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On this episode of the podcast, the boys are joined by Stu and Sarah to talk about a variety of topics, including: Helium Thursday, Beto O Rourke, the future of the Democratic presidential field, and much more.
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Welcome to the podcast. Now, it may sound like I'm in a bad mood, and it's probably because of Stu.
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Stu, it was, I mean, we started with, uh, we started with, I started with great intentions
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to have fun. Uh, it was, it was Helium Thursday. Sure did. And Stu wanted no part of it. You have
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to say that. No, yes, you did. You, you, you didn't even smile. You didn't laugh. None of it during
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Helium Thursday. And you'll have to be a judge whether Helium Thursday should reappear again or
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not. I think it was fantastic. Stu's like, oh, that's so childish. I never said anything like
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that. Um, but I appreciate your, uh, very poor retelling of the story, which you also ended the
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show on a poor retelling of another story. Nope. Nope. So this is kind of what you do. Um, hopefully
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you're a little bit more accurate when talking about the court and, uh, from, we had a Joe Biden
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clip from packing about packing the court, whatever, back in 1983, whatever. We also had, uh, the, uh,
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host of Red Pill America on its podcast series. Really good. Talking about the virtual organism
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that is Google and Facebook and what the power of these tech companies are going to look like
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in the future. Also, I saw a great movie, uh, Brexit. Uh, I saw it on Amazon. It's with, um,
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Wilhelm Cumberbunch. It's not who it's with. Whatever. Cumberbatch. Whatever. Uh, maybe if I,
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maybe if I set it in, uh, maybe if I set it in helium, then it would be hilarious for sure.
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It would be. Trust me that that one works just as well as, as Hickenlooper, which by the way,
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we get into with Hickenlooper. Uh, you don't want to miss that. Uh, all of this, all of this,
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and so much more. The movie about Brexit, you can't miss. What do you pull from it? All on today's
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podcast. Hi, Stu. Hi, Glenn. How are you? Oh, well, I'm, I'm pretty good. Uh, yeah,
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at least I haven't had my home stolen. You know, that's, uh, that's true. Glenn, you have,
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you have home title lock. So, yeah. So I don't have to worry about that. Yeah. That's,
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is that why you're laughing at people? Well, yeah, because I've, I've gone down to the, uh,
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I've gone down to the, uh, uh, to the courthouse and I'm just, uh, I'm stealing everybody's homes
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because it's so easy to do 40 bucks and I can do it. Yeah. You just got a fake notary stamp,
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forge a couple of documents. So it's like monopoly. I've got all of the houses on my,
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on my street. Really? Yeah. I don't think you should admit that. Really? Oh, uh, get your a hundred
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dollar search for free. When you sign up home title lock, uh, this is a really bad thing.
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Fastest growing crime, according to the FBI, uh, where they can steal your home. You don't know
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about it for quite some time. And then the longer it goes on, the worse it is. People have lost their
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homes because of this. You can have one person guard and the only people that do it home title
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lock.com home title lock.com go there now. All right, let's take a look at the candidate list.
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We may need helium. I'm not sure yet, Sarah, we may need helium for this because, uh, look at the
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wonderful list of candidates that we have coming our way. And I don't think we need the helium quite
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yet, but there's a, uh, we've been doing this. We have a beta and I don't mean this as it relates
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to Beto, but a beta, um, version of our power rankings. If you are a fan of sports, you'll see
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this all across all the leagues. They do like the SBN power rankings of the NBA and what teams are,
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are, uh, you know, the best teams in the league, which ones are the worst. And so we've done this
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with candidates. We've got a, uh, a formula that takes into account about 30 different categories
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between polling, fundamentals, fundraising, uh, various different things. And so we have an updated
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list that we've just put out again, and we're not completely final with the formula. We're still
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working through that. Uh, would you like to go through this here, Glenn? Sure. Yes. I'm, I'm,
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we have a five, five, there's basically kind of five tiers of candidates right now. You have the
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front runners. Uh, you have those that got a shot. Yeah. You have those who, I mean, if everything
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goes right, maybe. Right. Then you have the fourth category, which is like, eh, probably not. And then
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you have the fifth category, which is like, I mean, come on, what are you, what are you, what are you
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doing? Well, I think that's where everybody put Donald Trump last time. That is yes. That is
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the exception of a handful of people. This, that everybody was like, come on. Right. And that's
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why it, it, it, it adapts. It, it, it takes the moment. It looks at the polling. It looks at all
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the stuff at that moment. It's a snapshot. Okay. Go ahead. So very bottom category. Um, it's a zero
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to 100 scale. Uh, uh, between 17 and 20, you have Marianne Williamson and John Delaney. They are in
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the very bottom category. Marianne Williamson, the, the guru. Yes. The guru. She's running for president.
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And that's, it's an interesting one because there's not a crazy, uh, there's a, there's
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a couple of scenarios that actually could give her rise in that she's like a Kardashian's
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guru, for example, if Kim Kardashian comes out and starts tweeting about her candidacy
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a hundred times, you know what she is, she, she should be the Oprah guru, the Oprah candidate,
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right? Oprah loves her. Yeah. That's loves her. She is actually has a very big social following.
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She's the, one of these like new age gurus that's been on all those shows. And that's,
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that's not your world. Right. Cause it's certainly not mine, but if it's, if it's not your world,
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you might not be aware that she actually has some reach, whether she turns into a candidate.
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I think me, she would need her celebrity friends to really pitch for her. Okay. Next category,
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which is, you know, probably not going to happen guys. We have Andrew Yang, uh, Tulsi Gabbard,
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Pete Buttigieg, Jay Ainsley, John Hickenlooper. They're all between on our scoreboard between
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23 and 33. So again, this is a zero to 100 scale. They're towards the bottom of this.
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You know, I don't know if you see, do you see anyone out of there? I mean, the Andrew Yang
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has made some news, but I don't think he's coming out of that. Not necessarily good news. Right.
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I mean, Pete Buttigieg is, is a favorite. I would not be, I would not rule him out for a vice
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presidential candidate. It would be the first openly gay vice presidential candidate on either
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party. I think the Democrats would like to set that precedent. I'm so sick of this.
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All they care about is, is identity. I know. I'm so sick of it. What group can we, you know,
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can we take, can we use? Yeah, exactly. Can we use for our own benefit? Okay. Then, so next,
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now we're up to if everything goes right, maybe, which is, uh, Kirsten Gillibrand and Julian Castro.
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Now the exact opposite of everything going right is happening with Kirsten Gillibrand. I mean,
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this is a zero of a candidacy so far. I mean, she has been invisible. She has had no success.
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She's showing up South of Tulsi Gabbard in some of these polls. This is not a good start for her.
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You never know. Maybe she could turn it around, but I think I honestly would not, if I had to pick
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right now, the first candidate of any note to drop out of this race, it's her. She is, this has just
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been a disastrous launch for, uh, for Gillibrand who's coming, you know, it's a New York Senator.
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You'd think there'd be some disaster for a while. Don't you think? Yeah. I mean, zero. She's just
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a zero. I kind of, I mean, but she's, she kind of tied herself into the news with the whole me too
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thing. She was very publicly, she went after, she went after Al Franken, by the way. And one of her
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big issues within the party is that, yeah, because people didn't like that. The me too standards got
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applied to their guy. I think if you like that, I think the me too thing is so yesterday that it's
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just, you're just, if you were big in the, in that movement, uh, in politics, I think that's just,
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it's, it, it turned to scummy. I mean, it was just, it could have been good, but it became so
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political. And so it was just marked in time, marked in time. Everyone knows the underlying premise
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is good, right? That, that women, if they are abused should have justice. However, people who
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jumped in to use it as for a political tool, don't come out looking so nice. She's a zero.
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Okay. So the next one is, uh, they've got a chance three here in this category with a 48
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score is Elizabeth Warren, 50, Amy Klobuchar, 54, Cory Booker. Those are the three in that category.
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Okay. Out of that, uh, Cory Booker. Nope. I don't think it's happening. He's just a fake.
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He's just a fake. Yes. He feels fake. He's he, he, that Spartacus moment. I, I, I would
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love, love for him to be the candidate because he is so easy to mock and make fun of. He is
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really, he is just, he's just a total fake. Uh, but I mean, when you're running in a field
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with Focahannas, uh, I mean, fake is where it's at. Uh, Elizabeth Warren, zero chance, zero
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chance. Again, I'm, I'm, I've stopped saying zero chance over the years. I remember I, the
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first time I said, I will never say again, there's a zero chances when Howard Dean lost
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Iowa. He was ahead by like a zillion points a week before that election in my recollection.
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And then all of a sudden he lost and all of a sudden the whole thing fell apart. Yeah.
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He was, he was killing it in that race for months. Yeah. And then it was, he was just gone
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after one speech. I mean, remember he lost Iowa before that speech. So that was not the
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cause of the campaign. Why did that fall apart? I mean, you know, Kerry just beat him. I think,
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you know, Dean had a lot of the, the grassroots momentum and a lot of the far, far left. Now,
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of course, Howard Dean would be an ultra conservative in this year's lineup. Oh my gosh.
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An ultra conservative. Oh my gosh. Not only would he not be allowed to be the progressive
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candidate, I don't think he'd be allowed in the, in the party. Yeah. I have a really, I have
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something really good to share with you about, you know, the masks coming off. I have something
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really good to share with you today. All right. And the final tiers are our front runners. So
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in third place, as of right now, according to the, uh, Glenn Beck programs, uh, candidate power
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ratings, uh, Beto O'Rourke is, or Bob Frank O'Rourke is his real name. Uh, he's at a 65 on this zero to
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100 scale. Kamala Harris at 67 and first place, Bernie Sanders, 69. Now again, Joe Biden has not
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announced yet. So he's not included in this. He will, I would be very surprised if he's not
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leading this once he does announce, but you know, who knows how long that Joe Biden is going to be,
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I mean, I have no idea how this is because they're just, they're just eating their own,
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but Joe Biden is the one that could unite everybody that, that is a Democrat. And they could say, Oh,
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you know what? Our party hasn't gone crazy. Right. It gives them an excuse. It's Joe Biden. He's not
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crazy. Blah, blah, blah. It's who he puts on the under ticket. Uh, and I'm sorry, but Joe Biden was
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the most progressive in the Senate before he became vice president. His point the other day,
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when he said, I'm the most progressive person running for president, I mean, the person who
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might run for president, that whole moment is true. People forget that he was a, I know the thing is
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he's, he's been around a long time. He's 144 years old. So, you know, back in, you know, 1896,
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his policies kind of seem conservative compared to what the, the, where the party is today. You
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know, when he said, he said things like, and he was all of his old stances. We have one today,
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I think. Uh, Oh, uh, yeah. And do we have this 1983 video clip here? We play this real quick.
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This is a Joe Biden in 1983 on the Supreme court. President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send
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to the United States Senate, the United States Congress, a proposal to pack the court. It was
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totally within his right to do that. He violated no law. He was legalistically, absolutely correct,
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but it was a bonehead idea. It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. And it put in question
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for an entire decade, the independence of the most significant body, including the Congress,
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in my view, the most significant body in this country, the Supreme court of the United States
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of America. No, first of all, no. But secondly, uh, you're not allowed to be against court packing
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now. Now it's like a main plank in the democratic party. But if, can you bring that, can you bring
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that, uh, video back up for a second? Cause he's changed. He's flip-flopped on positions on something
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else too. If you look at the, uh, picture of the video of Joe Biden, go ahead and roll that,
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please. Uh, president Roosevelt clearly had the right to send. Uh, he was also, uh, anti-hair plug
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at that point. Oh yeah. Uh, if you, if you look, he, uh, clearly didn't have any hair plugs at that
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point. And, uh, in 1983, I would have not have guessed. I would have guessed that was a pre-1983 job.
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Yeah, it did look like it. It was like, it looks like one of those jobs where remember,
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remember when they first came out and they were like, just like corn rows. They just like,
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they just took a stock of corn and just planted it in your head. It was so bizarre. I would have
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thought that, uh, as well, but that's a good look there on, uh, Joe. Uh, when I come back, I want to
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share this. Um, uh, you know, I said at some point the masks will come off. Uh, I have a couple of,
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uh, good friends that send me old books and everything else. They sent me something last night
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and I want to, I want to share what they, what they sent, uh, because it shows where we are.
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It's a little bit of history that was foreshadowing today with the guy that everyone says is the
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It's Helium Thursday. And, uh, Stu has already wrecked it.
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I don't see why you say I wrecked anything. Well, you're a drag. You're a drag man.
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Uh, okay. So you were talking about Hickenlooper. Yes. Yes. And Hickenlooper yesterday, uh, had
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a town hall. I, I believe this was yesterday, but it was. The thing this happened is not important.
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It was last night. It was last night. Okay. And he was with Dana Bash. CNN. And, uh, he revealed
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something very important about himself. And, uh, you want to listen to that now? Yeah. You
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want to see it? Yeah. I'd love that. All right. You want to see an X-rated movie? Wait,
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wait, wait, wait, wait. We can't have him on Helium. Wait. You can't have Hickenlooper on
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Helium. No. That's just ridiculous. It's hard to imagine a better word than Hickenlooper to
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say on Helium. So I just want the audience to know that not once has Stu cracked even a
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smile. He does not find this funny or entertaining in the least. It's a fair summary of where I
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am. Yes. It's a fair summary. Hmm. Ah. All right. But here's John Hickenlooper on CNN last night.
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You went to see an X-rated movie with your mother. You have the floor, sir.
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Thank you so much for that question. Anytime. Um, I thought it was better to write a book to let
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people really see who you were and, and the dumb things you did as well as the smart things.
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And where is that on the spectrum? On the dumb side. Okay. I, I was the youngest of four. And as I
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said, my dad died, uh, right after I turned eight. And my mother and I had a pretty tempestuous
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relationship. She was just the most amazing person. And, and I went off to college and, and for the
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first time she was alone in the house. And I didn't realize how powerful that was until I got home at
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Thanksgiving. And I promised I called a friend in Philadelphia and these were X, I didn't know
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what next movie was. We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't think it was that bad.
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Come on. Come on. I, again, you gotta understand I was 18 years old.
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Oh yeah. And so I came home and my mother hated to cook. I mean, she, she was a strong.
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An 18 year old. Right. Right. That didn't know what an X rated movie was. And wait till
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you hear the title. That he didn't know it was an X rated movie. Come on. What's that?
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Who got stuff done in her own right. And I got home and she had this huge dinner laid out.
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And I said, I promised, you know, I promised Jed that we would go to the, the movie theater
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and see this, this new movie. Uh, you want to come? And I, it's an X movie. I don't know.
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I, you know, I just, and she, I was sure that she wouldn't say no. I made a mistake.
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And she said, I'd love to go. Cause she didn't want to be left alone in the house again.
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But, but I will tell you, I will tell you that my mother, my mother was, uh, I'm sure she
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was mortified. And, and I said repeatedly, I think we should leave. I think we should go.
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And my mother was the kind of person that rarely went to a movie. She thought almost every movie
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would get on TV. Obviously not this one, but she was, she really, once she paid, she was
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going to stay. And, and at the end, she knew that I was humiliated.
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Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So John Hickenlooper went with his mom to Deep Throat.
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But he, at 18, which is a lie, cause he was actually 20. Deep Throat didn't come out till
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he was 20 years old. So he takes his mom at 20 years old to Deep Throat.
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So let me just ask the listener, doesn't the world seem to make sense when we tell you this
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story of a man who's running to be president of the United States? It makes so much more sense
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Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I know. I know. He wrecked it. He wrecked it. He wrecked it.
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No, it was very, I thought you guys loved it. We could do that. You know what? You guys laughed a lot. I thought you'd love it.
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From here on out, 8.30, Thursdays, Helium Thursdays. Helium Thursdays. I love it.
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Think about this Democrat field, though. You've got Hickenlooper who took his mom when he was 20 years old to Deep Throat.
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Let me ask you this. He said it was an X movie.
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No, I've never heard anyone refer to an X-rated movie as an X movie.
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I mean, he's still, I'm just being honest here. No, you're not. Nobody says X movie.
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He's like trying to seem unfamiliar with the kind of...
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Exactly. And for anybody at that time, in that moment, who's an adult, a 20-year-old human being,
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It's not like Jimmy Stewart where they're on the dance floor and it opens up to be the pool.
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It wasn't that world. He was in college. What year was that?
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So you got that guy. You got Beto, who we found out yesterday, took poop out of his baby's diaper,
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put it in a bowl, and served it to his wife, telling her it was an avocado.
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And that's different from him fantasizing about running over children.
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About killing children when he was 15 years old.
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You got Andrew Yang, who suddenly desired or decided that circumcision is a presidential issue somehow.
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And says that we should not circumcise anymore.
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You got Bernie Sanders, who sat around naked at a dinner table with a bunch of Soviets in the Soviet Union on his honeymoon.
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Not to mention, he said that women fantasize about being raped over and over again.
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But I'd like him to spend just less than a minute telling us who he is.
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Because he was nominated for a Pulitzer by Andrew Breitbart for a series that he did that I remember covering on Fox that was truly terrifying during the Obama administration.
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Tell people, remind them of what you exposed during the Obama administration on that particular topic.
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Yeah, back in 2009, I was invited to a White House conference call, and the meeting looked kind of weird.
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It looked like they were going to be trying to do some kind of a switcheroo with the big National Endowment for the Arts and potentially use it to put out propaganda.
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So I went to the meeting, and it was a conference call meeting, a bunch of people on it, 100 people or so.
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It was with my iPhone, and it was before we all started using these iPhones in that way.
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And I remember you asking me about that back then.
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So I recorded the call and basically caught them.
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What many people were saying, it was a violation of the Hatch Act, which is basically you can't use federal funds to push policy.
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And so I did a story on it, published it with Breitbart News.
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You helped me put it out there nationally on your show at the time.
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And somebody ended up – they initially denied it and said that nothing was going wrong and kind of started attacking me behind the scenes.
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And then eventually somebody resigned from the White House.
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So it ended up being kind of my first big story, my first big foray into storytelling.
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And you don't have a – you never went to school for this.
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But now you're doing something that I think is really important.
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And you've got a podcast called Red Pilled America, and you're on the third part now, the virtual organism.
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We did a multiple-dive – a series deep dive into Silicon Valley.
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And, you know, I think – you speak a lot about AI and the problems with AI and kind of the – what it's going to be doing to us in society.
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And we take a real deep dive into Silicon Valley, and we kind of touch on this topic that basically some of our biggest fears are kind of already here.
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I mean you have this huge collection of human beings and data and computing.
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And we look at Silicon Valley and some of these organizations as virtual organisms because they are – they have become so powerful.
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We speak a lot about Hollywood and how basically – and, you know, we criticize Hollywood and the way that they come at us.
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They spew their ideas and their messages at us, but it's only one way.
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With Silicon Valley, it's a two-way street in that they follow us everywhere that we go.
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They have a political ideology as well, and if you don't follow that political ideology, they hurt you.
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So we follow – we basically look at the story of YouTube, the origin story of YouTube, to kind of get an understanding of these big organizations and where they came from, how they got so big.
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We basically look at the Vimeo, which really was the very first video hosting site.
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And we look at them and see how basically YouTube stole the idea from them and how they basically created this huge – it was one of the hugest value transfers in modern history by using copyright and basically disregarding copyright.
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And they basically took Hollywood's value away from them and benefited from that.
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And they were able to use certain laws that they passed about a decade or so earlier.
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So we really – we go into the Silicon Valley thing.
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And the main point that I'm trying to get through with this series – and once again, it's Red Pilled America.
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The main point I'm trying to get across is we need to start looking at these companies differently because they've created digital town halls that we are having a problem having the ability to speak within.
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And conservatives in the right, we like to look at these things as private property and, oh, okay, we don't – we shouldn't be touching these things.
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But there's a completely different thing going on here.
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It's brand new, and if they've created the digital streets, the digital sidewalks, the digital town halls that we are going to be talking on, we have to be able to speak at these places.
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And there's been Supreme Court rulings on this, Marsh v. Alabama, where private property in these company towns back in the day, it's been ruled that even if it's private property, if they own the town hall, we still have the ability to speak at these locations.
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So we delve into all of these topics in this three-part series.
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You can find his podcast, Red Pilled America, on the iHeartRadio app, and it is well worth your time.
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He is looking at things and looking from the angle of, you know, red state America, but not a sellout to it, just asking the questions that you would ask.
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Patrick, I am – have you read Surveillance Capitalism yet, the book?
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Okay, so I disagree with a lot of stuff in it, but it is a very good look at what is coming and what they truly are working on.
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And the most chilling understanding – I mean, as I read this book, I'm looking at this technology and what's coming out of Silicon Valley and all the algorithms and their search for the ultimate AI much differently now.
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I mean, I've understood it enough to be frightened by it and excited by it, but I'm understanding it in a new way in this way, Patrick.
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And what they're looking for is 100% certainty.
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So they're looking at our patterns and, for instance, Facebook can tell you you're on your way – you're going to cheat or you're going to get a divorce.
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And they can just tell – they know who's doing it or going to do it because the pattern is there and they have so much data.
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And they're looking for more and more data to be able to predict with absolute certainty.
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Once they can predict with absolute certainty, they can then shape us any way they need to shape us to nudge us.
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We don't need advertisers and people to nudge us.
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And that kind of power in anybody's hands, I don't care if it's government or the private industry, is very dangerous for any republic, any free people.
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You know, we spoke to – when we spoke to the creator of Vimeo, he's a programmer, and he had a very poignant comment that I think kind of touches on what you just said there.
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He said that the philosophy of the creator gets embedded in the creation, that their morality, their values, their crazy ideas, they all become part of the fabric of the algorithms that they create.
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So when you have this enormous – these enormously powerful companies in Silicon Valley that are admittedly hard left, their values are embedded into this code.
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So like using the example that you just said about adultery or cheating, a lot of these algorithms are maximized for clicks.
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And so if they see that kind of behavior coming, they can actually encourage it because they understand what kinds of things is going to make this person in this state of mind click.
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And, you know, it becomes this very – you know, how do we solve this problem?
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And I think that's the big discussion that we need to be having right now.
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And I am in the same camp as you in that I fear that the government will try to grab the steering wheel and move it in their direction and try to take as much advantage of this as they possibly can.
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But I also fear that our representatives aren't speaking about this as much.
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We only have – really, Ted Cruz, when Mark Zuckerberg was on the – kind of being interrogated by the committee.
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Ted Cruz is really the only guy that was really asking the kinds of questions that we need to be asking right here.
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And that really makes me wonder why is it that Ted Cruz was the only guy that was really kind of hitting him on some of these questions.
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And I really – we need to be having a major, major discussion and put aside our rigid ideologies about how we should be dealing with these private companies because they are – this is a different thing that we have going on.
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They know more about us than any government agency has ever known about any U.S. citizen.
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Oh, if Hitler would have had half of this technology, there would not be a Jew left on Earth.
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And so we really – I want – I would really love if people would take the time, check out Red Pilled America.
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Take the time to really delve into these issues and understand that there is something different going on here, that these people have – they're creating these digital nation states.
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It is our projection, our real-life projection of ourself is now being projected online.
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Facebook, for example, they have become the identity of our online identity.
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They actually authenticate our online identity.
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When they take you off of Facebook, you lose the ability to easily log in to thousands of websites from there.
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And what does that do to human beings when that happens?
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These are the kinds of things that we need to be talking about.
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I've heard a lot of people speak about, okay, we need a digital bill of rights.
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I think we already have a bill of rights, and we just need to basically apply it online.
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Real quick, Patrick, and then I'll cut you loose.
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You know, it's something that a lot of people are talking about.
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I've heard multiple different approaches to this.
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I've heard of people talking about transparency in the code, that if we have a transparency in what they're doing, that could help solve the problem.
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Breaking up is definitely, I think, should be on the table because they keep gobbling up their competition.
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Anytime they gobble up WhatsApp, anytime another one of these social media things start to rise up, Google gobbles up YouTube.
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They understand the network effects of having these massive, massive amounts of users and how they could benefit from that.
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So I do think that it should be on the table, but I think there's also other things that we should be looking at as well.
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You can find it at redpilledamerica.com, the podcast.
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And they're all worth listening to, and you'll find it on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Matt does a podcast on the Blaze Network and Blaze Media, and you need to watch it.
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He is really targeting those libertarians and especially the youth that are not into the GOP.
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You know, they're not necessarily listening to, you know, Mark Levin or Glenn Beck.
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And Matt has put together a great coalition, actually globally, of people who are thinking about freedom in the way a millennial does.
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So it's well worth your time to check out Matt Kibbe's podcast.
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Matt, we saw last night New Zealand just banned everything, went farther than anybody has ever talked about in New Zealand, and they're celebrating today.
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Did they not just make this crazy shooter the king of New Zealand?
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And they're seizing guns that were legally purchased and owned by citizens of New Zealand, and they just did it in a panic overnight.
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And you hope something like that could never happen in America.
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You know, they say they're targeting military-style assault weapons, which is not a thing.
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It's not a thing, and so there'll be an arbitrary line where they decide, is that gun still legal, is that gun not?
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All they know is that people have to turn in their guns.
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You know what's amazing to me is Hannah, my second oldest daughter, I took her shooting.
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Now, she's never gone shooting, but we had a family scare that kind of put the fear of Jesus in all of us.
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So we went out to the shooting range, and she finally said, I'll carry a gun, Dad, and I'll learn how to shoot.
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Now, she's been with us forever, but she's always avoided guns.
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And so we're at the shooting range, and she says, so, Dad, what's the difference between that rifle and that one?
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Yeah, there is a cultural divide, and I think it's grown starker.
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I mean, we talk about red versus blue, but there is a different culture of people who grew up with guns, are taught how to use guns, are comfortable around guns, and protect their families with guns,
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versus people primarily that live in cities are just afraid of them.
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And so when political demagogues show up and say, this is how we're going to empower terrorists to kill all of us, as Chuck Schumer just said about 3D-printed guns, and you don't know any better, that's a problem.
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So part of what I learned the hard way, I had a very similar experience when I worked on Capitol Hill.
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He was inclined to be a liberty guy, but he'd never been around guns.
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And we were debating assault weapons bans, and I used all the Second Amendment arguments.
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I used the philosophical arguments, the libertarian arguments about the right to defend yourself, deaf ears.
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He didn't understand what I was saying, so I said, okay, let's go shoot some of these things.
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And we asked the guy at the FBI range, like, so we're going to ban these ones, and we're not going to ban these ones, and he said the same thing.
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That one's painted black, and it looks really scary, but it's exactly like that one with the wood stock.
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So you've got to help people actually sort of see what it is, understand what it is, and put your hands on it.
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And conservatives try to, you know, use facts and figures and everything else and speak logic, where the left generally tells a story and speaks from emotion.
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And so they're telling you this good story of this scary black gun and all the scary things that it can do.
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And emotionally, that imprints on people, and it imprints it so hard that they are, it exaggerates the fear that you should have.
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I spent some time talking to my daughter about separating your fear.
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There is the fear of, that's a black scary gun, and then there's the fear of, this is a deadly weapon, and this is just as deadly as this one.
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If you lose your fear of what this thing can do, you should not have a gun.
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You know, you should always have a healthy amount of fear of, this is a deadly weapon.
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But it's the irrational fear, and we don't ever approach that.
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But getting people into the range and having them fire, they experience something else.
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So, you know, we set out this video that you mentioned about 3D guns.
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Young libertarians that are very into explaining things on camera.
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And he's an interesting guy because he's actually a legal scholar at the Cato Institute.
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And he's a gun enthusiast, and he's reconstructing all of these old, like, World War I rifles that don't exist anymore.
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And we just had him sort of show people, this is what this actually is.
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So when some senator says something ridiculous about ghost guns and how we're going to be empowering terrorists by allowing 3D printers,
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3D printers where you can, you know, you can actually empower kids that need prosthetic limbs with 3D printers.
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And everybody wants to control it in Washington.
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And you could make the philosophical arguments.
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Or you could just show people the ridiculousness of the idea that you could build a ghost gun.
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Because by ghost, they're talking about something.
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In your mind, you're thinking that's a totally plastic assault rifle, right?
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And the person that shoots it is the one that dies.
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And so everybody has this vision of people sneaking these guns on airplanes or whatever.
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I'm fascinated to see this reaction, too, on the emotion.
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Because the emotion can be helpful to convey a message.
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But you see in New Zealand where emotion makes a lot of bad decisions.
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With this ban, I mean, if you think about this, because it's being praised by the media and the left and people all over the world as,
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They had this incident and they took action, period.
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I mean, you could make the same argument that if there is a terrorist attack by a Muslim,
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that's the great reason to go round up Muslims all across the country.
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Yes, we're going to be taking a lot of law-abiding Muslims off the streets, too.
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But look, this just happened and we have to act.
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And that's where the Constitution should kick in and say, uh-uh, you can't do that.
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It was meant to slow you down or to stop you from doing things because you had an irrational amount
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or even a rational amount of fear that would make you sell your liberty or someone else's liberty because of your fear.
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You know, Terry and I reacted out of emotion a couple years ago and finally learned how to shoot pistols,
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and we bought pistols in the District of Columbia, which is not an easy thing to do.
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I mean, I've always understood the importance of our right to bear arms, but I'm not a gun guy.
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But I watched, you know, the emotional trigger for me was watching the shooting in Paris that the Eagles of Death Metal
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and their audience was gunned down by terrorists.
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And I go to a lot of concerts and I'm like, you know what?
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I better be prepared to defend my family if I have to.
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The same reason that people react against guns.
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And it's amazing because you learn that time and time again.
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And yet the media never covers it when you have a disaster like Katrina, where help cannot come.
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You have 72 hours before it completely breaks down.
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And you say the media doesn't cover it, but that's why Matt Kibbe has a podcast.
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That's why it exists with fantastic guests like Glenn Beck, right?
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And I fully endorse everything that you just said.
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Blaze TV, YouTube, anywhere you download a podcast.
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And we'll talk about it from a perspective about safety.
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And we're going to talk about all sorts of cool stuff.
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Well, there is something that has happened in Washington state.
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Uh, that I believe is unconstitutional along with others.
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Uh, it was voted on in November, uh, of last year.
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And the deal is, is that you have to have more restrictive, uh, gun laws.
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Uh, you can't buy a gun if you're, or a rifle with, if you're 21, uh, unless you're 21,
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You have to have an enhanced background check, which goes into medical records now, which
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Uh, and you have to always have that gun locked up.
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Uh, and you know, as I was taught growing up, you know, in Washington state by my uncle
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in Puyallup and my grandfather who had guns loaded, an unloaded gun does nothing to protect
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Uh, the, the problem is the sheriffs are starting to say, we're not going to enforce
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And the sheriffs are now in trouble with the state.
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He is a, uh, uh, sheriff of, uh, Klickitat County in, uh, Washington state.
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And you know, you're spot on with your opening remarks here.
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Um, Bob, you are, you're one of the sheriffs and there's a lot of you around Washington
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state that are saying, I'm not going to enforce this.
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Well, first of all, let me say that, uh, I'm a constitutional sheriff.
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The rule of law is the constitution, U S and Washington state constitution.
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So based on that, I believe it violates the citizens that I serve, their, uh, their second
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amendment, fourth amendment, and probably several other amendments of the constitution.
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And, and be honest with you, Glenn, Bob Ferguson, our attorney general and, uh, governor
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Inslee, uh, this is a political move on their part.
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And of course, um, our governor has already announced he wants to be president, which would
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be a disaster, but in any event, in any event, they're violating, uh, good, honest citizens
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And I've been in this business 48 years in law enforcement and this 1639 or any of these
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other anti gun laws will do nothing to make a safer community.
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Uh, and so what they're doing is making it more restrictive and criminalizing honest citizens
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And also criminalizing those who just served in the military, uh, and were given a rifle by
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the military and they were, they were okay for the use of a gun, but not when they come
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We put our young people on battlefields over overseas and they come back, some of them
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And the lucky ones that come back that haven't been injured, they go down to buy a semi-automatic
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rifle, which by the way, they're calling all semi-automatics assault weapons, which is
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So they go down to buy a gun for whatever reason, because they have a constitutional right
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And, um, they're told, no, you can't have it regardless whether you served our country
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And, and yet the same people who have this, uh, you know, uh, 21 year, uh, age limit on
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buying guns want to give you the power of the vote at 16, but that's a different story.
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So, um, the, your attorney general in the state says that you guys, by not enacting, uh, this
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and, and by not enforcing this, you are in violation and the sheriffs work for the governor
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So you, you disagree with the sheriff's work for the governor, the governor or the attorney
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The only boss I have under the constitution is the people that elected me to office in
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Um, so I mean, they would probably love to have that position where they could, uh,
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reign me in, but no, that's not going to happen.
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And I think, uh, uh, Ferguson and them, uh, they're pushing this for political reasons.
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And I might add, the only reason this passed in the state is because they blew a bunch of
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smoke at the far left in King County, Snohomish, Tacoma, the heavy populated areas of the state.
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And, uh, and was able to squeak it by, uh, they wanted, of all the voters, I think there
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was like a turnout of 30% of the voters in the state of that.
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Of course, they, uh, I think they got close to a 60% vote on it, but, uh, most counties
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Uh, this is another reason, uh, in a microcosm, uh, of why we have the electoral college for
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Western Washington is very different than Eastern Washington.
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Most people think, Oh, it rains all the time in Washington, not on the East side of the
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It's, it's, it's a desert in parts of Washington.
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Uh, it is, it's remarkably different, uh, state and different mentalities.
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Um, so, uh, what are you as a sheriff and the other sheriffs that are with you?
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I will not back down from Ferguson or Inslee or governor.
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I serve the citizens of my County and I believe I am serving their, their constitutional rights
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So if they want to come into our County, then they need to do that.
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Uh, and, and, and I think the governor said, well, we'll have the state patrol.
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And, uh, uh, let me say one thing, I will not take arms against fellow law enforcement
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Will not, but I also will not allow the state to come in here and start pushing us around
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Um, the other thing, uh, if I could, uh, Glenn, here's what bothers me is the health records
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that when you, they do that enhanced background check, you sign a waiver, basically giving up
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your health records, uh, which I believe is coercion in order for you to get the gun.
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And you have to sign this in order for you to get the gun that you're entitled to God given
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right under the second amendment, you have to sign this waiver and I don't have any problem
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And I would even support if somebody has been committed to a mental institution or under
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psychiatric care for violent type behavior, then yes, only that, only that would be released
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so that they could be checked in a background, but they don't have it.
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You don't have any reason to have your complete health records to know what, what's going on
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Unfortunately, under that 1639, Glenn, they don't even show who makes that decision.
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I don't know if it's some clerk at DOL department of licensing makes that decision or whether
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it's a board of psychiatrists, you know, it, it's just vague.
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And I think that violates your fourth amendment, right?
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When they coerce you into signing that form in order to get a gun, mandatory training, the
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I'm a big one for safety, but it should not be government mandating.
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You have to have that before you can have your rights, uh, having a gun.
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One of the things I'd like to read real quick is fairly short.
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The NIF under the 1639, the initiative would make government employees or any contractor
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or private agency working for the government immune from lawsuits for failing to recognize
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the rights of a person to legally buy or possess a firearm, including unlawful denial of a
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concealed weapons permit under this initiative, under the initiative, citizens could not sue
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Let us know how we can, uh, help the sheriffs up in Washington state.
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We, uh, appreciate you standing for the constitution, sir.
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You'd feel really confident, uh, that someone like that was actually guarding the constitution
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Remember how many years ago did we say you've got to support your local sheriffs, get to know
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your local sheriff because constitutionally they don't report to anybody.
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They don't, they report directly to the voter and they are your last line of
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So the most important vote you can cast in your lifetime, uh, when things start to get
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scary is your sheriff because he's the last line of defense for the constitution.
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You have a bill that includes a piece that will not let you sue if they violate your second
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amendment rights or civil rights or civil rights at the same time, they're now saying you can
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And they can sue you and you will be held responsible.
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If somebody steals your gun and uses it in a crime, you are held responsible for that crime
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I mean, you want to talk about oppressive, that is the beginnings of a totalitarian state.