The Wrighter’s Block Episode 37 – Shane Sweeny Gets Wrighter’s Block

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all right put down your pens put down
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your pencils step away from the
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keyboards and settle in for this week’s
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episode of the writer’s block a muddied
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waters media production
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first and foremost allow me to thank Don
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and Sally ray for giving birth to me
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because without them none of this would
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be possible and also to stateside cava
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for the cabin that I’m drinking on
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today’s episode to everybody at
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stateside oh yeah also let me thank the
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narcissus cookbook for allowing me to
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use his music at the beginning in the
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end of every episode and to all of those
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allow me to say
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bula vinaka so big show today
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very excited I have on Shane big get
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Sweeney been looking forward to getting
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him on for quite some time mainly
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because I wanted to have the best beard
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to ever appear on muddied waters media
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to come on because I mean look at that
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thing is amazing Jason Lyons your
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friendly neighborhood libertarian has
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nothing on this beard absolutely nothing
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at all from Jason Lyons on the beard
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factor in comparison to Shane big get
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Sweeney Shane what’s going on buddy how
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are you doing what’s going on man look
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I’m trying to work with Jason he lives a
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little bit up the road I’m trying to I’m
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trying to teach him the ways but he’s
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he’s not listening he’s over there
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straightening it with a with a beard
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straightener yeah with like his curling
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iron thing that it’s actually like a hot
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comb sort of situation supposed to
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straight and make it look bigger so it’s
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kind of artificial it’s kind of like a
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well-endowed beard but artificial right
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it’s like putting in it’s like beard
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extensions that he’s like adding he it’s
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like the women that put on too much
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makeup throwing the extensions throw on
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the Spanx that’s what Jason is doing to
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his beard what he what he doesn’t know
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is that that’s actually harmful for your
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beard putting too much heat on it can
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actually break it and destroy it take
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care of your beard
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Ryan you too could have this and I mean
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it’s a magnificent like I am jealous
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of your beard like I’m not jealous of
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many people’s because typically not
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having a beard means that you’re higher
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up on the evolutionary chart so I mean
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it’s just just sign make that mistake in
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argument right I mean it’s just a truth
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but like so this right here is a week
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and a half of not shaving looking good I
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know like it’s like I’m doing what I can
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so yeah very excited to have you on
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today since I don’t know why mainly did
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mainly just because it’s an opportunity
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to upset spike and Jason in one show
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that’s true there’s snowflakes that they
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are so it was actually really funny
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because you’re the first person that
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I’ve had on this show that was singing
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along with the opening actually I forgot
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to follow up with him ever since I heard
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that song it was the line I’m running
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from the government and I’ve loved that
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song ever since yeah and I like I’m
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trying to find it you got to hook me up
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after the show I have to listen to it oh
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yeah and yeah the song is called I
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should know that the good ship you by
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the narcissist cookbook yeah I met that
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dude on I met that dude online somebody
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sent me the you saw the Cortney video
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that we did for the hundred yeah so the
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the seven minute song about conspiracy
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theories somebody sent me that while I
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was living in Alaska last summer and one
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of our regular one of our regular
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listeners Brian Wolfe
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sent that to me he goes hey I feel like
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this is something you would like and so
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I watched it and I was like this is the
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most incredible thing I’ve ever seen in
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my life this is perfect yeah and I was
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just kind of like alright but that was
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the only video the guy had uploaded so I
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was like okay well he did this one
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really great thing and then one day I
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was like oh I wonder if he’s on Facebook
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so I found him on Facebook he’s like my
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albums on Apple on iTunes so go give it
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now in so because I’m enslaved by
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by Apple yeah Apple pride he can as you
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can see yes you and me are in the same
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boat on that one mine is actually in the
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reason why like I’m really happy about
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it as music is the only reason why I’m
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stuck with Apple like I can care less
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about my phone other than like learning
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the functions to use it obviously but I
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whenever I was a kid every paycheck I
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got it was probably like $75 a week I
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worked in a breakfast shop on the
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weekends I spent every penny on music I
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mean from kiss albums unfortunately it
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could have been listened to better stuff
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all the way down the game the Bob Seger
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on and I just I have this library that’s
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just full of just stuff and when they
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were like oh yeah you can get an Android
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I was like what can I bring my music and
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when that was a no I’ve been stuck ever
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since right yeah when a so I start I
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started Android and what did I have
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first I had the Motorola Droid and loved
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it
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thought it was a great phone enjoyed the
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crap out of that phone the next one I
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got was a the lightning bolt I don’t
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remember who made it it I think it’s not
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THC but that’s what I owe the THC
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lightning bolt because it was slow and
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awful day I didn’t have a smartphone
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until 2014 when like I had my own place
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and was pay my own bills I was like well
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hell if I’m paying I’m gonna get rid of
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this flip phone right and I must I’m
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gonna get myself a smart phone yeah when
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I got what a world when I flipped from
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when I finally flipped from those two a
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smart phone I was like this is the worst
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decision I’ve ever made with my life
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because now I’m gonna be a slave to this
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phone and I have been ever since yeah it
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happens all the time
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yeah every day I actually have when I’m
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actually watching y’all’s shows I’m I
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work 12 hours a day at my restaurant and
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I have a cord attached so I can have my
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phone playing in the in the corner so it
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doesn’t die great I’ll just on that
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thing constantly because I’m there all
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the time right yeah I mean that’s how I
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am at the bar that I’m working at right
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now yes
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it’s bad but it’s great because I get to
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do stuff
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right right yeah so how is it that you
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came to meet Jason Lyons and become a
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libertarian I’m not sure if that was the
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order that happened but whichever one
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you want to start with no I made Jason
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into a libertarian
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I’m just kidding well I actually tell
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you I went was on his show I can’t
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remember the date but I was on his show
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prior to him joining muddy waters and
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after the show we just had a general
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like and I’ll beat spike to I don’t know
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how long we’re in I’m an anarchist that
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beats spikes record by a good nine
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minutes
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nailed it so anyway we were having a
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show just based off of people were
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freaking out about what anarchy is and I
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went on there just kind of like hey I’m
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not crazy
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I’ll tell you just a little bit the
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intro stuff and afterwards I talked him
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into becoming a libertarian party member
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because he was like non affiliated with
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any party and was he was this voice
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doing this awesome work and I said dude
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why don’t you like arm the ground get
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into the party and try to help your
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local community politically if you
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believe and you’re already entrenched so
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that’s how he got into the party but me
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being a libertarian it was like this
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slow logical progression and it was like
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I wasn’t indoctrinated I don’t think I
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was old enough I was gonna vote for
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McCain and when he was singing bomb bomb
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bomb Iran I was and and I voted for
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Romney I voted for nikki Haley here in
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South Carolina
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but but what happened was I just kind of
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started seeing the veil started slowly
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lifting as I started like looking why
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are we in Afghanistan why are we in Iraq
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that was Afghan but I see friends that
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smoke weed they’re not bad people and
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gay people are cool I don’t understand
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why Republicans hate all of these people
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all at once all of me all of these
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people are the issue and as I asked
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questions I got stupid answers you can
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say shitty it really ain’t like one guy
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cool we’re not on a tech radio yeah
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I was gonna say we’re not on the
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ten-second delay we don’t have to worry
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about I’m used to radio so I have to I
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have to censor myself well yeah I got
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really shitty answers from from people
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that I’ve respected and I just I I
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didn’t find wrong Paul unfortunately so
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I just kind of had to like I was waiting
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along and then I found this video Steve
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French go look him up he debated for the
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governors race and I think 2014 and I
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heard him in South Carolina by the way I
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realized not many people are from South
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Carolina that’s true um but he started
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talking about taxation being theft and
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and legalizing cannabis I was like oh my
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God where is this guy been and then from
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there and on I found Ron Paul Gary
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Johnson started out and it was just I
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think six months after becoming a member
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of the Libertarian Party I was all of a
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sudden an anarchist and and have been
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ever since now all of a sudden two years
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ago I was elected I don’t know why but I
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respected as the second vice chair of
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the South Carolina State party okay
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that’s pretty awesome
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no definitely um so a couple of weeks
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ago I had a Brett Corey Arion who is the
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guy that got me into libertarian like
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really opened my eyes to libertarianism
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and got me kind of into the party and I
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was talking to him about it on the show
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and he goes what was that like five
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years ago and I said yeah aren’t you an
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anarchist by now well the old joke is
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for those that don’t know what’s the
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difference between a libertarian in an
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anarchist not since months yeah and then
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you go oh the government sucks yeah but
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but so I’ll flip the table just real
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quick cuz I’m interesting cuz I always
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asked men arcus I know you’re America’s
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what’s holding you back what’s the main
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issue that holds you from becoming an
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anarchist that was okay so that was a
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that was the same question that Bread
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asked me and I said so I get it like
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everybody in this little area would we’d
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all agree this is how we’re gonna run it
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and there’s no gonna no overlords that
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are gonna come by and say you can’t
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plant that sign
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there because it’s not three feet from
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the sidewalk which is an actual law
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that’s here and I found that out yep
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during election season but I was like so
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you know we’d all agree on the certain
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bound of things my big issue came with
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if I were and there’s no obviously
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there’s no national currency you know we
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just kind of either we barter or you
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know we use silver or gold or Bitcoin or
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whatever if I were to come up there and
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visit you if you weren’t using silver
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whatever whatever currency we were using
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like how would there be some sort of
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national like how would you do national
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Commerce and Bret said sounds like a
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good time for somebody to opening an
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exchange in that area so that way you
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could do this way and I just went oh
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yeah yeah it’s really honestly it’s the
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market provides and when people the
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invisible hand in the market people hear
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that and they go oh you just believe in
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like some God creature that’s doing this
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no it’s because when somebody sees a
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problem there’s somebody out there that
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will say wow I just make some money off
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of this really great then you have just
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a wee bit of a fee on the exchange and
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besides I mean prior to national
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currencies how did people exchange goods
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I mean it was it’s I have something that
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you want you have something that I want
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let’s trade and if it’s oh I don’t want
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what you have is like oh well everybody
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takes this thing which is gold here and
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and generally speaking because it’s
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universal I mean that’s money is
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independent of the government as much as
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they want you to believe but money is
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just whatever everyone generally holds
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valuable exam and gold is by far held
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more valuable than most things I mean
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it’s useful in different ways and and
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it’s shiny and nice on people’s fingers
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true I mean from from multiple uses
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people will just go it exchange it gold
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is much more valuable than this piece of
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paper that’s not actually backed by
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anything but not since nineteen
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seventy-three I believe six maybe Nixon
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did it so I was thinking it was like
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1972 73 yeah I think this camera which
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one it was there was so much happening
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in the 70s wild time that wasn’t alive
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for great crazy times happening in the
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70s that are almost paralleled today as
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far as the market provides I saw the
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greatest example of that I think I
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actually read the article yesterday
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Burger King have you heard what Burger
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King is doing in LA
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other than being terrible no they are
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delivering whoppers to people stuck in
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traffic if you order late that’s awesome
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like somebody unlike a motorcycle or a
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bike or something will dry will ride a
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whopper up to your car and get on you
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whatever you ordered that’s simply just
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oh my god the capitalism there’s a maze
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it’s amazing I love it I guess they
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tested it out in Mexico City and they
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found that it worked really well and
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because you know Mexico City that seems
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like a good place to test out well if
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you can if you can get a burger across
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town without the cartel killing you this
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has got to work I mean you just deal
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with the Crips and the Bloods there I
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mean that’s much easier than the cartel
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but you know then you’re gonna build
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that wall it’s gonna be real hard to get
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that whopper across the border right but
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yeah so they tested it out in Mexico
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City and now they’re gonna start doing
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it in LA and I was reading that article
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and I said anybody who says the
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capitalism’s of failure has not read
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this article well the other thing that
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Burger King did and I wish that their
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food didn’t make me sick
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sorry Burger King you’re doing awesome
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stuff we’ll patch on the back but your
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foods garbage what they were doing is I
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think it was on their app if your GPS
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locale
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was inside of a McDonald’s within us I
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think it was a certain distance or so
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you if you ordered Burger King inside of
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the McDonald’s you go inside and you
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order Burger King it was like $0.99
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whopper or is like free whopper or
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something like that it was like they
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were giving away food
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if you clowned on McDonald’s that’s and
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I don’t remember if that was an absolute
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hoax or if that was for real but I heard
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that and I was like this is amazing this
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is exactly what I want the market do it
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just guerrilla marketing warfare it’s
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awesome I benefit from this yes we all
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benefit and you know they’re still
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turning a profit you you know that
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somehow not quite sure how because it’s
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not real food
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so like the 15 cents they sent spent on
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soy and meat flavored product in order
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to make your whopper for you they’re
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still making out like bandits and then
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they’re clowning McDonald’s it’s just
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it’s so amazing it’s just it’s the
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circle of capitalism and I love it it’s
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the capitalist lifestyle it’s just so
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there’s it’s so much more fun than
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standing in bread lines I don’t like
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people I don’t know I don’t want to
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stand in the line with people and have
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to have that awkward conversation no I
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hardly talk to people when I’m in a line
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at Walmart but that’s the reason I go
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through the drive-thru I want to have my
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transaction only talking to one person
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maybe I didn’t want to talk to them I
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don’t but I understand the necessity of
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me speaking with them I happen to like
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they’re gonna say what do you want
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sometimes just as rudely as that sounded
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and I gotta say I want the double
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whopper with cheese
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make it a large with a coke there you go
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and then they go that’s gonna be eight
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dollars and seventy two cents and I go
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great and then they say first or second
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window if it’s first window I’m upset
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because now I have to talk to one more
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person there’s it’s personal with social
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media is we’re fine talking so much to
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all these people on live at the moment
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people show up or like oh I just get a
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burger
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as soon as so every time that I do a
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show you know Tuesdays Thursdays when
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every day I end up doing a show like I
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have such a great time talking with
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whoever it is that I’m on the show with
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the moment that show ends I might be
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like messaging with spike or something
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like that but I will go
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I will leave my I will leave my house
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and I will go to a kava bar and I will
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sit there and just hope to god nobody
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speaks to me yeah good I like having the
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computer in between us see I like
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talking to people on my terms
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right it’s whenever you get forced into
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their scenarios is like god I wish
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there’s a computer I can push a button
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there just things happen but like can I
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just sign half of this conversation but
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that’s like so so in my position is as
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second vice chair I use it as like a
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like I’m just talking to regular people
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and we had a guy come through that was
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fixing our a/c and I posted about it
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because it was just a really cool moment
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he didn’t know anything about ron paul
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about libertarianism at all and i
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started talking to him and the guy is a
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libertarian he just doesn’t know it yet
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he’s just he loves history in this whole
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deal those type of conversations where
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we get to do that that’s where I like to
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talk this whole standing in line that
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somebody goes which they had more
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registers open that’s not a conversation
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I’m interested in I need some
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interesting things to talk about
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sometimes that turns into an inner I’m
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like why can’t we have the
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self-checkouts
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that way I don’t have to wait on this
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person all right we could just let’s do
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the $15 an hour that’ll speed that thing
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right I know but you idiot let’s just
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pay 30 bucks an hour and then we’ll
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everybody will be able to self check out
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I’m tired of going in there for my pack
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of tortillas and cheese that I buy way
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too often and that’s all I want and the
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person in front of me has like two weeks
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worth of groceries I’m like I’m gonna
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play on my phone cuz I’m not talking to
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you but I’m judging you I have I think
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we need to have a cultural change
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because people don’t understand
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headphones leave me alone right and they
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don’t get it you can have over the ear
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like you have on now you can have
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headphones in you can be talking to
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somebody on the phone somebody will like
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verbally tug your shirt and say eye
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contact please what are we doing why
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this is like an assault now I realized
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what so when I was doing real estate a
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couple of years ago I realized the
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easiest way to me
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people was to go to a coffee shop open
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my computer start typing it doesn’t
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matter if I was typing anything of you
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know value it’s just typing with
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headphones in I would talk to more
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people that way than any other sign over
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your head talk to me please
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right exactly I’m like I don’t know why
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this this look right here of means talk
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to me but it does
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so it’s curse
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hey just run with it so I am so excited
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about today’s show I had I I actually
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had to prep a little mental heath I did
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– yeah just because like I had to prep
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mentally because you know like spike and
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I are recovering addicts so anytime I
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start talking about drugs it kind of
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gets like I start remembering and so
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today okay you’re just gonna study all
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of the charts and the facts and the
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figures and you’re not gonna think about
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how fun they’re and then I was like
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going through like I was going through
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is like amounts spent annually 47
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billion or more well that seems
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pointless and in 2017 drug arrests 1,600
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or 1 million six hundred thirty two
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thousand nine hundred twenty one well
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come on we already have that then I said
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and then I started thinking about the
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time I got arrested for possession which
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marijuana possessions make up ninety
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point eight ninety point eight percent
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of all marijuana arrests because that
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seems worth it and then let’s see I got
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stuck I started looking into because
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we’re looking into like the link between
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the war on drugs and financing terrorism
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mhm
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and I started there and then I found out
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something completely different than what
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I was looking for where apparently
24:05
around March 13th Donald Trump was
24:08
considering labeling Mexican drug
24:11
cartels terrorist organizations and I go
24:13
oh my god the war on terror is coming to
24:15
Mexico yeah I LA where Burger King will
24:19
be now getting shot by cartels right I I
24:22
did not know that that was the thing
24:24
either until I was recent
24:26
this stuff and I was like what how did
24:29
that just go straight by me I’m all over
24:31
this I know I that blew my mind that I
24:35
missed that because I found I had
24:37
articles on reason I found articles on
24:39
Fox I found articles on New York Post
24:43
Times
24:44
all talking about is how did this get
24:46
past me and most libertarians I listen
24:51
like anybody that knows me personally I
24:53
show them like the list of podcasts
24:56
y’all are one of like maybe I’ll give a
24:59
real conservative number 10 to 15
25:01
podcasts that I listen to some of them
25:03
with multiple shows like y’all’s and I
25:06
have so many that I listen to them all
25:07
on double speed so that I can like bang
25:11
through them all and from Tom woods to
25:13
y’all to Ron Paul the launchpad media
25:16
who I’m helping write for it and and not
25:22
a one of them caught that and I was like
25:24
how did Ron Paul miss this I must have
25:26
zoned out or something there’s no way I
25:28
missed that that was my exact that was
25:31
my exact uh because I’m either reading
25:34
like the hill or reason or not rare
25:38
anymore obviously but you know Drudge
25:40
Report or whatever people are posting on
25:44
my Facebook feed Twitter like I’m
25:46
constantly reading the news just so I
25:48
have stuff to talk about and I read that
25:50
today and I was like when did that March
25:53
of this year of this year and I thought
25:59
that was a new story and it’s not I mean
26:03
it’s it’s a scary thing because the way
26:05
that the way that they look at terrorist
26:07
organizations is if you look at the
26:10
Patriot Act and the NDAA whenever they
26:12
look at a suspect for a terrorist
26:16
organization they don’t just look at
26:18
that guy they look at anybody connected
26:19
and then anybody else connected than
26:21
anybody else connected so now you’ve
26:23
taken it from some Rando Isis
26:26
sympathizer on Twitter to now anybody
26:29
that deals drugs that is linked to a
26:32
Mexican cartel in some way if the drugs
26:34
somehow came through Mexico in any way
26:37
shape or form right
26:39
anyone after that point is now a
26:41
suspected terrorist if this comes out
26:43
you are now a part of a technical
26:45
terrorist network so that means like
26:47
everybody’s local dealer who is just a
26:50
guy in an apartment and you come up
26:53
knock here you go Thanks
26:55
deuces that dudes a terrorist now he’s
26:57
now out Qaeda essentially right like how
27:01
in the world it’s bizarre yeah it so I
27:06
actually I wrote a paper on this in
27:09
college I was talking about how to end
27:12
terrorism and I said the easiest way to
27:14
end terrorism is to legalize drugs which
27:16
this is the same class that I wrote a
27:19
paper on how if we got rid of childhood
27:23
obesity it would wreck the American
27:25
economy I’m not I know like I said I I
27:32
figured out all of the money I figured
27:34
it all out and I wrote it in the teacher
27:36
she’s when I gave her the paper she read
27:40
it and she said I you made me feel
27:44
really dirty because I started to agree
27:46
with you yeah don’t don’t let’s get rid
27:54
of let’s not get rid of fat children
27:55
because that will end up wrecking our
27:59
economy we need jobs bring in the
28:02
diabetes right like I took it all the
28:06
way from like from the time they were
28:09
like 5 until they were adults and it’s
28:11
like if you’re not fat when you’re a kid
28:13
you have less chance of heart disease
28:14
you have less chance of diabetes you
28:16
have less chance of and so the medical
28:18
the entire medical establishment is just
28:21
screwed well and then you look at ending
28:25
the war on drugs and all that I mean and
28:27
war on terrorism with with Afghanistan
28:30
the poppy fields pharmaceuticals is done
28:33
right done because that’s where they’re
28:36
getting at I presume because there’s
28:38
obviously no paper trail that they the
28:40
average person can find right but
28:43
somehow Afghanistan went from and I
28:45
can’t remember the exact numbers it was
28:47
it was a small percentage of opium
28:50
production – now they’re the number one
28:53
world and I can’t remember the
28:54
percentage that they produce so
28:56
according to the UNODC s world drug
29:00
report of 2007 the potential value of
29:04
Afghanistan’s 2006 opium opium harvest
29:07
accruing to farmers laboratory owners in
29:09
Afghan traffickers reached about 3.1
29:12
billion dollars 3.1 billion dollars in
29:18
the same report the UNODC reported that
29:22
the international drug trade is a four
29:24
hundred billion dollar business
29:25
worldwide and that forty three of the
29:29
foreign terror organizations the DEA
29:32
reports 60% of them are linked to drug
29:37
trafficking yeah well and here’s the
29:41
thing though the way that they’re linked
29:43
and I looked in a little deeper around
29:45
the was a 2006 2009 I can’t remember
29:49
exactly when this lady and can’t
29:52
remember nine either she was looking at
29:55
that link and it’s it’s not as large a
29:58
percentage as its advertised by the DEA
30:01
because obviously its government
30:03
organizations go they want to have a job
30:04
right um and everybody’s heard
30:07
libertarians have heard how the FBI sets
30:10
up terrorists like what they find is an
30:13
unhinged person who goes well you know
30:15
maybe al Qaeda’s got a point there and
30:17
then they have somebody meet him and
30:18
radicalize them and then go here’s a
30:20
bunch of a weapon and let’s go blow
30:22
something up and then they enable it and
30:25
then they catch him right before he
30:26
doesn’t that’s them wording it was
30:28
actually the guy wasn’t done anything
30:30
had y’all not shown up they found that
30:32
the DEA was doing this stuff with drugs
30:35
and terrorism I the one that I remember
30:39
was from 2009 these are in Ghana Ghana
30:44
is friendly with Americans and has an
30:47
extradition treaty
30:48
I believe they’d at least will for money
30:51
just ship them over whenever they want
30:53
so they lured a guy out of Mali who was
30:56
connected with I think it was out Qaeda
30:59
I remember exactly but anyway they lure
31:01
him out into Ghana to have a meeting and
31:04
the informant says
31:07
a there are just a regular drug dealer
31:09
goes hey can you find anybody that’s
31:10
linked with this terrorist organization
31:12
the guy goes sure I’ll find somebody and
31:15
actually what he did was he actually
31:17
snagged a buddy of his that needed money
31:19
who would pretend to be from al-qaeda
31:21
and they all got wrapped up in this and
31:25
they all got sent to prison for an
31:27
amount of time but because it was like
31:29
they got shipped out to America and was
31:32
tried this whole deal and this guy he
31:34
the judge was like look it’s not as big
31:36
it’s sure it’s drugs but it’s nowhere
31:39
near like al-qaeda people doing all of
31:41
this it’s all staged stuff from the DEA
31:44
so like Isis and al-qaeda most of most
31:46
of Isis’s money was coming from
31:48
extortion and oil that they were seizing
31:52
in lands that they grabbed along the way
31:54
but so they’re linked to the drug war is
31:57
their smugglers and there may apparently
32:00
their main recruiting tool isn’t Islam
32:03
its criminals people that are addicted
32:07
to drugs and have already been to jail
32:09
multiple times they bring them in then
32:12
they radicalize them that way and they
32:15
already are because they’re criminals in
32:17
this like and it’s never just a regular
32:20
addict that’s always the most the more
32:22
violent type that they get they convince
32:24
those guys to go off and do the crazy
32:26
stuff but they’re just a smugglers run
32:28
with the drugs right so if you you could
32:31
actually take out a chunk of their
32:32
recruiting tools if you were able to
32:35
shut down the war on drugs there would
32:37
be no more no more smuggling no more
32:40
allowing them through and all that kind
32:41
of crap I I mean obviously the drug war
32:45
has failed I drugs
32:48
jug’s one drugs well let’s just call it
32:49
yeah drug drugs definitely one like you
32:53
you can call it you can now change it if
32:55
you want to because America hates to
32:57
lose Wars you can just call it like the
32:59
drug conflict like you did with Vietnam
33:02
but you know lay you sure okay drugs one
33:07
no matter what you say drugs have not
33:09
stopped entering the country
33:11
you’ve got 33 states that have medical
33:14
marijuana plus the District of Columbia
33:16
you’ve got oh god I can’t remember
33:19
States is it nine states that have
33:22
legalized marijuana plus a district I
33:24
think recreational yeah recreational
33:27
you’ve got nine states you’ve got Denver
33:30
that just legalized decriminalized sorry
33:32
decriminalized mushrooms psilocybin here
33:39
in Florida you can now get a medical kit
33:42
Amin you can get Medical Academy and you
33:45
can lots of places are starting to do
33:47
medical MDMA which if for anybody
33:52
watching slash listening if you’ve never
33:55
tried MDMA I highly recommend I mean I
34:04
highly recommend it the first time I
34:08
ever did it I that really changed the
34:12
entire course of the rest of my life
34:16
because yeah smoking pot was fun but
34:19
then I did MDMA and you know what other
34:24
great things are out there oh not that I
34:28
recommend you do that but if you haven’t
34:30
tried it I I would be hurt if somebody
34:35
said hey here’s some medical MDMA
34:38
prescribed to you I’d be hard-pressed
34:41
not to take it because I will throw on
34:47
some old house music and listen to like
34:49
bad-boy bill or DJ Quixote or something
34:52
and I knew a guy I knew a guy in college
34:55
that he he was the dubstep dude he knew
34:59
every genre he knew everything all the
35:02
way down to house music he sat there one
35:04
time and told me an hour-long like
35:06
dissertation of the different types I
35:08
was like you know it’s just garbage and
35:10
toilet noises in a blender yes then and
35:12
then you’re just doing all this to it
35:14
and the worst part was my I love him to
35:18
death Troy I love you dude but he would
35:20
listen to it to do anything when he was
35:23
studying when he was driving when he was
35:26
working when he was working out when he
35:28
was walking down the street I assumed
35:30
while doing drugs I don’t know if he did
35:32
any but it would make
35:33
more sense things you were doing drugs
35:34
and liking toilet yes but it was but I
35:38
hung out one time in his house and he
35:41
came out he was studying and is here
35:43
blah blah I was like how are you
35:45
studying with all that that is yes
35:47
that’s awesome boots and cats yeah yeah
35:52
I got really big into it I mean
35:54
obviously I was on a lot of them being
35:55
my ecstasy and then when I finally was
35:58
like okay I need to stop I need to stop
36:00
using all of the MDMA I didn’t stop
36:03
drugs I just stopped in the AMA and I
36:06
stopped doing that and I was listening
36:08
to it in my free time which you know if
36:12
you’re not on MDMA I’m like well why
36:15
would you want to ever listen this is
36:17
weird
36:17
it’s this is awful why do I have so many
36:20
of these CDs why did I think this was a
36:22
good idea but uh yeah this is gonna be a
36:28
fun one oh I’m already like let’s do
36:32
this let’s let’s get this one kicked off
36:35
wipe the sweat right on off that brow
36:38
alright good memories anyway so so yeah
36:47
I was doing a lot of research I was
36:49
doing a lot of research on the drug war
36:50
and just it’s miserable freaking
36:53
failures since 1980
36:56
we have spent half a trillion dollars on
36:58
the drug war granted we have spent more
37:03
on the wars in the Middle East but not
37:09
not not a good argument and the rate at
37:13
which sorry half a trillion dollar since
37:16
1980 we’ve got the largest prizms prison
37:19
system in world history but heroin and
37:22
cocaine are now less expensive and more
37:24
pure and overdoses and emergency room
37:27
visits of emergency room mentions of
37:30
drugs are at record highs and adolescent
37:32
drug use has increased by 50% since 1990
37:37
well whenever you’re saying that we only
37:40
spent what was it a half a trillion on
37:42
the drug war since 1980 great i I kind
37:45
of think that’s a skewed number because
37:46
the
37:47
we spend on the Afghanistan war with US
37:50
soldiers guarding poppy fields I would
37:53
toss that money into that as well and
37:55
because the Pentagon loses money all the
37:57
time you can’t even say that they have
37:58
an exact number on that that’s okay I’ll
38:01
give you that
38:01
oh I will give you what was it the day
38:03
before 9/11 it found out that they were
38:06
missing trillions and then all of a
38:08
sudden 9/11 happened and for all the
38:10
conspiracy theories people out there
38:11
9/11 happened I’m not gonna even say
38:14
what I know and like if I know anything
38:16
but it you should worry about that
38:20
number now that we’re years past we
38:22
should worry about that number that
38:24
number is terrible and that was prior to
38:26
Afghanistan in Iraq and now all of a
38:29
sudden we’re still in those cut those
38:30
those conflicts and they’re still
38:32
trillions drained and so I have to toss
38:35
all that money into that as well right
38:38
so I mean we’ve just spent an exorbitant
38:41
amount of money like an insane idiotic
38:44
amount of money on this drug war and
38:46
you’ve got people like the Keebler Elf
38:49
Jeff Sessions who’s out there going we
38:51
need to keep marijuana illegal and we’re
38:54
gonna go after the states I own I’ve
38:56
seen only good people don’t smoke
38:58
marijuana yeah and by the way as a man
39:02
from I’m originally from Mobile Alabama
39:04
which is where Jeff is from I will
39:07
apologize mobile and Alabama as a state
39:11
should have done a lot more to prevent
39:13
the rise of Jeff Sessions and my
39:16
sincerest apologies there was only so
39:18
much I could do from now living in South
39:20
Carolina and I did meet him personally
39:24
is he four feet tall now he I was
39:28
younger then so I was a little shorter
39:30
um he’s actually he’s about my height
39:33
but he definitely is a Keebler Elf
39:35
yeah he’s the tallest keep-away I’ve
39:36
ever seen but he and he was a nice guy
39:39
back then I was a Republican I was
39:41
cheering on with McCain and the friends
39:44
and that may he rest in hell I’m sorry
39:47
but um but jet sorry sorry about Jeff
39:57
you know McCain is in hell right now
39:59
going bomb Iran bomb um like you know
40:04
that’s happening right now he’s got like
40:06
a direct he’s got a direct line to
40:08
Bolton and he’s like hey Satan cool if I
40:12
called John up it didn’t a Bolton get
40:15
him to do it
40:16
get him to do it he’s probably plotting
40:19
bombing of oh no I lost it what was
40:24
what’s the Asguard he’s he’s trying to
40:27
he’s trying to bomb some other like a
40:30
mythical place or something he’s got to
40:33
be i still work in those those those
40:35
talking points bom bom bom bom bom
40:37
before yeah what a bastard
40:41
yeah he’s a bastard i will say though
40:44
when he died i don’t celebrate that i I
40:47
find all lives are valuable yes even
40:50
Hitler’s it’s unfortunately what he did
40:51
with his life life is valuable I hate
40:54
that people choose to take their their
40:56
lives and ruin others with it the only
41:00
thing I’ve celebrated said he can’t hurt
41:01
people anymore so thank God for that
41:04
exactly yeah a hundred a hundred percent
41:08
agree a hundred percent agree on that
41:10
like even even when we killed Osama like
41:15
when we went in and Obama ordered the
41:17
hit which apparently made Obama a hero
41:19
even though I pretty certain anybody
41:21
would have made that call I like I’m I’m
41:25
a libertarian who doesn’t believe in the
41:27
death penalty and I’m pretty certain if
41:29
they’re like we’ve got Osama lock down I
41:32
would’ve been like all right do it like
41:36
yeah it’s in those situations I don’t
41:39
pass judgment in those moments but it’s
41:41
it’s I’m mourn the loss of a life that
41:44
should have done good with that chance
41:48
at life lads and I have to clarify
41:50
because people hear the statements ago
41:52
oh my god no no obviously but I I’m
41:57
mourn the loss of potential way in those
42:00
lives because they could have done so
42:02
many cool things so many awesome things
42:03
but then they just chose to use that
42:05
chance they have at life for just total
42:08
barbarity and and I’m
42:10
glad that the barbaric evil can never be
42:13
brought on by them but but mourn the the
42:16
fact that their life was wasted right on
42:19
bullshit so Nixon was the one who kind
42:24
of got the drug war kicked off yeah
42:27
because as we all know the great
42:29
Republican President Richard Nixon who
42:33
expanded expanded government lay on
42:38
scale on part well I’m not on par with
42:41
FDR but you know you’re a conservative
42:44
man but you expanded that government
42:46
like you were a liberal well there’s not
42:50
been a Republican president that shrink
42:51
government No
42:52
I mean you can go back as much it I’ve
42:55
always found the paradox of the southern
42:57
Republican really fun they and not all
43:00
of them obviously but there’s a good
43:02
handful they love the Confederacy and
43:04
then brag about Lincoln they go ah man I
43:07
don’t really understand how you’re doing
43:10
all this but um I think I think it’s
43:13
important when you’re talking about the
43:14
drug war you have to rewind back to the
43:16
30s with Henry and slinger and reefer
43:21
madness later on and all this crazy
43:23
nonsense people don’t know Henry
43:26
Anslinger was actually I believe it was
43:28
the it was he was the head of the what
43:31
would then morph kind of into was the
43:34
groundwork for the DEA right he was the
43:36
head of the Treasury Department which is
43:39
crazy when you think about that but it’s
43:41
because it’s tax evasion when this this
43:42
aspect I think it was cocaine and heroin
43:45
where the was the department he was the
43:48
head of the cocaine and heroin
43:49
Department a task force or whatever the
43:52
hell they wanted to call it and well as
43:55
most people know there’s not a ton of
43:57
heroin and cocaine addicts running
44:00
around doing a bunch of stuff and
44:01
generally you don’t know when when there
44:04
are so his job was in jeopardy and
44:06
apparently he was finding a reason to
44:10
have a job so he and a few others
44:13
started making this propaganda campaign
44:16
against cannabis and they started making
44:18
sure they called it marijuana because
44:20
marijuana is from what I understand is
44:23
the
44:24
Spanish term of the Mexican term for
44:27
cannabis and so their link was racially
44:31
motivated what they said was that black
44:33
people and of course it’s in black they
44:35
said a bunch awful stuff when black
44:38
folks would smoke marijuana they would
44:40
get into a fit of rage and they would
44:42
thirst for white blood and break white
44:45
women and they were trying to scare all
44:46
these people and then they made sure
44:48
that you knew the xenophobic part of
44:52
this is they would say marijuana over
44:54
and over and over and over again because
44:56
they wanted you to get the link from
44:58
Mexicans coming through to America and
45:02
bring in this evil devil’s lettuce that
45:03
had been here all along and had been
45:06
used in medications and all these other
45:08
things forever they made sure that the
45:10
correlation was made between Mexicans
45:12
and cannabis because and the funniest
45:15
thing in the world is this is the the
45:17
biggest contradiction I’ve seen since
45:19
the starburst commercial scotch Korean
45:21
they said that when Mexican smoked this
45:24
they became lazy and then that’s where
45:26
the sleep of Mexican whole thing came
45:28
from they would become lazy and sleep
45:31
but they also became axe murderers and
45:34
thirsting for white blood as well so
45:36
anybody that smoked cannabis was a
45:38
murderous rapist a lazy person somehow
45:40
some lazy and all of those somehow the
45:43
dichotomy of these two things we’re
45:45
supposed to match up but nobody’s a lazy
45:49
like you can’t be a lazy axe murderer
45:52
that’s it can’t work unless there’s a
45:55
button you just kind of press like
45:57
that’s about as close as you can get to
45:58
it yeah well my like if you’re Jason cuz
46:00
I mean he just kind of sauntered well
46:03
he’s like in the Friday the 13th films
46:05
he just kind of sauntered along and
46:07
somehow caught up to the girl that was
46:09
running because she would fall six times
46:11
he’s like I thought you were talking
46:13
about Jason lying there’s no way that’s
46:17
true he definitely might be an axe
46:19
murderer
46:20
but with with the drug war they they
46:23
started all of these the reason why and
46:25
a lot of people they don’t understand
46:27
why is it so entrenched that that weed
46:29
is so bad for you it’s because there
46:31
were several studies that the government
46:33
was trying to pay for it to get it like
46:34
come on like let’s let’s get let’s see
46:36
results but whenever you
46:38
a certain result you will skew any
46:39
evidence you have towards your your
46:42
preferred finding and there’s one study
46:44
and I wish I remembered it I’ll try and
46:46
find it and send it to you and and I’ll
46:49
try and post it as well but there was a
46:51
study where they took a bunch of monkeys
46:52
and they put essentially a gas mask on
46:55
their face and then they had cannabis
46:59
smoke pumped through the mask
47:01
well it’s covering their nose and mouth
47:03
and all they’re getting is smoke and
47:06
they would pump it in I think it was 15
47:08
minutes straight and there’s not a lot
47:11
of oxygen when that happens and and this
47:14
is all rough remembering but what
47:15
happened was go figure
47:18
when you don’t get a lot of oxygen to
47:19
your brain brain cells start to die some
47:21
of the monkeys died others were retarded
47:23
and sorry the political correctness but
47:26
they’re there they were mentally
47:28
retarded because of the dead brain cells
47:30
coming from lack of oxygen so they
47:32
basically asphyxiated all of these
47:35
monkeys and said cannabis did it it was
47:38
weed you’re gonna die but it was the
47:40
only time they were ever able to create
47:43
that level of a of a disaster related to
47:47
cannabis they had numerous other ones in
47:49
the 30s and beyond that did multiple
47:52
multiple studies and they were like well
47:55
thanks kind of calm down chilled out and
47:57
really just kind of sat there that’s not
48:01
much and never find about three hours
48:04
later they were totally cool but ya know
48:06
I don’t know what happened when those
48:07
monkeys but they said oh this study here
48:10
shows that these monkeys died and I said
48:13
we fed them all this week but they don’t
48:14
they leave out the the crucial part up
48:16
they suffocated these monkeys until they
48:19
all died it became retarded because of
48:21
the lack of oxygen and that’s where the
48:24
the drug war later was was reefer
48:26
madness all this was was all pushing
48:28
this all towards the seventies when
48:30
initially when eventually the the war on
48:33
drugs started with Nixon right and that
48:35
was like the landmark you’re gonna die
48:36
if you smoke weed I don’t know how in a
48:39
culture that prior to all of this was
48:42
using cannabis on the regular where the
48:44
founding fathers were were growing hemp
48:47
and cannabis by us specifically for the
48:50
use of hemp
48:51
for all of its uses and and so they
48:54
didn’t know a lot of them but then also
48:56
cannabis for medical procedures and all
48:58
these other things like how do you go
49:01
from this is a useful thing to all of a
49:04
sudden this is the the biggest evil the
49:06
world has ever seen
49:07
right and it’s bizarre yeah and it’s the
49:12
hypocrisy that I see for many of the
49:14
boomers that are out there they talked
49:18
about how bad marijuana is like
49:21
marijuana is terrible and I’ll be like
49:22
yeah did you smoke it
49:23
you’re absolutely yeah I smoked it right
49:27
and then they get like they much like me
49:30
they like start reminiscing and they’ll
49:33
be in those yeah that Allman Brothers
49:35
concert was pretty cool I used to come
49:39
home after a long day at work and I had
49:41
this really big puffy chair and I kind
49:43
of leaned back in I put my headphones on
49:45
and I get high and then I would put it
49:48
on side two of the Beatles Abbey Road
49:50
have you ever heard that album and I’m
49:52
like yeah I’d like all of the time and
49:55
then I’ll put that on I just kind of
49:57
lean back and close my eyes now listen
49:59
and whenever I was whenever I was
50:02
smoking the dope like I would hear
50:04
things that they I didn’t hear when it
50:06
wasn’t there and you know it was a
50:08
really good feeling you’ve heard right
50:16
it’s really bad for you it’s awful and
50:19
anybody that does it deserves to be in
50:20
jail because good people don’t smoke
50:23
weed because also Jeff Sessions just
50:26
take a Tylenol I I told my mother about
50:30
that one time and she did not believe me
50:32
that that happened and I sent her the
50:33
link and she goes because she she likes
50:37
Jeff Sessions and all that stuff and I
50:38
love my mom bleh
50:41
Jeff’s a jerk again I apologize for Jeff
50:47
yeah at this point there’s nothing
50:49
anybody can do Jeff Sessions and Jeff
50:51
Sessions oh thank god he’s not in office
50:53
anymore right I I was reading so likes
51:00
1970s nineteen Scylla so the 1930s was
51:03
actually when it kind of
51:05
sorry when everything’s first started
51:07
kicking off but the 1970s was Nixon
51:10
trying to end the hippies and he’s like
51:13
I’m just gonna have him all arrested
51:14
because they all smoke we men are coming
51:17
through right so since Nixon and the war
51:22
on drugs got started and Nancy Reagan
51:25
came out and she said oh you have to do
51:27
is just say no you know cuz that works I
51:30
mean it does like if you should say no
51:32
nobody’s gonna bother you also real
51:35
quick I’ve know everybody’s seen this
51:36
meme I am really disappointed by the
51:39
lack of free drugs I have been offered
51:42
as an adult that I was told as a child
51:46
was gonna happen and where’s all of this
51:50
Halloween candy I keep hearing about I I
51:53
couldn’t tell you how many times I was
51:55
having a boring-ass Halloween and not
51:58
one time as a kid while I was dressed up
52:00
as a ninja or a Dracula or any of these
52:03
others was I ever offered unwrapped weed
52:07
candies no and and god bless the people
52:10
that send that out there because man
52:12
that’s expensive great that is an
52:13
expensive trick to play on people yeah
52:16
like I don’t think the people that send
52:18
that out understand how much drugs
52:21
actually cost just for you to smoke it
52:27
it’s it’s way way cheaper that’s why
52:31
most people smoke it yes but for for an
52:33
edible and all this other stuff it my
52:36
god it is that is like you can blow a
52:40
paycheck on making a decent batch of
52:42
stuff okay and I’m not I’m not the guy
52:44
to make all that kind of stuff or do but
52:46
my god I’m one of the straight
52:49
straightest laced
52:51
libertarians you’ll see I damn near
52:53
don’t do anything I left my beer and the
52:55
in the fridge and it’s gonna drink it on
52:57
the show but I forgot it but it’s crazy
53:03
that all of these rumors keep circling
53:05
every single year and not one time has
53:09
anybody but I think there was the one
53:10
lady who got caught I’m handing out
53:13
brownies for free and a camera where it
53:16
was and when she got caught she had to
53:18
have
53:18
be a smile on her face right because
53:20
obviously she was high as hell but but
53:23
and people were going oh my god she was
53:25
tricking peoples actually if you look at
53:26
them what the article said she was
53:28
telling them this is an edible
53:29
it has wheat in it and people like oh
53:31
sweet great I will take that oh yes
53:36
please
53:36
but yeah so 2017 if you had to take a
53:40
guess you know we’re gonna say that’s 50
53:44
years ish after the drug war started
53:47
officially got kicked off how many
53:50
people died of accidental overdoses in
53:53
2017 from injecting the weeds from
53:57
injecting the weeds I’d have to say at
54:03
least negative three three people came
54:07
back to life or something
54:08
[Laughter]
54:11
that’s actually probably that’s probably
54:13
accurate for injecting beads but for any
54:17
other type of drug accidental drug
54:18
overdose how many how many deaths say in
54:22
50 years no just just in 2017 50 mm yeah
54:26
just in 2017 I would end died from it
54:30
not just had an OD and came back I would
54:32
say probably of 350 million roughly in
54:37
the u.s. I probably say maybe 10,000
54:41
would be pushing pushing my numbers 72
54:44
thousand thousand 72 70 mm don’t we a
54:49
bit more it’s like that’s why I also
54:50
preface 350 million people 72,000 72,000
54:56
people
54:56
yeah 72 most people died of diabetes
54:59
great now I would like to know cuz
55:03
that’s just a stat that I found on I
55:06
think it was on the DEA Zeit so 72,000
55:11
people I want to know the breakdown on
55:14
how many of these people died from
55:18
heroin cocaine how many of them died
55:21
from fentanyl how many of them died from
55:23
per skip prescriptions how many of them
55:27
died from you know I want to see the
55:29
breakdown on that 72,000 cuz it’s just
55:31
accidental drug overdose so this could
55:34
be things that doctors have been
55:35
prescribing this could be tainted drugs
55:39
this could I want to see the number I
55:41
want to see the number of intentional
55:43
overdoses that’s a good economy it’s a
55:46
very small number of the suicidal folks
55:48
but do you really have to put accidental
55:50
in front of that I don’t think there’s
55:52
not a whole population of people that
55:54
are trying to die doing the drugs
55:56
they’re just trying to escape a bad
55:59
situation generally right and I mean if
56:04
I’m gonna do it well I’m not gonna do it
56:09
but I mean if like that would be that
56:13
would let it go if you’re gonna go
56:17
doesn’t great that sounds like a much
56:21
better way to go than any other way yeah
56:26
by far and I’m not recommending we here
56:29
do not support the idea of you doing
56:31
that please don’t and definitely don’t
56:35
leave a note saying it was because of
56:37
Matt and Shane and as a person that and
56:41
I’m open about this that nearly
56:43
committed suicide back in the day stuff
56:47
gets better you can just leave all of
56:50
the stuff that’s bringing it down behind
56:52
it’s really awesome
56:55
whoops yeah it’s okay we had this great
56:58
picture of you with your sunglasses
56:59
there for a second nice yeah I’ve got I
57:02
got somebody calling me but yeah you
57:07
have like you lost a train thought now
57:11
anyhow yeah it gets better things get
57:15
better please don’t don’t commit suicide
57:17
it’s it’s honestly like you only got one
57:20
shot if you believe in reincarnation
57:21
fine you only have one shot in this life
57:24
do the best you can with it and I’ve
57:27
seen firsthand how bad source I can
57:29
affect the right I do your best to keep
57:33
keep holding on because you affect a lot
57:35
more people than you think yeah I like I
57:38
also came very I’m more than
57:41
contemplating but just shy of a 10
57:44
late I was I was right there in that one
57:48
one tiny from ten seconds of a time
57:53
period in which the contemplation and
57:55
attempt I was right there and yeah it
58:00
gets better it really does like think it
58:02
can you just have to be the one to do it
58:04
right you have to be the one to do it
58:06
nobody else can help you out of this
58:07
you’ve got to snap yourself out of it
58:09
you can’t but you can if you can call a
58:12
friend let them know do the best you can
58:14
to get out of it and contrary to the
58:16
jokes I’ve been making on this entire
58:17
show drugs aren’t the answer to fix it
58:19
like they actually will make it work
58:20
they will make it worse but but yeah
58:24
like yes it will definitely get better
58:29
now that now that we’ve given our
58:32
mandatory back to the drug war when you
58:37
said just say no by Nancy Reagan right
58:39
there’s an awesome clip for any Ron Paul
58:42
fans out there and I wish I could
58:44
remember than they had my memory of
58:45
specific people and all that stuff and
58:47
bad except for Ron Paul and Anslinger
58:49
apparently Ron Paul ran in 1988 I
58:54
believe it was as the Libertarian Party
58:56
the presidential candidate and he was on
58:59
this shona if I can remember the name
59:01
I’d tell it to you because it’s an
59:03
awesome clip and it’s literally him
59:05
sitting on this show a Jerry Springer
59:07
type show people yell at people’s at the
59:11
people on stage and the the Jerry
59:13
Springer type guy antagonizes dairy eggs
59:16
it all on because it’s it’s reality TV
59:18
back in the 80s people think that it
59:20
started in the 2000s and couldn’t be
59:22
more wrong and so this Ron Paul’s on
59:27
there and he’s telling people this guy
59:29
says just say no he said just say no you
59:31
say no don’t have the federal government
59:34
go around telling you what to do and
59:36
then this this kid who’s like he’s a
59:37
little overweight maybe in his 20s he
59:40
gets up there and he starts saying I
59:41
think I kind of insulted Ron Paul Ron
59:44
Paul goes you know what how about this
59:46
you think that we need drug how about
59:48
this why don’t the government come in
59:49
and tell you how to eat because
59:50
apparently you’re a little overweight
59:52
and you need to lose some weight and
59:53
what we’ll do is we’ll create a program
59:54
and it just it’s sold to this kid he
59:56
goes well
59:58
there is Ron Paul is so nice man Morton
60:01
Downey jr. according to spike Cohen
60:03
that’s what it was go and look up that
60:06
clip you’ve seen look up Ron Paul if you
60:09
haven’t heard of them and and then go
60:13
back and watch that it’s two totally
60:15
different people
60:16
if you are watching this show and this
60:18
is the reason you found out about Ron
60:20
Paul that will actually be the greatest
60:22
moment of my life right yeah like with
60:34
Trump recently in March talking about
60:38
making drug cartels terrorist
60:41
organizations right insane absolutely
60:45
insane they that would even there’s
60:48
people there’s people in your
60:50
neighborhood that would then be
60:51
connected to quote-unquote terrorism
60:53
there’s people you see on a daily basis
60:55
in that grocery store and otherwise
60:57
civilians American citizens that while
61:00
we’re all subject unfortunately to the
61:02
NDAA which if you don’t know you should
61:04
go look that up it’s insane insane
61:07
document and the Patriot Act and all
61:09
these others we’re already subject to
61:11
all of this stuff unconstitutionally as
61:13
it is which whether it be one thing or
61:15
another it’s unfit to exist if you
61:18
listen to Jason show you’ve heard him
61:20
give me a shout out on that but but
61:22
we’re already subject to all of this now
61:24
you’ll be subject to the drone strike
61:27
level animosity that the US federal
61:31
government shows towards terrorists yes
61:33
and now you can’t have there’s no knock
61:36
raids fuck a warrant these guys are
61:39
coming up and snatching your kid in
61:40
class and and your whole they’re gonna
61:43
investigate everything in life yes if
61:44
you’re looking at a domestic war on
61:48
terror the lights you’ve never seen if
61:51
this designation goes on it opens that
61:54
that big gaping hole to this this whole
61:57
idea it’s insanity yeah it’s in much so
62:01
much like when when Obama killed Osama
62:06
terrorism did not end weird we’re
62:11
you know it’s like oh yeah he’s dead
62:13
terrorism’s over yay we won no that’s
62:16
not what happened instead you had all
62:18
the different factions that had broken
62:20
off and splintered and Syria just
62:23
everything going on in Syria and
62:26
Hezbollah and Isis like just all Al
62:30
Queda and every everywhere everywhere
62:31
all of them had just fractured off into
62:34
all these different area all these
62:36
different factions each one apparently
62:39
crazier than the last and it’s just like
62:41
apparently Osama was one that was like
62:43
hey guys let’s uh let’s let’s calm this
62:46
down you you shut the hell up you shut
62:49
the hell up we’ve got a thing we got to
62:50
do it they say they get rid of him and
62:52
all of a sudden it’s splinters right and
62:54
and with that well people don’t
62:56
understand and I say this for the
62:57
conservative people that might be
62:59
listening the u.s. created Osama bin
63:01
Laden yeah the u.s. said they didn’t
63:04
birth them or anything um
63:05
the u.s. created al Qaeda as we know it
63:08
today the u.s. created Isis as we know
63:10
today what they did was when the Soviets
63:13
were attacking Afghanistan they armed
63:15
the Mujahideen which was the rebel group
63:17
in Afghanistan fighting against the
63:18
Soviet invasion because the Soviets were
63:20
known to just invade anybody they wanted
63:22
the territory up and that’s where that
63:24
sounds like some other country I know
63:26
that’s weird it’s like we lured them
63:29
into our their own Vietnam which is
63:32
exactly what they said they wanted to do
63:34
to the Soviets right so we gave Osama
63:37
bin Laden and friends all of it sounds
63:39
like a TV show now all of these were
63:42
SATCOM
63:43
ever Osama and Friends but so they have
63:54
all of this backing they’re the rebel
63:56
group in Afghanistan they grow
63:58
exponentially and they actually kind of
64:01
die off when we got into Afghanistan al
64:03
Qaeda if you listen to Scott Court and
64:04
he’ll say over and over again and and
64:06
he’s even got a book out time in war a
64:09
fool’s errand time to work in the war in
64:11
Afghanistan you can look all of this
64:14
stuff up al Qaeda in Afghanistan was
64:17
incredibly small was probably 400 people
64:20
strong we invaded they grew past 4,000
64:23
like exponentially because what we did
64:25
we killed the families of people that
64:28
are now desperate because their families
64:29
are killed now they just want revenge
64:31
they jump on any bandwagon that’s ready
64:33
to kill an American and we created all
64:36
of this
64:36
then we topple Iraq’s government as bad
64:40
as Saddam Hussein was much like Osama
64:42
bin Laden in that moment he was holding
64:44
some stuff together as terrible as he is
64:46
and so then the bath is party military
64:50
guys that now don’t have a job they hook
64:53
up with me now ex al Qaeda folks and
64:57
create Isis
64:58
that’s how Isis was so organized is they
65:01
had Isis fighters they were like that
65:03
were crazy as shit and the Baptist guys
65:05
were like God we know how to do crazy
65:06
shit let’s do this and then you had this
65:09
whole reign of terror and the u.s. if
65:11
you go and you look at Syria when I was
65:13
on the radio last year or so every
65:16
chance I got I tried to tell over and
65:18
over again conservative ask South
65:19
Carolina in Syria we are bombing areas
65:24
that help Isis and all these moderate
65:29
rebels we’ve been helping these
65:31
terrorists whether directly or
65:33
indirectly we’ve been helping them and
65:36
the best-case scenario is for us to
65:38
leave it alone lest it turn into Libya
65:41
where we have slavery now back in
65:44
fashion unfortunately yeah when you uh
65:48
when you said you know we’re we’re crazy
65:54
as shit and the Baths I said what we
65:56
like to do crazy shit let’s let’s do
65:58
immediately I was like man that’s like
66:00
my last three relationships see it’s
66:06
natural yeah I mean but you got to find
66:10
that right kind of crazy for you
66:11
you might yeah I’m pretty certain that
66:17
I’m gonna walk through TSA pretty much
66:19
every time I see I’ve never flown I just
66:23
assume at this point you know my
66:24
facebook post and I’m I’m on every nono
66:27
list possible so yes I get I get the
66:31
extended search a lot like they got word
66:34
they go through my bag every time it
66:37
doesn’t help that all we’re
66:39
like taxation is theft hat or shirt or
66:42
something or enemy of the state
66:44
definitely go well or socialism sucks or
66:47
something you know something along those
66:49
lines something that really let him know
66:50
one day I was in there socialism sucks
66:52
with an NRA hat on I don’t even like the
66:54
NRA I was just wearing it to piss them
66:56
off and yeah I I was there for a while I
67:00
almost missed that flight and I was
67:02
getting some dirty looks from some
67:03
people around me while I was sitting
67:05
there like just taking pictures and
67:07
documenting this thing in it crazy that
67:10
now like saying socialism sucks is
67:12
controversial I know it’s so weird but I
67:16
see what I want is I’ve never been on a
67:18
flight but I’m gearing up for the
67:20
eventualities of that and I’m ordering
67:22
soon the it’s not gay if it’s TSA shirt
67:25
so that I can opt out and make them
67:27
waste their time I’ll get there three
67:29
hours ahead of time so this dude can has
67:31
to feel me up to get me onto the plane
67:34
I’ll get a little something out of it he
67:36
gets the wasted time it would be great
67:37
it would be awesome right
67:38
my buddy uh Nick tumbly DS from us term
67:43
limits he posted today I believe that
67:47
was today I saw it today he posted it
67:49
any he goes TSA really didn’t like it
67:51
when I was getting the inner leg
67:54
pat-down when I said I’m getting the
67:56
full Biden experience good for you Nick
68:04
Tom bleed is your I still believe your
68:06
wife is fake but you know good good for
68:10
you for coming up with great jokes or
68:12
getting some from the TSA whatever I
68:15
mean one worked you know like I don’t
68:17
like Nick’s artwork at all but yeah but
68:22
in one of the speeches I was in
68:25
attendance for he said you know make
68:28
them make TSA do their job I show up
68:31
early I refused to go into the scanners
68:35
because TSA is going to do their job and
68:38
hopefully you know one of them will go a
68:40
little bit further and I’ll get a
68:42
rub-and-tug from the TSA agent and you
68:45
don’t even have to pay I know yours but
68:48
it’s prepaid I mean
68:52
you’re already paying for service yeah
68:54
it’s on currently you may as well use it
68:56
guaranteed that that if you start making
69:00
small noises little moans here and there
69:02
guaranteed they wrap it up pretty quick
69:04
look or you find a new friend yeah I was
69:07
gonna say I think that would depend on
69:08
the TSA agent if you start moaning like
69:12
showing like some sort of like enjoyment
69:14
in Italy it could last a little longer
69:16
than you had intended all right so oh
69:26
yeah so killing oboro-sama killing Obama
69:29
killing Osama didn’t in terrorism
69:30
killing cartel leaders or you know drug
69:33
dealers that you are now calling
69:35
terrorists isn’t gonna end drugs it’s
69:38
just gonna open up the market for more
69:41
drug dealers and terrorist leaders and
69:43
cartel leaders and everything else it’s
69:46
just gonna have people splintering and
69:48
battling for territories well you’re
69:50
also what you’re gonna do is you’re
69:51
going to create much like we saw with
69:54
the explosion in a population of
69:58
terrorist organizations Boko Haram and
70:00
all these others as we start messing
70:03
around in their neighborhoods and
70:04
killing innocent people and children and
70:07
people don’t understand this he was
70:10
under Obama we had a drone strike that
70:12
we threw at a wedding trying to kill a
70:16
terrorist and missed
70:18
we missed we didn’t kill him we killed a
70:21
hundred people and I am an anarchist I
70:24
shouldn’t be saying we but the American
70:26
government which is separate from the
70:28
country if anybody would like to know
70:30
that hit me up I’ll tell you um the
70:32
government itself shot this drum this
70:35
this drone strike in and killed a
70:38
hundred innocent people or innocent
70:40
people sure there might have been one or
70:41
two that would have been involved but
70:43
generally it was men women children
70:45
elderly young all these people
70:48
indiscriminately killed and then when
70:50
they noticed they missed they waited for
70:52
the funeral and then bombed that so now
70:55
if you want to bring that to the border
70:57
which if we have a border crisis as it
70:59
is right now
71:00
I notice the heavy quotations there um
71:03
get ready for drone strikes
71:06
sovereign Mexico you’re going to have
71:09
Mexico doesn’t allow the u.s. in there
71:11
often to do stuff they like to have a
71:13
lot of control but if it gets called a
71:15
terrorist organization you’re gonna have
71:17
a UN coalition up your ass in a minute
71:19
right and and now you have now you’ve
71:22
made the cartels in the terrorist
71:24
organizations now you have these
71:26
desperate individuals that will what
71:29
could have been just a regular person is
71:31
now radicalized not in Islam not in a
71:34
radical Catholicism or whatever they
71:37
would be down in Mexico it’s going to be
71:39
radical people that hate America because
71:42
not only has the drug war raped their
71:44
lands for 50 plus years now you’re now
71:49
you’re gonna have the war on terror
71:51
begin in their their back yards and now
71:53
you’ve multiplied with the the problem
71:56
it’s just it’s a recipe for disaster
71:59
and and to kind of wrap it it like to
72:02
wrap it all up the easiest way you can
72:04
fix all of this the easiest way you can
72:07
fix all of this is to legalize
72:09
decriminalize drugs here
72:11
allow them to be processed here allow
72:13
people to buy them you got the little
72:16
dude
72:17
noise in your ear I know that noise yeah
72:24
legalized and decriminalized allow it to
72:27
be manufactured here allowed to be sold
72:29
here without prescription without having
72:33
to get some special license from the
72:37
king saying yes you’re allowed to buy
72:39
these things are allowed to sell these
72:40
things and allow me to go into 7-eleven
72:45
and purchase my gram of cocaine or my
72:51
quarter ounce man I haven’t bought weed
72:53
in a really long time quarter ounce of
72:55
weed or I was like I don’t know what
72:58
that doesn’t come in grams does allow us
73:04
to go in the wall Walgreens or Walmart
73:07
and purchase these things because the
73:10
and again libertarians anarchists
73:14
whatever we don’t like taxes but but
73:20
I’m gonna boo you in a second I know I
73:23
know it’s just amount spent annually on
73:26
the drug war 47 billion plus 47 billion
73:32
plus if you were to do something so
73:37
against Liberty that you would tax me
73:39
for doing something that I enjoy doing
73:41
it is estimated that if drugs were taxed
73:46
at rates comparable to alcohol and
73:48
tobacco it would be fifty eight billion
73:51
dollars that is a swing of a hundred and
73:55
sixteen thousand dollars if masters no
73:58
106 about wait 106 billion dollars this
74:04
this is the part where the numbers start
74:06
going across your face yeah I try to do
74:08
the math right I’m like trying to do new
74:11
math now in my head Common Core math
74:15
common count of course really fucked me
74:17
up I don’t know what I’m doing right
74:18
yeah I’ve never even done yeah a hundred
74:20
and six billion dollar swing if you were
74:24
to tax it like alcohol and tobacco not
74:27
that I’m saying do it not that I agree
74:29
with it but that’s fucking retarded yeah
74:34
yeah it’s it and and again like I said
74:38
earlier if you look at like the Afghan
74:41
war and the money spent there on the war
74:43
on drugs you actually would save even
74:44
more presumably if you were also to
74:48
couple that with getting the hell out of
74:50
Afghanistan right and and all of the the
74:52
lead ends that happen there if you allow
74:54
pharmaceutical companies to start
74:56
growing poppy here uh recreationally not
75:00
recreationally but commercial or
75:02
recreational I don’t care if you want to
75:03
shoot a pair I want to do whatever the
75:05
hell you want to do okay and and and for
75:07
those that might be new to
75:08
libertarianism if you’re listening this
75:09
good on you for sticking
75:11
I guess this far with it with this
75:13
episode there’s been some crazy shit but
75:16
the whole idea of ending the war on
75:19
drugs is not so that we can all go down
75:21
to the corner store and get whatever no
75:26
what it is is this is a health crisis
75:28
there are people addicts that are
75:30
dealing with issues that we could better
75:33
serve
75:33
instead of arresting them and throwing
75:35
them in jail we could be helping these
75:37
people if you look at my favorite one is
75:39
Portugal in 1995 which is wild when you
75:42
think about how long the war on drugs
75:44
has been going on here and how violent
75:45
it is they had and I believe it’s been a
75:48
while since I’ve cited this but one
75:50
percent of Portugal’s population wasn’t
75:52
was addicted to heroin and and again I
75:57
might be skewing these numbers but
75:58
they’re big numbers don’t even
76:01
tremendous numbers they’re huge huge
76:04
noses the best numbers that a Portugal
76:07
had huge huge hell and a huge addiction
76:13
problem pendous and we fixed it and and
76:17
so what they did was they they
76:19
decriminalized or they legalized the
76:23
usage of in caring and quantities to
76:26
quantity limit of all drugs all illicit
76:31
drugs and what they did is and I’m not
76:33
suggesting that we go along with their
76:35
full model but the idea remains the same
76:38
they use a socialist model for they
76:41
looked at it at a health crisis level
76:43
and they said these people are running
76:44
away from problems in their life they’re
76:46
unhappy why do people use drugs let’s
76:48
find that out why do they use drugs oh
76:50
well they want to kill people well
76:52
that’s not it that’s obviously not it
76:53
otherwise they would have been injecting
76:55
other people with drugs to kill them not
76:57
themselves um so what they found was
77:00
people were unhappy in their life they
77:01
didn’t have a good job they weren’t
77:03
educated they didn’t have anywhere to
77:05
live they were there all of these
77:06
factors so they created a government
77:09
programs to help subsidize those type of
77:12
ideas and they got the vast majority of
77:14
addicts to drop a habit clean up and be
77:17
better because not only did it take away
77:19
the coolness factor of doing drugs in
77:22
all of the young ones that were like oh
77:24
kid do a drug and I’m cool kid I’d do it
77:27
anyway right they took away that whole
77:28
veil they took away the the criminality
77:33
of it so whenever somebody used they
77:35
didn’t put them in jail and ruin their
77:37
entire life with a felony and you can’t
77:39
get a job now which is what we’re doing
77:40
in America so now the only job they knew
77:43
was drugs so now to feed their habit or
77:46
to now make
77:47
money for rent and everything else they
77:49
had to sell drugs so you have this chain
77:52
and they broke it and now they have a
77:54
better their police chiefs were all
77:57
against it um plenty of people came out
77:59
and actually caught up with him I think
78:01
it was a decade later with this article
78:03
that said how is it and those same
78:04
police chief’s for going man I thought
78:06
the hell the world was going to hell
78:08
whenever they said that this was gonna
78:10
happen we’ve actually seen crime
78:11
associated with drugs drop drastically
78:14
people stopped breaking into houses as
78:15
much they stopped my mug and people they
78:17
stopped trying to feed their habit and
78:20
they started trying to feed themselves
78:22
because they said oh this is a health
78:24
crisis not a criminal crisis right yeah
78:27
and that’s that’s one of the things that
78:29
likes you you hear it all the time
78:30
especially especially from people on the
78:33
right especially from conservatives
78:35
because I hear it all the time from
78:36
conservatives I have never heard a
78:38
liberal when I’m defending legalizing
78:40
all drugs like some of some of the
78:43
liberals will be like I don’t know
78:44
everyone I talked to in South Carolina
78:46
is like excuse me like someone would be
78:50
like I don’t know about heroin and
78:51
cocaine and I’m like well the way I see
78:54
it there is zero difference in between
78:56
coming home from a day of work being all
78:59
wound up and like you’re stressed
79:01
there’s zero difference in my mind of
79:03
sitting down with a glass of Jack
79:06
Daniels on the rocks and to take the
79:09
edge off or shooting a needle into your
79:11
vein to take the edge off I see zero
79:13
difference in those two things yeah now
79:16
everybody’s like yeah but people who
79:18
commit who do drugs commit more crimes
79:20
bla bla bla okay
79:21
well the crime isn’t doing the drugs the
79:24
crime is them breaking into the house or
79:27
them committing the mugging or them
79:28
committing the murder that’s the crime
79:30
not them doing the drugs if they if they
79:34
are addicts if they’re using have not
79:37
committed a crime they are not criminals
79:40
in my mind it is once they go on to do a
79:46
crime that if a sober person does it it
79:48
would also be a crime that is when the
79:50
crime then commences the crime isn’t the
79:54
act prior to the crime it’s the actual
79:58
crime and then the effects of it it
80:00
really it’s it’s same with
80:01
duis the drinking wasn’t the issue it
80:05
was the action of getting behind the
80:07
wheel it was the action of getting in
80:08
the wreck it was the result of their
80:11
decisions even’s not even scold alcohol
80:14
doesn’t kill people it’s the person
80:17
consuming alcohol that kills people or
80:19
themselves right and even still like if
80:22
you have a couple of drink like point oh
80:24
eight I blew past point oh eight like
80:27
that that was nothing for me yep that
80:30
was nothing and I would drive all the
80:32
time probably at point one or point one
80:34
two or three or whatever I don’t know I
80:36
would do that all the time the crime
80:39
isn’t driving intoxicated the crime is
80:44
committed when you actually break the
80:46
law get into the accident be like
80:49
whatever the crime is that you are
80:51
committing even though I don’t think
80:53
speed limit should be a thing but like
80:55
whatever the crime is that like if you
80:57
jump a curb and you wreck somebody’s
81:00
property if you hit somebody and it
81:03
kills them if you get into a car
81:04
accident yes in that case yes you have
81:07
now committed a crime if you’re
81:10
intoxicated and you get behind the wheel
81:12
of a car I honestly don’t think you’re
81:13
committing a crime right there I will
81:16
say and and I thought the same I don’t
81:19
think it’s criminal necessarily mmm-hmm
81:21
but because I believe in the
81:23
non-aggression principle a friend of
81:25
mine Brent de Ritter and for anybody and
81:27
I say this every time I mention him if
81:28
you don’t know Brenda read her please go
81:30
friend Brenda Ritter get to know this
81:32
guy he’s fantastic libertarian even
81:34
better person and he he opened my eyes
81:37
to a different side of the argument it
81:38
isn’t necessarily it shouldn’t be a
81:41
crime legally but it is a violation of
81:44
the non-aggression principle because
81:45
what you’re doing is you’re directly
81:47
putting other people in undue harm when
81:50
you’re driving on these roads and all
81:52
this if you’re on your private property
81:53
no big deal whatever you could be
81:55
endangering other people and they have
81:57
the right to stop you
81:58
that’s where you go with all this if a
82:01
guy is getting into his car and he’s
82:03
pissed drunk I have zero problem with
82:06
people trying to hold him back steal his
82:09
keys and keep him safe I’ve got zero
82:11
problem it’s the same thing as somebody
82:13
trying to jump off a bridge and stopping
82:14
them
82:15
what you’re doing is you’re trying to
82:16
defend that person or others from this
82:19
terrible action so I have I would much
82:22
rather have a situation where people are
82:24
tackling each other to keep them from
82:26
driving and not worrying about the
82:29
police getting involved and it being a
82:31
fight it’s an act violation it’s a
82:35
non-aggression principle violation for
82:37
you to do all of this and it should be a
82:39
community thing where that person is
82:41
ostracized that person is punished with
82:45
reputation in damages and and you can
82:49
mental mug shot nonsense that the
82:51
government does the community level
82:53
should be able to say this person did
82:55
this horrible act and we’re all banding
82:59
together to say that he’s not allowed to
83:00
do this that or the other because of
83:02
those actions and it just be personally
83:06
carried out because when people deal
83:09
with these issues they generally try to
83:11
keep violence out of the situation when
83:14
the when the government at any level
83:17
whatsoever gets involved in anything
83:19
there is always and I said this earlier
83:22
every law I said this in a Facebook post
83:24
you actually owe you I believe that you
83:27
said this on our show on – Mike show on
83:30
Tuesday and I said it on the air yeah I
83:32
know I know yeah go ahead say yeah sorry
83:34
laws only create more criminals that’s
83:37
all they do
83:38
they do not prevent anything otherwise
83:41
you could just say don’t don’t murder
83:44
and it will murders already illegal and
83:46
it happens anyway you didn’t actually
83:47
prevent anything all you did was make it
83:50
a crime that’s fine with murder but when
83:52
it comes to personal actions and such
83:54
what you’re doing is you’re creating a
83:56
criminal and and again alcoholism is
83:58
generally a health issue it is not a
84:01
it’s the same as a as a drug issue it’s
84:04
not a just murderous Act it’s not the
84:06
act of consuming that’s the problem it’s
84:08
the actions post that and and when the
84:12
government gets involved at any level
84:13
any law is backed up by the threat of a
84:16
cage and at the point of a gun now if
84:19
you’re gonna say that you’re for a law
84:20
and Alabama I’m looking at you my home
84:22
state or machined I’m a pro-life
84:25
libertarian and you’re making me argue
84:28
and Ken
84:29
a anti-abortion ideas because when the
84:33
state gets involved all you’re doing is
84:35
pointing a gun at people and a law is
84:37
the laziest way to enforce your opinion
84:39
the best way to do it is to try and
84:41
change the culture and talk to somebody
84:43
about it try to have a conversation stop
84:45
screaming yelling at people
84:47
try and show them what you’re talking
84:49
about by having a gun pointed at them
84:52
what you’re doing with this law is
84:53
you’re saying I am too lazy and don’t
84:55
care enough to go out into my community
84:57
and try to convince somebody in my
84:58
opinion so what I’m going to do is
85:00
convince enough of us to create a law
85:03
where armed thugs run around and enforce
85:06
my will on others and that in a nutshell
85:08
is what government is in every single oh
85:10
absolutely
85:11
I will anybody that won’t you can’t be a
85:15
min artist after that right yeah anybody
85:17
that watches the show knows that I
85:18
possibly could not have said that
85:20
anybody doubtful I’m not a great man
85:25
with words right spill out yeah I mean
85:27
that’s what mine do too except mine have
85:29
a lot of like and well you know so but
85:32
and I thought while I was on the radio
85:37
people would call in and on air there
85:39
was a guy named woody and I loved him to
85:41
death
85:41
I wish I could meet up with him he only
85:43
listens to radio has no technology he
85:45
would call and say stop saying like come
85:50
on man we’re live stop yelling at me I
85:53
just got broke into the habit for a
85:55
while yeah I I need spike to do that to
86:00
me but that would just our show already
86:03
tangents off way too often that if we
86:05
started like cutting me I mean like this
86:08
one yeah weird right what’s funny is
86:12
normally on this program it’s a much
86:14
more streamlined show where you know we
86:17
kind of just stick to the whatever issue
86:19
was previously agreed upon and you and I
86:21
have just been like Bing Bing well when
86:25
it when it comes to these issues there’s
86:26
never and and I want to give a shout out
86:29
to Hannah Cox she I I didn’t catch it
86:32
live last week dude she was my spirit
86:35
animal in that moment yeah I was just
86:36
listening to what she was saying I was
86:37
like oh she said it and I couldn’t there
86:40
was no way I could put those words out
86:42
like she
86:42
I I feel bad about that show because I
86:46
was not at my best on it but anybody who
86:49
has not seen last week’s episode which
86:51
was episode 36 yeah
86:54
episode 36 Hannah Cox gets writer’s
86:57
block she talks about the death penalty
86:58
and she said she puts forth these
87:03
arguments against the death penalty that
87:04
if you are on the fence about the death
87:07
penalty if you think the death penalty
87:09
is a good idea
87:09
or if you just want to learn how to
87:11
debate against the death penalty watch
87:14
this show
87:15
she killer crushed it no pun intended on
87:20
the killer right she crushed it she was
87:25
so good well I think one of the reasons
87:28
why you and Spike in and now you and I
87:31
have such a hard time staying
87:33
streamlined with these is the problem
87:35
with libertarianism is it’s not a bumper
87:37
sticker taxation is theft people don’t
87:38
really understand what we mean by that
87:40
in the Fed they don’t know what we mean
87:41
by that we have to explain it there’s
87:43
too much complexity the worst part about
87:45
libertarianism is that once you find out
87:48
all of these things you realize oh shit
87:50
they’re all connected every single issue
87:53
is connected to the next and the next
87:54
and the next and the one I didn’t bring
87:56
up and I made myself not is the reason
87:58
why boomers are so indoctrinated is
88:01
because they all grew up with the
88:02
brand-new Department of Education and
88:04
now we are the ones that are having to
88:06
deal with the end result of Department
88:08
of Education and the dumbing down of
88:10
society No Child Left Behind in the rest
88:12
there’s a reason why when I graduated
88:14
now age myself a bit 2010 from high
88:17
school I didn’t know jack shit about a
88:20
thing but I could tell you all about the
88:22
Pythagorean theorem I didn’t know how
88:24
government worked
88:24
that’s a squared plus B squared equals C
88:26
squared BAM nailed it
88:28
but now I’m afraid these kids won’t even
88:30
know that which maybe that’s the better
88:32
part right but you have government
88:35
whenever it gets involved their truancy
88:37
and all this other stuff that’s a gun
88:38
pointed at the kid and the parents head
88:40
you have the DEA that’s a gun at anybody
88:43
they think might be now a terrorist it’s
88:46
it’s everything that they do is we who
88:49
can we point a gun at now right so you
88:53
were the one you were the one that kept
88:54
asking about what kratom is right
88:57
no cava because I was you okay you’re
88:59
asking about saying cava and I was like
89:01
is this is this some Russian meddling
89:03
saying no this coming so kratom it’s
89:08
it’s the leaf of the kratom tree I’ve
89:11
explained this on the show a bunch I’m
89:12
gonna do it again the leaf of the car
89:13
Atem tree it comes from Southeast Asia
89:15
the the tree the leaf is dried out
89:19
ground up pulverize turned into a powder
89:21
and space it’s made like a tea now it
89:24
has some really great effects if I was
89:27
at work right now I would not say what
89:29
I’m about to say because of legal
89:31
reasons but since I’m not at work not
89:33
I’m not working at the kava bar I can
89:35
say it here it it attaches itself to the
89:39
opiate opioid receptors in the brain it
89:42
gives you extreme euphoria many people
89:47
compare it to taking opiates I don’t
89:52
I’ve taken a lot of opiates in my life
89:55
of varying degrees it’s not like that
89:59
but a lot of people will compare it the
90:01
DEA decided at one point to ban it and
90:05
they they didn’t know what it was and
90:07
they said hit with a stick right they
90:10
they decided to ban it and they’re just
90:13
and so are sorry that they decided to
90:16
ban it based on the recommendation of
90:17
the FDA the FDA said we need to get rid
90:19
of this let’s ban it so they made it a
90:21
Schedule one they put a 30-day stop on
90:23
it and made it Schedule one during those
90:29
after the 30 days I believe it was on
90:31
day like 32 or 33 that they reversed
90:33
that scheduling the first time the DEA
90:36
has ever reversed a scheduling in their
90:39
history and I was lucky enough to be one
90:43
of the ones fighting and like that was a
90:45
huge win for us during those two or
90:50
three days where it was a Schedule one
90:52
banned substance me and countless of my
90:59
friends were all felons if we had been
91:03
arrested all of us now 30 days prior nah
91:09
two days later not a felon during that
91:13
48 to 72 hours if we had been arrested
91:16
we all would have been felons laws do
91:20
not stop people from doing things they
91:22
just create criminals for things that
91:25
shouldn’t be a crime yeah it’s an
91:31
unfortunate cycle in and like we’ve said
91:34
everything’s connected part of the
91:36
kratom fight was veterans for kratom I
91:38
remember seeing that was where I first
91:40
heard about it hell is this it’s
91:42
essentially if you already said it’s
91:45
essentially a tea it depends on how you
91:47
want to ingest different things you can
91:48
do pretty much damn near anything with
91:50
it but these veterans were using it to
91:53
treat PTSD as people use a LSD you know
91:59
and various other drugs psychoactives to
92:02
try and cope and they’re now finding and
92:05
i think it’s in the UK that on small
92:10
micro doses of LSD are helping to
92:13
reverse the signs of PTSD and they’re
92:16
finding that it might be repairing brain
92:20
damage
92:21
neurons I it’s the shriveled up and dead
92:26
ones from from depression and just lack
92:28
of just any sort of issue that they’re
92:32
having in the brain they’re finding that
92:33
it might be helpful in regenerating
92:36
essentially portions of the person’s
92:38
brain that can bring them out of a
92:39
depression or PTSD lifestyle essentially
92:43
so now you have veterans at 22 by the
92:45
way it’s 22 suicides a day they just had
92:48
what was it a full-bird colonel was it
92:51
that blew his brains out in the in the
92:54
waiting room of the Virginia VA I think
92:57
it was I can’t remember exactly but it
92:58
was a they they’re killing themselves in
93:01
the VA hospitals and the parking lots to
93:04
try and draw attention to it because
93:06
they’re so desperate they’re trying to
93:07
help somebody else by killing themselves
93:08
it’s the the monks in China Durant I
93:12
want self-immolating it’s it’s please
93:14
somebody pay attention to this you have
93:16
this cry for help and what you have from
93:19
the government and from specifically AOC
93:21
and I’ll
93:23
hey donor real quick what is it what’s
93:25
what’s funny Chris Chris Reynolds Chris
93:27
Reynolds it doesn’t get lost I’ll bring
93:31
it around but she says it’s totally fine
93:35
they’re trying to fix this for the
93:37
insurance agencies right why at 22 even
93:40
if it is fixing it for the
93:41
pharmaceutical companies at 22 suicides
93:44
a day in the veteran community after
93:46
they were promised all this help and all
93:48
these things you throw them out in the
93:50
the worst wars we’ve ever fought they
93:53
continue a 17-year war in Afghanistan in
93:56
Iraq and and you have these guys come
93:59
back missing limbs missing mental
94:02
faculties missing all sorts of things
94:04
their personality is gone and this
94:07
government that promised them the world
94:09
the only thing they can seem to figure
94:11
out how to do for these guys send them
94:13
to college that’s about the only the GI
94:15
Bill is about the only thing that
94:17
they’ve been able to figure out and all
94:18
they do is just Tiffany type some
94:20
numbers along and the Fed just tossed me
94:22
aside right and but but you have this
94:25
this crisis all around and the only
94:27
answer that your government can give you
94:29
is violence spike says so saying you
94:33
graduated 10 years ago doesn’t aid you
94:35
jerk look everybody thinks that I oh my
94:41
god I almost fired a kid once because I
94:43
somebody had she how old are you I was
94:45
like how old do you think I am and he
94:47
said 41 look bright and at the time I
94:50
was like I’m 25 like you’re fired get
94:52
out you’re done I don’t need you here so
94:58
I spike and I are obviously very young
95:03
very very very young but both of us are
95:05
significantly older than you I couldn’t
95:09
go so yeah nobody can that’s why I never
95:12
say my age is because nobody knows like
95:14
I don’t know how old I look I know how
95:17
old I am and that’s how old I look to me
95:19
but then I saw what you did as you did
95:21
the the Keith Richards Fountain of Youth
95:24
right yeah we’re through the addiction
95:27
you mummified mm-hmm the youthfulness in
95:30
your body so now you’re just gonna aide
95:31
hey man you might be around longer than
95:34
Keith Richards who knows hey you know
95:36
if I’m in a race with Keith Richards I’m
95:38
feeling pretty good about it but um yeah
95:44
like normally this is an hour show but
95:46
there’s been too fun so like we’re way
95:50
crap but whatever like you this has been
95:54
one of my favorite shows that I’ve ever
95:55
done it’s been a great conversation I
95:57
appreciate it ya know you were always
95:59
welcome back on if you want to do a show
96:02
on Mondays and Fridays I’m thinking
96:05
about getting rid of the guy that we
96:06
have doing it now and whoever whoever he
96:09
is the guy with not the great beard well
96:15
actually uh and I already threw my lot
96:18
in with them he and I have been tossing
96:21
around and eventually we’re going to get
96:22
around to it once I find time I had to
96:26
take the day off to be able to do this
96:27
unfortunately so I’m working on it but
96:29
uh he and I are working on a side
96:31
project we might be doing a podcast
96:33
sooner rather than later yeah yeah
96:36
actually we can get that rolling yeah he
96:38
actually mentioned that to us at the
96:40
onset of us bringing him on and I was I
96:44
was like yeah bring yeah definitely
96:47
bring Shane on because he’s going to be
96:48
somebody people want to listen to Oh
96:51
Jason I’m kidding I just yeah Jason I’m
96:54
kidding you’re great I love you don’t
96:57
ever say anything bad about baseball
96:59
ever again and I heard that moments
97:05
before I started this show and I was
97:07
like oh he’s getting torn up today I
97:11
almost fired him in our group chat your
97:15
dare you insult baseball hugs I also
97:19
hate how dare you insult Baseball
97:21
America’s pastime I have a tattoo for
97:25
the Red Sox just I’m so sorry
97:28
it’s world champs baby it finally four
97:35
times this century this century it’s a
97:38
look you’re beating the Cubs damn right
97:41
yeah we’re beating the crap out of a lot
97:44
of teams right now we have more
97:46
championships since 2000 than the
97:48
Yankees and
97:51
yeah that’s fair I do hate see I’m one
97:54
of those people that I hate popular
97:56
teams just because the fans annoy me hmm
97:59
so New England teams usually usually get
98:01
it but I am for whatever reason a
98:02
Celtics fan don’t know why that’s weird
98:05
so like I told you earlier I was born in
98:08
LA so when I was like I’m a Rams fan and
98:13
everybody knows about our awful history
98:15
and well and you’re cheating of last
98:18
year we didn’t cheat brother we cheated
98:22
we did not hit my boy we did not cheat
98:26
the refs mr. call that had nothing to do
98:29
with LA as long as you can actually
98:31
admit that on occasion the refs missed
98:33
that call I will say it all day long the
98:35
refs missed that call any time somebody
98:38
calls the Rams cheaters I’m like no they
98:40
didn’t they did not change that was a
98:43
cheap shot and I hate it and you stole
98:46
the Super Bowl from us we would have won
98:48
the whole damn thing the refs stole the
98:50
Super Bowl from you and but I remember
98:57
the zebra not throwing the flag so okay
99:03
well we can also talk about we can also
99:05
talk about the delay a game that wasn’t
99:07
called we can talk about the fumble that
99:09
wasn’t called like neither one yeah well
99:17
I felt violated so how you won yeah but
99:22
I might not have in the moment in the
99:28
moment I did not know that the rams were
99:30
gonna win but I was actually in a small
99:36
bar and outside of Atlanta watching that
99:43
game and there was this horrible
99:45
horribly looking redneck with the hard
99:49
landing teeth cheering on your team in
99:54
spite of me and my dad we were sitting
99:56
in there I’ve got my Drew Brees Jersey
99:58
and my hat and I’ve got I’ve got gloves
100:01
I got
100:02
I mean I’m decked I’m
100:03
decked out of my Saints here and she
100:06
didn’t she didn’t care and so she looked
100:08
over and saw us cheering on a touchdown
100:10
and then I said she goes and sounded
100:14
like her husband and it was just oh my
100:17
god the small podunk town in a camera
100:20
what it was called we went to a place
100:21
called Godfather’s and the only reason
100:22
why he went there is because we like the
100:24
Godfather movies so we went there and
100:26
just had the worst time and it wasn’t
100:29
Godfather’s Pizza was it no no it was
100:33
just a small bar called like Godfather’s
100:35
or something but it was a that trip was
100:39
actually my my grandmother had passed
100:41
away so I was like oh maybe we’ll have
100:43
some happy I never mind Emma latch is
100:45
ruined this is an awful trip none of
100:47
this is great so you know like we were
100:51
talking before the show yeah born in LA
100:53
my dad my dad has been a Rams fan his
100:55
entire life and the Rams went to the
101:00
Super Bowl in 1979 against the Steelers
101:02
and they lost I was not alive for that
101:05
two people but since then my dad and I
101:08
watched we watched the 99 Super Bowl
101:11
where we beat the Titans together we
101:13
watched in 2001 when we lost to the
101:15
Patriots together and we haven’t been
101:17
back since until this year now this year
101:20
we were getting really excited we were
101:22
gonna want you know we we were gonna
101:24
watch the Super Bowl together one of his
101:27
friends unfortunately passed away like
101:29
the week before like the week before the
101:32
championship game and the funeral was
101:35
over that weekend so he was gonna go
101:38
spend time what was that Florida – the
101:43
booty move that I had pulled there bugs
101:47
like I’m so terrified of what that was
101:49
cuz that was that was heavy um let’s see
101:53
what you did was you made me remember
101:55
all of this stuff right I’ve got the
101:56
voodoo doll under the table right kick
101:58
it
101:58
god no it’s just it’s it’s just there
102:00
and I don’t know what it was um but so
102:05
his friend passed away so we didn’t get
102:06
a chance to watch the Super Bowl
102:07
together that year so knowing this going
102:09
into it us watching that game was our
102:13
Super Bowl like that was me and my dad
102:16
doing our bonding time
102:17
watching that game together knowing we
102:19
weren’t going to be able to watch the
102:20
Superbowl and it in that moment in in
102:25
those final moments of that game in
102:28
overtime where we won and you remember
102:33
it and but in those moments like it was
102:39
one of the most pure moment like my dad
102:43
and I all we do is argue politics now
102:45
he’s a conservative boomer right so I
102:47
try to stay away from politics with him
102:50
whenever I go over but eventually he’ll
102:51
go what do you think about what Rand
102:53
Paul said about trade and Trump and I’m
102:55
like oh god okay you brought this on
102:57
yourself all right here we go let’s do
102:59
it
102:59
but on this day on this day Rams first
103:03
Saints NFC championship 2019 we didn’t
103:07
talk politics we didn’t bring up any of
103:09
that stuff the two of us sat down and we
103:11
watched a football game as father and
103:13
son like even better than felt like it
103:16
was two best friends watching a football
103:18
game together enjoying every single
103:21
moment of the game and just feeling like
103:26
nothing none of the stuff that came
103:28
along with everything else in the world
103:31
mattered and while I do feel because
103:34
what my best friend in the entire world
103:35
is a huge Saints fan he hates the Rams
103:38
now for the cause my god because they
103:40
cheated no they didn’t but it was
103:44
against the rules not to cheat but in
103:47
every team cheats every game thanked
103:50
news yeah didn’t you guys like get
103:56
banned from the playoffs or something
104:02
propaganda and their artificial noise in
104:07
their stadium right Greg Williams was
104:09
artificial let’s not ever forget no
104:14
matter what happens in life but Falcon
104:16
blue at 28 freely we will never forget
104:19
that but like in them like in that
104:24
moment knowing that my best friend in
104:27
the entire world was going to be really
104:28
upset
104:33
that he was gonna be upset at me for
104:38
this moment for me and my dad to not be
104:40
fighting about whether or not we should
104:42
be fighting the longest war in American
104:44
history or whether or not I should be
104:46
allowed to go out and buy marijuana or
104:50
cocaine from a 7-eleven if I want to or
104:52
if we should be doing the tech imposing
104:59
the tariff sunshine none of that stuff
105:02
matters in that moment on that day which
105:04
made it one of my favorite football
105:05
games ever even though they did miss
105:07
that call and you cheated I guess to
105:14
wrap the whole idea up is everything
105:16
we’ve talked about all the horrible
105:18
awful things and the wishes we have for
105:21
making the world a freer and better
105:23
place that it doesn’t matter where you
105:25
come from sports and these bread and
105:28
circuses if you’re not interested in it
105:30
we’re not interested in it go knit in a
105:33
circle give a damn but we’re all humans
105:36
and we all coexist all at the same time
105:39
and all of the things that you see this
105:42
right here your show is alternative
105:44
media is what they would call it and and
105:45
what you have here is an exploration of
105:48
an idea instead of an indoctrination of
105:50
the idea instead of trying to eat you
105:53
good with the bug yeah I’m just curious
105:55
on what it was like a really wondering I
105:58
told you you made me mad about the damn
106:00
game I mean I’m looking around and that
106:02
that is a very valid possibility if I
106:06
could pull the doll out remote of the
106:07
table be lawyers but keep in mind that
106:11
when you hear all of these celebrities
106:13
and all the pundits they all talk about
106:15
this racism is rampant and all these
106:18
sexism and all the rest of it go outside
106:20
go look at your fellow man in the face
106:23
and realize that it’s not as bad as
106:25
they’re making it up it’s not yes
106:26
there’s awful things going on in the
106:28
world there’s hate there’s all sorts of
106:30
things but in America if you’re making
106:33
here’s the thing in Bernie Sanders would
106:35
hate this to seize the 1% of America if
106:38
you’re making about $33,000 a year
106:41
annually
106:43
prior to taxes you are the 1% of the
106:46
world the one person you you’re the one
106:49
before
106:50
you’re the 1% of the world in America
106:52
the poorest person that we have here has
106:55
a smartphone
106:56
I mean barring the people that are
106:58
homeless and the rest but your poorest
106:59
person living living in in section 8
107:02
housing has a smartphone has technology
107:04
has access to the Internet by a library
107:07
or such we have it so great here and
107:09
what the reason why libertarians talk so
107:12
negatively is because we see this
107:15
country and the communities going down
107:17
the path that leads to the Soviet Union
107:20
to Venezuela to Afghanistan to Mexico
107:23
and Mexico City and all the cartels we
107:25
see these issues from all of history and
107:28
we go please let us not go the way of
107:31
the Roman Empire
107:32
okay lits and I would rather it be
107:34
secession all around the earth July
107:36
thing but we have the possibility of all
107:40
of us coming together and being good to
107:43
one another and that’s really what we
107:45
can we can do if we stop with the
107:47
partisan bickering and we start talking
107:49
about the issues without the vitriol and
107:51
the hatred right if I punch you in the
107:53
mouth
107:53
you are not gonna want to listen and the
107:55
next thing I say you’re gonna be
107:56
swinging next so it makes no sense to be
107:59
hitting each other verbally over these
108:01
things let’s talk about it let’s create
108:03
a conversation let’s be positive about
108:04
it and when it’s all said and done we’re
108:07
all passionate about what we believe in
108:09
but let’s be open-minded to new data and
108:11
new new ideas that I was having a
108:13
conversation at the bar the other day
108:15
the kava bar the other day
108:17
not the bar bar but I said that the
108:20
greatest lie that we have told everybody
108:23
is that you cannot discuss religion and
108:27
politics out in public because that has
108:29
made it taboo
108:30
now you’re defending now you’re
108:33
defending yourself like you’re defending
108:35
your core belief system and you’re and
108:39
when somebody attacks it you feel as
108:41
though they are attacking you you need
108:44
to be able to have these conversations
108:46
out in public you need to be able to
108:48
talk about these things in public
108:49
without insulting the person in front
108:52
like if I am having a conversation with
108:56
you and
108:57
something we disagree on which isn’t
108:58
gonna be much but like you and I I mean
109:01
it’s just not right but if we’re having
109:03
a conversation about something that you
109:06
that you and I disagree on if I come at
109:08
you and I’m like oh my god you’re
109:10
fucking retarded for believing that
109:12
immediately you’re gonna want to come
109:14
back and hit me back harder and that is
109:18
where the issue lies you need to be able
109:20
to have calm regular discussions like
109:24
you’re discussing your favorite movies
109:27
the greatest the and this is gonna be
109:30
for every dude out there who calls
109:32
themselves an Enzo the greatest pick-up
109:34
line in the entire world this has a
109:38
hundred percent success rate for me I
109:40
will say I haven’t tried it often but
109:43
it’s got a hundred percent success rate
109:45
because it takes a lot of guts to do it
109:47
if you walk up to a girl and you ask her
109:52
do you want to go home with me lead with
109:55
it do you want to go home with me but
109:57
you have to make it sound like you’re
109:59
offering her a piece of gum she will
110:03
look at you could at first she’ll be
110:05
shocked that you have the guts to do it
110:08
and then she’ll probably say yes or I
110:12
don’t know let’s find out a hundred
110:15
percent success rate that is how we need
110:18
to have conversations about politics in
110:19
bars
110:20
you can’t come at it like oh I’m gonna
110:22
attack this guy you’re not Ben Shapiro
110:24
trying to destroy the libs
110:26
you’re not the BBC trying to destroy
110:28
Benson ship hero you are two people at a
110:31
bar trying to have a conversation in
110:34
order to figure out what the other
110:37
person truly believes yeah well if you
110:41
if you treat each other with a baseline
110:43
of respect you can get a lot further I
110:45
have friends that still really disagree
110:48
with me right and I hold my ground and I
110:50
try to stay respectful it’s really hard
110:52
to do I’m not saying that I’m good at it
110:57
yesterday when I was talking about the
110:59
Fourth Amendment with different people
111:00
that I didn’t go you’re an insane moron
111:02
that you do this it’s easy to slip up
111:05
because it’s human nature that whenever
111:06
you find adversity as Larry sharp always
111:10
puts you hit
111:11
stick right it’s it’s really easy to
111:14
fall into those negative moments you
111:16
need to try and do the best you can to
111:18
to fight with positivity and ideas
111:22
rather than with fists and insults and
111:25
if you can if you can get that down one
111:27
you’d be a better person to me and two
111:29
you’d be a much better communicator than
111:31
anyone standing on a debate stage coming
111:33
in this next election you you would be
111:37
far what we sound like whenever we’re
111:39
shouting at each other is Donald Trump
111:41
going wrong and Hillary Clinton’s
111:44
fainting on state we all look ridiculous
111:46
when we’re shouting at each other but if
111:48
we actually come at people with respect
111:49
and we keep you I say radical stuff I’m
111:53
a radical libertarian I’m an
111:55
anarcho-capitalist I I believe
111:56
wholeheartedly that government is
111:58
inherently evil and I will tell anybody
112:01
that will listen about it and I leave
112:03
with and people will tell me on the
112:05
radio don’t ever tell people that you’re
112:06
an anarchist and I say why and politics
112:09
is a dirty word it’s a dirty profession
112:12
it doesn’t need to be a dirty work right
112:13
we should be able to have these
112:15
conversations and just because I’m
112:16
different and just because you’ve heard
112:18
things doesn’t mean that you should have
112:21
this negative connotation so my plan is
112:23
as I’m telling people I’m an anarchist
112:25
and all these things what I’m doing is
112:27
I’m breaking that mold I’m breaking that
112:29
idea and as you’re nice to these people
112:31
they hear anarchist and they think of
112:33
you when they hear anarchist they first
112:36
think of things on fire but when you
112:38
introduce yourself as an anarchist and
112:40
you be positive and you’re nice and
112:42
you’re persistent on your ideas but with
112:44
the respectful connotations towards
112:46
theirs they will then associate anarchy
112:48
with how you act and when you tell them
112:50
that my version of anarchy is being like
112:53
I am kind I work with people I trade
112:56
with people bah blah blah people
112:59
wouldn’t know I’m an anarchist that
113:00
people don’t know I’m a Christian
113:01
because it’s a personal thing for me but
113:03
I will tell them openly I am both of
113:06
these because I want them to associate
113:08
those words with what I’m bringing to
113:11
the table not what somebody else told
113:14
them about it right and you can break
113:16
that mold each and every one of us if we
113:19
just have a conversation with one person
113:20
a day you might be able to inspire and
113:23
anybody could do it
113:25
the next Ron Paul which thank God that
113:27
he’s still alive and I hope we find
113:28
another really soon um because he’s
113:31
80-something years old and we’re getting
113:34
to that era where who’s gonna fill that
113:36
void well we all need to fill that void
113:38
we all need to sit there and say these
113:40
are things we believe in so much that we
113:43
are willing to be shunned initially said
113:46
said crazy things about us later and
113:49
then in being loved by by generations to
113:53
come and it could just be two people
113:54
that that you’re affecting or it could
113:57
be a hundred or a thousand you never
113:59
know who you could who you could be
114:01
talking to no chats coming on Spike hi
114:08
I’m Shane Sweeney I want people to be
114:10
nice to each other herder oh no you’re
114:14
right actually walk in with a stick and
114:16
start poking people hey what do you
114:18
think
114:19
have you seen spike debate see I love
114:23
spike show because he’s always he he’s
114:25
like me he’ll get on a subject and then
114:28
roll on it and go what was I talking
114:29
about
114:30
yeah and then jump back into it yeah I
114:33
love like I love doing a show with Spike
114:36
is it’s it is just definitely it’s it’s
114:39
a ton of fun that like you watch us we
114:41
have I literally have more fun during
114:45
the two hours spike and I do that
114:46
program than the rest of the week and
114:48
this week I can honestly say that this
114:51
two hours I was not planning on two
114:54
hours but this two hours has definitely
114:57
compared to the two hours I did with
114:59
spike earlier in the week I appreciate
115:02
that ya know this honestly has been one
115:03
that this has just been great like I
115:06
keep going I should probably end this
115:07
but we just keep going and I’m like yeah
115:09
well this time hey well I mean they’ve
115:12
got everything they got the drug war
115:13
they got they got terrorism they got
115:16
sports talk I mean what else could we
115:17
talk yeah real housewives we we we
115:21
talked about abortion we talked about
115:22
relationships and fathers I told we
115:24
talked about drugs we talked about
115:25
terrorism I told them how to pick up
115:26
women I think we have covered but I
115:32
there’s not a single we kind of
115:35
discussed movies a little bit when I
115:36
said you know like you’re talking about
115:38
movie
115:39
like we kind of covered every single
115:41
subject like umbrella that there is that
115:47
I can think of right now well it’s
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because we’re all thinking of the same
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things we just talked about yeah that’s
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true don’t think of a pink elephant well
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again thank you for coming do you have
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anything you need to pitch I don’t even
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know uh well if you’re in South Carolina
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and you’re interested in getting
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involved with the Libertarian Party get
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in touch with me on Facebook you can
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find me I’m Shane Sweeney you can just
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put that it but make sure you spell it
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correctly SW EE n why it’s really it’s
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written right underneath your face and
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they will screw it up anyway yeah
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everybody does I misspelled my name
116:29
unfortunately two times um I was not
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sober but then go to s CLP org and you
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can learn about the state’s platform I’m
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also a writer that I’m actually once I
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get off of here I’m gonna actually be
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writing about some of the things we’re
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talking about today for launchpad media
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where a friend of mine Johnny rocket has
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a whole media group of tons of shows go
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and look that up as well I just had an
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article come out where the principles
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over politics go go into launchpad
117:04
mediacom and and look that up but yeah
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outside of that hit me up if you’re
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interested in liberty outside of that
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now I really don’t have anything to push
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I don’t have anything I do not do so
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much like I said I work 12 hours a day
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and I’m so passionate about this stuff
117:20
that any free time I have I devote a
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good chunk of it to loving my fiance who
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I’m marrying later in November
117:28
congratulations and then thank you and
117:31
and doughnuts don’t congratulate her she
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doesn’t know that it’s a it’s a trick
117:35
and that it’s actually a really I
117:37
thought you were gonna say she doesn’t
117:39
know it’s happening no clue but I spend
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so much time doing all these other
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things that I believe so strongly in
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these ideas that I spend every waking
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moment that I can
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outside of my obligatory survival things
117:55
and and my love for her talking about
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freedom talking about liberty and trying
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to just converse with people and and I
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don’t need people to be like me
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I just need them to start talking to
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each other about Liberty don’t be
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ashamed of it at Thanksgiving dinner be
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the crazy uncle don’t be crazy and get
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drunk and start shouting at people but
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be the crazy uncle that says heroin
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should be legal because we believe in
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people
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right that’s how you do it I believe in
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the good of people which is why I
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believe in Liberty yeah yeah I believe
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there’s a good side to people but when
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empowered they can be really evil right
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it’s sight every single government that
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that’s ever existed I’ve got plenty of
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evidence to back up my claims absolutely
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yeah there’s tons of it most world’s
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largest terrorist organizations the
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greatest terrorist organization that’s
118:52
ever existed bring it right back around
118:55
well again thank you so much for
118:58
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one but you can find this in every other
119:17
episode at muddied waters of freedom
119:19
calm
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Jason Lyons is taking the next couple of
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days off so he will not be here Friday
119:26
or Monday
119:27
so enjoy your four-day weekend from us
119:30
and then next Tuesday we are gonna be
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back at 8 o’clock
119:34
ish for me and spike on muddied waters
119:38
of freedom then next Wednesday spike has
119:40
an all-new episode of my fellow
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Americans and then next Thursday join me
119:44
here for next week’s installment of the
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writer’s block Jason Jason Shane how
119:53
dare you I know that’s my bad your beard
119:55
is so much better your beer is so much
119:59
better I apologize um again thank you so
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much I this has been great I’m gonna
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play the outro if you want to hang out
120:06
if not I also understand you’ve gotten
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like three phone calls since we’ve been
120:10
on the phone or since we’ve been there
120:12
but uh oh you reset you son of a piece
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of bastard yeah again
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thank you any time you want to come on
120:24
just let me know you’re always welcome
120:25
will do mate all right everybody else
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have a great weekend and we will see you
120:31
next week
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enjoy the narcissist cookbook the song
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is called good ship you