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The new red scare is about the enemies within the federal government and the deep state. The enemy is within. The real enemy is in the House of Representatives and the White House. The problem is that most Americans don t see the parallels between the 1950s Red Scare and the current Red Scare.
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hey great podcast today you know for us little people i don't think the elites are gonna like
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it we talk about the oligarchy the the coming together of corporations and uh and and government
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that's what's really happening in our system we talk uh we talk a little bit about what's happening
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in the culture war there is a warrior out there and his song has gone viral uh and his song came
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out this weekend and now has three and a half million views he has 350 million views on youtube
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uh and he talks a little bit about the song and also uh the culture that he fears we're slipping
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into tom mcdonald is going to be with us uh on today's broadcast and so much more you don't want
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to miss you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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we are in a new red scare we are now hunting for the enemies within the federal government is is
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actually having discussions about putting together a new truth and reality czar somebody who will tell
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us what the truth is oh my gosh we've been through this before where people are silenced and they're
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afraid to speak their mind it's happened really twice in america with the sedition act under uh john
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adams and in the 1950s with the other red scare this red scare is about red states be afraid be very
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very afraid the enemy is within well that's what they said back in the 1950s the communists are inside
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the gates the enemy is within so they started the committee for un-american activities the mccarthy
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hearings are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party
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are you now or have you ever been a member of the republican party are you now or have you ever been a
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supporter of donald trump it's the new red scare and how people can't see this fear that is being pushed by
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the left isn't the same remember people lost their jobs just for things that they believed now people are
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losing their jobs not for things that they believe just things that they might say
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nick daly who's worked on my staff for a long time and i we um uh we put uh a song together it's not a
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lyrical so well i just want you to listen to it and i would i would ask that you would pass this on we're
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gonna put it on youtube later today um when when did we stop seeing the parallels the average american
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can do very little they must depend upon those of us whom they send down here to man the watchtowers of the nation
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and if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant in a department store
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we're at a gasoline station you tell them they're not left
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once again we honor that both the bosses we're performing a public duty
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to protect and defend the constitution a public trust i am pursuing this investigation i've seen
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firsthand donald trump's disrespect for facts in order to develop the facts it's really bizarre
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when you think about how awol so many of these members of congress have gotten if we unless we
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make sure that there's no infiltration of our government donald trump is a clear and present
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danger to our country then just as certain as you sit there in the period of our lives
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you will see a red world what i'm concerned about is the republican leadership in the house of
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representatives the enemy the enemy is within the house of representatives what is the exact number
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of trump supporters are supposed to be and the question is how are we going to really almost
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deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of trump by cutting off their social media
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first google and apple delisted parlor from their app stores then amazon cut the servers now house
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democrats are trying to blame the free speech platform parlor this stuff related to big tech
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censorship is the issue of our time will smith appearing to call for the country to purge itself
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of donald trump's supporters we get to know who people are and now we get to cleanse it out of our
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country there's a proposal to have a commission to investigate republican colleagues democrat senators
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have filed ethics complaints against two of their republican colleagues uh the left is trying to push
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these businesses to shame them and threaten them into shunning and silencing uh trump supporters and
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conservatives they're pushing them to fire people even council culture is a wildfire that you cannot
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contain if you pour gasoline onto it don't be surprised when it finally reaches you and you get burned every
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business needs to stand up for every american otherwise eventually they'll come for you too
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this is the glenbeck program they they have come for you they're coming for you they're coming for
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anyone who disagrees with them or anyone who dares say something that might hurt their feelings
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and there is no forgiveness none there is no redemption i was talking to somebody last night and he said
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he said the the greatest motivate motivating force in all of life he said i'm convinced what motivates
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people the strongest force out there what motivates people is not pain is not love
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it's not greed it's not money it's it's redemption that everyone is on the path
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looking for redemption something that they have done in their life that and the redeeming power is not just
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a power of oh i forgive you redemption is this amazing thing that takes something really horrible
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so many people are struggling right now with feelings of of guilt of fear whatever it is that's
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happening in your life it's happening in almost everybody's life
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i've wrestled recently with man what have i missed with my children how have i
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i after trying everything i could for the last 15 years doing everything i can
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i still have problems with my kids and i i don't i don't what else and i feel like
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gosh i really am a bad dad no i'm not no i'm not
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these struggles happen in every child's life these struggles happen and if they can just stay on the
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road long enough all of those mistakes will teach them brilliant things
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they will be completely transformed because that's what redemption does but we're now in a society
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that doesn't believe in redemption if you've ever said anything if you've ever done anything i don't
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care how long ago it was you are not forgiven you will never be forgiven this goes against all human
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nature jordan jordan jordan jordan peterson talks about god when he talks about jesus he always says i
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i'm not saying that he really rose from the dead or didn't rise from the dead it doesn't matter
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psychology wise psychologically it is really important that people have a redemptive story something
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that gives them hope that they can move on from that so you don't have to believe it i do
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you don't have to believe in the jesus story you don't have to believe he rose from the dead i do
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but you do have to really to be able to survive as a society you do actually have to believe in
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redemption so morgan wallen my wife would probably know who he is i i don't listen to country music like
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she does he's a country star he currently has the number one uh album on the country charts for
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billboard the hot 100 he has the number one album well he's been in trouble recently he was on saturday
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night live and a few days before he was going to be on saturday night live a video surfaced of him
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partying it up in a bar without a mask and kissing several women whoa not a not a star of the stage
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and music doing that what so he was cut from the snl show given another chance a few weeks later but
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that was the latest thing he had trouble and then and then sunday night we have no idea where he went i
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don't really care um but he ended up early monday morning showing uh showing up at a friend's house
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he and a bunch of other guys got together and uh they showed up at um
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no it's actually his house showed up around his house around midnight and all of his friends were
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there and they were honking and they were loud this happened in nashville the neighbors got pissed off
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one of the neighbors began recording something and so morgan he is stumbling towards his house and
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he tells someone to watch over a guy in his group he says take care of this p.s mother effer it's
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beautifully put but he's talking about one of his friends and he's looking to another friend and said
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take care of him then he goes to say yeah that's right take care of this p.s n-word well that's enough
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that's enough now it doesn't matter that he said this to a friend and about a friend you can't use
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that word other people can use the word you can't use the word you're a country artist we know what
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you think you're white you're from the south we know what you think now this has happened to the
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new york times the new york times has one of their their veterans time reporter um and this guy
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donald mcneil he went down on a 2019 educational trip to peru along with a bunch of high school
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students after the trip the students left reviews alleging that he used the n-word while on the trip
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three other participants alleged that he made racist comments and used stereotypes about black
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teenagers on the trip what did the new york times do well it said we you know we intended to fire
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mcneil um but uh i mean he's an award-winning science reporter and yes he made offensive comments
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but he didn't act in a hateful manner really hang on but morgan wallen did so he didn't lose his job
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he said you know i just used extremely poor judgment oh okay okay well then all is forgiven right
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except there is no redemption for morgan wallen here's what happened in the wake of recent events
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big loud records has made the decision to suspend morgan wallen's contract indefinitely
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republic records which distributes is uh is music fully supports big loud decision and agrees such
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behavior will not be tolerated big loud's punitive action now comes with wallen's 30 track sophomore
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album dangerous the double album which is number one on the billboard top 200 for the third consecutive
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week this is not some nobody then in an unprecedented news the academy of country music announced it will
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halt morgan wallen's potential involvement and eligibility for the 56th academy of country music
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awards cycle the academy does not condone nor support intolerance or behavior that does not align
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with our commitment and dedication to diversity and inclusion look out this is all about this is about
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to be everywhere with the great reset shortly thereafter the rival country music association
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the cmas announced it was also removing wallen's digital content from all of its platforms the
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statement continued we support our country music partners for taking swift action we will confer
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further with our board of directors to review additional measures and we'll continue to examine our
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industry's inclusivity measures nobody everybody's running for cover nobody wants to stand up if you
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don't stand up when they come for you there's not going to be anybody left to stand for you because if
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you're a coward they'll be a coward they're all running for cover and i am not excusing morgan wallen's
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use of that word i don't like that word i don't ever use that word i don't know people that use that word
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and if they did i would say can you know i just don't i don't like that word can we can you not
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use that around at least around me and if they were using it in a hateful manner they wouldn't be my
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friend and they wouldn't hang around me it's a different world now he's obviously got some
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drinking problems now i don't know if he's an alcoholic or if he just likes to drink but one way
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or another you don't have the best judgment when you're smashed so i don't excuse this in any way
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shape or form but really he's now up there with hitler we have to erase him we must make him pay
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i don't know what world you're living in but in my world there's forgiveness for the guy with
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students in peru and a guy with a drink in his hand in nashville i don't know what world you are
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living in but i will not live in a world without redemption you're listening to the best of the
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broadcast that i think you need to be aware of um you know because i've i've played the audio before
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has been talking to the world economic forum now he's our climate czar who just got in trouble because
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you know he flew a giant what global express uh so uh you know so he could do his climate
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work and added tons of carbon when asked about it he said well it's i mean i mean people like me
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this is the only choice no it's not no it's it's really not well he's busy though no i know and we're
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not it's not you know it's like you're not busy he is it's like waiting for doctors it really pisses
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me off really i have to be there on time because the doctor is so busy i'm not right then you be on
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time to doc it goes both ways be on time uh and we're all busy but they think that they're so
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important they think that what they're doing is the most important thing and so and honestly
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without them what would we do that's what they really believe so here's what joe uh here's what
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joe biden's new um climate uh czar had to say uh at the world economic forum listen
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are we expecting too much too soon uh from the new president or is he going to deliver first day
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uh on this uh topics uh the answer to your question is no you're not expecting too much
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and yes it will happen and i think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than
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a lot of people might imagine i will tell you this is true i told you about a story yesterday about
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coca-cola and what they're doing with their attorneys uh i was just looking up some things i was googling
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you know uh businesses associated in putting a can of coke on the shelf and i was trying to just see
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how many how many businesses outside of the coke family well i found something uh that was really
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interesting it was the distributor the coca-cola distributor in europe and it's about a hundred page
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document and it is all the great reset they're already deep into this deep into this and they at one
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point in this document they say to justify our business license we are doing x y and z in communities
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to justify your business license wow that's what's coming now john kerry the climate czar that is now a
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position that is on the national security council he was speaking at the world economic forum on biden's
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intentions for the great reset the global plan to use coronavirus and climate change to change our
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societies globally forever it is an oligarchy now the video was there was another video that i played
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for you uh last night on tv it was tweeted out by the world economic forum then it was immediately
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deleted uh after people started freaking out because i have up on the screen now the last phrase a frame of
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it uh and it's about you know what life is going to be like in 2030 from the world economic forum
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tells all kinds of scary things but then it says you'll own nothing and you'll be happy
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and when you can think about that you can be like oh okay i'm going to be happy because i'm not going to
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own a car i'll take an uber uh maybe i i won't even own clothes it'll be rent the runway
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uh i won't own my own house you'll just be so much more free except the things that you're using are
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not free you may not own them but who does if you don't own your house you have a landlord if you
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don't own your car you have somebody that does and it will be these giant corporations that will own
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everything and so you will always be renting from these people because you can't have private
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property because there won't be private property anymore
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global corporations and the global elite are merging into one is this what you want for your children
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ownership shifting from the people to a co-op between big corporations and the government
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used to be something the left condemned we all did it's it's where you get crony capitalism and it is
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the reason why we hate government so much it's how a politician can never i mean he never holds up
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real job he starts when he's young he has no money no so-called outside um interests no no other income
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coming in and yet after 50 years an elected official somehow magically he becomes a multi-millionaire
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and so does the rest of his family how does that happen well the rest of the world accepts it
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eastern europe russia china that's just the way things work it's called an oligarchy and democrats are
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helping to use the biden administration as the catalyst to shift power from you to them it's really
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important that we explain this to our friends and family the excuse to merge these businesses in
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government is the coronavirus and climate change but progressives see this is where i this is where i went
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wrong progressives in the 1930s they were about marxism and we think it's about marxism but it's not
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in the old days the progressives they use the great depression for their change and there's a reason
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why the modern left idolizes fdr so much and it has nothing to do with winning the war it has everything
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to do with the new deal he orchestrated a catastrophic change in the american experiment
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you remember when doc told marty we can't go we can't go back and he took the chalkboard out and he
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showed the timeline and it split off so this 1985 is not the same 1985 biff tanner biff owns the casino
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he's married to your mother lorraine okay we can go back to the original timeline
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marty couldn't but we can the original timeline was to form a more perfect union to set the maximum
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amount of people free with the minimum amount of control to make sure that we took care of all
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citizens and we viewed all citizens the same no matter their background no matter what family they came
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from no matter their job no matter their wealth or their poverty everyone was joined the same and we
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had the same rights well that was an experiment nobody had ever tried that before and we're not
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doing it anymore and we haven't done it back in 1933 the great reset was sold here in america as the
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national recovery administration it's the old nra not the gun one it's the old blue eagle private
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businesses unions and government they all got together and they got together and we did our research on this and
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we were amazed do you know why they got together all in the name of fairness and equity
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equity not equality equity equality is we all have an equal shot equity means we all have an equal
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outcome in 1933 he proposed a new public private partnership where the federal government was able
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to tell business owners how much they could pay their workers what they could or couldn't sell
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and they had price controls it was an unmitigated disaster supreme court later declared it unconstitutional
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but much of it was snuck in and changed america because of the wagner act in 1935
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but i'm not bringing this up because it's already been tried and already been put into place in many
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places and this is why we have such problems i want to talk about plagiarism i want to talk about
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how fdr engaged in plagiarism because somebody had already done this private business and government
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thing and codified it in into law five years earlier than he proposed it it was called the national
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council of corporations and it was established by benito mussolini
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this public private partnership is fascistic it is fascistic now i don't want to get into terms like
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socialism national socialism because socialists and communists and everything bernie sanders and aoc
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and the democrat the democratic socialists of america they're the only ones that are actually fighting for
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that everybody else is smarter and everyone else like john carrey and and and joe biden which i will
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show you here in a minute they all know they're not working for national socialism they know they're not
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doing that they are working for an oligarchy that's what they that's what they're actually building
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where the elites fall into two classes the billionaire ceos and their corporations
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and the government collaborators who also get rich off of those companies china is not a china
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is not a communist country as we understand it it was a new model
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so you have the elites in the government and you have the elites that say prove to me i should give
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you a business license and if they comply with whatever those elites in the government say
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well then they get that business license and of course you're going to have to share the wealth
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just a little bit and help us out everyone else outside of those two classes you're a subject
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you're a consumer for these corporations you will consume
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1.3 billion people in china they don't it doesn't matter they could live die they don't care
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well we were on this timeline and what did we do we believed in small government the government
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shouldn't get involved in business affairs well that all went out the window with fdr
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with this private public partnership idea we believe we shouldn't get into foreign entanglements
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not only did we change that in world war one and world war two we went we doubled down
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because we had the bomb we never had a standing army ever because we had the bomb now we said whoa
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whoa whoa we have got to build this gigantic military and we will be the policemen of the world but not
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only that we're going to be the bankers of the world you're all going to use our currency you want
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to talk about foreign entanglements you now have a global military and a global dollar
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so we flushed that down and when we had the bomb now what we have to do is we have to get the elites
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in universities to to to help us make new bombs we need them to do science for the war
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department and we need the best economic minds in universities and we'll fund them
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on how to spend spend spend and we need these great minds to advise our government on how to fix
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problems in our society because government now has to heal all
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we took all of these things and we institutionalize them we got off of the constitutional path
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that can hold safety for the biggest amount of free people
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tom mcdonald is a canadian hip-hop artist and producer currently based in the united states
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uh he initially went viral with his song dear rappers in 2017 since then
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he has independently produced released and amassed enough body of work
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to uh to have 350 million views on his youtube channel alone millions of monthly listeners on
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spotified and tallied hundreds of thousands of physical album sales most recently tom released fake
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woke his fourth number one single in the u.s on itunes charts uh and it is now over what 3.5 million
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views now tom welcome to the program mr glenbeck thanks for having me man you bet um so tom uh you know
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this may come as a surprise to you uh i'm not really down uh in the rap scene all that often
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uh but when my but when my circle of friends start sending me videos over the weekend as they did
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uh and said you've got to watch this and listen to it uh it it says something about your impact on
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culture i want to play just a little bit of your song here so we can talk about it and people know
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what we're talking about sure here it comes we're ashamed to be american you should probably love it
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because you have the right to hate it and not get stoned to death in public as children we were taught
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how to walk and talk but the system wants adults to sit down and shut up cancel culture runs the
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world now the planet went crazy label everything we say is homophobic or racist if you're white then
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you're privileged guilty by association all our childhood heroes got me too to the rapist they
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never freed the slaves they realized that they don't need the chains they gave us tiny screens we think
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we free because we can't see the cage they knew that race war would be the game they need to play
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for people to big teams they use the media to feed the flame
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so the song is called fake woke and tom i i have to tell you i i just have to ask you some
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questions says nobody trusts anybody anymore nobody is who they say they are anymore
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sure uh kind of what your song is about you look scary
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i do i do i do i think you look a little scary serial killer white power guy i don't know
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but i'd like to have you ever killed anybody not not only on only on record okay all right um but i
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just want to because you get a uh a rap no pun intended um of being anti-feminist uh racist i mean
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i get all of those things too but i want to make clear that you're none of those things right
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no absolutely not i mean man these are just like it just seems these days like everybody is so
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polarized from one another if there's like a difference in opinion especially if it's
00:33:10.360
regarding race or something on the lgbtq spectrum or something like that if there's a difference in
00:33:16.080
opinion it's like one side is automatically just he's a racist he's homophobic he's anti-feminist
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he's he's just labels that that people who i i think that they have a difference in opinion and
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and instead of you know talking it out or or or understanding somebody else's perspective it's
00:33:35.120
they'd rather just throw labels and scream on the internet um you write your writing is really
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brilliant you say i think it's crazy i'm the one who labeled as controversial cardi b is the role
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model for 12 year old girls rappers pushing xanax at the top of the billboard but if i mention race
00:33:50.880
in a song i'm scared i'll get killed for it it's backwards i love this line it's getting
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exponentially dumb more difficult to get a job than purchase a gun eminem used to gay bash and murder
00:34:01.500
his mom and now he doesn't want fans if they voted for trump yeah i said that for sure yeah
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um your your lyrics uh are uh are not exactly cardi b lyrics i mean uh and it's it's hard to find
00:34:20.920
something that is controversial today but i don't think you're trying to be controversial maybe you
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are um it seems to me this is coming from you and you're just stating the truth as you see it
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is it do i have it right yeah i'd say that's accurate um a lot of people like to label this
00:34:42.300
stuff as controversial and stuff like that but um i think it's really just more an issue it's just
00:34:49.920
uncommon for people to especially in today's world um kind of honestly speak their feelings or their
00:34:58.740
opinions on stuff and i think it that that's so uncommon because people are scared of being
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canceled or crucified on the internet um i think it's just so uncommon that when somebody uh steps
00:35:11.620
up and says those things i think a lot of people immediately um just start screaming oh he's being
00:35:18.280
controversial on purpose or she's click baiting us or whatever um and i think it's just that it's
00:35:23.280
they're just not used to um hearing people speak their minds um are you familiar with who uh morgan
00:35:31.660
wallen is the country artist so here's a country artist he is uh itunes what was oh i know who i
00:35:41.580
know who you're talking about yeah the really recent story he uh he's getting canceled because he
00:35:46.040
was drunk and it was screaming like a racial slur or something yeah he was he said about a friend who
00:35:52.500
i think was down on the sidewalk he looked at another friend about his friend and said uh take
00:35:58.580
care of that p ass mother effing uh n word so uh uh you know not something that i i you know i say or
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want my friends to say but he wasn't being malicious and one way or another there are consequences for
00:36:17.360
everybody's action but he has been canceled he has zero airplay in america today his contract was
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canceled uh uh spotify dropped him uh itunes music dropped him who else uh clear cumulus cumulus i heart
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radio i mean it's uh you have any thoughts on that um i mean i think i don't think it's acceptable
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sort of by anyone's standards ever to use that word regardless of its context i mean that's just my
00:36:57.640
personal feelings um especially like being in in hip-hop and immersed in black culture that's not
00:37:04.840
something that like i would never say that publicly in private it's just correct it's not not something
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that i do um even when i'm singing rap lyrics by like my favorite rappers and i'm by myself doing
00:37:17.520
dishes in my kitchen i'm omitting those parts of the songs i'm just not comfortable personally with
00:37:22.200
saying that um so so i agree with you 110 i am exactly the same way i don't like that word um i
00:37:30.440
don't like it i don't like it used casually or you know obviously in hatred or whatever i don't like it
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and he shouldn't have used the word but that being said though um i feel like i saw the post that i saw
00:37:44.740
last night was he had been cancelled and he had been dropped and stuff like that but i saw they
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took over like five or six of the top 10 spots on um itunes charts yeah i find it interesting that
00:37:57.140
itunes music would make sure they don't play him on any of their stations but they'll still make 30
00:38:03.100
you know on on all of the sales of his music he's now eight of the top 10 14 of the top 20
00:38:11.380
uh he knocked me at a number one uh yeah he knocked well no this is is this uh all music
00:38:16.700
it's on the country chart on the country chart yeah okay okay okay um yeah like you know
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man i think largely like the canceling that's going on right now is is ridiculous i think that if you
00:38:35.020
hear something that you don't like then you switch the radio station if you see something that you
00:38:39.820
don't like seeing you change the channel if you don't like what you're reading you close the book
00:38:43.420
uh all of this like canceling largely in my opinion is is ridiculous um sometimes i think that it's
00:38:51.920
kind of justified and i think that maybe in this instance it it is um but i also feel like these days
00:39:00.520
americans in north america are obsessed with what they don't like especially on the internet
00:39:08.040
so it's like you could release the greatest song in the world you could be the most pc person ever
00:39:14.380
um and you can have a righteous movement and your branding can be perfect you can be america's
00:39:20.440
sweetheart and get very very little traction um as a musician or right as an actor or whatever but
00:39:28.480
the second that you're doing things that ruffle feathers or uh tick people off um it seems like people
00:39:36.420
just flock to that and in their attempt to sort of exploit your mistakes and quote unquote cancel you
00:39:45.140
i think a lot of the times they just end up blowing those people up which might be might be part of the
00:39:51.020
case uh with this artist i know for sure that i've made music for a long time um that that weren't
00:39:58.180
about my you know personal opinions and i wasn't trying to intentionally ruffle feathers of people and
00:40:03.720
i made music for eight years and and had very little impact and the second i started saying
00:40:09.720
things that i was thinking privately um people that didn't like it ended up promoting me to such a
00:40:18.380
degree that i found my people at this point yeah we're talking to we're talking to tom mcdonald
00:40:24.140
currently holds the number one spot uh on itunes um uh he he has a uh new song out called fake woke
00:40:32.660
it it was released um over the weekend and has just been viral and just stormed the country um and
00:40:40.540
north america uh tom is the reason you do your own you are your own producer um you're an independent
00:40:50.380
artist you don't have anybody you're doing it yourself um i know another artist was the first to
00:40:56.800
i think go number one on the charts with his as an independent artist um and the freedom he it gives
00:41:05.220
him is remarkable is is do you think you'd be the same if you had to live in a box of a record label
00:41:14.140
i think i think it'd be night and day um not only is it more lucrative financially to do this stuff
00:41:23.320
independently um but i've maintained a hundred percent of my artistic integrity and i know for
00:41:30.920
pardon me i know for a fact that if i put my name on a line somewhere um my like i spoke a minute ago
00:41:40.720
about uh um being america's sweetheart that it's very easy in america to clean up a mess um
00:41:48.320
for example if you if you look at uh kim kardashian she she is she essentially um and my girlfriend
00:41:55.640
loves her and she's america's sweetheart and she essentially blew up off of having a sex tape
00:42:00.200
um and now she's america's sweetheart and i think that's a testament to in america no matter how dirty
00:42:08.220
and messy things get you throw enough money at it and uh you can clean it up and and rebrand the
00:42:14.360
whole thing and i'm pretty sure that something like that or i'm certain something like that would
00:42:18.820
happen if i sign to a label they're going to clean up everything they're probably going to erase all my
00:42:23.520
old music off the internet they're going to rebrand it i'm going to have very little say in uh what type
00:42:29.680
of music i'm making and i'll probably be jumping around in music videos uh singing about xanax and
00:42:35.360
talking to uh tom mcdonald uh he is the um he is the uh the mind and the talent behind fake
00:42:46.440
woke which has gone viral um and you can find him uh at uh his youtube channel youtube.com
00:42:54.880
tom mcdonald official fake woke is the song that he just uh just made um tom you you seem to have a
00:43:03.840
good handle on what america and possibly your canadian what canada is feeling too um what do
00:43:11.720
you see coming down the road i mean there there is this clash of the people that say shut everybody
00:43:17.240
up and those that say no let everybody speak their mind and figure it out life is messy
00:43:23.200
what how do you see this coming together uh it's you know if there's one thing that i've learned
00:43:32.220
about uh america in the six years that i lived here it's it's very unpredictable um so i i don't know
00:43:43.160
if i'm you know i feel like you guys are many degrees above me when it comes to sort of forecasting
00:43:51.840
political climates and stuff like that at the end of the day i'm just like some guy who rhymes words in
00:43:56.860
his phone about things that i see things that i see going on but i what i can say is like
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it does kind of uh where i kind of feel i feel like a very slippery slope and what i'm scared about
00:44:11.440
is i mean i i remember when i was a kid i don't remember the exact details of it but i remember that
00:44:17.280
there was a band from russia um called pussy riot and they went to jail they went to jail for either
00:44:25.900
protesting uh putin or protesting policies or the russian government or something and i just
00:44:32.780
remember that they were put in prison or in jail rather uh for their sort of political views that
00:44:37.940
they expressed in their songs and um and i know that there's other places in the world where um
00:44:43.520
people don't have the right to stand up and protest and speak their mind especially if it's
00:44:49.500
negative things about their country um so you know that's what i immediately think of when i see like
00:44:56.900
the facts checking and the canceling and stuff like that it just worries me that we're going to
00:45:01.940
slide into some crazy hole where uh opinions become illegal you know what is amazing to me is the musical
00:45:10.460
artists i mean rock and roll punk rock attitude rap it's always been anti-establishment
00:45:17.800
now it's pulling for the establishment and you can't i mean punk is not punk rap is not rap anymore
00:45:26.680
you know what i mean that's exactly it man like i remember many years ago when i released my first
00:45:33.460
sort of uh song that was uh politically charged or speaking about just this the social um environment
00:45:41.020
in the states i remember my dad saying to me he said you know what thomas like um you may be
00:45:47.700
a rapper but you're making rock and roll right now because rock and roll has always been about
00:45:52.200
screaming the truth at the top of your lungs and less about the music so um as far as i'm concerned
00:45:58.460
like you're a freaking rock star so i've kind of carried that forward and like that's what i want
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to do and it is worrisome to think that i might not have the freedom to do that uh sometime in the
00:46:11.660
near future that's a little sobering thank you so much tom mcdonald um follow him at i am tom mcdonald
00:46:20.420
uh and check out his uh his his work he is amazing he's scared the look he'll scare you when you look
00:46:27.300
at him um uh but you will love his music i think tom mcdonald thank you so much tom i appreciate it