ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Samaire Armstrong： “Hollywood is designed to control narrative...it's programming.”
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Actress and political activist Samara Armstrong joins me to talk about how she became a voice for social justice in the entertainment industry. She talks about her experience growing up in a conservative household, how she was able to speak her truth, and how she found her voice through her activism.
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I have no background in this. I am just a mom who is fired up to protect my child like any other
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mother out there. And it is a universal push. There is no one path to get there. There's the
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first step. The step is agreeing to yourself to making the decision. I'm going to fight for my
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child because what's coming down the road is so much bigger than just what's in this moment. I
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sure up on my values. I speak it, you know, confidently willing to be, you know, educated
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if I say the wrong thing. So the point being is when you speak on that sort of
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level of truth, the right people at the right place, the right time come into your life.
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Samara Armstrong is an actress and political activist. You know her from a ton of TV shows
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and movies, including The O.C. and one of my favorites, Sons of Anarchy. She's currently
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battling corruption at the highest levels down in Arizona. Thanks for joining me today. You know,
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I wanted to try to pronounce your name properly, but I chickened it at the last second and went
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with the safe interpretation. But thanks for coming on. Wait, your interpretation was so
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great. I didn't even, it didn't even ring in my head that it was wrong. What did you say?
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I said Samara, but I know it's got like... Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. I guess I'm so used to
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it that it's Samara. Samara. Okay. Yeah. But to be fair, I wish it was Samara because that
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would make my life so much easier. For sure. I bet. Now, a lot of people I think caught wind
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of what you were all about a few months ago when you did a video for PragerU. I watched it. I think
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half a million other people, at least on YouTube watched it. I want to show a clip of that for the
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audience just to get started. And then we'll talk about exactly what you're saying in the video.
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Justin, go ahead, please. I think nowadays it's different for the sake of being different
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because it's politically correct. You know, like we're going to fit this transgender character
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in here now that we're PC. Natural organic stories stopped being told and you had to make a checklist
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of what was, was acceptable. You know, all the, the nuances of art disappeared and shouldn't it be
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about talent? Shouldn't it be about merit or capability or effective storytelling or emotional
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presence? You got to wonder what's the point of acting school and putting this time into developing
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the craft if that doesn't matter anymore? We aren't able. Now there's a book I recall by Ben Shapiro
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called Primetime Propaganda. And he really outlines the bias as he first saw it in Hollywood when he was
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really young. I wanted to ask you, when did you first notice a clear, like ideological bias in that
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industry? Yeah, I noticed that as soon as I, well, okay, I should say I moved to Los Angeles
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when I was 18, but I was paying attention to Hollywood, you know, far into my, into my youth.
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So I was watching anyone who watched the Academy Awards would see various actors get up there and
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speak some sort of social justice during their acceptance speech from time to time. So I was
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always aware of it, but it didn't become sort of violent until the last few years, meaning we were
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allowed to think differently. We just all kept our voices to ourselves. When Obama came out and ran for
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office was the real definitive moment where if you didn't agree with, um, what, what was his slogan?
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Uh, where we, I think his slogan was like, yes, we can. Yes, we can. And something about hope.
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And I remember saying to a friend who had the, the, you know, I had friends who actually worked on
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the artwork for it. And I was like, oh, that's so cool. But, um, nope, not, you know, hope. I was
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like, I don't think so. I just don't buy it, you know? And it wasn't that I was politically distinct
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in one way or another, but having been raised in the environment I was in and also paying so close
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attention to acting, which is really a, uh, barometer of liars or, or truth tellers, you know,
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that person, Obama and subsequently Hillary Clinton and George Bush, for that matter, all
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reek of inauthenticity and that they were snake salesmen. That's how I took it. Um, but if you said
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that, then you were looked at really quite poorly, you know? Um, so yeah, that, that was,
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that was when it started to get really before that nobody cared at that moment. As an actor,
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you were supposed to be on the side of the Democrat. Now, was there a tipping point that
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you can remember where something happened or you saw or read something where somebody said something
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to you where you said, I need to start speaking out now. I need to start going against the grain.
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Yes. So, um, in my youth, and I've spoken about this a little bit while I was in, um, Hollywood,
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I would, you know, here and there try to put out, you know, things that mattered to me, to me coming
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again from the background, I came from second amendment rights care to bear arms was very
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important and very frowned upon in Los Angeles, even though everyone's private security was,
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was loaded, you know, but, um, and that many people in their homes were as well, but you,
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and also obviously in film and television, that's action packed films, no one's carrying around water
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guns, you know, they're guns. So I would, you know, put out subtle messages or not so subtle messages
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about my support for, for two a, um, but the tipping point was this year. And it's really quite a shame
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that it took me so long, you know, but all in God's timing and all in God's plan. Um, what happened
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was I, we were all, you know, locked down, watching our world be destroyed, watching the constitution
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and all of our rights being ripped away, watching our businesses be burnt to the ground by domestic
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terrorists and half the country being like, well, you know, it's social justice. They deserve it.
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And it was really disheartening in my, um, in my industry to see, you know, really from the acting
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standpoint outside of James Woods and, um, I don't know, maybe Scott Baio, who I never paid much
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attention to, not that there's anything wrong with him, but at least from my age demographic, it was a
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completely non-existent, uh, message like, Hey guys, maybe, maybe we don't burn down our country.
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Maybe we don't tear down statues. Maybe there's another way to go about this. Just maybe, you
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know, not even like, no, this is wrong. Just, just maybe. And that wasn't even being said.
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And it was a boiling point. Um, as the more I looked into it and, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm very
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new to this. Many people have been at this for a very long time, but I was compelled to understand
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further and further. I started ordering more books and like asking more questions and listening to
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various voices and be like, wow, all those things I had inklings of understandings about,
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and like just small intuitions about people who were corrupt and things that I sort of felt like
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I was putting together became validated through other people's experiences and messages as well.
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And, and, and I, I felt like I had to do something. I had to, because of what I understood as my industry
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was, was sort of this sort of, you know, false mirror held up to society, ideally for the sake
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of good. Like here's some morals that we could live by. Here's some character driven stories that
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we can create narratives that will like compel us as Americans to become more wonderful human beings,
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stronger human beings. That's what I thought the industry was about. And I found out that it was
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the absolute furthest from my perception it could possibly be. So I had to speak out against it and
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sort of shatter the spell that I saw occurring. Are you sort of forced into like one of these
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mythical Hollywood conservative enclaves? Do those exist? Is it, is it a part of surviving the industry
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in terms of professionally and not being able to speak out? Is that the sort of situation it is there?
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Yeah. So I heard there was a group called Friends of Bill. No, no, no. Friends of Bill. Friends of
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Abe. Friends of Bill. Yeah. I think Friends of Bill W is AA. It is. It is. That exists too. But that's
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actually a lot less frowned upon to participating and then Friends of Abe. But yeah, I'd heard of this
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group and it was, you know, the idea of being a Republican never appealed to me. I just never liked
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identifying. I always liked the constitution. You know, I, I, um, I felt like that represented me
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well. And, uh, so I never, I never felt like I needed to like gate, uh, uh, like group up with
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a group of people who, but what happened was when I did speak out and I thought I was going to have to
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do it all by myself. Right. I was the only one doing it. I found out I was so, so naive and that there
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were so many other people speaking out, um, had been speaking out far before, long before me. And
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then there was this, you know, big MAGA movement in California, which was mind blowing. Like it just,
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the idea of California, even in the slightest being read was so unheard of. And people were on the streets
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in Beverly Hills by the thousands. And it wasn't just the streets of people. And I'm specifically
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referring to the, the MAGA rallies that we would have on our own on the weekends, every weekend.
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It wasn't just the people standing on the corner with signs. It was also the cars driving by that
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had absolutely nothing to do it, do with it, showing their support. So this was a big, big movement.
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And, um, and it just showed me like how silly it was for me or anyone else to be so,
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I guess, scared or timid to speak out in some, uh, about something they believe in.
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Yeah. That's along the lines of what I wanted to ask you next, once you're speaking out about
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your beliefs, as I believe everyone should, did you, are you getting backlash? Are you getting
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praise? Is it life as usual? Yeah, no, it's definitely, no, life is a knife. No, life no longer has
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a life as usual component to it. Life is nothing like it once was. And I, I don't think, I think we
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all aspire for normalcy, but I, I don't think that we'll ever, we will never regain that, uh, in,
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at least in, in our lifetime, there's so much to be fought against the tyranny that's going on right
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now. They're, they're not going to give up and we're not going to give up. But to your point, um,
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uh, I, I started to see the cracks in Hollywood, you know, years before I spoke out. In fact,
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um, I put myself in a position in 2000, I believe it was like 18, 19, where I had already let go of
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my agents and managers. I had been hearing for at least seven years at that point that I couldn't
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get work because I was white and everything was going to diverse. And it wasn't just, um,
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the actors. It was writers, directors, producers, crew was that it was everybody. And on the one
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hand at first, you know, and I said this in the PragerU video, everyone, but for the majority of
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the people were like, yes, finally, this is happening. Okay. You know, the pendulum has
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swung from one direction to the other. Finally, diversity is a thing. And I, I didn't get the
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opportunity to say this in the PragerU, but just years prior, I was up for a role that would be in an
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interracial relationship. And they said America wasn't ready for that, which was just so bogus
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and, and, and, and backwards, you know? And, and so it was really refreshing at first to see,
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wow, that this is like a new movement, diversity, like not just all white people. We, we, I would
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sit in casts and be like, damn, this is the widest crew I've ever seen, you know, or whatever,
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widest, you know, whatever. So it was awesome to see that. But then to come to find out that
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it was an inorganic process intentionally designed to control narrative, to create a social awakening.
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That was just not so much an awakening, but a, a, you know, a spell, I keep using this word,
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but this it's, it's programming, right? So not only are you not supposed to say anything
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and we were all talking to one another quietly, secretly without, you know, not publicly. So
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writers were talking to other writers and what was unfortunate was that even say black, uh,
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directors, I know black, a black director, a friend who is, was speaking with a white director
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friend and white director friends. Like I can't get any work cause I'm white. And the black director
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friends, like I can only get black content films because I'm black, you know? And it's just, again,
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this goes to the inorganicness. This is not how humans evolve. It's all contrived and,
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and really mechanical in this bizarre, icky way. Um, I forget where we started with that,
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Well, in that, in that same video, you mentioned how like the Oscars were really white for a long
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time. I've always kind of thought it was odd though, how Hollywood complains about the lack
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of diversity and everything. But as you, as you share with us, it's them and doing the casting.
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They're the ones green lighting the project from, from start to finish. They, the executives make
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their notes. I'm basing this off of my information from entourage, by the way, the executives make the
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notes and it has to be changed. So don't they have the responsibility, uh, to actually make these
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changes that they're complaining about? Yeah. I don't know who gave the final okay, because,
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you know, even in, in, in, in entourage, it wasn't like the creators weren't willing to have a diverse
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cast. It was Hollywood. I'll tell you what exactly what it is. Hollywood doesn't make as much money as
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it used to in America. It makes most of its money overseas, overseas say China. They are the ones who
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don't want to see diverse. They are the ones who control the narrative of what the story or the plot
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is they want it to fit in sync with their sort of communist country ideals. Also, they're not very
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fond of people, uh, who have various shades of skin color outside of their own. And that's just a fact
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as I heard that over and over again, the reason this won't last is what I heard initially is that
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China doesn't want to see diversity. So it's, it's going to move back. And, and then that ultimately,
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you know, I think that people misunderstood really what China, China, China wanted to see destruction
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of America at all costs. So whatever that looked like.
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Don't tell that to Fast and the Furious. Now I want to transition to Arizona, um, audit speaker
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of the house. Tell everybody what type of work you're doing and what's going on over there.
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Sure. So, you know, I'm doing something that's pretty unpopular. A lot of people are fed up and a lot
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of people spend a number of time complaining about it and then ultimately are looking for direction on how to
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make change. And we're under this illusion for the last decade and several decades that there's some
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sort of leader who is going to help us and take us to this next level of liberty that's been taken
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from us and, you know, fight back against tyranny of what's going on. Um, and that's just not the
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case. And our Republican party and Democrat party, they are actually a uniparty and they work in
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conjunction with each other. So what happens is do you have these sort of wishing wells of hope
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that you vote into? And ultimately, as we've seen, they've come, they, they go into office and they
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do absolutely very, if not nothing, very little to represent our values and our interests. And we've
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seen this time and time again. So when I say that I'm doing something that's a little unpopular,
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um, at the moment I'm working with what's called the Arizona Patriot party. Um, and that was discussed
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months back, a Patriot party, Trump had much mentioned that, um, and we, and many people were
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like, yeah, heck yeah, we're sick of this. Let's see it. And then there was sort of this pushback,
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well, a Patriot party would only, you know, split the vote. And, and it's, it's just, that's too
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simplistic of a way to look at it. Um, what we, you know, the, they say the definition of insanity
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is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. Well, we're done
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playing by the Republican rules. We're done playing by the Democrat rules. We're going to
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represent ourselves. We're going to stand up. We're going to go in the street. We're going to
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scare the living daylight by doing a recall, collecting 24,000 signatures in the district
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of, of rusty Bowers and, and, and let you know that we're serious, that we can be effective. We can
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create effective change and we're not waiting around twiddling our thumbs for these so-called
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representatives to do it for us. Um, and so, you know, what we, we, they've been at this and,
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you know, again, I say this all the time. I please don't, I'm not trying to take credit for anyone
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else's work in any way, shape or form. I don't pretend to know more than I do. I'm in a constant
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state of learning. And, and I think that's an important place to be. And I want to be a representative
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for any mother or individual out there who's like, I don't know how to go about this process. I don't
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know what to do. I don't either. I just take the right next indicated action. And, you know, I, I,
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I, I sure up on my values. I speak it, you know, confidently willing to be, you know, educated if I
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say the wrong thing. So the point being is when you speak on that sort of level of truth, the right
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people at the right place, the right time come into your life. So I was very adamant started by
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getting rid of masks, realizing that I had to be a part of what was happening in local politics and
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state politics, you know, it paid, uh, Arizona, um, uh, Patriot party is about putting Arizona first.
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So that's ensuring our constitutional values to ensure that our education is not riddled with
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critical race theory that, you know, we don't have to put our children through child abuse for
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non-scientifically proven reasons to wear masks. Um, and we're being bold and we're participating from
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the community level up. So this Patriot party was working for four months straight on this
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recall in a district, a specific district that, uh, um, that, uh, Rusty Bowers has, it has a very strong,
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uh, Mormon community family members in, and just in that alone, in the context of what we had to,
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you know, push through, we had so many people ready to sign ready and willing to sign. And that should
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speak a lot to this man to say that there are not, these people are not fans of you and there are
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family members and there are community members who you say claim to represent who are sick and tired of
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your BS and want you out. And so what happened was we collected the signatures. We had a very small
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cushion. And as soon as they got there, they rejected it because of a technical, a technicality.
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So as soon as the, um, as soon as they started the, the recall process, Rusty Bauer, the government,
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uh, in, in, in state of Arizona put forth a bill that would essentially no longer allow for
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recall ever to take place again. Um, so what happened was in that, right. I mean, it just,
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it's laughable. It's really like, it's either like you end up going to therapy, crying about it,
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or you laugh it off and just, you know, it's, it's just proof again of the, um, corruption.
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This guy is happy to take our votes and do something antithesis of what we actually want.
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Um, he was against the audit. He was against election integrity. I mean, there's so many
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things to over and over again that they say they're going to do and they're don't, and we're
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done. We're done. So yes, it was a total bummer to get that, you know, slammed down. Sorry,
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we're throwing this out, all this work that you all put into it for four months on a technicality.
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Now the technicality itself was that, um, there wasn't a piece of paper attached to the 2000
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pieces of paper saying what the audit was for. And, and to my understanding, this was part of the
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revised, uh, law that would now not a revised bill that would basically not ensure, uh, of a recall
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ever to happen again. So it's being discussed with lawyers at this point, but I think more than
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anything, the message is, should be received to the Republican party who, you know, are rhinos
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that we're, we're not taking it. We're not taking it. I think a lot of what you're saying is speaking
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to a lot of people across the continent right now who are upset with, I mean, in Canada, the majority
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of the premiers, which seem as governors for those in America are, were elected as conservatives. And
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a lot of people are disappointed with how they've basically done. I mean, I can think of one thing.
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They, they've come out against that social media bill, um, that is going around the internet right
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now. They've, that's about all I can think of that they've come out against in the last year and a
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half. And if what you're saying I'm taking correctly, it sounds to me like people just need to put in
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the effort and put in, put the feet on the ground to local politics and provincial politics, just to
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get things going, at least at the very least put a thread out there of counteraction, uh, of
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competition, uh, to these people who are sitting in office and maybe not doing anything. Is it as easy
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as that might sound, even if it is a lot of nitty gritty? No, it's, it's as easy as it sounds. It's
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as easy as you've just laid it out. And of course, you know, it's a little bit uncomfortable or very
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uncomfortable because it's the difference of waiting around for your Republican representative to do
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something and never doing it and actually going out there in the streets and collecting signatures
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or, you know, putting together a collective message of what is important to you and people in
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your district and your community and voicing it very clearly. I mean, now, I mean, and I'm sure
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you've experienced this as well, but we've never had so many people show up to school board meetings
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or city council meetings and voicing. And at least if not, if not getting the opportunity to voice,
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but at least being a face of disgust, right? Disgust. I I'm not satisfied with what's going on. And
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you will hear from me as this continues to go forward type of message. And of course, when we
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say, when we say fight, we're not talking obviously about violence. Please don't anyone take this out
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of context. No. And even though your Instagram has a lot of self-defense, I've seen some of that.
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I'm very impressed. I think you should go on Steven Crowder or something and do some jujitsu with him.
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Should we as citizens have seen this abuse of lockdown legislation coming or should were we
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right to give politicians a certain amount of leeway as elected officials? Should we have seen this
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coming? Yeah, I I feel so naive, right? I think so many of us probably do at this point. Elected
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officials should never have more power than they were initially intended to have. And, you know,
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I've been studying a lot because I want to be eloquent in the things I'm fighting for. But
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so Hillsdale College has a great constitution course, right? And one of the interesting things
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it says is there's all these checks and balances in place to ensure that our elected representatives
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represent us and not the other way around, that they don't dictate our existence, but represent how
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we would like to exist. And there's a major, um, a major gap in that right now in that these people
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clearly not knowing, you know, it's hard to look at it and be like, is this not malicious intent by
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design or are they just so naive and ignorant to science and reality that they're actually allowing
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this to occur to us? And I, I don't know. I, I tend to give people too much credit, but to me, it just
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feels so evil. Um, especially what's going on in, in your neck of the woods in, in, in New Zealand,
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in Australia, in Victoria, Australia, at this point, it's absolutely criminal how people have taken the
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power of everyday citizens and their own discernment of how to exist in life away from them under the
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guise of, uh, this is for your benefit. How dare they, how dare they, um, I'm it's, it gets me so
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riled up. I'm so frustrated by that, that. And I think that the hardest part is that people are not
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going to, it's only going to get uglier and people, there's enough people who aren't in the
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uncomfortable situation yet and aren't like, there'll be a change when we are all in so much
00:25:41.420
discomfort, right? Because we're with that, that, uh, um, analogy of the, of the frog and the boiling
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water is used over and over again. But, you know, we're all like, Oh, this is hot and uncomfortable.
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Like, what should we do? You know? And it's like, get the F out, you know? Um, but it takes all of us
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and there's too much at this point in my perception. I don't know what's going on in, you know, other
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areas of the world, but I've noticed so much infighting in the conservative movement and so many
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dispersed groups. We really have to get together to create this common, uh, directive and focus
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to be able to annihilate the absolute insanity that is happening to the world, um, to the world
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When in terms of school policy, which is something I've seen you talk about,
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when we talk about things like critical race theory, even masking for kids, uh,
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remote learning and all this stuff that's going on.
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Do you put a lot of, you know, thought into the idea of was, was this on purpose or was this bad
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policy that nobody even bothered to read? And something I wrote down here was, is it coming
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from a good place or did nobody bother to read what critical race theory is? Nobody bothered to
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read the science behind, you know, masking a child or if it's necessary to put them in, you know,
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the little camper bubbles playing, uh, instruments that we saw over the last year.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think everyone, it's such a litigious world at the moment, right? So everyone's afraid
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of being liable. And if they don't take the proper precautionary, like everything's based on fear.
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I remember when I, while I was pregnant with my son, I had to get all these, what seemed to me to be
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completely unnecessary tests of to task the risk of this potential. I'm like, okay, what, what happens
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if that risk turns out to be high? Is there anything I can do about it? Well, no,
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but you should know the risk. Well, why, why do I need to know the risk of everything? It's
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covering everyone's behinds. I don't know how far this paywall is or if we're allowed to swear or
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what, or what, but you know, I think you can say that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Everyone's trying
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to cover their asses of about, you know, so to not get sued if there was some sort of, you know,
00:28:06.800
like, uh, uh, outbreak in the, in the kindergarten, right. That, that, that, which has never happened
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anywhere. I don't know how long we have to do this thing. Science. And, and, you know, I act like,
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um, some, I don't, I'm, I'm learning. So, but science used to have a process, right? A hypothesis,
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a, a way to test it, a way to put it out and then test it again, and then have other people vet it.
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And now we're, we don't use that sort of method to come up with the decisions that seem to be
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pretty important decision-makings in regards to science and health. We just go based off of fear,
00:28:45.200
pressure, litigiousness, and, you know, social justice and commentary and mass, mass hysteria.
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And that is not a way for some reason that's become the acceptable way to exist in society when
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a lot of people disagree with that. And then there's a lot of people who are ignorant, idiot,
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who have no idea how the world works, who have no accountability for their own health and their
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own behavior. And they think that the other people are wrong, right? So how do you change?
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Basically, there's a saying my dad always used to say to me, you can't argue with crazy. And that's
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what we're dealing with right now. We're, we're dealing with emotionally hysterical, mentally deficient,
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uh, subhuman human beings who have no grasp on reality and are existing for a, from a place of fear.
00:29:31.720
Maybe that's extreme. Maybe I'm hyped up on, on, um, the disgust of humanity right now, but, but,
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you know, the, the rule following that us as decent human beings has gotten us into is really
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troublesome. And if we aren't convicted in, um, breaking these absurd social rules that have
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just only recently been established, then we will fall into a despairing communist society
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and, and end up like the millions who have died consequently in every communist country that has
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ever been tried. Yeah. I do have a big problem with legislating based off of what could happen or
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things that we fearfully might happen. It's very, uh, what's the Tom Cruise movie. And I think I always
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do this. You got to do the minority report. I think it is where he's moving. Oh yeah. Yeah,
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totally. I've been thinking about that a lot to myself, actually. Like this is, this is a potential,
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this is a potential crime. And, and you know, what's scary is, you know, they're looking at
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characters and human beings in society right now thinking that person has a 60% chance of making a
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crime in the future and are watching those people because of it. You just know they are,
00:30:49.900
you have to count on that. And so, you know, be very careful with your social footprint,
00:30:54.940
your vocal footprint. I mean, this sort of discussion right now could probably put me on
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the list that I'm already probably on anyways, you know? Yeah, I'm on the list.
00:31:02.940
And here's one for a producer Efron, the owner of 23 and me is the sister of the C of the CEO of
00:31:10.780
YouTube. Uh, so just everybody can look into that one. I have my own theories about that.
00:31:15.380
The last thing I'll ask you is, um, yeah, they were both on, uh, she was on Shark Tank and I was
00:31:22.480
like, wait a minute, it's the same last name. Um, medical bias is, is clearly something that we've
00:31:27.900
come across with hydroxychloroquine. Uh, it's the worst thing in the world. Oh wait, it can help
00:31:32.440
people mask your children and give them vaccines. Oh wait, it turns out we shouldn't do that.
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Faith in institutions. Is it all completely gone? Can we, can we put it anywhere anymore?
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I think you can put faith in individuals. I think it's so troublesome in general to put faith in an
00:31:49.740
institution just by nature of, um, many people in finding this in my own experience in people that
00:31:56.380
I really adore, you know, we don't all agree. And so we therefore can't as a entire unit represent
00:32:04.560
everything about the diverse, complex characteristics of an individual's own perceptions and feelings.
00:32:11.200
So, so no, no, you can't, you can't anymore. I mean, I mean, it would be there. You can have faith
00:32:17.340
in aspects of the institution because now, okay. For example, the who is saying don't back children,
00:32:24.420
um, and that it could be dangerous. Right. Well, so do we put our faith in the who now when just a
00:32:30.020
few months ago we were had very little faith, right? So we can put our faith into aspects of it,
00:32:36.240
but the discernment really has to come from your own education, your own perception,
00:32:40.540
and your guidance to finding the truth that is respectable to liberty.
00:32:48.320
For sure. And I think we can all agree, or at least you and I, I say all, I don't know why.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That we can come together on common beliefs like freedom of speech,
00:32:57.380
liberty, pursuit of happiness, all the great stuff. I wish there was a Canadian constitution to address,
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but I'm going to let you go. Um, any last word for a Canadian audience?
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You know, I I've heard, I have friends there explaining to me what's going on and, and a lot
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of the same similar, um, outlines of what's happening historically here as well. And, and,
00:33:20.580
you know, I think part of the narrative that Americans are experienced is like, well, this is
00:33:25.740
unprecedented territory, even with the audit, which who knows what would happen with that. But
00:33:30.660
you know, the, the thing that has been historically relevant in all of our coming to be great countries,
00:33:38.240
right. Has always been an outside of the box, historical explosive moment. And the heroes of
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this, this period in time are also going to be sensationally disliked because their behavior is
00:33:53.220
not going to be in sync with how we've existed throughout, you know, the last 10 years. There are
00:33:57.680
people who are going to get loud. There are people who are going to get boisterous and to make you
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uncomfortable, but I would look to them for courage and for, um, enlightenment to see like, okay, how can
00:34:09.020
I relate to that? How could I propel myself past this level of discomfort? Because I've never tried
00:34:15.880
this before. How can I be the hero in this moment to save my future generation, uh, from the tyranny of
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that will only come if we don't stand up now? Well, thanks a lot for all your wise words. I know
00:34:30.140
you're trying to say you want to be more eloquent. I think you put it perfectly. I think you're doing
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great job down there. I know you're working with a mutual friend, Midge down there. Um, I'm very
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proud. If I can say that I'm very proud of the work you guys are doing from this standpoint. I hope
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you guys have the best of luck and I hope everything works out. I hope you'll come back on for more,
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uh, touching on different topics as the time goes on. So thanks a lot. Um, you're a very good
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defensive weapons specialist. Now I know to be afraid of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so
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much for having me and, and, and good luck to everyone out there. Our thoughts are so with you.
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