The Wrighter’s Block Episode 77 – Chris Bye Get Wrighter’s Block

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yes it is me matt wright here with you live on thursday night for the writer’s
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block how is everybody doing tonight i hope everybody out there is having a fantastic week and uh that we uh get a
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chance to uh spend a wonderful day here together uh with a great guest now before anybody
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else asks uh anybody in the comments who is worried about whether or not we’re
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gonna have the muddy zoom yes we are gonna do it this month spike’s traveling today so we didn’t do
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the muddy zoom so instead we’re i’m doing an episode of the writer’s block tonight and we will be doing the muddy
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zoom later on this month uh so no need to worry that is going to
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happen uh but until then and before anything else allow me to
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thank the narcissist cookbook for the music that i play at the beginning
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and end of every episode of the writer’s block let me uh also thank my mom and my dad
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because without them i wouldn’t be here and neither would you uh let me thank justin for the cava that
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i am drinking on today’s episode and let me thank each and every one of you for tuning in because it’s a thursday night
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and there are literally an infinite amount of things that you could choose to be doing tonight and you choose to
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spend them here with me so to all above i say bulavanaka
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um before we get into our guests uh let us start off by paying a little bit
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so my guest uh is my guest is running currently for the house of representatives in
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alaska uh and paul robbins jr in the comments has already stated that he has voted for him
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already so we’ve already got people who are voting for this guy uh he is a combat veteran
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he’s a combat veteran from the interior of alaska uh he is married and has four
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kids avid outdoorsman fishing guide active volunteer in his community uh
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we can do let’s just bring him on because uh he’s gonna be able to tell you all this stuff much better than i’m
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going to be able to tell you so everybody please welcome with me the one the only chris bye okay
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hey thanks man i appreciate that in the uh spirit of thanksgiving let me thank my beautiful wife
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he’s uh ordering me a white hot chocolate which is pretty pick and sweet uh
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you know uh it’s a team effort so uh yep again my name is chris bai i am running for the only house
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congressional seat for alaska it was occupied by a man named don young for about 47 years which is uh about a
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year i was born as a matter of fact so it’s kind of cool right uh and we’re gonna shake things up a little bit right
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so so he was like elected in when you were born and then now you’re like okay now it’s my turn
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i’m taking over yeah not only that but we uh we started with a website that was called long shot
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right for obvious reasons and then we changed it to its timealaska.com because it was time to
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move on and so that’s what we’re that’s what we’re advocating for right now and he unfortunately passed away in an
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airplane um heart attack so i left this like crazy chasm of
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individuals running now it’s been kind of a wild ride i bet yeah i’ve been following a little bit uh for
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anybody who doesn’t know uh the eskimo libertarian nulik she helps produce this show with me and
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so i get a lot of updates from her um and it’s been it seems like it’s been
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insane um so we know like why there’s a special election is because uh representative
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young passed away but how many when is the special election first of all
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so it’s uh it’s kind of unique right we’ve got ranked choice voting and so we initiated on the 27th of april
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with a mail-in ballot with 48 names on it uh right now there’s 46 47 i think
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two dropped out okay um it runs the it runs from santa claus of north pole to
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this guy so it’s quite diverse and uh what’s really unique if if miss
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uh nalek didn’t mention this we actually started there was only two of us running
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and then i made the fatal error of going to alaska’s republican heart which is
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called the matanuska valley and i made a lot of waves there and all of a sudden come monday after
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that convention there was 12 republicans running against me so i scared the snot out of them apparently wow and like you
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mentioned earlier buddy i literally am just a combat vet turned fishing guide so it doesn’t get much normal than that
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in alaska to think that i’m that intimidating is actually pretty cool who knew
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so where where in alaska are you uh so i am actually outside of a small
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mom-and-pop restaurant right now um that my wife is parking me at we’re in fairbanks uh alaska okay so i literally
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live north of the last stoplight in the united states uh which is kind of cool yeah so uh i
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spent a summer in alaska but i sent it spent in the most southern city in alaska so like as close to the united to
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the lower 48 as you can get but still i can say that i was in alaska um
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up in uh ketchikan i think i think this is probably a good idea to kind of shape this uh
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in the unique size and diversity that alaska truly is right so if you were to look at the map of the united states i
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want you to put a finger at the end of texas right that would be brownsville which by the way i’ve been to it’s a fascinating place and then go all the
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way up along the mississippi river as far north as you can to say minot north dakota so that’s the north and south
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limit of alaska and then i want you to rotate your hands and go all the way west to the ocean
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uh out past los angeles and that’s basically the size of alaska yeah
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alaska is massive it is it is and we’re kind of broke into like three
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sections right so we’ve got the southeast where you were at uh and that’s all basically uh maritime
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rainforest and then we’ve got where we live which is the road network and that includes anchorage up to fairbanks down
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to a little town called delta junction and then basically back down to valdez and then over to anchorage
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that has roughly 400 maybe 500 000 people living in it
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and it’s huge uh to give you a good perspective it would be like going from
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washington dc to columbus georgia that’s basically how
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far it is from fairbanks to anchorage alaska okay so that’s and then
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uh the rest of the alaska like north of that and west of that is called the bush
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and you can only get there by flying or floating down the yukon uh which is pretty cool
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and you’re somewhere up in that area i am uh at the tip of the road network
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okay so uh it’s it’s pretty cool i mean this is a great place to raise your kids
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the people here are fascinating uh they’re all crazy like me and uh yeah it’s like being in one big
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family and we all get along just like one big family so yeah it’s
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i will say in the time that i spent there um having a six i live in florida you know
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i’m down here in the uh pinellas county region i’m on i’m on the gulf of mexico
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and uh having a 60 degree high for summer was amazing that was incredible
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and uh i ordered a winter coat in the summertime in alaska
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because i didn’t have one here right so uh right now it’s 39 and quite wet
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and miserable um but it will get to 80 degrees 90 degrees here for at least a couple days
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about july end of may beginning of august and it’ll be pretty miserable because no one has
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any ac up here so right that’s one thing i remember there was no ac and there was one day
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where it got like into the 80s and everybody was dying and i was like this is nothing come on guys
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there’s no humidity right it’s fine we’re doing just fine here
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so yeah it’s it’s it’s an amazing place to live no it’s it’s it’s absolutely gorgeous too it’s like the
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that was some of i’m not a hiker i’m not an outdoorsy person uh i am much more
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get me in somewhere but the hiking there was absolutely incredible and uh like
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the whale like walk down to the ocean and you just see whales just going and it was absolutely
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amazing uh the best salmon i’ve had in my life and uh i can’t i can’t wait to go back
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at some point but it will definitely be in the summertime uh because i hate the
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cold which is why i moved here um so you said that this is gonna be that
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this is a special election coming up it started april 27th um how are they how are they going to
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run it my knowledge on special elections comes from one podcast i listened to that had to deal with ireland special
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election back in i don’t remember when um and i just sort of assumed all of them run this way but
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how is uh that was alaska running pretty much that’s pretty much how it is
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so we’ve got that mail-in ballot that came out on the 27th of april uh and not everybody’s received it again
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it’s fairly large state right okay and then it’s due back to the state on the
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11th of june they’ll tally those up and the top four move on to compete
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on the 19th of august a correction the 16th of august 16th of
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august okay and uh really unique because that’s the same time the primary is for the november
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election so if you think ranked choice voting the top four go in you put an x
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next to one two three or four or a write it and then uh
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you would assume that your number one pick is going to be your first pick for the november election as well so they
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kind of they kind of slanted it as we all know it this podcast you know it’s
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really slanted toward the duopoly so uh folks like me are gonna have to row pretty hard to really get after it but
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man i’ll tell you sir like the uh energy is
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frightening uh people are just tired of the status quo even hardcore blues and reds i mean
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they are just really tired of making those left hand right hand turns and coming right back to 30 trillion dollars
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of debt i mean they’re they they understand totally and so when you start asking questions like you know does your party
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put you ahead of alaskans the answer invariably has been the party
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ahead of alaskans and so it’s really uh it’s actually been exciting and uh it pushes you along you
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know so to go back to the rank choice so like let’s say
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somebody selects uh santa claus um somebody selects santa claus from the
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north pole as their number one pick and then they pick you as their number two pick is it where is it where
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you would get like two points and he would get three points and then cut is that how they’re like i i honestly don’t
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know how this ranking is done i’m trying sure so the best way to kind of explain this
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is to think of a pool okay just a big nice pool like you have in your backyard probably down there and uh in florida
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right wonder that would be wonderful though or maybe your neighbor has it right so
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all the votes go into there the and think of them as picket signs right
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so the the picket signs that have the least they get booted out
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and your number one pick might be removed but your number two pick will stay in and count as an aggregate with
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all the other names that you’ve put in there so for you and i let’s say we’re running an election mickey mouse donald duck and
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goofy are in there and you rank mickey mouse as your number one and i rank mickey mouse as my number
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two if goofy who’d obviously be my first candidate gets booted out then my number
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two pick gets thrown into the aggregate so that would count along with your mickey mouse gotcha and that’s kind of
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how it’s running okay yeah because the way that i heard it was
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the the way that i heard it in the one podcast i listened to on it which happened in ireland uh when somebody
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would drop out they would give all of theirs to one of the candidates and i wasn’t sure if alaska was doing it in
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the same sense uh because i figured that would do like some sort of you’d have to make alliances and it would sort of become
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like survivor and you’re you’re like cutthroat right
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you’re making alliances with other parties to be like hey if one of us gets kicked out we throw to
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the other one right and then you’d make deals um that was kind of what i was picturing it but i wasn’t i wasn’t sure
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if uh they were gonna make it a big brothery enough or amazing race
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you know i there’s a lot of questions about it uh because it is something new and lots of
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times when you get new procedures or you know techniques there’s a lot of questions on how it goes it’ll it’ll
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work out you know i myself have some questions about it right um the number one that i don’t like on the
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ballot when we voted on it was the lack of privacy for donations anybody gives
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me more than 50 of donations i not only have to get their contact information but i have to put their
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occupation so if i’ve got a public school teacher uh who’s which we do uh who’s given me
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money they have to put on there that they’re a public school teacher and you can bet that there are unions
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out there who will definitely go through that donation listing and you can assume that someone’s going
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to give that teacher who’s very brave great american uh he’s going to get talking to and you
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know he is and i think that’s wrong so we’re going to fix that in the future but right now this is the battlefield
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we’ve been given yeah and from what i understand that’s federal election law because any time i’ve given money to
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anybody they’ve had i’ve had to fill that out and it’s like you know i’m giving 50 bucks to this
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candidate and it’s like what are you doing i’m like i’m a podcaster right
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right so you know we’ll work through that right uh and i agree it it i’ve never
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understood why i have to do it and that’s why i say i’m a podcaster and i don’t mention any of the other things that i do um
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so i know one of your big issues is uh that you talk about a lot is of
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fishery management and you you do tours and you do that kind of thing i think this is the right picture here and
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fingers crossing it yes there it is yeah yeah hey uh don’t judge me by that fish
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that’s a client fish so we’re we’re up and uh personal about that in alaska you better believe they judge
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you by the fish you catch i was looking at it i was like man this is not the greatest picture to advertise
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for his for his fishing business but um
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so uh as a fishing guide i imagine that fishery management’s a big issue
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and i remember when i was out there there are fisheries everywhere um yes
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what is it about this it’s uh that it’s important and what do you tell your
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constituents this this right here is like
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the perfect problem set for libertarians like the perfect problem set right you’ve got a renewable resource
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that is heavily influenced and controlled by industry and by big government
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and then way down below we’ve got like one or two seats but just to make sure it’s all watered out
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we’ve included two other states into the regulatory body
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of our waters so again think of alaska in that map set that i gave you earlier right it’s huge
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now take that three miles off the shoreline and extend it out to international boundaries or 200 miles
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whichever comes first right our back door is russia so right you know back it up to there and then you know the 200
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miles out past the aleutians none of that water touches washington or
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oregon yet they both have seats on the council and that council is called the north
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pacific fisheries management council it’s made up of industry government
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some seats for alaska some seats for washington and oregon and what i’d like to see done
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is those seats for washington oregon they are no longer occupied by washington and oregon they are occupied
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by inland folks so that would be cities along our towns along the yukon right
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because right now they don’t have a voice so when fisheries management guys get together and they say hey we’re gonna
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do this kind of technique or we’re gonna allow for this kind of harvest of salmon
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there’s nobody sitting there from upriver on the yukon that says wait hold on now pal i’m not going to get any fish
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and so far for the last two and a half seasons they’ve cut their subsistence harvest to nil to nothing and so what
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happens is taxpayers are now funding an emergency relief act to give them money
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but that’s not sustaining their lifestyle that’s just cutting it off at the knees so what we’ve got to do is fix that
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and we’ve got to do it quick because right now the harvest is all going down to washington and oregon
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and we’re leaving our villages up on the on the yukon high and dry and it’s not just the yukon it affects the cuscoquim
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river which is bethel area the cobuck which is to the north and i just think we can do better if
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we’ve got more representation of the state and so that’s yeah you’re right it’s a pretty pretty uh pretty big deal right
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because it affects the entire like state so if i heard that correctly the taxpayers are funding a program to give
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the taxpayers money so essentially you’re just paying yourselves while the government takes out their
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their red tape fees right you’re exactly right okay it’s like a uh
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i liken it to a self-licking ice cream cone that melts and leaves a mess for
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everybody to pick up in alaska because as much as i love washington and oregon like them jokers are heading back home
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to their home port they’re not going to leave the mess with us but funny enough they’re going to pay for it anyway
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through their taxes so that you know folks in galena which are in fort yukon two towns on the yukon
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can get money to give to another grocery outlet to get the salmon that they
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should have been able to catch using subsistence knitting it’s fascinating and frustrating all at the same time
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yeah absolutely um one of the issues that i know is big in alaska and
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i also am very aware of this issue because i work at an aquarium so i hear about this issue a lot uh but i know
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that one of the issues that you see in alaska often is uh bottom trolling
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and that actually yes since i work in an aquarium i hear about it a lot and i know that that is one of
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the issues uh that harms like sea horse life uh over in asia uh
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what is that doing in alaska all right so this is what this is where
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libertarians who are brave step out in front of everybody and get
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the first shot class right i mean this is how it works but it’s okay i’m tough i’ve been blown up and shot at before this is not that big of a deal
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you’re not going to find any democrats or republicans who are going to espouse the stuff that we’re talking about right now with fisheries management because
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the fishing industry is so um entrenched and influential in politics
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in alaska that they can’t have someone like me say no we need to get rid of oregon and washington and oh by the way
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we need to phase out bottom trolling we just have to it is
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it’s like the old school clear cutting that we used to do in the united states where we just went through and cut everything down regardless of size or
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use or necessity we just did it to make it easy the same is true with bottom trolling
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and if you go around to alaska right now and it really doesn’t matter where you go i was in sitka just recently in
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juneau and most of the people i talked to agreed with getting rid of bottom trawling and for those of you who don’t really
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know what that is they basically have these big boards and they force a net down onto the
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sea floor and then they drag a net that can be almost a kilometer wide
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and roughly 600 to 800 meters deep and it basically sucks up everything on the floor of the
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ocean and it doesn’t matter if it’s alive or a plant or they just a crab fish it just
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doesn’t matter it just sucks it all up sucks it all up it does and it leaves like a huge scar
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and very much like some areas here in alaska it just takes forever for that to get healed and fixed
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and you can actually see some of those scrapes on the bottom and you know we need to do better to leave
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this place better than we found it for future generations because if we don’t we’re going to be infringing on their freedom
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and liberty and this is a good example of that and so you know i know in the libertarian world
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we’re kind of kind of unique in the environmental aspect of this but if we look at
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fisheries management as a renewable resource this might be one of those few places
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where a little regulation might be necessary to ensure prosperity for future generations and that’s really what we’re
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all about right making sure there’s opportunity out there and if you talk to fisheries uh you know
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commercial fishermen they understand that but they also have to put food on the table they’ve got a bill they got to
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pay they’ve got a boat bill they got to pay they’ve got maintenance fuel all that junk and so what we’re trying to do is
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minimize the impact and balance it out so that we’ve got something left over we can actually call a renewable resource
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and that’s not true for everything in the libertarian world but in this one fisheries management’s pretty darn
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important because those fish don’t just stay in one spot they migrate out from the rivers and they make their way all
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the way out to the ocean they hang out there for a little while give each other high fives and then they move their move back up into the river system to mate
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and then you know start to cycle over again right so we’ve really got to take care of this and we’ve got to do it now
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we don’t have any time to waste yeah it’s one of those it’s one of those issues that you see it literally across
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the like everywhere across the world um because you’ll get these people who are fishing
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trying to just do high um high product fishing just grabbing whatever they can and then they bring
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everything up on the boat and they chalk pretty much any like even if they don’t need it it just dies and they’re
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just like we don’t care um and that one of the things that we have worked on
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at the aquarium that i work at is the seahorse life and that is a huge issue over in uh
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east asia and that’s what they’re doing they’re doing that a lot and that’s a lot of um like canned tuna and stuff
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like that will come from over there um and they uh and they’ll end up just destroying
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seahorse uh habitats down and because they live in the shallow waters and then they’re just they bring them up onto the
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under the boat and then they just let them die and then they chuck them and it’s actually hurting um
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it’s hurting their numbers in the record style so it is something that uh
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after i started learning about i started learning about it from the eskimo libertarian and then when i started working at the aquarium
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and actually paying attention i was like oh this is actually something that’s going on literally across the globe uh
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and while i am free market and i believe that uh you know people should be able
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to be able to do their jobs without regulation we need to figure out a way to try to fix this
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uh without harming the free market and i think really getting you know a
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voice onto that council is the first step right because right now it’s really
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focused primarily on industry and how it can best
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maximize catch and i think that’s probably a different way than we should look at that
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differently right right we should look at as a renewable resource that benefits the entire state and that’s currently
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not being done but you know i mean these are small steps you know what’s really cool about that matt is
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is that’s not a topic i initially thought i was going to be running on um
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we made it a point uh we had an election back here in fairbanks and less than
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less than eight excuse me 18.5 percent basically chose to participate in that election
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and if you really like dice it all the way down less than uh it was roughly
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eleven hundred uh ten thousand one hundred fifty people basically made
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the decisions for the remainder of 76 78 000 people in
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fairbanks so 10 000 people basically made all the decisions for the political
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direction of the fairbanks borough for the rest of us and when i went around and asked all the
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other people why didn’t they vote they said because no one’s representing us and it really doesn’t matter my mill
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rate or my taxes are going to go up anyway and there’s just going to be more regulation
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and so i thought oh someone better get off the sideline right do something and uh you know i’m just a fishing guide
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uh but i worked in a bureaucracy here on post at fort wayne right
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and we sat together as a bunch of vets and some uh some military spouses
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and i was on a lunch break you know good government lunch break and we’re laughing about this we’re like what a bunch of sods and then they were like we
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should probably do something and so we all were like one two three not it right and then uh next thing i know we’re
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talking about scissors and i was gonna say to you now so you had the slowest reaction in the
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not edge that’s right and so you know you start accumulating things that are important
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to you but they might not necessarily be important to the state and so we found that out as we started
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asking people more and more questions and that right there that fisheries management one is a good example of
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bottom-up refinement from alaskans that no party is going to touch but us
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and it is not just important to libertarians it’s important to the democrats it’s important to the
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independent party it’s important to the republicans but no one wants to touch it because there’s a lot of money involved
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in it and uh that would be money they’re not gonna get as a uh you know as someone
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who brings up fisheries management this is like so you know as a libertarian you’re like fix it it doesn’t matter about the money
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fix it this this sounds like it would have been um a movie made by frank capra back in
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like 1938 mr mr bai goes to washington and he’s going there just to fix the uh fishery
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management in alaska and he goes and you’re gonna have to go and do like a 14-hour filibuster in order to get your
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bill uh you know but you know it’s what’s really funny is uh is
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is it doesn’t just end there right you would think like okay that’s just one but no sir that that is not how this
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went down i got about i don’t know 100 emails about land management right which
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is the other big one we deal with here right i don’t know something like 70 of our states owned by the federal
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government and then there’s like all kinds of other competing interests for the last 30 percent
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we’ve been a state since 1959 and we are still waiting on 36 million
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acres to be handed over to us 36 million so that’s like that’s like
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west virginia and south carolina combined or the amazing state of not so cool new york right
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and just think of all of the people that live in new york who work breathe eat or
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you know whatever they do uh complain you know step up like mr sharp but
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you know i i see that in it and it bothers me because this is another really good self-licking ice cream cone
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event right so we here we’ve got university of fairbanks it’s one of the larger
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universities in alaska it prides itself on producing some of the finest geophysicist engineers in the world
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they work on all kinds of unique projects and unique problem sets and they do a mighty fine job of producing
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them now in order to get there they’ve got substantial state
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investments into that but because we don’t have any room to grow
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because we’re missing these 36 million acres and because of federal regulations that you know turn over every two to four
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years it induces turmoil and chaos so no one really wants to start natural resource management up here
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those young people those young professionals they graduate over here at uaf and then
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we export about a third of them to another state so we’re actually giving washington and other states
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a freebie and it’s not that i don’t care about those states but i’d rather see those young people
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remain here in alaska with opportunity for good jobs to pay back you know their tuition
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and so that’s another really good example of how government you know a
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well-meaning government bureaucrat with very poor outcome has thought this through all the way and
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said you know what would be really good we’re going to take land away from alaska we’re going to pigeonhole them and then
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we’re going to force them to pay for college and university because why not
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and then on top of that we’re going to make them export their their graduates to someplace else
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and it’s super super frustrating like i can’t tell you how frustrating it is and you know peers of mine who stu whose
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kids are now graduating are like having to leave the state and they don’t
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want to because they know it’s mildly hot garbage in other places and uh you know they don’t want to leave
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but they don’t have a job and so we’re going to fix that like me and i’ve got a great i got a great team
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right so nalek helps me out uh the eskimo libertarian uh mcshannon
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is my campaign manager and she’s about exactly what you’d expect from a from an alaskan and then i’ve got like this core
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of army vets right now there’s about eight of us we’re gonna solve all the world’s
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problems right by inducing like two major things right
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it’s your problem you fix it or get out of the way and let someone else fix it and that’s what we’re gonna do so it’s
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it’s very entertaining it’s it’s pretty funny actually so you’ve said a couple of times um you’ve mentioned a couple of
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times that you’ve you’ve got vets on your squad and you’ve got you you are a vet uh how i’ve
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actually got a picture of it here and uh this is you giving away classified information
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of some kind i also just want to point out for anybody listening on audio uh you’re not going to be able to see this
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but if you subscribe you’ll be able to watch the video on anker or on spotify but
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this haircut compared to this haircut
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and these are very different looks that you have going on here
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um i just wanted to point that out
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so so for a lot of vets who are going to be watching are listening there there comes
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a moment when you retire for like about about 50 of them where they’re like oh
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yeah haircut this right and the next thing you know you end up with a man bun yeah and it’s sometimes
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terrifying joe hello she’s down here with me in florida said is that johnny depp
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uh looks like johnny depp getting ready for a roll in
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in uh a river runs through it [Laughter]
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yeah well uh so a couple things about that i see you’ve got relatively short hair man once you start like manscaping it’s just
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way too much work i think there’s a reason the army just goes to straight hair and be done with it right yeah
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again so as you can see so i i understand perfect i had i you
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know i had the buzz cut for years and then um i went through the same thing where
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i went through the same thing where i was like okay i’m not going to do this i’m going to uh
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oh yeah oh yeah i’m gonna do i’m gonna let it grow and then i let it grow for a few years and
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then i was like this looks awful and then uh i kind of went with the eminem thing because
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a white kid in the early 2000s um and eventually this is where i landed and
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i’m probably never gonna change it again um because it’s just easy i watch once a week and i’m done um
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but how like so i i went to the the fury haircut for a while right you know shaved on the side you look like this
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viking looking fella you know but uh that’s that that intimidates people more than
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i’m already mildly intimidating apparently uh you know we’re we’re pretty happy go
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lucky up here you know you don’t seem that intimidating you seem like somebody like if i still drank
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i’d like i’d go out and grab a beer with we we would and then we’d go fishing and then we you know we’d have a blast right
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but but when you really start to like take a stand you know not not like a
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not like a wishy-washy stand but like an honest to goodness stand and you tell people
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that’s not right and not only is it not right but it’s counterproductive to my freedom and
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liberty like 30 trillion dollars of debt man and then and then you like open their
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eyes like actually republicans and democrats got us there and then they look at you like no way
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that’s not true and you’re like nah man that is totally true yeah and uh you know you start pointing
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that out and you point out 20 years of war brought to you by republicans and democrats you know and then you point out the
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patriot act again brought to you by democrats and republicans and then you bring out like i don’t know
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crazy health care again brought to you by democrats and republicans right you know and then invariably the first
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question you probably heard it the first question is what about my roads you’re like
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if you think the federal government has bureaucrats out there shoveling you know gravel and tar
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you obviously need to get out more because that’s not how that works they actually pay a company to go out and do
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that and so you know it’s been yeah it’s been very entertaining i like i like to remind people that uh dominoes had to
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get their own road crew to go out and fix potholes in certain areas of the country because they did it more
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effectively and efficiently than the government did um so obviously
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not really a federal government thing um and that’s why like on the muddy waters
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of freedom that spike and i do on tuesdays usually next week it’s going to be on wednesday
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that’s why we always close it with where we’re going we don’t need roads i’m also ripping off back to the future when i
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wrote that but uh you know uh it that was where where it came from
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it’s like we don’t even ask us about roads we’re tired of the roads
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you know it goes back to that like unintended consequences right because you know you
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know that bureaucrat was just thinking this is going to be the greatest thing ever they’re going to be championing my name
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you’re so great you’re amazing and then you know 10 15 years down the road they’re like wow this
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this thing’s really in place like we really didn’t fix anything it’s still the same problem you know i liken it to those uh big
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honkin uh water pumps in new orleans right so the world’s largest water pumps
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are located on the northwest or northeast side of new orleans right there they are enormous
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i think you can pass like a 747 through these things i mean they’re huge the problem is no one asked slidell or
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cudary or anybody else down river of new orleans like where all that water was going to go so every time they turn
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those pumps on you know 400 000 people have water up to their crotch right and
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they’re like are you serious like this is the best we got no no of course it’s not some idiot put
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that together so you know somebody somebody that was paid by the federal government put that together
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right you know or you know you take that uh that gentleman from uh
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the animes gold uh copper mine you know who decided it would be a great idea to pump all of the arsenic laden
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water and heavy metal water out of the mine that was already shut down and pump it
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right into one of the world-class trout streams in new mexico in colorado and as he’s sitting there he’s like
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what a great deal made a lot of money today and then realized poisoned like he
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poisoned the navajo nation he killed tons of thousands of fish and you would have thought that maybe
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maybe someone in the federal government would have been like maybe that’s not such a good idea maybe we got to prosecute him no that’s not how that
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goes down and that guy’s still doing work today and he didn’t get charged anything
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and uh and that’s not even and that that is the benefit of getting
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a contract with the federal government is you actually get to fail forward because you can
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kill off an entire tribe of people um or or you know uh drown an entire city
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and you’ll still get more work because you have already stated that you are
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willing to do the work for the lowest amount of money and they don’t really care about the outcome
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no so when we started this i i had this like ranger come in right and for
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non-vets like these guys are you know they’re like what’s up you know they got big muscles and they’re like
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you know and they got guns and you know they’re just beefy looking fellas right this guy comes into the office and he’s
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like i want to run on the airfield you know i’m a fed i’m like absolutely
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dude why not and then i have my boss who’s uh who’s a bureaucrat a faceless bureaucrat and
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she’s like oh no we can’t do that there’s all these federal regulations here’s a stack of 55 pages of sweet
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success that he’s got to fill out and don’t forget the tps cover sheet and he’s being triplicate right
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and i was like are you kidding me this guy’s going to be running on the field why does it need all this mess and it was really at that moment where i was
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that cage tiger in me was like uh buddy we’re done we’re breaking free of this cage right
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it’s not quit right it’s not it’s not worth it at that point so i know that um
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i know that during this entire process for the special that you’ve been going out and you’ve been doing tons of events and a lot um i have a question about
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uh this event um you went
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to the matsu outdoorsman show an event arctic comic con
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and it appears as though you’ve dressed up as zorro
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hey we’re fighting for freedom and liberty baby [Laughter] i honestly wasn’t sure if you were dressed up as zorro or if you’re dressed
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up as napoleon dynamite’s brother um
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no come on man that’s that’s dread pirate oh okay jeffrey roberts all right that i
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i see that now as you wish yes
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uh you know so so my my battle buddy right sean thorne he’s running for senate another vet
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great american he looks like he walks straight out of hogwarts you know i’m more of kind of a knuckle dragon type of
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guy he’s got the you know perfect face and the perfect hair and yeah that’s not me i literally am a calvary men turned
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fisherman anyway so we’re like what should we do next like how can we get after more people because quite frankly the outdoor
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shows have the same kind of flavor of people coming through and we’re like why don’t we go to comic-con and i’m like i’m already
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running for office like i’m well out of my you know area of expertise and i’m you
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know way out of my comfort zone why not so
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so he dressed up as a jedi i mean come on everybody dresses up as a jedi i thought what’s the one dude who struck fear in
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the heart of a of a government bureaucracy roberts obviously
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everybody robert or robin hood or or robin hood right and uh i don’t
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think you know kerry alves did both of those so i thought ah let’s let’s pick dred bryant roberts because he’s got a sweet
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mask right because i think everybody will be wearing masks in the future they’re horribly comfortable
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so i uh so we’re sitting there don’t try to infringe on my rights i just got rid of all those
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so anyway i’m i’m heading down there i had to drive which is you know 400 miles or whatever it is to get down there
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and uh i get there and he has that board can you put that picture back up yeah so he’s got this board
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all right again understand that i’m well out of my environment right because i am just a fishing guide who likes guns
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and and there are avatar wade wilson you’ve got some dude named tudor
47:35
eric i mean from from south park and that is how we’re going those are the
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people we’re going to select to be the supreme leader of the metaverse that’s right we’re kicking
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mark zuckerberg out and we’re going to replace him with one of these people and you can see we’ve got the emo spider-man
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on there and we’ve got conan the barbarian for a couple of the older people oh and that guy in yellow
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that that’s actually uh james t kirk why not right and then we’ve got han solo
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and we’ve got aragorn and uh you know batman like the original batman right
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not the pow guy but uh right michael michael keaton right yeah
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and then we’ve got spike lee down there and then we got mickey mouse you know a throwaway and then we’ve got zelda and
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oh yeah and then we also have um senator palpatine
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because we need law and order right right and then we got we got peter baelish right
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so we set these up and we had people come by and they just put an x next to the one that they would like to see for
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a primary um candidate to go on to be the top four
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and of that obviously deadpool pulled pretty hard in the beginning we had uh aang avatarang he he did
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really well tutor toro did very well because he brings back kids right he’s your neighborhood friend sure and then my man
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right i knew like master chief who was on
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there and i knew the doom guy and i knew han solo and aragon right yeah maybe wade wilson
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but yeah that guy just kills people there’s no negotiation there that guy just slaughters people uh in a very entertaining way i was
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gonna say but he does it with a he does it with uh great sarcasm so i’m a fan right a little panage right right so
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so the following day we had the top four and then they voted again and you would
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be surprised like how often people would come back to our site and we would be walking around and we
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would hear these comments like have you been over to the libertarian site like who’s your guy is he winning and it
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became like from the people who ran the place it was the best one there because it was
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audience participation just like governance should be to begin with absolutely and it really
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it really challenged people to think hey when we start doing this ranked choice voting like we actually better be
50:04
kind of serious about this because deadpool could actually win and that would be bad for just eric eric corbin
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could win and all we’re going to get is cheesy poos and that’s probably not much
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i honestly so i honestly believe that uh looking at this list of people
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um all right senator palpatine would be the absolute worst we’ve seen how that goes
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it’s that’s absolute worst is going to be palpatine followed very closely by cartman
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i think cartman i think cartman goes authoritarian very
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quickly and he will attempt to uh get rid of all of the jews because he
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hates kyle and then he will and then he’ll just keep going from there
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nobody is safe nobody’s safe nobody’s safe uh where palpatine just wants to enslave
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people i think cartman would actually kind of just like get rid of entire races people
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oh yeah um so do you guys have like other great events like that planned do you have
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other fun events like that planned where you’re gonna go doing things completely off the
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path yeah i did so i went down to juneau they’ve got a maritime festival
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um it was it was there was some serious mental gymnastics uh down there and uh
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it sharpened me um i’m you know i’m not a politician you’ve probably figured that out by now
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i’m uh i’m a citizen legislator that’s probably the best way to explain it right that’s fine i’m just a real news
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guy so it makes sense okay so i i just this is this is the slogan
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that we always ask people right do you think that typical alaskans can make better decisions than groomed
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politicians and if the answer is yes i have a short quiz for you do you believe in hurting people
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do you believe in taking people’s stuff you my friend are a libertarian right that’s how we that’s what we do that’s
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how we that’s how we get our message across that’s how we hook them in and bring them in
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and so i’m in i’m in juno which is pretty much the pretty much the leftist world of uh
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of alaska that’s where both of them live okay got it yeah that’s that’s the most
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liberal end of of alaska which is really kind of unique um and i laid out fish
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i put 12 different kinds of fish and we voted on the supreme kingfish of of alaska
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and that too was extremely successful and so we would bring them in for the primary and then we reduced it
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down to four and then from there people who came back literally would come back into the
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into the festival sign their name on a certain fish and then argue with us why another fish
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wasn’t there right it was awesome and it’s just getting the message out right
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because we already know that you know we’re we’re the tail end of of the media i
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mean they’re only going to give notice to us if we pay money we already know that we’re not going to get any coverage
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from anybody unless we make the coverage ourselves such as you know my man kylo ren and dreads dread pirate roberts you
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know at comic-con so you you liked emo darth vader
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my dad was mean to me i’m gonna go try to take over the galaxy
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so it was really kind of cool um and we we
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we learned a lot right because people would come up to us and be like hey what do you think about agriculture in alaska
53:44
and i’m like we should be self-sufficient let’s do it and then they’d be like well i i’m bordering federal property and i only have this to
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do it with what what do you think the federal you know what can we get out of out of this to make federal property
53:58
smaller so that we can do natural resource development or
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increase agricultural production you know it was it was absolutely fascinating i
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would say the other one that came out of that was school vouchers so
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uh right now the school district is the most diverse school district in the
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united states wow for a myriad of reasons i mean they’ve got polynesians
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who they’ve got hispanics and filipinos and white kids and black kids and
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plaid kids and all kinds of kids and it’s because juno is an excellent
54:38
place for retirees from the military to punch out i’m not you know i’m sorry anchorage anchorage is an excellent
54:44
place for retirees to punch out and it also has all the headquarters for all of the oil industries are based out
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of anchorage okay so it’s a very diverse city
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and yet we really only give them one option for education one umbrella covers it all
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and you have to think in that kind of environment are there not artists in those young
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people are there not musicians young people are there not stem directed kids
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who love math more than i do in that population and if there are why would we not afford them a more
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diverse education and the flip is true too are there not instructors who don’t want to be held to the same timeline or
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the same time constraints that the public school district has them under to
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teach a kid about biology or to teach math and so school vouchers really bridge
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that guy that gap to give kids what they need when they need it at an affordable
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price and it’s it i don’t man i’m telling you that that resonates with everybody except for
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school administrators that’s right so you gotta kind of fight through that a
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little bit but yeah and there’s only one thing and that’s something that’s something
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that you see a lot like no matter what alaska you see here in florida you see it everywhere like once school choice
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starts coming into play and you start talking about school vouchers and things like that school administrators are like whoa
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wait i don’t want you to do that that would be terrible uh for me uh and
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you’re looking at them going you went to a private school anyway like you had school choice
56:29
why wouldn’t you want to give that why would we not afford it right yeah you know what’s really funny about
56:35
that is when you get the guy or the gal who’s like but what about the little people they’ll be left behind and i’m
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like they already are left behind i’m one of them you know
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are you know alaska originally no sir i’m not my dad was in the service and so we moved all over which by the
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way was really kind of cool because i got to see i got to see all kinds of governance and
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i got to see all kinds of unique ways people live and you know one of my opponents decided he wanted to be a
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politician at age 12. uh that that wasn’t me i was fishing that was me a lot
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i i was definitely fishing and then if i wasn’t fishing i was riding my bike to the next fishing hole that’s that’s kind
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of what we were doing and so when i see some of these individuals who just you know eat drink
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breathe politics like i kind of feel for them i mean imagine that life that they must have i mean it’s
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disappointing and got to be tragic right i mean not me i fish i understand that life
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because so when i was 13 i decided i wanted to be president
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i was tired of the presidents we had had up to that point and i said i’m going to be president and i’m going to do it right
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and uh then i got really big into i was living right outside of dc so you know you can assume that some of that
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seeped into me and i said this is what i’m gonna do and i knew like at the time
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my parents are republican so i was a republican um you know i was republican and then uh i
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turned like eight i turned 18 and i discovered that uh drugs were a lot of fun and uh then i
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was like well i can’t run as a republican now because boy i’ve done everything under the sun
58:20
and so right then eventually i thought instead of becoming a politician i’m gonna do the smarter thing and just talk
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about it online um and that’s how we’re all here um
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you know i i we didn’t uh we literally didn’t have any plans for this until about
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march of last year right i mean we were seeing alaska was very unique there were pockets of people who were like scared
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into mandates and all kinds of other things and then the rest of alaska was like uh i’ll think about that you know and
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then they just went on with their business as if nothing was going on and i was like this is like these are
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personal decisions being made by individuals and they’re rolling with it right
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they’re not afraid of anybody else they don’t care what other people think and i’m like oh that that’s the way it should be like
59:15
if that mask is really going to work it’s going to work for you and me and i don’t have to worry about it anymore right
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and so we just sort of rolled on up here in alaska and we didn’t think much about it much like western texas as a matter
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of fact a lot of like southwestern texas uh didn’t really feel covid like the
59:32
rest of america did they just kept doing their thing and and it was pretty refreshing right and
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it really it really brought to it brought forward the idea that our
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government and in part because of us because we settled for the lesser of two evils
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every time we voted has dramatically shifted
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away from governance and more toward activism and
1:00:02
and it’s terrifying truthfully right i mean deep down this really terrifying
1:00:08
because the next time the next group gets in charge they’re just going to pick up that activism ball and they’re going to
1:00:15
run with it further down the field and both the rs and the ds are playing for the same team like they are heading
1:00:22
toward the same end zone and the rest of us are like what the heck just happened
1:00:27
and i i think it’s time for typical americans to stand up you know and i get berated all the time by folks oh my gosh
1:00:34
you’re just another blah blah blah you know they’re they’re label makers now you can buy them at walmart all day long
1:00:40
but what i what i always encourage those guys is you know if you’ve got such great solutions
1:00:45
and you believe enough people believe in you run right yeah step out from behind your
1:00:52
digital device because that’s how they that’s how they engage me they never come up front to me because i guess you
1:00:58
know i’m six foot full of love and in you know care i guess and it’s
1:01:04
terrifying six foot in alaska is like five nine in the rest of the country
1:01:11
you know it’s really funny because when you start approaching people with care and love and i’m not just talking like
1:01:18
skin love or anything like that right not lust or nothing like that but just straight love right you’d be surprised
1:01:24
like how much you can actually accomplish right whether it’s teaching little ones soccer which is absolutely
1:01:30
fascinating and amazing and i think everybody should do it at least once everybody should have a team of first
1:01:36
and second graders in the soccer field at least once because then you see the swimmers and you see the dancers not a
1:01:43
lot of soccer but it’s it’s a good learning event for the for the coach
1:01:49
but getting really back to that idea of love right and leading forward and stepping out in front and just letting
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the chips fly as they fly has been extremely rewarding i i mean the people that i’ve met matt
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are have all been fascinating and i use that word a lot because it means good and bad sometimes
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and that’s exactly what it’s like meeting all these people on the same token
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i mean i went fishing with a guy who’s definitely the opposite of me uh i went
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i’ve met a gentleman who’s like pro-union to the point of fault
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um i have met uh women who’ve you know who’ve had a meet like really
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like gut-wrenching events happen to them and i would have never met any of those people had i not run
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and so when i come across those people who just want to you know poke me in the eye and and you know use their label maker
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i i always encourage them i’m like hey man be brave you don’t have to be rich
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you don’t have to know everything you’re going to get so many like inputs from so many people you literally don’t
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have to know everything only politicians know everything and maybe some academia
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and just get out and do it it cost you a hundred bucks in fact that’s what i told this young man who you know
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was rabid was he was just rabbit frothing at the mouth and i said i’ll tell you what i’ll give you the hundred bucks and you run against me
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i i don’t fear you run against me man uh he declined and ran off with his tail
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between his legs because you know that’s what they do i like the approach though i will pay
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your fee to sign up all you have to do is do it and right like that’s a put your
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that’s put my money where your mouth is and if you’re still not willing to do it it shows how
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how how strong you are in your opinions on these things yeah you know put your brass on the table and let’s get after
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it otherwise vote for me [Laughter]
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and you know it’s been really like like that rabid uh union guy i mean he ultimately gave me
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money and you know it really came down to me pinning him down and saying look are you going to vote for the bear
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doctor which is a colloquial term they use for a guy from california who’s up here running as a candidate
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or santa claus is that that’s who you’re up against you’re going to vote for one of those
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guys really over this guy like really i mean at least i live here you know
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so and he ended up voting for he ended up uh he actually sent me a note he voted for me in the primary he won’t vote for
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me in uh in the election but at least he got my name on the primary ballot right he gave me 50 bucks to boot so how
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awesome is that so that’s a working doctor is your version of a carpetbagger
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[Laughter] no uh years past there was a gentleman who
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uh we won’t say his name because i’m not i’m not about giving free advertisement for those guys he’s a doctor out of modesto california
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who decided somewhere in his lineage he was a guy from alaska
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and he was not only a doctor but he liked bears and so they made this like really corny
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10-minute video on youtube that everybody had to suffer through in alaska and the last thing was like bear
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doctor and so everybody remembered that because you couldn’t get away from it and so now they just called the bear
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doctor they didn’t even use his first name anymore they just call him the bear doctor and it’s fairly it’s kind of like a poke in the eye
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uh at the same time it’s kind of a nod to advertisement right right so we continue to use it
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i mean good marketing if everybody remembers it but at the same time it’s now insulting everybody that comes after
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you um you got it so yeah uh where
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where can people find your platform you know where can they follow you on social media you know i’ve posted the website a
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couple of times uh in the comments section uh it’s timealaska.com
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uh but where else can they find you uh so i’m on facebook uh and i wish
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shannon was on here or maybe nayla can help i’m not a facebook guy i used facebook to hunt down bad guys in
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afghanistan so i never really got into the facebook thing um but i want to say it’s like christopher alaska
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uh yeah i think that’s what it is that’s awesome and i go to it every day and i just hit like
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some random news thing that i think is important for people to see and and kind of craft
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it’s kind of like in the army remember we used to do condition setting right we’d start with little pieces of the puzzle to put it all together and so i
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get onto facebook and i i publish some piece once or twice a day right now we’re doing music
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uh why not uh you know it’s my campaign i get to figure this out some of the republicans and democrats will say i
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never will never win but i think just getting the message out that there’s another option besides 30 trillion dollars of debt
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another 20 years of war like that resonates tremendously with not just alaskans but with americans in
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general and so we’re going to continue to push um but yeah so it’s timealaska.com is a
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great place and you know for your audience if you see something on there that’s not right like don’t let me walk around no
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clothes on like let me know right reach out to me and give me some bottom-up refinement because again i’m just a
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citizen legislator right i’m a fishing guide who used to handle 600-plus men
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and women in combat well i mean with multiple people it looks like you’re you’re a minnow guide is what this looks
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like well well played but let’s not you know
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overplay our hand [Laughter] but you know i i just
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what i really ask people to do and it doesn’t matter if they’re in alaska or anywhere else is just to be brave right
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i mean sometimes in the libertarian world a few of you all are brave like yourself and spike and
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miss miss nalick and shannon but there’s a whole slew of them in bootleg
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and not a libertarian all those guys are pretty upfront and uh and vocal but behind you all is a whole group of folks
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who are awesome but need a little bit of encouragement right and so if you go to my stuff
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you’ll always see stay brave or be brave and stay encouraging and and i and i stole that from a
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billboard um i did i freely admit it i was uh i was i
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was moving some missionary stuff through uh through uh nebraska south dakota back up into
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fairbanks um which was a i don’t know 3 400 mile drive or something like that it was awesome
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anyway on there you you’ll go across these these barns and on the side of the barn there’s always like thank a vet if
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you like your freedom and all this other stuff and one of them that i remember very distinctly was
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home of the free because of the brave and it was all about vets and as i was
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driving away from that i got to thinking well that’s partially true thank you for your service by the way
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that’s partially true it’s also true that voters must be brave
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because without them we’re stuck in this like recycle bin of republican and democrats
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and they spit out poor decisions every two to four years if we’re lucky if not every month they spit out something poor
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and if we’re not going to be brave as voters then we’re going to lose our freedom and that is indeed what’s happening now
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and i always tell people to remain brave because our country depends on it
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don’t don’t rely on the young men and women of the military to be brave for you you’ve got to be brave yourself and
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along with that you better bring a healthy dose of encouragement because there’s some other people out there who aren’t quite as brave
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and they’re going to need some encouragement to to step outside their traditional pathway that they’ve been voting right
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and you know that’s that’s you know that’s not a it’s not a campaign slogan that’s really how we feel you know we don’t want people to
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settle for the lesser of two evils and that’s what we have done and that this is the result of that
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and so you know when uh when your folks are out and about and they see someone that they think might be a libertarian
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even if they proudly wear a cool red hat or a you know a bernie shirt you know feel
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the burn let them know that there’s another option out there you know tell them do you hear do you like to hurt
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people you know do you hurt people or do you take people’s stuff and then you write up and get in their face and be
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like welcome to the brotherhood you are a libertarian right you just invite them in and grab them and you hold them tight
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and then when it comes time to vote you encourage them to vote outside their typical pathway
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and i think we’re going to win like i think we’re really going to we’re going to take this all the way and when we win
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i’m going to go to those outlets that have big d’s and big rs to them and i’m going to give them their first interview
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yes i am and then i’m going to tell them the pound sand it’s going to be awesome i uh
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so i just have to like obviously i’m a little biased because you know i i lean libertarian
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however i like to think that i can look at this from an unbiased position and if i were
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somebody who was possibly an r or d or green party or whatever um after hearing
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something like that i would be inspired beyond all belief and i’d be like now like now i’m
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biased for bi uh and like that was that was primo stuff
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you want to know the reaction we get terror really pure
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they are terrified of me like they won’t even come like hey
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i’m telling you they are terrified because when normal people start stepping up to the plate and start swinging home runs even if it’s a
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curveball they know one of them home runs is going to connect and it’s going to be a game changer right and so
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i don’t get any interviews from any of the media outlets that assign themselves to a letter
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i i don’t get any um i don’t get any news i don’t get
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anything but you know what’s really unique about this is that there are people in those
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d and r parties that feel the same way you and i do they absolutely do
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and so what i get is i get this like bootleg copy of everything i know where they’re meeting
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it’s it’s really it’s pretty funny i’ll give you a good for instance i had just gotten uh invited down to
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sitka so i was getting all that ready and i got an email from a gentleman who
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has always voted republican but this time he’s going to vote for me which is flattering
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and he said oh by the way they’re holding this mini debate and you
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weren’t invited and i think you should be so i told them that you were coming merry christmas and oh by the way it’s
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in anchorage so figure it out because you need to be there unfortunately some other things got in
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the way and i was unable to uh to go down there but that’s kind of what we’re getting and it was for uh amac the
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american mature concerned citizens or something like that it’s basically the equivalent of aarp okay got it
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and and he’s like you need to be there you you have to because people who are
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going to go to that are looking for something different but there isn’t anything different the
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cup that all those individuals that were there you know pontificating greatness in the republican party are all drinking
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the same flavor of kool-aid and what you’re offering them is like an iba you know
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you’re offering them not a zima not a not you know some
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dumb beer but you’re offering them something with some boldness in it right some froth
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and they’re looking for that and i was like okay man i’ll do everything i can to be there right you don’t want to let anybody down like that but i get that
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all the time um and i get it from both sides it’s it’s truly
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it gives us hope right you know you talk to some libertarians that are like burn it all down and i’m not quite ready to burn it all
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down i am ready to burn some things down but not not all of it uh and when you come across those
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individuals you just know that there is people out there who can see past the labels you know and i appreciate that
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yeah i’m not a libertarian who believes in burning it all down i believe that we’re gonna see it all burn down um but
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there are definitely things that i would like to see be salvaged from this mess
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that we have um and i think that there are some good things that could come out of it um
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potentially the ending of the out of control spending and possibly returning rights back to the states as opposed to
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the federal government just saying you know what now it’s 21 to smoke across the nation or to vape across the nation
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screw you we don’t care um and i think that seeing that return
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would be so much better because then people will be able to make choices for their lives as opposed to
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their lives being dictated by people from california oregon washington
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illinois new york massachusetts yada it kind of really goes back to normal
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people can make better decisions than dc politicians right that’s really what it gets down to you know what’s better for
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you right i mean sometimes you’ve got to suffer with the consequences of poor
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decision-making right but it makes you stronger in the future or it makes you dead one of those two things are going to happen right and so we just advocate
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for that opportunity to to learn from those mistakes and i think we’ve we’ve touched on a
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couple things that are really important right especially in this campaign you know we we if you go to the website you’ll see
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that we’re all about budgets you know let’s find out where all that money is going to
1:15:35
let’s let’s audit everybody and if they don’t get if they don’t if they fail to meet the audit we need to
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fire them and find the right guy to do the audit and if it starts with the general of dod get rid of that guy he’s
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replaceable boom you know get rid of them and then you know start with someone who
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can get the job done because if we can’t trust them with the money how the heck are we going to trust them with our bloodshed
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our you know our men and women are you kidding me my guy’s done fire him i’d be like yeah
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i’d be off with his head dude i’ll be like over your head next just just get rid of the atf get rid of the dhs get
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rid of the uh department of education get rid of the epa get rid of all of it get rid of osha it’s kind of like um you
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know like have you seen lego ninjago i i have a i have a six-year-old and a
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seven-year-old so okay so you’ve seen it okay so that part where he’s like general number one you’re fired he shoots them out of
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volcano yeah that’s exactly what we ought to be doing with a lot of the bureaucracy and just launch them bad boys and replace them replace them with
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nobody right replacing with a state who’s accountable to the people
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um if they need to be replaced at all i mean maybe the department of education right maybe you need that at the state
1:16:47
level at the state levels i don’t have an issue with it right because then they’re accountable
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to you and i right now they’re just faceless bureaucrats oh we can do better than that no absolutely
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absolutely well chris thank you so much i appreciate you spending the time here with me today we went a little over but
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i was enjoying talking to you so i didn’t even give you an opportunity to get out um
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but yeah so everybody it’s time alaska.com everybody needs to go there
1:17:15
give chris money you’re gonna have to put in what you do for a living but chris says he’s gonna fix that um
1:17:22
[Laughter] so we’ll try yeah buddy i really appreciate this opportunity right i mean
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the the ability for podcasts to really reach a lot of really cool people is is pretty
1:17:37
impressive and uh i appreciate the fact that you brought me on and and i it would be remiss if i didn’t give out a
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shout to nalek and to shannon and my man uh james out in new york to really keep
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pushing me and and uh keep me energized i i appreciate their input tremendously
1:17:53
yeah without without knowledge uh i can i can say uh with absolutely no sarcasm um this
1:18:01
show would never go off as smoothly as it does um she she does amazing work and
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she’s a fantastic human being and i appreciate everything that she does uh
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for the movement but especially for me um but yeah it’s
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it’s amazing what the this team of people can do in this movement and how
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much there’s so much that there’s so many activists out there who
1:18:29
are in this movement who have so many different talents and they are all using it right now to help elevate voices and
1:18:36
help elevate uh different people who are running and help push businesses and it’s starting
1:18:43
to really take hold and it’s fascinating to watch and it’s inspiring
1:18:48
to watch because you finally get a chance to see um what can happen when you come together
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as a community even if it’s a community of people who have only met each other online like you and i have now met you
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know here on zoom um now you’re gonna have to come up and go fishing man you know
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i don’t think that will be a very difficult thing to convince uh my fiance of i think she will 100 be okay with us
1:19:15
taking a trip to alaska at some point um she just slid into the room to give
1:19:20
me a thumbs up um but no thank you so much uh it’s time
1:19:26
alaska.com everybody go there give chris all your money uh up to twenty four hundred dollars i think i don’t remember
1:19:32
what the limits are um but uh i just want to say before i let you go i have talked to numerous
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politicians uh that are running for different seats i talk to one every tuesday um
1:19:45
wednesday next week uh i came out of this more inspired than i
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have in years so thank you thank you for that you you are doing wonderful things if uh you i
1:19:58
appreciate that yeah i truly do now uh thank you so much uh i’m gonna do the
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sign out you can hang out if you want to and i’ll be back or you can just go i understand you’re in your truck you’re
1:20:09
probably heading somewhere you’re not wearing your seatbelts so
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all right cool thank you so much thanks again no absolutely i’ll talk to you soon
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to everybody else thank you so much for tuning in that was fantastic uh i am i am a fan of chris
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buy and i think everybody should uh do whatever they can to ensure he wins
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the uh special election um i uh yeah no that was fantastic uh so
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thank you all so much for tuning in tomorrow tomorrow i should know this because i
1:20:51
talked about it the other day but i don’t remember it so i’m gonna have to look it up again uh jason
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has nate banks uh on at 2 p.m eastern uh and they are
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going to be talking about messaging and uniting with unlikely allies then
1:21:10
this weekend we’re not doing anything uh there is not a muddied waters of freedom next tuesday it will be on
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wednesday excuse me it will be on wednesday at eight o’clock um
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so be sure to tune in for that then join me right back here next thursday
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for a brand new episode of the writer’s block possibly it’s either that or the muddy
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zoom i have to uh talk with my co-host about that so we will get that figured
1:21:42
out and we will let all of you know this week um thank you all so much for tuning in uh i
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hope everybody had as good of a time as i did uh your fun fact of the week
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there is a percentage of people out there who are allergic to pre-ground coffee
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and that is because of the amount
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of cockroaches that are legally allowed to have gotten into the mixer
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or into the grinder when they grind the beans for your pre-ground coffee
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so whenever you are drinking pre-ground coffee no you’re drinking
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you are drinking um cockroach juice so mud water it’s a
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coffee alternative you can make the switch
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stop drinking cockroach juice or get
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or get beaned coffee and grind it yourself it’s really up to you uh thank you all so much uh i will see you all
1:22:54
next week have a fantastic weekend tune in tomorrow for mr america the bearded truth um
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tune in tomorrow for mr america the bearded truth uh and remember no matter if you are a
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white black hispanic uh asian if you are christian muslim jewish hindi buddhist
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uh skinny fat sick not sick i guess healthy would be the right word
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for that at the end of the day it’s night
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