00:16:14.420Yeah, I think the people who have a more postmodern and collectivist and in my view, tyrannical view or outlook, and maybe they're motivated by Marxism or class envy or whatever you want to call it, they have effectively captured institutions by almost playing a trick on us by relying on our goodwill or good values.
00:16:40.880well they do not so we're fighting with one hand behind our backs to some degree and so it is true
00:16:48.640that even within alberta although many canadians think with a super right-wing province whatever
00:16:53.840it's it's really not true we have that element there but there's obviously a huge array of
00:16:58.800people who are here as well and so and and they are heavily concentrated in government
00:17:07.120institutions and basically govern institutions which are called education yeah or in the legal
00:17:13.840system right so we are heavily present in the private sector and industry and they're
00:17:20.460governing over us yeah it's it's kind of what you've you know you you were saying with the
00:17:28.500the quote-unquote human rights tribunals they're almost they're uh it's a perversion of of the idea
00:17:33.500of human rights really and and actually in the cities you know you know james james and i are
00:17:38.160are city slickers ourselves and we see that you know the really the perverse incentives that that
00:17:44.300draw certain a certain type of person that finds themselves in in government and in administration
00:17:50.040and uh it's a very uh it's a very particular type of person we've we've talked with other people on
00:17:55.100the show before about how like you know it seems that uh you know when you it's not necessarily a
00:18:01.180left-right issue nowadays it kind of is but like a leftism versus a you know more of a independence
00:18:06.460uh the type of person who has the mindset for independence the the the seems to be that the
00:18:12.780left side of the political spectrum right now is exceptional at organizing and at overcome
00:18:18.800overtaking institutions and exerting their influence within those institutions while the
00:18:24.460people who are of the type of constitution to be um an independent supporter so maybe somebody in
00:18:30.860the trades or somebody, a small business owner or something, just simply doesn't have the
00:18:36.540time to organize like that because they're busy, you know, building businesses and providing
00:18:42.380for their families and doing things that are just fundamentally incompatible with, you
00:18:48.400know, focusing on the parasitic taking over of an institution.
00:19:39.120It's kind of a symptom of a dysfunctional society
00:19:41.240and how some groups have got too much power.
00:19:44.480And when I lived in the south in Patagonia,
00:19:47.260there were two fancy buildings in the town.
00:19:49.740One was the parliament of the province
00:19:52.480and one was the union building of the petroleum workers.
00:19:57.480so i because people don't seem to realize maybe they do that if you work for government in many
00:20:06.560of the sectors you cannot even get qualified for the job without joining the union and then you've
00:20:12.620got to pay fees to them forever they are an there are further tax and they're one of these parasitic
00:20:19.180entities that is just borrowed in and they are one of the chief enemies we face an enemy of freedom
00:20:26.620of association, of free expression, and even the democratic process, really. Yeah, because
00:20:32.360they have so much funding, experience, motivation. They depend on this, on the status quo. So
00:20:40.480to me, one of the highest priorities of anyone promoting freedom in Alberta has to be to
00:20:46.840make union membership voluntary. And that's an easy place to start. Like,
00:20:52.760If you're going to pick one little win, that simple change gives a lot of power to individuals because then they're not kind of beholden to these mandatory dues or the weaponization of conformity of opinions.
00:21:10.400You can't say this because from a professional body, and you kind of get this intermingling between unions and also accreditation organizations as well.
00:21:21.500Yeah. Well, like I said, in the case of teachers, it's the same thing. They're the same organization. And one of the reasons why I left New Zealand years ago, because naturally I wanted to be a teacher, right? But it's so tough to, I don't know, function in that environment anymore. But they said, even if I were to go to university and take, I could take the classes in the School of Education, but I could not graduate unless I joined the teachers union.
00:21:47.900and i said this is nuts i don't think people realize it's we have the same problem in new
00:21:54.160zealand and so you can you can start charter schools but all the teachers have gone through
00:21:59.680these these processes right so there's such tight regulation on education because the progressives
00:22:07.220or i guess the post-modernists they have different names but the people who are basically enemies of
00:22:12.660truth and liberty, they realize the power to shape young minds. So for example, if we had
00:22:20.40025% or a great portion of Albertans being homeschooled or schooled in fully private
00:22:26.260fashion, that would be just like a death blow to this collectivist mission.
00:22:34.740Yeah, we actually just had a guest on the show. We haven't released any episodes yet as of this
00:22:39.840recording uh who is a um she's a an instructor post-secondary instructor in calgary and uh and
00:22:46.620she's noticed similar things you know she's it's she's in the in the communications and sort of
00:22:52.000behavioral sciences so more of the the soft sciences um and she yeah she notices you know
00:22:59.620there's a there's a huge uh uh disparity between you know if she has a class primarily of uh she
00:23:06.840can tell right away if they're homeschooled kids or if they're uh you know from the from the middle
00:23:10.920of a city or if they're from a from a rural area you know not homeschooled but from a rural area
00:23:15.620like there's yeah there's tons of different mindsets and it really does you know anyone
00:23:19.700can look at the um at the numbers you know used to sort of be a um kind of a joke that like oh
00:23:25.240you were you know you were homeschooled was like an insult right and and now it's the homeschooled
00:23:30.700kids are are outperforming the public school kids in almost every category oh 100 look
00:23:36.280people don't seem to realize that government education is incredibly ineffective at actually
00:23:42.200offering you know lessons or wisdom to children and children are natural learners that people
00:23:52.240get young young people and myself included dislike school so much they almost have this resistance
00:23:58.640to learning they want to resist the teachers and a lot of the natural curiosity is beaten down
00:24:06.340the the problem is that people don't seem to they have this very angelic or nostalgic view of what
00:24:13.520government is but if you see it as a mafia or a system of theft you realize that it is a system
00:24:19.820of providing basically upper middle class lifestyles to teaching teachers and then they
00:24:25.920get incredible pensions they retire early and then it provides free daycare to people who want to go
00:24:30.640and don't want to take care of their children yeah and the learning is is almost irrelevant if you
00:24:35.540look at the curriculum of most most topics i mean i was a teacher of economics in new zealand
00:24:40.460the the materials are terrible and then the the people who do well on the tests are one who just
00:24:45.980basically practiced last last year's exams and i used to i was horrified that parents would take so
00:24:51.160much uh interest in the exam results and i thought these exams mean nothing why do you why are you
00:24:57.800caring about this because as i was a graduate student in new zealand an economics teacher had
00:25:02.560passed away at a local school so i got this kind of rare occasion where i could teach at the at the
00:25:06.880school for a short period and i got to get a sense for what was actually going on even though i
00:25:13.560hadn't gone through teachers college myself at the time and i it really i don't know it took the
00:25:19.520shine off. Let's put it that way. And yeah, I think that really helps highlight the need for
00:25:27.640developing parallel institutions. And I know we kind of touched on this briefly
00:25:34.660before, but I think it can go one of two ways. So if you start some of these parallel institutions,
00:25:42.960let it be some private schools or let it be alternative media or organizations to support
00:25:49.020those who are engaged in those institutions. If you do that and it does well, either you'll have
00:25:58.140the established institutions, they're forced to compete and reform and you might have them
00:26:04.680adopting that system and you might bleed into the existing institutions and you might have
00:26:10.700change that way. Or it might be so fundamentally broken that these parallel institutions through
00:26:18.120just the good work and the good results are now dominating and now are becoming the primary
00:26:25.640institutions and it's hard to say which way it might go but i i could see either depending on
00:26:33.960on what factors there are yeah well your show the critical compass is a part of this shift right
00:26:42.280you're basically part of this rising and basically unstoppable alternative media universe.
00:26:49.480And it is true that the old style newspapers, they're both dying and they have tried to compete,
00:26:58.360they've tried to adopt the new ways. But almost all of them have died or are dying and would be
00:27:07.880dead if they didn't get subsidies right so they've shown that the rate of change has been so
00:27:14.520swift they just cannot keep up now there are some exceptions like the wall street journal
00:27:19.640would still still survives so there's some very very big outlets that have let's say the economies
00:27:26.040of scale they can compete with the new new leaders but if you look at and i'm not even a big fan of
00:27:33.000of this man but if you look at joe rogan's podcast he has a much bigger audience than cnn
00:27:38.620right 20 years ago could you have imagined such a thing that a podcaster a one-man band who has
00:27:43.820this kind of rough and ready podcast is beating thus you know cnn this huge organization yeah
00:27:51.420it's crazy well and uh as you know i'm sure maybe i hope you don't come to regret it but you've been
00:27:59.020so gracious enough to offer us a spot on a panel talking about new media at your event yeah well
00:28:05.440i i'm excited for it i i hope it goes well i think it's going to be good um i wonder if you
00:28:10.660might i'm my own audience mike i'm i i want to hear what you guys have to say
00:28:13.860i wrote these titles with what would i like to learn about how to beat regime media okay get
00:28:20.740the guys who are doing it yeah hey that's worth touching on because uh i i think we we've mentioned
00:28:27.560before like we had a hit piece on us and we had like the prairies exposed and they were saying
00:28:33.020that like we're part of who did the hit piece on critical compass uh prairies exposed the thing is
00:28:38.860like i was a little disappointed it was basically a copy and paste of all these other hit pieces
00:28:44.500like they weren't even that original um but i could tell it was like 90 ai slop and then you
00:28:51.920You could tell when he started writing a more fierce competitor.
00:28:55.640Well, we're part of this like shadowy foreign network or foreign funded network kind of like, well, we've been volunteering our time at these independence events.
00:29:05.160But what it's showing me is that people can't comprehend a decentralized group of people with skills.
00:29:14.540like if we film something and it looks kind of like a ted talk they assumed a like a large
00:29:23.620organization had to have produced that or something of a certain scale and scope and
00:29:30.000certain amount of funding is needed to output a quality like that rather than looking at
00:29:36.160individuals with skills and having enough passion they and that's what breaks their brains and
00:29:42.460And that's why they need to resort on a hit piece because they can't comprehend somebody for a cause for now, volunteering our time and getting that kind of an output.
00:29:53.780Like, obviously, we want to do more paid events like independence.
00:29:57.960Getting that momentum is more important than us being so restrictive on like only doing projects where we have a certain day rate for kind of services.
00:30:09.220But it's something they can't wrap their mind around at this moment.
00:30:12.460those yeah well in many ways these people are correct that a lot of the media they see is
00:30:20.940centrally planned right it literally is funded from ottawa so they're they're taken aback when
00:30:26.240there's this like you said grassroots or organic or emergent media and i hold the quality of the
00:30:33.820critical compass work in high regard i mean obviously i'm really proud you guys are coming
00:30:36.760to be a part of the event and i think you you bring in different perspectives that are valuable
00:30:42.140but in the same time you're successful because there's demand right you're tapping into a
00:30:47.940sentiment that really wants you to rise right so it's it's the quality is meeting the demand
00:30:52.940and maybe because people just don't get out of regime media they just listen to their car radio
00:30:58.620or watch regular tv or what have you or go to university and they don't they don't really
00:31:03.140get into the broader terrain or don't go to rural areas they don't realize that the massive
00:31:09.820scope or the sentiment, the incredibly powerful sentiment at play, that people feel very angry.
00:31:18.340And one outlet is to kind of watch or partake. If you look at the comments on your videos,
00:31:23.300it's incredible. Then you get a sense for the sentiment. Yeah. And I think part of it too,
00:31:30.820related to that, is that these people who are either involved in old media or the consumers
00:31:39.420who have only consumed old media are so in a bubble that they don't realize that you know
00:31:45.380yeah i mean we you know we're producing good quality stuff and we have we have some skills
00:31:50.640we have some good equipment and stuff but it's also like you know kind of anyone can do it if
00:31:55.700you if you put in just a little bit of time you do a little bit of investment into a you know
00:31:59.400quality equipment like it doesn't you know they it's not the old world anymore where you're gonna
00:32:04.780to have like, oh, I have to call up my agent to book studio time to get like, no, like everyone
00:32:10.360has access to this type of stuff now. So it's a new world, right?
00:32:14.800It's funny, actually, the way like looking at our backgrounds, right? I'm just in an Airbnb here in
00:32:20.740Calgary and you're just in your home studios. It's more authentic, right? It's more real,
00:32:26.440right? It's not some AI slop or whatever. And people almost relate to this, the rawness of
00:32:33.040of the material. And I compare it to, I don't know what sports you guys follow. I don't know
00:32:40.320whether you're hockey fans or whatever, but I do follow rugby. And there's this just flowering,
00:32:47.500let's say podcast universe. And it's amazing how just regular guys who like rugby, so long as they
00:32:54.960do a show every week for a year, it becomes a professional thing. Yeah. Because the demand is
00:33:00.340there right and so as you say you don't need fancy equipment it's more just that engagement that the
00:33:06.640people like delivering ideas rather than the packaging that is that is mattering yeah
00:33:12.320yeah that's a good point yeah i mean it's people are very good at like the average person uh even
00:33:20.700if you're not you're not a particularly like uh introspective or or particularly empathetic or
00:33:25.780type of person but people are very very good at detecting authenticity and sincerity and they're
00:33:30.860also very good at detecting when they're being bullshit right i don't know sometimes you know
00:33:36.940did you see this jason our day uh maybe we're biased suicide professor right this professor
00:33:43.700in cambridge you must have heard the story right who committed suicide recently we're getting way
00:33:47.380off topic here but i don't know that i know that the uh he he was outed for like did he lie like
00:33:56.340Gosh, I guess, yeah, I spent too much time on X and this was a big story on Twitter or X.
00:34:00.360But basically there was a DEI hire at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom who was just an absolute liar, like just crazy, just lied so much and plagiarized everything.
00:34:13.880And he, you know, plagiarized his PhD.
00:49:43.900Brett Olin is on the economy panel, capitalized on the new economy.
00:49:48.300I will be there speaking if you want to meet me.
00:49:53.580And then we've, let me think, we've got Michael Harris,
00:50:00.140deputy leader of the Libertarian Party.
00:50:02.020He's just joined because I'm trying to bring in a bit more youth.
00:50:05.580He's still only about 21, 22, as far as I know.
00:50:08.760And we've got, actually this, I should mention this.
00:50:11.820We have the two most pro-liberty Alberta legislators of the last generation, Drew Barnes and Rick Strankman.
00:50:21.880They'll be on the Win It Retail Politics panel because, yes, we want to build free people, build the right demographics.
00:50:29.760We want to have a great aristocracy, but then we've got to channel that, make us a force to be reckoned with in the actual retail politics domain once we've built that foundation.
00:50:39.340and these gentlemen have done it and they've got real sober no no hyped you know sage wisdom on
00:50:46.300how you know because both of them had real challenges because they were fighting for change
00:50:49.940so I mean to me though all these great people the best thing about is that you come and chat with
00:50:57.320them in the breakouts because this is the challenge I mean I went to a conference recently
00:51:02.080this is for a sporting conference about running and so you'll have a group up on the front and
00:51:07.860And then one person will ask a question that he wants to learn about, right?
00:51:11.900And then everyone's got to listen to that question.
00:51:13.400Well, why don't we break up into groups and we can ask many more questions that are targeted
00:54:15.560all one word all caps and so thank you for uh for extending that to uh to our listeners fergus
00:54:20.780yeah so get the 10 off and i hope people come and have a great time we'll also have
00:54:26.260about i'm trying to think now about 12 exhibitors or booths so we have bow valley credit union we've
00:54:34.820got alberta woman for independence my own organization will have a booth there econ
00:54:39.020america so if you want to get financial newsletters education economic analysis
00:54:43.660there's going to be seraphine books there's going to be unscrew the news selling all this alberta
00:54:48.860merchandise uh jason levine will be there he will be selling all his book and i mean
00:54:55.420so there'll be like so the the it's a it's an l shape where you walk in and there are all these
00:55:00.140booths and tables and then and then the lecture hall so it's kind of like a spectrum where if you
00:55:05.020want to be just talking with the exhibitors you can do that and if you want to go around the
00:55:07.820corner you can hear the lectures so come and get your better material i'm i was just there today
00:55:14.060i mean we're going through the details of decorating this place and trying to make it as pristine as
00:55:17.900possible and slick so everyone can just enjoy and just everything can hum run smoothly well i'm
00:55:24.460excited it's a great mix of people then also what i find with these kind of events the within the
00:55:31.100attendees there's some very noticeable faces and it's also a chance to say hi have these
00:55:37.580conversations as well people that maybe you've seen on different shows or podcasts or like with
00:55:45.500in different speaking engagements um this is also a chance to stumble upon some of those and
00:55:51.740you never know who you'll meet as well well you know and many people are near and dear to me like
00:55:57.180Like I said, Paz Gomez coming from Ecuador, Sebastian Diaz coming from Portugal.
00:56:01.580We've got Maylene Salabaria, Cuban Exile coming from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
00:56:07.960You know, we're probably going to have some TPUSA students coming.
00:56:11.140I'm going to have some students from the University of Calgary.
00:56:14.880So if you want to learn about Cuba, go to the source.
00:56:17.880I mean, recently, and if people look into it, you'll see that so much thought has gone into choosing these people for a particular purpose.
00:56:27.180We have a four-time Olympic marathon runner, Lorraine Moller, one of my personal heroes