Former Minnesota Governor Norm Coleman joins the show to talk about his views on gun control and concealed carry. He also talks about his experience as mayor of Brooklyn Park, New York City, and how he got to where he is today, and why he thinks more guns should be allowed to be legally carried in the U.S. He also discusses his experience growing up in the Philippines, and what it was like growing up as a martial arts fighter in the late 80s and early 90s, and his thoughts on martial arts and martial arts culture in general, and the impact it had on the way he grew up and how it has impacted his life to this day, including his experience in martial arts, martial arts training, and growing up with martial arts as a child in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as how he became an advocate for gun control in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States and the subsequent surge in gun control efforts by the National Guard and the Department of Homeland Security, including the introduction of background checks, background checks and background checks for gun buyers, and whether or not they should be required to get them. and much, much more! Enjoy the episode and share it with your friends, family, and fellow martial arts fanatics! Tweet me to let us know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps: 4:00 - What do you think of it? 6:30 - What would you like to see in the next episode? 7:15 - Where do you stand on the gun control? 8: What kind of gun control should be legalized? 9:00 10:00- What is your background check? 11: What are you most likely to get? 13: What do we stand up to? 14:40 - How would you get a background check for a gun background check ? 15:50 - How do you shoot a gun legally? 16:10 - How much do you need to be able to carry a gun in the US? 17:20 - What are your background checks? 18:30 What kind gun background checks should I be allowed? 19:10 21:40 22:30- How do I feel about the process for background checks in regards to my background check process? 27:30 What do I think I would be a gun owner? 26:30 Can I be a good gun dealer?
00:01:46.000But generally speaking, if you have concealed, pretty much across the country now, for most part, if you have a legitimate conceal and carry in your home state, the other states will likewise honor it.
00:01:57.000But you can't go to the airport with it.
00:02:03.000That's one of those subjects where, you know, much like the subject of your book, Marijuana Manifesto, it's one of those subjects where as soon as you bring up that subject, concealed carry, people just go, oh.
00:02:13.000Well, it's interesting because I helped shepherd the law through when I was governor in Minnesota because I was mayor of Brooklyn Park first, and I went to my police chief to get concealed carry,
00:03:30.000You had to go to the range and shoot a minimum of 70. You had to have a complete background check done on you, criminal background, everything.
00:03:39.000And in the case of like you have.08 with alcohol with driving, I made conceal and carry.00.
00:05:06.000The first thing he did as a dictator He gave the people of the Philippines a 10 to 12 day grace period to turn in all guns, or it was the death penalty.
00:05:20.000Now, my question to the people who oppose gun rights or are anti-guns, why would a dictator make his first thing of business to disarm the public?
00:05:33.000Why would he make that his number one priority?
00:05:59.000It was there because the British used to come and occupy our homes, steal our stuff, so the British caused the Second Amendment to happen to where our forefather says, no, we're going to allow the people to be able to defend themselves against oppressive government.
00:06:19.000So do you think that the opposition to it is just a lack of foresight, like the idea that you're living in this time where, for the most part, things are very peaceful, it's probably the most safe time ever to be alive, and that people have forgotten that it's entirely possible that tyranny could erupt at any moment?
00:07:23.000But she's obviously deeply, deeply in bed with the banks and special interest groups.
00:07:28.000And this most recent WikiLeaks release of emails, it shows that she's been talking with bankers, making sure that marijuana stays illegal.
00:07:40.000I mean, this is something that she has vowed to push back against with all of her might.
00:07:44.000And that's a disturbing thing to see in 2016. Yeah.
00:07:49.000You know, there's more people locked up, I don't know if people know this, but there's more people locked up for marijuana in this country than for all violent crimes combined.
00:08:01.000It's horrible, too, when you get to, like when I did this book and went into the history, What terrifies you there is that our history books are government written with the government's view of history of what they want you to know.
00:08:19.000Because what astounded me in doing this book was to learn that marijuana was the economic backbone of this country for its first 160 years of existence.
00:08:32.000That if George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were alive today, they'd be raided by the DEA. They'd be doing 10 to 12 years in the federal penitentiary for being major drug dealers.
00:08:44.000Because they both raised massive amounts of marijuana and sold it.
00:08:50.000And there was a time that England, when we were the colonies, forced us to grow it because they needed it for their sails on their ships and the rope so that they could colonize the world with their navy.
00:09:07.000And here you have a product, and now the reason that I personally have gotten on the bandwagon, and I've made this a personal focus, is because I had completely lost my quality of life.
00:09:25.000Well, I won't say because of privacy, but someone extremely close to me developed epileptic seizure disorder and was seizing three to four times a week.
00:09:37.000And I was taking care of these seizures three to four times a week.
00:09:41.000If you've ever dealt with someone with a seizure disorder, it's a feeling of helplessness.
00:11:30.000If you can smoke a joint in the evening and it makes you relax, what's the matter with that?
00:11:35.000What's the difference between that or having a glass of wine or having anything else?
00:11:40.000Well, we're just victims of the propaganda of the 1930s.
00:11:44.000And whether people know it or not, it was all organized by William Randolph Hearst and race-based.
00:11:50.000And William Randolph Hearst, who owned Hearst Publications, also owned a bunch of paper mills.
00:11:56.000He owned these- Thousands of acres of timberland.
00:11:59.000And they came out with a machine called a decorticator, whether people know this or not.
00:12:04.000And the decorticator made it economically easy to process hemp fiber.
00:12:09.000So they came out with this in the 1930s, and the popular science magazine at the time had a cover that said, Hemp, the new billion-dollar crop, based entirely on this new invention, the decorticator.
00:12:21.000Because before that, they used to use slavery.
00:12:23.000Then when the cotton gin came around, they used cotton instead of hemp because it was easier to do.
00:12:27.000You know, you're enjoyable because I don't have to say all this.
00:12:31.000Well, it's one of those things that I've just been telling people forever.
00:13:02.000To race bait, to blame the devil weed that blacks smoked, and then they'll rape your daughters and your children, and your wives and all that, and lazy Mexicans.
00:13:14.000That's why they lay around, and these brown-skinned people, these Mexicans, they're all smoking pot.
00:13:41.000An hour from pavement and an hour from electricity, a neighbor built a home down there, and I had nothing to do, so I'd go watch it every day.
00:14:19.000Well, the point was, I started laughing and I said, you know, if you brought the American construction worker down here, he'd quit in a day.
00:15:26.000At least in Minnesota, which is pretty much universal, if you buy a home and you're a good citizen and you fix the home up and improve it, how do they reward you?
00:19:45.000So you got motivated because of this epileptic seizure issue?
00:19:48.000I don't know if you've ever paid attention to this, but the Navy SEALs had an issue with epileptic seizures as well from the rebreathers.
00:19:56.000Apparently, there's something to do with getting the...
00:19:59.000I found out about it because I started...
00:20:02.000Eating a ketogenic diet, getting my body to process fats instead of carbohydrates.
00:20:07.000And one of the reasons that the SEALs are looking into this is because it prevents seizures in people that use those rebreathers as opposed to, you know, the ones that don't make bubbles.
00:20:18.000Yeah, I used them all the time, the Emerson rig.
00:21:00.000Because you couldn't take the risk that the person would have to do that job, and could you have a seizure while attempting to do it?
00:21:07.000Yeah, I don't know when the seizures occur.
00:21:09.000I don't know if they've isolated it, but I do know.
00:21:11.000This is the first I've ever heard of it.
00:21:13.000Dr. Dom D'Agostino, who is one of the premier experts on ketogenic diets and nutritional ketones, he's spoken about this, and I've read some other articles about it as well, especially with kids with epilepsy.
00:21:29.000You've got to remember, when I was in the teams, it was a whole different mindset.
00:21:33.000Well, it wasn't even called the SEALS back then, right?
00:21:38.000We were underwater demolition teams and the SEALS, both.
00:21:41.000It's called UDT SEAL, BUDS. BUDS stands for Basic Underwater Demolition Slash SEAL. What happened was, we were the frogmen, and in 1962, John F. Kennedy had enough...
00:26:53.000We were at McPee's because I was there for a graduation of Class 258. I'm Class 58. It's traditionally every hundred classes.
00:27:02.000If you can, you come back to the graduation.
00:27:06.000So Class 258 was graduating the next day on Friday.
00:27:10.000I came out along with my teammates from Class 58 to attend that graduation the next day.
00:27:17.000So why would I say bad things about the SEALs if I'm there?
00:27:21.000That's what he said he punched me for.
00:27:24.000For people who don't know what we're talking about, because probably a lot of people listening to this have no idea what we're talking about.
00:27:29.000So let me just fill them in real quick.
00:27:31.000The book, American Sniper, the movie with Bradley Cooper...
00:27:36.000It was a giant hit movie, very patriotic movie about a guy who was one of the most successful snipers in U.S. history, right?
00:27:43.000Very successful warrior, Navy SEAL, war hero, everybody loved him.
00:27:49.000Then he goes on the Opie and Anthony show, and he says that he punched you out in a bar.
00:27:55.000Well, there's a chapter in his book where he writes that he called me Scruff Face, and he said that I said SEALs deserve to die.
00:28:04.000In other words, he accused me of treason.
00:28:19.000Whoever, I mean, he might not have even, when he wrote it in the book, he might not have even thought that he was going to give that to you.
00:28:26.000My thought was, at the time, I was trying to wrap my head around why anybody would do this.
00:28:31.000And I was thinking, well, maybe he's just trying to generate as much controversy as possible, to generate as much income as possible from his book, and it just got out of hand.
00:28:40.000I don't, I mean, I was trying to put it together.
00:28:42.000Because there was a couple other fabrications, right?
00:28:44.000There was a shooting at a gas station that never took place.
00:28:49.000And he said that during Katrina he was on the dome and shot people who were looting.
00:28:54.000Yeah, that was disturbing because that's murder.
00:28:57.000Yeah, and he also lied about his medals.
00:31:34.000During my trial, after it was over, guess what happened?
00:31:38.00034 major media conglomerates entered the trial with that amacy, they call it or whatever, of influencing the Court of Appeals to overturn my verdict, and they did it.
00:31:52.00034 media conglomerates, the New York Times, the Washington Post, all of these media conglomerates appealed to the Court of Appeals to overturn my verdict.
00:34:26.000Well, that's the equivalent of if you went out and robbed the bank, and they caught you, and they sentenced you to two years in prison for the bank robbery, but when you get out, you get to keep all the money you took.
00:36:09.000No, when we were in trial, you know what they tried to do to diminish my role?
00:36:14.000Because when they knew they were going to lose, their lawyer got me on the stand and he said, Mr. Ventura, he said, would it surprise you to know that the first draft of the movie doesn't have you in it?
00:36:29.000Trying to prove how insignificant my part of the book...
00:36:32.000Why would you say the first draft of the movie?
00:37:17.000It is insane because what's crazy to me and what's complicated about this is that there are thousands and thousands of brave men and women who have risked their lives, sacrificed their lives, and this guy becomes this This figurehead.
00:38:30.000When we first in June, I didn't even know who he was.
00:38:33.000And then in June of 2012, after the book came out in January, we had a settlement conference where he kept saying that if he met me in person, we could work it out.
00:38:44.000So at this conference, we agreed I would meet him in a room, the judge in the corner, and just he and I, like you and I, are here.
00:38:52.000We sat down in the room, and I looked him right in the face.
00:39:02.000I said, there's no need to go any farther.
00:39:05.000I said, if he's not going to admit it didn't happen face-to-face, one-on-one, and I challenge his courage.
00:39:12.000Because, yeah, he had the courage to go to Iraq, he had the courage to shoot all these people, but he didn't have the courage to tell the truth, did he?
00:39:21.000What a bizarre moment that must have been, sitting across from that guy.
00:39:25.000Yeah, and he looked at me and said, yes, I did.
00:41:23.000My reputation isn't damaged over something I never did.
00:41:28.000What I was going to say is, I obviously haven't experienced one one millionth of the hate that you have, but I read, we read this article on the air.
00:41:36.000We were trying to figure out what happened when your case was going on.
00:41:39.000And so we read this article that was, I don't know, it was in the New York Times?
00:41:43.000See if you can find the article detailing all the various lies.
00:41:54.000And just reading that, the fucking amount of hate tweets and Facebook tweets and you fucking coward and you this and you that, I'm like, hey, I didn't write it, okay?
00:42:04.000I'm just trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.
00:42:06.000And if someone put something like that in The New Yorker with verified claims, I mean, everything's verified.
00:42:12.000Like what they were saying that he said and what actually had happened was all verified.
00:42:15.000It's very, very, very confusing that...
00:42:18.000Somehow or another, this slipped through the cracks and that this became their iconic figure.
00:42:22.000Again, not discounting, along with you, the thousands and thousands of patriotic Americans that risked their lives.
00:43:16.000I'd love to know why he picked out me.
00:43:19.000I think because I'm probably the most famous, maybe, or I developed to be the most famous SEAL other than Dick Marcinko, the rogue warrior.
00:43:50.000I said, if you will walk out to me with the press and admit you fabricated this story, I will forgive you in front of the press and we will go on with our lives.
00:45:42.000And I chose not to do it because I was up for the campaigning.
00:45:47.000I was up to taking on the Dems and Repubs.
00:45:51.000But at this point at age 65, I wasn't up to do the job for four years where I'd have to end my lifestyle in Mexico because people don't realize when you get one of them jobs like president or governor, your freedom leaves that day.
00:46:15.000I couldn't go in 100% on that, and I felt that to go for president, you have to be 100% committed to do the job.
00:46:24.000If you're not, you're cheating yourself, and you're cheating all the people that voted for you.
00:46:29.000If you're not 100% committed, I could not reach 100%, so I chose not to.
00:46:35.000So is this because of your own personal feelings about living in Mexico and having freedom and relaxation and enjoying the quality of life?
00:46:42.000And also, I knew what would happen to me if I looked like I was going to win.
00:48:11.000No, sergeant-at-arms, you got the president of the chapter, you got the vice president, third is the sergeant-at-arms, fourth is the secretary.
00:49:25.000My two buddies that I'd ridden with a year earlier were now full patch Mongols when I came back from my second deployment.
00:49:32.000Let me pretend to be a douchebag politician running against you here, I would say.
00:49:36.000Are you really prepared to have a former Sergeant of Arms from the Mongols Motorcycle Club running the United States of America?
00:49:47.000I don't think so, ladies and gentlemen!
00:49:49.000And I would counter that and say, nobody messes with the Mongols, nobody will mess with the U.S. Wow, people do mess with the Mongols, though, and we don't really...
01:01:24.000Yeah, because anything, I think, anything past the 90s that's a convertible has some sort of a built-in roll bar or some sort of reinforcement.
01:01:51.000Yeah, because I grew up in the 60s with all the muscle cars, and I never dreamed there'd be electric cars that can beat any combustible engine out there off the line, because the Tesla can beat anything.
01:02:28.000And see, I'm going to do my house in Minnesota totally solar.
01:02:32.000And I'm going to do it to where it's 105%, so that way I can also fill my cars up off the sun, so I will be completely off the Any type in my home or my cars will all be powered in Mexico and Minnesota by the sun.
01:04:21.000And there were ten people in that green room.
01:04:24.000Nine of the ten sat there the whole time doing things with a phone.
01:04:28.000I was the only one who sat and looked around the room.
01:04:33.000And watched nine other people zeroed in on a screen, which if you count TV and that, what, we spending 16 hours a day now looking at screens?
01:05:13.000I send a couple, but they actually taught me how to use the computer while I was teaching at Harvard in my office.
01:05:20.000And I actually, students would want to talk to me, so I'd have to line up a schedule.
01:05:25.000And I actually, I sent an email to a student where I told them, this is the first email Jesse Ventura's ever sent in his life to Do with it as you see fit.
01:05:37.000I'll bet you the students still got it.
01:07:18.000It's cost me over a million dollars four years of attorney fees, and the courts and everything that's gone with it has cost me a million dollars to clear my name.
01:07:27.000Now, if I had done this, why would I do that?
01:07:32.000If it had happened, why would I spend a million dollars in court clearing my name?
01:07:38.000Has, over time, when more information has come out about the other things that he said that turned out to not be true, has public opinion started to shift towards your way?
01:08:09.000They think I'm going after the family, which the family is going to lose a nickel.
01:08:14.000It's a big insurance company that I'm fighting.
01:08:17.000Anybody knows this that's written a book.
01:08:21.000Because in your contract, it states if any lawsuits come of this nature, the publisher will handle it.
01:08:28.000Right, the publisher handles it, but is there any consequences to the family where they don't profit as much because of the fact there's a lawsuit, the lawsuit cuts back on the profits for the book and the movie?
01:08:37.000No, because the insurance company will pay the whole lawsuit.
01:08:42.000And they hire them before the book's ever even written.
01:11:38.000But what's so uncomfortable about it is that I feel like...
01:11:43.000The sentiment behind the movie and the public's perception of the movie and the public's love and gratitude towards him and the rest of the military was, to me, an amazing moment in a lot of ways.
01:11:58.000It's like people wanted to thank people.
01:12:02.000Let me give you a different perspective for a moment.
01:12:05.000I talked about this on my internet show.
01:12:08.000Who's more powerful, God or government?
01:12:54.000How can there be a double standard like that?
01:12:57.000Well, it shows completely that government's more powerful than God, because government allows you to kill when God says you can't, and government rewards you for it and gives you hero status for it, and God doesn't do anything about it.
01:13:14.000It is pretty complicated thinking when God is a big part of the military.
01:13:19.000I mean, when the 9-11 happened, when the 9-11 attacks happened and George Bush on television said that God is with the troops.
01:13:29.000You know what the worst thing I ever heard him say?
01:13:33.000When he was trumping up the Iraq War, I'll never forget it because I opposed the Iraq War before it even happened.
01:15:53.000And to me, I don't believe it because, like I said, I've been on the planet 65 years now and God's never spoke to me.
01:16:01.000Now, if I'm wrong, people say, well, what if you're wrong?
01:16:05.000I'll say, well, God made me with a brain to think, didn't he?
01:16:10.000He's going to condemn me because I used it?
01:16:14.000Well, religion in a sense is pretty ridiculous, the idea that God came to people a long fucking time ago when they didn't even have books and told everybody about the world and then wanted everybody to pass it down.
01:16:57.000Well, I'm not a believer in anything that ancient people said about communicating with higher powers and passing down laws that must be, without a doubt, followed.
01:17:16.000There's a lot of really fucking goofy ones.
01:17:18.000How about the story of who was the gentleman in the Bible where he was bald and two children mocked him for his baldness, so God sent two bears to attack the kids and maul them and kill them?
01:19:04.000Because if you're wrong and there is no God, like if you get to the deathbed and you convert to Christianity and you're wrong and there is no God, it doesn't matter anyway because it's all just darkness.
01:20:44.000It seems like it on the surface, when you look at his demeanor and the way he carries himself, but then when you look at his actual actions...
01:21:52.000When she was a senator, the most important vote she took was to vote in the affirmative to invade Iraq.
01:22:00.000She now admits that was her biggest mistake.
01:22:04.000Excuse me, Madam Clinton, that was the most important vote and you blew it?
01:22:10.000Now you're going to have your finger on the button?
01:22:12.000What happens if you make the same mistake that you made with the war on Iraq, which you now admit was the worst vote you took as a senator approving the Iraq war?
01:22:32.000The momentum of influence of all these lobbyists and special interest groups and all the money that's behind her, all the bankers, all the different people that are paying her for these $250,000 an hour speeches.
01:22:44.000At what point in time do you gather up enough money where this doesn't make sense anymore?
01:22:49.000When you start thinking about your children and your children's children and the future of the world, or do you think that she thinks she's doing the right thing?
01:22:55.000She thinks she's doing the right thing.
01:24:39.000I don't know if you know this, but there was a poll taken three years ago by Gallup, and it never got any publicity here.
01:24:47.000International poll, 3,000 people, I think, and they posed, no Americans, nobody from the U.S., and they posed the question, if your country were to go to war today, who do you think it would likely be against?
01:25:48.000Maybe if Hillary wins, and the women see there's no difference having a woman, as we learn there's no difference having a black man in there.
01:29:49.000Well, the murder of John Kennedy to me is, first of all, there's so many aspects of it that people like to conveniently ignore, like the magic bullet.
01:29:57.000Not just the path, because bullets take crazy paths.
01:31:03.000Well, I think if the gun was lubed up well, if you practice really well, I don't have a problem with someone being able to do something extraordinarily quickly.
01:31:15.000They recreated the whole thing for him and he couldn't make the shots and he's the greatest sniper in history and he even laughed about it and said, you're gonna tell me Oswald could outshoot me?
01:31:44.000Car's coming right at you before it makes the turn.
01:31:46.000That way, if you miss, the next one's going to be closer.
01:31:50.000The weird thing is that they had to come up with a magic bullet theory to account for a bullet that hit the underpass and ricocheted off of the curb and hit a guy.
01:31:58.000And because of that, that's why they had to account for one bullet doing all that damage to two different people's bodies.
01:32:02.000I'll give you another interesting one.
01:32:21.000I said, where did you think the bullet came from?
01:32:24.000He said, oh, it came from over my shoulder, which puts it right at the picket fence, because he was right down there, and he said it came from over his right shoulder.
01:32:30.000And we had his FBI report there, right?
01:32:35.000And I said to Mr. Newman, I said, well, Mr. Newman, when you stated it came over your shoulder, which put it at the grassy knoll, I said, how did the Warren Commission respond to this?
01:34:25.000The guy who is the closest to play devil's advocate, when any sort of a chaotic event happens, your memory is usually fucked up because you're dealing with adrenaline, especially someone who's not used to being in sort of combat type situations.
01:34:38.000Human memory is one of the most faulty pieces of evidence you could ever get.
01:34:42.000People remember all kinds of shit that isn't real.
01:34:44.000And if the story started getting out, that there was people shooting from behind the grass, you know, it's entirely possible that someone can fabricate something in their own mind and not even be deceptive.
01:36:34.000She's one of the most famous reporters in New York.
01:36:36.000And she got an interview with Jack Ruby, and she came out of the interview, and all she'd quote was, I'm going to break the Kennedy case wide open.
01:37:58.000Well, you know what Judith was involved in, and Oswald, they were at New Orleans attempting to create a fast-moving cancer that Lee was supposed to deliver to Mexico City to try to kill Castro.
01:45:08.000Anyone can do it and trample, but he said the wear that that's going to cause on your body after age 40. And I have to agree, he's the preeminent orthopedic surgeon in the Mayo Clinic.
01:45:19.000Well, you know, there's also another issue, and it's the creation of the running shoe.
01:45:23.000Because the running shoe, having that big wedge in the heel, that's not a normal gait.
01:45:26.000The normal gait is you're supposed to land on the ball of your feet.
01:45:29.000If you watch little kids run, that's how they run.
01:45:31.000But when they created the running shoe, they allowed people to run and have all their weight come down on their heel, and it acts as sort of like a little spring.
01:46:18.000He was a Chief, but we called him the Camel because when we'd hit the soft sand running, normally in our team he was probably in the top six in running.
01:46:27.000When we'd hit the soft sand, he was up first or second.
01:48:42.000They call it the airborne shuffle, because that's what you do at jump school.
01:48:46.000What led you to want to write this book, this marijuana book?
01:48:51.000The experience I had with the seizures, that's what motivated me because I knew there's other people out there suffering.
01:48:58.000Our government should not be standing in the way and stopping people from using a plant that could help them.
01:49:06.000And it's time to end this ridiculous prohibition.
01:49:10.000My mother, who lived through the prohibition of alcohol, told me before she died, she said, the war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol.
01:49:19.000All you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.
01:49:22.000And it's also, there's an industry in keeping people in jail, and there's an industry in catching people and locking them up.
01:49:30.000Losing your rights, imprisoning people, and when you find out that there's prison guard unions that are lobbying to keep marijuana illegal so they have more work, it's terrible.
01:50:09.000We just went through one in Minnesota, Jacob Wetterling, where they finally caught his murderer, but he's not going to go to prison for murdering because he plea bargained.
01:50:25.000It happened way back 20-some years ago where him and his friends were going to the video store and a guy took him at gunpoint and he disappeared.
01:50:33.000The Minnesota Vikings wore his thing on their uniform and it was a whole national thing.
01:50:40.000When Jacob Wetterling was abducted, well, they just discovered his dead body a month ago because they caught the guy who did it, but he wouldn't confess unless he got immunity.
01:50:51.000So they had to give him immunity, and then he led them to the body so they could get closure over 20-some years ago.
01:50:59.000So he got immunity to that, but is he getting prosecuted for something else?
01:51:02.000He's getting prosecuted for child porn.
01:53:18.000You know, usually that's the situation.
01:53:22.000So I would rather take our focus away from people doing consensual crime against themselves because addiction shouldn't be treated criminally.
01:54:08.000I also don't think that we have to find jobs for people that are doing something that should be against the law.
01:54:14.000It should be against the law to arrest people for marijuana.
01:54:16.000You don't have to find jobs for people that are doing something that should be against the law.
01:54:20.000Arresting people for marijuana is a fucking crime.
01:54:23.000And I've said this time and time again, but if you lock someone in a cage because they smoke a plant that makes them happy, you're a fucking criminal.
01:54:39.000I don't think we have to find jobs for criminals.
01:54:41.000I think the only thing that's saving them from being labeled as a criminal is some shit that's written down on paper by a bunch of people that are profiting from keeping it in that same way.
01:55:03.000And if there was, they would parade it out there.
01:55:05.000And even if they did parade it out there, what we're finding time and time again, the most recent story that was in the New York Times about the sugar industry paying off scientists to say that sugar is okay for you, but it's saturated fat.
01:55:16.000Saturated fat, which is so important that it's one of the main substrates for creating sex hormones.
01:55:21.000It's one of the most important parts of human diet that saturated fat is bad, and that's what's giving people heart attacks.
01:55:27.000Meanwhile, people are getting fat as fuck from sugar.
01:55:30.000I love to talk about this, which came to light to me 10 years ago.
01:55:36.000I grew up in the 50s when they put fluoride in our water.
01:55:41.000Wait, and they put it in there for our teeth.
01:55:43.000Well, isn't that your parents' job to teach you how to brush your teeth and gargle with fluoridated mouthwash?
01:58:05.000I had it before I worked for them, and I copyrighted it federally so that I would own it, and I wouldn't release it to him, and that's what ended up getting me fired in the end, where I had to leave the WWF, because he had to control all of the marketing of all of us.
01:58:22.000That's old school, before WWE. Oh yeah.
01:58:26.000Yeah, I mean, I don't know why fluoride is in the water.
01:58:33.000They tell you it's for your teeth, but shouldn't you do that yourself?
01:58:37.000Well, not my thinking is, if they really were concerned about people's teeth and people's health, wouldn't they look at all the different fucking kinds of sugar that we're consuming?
01:58:48.000Well, that should tell you the fluoride's there for another reason, then.
01:58:51.000So you think there's a large-scale organized conspiracy to keep people docile by putting Florida in the water?
01:58:59.000I don't know if it's a large-scale conspiracy or if it was just done and it's too difficult to unchange it.
01:59:06.000See, once government gets established doing something and it's done for decades, it's very hard to get them to change their position.
01:59:15.000And is it in some ways a lot like the DEA in that once fluoride is a business, is a business in selling fluoride, putting fluoride in the water, there's people that have jobs that are doing that, they lobby to keep that in place, and what evidence is there that fluoride's beneficial?
02:02:44.000Yeah, they're sucking it all out of the ground before it can get to the Great Lakes and they're putting it in plastic bottles and selling it to you more expensive than gas.
02:06:27.000I would have immediately moved to Australia, applied for Australian citizenship, and I would have came back and beat the United States if they'd have prosecuted me for the pot.
02:06:37.000Yeah, but they weren't prosecuting him.
02:06:46.000I don't know, but all I know is if I'd have been Phelps, I would have moved to Australia, I'd applied for Australian citizenship, and I would have come back and swam against the United States and say, stick that up your ass.
02:07:47.000That's how fucking ridiculous these laws are.
02:07:49.000I'll tell you how ridiculous they are.
02:07:51.000When I was governor, and we'll finish with this, when I was governor, we had a three-panel, myself, Kathleen Blatz, who was head of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and the Attorney General.
02:08:02.000The three of us were the pardon board, where we could sponge records, right?
02:08:08.000And I was glad they thought like me, because everybody that came to us that had a marijuana conviction of 10, 20 years ago, we cleaned it off.