
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already real late but yeah no
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no no our the the uh
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and ironically the articles of
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confederation is the aoc
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so when people go do you like aoc i go i
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sure do i
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love i can’t say it because then it
172:57
seems like i’m objectifying her but i
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say i love the aoc
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so yeah so this was a fun show this was
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a fun show
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what are we at three hours yeah
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we may need to do
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we may have to figure out how to hey
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folks thanks so uh so much for tuning in
173:22
tonight
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to this three-hour episode the muddy
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waters of free
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the freedom yep uh this was actually
173:29
very fun
173:30
so next next week i will be or next week
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tomorrow
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uh on wednesday at 8 00 pm eastern
173:37
um i will be on my fellow americans on
173:39
my show and i will be interviewing
173:41
chris roofer who is a libertarian
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businessman
173:45
who has created this incredible
173:48
business model that gives
173:52
tremendous amount of power to the
173:54
individual employees
173:55
instead of having a manager-based system
173:57
which for anyone who under i’m already
173:59
saying too much but for anyone who
174:00
understands how business
174:01
uh cre growth and business management
174:04
works the bigger a company gets the more
174:06
disproportionately high its managerial
174:08
class gets
174:08
because the idea is that there has to be
174:10
more intercommunication between managers
174:12
and and you certainly can’t let the
174:13
workers make their own decisions
174:15
and chris turned that on its head and
174:17
said no yeah yeah i can’t
174:18
they know what’s going on i’m gonna i’m
174:19
gonna trust them i’m gonna empower them
174:21
and so he has them as basically as
174:23
partners uh in the company
174:25
it’s it’s an incredible incredible thing
174:27
everyone makes more money
174:28
uh there’s fewer employees because they
174:30
don’t have this massive managerial class
174:32
and they’re able to adapt to the market
174:34
uh faster as a result
174:35
uh and it’s applying libertarian
174:37
principles of decentralization and
174:39
trusting
174:39
individuals to be empowered to make
174:41
their own choices it’s
174:42
i cannot wait to do this show i think
174:44
it’s the coolest thing um
174:46
and then uh we uh
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no i’m just haven’t eaten in a while so
174:53
i’m on like a weird
174:56
kid like it’s i think i’m in ketosis
175:01
okay my body is burning it’s burning
175:04
my organs are burning and and i’m
175:07
getting energy from it
175:09
and then tune in next week
175:13
well on monday tune in for another
175:15
episode of culture of winning
175:18
where’s the graphic i don’t think where
175:19
the hell is the crap i don’t want the
175:20
graphic
175:21
but tune in for it anyway and then tune
175:23
in right back here
175:24
next week same money plays same money
175:26
time hopefully not for three hours
175:28
for another amazing episode probably
175:29
will be another amazing episode
175:32
of the the muddy waters of freedom where
175:35
matt wright and i
175:36
will parse through the week’s events
175:38
like the 2020 wonder boys that we are
175:41
matt if someone were looking for us on
175:43
the internet is that even possible and
175:45
if so how
175:49
you know it would be possible all you
175:51
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175:53
slash muddied waters
175:54
where you could
175:58
leave us messages that we will play
176:01
on the air hi there live on the air
176:05
i are getting to the point where we may
176:08
have to die less of the messages on the
176:10
air definitely
176:11
problem we’re gonna have to limit you to
176:13
about two to a piece
176:16
to a piece people please one or two
176:19
because
176:21
but we you can play us messages
176:24
or you can leave us donations and
176:28
if you leave us donations you will be
176:30
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176:31
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176:32
here because that’s how capitalism works
176:36
this is how we get to do this
176:40
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176:45
you should listen to us even if you
176:47
listen to the show
176:50
look at that i got d like is this doing
176:52
anything for you
176:55
i don’t know how asmr works i don’t
176:57
either
176:58
i’m not sure if our microphones are
177:00
actually good enough for it is this
177:02
can you hear this like is this something
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yes i can
177:05
okay i can’t really hear what happens i
177:08
have with you
177:10
okay well i’m gonna just i mean i just
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wanna hurt your ears
177:14
i’m sorry or you can find
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this in every other episode at muddy
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muddiedwatersmedia.com
177:23
a muddiedwatersmedia.com this mic is
177:26
very sensitive hi
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this might see what i do is when i’m on
177:29
like big i bury it
177:32
and i that way you don’t see it i’m just
177:33
like hey i’m here but then like when i
177:35
do this show i like
177:37
oh god it came off the thing so folks
177:43
i didn’t know we could do that folks
177:47
thanks so much for tuning in and we will
177:50
see you
177:51
tomorrow and then next week and the
177:53
whole thing we were saying
177:55
thanks again for tuning in and where
177:56
we’re going we don’t need
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roads
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oh wait wait yeah you’ve got to turn off
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the thing
178:07
while holding your mic
178:18
this is america’s day
178:21
this is democracy’s day a day of history
178:25
and hope
178:26
of renewal and resolve today
178:30
we’ve learned again you hear me clearly
178:33
we’ll write the next great chapter a
178:35
story we learned again
178:36
it might sound something like a song
178:37
that means a lot to me it’s called
178:39
unity these are those beyond our borders
178:42
america has been tested and we’ve come
178:44
out stronger i know speaking of unity
178:46
can sound like a fantasy
178:47
without unity there is no peace it comes
178:50
so far
178:51
we still have hard to go this is a great
178:53
nation we are good people
178:54
historical america requires so much more
178:56
than words we can see each other not as
178:58
adversaries
179:07
today we’ve learned again yet hear me
179:11
clearly
179:11
we’ll write the next great chapter the
179:13
story we learned again
179:15
might sound something like a song that
179:16
means a lot to me it’s called
179:18
unity at this hour my friends
179:21
democracy has prevailed through
179:24
struggles
179:24
sacrificing setbacks our better angels
179:27
have always prevailed for those that
179:28
might have the idea that i hate joe
179:30
biden
179:31
i do not i love you there is truth and
179:33
there are lies you hear me clearly
179:35
and together we shall write an american
179:37
story a story that might sound something
179:39
like a song that means a lot to me
179:41
it’s called come on man there’s one
179:44
verse
179:44
that stands out and it goes like this
179:48
black white all colors all backgrounds
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men women gay straight everyone deserves
179:55
a shot you know
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you know what i mean you know the thing
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you know what i mean