00:01:34.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:40.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:07.000Ed, I wish we would have you on under better circumstances.
00:02:09.000Every time I have you on, we're talking about death and how the government is lying about death.
00:02:15.000And so unfortunately, this story is right on that theme.
00:02:19.000Usually we're here to talk about vaccine side effects and the mRNA shot that's called a vaccine, but you live in Maui, and we've dedicated a fair amount of time to this story and the strange cover-up and the lack of transparency.
00:02:36.000What is the truth of what happened in Maui at the fire and how many people died?
00:02:43.000So it's definitely a story of complete local government incompetence and I believe a cover-up that ensued quickly thereafter.
00:02:55.000There's a lot of angst about the number of dead and there's a slow roll of figuring out how many have died.
00:03:02.000And initially, I'm on record putting out a tweet within the first week saying that I was hearing from first responders, 500 to 1,000 likely dead with a lot of them being children.
00:03:14.000There's an official FBI list of 388 right now.
00:03:20.000The governor of Hawaii is on record saying on Face of the Nation about two weeks ago, over a thousand missing, many of which are children.
00:03:29.000So the numbers keep kind of bouncing around.
00:03:32.000I think when it's all said and done, 500 to 1,000, if it comes in under 500, like 400, that'd be great.
00:03:38.000But, you know, between 500 and 1,000 is likely where it's going to end up.
00:03:42.000And a lot of them, unfortunately, are going to be children.
00:04:22.000Water from the Department of Land and Natural Resources wasn't released in time.
00:04:27.000Power lines down that were likely charged.
00:04:30.000The Hawaiian Electric is not claiming they weren't, but I talked to people that saw lines go down that looked alive to them while they were trying to escape Lahaina.
00:04:40.000There was a warning system that wasn't, we have a tsunami warning system that also is used for fires, terrorist attacks, what have you.
00:04:50.000The official there decided not to sound the alarm because he was worried people would seek higher ground and potentially run into, quote unquote, a fire.
00:05:00.000So, and then he did say that he stood by his decision, did not regret it.
00:05:06.000Then he resigned the next day due to health reasons.
00:05:10.000We also have a story of police officers who have got orders to block certain exits and their people may have been trapped.
00:05:19.000I don't think the police did anything intentionally.
00:06:11.000I mean, in 2023, how is this something that we're tolerating?
00:06:16.000What are the locals saying about this, Ed?
00:06:18.000How many of our fellow citizens and our fellow Americans died in a fire?
00:06:24.000Is there a revolt happening on the island or at least widespread demand for answers?
00:06:30.000Lots of demand for answers, lots of angry local folks who don't trust the government now.
00:06:37.000They didn't really trust the government all that much before, but there is a separatist movement on Maui that for years has been trying to get local Hawaiians to break off from the USA.
00:06:47.000I suspect their ranks will grow with this event.
00:06:57.000And, you know, there are phones that were, a lot of people had phones.
00:07:01.000And we could just go into the, you know, what phones are activated and not activated to figure out at least a rough number of those who are missing.
00:07:10.000They don't seem to want to put a number on it.
00:07:12.000And I suspect what they want to do is slow roll this number over time, you know, well beyond the headlines.
00:08:29.000And the other thing that was interesting, you know, I live on Maui, and when the fires went down, everybody who knows me from the mainland thought I was dead.
00:08:41.000And I asked, why did you guys think that?
00:08:43.000Well, apparently I didn't realize this because I don't watch mainstream media.
00:08:46.000It was depicted that the whole island was on fire.
00:08:50.000And then the governor comes out and says, tourists, leave, don't come.
00:08:53.000So now our local economy has collapsed.
00:10:58.000We got basically a breakdown systemically across the nation in our governments, local and federal, where there doesn't seem to be any integrity or ability to admit you're wrong.
00:11:12.000And so everybody does CYA and they can't even do basic functions of government.
00:11:49.000They're very basic things that used to be things that we would just take for granted.
00:11:53.000The country is literally falling apart.
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00:13:02.000So, Ed, I want to just have you riff on this point.
00:13:05.000As a country that is allegedly so technologically advanced and, you know, the end of history, and we're marching towards this beautiful utopia, maybe we should just kind of wake up and like, well, the basic stuff we can't do, the very basic stuff, fight fires, keep our people safe, be able to communicate clearly.
00:13:24.000Yeah, so, you know, what's the purpose of government originally?
00:13:28.000To provide some safety in terms of the military, local police departments, fire departments, you know, utilities, what have you, you know, roads, transportation.
00:13:42.000And that seems to be all breaking down.
00:13:45.000And we're paying a tremendous amount of our taxes every year that seems to be going into a system that floats out to other countries and then comes back in the form of grift to our politicians and consultants that live in the beltway.
00:13:58.000And so, you know, over time, the federal government has grown to become this behemoth and it's swallowing the country.
00:14:05.000You know, about 80 years ago, it was 15% of GDP.
00:14:45.000I mean, for those of us that have kind of just been, I don't know, committing the crime of noticing pattern recognition the last couple of years, this is maddening.
00:14:54.000And yet, I tweeted this out over the weekend.
00:14:56.000You know, I went to a local grocery store.
00:14:58.000I'd say 10% of the people out of nowhere are wearing masks.
00:15:02.000There is a portion of the population that will do whatever they are told, regardless of what is happening around them.
00:15:09.000Ed, are we going to see another round of lockdowns?
00:15:13.000I think the pushback will be tremendous.
00:15:15.000And look, what I'm going to tell you is speculation on my part.
00:15:19.000You know, my team at Finance Technologies has been tracking a recession that we think is going to be hitting this quarter, next quarter, and first quarter.
00:15:26.000And I think if you want to point a finger at why we're going into recession rather than the Biden administration or the central banks, wouldn't it be nice to have a virus, quote unquote, floating around that you need to shut down the economy and point to that as the reason to save people's lives?
00:16:18.000We have a long-term economic problem because this is going to cause labor shortages, diversion of resources to taking care of the vaccine injured.
00:16:26.000So long term, we need to have a come to Jesus moment and investigations as to what happened here.
00:16:33.000Are you suggesting, Ed, that the companies that get rich selling us pain medications and look at people as annuities in a very Machiavellian way wanted people to get damaged from the very thing they sold us to?
00:16:46.000The way that this is presenting, these disabilities are presenting in a host of different body systems.
00:16:54.000So it's not directly tied to the vaccine or so it seems.
00:16:57.000And they're going to be able to sell a ton of drugs for each of these symptoms rather than the root cause, which is detoxing and spiked protein.
00:17:04.000And, you know, when this was all going down originally, they were literally trying to sell us back our freedoms via a vaccine, passport, and quarterly jabs.
00:17:14.000Luckily, that did not happen in this country.
00:17:16.000The boosters stopped working, obviously never worked.
00:17:20.000And of course, the safety profile surrendered.
00:17:22.000So when I look at what they were doing, it was rent extraction to sell you back your freedoms.
00:17:27.000And people said, well, the government's paying for the vaccine.
00:20:09.000We are thriving and growing while the broken, corrupted institutions that currently dominate the economic environment are crumbling.
00:20:18.000So while Target stock has dropped, downgraded twice, missed their first quarterly earnings in six years, Anheuser-Busch tanked 26% on the year in sales.
00:20:28.000The freedom economy, this patriotic parallel economy that is made up of incredible, hardworking Americans that love the country, the Constitution, and the values that that sacred document protects is thriving.
00:20:40.000And we're really grateful to be the tip of the spear, especially, Charlie, because people right now more than ever need a reminder that you don't just have to wait to vote every two and four years.
00:20:53.000But you should also recognize that every single day you have the ability to vote with your dollars.
00:20:57.000What you spend your money on is what you empower.
00:20:59.000And so we're helping patriots empower the types of companies that need to thrive, not just this year, but for the years to come for the sake of not only our generation, but the future generation.
00:21:09.000So it's a bright time to be a patriot in the parallel economy, Charlie.
00:21:13.000If you are a business owner of any type, you register your business to the directory.
00:22:29.000In fact, this person, this man, got famous because he basically chronologically documented his journey of becoming a girl.
00:22:37.000And you made a really important point there, Charlie, that he does stress the fact that he wants to be a young woman or a girl, which is the most distorted aspect of all of this.
00:22:47.000But my wife, when she first learned of this person, said, huh, funny, I've been a woman for my entire life for nearly three decades, and I've never received a sponsorship deal.
00:22:57.000I've never had my face on a bud like and no one's ever called me.
00:23:01.000And so how much of a mockery do we see on display in corporate America right now that this man pretending to be a woman for a year gets these massive label deals while actual women that are actually living lives authentically are completely ignored by corporate America?
00:23:18.000They're actually openly antagonized in corporate America, especially moms.
00:23:23.000Part of the revolt against the targets of the world was the mom audience because they said, I'm so tired of feeling like this retailer is actually trying to target my children.
00:23:31.000So not only are we seeing a total mockery of basic biological truth, we're also seeing openly antagonistic actions from corporate America toward the very people that they are supposed to be marketing to.
00:23:43.000The largest consumer cohort in this country, Charlie, are middle-aged women, specifically moms.
00:23:49.000They make over majority of decisions for the daily household when it comes to purchasing power.
00:23:53.000And 70% of those purchases daily are made by that cohort.
00:23:56.000So for corporate America to completely ignore them, to celebrate this type of nonsense, it looks like some distorted reality out of the hunger games.
00:24:03.000It is the farthest thing from the American economy that you and I and all of your listeners would dream of.
00:24:08.000We have other examples here of major companies.
00:24:14.000This is cut 130, which seems to be the CEO of a company called Harry's Razors, saying that moms are birthing parents.
00:24:25.000They don't use the word moms anymore because in corporate America on college campuses in the CIA, the FBI, and the Biden administration, men can give birth.
00:24:36.000Play cut 130, you know, created a really sort of unbalanced dynamic and made the co-parenting thing really hard to actually live in practice.
00:24:45.000And so, you know, that experience, you know, was one that led us to this conclusion that, hey, we need not just a general parental leave policy, but an equal parental leave policy that treats birthing and non-birthing parents equally.
00:24:58.000So we've implemented that and give everybody four months regardless of whether you're the birthing parent or the non-birthing parent.
00:25:05.000That's how now corporate America defines motherhood.
00:25:20.000While other companies out there like Perry's are embracing perversion and denying basic biological truth, by the way, a beautiful truth, which is that men and women are different and they're complementary in so many incredible ways, we actually choose to say the opposite.
00:25:36.000We believe ultimately that men and women are different and that they deserve to be celebrated in those differences.
00:25:41.000And we've actually created a company called Every Life.
00:26:01.000It's crazy that we have to say that today, but that is true.
00:26:05.000And so we want to create a product that specifically speaks to that cohort that is doing the hard work to bring forth the next generation.
00:26:14.000And we've actually created something cool called a baby bonus, where any of the employees on our staff, he talks about this non-birthing and birthing parent, whatever, equal leave.
00:26:24.000We'd actually like to go directly to the truth and say that if you have a baby on our staff or adopt the child, you get a $5,000 bonus after taxes.
00:26:33.000And you can use that however you'd like.
00:26:35.000We'd like to honor the beauty of parenthood.
00:26:38.000We believe that ultimately strong families make a strong nation.
00:26:40.000And we believe ultimately that the best way that we can help our nation and our company prosper is by championing the very people that further the mission and the aims of the nation or the company.
00:26:50.000And that is the families that are continuing to expand our footprint.
00:26:53.000So, Charlie, I think that ultimately what needs to happen in the American economy is a revival of the family unit because that is what actually makes up the average American consumer, not this 0.5% subset of the culture that finds birthing people as something to be desired.
00:28:30.000Question number two was, how do you feel about your personal business?
00:28:33.000And what we found, Charlie, is that our audience on our business community, we have over 65,000 small businesses on the public square platform.
00:28:41.000Our audience overwhelmingly feels negative about the economy currently.
00:28:45.000Like well over 93% feels negative about the economy currently.
00:28:49.000But over 70% of our respondents feel positive about their personal company and their individual growth, which is a massive, massive revelation that even while this parallel economy feels negative about what Joe Biden and what this bureaucratic regime has created on the broader macroeconomic landscape,
00:29:09.000they actually feel really hopeful about the growth of their individual businesses, largely because they are exposed to this whole emerging market of businesses that are prioritizing the basic truths that made our economy so special for so many decades that have now been eroded.
00:29:23.000In the parallel economy, values like meritocracy and excellence and integrity and quality are actually strong and they're advancing.
00:29:31.000So our economy of businesses on public square actually growing.
00:29:37.000And that's our encouragement to folks.
00:29:38.000If you're a small business owner, join this movement, jump in the stream because you're going to find a network of well over a million and a half consumers that will jump over hurdles in order to support your business because they feel like they're being able to put purpose behind their purpose.
00:29:51.000So Charlie, even in reference to the North Face or Patagonia, I'm not sure what that was even for either.
00:30:08.000Anything that you would traditionally find at a woke outdoor retailer, we have actually found alternatives for on our public square platform.
00:30:15.000And the best thing is, too, a majority of those businesses will actually give you discounts to go there.
00:30:19.000So you can ditch the woke nonsense and you can actually embrace companies that love to serve you high quality products without all the political pandering.
00:30:51.000Our audience has to go to roughgreens.com slash Kirk, Dr. Black.
00:30:54.000So, Charlie, good to be with you again.
00:30:58.000And we started Rough Greens as really a response to our human customers who were saying, look, they were getting well from their nutrition that we gave them, but the problem was their pets were still getting sick at the same rate.
00:31:14.000And so we created this for their pets 20 years ago.
00:31:17.000And it was just kind of a little sideline product for probably 15 years.
00:31:25.000And then we launched it as a standalone product in 2020, actually the day after the first COVID case.
00:31:36.000But it turned out actually to be really very positive because people were now staying at home with their pets and they were seeing what kind of shape their pets were in.
00:31:46.000So we started it that way and it's taken off amazingly well.
00:31:51.000And I mean, the response has been amazing.
00:31:53.000Our audience speaks very favorably about it.
00:31:55.000So give us your backstory and also talk about the success stories here because people don't really think very deeply about what they feed their dogs, just scraps or that garbage that's dead.
00:32:03.000Talk about the science of it because your dog is always there for you.
00:32:07.000The least you could do is give them things that are proven to be nutritious and help them with elimination, bad breath, et cetera.
00:32:14.000So the reality is that dog food is dead food.
00:32:19.000Kibble has no live nutrients in it whatsoever.
00:32:23.000If you take a bowl of kibble and put it on your refrigerator and come back and look at it in six months, it won't have any mold or fungus growing on it because there's nothing alive in it.
00:32:34.000Most people think that dogs are carnivores.
00:33:40.000It doesn't ever go anywhere because it's not live either.
00:33:43.000So what we decided was we're going to create a product that has all of the live nutrients that they need.
00:33:50.000And we're going to give them to them in the amounts that are specific for dogs.
00:33:54.000And what's going to happen is these dogs are going to turn around.
00:33:59.000We've literally had thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of stories from people where their dogs stop shedding, their dogs stop scratching all the time.
00:34:58.000But we want you to have a Jumpstart trial bag so you can try it before you buy it.
00:35:03.000So you get about a 10 to 14 day supply, depending on the size of your dog.
00:35:08.000And that's enough for you to see if you can work it into your system and if your dog will like it.
00:35:14.000And then if your dog likes it, we recommend that you commit to a minimum of about 90 days where you'll begin to see some really great results.
00:35:22.000We have people who've had their dog on this product now for over three years, and they tell us that they still see new improvements that they didn't even know were problems in the past.