(((My Fellow Americans))) #40: Political Devil Worship with Remso Martinez

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further adieu guys I’m really whelmed to
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introduce my guest tonight he is a
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former arch-nemesis of mine and Matt’s
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really of Matt’s and I got sucked into
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it but now we’re totally friends for
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some reason I’ve really not 1% sure what
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that was all about but he is a political
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operative and author who has worked for
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the young Americans for Liberty and on
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various political campaigns he’s also
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the author of stay away from the Liberty
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and he will soon be releasing his new
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book how to succeed in politics and
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other forms of devil-worship ladies and
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gentlemen please welcome to my fellow
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Americans
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mr. Renzo Martinez from so thank you so
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much for joining us tonight Thank You
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Zhu I appreciate it thank you for having
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me on
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you mean that International wondered
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whether or not this would happen your
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God cut me off right now you’re gonna
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start cutting me off immediately I knew
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this was a bad idea but you see this is
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what you do you extend the hand of
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friendship out and they smack you every
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time look at me Andre thank you for
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having me on Spike it’s pleasure to be
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with you I am so happy to have you on
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I’d like to take this opportunity to say
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that I have no idea as to why we were
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enemies 100% sure how or when that even
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ended either it was just kind of weird I
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just kind of tend to attack first and
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love later it’s a really twisted thing
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am i chemically imbalanced brain but you
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know it were just worked for a little
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while and we’re in the love cycle so I
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do accept your apology and I’m glad that
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we could move on from that
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and guys be sure to comment with your
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questions and thoughts and REMS oh and I
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will tell you if you are right or wrong
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now REM so the first question that I
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ever asked new guests to my show is how
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do you would you say you reached your
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political beliefs would you say that was
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an aha moment sort of a gradual
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evolution tell it tell us about that
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absolutely a you know it’s definitely
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gradual from when I first started
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questioning whether or not everything
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was okay in our beautiful American
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society where I am now and now I’m
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looking for a you know a doomsday bunker
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out in the Midwest you know things have
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definitely gradually changed but it all
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really started for me back in 2012 I
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tend to concern myself Mitt Romney’s
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worst volunteer you see before I kid
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knock on a single door make a phone call
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look cute like a young Latino boy would
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for a Republican I realized wow this guy
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sounds like Obama he sounds like just a
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really white rich Obama right and then I
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did well I you know experience of many
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women later as I became an adult i got
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you know i-i-i ghosted the mitt romney
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campaign and from there I started
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learning about this guy named Ron Paul
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heard the strange dude Gary Johnson who
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said he was a librarian there’s
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something on the news and everything
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from there just got strange and you know
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years later Here I am talking to you
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nice which is I mean really
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here’s the reality you know you’ve
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arrived when you’re speaking to a Jew in
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his basement and that’s really I mean it
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really is like that’s that’s there’s
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different levels in the top level is
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conversing online with the random Jew
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it’s like the reverse and Frank you’re
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in a basement and we’re talking to the
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world so that’s a yes that is how we’re
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gonna start this show and Frank jokes
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absolutely
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so okay cool so I’ve done extensive
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research on you which I’ve written on
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this year post-it note let me take a
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look here okay then sophisticated so it
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says that you are a Mexican what’s that
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like it’s all right I guess is there but
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like I know I’m on this side of the wall
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so I can’t complain see that’s a good
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point that is a good point now if you
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had to describe what kind of Mexican you
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are what would what would that be
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apparently we’re Puerto Ricans ah no you
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know we have to cross you know a golf
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instead of a river which means that we
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really deserve to be in this country but
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apparently we’re also American citizens
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and if you live on the islands you don’t
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have to pay taxes but the downside is
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the island sucks so but does it yeah
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okay but but here’s what I know about
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Puerto Rico from my extensive time of
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being there on vacation you have the
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bioluminescent beaches you have really
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good food you had the mofongo the word
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the word hurricane originates the word
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barbecue also originates from there so
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those really those four things alone I
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mean what’s what’s the problem what’s
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problem the island murder crime poverty
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no electricity the basics I mean you
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know we’re above you know what some
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would deem a shithole so we’re doing
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pretty well but you know at least we’re
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better than Mexicans yes that’s what
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we’re also going with so okay good so
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we’ve established that now you worked on
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you were
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with young Americans for liberty as I
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mentioned before he worked on I believe
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the Nick Freitas campaign I assume I’ve
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said that name wrong as it was afraid us
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free free sites right this
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oh right us nailed it you’ve worked on
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other efforts as well how would you say
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those experiences have influenced what
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appears to be a level of cynicism about
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politics that you seem to be exerting
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well since I quit all that I’m a
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recovering alcoholic so you know that
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kind of makes it a little bit better but
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in all seriousness I mean pop politics
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is a blood sport yeah and we tend to
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have this very contorted old-fashioned
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view of how politics in America should
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be but the very very sad truth is that
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politics in America has never been clean
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it’s never been friendly and it’s not
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any worse or better now than it ever has
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been if anything I think we’re just a
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bit more honest with each other it used
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to be that if you’re going to go out and
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say you hate someone you better be
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making money now no one’s making money
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from it which you know coming from a
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professional standpoint I think is very
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very poor marketing if you’re going to
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call somebody a racist you might as well
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put a fundraising link at the bottom of
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the screen right all right you know gets
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to the point where everyone has to ask
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what is the cost of success if you lose
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yourself in the process
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and what I have experienced as so many
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other political operatives is a very
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fundamental question what does winning
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look like because are you just going the
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pay you know or just going the paces
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that you knew more you normally do do
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you just run from campaign the campaign
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to campaign what happens when you start
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you know actually making policy do you
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just forget about all of that there
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seems to be a class of American
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political how they put them there there
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they I won’t call them the elite because
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that that gives a lot of them too much
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credit they’re just politically fallible
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while thinking they’re politically
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affluent but you have a lot of people
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that just don’t want this to ends they
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don’t want to make decisions and
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policies that actually help people they
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don’t want to actually listen to other
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people across the aisle they don’t want
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to do things that would in any way to
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evolve power from themselves to regular
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people so I had to ask
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is this a lifestyle that I want to live
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in and you know it got to the point
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where I was like no this isn’t the life
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I was going to live and around that
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point I discovered that in November of
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2018 there were several other friends of
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mine who were in the same career field
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that also reach the same conclusions and
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they left now I say Amen all politics
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everywhere is just bad and you should
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leave I’m not necessarily saying that
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but what we all do is we all go our
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length and we’re all going to encounter
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that day in time where we have to ask
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have we have we fallen too far into it
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to the point where we could never leave
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this life and that was essentially the
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overall premise of my book how far is
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someone willing to succeed in politics
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at the cost of their own life fair
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enough now to be fair I have very strict
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show notes and we’re not talking about
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your book yet no we can we can do it
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however we want to do it uh the but
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first I want to talk about your first
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book so you wrote stay away from the
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libertarians when what year did you
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write that 2018 okay so it’s late okay
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was last year so you’re just a prolific
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Brooke writer then I have no life so
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you’re pulling a prolific book writer
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that’s that that’s the nicer way of
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saying you have no life absolutely
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you’re so kind
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prose people would just say anything
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else but yeah that works I try to say
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nice things so in your in your
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description you say that this book stay
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away from the libertarians which I love
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I love this title no one’s gonna hear
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you right now by the way cuz we’re on
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the wrong scene and no one’s gonna hear
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you but they can hear you know and
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anyway in that in that book it says that
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it debunks the myths misconceptions and
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outright lies thrown at libertarians
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ranging from the idea that votes can be
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stolen to the radical notion that you
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own yourself now was this sort of now
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you were working on libertarian and
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Republican campaigns or just on
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Republican campaigns or how was that
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working I’m bit of a whore I worked for
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anyone who could pay and some people who
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wouldn’t pay because I just wanted to
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fund you know the big thing that a lot
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of people within this Liberty sphere
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tend to understand is that your
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alliances are loose and your friendships
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are fleeting so you might as well go
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where you think you’re going to go ahead
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and make the maximum impact
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you know I’ve been a Republican I’ve
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been dependent I’ve been a libertarian
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it’s all about where you think you’re
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going to go ahead and make the best
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impact on other people’s lives and when
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it came to this book you know for years
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we allowed many people to go ahead and
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tell our story for us and most of the
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time it was never accurate it got to the
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point where essentially I was sitting
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down one day watching the news and I was
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like you know motherfucker if you’re
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gonna go ahead and insult me at least be
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accurate about it because there are some
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very valid points you could use to me to
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attack me you might as well go for the
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facts and not for some outright lies
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right so yeah so stay away from the
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libertarians basically runs on that
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premise of you know what are these lies
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that these lazy politicians these
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bullshit academics and these fake news
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media types and louny politicians like
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what are they using to attack us with
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that’s created this anti libertarian
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narrative throughout the country and
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what’s the truth because I think a lot
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of libertarians aren’t necessarily even
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armed with the facts on their side most
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time they’re playing from defense when
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in fact they should be playing offense
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so my book covers those points and I
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take it from a bit of a autobiographical
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type of way out because these are
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questions and these are stereotyped so I
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had to encounter the further I got into
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politics very good yeah and so far we
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actually we have a comment from Lindsey
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Nicole she says I like this guy so far
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anyway so you are on thin ice with
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Lindsey Nicole you’re on a probationary
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period we’ll see how that goes but ya
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know it’s it’s kind of crazy because it
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seems like you have one of two choices
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and I noticed this in your second book
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which again we’re not talking about yet
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but the the it’s you sort of have one of
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two choices if you’re in the Liberty
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sphere in electoral politics you can
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mount a very principled campaign and
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lose really bad or you can sacrifice
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your everything principles morals
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anything that made you resemble who was
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a person that someone would love and
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possibly win maybe fifty-fifty on
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winning and and sort of lose yourself in
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the process do you think in the and I
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know we’re in
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democracy were republic what do you
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think at our democratic style of
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electing people do you think that
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there’s actually a way to not sell
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yourself out and be principled and win
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in any real way or do you think it
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should that’s just baked into the cake
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so I want to go ahead and break this
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down into two points so I’ll cover the
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first statement you made whereas if you
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run as a big yellow libertarian you’re
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going to run a principled campaign and
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just get completely smashed in the
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process and if you run in one of the two
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major parties you’re gonna end up
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selling out at some point
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well or or or if you run as I was
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thinking yes as a big ol libertarian or
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even as a Liberty a Liberty Republican
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or a hardcore constitutionalist
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Republican I I don’t think anything is
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necessarily mutually exclusive I think
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that once your name is on the ballot and
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you start giving stump speeches you’re
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going to encounter these problems
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irregardless I’ll tell you a quick story
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when I first started off in a you know
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in I call it podcast journalism so to
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speak back in 2016-2017 I have a guest
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on my show who was a prolific journalist
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over in Canada she since kind of gone
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into hiding because of some issues over
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there
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with the press in Canada but she she
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made some statements about Islam on my
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show now I’ll tend to really touch
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certain topics I don’t talk about
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religion much I don’t cover Foreign
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Affairs and when it comes to you know
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certain gender issues it’s just not
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nothing I really talk about stuff I
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don’t have my opinion it’s just that
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it’s not really my wheelhouse so I
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allowed her to make the statement
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because you know she needs to make a
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point and I deeply believe that
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conversation isn’t the cosine so you can
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have conversations with people and just
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talk you’ll have to agree with anything
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but I had this one libertarian candidate
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who was running for House of Delegates
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in Virginia he was going to come on my
19:34
show the next day say that because
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because I had her on my show and I
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didn’t disagree with something she said
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or stopper on something she said there’s
19:45
something I don’t even quite remember I
19:48
was in essence advocating for what she
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said and that he wanted nothing to do
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with me because I would make him look
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bad now for the record I was the only
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person I was no one at the time the only
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type of media figure within the state of
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Virginia that had the ears of voters in
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my district I reached out to him so he
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played the PC cards very fast but you
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know we’ve had libertarian candidates
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we’ve had small OU libertarians with
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whatever title you want call yourself
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these problems always turn up I had a
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candidate during my first race the
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Secretary of the State Libertarian Party
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donated $50 and said you guys are
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running a crap Republican Lite campaign
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if you want this money to keep coming
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you better to do what I want you to do
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and that was like motherfucker that’s
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not enough money I need something you
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know I need to be bought and wooed a bit
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more than just thirty bucks a month
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right and I mean people think they could
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throw that at you and you know I do know
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some campaigns where they were like Oh
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$30 a month okay because they sucks but
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you’re not getting anywhere with that
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kind of money yeah yeah I mean politics
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you know it’s it treats everyone the
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same it hates you so I think regardless
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of party or regardless of seat
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regardless of ideology you know the
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problems are the same what do you do
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when you’re tempted with taking a
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shortcut where do you do when you can
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turn a blind eye to something what do
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you do when someone offers you a really
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good deal in exchange for you to make a
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decision that the people that put you in
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power don’t want you to make you know
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these are decisions that people have
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been dealing with since the beginning of
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time and regardless of partisan stripe
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decade or person everyone has to
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encounter these and they have to
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confront them in their own way and in
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that same vein why would you say why do
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you think libertarians especially very
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principled libertarians tend to lose
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elections and how much personal
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responsibility do you take for that I
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split it in the kind of two spheres I
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look at I call it the rules of the game
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and I think we need to admit that the
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rules of the game are typically rigged
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against us it’s primarily when we’re
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looking at federal offices when it comes
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to state-level seats it’s very easy
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again on the ballot but when it comes to
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federal offices such as House
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representatives or US Senate it can
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become extremely difficult to even
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you know make that barrier to entry and
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then I think what we need to understand
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is that regardless of whether or not
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you’re in a very red district or a very
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blue district you’re dealing with people
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that don’t understand libertarian
22:22
worldview at all let’s just really
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consider this nobody was born a
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libertarian nonetheless became a
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libertarian and so they were probably
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much older
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I think Millennials are a bit different
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of a case because I was 17 for example
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when I started first learning about
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libertarian principles and there are
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many people around my age demographic
22:40
that got it when they were in their mid
22:42
to late teens so this is more of a
22:44
recent thing we’re seeing but it
22:45
probably won’t be much of an effect in
22:47
electoral politics for another
22:49
generation right exactly so yeah so by
22:52
dealing with that thing I mean how can
22:53
you tell people that they’re slaves when
22:55
they don’t even understand that I mean I
22:58
think we’re dealing with just the fact
22:59
that you know just the rules of the game
23:01
are eggs but the people that are
23:02
supposed to be on our side the people
23:04
that we’re supposed to be advocating for
23:05
us I mean were the people that we’re
23:07
supposed to be advocating for they don’t
23:09
even know what we’re talking about it’s
23:10
almost like a different language
23:11
entirely it you know I think that sense
23:14
you know you’re kind of you’re kind of
23:16
doomed yeah it you can try really hard
23:18
but you know you’re it’s always gonna be
23:20
uphill you’re always starting out at a
23:22
disadvantage irregardless yeah it is it
23:25
is it that’s a good way to describe me
23:27
it is sometimes you’ll say something to
23:29
someone and they’ll go I don’t even
23:30
understand what you just said and it’s
23:32
like literally you’re speaking another
23:33
language to them now what is your least
23:35
favorite thing about Matt his face
23:40
that’s just I know it’s it’s matt face
23:45
no I know I know like he’s a good person
23:48
but his face hurts the eyes of children
23:49
yeah as I’ve been told
23:51
yeah yeah he’s the opposite so when you
23:53
have people and they’re like well yeah
23:55
she’s heavy but she’s got a pretty face
23:57
he’s kind of the exact opposite of that
23:58
a beautiful personality can only make
24:01
for so much there’s ugly people then
24:03
they’re painful people to look at yeah
24:05
I’d say my least favorite thing I don’t
24:07
like the fact that he removed the giant
24:09
cyst from his head I was enjoying
24:12
watching it that gave him so much
24:14
character it was it was the thing right
24:15
and like I didn’t know I thought that
24:18
was just his thing like he just had a
24:19
matt horn or something and I’m like cool
24:22
I’m co-hosting a show with a guy
24:25
like a new like a twin that conjoined
24:28
twin from inside or something something
24:29
and then I thought he was a make-a-wish
24:32
kid survivor and then he’s like I know
24:39
it’s a system having it removed and I’m
24:41
like well do they have to and he said no
24:45
and I’m like oh so talking about you do
24:48
that yeah it was all about him what a
24:53
selfish selfish little man it’s folks
24:56
he’s also five five so he’s got that
24:58
little piece and complex going to which
25:01
is just not working for him yeah it was
25:04
I just I just you could be short or you
25:07
can be painful to look at but when
25:09
you’re both you have to decide which one
25:11
you want to fix and you’ve lost your
25:13
distraction and it’s you know it’s sad
25:16
it’s like oh it’s smooth now you’re a
25:18
midget and you’re painful to look at
25:20
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originally back in 2016 I realized one
26:18
day I was broke and very opinionated so
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I might as well find a way to make money
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off opinions and quite frankly I didn’t
26:24
want to go work at Dairy Queen like some
26:25
of my friends so my brother Ryan who was
26:28
my roommate at the time I looked at him
26:30
and I said I know how to talk very well
26:32
and you know computers and I don’t know
26:35
crap about computers let’s start a
26:36
podcast so we started a pocket
26:38
sera dorm it was called originally to
26:41
REMSA Republic and it went from just me
26:43
bullshitting of people to being
26:45
eventually I think it was in the year
26:47
2017 number 25 and news of politics on
26:50
iTunes in North America so things not
26:53
real hot and heavy for a minute and then
26:55
everything else has just been crazy
26:58
since because of that show we’ve had you
27:01
know opportunities to do spin-off
27:03
documentaries I did a documentary about
27:04
Nick Freitas called American Statesman
27:07
and Nick Frey the story we did a bunch
27:09
of spin-off so to speak with a series
27:11
called Haunted Republic which eventually
27:13
got picked up as a TV show called the
27:15
witching hour which we’re filming for
27:17
season two right now and in January of
27:20
2019 I brought back the cop the podcast
27:23
after about a six-month hiatus and
27:25
rebrand is the REMSA Martinez experience
27:28
so that way we could take all these
27:29
crazy stories and stuff that we
27:31
encounter and just kind of move past
27:32
politics just attack life in general
27:34
yeah I saw where you were trying to I
27:37
watched listen to the one where you were
27:39
explaining why um Oh Jay Simpson was
27:43
more trustworthy than well you
27:45
specifically you called out Alexandra
27:47
occasional Cortez but really than any
27:49
politics what why why are you saying it
27:51
like you wouldn’t choose oj / ioc yeah
27:53
no i it was a compelling after I
27:55
listened I’m like yeah I mean he did he
28:00
only murdered two people and I mean he
28:04
was good to his get up well I do his
28:05
kids he was good he was a good dad to
28:07
his kids his kids loved him you know he
28:10
went to jail for getting his own stuff
28:12
back the way I see it he was a political
28:16
prisoner at that point Mele was everyone
28:19
was so bad being a black man in America
28:22
yeah that really was what it was he was
28:25
a black guy with with a nice car and
28:27
they went no you go to jail for that
28:29
listen you go to jail for getting your
28:32
own stuff and served like the maximum
28:35
sentence on good behavior there that’s
28:38
that white America was mad he got away
28:40
with murdering their favorite white
28:42
woman that they didn’t know until she
28:43
was murdered and did you know changed my
28:45
mind everyone becomes a saint after
28:47
they’re dead that’s why it’s act John
28:49
McCain
28:52
this was her fault okay so ya know after
28:56
listening I was like you know what I’d
28:58
vote for him I love that he’s on Twitter
29:00
and that makes me infinitely happy and
29:04
uh and this is why I do it folks I do it
29:07
because I’m a man of the people
29:09
ya know I definitely got that vibe I
29:11
definitely got that vibe so we are now
29:12
going to talk about your book we’re now
29:14
allowed to talk about your book I’m
29:16
gonna show it again no one’s gonna hear
29:17
you no one’s gonna hear you how to
29:18
succeed in politics and other forms of
29:21
devil-worship now confession time I only
29:25
got about a third of the way through
29:26
your book I told you I’d read the whole
29:28
thing instead I ended up doing like
29:31
stuff my wife told me needed to be done
29:34
today so I did I got about a third of
29:37
the way through the book but I think I
29:39
have a pretty decent grip on um where
29:41
you were going with it I’m sure I’m
29:42
gonna I’m gonna finish reading it and
29:44
I’m sure I’m gonna absolutely love it
29:46
and I don’t want to give away too much
29:47
anyway but tell us about the book and
29:49
and and tell us about how your I guess
29:54
how your experience is fed into well
29:56
tell us about the book I don’t wanna
29:57
give away too much yeah so essentially
29:59
the book is one that one of the most I
30:04
can’t like put it but this book covers
30:07
the questions that people have been
30:08
asking themselves for generations how
30:11
far are you willing to go to succeed if
30:13
you lose yourself in the process
30:14
and I use the realm of politics in order
30:17
to really kind of express that so what I
30:19
wanted to do originally I wanted to do
30:21
bit of a tell-all book about my time as
30:24
a political consultant but what I didn’t
30:26
want to do was I didn’t want to get to
30:28
down and emotional like in the weeds of
30:31
it so to speak right and just turn into
30:33
a bitchfest so I thought how do I take
30:36
the lesson I’m trying to tell people and
30:40
make it in a way which is compelling and
30:42
informative and engaging it actually
30:43
makes them ask these questions so the
30:45
book is about two people one is a
30:47
fictional character that takes place in
30:49
modern times named art Brown he’s a
30:51
political consultant who works for a
30:54
couple successful people and the moment
30:56
he thinks he’s gone go ahead and ride
30:58
that chariot of Fame and power over to
31:01
DC he finds himself kicked back on his
31:03
ass and figuring out what to do and what
31:05
he ends up doing is working for
31:06
some not so trustworthy people and in
31:09
the meantime between our story I have a
31:12
historic element a nonfiction element
31:15
about one of I think probably the most
31:18
influential politicians perhaps the most
31:21
influential political loser of the 20th
31:24
century and villain of the civil rights
31:26
movement George Wallace and I chose
31:30
George Wallace specifically because if
31:32
you want to look at probably the closest
31:34
thing to the American version of a Greek
31:35
tragedy George Wallace really does
31:38
embody that because here you have a
31:39
person who grew up in the sticks who
31:41
grew up amongst African Americans who
31:44
was a progressive judge who was endorsed
31:46
by the n-double-a-cp the first time he
31:47
ran for governor he winds up being the
31:49
guy who’s known as the most dried
31:52
hardcore segregationist of America now
31:54
the thing is we don’t get to choose how
31:57
history looks at us and in terms of
31:59
Wallace we remember him as being that
32:01
villain but the thing that people don’t
32:03
often understand is that there was a
32:05
life after 1963 and the life George
32:08
Wallace led was way more complicated
32:11
than anyone could ever imagine and he
32:13
ended up dying what I believe to be a
32:15
very different person so what I do is I
32:18
basically try and take the veneer off of
32:20
politics you know the wolf of Wall
32:22
Street taught style parties we tend to
32:24
think go on and I really let people know
32:26
you know what happens to the losers what
32:28
happens to the people who were you know
32:29
down and out and what happens when they
32:33
have to choose between finding success
32:35
by any means necessary and in finding
32:38
their humanity
32:39
yeah it was very cool iii-it’s
32:41
interestingly enough it was less than a
32:45
year ago that I first I knew George
32:47
Wallace I knew his story as you know
32:50
once he was a prominent name in the 60s
32:53
we all know that the you know famous
32:56
segregation now segregation then
32:58
segregation now segregation forever and
33:01
or segregation now segregation tomorrow
33:03
segregation forever he was he wasn’t
33:06
just a main villain in the segregation
33:09
you know Pro segregation side he was the
33:13
face and and now especially historically
33:15
is the first person people think of if
33:19
they’re you know
33:20
intimately knowledgeable about that time
33:22
when they think about you know the anti
33:24
civil rights movement the people that
33:26
wanted to keep it that way and yet you
33:28
know I learned last year like you said
33:30
he was a progressive judge he called out
33:33
people who you know uh people in his
33:37
court who were disrespectful to black
33:39
people he was incredibly not just
33:42
anti-racist but a progressive
33:44
anti-racist and not just an anti racist
33:47
but also I mean he was in many ways the
33:51
1960s version of the closest you could
33:53
get to a Bernie Sanders or an Alexandra
33:56
occasional cortes or or you know when
33:59
you think the sweetie you know that’s
34:00
probably one of the best ways to
34:02
describe him I haven’t put it that way
34:04
but you’re absolutely spot-on about that
34:06
like he was as progressive and by that I
34:11
mean way more progressive you than you
34:13
would expect a successful politician to
34:16
be in 1950s and 1960s Alabama um exactly
34:21
what it was an Arkansas it was Alabama
34:23
right Alabama
34:25
yeah Alabama yeah and and and for him
34:27
too then for essentially for political
34:30
reasons to morph into let’s not confuse
34:34
it they were a hundred percent political
34:37
reasons yeah and that’s the scary thing
34:40
because this wasn’t a man that did
34:42
things by accident he was an incredibly
34:43
intelligent person he did everything
34:46
intentionally and that’s the terrifying
34:48
thing about it that is cynical as hell
34:51
that is the equivalent if we’re going
34:53
back to Anne Frank that is the political
34:55
equivalent of someone who starts off as
34:58
like you know a half Jewish anti-nazi
35:02
politician and by the time the things
35:04
done he’s one of the people helping
35:06
craft the final solution like it’s that
35:07
it’s not obviously not that extreme in
35:10
terms of outcome but it’s that extreme
35:12
in terms of going from being the fighter
35:14
on this side to being the fight to being
35:17
the head of the fighting on this on the
35:20
opposite side entirely for politics like
35:22
literally just to win politically if you
35:25
want to talk about you know selling your
35:27
soul to win elections that’s as that is
35:29
as as as it wasn’t he didn’t change his
35:32
mind about these things
35:34
he just did it for to win just to win
35:37
elections yeah
35:40
and sadly this is something that people
35:43
were doing before him and this is what
35:45
people were doing after him it’s what
35:47
people are doing now the difference is
35:49
the lens in which we look at people and
35:53
history I mean that here’s here’s a
35:55
strange thing about immortality it’s all
35:58
in history and it’s all about who’s
35:59
telling it and with George Wallace like
36:02
he did some good things for people but
36:04
we never talk about those no because if
36:07
you do that then what are you you’re
36:09
you’re you’re all these terrible things
36:11
I can’t look at history objectively but
36:14
sadly what it does show is that you know
36:17
he doesn’t get to tell his narrative he
36:19
doesn’t get to try and course-correct
36:21
how people see him he tried to towards
36:24
the latter years of his life which is
36:25
why talk about in the book and I really
36:27
try and emphasize the 1972 election when
36:31
he was at one point one of the
36:32
Democratic frontrunners people don’t
36:34
often remember that George Wallace ran
36:35
again for president 1972 many people
36:37
know that he was the most successful
36:39
third party candidate of the 20th
36:41
century in 1968 when he ran against
36:43
Humphrey and Nixon but in 1972 the
36:47
Democratic Party almost elected him the
36:48
you know the one thing that took him
36:50
down was a bullet from a failed
36:53
assassin’s gun but his life after that
36:56
his life confined to a wheelchair if
36:58
something very few people for a few
37:00
between ever really look at and that’s
37:02
the part of his life where I call it you
37:04
know the the third act of Wallace yeah
37:07
what do you do when you can’t fix
37:08
anything you’re watching it all happen
37:10
and you know everything that you wanted
37:14
in life is basically destroyed and you
37:17
want to do about that and you were a
37:18
large catalyst for a lot of the things
37:20
that you don’t like seeing happen like
37:23
you were one of the biggest engines for
37:25
those things moving for it it’s it’s
37:27
really incredible and I like how you at
37:29
least for the third that I read how you
37:31
kind of weaved both we even we’ve been
37:34
woven how you move between you
37:38
transition between the story about about
37:42
the political operative art art Brown
37:44
right yeah art Brown the the the Puerto
37:47
Rican
37:48
liberté leaning a political operative no
37:52
idea where that the ark if you go
37:56
farther in the book you’ll learn he’s
37:57
part two Yubin so are you park human no
38:01
I’m not oh okay he’s not Brad as a
38:03
fictitious characters Cheerilee fiction
38:07
I moved that was me that was a racial
38:09
thing on my part and I apologize for he
38:12
yeah he so I like how you weave between
38:15
his story and between and between the
38:19
the story of Wallace I’m definitely
38:20
gonna finish it cuz I was I was I was
38:23
really getting it and I was thinking
38:25
okay I’m gonna add a nap so I can have
38:27
it read the rest of it to me while I’m
38:28
doing stuff in that just that didn’t
38:29
happen for many reasons but um I don’t
38:32
want to give away too much and I’ll let
38:33
you decide how much you want to you want
38:35
to do but one thing I liked was his the
38:38
position between what he was doing in
38:42
his career and what he actually did with
38:45
like his actual voting himself I don’t
38:48
know again I don’t know how much you
38:49
want to talk about that but but tell me
38:51
whatever you want to tell me about that
38:53
particularly yeah well I wanted to do
38:55
with art was I wanted to shed a light on
38:58
probably the most dangerous cottage
39:00
industry in America it’s the full-time
39:02
professional political consultant these
39:04
are the people that sit between bankers
39:07
prostitutes priests and politicians and
39:10
they’re probably the most dangerous
39:12
people in America because you don’t
39:14
often know their names and when you do
39:16
know their names their names like Corey
39:17
Lewandowski and David Axelrod yeah what
39:21
we wish to America is this whole class
39:23
of people that profit off constant
39:26
campaigning and it gets to the point
39:29
where it becomes less about effecting
39:31
change becomes less about issues and it
39:33
becomes more like becoming the personal
39:35
PR hit men for not so saintly people
39:38
right and you know art was like I’m not
39:42
gonna lie like some of art’s
39:44
characteristics and stuff like you know
39:47
every writer puts a logo themselves into
39:49
their main protagonist but art was
39:51
actually inspired by a lot of people I
39:53
know there are a lot of different people
39:54
I’ve encountered both good and bad who
39:57
have taken pieces of to put in art
39:59
because what I wanted people to
40:00
understand
40:01
that these people are probably the
40:03
closest thing to political sociopaths
40:05
out there they say one thing they do one
40:08
thing in public but what they actually
40:10
believe in what they do is quite
40:11
contradictory to that because at the end
40:14
of the day it’s that question that even
40:16
politicians have to and the thing that
40:17
our it really exemplifies throughout the
40:19
book is that you could have named it has
40:21
succeed in business in other forms of
40:23
devil-worship has succeeded and college
40:25
anything and it all comes down to what
40:27
is success because if your definition of
40:30
success is power money influence comfort
40:33
whatever you can get that but there’s a
40:36
cost with it and with art what you see
40:38
very early on is that he sacrificed his
40:42
uh his public image because yeah he
40:44
might go vote one way and he might still
40:46
do what he believes but at the end of
40:48
the day that’s not the person he wants
40:49
people to know him as and what he’s done
40:51
is he’s taken the judgment and opinion
40:54
of other people and he substituted that
40:56
with what he really does believe is
40:58
right yeah and I like I like how he he
41:02
makes a he made a comparison that I use
41:05
often when talking about the it for the
41:07
and I’m not sure if you know this I’m an
41:09
antique oh I guess canonical capitalist
41:11
whatever I’m an anarchist I I would
41:13
never thought an anarchist
41:20
who ever heard of a thing no and so I
41:24
you know I that try to use the electoral
41:28
process for liberty reasons god bless
41:30
you it’s a self-defensive use of proxy
41:33
violence I’m fine with that but but I
41:34
like the and I’m gonna butcher this
41:36
because I don’t remember exactly how it
41:38
was said but basically he said you know
41:39
that we’re in a war and that you have
41:41
people who without really knowing much
41:43
about what they’re doing are essentially
41:45
using their bullets their their votes as
41:48
bullets to put a gun to shoot at each
41:50
other I and again I know I put your that
41:52
but it was very much like it is people
41:55
are without really spending much time on
41:57
it which is also frightening how little
41:59
people think before they vote they are
42:01
really engaging in a sort of domestic
42:04
warfare against their otherwise friends
42:06
and neighbors who become their their you
42:08
know adversaries and enemies on that one
42:10
day every couple of years and it’s it it
42:12
was and so to become
42:15
person who engages in that as you’re a
42:18
career whether you’re a politician or
42:20
especially like you said you know
42:22
professional political you know hitman
42:24
operative operatives a good word because
42:28
it’s like you’re like a wartime you were
42:31
like some sort of uh like out like a
42:33
you’re actually engaging in warned and
42:35
in a form of almost violence so how
42:38
could you not lose yourself in that yeah
42:40
I don’t know if you’re much of a comic
42:42
book guy but one of my inspirations for
42:44
the book as I was writing both you know
42:46
crafting the character of art Brown but
42:48
really trying to analyze Wallace in the
42:50
way I could you know conceptualize it is
42:53
Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke it’s a
42:56
story that basically kind of tells that
42:58
the fact that origin of the Joker and
43:00
what you learn in that book is that you
43:02
know the Joker was a poor comedian who
43:04
had a pregnant wife and he was just
43:06
trying to make ends meet so one day he’s
43:09
told by a couple gangsters that if he
43:11
wears this mask and pretends to be a
43:13
villain they’ll go rob a place and get
43:15
out and then they’ll give him some money
43:17
and he’ll move on with his life
43:18
well that doesn’t the pathname because
43:20
Batman shows up
43:22
Joker’s wearing a funny red helmet and
43:24
he’s like listen Batman this is all
43:25
misunderstanding that Batman
43:27
accidentally kicks him to a vat of ass
43:29
and he becomes the Joker and the running
43:31
theme in that graphic novel is that the
43:33
difference between the Joker and anybody
43:35
is one bad day and to a certain degree
43:38
that’s kind of like what happened to
43:41
Wallace and that’s how I think a lot of
43:43
people tend to ignore a lot of things
43:46
what they need to understand is that
43:47
yeah I think you may command the itself
43:50
is depraved were sinful we make problems
43:52
I think we can all choose to be good or
43:54
bad for a lot of people I think the
43:56
difference between us and the villains
43:58
that we hate and fear is just one bad
44:00
day and I think Wallace really does
44:02
exemplify that tragedy to an extent art
44:05
and many of the other characters in the
44:07
book you see are much like that the
44:09
difference between them and one bad day
44:12
is whether or not they win or lose an
44:13
election whether or not they get that
44:16
donor or they have to go find money some
44:18
other way whether or not they’re going
44:19
to be unemployed or whether or not
44:21
they’re going to step up it’s very much
44:24
that situation and with George Wallace I
44:27
mean he’s he’s a victim of his own
44:29
bad luck but also a victim of his own
44:32
self-inflicted decisions bad luck and
44:36
being good at it I mean if he had sucked
44:39
at being a you know racist politician he
44:45
just would have sucked it you know he
44:46
would have lost and maybe a few people
44:48
would remember his name I’m sure there
44:49
are plenty of other segregationist
44:51
politicians that lost elections and
44:52
whatever so it’s it’s bad luck / being
44:55
good at being really a terrible person
44:59
and and not just terrible person like
45:01
the only way to be a terrible person is
45:03
to be racist or you know to be in favor
45:05
of say but just terrible person as in
45:06
you are doing things that you personally
45:09
believe to be horrible things that you
45:12
know will cause and inflict massive
45:14
amounts of pain so that I think yeah I
45:17
think I think anarcho-capitalists
45:20
understand this more so than other
45:22
people but you know I think there’s this
45:24
disconnect between actions and thoughts
45:26
and results and we tend to think that
45:30
the things we do in life are just
45:32
passive and they have no direct impact
45:33
but here’s the thing folks that
45:36
congressman you voted for who you
45:38
thought you were voting for a good
45:39
pro-life congressman ended up voting for
45:41
something which ends up getting a bunch
45:43
of kids killed yeah like a lot of people
45:45
are dead yeah yeah you can say well that
45:48
was him but in a way like we all have to
45:50
share responsibility what separates us
45:52
from understanding that though is that
45:54
we just don’t want to it’s it’s a
45:57
willful ignorance and and and it goes
45:59
deeper than that
45:59
at this point the many many many decades
46:03
of the u.s. murdering lots and lots and
46:07
lots of people both here and abroad and
46:09
put thing putting them at cages and
46:10
everything else you can at this point
46:12
say oh man I had no idea that voting for
46:14
a Republican or Democrat or whatever
46:16
would result in that I didn’t know that
46:19
this down the line Republican politician
46:21
who gave every indication that he would
46:23
vote for whatever war his party
46:25
supported as long as they were in power
46:26
I had no idea that would actually result
46:28
in a continuation of you know these
46:30
types of policies so you truly have to
46:32
if you if you and and I give this to
46:35
Democrats even more because they’ll be
46:37
the ones to say always you know Wars bad
46:40
and these children and we’re separate
46:43
reading families and it’s like ya know
46:45
all those terrible things are happening
46:47
every single one of those things that’s
46:49
happened with either the blessing of the
46:52
Democratic Party when they’re out of
46:53
power
46:53
despite their words or when they’re in
46:55
power doing the exact same thing but
46:57
talking about rainbows and unicorns
46:59
while they do it you know I said I mean
47:02
this is one thing I really want to
47:03
emphasize with art in the beginning of
47:05
the book it takes place on the day of
47:08
the 2016 election and the one thing art
47:11
brings up is that you know a lot of
47:12
people they just think that this is the
47:14
end of the world and that history
47:15
started at the beginning of the cycle
47:16
and as you go about the book and I I
47:19
mean you have some ways to go before you
47:21
really start to see how long Art’s been
47:23
involved but he’s at the point where
47:25
even come 2016 he doesn’t care
47:27
like he’s like I’ve seen this before
47:29
yeah I know history I’ve seen what
47:32
happens nothing’s going to change all I
47:34
can do is take care of myself
47:36
right so here’s an example of someone
47:38
who’s absolutely right about the
47:40
circumstance and the situation but he’s
47:43
absolutely wrong in the way he’s
47:46
handling it because he doesn’t think
47:48
that his actions have effect on anyone
47:51
anymore he’s just there to take care of
47:53
himself no exactly exactly and that’s
47:56
it’s weird cuz he’s engaging in like a
47:58
lot of self-care while also like
48:01
continuing to engage in the thing that’s
48:03
causing them all the all the agita in
48:07
the first place is very interesting and
48:08
and so I like I said I can’t wait to
48:12
finish reading this probably tonight or
48:14
tomorrow and guys you guys need to read
48:16
this as well now you actually have a
48:17
crowdfunding campaign we have that in
48:19
the show notes and I will will be
48:21
promoting that on the website and stuff
48:23
as well but um what is your what is your
48:27
goal with the crowdfunding to get it
48:28
published and so really what do you have
48:29
a timeline for how you want things to
48:31
proceed so everyone else can read this
48:32
yeah so the the really cool thing and
48:34
I’m happy to announce this on your show
48:36
is that originally before I started the
48:39
IndieGoGo campaign I was going to
48:41
completely finance the book myself it
48:43
was going to come out in March 2020
48:44
because that was when I would be able to
48:46
afford everything because
48:47
self-publishing books like this you know
48:50
traditional publishers aren’t going to
48:51
do it’s not that you know I didn’t want
48:54
to go through the process I probably
48:55
could have gotten a publisher for
48:57
Warp I do know that the final product
48:58
would not have been what I wanted and if
49:00
I go ahead and write something I want to
49:01
do that so I started the crowdfunding
49:03
campaign I realized I need a thousand
49:05
dollars to really put the work in to
49:07
make this professionally well produced
49:09
the first book I did a completely out
49:11
pocket but was my first self-published
49:13
book there’s some things I liked and
49:14
didn’t like so I want to make sure that
49:16
for this one is perfect as possible so
49:18
within 10 days
49:20
I have exceeded the amount of money that
49:22
I initially needed why the great thing
49:26
for you and everyone listening is that
49:29
the IndieGoGo campaign is still open for
49:32
49 days so what this basically does is
49:35
this allows you to not only get a whole
49:38
bunch of exclusive limited stuff like
49:40
signed posters or credit in the book
49:41
signed copy of my first book but your
49:44
everything is massively discounted so in
49:47
a way the goals been met I’m gonna make
49:50
this the best product ever I possibly
49:52
could but you can get this a signed copy
49:57
of the book extremely cheap by helping
50:00
basically give me the capital to do it
50:02
so at this point you can get everything
50:04
from a sign first copy of my first book
50:07
a signed copy of this book a signs
50:09
limited edition poster that’s I mean
50:11
it’s it’s gonna be fun and you can earn
50:13
a credit in the book where I’ll thank
50:14
you and the acknowledgments for helping
50:16
basically take the power from the big
50:18
publishers and democratize it in a way
50:20
so that way stories like art Browns and
50:23
you know the and more of a more
50:25
objective view of George Wallace can be
50:27
told and the really cool thing is that
50:30
originally like I said we were gone do
50:32
you March 2020 now I’m happy to say that
50:35
because of everyone’s support it’ll be
50:39
out in prints and Kindle on August 30th
50:42
oh wow oh wow so it’ll be ready this
50:45
summer that’s awesome so guys be sure to
50:47
get your you know this books coming out
50:49
regardless go ahead and get it for a lot
50:51
cheaper and also get maybe pick up some
50:53
How to Succeed in politics swag and a
50:55
copy of stay away from the libertarians
50:58
as well I haven’t read that but just the
50:59
cover alone makes me want to read that
51:01
so be sure to check that out now matt
51:04
has a question for you what was it like
51:07
being The Crying migrant baby on the
51:09
cover of Time
51:10
magazine that was me that was my cousin
51:14
Julio I was left behind because I didn’t
51:17
want to wake up early so the Coyotes
51:19
left me in the train and I woke up in
51:21
Los Angeles so I actually got the the
51:24
better end of the deal because of
51:25
negligence right so that was actually a
51:28
turn
51:28
that was that was fortune smiling on you
51:30
is that you just got on the train that’s
51:32
yeah well like Alejandro you know I
51:35
don’t know where he is god bless him but
51:37
you know it you gotta take care of
51:39
number one or else I mean what else are
51:41
you doing there ended up on the cover of
51:43
Time magazine look at the Mexican child
51:47
that’s like no one cares about you he’s
51:49
there crying they’re there crying and
51:52
then Donald Trump’s looking down at her
51:53
like yeah well I don’t care about Julio
51:55
um so here’s another thing and this is
51:58
Matt who I guess this is the thing I
52:01
hate the most about him is that he drops
52:03
things on me at the last second he said
52:05
oh you’re gonna talk about you bi with
52:07
Bream so right and I’m like why and he
52:10
said cuz he’s a supporter of you bi and
52:12
I went yeah we’re definitely gonna talk
52:14
about that so I just what so I’m
52:17
interested to hear the libertarian case
52:20
for you bi because I’m not I’m not
52:23
seeing it but I’m more than willing to
52:25
listen to anyone about anything I
52:28
wouldn’t I wouldn’t even call myself a
52:31
supporter of you bi but the really funny
52:33
thing is that you know originally I came
52:36
for more of a public policy economics
52:38
background right Washington like you
52:41
know in in Washington here’s the truth
52:44
about economists so maybe I’ll write a
52:45
book about how succeed in economics and
52:47
other forms of screwing over economies
52:49
but your job in politics isn’t
52:52
necessarily to make people’s lives
52:53
better it’s just to make them less worse
52:56
okay when it comes to things like you bi
52:59
you you have certain people that you
53:03
know it’s basically a policy without a
53:05
part without party it’s a solution
53:08
without a home and because of that many
53:10
people have many different arguments for
53:12
it I understand what the Marxist the
53:13
socialist and the conservative and the
53:16
Austrian view for well actually I
53:18
wouldn’t say Austria the Chicago School
53:19
to you yes again I freed man as Austrian
53:23
Austria
53:23
doesn’t allow that at all but you know
53:26
basically the back in the 80s they were
53:29
these professors Cloward and Piven and
53:31
what they basically thought of was they
53:33
were they were like Marxist anarchists
53:35
anarcho-syndicalist I thought the goal
53:37
in order to bring about a worker run
53:39
stateless society was to basically blow
53:42
up the welfare state to the point where
53:44
the nation collapsed and you have a lot
53:47
of people that think that ubi is a form
53:51
of that my thing is this if you actually
53:54
take ubi the way that people like Milton
53:56
Friedman Thomas Paine and others such as
53:59
from the some folks from the Institute
54:00
for Humane studies but it was it
54:03
basically allows everybody to win for
54:06
libertarians it allows an elimination of
54:09
99% of the welfare state
54:10
you know ubi is blanket it’s impersonal
54:14
it offers no excuses so that’s why some
54:16
libertarians like it conserve their
54:18
stuff conservatives like it because what
54:20
it does is it keeps people out of direct
54:23
pop situations that lead to poverty
54:26
they’re therefore they won’t need other
54:29
programs and you limit the size of
54:30
government and then progressives like it
54:32
because it covers things like income
54:34
inequality and it also brings down other
54:37
factors that you know keep people in
54:40
welfare and you know that’s that so my
54:44
my my support for ubi comes down to this
54:49
it’s the worst best best worst plan
54:53
there is my problem with it however is
54:56
it’s a utopian plan and it’s implemented
54:59
it you know you’d have to raise the
55:01
amount per month per year that you’d be
55:03
getting in terms of a you know keeping
55:05
up with inflation in by the same time
55:07
you you know when is enough enough you
55:10
know Andrew yang he was gonna be
55:11
debating tomorrow night is saying twelve
55:13
twelve thousand dollars a year like what
55:16
the hell what if I want $30,000 here
55:18
what if I want a hundred thousand
55:19
dollars a year all you have to do is
55:20
vote and that’s a dangerous thing you’re
55:23
going to be sabotaging yourself in the
55:24
process so I think ubi is the best worst
55:28
plan for more perfect people or not
55:31
those people and it’s still a terrible
55:32
plan but if let’s say we were to start
55:35
it like in my home state Virginia for
55:36
example
55:37
if a politician in Virginia said we’re
55:39
going to go ahead and eliminate all
55:40
state-level welfare programs and set
55:43
implement ubi I’d probably vote for that
55:46
so there you get a little bit tricky
55:48
about how you get to the situations so
55:51
that’s that’s that’s my gimmick about it
55:53
yeah I yeah there’s definitely an
55:55
argument to be made that it would be
55:57
better than welfare I mean it not is
56:00
better than chlamydia right that yeah
56:03
well I think the clap is coming up
56:05
anyway we’re no claps gonorrhea anyway
56:08
whatever yeah well it’s better than AIDS
56:10
yeah no I get it
56:12
oh and I know I know Friedman made his
56:15
case with the the negative income tax
56:17
and things like that so I I get it I
56:20
think that I mean obviously when you’re
56:21
an anarchist you don’t want universal
56:23
basic income but III get the kid the
56:26
case that it’s better than the current
56:29
thing one of the funny one of the most
56:31
scathing indictments of ubi that I ever
56:34
listened to was on YouTube and it was
56:35
from a communist who was saying if the
56:38
matter yeah he said if you implement ubi
56:41
you are entrenching capitalism really
56:47
corporatism but you’re you are
56:48
entrenching the wealthy being here and
56:51
saying we own this here’s money so you
56:54
can live but we definitely own this and
56:57
it eliminates the ability of the it
56:58
eliminates the what’s the word they like
57:02
to use the Solidarity of the working
57:04
class it guarantees there’s not gonna be
57:07
any public ownership of a damn thing and
57:08
it in in their mind it’s it’s the the
57:12
perfect ending of the what they call the
57:15
capitalist welfare state and I thought
57:16
okay well that’s a leftist argument
57:18
against it my argument against it is um
57:21
you were putting government in charge of
57:23
deciding how much money everyone needs
57:24
every year and that’s the market isn’t
57:28
going to simply shrug that off like the
57:30
costs are going to be born into the rest
57:33
of the market and there’s gonna be this
57:35
quickly exponentially escalating battle
57:40
between the price ceiling plight price
57:42
floor of just living and how much money
57:45
you can get from the state coupled with
57:47
the ever growing burdensome debt that
57:50
comes with that
57:51
so I think it’s like you said for a for
57:53
a for a better people than us could you
57:57
make that work yeah but you could make a
57:58
communism work or you could make you
58:00
know well come communism couldn’t work
58:02
because communism is involuntary I mean
58:06
that’s the biggest thing with you bi to
58:09
to a certain degree you can kind of opt
58:10
in opt out because you know the the the
58:12
best plan I’ve seen for you bi is you
58:15
eliminate the income tax which basically
58:18
disincentivizes people to work and you
58:20
put a value-added tax so you feel it’s
58:22
based off consumable goods we call it
58:24
the Fair Tax right in the you know in in
58:27
Europe and North America and you know
58:30
with people like yang I’m not refer to
58:32
gang because he’s really the one kind
58:33
driving the ubi conversation right now
58:36
he definitely is yeah yeah so like right
58:38
now like he basically said if you could
58:40
opt in for ubi and what that does that
58:43
prevents you from accessing any form of
58:46
entitlement out there all of them so
58:49
once you’re in you’re in or you could
58:51
get your housing and your WIC and your
58:53
food stamps in your unemployment or you
58:55
could get this so he makes it you know
58:57
it’s it’s a bit unfair to a certain
58:59
agree it’s an all-or-nothing type of
59:01
deal and you know you know the one thing
59:04
it is however like in economy society
59:06
you’re gonna have to you know call
59:08
communism relies on violence you’re
59:09
gonna have to you know join the
59:11
proletariat worker class by any means
59:14
necessary or die whereas with ubi you’ve
59:17
got some more room to move around so oh
59:20
yeah it’s definitely a it’s it’s so like
59:23
you could be a communist in this Simpson
59:25
in that system and not like it or like
59:27
it but the thing is like I think the
59:29
biggest problem with economics I think
59:30
this is my one criticism of the Austrian
59:32
school is that we assume that everyone
59:35
everywhere is already aware of this and
59:38
they understand it and even if they did
59:39
understand it they would like it the
59:42
problem that is the truth is that if
59:44
let’s say I could snap my fingers like
59:46
fan o’s and create a libertarian society
59:48
overnight tomorrow there would be people
59:50
that crave for government and within two
59:52
days there would be a collective of
59:54
people taxing each other oh yeah yeah
59:56
yeah no in that right now is we have a
59:58
massive amount of people in working
60:00
communities throughout the country who
60:02
are one bad day away
60:04
from not paying their bills because
60:06
robots with their job and what’s gonna
60:08
happen they’re gonna push for even worse
60:12
stuff and that and that’s the thing so
60:13
and and and I tell people that when
60:15
they’re like yeah well you want anarchy
60:17
how realistic is that and I’m like right
60:19
now not at all
60:21
I might you know if and I used the snap
60:25
my finger if I could snap my finger and
60:26
government goes away everyone is
60:28
immediately gonna try to work to make a
60:30
new government a bit more than likely
60:31
historically that will be an even worse
60:33
government than what I got rid of by
60:35
snapping my finger so you know my thing
60:37
isn’t even like let’s try to make
60:39
anarchy today my thing is more of a I
60:41
cannot morally accept the idea that the
60:46
state is a justifiable thing that I can
60:48
justify and so I’m gonna try to talk
60:50
with people about why I think that is
60:52
and how we can try to work to create
60:54
something that looks more like a
60:56
voluntary society but the idea that like
60:58
anarchy is gonna happen you know in
61:00
Turkey will win that historically is not
61:03
true like in Turkey winning is not
61:05
usually what happened so so that that’s
61:07
my thing on that but um I I want to ask
61:10
you now you’re you’re gonna you’re did
61:13
you vote for Donald Trump in 2016
61:16
yeah no are you but you’re going to vote
61:20
for him you you’re planning on voting
61:22
for Trump yeah okay okay so I’m gonna
61:29
give you exactly I like him rough in the
61:33
Libertarian Party aisle
61:34
I usually don’t vote so you know it’s
61:37
funny the last two elections were south
61:39
Congo vote in the general I was like
61:41
really come home like I’m gonna go there
61:43
I’m gonna do it then I pull up in my car
61:45
I look at like you know the little
61:47
league of women’s voters people and then
61:50
I’m like I’m gonna go back to sleep now
61:53
and I just got home so you’re it so this
61:56
could go one of many ways you could vote
61:58
for Trump you could vote for the rough
62:00
Phillips ticket or you could just like
62:02
sleep in that day yeah all right well
62:06
we’re gonna pretend you’re a trump
62:07
supporter I’m gonna give you 30 seconds
62:09
to sell this libertarian audience on the
62:12
libertarian case on voting for Trump
62:14
good luck
62:16
well we’ve done is what we what Trump is
62:19
done is he’s exposed the deep state the
62:21
bureaucratic state and essentially what
62:23
now is happening is people are
62:24
questioning all major institutions this
62:26
is no fan idol for the importance of a
62:27
massive democracy especially when you
62:29
look some things such as the United
62:30
States and what we’ve done is we’ve kind
62:31
and evaluate the war State the
62:33
bureaucratic way to criminal justice
62:34
debate and what this is doing is
62:37
bringing enough power to the regular
62:38
voting class with the left or right and
62:40
forcing them back to look at local as’
62:41
solutions which to do go ahead and they
62:44
enforce Jeffersonian democracy or a
62:46
girl’s principles so essentially what
62:47
Trump is done buzzer buzzer buzzes
62:50
buzzer is down buzzers down the judges
62:55
the judges were looking for he’s going
62:58
this is the same post-it note he’s going
63:00
to trigger a revolt that will end up
63:02
tearing down the government leading to
63:05
an eventual virtual anarchists utopia
63:10
eventual anarchists utopia we were
63:12
looking for the answer we were looking
63:14
for yours was close maybe maybe it’ll
63:23
take me seriously I’m not gonna lie that
63:25
was pretty close to two well this just
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says you’re a Mexican but this is pretty
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that was pretty close to your I’m gonna
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get more posted notes I think that went
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well um I was okay with that answer I’m
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still not voting for him but I was I
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think we came close to what the judges
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wanted and I there’s no money here but
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if there was I’d give it to you
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now you wouldn’t you know I would
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definitely not but I what here’s what I
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will do is I will continue to promote
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your book I will definitely finish
63:57
reading it REMS oh I had a I’m you’re
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definitely coming back on and we’re
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probably just gonna have an episode
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where we just like bash Matt and so I’ll
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have like a picture I like you so much
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more than I like him like we’re gonna
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have a picture of Matt and it’ll just be
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like oh and then he’s like the children
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think of the children
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well that’s why I would do it I mean
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that’s really the only reason I even do
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this show is the children mmm I mean
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honestly who’s messaging it’s probably
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Matt Matt
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what a little bitch it was not but um
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brems up before I let you go I just want
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to give you a chance to give any final
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thoughts anything that you anything that
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you you want to say about anything
64:44
anything you want to plug anything up
64:45
come in that you got going on tell us
64:47
about your pocket whatever you want to
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say you have as much time as you want if
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it goes on too long I may just go to the
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bathroom and come back but REMSA
64:55
Martinez the floor is yours yeah so
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folks this this book has succeed in
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politics know that forms of
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devil-worship it’s a dark comedy that
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blends both a fictional narrative of the
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problems were facing today and a
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nonfiction narrative of what was going
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on during one of the most tumultuous
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years in American history and if you
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learn nothing more than just a few
65:16
interesting facts about how the
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political class works in this new
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cottage industry of professional
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political consultants and the
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politicians they breathe it’s that we
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need to treat each other better and that
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we ultimately need to ask ourselves this
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question what is the cost of success of
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our humanity is the price in the process
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it’s available in Kindle and print
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August 30th on Amazon Barnes & Noble
65:37
online we have Johnny Adams from
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blast-off Johnny rocket from launch pad
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media and narrating the audio book which
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should be out in October just so cool I
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love it I had no idea that’s so cool
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yeah John Johnny’s been a friend of mine
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for years he taught me how to podcast
65:57
and I was back in college and when I
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think of like the perfect voice to carry
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through this book yeah one who both
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self-loathing but also hilarious as hell
66:06
dark and serious but incredibly
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ridiculous and funny but just keep a
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captive reader engaged I couldn’t have
66:14
thought of anyone better than it so cool
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that is awesome that is awesome well
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thank you again we have a final comment
66:22
here Jacob LaBelle says this guy would
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make a great cell phone cell phone
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salesman you know what’s funny I
66:31
actually used to sell bags of
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chinese-made makeup business to business
66:35
I mean that’s essentially the same thing
66:40
it was so much better than politics
66:42
because at least that
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an honest job cuz if you want it you can
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buy it and if not no one’s gonna force
66:48
you to buy the Chinese man yeah like
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you’re getting something out of it I
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can’t say if it was good or not but at
66:53
least you’re getting something out of it
66:54
it’s mostly ash mostly ash but it’s it’s
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Chinese ash so that’s good Chris
66:59
Reynolds just chimed in asking what’s
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the book we’ll have that in the show
67:03
notes but it’s called how to succeed in
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politics and other forms of
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devil-worship and then you can obviously
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watch this show again REM so you are an
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angel of a man and I hope no one else
67:16
has called you that before I want this
67:18
to be the first time you’ve heard that I
67:19
care my one and only and I appreciate
67:21
you yeah you are definitely this is sort
67:24
of like an open relationship and I’m
67:25
really happy about it
67:26
I got an exclusive yeah I know why I’m
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married so I mean it’s gonna be
67:31
complicated I’m not gonna look like that
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yeah
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well this is I am in Canada right now
67:35
that’s why when you were saying before
67:37
like the woman that got in trouble in
67:38
Canada I’m like okay I’m just summering
67:45
here guys like Idaho MIFF there’s a
67:48
problem um anyway so thank you guys for
67:50
coming in stick around I’m going to talk
67:52
with you during the intro or during the
67:53
outro for the intro um guys thank you
67:56
again for tuning in to my fellow
67:57
Americans I love each and every one of
67:59
you individually be sure to tune in
68:01
tomorrow where we’re having a special
68:03
Thursday night episode of I think we’re
68:06
calling it the muddied waters of freedom
68:08
but maybe it’s the writer’s block
68:09
my fellow writer’s block of Americans
68:12
died I’m not sure what we’re calling it
68:14
but basically Matt and I are going to be
68:15
live-streaming
68:16
the democratic debate and laughing at
68:20
everyone so be sure to tune into that
68:22
Thursday at I think eight whenever the
68:23
debate starts we’ll be doing that right
68:25
here on muddy waters media be sure to
68:28
tune in Friday night for shabbat shalom
68:30
it’s Jason Lyon with mr. America the
68:35
bearded truth he’s not Jewish
68:36
but it is about so just watch it anyway
68:39
and then have a great weekend and then
68:42
next week is the one-year anniversary of
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my fellow Americans and I don’t know who
68:48
I have on as a guest it might just be me
68:50
because that’s really it’s really about
68:52
me but we’ll find out together but be
68:54
sure to tune in Monday for mr. America
68:57
the bearded truth
68:57
nonchalant episode tune in Tuesday night
69:00
for the muddy waters of freedom with me
69:03
and Matt Rogers we parse through the
69:04
week’s news and then join us right here
69:06
next week Wednesday night probably still
69:11
in Canada for my fellow Americans I
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didn’t no idea what I’m gonna do but
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it’s gonna be great thank you again for
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tuning in I love you so much
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God bless you
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